V HUM I'lI'M IM HI ID't'l I iHmHIHH Ill I'" I II Ml I III EJcuoteb to politics, Citcraturc, gvtcnltttrc, Science, iflornlitij, aixb cneval Sntclligcurc. STROUJDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., APRIL 27, 1878. NO. 48. , r.-ir in advance and If not clii'f ';. n!inuM untU all arrearages are V.''r lionofthr riUt.r. '',',''!;U , . f -itfl't lin or ;;r.i-ru!;: ,, "?1 .1.. Ka-h a.lditional iu-';S,-:'' '..r one injoiwrtK!!. JOB OK Art, and on the in ALL KISPS, ,t sivh- of th? IL ' lirv iMibllc. F VST .STKOUDSDU1U1 PA. . "t ikon and sill Im.sinrss pertaining K-si F.-tatu Insurance Agents. , l.ui! dini; n.-ar thu LViwt. fSMffcoDcntlsl. i- , rinW new hnildin. nearly opposite ' .fcak. ias admnisuwl for cxiactmg fJan.6,'7-tf. Ml. A. s;cian, Surgeon and Accoucheur, Sand Oct, Wayxk Co., Pa. tended, to day or night. May l:;, '7"-tf. APPEALS, A DEADLY PERIL, nou. i herei.y given, that appeals win i.e luid at A Woman's Story of Her Treatment bv the Commissioners (Mice, in the r.orous?h of Stroud. m Z T 1.1 J burg, fur the several Towiishii! and linrnmrl County of Monroe, in the following order. For Jackson, Pocono, Cooll.aunh. Barrett, Taradise, Trice, Middle Smithfteld, Smithfield and East Strouds buri?, on Tuesday, the 25th day of April, 1S70, at 10 o'clock A. M. And for Ross, EM red, Tolk, Chestnuthill, Tohvhan na, Tunkhannoek, Hamilton, Stroud and StroudsburK, 011 Wednesday, the 20th day of April, 187G,at 10 o'clock PETER S. EDIXGEU, CORN KM rs STAR N ER, JACOB B. transit; Attest. Commissioner!!. M. II. 1) RICHER, Clerk. April 6,'Tti. VALUABLE STOCK AT PRIVATE SALE. SclIE Pg ggg m? Iv a vR. OW- IV. JACIiSOX SiKCEOX AND AlTwlTHLTU. 1'.'. ;-7J-lf c,-u- lui! liiitr. nearly op-Kiiid-.iK'o on Sarah street, n Attorney at Law, e the "StruiuUburg llou.se, The undersigned offers at private sale the following ceieoraioa stocK 01 .ows. Heifers and Calves, which breed was imported by Fowler, one the be.-t judges 01 mock 111 1 ne l nuiHi Mates. A lot of Ayrshire Cows and Heifers. A lot of lMirhani Cows and Heifers. A lot of crossed stock. A lot of Ayrshire Calves. A lot of iHirham Calves. The stock can lie examined on the stock farm of Col, E. I! Norton, near this Borough. For terms, Ac. call on JOHN SELWOOD. Stroudsbiirg. April G, 1S7. ORPHANS' COTJET SALE, Tiy virtue of a pluries order of the Orphans' Court of Monroe county, will expose at Public Sale upon the premises, oil Friday, April 28th, 1876, Two Robbers. Recently was published the story of the express robbery in Missouri and of the manner in which the robbers bound, parred and carried a woman who had become coi:- nizaut of their crimes over the bridge at St. L ouis ; of how, in a moment of supreme agony, when about to bo hurled over iuto the Mississippi river, with an iron weight attached to her, she displaced the bag from her mouth and raised an alarming cry that caused the villains to leave their victim and seek safety for themselves in flight. The St. Louis hcpuhUcan adds this sequel to the story : Edward Deal, alias Wilson, one of the North Missouri express robbers, arrived from Cincinnati, iu charge of an officer. Leai is a mere youth, tall, rather light build and of not a pleasant contcnance. About eleven o clock the colored woman whom the robbers tried to murder, kuowledge the court. because of her of their crime, was brought to Deal was led before her, and or I I-M , Uecca-se.1, viz : A certain messuage and farm of land, situate Ja ksii township, Monroe county, containing in WILLIAM S. REES, Srveyor, Conveyancer and Real Estate Agent. Timber Lands and Town Lots 115 Acres, I more or less, adjoining lands of Silas Reinhart, Wm. II. Reinhart. John M. Kinsley anl l'aiuel I'aui. FOE SALE. 