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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
TI05E3TA LODGE
&s-y I. O. of O. Jy.
MEETS every Frldar evening, at 8
o'rloek, In the Hall formerly ocoupled
T the Good Templar.
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87-lf.
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TTORNEY, COUNSELLOR AT LAW
-A. aud REAL ESTATE ACJENT. Legal
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Tl
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office on Elm
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PRACTICE In the several Court of Ve
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in
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attention. Offlce at rridnce of Dr. Wl
tiaaa, Kim St., Tions Pa. M-ly
Clarlr B. Araart, ,'
TAEXTIST, Centre Street, Oil City, Pa.
U InSimona' djook.
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a-ublio aud the furniture and flttinirs are
ail aaw. Guests will be well entertained
at raaaonsble rate. Ia situatod on Em HI..
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MITTELj Proprietor, Elm St. Tie
.' neata. Pa., at the mouth of tho creek,
Mr. litis baa thoroughly renovated the
Tioneata House, and re-furniahed it com
letelr. All who patronize him will be
well entertaiued at reasonable rates. 20 ly
FOREST HOUSE,
T BLACK PROPRIETOR. Opposite
XJ Court Houma, Tloneata, Pa. Just
wpened. Kverytliin new and clean and
fresh. The best of linuors kept constantly
on hand. A portion of the publio patron
ae la reapeolfully aolicitd. 4-17-lr
Scott House. '
, FA., E. A. Roberta,
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re-furnished and now offers superior ac-
naimodauons to guea-s. va-iy
Dr. J. L. Acorryb,
DHY8ICIAN AND SURQEOX. whohas
I had tirteen years' experienced a lare
aad aueoeaerul praouoe. will attend all
Professional Calls. Office in hie Drug and
Uroeery Htore, located ia Tidioute, near
, TMiOUlO uouee.
IX HI8 STORK WILL BK FOUND
' A full assortment of Medicines, Liquors
MT. I fll.mm L.i..
H)s, Cutlery, all of the best quality, and
will be aeld at reasonable ratoa.
1R. ClIAS. O. DAY, an experienced
Pbraician and Drum 1st from Kw York
haa charge of the bior. All prescriptions
put ap accurately.
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33 Jii. IT B R S
Corner of Klin A Walnut SU.Tionoeta.
Bank of Discount and Deposit.
Inturest allowed on Time Deposits.
Collections made on all the Principal points
of the U. S.
Collections solicited.
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.SAVINGS BANK,
Tionesta, Forest Co., Pa.
'ThU Bank transacts a General Bauklug,
aV-olle-tlng and Kxchanito Business.
Drafts on the 1'riuuipal Cities of the
Vnited 8tata and Euroe bought and sold.
Clold uud Silver Coin and Govern inent
Becuritiea bought and sold. 7-30 Bomla
ronvertod ou the nio.t avorable tcrma.
Interest ullowod on Lime depoaiU.
Mar. , tf.
D. W. OtA.HK,
(COMMISSIONER'S clubh, rousaT CO., T.)
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
HOUSES and Lots for Sale and REN,rp
Wild Land for 81 0, -I
I hive superior facilil'es for R-scsrtuining
the condition uf Uxos and lax Ueo.U, Ac,
and am therul'ore rnialitied to A''t iutclli-
atatly as n'ont of thuve living ul a dia- I
fincn' owninu lnnda In the Coiinlv.
'trrl'-o In LcmrniMionera Kooin, Court '
Hue, Tionps'a, Ps, ;
4-41-lr. f, W. f'LAHK. '
IVew Hoarding Hounc.
MRS. H. H. HULINGS ha built n Urge
addition to her house, and isntw pre
pared to aoonmmodste a number of porma
nent boarders, and nil transient one who
may favor hor with thoir patronage. A
good stable has recently boen built to ac
commodate the home of guest. Charges
reasonable. Residence oil Elm Bt., oppo
site 8. Haslot store. U3-ly
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6FRINO BEDS,
AC, t&C ,:.
FRAMING PICTURES,
A irECTALTT,
lias a large rarielr of Monldlng of all
klnda, and will frame to order all pictures
brought to him in any style to suit ousto
mers. ....
