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VOL. 30.
STROUDSBURGy MONROE COUxNTY, PA., FEBRUARY 27, 1873.
NO. 42.
Published by Theodore Schoch
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JOB PltlftTIXG,
OF ALL KINDS,
ci-.ut?J in iTi-ss lushest style of the Ait, and on the
in'l oason.ble terms.
DR. J. LANTZ,
Surgeon anil Mechanical Dentist,
Still li offiite n Main Street, in the second
f.ory "f Ir. S. V.tMn brick building, neatly oppo
the Stmudshuig House, ami be ll.iiters' himself
that Irv c?g't-:n yeais otinsiant practire and the most
earnest an I r.ut'fiil alteiiti- n to all mailers pertaining
t-i his profession, that lie is fully able to perform nil
operations in the dental line in lite uoit careful, tanle
j'il a.i.l skilll'll manner.
Sjiei-ul attention given to savin- the Natural Teeth ;
;(so, to Hie i'iMr!ioi of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
G .id. Silver or Coaiiiiuous Uuuis, and ported tits in
ail ca.es insured.
M 'St persons know llie (jreat folly and danger ol en
(rtisims tlielr work to the inexperienced, or to those
living at a dist. imre. April 13, 1871. ly
D
ii. gi:o. vV. J.lCKSO.
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
In the old otfice of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson,
residence in Wyckoff's building.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
August 8, 1672-tfl
JU. 81. J. IMTTCKSOX,
UPERlTiXG AND MCIIANICAL DE5TIST,
llavi.tg located in East Strondsburg, Pa., an
nounces thut lie id now prepared to insert arti
ficial teeth in the most beautiful and life-like
manner. Also, great attention given to filling
and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex
tracted without pain by use of .Nitrous Oxide
( ias. All other work incident to the profession
done in the most skillful and approved style.
All work attended to promptly and warranted.
Charges reasonable. Patronage of the public
sj! kited.
Cilice in A. W. Ixider's new building, op
posite Analonuink House, East Strondsburg,
Pa.l July 11, 1872-ly.
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon. Dentist,
Announces lint having just rettirnrd from
Dental Collets, he id fully prepared to make
artificial teeth in the most beautiful and Iile
like manner, and lo fill decayed teeth ac
cording to the most i-nprcved method.
Teeth extracted without pain, when de
sired, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing of
all kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Charges reasonable.
O nce in J. G. Keller' new Brick build
ing, Mai S'reet, Strondsburg, Pa.
aug 31-lf
Dtt. C. O. ISOFFMAX, 31. .
Would respoctfully announce to the
public that he has removed his office from
Oakhud to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa.
Trusting that many years, of consecutive
pract. ee of Medicine and Surgery will be a
juficisnt guarantee for the public confidence.
Febraary 25, 1ST0. tf.
J.t'SCS II. WALTO.,
Attorney at L.ar,
O.Tic- in the building formerly occupied
by L. M. liurson, and opposite tlie Stronds
burg Bank, Main rtrcct, Stroudsburg, Pa.
jan 13-tf
JII.I2 UOL'SU,
HONESDALE, PA.
Most central location oi any Hotel in town.
R. W. KIPLE & SON,
Jf9 Main street. Proprictora.
Januiry 9, 1873. ly.
LACK A W AS X A IIOL'SE.
OPPOSITE THE DEPOT,
Eas.t Srroudsburg, Pa.
B. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor.
The r-Alt contains the choiest. Liquors and
the table is supplied with the best the market
affords. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
ATS OX'S
.Mount Vernon Blouse,
117 and 119 North Second St.
ABOVE ARCH,
PHILADELPHIA.
May SO, 1672- ly.
J)ARTO.SVIL.I-E HOTEL.
This old established Hotel, having recently
changed hands, and been throughly overhauled
and repaired, will reopen, for the reception of
of guests on Tuesdav, May 27th.
