n cm Rates of Advertising. One Square (1 incli,)ono Insertion - f! One .Square " ono month - - 8 Ofl One.Square " three months - 6 00 One Square " ono year - 10 00 Two Squares, one year ... 15 To Quarter Col. " - - - - 30 00 Half " - - . - 1 50 00 Ono " " - - . - 100 00 Lftgal notices at establiMhod rates. Marrlnrond dentil notices, gratis. All l)ils for yearly advertisements col lofted quarterly. Temporary advertise merits must lio paid for in advance. Job work, Cash on Delivery. 18 PUBU'"KD EVI:ky WKONJOSUAY, BV W I. UtJNN. OFFICE M ROBINSON A BONNIER BUILDINO ELM STREET, T10NE8TA, PA. TERMS, 12.00 A YKAll. anonymous communications. ' VOL? XI. NO. 23. TIONESTA, PA., AUGUST 28, 1878. $2 PER ANNUM. 1 Grannlr. A grand old man, Built after the olden plan; A muscular body, a massive head, A man to valuo the longor be livos A man to remember when dead. I Winn yon miht too him Hit back at bin ease (Awako or asloepj as you pjeare), While be whiffg and he whiews And I road him the now. "Who's killed to-day ?" lie ankn In titn fcrminnf ... " "j t "And what have thnv utnlnn Hi in iims n i.a o " " w.uw, inu i The rascals they thrive like 'puHloy' in peas T..1 - 1 t i . .... iju wurin, poy, uau very baa I Thou for that lndioona perch of the eye While the pipe gots a slide To the other aide, Whoro he puffs and poohs, Keeping tip with the nows. A character I When he begins, "I toll ye sir," 'Tis woith a whole bo jk of your modern talk Thou tho Bilonce after his ' 'nay" The solemn shuffle of his walk And tamping of bis cane. You may put down Whsn yon see tbat f i own, And hn dim gray lights unusually clever, Ho'h al out to settle some subject forever. He's so complete From his head to his feet, Iunule and out so made to keep 1 There's no one foature before the rest: Ho makes yon laugh and be makes you weep, Ho stops the holo iu your soul; He softens the tough And levels the rough, As be snoozes and smokes And preaches and jokes. His children and wife Have gooo to tho bolter lifo, And not a companion is left; But he says : "They've only the start that's all," And you never wonld think him bereft He wears the cajmcst face on the farm, And with a genuino stamp of joy Often declares he's "young as a boy I" Still be smiles aod be smokes Between sermons and jokes. A grand old man, BuMt after ihe olden plan; A ma cular body, a massive head, A man to valuo the longer he lives, A man to remember when dead. Years yet may be limber his cricks. This pecrlen old son of the past 1 Aid may I be the last While be wh ffs and whews, To listen or read him the news 1 Sunday AfUrnoon. A LITTLE BROWN DOG, He was a poor little fellow, errand boy in the large grocery of Rice, Cloves & Co. (I dou't mean the brown dog, but Harry Jack low), and ho earn-! just two doll urn a week. Sixty cents of this went for car fare he lived so far from the store that he was obliged to ride to and from it and the rest to his mother, who, with that and the eight dollars a week she received from the cloak factory where she worked, supported herself, her children Harry, twelve years of age, Eddie, seven, and Jennie, two and Mr. Jacklow. Mr. Jacklow was her hnsband, and tho less said about him the better. I'll merely.state that he could sit in a rocking-chair and smoke and think longer than any man I ever knew. But besides this two dollars a week, narry, who was a bright-eyed, willing, whistling young chap, sometimes got a two or five cent piece, or, more rarely, a dime, fr m his employers' customers when, the grocers' wagons being over loaded or the customers in a great hurry, he carried home their purchases for them. And it was this money he had been Baving ever siuoe the 1st of Janu ary, for the purpose of having a- good time on the next holiday. On Christmas day they had a real nice time at his house. Ilia "boss" had given him two dollars, and the superin tendent of the place whero his mother worked had given her one, and some body (they had never found out who) had sent them a large turkey, and the dressmaker down stairs had put a box of tools in Eddie's stocking dear me! what am I sayiDg? she couldn't have done that; I meant to say sb had given Ned a box of tools, and Jem doll, in the name of Santa Glaus hd Harry had presented his mamma with a new coffee-pot, and his -mamma presented him with a woolen comforter and a pair of woolen gloves, and Mr. Jacklow had bought himself a new pipe; and when Harry saw how happy they all were, he