Rates of Advcrtitii. A A A IS PUDLISItKD EVEHY WKDNKHDAY, BY W K. DUNN. OFFICE I ROBINSON & BON ITER'S BOILDIKO ELM STREET, TI0NE8TA, PA. TKIIMS, f2.00 A YKAR. No Subscriptions received for a shorter porlod than tliroo months. Correspondence solleltod from all part or tho country. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications. One Sqnaro (Unci,,) one Insertion - J: OnoS'juaro ' one month - - 3 (- OneH'iuare " throo months - 6 00 One Square " one year - 10 00 Two Squares, one year ... 15 Oo Quarter Col. " - - - - 30 00 Half - r0 00 One 100 00 Trfal notice at established rates. Marriapjo and death notices, gratis. Alt bills for yearly advertisements col lected quarterly . Temporary advertise ments must he p:ild for in advance. Job work, Cash on Delivery. VOL. XI. NO. 19. TIONESTA, PA., JULY 31, 1878. $2 PER ANNUM. A u f 1 I Thoughts. ABSENCE. 'TIh not absence, though afar, If hearts love-nnited are ; And, when love in 'ncalb a blight, 'Tin not presence, though In Bight. cocnAoK. Who grandly boasts when thoro's no danger Oft to truo courago is a stranger. SINCERITY. Rather silence than speech Whore1 deceit forms a part ; Italhor heart without word 8 Than tho words without heart. TRUE MOBILITY. All noble minds may meet in mind, And noble Bonis a-e kin and kind They are by time nor space confined ; The past is present, distance noars They meet across tho gulf of years, POOR RIOHEH. A man may be rich t yot, if truth were but told, Be poor as ourselves, iu the midst of his gold j Who noods what he lacks, be it word, thought or act, Though a prince in his wealth, is a beggar '.in fact. SUBMISSION. Neither pride nor ambition Help us hoavonward, bnt submission. KNDURINU FAME. B1(hh(1 haii bcon his days Wli ho name descends on children's lips in praise, By loving mothers taught To emulato his life lu duod and thought ; Whoo fame, lrom tongne to tongue, Goes down the years, iu story told and sung. REALITY. Antioipntions but enhance ; lteality oft disenchants. SUSPICION. VUtitu's best ceiiulei felts no worse can do Than cause a foul suspicion 'gainst the true. CONFIDENCE. However high, there is a chance to fall ; However low, a way to rise o'er all, ALTAR AND TOMB. We deck the weddiug-feast with flowers : The? wither in a few short hours. With immortelle's we drupe the tomb, Forevermore to live and bloom. ioiie Journal. Who Knows? The birds made such a rocket in the honeysuckle vine outside my windo that I couldn't H.eep. The moon was still in the sky, but u veiled yet lumin ous splendor in the east told that the day was breaking the day of June that began my twenty-seventh year. When I say that I 'nan a woman, and add that I was unmarried, and, worst of all, that I had lost for gogd the requisite energy that held forth any promise in that direction, it will naturally be thought that I shall make bat a sorry heroine; and it is just because of these discourag ing foots that I want to jot down this little experience of a day, as a sort of consolation to that suffering part of my sex who have latent hopes, long linger ing, unfulfilled, at times at the last gasp, then nickering up again with a sickly tenacity most painful to contemplate. But who knows what a day may bring forth ? Who knows ? I went about on tiptoe, not to awaken mamma; and I took it as a piece of in gratitude that when she came down to breakfast, and began to enjoy the toast I had so nicely browned for her, and to sniff tho fragrance of a bunch of honey suckles that I had scrambled for at the risk of a sprained ankle and the cost of a shower of morning dew upon my clean calico I thought it mean of mamma to begin about that church festival before the day hnd fairly begun. I'm so glad it's flue weather, Jane," said mamma, with great urbanity of tone and manner. " I thought I'd get up early, so that you could reach the church iu good season; and I wouldn't waste any flowers in the house, dear I'd keep them all for your table." "You know very well, mamma," I re plied, "that I'm not going to have a table. I've served my apprenticeship at tables. Long ago, when I was young and fair, I wore white, with my hair curling about my shoulders, and had the flower table, and enjoyed it. Later on, I put my hair up, and had a fancy table, and endured it with great resigna tion. Last year I hod recourse to a switch to eke out my scanty locks, and was compelled reluctantly to take the post-office. This year I sha'n't have anything; in fact, mamma, I'm not going to the festival." Mamma put down her bit of toast, and turned absolutely