JUL fi-f..lij nil imm 4 C liMiMiqU,J)iaiMagBJC.l.LUWJWffU!UB M'.l-''MJJMjHJW'lliWi.!HA'.. WIWB'JW.JIfWWKmm.y.MW H.HiWHlWIMW.'WJ.'-l'1"' 3cuotci ta politics, literature, Agriculture, Science, illoralitn, ani cueral 3ntdligcure. VOL. 31. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., MAY 7, 1874. NO. 51. JL I I 1 i Published by Theodore Schcch. Tivo Jfll;irs a Vfar in ad vnnce and if nol I hef .m t'if: em! of il.e year, l dollar anj fifty r " t u lit ' Cti:ir3Pv.l. '!. .livi oiiiitnip'l until all arrearages ate paid. , t !'ie "PU'Mi of Hie IMitor. '-Vlve'tr-pineii'-s .,f no square of (etehl line? ( tiin-e insertions $15f). E.tch ailtlilic ) or Mil tonal tu'f " (? ;,n, 50 cciils. Li'iigcr ones in proportion OF ALL KINDS. c-j-eJ in liic Insist sl.vle "f lhe Art ni on the in isl I e;i"-'u;iuii: icimo. WILLIAM S. REES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and Eeal Estate Agent. Farms. Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. Office next door above S. Eees' news Depot and '"I'd door Mow the Corner Store. March 20, lS73-tf. d rT j7l a n t z, ,:r(Teon and Mechanical Dentist, t..s Ms oir.re on M ini sirot. in the second rto 'f )-. S. V,u!(i:i's brick bni'iliti!;. iiriti ly uppoMie c i.ri 'i.isbiiri! ll 'iisf. -.ltM lie fl.itters himself thai by i'-'UCfn vp.ii r.Lnsliiiil piar.lii-e and Uic most earnrst v j Coei.i! altpnii'Mi t all matters pertaining l.i hm ' ni'(iM.i!). t U :i I he 1 fully ante to perform all opera ;.!! V:t tfi'p dental line in tiie most careful, tasteiul ,' i : f. 1 1 manner. vr 1KI ;i:;enti'ii given in saving the Natural Teeth; s s,i"tn thff i.ei ! ii'ii of Aittfulal Teeth on Kubbei, G i il. S:!ver. or ( 'ijiiUnui'iis Gums, and perfect fits in t,l r 1 5 r i:!s ted. ilii-t !prsiii know tl.e sreat folly anil danger rlen tniU'ns tlirtr work lo tiie tnex.Jt'i lei'CeO, or to those lii!:5.Cta'li.-ia!n-e. Ainl 13. ISTl.-ly. I) li. CO'tVASlO IMTTCUSOX Physician, Sargeon and Accoucheur, (Successor to Geo. W. Scip.) 0:!?e Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa., in Dr. S ip-; Lniliin, reii?nce Sarali street, next Friend- ne w meeting house. I'ronjpt attention to ca!!s. (" . to 9 a. m. 12.1 " 2 p. m. I o " 9 p. m. OScc hours April 10 174-ly. JOII.V fJRCWKIl, 31. t. PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR, MOUNTAIN HOME. PA. March C:".,'74-Pni jS. J. II. SUVIjIj, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OrTif-e 11 door above Stroudsburg House, re-'uiene 1st J kt above Po.-t Ofiice. Ora-e iio irs from 9 to 12 A. M., from 3 to o and 7 to y p. M. May 3 '73-1 v. rfllSICIAX, Sl'KCEOX AND ALCOICIIEIR. In the old oiilos of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson, r(sider;ee, corner of Sarali and Franklin street. STROUDSBURG, PA. ' An?uft S. Ii72-tfl JR. U. J. I'ATTERSOX, GPEJ1TWG AND MECHANICAL DENTIST, Haviu; I.i.-ated in East Stroudsbnrg, Pa., an tiance" thai he is now prepared to insert arti S'::al teeth in the most beautiful and life-like raanr.er. Also, great attention piven to lilling niid ii.-f-rvin tiie nafiral teeth. Teetli ex tricted wii'piut jiaiii by use of Nitrous Oxide .us. Ail oilier work incident to the profession hne in the i;;r,-t bkiilf.;! and approved style. Ad work atter.de 1 to prouiptly and warranted. Charts reasonable. Patronage of tiie public 'u'ieitcd. in A. W. Loder's new building, op P0:;e Au-iiomink House, East sctroudsburg, Pal July 11, 1S73 ly. D R. A'. I,. PKt'K, Annotincps lint hnvin? just returned from "ai Collets, he is fully prepared to make aniSc al tetii in the most beautif.il and lite he ininner, anJ to f.li decayed teeth oc cord nT t0 t;ie m0t j prcve(j inelhoJ. T rer h exfruct- d witluvit p;iin, when de ,;red, ly tiie use of Nitrous Oxide Gas, w, c' entirely hirtnless. Repairing of i kinds neatly done. All work warranted. tn3r2s reisotiible. . Ofi.je in J. G. Keller's new Brick build ln?. Mii.i S'reet, Stroudsturg, Pa. ujSl-if T43ii:h h. walto.v, tUoriiev at Law. j.um the building formerly occupied Mj- liurson, and opposite the Stnud h'x:Z Link, Main street, Stroud-sburg, Pa. Jaol:j-tf A. i ,"e j'eriber would inform the public that leased the house formallv kept by Jacob inil ! l!'e i'uroi,g' of h'troudsbiirg, Pa., i,p ;"i,v- repainted and reftirnisbed theame, lii 'l' 10 tnttrt:im a'l who mny jatronize .ls the aim of the proprietor, to furn nd ''r.rior a''eoinmodations a.t moderate rates f.' w."' Tare no pains to promote the com- ettuS pilesta A liberaj ghareof public 5;n:i?o solicited. 