Rooms In second storv of Bonner r Jfo-
Ksv's new building, Kim St., Tionesta,
Pa." S9-3m
OH3ISTOX A IIOWKY,
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BOOKS,
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FAKCY GOODS,
TWINES,
TOYS, IKK,
WBOUM.UJI AMD SkTAlL.
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IN TI ON EST A.
GEO. W.B0VARD&G0.
TJAVE Inst brought on a complete and
XX carefully selected stock" or
FLOUR,
GROCERIES,
PROVISIONS,
and everything necemary to the completo
slock of a Uret-classUrocery House, which
they have opened out at their establish
ment on Elm St., drat door north of M. t.
Church.
TEAS,
COFFEES.
SUGARS.
SYRUPS,
FRUITS,
SPICES.
HAMS, LARD,
A KD rno vistoss or a ll kinds,
at the lowest cash prices. Goods warrant
ed to be of the beat quality. Call and ex
amine, and we believe we can suit you.
GEO. W. BOVARU A CO.
Jan. . '72.
tONFECTIONARIE
S.
L.
AGNEW. at the Post Office, baa
opened out a clioico lot or
GROCERIES,
CONh'ECTIONAMES,
CANNED FRUITS,
TOBACCOS,
CIQARS, AND
NOTIONS OF ALL KINDS.
A portion of the patronage of the public
is resspeciimiy aoiiciieu.-
it'tf L. AGNEW,
NEBRASKrVGRIST MILL.
THE GRIST MILL at Nebraska (Lacy,
town,) Forest county, has been trior
ouchlv overhauled and refitted in first
cUnh order, and is now running and doing
all kinds of
CUSTOM GRINDING.
FLOUR.
FEED, AND OATS.
Constantly on hand, and sold at the very
lowest figure.
43-6m H. W. LEDEBUR.
LOTS FOR SALE!
IX THE
BOROUGH OF TIONESTA.
Apply to CEO. V,. PICKLES,
7f, NaxmnH., New York City
MISS DOLLY CORNERED.
"I shouldn't be surprised any day,
Dolly, to sec Davirl Wipgin lying his
horse nt your Kate," said Mr. Blount,
roguishly, gathering in the reins.,
".Nonsense, brother 1 anything the
matter with his own hitching-post 7"
retorted Miss Dolly, turning in the
doorway. , , . ' ,
Mr. lilount laughed. Everybody
felt bound to laugh at Miss Dolly's
crisp sayiugt. Bhe had kept her
friend in good humor these lorty
year. '
And when Ltavid does c Ail on you
pursued Mr. Blount, mere icrinualy,
"I do hope, Dlly, you'll give hiin a
chauce to do hi errand. That'll be
no more'n fair, and the man won't be
easy till he hn freed his mind."
" lint mischief aro you the forerun
ner of no", James mount 7 . cried
Miss Dolly, facing about like a sold
ier on drill. "What upon earth hare
I to do with David' errands?"
Well, his wifu's bnea dead a year
or to, said Mr. iilount, suggestively
shutting one eye and . sauinting with
the other dowu th length of his whip-
stnek, "and lutely he's been asking
abeut you. lou can put that to
geather to suit yourself."
"Fiddle-sticks!" said Miss Dolly,
energetically.
'I shau't say hare him, or den't
have him though there isn't a liklier
man living than David but I do say,
Dolly, you otiubt to give luui a hear
ing." And having couvinced himself
beyond a reasonable doubt that the
whin wis all riizht. Mr. Blount tick
led his sleepy horse with it, and drove
way.
"Oh, my sorrows 1 ejaculated Miss
Dolly, closing the door with an al-
flicted countenauce, and silting down
so quietly for once that a photographer
micrht have copied her then and there
Not that be could have deue her
justice for her expression was too quick
and varied to be caught by any trick
of chemicals, and without it Miss Dol
ly yuYsmgnomy wouiu nave neen
rather characterless but for her rather
Roman ncso. This organ Cave tone
to her face ; by which I would not be
understood literally, as saying that
she talked through it in a nasal whine.
