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OF ALL KINDS,
. ixl in th highest styl of the Art, and on the
Eifd-1' p,0;st reasoii:iil(! terms.
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YA W PHILADELPHIA.
farKeduccd rates, $1 75 per day. ""a
HENRY SPAUX, Prop'r.
L R Ssvder, Cleric.
Xoff.jIC, lS74.6m.
D R. J.LANT Z,
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
s-i'l hs hi o10' on Main str"et. in thc seeond story
.;' Walton's bri:k nuildinj;, nearly opposite the
"s - u Nhur Hons?, and he flaters himself that by eijrh
'"n ro irs constant praetiee and the must earliest and
' - il l 'n'teutimi to all matters portainin? to his pro
,n tint he is f"Hv able to jrlVrm all opt-ratkun
ifih'c doutr.1 line in the most careful and skillful inau-
attention eiven to savin? the Natural Te.-th ;
'n i tii-ff invrtion of Artificial Teeth on IttihW,
' i!vlr, r Continuous (iuuis, and perfect fits in all
.-.. irwiml.
't p -r-.ns know the Rreat fully ud danger of en
.i" ' ili.-ir work to the incxperienei-d. or to those lir
!,t7ii'tanec. April 13, lS74-tf.
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Surgeon lcnlit.
sa-Tnc' that havinj; just retnrni from Dental
r ii ' c S fuliv pr-paril to ni.ike artificial teeth in
... l-U "hvautsfa'l mi l lifelike manner, and to fill de-t-"li
aocoHinu to the most improvtil nu-th.xl.
in xt a.'t-J v ithuiit pain, when desdrvd, the
.nt NiT .in t'liWe t;as, whi-.-h is entirely harmless.
R.Mirir.;.if all kinds neatlydouc. All work warantcd.
reii.s'nsbl. .
I-V.. j (l Kt lier's new brick buildintr. Main street,
Roars'. To., AuS. SI 'Tl-tf.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Firms, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
Ofnce tnenrlr opposite American Hone
ai t dr below the Corner Store.
March -JO, IsTS-tf.
U. HOWARD IMTTCltSOX,
Piysiciia, Sarjeon and Accoucheur,
0:nce an.i Residence, Main street, Stroiuts
k:irir, I'a., in the building formerly oc-otipied
L-r It. S'-.ip. Prompt attention givtn tuculls.
f 7 to 9 a. m.
Olce Lours 1 " 3 p. ni.
( G "8 p. in.
Arril 15 1574-lv.
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R. GEO. W. JACKSOX
PrJYSICIAN, SURGEON AND AlTOlTIIELU.
Tr. the o'J ofa-e of Dr. A. Reeve Jncfcon,
residence, eurner of Sarah and Franklin street.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
A-nst ?.'7--:f
ULRICAS HOTCL.
The 'ir rib:r would inform tle public that
it m lea-ed the houe formally kept by Jacob
Kr.fiit. in the Borough of Strotul.-bnrg, Pa.,
having reiainted and refurnishtnl thc name,
i- prepared to etitertnin ail who may patronize
ni'n. h is the air.i of the proprietor, to furn
ih ';;crior accommodation at moderate rates
sad will -rure no pains to promote the com
.Vi of the jrtiest. A liberal share of public
Jiiir.ir.-iji' iitilicitcd.
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AUCTIONEER,
Real E5tats Agent and Collector.
Ti nnjri-,'ncd ben l'.-are to notify the publie thtt
k r'i-rd t'i will at short notice personal property
Liudj, as well as Ileal jlte, at public or ptivate
OS.- at Tlm-nas Strmph.-'s oil tore stand, at East
fc:iiuii,burp. I'a. Ie;. 17, lfc74. ly.
DR. HOMER PATTERSON
be at thc office of Howard Patterson, M.
rmerlv Dr. Seip's) Main fit., Strotidburg,
rorn hect-raber 24th to January 2d. 1S70, Hio
; ys.) ji;s former jiatientu, aki others wish
dental work done are reiue?ted to call.
f rth Liu-'hing Gaa will be readv for extract-
" K Tliut-c indebted arc requested to
"repayment. Dec. 10, '74. 4t.
