UL J- r I1T Deuotci to politics, ttcratuvc, gricnhurc, Science, IHovalihj, axxb cncral Sntciligcuec. i i .j 31. . itai 1 1' 's : yearin advance and iTnot 1 r .k0 ,j ,,f Uie wear, two dollars and fifty , ni 'i 1'iinte 1 until all arrearages are paid, M1..:!ii;i cttl-e EMor. e" f. i 'r'Ci-' f fr'V'TC of (cttht If n5) or .... ' I.onjcr o:iss in proportion. JOI5 IItl.TIXC, OF ALL KISDS, . ;s lfcs liiitiCstMyle of the Ait, and enlh rnii'. teSi -iftlt terms. o WILLIAM S. REES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and Heal Estate Agent. r,v-i3 Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. i i v next d.or above S. Rees' news Depot ,J..,r Iv'.ow the Corner if tore. D R. J. L, A N T Z, ;;i an.! Mechanical Dentist, 3 S. ; ' :1s e fi M tin Strert, i ti the second .Vs i)ru k L'.ji;il::ig, neaitv oppo- a i: lt..if ai:J lie tl.tller iiiuit-eii fSci.iNti.it !)i;ic!!i'f anj the i!iOl i .i" ;'iiM--n i' hI! rii.iitfrs poliOiiing h i', lie i iily .thie l jverf.Tiii ail iiiif Hi iUe ii;ctcurefu;,t.trile- "4 '1 i:. I : i ! :. .( ! l ' I! .: : v:i !" n mq l!ie X iturai Tei-th ; :! .f Ar! li'U'iai rot-t h on Uulitipr, !ii'j-us (Ju.ns, and peilert fits lu . ,-. k l.ic inei ric luc.!. or to iiiu-e April 13, ISTl.-ly ?HT5ICIAN AND SURGEON. 1 1 c ' '".oor rJ).)ve Stroiulsbur House, r-.,; ;,.r.c? ii ;r a'.ove Post Ofiice. t,'; ' vtr uo:a to 12 A. m., from 3 to 5 r: 17 to v. m. Mar 3 '7:J-ly. V PHISIOU::, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER. in :!ri .-I S r.r.rc fif Dr. A. ltceves Jack.-on, r.- i.L-: :it-r of.rali and Fr.inkliii strict. STROUDSBURG, PA. l'IIUTI AM) jlEjilAMCAL DEMIST, .; . j 1 . -r.tf 1 ; i Hn-t .Strou.W.ntrsr, Pa., an : i', il ii, i- no .: j-rejvir- 1 to insert arti-:--..-:h :n t!ii uac-t beautli'til and life-like . -r. ,!-'. irreut atten'ion given to tilling : -.1 -rv:;,,' ti:c r:;tt'tr:il tc-eih. Teeth ex : -vi i.w jt p:,:a l;v -.t-si of Nitrou-s Oxide r:v a:! r v.-ork in.;iifr.t to the profession o t !", fkiilful and approved style. All ,r ;;,. :,!. 1 io j r.nuptly and warranted. rcjr jni.!'.a. l'itron.igo of the public 1. ':i,e in. A. V. LoJer's new building, op povtc Arbinink House, East S-troudlurg, h. July 11, 1L73 ly. j TAR. . s I'llCU. enlist. Amo-.ncs ih ,t hivin? jus: returneJ from D?Til Co::, lie U fully prepareJ to make 'lir:;3c:al te-t j in lite ritost beautiful and lite !!' tmnner. and 10 fiU decayed teeth ac jcrJ.nj to the mo-t ioi proved method. I Teeiti exrrict-J vitlioit pain, when de bv tiie use of Nitrous Oxide Gs, I wit ch is en; ri!y lunn'es. Repairing of fci:ds ttntly (Zona. All work warranted. 3 lair- rr i.i'.'i : r.!e. I 05:; ;:i J. ( KeiierV new Dric!; build- Mii 1 S r.jct, Stron J?bur, Pa. I ajjol-if j TIMES U. VALTO. 'J Atlurnc;)' ill Iaw, t ')-: i-j th builiiuir f.rmrly occupied scr L M. j; ir- ,n. ;i:r ..ppke th-3 .Stnmds jbavlij.:k. Maij -;:reot. jjiroa-Jliurg, Pa. T 1:0 ;!(- : i'-i.r w.'.'dd inform tliC public that '5 lus K-a-td !h-i !.' -.;s(- f,rmai!y ki-jtby Jacob Kiiet lu. in tl... JJ-vroith of Strondbiirp, Pa., "iii1Hvin2rcpat!iti.l a:;d rtfuriiib'.'d tbesaine, -1 ircir.re i tjirit'ri::n all wi.o imy patronize Y-a. It is the ai:.i .f the pnjpfietor, to furn- 1".) S n.;,ir .,,.(-.,.fir-ir,.la'i:l!v S IlKlllHritC TatCS r'I fp;ire no pain to promote the coni- lor: ..f th,- jr. A liberal sliare of public Mrll 17,'7-J-:f. d. l. pisij:. EOXESDALE, PA. Ict ivrit:.:,a t, ai3y Uutel in town. , , K. V. KIPLK& SOX, lJia::-iry, 173. ly. ! OI'I . ,-jtj: TIIC DKI'OT, P.a-t .StrouJsburg, Pa. 15. J. VAX COTr, Proprietor. 