'i i menriv orpo-:te American i ' 1 T . ! I - ' - C ..... L-:s 1: 1 S7:;-t f. DR. J. LAN TZ, G3I0N & MECHANICAL DENTIST. Dwelling House, about .".0 x ."m1 f.vt. two storie-: hi'h. Frame Rarn "2 x i ') foet, Mone stabl-Iim;. Frame Wawu Shed IS x 2 feet, and other out buildings. Oood Apple Orchard, an! other fruit on the rremise. Also Water on the nrcmN'-s. The Miblie road letidin from Stroudburg t White-Haven Hashes throuizli the premise. Sale to commence at 1 o'clock, p. m , conditions made known ly AVM. IT. REINHART, WM. II. WILSON, Rv order of the Court Administ rators. Ti!.. M. McIlhanky, Clerk. lApril 10-3t. f at Mjin tret, in the second story bri fc builditig. nearly ei !ite the l.r t'.ar. ; l!i:n i! tliat iy eign- it pi-i-!;. ' :iih1 ). iii.isx eri!.:'M aiei o a!! ;r.:irt p- riaiiiin to his pro !';.iv aMe t" jieri'orm all oiera;inris ;:i the Most careful aiil skillful iiwin- ,n 7;v-n t-i si Ti,' tb'v Natural Teeth : r: "i ! .r;::n ml l e.-in on liiion-.-r. r.i imi'eis i Jams, and p ?rfect lits in all :'no r:-t f. '.ly aiid danser of en : t t L " i n x rvi ii nct-d. or to t hoe ii v A prill:'., is" 4. tf. T.Y THE ISTSY COTTAGE ORGANS! T'- -r s;o.-ri r an l Vrtntifullv finished in- iar eci t!:cir c-ompetitor in L's? :irii 'leucacy (f tone, and oiilr lTt-mimn iv- ' n-cd Orir i-i at t lie Monroe Scj.tcinht-r '2'), Is74. t. For j r'we Iit addrpss J. Y. .sniAKl's. r.1 E7.J gfA Off PAPER HAXfiER, GLAZIER, AND PALT'TTER, M0.M10E STREET, toirly opposite Kautz's Dlacksmith Shop, Stroudsbirg, Pa. Tl-e umicrfcigned would respectfully in line citizens of Stroudsburo; and vicinity JBe is now fully prepjired to do all kinds rrr Hanin?, Glazing and Painting, PJ'Ptly and at shorl notice, and that he 'hkfjpp constantly on hand a fine ttock ot ,'r Hangings of ail descriptions and at I0 Prices, Tlie patronage of the puldir. arsestlyeolicicd. May 10, 1872. at the first glimpse of him she burst out iu a tunous and most unmistakable identifica tion. "That's him. That's the villain who put the rubber ball into my mouth ! Oh, let me at him ! Oh, you rascal !" and at him she would have dashed theu aud there had she not been restrained by a detective. Deal, belore being led in, pulled his slouch hat down over his eyes and hung his head in the most abject manner, but said never a word. lie was sent back to his cell, and the woman then begun to relate in more detail than she had formerly given the the following described Real Estate, late of JOHN events of that terrible Sunday when she tor hours heard plans for her murder de liberately discussed. Her description was most vivid of how, when she opened the door of the room aud came upon the men dividing their spoils, they hastily covered the money with a Alum o Aerts ch an-d. balance timber lam, blanket, pounced on her. locked the door Chc.-tuut and Oak. The improvements are a Log l 11 . it c i consultation, they stripped her entirely naked, and bouud her hand and foot, leav ing lur lying on the floor. Then came the frightful discussion as to whether they should shoot her, cut her throat, or drown her, it being an agreed fact that either course must be pursued. She was particularly vindictive toward Deal, because he was up to that time a total stranger to her, and vet he was the most abusive to her, and in sisted on putting a pistol in her mouth and blowing her braius out, and then leaving her in the room. She says he would oc casionally come up to where she was lying and kick her in the side or head by way of a joke, making some jovial remark meanwhile. Once he measured the coal box to see whether her body could be stowed iu it, and then walking up to her he meas ured off her body, showing that it would be necessary to cut her iuto three pieces, the last cut coming just where her head joined her neck. "When he reached this point he drew his finger nail across her utck, scratching a mark to cut by, as he told her. They threw her on to the bed, then rtdled her oft on to the floor and ap plied chloroform several times, evidently desiring to studefy her by bruises, without drawing biood. Deal at one time paced up and down the floor, with hands behind him, irivino- h iJcas as to how the murder had best Lc done, and every time he came to where she was lying he gave her a kick, as though it facilitated his reasoning. Once he stooped down, took a lot of her hair off and threw it into the stove, laughing at the way it burned. Then, seeming to like that sort of a