17, '72.tr. D. L. PISLE. HONESDALE, FA. Mo fJi' central location ot any Hotel in town. lf)3 Ar . 11. W. KIPLE & SOX, Ja.; nfts,-reot- Proprietor, "aauary 9, 1873. ly. E,v- e u Ward aT vv i lson's (of w i i- SCifefcurffh- N- Y-) ReciPe for CON poied Xand ASTHMA carefully com- HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. - Afedkineg Fresh and Pure. '2L 1667 V. HOLLINSIIEAD. HouDtain Life in Kentucky. True enough, one half of the world docs not know how the other half lives There are old people in the mountains of Kentucky who have never seen a rain of tea or coffee in all their lives. Not loop: since I heard a zealous Sunday school missionary frosi the inountatn districts of Kentucky, preaching about the destitu tion in that region, enforce his remarks with the following incident: A younj: theological student from somewhere down East, who knew far more of books than of human nature, as Dr. Beechcr used to say, and withal a very delicate and ner vous body to whom tea was an indispen sable beverage, came to the mountains of Kentucky to improve his health, and do $;ood, at the same time, to those plain, poor people. By way of precaution he brou;ht his tea alonj; with him, a two pound canister. He put up for the oiht at a plain log cabin, worn with the labors of the day, and no tea. To his hostess : Iadam, can't you make me a cup of tea in the morning V" "Oh, jes ; I can cook anything that's cooked." The young man handed her his cansister, aud ascended a stick ladder to his bed in the loft. "Next morning," said the preacher, ''they kept waiting for hiui to come down ; for ho did not kuow whether the ladies below were all up and dressed, but if he had had any common sense," added the preacher, by way of paren thesis, "he could have peeped through the cracks and seen for himself. But at last he ventured down ; and what was his horror when he saw four or five little white headed mountaineers rollin the tea canister across the floor. In the meantime the good lady of the house came in, her capstrings streaming in the wind, and with her best smile on. 'I was not certain about them dried greens you gave me last night, but I went to the smok house and cut a piece of middling and put them altogether in a pot, and wheu the' began to uukink then I knowed I was right.' The loss of all his 'gunpow der' in one night put an end to that sum mer's campaign. "Those mountaineers," said the mis sionary, "have a sovereign contempt for any man from 'the blucgrass' who does not know everything they know and more too. This young preacher effectually ruined his iufl jenca over them. Oue morning he was washing his face from a tin pan cn a stump in the yard, when a Jeer came bouncing through the lot. He threw down the bowl of water, and took after it as hard as he could go. Xow,' they paid,' any man who don't know he can't catch a deer afoot, must be a born fool.' " A young sprig of nobility from the blue-gryss rode up into lhe mountains on business quite a number of years ago, where he first met Mr. (I forbear to mention hi3 name, as he is now the Cieero of the mountains, representing one or more of those counties in the senate of Kentucky.) I overheard the cooversa tiou on the train of these now old friends. MuuDtaiueer : "Well, Mr. Bluerass, do you temember your first visit to this country? You had on the first pair of overshoes I ever saw, aud I said to my self, if these mountain boys don't ftrip you of them double shoes I won't know the reason why." "Yes," said Mr. Blucgrass, "I remem ber too the hotel I put up at that Dight a log cabin with only one room, no loft, the old folks, oue boy, five bouncing, buxom lasses- I was tired and slecplyi and begau to look around to Eee where I wastofelcep. I pulled out my watch. 