SSHtfrtfc Bcpotco, to politics, fitctnturc; Agriculture, Science, lovalifri, anil cucral Sntcih'gcncc. ' :it VOL. 29. ! STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY,' PA., MARCH 7,1872. 1 ;) NO. 45. Published by Theodore Schcch. TrftlS TJ dollars a yearin advance and if not j t'.f.ri the cut of the year, two dollars and fifty L,ts ill he ch.u ped.' " " " n niiir ihsro.tiiuue J until all arrearages are paid, Mdf l "le "f'"0" ' ''' EJl"". ----- 1C7 heriisemenis of one ?niare of (eight lines) or ... oii orlliree imortlitns 91 SQ. Ech additional viti . lit cent. Longer ones in proportion. : job T pitEi(TirG, 7' , O Alt. KINDS,' ;.' rifriited iri the hiaiiest style of the Art, and on the most reasonable terms. Valuable Properly FOR SALE. The subscribers offer for sale, s sTAMieir residence m trouuDurg. The Lot has a front of 145 fr m Main Street, with a depth of feet. .;. The buildings (insist of a convenient dwell ing lmus, store hou.se, barn and other out buildings. There is an abundance of choice applet, i.t'nrv plums, "rapes and small fruit, with rX'vlIeiif water. : - -:: M-ii '72. 1 A. M, & R. STOKES. DR. J. LANTZ, Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist, ' Still h his "ffie on Main Street, in tlie second ttory "f lr. S. Walton' brirk building, neairy oppo- lie die i:r.iiidiiiii IIoiix:, and Its flatter, himself tlui lv eifuireii ye.ii constant practice and the most arneit an.l ritrinl :ttten'ion to all matters pertaining (9 hi profri'ti, tiiai he is fu'.ly able to perform all fertinns in Die dental line in the mon c.ueful, tacte fit 1 sktlltal inanutr. hti il attention ?ien to saving the N'.Uiira! Teeth ; lo. to th inertt.ii of Artificial Teeth on Rubber, t-id. Silver or I'uiiiiiiuous Gums, and perlect fits in il CAi-r innred. M-4 pertn know the re:t folly and danger l en ua:wi; ihelr work to tiie inexperienced, or to those linns at a .li-:jnre. April 13, 1571. ly DR. C. O. EJCJE'F.IIAX, 31. I. Would respectfully aiiiiounce to the public th.it he has removed his cfhVe from Oakland to Canadensis. Monroe County. Pa. TniMini,' that many years of consecutive rrartiiv of Mctliein? and Surcery will Ijc a sufficient cuarantco for the public confideneo. - Febniarv 2a. 1870. tf. I)' ,11. J. F. CASLOW, Oculist, Aurist & Surjoon, o' scxjiinr, pa. Iha taken rooms t the Stroudsburg . IIou?e, here he will operate and treat all diseases of ih Kyc and Ear, and all Deformities or In juries requiring . Surgical aid. lie also -oejttn litre for tlie practice of medicine and midVifcry. Worthy poor attended free of okarge. Kr consultation and advice, free. Kcirf-uary 1, 1872. 3m. Geo. W. Jackson. Amzi LeBar. Drs. JACKSOX & LcBAR FflVSIl'IAliS, SURGEONS AITOLTHERS, - Strouthlvry and JJnnl Stroiuhburf, Pa. DR. GEO. W. JACKSON, Stroudsburg-, ia tlie old office of Ir. A. IU-eves Jackson r.eiKnce in Wyckofl-' Building. DR. A. LeBAR, East Stroudsburg, office next door to Smith's Store. Koidence at Mm K. I Idler e. t'eb. S '72-tt DR. II. L. PECK, " Surgeon Dentist, Announces tht liavinjr jttst returned from Dental College, he U full j prepared to make artificial teeth in the most beautiful and life like manner, and lo fill decayed teeth ac esrdin to tlie most inprcved method. Teeih exrract-'d wit!iout pain, when.He :r?H, I y the use of Nitruu Oxide Gas, which is entirely hirmlps. ' Repairing1 of !1 kinds neatly done. All work warranted. Cbire resomhle. ' ' ' Office in J. (i. Keller's new Brick: build ing, Min S'reet, Stroudaburg, la. u 31-tf JAMKS II. W.4LTOX, Attorney at L.air, Office in tlC huilding formerly ccupi(.'d J b- M. llurxon, and opposite the Strnuds lur; I'ank, 3Tajn stroet, Stroudsburg, J'a. jn lo-tf C II0L.MJ;. Jit. . STROUDSBURG, PA. Ofiice, en Main .Street, 5 dian above the Sireu'bbiirj IIousi;, and opposite Kuster'e cloihiuj etore. ("Business of a IJ kinds attended to with promptness ar,l fidelity. May 6,lKfj9.lf. fresh pround Nova Scotia PLASTER, t Stoke Mills. H KM LOCK BOARDS, FENCING. 8IILNGLES, LATH, PA LI.VG. and POSTS, cheap. FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand, exchange Lumber and Plaster for Gruin or pay the highest market price. BLACKSMITH SHOP jnst opened by C. Stone, an experienced workman. , Public trade solicited. N. S. WVCKOFF. "ke Mills, Pa., April 20, 1871. , .' REV. EDWARD A. VVIISON7S(of Wil hannlurgli, N. Y.) Recipe for CO N bMPTIONund ASTHMA carefully com pounded at ... . . HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. - Medicines Fresh and Pure. Kov. 21. 