Hates of Advertising. Ono Square (1 inch,) one insertion - fl OnoH'juaro " one month - -3 00 One. Square " three months -0 00 OnoHqiinro " ono year - - 10 0(1 Two Kquaves, one year - 15 Co Quarter Col. ' :t" 0 Half .. - W) 00 One " " - - - - 100 ( 0 Legal notices at established rates. Marriage and death notices, gratis. All bills for yearly advertisements col lected quarterly. Temporary advertise ments must be paid for in advance. Job work, Cash on Delivery." a CK fl fl O IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, BY W II. DUNN. OrriCB IN ROBINSON & BONNER'S BUILDER ELM STREET, HON EST A, PA, TERMS, 2.00 A YEAR. No Subscriptions received for a shorter porlod than tliroe months. Correspondence solicited from nil part of the country. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications. mewl wmmmmi VOL. XI. NO. 13. TIONESTA, PA., JUNE 19, 1878. $2 PER ANNUM. i ' i J 1 5 w ( A Curtain Lecture. 11:30 P. M. What 1 go to the country this summer ? Now that's too absurd, Mr. B.I To bury the girls in a farm-house, Whore never a man they will see. How can you expect thom to marry ? Yon havon't the money to spend ? I tell yon that's all stuff and nonsense. You'll find it costs most in the end, When they're loft on your hands for a lifetime; You'll wish you had listened to me. And retrenched in some other direction I tell you, you will, Mr. ii. I I've told every body we're going To Long Branch, and then to the Bprings j And now to coma down to the country ! They'll be saying all manner ef things. Ilave you thought of the shook to your credit ? That's worth more than money, you say i I hope folks will thlnL it is meanness, And not that yon really osn't pay. I think you might try to afford it. It don't matter much about me, But the girls will be so disappointed It's cruel, It is, Mr. B. The Grays have asked Julia to Newport ( I worked hard enough, I am sure, To get her invited last winter : Must she write now and say she's too poor To buy a respectable outfit ? What excuse she can make I don't know, And it never will do to offend them : Indeed, Mr. B., she must go 1 They move in the very best circles j It's a ohanoe that she oughtn't to miss : I'd never have given that party, If I'd thought it was cooling to this. Don't tell me that ooal shares have fallen I That's the way with you off upon stocks, Whenever (ask for a dollar, Or toll you the girls want new frocks. Becms to me, to bo ritiWin? your money In this way is very nnwise ; And if you will do it, why don't yon Invest in something that will rise ? Yon know how we all ha to the country, And jiiit hooaurie board thee is cheap T ak ts to (,0 thore this summer 1 Mr. B., I he'ieve you're asleep ! Bazar. TEAT. LITTLE PLACE OF BROWN'S, The place was mine, and we lived as cozily there, my wife and little daughter nud J, as birds in a nest, until the Blocks, pome old friends of ours from the city, came to live in our neighbor liooa. We were at Fupper one night when my wire tola me. " They're going to take the French Dofed house around the coiner." said Silly, ' with the big extension and con servatory, and as I happened to be walk ing out just as the trucks came down, I couldn't help seeing that the parlor furniture is of crimson satin damask and ebony I think it'B ebony, but I won't be Biire," continued my wife; " but at any rate it's inlaid." "Well, that's a comfort, any way," BMd L "If you're positive it's inlaid, Sally, yon cau perhaps go on with your supper. " "Yes," she paid, so preoccupied with her theme that she hadn't eaten a mor sel, "and there's the handsomest bed room set for Jane that I 'most ever laid my eyes on; it's one of these dressing bureaus, Joe, with a magnificent plate glass that reaches down to the floor." "That's good," said L, "You can run around there when you have your next gown fitted, and see the hang of it." " I don't expect to run around there," said Sally, craning her neck up stiffly, turning up the end of her nose, and drawing her lips down. "Why, what's the matter?" said I. Wasn't Jane friendly ? I've done many a good turn for Black in my day, and I hope they're not going to turn the cold shoulder now " " Oh, she was friendly enough," said Sally; "but we can't expect, Joe, that people living in that kind of style can be upon terms of intimacy with people that live as we do. There are certain restric tions in society ". "Restrictions be hanged I" I cried. "Va as good a uan as Black any day in the week." " You're as good m the President, for that matter," said Sally; " but it's all like a pair of