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VOL. 30.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., MAY 1, 1873.
NO. 51
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UTTP1 TTjTCT A at
Published by Theodore Schoch.
TEHMS T.vo .l.ill.r! a year in advance and if not
fiiil ijcfic the Pu t of tlie year, two dollars and fifty
tents w ill be charged.
No n ijier iiscn.ii iiine I until all arrearages are paid,
trxcpnt al the option o! the Eilitor.
1UA Iveriiscmetits of one square of (eight linns) or
one or llirc insertions St 5H. Each .iilitilioiiiil
fi-rtioiii 51 cetit. Longer ones in proportion. .
JOD I'KIXTIiTiC,
OF ALL KINDS, -
fcxtcuted in tho hialirst style of the Art, and on the
itiot leason.tble term.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
Office next door above S. I Ices' news Depot
and I'd door below the Corner Store.
March "Ji, U7::-tf.
DR. J. L ANT Z, "
Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist,
Still ln his oirn-.e "n Main Street, in the sct-ond
ytory f L)r. S. Walton's brick binding, neatly opio
5ite'tlie S!riuJs!iiiiB llme. and tie Hotter himself
that by ci :it-ni vais constant prartire and the int
earnest an-l iMitiul alteiitu n to ail matters pertaining
to his prof .v-.-i'iu. t h.'t he is fully able to perform all
wpration in tli.-r lienial line in Hie most careful, tasle
pil ani 1 1 1 ! ! I maimer.
spec i il alien: ion given to savin? the Natural Teeth ;
also, to 1'ie iiiM-rli.ui f Art it:ial "reeth on Rubber,
fi ild, Silvv or Continuous Gums, and ported fits In
all Ca.-e in suril.
Mt persons know the great folly and danger o( cn
tru!iiig tlielr work totiic inexperienced, or to those
living.it a distance. April 13, I s7 1 . I y
D
Zl. GJi:0. MY. JACK SOX
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
In the old oiiice of Dr. A. llceves Jackson, !
residemv m yckotl s building.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Ausuet 8, iS72-a: .
jn. ii. j. iMrn:Rso.,
rEBlTWS AND 3iEniAMrAL DEMIST,
Having located in Kxst Stroudsburg, Pa., an
nounces that he is now prepared to insert arti
icial teeth in the most beautiful and lite-like
manner. Also, great attention j:ivcn to liliing
and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth cx
Ir n ted wi'.hout pain by ue of Nitrotis Oxide
(las. All tlier work incident to the profession
done in tlie most .-killful and approved style.
All work attended to promptly and warranted.
Charges reasonable. Patronage of the public
solicited.
0;!ice in A. W. Lndcr's new building, op
posite Analoiuiiik House, Ilast Siroudsburg,
Pa.l Julv 11, 1S72 ly.
DR. N. L. PECK,
S urge o ii D enlist,
Announces lint linvins just returned from
Dental Colic"-, he is fullv nreparcd to make
artificial teetij in the most beautiful and life- j
like manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac- j
cording to the most in proved method.
Teeth extracted without pain, when de
iireJ, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing of
all kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Chorees reasonable.
Office in J. G. Keller's new Brick build
in, Main S'reet, Stroudsburj, Pa.
au;: 31-1 f '
J All IIS II. W.ILTOX,
Attorney at Law,
Office in tlio building formerly occupied
bv L. M. IJurson. and opposite the Strouds
burg Rank, .Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
jail J.'i-tf
i " 31 Kill C AX llOTi:!-..
The subscriber would inform the public that
lie has leased the house formally kept by Jacob
Knceht, in the Dorough of Stroudsburg, l'a.,
Ktid having repainted and refurnished the fame,
i prepared to entertain all who may patronize
him. It is the aim of the proprietor, to furn
ish superior accommodations at moderate rates
stnd will are no pains to promote the com
fort of the guests. A liberal share of public
patronage solicited.
April 17, '72-tq D. L. PISLK.
IIONESDALE, PA.
Mot central location ot any Hotel in town.
p.. w kipli: & sox,
JM Main street. Proprietors.
