1 F 1 rr J1 J i 1 J r i eJ Peuoici to politics, ttcraturc, Agriculture, Science, iHoralitn, anh cncral 3uie!!igcucc. VOL. 31. STROUDSBURG, .MONROE GOU.XTY, PA., AUGUST 14, 1873. NO. 14. Published by Tiicodore Scliocli. tc3 vf s -T-.vo dollar.. vearin advance and if not I ni I 'ef-n lie e" ' of th year, two dollar; and fifty J .. .. ill ho r-h.ii rp l. H.-'.''' Iis.t.i itmue l until All arrearages arc paid, except .i: the ., ti.tn ot the E.lilor. .rj.V Ivsniseiiients of one square of (eight line) or .' .iiie or l!tf-c insertions $1 50. Each additional 5 n ;itt 'a, cent.. Longer ones in proportion. JO I? IMUXTIXG, OF ALL KIKD8, Executf! in the his host style of the Art, and en the mora reasonable terms. WILLIAM S. REES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and ' Eeal Estate Agent. Farm1?, Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. Oflicc rust tutor above S. Ilecs' news Depot ami -A door below tlie Corner Storc. I March l7::-!f. DR. J.LANTZ, 1 Surgeon ami Mechanical Deutisf, snlllu In ':fic;p on Main Street, in the second m.ii y "I IJr. S. vVallsin's brick btiiiding, lu-aily oppo site tin: siroiidsliuis House, and tie flutters 1 1 1 1 1 ! I" Itu.it ly i-uiilitii yeais constant practice nnu me iiiom rar.icM 'i ! carroil attenti.-n lo nil mailers pertaining to his m f.-sMon, that lie is fully able to pt-rf.-rin so operations in the dental line III the liiu.'l oaicfnl, laale f t'il an I U 1 1 i 1 4 1 manner. J Siin:i ii alteiiiion siwn to svtn the Natural Teeth ; fiilso. to t tie riMTiinii of Ariiheial Tetl li on Knlilur, 1 ; il l, Silver or Continuous Gu:ns, ami per!ect fits til I ail -aos insid. ! l il persons know the jrreat folly and danger l en iiriisu.i2tlic.li' wo.k t.olhe inexperienced, or to those limig at a liistaitee. April 13, 171.- ly PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 1 Oiiice 1st door above Strondsburg House, I residence 1st door above Post Oiiice. i Oiiice hours from 1 to TJ A. M., from ? to 5 JUld 7 to '. 1 M. May :t 'T.'I-l y. D II. UKO. Y. JACKSOA" PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER. I In i!ie obi office of Dr. A. Reeves" Jackson, froiJenee, eorner of Sarah and Franklin street. STROUDSBURG, PA. AuU.st 8, lH7-J-tt: 0) f pvu. 1J. J. IMTir.IlSOX, j "PER1T1XG AND 31HI.l?irAL DEMIST, II tvlng l.e atcd in East Strondsburg, Pa., an iionnces that be is now prepared to insert arli lii i.il teeth in ibe most beautiful and life-like jhi:niiier. Also, great attention given to filling and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex tracted wilhout pain by use of Nitrons Oxide lias. All other work incident to the profession done in the most skillful and approved pryle. All work attended to promptly and warranted, tliaiues reasonable. Patronage of the public olieited. I ();!i e in A. W. Loder's new bnildins:, rp pidte Aii !io:iiink House, llast Stronds!urg, Vi.l Jiilv 11, 187: ly. - 55. X. S.. I Announces Mulliavinsr jnst rctnrnrd from Dental Collets, he is fully prepared to make irtiacial teerit in the most beautiful and life line manner, and to fiU decayed teeth ac ordinj to the most i 'it proved rnelliod. . 4 Teeth exiracted without pain, when ilc rsJ, by the use of Nitrous Oxide.CJaf, frhicli ix entirely harmless. Repairing of il kinds uectly done. All work warranted. Charges reisonable. i Office in J. (J. Keller's new Brick build n;, Mjj,, S'reet, Stroudsburj;, I'a. : auj :i l-i f Ji.nts u. w ti;ro., .llturHcy at Iaiw, OJr-.' in tliii building formerly occuji-il i by L. M. I'.urson, :uil opposite the trouda- brjr IJank, Main street, .StroudsLurg. I'a. 1 j.n l:J-tf I The subscriber would inform the public that ne has leaded th-; house formally kept by Jacob Ktieelit, in the IWotiL'h of Strotidsburfr, Ia., atid having repainted and refurnished tlie same, it prepared to entertain all who may patronize jum. It is tlie aim of the proprietor, to furn ish superior accommodations at moderate rates JUid will spare no pains to promote the com fort of the guests. A liberal share of public patronage solicited. April 17,'72-tf. I). L. PISLK. K H0NE8DALE, PA. 'f'st central location ot any Hotel in town. ; It. W. K I PLEA- FOX, K0 3Iaiu street. Proprietors. Jttiuary 173. ly. OI'J'OSJTK TIIK DKl'OT, 4 lvi;-it Stroudsburjr, I'a. B. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor. 1 he bar contains the choiest Liquors and btablk is supplied with the best the market t ml. Charges moderate. mar 3 lS72-tf. . .. "Tr.iTso.vs ( 3Zouat Vvrnon IIounc, 'i 117 and 113 North Second St. ai:ovk Aucir, PHILADELPHIA. Wny 30, 1)372- ly. EV. EDWARD A. "wiLSON;S(f Wil V iiamshurnrh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON MPTIONand ASTHMA carefully com uidtd at 'HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. y7 Medicines Freehand Pure. t. 21. 