r
ukuotci) to po(itic0, ttcraturc, gucnltuvc, Science, iHoraliiij, anu nurd Jntcliigcucc,
32.
Polished by iiieoaorc ciioch.
Tw. J-'liars a rear in advance aud if not
Tr!'"-e the end of the. year, two dollars and fifty
w'ili be ctoraod.
r': !'' v i,,t dNon'.inued until all arrearages arc
t n, H't the option of the Editor.
rti-:.m-.'n'. of oil'1 square of (eiuht line) or
4-!-v':t'1'.,o'in',rti.in SI 50. Each additional in
'"!' ''jT'w 'cco'i b0"01' onc iu Poiortioa.
J O J 5 "iluXTl X G
OF ALL KINDS,
,. 1 in the hb;het styl" of the Art, and cn t!ic
' reasonable terms.
DR. J. LANTZ,
CCRGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
'"-Ml i hi' ot?;-ce !ain treet in the second story
5 Wiit-.u's brbk building, nearly opposite the
' ' jf0Il. and he tlaters hhn.clf that by eigh
J::vS,:ars'o"iitait prtu-tiw and the nit earm-st and
!ffni v-,-iui"n to all matters j-rta:uine to his pro-'re-"'T
"that tit- is fallv al.le to perform ail operations
'''"je'ru! line in t'h'J mot careful and skillful mau-
a" vtwitioti giveu to savin? the Natural Teeth ;
Spi. ti-.'-' insertion of Artificial Teeth on Kubber.
Vj v ;v 'r. or Continuous Gums, and perfect fits in all
'.'."rn know the great folly and danper of en
.'"' ; -"'..Mr work to the inexperienced, or to those liv
ldince. " April 13, lS74.-tf.
Iterating and sechamcal hentist,
- " " mm m u m
ted in Stroud-hurj, Pa. announces that
v.: :! t' insert artitii i.nl teeth in the most
ii' liliO tiiauuer. Also, ert:tt attention
., :.) trt
t . i j. re-serving the natural teeth. Teeth
i:!. '.it pat a by the use of Nitrous Oxile (!as.
,,rk iiui'ieiii "to the profession done in the
l'snd .pprovd tyie. All work attended to
ii nsf.-.mt'-'l. Charges reasonable, l'at-
i p.:i 'lie solicited.
.. Ui-r's new building, opposite Anaio-
.-;!
.'.h-r
li-;:.-r. F--.t Strom:
l'a.
ju!y ii, ";.
I)
H. X. IBi-t
Surfft'on Eientist.
An"
" that ha in:: jut returned from Deutxl
; i";1!v r'Tepir-'d to n;a!ie. artificial teelh in
a -1 -1 1" A anJ lif'-liko maitiier, and to fill da-a'.-'jrdii.i;
to the mot improved method.
i.'J a! when desired, by the
( ia, ti hi.:h is nitirt-ly barr.)lt--s.
1 s:! n-atiy done. All work waranted.
i-i!iH?'Ie.
Ktll-r's neir brick br.ildinir. Main treet,
!V !Au,r. 1 Tl-cf.
l.iir
Cn yoTi tell hy it is that when any
r.-s. c.i'r.f !: Stroitd-dmrsr to buy Furniture, tliey al
rV't fii-iiiir" f.r McCarty's Furniture tore !
N-rt. :i,'67.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Seal Estate Ag-ent.
Firs1?. Timber Lasds and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
O.-o r.-?zt t'..or above S. -llces' news Depot
'l i door be'u-.r the Comer store.
Man.!; 2 , lTo-tf.
D
n.IIOWARI) PATTKIISOX,
Physician, Sarjeon and Accoticlieur,
(sacce.ssor to Geo. 7. Seip.)
0;Ti.e Miin ?trec-t, Stro'.itl-burg, Pa., in Dr.
S -;;s btiildio?, rcsi.lr.oe Sarah street, next
rri--.d-r.ew uitctinpr house. Prompt attention
( 7 to 9 m.
Ciceho'jr; 125 "2 p. in.
j 5 " S p. m.
April 15 l;74-lv.
D
. ;lo. V". JACKSON
msirm. scsgeox and AicorcnEun.