pale. " Not going to the festival I'1 she echoed, mournfully " No, mamma," I said, beginning al ready to plead my case. " Can't I have one birthday to myself ? I'm twenty seven years old to-day." "Oh, hush, Jane," said my poor mother. " You scream so, tho Hunters next door will hoar you, and blurt it all over the place. I'm not deaf. If you choose to give up all chance of of so ciety, and neglect your duties, and re fuse to help the church along, why, of course, I have nothing to say, only I must in that case go myself." " You I" I cried. " You'll be sick for a month afterward; you haven't been able to do anything of that kind for years." " I know it, Jane; but if you refuse to do these things, I must. I know I shall be prostrated with the heat, and my nerves will be shattered, and you are young and Btrong, and still attractive enough to compete with any young lady in the place, and might, I verily believe, if you were not so obstinate and head strong, be surrounded and admired as you used to be, and you might, for my sake, Jane, at least attend those little entertainments." Mamma put her handkerchief to her eycR, and I yielded; I groaned in flesh and in spirit, but I yielded. After I had tidied up the work, and settled mamma in the cool shady sitting-room, upon her favorite lounge, with a nice book in her hand, and a palm-leaf close by-ffor the day was growing hot I twisted up my hair before the glass, with many a sour mocking grimace at the dark, thin, discontented face there in, put on an ugly brown linen dress, a calabash of a hat, and went off to the church. My mother looked after me with such misery in her face that I called back to her that I would wear something nice in the evening. "Will you wear your rose-colored crape ?" pleaded mamma. "Will I wear spangles, and jump through a hoop ?"I Baid. " No, mamma; I'll wear my black silk." " And curl your hair ?" she coaxed. "There's a whole switch already curled for me up in my bnreou drawer, ' I replied. " It s nice this hot weather to have very little hair of one's own I" " Don't scream so 1" said poor mother, looking toward the Hunters' side win dows. As if the Hunters didn't know all about my failing charms, and no doubt took an inventory of them half yearly to send abroad to the eldest son", who had been awny in China these five years and more, and would likely never come back again. At least he had written to me to that effect when he went away. I had the old letter yet in a secret recess of that same old bureau where lay the con venient switch of hair. Time was when-1 needed no curls shorn from maidens across the seas or manufactured from home material. I had plenty of my own. Jack Hunter cut one of them off with his penknife that night when wo parted. " I don't know," said he, savagely, whether I most hate you or love you; but I'll keep this to remember the girl lio flirted and fooled away the truest iffeetion a man ever had for a woman." He hacked the curl from my head with his penknife, and looked at me as if he was half tempted to do me further butchery; and God knows I didn't care then if he had, drawn the knife across flv throat; I should not have resisted him. " Don't go, Jack I" I cried out at last, holding the edge of his coat. " Don't sronyway, so far as China; if yon do, I shall commence to dig a hole when yon get there. They sny that China is right under us, and I'll begin with a tittle pick and shovel as soon as we get news of your arrival. Then you can begin on your side, and we'll meet each other half-way." He flung me from him with something like an oath. "You wonld joke and laugh over my grave," he said, and went away, not to come back again. Who would have believed it possible ? That the years would come and go, the. sweet summers bloom and fade, the hetirt of the roses lose strength and fail and fall away, to come again as sweet, as Btrong, as fresh as ever, and Jack, my Jack, never come back to me ? Yet he was not dead nor wed. That was one good thing. And he was out there among those women with narrow eyes and stinted feet, and he didn't as yet know a word of tho language. He was growing fat, he-wrote home to his peo ple next door, and bald, which didn't matter on the top of his head so long as he could keep enough to cultivate a pig tail. This was necessary, as he meant to set up for a Chinese mandarin, and was already embroidering a gown for the purpose on spare nights. And JI felt, when they read me the letter, that it was Jack's turn now to make merry, when other hearts were sick and sad. If