Dl V I OS. LEE,
Allorncj' at L.atv,
rje door above the "Stroudsburg House,"
"ro,iclvb,ir?, la.
iectioiw promptly mad.
i'Li: iiol.se,
HONESDALE, PA.
central locution ot any Hotel in town.
. Pt. W. KIPLK k SOX,
TVJ -Ham street. Proprietors,
"aryg, l,s73.-ly.
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, '''ital line that Mclarty & Sons
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Letter of the Vice President.
Washington, January 1G, 1875.
To the Editor of the Springfield Rep.
I find in your journal a statement that I
agree with you that the Republican party
is dead. I beg leave to say I do not agree
with the Republican, or with any man or
set of men, in the opinion that it is dead
or hoindcssly defeated. On the contrary,
I believe that the Republican party
has it in its power to recover what it has
lost and to elect thc next President. In
saying this I am not unmindful of the grave
questions at issue and which are pressing
for solution, of the disasters that have fal
len upon it, nor of the hopes, expectations
and strength of the Democratic party a
party whose strength and power I have
never underrated. I believe it can recover
all it has lost1, win back its former prestige,
and still retain its power in the Govern
ment ; and I be'ine this because I believe
it to be a necessity of the country. The
grand work of liberty and patriotism it has
performed imperatively demands that it
should continue to guide the policy of thc
nation.. Liberty, law, order, protection
and civilization cannot afford to have it
permanently defeated. I saw quite as carin
as any one the perils of the Republican
party, and more than thirteen months since
I warned my political friends of the danger
of losing the next House of Representatives.
Thc party has made mistakes, and is now
paying the penalty of those mistakes ; but
its idea, principles, and general policies
have not been condemned. It has been
taught by recent disasters that it is mortal,
and if it is wise it will heed those lessons. It
would seem that neither selfishness nor
stupidity could f.il to uuderst; nd them, or
could misinterpret their import. If the
Republican party nnv dies, it will die by
tl e ! an 1 of the suiei !e, for there is no arm
other than its own patent enough to strike
it down. It cannot, I think, hope to re
cover its lost pros-tig J and power by a policy
of rewards and punishments, or by party
discipline. There are hundreds of thous
ands in the Republican party to-day who
spurned the bribes and frowns ot power,
and left the Whig and Democratic parties
for the sake of principles deemed by them
important and sacred. These men cannot
be seduced by the blandishments of power,
nor greatly moved by threats of discipline.
Mere politicians, who think they can
govern by the whip of party discipline, will
find that 1 1103 cannot thus reach or control
the thoughtful and independent men who
struck the lash from the hand of the slave
masters. Nor can we recover what is lost
in Ma'sa.-husttts or in the country by the
impertinent intermeddling of office-holders
in nominations and elections. OfHee-hold-ers
should learn from the recent elections
that they can serve the Republican party
best by performing their official duties with
scrupulous fidelity. The people should be
left free to manage in their own way, and
without official interference, their primary
meetings and elections, for, rightfully or
wrongfully, they have been compelled to
believe that there arc those holding office
in Massachusetts, in the country, and espe
cially at the South, sorneef them in import
ant positions, who do not fitly represent
the desires and wishes of their localities,
and who have not thc publie confidence.
The party burdened by such is not likely
to be led to victory by their obtrusive in
terference, either in Massachusetts or in
the country. North or South. The disas
trous division of the Republican party in
1872 was to me a distressing event. It
sccme 1 to mc to be thc unnecessary separation
of comrades w ho had toiled together for so
many years for noble purposses snd a glor
ious'cause. I did all I could by remon
strance and appeal to prevent it, and have
since sought to reunite what was then so
disastrously and unnecessarily broken. And
I would now throw the doors wide open
for the return of those who voted for Mr.
Greeley in 1872, and earnestly invite them
to unite again with their old associates.
Indeed, at an moment since that election,
I would have pursued a generous and mag
nanimous policy toward the men who then
left us, and now, without the loss of a single
hour. I would, in all sincerity, extend the
hand of reconciliation. I would appeal to
you, Sir, and fc your associates of the press
in that unfortunate division, to unite with
the great party which, with all it errors,
faults and mistakes, has made a glorious
record for the country, freedom and progress.
