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VOL. 29.
! STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY,' PA., MARCH 7,1872.
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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.
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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."
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