joke, he held her mouthopen while he took out her set of false teeth, which he also threw into the stove, remark ing diabolically that he "never knew a nig ger s teeth would crackle hke that. Alter the men tired out of this, they relieved each other while they went to dinner, and finally, just after dark, one of them put her on his back, they having dressed her in men's clothes, and carried her down to the buggy to take her to the bridge for drown ing purposes. NAILED TO DEATH. Frey, made the following startling state ment : On the evening of the 3d of February, lSGO, about dusk, I escaped from the House of Correction in tlm city. Being afraid of falling in with the gens d'arms, I climbed into one of the large liuden trees in front of the small saw mill at Ffaffen berg. I could look into the attic window, which was lighted. I saw in it a young wo man laying asleep in bed ; a few minutes later this man entered on tiptoe ; he seized the young woman's head, and with a ham mer deliberately drove a nail into her head. She writhed a moment and then expired, lie covered the spot where he had driven the nail in with her dense hair, and then left. I was so horror-struck that I was unable to move or speak for several min utes. I fled an hour afterwards, aud crossed the Alsatian frontier. I positvely identify this man as the murderer of the young woman. I did not tell this before because I was afraid that, beiug an ex-con- vict, my story would not be credited. The accused gentleman had listened to this horrible charge with visible agitation. He gave his name as Berthold Humbert, and said he had left Kaiserlantern iu ISCu, having been a school teacher there,- and rn t r hit A rrL- wlinvA 1 1 n li-iV' o music teacher. He denied the charge, but his conduct was so suspicious that he was kept in custody. On the following morning the remains of the unfortunaie woman, the miller's daughter, Juliet Beh rcus, were exhumbed, and in her skull the fatal nail was found. The sight of the skull, with the nail in it, caused Berthold Htuubret to confess that he had killed her, as well as four other young girls, on the same' day, at PfafFenbcrg. He refused to say what his motive had been, came off early in May. His trial will STRANGE STORY. A BALTIMOREAX S EXPERIENCE IN and prepartions made for the funeral. In the mean time some of the physicans who examined the body pronounced the case one of suspended animation. Neverthe less, wise counsel insisted that life was extinct and the funeral preparations went on. On the following "Wednesday the funeral ceremonies took place. The doubt in the case, as a matter of course, con tributed from the ranks of the curious an unusually large number of attendants upon the solemn occasion. After the ceremonies at the church were over, some of the physicians and friends protested against the interment, as there was little or no discoloration in the "corpse," while an indentation in the flesh by the application of a finger caused a change of color, which was considered a sure indica tion that the vital spark still found a lodg ment in the tenement of clay. - The body was carried back home and placed in a warm room, but the dead did not arise, neither was there any tion or disagreeable odor However, on last Saturday, one week from the supposed death, the body was deposited in the grave but was not covered with earth there still being a disposition to give the dead man a chance, in case he should return to life. Our last information was on Thursday, of the present week, at which time the grave was still left open, and there were many who yet believed that Ilause was not dead, but in a trance. It is reported of the man that he, upon a former occasion, several years since, lay in a trance three days-, aud again returned to his former self. It is also said that he had frequently remarked that when he died he would return to life again in two weeks. There are those who believe in Ilause'sr prediction, and all such will expeet to see him rise from his grave to-day this being the fourteenth day since he left his friends in