1667. V. IIOLLTNSI1EAD. TTVOVT rOKCCT Ifia! ulicu you want any thing in tlie Furniture r Ornamental line that McCarty. in the Jdd.Fdlow ILill, Main Street, St rud 6ur;i Pd., is the place to gel it. Sept. 'JG mm mm 1VVe copy from ihe PfhUer'a Circular the fol lowing poem, which may give the uninitiated some idea of the arduous duties of that all ini. portant, and ubiqtutou MtUlIite of the printer, hisdevtf: .-.,u..-y f ., y:-r '..ij V'iv ; : . TIIE PRINTKirs DKVJL. jjy ty p. o. qr.vh. '.Ink-bespattered'' ;j '' Clothe tattered, ' : - With birf broom in hand Leaning, cleaning, "Rubbing, scrubbing, " J': ' Under every etand. J 'Neath the case?, 1 r,,- v;'1' " ; Typo and spaces . , r ' . . . ; Trampled where thev fell : By tbHpJuto J oonted to gd to ' " ' I Printers' letither "hell." J; ! Running hitherj . : : ; .i. !'.!' Darting thither - . ,,. . Tall of all thestafi; .-tJ ! Out aijd in.dyors, .... j Doing all chores, , ., Bringing telegraph. Rims for copy " ' . " . . Nor dare ston lie : i ) - ': For hL paper hat; i 1 , : .. All the jour'men, j ,; - j Save the foreman, . . Yelling for some ,:f;iU" . " . i "Proves" the galleys ; Then he sallies, . - . On Satanic pinion, ' -; From the news-rpoiu . To the sanctum- Part of lii.s dominion. And the ltosses Often -ns3 as - ' ' . Bears within their holes ,. ., ; . Make the devil . Find his level . v I. Stirring up the coals. Washing roller, Bringing coal or ' -r - Lugging wator-pail; . Time he wastes not : At the paste-pot, . . ' Wrapping up the mail. ' . When the week's done, " Tlien he seeks one Where the greenbaks lay, There to fettle, , For the little Devil. is to jay. ( In this spirit . r , " There is merit, " Far from faint or shame; Often gaining,1 " -By hU training, t. . ,r . Cjood and honored name. ' . Legislatoi . ... ( Ireat debators . , ' Scien title men,' ' ' Have arisen ' , . From the prison i -Of the printer's den. Madisos, Ixi., January loth, 1S72. Cold Veather ia Europe. The recent cold weather in Europe lias called forth the following lacts, which appeared in the Journal ties Dcbats : Iu So'J A D. the Euiine was . frozen over. In 503 tha rivers of England were fro zen over for two months. In 553 the Mack Sea was covered with ice for twenty days, and in 7G3 the the ice was 80 feet thick. Iu 821 the Elbe, the Danube and the Seine were frozen during four weeks. In 1323 the Mediterranean was entire ly frczon. In 1405 Tamerlane made an incursion into China, aud lost his men, horses and camels by the excessive cold. . ;. .. . In 1420 I'aris experienced po great cold that the city was dcppopulatcd, and auiraal.1 fed on corpses iu the streets. - ; In 1433, at Paris, snow fell during for ty days and forty nights incessantly. In 1469, in Franee and Germrny, wine was ! frozen to hard that it was cut in blocks and sold by weight.' " ' f 'i 1 In 1570 the intense cold lasted three months, and all the fruit - trees of Pro venee and Langoedoc were destroyed. In 1G07 provisions and fuel became so scarce on account of cold in Paris that a small bundle of kindling-brush cost forty cent. The cattle froze in their stalls, and the Seine could be crossed by heavy crats. ' . 1 - . . The year 1709 was one of intense cold all'over Europe, and mass could not be aid for many weeks in certain provinces because the wine' could not be kept in a fluid'efate. ;,! ; '.' ' -" v; " n! 7 "Iu 1735, in1 Chinese TartaryJ the ther mometer fell: ninety seven degrees below zero Fahrenheit-: ; . ,.. ' " -.;( 1740 was a winter of such rigor in Russia that an ice; palace was construct ed at St. Peterburg fifty one feet long and geveuteen feet wide. Six, ;ice cannon were mounted on the walls, and two mor tars for bombs. The cannon (held balls of six pounds weight, were charged with powder and discharged, so that the ball pierced a board two inches thick at a dis tance of sixty feet. The cannon did not burst, though its walls were less than ten iuches in thickness. 