The public will aiwavs find this houee a de
arable place of resort. Every department will
he managed in the best possible manner. The
table will be supplied with the bet the Market
affords, and connoisurc will always find none
but the best wines and liquors at the bar.
Good stabling beloning to the Hotel, will be
found at all times under the caxe of careful and
obliging attandants. .
may 237 1872. ANTHONY H. ROEMER.
Found out why people go to McCarty s to
ct their furniture, because be buj'fi it at the
XVarc Rooms of Lee & Co. and sells it at
au advance of only tw.enty-tico and two
ninth per a nt. Or in other words, Rocking
Chairs that he buys of Lee & Co. (through
the runners he don't have) for $4,50 he sells
for $5,50. 1'oys him to Ovy mm 7ood Fur
niture. LLjj & CO.
Stroudsburg, Aug. 18, 1870.tf.
BLANK LEASES
For Sale at this Office.
From Bench and Par for January.
Divorces in Different Coyntries.
Australians Divorces have never
been sanctioned in Australia.
Jews In olden times the Jews had a
discretionary power for divorciag their
wives.
Javans If a wife be dissatisfied, she
can obtain a divorce by paying a certain
sum.
Thibetans Divorces are selden allow
ed, unless with the consent of both par
ties neither of whom can afterwards re
marry.
Moors. If a wife does not become the
mother of a boy, she may be divorced
with the consent of the tribe and she can
marry again.
Abyssinians. No form of marriage is
necessary. The connection may be dis
solved and renewed as often as the parties
think proper.
Siberians If a man is dissatisfied with
the most trifling act of his wife, he tears
the cap or veil from her head and this con
s itutes a diorce.
South Sea Islands. The connection
hardly deserves the name of marriage, as
it is dissolved whenever the husband
desires change, Maryland Law Reporter.
Corean. The husband can divorce his
wife at pleasure and leave her the charge
of maiutaiuiug their children. If she
prove unfaithful he can put her to death.
Siamese. The first wile may be divorc
ed, but not sold as the others may be She
then may claim the first, third and fifth
child, and the alternate children are
yielded to the husband.
Arctic Regions. When a man desires
a divirce, he leaves the house in anger
and dues not return for several days. The
wie und. rstands the hiut, packs her
clothes and leaves.
Druse and Turkomans. Among these
people, if a wife asks her husband's
peruiisskn to go out and he says "Go,"
without adding "but come back again,"
she is divorced. Though both parties
desired it, they cannot live together with
out being remarried.
Cochin Chinese. If the parties choose
to separate they break a pair of chop
sticks or copper coin iu the presence of a
witness, by which action the union is dis
solved. The husband must restore to the
wife the property belonging to her prior
to marriage.
American Indians. Amongsome tribes
the pieces of t-tick given to the witnesses
of the carriage are burnt as a sign of
divorce. Usually new connections are
formed wiihout the old ooes being dis
solved. A man never divorces his wife
ii she have borne him sons.
Tartars The husband may put away
his partner and seek another one when
ever it plea.s him, and his wile may do
the same. If she be ill treated she com
plains to ti e magistrate, who, attended
by some of the principal people, accotu
panies her to the house and pronouces a
formal divorce.
Chiuesc. Divorces are allowed in cases
of criminality, nritual dislike, jealousy,
incompatibility of temper, or too much
loquacity on the part of the wife. The
husband cannot sell bis wife until she
leaves him and becomes a slave to him by
action of law for desertion. A son is
bound to divorce his wile if she displeases
his parents.
Circassians. Two kinds of divorce are
granted in Ciicassia, one total, the other
provisional. Where the first is allowed
the parties ean immediately marry again ;
where the second exists the couple agree
to separate for a year, and if, at the expir
atioo of that time, the husband does not
send for his wife, her relations may cetn
pel him to a total divorce.
Grecians. A settlement was usually
given the wife at marriage for her sup
port in case of a divorce. The wife's
portion was then restored to her, and the
husband required to pay monthly interest
for its use during the time he detained it
from her. Usually the men could put
their wives away on 6lightoccasioo3 Even
the fear of having too large a family suf
ficed. Divorce scarely ever occur iu
Modern Greece.
