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VOL. 32.
PuMislicd by Theodore Schoch,
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JOIt lRIXTl.G
OF AM. KINDS,
ilu'liest stvl. of the
fjntVi in the
Art, and on the
most reasonable tcrni
Wickersham Normal School.
UROrilEAPSVILLE, MONROE COUNTY, TA.
ri .Kall 1741 Term of this Srhool will begin in the
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lit' N tllNll IIUIIM', Jl ll"lulil-iWi uir. uil I. Li". s-(UIIU
4, and continue twelve weeks.
terms:
For tuition, for the term S3 00
Lrunv time 1' dinn ,1,c term, per week 1 00
ijt--av ihtaniins, in private families, per mouth 12 00
,i ettra charges for the higher branches.
fa'The School House has been enlarged and thor
L.u"hlv repaired.
iha'iiV.'ul for past patronage, I subscribe rayst-lf,
D. E. SOEDLER, Principal.
Jun: i, !?74. Ct
DR. J.LANTZ,
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
S:il! has hi" office on Main street, in th second story
if j)r. s. Walton's brick buiMin. neariv opposite tLe
SirouiNi'iir? ll.ne. aud he rl.Uerjj himself that by e!j;b
t?n vear constant practice aud the most earnest and
raivful attention to all matters pertaining to hi pro
fwiiou. that he is fully able to (MTform all operations
In the di-ntal line in the most careful aud skillful man-
B'T.
Sptvi.il attention trivesi to savin? the Natural Teeth ;
to the insertion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
t'. silver, or Continuous (jums, and perfect fits in all
ca.s insured.
M'-'t piTS'ins tnow the frreat f.lly and danger of cn
tn:tin; I h ir work.to the inexiH-rienrvd. or to those liv
ing at aiiitaiice, April 13, 1S74. Jf.
JJR. II. J. I'ATTEIISO.V,
OPERATWC AD MECfllMCAL DEMIST,
Hnv:,?:i '.ifatc-d in East Stroud.Omr. Ta. announces that
h i.-- " jirciiarcd to insert artificial u-t-th in the most
ii:it:!':il and lif-like manner. Also, Rreat attention
civ.'ii tillitu' and preservinj; the natural teeth. Teeth
fvtra.tnl without paiu by the use of Nitrous Oxide tlas.
.All thi-r work incident to the profession done in the
nioJ -killful aiid apppvi-d s-tyle. All work uttfnder) to
j.riaiplly and warrant'tl. harpes reasouable. I'at-ri!i;.-jt'
of the ;ubiic s.ilicitsl.
itii":Mn A. Lmb'r's nw buildiup, opposite Analo
mink House, lUil Stroiidsburg, I "a. ( july 11, '7&
D
R. X. Is. FECK,
Snrsrcosi Hcntist.
Ann'-nn"" tha; hating jusi returned from JVr.tal
vK'X'-, he is fu'Jr preps ml to make artificial teeth in
the nvist beautiful and life-like manner, and to fill de
ayil t '-ili aceoriline to th most improved meth'id.
T'-fih (-xtract.fi tt ithout pain, when desired, by the
i:sir 'f Nit -oils xide (ia.s. which is entirely harmless,
it'iairiiii; of illkin.ls neatly done. All work waranted.
CiiS'-. -! reasonable.
!.( .1. i. Keller's new brick building. Main street,
S'roudtjur. 1'a. f Aug. ill '71-tf.
Can yon tell why it is that when any
en? H.ncs tn Strimdsbure to buy Furniture, they al
ways inquire f-er Mccarty's 1'urniture Store !
N'tit. l'i.'G7.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Fam3. Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
OSre next door above S. Iiees' neir3 Depot
nd 2J door below the Corner Store.
March 20, 1873-tf.
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It. HOWARD IMTTKRSOX,
Pityslcian, Surgeon and Accoucheur,
(iicct-!sor to Geo. W. Seip.)
0;13ce Main street, Stroiidsburg, Pa., in Dr.
S'jips building, residence Sarah ttreet, next
Friends new meeting house. Prompt attention
to caiis.
to 9 a. m.
" 2 p. m.
" 9 p. m.
O.Tice 1,
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1 o 1
April 1C lS74-lr.
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K. J. 12. SIII LL,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
OFFICE A KlisH'KNCK, AT ISDUJ QfEEN llOTL'L.