quickly made up his mind to give them a party on the very next holiday, which wonld be the Fourth of July. It was the 3d of July when my story commences, and narry had kept his res olution of saving every penny outside of his wages, ne had had to pass many a heap of rosy apples without glancing at them, run away . from many peanut stands, force himself not to look into the tempting windows of the candy stores, and go by on the other side when he knew himself near a well-known bakery, to do so; but he had done so, and now his reward was near. The house in which he lived was an old-fashioned one in an up-town street. A quarter of a century ago it hail been a small farm-house surrounded by mead ows, but now it had a large tenement house on each side, and a whole row of brick buildings in front of it. But one splendid old oak tree still stood before the door Bully to tack pin-wheels on," said Harry to himself, and there was any number of children arnnnd ti cry "Oh I" and " Ah I" as the fire-works went on. I have "always noticed that wlien a boy is setting off fire-works, the more ah-ing and oh-ing there is, the Brighter the fire-works look to that boy, Tir .11 tt 111 t . . . v oii, iiurrj uau laiu out me supper in his mind as follows: Ice cream, a whole qunri, tweive cent sponge cake, five Bucks or molasses candy. Ditcher of lem onade, apple pie, half a pound of cheese and some baked potatoes Mr. Jacklow naeu Daiceu potatoes. And he meant to get his mother and the rest of them out of the room (send them down to visit the dress-maker, who at the last moment was to be let into the secret). set the table himself, and then, when all was ready, call them np again. Wouldn't it be fun to look at their faces when they saw the ice cream, and the RnnnffA Aalra avi1 IIia -.Al.n.... i and the lemonade and tbe apple pie, and the cheese, and the baked potatoes I It would be almost as good as the circus. Harry had been th re once, and had never forgotten how delightful it was. And then after the supper was over, and '""J hiuku me entertainment nr. an end, wouldn't it be fun again to see their faces when he invited them down on the front stoop to see the pyrotech mo (look in your dictionaries) display I So Harry hail been flavin f nnii bait. ing, and saving, until he found himself on the evening of the 3rd of Jnlv with one dollar and eighty-two cents in his rignt-band trousers pocket. Times had been hard, very hard, since the new year began, and people had looked very sharply after their small change, or it is likely he would have had double that amount. "But." he said to himnlf a dollar will get the feast, and the win ouy at least a dozen nice fire Ml 1 - works. He got home from the store that AVA ning too late and too tired to go out for me mings lie wanted, but the next morning he was np before the sun rose and the sun rises pretty early during the summer months- and dressed and out in tho street as the first sunbeams told the eastern sky morning had come ine streets were almost deserted, and no tire crackers or pistol-shots yet broke the alienee, uut oeiore he had walked a block some cannons boomed in the dis tance, and a peal of bells nearer by be- iuu nugiog lanKee uooaie very nrnly. Whittling, and jingling the wins in his pockets in tune and time ith the mnsio of the bells, and wishing the stores where he meant to buy the naterialB for his party would open, he launtered slowly along until he reached the dog pound a place where all stray I 4l V I 1 ,. . - iugu rts isseu in noi weamer and Kept a lay or two, so that their owners may. if they choose, peek and reclaim them. If found to bo friendless at tho end of that time, the poor tumors are put in a larce tank prepared for that nnrnose. and Irowned. Harry heard the imprisoned docs barking and yelping; and stopping a moment to listen to them with a rjitvinir look on his faoe for. like all kind. hearted boys, he dearly loved animals he saw. sitting upon the door -r ton. a very pretty little girl. She wore a faded calico dress and a blue checked gingham apron; the apron she held gathered np in her hand, as though it held something of value, and her head and feet were bare. Her large eyes were of a soft brown, and her hair, of the same color. hung in straggling curls about her face. lbere wasn t another creature, man. women or child, with tho exception of a milk man on the next block, in sight, and Harry looked at her with surprise. At last