!n :!. oM oir, -e cf Dr. A. Rreves Jackson,
re-.den -e, rt rn'.r ofSarali and Franklin btreet.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Avr:.rV72-if
TOIX.V BRLWLB, M. O.
PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR,
mountain home. pa.
:-;74-c-ji--
A
The fiu'br-cribcr wciU in form tlieptib'ic that
fa:w leased the hoije formally kept by Jacob
:-'ct. in the Doro'tgh of Stroud-burg, Pa.,
Uric? repainted and refurnished the fame,
Fzlii4 to entertain all who raay patronize
h U ihe aim of the proprietor, to furn
r','iP?:':or teviintaolation! at moderate rates
f-jmrrr n! pair. to promote the cora
ort nf tK Jjbi-ral share of public
VU7, T2-tf.j a L. riSLE.
HONESDALE, PA.
C'jatral location oi an- Hotel in town.
II. V, KIPLK & SON,
? Mai,, .
i f-trec
Proprietors
VOL.
TAMILS H. W.ILTOX,
VlTt ' ',U!inS formerly occupied
'lr!in. and oppo.-lt-e the Stroudc
CJ: Jiaiik. Main street, h5troudsbur2, Pa.
j l::-tf
); KDWAIU) A. WILSON'S (of
Jf: w iliishur- X. Y. , Itocipe lor CON-'-imOX
and ASTHMA carefully
''"'Uivled. fit
SOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
t-Tj MuVicuie f,sih and purr.
" -;v- ; '67. W. IIOLLINUKAD.
Ulf. ;.J,:('rty & Sous are the only Under
'lr'd.sW who understands tleir
Ly j'.: 'i ,,ot attnd a Funeral managed
. j -youer Undertaker iu town, aud you
I,,.,,1011 w,a"t any thinjr in the Furniture or
Hi ;'?'al 15 that .McCarry & Sou.s iu the
t. i;'w IJal!, Main trcotr Stroudiburg,
r' ,fc -e pljre to r v it
-wisTi-tf &
ill j I Ii I I ii I I III "I I r I ' IMI'J'H 'l I
Report of Jere Frutchey, Superintend
ent of the Common Shools of Monroa
County.
The progress vce are making in matters
pertaining to Common Schools is slow.
IJut that vre arc constantly improving is
evident. The gains we make, we hold.
The graded schools of Stroudsburs, Rust
Stroudsburg, Del. Water Gap, (in Smith
field township) and Tobyhanna Mills, (in
Coolbaugh township) aj-e'proving the wis
dom of establishing such schools. Their
influence is felt. The increase in the num
ber of good teachers is marked. During
the past year, the schools generally have
been managed more successfully than in
any preceding year of my official connec
tion with the schools of the County. In
the building cf school houses more inquiry
is made as to the conditions necessary to a
good school building. Too frequently it
has been the ease heretofore that a house
was considered good, if it had good walls
and a good roof. The position of windows,
the height of ceiling and the proper ap
portionment cf the floor space were not
taken into consideration. 15ut this is well
changed. Directors are found inquiring of
the Superintendent tor plans for school
buildings, and showing a disposition to
build something adapted to the use for
which it is intended. There is just cause
fur congratulation that we are in posses
sion of these three necessary conditions
( however small in degree) good teachers
good houses graded schools. Of the
teachers it is not meant to say, that each
school had a good teacher, but that we had
more good teachers than usual. Of this
number two were graduates of a State Nor
mal School, two were holders of State Per
manent Certificates, and twelve possessed
Professional Certificates. A number of
others holding Provisional certificates as
well as those, holdinir certificates of a hi-rher
grade.
The graded .schools heretofore mentioned
are ch.incr a work that must commend itself
to the people at large. We need more of
them. In nearly every township one school
building suitable for a graded school should
be erect-jd. In a few townships two or
three such schools should be organized. In
the report of last year the places where
some of these schools should be located
were indicated. There is no reason now
to change the opinion then expressed.
l
Could the people of those localities where
none are existing, go with me to the schools
latelv organized and see them at work, and
also learn of their condition only a few
years ago, they would hesitate no longer,
but proceed at once to provide themselves
with similar advantages.