January 'J, J 873. lj'.
IACKAWA.WA IIGL'SH.
J Ol'l'OSITK TIIK DKI'OT,
3-:ast Stroudsburg, Pa.
R. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor.
The iuk contain the clioieft Liquor and
the TABLK
blk w supplied with the best the market
i. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
affords
J T
Mount Vernon House,
U7 and 119 North Second St.
jvTiOVE APX'lf,
PHILADELPHIA.
May 30, 1672- ly.
REV. EDWARD A. VILSON'S(of WH
liamsburgh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com
pounded at
HQLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
CO" Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Nov. 21. 18G7.J W. HOLLINSHEAD.
BLANK LEASES
For Salfi at this Office.
DELIRIUM TREMENS.
What it is, and How it affects different
Individuals.
Delirium tremens and .mania a portu
are sjnoaomous terms, and Webster de
fines them "madness or a violent delirium
induced by the excess and prolonged use
of intoxicating liquors." Whoever has
seen a case of delirium tremens, has no
idia of the intense suffering, and Tearful
reality whicb crowds itself upon the hal
lucinated intellect of the sufferer.
Strange as it uny seem, the person so af
flicted is deeply impressed with the idea
that be is perfectly rational, and that all
which appears to his diseased mind is true
and real ; but to the same mind it is the work
of a disordered imagination. Ilis misery
no pen cau paint in words It is horrific
The senses are terribly alive the brain,
the car, and the eye in rapid succession
conjure up some new and varied halluci
nation, creating a wheel upon which the
physical system is broken, and exhaust
ed nature kept continually on the rack.
Sleep he cannot, eat and drink ho will
not. If he would recover, sleep must en
sue, and consequently nourishment, to
stimulate exhausted nature, which has
bceD destroyed by the power of strong
driuk. If alcohol has utterly broken
down his constitution, even though sleep
occurs, he cannot recover, for there is
nothing left upou which to found recu
pcratiou. A man may recoer from one
single attack, possibly from two, but ncv
cr, or rarely from the third. The delu
sious assume various phases in diflcreat
iudiviuals. The sluggish and -rood hu
mored person is sometimes violeut and
demonstrative ; the violent and passionate
partake of the humorous and ludicrous.
We can best illustrate this by giving one
or more incidents.
In the Juuiata Valley lived W. M ,
who ia disposition was passionate and
haoiy iii hi? i'a'ionai moments, lie was
of a social tura of njiu ' but too fond of I
the pbiss. Of course, his bibulous pro
pensities in time brought on delirium tre
mens. In his paroxysms he would seek
to destroy himself, and had to be carefully
guarded. He would attempt no injuries
upon otlurs. One day he eluded the care
i f his watchers, and succeeded in gettiug
into the garden. Here be was confronted
by a bufialo robe, spread upou a clothes
line, for the purpose of sunning out mollis.
After scrutinizing the robe for some time,
he went down on -a J 1 fours," acd cap
tiously approached the object of his wrath,
muttering to himseif, "I see you !"
When withiu a few feet of the aim of his
pugnacity he made a terrible ppriug,
grasped the robe, drew it to the earth',
when ensued a most ludicrous combat.
Sometimes the robe was on top, and some
times under all the time receiving heavy
blows, with cries of 'd n you, I've got
you now !" Getting possession of a ra
zor, he came near destroying himself af
terward. Recovering, for many years he
abstained from ardent spirits ; but in a
fatal moment he again partook of the imp
in the wine cup, fell, and died a most
hoorrible death, rendering the room quite
on the verge of hell.
G. P. was a ui3Q of kind, genial, and
social disposition possessing very excel
lent talent was widely known in this
valley, and had something of a State re
putation ; in short, he was loved for his
many good qualities. He became in
fatuated with strong drinks, which even
tually brought him to delirium tremens.
He came into the bar rooms of a public
house one morning and took a scat by. the
stove. Presently he called the attention
of parties to "the grass growing nut of
the stove," and next to that "d d
chicken cock crowing on the wiudow sill."