Hindoos. Either party, for a slight
cause, may leave the other and marry
again. Where both desire it, there is
not the least trouble. If a roan calls his
wife "mother," it is considered indelicate
to live with her again. Among one tribe,
the "Garos," if the wife be unfaithful, the
husband cannot obtain a divorce unless
he gives her all the property and the
children. A woman, on the contrary,
may leave them when she pleases, and
marry another man, and convey to him
the entire property of her former husband
Romans. In olden times a man mitrht
divorce his wile if -she were unfaithful,
if she counterfeited his private keys, or
drank wine without knowledge. They
would divorce their wives when they
pleased Notwithstanding this five hun
dred and twenty one years elapsed with
out one divorce. Afterwards a law wus
passed allowing either sex to make the ap
plication. Divorces then became frequent
on the slightest pretexts. Seneca says
that some women no looker reckoned the
years by the consuls, but by the number of
their husbands. St. Jerome speaks of a
man who buried tweuty wives, aud of a wo
man who buried twenty one husbands.
The Emperor Augustus endeavored to
restrain this license by penalties.
A polygamist, two of whose three
wives died recently, has remarried the
last one, accordiug to law, at Salt Lake
City, Judge MoKean officiating.
A HORROR IN BROOKLYN.
A Miser Dies of Starvation and is Eaten by
his Starving Dog Missing for Two Months.
One of the most horrible cases that
ever came to light in Brooklyn, or indeed
in any other city, was discovered a short
time since. A man was eaten by his own
dog, and a more sickening sight never
presented itself to human eyes. A re
porter who visited the scene says that as
cending a narrow flight of stairs the wri
ter was shown into a small back room.
It was all in confusion, and looked as if
it had been used as a kennel for dogs, as
indeed it had been. There was a mahog
any bedstead in one coroor of the room,
and a cot bed in the centre. A stove, a
chest, a leather trunk, and a small clock
on the mantlepiece, stopped at five miu
utes to twelve, completed the furnishing.
The chest contained wearing apparel, and
the trunk was filled with books and pam
phlets. Almost the first thing noticed
on entering was a man's head, partially
covered with a black and red comforter.
The eyes had melted away, and the face
was covered with a coarse, shaggy beard
The hair was long aud slightly tinged
with gray There were also about the
head, strewn or rolled upon the floor, frag
ments of an undershirt matted together
and a portion rolled about a left hand,
which, besides the head, was the ouly
portion of the body left. The hand had
been dislocated, and had evidently been
eaten ofi down from the socket at the
shoulder. This looked as if a dog had
been eating it only a few hours previous,
and such was probably the case. From
the elbow down the arm had become so
covered up in the cloths that eveu a dog
could not get at the flesh. The arm, iu
eluding the hand and fingers, was there
fore intact, but iu an advanced state ol
decomposition. From the large bed a
bundle of bones, probably those of the
legs and arms, were collected, some at the
head and some at the foot, half covered
with the bed-clothes and eotirely desti
tute of flesh. Some of them were crack
ed into splinters. There were six joints
in all, some so short as to show that they
had been broken.
Ou the floor between the beds were
found pieces of the entrails, looking as if
they had been dragged over the floor from
place to place. Near the back windows,
under a small table stood a portion of the
flesh of the body rolled up and attached
to the skin. The backbone or spinal col
umn, the ribs, feet, and other portions of
the body could not be found. When it
was seen that one hand remained intact
it was supposed that it might have clutch
ed a knife, a pistil, or a raz r with which
a suicide had been committed, but no ar
tides were found that would indicate that
deceased bad committed suicide.