1(, Tne eap. contains the choiest Liquors and taele is s ipplle l with the best the market ard- CUrj:., uoJcrate. may 3 lS72-tf. ' .Iciint Vcjiron House, U7 asd 110 ITcrth Second St. Ab-jvK Ar.c'jr, PHiLADZLPtflA. y so, i-7o ly EV. EDWARD A . W I LSO N ' S(o7vVr i 1 y liam-lurgh, N. Y.) Recipe for COX MPTIOXand ASTHMA carefully com pounded at HOLUNSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. Medicines Fresh and Pure. 21. mi. v. HOLLINSHEAD. VOL. nuvt .JJfoclQmation. nVjerTcs, the lion. Samuel S. Dkeher. President Jnd-re of t!ie2d Judicial District of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of Wayne, Pike, Monroe and Carbon, and John De Young-, and Peler Gruver, Esqr's, Associate Jmljrcs of the Court of Common Picas of the County of Monroe, and by vir tue of their offices. Justices of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail delive ry and Court cf General Quarter Sessions in and for the said County of Monroe, have is sued their precept to me commanding that a Court of Quarter Sessions of the Pence and Common Pleas, and Court of Oyer and Ter miner and General Jail Delivery and Or phan's Court, for the said County,)f Monroe, to be holden at Stroudsburg, on MOXDAY, the 'J2J day of December, 1S73, to continue two weeks, if necessary. NOTICE Is hereby given to the Cononer, the Justices of the Peace, and Constables of the said coun ty of Monroe, that they be then and there ready willi their rolls, records, inquisitions, examinations and other remembrances to do those things which their offices are appertai ning, and also that those who are bour.d by recojrniz mces to prosecuteand givcevidt nee again.-t the prisoners that are or shall be in thej-iilcf the said county of Monroe, or a gainst persons who stand charged with the commission of offences to be then and there to prosecute or testify as shall be just. (God save the Commonwealth.) CHARLES HENRY, Sheriff. Siierill's Oihce Siroiidsburir, roiidsburir, i 4, 1-73." December GRAND OPENING nuTnnssoA's muck building, opposite T. Stem pie's Store, EAST STROUDSBURG. Having jnt opened with an entire new stock of Dry Goods and Groceries, CONSISTING OF DRESS GOODS, DELAINES, POPLINS, WHITE GOODS, H CASSI MERES, CLOTHS, AND OIL CLOT II. WOOLENS, SHAWLS, ALPACAS, TLANNELS, DOMESTICS, PRINTS, Also a full assortment of choice Family Gro ceries and Provisions, FJour, Feed, Meal, Salt, Fish, Pork, Oil, Syrups, Molasses, Sugars, Crockery and Tinware, "Wooden and Willow Ware, Flavoring Extracts, and Spices of every kind, and in fact every thing usually kept in a Dry Goods Store. All my proods are new and can not fail to jrive satisfaction. Goods t-hown with pleasure. Call and ex amine before pureha.-ing elsewhere and there by save time and nionev. J.'IL SIIOTWELL, Formerly Slater & Shotwell. Dec.'. 4, lS73.-3m THElvIONROE county Co-Operatiye Life Insurance COMPANY. STROUDSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. Limit 5,000 Members. C 1 1 A IIT E it pi: r pet u a l. Any person of sound body and mind, of either sex, not less than fiueen nor more ihan sixtv-five vears of aye, and not enra- trpi in nnv occti na t ion. excerdi nrt v danrer- ous to life, may become a member or tnisi Company, by paying an admission lee, as follows: From 15 to 40 years of age 83 00 40 to f0 " " 5 00 50 ti f;0 10 00 CO to G" " 20 00 And oi e dollar fr Tolicy. No olhrr charges will be made at any time, excepting one dollar and ten cents for each member who dies. The advantages of this COMPANY over the ordinary Life Insur ance Companies are, that the fees are so small that the man of moderate means can secure t competency to his family at a trifling cost, and payable at such long intervals, and such small sums, that no person can be inconvenienced by them. This company cannot fail; no panics can affect it. Persons holding cer tificates of member.-hip in this Company, are sure in case of death that their faniihes or heirs will get as many dollars as there are members in the Company. No restriction are placed upon traveling or residence. Appllications for insurance, or informa tion, may be made to the Directors or Secre tary, at Stroudtburg, Pa. di recto as. R. S. Staples, H. R. Biesecker. M. F. Coolbaugh, Wm. Fine, Kindarus Shupp, J. II. I'Vtherman, C. D, Brodhead, Peter Gruver, E. B. Dreher. R. S. STAPLES, Pres't. M. A.. De L. Van Horn, Sec'y. March 6, 1873 tf. B LANKS OF ALL KttTDS for Sale at this Office STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 11, 1873. The President's Message An Able State Paper. President Grant ?peakes plainly in his message. It is a short paper, consider ing how