17G5 was a year of intense cold ; also 1788. Sioce that year the cold has nev er been so great in Paris until this very year of 1871, when, for the first time iu a century, Jack Frost came again to the tune of twenty-one degrees below zero- ceDtigrade.: ' - ' - ; ' . The aniountstill roquired to'eatUfythe German claims upou France is $635,000, 000 ' Of this however ?600,000,000 are not due until 1874, though interest 1 at the rate of five per cent.' per annum must be paid thereon for the intervening period. To 4hia must be added the cost of main taining the German army of occupation on French territory. A Sanguinary Fight that Never Came Mark Twain tells the following expc- neoce in lrgmia Lity : .That was' a singular town. They had the strangest'eustoms some ! of the most curious ' customs." When I finished re porting on their paper they made me chief editor. 'P lasted' just a Sreek. ' I edited that paper six days, and then I had five duels on my hands. I 'wouldn't have minded that, if it had been the cus tom for those other - people to- challenge me. Then I would simply have declined with thanks! - IJut it was not so. If you abused a man in the paper," if you called him names they had no rights there such as we have here if the man didn't like it, you bad to challengo him, and shoot him; Of course, I didn't want to do this, but the publishers said it was the custom society must be protected. If I could not do the duties of my position; he would hve to hire somebody else.' " -' : ', I diJo't mind the first three or four men r but the"' 'other man I Was " after him.'1'! knew he didn't: want to' fi??ht. so L was going out of him w to make all the - reputation I could. 'He sot touched at something I said about him I don't know what it was now I called ''him a thief, perhaps. He foaght - very shy of me at first, and so I plied him with blood-thirsty 'challenges all the more. At least he began to take an interest in this thing. It seemed as though he really was going to enter into it at last. All our boys were delighted at the prospect, but I was not. This was not a turn I was expecting in things.- ;.: T if: 1 '.: .. ? - - I had taken for my second a fiery, pep pery 'little fellow, named Steve, full of fight and aoxious to have things fixed up right away. He took me over into a lit tle ravine beyond the town to practice. It was the custom to fight with Colt's na vy revolvers at five steps. We borrowed a stable door for a markfrom a gentle man who was absent, i We set vup that 6tablc door, and then we propped a fence rail up agaiost the middle ot it to repre sent my antagonist, and put a squash on top of it to represent his head. He was a very light thin manr very . thin the poorest kind of material for a duel you could not expect to do anything with a scattering shot at all. But he made a splendid line shot, and it was the line that I practiced upon principally.'-;. ' ; But there was no success about it. I could not hit the rail, and there was no need that I should hit the rail; the rail did uoi really represent him. It was a little too thin and narrow. But the squash was all right. . Well, I could not hit the rail, and I could not hit the squash, and, finally, when I found I could not hit the door either, I got a little discouraged.- But when I noticed that I crippled one of the boards occasionally, I thought it was not so bad I was dangerous with a pistol, but not reliable.. Finally, we beard some shooting going od over in the other ravine. We knew what that meant. The other party was practicing. I didn't feel comfortable. They might straggle over the ridge and see what was going, on, and when they saw no bullet hole in that barn door, it would be too much encouragement for them. Just then a little bird, a little larger tbau a sparrow, lit on a sage bush nearby. Steve whipped out bis revolv er and shot its bead off. The boys pick ed up the bird, ' and were talking about it, when the other - dueling party came oter .'the ridge, ,'and came down to see what was ' going on. When the second saw the bird ho said, "How lar off was that?" " ,: ' -; Steve said about thirty steps. . j J j . :" Who did .that ?' 