scales. Joe. when one goes up another goes down, and, from the way things look, it '11 take a pretty heavy weight on the Blacks' side to br:ng them down to our position." I must own this kind of logio vexed me a little. I knew pretty well how Black stood commercially, and I told Sally there wasn't a feather's weight on his side, so far as the favors of fortune were concerned. "If he has a mind to live above his meanB." said L "'he can do it. and take the consequences. " "He has just as good a right to live above his means," said Sally, "as you have to live beneath yours.' This was her Parthian arrow as went out the door, and it rankled a little all the way down in the train, the more sharply that I found Black the center of an admiring bevy at the depot. He had auite an imposing make-up and a glib tongue, which he used in inveighing against our system of paving. Ho com: plained of the condition of a good many things iu our young township, and soemed to gain popularity with evry fault that he found. At last he epied me. and was exceedingly loud and effu sive in his salutation. "ILttllo, Brown!" he said, shaking m7 hand again and again, and declaring to the people about him I was an old friend whom he was glad to unearth 'I've run you . down, you ely fox. That's a snug little place around the corner very snug in deed I" I wouldn't have believed it possible I could have been such an ass as to feel flattered by this familiarity of Black's, but I found myself smirking and nod ding with great complacency. Ilere were at least half a dozen of the gentry about me who lived in big houses in my neighborhood, that I had been going up and down to the city with for years, yet scarcely knew them well enough for an exchange of civilities, and here was Black already hand in glove with the nnest or them. It makes me sick now when I remember that I turned my back on poor old White, and went toadying on with this aristocracy. White lived in even a smaller house than mine, and had hard enough work to pay for that, lie had failed in business some years before, and I don't know what they would have done without their bov Bob. lie was with me in the city, and I knew that a goodly portion of the lad s earn inge were given over to the support of the house. It was rather hard for Bob, but he bore his lot with great resigna tion. He came over pretty often to have a game of cribbage and talk over busi ness matters with me, and 1 found him sharp enough at both. Then he had a pleasant way with the women. Our lit tle Rosalie was little more than a child. but Sally used to brighten up when Bob came in, till she got into that kink about the Blacks. "You'll stay here with Rosalie, won't you, Bon, till we come back ? 1 said to young White, and as 1 spoke I felt Bally give a savage pinch to my arm. No sooner were we outside the door than she began about poor Bob. "if you have no regard for your daughter's future, and choose to throw her away on a poor miserable beggar like Bob White" began Sally. " Why, my dear," I broke in, " Rosa lie's a mere child. Don't begin to plan about her future, 1 beg of you. She's scarcely left off her pinafores, and if ever there was maiden meditation, fancy free, any where it lies in the brown eyes of our Rosalie" By this time we had reached the im posing portal of Black's house, and were ioon ushered into the presence of the atin damask and ebony. Black s chu dren were none of them grown, but were precocious enough to take the lead in conversation : and we sat for a whole mortal hour and listened to the eldest arirl hammer out upon the piano what Mrs. Black called a "reverie." I was ilad when Black took mo into his li brary. But n goodly quantity of poison was infused into Sally a system and mine be fore we left the big luxurious honse.aud wo went home together as changed as if touched by the rod of an enchanter. "Dear me 1 said Sally, "what a little cubby-hole this is I 1 declare it s quite like a baby house 1" "I'd like to have a library like IJIack s, said 1, taking up the refrain "It's nice to have a room," I continued, to Bob White, "where a man can take his friends. It would be far pleasanter. for instance, if you and I could have our game of cribbage without the continual rabble of women m our ears. "Oh, I don't thmk so," said Bob "I don t thiuk bo at all. The lad looked over at Rosalie and blushed ingenuously. The color deep ened in Rosalie's cheeks till it went far ahead of the crimson in Black's satin damask upholstery, and a shy gleam shot from her brown eyes that sent a flood of light