1867. y. HOLLTNSIIEAD. Cholera in a Mountain Town. A correspondent writes from Birming ham, Ala., to the Louisville Courier Journal, of the recent ravages of disease there, as follows : "Cholera broke out with fatal virulence. As usual, the ne groes suffered most, aod. although they i-ii. -t i .i . . aiea vy tne cozens, t tie wiseacres declar ed there was no cholera in the place : a lew were so consis:ent in tncir luiocy as to reluse to change their diet, although Dr. liell had not published his plea for cucumbers ; the fool killer in their case is spared much trouble. Then a strag gling force of men was j ut towoikat some of the uastieft ditches, but it was too bite ; the disease broke cut eveiywhere and would yield to uo trcatuicut. The Board of Health attempted some meas ures. but all organized movements failed. The people were too uew to each other for concerted movements. The poorer classes were scattered and unknown, and they were frequently at the point of death before they sought medical relief ; so they died by scores, and the people fled from the place by huudreds. The Physicians were earnest, energetic and faithful ; the' were ready at aii hours to go wherever they weto called, although by far the greater number of their cases were char ity patients. This continued for two weeks or more, the mortality sometimes increasing, sometimes falling ; now two or three deaths a day, now seven or eight, with a steadily decreasing population. The most hopeful began to despond. Men who had before chaffed each other about the cholera scare, began themselves to be iulrcted. Then, too, the disease assumed a uew phase. Instead of being preceded by a diarrhea for a day or long er, it developed almost in an hour the worst features of genuine cholera. Peo pie dined in appaient health, and rested that night in a colhu. Business was sus pended, and the streets deserted. It be came difficult to find men to dig the graves or take the bodies to them. Near ly the whole population became affected Of course they didn't all have the cholera, but the malaria seemed to enter into everybody's system with greater or less activity. Whether it was that the best and truest men remained, or whether there is that residuum of u:ie!fi.shuess and true beroe'U! in each human heart here, I don't know ; but certainly the noble work done here in the last teu days would dispel from any mind the belief that the Samaritans were an extinct people. Where a month ago all was jealousy and dissension, now is a generous rivalry in the wotk of aiding the sick. No one. however poor, but has nurses aud medi cal at'eution, and that, too, when the physicians can scarcely stagger to their work, so worn out are they from their long and uurcstcd labors. They are the true knights errant of our time. Col. Powell stands his ground nobly. His friends beg him to leave, aud, though wealthy and without a kinsman in the place, he refuses to desert it. (Jod knows when we shall see the end. Three days ago the plague seemed almost passed away; for the twenty four hours ending last night, July 1-1, there were reported thir teen deaths iu a population now number ing more than GUU souls. The chastise ment is terrible, but unless the people have lost all intelligence it will not be re peated. The altitude is high, and here tofore the air invigorating aud the water pure, but there has beeu a large , class of adventurers and negroes out of work ; these have never considered the welfare of the city, and the city was too young and too . poor to enforce rigid sanftary laws. Our awful scourge was not pro duced by any atmospheric condition or local cause beyond the existence of chok ed up streams and filthy open ditches, and these cau be kept clean and pure al most without expense." .. About Water. The extent to which wafer mingles with bodies, apparently the most solid, is very wonderful. The glittering opal, so beautiful as an ornament, is nothing more but flint aud water. The air holds five grains of water iu every foot of its bulk. Potatoes couiain seventy per cent , aud turuips ninety per cent., of water. If a man ol a hundred and forty pouuds were squeezed in a hydraulic press, seventy pounds of water would exude from his body, aud only thirty five of dry residuum remain. Man is, iu fact only thirty five pouuds of caibou nitrogen, diluted iu five and a half pails of water. In plants, water mingles no less wonderfully. The sun flower evaporates one and a quarter pints daily ; the cabbase about the same quantity ; aud a single stalk of wheat ex hales, iu half a year, about a hundred thousand grains of water. An acre of growing wheat draws in and gives out ten tons of water daily. The sap is the medium through which the mass of fluid is conveyed. It forms a delicate pump, up which the watery particles ruu with the rapidity of a swi't stream. By the action of the sap, various properties may be ac cumulated to the growing plant. In Fiance timber is djed by various colors mixed with water, aud spiiukled over the roots of the growing tree; and dahlias are also oiten colored by a similar process. 