he f aid, with a smile, " I thought I got up early, butyou must have got up much earlier than I did. " "I've been here all night. " said the child, in a sweet, patient voice. Hero all night I" repeated Harry. with a long whistle. " Good ermoious 1 what 'd you do that for ?" Uause I want to go in the very min ute the door opens. My Prince " with a sob " is in there. ' " Your dog ?" asked Harry. "Yes. He's the dearest little brown dog in all the world, and I love him best of every thing 'cept granny, and I love him just the same as her when she scolds, and my mamma brought him home one day just before she went to heaven, and I've had him ever since, and he's the best dog that ever lived, and never did anything wronor in his life cept once, when he stole a piece of boiled corned beef somebody d set out in the back arey to cool, and he wouldn't have done that 'cept he knew how hungry granny and me was;" and the tears roll ed down her cheeks. "Oh I I'm so sorry ! Don't cry. "said narry. "Here, take my handkerchief and wipe your eyes." "They'll kill him." commenced the child again, "if I can't coax them to let him out. and I don't want him to go to heaven that way. I'd rather we'd both o together; and he could run on in front, and then mamma 'd say, 'Why, here's Prince Nellie must becoming. " "Are you sure he Bin there r asked Harry. "Oh yes. He was plavine by our door yesterday afternoon, 'most night, and I was poking chips in the Btove to make the kettle boil, and I beard him calling like he was in some trouble, and I run out, and two awful men had him iu a cart, and Jimmy O'Neil said they was going to take him to the pound. So I run after the cart without putting my hat on, and soon it went so fast I oouldn t see it, and then I asked every body where the pound was. I 'membered the name by thinking of a pound of brown sugar; and at last I got here, and it was shut up, and bo I staid here all night; and do you think they'll open it soon ?" "What are you going to do when they do open it?" asked Harry. Qo in and bear the doc man tn civ a Prince back. He's such a little dog they won't miss him." "But he won't give Prinoe back unless you pay two dollars," said Harry. "I haven't any money not a cent," said the child; "but I've brought these," rising and holdin- 'ier apron, which held a tiny ohinr .1, a headless oat of the same materitw, a string of glass beads, two pink motto papers, and a round white shell. "These were all give to me Christmas," she said; "and I've kept them good, all 'cept the cat, and her head's in my pocket, and he can stick it on somehow, and the candies out of the mottoes I ate one and gave the other to granny and the man may have them every one if he will let poor Princey go." "I'm afraid he won't take them," said Harry, shaking his head. "He won't ? Oh, dear t what shall I do?" cried the child. "My dear little dog I my dear, dear little dog 1" "Don't I don't 1" begged Harry, tbe tears starting in his own eyes. "You shall have Prince. I have a dollar and eighty-two cents, and I'll borrow the other eighteen cents from my mother." The little girl's face lit up with joy; she thrust the toys into his hands. "Take them, you good, good boy " she said, "and 1 11 tell my mamma about you when I aay my prayers to-night." Harry put them back in her anron. "You keep them till I come back," he said: "I won't be gone but a little while; and away he ran to his home. There he found his mother making the fire, and his father smellinar the coffee she had measured out ready for boiling, "Mother," said he, "will you lend me eignieen center "I intended to give you ten," she said "for your Fourth of July. But why do you want ii so eoriy in the morning I" -jL'iease, mammy." coaxed Harry. make it eighteen, and I'll pay it back to you soon; and may I have a slice of bread and butter for a poor little crirl I'll tell you all about it by-and-by ?" "I can t make it eighteen." said hia mother; "I haven't another cent. Take the ten if you want it. It's in mv nock ct-book in the top bureau drawer, and the bread's on the table. Don't bother me any more I'm in a hurry." Harry helped himself, and then he ran away to where Nellie Datientlv awaited him,' a smile of perfect trust upon ner lips. "itB all right." said Harry, tmttinir the bread in her hand (an unoommon thick slice it was, too, with plenty of i ii ...