into my obtuse cranium. I began to think that Sally was right, Bob White was all very well in his way, but no sort of a match for my daughter Rosalie. She was my one ewe lamb the bonniest, best, and dearest little girl the sun ever shone upon. And be sides all this, there was the secret con Bciousness that she could, if she wanted to, dress "in silk attire, and siller hae to spare. ' I hadn t lived in a plain way all these years for nothing. People about me began to realize that although Brown lived in a small house, he was a man of no inconsiderable means. Blaok had managed to convey this intelligence to them, and 1 found no fault with this friendliness on his part Old White never thought of such a thing as taking the seat beside me now on our way down in the train: it was generally filled by more popular parties, and I began to take quite an interest in the social and political points of discussion. All this cost me considerable in the way of time and money. My games of cribbage were few and far between, and I put my name to all the subscriptions they chose to get up; but I didn't mind tne money, ana x noa long since deter mined that the less Rosalie saw of young White the better. The color grew a little less vivid in her rounded cheeks, and the light less mischievous and joyous in her eves, but oaran saia i. uiougm inis was really a more suitaDie name ior my wife's years and dignity that her beauty was growing more and more refined every day. It had even lately attracted the attention of Mr. Peroival Green, the iunior member of Black's firm, and Green was one of those live, active Dust ness fellows who are sure to make his mark in the world. I told my wife to spare no expense for Rosalie s advance ment and happiness, but was sorry to see a lack of spirit upon her part, and a auiet denial to partake of these new pleasures of popularity. One thing was certain radical meaS' ures must be taken to put a gulf be tween her and Bob White that could not readily be bridged over. The whole White family were a proud as j-iueuer, and I knew I should have very little trouble in convincing them that the old intimacy had better be broken off. My new house on the Boulevard began to take noble dimensions, and had already cost me a mint of money. Its marble halls were spacious enough to chill me to the bone, and there was quite a mel ancholy expanse of mud and masonry inns vicinity. It rather surprised me, when i put our snug little place in the hands of the agent, that my wife was so willing to part with the furniture too. I thought a few of the familiar old time-servers might be used to advantage somewhere in the new house, and I confess to a feeling of keen disappointment when she decided that everything must go. "We don't want to set up a second-hand junk- shop on the Boulevard, said Sarah; and I was ashamed to foster these old-iasn ioned sentiments, till one morning I found Rosalie crying over my old arm chair in the sitting-room. It was a bungling old trap, covered with a queer pattern of chintz, where the tan of each bird-of-paradise had gradually faded with many a washing. But the bulgy back seemed to have ntted itself to my weary spine, and the well-worn arms of the chair were always cordially "held out to me. I am glad you've got a tear or two to spare, Rosy," I said, "at parting with old friends. I'll never get another so lenient with my rickety boneB." "1 11 never part with it father, said Rosalie. And I didn't care to tell her of her mother's decree. In the meantime, however, I had broken the intelligence to poor Bob,' as kindly as I could, that it would be bet ter to cease his visits at the house. i think, as well as I remember, that I did put the blame upon my wife. I was glad to see that he took my communica tion in a manly, practical way, and bore up under it wonderfully. It . troubled me that Rosalie seemed to take the mat ter .so much mbre to heart. Young Green's turn-out was seen quite fre quently at our door that winter, and I was tired of my wife's apologies about the house and its appurtenances. Every day that drew me nearer to the draughty chaos on the Boulevard lent a warmer charm to the snug little home I was leaving, and I found I was not alone in my appreciation. No sooner had it be come known that my little place was in the market than offers began to pour in from different quarters. All these oners wore referred to the agent, who told me one morning as he was passing that the house had been rented and the furniture sold some time since to a young married couple. " Here s another pair in search of a nuptial nest," I said, as I propped up an ingeniously carved bit of a cigar box on the maple tree beneath my window. 