'Lor, what 13 that V said oae of those bouueing girls. " 'My watch 41 'Watch what's that for? I never seed the like of that before.' "The landlady spread down some deer skins, when 'pufi' and out went the brief tallow dip leaving juht light enough from the fire for every man to Fee how to thed off without seeing any one else, and find his own quarters for the night.' And such is mountain life. A Gentle Superstition. Rhode Island girls are not wanting in the art of gently insinuating that, like Barkis, "they're willio." It was only recently that a lady, walking one evening under the classic shades of Brown University, overheard the following con vernation between a young lady and gentleman just in front of her: "Charley, did you ever hear it said that il a person found a four leaved clov er and put it in their shoe, the first gen tleman or lady the person walked with would be their husband or wife V '"No never hea rd of it before." "Well. I found one and put it in my thoe this morning, and you are the first one I have walked with. I wonder if it is true ?" There could be but one answer to this, but the unintentional eavesdropper does not meotiou it, leaving the public in cruel doubt as to whether the ruse was successful or Dot. An exchange says : "When you see a bareheaded man following a cow through the front gate, aud filling the air with garden implements and profanity, you may know that his cabbage plants have been set out." The greatest magicians of the age are paper makers ; they transform the beggar's ru-r? into feheets lor editors to lia on. A Magnificent Country. The British troops in Ashantee certain ly beheld some chaatuiog sights. Here is a picture of African scenery from the correspondence of the London Daily AY ics : "When Lieutenants RichmoBd and Woodgate went up with their company to build a redoubt, the thickness of the undergrowth in the bush forbade any view whatever. By hacking at this undergrowth, by felling the smaller trees and kecpiug up perpetual, fires, they have cleared considerable space upon the crest, and exposed a charming view. On cither side rose lolty hills, clothed in yrecn from base to summit. Very far off, in the misty distance be ynnd Ooomassie, is a faiut shadow of mountains. The level between, through which lies our road, is beheld through breaks of foliage exactly like that affec tioned by the earliest of Italian painters Giorgiooe might have studied his tree effects from this spot. The plain lies misty and vague, its tones of delicate verdure fading at the distance into a golden haze. High above the forest level uprise the pale green crowns 0! cotton trees, disdainful of lower growths Creepers drop like a brown waterfall down the trunks. Great runs of fern encircle their branches, or hang their leaves like stag horns from the topmost boughs. A few trees bear a crown of blossoms, scarlet or pink, but not to match in mass or beauty the billiant garden of Fanteeland. Animal life, for all we see of it, might not exist at all in this country. We hear birds and beasts sometimes ; occasionally we see parrots fly overhead, at a distance to skim the tallest boughs ; but few of us have be held a creature that runs or flie3 except the insects I meditate a short dires sion on the creeping things of Africa in some pause of the campaign. It is suf ficient now to say that no country in the world can compare with this for variety and number of its injects." Another correspondent writes : "A little stream goes clean and clear over some shingly pebbles, and bends in and out above and below the road among fuliage rich enough to deck, not crowded enough to eocceul it. Immediately after crossing, one of the richest bauks of flowers which I have here seeu presented itself, the chief feature being a plant, whose name I do not know, very like a cowslip in the actual flower, but with a bright white leaf standing out as if part of the flower itself behind each flower head, and the plant growing into luxurious masses on stems six or seven feet high ; the whole iutertwined with ferns and creepers innumerable. The bauk had a curious look roots stood out from it as from the base of a fallen tree, and by the irregularity and ruggedness (hey gave to it added to its picturesqueoess and beauty. Yet the whole appearance of a bank, aud not of a huge root, was there, from the completeness with which natutc had decked every nook and cranny. I was rather puzzled, and went around behind it to find jJiinly enough, stretching along behind it for, perhaps, sixty yards, the quite