-.inif. uuiter;; --eai mat. liy tuiB time there was a number of people in the street, and pistols were oeing nrea and torpedoes and fire-crack era set off, and all the bells beean line- ing. And Harrylooked at the ioe-cream stand, which the owner a jolly-faced oiu woman, wno nan just arrived with i bag and a basket of fruit, cakes and can dy was preparing for the day, and at an early rocket that was troinir ud in the say; ana ne tnonght cf tne long time he had been saving the money,, and of the intended supper, and the tire-works and the tenement-house children oh-ing and ah-ing; and then, the door of the pound being opened, he took Nellie by the hand and marched in. " Is there a little brown doe here?" he asked. "Named. Prince?" said Nellie, her lov9 making her bold" a dear little dog?" " Ha! ha!" laughed the man: " that's good. Why, there's fifty brown dogs nere, ana au .01 em dear,' I think. Two dollars apiece. Dy you want to get one out? "Yes, sir," said Herry "if you'll take a dollar and ninety-two cents all I have. At this moment, a tall. dark, odd- looking gentleman came into the door way and stood just behind the children. "Can't do it," said the man. "it's against the law to take less than two dollars." Nellie began to sob again, and the tall gentleman came forward. A " Your dog?" he asked Harry. J " No, Sir; hers," replied the boy. " Your sister?" was the next qnestion. " No, Sir. I never saw her (till this morning. I came out to buy some things for a Fourth-of-July party, and I took a walk down this way 'cause the shops wasn't open, and I found her sit ting on the door -step, and she'd been sitting there all night." " All night!" repeated the gentleman, just as Harry had done, only without tho whistle. " Tell me all about it." And he looked so kind and good that Harry did tell him all about it. And when the story was finished, the gentle man said to the man at the door, "You'd better take the money Lewis. But wait we'll see if Prince is really here.'" And led by their new friend, the chil dren went in. There were dogs of all kinds there, all shapes, all sizes, all colors that dogs could be yelping, barking, growling, and moaning. Nellie looked eagerly around, and shouted " Prince!" as loud as she could shout, bdt could scarcely hear herself, so great was the noise. But a little brown dog, whose ears must have been much sharper than hers, sprang for ward with a cry of delight that seemed to oome out of the very top of his little brown head. "It's Prinoe! it's Prinoe ("cried Nellie, clapping her hands in delight; and the next moment he was in her arms, ooreving her face with dog kisses. Harry marched out, handing the door man the money as he passed. The tall gentleman followed with the little girl and her dog; and when they were all in the street once more, he stooped and patted Prince on the head, at the same time tucking narry'B handkerchief, which was hanging half way out, into , I h.s jacket pocket, and saying, "You'll loHe that if you're not careful my boy." Then he kissed both' children and went into the pound again. And Nellie threw her arms around Harry's neck and gave him a good hug, and told him she should love him forever, and made him promise to come and see her and Prince; and they parted. "And that's the end of our Fourth-of-Jnly party," said Harry, a short time after, to the Jacklow family, as he fin ished his breakfast and his story at the same time. "You're a good boy, and did just right," Baid all the Jacklow family, with the exception of Mr. Jacklow, who re marked mildly that "that dollar and ninety-two cents wonld have kept him in tobacco a long while." And baby Jennie came and gave her big brother a sweet kiss in fact, a very sweet kies, for Borne of the sirup which she had been eating on her bread and butter went with it; and as Bhe toddled away, Harry pulled out hia handkerchief jo wipe his uouth. It came out with a terk, and four bright new silver half dollars came with it, and falling on the floor with a pleasant sound, rolled away toward the corners as fast as they could. But they were pounced upon before they had rolled a foot. " The tall gentleman 1" said Harry. " God bless him !" said his mother. ' Three cheers for our side I" shouted Eddie, and proceeded to give them. "I wish I had the morning paper," said Mr. Jacklow. And there was a party, after all, and besides the family there were three other guests an old woman, a small girl, and a little brown dog. Harper's Weekly. Fool Dog's Record, A correspondent visiting the Sioux