j"1 Beuotcii to politics, fittcraturc, Agriculture, Science, iHovalitii, nub cneral 3ntelligeucc. 1 ff 9 VOL. 34. Published by Theodore Schoch. Tkrms Tw o dollars a year in advance ami if not paid hffore tli end of the year, two dollars and fifty cent " ill In charired. ttff No paper discontinued until all arrcarnTs are paid, exce'it at the iijil ion of the lditor. . - Advertisements of one square of (eisht line) or on.- or three insertions SI .V). I'aili additional in KTtion, -Id oeiiti. loner ones in Iirojiortion. JOK PUXTIG OK ALL KINDS, Executed in the highest style of the Art, and on the most reasonable terms. J. II. S1I17IJL, 31. E. Second door below Burnett House. Residence 2nd d r west of llicksite (Quaker Church, entice hours S to !' a. in., 1 to .. mn 0 to II p. in. Mav 2"), lSTft-tf. D R. S. Ml 1,1,1:11, Iliysici;m and Suicon, STROUDSBURG, Pa. OtTiee, formerly oceuiied y Pr. Seip. Ttoidciiee with .1. H. Miller, one door helov the Jetrersoniau Otlicc. Oi'n e hours, 7 to'.), 1 to :: and r. to .r. Mm- ii, 1 :?. tf. R. X. 1a. I'KCK, Surge-on o nt 1st. oili.-e in .Tas. Klinirer's new hiiildinp, nearly opposite the Si roiidlur Hank, tias adi mustered for Vxtactiii; w Icmi d. sired. Sir .uds!. ii r', fa. Jan.-iVTo-tf. D niVSiriVN, SURGEON AN!) AITUITIIEUR. tr'nee ill Samuel Hood's new hnilding, nearly ojt j . i t o the p.it uilicc. . Jicsideucc on Sarah street, ai' e franklin. All-list S,'7'J-tf " 7"si..no.y is:iiiso., t t .olury Inllir, east sTi:orisiHR; pa. At k no'.i l,-;K'i:!eiis taken and all hnsiness pertaining t" the oiliee car. fuHv executed. l'11'.ii.SoX A THOMPSON, l!e:d Kstat- Insurance- Agents. KNtl-r's new Imil liii near the Iepot. I I.i t si roudsliti r. 1'a., Jan. 27, IsTii. D vvit s. iei:. Attorney at Iav, One door aHove the "Stroudsburg House," Strotidshunr, Pa. Collect iuns proruptlv made. October 22, 1S74. WILLIAM S. REES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and Eeal Estate Agent. Farms. Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. Office mearly opposite American Ilouen and 2 door helv the Corner .Store. March 2D, lS7:j-tf. DR. J. LAN T Z, SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST. Still has his office on Main street, in the second story of Dr. S. Walton's hriek hui!din;r. nearly opposite the St Mini-1 hi r louse, and he tiat'-rs h inis. If that hy eih ten years constant practice and the most earnest mid careful attention to all matters pertaining to his pro-f-ssiott, that 1m is f.i'Iy all" to pi-rfortii all nperst ions in the dental line in tin- most careful ai.d skillful niau- ller. Special attention uiven to saving tin- Natural Teeth: alsd, to tli; iuseitioii of Artificial Teeth on liuhUr. i)l'l, Silver, or Continuous (iuius, and perfect lits in all c.is- s iiisup-d. Most p-Tsons know the irreat f'dly and danger of eti t rust in' t hi'i r work to t he inexperienced. iirtitlmliv iu.' at a distance. ' April 1'., 174. tf. Opposition toHumbuggery! The uieh r-ineil herehy announees that he has re ni!.i il hasjie at tlie old stand, next door to Jtuster's ' I ii hi Stor.-, Main street, St roudshuru. l'a.,and is fall prepared to accommodate all in want id BOOTS and SHOES, made in the latest style and of 'ood material. Ilepair- iiU' promptly attcnted to. iive men call. J ir.it, u-7.---ly.J C Li:Wls .VATKIZS. A.-vorais;!! tkopiiy v.o II Y TIIK ESTEY COTTAGE ORGANS! Tliese superior and lieautifully finilied in fdrutuents so far eclipsed their competitor in volume, purity, sweetness and delicacy of tone, as to carry oil' the first and only premium giv en to exhibitors of reed Organs at the Monroe Coittity Fair, held September 2o, 1874. Jin v only the 6e.sf. For juice list address Oct 1-tf. J. Y. SIGAFUS, PAPER HANSifiK, GLAZIER AND PAINTER, MONROE STREET, Nearly opposite Kautz's Blacksmith Shop, Stkoldsburo, Pa. The uno'crelgned would respectfully in form the citizens of Stroudsburg1 and vicinity that lie is now fully prepared to do all kinds of Paper Hanging, G lazing and I'ainting, 1'rontptly and at short notice, and that he will keep constantly on hand a fine stock ol Paper Hutsginor.s of all dcscripiions and at low prices. The patronage of the public is earnestly solicted. May 16, 1872. Dwelling House for Sale. A very desual,!.