a quandary as to whether be was dead or merely sleeping. Tne Buddha Crab. of mortifica- about to corpse. siinis Bev. C. W. Everaid writes to Land ami Water that he was, two years ago, in the northeast of China, and was then told that the natives there not unfrequently caught some small crabs which have a most ridiculous face on one side. They call them the Buddha crabs. The face is very distinct, and looks like a very jovial old fellow much given to wine. The crab is the size of the top of the thumb : the claws are very small. The; nearest approach to it is the masked crab sometimes found in the British seas. One of these was exhiibifed alive in the aquarium of the zoological gardens, iu 18G0. I think it would puzzle even Mr. Darwin to account for this extraordinary Tcsemblance to the human face on the back of a crab. This crab comes from China, and, strange to say the markings on his back exactly resembled the face of an ugly old Chinaman. The eyes are closed, but they are oblique to the face, and are surmounted by heavy eyebrows. The noso is rounded and flattened ; at each corner there is a warty projection. The mustache is curled exactly like the mustache we see on a Chinaman. The mouth seems ready to open and swallow any quantityof food.- A Curious Medical Case. OFFICIAL NOTICE. A ROIT- BF.II S CAVE. Mr. Benard Feldman, aired about 85 years, living on Eastern avenue, Baltimore, Over two yean; ago, at Adrian, Mich., a after several days of mysterious absence little boy about two and a half years old, nnts in a r-nnno.Aranfif' and toils a most son Ot Csylvestcr lilossoR. was plavinrr marvelous story. He left his home last vrith his sister, older than himself, in the "Wednesday for . the purpose of visitim yard near by a leech of ashes which bad llighlandtowu, a suburban village, appar- been set up and from which strong lye was ently in sound mind and having with him dripping in a kettle, lhe little fellow had about $-10 in money. Not returning that a clay pipe and his sister told him the lyc ni:rht his family became alarmed, and all ef- was molasses, and he dipged some up in th forts to discover his whereabouts were pipe bowl aud innocently swallowed it. His unavailing until he presented himself at his screams of pain brought his frighteucd house about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning, mother to the spot at once, and as soon as and related a curious array of experiences, possible a physician was summoned, who FOR SALE, !- ii ,r A double house and If, near the Court JjI,"', ch.-ap. Will he sold together or sepa- to suit purchasers. r,'u...t V. S. LEE. Celling House for Sale. A Tprv ... . -..raMe twostorv Dwelline House, contain- ?rk u" seven rooms, one of which is suitable Im' for a Stre Room, situate on Main street. 'i!,,V?in Mthe '-"'"tell of Stroudsburg. The tolit'Bl (' ' n"'is ,l,liry new, and every part 11 lu good condition. For terms Ac., .'Insom,,.. lK..r.9.1S75-tf CAUTION ! AM ... lrPar ar "orfeby cautioned not to sitimf:01,1 an-v l,rpcrty of t lie undersigned, Anvo ' ? townsdiip, Monroe county, Pa to tim t uH allM& th"18 notice will be prosecuted uie lull txttntofthelaw. St, July 29, 1876. JACOB If. BUTTS. 1 I I V.VA 3 know Hi at J. II. 'iMtK 7 ud.sburg who understands their fcvan.L 11 ,?c' attend a Funeral managed Isi,t undertaker in town, aud you jSWor the fact. $000 REWARD! 11 STROUDSBURG, ei. i ' PROS A tall-coraplev ioned YOUNG MAN, aged 5 ft. 6 in., height 100 lb. Had on, when last r ?1 .:t.t onbt-in etn two pairs oi twaijuiv-ui.cn trousers, fashionable rantlon cutlet waiscoat, with deiiruiui trimmings. ; double-oarreiieu frock coat, with horse collar and sausage lining; patient leather-bottom top shoes, laced up at the sole, and bnttoned inside. lie is deaf and dumb of one eye and hard of hearing with the other, with a slight squint in his eve teeth ; Ftoops very up right with a loud impediment in his look, chignon on up per lip with whiskers bitten o(F short inside; I 1 . . . , . 