I do not ask you to refrain from criticism,
nor to leave unnoticed its mistakes ; for a
party that canuot tolerate that is already in
its decadence. There has been, and now
is, a class of mcu in the South, Douglas
Democrats, and old-line National Whigs,
who were dragged into the rebellion, but
who liave very little sympathy with the
Democratic party. I have believed, and
now believe that these men should be in
vited to co-operate with the Republican
party and idiarc in its responsibilities and
honors. I believe that peace in the South,
the blotting out of divisions on the line of
race, the advancement of re:d reconstruc
tion' permaucnt Southern prosperity and
the success of the Republican party le
mand that all honorable efforts should w
made to withdraw such men from associa
tion with those who led them into rebellion,
brought such fearful and indescribable ruin
upoiAhem, and who till adhere to the
'lost cause." It seems to me that Repub
licans everywhere, in office and out of office,
should subordinate all personal desires,
aspirations, and ambitions ; sacrifice their
interests if need be, rally again for thc par
ty, invite everybody to crowd its ranks,
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY
pti ix j datura 'aaji iiw??
and bring to the front, to thc important
positions of the Government, all the ex
perience, ability, ability, and character they
can command. A broad, wise, and mag
nanimous policy should be promptly inau
gurated, and steadily and honestly pursued.
When thc countr' clearly sees, as it will
see, the only alternative presented, thc real
issues involved, the policies and men to be
supported, their record in the past and
their present affiliations, who and what
shall prevail if the Republican party be set
aside ? When the country sees where the
loyal mcu of the land are found and where
they stand, who believe in the perfect
equality of the races, and who, conic vic
tor' or defeat, life or death, mean to main
tain in its completeness the equal rights of
American citizens of every race, nationality,
and faith, then will the Republican masses
rally again, achieve new victories, and give
thc party a new lease of power. Truly
vours.
(Signed) Henry Wilson.
The Colosseum at Rome.
The Colosseum deserves to stand for
other than architectural reasons. It is the
greatest monument of that wild thirst for
blood and cruelty which distinguished
Rome above all other nations of the world.
There have been in every country times
when atrocious and horrible punishments
were devised, slow ways of tearing life bit
by bit from the body, ingenious and fiendish
devices for prolonging and intensifying pain
till the sufferer could feel no more. But
the punishment and thc torture were meant
to be regarded with horror. In Rome
alone they became the favorite spectacle of
the people, and it was through the debased
rulers of the empire that a ferocious crav
ing for the sight of suffering was cultivated
and developed. On the arena of the Colos
seum not onlv did gladiators fight with each
other and prisoners with lions, but dramas
were enacted the plots of which were taken
from some well-known tale of antiquity.
They were plays which required no libretto.
because the story was known by every one
of the eighty thousand spectators. And
tliev had the great and absorbing interest
that nothing was acted all was reality,
and the catastrophe, eagerly exjected, was
not simulated. I lie hapless actor who had
to wear the shirt of Xessus knew that when
he put it on, lined and smeared with pitch,
it would be set fire to, so that he should
represent in actual torture thc agonies of
the dying hero. Aetaeon knew that the
dogs would be loosed upon him when the
time came, and would tear him to pieces
amid the applause of the people. Medea
stabbed her children coram popnla ; Dirce
acted her part knowing that she would be
tied by the hair to the horns of the bull,
who would drag her till she died. This
was the favorite spectacle of the Romans,
gentle and simple. Such shrieks, such
shouts of applause, have echoed from these
walls as no other theatre has ever heard ;
such tragedies have been enacted as no
other play-goers hare aver dreamed of ; the
citizens were insatiate ; the roads that led
to Rome were thronged with prisoners
coming to take part in thc sports ; the old
could at least be torn by the beasts tlr
young could fight. And these sports con
tinued for 100 years, until the Emperor
Honorius stopped them. Later on they
were partially revived, but only for combats
of beasts, by Theodoric ; and a bull fight
was held in the old arena so late as 500
years ago, at which the noblest of the Ro
mans fought. Since then the Colosseum
has rested in silence.