he had only sent me one little line I He showered gifts upon other people chests of tea and parcels of silk, lovely bits of decorated china, big soft beauti ful shawls of crape. He sent gewgaws and gold to so many others; if he had only given me one little word ! They must have told him I had been sorely punished; that my mischievous gayety he had whiffed out like the flame of a candle; that even the beauty of which he had been so proud and fond was gone every bit of it gone. Sleepless nights and useless repinings.long, weari some days, endless years filled with wild yearning for that which seemed forever hopeless, had robbed me of all. The old bloom of the heart took with it the crimson cheek, the laughing eye, and the light, elastic step. Even my hair fell out. Alas I poor me, the flesh fell from my bones. As I hinted before, it was not a very alluring object that greeted me in the glass on the morning of my twenty-seventh birthday. "Aroint thee, witch I" I cried, and wiped away with the hand-towel some salt tears that fell upon the dimity bu reau cover, and upon the grave of sad, Bwcet memories. Then I put on my ugly brown dress, and the hideous bon net to match, and went off to the church, pausing at the portal to look longingly over at the cool, quiet graves of our old neighbors. A soft wind stirred the long grass there; a few birds hopped lightly and fearlessly about. ITow o&lmly, calmly smile the dead Who do not therefore grieve !" "The Yea of heaven is Yea," I said, and went on into the church where the ladies were errouned around the straw berriea that Jiad just arrived, I took possession of a whole crate of those, sending the young and pretty maidens home to recruit for the evening. There were a few faint, polite remon strances when I declined to take any ac tive part in the evening's entertainment. "We must leave that part to the young and attractive," I said, and there was a general buzz of acquiescence. I had the consolation of hearing several re marks upon my extraordinary good sense and practical capability. I was graciously allowed, after I had hulled a whole crate of strawberries, to hold a step-ladder and some nails for Mrs. Smith, the apothecary's wife, while she hung some gorgeous drapery, and otnerwise deiormed the cool gray walls of our little chapel, so that I was pretty well tired when I went home at night fall. Mamma met me at the gate, and looked at me so dolefully that I burst out laughing. "Never mind, mamma," said I; "I won't look so cadaverous after I'm rested and dressed for the evening." But I'm afraid I was rather a painful object for the gaze of a doting and once ambitious mother when I had donned my black silk, and was ready for the evening. My hair was neither crimped nor curled. You see, I had depended upon the switch, which was bought for purposes of that kind, and failed me ignominiously at the last moment My head ached, and I could not bear many hair-pins thrust into my scalp; in no other way would the obstinate thing be induced to stay on. Mamma was heart-broken, and I was perverse at times, I thought perhaps the switch was grieving over a beloved and lost head of which it was once part and parcel, and I forgave it, and left it to its perverseness from that time on ward. When I reached the church I was im mediately seized upon for something they called "the grocery counter" an innovation brought about by the advent of a well-to-do grocer in our midst, a widower, a stock-raiser and a man afflict ed with many maladies, of which he loved to talk. He had generously sent down from the city, in pound packages and tin cans, samples of his available goods, and proposed this " grocery counter" to the young ladies, which they despised and would have none of. The grocer himself found favor in their sight. They flitted about him, filled his button holes with bouquets, his pockets with bon-bons; they looked up in his face, and tried to talk to him, poor childrenl as beet they could. But they appealed to me to take the ugly counter, with its sordid pound packages for home necessity, and I took it with an ill-concealed avidity. The truth was, a kind of heart-sickness seized me when I thought that tho eve ning must be passed in making myself generally agreeable, and I felt that to wander about this place, distorted out of its sweet savor of godliness and quiet rest so dear to a weary soul to wander about among the flags and wreaths and teuts and arbors, with a smile for one, a nod for another was like the protracted and agonizing pilgrimage of a lost