These expressions plaiuly told from what
he was suffering. He was undemonstra
tive in his hallucinations, and after be
ing confined to hi.s room, though not a
military man, he amused himself by com
manding an imnicusc army of soldiers.
He still had other harmless aberrations
during intervals. He recovered, but con
tinued drinking to a greater or less ex
tent as circumstances afforded, and finally
died a wreck of his former self. He was
ODe of those kind of men that were born
to grace society, and do good to his fel
lows, but, alas ! rum was his banc, and
the world was bereft of the services which
would have made it better for his having
lived in it.
J. L. was one of your easy-going ''hail
fellow well met" sort of chaps of dila
tory proclivities. He was more accus
tomed to long and violent sprees rather
than regular drinking habits, which
gradually, but surely, made havoc with
his vigorous constitution, and finally
brought on an attack of delirium tremens.
When in this condition he was in mortal
dread all the time, pleading lor some one
to care for him, having more of the char
acteristics of the child than a man. His
first attack was a very serious one, and re
quired the utmost skill of physicians to
enable him to weather the storm. Upon
his recovery, he abstaiucd from his cups
for several months, but, unfortunately,
relapsed into his old habit. A second
attack of mauia followed, and when cou
fined to the room he became very violeut,
demolishing furniture, windows, and
everything of a breakable character.
Contraiy to the expectations of friends
and his physician, ho recovered from this
attack, to be informed by his skillful
medical adviser that he would never again
conquer in another such- battle. For a
time this had a salutary effect upon him,
but hb old habit proving too ttiong, he
fell, and in a few weeks was seized with
the "jim-jams," and iu less than ten hours
after being confined in the hospital, was
a corpse.
We cite these cases to show how ludi
crous as well as serious, are the vagaries
under which persons labor when suffer
ing from this malady. The delusions
with which they arc affected are as di
versified as nature itself ; and if a sane
mind can form some idea of the scope of
the imagination in health, then what must
it be when all the senses the eye, the
car, the brain arc rendered a thousand
times more acute and intensified by the
malady which racks the whole man I It
is simply horrible a state which no man
neep envy who does not want to be tor
uicnted before his time.
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
One of the most important aet3 of the
late Legislature of Pennsylvania was the
passage of a law department in our State
Government, to be known as the Iosur
ance Department. The chief officer of
this department- is known as Insurance
Commissioner, and the position has been
filled by the appointnaent of Mr. Mont
gomery Foster, of Ilarrisburg, who will
enter upon the duties of the office on the
first Monday of May next. The func
tions of this officer uuder the provisions
of the law are
1. To see that all the laws of the State
respecting insurance companies, are faith
fully executed by their agents. The
Commissioner is iuvestod with all the
powers and authority now conferred up
on the Auditor General in relation to the
liceusing of the agents of foreigu insurance
companies, and to file in his ofiice any
charter of a company uow, or hereafter
required to be filled, and on applicatiou
to furnish certified copies thereof.
2. When he finds that any life insur
ance company doing business in the Slate
has not on hand the net value of all its
policies in force, clear of all other libili
ties, the Commissioner shall cause to be
published the fact that the affair of such
company are below the staudard of legal
safety, aud shall also cause the company
to cease business.
3. For every company doing fire insur
ance business iu this State, he 'shall calcu
late the reinsurance reserve for unexpir
ed fire risks, by taking fifty per centum
of the premium received on all unexpired
risks that have less'thau cue year to ruu,
cud a pro rata on all premiums received
on-risks that have more than one year to
run ; and in marine and iulaud insurance
he shall charge the premiums received
on uucxpired risks as a reinsurance re
serve. 4. It shall be the duty of the Insur
ance Commissioner, after he has notified
a life insurance compauy, organized uuder
authority of this State, to cease doing
new busiucss until the uet value of its i
policies in force is equal to that called for
by the standard of safety established by
the State, at once to cause a rigid ex
amination in regard to all the affairs of
such company j in case it shall appear that
there is no fraud or gro;s incompetency
or recklessness shown to exist in the man
agement, he may, upon publishing the
facts iu the case, permit such company to
continue in charge of its business for oue
year : 1'rovuhil, There is, in his opinion,
reason to believe that the compauy may
cventualiy be able to re-establish the le
gal net value of all its policies in force.