I mean simply (hat, in a metaphori
cal sense, t'jis bold feature spoke loud
ly f energy. And Miss Dolly had
always had an abundant need of ener
gy eUe why the nose? Every two
years during her childhood she had
been tip-toed into the east bedroom to
see a new baby till,, at her mother's
death, five little brothers iell to her
charged to be coxed and scolded into
manhood.
"You can't bring up them boys,"
croaked a dolorous aunt. "They'll run
square over you, uorotny Aimena.
Uorothy Aimetta was miss uony a
baptismal name, but it was so mani
festly too big for iier that most of her
friends weuld as soon nave tnougnt oi
labeling a tiny homcopathio vial with
quack medicine 'advertisement as of
calling her by it.
".Let cm run over roe, as long as it
doesn't hurt 'em?" laughs Miss Dolly,
skewering her flaxen hair with a coose-
quill, and tying a bow aporn over her
. w
calico long-short preparatory to "bring
ing up said youths. ,
i rom that dar forward she went
cheerily on, making the best of every
thing though it musf. be confessed she
had often had odds aud ends to work
with, as people usually' do have who
are bora with a faculty. Somehow
she found time for all her duties ex
cepting matrimony. If that were a
duty, it was one she couldn't and
wouldu t atteud to while her talliur
and the children needud her. Divers
young men thought this a pity, among
them David Wiggin.
"Don't be silly, David," said Dolly,
when hinted as much to her, whereup
on David went off straightway and
married Olive Searle, the plainest
irl in the parish. This happened
thirty ytars ago, and new David was
again wifeless, and again the current
of his thoughts turned toward Miss
Dolly, who still lived at the old home
stead near the foot of Bryant's falls.
Her father had died some months be
fore Of the boys, James and Ezekiel
had settled onhe neighboring farms
and the remaining three were in the
West. David' benevolent heart
warmed with compassion as he re
membered Dolly's lonely condition,
and ho fult that it would be exceed
ingly kind in him to offer her a home,
especially as he owned as good a place
as you'd find ou the river, while the
Blount cottage was fast falling to de
cay. Ho wouldn't let her former re
fusal tell against her, for, now ho
looked back, he really didn't tee how
ho could have married anybody nt
that period. She ought t be re
warded for the devotion she had
Bhown to the family, aud, for his part,
he felt magnanimous enough to give
her a second chanca to accept him.
Such was the worthy widowers state
of mind when ho abked James Blount,
with mock humility, whether it would
he of any use for him to try aud make
a bargain with Dolly. .
"That' more'n I can tell," Mr.
Blount had answered, "Dolly's a puz
zle. You'll have to find out yourself."
Mi. Wiggin smiled, in complacent
anticipation of acceptance. Indeed,
il it might not seem like a reproach
to the tnemnry of his lost Olive, I
should say that the kind hearted man
rejoiced in this opportunity of making
Mifg Dolly's haiipiiass.
Benevolence was in his face, benev
olence was in his spirit, as ho sailled
forth at an early day to acquaint her
with her good fortune. X be broken
harrow which ho had strapped into the
wagon to give the neighbors a platira
bl reason for his trip to the Fulls was
by no means typical of mental lacera
tion in its owner. His feeling as he
approached Miss Dolly' moss-grown
cottage was purely one of tlianfultiess
that it was in Ins power to provide her
a better home. JNot that he was crate-
ful to his dead wife fir leaving a va
cancy there. Mr. Wiggin had ruourn-
fuitht'ully for Olive a year and a day.
Miss Dolly was out in the garden
gathering catnip. She never utied it
herself, but there were nervous old la
rlijf in the village who looked upon
this herb as the substance pleasant
dreams are made of and Miss Dolly
dried it eveiy year, and often left little
bundles of it when she niado visits of ;
corsultntion. She had built a chip
fire under the tea-kettle, abd then
whisked oil to pick an aproutul ot the
puiicent leaves while the water was
boiling. There she was, stoeping be-;
neath tlr eaves of a log cabin sun-
bonnct, and humming a lively fugue i
tune, when Mr. Wipgin drove up.