1 felt a little blue as I went in to my breakfast, and had scarcely broken my egg when the bell rang, and I found Block at the door. His face was ashy pale, and his hand trembled upon his gold-headed cane. "Ko more baa news t l stammered out. for some speculations of ours had turned out very disastrously oi late. " Im a ruined man saut uiack, sink ing into a chair by the parlor door. B g beads of terror Btartea to my own .orebead. " Green has disappeared, the scoun di e'," said Black, " and of course I shall be accused of oompiioity witu the de faulter." "Naturally, I Baid, dryly, for I was too wretched myself to have any syin palhy to spare. " This is a confidential visit, Brown, continued Black. "I shall have to fall back upon what little money remains to mv wife, and I've come around here at her suggestion to hire this little place of vnnrg for the coming vear. " My good gracious f" said a voice behind us: and there stood Sally, as red as the feathers in the duster she held in her hand. Yes. Mrs. Brown," said Black, " we've always been fond of this little place, and I really believe we shall be as happy here in our adversity as you will in your fine new house. " Perdition seize my fine new house, and every one that has led me into this muddle ! I ened. beside myself with fright and vexation. " You know that I sha n t have the money now to go on with. It will be all I can do to keep from bankruptcy myself. " God forbid that 1 should refuse to aid my husband in this extremity !" said Bally, with great nobihty of accent and manner. " We'll make the sacrifioe ourselves, Joe; we'll keep our own lit tie place: we 11 go on in the old dear. We'll stay here ourselves, Joe, "Im obhged to you for your con sideration, madam," I replied; "but when the horse is gone, it's too late to shut the stable door. The house is let, and the furniture is sold. " Mv furniture sold I" shrieked Bally, " Oh ! oh I oh I my furniture, my dear old furniture, taken from me 1 It ain't vours. Thev can't take my things for vour debts." "Just wait," said I, "will you, till vou're called upon to pay my debts I You gave orders for the furniture to be sold and the house to oe rented your self. The agent told me this morning that a young married couple had taken them. We'll have to go to town and take a furnished flat." " A furnished flat 1" echoed my wife, sinking into a chair, and covering her face with her apron " a furnished flat 1 And although I can safely swear she had time and again held this way of living to be a domestic felicity, there was an unspeakable misery in her view of it now. " I wish I was dead !" she Baid. " I'd rather go to my grave than to a furnished flat just in the lovely spring time, when the Brahmas are beginning to set. and the strawberry ted is one mass of bloom. Oh, my poor child 1" she cried, to Rosalie, who had run in and thrown herself at her mother's knee, your Mr. Green has turned out to be a nasty defaulter. A young mar ried couple have rebbed us of house and home, and your father has the cruelty to talk to me of a furnished flat." He isnt my Mr. Green," Rosalie broke in, "nor ever was, and the mar ried couple won't rob you of anything but but a a bad, undutiful daughter. Yon ehall stay here, mother dear, and and Bo Bob and I will go to the city and take the furnished flat" " Am I to understand." said I, ad vancing to this dear blushing, weeping child, and feeling a singular warmth and cheer creep about my fainting heart " am I to believe that vou ana hod are the married couple in question ?" Rosalie hung her sweet head, and my - ' f wife cried out to me, with the coolest assurance, that she told me how it would be all along, and that all further opposition on my part would be useless. " You d better go to the train, Joe, she said: "poor old Black has been gone this ten minutes. And bring home some garden seeds witn you, ana pring Bob to supper. We 11 all live here to gether. And please God, my darling,' she said, lunging her arms about our little daughter, "we'll all be happy yet 1 Harper Weekly. Mrs. Muffin's Misghlngs. He was a genteel young man, of pleas ant, open countenance, intelligent and polite. Most boarding-house keepers would have admitted him at sight as a most eligible candidate, but Mrs. Muffin appeared to have misgivings that must be allaved before a decisive answer could be given. " My boarders is a mighty particular Bet." she