At the eud of the year named above he
may renew the permission, in case, on
examination, he is satisfied the compauy
is likely to retrieve its affairs.
Iu short, the act gives the Commission
er the most extended authority in all
things pertaiuiug to the busiucss of the
insurance compauies of the State aud that
of the agents iu the State of foreign com
panies. He has full access to their books,
papers, &c, either iu person, or others
whom he may authorize to make ex a mi
nations for him, with a view to investi
gating the affairs of such companies. He
has power to institute prosecutions against
companies either through the Attorney
General of the State or such other attorney
as he may designate, for any violations of
the law. The Commissiouera Ijo has au
thority to employ au actuary to make the
valution of life policies, who shall be com
pensated not to exceed three cents lor
each thousand dollars of iusurance, to be
paid by the company for which the valua
lion is made ; aud there shall be paid by
every compauy to which this act applies,
the following fees toward defraying the
expenses of enforcing its provisious : For
certified copy of character, 23; for filing
the annual statement or certificate in lieu
thereof, 20 ; for each certificate ofau
thority and certified copy thereof, $2 ; for
every copy of sny paper filed iu the do
partmeut, the sum of 20 cents per folio,
and for affixing the official seal to such
copy aud certifying the same, 81 ; for of
ficial examination of co'apauics uuder the
actual expenses incurred.
This law is desigucd purely for the pro
tection of the public against unsafe insur
ance companies, aud if the Commissioner
exercises full ilia powers vested in him,
it will not be easy fur a company to exist
iu Pennsylvania unless its affairs are iu a
safe and sound conditiou. If there are
any companies iu the State whose affaiis
are not up to tho legal standard, they will
probably be unearthed duiing the pieseut
year. Sci-aitton itj)uLlican.
Nixon, who killed Pfeifer in New York,
has been sentenced to be hung oa the
10th of May.
The Destroyed City.
TIIETEUUTRLE CALAMITY THAT IIEFEL SAN
SALVADOR DEATH STAR I Nil THE POOR
l'EOTLE OF THE TOWN IN THE FACE
DESTRUCTION THAT CANNOT BE
AVERTED.
Panama, April 10. Further reportes
of the earthquake at San Salvador state
that, fortunately, owing to the first shocks
haviug frightened the people from living
within houses, the loss of life has not
been so great as it would otherwise have
been. Out of a population of 40,000,
which the city of San Salvador was paid
to contain, the number reported killed
aud wounded varies from 50 to 500 In
the midst of the dust and consternation a
fire broke out iu a drug store, but it was
soon got under.
The government functionaries stood to
their posts and did their duties in a
highly creditable manner. The President
sent his family to Santa Tecla and estab
lished himself in the principal square of
the capital in a teut, repressed all at
tempts at disorder and robbery, and
rendered assistance wherever it was most
needed. Any one found carrying away
property was shot. The authorities still
persist iu rebuilding the city ou the same
site, although this is the eighth time with
iu 150 years that the city has been des
troyed. Most of the people have never
theless removed to Sauta Tecla.
The only buildings that stood the
shocks were of timber. The impulse at
present is to import timber from California,
for the construction of earthquake proof
houses. Aid and money have been tender
ed aud sent from all parts of the Republic.
Everything has risen to an exorbitant
price. The prisoners in jail were remov
ed to other places, and the Sisters of
Charity have been assiduous in attending
the sick aud wouuded. Captain Kennedy,
of the Dritish man of-war Reindeer, gave
all the assistance he could, and ofiered
his ship for the use of Mr. Diddle, United
States minister. The latter, as well as
the government, sent letters of thanks to
Captain Kenndy.
Among the heavy foreign sufferers
doing business iu Sau Salvador are re
ported to be Moses Levy & Co. of Loudon,
Kattcogall & Campbell of Manchester,
G. D. Kcford & Co of Liverpool, aud
among the resident merchants are Herford
S: Kcogh, Carazzo k, Duke. Dorankcs &
Ojerda, Ulanc0i: Figueris, J. M. Peratte,
Demetrius Jluana, and Jose Rossales,
though every one, of course, suffered
more or less.