soul beyond the boarders of the Styx. So I speedily put myself behind the counter, which comfortably hid more than half my tall, gaunt figure, and was so glad of the shelter that I fouud my self becoming interested in these de spised articles piled up before me. I determined, if I could, to make my mission a success, so that I and other poor weary women might have this refuge to fly to in these gala seaeons of misery. The successful grocer, who had hot been very well pleased with the open in gratitude for his bequest, took heart and brightened up when he saw me giving an air of smartness to his goods. He extricated himself from a bevy of young and fair ones, and came generously over to help me. In Bheer gratitude I began to praise nis young colt that was pastur ing in a field adjoining our garden, and he remained with me. Shortly after, when he found that a queer feeling in nis noaa agreed with the same discom fort in my poor cranium, he brought a cnair ueuiuu tue counter, ana in a low, tender voice he detailed to me tho inter esting diagnosis of his pet malady. wu mo uiuoi biuu ui ma uis minister 8 son, who was home from college, and suf fering from that period of egotism which comes to young men of his kind, re mained during the entire evening, to show his contempt for the young, the fair, the frivolous. A few old married friends, whose wives were sick or away, hovered about the grocery counter, so that it really did happen that I was sur rounded by men. The evening was passing pleasantly enough. My dark corner was well patronized, and every woman who hrs to do with church en tertainments will understand my grati fication and relief when I found it was nearly ten o'clock and all was well. At this time a letter was put into my hand by one of the post-oflice messengers we always made a feature of ,he post office at our festivals, where pink and parti-colorod missives, with doves and other doting designs upon the envelopes, were distributed at extravagant rates of postage. I had just been favored with a liberal offer from a customer, and, elatod with my bargain, proceeded to Eut up my bundles, not giving much eed to the love-letter from the neigh boring booth. Truth to say, I felt a ltttle tingling of the blood at the idea of the mockery that might be concealed therein by one of those witty village youths, and the letter lay there for a full half hour, when somebody suid, in the most commonplace way. "So Jack Hunter is back from Chiua." In a moment every thing was black before me. I dropped my hands and my eyet to the counter, and when this sudden dizziness was gone, I saw upon the little tawdry envelope Jack's scrawl ing handwriting. Here was the little line I had coveted all these years, and this is what my half-blinded eyes made out: "I came home because I was mad to see you because all these years, and your old perfidy couldn't kill my love for you. I find yon just as I expected to, in a space small enough to be filled outside and inside with men. You are as beautiful and fascinating as ever, and as fond of admiration. I hear that you are about to be married to the grocer at your elbow, who so engrosses your atten tion that you do not care to look at the passers-by. God help him, and God bless you I I have had my lesson. Now I shall, perhaps, be satisfied. Good-by." Five minutes after that I was running home, without my hat, and with his note crumpled up in my hand. The people at the festival no doubt thought that mamma was taken suddenly ill. They could not have fancied I was running after Jack, because he had been there at the church for an hour, and I had been totallv unconscious of his presence. Dear heaven ! how could it be that I didn't know, that something didn't tell me, that I didn't feel he was near mo ? But I didn't. I went on talking to the grocer about a remarkable operation for an ulcer that he had undergone, when Jack must have been only a few rods away! I ran down the road, my heart in my throat. Fortunately the village street was deserted. Every man, woman, and child were at the festival, except those who could not be out at all; so I ran on unchecked, a dim fear gain ing weight with me that Jack had not unpacked his trunk, and was off to China again within the hour. But when I reached his house, which was next door to my own, I saw him sitting out on the balcony smoking a cigar, with his feet perched upon the railing. But his face grew very pale in the moonlight, and his feet clattered quickly down upon the porch when he saw me run in at the gate. Thecigar