A whole literature has grown up around
this great amphitheatre, the modern aspect
of which has hither to presented insuper
able difficulties in any attempt at under
standing the old accounts. For, if it were
true that thc arrangements were such that
wild beasts could be let loose by hundreds,
and prisoners by thousands ; if, also, thc
arena could be flooded with water, so as to
admit of the representrtion of a sea fight,
in which all was real except the hostility of
thc combatants, by what means were thc
beasts kept ready and loosed upon their
prey ? where were the prisoners kept so as
net to interfere with the audience ? and
how was water drained off after every sea
fight ? Partial excavations were commenced
sixty years ago, but were discontinued af
ter a short time. Thev made confusion
more boneless bv revealing a number of
walls below the surface running about in
several directions, and seeming to answer
no purpose. Rut within the last few
months Signor Rosa has commenced fresh
excavations irfi a scientific plan ou a large
scale, and has already been enabled by his
discovers to settle most of the disputed
points. The proper level of the ground is
twenty-cne feet below the present surface.
The arena itself has been found, with thc
original "herring bone" pavement, perhaps
that laid by Titus.' hat has been hitherto
supposed the front of thc podium the
lowest wall separating spectators from ae-
tors is really, the back ; and, in clearing
away the newly-found front, three great
arch-ways were discovered, which have al
ready so far been cleared out as to show
what was their original purpose. These
were thc entrances of the actors. Ry these
avenues marched the morituri, sturdy pris
oners of war or shrinking women ; by those
their lod;es were dragged away an hour or
two later. And lelow the arena Signor
Rosa has found the great drain, the cloaca
which carried away the water used for the
fea fights. In the corridors ttill stand the
bronze sockets on which, jerhaps, swung
the doors which divided thc animals into
their various groups ; and there have been
found marble fdabs on which are represent d
the srladhtorul cm tests men with mm,
men with beasts, beasts with beasts. The
engineer docs more with his spade than the
scholar with his books for archaeological
research, and wc congratulate Signor Rosa
ou his success. We can now realize more
vividly the tccencs of thc Roman amphithe
atre, but while wc wonder how ladies high
ly born and delicately cultured could take
delight in witnessing torture, wc may re
member that it is not many years since
badger-drawing and bearbaiting were fa
varite Kuglish sports, and you may see a
bull worried and baited even now in Spain;
and that school boys have never ceased to
find their keenest pleasure in watching a
fight. If Xero and Queen Elizabeth were
to visit thc Crystal Palace, while the for
mer would miss the gladiators, the latter
would deplore the absence of the bears.
London Xeics.
Having Moral Courage.
Moral courage is a big thing. All thc
good papers advise everybody to have moral
courage. All the almanacs wind up with
a word about moral courage. The Rev.
Murray, and the Rev. Collycr, and the
Rev. Spurgeon, and lots of other reverends
tell their congregations to exhibit moral
courage in daily life. Moral courage doesn't
cost a cent, everybody can fill up with it
till it can't eat half a dinner after going with
out breakfast.
"Have thc courage to discharge a debt
while you have the money in your pocket,"
is one ot thc "moral paragraphs
31 r. Mower read this
once, and detcr-
mined to act upon it. One day his wife
handed him five dollars, which she had
been two years saving, and asked him to
bring her up a parasol and a pair of gaiters.
On the wav down he met a creditor and
had the coungc to pay him. Returning
home his wife Killed him 157,000 pet names,
such as "fool," "idiot,"," etc., and theu
struck him four times in the pit of the
stomach with a flat iron. After that he didn t
have as much moral courage as would make
a leaning post fur a sick grasshopper, and
his wife didn t forgiovc him for thirteen
years.
"Have the courage to tell a man why
you refuse to credit him," is another para
graph, lhat means it you keep a store
and old Mr. Putty comes in and wants a
pound of tea charged you must promptly
respond :
"Mr. Putty, your credit at this store
isn't worth the powder to blow a mosquito
over a tow string. You are a fraud of thc
first water, Mr. Putty, and I wouldn't trust
you for a herring's head if herring were
selling at a cent a box."