at otancung itock, Dakota, says: "I visit' ed, in his tepee, Shunkawi-tko, or Fool Uog, a xanktonnais whose credentials as a last friend of the whites date back the Sully expeditions, on the first which he was a most useful scout and a trusty adviser of the commanding officer, Gen. Sully, under date of July 27, 1863, writes of him that he was one of the two friendly Indians who went to the camp oi hid xumnesoia oiort, ransomed i White WOmn.n ATlrl VlAl AliiMrnn (tflntiva. and brought them safely to Fort Pierre! voi. taniey, commanding the twenty seoond infantry, in April, 1869, wrote om fooi Jjogs record, in which it written that he saved the life of a half breed captive; that he went to the San- tee camp, ransomed a little girl captured by them and brought her safely to a military post; that when acting as guide for Gen. Sully on the first expedition he killed several hostiles and captured others; that he was iu several skirmishes on the second expedition and on one occasion killed two IndianB, one of whom proved to be his own brother, whom he naa Kinea, unknowing at whom his srun was aimed; that on unother occasion he went into a tepee where three hostile emissaries were endeavonnor to incite the friendly Sioux against the whites. arrested two of the three, tied them, took them to Fort Rice and there killed them: that when Fort Bioa was attacked he rendered good service in its defense: ii-ut ne guiaea to uevu s .bake the ex pedition which established a post there and that finally he became a faithful mail carrier. Among his testimonials I saw one to which the names of Generals Sanborn and Terry were attached. To call an Indian of this country dog is to apply to him the most insulting term of contempt. To call him a fool is only a little less than an enormity. How this Indian came to be known as Fool Doc I could not learn, but I was informed that he was unpopular among hjB own people aaa coma muster only a small following, although he was long ago reoocmized as a chief. But he enjoys the favor of all whites who learn his story, and, besides his annuity and other agency allowances, under an order issued by Gen. Sully in 1863, he receives double soldier's rations (for himself and squaw) from the army quartermaster department, and has the privilege of residing at or near a military post. But when I visited him his rations for the month were about expended, and the family were eating ooiieu corn lor their only dinner dish. ' Words of Wisdom. No person is either so happy or bo un happy as he imagines. Flattery is like base coin : it impover ishes him who receives it. A man displeased with the world is never satisfied with himself. Let us search ourselves in the first, place, and afterwards the world. Dont tell unlikely and silly stories. even if you know them to be true. Knowledge and timber should not be much used until they are seasoned. Those who are honest "as the best policy," are halfway to being rogues. We are ruined, not by what we reallv want, but by what we think we want. If you must speak upon a difficult point, be the last speaker, if you can. Let our lives be as pure as snow fields. where our footsteps leave a mark but not a stain. The best portion of a eood man's lif his little, nameless, uuremembered acts of kindness and of love. A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. Great, ever fruitful, profitable for rA- proof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men. TIMELY TOPICS. Seventy thousand women live in can a boats in England and Wales. T TT11 . . . xiaruey oi t. ijouis died in convulsions on learning that her lover was a counterfeiter. Mrs. Maggie Fitzgerald, a young bride of three days, fell five stories from the roof of a New York tenement house and was dashed to pieces. New York city lias a club called the "Full-bearded Company," consisting of forty members with beards ranging in length from two feet to four feet six inches. During a hailstorm at Pakraez, Sla 1. sj t m vuuit, .wnicn lasted lour hours, one A mi si ... person was Killed, twenty-throe were fatally and 150 slightly injured. Above 400 head of cattle were killed. The harvest was destroyed, the fruit trees were broken, and even large oak and fir trees were uprooted. Among the hail stones weighed by the authorities were some or six kilogrammes apiece, say 13 j jyuuuus. California has a Portuguese popula tion of 12,000, industrious, peaceable, hardly ever in the courts, civil