Nor are all our school buildings new, or
in good condition. About lifj houses an
swer the purpose of first-class buildings with
respect to light, heat, ventilation, floor
space and furniture. Fifty are unfit for
use. These are slowly giving "way to bet
ter ones. The remainder are of the mid
dling class, some warm enough but too
small, others large enough but too cold.
Pocono township during the past year
has built a house that, with the exceptions
of portico and ventilators, is a first-class
building - The ceiling h high, the windows
hung on pulleys, and the school being not
over" crowded, the want of ventilators is
not felt. This township has 8 more houses
to build.- It is fervently hoped the new
house will be taken as a model, and that
none of the succeeding ones will fall below
it in point of neatness, comfort and health-fulne.-s.
A neat school building is needed
in Stroudsburg. At present the schools of
this Dorough are accommodated as follows;
three Primary Schools are held in as many
houses located in different parts of the town.
These houses are in a very dilapidated con
dition, no proper ventilation can, be had in
them, and at times the atmosphere iu them
is truly pestiferous. The lots on which
they arc situated are unfenccd and altoge
ther unattractive. The seconddary, inter
mediate and higher departments are located
iu the Academy building. The two lower
rooms arc not much better in point of ven
tilation then are the primary rooms. In
the upper department the atmosphere is of
a more healthy character, the ventilation
being accidental. The house in which the
colored school is kept Ls also very much out
of repair. The furniture and apparatus of
all are in keeping with the houses.
Efforts have at various times been made
to remedy these difficulties. To sell the
old houses and ground, and to build one
good house wherein might be gathered all
the school children cf the JJorough has
been the desire of some cf the leading citi
zens in the community, but a want of un
animity lias hitherto prevented the consum
mation of w desirable a purpose. It is
hoped the citizens will wake up to their
interests and demand decent accommoda
tions for their children. The statistical
table shows no increase in the matter of ap
paratus. Some of our schools arc still with
out that necessary appendage a black
board. I am sorry to .say, a few Boards
of Directors have been too negligent in this
matter, and have not yet provided all their
schools with them. In the houses built
the last year, and in those to be built the
summer (1874), an end wall Ls appropria
ted to the black board. A drawback to
many schools and an annoyance to many
teachers is the want of such u board, and
next, the want of a convenient place to put
it. Wall space is not enough ; there must
also be floor space sufficient to allow cf the
free movements of a clo.ss before the board.
The improvement of school grounds has
nowhere been undertaken except iu the
rinde instance of the Borough of East
! Stiouburg. The Ihrater? ot ten piaoc
STIIOUDSBURG, MONROE
have had their grounds neatly fenced and
planted with shade trees. One reason for
this general neglect probably is, that, the
schools being, open for the most part dur
ing the winter only, the want of improve
ments is not so much felt. Shada not be
ing needed even if available, and the rough
uueven places in the surface being for the
greater part of the time covered with snow,
or at least not brought into requisition for
play ground as would be the case in a sum
mer term. The foregoing statement of the
condition of houses, grounds, furniture and
apparatus, may not appear very favorable,
but we must reflect that our discourage
ments are connected entirely with the past.
The encouragements lie iu the prospects
for the future, near by, where our school
buildings will all be in good condition, com
fortably seated, and reasonably well sup
plied with apparatus.
The County Institute was held in the
latter part of January 1874, was well at
tended by teachers, and by citizens general
ly. A gratifying feature of this meeting,
was the comparatively large number of
teachers taking an active intelligent part in
the work of the Institute..
Teachers too frequently shirk their duty
in this respect. We were very fortunate
in procuring the services of Deputy State
Superintendent Henry Houek and of the
llev. A 11. Home of the Keystone State
Normal School. They came to us as strang
ers and went away as friends whom if cir
cumstances had so dictated we could glad
ly have pressed to tarry yet a little longer
with. us.
A FEMALE PEDESTRIAN.
A Young Woman Marries in Boston,
Emigrates "with Her Husband to North
Carolina, and Walks Through Fiv8
States to New York.
A beautiful young woman, apparently
20 years of age, applied for loding a few
nights ago at the Nineteenth Precient jioliee
station, in E:u?t Fifty-ninth street. Her
dress, although well worn, was neat and
tidj-. The blonde hair of her head hung
in curls down a well shaped neck. Her
form was petite, and her speech indicated
that her education had not been neglected.