All cases promptlj attended to. Office
oiur. from 9 to 12 a. M., from 3 to 5 and
to S r. m.
tharea moderate. Consultations free.
M
JR. CCO. W. JACKSOY
FiirsiCIAX, SURGEON AND Al'COl'CDEUB.
n the old office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackaon,
fisience, corner of Sarah and Franklin street.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
A'Jgtit 8,'72-tf
JII UttEwER, M. D.
?fiYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR,
MOUNTAIN HOME. PA.
IURICA. HOTKI,.
Jle "uWriber would inform the public that
' feajt leased the house formally keptbv Jacob
inru tlie Korouyh of Stroudsburg, Pa.,
Vtm eirred to en.tertan '1 wbo may patronize
i'h f. e proprietor, 10 mrn-
1 I IK T H .1 . I .1 .
nd n acconraoaation? at rnoaerate rates
Wt f I Kf'are 110 P8'1"" to promote the rom-
"c guc-sts. A liberal share of
public
VjUVTtf.
I). Jj. PISLE.
LK IKtrss:
H0NESDALE. PA.
0st central locatioo ot aoy Hotel in town.
3 Mn
I'. W. KJPLE & SOX,
Ja::"' bireet- Proprietors.
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H. W ALTO IV,
Kit
lj L M 't ulinS formerly occupied
hR . ,rs;on' aUtl otponitc tlie Stroud
nirK( in sr"et' 'roiTd5httrR, IV.
TrI,MSTo dollars a rear in advance and jf not
,'l U -foro tlio end of lhc year, two dollars and fifty
,'ts trill cliarrtl.
- NJ p-ilr l'll',u', H arrearages are
"..v.-.i.t at the ution of the Kditor.
THE PIGMY PEOPLE OF AFRICA.
Repesentatives from a Strange Land A
Puzzle for Darwinians.
Tlie Khedive tpokc of a race of pigmies
which had been discovered in the very
heart of Central Africa, beyond the land of
the jNiam-N yams, and advised us to look
at two natives of the tribe which had re
cently reached Cairo. On leaving the
palace of Ahdeen, therefore, we drove im
mediately to the palace of -the Nile, near
Boulak, where they are now kept. On mak
ing inquiry the soldiers in the inner court
immediately pointed out two small boys
(apparently), wearing the fez, and dressed in
jacket and trousers of white wool. I should
have taken them for children of some
Ethiopian tribe at the first glance, and was
not satisfied, until after a close inspection,
that one of them was a full-grown man.
The soldiers brought the pigmies for
ward for our inspection. They came, half
willingly, half with an air of defiance, or of
protest against the superior strength which
surrounded them. A tall DinkaV from the
White Nile, blacker than charcoal, who ac
companied them, spoke a little Arabic, and
I was thus able to get a little additional in
formation through him. He assured me
that the pigmies were called Naam ; that
their country was a journey of a 'ear and
a half from Khartoum (probably the time
occupied by a trading expedition in going
thither and returning), and that the place
Irom winch they came had the name of
lakkatikat. The taller of the two pigmies,
lubbel by name, was 20 years ol;l ; the
younger, ivaral, only 10 or 1.
The little fellows looked at me witl
bright, questioning steady eyes while I ex
uiiuueu anu measured tnem. lubbul was
46 inches in height, the less being 22 in
ches, and the Inxly with the head 24. Head
and arms were quite symmetrical, but the
spine curved in remarkably from the should
ers to the hip joint, throwing out the abdo
men, which was already much distended,
probably from their diet of beans and ban
anas. Yet the head was erect, the should
ers on the line of gravity, and there was
no stoop in the posture of the body as in
the South African bushmen. Tubbul
measured 20 inches around the breast, and
28 around the abdomen ; his hands and feet
were coarsely formed, but not large, only
the knee joints being disproportionately
thick and clumsy. The facial angle was
fully up to the average ; there was a good
development of brain, fine, intelligent eyes,
and nose so flattened that, in looking down
the forehead from above, one saw only the
lips projecting leyond it. The nostrils
were astonishingly wide and square ; the
complexion was that of a dark mulatto.
The boy Karal was forty-eighty inches
high, with the same general proportions.