or crimi nal, and the most temperate class in the State. They earn their livelihood by agriculture, stock raising, dairying, gar dening, mining, and whaling. There are nine whaling companies on the coast oi uaiiiornia, composed entirely of Por tuguese. The average annual yield of tneir lapor is izs.uuo gallons of oil. A gTeat invasion of kangaroos recently occurred in various settled parts of Aus tralia, especially Queensland, the ani mals being, no doubt, driven from the interior by the drought and its effect in search of food. They came in thousands, devouring everything in the shape of herbs or grain, so that the sheep and cattle were often reduced to dry leaves for fodder. The colonists promptly met the attack, ih some cases driving the kangarooB into an enclosure and Bhooting them. Jn the battle more than 4.UUU kangaroos were killed in four days. The Pungolo of Milan, July 12. re- ports that at the town of Monzambano a detachment of carbineers entered house owned by wealthy people and ordered a certain door to be opened. A horrible spectacle presented itself. In a room with windows secured by iron oars they beheld, amid uncleanliness of every sort, a living woman deprived of speecu and bearing hardly any semblance oi a human being. This unfortunate woman had been imprisoned in that room lor forty-two years. This mons. trons cruelty was inflicted in order to prevent a marriage which would have taken from the family a large share of its patrimony. Recent eccentricities of liffhtnit.o-! At Wheeling. W. Va.. it killed a voniiD' man, breaking every large bone in his lody into small particles, but leaving no external mark of injury further than siignt scorcn on his hair. At Wap- ping. Conn., it struck the Methodist church, snatched off a woman's back hair, ran down her back, which it marked Blightly. and went out through her shoes, which was reduced to ashen. At Wellsburg, W. Va., in stru, k Thomas Briggs and left the perfect imprint of a tree on his breast. In Woodford county, Ky., two persons owned a peach tree in partnership, but they couldn't agree about the division of the fruit, and fell to disputing over it. Shortly after the tree was struck by lightning and split from top to bottom, one half falling one way and tho other the opposite. The laundry arrangements of India seem to be very peculiar. A small vil lage not far from Chombatore was at tacked by cholera. The number of the inhabitants of the village was onlv 100. and suou was the virulence of the attack that more than fifty of them were seized with the illness, and within the two months of February and March a third died A supply of medicine was dis patched to the sufferers under the charire of a hospital assistant, who on his arrival at tho place found several vil- agers employed in washinor the clothes oi tue cuoiera patients in a large well from which they derived their suduIv of drinking water. This proceeding was at once stopped, the well was closed, and a supply of water obtained from an unoontaminated source, the result being the speedy abatement of the epidemic A Chicago correspondent savs; Mr. Smith, the photographer of Chicago. has an immense frame filled with photo- graphs of children in the American department, which always has a throng of visitors around it. In the centre is a large fifteen-inch card of langhing babies, frowning babies, crvinar babies and serious babies, in all manner of atti tudes, having inscribed under it. in )rench and English, "We oome all the way from Chicago." Around this are arranged about 100 cards, each with a smiling cherub on it, making a combi nation such as is seldom seen from one establishment. Thoy are undoubtedly a tine specimen of Chicago's produetiou in this line. Everybody lias heard of Chicago in Europe, on. account of the great fire and its rapid rebuilding, and mothers and daughters Bean the faces of these little ones with peculiar interest It is regarded as a regular babv show and a much prettier eollection than can usually be found at those humbugs. i Items of Interest. that flies without wing A A bat brick-bat Cats are known twenty-one years. to reach the ago of Slave of the still Servant in a deaf and dumb asylum. Spiders seem gifted with a nearer ap proach to reason than any other insects. Early to bd and erly to Hue Will save you gome trouble from hungry flies. Twenty-four million dollars will be coined at the Philadelphia mint this year. A cistern ten