7 ..I;' MWhy, Twain, my man, of course.". "Did he, indeed ! Can he do that of ten 7" ' .' . : 41 Well, be can don that about four times in five." I knew the little rascal was lying, but I didn't like to tell him so. I was one of those kind of men that'don't like to be too frank or too familiar in a matter like that, so I didn't ay anything.' But it was a comfort to see thoso fellows' under jaws drop ; to sec them . t'urnblue about tbegil!s abd;Ioyk sick." They wentoff, and got their man and took bin home, and when I got home I found a little, note from those parties peremptorily declining to fight. How sore tne boys were :: now indignant they ' were ! And so was I ; but 1 was'not distressed about it. 1 thought I could stand it, perhaps. The Western States arc flooded with accounts of stage robberies to such an ex tent that persons taking places iu coaches for. the overland travel anticipate, with a sort of grim pleasure, the time when they may be able to relate to au admiring audi ence the story of a highway " robbery, in which they were concerned. But,- not ot disappoint' their friends, they will, in'the most obliging manner, baud over, to any person they may' Happen' "to meet in the neighborhood where a robbery has beeu committed, any little articles of value thev may have about them.'' In Sonoma County, Cut., recently, a ooy, cui, uci years' of age, by presenting a stake at the driver of a stage was acdoo-inodated ith the treasure box; and the 'terror stricken nassenirera seemed quite relieved when thia vouthful hishwBvman, with dignified magnanimity,1 allowed them' to go on. This desparate character has been arres ted, and comparative safety has been se cured in Sonoma County. 1 Joke on Mark' Twain." The racy. article :by-Mark Twain 'on "Barbers,, in The Galaxy, last I summer, will be: remembered by all. Vi The article was in the humorist's .happiest vein, and many a man who recognized its truthful; if slightly overdrawn, statements enjoyed a hearty laugh while persuing it. It fell like a wet blanket , on .the tonsorial pro fession, who, from one end of the land to the other , vowed revenge upon its au thor if he ever, placed himself in any of their clutches. Amog the tonsorial artists in Syracuse who longed -for a chance to "go for" : the writer , was Jacob Gilger. "Only . .let me get,a chance at, Mark Twain," said Jake. "He will stray into my shop1,' some day, as it is ' the best in town, and'I will fir him worse than King William ever fixed Napoleon:" .Probably, Jake never expected, to have - an oppor tunity, of getting even -with (Twain, but such an opportunity did present himself. Wendesday .afternoon, .and, this is j how Jake improved itr , -......... The great humorist lectured in Viet iqg Opera Hpuse on Wednesday night, andf wishing ;to make a presentable ap pearance before his audience, he strayed into Jake Gilger's barber shop' to get a shave. -A gentleman present whispered to'Jakethat the man in his chair was Mark Twain, and on that hint Jake "went for him." Selecting the dullest razor in the shop, he sharpened it up a little, and then, seizing Twain by the nose with a grip. that would bring down a ballock, he commenced, to, lather, him.., lie soaped him from chin-to eyebrows, and rushed the lather brush about', an inch ; up his nose and thence into both cars,! poor Twain, in the meantime, 6norting- and spurting like a steam engine blowing off steam. In vain he protested that he did not want his forehead and eyebrows shaved. 1 !' ' "Keep' still," says Jake, "I know my business .'; ; . .";-., , ; ;, ; After soaping him until he looked like an albino, Jake laid on the blade. The first stroke brought tears to Twain's eyes The second brought him a sitting posi tion with an exclamation. ; I say; that- razor is too dull to shave me with ' , , "Lay down," iays Jake, thrusting him down into the. chair again : "that razor will cut a hair, I know my .business. Twain groaned, and Jake pulled until the beard was off, and a good portion of the skin .with it. ' After shaving,; Jake proceeded to wash him up, selecting the dirtiest towel in shop, one that was used for wiping off hair dye, and was as spotted as Joseph's coat. The spectators by this time were unable to control their laughter, and burst out into loud peals, in which Jake heartily joined. Twain saw the joke, but kept quiet. ' When Jake told him his hair was