Both had woolly hair, cut short in front, but
covering the crown with a circular cap of
crisp little rolls, lubbul sage showed it
self on nearer examination in his hands,
feet, and joints, as well as his face. He had
no beard, but was evidently of virile years.
I lifted him from the ground, and should
not estimate his weight at more than sixty
five pounds. The soldiers related that
neither of the two had learned more than
a few words of Arabic, but that they talked
a great deal to
each other in their own
lanjruase
t a recent meeting at the
Egyptian Institute it was stated that the
language of these piginies has no resemb
lance to that of any other in Central Africa.
Tlie country of Naam, or Takekaticat,
or whatever may be its correct name, is re
ported to be an equatorial table-land cov
ered with low, dense thickets, in which the
pijrmies hide. The Khedive told me that
they are quite warlike, and by no means
despicable foes to their larger negro neigh
bors, since they are active and difficult to
find among their natives jungles. Dr.
Schwcinfurth supposes them to be the
pigmies mentioned by Herodotus. The
Darwinians will hardly find an intermediate
race between man and monkey in them.
Their curious physical peculiarities, especi
ally the curvature of the spine, the wide
mouth, with flat but distinctly-marked lis,
and the squareness and breadth of the nos
trils, are not of a simian cliaracter. In
fact, they look less like the chimpanzee
than several of the tall and athletic negro
trills. letter of Bayard Taylor.
Prolific
We find the following in one of the Cin
cinnati dailies of a late date : "We haye be
fore us a clipping from a copy of Liberty
Hall, published in this city in 1816, where
a most marvelous phenomenon is related
the name of the physician being given of
a Mrs. John Kelly, of -Mercer county, Pa.,
who had just given birth to five children,
that being the second effort of the kind
within twelve months, or ten children born
within the year. The subsequent record
of Mrs. Kelly is not known, but it is easy
to see from whence the Gazette derived its
fecundity of imagination." " ho was she i
Greenville Advaiwe.
Mrs. Kelly, rcfercd to above, resided iu
Lackawanuoclc township. Mrs. Wallace,
now residing in this place, remembers the
circumstance of the birth of the ten children
very well, having been present on both oc-
Iv W s . i' f .....j .1...
CUSloUS. iJr. -UagOUIU, 01 -ueieer, ins;
physician. Mrs. Kelly duxl about a year
after this event, but in the meantime had
twins, having given birth to twelve children
within twenty months. 31r. Kelley is still
living, and now resides in Suaron. &iarps-
vdlc Advertiser.
A young lady is of opinion that, it takes
more hard study to discover the front of a
Dew spring hat than would win a case in
the supreme Court against rauroad.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JUNE
We All Have Faults.
lie who boasts of being perfect is perfect
in his folly. I have been a good deal up
arid down in the world, and I never did see
cither a perfect horse or a perfect man, and
I never shall until two Sundays come to
gether. You can not get white flour out of
a coal sack, nor perfection out of human
nature ; he who looks for it had better look
for sugar in the sea. The old saying is.
"Lifeless, faultless." Of dead men we
should say nothing but good, but as for the
living, they are all tarred more or less with
the black brush, and half an eye can see it.
Every head has a soft place in it, and every
heart has its black drop. Every rose has
its prickles, and every day its night. Even
the suu shows spots, and the skies are
darkened with clouds. Nobody is so wise
but he has follv enough tn Kfrx-k a sr-ill at
V amty Fair. Where I could not see the
fool's cap, I have nevcrless heard the bells
Jingle. As there is no sunshine without
some shadows, so all human good is mixed
up with more or less of evil ; even poorlaw
guardians have their little failings, and par
ish beadles are not wholly of heavenly na
ture' The best wine has its lees. All
men's faults are not written on their fore
heads, and it's quite as well they are not,
or hats would need wide brims ; yet as sure
as eggs arc eggs, faults of some kind nestle
iu every man's bosom. There's no telling
when a man s faults may show themselves,
for hares pop out of a ditch just when you
are not looking for them. A horse that is
weak in the knees may not stumble for a
mile or two, but it is in him, and the rider
had better hold him up well. The tabby
cat is not lapping milk just now, but leave
the dairy door open, and we will see if she
is not as bad a thief as the kitten. There's
fire in the flint, cool as it looks ; wait till
the steel gets a knock at it, aud you will
see. Every Inxly can read that riddle, but
it is not every body that will remember to
keep his gunpowder out of the way of the
candle.