feet in diameter and ten feet deep will hold 5868 wine gallons, or a little over 186 barrels. A railroad train moving twenty miles an hour day and night would reach the planet Neptune in 16,000 years. Palm leaves, straw, yncca fibres, whalebone shavings, and feathers, are used in making artificial flowers, A fashion item says " marigold" is now a popular shade of yellow. The ladies always were partial to marry-gold. It is believed by several eminent engineers that the midnight howl of a dog can be utilized to drive corn-shellera and other light machinery. Science wields a terrible power. Detroit Free Press. Beside the grand old ocean She stood in rapt devotion, With a look that eeemed to gTasp some vision ary land; Then turned about her paces, One of the bare-foot grace, And her fairy feet retreating made poet-holei in the sand. Boston Pott Charles Reade is mistaken. There are men who could never learn to use both hands with equal facility. We saw one last evening grinding a hand organ in market, and to save himself he couldn't budge the crank with his left hand, lie hod neglected to bring it home with him when he came out -of the army. And now let the old mudslinger call us a bald-headed horse thief, if he dares. Cincinnati Breakfast Table. The. records of the ancient borough of Wallingford, Berks, England, con tain the following ineuphoniouB sur names, which have been brought to light by tho Historical MSS. Commission: Three-halfpence, Brokenfoot, Timeof day, Harlbat, Waps, Kykaw, Henteeake, Sealdwater, Pntti, Pelekoc probably Shakspeare's (King Lear) Pillicock Pease wips, Peekepeni, Skikerit, Some of the femenine Christian names found are on the other hand very euphonious: Estrilda, Claria, Marcilla, Claricia, basille relics of the Roman days in Britain. The ex-deadhead of the Burlington Hawdeye Bounds this note of alarm: Last week the proprietor of the lead ing soda water fountain on Jefferson btreet took up and canceled our annual pass. We do not regret this act on his part. On the contrary, we are rather glad of it, because a conscientious re gard for the public safety and a fine sense of our duty in such matters was just impelling us to say that fountain ' soda is composed of sawdust, gravel, old glue, aqua for tis, leather chips, tan bark, iron filings, marble dust, sand. river water, red ink, orange peel, yellow soap, syrup of rhubarb, ammonia, fuse oil, hoof parings, scrap iron, soot, lard oil, lampblack, boiled tallow and India turnip. Thousands of people have drank fountain soda. We are no alarm-, ist, but where are those people now? A Patchwork Sonnet. The New York Graphic says : At a recent after-dinner seance of "literary fellers" of this city, it was proposed that four of the company well known poets of the younger generation should compose a Bonnet in collaboration. A theme was chosen, the rhymes selected, and each man wrote the portion allotted to uim apart irom tne others and in entire ignorance of their work. The first attempt was not a complete success. The subject given out was " A Wood- laud Spring." Two of the yung men introduced each a separate Dryad, and a third, with utterly illogical improprie ty, put a Lorelei into the spring. This led to a temporary lack of harmony in the meeting and an irremediable lack of continuity in the sonnet, there being too many young womeu to get along com fortably together in one woodland spring. At the next trial, however, a sonnet was prodnoed, technically correct in form and with perfect connection of sense between the different divisions,., although each contributor was complete ly in the dark as to what his colleagues were doing. As a metrical achievement this " Patchwork Sonnet " is a real curiosity of literature : OUKECE. Land of the go Is that gave us w.'ne and love, Those greatest gifts that Vate has found for men Thy shriues, in secret-honored now, were then Circled by maidens, wreathed with flower above ' J. JU. O land that Memory will not weary of, Deathless through Poesy's ooDNeorating pea Land iu whunte fadeless groves, we bear again Melodious moans from Aphrodite's dove . F. Land where white Tarthetions tower in the blue Of perfect skUs and where, in woodlands green, Ghosts of Diana flutter everywhere F. 8. 8. Ever tby liht these cold "late days gleams through : We stretch our hands to thee, iu faint drra , S'0U, Tli on to all men, throughout all V. C.
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