coming out and offered to sell him a bottle of bair restorative, price S3 per bottle, Twain replied : "Well, I rather want my hair to fall out ? I havo too much for comfort." Jake then offered to sell him a bottle of "bloom of youth," telling him that he was badly freckled. "Am I," said Mark, "well, I rather like that. If I was good looking and fair to gaze upon i the ladies would all fall in love, with: me; and .that would make my wife uneasy. , As it is, she allows me to roam around the country without , fear. She knows my ugliness will protect me." Jake saw he .could not persecute Mark any further, aud,. after brushing him off in a lusty and vigorous manner, said, you like your "Mr. ' Twain, how did shave ?" ' ' 1 'Oh'!? said Mark, "this is nothing new.; JiVcry rjarber in tlie country goes for nie iu the same stylo - I am used to it, and iu .fact rather like il." f'Call, again, said Jake. , . "Not. iff I can help it,'' replied Mark "Good .day." . ,; . . ; Jake politely bowed . Mr. Twain out of the shop, and sent for a gallon of lager beer to J recuperate his exhausted energies. But he feels. that one barber is CTCU Willi .'mil, i nam 'Household Sins. .f Some .cooks will throw Out the water in which meats have been. . boiled; with out letting it cool to take off the fat.; i Bits of meat are . thrown out which would make hashed meat or hash. rThe flour is sifted in a wasteful man ner, aud the bread-pan ;'. left with the dough sticking to it. ,; ! Pie crust is laid by to sour, instead of making a few larts for tea. '(jold puddings are considered good for nothing, when oftentimes ' they can be j steamed for the next day. '; ; Dish cloths are thrown down where mice deMroy them. ' Vegetables nre often thrown away that would warm nicely for breakfast. : ' ' i The scrubbing brush in left in the wa-. ter. , . . , . Tubs and barrels are Jef t in the sun to dry and fall apart. ' - ; . , . ' Nice haudled knives, are thrown into hot water. " '' Silver spoons are used to scour kettles. " -Cream is allowed to mould and spoil. . Coffee, tea, and pepper and spices are left to stand open and lose their Bfrength The cork is left out of the molasses jug, aud the flics take pesaesaiun. ' Vinegar is drawn in : a lin basin, and allowed . to stand until both . .basin and vinegar are spoiled. Nat. Independent. : . ... Pauperism in New York. : . While its pauperism is its ; shame, the charity of New York is its glory, and covers a multitude of its. sins. , The city has one hundred and five private charities fully organized and 'constantly' engaged in succoring the distressed. Such institu tions as the Five Points Mission, the Children's Aid Society, the several orphan asylums,' homes " for the indigent, and hospitals for the sick, which are mainly supported by private funds, are aggressive charities. They seek suffering insteand of waiting for it to seek them, as almoners of public funds most always do, and they find a vast deal more of it. While they do not wait for the last extremity of dis tress before extending relief, they dis cover cases of poverty as urgent as any which have been stated, and many only a little less urgent, which never come to the knowldedge .of the public function aries. .; In the "relief of, such-destitution as,. they ..find;, these private - charities expend more money annually than is re quired by the Commissioners of Charites and Correction for all the sick, destitute, and criminals coming into their charge. It is therefore apparent that hardly half the pauperism of the city is a matter of official knowledge, and the gaunt legion of 22,782 starving people is but a frac tion of the army of misery which the city can muster. , Another and perhaps more sorrowful phase of human helplessess is found in the public hospitals ; and it is equally convincing proof of- the fact that New York in her youth is afllicted with the disease of pauperiem to an extent normal only to a city in its decrepitude. Bellevne Iloepital at tho foot of East Twenty-sixth street, and Charity Hospital on Black well's Island, which arc the two great receptacles for the sick and-injured thrown upon the public authorities, last year received 17,190 . patients. Of this army of the helpless, many when in health