fell from his lips, the ashes tumbling over his broad white waistcoat. " Why, thank God," he said, "this must be my own dear little girl. Now, see here, Jenny," he began, scolding, a minute after; but he kept tight hold of me, and trembled fully as much with happiness as 1 did. Nothing can persuade him that I am not a desperate flirt, as beautiful as an angel, and irresistibly fascinating. I have not the least doubt' that half the village ore laughing at Jack's ridiculous devotion and jealousy; but the well- meant endeavors of his friends and fam ily to convince him that I am a piain, faded, unattractive, and neglected old maid he laughs to scorn as a conspiracy of envy or jealousy. And how can I wonder at his delusion? Mamma says Jack has terribly nged during these years of loneliness and exile, and looks older and not so comely as our neighbor the grocer; but to me he is still the handsome, alluring, in everyway adora ble Jack. He is walking up and down the little balcony next door at this pres ent moment, ana hidden by our odorous honeysuckle vine, I am listening to him trill out the last words of his favorite ballad: " So girls be true while your lover's away, For a oloudr morning, for a cloudy m o orn ing Oft proves a pleasant day." Harper's Weekly. A Steam Balloon. Another invention, which is occupy ing the scientific world of Paris, is the Guglielmini steam balloon. If the ex periments answer the inventor'B hopes this balloon will be one of the wonders of this age of wonders. The invention is based on eight points: 1. Ascension power. 2. Translative horizontal and dingonal power. 3. Safety against accidents. 4. Direotion from one point to another given point. 5. The material employed in the construction of serial steamboats. 6. Perfectly serial archi tecture. 7. The disposition of the ns- coutive power. 8. The manoeuvres on board and the degree of temperature of lerostat. The gas employed is hydrogen. disposed in twelve globes instead of one. Once m the air, the boat, which is oblong like a ship, is moved on by two steam engines placed underneath the heeL Thus is cuts the air like other boats cut the sea. With an engine of fifteen horBe-power thirty metres are made in a second. The acting manoeu vres consist in passing the excess of hydrogen in the globes into others re served expressly for the guidance of the boat, and then repassing them into their first globes, according to the descent or ascent which may be required . Rosewood. It has puzzled many to decide why the dark wood so highly valued for pianos, aud iu those times bo cleverly imitated, should be called rosewood. Its color, certainly, does not look like that of a rose, but when the tree is first cut, the fresh wood possesses a strong, rose-like fragrance; hence the name. There ore half a dozen or more kinds of rosewood trees found in South America and in the East Indies and neighboring islands. Sometimes the trees grow so large that planks four feet broad and ten feet in length can be out from them. These broad planks are principally used to make tops for piano fortes. When grow ing, the rosewood tree is remarkable for its beauty ; but such is its value in manu factures as an ornamental wood, that some of the forests where it once grew abundantly, now have scarcely a single specimen, in Madras tue government has prudently had great plantations of this tree set out in order to keep up tl supply, TIMELY TOPICS. In Paris, year by year, there is a uni form increase in the prevalence of diph theria, due, it is alleged, in a great measure to a neglect to isolate cases of this disease. It is only a few years since New Zen land was associated in our minds with the idea of cannibal savages. Now we find that there are no less than 924 miles of government railroads in operation. Of twenty-eight railroads that made returns for the first three months of this year, seven show a decrease on last year's business $347,331. The other twenty-one roads show an increase of $2,619,900. It is stated that there are 8,000,000 pupils enrolled in the public schools of the United States. The average daily attendance is 4,500,000. The estimated population between six and sixteen years of age is 10,500,000. The canning of meats, fruits and vege tables has become an immense business. In Maine over 5,000,000 cans of corn are packed annually, the sales of which amount to $1,150,000, giving employ ment to 10,000 people during the pack ing season. The number of teeth at maturity is, thirty-two or sixteen to each jaw. The eight front ones are