1 f 1 - . ..I,.. mouth like a torn cKei ; nair oi aueeieanci blue and parted from ear to yonder; Calves of h-o.o r?"nr 4 vears. to be sold cheap on ac count of the clearness of milk ; very liberal with other peoples' money, and well known to a "ood templar, having been Seventeen years a member of the I. O. G. T. (I Often Get Tight Society). Anv one who knows of his whereabouts will please report at the Empire Clothing Store, where he will find the LARGEST and BEST ASSORTMENT or Men and Boy's Clothing, Hats and Caps, Gents Furnishing Goods, Trunks, Valices, &c. &c. kept in this vicinity, and which we will sell at the LOWEST PANIC PRICES! If you want to save money don't fail to ex amine our stock before purchasing elsewhere. If vou want GOOD GOODS at low prices, there U no place in Monroe Coiinty 1 o com pete with the EMPIRE CLOTHING STOKE Our new stock is complete in every particu lar. mease call and examine for yourselves. SIMON FRIED, at Empire CxoTHreG Stork. Stroudsburg, March 23, J 87 6. tf. lie said he had not proceeded far on the road to llighlandtown when he saw a wa gon, the sides of which were closed like a prison van. The wagon halted near him and a man jumped out and remarked to him that there was a dead man in the wa gon, and that he shotild look in the vehicle, admistered antidotes to save the little suf ferer and counteract the influence of the lyc, but the great harm had been done and the child was in a most pitiable condition. For a time it was thought he must die, as no nourishment could be kept upon his stomach at all The Proper Treatment. A correspondent writes to the Drug gifts Circular, describing a mode of treat ment for lime in the eye. He says : A colored man came to me in intense agony, some unslaked lime having got into his eye. That the lime must be neutralised at all hazards I felt certain. I chose sulphuric acid. I pnt one drachm and a half of the diluted acid in a four ounce graduate, filled it with water, and told him to wash his eye with the liquid. He did as lie was told, and was relieved almost immediately. Then I made him rinse his eye with pure water, and after that I told him to anoint it with olive oil and to continue the application for some time. To-day he is almost well, and can see with his eye again. In another similar case no remedy was immediately applied, as a doctor had to be sent for from some little distance, and the man . lost hi3 eye entirely. The Centennial ox has reached Phil adelphia. He weighs 0,500 pounds. Some mean fellow, after saying there is one physician to every S00 inhabitants, aids that they begin this way, but after a while there are not so many inhabitants. Bucks county carries the banner for pro ducing market poultry, furcishiug 159, 000 worth alone to the New York market and sending twice that amount to Philadelphia. as he misht be able to identify the body, to keep down a little milk, and lingered As lm nttemntrd to do so ho was seized bv alons: for months'. The best physicians of " -- " ' J -J four men and thrust violently into the wa- Adrian and many prominent men from iron, which was rapidly driven off. and be- abroad were in turn called upon and treated ing clcscd on all sides he was prevented him, but none could give relief. The throat from seeing the road. About 9 o'clock, as had seemingly becomo hardened, and the he supposes, the wagon halted, and getting esophagus or tube passageway leading to out he was taken through a dense woods the stomach had gradually contracted uutil and finally taken intc a cave, of which two it is now not more than one eighth of an despcratedooking men were in charge. A Inch irr diameter, f or a while an egg firrt was burning, and after robbing him of was mixed with his milk and occasionally 0 , ----- - 0 ... lis money they threw fairgots from the fire some beet tea given him, but usually the in his face, aud burned off his beard and stomach rejected it, and it the least particle By a recent census of New York city it He finally became enabled appears that there arc in that place 81,- 200 houses, of which 20,000 are tenements, aid 17,000 are buildings not used asdwel- A New York School Teacher Charged With