were self-sustaining, but all, with a few exceptions among the victims of street accidents, belonged to the class that is constantly doing uncertain battle with the wolf at the door, so that if disabled even for a day they must receive charity. In this eeusc they are paupers and to be added to the public burdens. Besides these, the hospitals for contagious diseases received during the year 6,165, and the Bureau for the Belief of Oat-door Sick prescribed for 1C,850 persons, who be come paupers for the hour by some" simple sickuess for which they could not provide the means'of relief. " Grouping now all the poor for a general view of this metropolitan misery, I must add to the list the 4,315 permanent inmates of the public almshouses, which brings the startl ing total of 60,286 persons dependent dur ing the year upon the public charities. To these must be added at least 50,000 succored by the private agencies making a grand total of 116,280 human beings who, in the year 1870, in this city of New York, were the recipients of elemosynary aid. This shows the poverty of the city complete ; but to see its poverty, its improvidence, and its crime at a glauce, add to the figures given the 40,205 who during the year applied for work at the Labor Bureau of the Com missioners of Charities, and the 71,849 who became inmates of the various prisons and reformatories bf the city. Here we are face to face with the fact that 228,330 out of a population of 942,292, or only a small farctioo less than one-quarter of the whole, population of the city, were de pendent during the year, iu whole or in part, upon the other three quarters, Galaxy fur March. r ., . ! Value of a Good Reputation. A young man had volunteered, and was expecting daily to be ordered to the seat of war. One day his mother gave him an unpaid bill with the money, and asked him to pay it. When he returned home at night she said : 4 "Did you pay that bill T" , .' f'Yes," he answered. . 1 In a few days that bill was sent in a second time. . .. ; . "I thought;" she said to her son, "that you paid this r ' ! " "I really don't remember, mother; you know I have had so many thiugs ou my mind:" ; "But you said you did." : . ' : i "Weil,'.' be auswered, "if I said I did, I did. , . . . ; - . He went away, and his mother took the bill hereself to the store. The young man bad been known in the tbwu all his life, and what opinion was held of him this will show. "I am quite sure," she said, "that my son paid this some days ago; be has beeu very busy since, and has quite forgotten about it, but he told me that day that be had; and he says if he said then that ho had. be is quite sure that. ho did,'! "Well," said the man, "I forgot about it ; but if he ever said he did, he did." A good joke is told of a young man who attended- a social eircle. The con versation1 turued on California and get ting rich". Tom remarked that if be was in California he would, instead of work Injr iu the mines, waylay somo rich man who had a bag full of gold, knock out bis brains, nather up the gold, and skeddadle One of the young fadies quietly replied Hiat he had better gather up the brains, as he evidently stood in more need of the latter than gold. Thorn subsided. ....... ,, A Lively Bear Fight The Williamsport (Penn.) Gazette tells the following : "A gentleman reach ed Williamsport from a 'logging camp' in Potter County, where he has been' for five weeks wast, who relates : the particu lars of an exciting encounter with an old bear and two cubs. It appears that a man named Jonas Elmaker and his wife, had made a small clearing in Jaekson township. - They have a comfortable log cabin, a small barn, several head of cat tle and, a few pigs. About nine o'clock in the evening, Mr. Elmaker heard a great commotion among his cattle and pigs at the barn. On rushing out to ascertaiu the cause of alarm, imagine bis surprise on finding that an old bear aod two cubs had attacked a yearling calf. , The cattle were snorting and bellowing at a -fearful rate, while the pigs were squealing as lustily as if they expected to be dispatched every minute. The bear had thrown the palf down and, was preparing to drag it out of the yard: ' The cubs were running around snapping their teeth and uttering half suppressed growls of delight at the . pros pect of a 'good square meal.' . Mr. Elmaker returned to the house, in formed his wife, and made preparations to attack the bears. He seized his rifle, while his wife armed herself with a long handled double bitted axe. Thus armed they advanced to the attack. The bears, bold and ferocious by hunger, did not seem inclined to give up their prey.