rotten carcass of an old forest king now no longer, except by its mere shape, distinguishable from a mound of rich earth, and covered all over with rich, high growing moss and ferns and plants of all kinds." Josh Billings Says : Thoze who never have had ennything at home, when they do travel, seem to do it on purpose to find fault. We are all ov us too apt to judge ov the cloth in a man's coat bi the fashion it iz kut in. Trieing to plcaze everyboddy iz like tricing to apologize to a lot ov hornets for running agiust their nest. Morality iz the bread of a literary rep utashun, but brancs mixt with morality iz the bread and butter ov it. The man who cxpekts to git ahead here belo by pulling others hak ain't going to git a grate ways from whare he started. Tharc iz no kind ov vittles that will phatt a man so fast az a clear conshiense. Gravity iz generally a kind ov a koan feifit which a man cheats himself with and tries to cheat others with, too. Envy iz the bitterest pashun ov the harte ; it iz even more subtle than re venge. I hav made a cluss kalkcrlashun on it, and I find that, with whisky at six cents a glass, a man will drink up a good farm and fetch up iu the poor hous in just thir teen years and four months Yu kant Iiv and di happy, my yung frend, bi serving the devil ; this luiz bin tried by az smart men az the world haz ever produced, and proved to be a pro found failure. Wize men are just az apt fo overshoot the mark az phoois are, but I hav alwuss fed that it iz a respektuble miss for either ov them to make. If a man kan stand sudden prosperity without making hiz bed swim, he haz got the right kind ov stuff in him. A lazy man allwuss thinks he works harder than enny one else, and I guess he iz more than had rite. Falling desperately in luv iz an old fashiooed komplaint ; folks don't do it enoy more, it ain't iashionable. N. Y. " Weekly. The furnaces along the SusquehanDa abovt and below Harrisburg last year made 250,000 tons of iron. ARE THERE ANY NON-INTOXICATING WINES. In this same connection an inquiry forced itself upon me as to the nature of these wines. Pasinr thus through the whole breadth of Europe on one of its chief wine growing belts, it seemed to me that this might be taken as a fair sample of the drinks which the people of any grape regiou will extract from the wiue. I raied the question : Do these com muuities use or know any drink bearing the name of wine which is not a ferment ed, intoxicating driuk ? It was perfect ly manifest, even to the eye, that all the wines confined by high and low were diffusible stimulants, stirring the blood, exciting the nerves, and flushing the cheeks. But it occurred to tnc, before leaving the llhioe, to test the question still more effectually, as my own practi cal reply to statements which I have heard aud read about the use of "unfer mented wines" in wine growing couutries. Accordingly, from that time I have made it a point at every principal stopping place to taste the people's wine "vin or dinaire" and occasionally other kinds at random. I have found that, while dif fering in astrinency, sourness, aud fJ a. vor, the people's wino is invariably an alcoholic drink, apprcntly a little strong er than the strongest cider which was for merly ma le in New England, from which, in some instances, the taste could scarce ly be distinghed. And L have con eluded that if there be any practice of preserving the unferraented juice of the grape, or of preserving the grapes to make it, such as the excellent Mr. Deiavau found in one solitary instance in Italy, it is a practice kept profoundly secret And, if there be any unfermeuted liquors sold aud drank as "wiues" in the region I have now traveled, they are liquors uu known to the hotels, the cafes, the re staurants, and the people who frequent them j and they are liquors not comprised in the vin ordinaire ot the great vintage zone. Their existence is to me a secret undiscovered. I remember, too, that it was a thing which Dr. Eli Smith was uu able, after a long and careful inquiry, to discover in Palestine and Syria. Pmf. S. C.Baitdl, D. D. A GOOD STORY. Here is a good story which has not yet found its way into print, but for the truth of which I can vouch. Lord George Gordon, a young mun of four and