Mr. Putty will never ask you for credit
again, and you will have thc consciousness
of having performed your duty.
"In providing an entertainment have the
courage not to go beyond your moans," is
another paragraph. If your daughter
wants a party and you are short don't be
lavish. Rorrow some chairs, make a bench
of a board and two pails ; and some molasses
and watermelon, and tell the crowd to gather
around thc festive board and partake. They
will appreciate your moral courage if not
your banquet.
"Have courage to show your respect for
honesty," is another. That is, if you hear
of anybody who picked up a five dollar bill
and restored it to its owner, take him by
the hand and say : "Mr. Rambo, let me
compliment you on being an honest man.
I didn t think it of vou, and 1 am agreebly
disappointed. I always believed you were
a lair, a rascal and a thief, and I am glad to
think that you arc neither shake."
"Have the courage to speak the truth,
is a paragrrph always in use. I once knew
a bov named 1 eter. VJne uay wnen no was
loafing around he heard some men talking
about old Mr. llangmoncy. Their talk
made a deep impression on Peter, and he
spoke the truth. He said :
"Mr. llangmoncy, when I was up-town
to-day, I heard Raker say you were a re
gular old hedgehog, with a tin ear."
"What ?"' roared the old gent.
"And Clevis said that you were meaner
than a dead dog rolled in tan bark," con
tinued the truthful lad.
"You imp you villain!" reared the old
:uan.
"And Kingston said that vou were a
bald-headed, cross-eyed, cheating, hing,
stealing old skunk under the hen-coop ?"
added the Jov.
Then old Mr. Ilangmoney fell upon the
truthful Peter, and he mopped the floor
with him, knocked his heeis against tiie
wall, tore his collar off, and put his shoulder
out of ioint, all because that boy had the
moral courage to tell the truth.
And there was young Tow boy it was
the same with him. He had the moral
courage to go over to an old maid and say :
"M iss Fallsair, farther says he never saw
such a withered-up old Hubbard squash as
3'0U arc trying to taip a man !"
"He did, eh?" niur-cd thc old maid, ris
ing up from her chair.
."Yes, and mother says it's a burning
shame that you call yourself twenty-four
when you are forty-seven, and she says
your hair dye costs more than our wood 1"
"She said that, did she ?" murmurd thc
female.
"Yes, and sister Jane says that if she
had such a big mouth, such freckles, btieh
big foot, and silly ways she'd want thc
lightning to strike her !"
And then the old maid picked up the
vollingq in and sought the house in which
Towboy resided, and knocked down and
dragged out until it was a hospital. Then
Towboy's father mauled him, his mother
pounded him, and his sister denuded him
of hair all tceause be had moral coun
in his dsily life. Comic ronfh?y.
28, 1875.
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The Economy of Charity.
The State Board of Public Charities in
its aunual reports to the Legislature has
repeatedly urged thc principle that the pre
vention of crime, by the care of thc desti
tute and neglected children of thc Com
monwealth, is not only a high duty, but
the very best economy. The cost of train
ing a child in the way of virtuous living,
as compared with the maintaining of a
criminal in the penitentiary, or the insane
pauper, who has destroyed his own dissipa
tion, in the almshouse, is so trifling that
the Commissioners of Public Charities have
continued to press upon the Legislature
the great importance of providing by law
for the better care and education of these
neglected classes ; and the wisdom of this
policy is being rapidly recognized by intel
ligent people.
One of the most startling illustrations of
thc fearful cost which neglected crime in
flicts upon the state, and the dreadful in
heritance of wretchedness and pauperism
thus entailed upon society, has recently
been given by a most reputable physician
of Xew York, Dr. Harris, who has recent
ly stated a case known to him, the truth of
which, amazing as it is in its record of per
petual crime, wc have no reason to ques
tion. Dr. Harris states that in a email village
in a county on the Upper Hudson, about
seventy years ago, a young girl was set
adrift on the usual charitv of the inhabit
ants. She became thc mother of a long
race of criminals and paupers, and her pro
geny has cursed thc country ever since.