The theory is that the man starved to
death, and that then his body bad been
eaten by his own dog, which bad been
confined in the house with him and in no
way could get out. There is little doubt
that this is the fact. The bed clothes,
and even the overcoat of the deceased
which was found on the floor, gave am
ple evidence that the dog had been the
only live inhabitant of the place for weeks,
if not for mouths, before the body or a
portion of it was discovered. How be
lived there so long without water, if he
did live without it, cannot be explained
He bad the run of the whole house, in
eluding the store and back room and two
rooms on the first floor above.
The occupant of the building, Jacob
Knoop, has been dead over two months,
and the dog has been feeding on his body
all that time. This theory is advanced
from the fact that be was last seen alive
about two months ago. He was very re
served in his manners and did not aso
ciate with his neighbors. It appears that
he has owned and lived in the corner re
ferred to for about six years, but durin
the latter part of last summer he closed
up the place aud remained inside nearly
all the time. Knoop's creditors obtained
a judgment against him. and his house
was sold by the Sheriff of Kings County
a short time ago. The property was pur
chased by John Miller, who resold or
leased it to James Counaghan. Miller
and Counaghan came to take possession
of the place, but could not get in. They
tapped on the door incessantly, but all
the answers they could get was the grow
ling of the dog. Finally they concluded
to enter by some means, and going into
the yard, burst open a rear window. The
dog rau at them, but was finally secured
and removed to the yard, where be was
tied up Miller and his tenant then went
up stairs and made the discovery as al
ready described.
.
A lady of Reading, Mrs John Ramage,
fed five hundred sparrows during the
cold weather. At first she had but a few.
but they appeared to convey intelligence
of the lady' generosity to their friends,
and the uuoiber increased very fast It
is said that when she goes to her ddor
and calls them, they "stand not on the or
der of their" coming, but come with a
flutter of thankfulness and delight.
Elegantly dressed ladies are continually
calling at the Tombs to see Stokes. Fos
ter, aud the other murderers, aud many
of them aro gratified. They invariably,
it is said, sympathize with the uufortunate
men. forgetting everything but the fact
that their necks are in danger, and go
away shedding tears. There has evident
ly been no material change in woman for
tbe last thousand years.
Men and Women.
It is strange indeed that men's self
condemnation of their coarseness and
vices should be interpreted as delicacy
and chivalry toward women. "We are
so vulgar and vile, they seem to say.
"that we must continue to be vulgar and
vile, to show how tenderly we cherish,
how fully we appreciate the dear crca
tures who are better angels." If we are
not fitted to be women's companions, if
we go where we should not, so much the
worse for us. If women are too good for
us, it is our duty to be better. We re
quire reformation, and the bet reforma
tion will eome to us by admitting women
to what we call, euphemistically enough,
our recreations and our pleasures. That
these are unworthy and rude, if not gross,
for the most part, few of us will deny.
By making women our partial partners,
our associates on occasion, we admit our
inferiority and our fear lest they should
know of us what we know of ourseives.
We have not advanced so far beyond
baronial barbarism and Eastern iudul
gences as we would fain believe, while
we hold our wives and daughters in the
prisons of ignorance and the seraglios of
restraint.
It is not consideration for women that
induces us to keep them in the border
laud of acquaintance with our real lives
It is consideration for'ourselves ; it is su
preme selshness ; it is engrossing egotsm
We shrink from the thought that the
gentler and purer beings who love us.
and whom we love wheu we have naught
else to do should have a perfect under
standing, a clear revelation of what we
are. It is an article of our social creed
that they prefer pleasant illusions to dis
agreeable tacts. This is not without its
verity ; but it evinces the false education
of women, and one of their weaknesses
that should be removed. In this age we
live, or ought to live, above everything
else, for truth. Whatever leads thereto
should be followed, though the following
dispel every deception which, from the
first, has been our most grateful food.