4 A horse hitched to a post iu Belle foute kicked at oue of Van Amburgh's elephants when passing on the tUect, aud, quick as thought the elephuut reach ed out his trunk, caught the horse by the ear and shook him like au earthquake. In a Dentist's Chair. If Spiycns is to be believed, there was recently an extraordinary case of dental surgery in this city. He says that a friend of his wife visited a dentist on street, for. the purpose of having a tooth extracted. It was an eye tooth Spivens accompanied his friend for the purpose of favoring him with a little sympathy over the shoulder. It is so pleasant to witness the agony of a friend, and advise liiiu to bear it like a man. The dentist sealed his patient in a chair, lanced his gums, applied his forceps, and gave a vigorous pull. The tooth was wrenehed from its socket, and came out easily enough but the root lun fire Either it was a very long root or it stretch ed. In fact the deutist had exhausted his reach, and the root was uot yet en tirely out. Spivens vcutureil to enquire if the root was not unusually long ; but the den tist was not going to admit that .iiiythiu could happen that had not already oc curred iu his experience. "Not at all," he replied. "I have of ten pulled teeth whose roots reached down to the hips." He mouuted the chair and took an other null. lie thus succeeded in "et- ting away with about a yard of the tooth, but the root continued to hang. At the same time tlie patients ler. below the kuee, was violently jerked up. epivens ventured to say that surely this was an unusual case. 'It is a little singular," replied the dentist ; "But I once pulled a tooth whose roots reached down to the roan's kuees." Having thus extinguished his ques tioner he tied his patient to the chair and straightened out his leg by putting it in pilots, lheu lie took the forceps over his shoulder and walked away like a deck hand going up a batik with a bow line. H hen he reached the parlor door he braced himself against the jamb, and laid back for a fiual pull. The tooth popped out this time but the dentist made the most noise when he readied the floor. Spivens jumped forward and picked up the latter. end of that tooth. The root had two prongs, aud on the end of each prong was a toe nail. "That's what hurt you so," said cpi- vens consoling his friend, whose screams had been somewhat annoying. "Never mind ; it will be all the same a hundred years hence. Don't you think, doctor, that this is rather the most unusual case that happened in your practice?" "I am inclined to believe that this is the most singular case of its class," re plied the imperturbable dentist; "but I once extracted a tooth for one of the Siamese twius, the roots ol which extend ed through the bo lies of both, and at the end wes a corresponding tooth from the mouth of the other. It was a good thing for Chang, for whom I pulled the tooth, but bad for Eng, whose tooth happened to be sound." Spivens' friend had such high respect for the dentist that he told him that he might keep the tooth for his pay. borne incredulous people may accuse this story of being too thin ; but they are mistaken it is tooth out. Titusville lxress. Perplexities of a Postal Clerk. Some of the ingenious puzzles submit ted to the distributing clerk in the Chi cago Post office have been thus pleasantly sketched : "Many of the superscriptions which come through his hands are among the most mysterious of cyphers unintel ligible from the writer's not knowing what he wanted to write, rather thau il legible through carelessness in writing. When a countryman of Gustavus Vasa, for instance, still hibernating upon his uative hills, sends a letter "to his brother iu this country, aud writing from memory, and a memory not much trained in let ters at that, superscribes it 'Secderabst lenco la he has succeeded iu mystifying the average human mind considerably re gardiug the iuteuded destination of his missive. Not at all the Post office clerk, who at once sees that 'Cedar Rapids, Liuo county, Iowa,' is meant. So, too, when from the Bremen bag a greasy packet flutters out, as addressed to'IIafte Lac Co ,111 ,' it is, no doubt, difficult to discern, after the letters of the legend have been evolved from the chaos in which a stiff fist aud a villainous pen have left them, that the packet is intended for some one in 'Half Day, Lake Co., III.,, and thither it therefore goes. But when the only address to be made out from an other and that by no means sure, so vague are the forms of the letters is 'Chollyhutville Co , III then it is that braiu tells in the distributing business. Brains finally result in a solution of the palimpsest, aud 'Joliet, Will Co., II? is the interpretation thereof. In like man uer 'Verseaux, ineauque Co., America' is a superscription which could have cmana ted from uo where else but France is decided to mean "Warsaw, Hancock Co. and it is found that Illinois has such a town, in a couuty ; so the letter is for warded thither, and has doubtless glad dened or saddened the heart of its object before now." The captain of an ocean steamer