- two story Dwelling House, contain JUa iK M-vcii nxHrts, oiir of which is suitable W.i$!w 'or a Store Koom, situate on Main strict, 151 1 II if '" lMI lruh of .StrouiUburjj. The jeJIJIJJhuiidinjris nearly new, and wry part fe9t3f y'd' it iu goil uvu'diciuxi. Fr terms Ac, "all at tin., oitic,.. Dec. lS75-tf. DOXT yon know llial .F. II. McC'arty & Sons are the only Under taker!) in Stroud.sburs who wfiderslands their husiness ? If not, at tend a Funeral managed by any other Undertaker in town, and you I see the proof of the fact. Juue J,'74-tf MASON TOOK, SPEECH OF. GEN. NO YES. Gen. Xoyes, of Ohio, a noble man as well as a scarred veteran of the Union. Army, made an eloquent and effective speech at Buffalo. The following magnanimous trib ute to the loyalty of War Democrats, and thrilling appeal to the memories of the boys in blue, in behalf of the cause for which they fought and so raamy of their comrades died, will be found to be good reading: "Let me not be misunderstood, I don't arraign the great Democratic Party as be ing disloyal. I am here willing to admit that the great body of that party is just as patriotic and honest, as the party to which I belong. Applause. I don't forget that when in 1SG1, the bugles of war were sounding, there came from every hillside and valley in this land tens of thousands patriotic young Democrats, who shouldered their muskets and went and fought side by side and shoulder to shoulder with us ; and that many made the last great sacriGce which a freeman can make laid down his life for his country. Loud applause. I should do great injustice to my own sacri fices which these Democratic soldiers per formed and made on behalf of an imperiled country 5 but, my friends, it is also gratify ing to me to know that the great body of these . 'boys iu blue,' these Democratic sold iers, arc now standing side by side with me, and 1 have no doubt to-night, if I should look over those before me I would find many an old comrade. Cheers. But while these Democratic soldiers were helping to save the country, 1 beg to ask what t! e leaders of the Democratic Party were doing to sustain our imperiled cause, or sustain our Government, when called to grappls with rebellion? They nominated a convic ted traitor for Governor of Ohio, and did they not, from the beginning to the end, year after year, call us 'Lincoln's hirelinge,' when we were fighting the battles of our country, and even after Grant went into the ilderness and Sherman was march ing from Athiuta to the sea, did they not continue to call us such names ? Applause. And then they went into a national con vention at Chicago, and there they declared the war a failure. And I beg the pardoi of my Democratic friends if I have to re mind them that the chairmen of the sub committee who reported the infamous re solution was Samuel J. Tilden. Loud ap plause. Now, gentlemen, suppose the lie publican Party had taken the same view of affairs in 1SU1 that Samuel J. Tilden and the Democratic leaders took at Chicagr, where would have been your country rent asunder, divided into many small con federacies or principalities, without honor at home or respect abroad ! Applause. Is it nothing to have saved one's country ? "When Democratic politicians said there was no power under the Constitution to do it, Abraham Lincoln cheers God rest his soul finds power to coerce the rebels, and thanks to him and the boys in blue who rallied to his support, we have now a coud try prosperous at home and a Government that commands the respect of every civilized nation on the earth. Cheers. Now, when the war was over and we had reorganized the South and reunited our country, from the lakes to the gulf and from the great river to the sea, from that time to this there has not been one single drop of blood shed for the crime of treason. There have been no disabilities imposed, except very few, and these have been nearly all removed Cheers. Can you say that we have not been magnani mous? Believe me, the histor' of the world shows no such m.ignanimity. Cheers. Some time ago I went to "Washington, and I bad to go on my wooden leg, which some how I have come to have a sort of pride in applause perhaps pardonable in me ; but at legist it was a sort of refuge from that unpleasant conspicuousness which crip ples have to endure. However I went to Washinirton, and I was there ushered into the House of Representatives by the Ser geant at Arms of the Confederate Congress; and when I got inside and looked around, and looked all over, who were there filling the subordinate places formerly filled by Republicans, in many instances by crippled soldiers ? Not Northern Democratic sold iers ! If I had seen them there I would never have uttered a word of complaint. I would have made no