called cutting teeth, and the two next on each side are called dog or eye teeth. The two next are two pointed teeth. and the three next on each side are called rnolares, or grinders. The two last are called wisdom teeth, as they are cut last. A romnntio incident of every-day life occurred iu Brooklyn the other day, when a pretty girl of twenty chased a man who had stolen her pocketbook, and, having overtaken him, learned that it was his first offense, went home with him, gave him money, and then sued for his pardon at the police court. Tho man was at heart honest, but was driven to the theft by the sight of his starving family. We learn from an exchange that the Napanee Paper Manufacturing Com pany, Canada, manufacture "table cloths" from rolls of white paper, sixty throe inob.es wide and of any desired length. Since paper is used for bed quilts, shirt fronts, collars, floor cover ing, and so on, we don't see why it can not vo made to do duty for covering dinner and supper tables, especially for large gatherings, where quantity of covers is of more importance than quali ty. A singular affair recently happened near Lynchburg, Ya. While Colonel A. H. Fulkerson was riding over his farm he was attacked by about one hundred swallows, who assailed him with groat chattering and pecked nway lustily at his faee and clothing. He was at first amused at the puny assaults, but the wounds which they soon inflicted upon his face and neck convinced him that he had nothing to laugh at, and he barely escaped with his life. John D. McCabe is prosecuting at torney for the eighth district of Arkan sas, a leading lawyer of the State, and has been a candidate for the United States senate. He lately eloped with his sister-in-law. after wntiner as follows to his wife: "God knows I deplore the anguish this letter will cause. The world may well denounce me for the step I am about to take, ns I am leaving Kiy wife, lamiiy, Home, all. To refer to the past would be an insult, but in the future I can only look to God to protect yon." Mrs. McCabe fell in a fainting fit, and has since been a maniac A fashionablv-dresfled man went into Punt fe Iloskcil's large jewelry store in Bond street, London, selected articles worth $1,000, and teudered a thousand pound note in payment. Mr. Roskell ascertained that the note was a forgery. Just as he was about to summon assist ance, a cab was drawn rapidly up and two men iu police uniform hurriedly en tered, saying that the man was an old offender of whom they were in Bearch. Directing a porter to place the jewelry in the cab and to come along with them as a witness, tho men in uniform said that they would intorm the firm when tuoir attendance wonld be required to press the charge. Then they drove off with their prisoner, leaving the jewelers loud in their praises of the proficioncy of the police. Next day, however, their porter, brutally beaten, returned with the information that the two supposed police officers were thieves in disguise. A Tokio correspondent gives the par ticulars of the recent assassination of Mr. Oknbo, minister of the interior for the Japanese Empire. The day named had been set apart for a'snoeial meeting of the Emperor's cabinet at the Dai-Jo Kwan, near the palace, and about eight o'clock in the morning Mr. Okubo left his residence in a carriage to attend the council. Just before reaching the palace gate, at an open space near one of the city moats, his carriage was suddenly stopped by a band of armed assassins, six in number, who were ljing iu wait for him. The assassins were each armed with swords; they first killed one of the horses and the coachman; they then fell upon tho minister, who was entirely un armed and helpless, and hacked him al most to pieces. The murderers then gave themselves up to the police. Mr. Okubo was the Emperor's favorite min ister and a man of great energy of ehar ucter. Items of Interest. Why ia a ship tho politest thing in the world ? Because she always advances with a bow. Intelligent girls should marry farm ers, because thoy are men of 'culture agriculture. Agriculture and mechanism build up the country, while commerce and manu factures build the cities. Of a barber's shop that was formerly a law office the paper says that people get shaved there just the same Four things are grievously empty A head without brains, a wit without judg ment, a .heart without honesty, a purse without money. "Suppose I should work myself up to the interrogation point ?" said a beau to his sweetheart. "I should respond -with an exclamation