To Sergeant Whitcomb, who .at behind
the desk, she gave a remarkable story of
how, sixteen months ago, she married a
man named Anthony Brig'rs, a carpenter
of no mean capacity, residing in Boston,
Mass., where her parents also lived in com
fortable circumstances. The young couple
lived happily together on the outskirts of
Boston until last February, when, in com
pany with several other families, they cmi
erated to North Carolina.
On the way thither her husband began
to show his true character by beating her
without the slightest provocation. This
he kept tip at intervals until she left him
in the country near Charlotte, N. C, with
the determination of going to her parents
in Massachusetts, even if she were com
pelled to walk the whole distance. She j
accordingly started on her trip the second
week in April, with only a few cents more
than S2 iu her pocket. Oa her way North
she stopped at farm houses, and, by cook
ing and washing, earned food and lodiring
for the night. On an average she spent
five hours a day in walking, the rest of the
day was spent in sleep and working for
families in order to procure a meal. She
traveled through North Carolina, Virginia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
arrived in this city last week, footsore and
sick from the long journey which she had
undertaken. Being an adept with the
needle, an excellent pianist and a good cook,
she sought fur work in any capacity, but
without success.
Since her arrival in this city she has
been kindly taken care of by the several
captains of police stations where she has
applied for lodging. On making known
her story to Sergeant Whitcomb he kindly
furnished her with a substantial meal and
gave her a card of the Free Dormitory for
Women, at No. 51 Amity street, an insti
tution having for its object the providing
of a temporary shelter for those poor wo
men who might find themselves houseless
in a strange city. Thither the poor young
woman bent her steps. The marton, Mrs.
Boyd, who is in charge of the institution,
kindly, showed her a comfortable bed and
allowed her to take a bath. The bruises
received by the young woman from her
husband are plainly visible on her arras and
body. The woman is low in stature, has
light hair and eyes, and wore a neat yet
plain brown linen suit. She did not have
a particle of wearing apparel save what she
wore, and when she arrived hero she did
not have money enough to purchase an or
dinary meal.
During her conversation subsequently
a Jferuhl reporter, while showing but little
outward emotion, the tears would slowly
trickle down her cheeks, as if it were im
possible to restrain them. By the kind
ness of several well-known business men
down town to whom her case was made
known, she was enabled to start for Bos
ton yesterday afternoon, and will arrive
there early this morning. She claims that
her friends in Boston are numerous, but
that she could not let them know in what
an unfortunate jo.-ition she had been placed,
although the fault was not her own. She
does not know, or at least docs nut care,
where her husband is. It is her intention
to apply for a divorce at an early date.
Ati: York Ileruhl.
.
The young ladies and gentlemen of West
Brandywioe township, Chester couuty, have
"dancing matches'' tor sashes and neckties-
COUNTY, PA., AUGUST
Saoozer and His Hosa.
The Cincinnati Commercial has gone
into the Danbury business, as witness the
following :
A man living on Main street, not over a
thousand yards from the Court House,
who.-e name our reporter, after a diligent
search in the directory, had not found, but
which is supposed to be Snoozer, went
boms last evening filled up to the collar
with benzine. Feeling rather "warm for
the season," Mr. Snoozer took off his coat
and boots, put on his slippers, and getting
the garden hose, went out to sprinkle the
street, so as to make things cool around
there. Now, it takes a quick, discerning,
calculating eye and a steady hand to pro
perly manipulate a hose in day time. At
night the difficulties are multiplied. But
Mr. Snoozcr's mind wras simply on the sub
ject of sprinkling. He gave the hydrant
wrench several twists, and had on a full
head. After a few crackles and spirts, a
steady stream was let fly right on the boots
and wdiite linen pants of a man with a red
rosebud on the left lapel of his coat, who
was coming up from a call on Fourth
street. The man stopped suddenly in
surprise, and Snoozer, noticing the mishap,
in the true spirit of a thoroughbred gentle
man, advanced to render an apology, when
the nozzle was turned a quarter of an inch
to the larboard, and poured in a stream
right against the stranger's immaculate
bosom. The latter miirht have ot red
hot at this treatment, and shown fight,
were it not impossible to do so under the
cooling influences brought to bear ; and to
avoid further disaster, the rosebud and
linen pants popped around the corner into
an alley. Mr. Snoozer was then proceed
ing quietly to cool off the bricks of the pave
ment, when a gentleman with two ladlics,
two shawls, and a sore boil on his arm,
walked up from a Vine street beer garden.