Great fears are entertained that the
steppage of the sewers and the exposure
of dead bodies unrccovered from beneath
the ruins, and other morbific conditions,
may bring on an epidemic. The fine
bridge lately built across the river on the
road to Sayapango was thrown down, and
other roads were rendered impassable by
immense blocks of stone thrown down
from the heights, some one hundred tons
in weight. Owing to the continuance of
the shocks, over forty bodies were dis
placed from the niches in which they
were placed in the cemetery.
The earthquake is attributed to the
suppressed volcano of St. Thomas, one of
the seven volcanoes within a radius of
thirty miles. Izalco is at present in full
blast, throwing down its sides a constant
stream of lava. The officers of the
Reiudeer report that the Uuited States
consulate was a mass of ruins inside,
although the walls were standing. The
Uuited States minister with his family
had a narrow escape. During two days
three officers remained at San Salvador,
and they felt eight shocks. Iu some
places the grouud cracked a foot wide.
The crust of earth under tho city is
evidently a mere shell.
Panama, April 11. Intelligence re
ceived by previous mails from the uorth
weast is not ouly coufirmed, but brings to
a climax with the entire destruction of
the capital of Salvador and the ruia of a
population of forty thousand people. The
first really violent shock occurred on
March 4, about 5 P. M., destroying many
houses. The quaking continued until the
morning of Mach 10, when, at 2 A. M.,
two light, shocks, 8uccceded by a strong
one, destroyed the entire city.
Popanonago, Jlapalango, San Tomas, and
Santa Tecla, have all suffered to a lesser
extcut, as well as every city within a
radius of twenty miles.
Fortunately, owing to the alarm of
March 4, such residents as had not left
the city were living iu tents, or in the
public plazas, and hence the number of
lives lost, though great, was diminished
Only two buildings, the Hotel del Plaque
and the government palace, are leftstad-
ing. mo ios is estimated ut 9i2,uuu,-
000, and the aggregate loss of
amouuted to five hundred.
life
It is n't often that anything sentimental
occurs at a Sheriff's sale. The Sheriff of
Tioga County (X. Y.) was recently called
upou to distratn the effects of a widow to
satisfy jaJgments. After he had per
formed h'i3 duty, he said to the spectators
that he proposed to contribute the amouut
of his fees to the unfortunate woman.
The good example proved contagious ;
one donation alter another was handed
iu ; the purchasers returned the articles
which they had bought ; the nonpar
chaseis g ive cash aud provisions ; so that
the widow was soon better off than ever.
Governor Hartranft has signed the bill
passed by the Legislature, prohibiting
the carrying of concealed weapons.
A Dead Body Preserved Over Fifteen
Hundred Years.
The tomb of Edward I., who died in
1307, was opened Jaouary 2, 1770, after
403 years had elapsed. Ilis body was
almost perfect. Canute, (the Dane), who
crossed over to England iu 1017,' was
found iu 1776 by the workmen who re
paired Winchester cathedral, where his
body had reposed nearly 750 years, per
fectly fresh. In 1509, three Roman sold
iers, fully equipped with warlike imple
ments, were dug out of a bed of peat in
Ireland, where they had laiu probably 1,
500 years. Their bodies were perfectly
fresh and plump.
In the reign of James II. of England,
after the fall of the church at Astley, in
Warwickshire, there was taken up the
corpse of Thomas Gray, Marquis of Dor
set, who was buried there the 10th of
October, 1530, in the twenty second year
of Henry V 1 1 1 . ; and although it had lain
lliere seventy eight years, the eyes, hair,
ilesh, nails and joints remained as though
it had beeu but newly buried.
Robert Rray brook, who was consecrated
bishop of London iu 1381, and who died
in 1404, and was buried in St. Paul's,
was taken out of his tomb, after the great
fire in 1GGG, during the repairs of the
cathedral, and, although he had lain there
no less than 2G2 years, his body was
fouud firm as to skin, hair, joints and
nails.