twenty, wishing to marry a certain young lady, went quite recently to ask the permis sion of his father, the Duke of Argyle. The Duke, a pompous little uian, replied in effect : ".My son, since our house has been honored by being unite! with the Royal family, I have thought it right to dele :ate a decision ou all such matters to your elder brother, the Marquis of Lome Go, therefore, and consult him." The Marquis of Lome, ou being ap plied to, said : "My dear brother, in a case of import ancc like this, I should think it right to ask the decision of the Queen, the head of the Royal family, into which I have married." The Queen, on the matter being laid before her, declared that since her terri ble bereavement she had been in the habit of taking no steps without consult the Duke of ioxe Coburg, the brother of her deceased husband. To the Duke, then, the matter was re ferred, and f rom him a letter was received telliug his dear sister in law that re cent political events had induced him to do nothing, ereo as to the giving advice, without express concurrence of the Em peror William, before whom he had laid the matter. The Emperor William wrote a long letter, declaring that though he was sur rounded by counsellors, there was only one who had on al occasions proved himself correct, loyal and faithful, and without wdiose advice he (lhe Emperor) would give no decision. Therefore he had re ferred the matter to his faithful Minister, Prince Bismarck. And it is narrated that when Prince Bismarck was made acquainted with the subject, he roared out : "Gott in Ilimmel, what a fuss about nothing ! Let the boy marry whom he pleases, so long u she is youn; and pret ty." Correspondence AT. Y. Herald. YOSEMITE TRAVEL BEGUN. The Merced Argus, of the 4th instant, says : A party passed this place iu the early part of the week, bound for Yo semite valley, and another party, twelve iu number, will arrive here on Monday for the same destination. There is not a great deal of snow in the valley, and par ties can reach there by the river route "without much inconvenience, as the road is entirely clear of snow to within a few miles of the valley, though upon the summits there is a heavy deposit, and we may look for exceedingly high water in the river this spring and coming sum mer. The indications are iu favor of an immense amount of travel this the com ing season, facilities for reaching the ral ley being greatly improved over thosa of la t year, as tl.e wagou road down tho hill will Le completed by the first of May, the time when travel is supposed to le giu. A Chester county lady has a brought from Sweden in 1(350. brick The Massachusetts Dsrnon. The record of the boy murderer Po raeroy is extraordinary, lie is fifteen years of age. His last victim, whom he stabbed and horribly mutilated and then threw into a marsh, was four years of ae. His previous victims were many. One" was a son of Mr. Payne, of Chelsea, who was, about Christmas, 1S71, taken by Pomeroy to Powder Horn Hill, stripped naked, tied to a beam, beaten with a rope, and left helpless. Tracey Huyden. an other boy, was, on February 21, 1872, stripped, tied up. and beaten with a board and ropes, by which some of his teeth were knocked out, the bridge of his nose broken, and other more serious injuries inflicted Johnny Batch was coticed to Powder Horn Hill after July 4, 1872. stripped, gauged, tied to a beam, beaten, aud then taken to a salt water creek and washed. Ilebert Gould, in September of the same year, was taken from South Bos ton to the vicinity of the Hartford and Erie Railroad, stripped, tied to a tele graph pole, whipped and cut with a knife in the head. Henry Austin, in August of the same year, was, at South Boston, stripped, beaten and cut in the Lack and rroin with a knife. George Pratt, about the same time, was enticed into the cabin of a yacht at South Boston, stripped and punctured with pins and needles in dif lereut parts of his body, and le t insen sible and bleeding. Joseph Kennedy was about the same time taken to a place on the Old Colony road, iu South Boston, and maltreated in about the same man ner that the Gould boy had been. These boys were all of tender age, from seven to eleven years old. For these offenses he was seut fo the Reform School