Killing Several Young Women. On the third of February, 18GC, several iris were murdered in a mysterious man ner at PfafFenbcrg, near Kaiscrslantern, in Rhenish Bavaria. Among them were Miss Juliet Shcffer, daughter of a wealthy mil ler, who was found to have been strangled to death during her father's absence froni his house. The police made efforts for the discovery of guilty parties, but not the slightest clue was obtained. The affair was almost forgotten, when a thrilling incident during a performance at the Kaiscrslantern, not only brought it again into vivid light, but also led to the discovery of the murder er of a number cf young creatures. On that occasion Donizetti's "Daughter of the Regiment" was played. During the second act a loud cry resounded. Then a man rose, and, pointing to a well-dressed irentleman in a proscenium box, he shout ed : 'Toilce ! arrest that man 1" A great unroar ensued. Three or four officers asked tho shouting man what he meant. Point- in"- airain to the above mentioned gentle man. he said : "Arrest him I He is the murderer of 186G !" This added to the excitement. The gentleman in the prosce niuin box, upon hearing what had occurred, turned pale, and said that the man who had called him a murderer must be insane But the accuser repeated hisr charge and both were taken to the station, where the accuser, who gave Lb name as Valentine the entire hair from his head, following this by kicking and cuffing him until he was almost senseless. He passed the night with out food or rest, and on Thursday aud Fri- of solid substance was eaten it invariably choked him. Finally he was iriven milk alone, and he is now quite a strong boy and otherwise apparently healthy. He eats day implored his captors to allow him to go or rather drinks three quarts of milk per home, but their cnlv response was to acrain day, and tins constitutes nis enure ioou. assault aud beat him in the most cruel man- If he happens to get any substance in this ner, threatening at the same time that if passageway and gets strangled he gets relief he did not cease importunities, they would by having his arms jerfeed suddenly upward, murder him. During his entire stay in when tne obstruction is cxpeiieu the cave a small piece of stale bread was his only food, and the nervous prostration and physical suilering he endured were mde- cnbable. On Saturday morning some ot Propagation of Disease. There are few more mysterious travel- the iranir brought in a girl about nineteen ers than tunes and diseases'. A new tune years of age. Four of them soon after left, comes out, and six weeks later it may be leaving two with the eirl, ami, wnue tney heard wmsticu Dy uoys in some ouscure were guarding her m another part or the and distant village, to which it lias lound cave, he escaped: He was suffering intense its way in some manner best known to lt airony from his injuries, fearful of recap- self. It is the same with diseases, which turc and did not know the road lie was creep over the country silently, swiitiy and trnrnlino- until ho. recognized the dome of surclv. although their means of transit . Q Q - J I tJ Bay view Asylum on Saturday night, finally baftle the skill of the most intelligent mem reaching his home at the hour stated. His bers of the medical profession: to divine. A beard and hair are entirely gone, his face new theory has now been started, that the and neck terribly blistered, and his physi- foot-and-mouth disease, which is so pre cal strength so much exhaused that he is velent among cattle, is conveyed from one unable to leave his bed. Feldman is a man district to anther, notwithstanding all the of strictly temperate habits, and his story precautions taken1 against its spread, by is accepted by those who knew him as en- birds. A wood pigeou has, according to tirely true. At present he is unable to give the Elgin Couvant, been lately shot near any clue by which his abductors and assail- Elgin which has been declared by veterinary auts ean be secured. surgeons and competent medical authorities to have been evidently aflected by foot-and SUSPENDED ANIMATION. month disease at the time of its death.