To prevent another catastrophe, the hose
man turned the squirting apparatus toward
the open street, without the least intention
of pouring about fuur gallons of Ohio river
water down the back of a lady and gentle
man who were riding by in a tiltedtop
buggy. The gentleman, in words usually
expressed in print by dashes, told of his
displeasure, and uttered threats against
Snoozer, who said it was purely accidental
that he was willing to take it all back
that there was no sense in crying over
spilled water. While thus engaged in an
explanation, he was perfectly oblivious of
the nozzle in his hand. He was as innocent
as an unborn babe of knowing that a stream,
running at the rate of forty knots an hour,
w:is sailing through the open window of a
second story bed-room in the adjoining
house, where a man and his wife were
sleeping. He never dreamed of such a
thing until female shrieks were heard and
a man in white raiment appeared at the
window and fired off seven shots from a
revolver. Then Mr. Snoozer thought he
would shut off steam. But he had mislaid
the wrench. He, however, kept the
gathering mob away until his wife rushed
out, hauled him into the house, and
prevented riot and bloodshed. No arrests.
How to Kill Grasshoppers.
Reports of Western railway trains stop
ped by grasshoppers are apt to be taken by
Eastern people as samples of Western
humor rather than as statements of actual
fact. Similar incredulity was manifested
on the other side of the Atlantic, a few
davs ago, when a telegram came from
Algiers, telling of the delay of a train
from Oran, six hours, from the same caui?e,
namely, the accumulation of grasshoppers
on the rails. But it was no joke. The
grasshoppers are as great a pest there as
they arc in some parts of the Far West,
I and just now they threaten the utter
destruction of the growing crops over
considerable areas.
Many plans have been tried for their
suppression, the most successful, according
to a cireular ot instruction lately issued by
General Chauzy to the generals of division
and prefect of Algeria, being that employed
in Cypans. By this plan the attack is
made neither on the eggs nor on the fully
developed insect, as practiced clscwhorc,
but during the intermediate or wingless
period of their development, a stage begin
ning about a month after the eggs are
hatched, and lasting three or four weeks, dur
ing which the "crickets" wander about in
compact masses and are easily taking in V
shaped traps open to th eliue of march. The
sides of the traps are made with strips of silk
a hundred yards long and two or three feet
wide firmly attached to poles set in the
ground. The bottom edges of these walls
of silk are banked with earth so that the
crickets cannot crawl under them, and the
upper edges are w'haed or bordered with
oiled silk, which prevents their climbing
over. As they have no wings to escape
with, they are forced to mass themselves
at the apex of the system (a.s it is called)
where they tumble into a trench edged
with plates of zinc, which offers no foothold,
so that they are effectually trapped. When
the trench is full the insects are covered
with earth, and the system is moved on to
continue the work of destruction elsewhere.
Upwards of 7.000 cubic yards of grass
hop!ers were thus destroyed in Cyprus in
a single sjasoa. With the conversion of
our Western plains into farm lands it is
becoming more and more necessary to com
bat the" grasshopper plague on a grand
scale. Our farmers will do well to profit
by the experience of the East.
Delaware county has a twenty-two-year-o'
I cat and a theep over whf-ea wool twen-
ry v-srs h.Wd parked.
6, 1874.
A BATTLE WITH A MONSTER.
A Huge Serpent Attacks A Man Near
Windsor Castle Its Defeat and Ees
cape Grand Snake Hunt Organized.
Last Thursday evening, a.s a voting man
named Franklin Bubright was on his way
from his father's Home to Windsor Castle,
Windsortownship, when about half a mile
from the village he met a monster black
snake, lving along the roadside. When
within a few yards of the reptile, it made
for him, and Mr. Rubright, having nothing
with which to defend himself, was obliged
to run. He soon found a club, however,
and showed fight. After knocking down
the snake several times, as it rose up in
front of him, the reptile seemed to be dead,
and he endeavored to drag it along with
him, but the serpent soon recovered
strength, and fiercely attacked him a sec
ond time. The fight this time lasted sev
eral minutes, when the snake was again
defeated, and fled to a neighboring corn
field, where it was soon lost sight of, as it
was about getting dark.