"Cume, my beloved, haste away,'
piped Mis Dolly, cheerily, uapping ,
briskly at the stalks,
" 'Cut short the hour of thy dolay ;
Flv like a youthful' "
"Fly like a youthful'" struck in
a wheezy bass.
Tho sun-bonuct tipped back like a
cart-body.
"Sakes alive 1" cried Mies Dolly,
not in the words of the hymn, as Mr
YY iggin strode toward heron his slight
ly rheumatic jcg.
I duln t mean to put you out,
laughed he, shaking hands heart
ily, "but it seemed kind o' nater
al to take part with you iu Invitation."
"You always bad a way of falling
in at the most unheard of time, I re
member," rotorted Mis Dolly, sauci
ly, recovering herself, and going on
gathering catnip. She was fifty years
old now, aud hoped she had her wits
about her. I
"You used to say I kept good time,
only too much of it," pursued Mr.
Wiggin, with a sudden inspiration ;
"but I tell you what, Dolly, time nev
er drugged with me then as it does
these Jays!''
"It is a dull -season," said Dolly,
with exasperating simplicity. "I sup
pose the grasshopper have eaten most
of yourSvheat, haven't they, so it'll
har Jiy pay for reoping?" '
"Just so," assented Mr. Wiggin, dis
corafittcd. He had not traveled five
miles in the heat to discuss the state
of the crops.
, "Walk iu and sit down, won tyour
said Dolly, with reluctant hospitality.
Her aprou was crammed at Inst to its
utmost capacity. She devoutly wished
it had been laiger.
"Well, yes, I don't care if I do,"
he answered after a hypocritical I show
of hesitation. "I had a little business
further on, at the blacksmith's. No
hurry, though, as I kuuw of," and he
turned to letdown the bars for Dolly,
who meanwhile nimbly slipped through
the fence, catuip and all.
"Bless my heart I I don't see but
what you're as spry as ever you was,"
said he, admiringly, as he puffed along
iu her wake. "Still you must be get
ting into years, Dolly, as well as I
no offense, I hope and I was wonder
ing whether or no it wasu't lonesome
for you living aloue here; a womm so?"
"Oh, I never was one of the lone
some kind," responded Dolly, briskly,
scaling her guet in the . patchwork
cushioned rocking-chair; "and for
that matter, hardly a day passes with
out some of James' folks running in."
"Yes, I know; but if you wero to
hitnjre vour situation, wouldn't you
enjoy life better, think ?"
Miss Dolly fidgeted at the green pa-pcr-curtuius,
aud intimated that her
present happiness would be completed
if the grasshoppers would stop feeding
on her gurdeu sauce.
"That's just it," continued Mr.
Wi''L'iu eaireflv : "vou do seem to
need a man to look out for your farm
ins interests, uow don't you, Dolly? a
ruuu that'll be ready and willing to do
for you, and make you comfortable r
"I don't know," said Dolly dryly.
"The year before father died I did have
Silas Potter, and he is the most faith
ful creaturo living; but what, with
the extra cookiug and washing I had
to do fur him. uiv work was abeut
doubled, aud when taud-time came
a clad enough to send off, aud hire
by the day. I about, made up my
mind that men folks rouud th house
cost more'n they come to."
"I guess we don't understand one
another," said Mr. Wiggin, slightly
disconcerted by this unflattering view
of his sex. "I wasn't . speaking of
hired help,' Dolly. Naturally you
would get tired of that; it' worryin'
to a woman. But if you was to have
a companion, nosr ne that could
give you a good home-, with wood aud
water under cover "
"Shoo! sh.o!" cried Dolly, Eying
nut alter an inquiring chickeu ou the
door-step.
Mr. Wiggin drew his red pocket
hutidkerchtef from his hat to wipe his
gloviing face. Certainly he hadu't
felt iho heat so all through haying.
'low's your health now-a-days?"
asked Miss Dully, frisking back with
u look of rejolut unconsciousness.'
"Very good ; remarkably good I I
den't know where you'll find a mnn,
Dolly, with a tougher constitution
thaD I've got."