much he had to cay. It is a satisfactory stewardship, on the whole, and he gives authority to what was pre viously believed. There is peace with the nations, and the "protocol," with Spain as to the Virgiciu3 promises to stand, while the Cuban out look is auspi cious of traucjuillity and liberty ; but, meanwhile we arc preparing lor any change in the situation. The skeleton of the protocol was before the country in advance of the message, and Mr. Fish ap pends the official substance of it. sied by himself and Rear Admiral Polo, the Spanish plenipotentiary. Congress can do nothing more than wait events, and vote confidence and money to the Execu live. The President seems to have read section 1G of article 4 of our new Pennsylvania- constitution, judging by his re commendation of an amendment to the National Constitution in favor of a veto or approval of parts of any :eneral rneu sure like an appropriation bill. There is slight prospect of increased receipts jhis fiscal year, owiug to the panic ; and to provide against this he advises retrecch ment in regard to new public buildings and additional claims for Southern losses by the rebellion. Uut he hopes "the day is not far distant when the Government will not only possess'' such public build in:s ia all the cities, "but will erect ia the capital suitable resideuces for all per sons who now receive commutation for (juarters cr rent, at Government expenss, and for the Cabinet, thus setting aa ex ample to the States which may induce them to erect buildings for their Sena tors ; but I would have this work con ducted at a time wheu the revenues of the country would abundantly justify it." On the special subject ol Finance the President is definite, and comes to the point in these characteristic sentences. They cover the whole ground. We have never seen the case more tersely stated : During the last four years the currency has teen contracted directly by tha with drawal of three per ceut. certificates, com pound interest note?, and seven thirty bmds outstanding on the 4th of March. 1G'J, all of which took the place of legal tenders in the bank reserves to the ex tent ol 03,000,000. During the same period there has Icen a much larger comparative contraction of the currency. The population of the country ha3 largely increased. More than twenty five thousand miles of rail road have been built, requiring the active use of capital to operate them. Millions of acrei of laud have beeu opened to cultivation, rquirin capital to move the products. Manufactories have multiplied tejond all precedent in the same period of time, requiring capital weekly for the payment of waces and for the purchase of material; and probably the- largest of all compara tive contraction arises from the origina tion of free labor in the South. Xow every laborer there receives his wages, and, for want of savings banks, the greater part of suh wages is carried in the pock et or hoarded until required for use. These su:restions are thrown out for your consideration without any recom mendations that they shall be adopted li terally, but hoping that the best method may be arrived at to secure such an elas ticity of the currency as will keep era employed all the industries of the coun try and prevent such an inflation a will put off indefinitely the resumption of specie paytneuts, an object so devoutly to be wished for by all. and by none more earnestly than the class of people most directly intercstsd, those who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. Or in other words, the country, has out grown its clothes ; the currency suffi cient our years ago is not sufficient now. Xow let Congress act quickly, and give us a practical reply to the President's appeal All he says on this subject is pointed and clear, aud will have the best effect on the country. The petition of the Mcnnonitcs of Southern Russia, some 50,000, asking permission to locate in a body on our pub lie land?, on the recommendation of their brethren in Lancaster county, in this State, is favorably and earnestly recom mended to the