Heating Sick-Rooms.
When the entire dwelling is heathed by
a furnace or by steam, it will probably be
unnecessary to have other means of warm
mg the sick-room ; but the fire-place should
be alwas ojen and kept ready for a wood
or coal fire, whenever the patient shall ex
press a desire for one. The fire-places are
excellent ventilating flues even without a
fire, but are nearly perfect when supplied
with a wood fire, the brisk blaze of which
creates a strong ascending current, and
continually carries off the ever accumu
lating exhalations of the sick-room.
If there is no fire-place, a window open
a short distance from the bottom, in the
room in which the patient is lying, and one
let down from the top in the other large
room, with the door open between the two,
win iorm an enectuai uraugnt during any
but the warm days of summer, and will not
be to strong for the most delicate patient
who is protected from the direct draught
by the high-head board of the bed.
In cold weather the window oix'ned at
the bottom will often be sufficient. On
very cold da's we may trust to an entire
change of air several times a day, effected
by raising all the windows for a few
moments at a time, during which the
patient must be thoroughly protected by
extra blankets, and a shawl about the head.
If stoves are the only means of heating
apartments, a uperjetual burner (coal)
may be used in one room to keep both at
an even temperature, during day and night,
but the sleeping room should be provided
with a wood stoves ; the brisk blaze in this
answering to some extent the purjose of a
fire in an open fire-place.
Many lives have been cut short by
exaggerated notions in regard to fresh air.
Air must le pure, but it should also be
warm. To effect this there should be day
and night a steady but gentle heat in the
room of an invalid, accompanied by an
equally steady and gentle current of fresh
air.
A Wyoming Ball.
Miss , from Wilder's gulch, says a
reporter describing a far-western ball, was
elegantly attired in a handsome buff gros
graincd buckskin dress, with army blanket
overskirt, bottoin IoojkhI up with buckskin
strings cut bias. Hair dressed a la Red
Cloud, in which was twined a few sprigs
of sage brush, the whole secured behind iu
a bunch with a handsome pin made with a
pine splinter and a buffalo's car. She wore
an elegant mountain cat-skin cap, festooned
with anteloje tails, secured under the chain
with a rattlesnake skin. Her feet were
encased in buckskin moccasins ornamented
with beads and soldiers buttons. She
created a big sensation as she entered the
liall hanging hikju the arm of Mr. H. Bar
ton, of Ilallville, who was dressed in the
style of his locality buckskin breeches in
boote, hunting shirt of the same, ornamen
ted with beads and tobacco juice, an army
belt of the latest pattern around his waist
securing a pair of six shooters and a huge
bowic knife, which set off his gallant figure
to good advantage. Envious glances from
both sexes followed this handsome couple,
round the hall. Several ladies aud gentle
men from the mining districts were pre
sent, aud expressed themselves well pleased
with the manner in which the party was
conducted. Their frequent exclamations
of delight, such as "red hot, you bet,"
"ain't it fruit, though," "hoop k," etc.,
plainly indicated that they were enjoying J
: themselves in the host possible manner.
A Good Sized Family.
John Hcpner, of Heading,' Penn., claims
to be the father of forty-one children by
three wives. I he Eagle says: "He was
born in 1815, and twenty-five years after
ward IH W he married his first wife
Germany. They lived happily together for
eight years, when she died. During that
time they were blessed with seventeen well
formed children ; hence, at the age of thir
ty-three Jlr. Hcpner found himself the
father of quite an extensive family. The
little ones came on earth as follows : Two
pairs of twins, four sets of triplets, and one
at single birth, seventeen in all. The chil
dren of this marriage are now all dead. Mr
Hcpner remained a widower but a short time
for in less than a year after he married an
other fair daughter of Germany. He was
made the happy father of another child in the
L""U1 01 r e"rury, 1 sou. un the Christmas
following, in the same year, another was born
unto him. Then they were blessed with
twins five times in succession, and subse
quently three more children at single birth
were born unto them, making fifteen in tdl
His second wife and himself lived together
nine years and then she died. By the two
marriages Mr. Ilepner at the age of forty
two, had become the father of thirty-two
children, ot whom only two are now hvinrr.