- The body of the unfortunate bird has, it is Singular Case in Schuylkill County, Pa. stated, been sent to an hospital, and may ' throw new light On the subject. Another From the Minersville Republican. disagreeable notion has also arisen that Eldrcd twonship, this county, has de- soap is an active agent in the propagation veloped a mystery, which, during the past ot disease. I he iNew ioi k pnysiciaus nave fn rh,v h.-is hnd that RRction of thocountv arrived at the conclusion that a terrible VM I -l 1 . . in a sort ot suspended animation, nam to amount oi umws. wtaaiuucu account for. Samuel Hause wa3, of is,- a purities contained in soap, especially in man of about forty years of age, unmar- scented soap, r'ofl .nrl thft eraft of iewcler or machin- ist-lwhichever was most pressing. On They were sitting together, ho arid she, Saturday, 1st iust., he was over in Deep and he was arduously thuiking what to say pro.,lr V:ill.v nutting hd an emrine. In the Finally he burst out with . "In this lant v v r - j o r - I f.-,rnnon lift le t unwell, complainincr oi a ol uooic aenievemeni auu unuwuS fcioiy, ln In thft had. Arisiuff from his seat why is it tnat women do not come more to behind the stove he startea to wane out, tne iront r hhj h iu mao mcj w and suddenly fell down and was picked up, climb the ladder of fame ?" "I suppose," apparently dead. rhysicians were sum- said sue, puuing ner linger ou uci wuwu, if . ' . . . 1 I .... -11 i. . V - ? ,,11 Kn rtVp ' moned, an examination maae, ana pro- -it is an on aceouut ui wwi ru ,wl" nouued it dead, lie waa earned home And sne signea ana ne aigueu, muo uy biuc i lings. The total area covered by the Centen nial buildings proper will be about seventy five acres, which is nearly double the space covered by the buildings at the Vieuha ex position. A western woman who had been much troubled by toothache, after the offending molar was extracted, found in the cavity a sprouted coriander seed, which had caused the trouble. At Fountain, Minn., a water spout oc curred recently, carrying off bridges, over flowing houses, and flooding Main street to the depth of five feet. The damage amounts to SoU.OOO. There i3 promise of an abundant fruk crop in Western New York. The winter has neither been too cold nor too warm to do any material injury to either the fruit trees or the vines. Mr. Marrowfat threw out a fine thought at the table last eveninsr. He remarked that a man with much honesty about him in these times must feel a good deal like tying it up in a rag for safety. A shower of goose eggs fell in Western New York the other day. They came from a flock cf wild geese which became bewild ered in a storm and were unable to reach their usual laying place. A South Carolina farmer turned out an old, sore-backed horse to die, and recently it returned with a small oak. growing out of its back. An acorn fell into it from which the bush grew. Fact, but tcugh. The wood supply of the world is being used up with fearful rapidity, and the day is coming when wood will be so scarce as to be hardly attainable for fuel. What shall wc burn then ? and wherewith shall we build? English merchants lately returned from the North of Europe give a very gloomy account of trade prospects. They say that our tool and implement makers are com peting successfully with them in all the Northern markets, where our hayforks iu particular have secured quite a monopoly of favor. If our manufacturers would pitch in with a will, they might secure :t good footing in many a foreign market from which they are now excluded. A blacksmith was once summoned to a country court as a witness in a dispute be tween two of his workmen. The judge, af ter hearing the testimony, asked him why ho de did not advise them to settle, as the costs had already amounted to three times the disputed sum. He replied : "I told the tools to settle ; for I said the clerk would take their coats, the lawyers their shirts, and if they got into your honor' court, you'd skin 'em." I i i 1r 1