attention of Congress. Concerning the San Domingo question, which a year or two ago obtained much prominence, the President makes no re commendation, but transmits to Congress an application from that Republic asking our Government to assume a protectorate over it. The subject cf cheap transportation claims it tshara of attention, and the sug gestions about it arc characterized by the President's usual strong practical saga city He would encourage Hie States of Xew York and Illinois to enlarge their canals connecting the bikes with the II uJ son and the Mississippi rivers respectively, by promising I hat the Government .ha!l thenceforth keop them open as great na tional wafer routes. While the President does not in terms recommend that Congress should make an appropriation to the Centennial Fund, he directs attention to the proposition of the Secretary of the Interior for a census in 1875, and sjs : "A census taken iu 1875. the report of rrhich could be com pleted and published before the one hun dredth anniversary of our independence, would be especially intenrstior and vain 1 "JWU-'W " able, as showing the country during the first century of our national cxisteuce." This subject itself is worthy of a special message, not simply ia view of the vir tualjy pledged faith of the Government in making the Centennial a national af fair, but io the light of the earnest pre parations of foreign governments. Ger many has already moved in the matter by placing the selection of her comtnis sioners to Philadelphia on July 4, 1 870. in the hands of Prince Risaiarck. Eng land has indicated her desire in the same directiou ; and the Emperor of Rrazil Las proclaimed his lively personal interest in the American Centennial. The Presi dent himself, in the opcuing paragraph of his message, laj'3 marked emphasis on the good results that have followed our representation at the Vienna Exposi tion, and directs attention to the report of the ageut of the Patent Office oa the sub ject. With a candor that wc cannot su5 ciently admire, the Presidut shoulders the reponsibilit)' of a bold endorsement of the system id public improvements in the District of Columbia. He ivfer to the shameful condition of Washington City three years ago aud to its beautilul aspect to day, aud calls upon Congress to act liberally towards the local authorities as well because Washington is the Xa tioual Capital as because the Government lias large aud valuable reserves iu that ten miles square. This decided approval of the course of Governor Shepherd and his associates will be good news to the people of Washington. Taken as a whole, the message is sen sible and satisfactory, full of strong points well put, and exactly the statement thai will give to foreigioeers a fair insight in to our progress and tempt the citizen to turn to it for information. Scene ia an Opium Shop. Oue who has never visited an opium shop can have no conceptioa of the fatal fascination that holds its victims fast bound mind, heart, soul, aud conscience, all absolutely deal at every impulse but the insatiable, ever increasing thirst for the damning poison. I catered one of these dens but once, but I can never for get the terrible sights and sounds of that place of torment." The aparttscnt was spacious, and might have been pleasant, but for its foul odors and still fouler scene of unutterable woe the foot prints of sin trodden in the furrows of those hag gard faces and emaciated forms Oa all four sides of the room were couches plac ed thickly against the walls, and others were scattered over the apartment wher ever there was room for them. Oa each of these lay extended the wreck ol what was once a man. Some few were old all were hollow eyed, with sunken cheeks and cadaverous countenances ; many were clothed in rags, haviug probably smoked away their last dollar; while others were offering to pawn their ouly decent gar ment for au additional does of the deadly drug. A decrepit old man raised himself an we entered, drew a long sigh, and then, with a half uttered imprecation on his own folly, proceeded