says that on Sunday at sea he always selects some clergyman to preach who looks ns if he would get sick very easily, thus avoiding long sermons, and sparing the feelings aud temper of his hearers. Effects of Tobacco. The use of tobacco has so much ex tended itself in the present generation that we are all obliged to make a decision for ourselves on the ancient controversy between its friends and enemies. We cannot form a reasonable opinion about tobacco without beariog in mind that it produces, accordiug to circumstances, one of two entirely and even opposite classes of effects. Iu certain states of the body it acts as a stimulant, in other states as a narcotic. People who have a dislike to smoking affirm that it stupefies; but this assertion, at least so far as the temporary consequences arc concerned, is not sup ported by experience. Most of the really brilliant conversations that I have listen ed to have been accompanied by clouds of tobacco smoke ; and a great deal of the best literary composition that is produced by contemporary authors is wrought by men who are actually smoking while they woik. My own expeiience is that very moderate smoking acts as a pleasant stimulus upon the brain, while it produces a temporary lassitude of the muscular system, not perceptible in times of rest, but an appreciable hindrance in times of muscular exertion. It is better, there fore, for men who feel these effects from tobacco to avoid it when they are in exercise, and to use it only when the body rests and the mind labors. Pray remember, however, that this is the ex perience of an exceedingly- moderate smoker who has not yet got himself into the general condition of body which is brought on by a larger indulgence in tobacco. On the other hand, it is evident that men engaged in physical labor and a muscular stimulus in occasional smokinrr. and not a temporary lassitude. It is probable that the effect varies with in dividual cases, and is never precisely what our own experience would lead us to imagine. For excessive smakers, it appears to be little more than the tran quilizing of a sort of uueasiuess, the con tinued satisfaction of a continual craving. I have never been able to ascertain that moderate smokiug diminished intellectual force ; but I have observed in excessive smokers a decided weakening ot the will, and a preference for talking about work to the effort of actual labor. The opinions of medical men on this subject are so much at variance that their science only adds to our uncertainty. Oue doctor tells me that the most moderate smoking is unquestionably injurious while others affirm that it is innocent. Speaking simply from self observation, I find that in my own case tea and coffee are far more perilous than tobacco. From the Intellectual Life of Philip Gilbert Ilamcrton. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. II. G. Smith, Esq., editor of the Lan caster Intelligencer, and one of the mem bers of the Constitutional Convention, in a late issue of his paper, writes as follows concerning that body : "A majority of the newspapers in this Commonwealth seem not to have compre hended the difficult character of the work set before the members of the Constitu tional Convention. The one hundred and thirty three men chosen to revise the fundamental law of the Commonwealth came together for the most part as Strang ers to each other. Some ot them had re putations wider than the State, while some of the ablest and most practical men iu the body were not known beyoud the precincts of the districts they were chos eu to represent. Of the one hundred and thrty-thrce members, over one hundred are lawyers by profession men who make their liv ing by talking, aud who can uot be ex pected to agree, unless they are rctaiued on tlie same side, and paid for looking at a given case from the same standpoint. We think the convention might- possibly have been the gainer if the people, in stead of sending so many lawyers, had chosen more men of marked ability in other walks of like. But the convention was the creature of the people, and neith er they nor the newspapers have any right to complain of its composition. It is what the people made it when acting under the instruction aod guidance of the local newspaper press of the Common wealth. "Nine months of close observation has convinced us that the convention is a body distinguished for iutegrity. From the day when it was organized, no question has been decided except upon its merits Every attempt to iutroduce partisan poli tics (and we are glad to say they have been few and far between) has been promptly frowned down. There has uot been a partisau vote cast upon any sec tion of the Constitution. Members have divided according to their individual judgment and not under the discipline o! party drill. The call of the ayes aud nays, has always shown that there was a forgctfulness of paitisauship which was most commendable. A little girl in Norwichj Conn., wns poisoned recently by drinking