"Ah!" Dully blushed like a sumac
in October.
"Yes, I'm well," pursued Mr. Wig
gin, peraevereingly; "and I'm tolera
bly well-to-lo, with nothing to hinder
my marrying again, provided I can see
toe woman to my nuud.
"There's tho deacon's widow," sug
gested Dully, officiously; "she's pious,
economical
"bhe s left with means enough to
enrry her through handsomely," inter
rupted Mr. wiggin, quickly. "jow
I'd rather have a wife to provide for
one that needed a home.' In fact,
Dolly, I have my eye on the little wo-
man I wuut this minute! '
He had bth eyes ou her, for that
matter, and Do'. ly was forced to rec
0gnize the situation, whether she ac
cepterl it or not.
'1 ve mauagvd to sugar my tea so
far, David, without calling upon my
neighbors," chirruped slip, stopping to
lay straight the braided mat, "and
might as well keep on, 1 don t feel tt
a tax, as come folks would. But
there's Martha Dunning, she's having
a hard liroo to get along. Why don't
you take her, David ? bhe d appreciate
such a nice house as your.
"It would seem ns if 'most any wo
man nvght," 6aid Mr. Wiggin, in an
injured tone, "all finished off complete,
painted outside aud in"
"SheV. be delighted with it, I am
sure of it?" broke in Dolly, with an
air of conviction, as she darted into
the kitchen to lift boiling kettle
from the crane.
"But you don't mean that vou won't
marry roe, Dolly?" pleaded Mr. Wig
gin anxiously, following to me aoor.
"I've been lottin' on see in' you at the
bead of things in my bouse.
"Martha is a grand manager," said
Dolly, coolly. ''David ueedu't think
he can buy me with a set of new
buildings!" added she, mentally, snap
ping down the lid of the pug-nosed
teapot. "I never did have the name
of being cropping !".
"I tell you, Dolly, I won't have
Martha; I don't like her turn!" he
cried, testily, balancing himself on tho
threshold, yet not daring to step over
it. Dolly gave her undivided atten
tion to winging the hearth.
"You know you was always the wo
man of my choice, Dolly, pursued
Mr. Wiggin, as tenderly as he could
consistently with the distance between
them. "And wo were both young "
4 1'shaw ' snapped Miss Dolly, scorcl:.
inc bur wing : "that's beyond th
memory of mau !" He grasped
door-post in either hand, looking
wretched enough to sluy bnnsell on
the spoi, after the favluou of Sampson.
Evidently he had not touched the
richt chord as vet. Miss 'Dolly was
not to be won by the attraction of
wealth and position, nor even by ten
der allusions to the past. He would
appeal to her kiodnesa of heart.
1 ued to ne'civo you una some
feeliu,' Dolly," said he, tremulously
but vou don t seem to have any lor
me. Here x am ieit aioue in in
. 1 iV I 1 . 1
orld ; children all paired off, thouts
Matilda, aud she'll go before the suow
flies : house empty "
"I stinhose you can have a home
with anv one of vour hoys, aud wel
come, put in ansa i-miiy, laiu.iy
TV- .1 J- .l
still fluttering about tho
chimney
like a swallow.
"Yes, if worse comes to
suppose I can," assented Mr.
mournfully, anvihiuir but
worst, I
Wiggin
consoled
bv this reflection. "It would break
me down terribly, thout-h, you ma
depiud, to give up my place that I
set so much by, aud crowd iiiysulf on
to my children."
No response save the clattering of
the tougs.
"Aud it's dreadful melancholy busi
nes fur a man at my time of life to
drag along without a partner. I'm
getting to be old, Dolly. ' Mr. Wig
gins brushed his sleeve across his eyes
as a feruied school boy might kave
done. "Yes, I'm getting to be eld
Dolly," he repeated brokenly ; "and
t stand., to reason thai I , havu't
many years to live; but I did hop we
miijht go down hill toseather. Dolly.
you chirkin me up with that spry way
nt yourn (hat I always took to, and 1
carryin' the heft of"
Here Miss Dolly gave a little sniff.
nothing worth mentioning onlv for
the efl'ect ' produced on Mr. Wiggin.