Twenty years ago Mr. Ilepner and his se
cond wife came to this country. He was
then thirty-nine years of age. Three years
afterward his wife died. Mr. Hcpner, not
desiring to live in a strange land entirely
alone, selected a third wife" in 185S. They
are still living happily together, and dur
mg the sixteen years of their married life
nine children have been born unto them,
each by single birth, making fort'-onc in
all. His third wife was a widow with one
child when they married. Hence forty-
two children have called him 'father.' Of
the third set of children oiiby three are liv
ing, making hvc living in all, together with
the extra one belonging to his third wife
A Strange Remedy.
A correspondent who has visited the
South Sea Islands, writes to the Boston
Medical Times that a notion prevails there
that the headache, neuralgia, and other
cerebral diseases proceed from a crack in
the head or pressure of the skull on the
brain. The remedy is to lay open the sclap
with a piece of glass until a hole is made
into the skull down to the dura mater about
the size of a crown piece. Sometimes this
scraping operation will be even to the pia
matter, by an unskilful surgeon, or from
the impatience of the friends, and death is
the consequence. In the best of heads,
about one-half of those who undergo the
operation die from it, yet f this barbarous
custom, from superstition and fashion has
been so prevalent, that very few of
the male adults are without this hole in
the cranium, or "have a shingle loose," to
use an Australian phrase. It is said that
sometimes an attempt is made to cover the
membranes of the cranium so exposed by
placing a piece of coeoanut shell under the
scaly. For this purpose they select a very
hard and durable piece of shell, from which
they scrape the softer parts and grind quite
smooth, and put this as a plate between the
scalp and the skull. Formerly the trep
hine was simply a shark's tooth ; now a
piece of glass is found more suitable or less
objectionable (if we may even so qualify
the act). The part of the cranium general-;
ly so selected is that where the coronal sagittal
sutures unite, or a little above it, upon the
supposition that there the fracture" exists.
This bone-scraping remedy is likewise cm
ployed in cases of rheumatism in old peo
ple. The cuticle is incised longitudinally,
and the centre of the ulna or tibia laid bare,
then the surface of the bone scraped with
glass until a large portion of the external
lamina is removed.
Hydrophobia.
No one, remarks the Isxncct, conversant
with newspaper literature but must have
been struck with the great number of
deaths from hydrophobia recorded dur
ing the last three years in this country.
From Sheffield we have an account of a
man dying last week of the disease, in
horrible agonies, while at about the same
period a presumable rabid dog ran amuck
among the inhabitants of Huddersfield,
biting no less than six crsons. Five of
these were immediately taken to the in
firmary, where their wounds were cau
terized with nitric acid and nitrate of silver.
The animal a large sheep dog was killed,
and an examination of its body brought to
light a circumstance which leads us to think
it possible that the dog's violence was due
solely to irritation, and not to rabies. In
the stomach (which was empty) a comman
pin was found near the pyloric end, with
its head buried in the coats of the stomach,
the jxtint having penetrated through into
the cavity, where about half an inch of it
was free. As regards the prophylactic
measures to be resorted to in cases similar
to that which we have just recorded, we
are sory to have to confess that the ar
mament ot medical science offers no weapons
capable of counteracting the dire effects of
true rabies. Complete excision of the in
jured part immediately after laceration lias
been advocated by Mr. louatt and others
whose experience gives weight to their
opinions, while the pathological condition
of the brain and medulla after death would
suggest depletion after suspicious bites.
We see that there is a new party looming
up in Ohio. The time is rapidly approach
ing when no man can afford to do without
a party of hi ovu.
4, 1874.
Word of Caution : There is no safety in
taking the bills of the Osage National
Bank of Iowa, without the strictest scruti
ny. Nine thousand dollars iu 5 bills were
stolen from the bank prior to being signed
by the proper officers. The bank and the
Comptroller of the Currency refuse to re
deem these bills. The Treasury numbers
(top of the right hand eerner) arc 550,958,
to 551,407. The bank numbers just over
the Cashier's signature are all over 1750
and these numbers afford the only means of
detection. Thus national bank notes print
ed from a general plate and for which the
Comptroller of the currency holds national
stock as security may be worthless iu the
hands of an innocent holder.'