said, " and I have to be care f ul who I take, or some of 'em is sure to get huffy and leate. I can't say as I so much object to music myself, but some folk a won't RtAiid it in no wav at all. I hope you're not learing to play on the fiddle, are you ? " Oh, no," said the young man, "Well, I'm very glad to hear you say so. That would never do at an. xou might as well try to keep boarders on one kind of meat as to put a green hand with a fiddle in among em. Do you blow any sort of a horn ? The gentlenan shook his nead. "Well, then, tell me, do you belong to the Festival chorus ? I had one of 'em. but he had to mosey. His rehear sals almost ruined my prospects and I had to send him away. I felt bad about it too. for he was a light feeder and never grumbled. You never sing t Well, that's pleasant. I didn't much think you did, but it's best to be on the safe side. I hope you don't practice on the cordeon ? "Oh.no." " I was almost broken up by one of them brain-rockers getting smuggled into the house once last summer, and it makes me cautious. Four of my best boarders left before the first week was out, and nobody would have dreamed of any harm in him, either. He was a real innocent, solemn-looking young man, with blue eyes, as quiet as a body could want, till he got into his room all alone with that cordeon. and then, mercy ! what a villain he was I And that wasn't the worst of it, either, by a good deal. He not onlv drove awav nearlv all mv boarderp. but got in debt to me for five weeks' board, and then sloped. I tell you, sir, we have to be careful, and that's why I've made bold to ask you bo many queBtions. 1 m very glad to hear, though, that you don't waste your time that way. and if you 11 promise that you won't as much as bring a jewsharp into the house I'm sure I shall be very glad to nave you make your home with us. 1 know there's lots of people who claim that music is soothing and elevating, and all that sort of thing, but it's a mistake, sir. a mighty big mistake, so far as boarders are concerned, any way They'll put np with a good deal in the way of having things warmea over, put they won't stand music no way you can nx it up, ana get away irom ii as quic& as they would from the small-pox. Cincinnati Breakfast Table. Remarkable -Sel'-Cremation. Two novel kinds of incendiarism lately appeared in Rome. Two or three weeks ago the Royal (Jarbineers at l'orta aei Popolo were attracted by an unusual light which appeared on the road outside the walls leadmg from the Porta del Popolo in the direction of the anoient Porta Pinoiana. Un drawing toward the scene of the illumination they heard cries of " Vittoria 1 Evviva !" and found that both the light and the cries pro ceeded from a man who was enveloped in flames. Before they could extinguish the flames the man was reduced to car bon before their eyes. He had soaked his garments m petroleum and set nre to himself. A. box of matches and an empty petroleum flask lay near him. and his hat, which had mourning crape round it, was hung on the adjoining hedge. His features were horribly d;s flgured. The gentleman who thus com. mitted Belf-cremation was a vice-secre, tary in the office of the minister of war He was a good intelligent publio servant and was noted for his steadiness and diligence He was unmarried, and somewhat taciturn and gloomy at times, but gave no indications of insanity. The other instance of incendiarism was the burning of the marriage notices which hung up in frames under the portico of the palace of the conservators, at the capitoL The motive for this burn ing was Bet down as jealousy. The burning had no effect in delaying the marriages, many of which have been celebrated between members of the aristocracy. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD, Iloaaehold Hints. To Restorb Color. When color on fabric has been accidentally or other wise destroyed by acid, ammonia is ap plied to nofralise the acid, after which an applied Vn of chloroform will, in almost allWAses restore the original color. The application of ammonia is common, but that of chloroform is but little known. To Take Out Mildew. Get the dry- est chloride of lime you can buy, and, for strong fabrics, dissolve four table- spooniuls of it in one half-pint oi water. Let the mildewed article lie in this solu tion fifteen minutes. Take it out, wring it gently, and put immediately into weak muriatio acid, one part acid and four parts soft water. For delicate fabrics the solution of lime should be made much weaker: three or four times the quantity of water