in 1872, but in that institution his conduct was so good he was pardoned out February 0 last, on the petition of his mother, who is a dressmaker. He was committed without bail at Boston, on Saturday, ou the charge of having murdered the bov Horace N. Miller. A DAPPER CONGRESSMAN. A Washington correspondent, writing from that city, speak'mg of Congressman De Witt, says : There is a dapper chap sits near the center of the middle aisle in the House of Representatives, or rather would sit there if he was to attend to business, who has lain under ill favored neglect long enough. Nobody notices him, and, as that lack of attention is plainly the iron in his soul, here goes to haul it out. His name is De Witt, and he is right pretty. He belongs to Uister county, N. Y , and my impression is that he will stay where he belongs the remainder of his life. The first month of his advent in the House was passed by him in sub mitting staggering propositions, on which he always demanded immediate action. Nothing less than the re?cindiug of a Su preme Court decision of the asking for one or two new amendments to the con stitution would do him. .These were re gularly killed and folded peacefully iuto the waste basket as fast as they were sent up. This cold indifference children his young soul, and he soured on the House. He now passes a greater protiori of each day in the Senate. He gets himself up in a melancholy style, f-tolks in the Senate where he is certaiu the galleries are filled for the day, and makes straight for the first empty chair. There he poses until adjournment, divided twixt two emotions. One is sorrow at the blindness of Fortune in not seeing what a capital Senator he would make The other is a continuous fear least some of the lady spectators will guess he is not oue already, but only a brass shilling in a collection of guineas He follows every speaker with respectful admiration, and it was a base filing of the grt-called independent press to say that nobody was present, when Logan was talking finance. De Witt was there. Gideon. Timber Rerources of Pennsylvania. Great fears have for years been ex pressed that the great and increasing con sumption of timber would soon exhaust the supply in the forests of the United States. However true this may bo of soma states, it does not apply to Peunsyl vania. In order that it may be seeu how unjust it is to assume that any such scar city is general, we subjoin a statement of the unimproved woodlaud in various cen tral and interior counties : Indiana, 15'd, 181 ; Jefferson, 107.425; Clearfield, 12(J,5oO ; Clarion, 05,31)4 ; Cambria, 13d, H7i) ; Armstrong, 121.75(3 ; Cameron, (il, 210 ; Juniata, 155.1)21); Columbia, 6(5, 215; Dauphin, 57,78 ; Perry, 104,240; Schuylkill, (50,8 7 0, Lycoming. 110,081); Berks, 70.1KJ2 ; Luzerne, 127.G00 ; Cen trc, SO. 120- In fact there is no region anywhere better supplied with forest t huu Pennsylvania, where the woodland is so well distributed or so little likely to be exhausted. A very large part of this forest i so rugged and mounlaiuous, and so covered wiih roeks and Fioues, that it caunot be cultivated, and will, therefore, always remain. The trees constitute a regular crop, and all that is required is that some effort should be made to guard against waste by desolating fires. The ruling passion stroug in danger. An alarm of fire was, the other day, given iu a New York hotel. "Laudlord," said a guest, "is the house on fire ?" 'Yes, sir." "Well, give us one mora I drink, if you pleafe, and we'll get." AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES IN ILLINOIS. Mr Thomas M. Perrioe, of Anna, 111 , has, for the last five years given his at tention to the acquisition of American antiquities, and hr.s dug from the ancient mounds and bur'ul grounds of Southern Illinois ths finest collection, perhaps, in the State. It is composed, iu pait, of agricultural implements formed out of flint ; pipes ; jugs ; faced and straight neck ed arrows ; bone and flint awls ; axes ; pestles ; a stone tube a foot long, which pounds like a horn, and perhaps was used for calling ancient armies to battle ; idols of various kinds; together with many curious things hard to name or divine the use of. In contemplating these vesti ges ol a long