A Steward on an Ohio river steamer
was addressed by an uneasy and excited in
dividual, who wanted him to put somebody
off the boat. The candidate for a forcible
disembarkation was pointed out, but the
steward could see nothing out of the way.
"You don't, eh ? Don't 3'ou see a man
sitting there humrinir a woman ?"
"Well, yes," replied the steward, "but
what of that ? Hasn't a fellow a right to
embrace his wife ?"
"That's just what I want to run him out
for," replied the stranger, dancing around.
"That's my wife, and I've stood it so long
that I've got mad !"
Mr. Clarkson, the agricultural editor of
the Des Moines State Register, gives the
Iowa farmers the following lesson or diversi
fied agriculture : He says he went into a
store in Hardin county and found there for
sale dried beef and hams from Chicago,
canned corn from Maine, com starch from
New York, cucumber pickles from Ohio,
common beans from Michigan, canned to
matoes and cherries from Marryland, crack
ed wheat from Illinois, cheese from Ohio,
lard in cans from Chicago, axe handles from
Michigan, and various other thiugs of which
Iowa soil is abundantly prolific.
. . , .
Gov. Dix, of New York, has signed the
Compulsory Education bill. By its pro
visions it compels parents and guardians to
give children of from eight to fifteen years
age either in a school or at home, at
least fourteen weeks reirular instruction
every year in reading, writing, arithmetic,
English grammar and treoixraplvy. It pro
hibits the employment of children within
the ages named at any labor during the
time when the district schools are opened,
and school officers are iriven authority to
see that it is enfi jreed.
LOCUST YEAR.
Tlie correspondent of the Newburgh
Journal writes :
"We were reminded a few days since
while digging about the yard that this is
to be loevst year. Immense numbers of
these little fellows, nearly full-grown, are
now making their way upward, and are
within eight or ten inches of the surface of
the ground. They will probably put iu
their appearance some time in June. They
come every seventeen years."
A darkey was trying to steal a goose,
but a fierce dog raised an obi'ection, and
Sombo retired. The next nnrht he tried it
again, but a violent thunder storm interfer
ed, and just as he had captured his prize,
the lightning strrxk htm:, and nearly fright
ened the poor fellow to death. Dropping
the goose, he ran off muttering, "Pears ter
me dere am a mighty lot of fuss made 'bout
a common goose ?''
To Cure Splint.
A horseman says : Take one ounce of
spike, arnl bathe fhe afflicted part four or
five times every day ; perhaps it will be
three or four months before the splint is
removed ; also, it will take off callous lumps
that have been standing for years. I have
tried it with success, and never knew it to
fail.
They tell a queer story about the doctors
in a certain Texas town, who were all away
ast summer to attend a medical convention.
They were absent about two months and
on their return found all their patients had
revovered, the drug-stores had closed, the
nurses had opened dancing-schools, the
cemetery was cup up into building lots, the
undertakers had gone to making fiddles,
ind the hearse had been painted up and
sold for a circus wagon.
A few days since a necd' erson applied
to a wealthy citizen for help and received
the small sum of five cents. The giver re
marked as he handed over the pittance.
'Take it, you are welcome, our ears are al
ways open to the calls of the distressed."
'Ihat may be, replied the recipient, "but
never before in my life have I seen so small
an opening for such large cars."
"Mamma, papa is getting very rich, isn't
ic ?" Mamma "I don't know, why,
child ?"' Bov "Cause he gives me so
much money. Almost every morning after
ueaktast, when balhe is sweeping the par-
or, lie gives me ten cents to go out and
ay. feally received short notice to quit.
An Indian who r confined in jail at
Walla Walla, Oregon, for murder, has
een told by his fellow prisoners that
ie will be hanged sure, and that he h;ul
better get used to it. He practices every
lay by letting them hang him as long as
he can lear it, but still he says that he
would rather be shot. ,
Never keep a jack of cards in the same
poeket as ynir handkerechief.
NO. 3.
MISCELLANEOUS.
It begins to' look somewhat as though a
general Indian war were at hand.
Forty thousand cattle &re said to have
perished in Utah aud Nevada, during the
winter.
It has been estimated that the world"
uses 250,000.000 pounds of tea and 718,
000,000 pounds of coffee ever' year.
Nice place, that New York. There were
over twenty thousand prisoners brought
before its. police court during the first
quarter of the present year.