The county records show tico hundred of
her descendants who have been criminals.
In one single generation of her unhappy
line there were twenty children ; of these
three died in infancy and seventeen survi
ved to maturity. Of the seventeen, nine
served in the State prisons for high crimes
an aggregate term of fifty years, while the
others were frequent inmates cf jails and
penitentiaries and almshouses ! Of the
nine hundred descenkants, through six
generations, from this unhappy girl who
was left on the village streets and abandoned
in her childhood, a great number have been
idiots, imbeciles, drundards, lunatics, pau
pers and prostitutes ; but two hundred of
thc more vigorous are on record as crimi
nals. This neglected little child has thus co?t
the county authorities, in the effects she
has transmitted, hundreds of thousands of
dollars in the expense and care of criminals
and p:iujers, besides the untold damage she
has inflicted on property and public morals.
Seventy years ago the people took small
concern about such matters. They had lit
tle appreciation either of the moral or
cconmical obligations which thc State owed
to itself and to its children. And out of
this common indifference and ignorance
have grown results such as these ; results
whose infiences must project themseles into
thc future generations of this poor child of
1 . s 1 .
crime and neglect, tor ail time to come.
And if from a single roct. not only two hun
dred criminals, but a long line of idiots,
drunkards, lunatics, prostitutes and paupers
have sprung to be a burden and scourge
and cost upon society, how shall the aggre
gate results of similar neglect in thousands
of other cases be estimated ? Evenino
Bulletin.
A Good Suggestion.
A saving woman at the head of the
family is the very best savings bank es
tablished ope receiving dcosits daily and
hourly, with no costly machinery to manage
it. The idea of saving is a pleasant one,
and if the women would imbibe it at once,
they would cultivate and adhere to it, and
when they are not aware of it, tvould be
laying the foundation of a security in a
storm time and shelter in a rainy day. The
woman who sees to her own house has a
large field to work in. 1 lie best way to
make her comprehend it is to have an ac
count kept of all current expenses. Proba
bly not one woman in ten has an idea how
much arc the expenditures of herself and
family. When from one to two thousand
dollars are expended annually, there is a
chance to save something if the effort is
made. Let the housewife take the idea,
act upon it, and she will save many dollars
perhaps hundreds where before she
thought it impossible. This is a duty, yet
not a prompting ot avarice, but a moral
obligation that rests upon the woman as
well as upon thc man.
Novel way of Destroying Woodchucks.
James J. Webb, of IfamJen, Conn., who
is a very thorough and intelligent farmer,
being troubled with woodchucks, adopted
a novel mode of destruction, which he af
firms is a sure cure. In the first first place,
make diligent search to discover if the bur
row has more than one entrance ; if it has,
thoroughly clcsc all but thc principal one by
means of stone and earth. Having done
this, fill a four ounce vial with powder, and
insert into the same a coil of fuse, putting
in n cork to prevent it.i being too easily
pulled out ; then put the vial as far into
the hole as possible, and thoroughly close
thc entrance earth, cut off the fuse which
has been imbedded in the earth, with a
protrusion sufficient to be easily ignited,
then light thc same, and after the discharge
of the powder, the woodchuck will never
be heard of more. The ground nay be
slightly lifted, but no injury is done ; bu8
ly means of the coucussion aided by the
s;i filing effect of the confined suioke, tbo
i 'f-rk is uccx'tn
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The D. L. & W. Railroad.
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS AT nOKOHEN;
The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern railrad company have so improved their
terminus at Ilobokcn that they will ceaso'
shipping coal to Elizabethport after March
1, 1875, and will then sell all of their pro
perty at that point or will remove it to
Ilobokcn. By an agreement entered into
between the two colossal corporation
several years ago, thc Delaware, Lncka
wanria and Western railroad company was.
pledged to pay a certain percentage on
every ton of eoal that passed over the rails
of the Centrd railroad to Elizabethport
from the junction of the two lin's, forty
eight miles from Ilobokcn. The agree
ment had a proviso, giving the first named
company thc privilege of withdrawing fh
thc contract in case they gave six months
notice. This has been complied with. The
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western raiU
road company, by June, 1S75, expect tir
possess the most carpaious coal, iron and
general merchandise docks resting on the
Xorth river. The vast marshy track of
ground lying between Jersey City and
Ilobokcn has been filled in by mad dredged
from' the river, and the whole area- will
soon be covered with a network of tracks
extending to the coal bins facing the river.