the milk in which a green milk ticket had soaked about two houis. The milkman had cog lected to take it from the can, and the coloring matter dissolved and mixed with the milk. Yioieut vomiting ensued, by which the poison was ejected, thus sav ing the little one's life. Tho crop of apples and pear iu Berks coun'y will be small. Noah's Flood. Geologists admit the powerful agency of rushing water in drilling, rasping, and transporting materials which make up hills, mountains, and plains. Those traveling icebergs, cr which so much is said, that scoured the face of the earth in their progress Troni the North, un doubtedly were employed by nature to smooth the surface oo a igantic scale But that great flood referred to cireuni stantially in the Bible must have beeu a terrific event, to have impressed all man kind with a traditioual recoguitioa oF its universality. Sir Henry James, an Englsh engineer, has attempted an explanation of pheuom ena that "are traceable to the deluge, and especially treats of what must have occurred by a change of the axis id' the earth in its rotation If this globe were of uniform density, the poles would traverse the circle of nvagation in 300 days. If the density increases from the surface toward its center, something else would follow. He argues that as the flood commenced on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, in the six hundredth year of Noah's life, and covered all the land 150 days, and after having destroyed every living thing, save those iu the ark, was just 150 days draiuiug off into ap propriatc channels and basins of present oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers, he has mastered the problem. The flood, then, was in consequence of changing the polarity of the earth. u netner earthquakes opened vast rents iu the crust of the eaith, into which waters rushed from their old localities. and thus altered the centre of gravity, or whether enormous masses of ice broke their fastenings, and sliding along an inclined plane brought about the flood. still remains an open question, which may be freely discussed without exciting the apprehensions of the police of auy country. Mexican Dishes. First of all, and best of all, was the chocolate brought to us soou after we landed by a barefooted Mcxicau boy, with "pan de huevas" (literally, "egg bread') a sweet, light cake. The chocolate is thick yet light, with a head of delicious brown foam, which melts in the mouth as you drink it. Then, at the mid day meal, were the inevitable "frijoles," a small black bean, which forms the chief food of the lower orders throughout Mexico, aod without which, uuder one form or another, no meal is consisdered perfect. With them appeared the other standing dish, "tortillas," very thin cakes made of raazie. They are made by boil ing the mazic, and then rubbing it into a very fine paste on a lava stand called a "rnetate.". When the paste is perfectly smooth, a piece is taken in the two hands, and patted and slapped till it is as thin as balf-a crown, the size of a breakfast plate, and about as tough as an ordinary sheepskin. It is then baked for a mo ment on a griddle aud served hot, but quite limp. It is used as a spoon and fork to eat the frijole ; thus you tear off a corner, and divide it in two, doubling up one half as a receptacle for the beans, which you push in with the other bit, and eat spoon aod altogether. A common joke takes rise from this, "that the Mexi cans are so proud and so rich that they never use the same spoon twice." In Mexico the day begins early, with a light meal about U a. m., called "desayuno," when you take a cup of chocolate and "pan dulcc." Then about 12 comes "almuerzo," (breakfast,) a heavy meal, with several courses of meat. Aud about 5 p. m. is "la comida," (diuncr,) a lengthy proceeding, with endless courses of meat, which arc all served alone, excepting the "puchero," boiled beef, with a mixture of every imaginable vegetable in the same dish ; aud dinner euds with small cups of excellent cafe uoir. Good Words. I. 0. cf O.F. Past Grand Sire James B. Nicholson, of Philadelphia, now Grand Secretary ; M M. G. M., J. M. Campbell, together with other officers of the Graud Lodge of the State, purpose to visit the follow ing lodges of Odd Fellows on the follow ing dates, when special meetings will be held: Monday, July 28 Saxionia Lodge, No. 4DG, Saxousburg, Butler county. Tuesday, July 2'J Conoquenessing Lodge, No. 270, Butler county. Wednesday, July CO West Sunbury Lodge, No. 7D1, West Suubury, Butler county. Thursday, July 31 Alpina Lodge, No. 47i, Brady's Bend, Armstrong couu ty. Friday, August 1 Iron City Lodge, No. 4S5, Reimersburg. Clarion county. Saturday, August 2 Clarion Lodge, No. 222, Clarion, Clarion county. Monday. August 4 Brook vilie Lodge, No 217, Broukville, Jefferson county. Tuesday, August 5 Ileynoldsville Lodge, No. 821, Ueyuoldsville, Jeffersou county. Wednesday, August G Laurel Lodge, No. G72, Punxatawuy, Jefferson county Thursday, August 