Retro Rodriguez, a Portuguese jeweler
while pursuiug his occupation iu the city
of Mexico, was, in 15D5, accused before
the tribunal of the inquisition, and after
a variety of tortures, was condemned to
be buried alive in a vault in the Couvcut
de St. Domingo in that city. He was
then thirty two years old. The Convent
de St. Domingo was lately demolished in
search of treasure supposed to be con
ccaled there, aud the body of Rodriguez
taken out of the vault exactly as when
placed there 270 years before. His daugh
ter, two and a half years of age, was lying
uuder her father's feet, and as perfectly
preserved as himself. The evidences of
torture on the body of the jeweler are
fearfully apparent. In one respect, how
ever, the appearance does not coincide
with the record which we have given.
The miserable man must have died in
tho hands of his tormeutors. The posi
tions of his hands show that he was sus
pended by the body aud neck until he
died. Marks of the cord and of the burn
ing irou are deeply recorded ou various
parts of the body. Ilis hair and beard
are firm, his skin natural iu hue and tex
ture, without the least trace of decern
position iu any part.
For Fish and Fishermen.
The new law which has been signed by
the Governor, is iutended to be of great
benefit to the people of all parts of the
State, by its various provisions for the
propagating and protection of fish in our
inland waters. It is an improvement on
the bill of last year, by the expeuditure of
money being more fairly divided it through
the different sections of the State. As of
local interest, this uew fish bill provides
that no shad are to be taken in the Dela
ware river betweeu 11th of June aud
August 10 ; prohibits fishiug of all kinds
in all the waters of the State from sunset
on Saturday eveniug to sunrise on Monday
morning thus prohibiting Suuday fish
ing entirely under the penalty of fine and
imprisonment; makes it uulawful to fish
with nets or any other method of entrap
ping fish except with hook and line, with
in half a mile of a dam in which there may
be a fish preserve. The 5th sectiou au
thorizes the Governor to appoint three
Fish Commissioners for the State, to hold
office three years. The Glh and 7th sec
tions define their duties. Among which
are to construct during the year 1873
four fishways or ladders for the passage of
fish.
The fishways provided for in the act for
the Lehigh, in 1S74, are oue iu each of
the first two dams-above its confluence
with the Delaware, the appropriation
therefor, being $25,000. If successful
two more are to bo buils in 1875, one iu
each of tho third and fourth dams, for
which $20,000 has been appropriated.
The 8th sectiou appropriates $3,000, pro
vided a similar sum is appropriatsd by
New Jersey, for the artificial propagatiou
of shad in the Delaware River. Sectiou
lth maintains in full force the provisions
of the 11th section of the law of 1871,
against fish baskets, eel wires or racks,
and similar contrivances, and makes them
applicable to all streams iu the State.
Sectiou 10th relates to the establishment
of a State propagating Cshhouse, ia order
that spawu and fry may be distributed to
suitable streams all over the State, and
for the purpose and to pay the necessary
expenses of tho Fishery Commissioners,
10,000 is appropriated. Section 11th
makes it obligatory for all persons and
corporations hereafter errecting any dam
in any of the rivers of the Commonwealth,
or their tiibutaries, to erect fish ways at
his or their owu expense under direction
of the Commissioners, otherwise such
dams shall Lo deemed a public nuisance
and abated. Tho last section repeals all
laws inconsistent with the foregoiug.
There was an act passed at the session
of tho Legislature just closed, which pro
hibits fishing of all kinds ou Sunday, in
all waters of the State, uuder a peualty
ol fine and imprisoumeut. Suaday an
lets, take heed.
What I Have Noticed.
I have noticed that all men speak well
of all men's virtues wheu they are dead,
and that tombstones arc marked with the
epitaphs of tho good and virtnous. Is
there any particular cemetery where the
bad men arc buried?
I have noticed that the prayers of every
selfish man is "Forgive us our debts,"
while he makes everybody that owes hint
pay the utmost farthing.