objection to Democra tic soldiers had I found them filling the places of those turned out ; but I found their places supplied by cx-mcmbers of the Confederate Army ? I looked over the floor of the House, and I found seventy-three Major and Brigadier Generals of the late Confederate Army sitting there making laws for the country which only eleven years ago they moved heaven and earth to de stroy ! Loud applause. Then I heard Ben Hill of Georgia rise up and excuse the atrocities of Andersonville and Libby prisons. I know some in this audience know all about them. I heard him arraign the Northern people for atrocities which he said were worse than those of Libby or Andersonville. I saw him advance with his finger raised and warn the Northern men to abide by the Constitution, which they had so often violated, and I saw Sam Cox, of New York, come and congratulate him ou the speech he had -made. I was not proud of it; and are you, my Democra tic friends? (Voice, 'No.') Is there a Democrat in here wholikcs it ? If we look at the Democratic papers, what will they say about it ? They say a demagogue got up and waived the bloody shirt ? Well, gentlemen, it was no disgrace to Ruther ford B. Hayes to wear the bloody shirt when the rebel bullets went crushing through his blood and bone, and a broken arm hung by his side, and he led hi brare boys on. Great cheering. It was no dis STROUJDSBURG, MONROE grace to 500,000 of your dead comrades who laid down their lives and made their bloody shirts their winding sheets. I say to you Democrats, have you no sacred memories of this bloody war! Have you no dear ones sleeping where the Almighty God year by 3-ear covers them in their graves in the Spring-time with green grass, and scatters His beautiful flowers above and around their nameless graves ? Dou't you remember the time when there came thrilling over the wires the news of a great battle fought, and that ten thousand brave fellows had gone down down and that the struggle would be renewed at daylight, and wheu you went to your chamber you knelt before your God and prayed that some dear one might be saved through the terrible fight and brought back safe to you when the war was over ? Remembering all this, do you think it respectful to the million living boys in blue without saying any thing about the five hundred thousand dead ones that we should hand over within eleven years after the close of the war the control of this Government to the very men that undertook to destroy it?" Lord ap plause. REPRODUCTIVE FORCE. There is nothing more wonderful iu life than its productive force. Everything which has in it the element of growth has also the tower of creation. Every organism, from the humblest blade of grass to the most il lustrious man, is not only living its own life, but impressing it upon myriads of other similar existences, and this not by any in tentional action of its own, but by an inevi table law of its very being. In the simpler forms of life this transmission of self ap pears to be chiefly in the direction of pro pagation. The plant lives its individual life, and drops its seed, which springs up into similar organisms. As we rise higher iu the scale, however, we notice that this re productive force is widened in its action. The bird not only lays its eggs, but cherishes its young, and doubtless maintains some de gree of social influence upon its feathered mates. But it is reserved for man to ex ercise this power in its fullest and broadest sense. He reiterates himself, not only in his children but in all with whom he comes iu contact, lie impresses not only his physique upon a few, but his character up on the many. There are births of conduct going on contiually, and each one of us is a present. As the sun sheds unconsciously its light and heat, and makes all things within the range of its influence in some degree like itself, so we shed our disposi tions and qualities upon one another, and transform them in some degree to our own image. This influence is something quite apart from any voluntary and intentional action. We often deliberately set at work to pro duce some change in out friends or in society at large. Perhaps we work hard, to improve a man, to educate a child, to promote a reform or to break up a vice. We mar bring all our powers to bear upon the matter in hand, we may set other in fluences in operation, we may descant elo quently upon the advantages of one course and the evils of another ; nay, we may even call to our aid all the restrait