to refill his pipe. This he did by scraping off, with a five inch steel needle, some opium from the lid of a tiny shell-box, rolling the paste into a pill, and, then, after heating it in the blaze of a lamp, deposit it within the small aperture of his pipe. Several short whiffs followed ; then thesmoker woulJ remove the pipe from his mouth and lie back motionless; then replace the pipe, and with fast glazing eyes blow the smoke slowly through his pallid nostrils. As the narcotic effects of the opium began to work he fell back on the couch in a state of silly stupefaction that was alike pitiable and disgusting. Another smoker, a mere youth, lay with face buried in his hands, and as he lifts d his head there was a look of despair such as I have seldom seen. Though so young, he was a complete wreck, with hollow eyes, sunken chest, and a ner vnus twitching in every muscle I spoke to him, and learned that six months be fore ha had lost his whole patrimony by gambling, and came hither to quaff forget! ulncss from these Lethean cups ; hoping, he said, to find death as well as oblivion. 15y far the larger proportion of the smokes were so entirely uuder the influence of the stupefying poi.-an as to preclude any attempt, at con versation, and we passed out from this moral pest house sick at heart us we thought of these in fatuated victims of self indulgence and their starving families at home. This baneful habit once formed, is seldom giv cu up, and from three to five years io dulgence will utterly wreck the firmest constitution, the frame becoming daily more emaciated, the eyes more sunken, and the countenance more cadaverous, till the brain ceases to perform its func tions, and death places its seal on the wasted life. Lijyu'uvoft's Mojazine. There is said to bo a girl in London derry township, llcdl'ord county, who can stand in a half bushels measures and shoulder three bushel of wheat. ' She is also stated to have challenged a ttout young man of the same county to wrestle with her for tha championship of the State. A disease similar in all its forms fo the horsa disease of last year has again made its appearance among the horses in some parts of Chester county. It is ft: o red that it will prove a repetition of last year's terrible afflictions anions the dock. r.y request Tha Liquor Interest. Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching; how many of them? Sixty thousand ! Sixty full regiments, every man of which will before twelve months shall have completed their course, lie down in the grave of a drunkard ! Every year duriug the past decade has witnessed the same sacrifice; and sixty regiments stand behind this army ready to take its dace. It is to be recruited from our children and our children's childrcu. Tramp, tramp, tramp, the earth shares with the tread of the host now passing ; tramp, tramp, tramp, comes to us from the camp of the recruits. A great tide of life flows resistlessly to its death What in God's name are they fighting for ? The privilege of pleasing an ap petite, of cou'ormiog to a social usage, of tilling sixty thousand homes with shame and sorrow, of loading the public with the burden of paupatisni. of crowding our prison houses with felons, of detracting from the productive industries of the country, of ruining fortuuesand breaking hopes, of breeding disease and wretched ness, of destroying both body aud soul iu hell before their time. The prosperity cf the liquor interest, covering evey department of it def ends entirely oa the m iiittenauce ol this army. It cannot live without it. It never did live without it. So long as the liquor iutercst maintains its present prosperous condition, it will cot America the sacrifice of sixty thousand rzieu every year. The effect is inscpatablo from the cause. The cost to the country of the liquor trafie is a sua so stupenduous that auy figure which we should dare to give would con vict us of trifling The amount of life absolutely destroyed, the amount of bread transformed into poison, the shame, the unavailing sorrow, the crime, the poverty, the