lost civilizatioo, the mind id filled with a loniu desire to unravel the mystery that enshrouds the centuries prior to the discovery of America by Co lumbus. A few days since, as Mr, Perrine was exploring a well known mound situated west ol Anna, iu Uuion county, be can-i.j uyon a piece of sculpture that seems lo have been a heatheu god of great anti quity. The impression it gives the be holders is that of a man's bead set upon au infant's body, with its les bent uuder it, and a hand resting on each knee. It weighs forty pounds, and is thirteen in che? high. The chin i.s promiiK-nt, mouth and nose large aud eyes full, with tho perceptive large and the reflective facul ties ouly m3dium. A braided crown or gailand crosses the head, terminating iu front of each car. The rear portion of tho cranium being entirely wauling, gives it a flat and uncomely aspect. Aioucd the head and neck it bears evidence of coosid?rable skill in design and polish, through the extremities are still walked with the sculptor's tools. It is formed out of solid, translucent rock, foreign to this continent ; and at which remote period it wa3 chiseled, must forever re main a mystery, as it has outlived the race that mav have bowed in adoration before it. THE SIZE OF COUNTRIES. Greece i3 about the size of Vermont. Palestine is one fourth the size of New York. Ilindostan is more than a hundred times as large as Palestine. The great desert of Africa ha3 nearly the present dimensions of the United States. The red ?ca would reach from Wash ington to Colorado, and it is three times as wide as Lake Ontario. The English Channel is nearly as large a3 Lnke Superior. The Mediterranean, if placed across North America, would make sea navia tion from Sau Diegc to Baltimore. The Caspian Sea would stretch from New York to it. Augustine, and is us widejis from New York to Rochester. Great Britain is two thirds the size of Japan, one twelfth tha size of lliudoatan, one-twentieth of China, and one-twenty-filth ef the United States. Great Britain and Ireland ure about as lare as New Mexico, but not as large as Iowa and Ntbrasba. Thev are 1l's than New Yok, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Madagascar is as lare as New Hamp shire, Mas-;ichuetts, Vermont, Connecti cut, New Yoik, Pennsylvania, New Jer sey, Virginia, aud North Carolina, all put together. The Gui! of Mexico is about ten times the fcizc of Like Superior, and about as large a the Sea of Kamschatka, Bay of Bengal, China Sea, Okhotsk, or Japan Sea. Lake Ontario would go in either of them more than fifty times. The following bodies, of water ave near ly equal iu s'ze : Gertr.an Ocean, Black Sea, Yellow Sea, Hudson Bay is rather larger, the Baltic, Adriatic, Persian Gulf aud Egean Sea, about half as large, and some what larger than Lake Superior. A writer in a French horticultural journal lelates this suggestive experience; 'After sunset I place in the ceutre of my orchard an old barrel the inside of which I have previously well tarred. At the bottom of the barrel I place a lighted lamp. Insects of many kinds, attracted by the light, make for the lamp, and while circling around it strike against thn side9 of the barrel, where, meetiu" with the tar, their fet and legs become so eloped that they fall helpless to thj bottom. In the morning I examine the' barrel, and frequently take out of it ten or twelve gallons of cockchafers, which I at once destroy. A few pence worth of tar employed in this way will, without any further troublo le the means of destroying innurmerable numbers of in sects, who's selarva; are amongst thv? most destructive pests the gardener or farmer has. to conteud against." A doctor called on a cholera patient and prescribed. Next day found patiut well. "Well," said Dr., "the medieiue brought you out." "No, sir. I didn't lake it." "What did you take " "I ate saur-kraut and turnip sauce." So the Doctor wrote in his Uiomorandum, "Saur kraut and turnip sauce good for cholera." Next week another call. Irishman this j time. Prescribed saur-kraut and turnips. Next day called lound tho Iiiihman dead. So he wrote opposite the memo randum : "Saur-kraut and turnips good for a Dutchman, but diath to an Irishman." s
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