The different bins will have 3 c?
of
three hundred thousand tons, or just one
half more than at present. Five of these,
coal docks extend into the river a distance
of twelve hundred feet, and trains from the
Lehigh coal regions discharged during the'
past nine months 1,500,000 tons of eoal.
The company is now also engaged in build
ing an immense canal, which extends inland
three thousand feet from the Xorth river.
It will be one hundred feet in width and
will have a depth tf twenty-four feet, thtis
affording good anchorage for the larger,
class of vessels. Firc-proof warehoucs will
be erected alorrg either side, and in the
spring ground will be be broken for a new
depot. These improvement? are based on
"great expectations" in the future of the
coal trade, and who can doubt that their
expectations in this will be realizc-d. This
trade doubled in the last ten years, and
may again double in the present decade.
The improvements of the Pennsylvania
railroad company at Ilarsimus, opposite
Xew York, are even greater than those
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern company at Ilobokcn. Philadelphia
Ledjer.
Profit of Rats.
If bright eyes and smooth fur are the
points of animal beauty, a rat should not
be an object of disgust and aversion ; but
when the rat appears "in his thousands."
he certainly inspires the greatest possible
loathing in the human breast. The notion
of swarms of rats running over each other
to reach some hapless victim, and forming
a seething mass instinct with hunger and
thirst, is one ever present to sufferers from
nightmare or students of historical novels.
These unfortunate persons avoid Paris,
for, if wc believe some statistics lately pub
lished of the number ot rats in that metro
polis, the "joyous city" is a complete rat's
nest. Thirty thousand were killed last
year in thc Central Halles, 100,000 in the
Market Halles, 120,000 m the slaughter
houses, 40,000 in the butchers' shops, 300,
000 in the grocers' shops, 1)00,000 in the
tanners yards, 110,000 in the canals a
total of 1,7'JOjOOO, to which sum must be
added about 3,000,000 rodents which
eluded capture, so that Paris boasts of a
standing army of something like 0,000,000
rats, borne idea ma' be iormeu ot the
maguitude of this loathsome host from the
fact that if a procession of Parisian, rats,
running ten abreast, were to start from
Paris to Berlin, the vanguard would reach
the German capital while thc rear guard
was issuing from the gates of the French
metropolis. But then there is a profit for
all in them. Of thc 4,700,000 killed pet
haps nearly all went to the glovers, where
their skins are turned into "prime kid.'!
A Simple Disinfectant.
One pound of green copperas, costing
seven cents, dissolved in one quart of water
arid poured down a water-closet, will
effectually concentrate and destroy 'the
fouiest smells. On board ships and tteam
boats, about hotels and other publie plaeesr
there is nothmg so nice to purify the air.
Simple green copperas, dissolved in any
thing under the bed, will render a hospital
or other places for the sick, free from un
pleasant smells. In fish markets, slaughter
houses, sinks, and wherever there are
offensive gases, dissolve copperas and,
sprinkle it about, and in a few days the;
smell will pass away. If a cat, rat on
mouse dies about the house and sends off
offensive gas, place some dissolved copperas,
in an. open vessel near the d:-,co- where thot
nuisance is, and it will purify the
keep clean.
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Crystalisation of Honey.
The action of light cuufcs hooey to errs
talize. The difficulty may be- obviated by
keeping it in th: dark, the change, it is
said, being due to photographic actions :
and that the same ggeut that alters the
moleeul&r arrangements of iodide of silvre
ou the excited eallodian plate causes the
syrup Koney to assume a crystallie form.
It is to this action of light that .scientists
attribute the workings of bees byT night,
and they are so careful to obscure the gliss
windows that are sometimes placed in thiir
hives. Therefore, k?p houey c ay f.vn
th light.
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