Indeed, had his ears been a old a
he pretended, he would not hav sus
pected her of being affected by any
thing more serious than a cold in tut
head.
"Can't vou make ud Tour mind to
have me, Dolly ?" pleaded he, cross
ing the threshold in his hopeful eager
ness. "I don't see how I'm coin! to
stand it if you can't."
"lhen Manha wouldn't suit." said
Miss Dolly, archly, making a groat
pretence nt wiping a cinder from ber
eye. hat a siiame, now, when sha
ueedsthe property so much I . ..
"Hang the property I I d mortgage
the whole of it rather than not cot
you, Dolly," cried Mr. Wiggin, with
a vehemence that quite closed ber
mouth. .'.'"
Aud so at last he Lad Miss Doll
cornered.
A DOUSE ONE THOl'HAND YEARS OLD.
Th loftiest bouse.and the most per
feet in the matter of architecture I
have ever seen was that which a wood
chopper occupied 'one winter in tho
forest of Santa Crux County. It was
the cavity of a redwood trie, 240 feet
in height. - Fir bad eaten away the
trunk at the base until a circular room -had
been formed, sixteen feet in diam
eter. At twenty feet or more from
the ground was a knot-hole, which af
forded egress for the smoke. With
hammocks hung from pegs, and a few
cooking utensils hung upon other pegs,
that house lacked no essential thing.
This woodman was in possession of a
house which had been a thousand years
in process of building. Perhaps on
the very day it was finished, he cams
along aud entered in. How did. all
jack knife and hand-saw architac urs
sink into . insignificance in cent-sst
with this house in the solitudes of the
great forest I Moreover, the tenant
fared like a prince. Within thirty
yards of bis coniferous house a nioua
taiu steam went rushing past to the
sea. iu tne swiris ana auie unar
the shelving rocks, if one could not
land half a dozen trout within an
hour, lie deserved to go hungry as; a
penally for his awkwardness. ISow
and then a , deer came but into ih
openings, and at no great distance,
quail, rabbits and pigeon could be
found. hat aid this man want mors
than nature furnished him? He had
house with "cupola" two hundred
and forty feet high, aud game at the
cost of taking it. itus Arcadian sim
plicity would have made a lasting im-
nressum nut tor a volunteer remark
that nothiug could be added to give
life a more perfect zest, .., "Well, je,
said he, "I reckon if you are going ia
town you might tell Jim to send mo
up a gallon of whisky aud some ping
tobacco.". It will not do to invest a
hollow tree with too much of senti
ment nud poetry. , If that message
had not been suggested, wa should
have been under the delusion to this
day that the lives of those people,
dwelling in a house fushioned a thou
sand years ago, were rounded to a per
fect fullness, without one artinciai
want. Overland AfJnthly.
Mr. F. W. Mitchell has cenelod-
d not to build an Opera Uoui this
season. Upon opening the proposals
received for the wurk Mr. Mitchell
found that they exceeded the archi
tect's estimate several thousand del
lart. Bids were received from Cleve
land, Pittsburg, Mcadville, Franklin,
and other places. The bids from
Franklin were for the stone and brick
work, and were at least , twenty per
cant, below any other. This fact
speaks well for our contractors. Tkft
biddets assign s a reason for their
large figures that labor and material
are much higher now than last season.
We hope that prices will have fallen
sufliceutly by next year In enable Mr.
Mitchell to carry out his destgu for
an Opera House, which hs wilt un
doubtedly do whenever the cost does
not exceed the architect's estimate.
Vtnango Spectator.
Some of the papers are telling a
story about an nbaout-miuded man
who invited a party to his house to
dinner. Just before their arrival hs
went up stairs to change his dress.
He forgot all a hoot them, thought
it was bed time, and got into
bed. A servant who entered his
room to tell him his guests were wait
iug for him, found hint fast sslccp.
A Baltimore lightning rod man
fell fifty feet to the ground, but es
caped serious injury. Half an hour
before the accident he had been sus
pended from the top of a shot tower
by the same apparatus which after
1 ward gave way.