ti of the law and the rcavds of pullic favor, and with it all, we shall not accomplish so much as will a single, good and pure life by its mys tical attraction. The one is artificial, spasmodic, noisy; the other natural, con stant, quiet ; the one is like medicine given to counteract some evil, the other is like a pure and bracing atmosphere entering into the lungs and giving new vigor and tone to the entire system. Take the child from its earliest years how is its character built up, its disposition cngenered ? Partly no doubt by the par ents active and earnest labors and precepts, but much more largely by their lives. The opportunities they have for deliberately in structing him are a mere nothing compared with those that he has for observing their conduct, drinking in their opinions, and finding out their real desires, feelings, and aims. He is told, for instance, of the sacredness of truth, and the sinfulness of deceit, but if he sees those arouud him prac ticing small artifices, if he hears unfair transactions recounted as good jokes, if he is himself duped and misled by insincerity, how much will the moral lectures affect him ? They will but add another instance of duplicity and strengthen within him the spirit of dishonesty which he is constantly absorbing. The same thing is going on everywhere and with every one. We are all continualy and inevitably influenced by the lives of those around us. It is not that we copy them, but that we unconsciously absorb them. We are, as it were, pouring our natures into each other all the time, with out thought or intention. The stronger nature the more potent its magnetism. The closer we approach the sphere of another, the more we partake of his character. Patience, courage, hope and enthusiasm, are naught, but infused. They are trans mitted by an electric current that no power of ours could create, and certainly none could destroy. We can never fully estimate this repro ductive force. Not only every action, hut every thought, feeling, desire and aim is full of potency upon others. They are con stantly being shared, and are ever writing their impress on the characters of those with whom we mingle. We are always either lifting some one up or drawing him down to our own level. . All atmosphere of some sort is always emanating from us, and permeating others. Is it pure or corrupt? Are we infusing the spirit of justice, truth COUNTY, PA., AUGUST and love, or of selfishness, deceit and har tred? Are we instilling the habits of in dustry, temperance and frugality, or of idle ness, sensuality and extravagance ? As the fountain is, so shall be the stream. If we would know what influence we are shad ding, we have but to examine our most cherished thoughts, hopes and purposes. We may fancy them hidden in our breasts, but it is not so. They are all at work re ducing themselves in doubtless forms in the hearts of others, and building up their characters for good or for evil. Phila delphia Ledger. CARE OF THE HAIR. A writer in Harpers Weekly says: To get and retain beautiful hair you must attend to brushing it daily, occasionally washing it, and periodically trimming it, and striving at all times to keep the general health up to the average. Now as to brushing. The skin of the head, like that of every other part of the body, is constantly being renewed internally, and these are removed by means of the body brush. But it is not so easy to brush the hair as one might imagine. Few hair dressers, indeed, know very much about it. The proper time for the operation then, is in the morning, just after you have come out of your bath, provided you have not wetted your hair. Two kinds of brushes ought to be found on every lady's table, a hard and a soft. The former is first to be used, and used well, but not too roughly ; it removes all dust, and acts like a tonic on the roots of the hair, stimulating the whole capillary system to healthy action. After ward use the soft brush to give the gloss, from which the morning sunshine will pre sently glint and gleam with a glory that no Macassar oil in the world could imitate. Whence this gloss ? you ask. WI13', from the sebaceous glands at the root of the hair, nature's own patent pomade, which the hard brush does not spread. Secondly, one word on washing the hair. This is necessary occasionally, to thoroughly cleanse both head and hair. One or two precautions must be taken, however. Never use soap if you can avoid it ; if you do, let it be the verjT mildest and unper fumed. Avoid