The men are precious few that would
be willing their lives should be unrolled
panorama like before their nearest and
dearest feminine friends. The thing that
they are vain of, even to boasting, they
would hide from their wives or mothers
at imminent peril to themselves. The
worship most of us receive is a species ol
sentimental fetishism offered under the
delusion that the idol is far more than it
seems; that it possesses powers and in
flue rices linking it to the divine. Tran
parent as we may be to our own sex, we
are opaque to the opposite. Genuiue to
the one, we are shams to the other, and
we exercise constant care that we shall
continue such. In respect, esteem,
and affection, we are actually obtainers of
goods by false pretences, and are amen
able to a spiritual law which we always
vade. Is it flittering to our manhood,
to our sense of integrity, to know that to
those we reveience most we arc miserable
fictions and animated ties? " Women as
Companions" hy Junius Henri Browne,
in Ftbruary Galaxy.
Dr. Schoeppe Again.
THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM IN BERLIN.
The Baltimore Gazette Bays : The
counsel engaged in the will of Dr. Paul
Schoeppe against Messrs William A.
Stewart and John R. Kelso, executors of
the late Miss Maria M. Stcnecke. have
agreed to have testimony taken in Berliu
by a commission in reference to the
charges against Dr Schoeppe. It is al
leed that Dr. Schoeppe was convicted in
the Police Court iu Berlin of theft, for
gery, and extortion, and Mr. II. Clay t)ul
lam, one of the counsel for Messrs Ste
wart and KeLo, has in his possession a
transcript of the charges, findings, 6en
tences, and description, certifird to by
Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister at
Berlin, as true copies. They aro not,
however, of the certainty required by
law and hence the importance of having
the record taken by a commission.
The respective counsel are now engag
ed in writing out and agreeiug upon in
terrogatories. and it will probably be six
or eight weeks before the commission is
returned and the trial proceeded with.
There was considerable comment made
by the press upon the revelations from
Berlin in reference to Dr. Schoeppe at
the time of their announcement, and it
will be interesting to know the truth of
the matter. Messrs. S Teackle Wallis
and II Clay Dallam arc the counsel for
the executors, and Messrs. Sliugluff Si,
Slingluff and Wm. Wirt Robinson repre
sent Dr. Schoeppe, who clams to have
been the "lawful husband" of Miss
Sieinecke, and asks now that letters of ad
ministration upon her estate be granted
to him as her legal heir. Whenever the
trial takes place there will be much testi
mony touching the relations which exist
ed between Dr Schoeppe and Miss
Steinccke.
A policeman 6trayed into the tenth
ward of Detroit the other day to make a
few hundred dollars by driving geese to
the pound. lie had collected a dtren or
more, and was quietly proceeding across
the commons, when something came down
on his head, and be keeled over and knew
no more for five minutes. A small boy
informed him that a woman brought a
i'toe handle down upon bis bea'a but the
officer says a barn fell on him.
THE WINGED MAN.
Faglln, the Bird-Man of Anvergne A
Singular Story.
Paris has a Revue des Marveills, and.
if all its articles are as startling as a re
cent contribution from the pen of Mr
Haruois Condamine, it certainly has goo f
claims to the title. This geutleman has
discovered actual evideuce of a new de
parture among the human race by which
man is eventually to take to himself
wings aud fly through the air. The ap
plication of faith in the Darwinian theory
of the selection of species to the pheno
mnnon that Mr. (larnois Condamine de
scribes is all that is necessary to foiecast
an ostrich like creature as the coming
man, hall tridirir, half flyiug through the
world. The addition of winjs to women
will, of course, make them angels instead
of ostriches.
It was in the mountains of Auvergne
that the embodiment of the first evidence
of the new departure was discovered.
His uamc was Failin. He was an
athlete, a famous swimmer and a great
walker. He appeared to walk as much
with his arms as with his legs. The mo
tion of the arms increased as he ran un
til, as he is described, "he seemed to be
actually propelling himself through the
air like a swimmer who goes through the
water hand over I and." lie insisted that
this increased his speed. When Andre
died M. Harnois Condamine, assisted by
M. Bravais, a physician of the conserva
live school, dissected his body. Adtior
mal developments were lound, which tak
eu seperately, might be regarded as de
fortuities, but, together poiuteJ to a new
type the bird type The arm was cer
taiuly the beginning of the frame work
of a wing, according to these gentlemen.