I have noticed that ho who thinks every
man a rogue, is very certain to see ono
when he shaves himself, and he ought ia
mercy to his neighbor surrender the'
rascal to justice.
I have noticed that money is the fool's
wisdom, the knave's reputation, the rich
man's trouble, the man's ambition, the
idol of all.
I have noticed that whatever is, is right,
with few exceptions the left eye, the left;
leg, the left side of a plum pudding.
I have noticed that merit is always
measured in the world by success.
I have uoticed that in order to be a
reasonable creature it is necessary at times"
to be downright mad.
I have noticed that we arc always wish
ing instead of working for fortunes : we
are disappointed aud call dame fortune
blind ; but it is the best evidence that the
old lady has the most capital eyesighl
and is no granny with spectacles.
I have noticed that the purses witfhohT
penuies as well as pouuds.
I have noticed that some men are so'
honest that necessity compels them to be
dishonest in the end.
I have noticed that silks, broacloths
and jewels are often bought with other
people's money.
I have noticed that all men arc honestf
when wel watched.
I have noticed that in nearly all things
money is the main object in view.
How to Prevent Hens from Eating Their
Eggs.
The Country Gentleman suggests a'
way to prcveut hens from eating their
ezgs. It is to 11 an' egg with a solution
of pepper, and put the egg back in the
nest. A Danbary man has tried thisv
and says it works like a charm. He putf
a pretty good deal of pepper in the egg,
and placed it in the nest of the criminal.
Pretty soon the hen came around and'
took hold. It was a brindle animal, with
long legs, and somewhat conceited. It
dipped ia its bill and inhaled the delicacy.
1 hen it came out of doors. It dida t gal
lap out, we dou't mean, but out came
out to look at the scenery, and see if it
was going to rain. Its mouth was wide'
open, and the feathers oa the top of its
head stood straight up. Then it com
menced to go around the yard like a cir
cus horse. Ouce in a while it would stop
and push out cne leg in a tone of aston
ishmeut, and then holler "fire," and start
on again. The other hens came out to1
look on. Soou the hens from the neigh
bors eame over the fence, and took up a
positiou of observation. It was quite
evident the performance was something
entirely new and unique to them.- There
is a good deal of hum in nature in hens.
When they saw this hen dance around'
and have all the fun to itself, and heard
it shout "fire," and could't see the con
flagration themselves, they filled up witb
wrath, and of one accord sprang upon it,
and before the Danbury man could inter
fere, the briudle hen with the long leg9
was among the things that were. He
says the recipe is effectual. Danbury
Sacs.
Where Did the Rich Man Go?
Little Johnny was preparing for Sun
day School, situated some distance away,
wheu his mother saw one of the neighbors
approaching in his vehicle.
This neighbor, by the way, was called
"the iich man," being both wealthy,
kind-hearted, and liberal to the poor.
Johnny ran out, aud the rich man took
him iuto his vehicle, as ho was going
right past the Suuday School. It was a
very hot day, and so Johnny took off his
shoes and stockiugs to keep himself cool.
When they arrived, the exercises had
already begun, and as the man was going
to church about a mile beyond, and had
agreed to call for Johnuy on his return,
he concluded not to put on his shoes and
stockings again, but leave them in the
vehicle. So he tripped lightly into school
and the man drove away toward ther
church.
His teacher was just hearing the lesson,
which was the fate of the rich mau and
poor Lazarus.
Soou after Johuny took his seat, it
came his turn to answer a question.
"Johuny, can you tell me where tb
rich man went ?"
"He went to laptit meeting, sir," re
plied Johnny, thiuking ouly of his late
companion.
"No, no, my son, the rich man went
to hell," said the teacher, with grcrvt im
pressiveness, while the other scholars were
tittering with laughter.
"Did he !" exlaiuied the boy in all
houesty, '-then he has taken my shoes
aud stockiugs with him," and up he
jumped, aud seizing his hat, he put out
of the school room ud dowu the" road to
recover his property.
A Washington belle, speaks five differ
ent languages, but ca.iuot lake a loaf of
biead tj save her hit.