socalled hair-cleansing fluids, and use rain water filtered. The yolks of two new-laid eggs are much to be preferred to soap ; they make a beauti ful lather, and when the washing is finish ed, and the hair thoroughly rinsed in the purest rain water, you will find when dry that the gloss will not be destroyed, which an alkali never fails to do. The first water must not be very hot, only just warm, and the last perfectly cold. Dry with soft towels btit do not rub till the skin is ten der and afterward brush. Be always care ful to have your brushes and combs per fectly clean and from grease, and place ot her brushes on the table for friends of yours who happen to be Macassarites. Poititing the hair regularly not only pre vents it from spitting at the ends, but renders each individual lair more healthy and less attenuated if I may apply the term to hair and moreover, keeps up the growing process, which otherwise might be blunted or checked. Singeing the tips of hair has also a beneficial effect. It will be seen that I am no advocate for oils and pomades. My advice in all cases is to do without them if you possibly can, for by their clogging nature and over stimulating properties they often cause the hair to grow thin and fall off sooner than it otherwise would. Let well alone. One word in conclusion about dyes. Avoid them if you are your own friend. Hair dyeing is very satisfactory, as far as dead hair is concerned, but on the living head its perfect success is a chemical im possibility. As to hair restorers, those arc not simply stainers, but depend upon the action of the light, chemically altering and oxidizing the application after it has been used their incautious use, I must add, is fraught with great danger. A Couple of Extracts. The following are two extracts from a speech delivered in Aurora, recently, by Mr. Win. Lathrop of Chicago, upou cur rent politics : "For the last twenty years there has not been a real reform that now bears the stamp of law, but what had its origin in the Republican party. It is true these reforms have not always been carried out ; but it should be taken into account that a body comprising between 20,000,000 and .'30,000,000 of people necessarily moves slowly. Those who went iu search of re form iu 1872 have returned again, confi dent that true reform was alone to be found in the Republican party. Hayes, in his letter of acceptance, pledges his honor that, if he is elected President, the constitutional power of appointment shall not be misused. What the Cincinnati platform lacks in certainty on this point his letter certainly makes good." Of this Democratic platform Mr. Lath rop said : "Read this Democratic plat form and find out, if you can, what the party is for. If any man can tell, from reading that document, what the party proposes to do with the Government, he ought to have a patent on his ingenuity. No one can tell what it is for, save and except this ; It thinks that what is de sired to purify the Government is, that the Democrats should hold office. Beyond that, I think no man can discover what the party is for. You wold not trust an individual if you could not tell what his principles were from day to day. If he professed to be something one day and 31. 1876. something very different another day you would say promptly that you would not trust him. Now, a party is nothing but an aggregate of individuals, at the very best ; and, remembering this fact, we have only to look at the recent past of the Demo cratic party to judge whether or not it is worthy of trust. In 18GI this party declared the War for the Union a failure, and denounced the Republican party as a band of usurpers for attempting to suppress the Rebellion by force of arms. In IStJS the Democarts were denouncing everything the Republican party had done to recon struct the Uuion, as unconstitutional. In 1S72 they denied their own existence, by gulping down Horace Gieele, who had been their lifelong enenry. In 1S7G this party of Greenbiic'cers at the behest of Wall street, becomes an absolute hard-money part'. But the most ridiculous part is to come. Hardly have the delegates at St. Louis got home before the Democrats met again in a State Canventiou at Springfield and gulp down Lewis Steward, the nominee of the Greenback party." In the above terse manner Mr. Lathrop summed up the record of the Democratic party. There was a very large audience, and his speech was received with much enthusiasm. A RASCALLY TRANSACTION. Indianapolis Journal, August 