The formation of the breast, the lengthen
ing of the bhoulder blade, the enclo.-ure
of the thorax and various other develop
ments indicated the same ultimate coudi
tion of a human being wilh wings.
At his death Faglin left a child, about
a year old, that shows the same develoj
meots in a more pronounced degree, with
two additional featuercs of the bird type
One of those is a very distinctly marked,
though rudimentary third eyelid ; the
other is a loose and fl ippy mass of skin
that folds back of the arm when this
member is at rest. These additiaus in
dicate rapid advances in the process ol
developing the new species that is pro
mised. This process would naturally be
gradual, and take its slow course through
marriage and offspring It is claimed
that the strength of the muscle required
for flying is uot near so great as has been
estimated iu the past, and that elasticity
is quite us important an adjunct The
developments that have been uoticed are
of particularly elastic qualify. M Har
nois Coudamitie proposes to undertake
the education of this child, probably (or
the purpose of bringing it up as it should
fly.
After the Boys.
Some boys in Washington having pe
titioned for the riijht to vote, a Boy's
Journal takes them to task as follows:
Those callow jouths had better go home
and learn a little something, and not at
tempt to say what are and what are not
the rights of Young America. One
word more. If these youngsters thiuk
that boys know more or lite taster now
a days' than boys did 100 years ago they
arc greatly mistaken Take Ben Frank
tin. for instance, and compare him at
the ae of eighteen with one of the nois
iest of the "rights" crew, aud Mr
Smarty would be glad to hide his pret
ty face in some dark corner. Boys iu
1773 bad to work, and learned some
thing by experience. Now boys, as a
general rule, are kept at home, or per
haps speud a few hours at a fashionable
school, aud in the evening go to some
place of eutertainment, and "go it while
ihey'er young" to a great extent. If
these young Americaus desire to vote
they had better show themselves worthy
of that privilege. But the American
youth in geueral desires no such thing
We arc perfectly content to abide by the
laws our forefathers made for us, and
when we are 21 perhaps we shall be in
truth wise enough to govern, as well as
lo bo governed.
Tremors Caused by Tobacco.
The trembling which is oue of the
usual symptoms of acute, is also a com
mon result oT chronic niootism A very
distinguished Parisian physician had
hands which shrink so much that he could
not write. Whenever he remained with
out tohacoo for any length of time, these
tremblings disappeared. Another case,
mentioned by Blatin, is noteworthy : A
man of forty five years consulted him re
specting violent and numerous attacks of
vertigo. When he felt one of them ap
proaching he was obligod to lie down wht r
ever he might be, ordertoavoid falling In
the country, where he had plenty of exer
cise, they wercless Ireqneut than in the
town, where his oceu palion was sedden
tary. Cessation from tobacco, and a tonic
tegimen, quickly restored him A phvi
ciau ol fitly t wo was ufllicted with similar
disagreeable symptoms, aud was also cuicd
by' abstinence Habit bad become so
strong that he could not re-ist, at times,
the temptation to slight indulgence Find
ing thai these returns to tobacco were
immediately followed by bis dd painful
attacks, be renounced it forcvar.
Uso of a Receipt
In the city of Halifax there dwelt a
lawyer, cralty, cunning and cute as a fox.
An Indiau ot the Miami tribe, named
Simoo, owed him some mney The law
yer had waited long for the tin His
patience at lat gave out. and he threa
tencd the Indian with law suit, processes
and executions
The poor red man got scared and
brought the money to his creditor. The
Indian waited, expecting the lawyer
would write a receipt.
"What are you wailing for," said thd
lawyer.
"Receipt," said the Indian.
"A receipt," satd the lawyer, "receipt;
what do you know about n receipt ? Can
yoa understand the nature of a receipt ?