pauperism, the brutality, the wild waste of vital aud financial resources, make an aggregate so vast, that the only wonder is that American people do not rise as one man and declare that this great curse shall exist no longer. Dilcttao te conventions are held on the subjeet o! peace, by men and women who find it necessary to fiddle to keep themselves awake. A hue and cry is raised about woman suffrage, as if any wroag which may be involved in womau's lack of sutl rags could be compared to the wrongs attached to the liquor interest. Does any sane woman doubt that wo men are sufferiuga thousand times more from rum than auy political disability ? The truth is that there is no question before the American people to day that begins to match iu importance the teai peratiee question. The. question of American slavery was never anything but a baby by the side of this ; aud we prophesy that within ten years, if not within five, the whole country will be awake to it, divided upon it. The organiza tion of the liquor interest, the vast funds at its command, the universal 'feeling among those whose business pitted against the national prosperity aud the pubjic morals these are enough to show that, upon one side of this matter at least, the present condition of things and the sociaH and political questions that lie in the immediate future are apprehended. The liquor interest knows there is to be a great struggle, and is preparing to meet it. People both in this country and in Great Eritaiu arc beginning to see the enormity of this business are beginning to reahza that Christian civilization is actually poisoned at its fountain, and that there can ba no purification of it until the source of the poisou is dried up. The country is sincerely to be congratu lated on the fact that the;wine interest of the United States does not promise much. Little native, wines after all our paintak ing, finds its way to a gentleman's table. The California wines, are a disappoint ment and a failure, and the Western wines are the same Xeither the dry nor the sparkling Catawba takes the place of anythiug imported. They are not popular wines, and wc congratulate the couutry that they never can be. The lager beer interest is endeavoring, in convention, to separate itself from the whisky interest, claiming be holier and more respectable than that. They ara to be all lumped together. They are all opposed to sobriety, and in the end, we shall find them all fighting side by side for existence agaiust the determir.od indignation of a long suf fering people. A respectable English magazine re ports, as a fact of encouraging moment, that of the fifty thousand clergymen of the church of England as many as four thousand actually abstain from the uso of spirits I So eleven twelfths of the clergy men of the English church consent to be dumb dogs on the temperance question ! How large the proportion of wine drink in" clergymen may be iu this country wc do not kuow, but we do know that n wine iilass stops the mouth on the subjeet of temperance whoever may hold it. A wine drinking clergyman is a soldier disarmed He is not only not worth a straw in tho light ; ha is a part of the iiripeiimenta of the temperance army. We have a good many such to carry, who ought to be ashamed of themselves and who very soan will be. Temperance laws are being passed by the various Legislatures, which they must sustain, or go over, soul and body to the liquor inters! and influence Steps are being taken ou behalf of the public bealth, morals und prosperity, I which they must approve by voice and NO. 31. act, or they must conseM to be left behind and left out. There is no concession or compromise on the part of the temperance men, and uo quarter to the foe Th9 great curse to our country and our rac3 must be destroyed. Meanwhile the tramp, tramp, tratnn, sounds on on the tramp of sixty thous and yearly victims. Some are besutted and stupid, sotae are wil l with hi! uitv, and dance along the dusty way, soma reel along iu pitiful weakness some wreck their mad and murderous impulses oa one another, or on the hu!p!es womaa aoi children vhs deinies are united to theirs, some stop in wayside debaucheries and infamies f ir a moment, some g bound iu chains from which they seek in vain to wreuch their bleeding wiists, and all are poisoned in body and soul, and all a:o doomed to death. Wherever they more, crime, poverty, shame, wret she Jni- aul despair hover iu awful shadows. There is no bright side to the picture. Wo forget, there is jut one The wen who make this art:-y get lich. Their children are robed in purple and fine lir-p-j.aul live upon dainties Some ure re.