5. It is not a pleasant duty to expose the true inwardness of Gov. Hendricks and the hollowness of his professions of reform, but it is a duty nevertheless. The record of a public man is public property, and, no mat ter what it may contain, he must face it. We published yesterday the official record of Mr. Hendricks' connection with the fraudulent claim of Charles W. Hall and E. A. Smith agaiust the Government on account of mules, alleged to have been furnished during the War. The evidence shows that Hall and Smith were both ras cals ; that they attempted to defraud and did defraud the Government out of a larire sum of money, and that both of them were sentenced to the Penitentiary. After this Mr. Hendricks, then a Senator of the United States, became the agent and at torney of their bogus claims against the Government. By some hocus-pocus it was assigned to William Henderson, of this city, a cousin of Mr. Hendricks, but whom the latter innocently presented as a con stituent of his. The claim was vigorously pressed before the War Department while Mr. Hendricks was in the Senate, and af ter he retired from that body he continued to urge it before the Senate and the De partment. Let it be borne iu mind all this time that the claim grew out of a fraud on the Government, and that both the claim ants, Hall and Smith, had been found guilty and sentenced to the Penitentiary. Finally, in 1871, eight years after the perpetration of the fraud iu which the claim originated, it was paid into Mr. Hendricks' hands S7.SG0. Now, here is the sequel. After Hall's conviction and sentence, Mr. Hendricks undertook to procure his pardon from the President, and was successful. After pro curing his pardon, he undcrstook to have him appointed to a responsible position in the New York Custom House, and in this he was also successful. So that he actually succeeded in having Charles W. Hall, a convicted swindler of the Government, par doned out of the Penitentiary and appointed to a position in the New York Custom House. In view of these facts, not one of which can be controverted, we should be please! to hear some explanation from the Reform candidate or his friends of the amount and kind of fee he received for his services. Did Mr. Hendricks really own the Smith & Hall bogus mule claim, and was the as signment to Henderson a mere pretense and fraud ? These are pertinent questions. A Jealous Dutchman. A good natured German became jealous of the warm friendship his sweetheart man ifested for one of his male friends, and one evening reproached her for her conduct. She said she had only been polite to the man who had aroused his jealousy, and po liteness was nothing to get angry at. He replied : "Ish vishpering nodding? Ish shlamming noses to noses and shmell ingsour krout mit onions ish dot nodding? Kissing mit de inside auf do lip ! shtopping de burst of laughter mit a schmack ! (a sound like a exploded vatermcllon !) play ing tag mit foot on foot under the table, and hiding behint window curtains ish dose noding ? Vishing foT glocks to go more slow, and counting dcr minutes mit der most shlobbcry shmacks until lateness auff der miduightarrifes, ven all odder eyes arc glued togedder mit sleep ! Den ou der door step, 3-oust previously befor he tooks his last final firwell, he squouzes your waist yufit like his arms vas a ingine rubber band vot grows shmaller mit cfry squz-e, and he tries mit his front teeth to take a Ieetle bit out auf your lip ! If all desc ish noding, vot is someding ? Vould you answers dot codnundrum ?'' Victory is sometimes more costly than defeat. In spite of the immense indemnity raid out of French savings and divided among the German States, France is to-day the least depressed country in Europe, while Gcramany is suffering iu every brauch and department of enterprise. Returned Black Hillers report flour six dollars a hundred and potatoes five dollars a bushel, with 7,000 miners in the hill country. NO. 13. A Queer thing iu California. From the St. Helena Star. A strange friendihip has" sprung up be tween two Very dissimilar animals at Mrs. Stratton's. A black rabbit came to the place some three months ago and took- up' its abode. Mrs. S. keeps on the place a couple of cows, and a short time since the' rabbit took up' the strange habit of sleeping with one of these' cows. It goes to the cow's wonted place of rest, waits her com ing, and when arrived the motherly' cow licks the little protege with much the same affectionate tenderness that would