According to Mr. Rubright's estimation,
the snake must be at least fifteen feet long
and from four to five inches thick. Search
was make for it the following morning, but
without success. The snake has been seen
at different times in the neighborhood with
in the last twenty to twenty-five years. Its
hiding place, it is thought, has now been
discovered, and a party of men are about
to make a thorough search for it. Read
ing Haglc.
A Life Saved by a Cow.
The Lancaster (Pa.) Examiner says :
The other evening, just after a heavy rain
storm, a boy named Groff, residing in Manor
township, was saved from a watery grave
boy a cow which he was driving home. A
number of cows were pasturing in Manor
township, and had crossed a small run
which passed through the premises. The
by, which is very young, was sent for the
cows, and had crossed the run, which was
very much swollen by the rain, on a small
foot-bridge. Two of the cows proceeded
along quietly and passed through the run,
but the third would not cross it, notwith
standing the little boy urged her on deter
minedly. Seeing that she refused to go
across, the boy thought he would leave her
be where she was, and drive the other cows
to the barn. He stepped, upon the frail
bridge, and just as he was near the mid
dle the structure snapped asunder, and
precipated him into the swifty flowing wa
ters below. The cow seemed to compre
hend that the bov was iu danger of being
CO
drowned, for she instantly plunged into the
stream below the bridge, and as the little
chap floated up to her she appeared to wait
for him, an advantage that he was not slow
to take. He clasped her around the neck
and legs, and was drawn hastiU to shore,
terribly frightened, but not much the worse
off bodily by his experience.
Eow to Grew Fat.
If any one wishes to grow fieslnr, a pint
of milk taken before retiring at night will
soon cover the scrawniests bones. Although
now a days we see a great man' fleshy
females, there arc many lean and lank ones
who sigh for the fashionable measures of
plumpness, ami who would be vastly im
proved in health and appearance could
their fingers be rounded with good, solid
flesh. Nothing is more, coveted by thifr
women than a full figure, and nothing will
so rouse the ire and provoke the scandal of
one of these "clipper builds," as the con
sciousness of plumpness iu a rival. In cases
of fever and summer complaint milk is now
given with excellent results. The idea
that milk is feverish has exploded ; it is
the physicians' great reliance in bringing
through typhoid patients, or those in too
low a state to be nourished by solid food.
It is a mistake to scrimp the milk pitcher.
Take more milk and bny less meat. Look
to your milkman have large fcized, well
filled milk pitchers on the table each meal,
and you will also have sound flesh and light
doctor's bills.
A Minnesota Girl's Little Trick.
Another of those devices that some
females are so full of has come to light. A
young lady of Hutchinson, who is fair to
middling in looks, putt on a good deal of
style, and would like to be popular, and
who dwells in a house that, while it is
decent and respectable, h not grand, had
the luck some time since to receive an
introduction to a stranger who hailed from
a neighboring town- It was at church
that she was made acquainted with him,
and he asked to see her home ; she accepted
and they started. It occurred to her as
the' walked onward, that after what she
had said it would hardly do to enter her
humble dwelling, for the lad might think
she was not what she seemed. A few
houses distant from her's stands a fine-looking
residence, before which she halted,
lie, not being acquainted with Hutchinson
or her, supposed, of course, that every
thing was all right, and loft the gate with
bright visons dancing through his brain,
while she hid behind the stoop until he
got out of sight, and then went home
happy.
Says the Williamsport Gazette and Bul
letin : If lightning dose not strike a can
didate for the Assembly iu this county be
twe.o.n now and the elections, it will be be-
! c,iue it dees not hit a living man cv?r
tTT-nt-cne year? oA.
NO. 11.
Give Them Cold Water.
It is cry doubtful if there is a single
possible disease in which the patient should
not have cold water ad ULitui.t. O how
babies often suffer lor water ! A nursing
baby is given, no matter how thirsty, noth
ing but millk. The little lips are cracked
and dry, and the little tongue so parched
it can scarcely nurse, and yet it has noth
ing but milk to assuage its craving thirst.