- ectalde members of society, and they h -l,! con ventions to protect their inter est I Still, the tramjt, trump, tramp goes on, and be fore this article can see light, five tb-onj and more of poisoned army will have hidden their shame and di.-grat-e in the gave Dr. J. G. Iluliaml ,SV ri',:i cr's for August. Literal Answers. "Hoy, may I inquire whsrs Pijblasou's drug store is V 'Certainly, sir," replied the boy, very respectfully. Well, sir," said the ger-tlcnrm, aftsr waiting awhile, "where is it !'" "I have not tho least iJea, y; said the urchin. 1 . nor. fl.pr.? rn!.pr I. was another i!v who was l,!y accosted by au ascetic midla aged with : 4,loy, I want to go to. Dover street." "Well, ma'am," said the boy, "vrl.y don't you go then ?" One day. at Lake George, a party of gontlemen strolling among: the beautiful islands m the lake, with l ad luck, est ied a little fellow with a rsd shirt and r:raw hat, dangling a li dg over the side of a boat. 'Halloa, boy !" said one of tlca, "wLat ara you doing ?" "Fishing," came the answer. 'Well, of course," said the gentleman, 'but what do you citch V "Fish ; what do you soppoe V "Did any of you ever see an elephant's skin V inquired a teacher cf au i&faut class. "I have," exclaimed one. 'Where ?" asked the teaeher. "On the elephant," said the boy laugh ing. Sometimes this sort of wit degenerates or rises, as the case may be, into punning, as when Flora pointed pensively to the heavy masses cf clouds io the sky. saying : "I wonder where those clouds are go ing?" and her brother replied : "I think they are going to thunder." Also the following dialogue : "Halloa, there! how do you sell rour wood ?" "By the cord." "How long has it bceu cut?" "Four feet." "I mean how long ha3 itb?ca siuce v-a cut it?" "Xo longer than it is now." And also when Patrick O'F'ynn va seen with his collar and his bosom s-::d!y begrimrceJ, and was indignantly aiked ly his officer : "Patrick O'Flyna ! how Ion u wear a shirt ?" "Twenty eight iodic, sir." This reminds one of an instance wliiclt is said to have occurrel recetly iu Chatham street, Xew York, where a countryman was clamorously besieged ly a shopkeeper : "Have vou aBy fis-3 sbitts aske-1 tho countryinaa. "A splendid assortment. Step in, sir Every price aud styl The cati:ipcs.C ir market, sir. "Are they clean ?" "To be sure " "Then you had better put one ou, lr you need it," was the reply. A Western editor has put iu practice a plan which will enable all papers to dis pense with the usual fighting members of the staff. One morning he was watted upon by the biggest kin 1 cf a fellow armed with a terrific cudgel, with several and suudiy protuberances sicking out all round, taarvelo-.ily resembling Colts, Derringers and 11 wic., v. ho saluted him with "Where's that scoundrel the edi tor !" Our frieu l sai i "Ho xvs col about; but please take e s-?at an i ai!usj yourself with a paper, he will be iu a few minutes," and hurried down t-tatts, at tho foot of which he met another tniu still more profane h;h1 fierce, who asked too rime question in tho s-tmo language. "Oh," said the retreating editor, "Go up stairs, you will find him reading the i per." Accordingly up he went like a high pres-ure Menu engine. k-t;io' !!' steam at every step Oar friend v i:e t a minute, and such a crah si uu, bang, oath, curse, obj-irgati hi, as if all Pan !,: monuim were let boo Wh.it th? tcs'ik was, xvas uever kuow , as our Lieu J didu'; ! wait "inr
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