be be stowed ou a calf, the rbyh tongue and tre mendous licks nearly raising tlie little ani mal off its feet, and it the meanwhile brae-; ing itself with its four feet to withstand pressure. Then little bunny puts its little nose up to the cow's nose and appears to kiss it, after which the rabbit nestles up and goes to sleep. It is a singular bedfellow ship, the tiny bundle of fur and ears of per haps three or four pounds with the uir wieldly carcass of six hundred. . There are 105 prisoners at the Luzerne' county jail at present. Cattle thieves abound in Berks county. Stock is driven- away from the fields aud sold to butchers. A poverty-pinched child was lately sen tenced to imprisonment in New York fov stealing a foal of bread. For forty years past no epidemic has' caused such loss of life as is now attending the small pox in Chili.- Appropriately enough, a chap who pleaded guilty to watch stealing in Phila delphia last week, gave his name as James Pickup. The hard times aTe felt more in the' smaller German towns than in this coun try, and it is estimated that 200,000 Germans have of late gone into France after work. Mr. Sankey contemplates living perman ently in Boston, in order to' give his child ren superior educational advantages. He declines all iuvitations to camp meetings. Dogging her steps.- A large' Newfound land dog in Connecticut takes and bears proudly along in a fashionable way the skirts of his mistress, when she goes' out to walk. It is estimated that at least 2,000 per sons have died from sunstroke thronghou'fi the country during the present term." The death rates have everywhere increased to a fearful degree.- Hardin county, Iowa, has an immense" snake, that kills horses and cattle, and the people are. armed and searching for t ho "varmint." They must drink crookecf whisky out there It was a New Jersey wife who said : "My dear, if you can't really drink bad coffee without abusiug me, how is it that you can-always drink bad whiskey without abusing the barkeeper !" An eminent New York physician attri butes much of the prevalence of diphthe ria to the eommon practice of turning down the wicks of kcrosc?c oVl-lamps until they emit a strong smell of oil. Child "Papa, Mr. Winkle that died went to Heaven, didn't he he taught in Sunday rchool ?" Papa 'We will drop that subject, my child ; Mr. Winkle wui president of a gas compan" It is affirmed that Mexico is abundantly able to produce all the coffee used in the United States, and of the finest quality. In the production of coffee alone the country has a source of wealth far greater than her mines of gold and silver. The grasshoppers made a clean sweep of the mountain ranches around Central, Col- orado, one day last week. Crops that were all right in the morning, growing beauti fully and promising abundant harvest, were mown to the ground before nightfall. On a recent Sunday at Lowell, Mass., nt collection was taken up at one of the chu re-he?, As the bo reached the pew occupied by a lady, her daughter and little son, the two former found tlumiselves with out a cent of monct, Master Hopeful reach ed over and deposited a cent in the box, and then whispered to his sister : "There, I just saved this family from being white washed." The sale of Circassian girls to Turks continues. A correspondent of the Lon don Times says that a Maslem dealer makes choice of four young, unsophisticated girls, imports them to Constantinople, sells them, and then goes back for more. If he can achieve four such trips iu a year he can make a good livingjmt of sixteen women. Many of the Circassians are settled in Tur key, and there actually breed children for sale, having no more shame about it than a fashionable English mother may feel about bringing out her girls for the matrimontial market. The Dalrymple farm at Casselton, Dako ta Territory, numbers o0,000 acres, 1300 of which were sown with wheat this sea son. Harvesting was done in a week, with the aid of nine self-binders, twelve men fol lowing each machine and shocking the wheat as fast as it was cut. The entire cost of breaking, sowing, reaping, thresh ing and marketing is estimated at $U per acre, aud as the yield averages 17 bushels per acre the profit will reach 7000. Next year 9000 acres will be sown to wheat. One hundred teams are employed during the "breaking" season, the furrows turned being six miles long. If Washington thought farms were tex large in his day, what would he say now ?
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