-' '.Rising upon her. haunches the old bear showed fight, and tho cubs crouched behind, her, snarling fiercely. - Mr. Elmaker raised his rifle and fired at the black monster, thinking that if she were killed tho cubs could easily be dispatched or driven off. But owing to the excitement under which he was larboring, he missed bis aim and only broke the left fore paw of the ani mal. With a fierce growl of rage, caus ed by the painful wound, the old bear rushed at her assailants, followed by 'the cubs. They stood their ground for a few minutes, Mr. Elmaker clubbing his rifle, while his wife cut one of the cubs severe ly in the shoulder with the axe. The rage of the animals became fearful, and the great danger of facing them at once became apparent. Retreating rapidly to the. house, they barred the door and pro pared to defend themselves. Mr. Elmaker succeeded in reloading his rifle, and fir ing through the window, killed a cub. The old bear now attempted to climb the log house, but owing to her broken paw was unable to do so. Another shot from the rifle wounded her severely in the head, when she set up the most hideous howls of rage. Failing to get another shot at them, the parties inside remained in a state of siege, prepared to resist any fur ther attack.' The animals loitered round until midnight, when they retired and all became still. On making a search in the morning the old bear was found dead about six hundred yard? from the house,, and the cub lay where it fell in the early part of the engagement. The other had dis appeared in the forest. The two dead bears were secured and dressed the bid one weighed 380 pounds, and the cub 193. ' The Elmakers have a sufficiency of bear meat to last them for the balance of the season. The skins will be brought to Williamsport soon aud offered for sale. The affair caused much talk in the neigh borhood for several days. It is seldom that bears are so bold, but their bravery on this occasion was caused, no doubt, by the cravings of hunger. The calf was badly lacerated by the teeth and claws of the animal, but will recover. Mrs.' El maker says she is ready for the next raid." Experiments with Onions. John B. Wolf, M. D , of Washington, forwarded to the Farmers' Club of New York, the follow communication : .' ' On shipboard, at New Orleans, in the year 1849, in charge of one hundred marines, with cholera among them, I ob served that those who ate freely of onions supposing them to be healthy, were at tacked certainly and fatally. ' Onions and salt cured the bite of a rattlesnake on ioy son and are considered specific in 'all snake bites. I have found four separate witnesses of phenomena connected with small pox and fever ; : r. i ' t 'l 1. Onions iu looms with small pox rot rapidly. ; , ; - 2. Blisters rise on them. , t 3. They retain aud communicate the virus many' weeks after the epidemic has subsided. , ' v . 4 Applied to the feet of fever patients, they rapidly turn black. ; 5. They prevent the spread of small pox in thickly populated tenementsrby absorbing the virus. " 9. A man with hydrophobia, in his frenzy, ate voraciously of onioas,:and re covered. ; .i. ;r.'i From all these facts may be deducted : 1. That onions should not be eateu when there is a prevailing epidemic J 2. That onions sliced aud frequently changed are good disinfectants. ; r 3. That experiments should be made to test the extent of their usefulness. For many, years I have opposed vaccina tion as ordinarially douc, and hence bail with satisfaction any means of mitigating the virus of this distemper. . ' .-. A little boy, after watching the burn ing of the school house until the novelty of the thing had ceased, started down the street, saying, "I'm ghd the old thing is burned dowu ; I did'ut have my jogf'y j lessou, nowbow." U
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