should be put to the lime. Let the article lie in it only five minutes, and then put it into the muri atio acid. Flavor of Tea ahd Coffee. The tea or coffee pot used for steeping should be kept as clean and bright inside as out; after continual Bteeping a thin coating collects around the sides and on the bottom of the steeper, which becomes rank in taste, and therefore impregnates the fresh tea or coffee, spoiling its aeu- cate flavor. Have the steepers bright ened inside at least once a week; throw in a teaspoonful of pulverized borax. fill nearly full of water, and let it boil fifteen or twenty minutes; then scour the coating or discoloration off, using pulverized borax and a very little soap; rmse with hot water. The- Hair. German women of the better classes are universally noted for fine and luxuriant hair, and this is the wav thev manage it: About once in a fortnight boil for an hour or more a large handful of bran in a quart of soft water; then strain it into a basin, and cool till tepid. Rub into it a little white soap, then dip in a soft cloth and wash your head thoroughly, parting aside the hair all over, so as to reach the roots Next take the volk of an egg. slightly beaten, and with vour lingers rub it well into the scalp. Let it rest a few minutes, then wash on entirely with cloth dipped in pure water, and rinse the hair well till the egg has all disap peared, -"Afterward wipe and rub dry and comb the hair npward from the head Then oil slightly if needed. The most harmless of hair dressings may be pre pared from the following formula: Pure castor oil, two oz.; cologne-spirit (95 per cent.) sixteen oz. ; perfume accord ing to fpucy. Aledlcal Hints. To Make a Mustard Plaster. Take a tableBpoonfnl of tieacle, more or less, as desired; stir thick with mustard, and having spread it on a cloth, apply it directly to the skin; it will not blister, even if kept on for an hour. Remedy for Burns. One ounce of pulverized borax, one quart of boiling water, half ounce of pulverized aium. Shake up well and bottle. Wrap the burn up in soft linen, and keep con stantly wet with the solution. Do not remove the linen until the burn, is cured. To Remove Cinders from the Eye A small camel's hair brush dipped in water and passed over the ball of the eye on raising the lid. The operation requires no skill, takes but a moment, and instantly removes any cinder or par ticle of dust or dirt without inflaming the eye. To Choose a Physician. To choose a physician, one should be half a phy sician one s self; but this is not oiten the case. The best plan which a mother ofja family can adopt is to select a man whose education ha3 been suitable to his profession; whose habits ot life are such as to prove tbat he continues to acqu're both practical and theoretical knowledge; who is neither a bigot in old opinions nor an enthusiast ia new; and, for many reasons, not the fashionable doctor of the day. , Knoce - Knees. A correspondent's advioe aud testimony are as follows: " I commenced the practice of placing a small book between my knees, and tying a handkerchief tight round my ankles. This I did two or three times a day, increasing the substance at every fresh trial, until I could hold a brick with ease lengthwavs. When I first commeuced this practice I was as badly knock-kneed as possible, but now I am as straight as anyone. I likewise made it a practice of lying on my back in bed, with mv legs crossed and my knees fixed tightly together. This, I believe, did me a great deal of good." How to Make Caws Uive Milk. A writer in the Southern Farmer Bays that his cow gives all the milk that is wanted in a familv of eight, and that from it. after taking all that is required for other purposes, two hundred and sixtv pounds of butter were made this year. This is in part his treatment of the cow. " If you desire to get a large yield of rich milk, give your cow every uay water sliehtlv warm and slightly Baited, in which bran has been stirred at the rata of one nuart to two gallons of water. You will find, if yen have not tried this daily practice, that your cow will give twentv-flvo per cent, more milk immedi. atelv under the effects of it, and she will become bo attached ti the diet as to refuse to drink clear wa unless very ihirstv. But this mess." he will drink almost any time, and asli r more. The amount of this drink k. essary is an ordinary water-pailful at a time, morn ing, noon and night." Items of Intemt. Close quarters the laundry. Always open to conviction a thief. Export of cheese from this country in 1877, 