7 Amicus Lodge, No. (IG5, Marion, Indiana county. Friday, August K Palladium Lod-e, No. ol(J, Indiana, Indiana county. Under a new destitution, all officers o! the State, including county officers, will bo paid by salaries instead of fees. An Embarrassing Position. "I say, conquctor, do you know that goodlooking lady there, with a book 7" "Yes, I have seen her a few times." "By Jove she's splendid I" "Yes, I thiuk she is." "I would like to occupy the seat with her." "Why don't you ask her?" "I dou't kuow but it would be out of order." "It would not if she was willing to have you occupy it. Of course you claim to be a gentleman 1" "O, certainly. If you are acquainted with her, give me an introduction j that is, if you have no objection." "Certainly not." Fixing his hair, mustache and whis kers in becoming style, he followed the conductor, who, on reaching the seat where the lady sat, said, with a peculiar twiukle in his. eye : "My wife. Mr , of New York, who assures me that he will die before reach ing Detroit if he docs not form your ac quaintance." The gentleman stammered, stuttered, grew red in the face, faltered out some excuse, and returned to his seat, leaving; the lady, iu company with her husband, to enjoy the joke. A LiDgering; Death. Lancaster (Pa ) papers report the death (T a young man, 15 years old, named Harry Colley, which is in many respects remarkable. He lay upon a bed of pain for one hundred and seventeen days, and during that period of time never once arose. He was first taken sick with an attack of cerebro spinal meningitis, and this disease finally terminated in con sumption of the bowels. After the first day of his sickness he was unable to hear or see, and a greater part of the time had no power of speech. His attention, could at certain times be attracted by holding any article of bright material in front or over him, and moving it from one posi tion to another. The fact of the little fellow's remarkable sickness spread all over the county, and numbers of physi cians had visited him merely through curiosity. At the time of his death he was a skeleton, with only a dry, parched covering of cuticle drawn over the boues, and that without an)' perceptible vitality in it. His muscles had actually melted away. During part of the time (parti cularly during his last days) he suffered with lock jaw, and his mouth had to be forced open in order to admit the only sustenance he received and occasional small quantity of wine or branby. Ingenuity of an Insane Man. The Lancaster (Penn.) Express re lates the following in giving an account of an attempted escape by an insane man : "In the iusane department of the Lan caster County Hospital there is confined a man named John Eichburne. He is not dangerous, but is not safe to be let at large. A short time since he managed to scale the yard wall, four teen feet in height, but was shortly afterward cap tured. Yesterday evening one of the as sistants, in making a tour of the yard, discovered hid under a pile of stoues in a corner, a singular looking ball, which he took to Superintendent Cox. On ex amination it was found that this ball was made up of a rope, some thing thicker than broom twiuc, and that the material used in making it were the leaves of peach trees, with which the yard is studded, the bark of the small limbs and some grass. The rope when unwound is nearly 300 feet iu length, when in a ball it is as large as a twenty fou. pound shot. It is so tough that the strongest hands cannot tear it apart. The mau must have been working upon it for several weeks, his object being to escape from tho institu tion by its aid. Arresting Decay in Potctoes. Various plans for arresting decay in potatoes after digging have from. time to time been made public, such as dusting with quick-lime, gypsum, charcoal dust, etc. Prof. Church, of Cirencester, Eng land, the eminent agricultural chemist, annouuees that sulphite of lime appears to exercise a very remarkable influence in arresting the spread or decay iu pota toes affected by the potato disease. In one experiment the salt was dusted over some tubers, partially decayed from this cause, ns they were being stowed away. Sonic months afterward the potatoes were found to have suffered no further injury. A similar trial with powdered lime prov ed to be much less effective. A Cheap Bridge. B B. Choate, of Springfield, Vt., has inveuted a suspension bridge, which is a uovclty as well as a convenience. It con sists of a single wire stretched across Black River aud a car that will contain two persons that travels back and forth on the wire. The East end of the wiro is the highest, aud the momentum of tho car serves to carry it across, a distance of two hundred feet, iu fificen seconds. Re turning, the car travels to the centre of the wire, wilhout help, aud from thence is drawn up by a cord attached to the car, the entire trip oecupping only thirty seconds. i ' ( ' ) l n ir
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