I" was the prompt reply. Mago, a Carthagenian, wrote twenty eight large volumes on farming, and the Roman Senate ordered it translated into Latin for the use of the Roman people. "See," said a sorrowing wife, "how peaceful that cat and dog are. " " Yes, " said the petulant husband, "but just tie them together, und see how the fur ill fly 1" In London, from 1838 to 1852, the average annual death rate from small pox was 540 per million. In the twenty five years of compulsory vaccination (1853-77) it declined to 314. The secret of war has been well de fined by an unknown Chinese author: " Soldier he come on, he come on, ho come on quite nenr, we go 'way. ITow can two men stand on one spot so ?" Life-preserving Rules: 1 Never dis turb a dog wheu he is eating. 2 Never interrupt an editor when ho is reading proof. 8 Never call upon a housewife when Bhe is up to her elbows in a wash tub. 'lis sweet when the rose drops to Bleep, And swift to its nest flies the dove, When the first star from heaven doth peep, ' And bosoms are throbbing with love, To sit with your fair one, wbo beams With the powerful sweetness of yore, And glide into loveliest of dreams, As she tickles your noso with a straw. What our great men are doing Thomas Ewiug has been blown up in a Mississippi steamer. Disraeli is a tramp at Ottawa. James Madison has been acquitted of a charge of burglary at St. Louis. Daniel Webster, a shoemaker, of Washington, has been fighting in a lawsuit about a pair of boots he made for Johu O. Breckenridge. It is a peaceful, refreshing sight to see a female negligently reclining against tho softly-cushioned seats of her fash ionable landeau, smiling sweetly to her friends as she passes them on the aven ue, while her placid face is shaded by a cardinal Bilk parasol. More peaceful far thau to think of her crossing a five aero lot on foot with that wild sunshade oscil lating in the air and an inquisitive bo vine following her in hot pursuit. Little Johnny is visiting his grand father. This is an extract from a letter . to his mother: " Potato bugs is plenty, an I enjoy 'em very much, 'cause they makes gran'father swear, an' every time he biles over he spills his false teeth, an he always forgets where he spills 'em an he hires ns to roust 'em out. So yer see huntin's good here. Ho pays us iu pigs, an' 'fore the sesin's over I think ile have enuf to start a swine shop. Tell Sam Jenkins, 'cause it'll make him hop- Ein' mad to know ime hevin such a inanzer." Gambling in Chicago. A Chicago correspondent writes: I strolled into tho Tivoli, a beer garden, restaurant, lunch-room, and ladies' re sort combined. A huge fountain played in the ceutte, g'sh swam in a minia ture lake, soun If made melody, and from tho v&VlmKe hung some of Bier- ftudt's choicest paintings. Over a door I saw painted "Pool room," and journal- ' istio curiosity prompted me to enter. Tho walls were covered with black boards, on which were placed rows of lifrares and cabalistic signs. In the centre of the floor, seated on benches. were about a hundred young men in tently listening to a man in his shirt -Bloeves, who, with a long waud in his hand, was evidently delivering a scien tific lecture, using the figures on the blackboard as au illustration. In one corner of the room a telegraph was at work, and messages received by the operator were constantly being bunded to the " professor." The students were each furnished with note books, and occasionally addressed themselves to the learned man, showing the deep interest they took in the subject of the lecture. Hail I made a mistake? Was this a university established for the intellec tual development of clerks and salesmen? Nothing of the k'nd. The faro bunks in tho city had at last been broken up, the bunko rooms were closed, aud the voiceii of the " capper " and the " Bteerer " were heard no moro in the laud. But inventive genius devised this scheme. Those present were bettiug on every thing in the sporting world. There was a baseball match in progress in Indianap olis, and pools were being sold on tho eighth inning. Thore were trotting matches at East Saginaw, a billiard match between Slossou and Sexton in New York, a boat race between Harvard aud Yale, hors races in Euglaud, wrest ling matches on the Pneitto coast, and on all of these money was changing hands, the steady click of. the telegraph heard, and the professor with his wa; was talking glibly in a jargon whi. ' the uninitiated, was as uniutelliV'' Sauserit or Chwtiiw, f
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