107,3G4,GGG pounds. Allspice got its name from the suppo sition that it contained all spices. Algebra was taken from the Arabs, and by them called al gebr wal mokabala. The first silver dollar coined is held by forty-seven different American citizens. Manv a man of truth and veracity has been found lying at the point of death. There are United States postage stamps of the denomination of $36 and $G0. Chocolate was first introduced into England from Mexico, A. D., 1420. It was made from the flower of the cocoa nut, and soon became very popular and universally used in the London coffee houses. Among the inventions to which the war in the isast has given Dirtn, is a preparation of tea and sugar for camp use. It is put up in boxes, and a spoon ful of the mixture is sufficient to make a cup of tea. It has been discovered that the sun is about five hundred thousand miles nearer the earth than has been supposed. Perhaps, after a while, the man who is sunstruck will get a cnance io Biriiie back. Savannah News. Robinson (after a long whist bout at the club) "It's awfully late, Brown. What will vou say to your wife ?' Brown (in a whisper)" Oh, I shan't say much, you know Good morning, dear,' or something o' that sort. She'll Bay the rest." " Didn't you guaranty that that horEe wouldn't shy before the discharge of a cannon?" said a cavalry officer to a horse dealer. "Yes, I did, and I'll Bticktoit," replied the dealer. "He never shies until after the cannon is fired." It is Baid that a project is on foot looking to the management of railway trains by the use of mirrors bo arranged as to reflect a complete picture of the road in the President's office. That's the way the ladies have always managed their trains. Breakfast Table. The salaries of some of the railway presidents are stated to be as follows : Col. T. A. Scott, Pennsylvania, $24,000; Mr. Isaac Hinkley, Philadelphia Wilmington & Baltimore, $24,000; Mr. F. B. Gowen, Philadelphia & Re ailing, $30,000; and Mr. Hugh J. Jewett, Erie, $40,000. White flowers more frequently have an agreeable scent than colored ones. In one hundred white specimens there are. on an average, fafteen with an ogree- able smell and only one disagreeable, whereas among a like number of colored flowers, only six have an agreeable and one a disagreeable odor. Russia's expenses in the war were a pretty serious consideration, even when taken into account with her victory. The war lasted from April 12, 1877, to March 4, 1878-322 days. Exclusive of the money required to take the troops home, it is stated -that the war expenses amounted to $000,000,000. Two tramps slept one night last win ter in a lime kiln near Baltimore, and were stupefied by the fumes. One died, and the other was burned bo badly that he lost an arm. The kiln was, however, ' so comfortable a lodg'ng place that the survivor tried it again, ou a recent night, and was found dead in the morning. Fashion Notes. Guipure saoques will be worn with black Bilks. Chenille bourette grenadine is some thing new aud stylish. Children's dresees are being made longer by an inch or two. The Iceland floss is much used for crocheting shawls and sacques. Reticules nre'now carried on the arms of young ladies, as in the olden times. For second mourning gloves are stitched across the back with lilao or gray. "Modesty, rare, delicate and 'asting is the name and the claim of a new per fume. Princesse dresses are shirred in the front, and trimmed with passemen- - teries. Basques are made with long tabs at e back. Some are tastefully trimmed wit a lace. Old-fashioned French calico is again ' poyvar, 1 he favorite pattern being the nvleaf- rdenu cards with colored cows oi ribbon wed in the corner are among the novelties. Short dresses are so much favored that train dresses are made only lor house wear. The favorite flowers for the hand pahitqd hats are bluelts, forget-me-nots and poppies. Home made trimmings are much used for ladies' lingerie. It is mora durable than the Hamburg. New combs for the back hair ar no longer high and towering, but show merely a single row of jet, aiiver mv". beads, that fit closely around the front of the coil or the pull's that are now worn far forward on the hair. French ladies decorate black parasols with loops and ends of double-faced rib bon eet around the edges iu eight or ten different colors, aud floating bows and ends on top and ou the handle. Lace i not put ou as a ruffle, but " appli!'1. as a bordering, and embroidery on and gauze is also used.
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