Tell me the use of one and I will give it
to you."
The Indian locked at him a moment'
and then said :
"S'pose may be me die ; me go to
heben ; me find the gate locked ; me see
the 'postle Peter ; he say Simon, what
you want?' me say, -Want go get in he
say, 4y.u pay Mr J dat money V What
me do? I hab no receipt ! Ha'o to huuti
all ober hell to find you I"
He got a receipt
The following beautiful sketch wa3
written by the late T'uurlow Weed Brown,'
in 1X50:
"Waiting for the Evening Train." -The
speaker was the id Jest ol the crowd
wf people moving restlessly about he de
pot. His form was bowed with yeais of
hard toil ; his hair was white and his
hands tremulous. There w.is that in his
countenance aud manner which always
wins confidence and respect, and brings
a pleasant dream of a substantial farm
house, a worthy family, and u lile teach
ing of the principles of industry, integrity
and honor.
And the old man will not wait long
for the train is sweepin iu on the down"
grade. The hours wear away . The sun
is goiug. and the shadows are already
thickening over the track beyoud. And
there is but oue change on the route
aud by the deep river which rolls between
this aud the other shore
More than eighty years ago he reeeivecP
a through ticket over the straight and
narrow way, whose terminns i- the'eter
ual city. Death is a mighty engine, and
for thousands of years has swept this down'
grade hourly with loaded traius It stops
at every station
We are all "Waiting for the train."
There are the morning and the noon
trains; these are filled with the children,
with the pleasure seeking and sorrow
stricken. We know not the time when
due. with but noiseless peed t l ey are
coming. '"All aboard !"has a stur ling
thrill, and the gentle good night i spok
en uot again, for n j asener returneth.
A boy with microscopic eyes is the Li
test scientific wonder in Lnglatid lie
poscssses the laculty of seeing minute obJ
jeets magnified to a marvelou decree.
LI is eyes were disease I when young, and
he came near losing his sight, which he
gradually recovered. It was found, how
ever, that the iutei nal structure of the eyer
had beeu changed, the cornea being great
ly eularged. the crystalline lens being di-
vided into three diflereot puts each part
:-urrounded with a light blue circle ; and
iu the center of each appear the iris, dim
inished to the b:zj of a pin head. The
patient can uot distin.ui.-h olj c s" at' a' dis
tance, they appear blured and lui.-happen-ed.
The magnifying power of his vision
is stated at 5.000 diameters A' curious
fact is that he will never examine water,
having once discovered the vast number
of infusoria contained in some which he
was drinking, an 1 the sight ot which
thoroughly frightened htm The lad,
should be mentioned, he has a wiinderlul
talent for drawing and coJoriug with great
accuracy the objects which couie beneath
his inspection The case is under the
particular attention ot Sir Charles Mad
den, F. li. S., and Dr Crowder, the euiin
cut oeculist.
A close fi-ted fellow, iu treating a friend
to 6ome liquor, poured out a very small
drink. The latter, taking the glas and
holding it above his bead, remaiked very
skeptically :
"You say this is forty years obi !"
"Yes," replied the hot.
"Then," replied our friend, "all I have
to say is, it's very small for its age."
A baby opened its eyes in L.-k Haven,
the other day, of rather peculiar forma
tion. It has five fingers and two thumbs
on one hand, fice fingers and oue thumb
on the other, six toes on each foot, and
its tongue is last to the lower part ot its
mouth.
A Maine woman ate four quarts ofoys
tersat oue sitting the other d ty an I won
S100 by so doing, which, alter deducting
tier burial expenses, lolt her Slf to
commeuce the i.ext world with.
We hear a great deal about labor re
form, but thero seems to be greter need
of reforming some of ihne fellow who
don't labor.
Twelve prisoners in the l.et.aoou. Pa ,
jail escaped on Friday evtinng by term
ing a rope out ot their bed l tbes, and
thus descending a wall.
'i wo bank charters lor Pike county are
before the- Legislature.
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