Try it yourself, mother, wdien ou have a
fever, and we are certain that ever idler,
when your darling is dying with thirst, the
teaspoon and tumbler of cold Water will be
in constant use. Deny it milk and give it
plenty of cold water, and it hr.s a chance
of steady recovery.
A young man "out in the country," not
exactly of the country, tried milking a cow,
as he milked he smoked his cigar. He got
on very well, as he believed, until he lower
ed his head and touched the cow's flank
with the lighted end of the weed. The
next instant himself and cigar were dread
fully "put out." The cow introduced
about two tons' weight into one of her legs,
and then passed it under the milker's leit
jaw. When he ceased whirling around,
and the myriads of stars had disappeared
he said farming was the hardest work a
man could put his hands to.
A young pickle .dropped his drumstick
into a well. He had a shrewd suspicion
that nobody would take the trouble to get
it out ; so he laid hold of all the plate, he?
could find and threw it after the drumstick.
The alarm was" raised that the plate was
missing ; little master thought he saw
something at the bottom of the well ;
ladders were got, and, a.s the plate was
fished up, the youngster called out, "John,
as you are down there, yoti may as well
bring up my drumstick."
Reading claim's the Puiallet VH-r dwell
ing houses in the State. They are one
story high, about seven feet front, nine
feet deep, and about eight feet froni the
ground to the top of the roof. The front.-j
arc regularly weather-boarded, the win
dows and doors finished in the customary
manner, and the front of the roofs has a
regnlar offset the same as the most modern
built dwelling. Each house lias one front
door and window. In size they resemble
two large dry goods boxes. They rent
well.
All the leading Eastern papers agree
that the prospects for the fall trade, which
from distant sections of the country w3!
commence this month, are of the most
favorable and encouraging character. Busi
ness men everywhere express themselves
confident that the stagnation which n3
lasted so long will have beneficial results,
inasmuch as it will tend to bring trade back
to its legitimate channels, and in the ab
sence of speculations will make it souno
reliable and profitable.
To Cure ths Bite of a Mosquito.
Mix sweet oil and spirits of ammonia in
equal parts and apply. This is good also
for the. bite of other poisonous insects. A
powerful acid is injected beneath the sur
face of the skin during the bite ; ammonia
neutralizes the acid. Astrong solution of
soda or saleratus would answer the pn'rpose.
There are five important State offices to'
be filled in Pennsylvania this Tear :
Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Ir-ternai
Affairs, Auditor General, and two Judges
of the Supreme Court. The principle of
minority representation having been applied
to the election of the Judges when two are
to elected at the same tirne, of coarse each'
party will elect one of them.
A canvass is going cn in the principal
towns of Michigan to ascertain whether a
majority of the women want to vote. While
the larger number think they would veto
on temperance and other kindred topics, if
they had a chance, the result of the canvass
thus far seems to show that thev are not
anxious for the ballot on general questions
of political policy.
The embalming process upon the body
of President' Lincoln' gave .igns, before his
burial, indicating that it was unsuccessful.
But the tomb of the martyred President
was recently opened to allow his remains
to be viewed by a number of prominent
gentlemen, and the body, according to re
port, is as perfect as the day it was interred.
The poet of the Lyncburg Ae hasn't
been particularly lucky. In an ode to his
girl he says : 'Keen is your sorrow, but
keener is my grief.' The compositor, who
lost his undermost nickel on the top row
the night before, set up, :but kenb is my
grief.
In a Jersey saloon' sits, day after day, a
hale and hearty old man, nearly SO, who
has smoked for nearly seventy years, and"
has not gone to bed sober for fifty. His
son keeps the saloou, aud points to" his
father to' stimulate trade.
The Warren Journal says that there is
still standing between Belviderc aud Ma
mmkachnnk a charred chestnut tree, which
was marked by William Fenn in 1710.
The marks are still visible.
A boy named Franklin Fricker, aged 16,
was knocked down by a vicious horse he
was unhitching, and pawed to death with
j his fore feet, at Cecper.burg. Le'n'h
loacty.
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