A Louisville man complain? that liia wife
is an inflationist. She blows him up every
day, and makes him circulate until he ae
tuiilly feels he is' beyond redemption.
A Hartford baby performed tln mar
velous feat of falling from a fourth story
window without being seriously hurt.
Which shows how hard it is to spoil seme
children.
The crusade in Ohio has injured many
branches of business. Among the coopers,
hoop makers, iron workers, box makers,
&c., many laborers have been thrown out
of employment.
The shipments of wheat from MonJreaf
since the opening of the season are about
400.000 bushels, aud the stock there now
is about 1,000,000 bushels, with Lrge stocks
at points in Western Canada.
"Father," said a cobbler's lad as be was
pegging away at an old shoe, "they say
that trout bite good now." Well, well,"
replied the old gentleman, "vou stick to
your work and they won't bite you."
On Monday night, at Newport, four-
miles above Easion, Martin Cunningham,
a railroad labor, stabbed and killed a far
mer named William Smith, in a ouarrel at
a dance. The murderer was arrested.
Tlie town of North Providence, R. I. .
has one pauper to support. This individual
has a farm all to himself, with c:.rriage, horses
and cattle, food provided by contra'.-t and a
poor master and family to tike c;-re of him.
Returns from all the cotton States indi
cate that in all except Texas the area
planted in cotton, this season, . is consider
able less than last season, while the acre
age of corn is ab6ut correspondingly in
creased. X good brother in Miami conr-ly, whi!e
giving his experience, not long ago. said,
"Bretherin. I've been tryin' this riiL-h unto
forty years to serve the ."Lord and git. rich
both at once, and I tell yer, it- mighty
hard sleddin'."
"Here's your money, boy, and now tell
me why your rascally master wrote eighteen
teen didn't fetch it
Among the EuropeiYi' economies is: the
gathering up of segar-tips, cut off before
smoking, in Dantzic one boy is fed, cloth
ed and schooled, each year, from the pro
ceeds, and in Berlin a small osylum is sup
ported by him.
It i.i Estimated that not less thrJn' cne'
hundred thousand northerners have, dur
ing the winter months, visited the south
on pleasures or business. The daily amount
of money disbursed to hotels and 'railroads
must have been nearly a million of dollars.
A citizen of Detroit, who removed ta
Lone Tree, Nebraska, several years ago,
writes to a tobacco hou?e in the former city
to send him five pounds of "fine cut" by
express, adding : "I am a candidate for
Sheriff of this county, and I think a
judicious use of five pounds ofgiod tobacco?
I can secure 200 majority.'
A man bought a hbrse. It was the Grrt
one ho had ever ov'ned. lie saw in a news
paper that a side window in a stable mak-s
a horse's eye weak on that side ; a window
in frout hurts his eyes by tlie glare ; a win
dow behind make? hint squint eyed ; a win
dow on a diagonal line makes him shy when
he travels ; a stable without a window cukes
him' blind. He sold the horse.
The Shelby (Ky.) Courant relates how
about six months ago an old negro woman of
that town was seized with a great longing to bo
able to read the Scriptures, and communica
ted to her friends her intention of attend
ing the night school for colored people, with
a view of attaining this end. As she was
sixty-five years old, and did not know a let
ter of the alphabet, the idea was regarded
as an evidence of approaching imbecility,
and she was laughed to seem by all those
who knew her. But this did not deter her
from her purpose. She went to school, an.J
now, strange but true, is able to read th
Bible with the utmost ease and ecuracy.
The case is one of the most remarkable on
record.
We should not have believed that a
Scrant.cn jury could be found capable of
getting up the following verdict, was it not
vouched for by the Kcpnh'can of that city.
The verdict was rendered a few days ago
in a case. of some prominence in that local
ity :
"We the jurors in the ease of
Collins
vs
The city cfScranton do say that our
city Fathers have been neglieut in not se
curing that place on the Hydpark Hid
where the accident hapeued and we blame
the Driver lor going down this hill ou that
frosty morning therefore to punish both
Partys we do find one Hundred & seventv
fivc Mars 1.75 00 far 1'1'T So av
at..
ivntio auuui liiub eom.eiiqtt.Loie sum. l ci
sure, sir, I can't say; but if you'll excuse
me. sir, I sort o' reckon 'twaf because seven-
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