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Time's ranorama, ' '"MhU no rosglo glass or mystlo mattering, To road the prophecy of oomlng years; i f:e interpreter, to solve the uttering Hi lather Time, the patrlaroh of seer. '! tl. world' a stage, and life a drama, .-re aotori oome and go. pat oome no snore, " s f stare but a panorama to be, bat seen in thought before. " -1 : !' btiplit play flash on, bnt do not linger " n tempi atlon of its changing hne) 'imtead where Tune'i prophtio finger if, and behold (he cloture that he view, .-,: henoe nay, two' It does not matter a are tbe self -same stage, the aame old n aolor oonnterfelt tbe hollow clatter Worn oat long linoe by aotori passed away. linre Vioe looks mockingly on Virtue slain t There Youth and Boaaty plight tbelr troth together; . Here Borrow sits and there brood ernel Pain; There, shadow chills the friendship of fair weather. Binoerlty still aowi the toed of hatek' ' Candor and Truth go eautionrty in mask; Honesty plods; Corruption ride in itate; Labor (till bends, oomplaining,.to his task. " Stay 1" you exolaim, in aooenta discontented, " I not your oalogue complete at last ? ' Hit fature, o minutely represented, I bat the pristmt, temper 1 with tbe past 1" Aye, so It is I Youth dreams of bright successes; Manhood begins to doubt, perhaps to fear; While Age bis weakness faltering oonfei.es; And so the world rolls on, year after year, Year after yer beholds the same endeavor Of puny men for wealth or fame, and seei How biutory repeats itself forever, And Fortune still from her pursuer flees. Oue life there Is worth living, and Its beauty Transcends all charms that hopes fulfilled ran bring; , . . He ho does trustfully hi honest duty, 'Alone 1 happy, to he serf or king. THE BA&Y'S PICTURE Miss Arethnea Peppard was cut c l temper. Bhe raid she was "mad.' But it ffinht have been a mild kind of madness, for bar pleasant toico had nh a dash of sharpness, and tta fire flosheit from her sott blown -eves. Bat she ua out of temper; no doubt about that, am no wonder, tine bad left her mite vl oottaga early that April morning, an gone over to New York to bliop, and hi tbe very first store she entered a stort crowded with people buying act da and bulbs and lunw I er pocketbook, oon taininK her half-monthly allowance, had been stoleD, and sue had .been obliged to return to Sammertown without the voung lettuces and cabbages and onion sets and parsley and radish seeds that the had intended the' very next day to plant in her mite of a garden. And ' everr day lost in a garden - in early spring, as everybody knows, or ought to know, is a iosb- indeed, ana there nothing in the world so exasperating to an amateur gardener, as everybody also knows, or ought to know, than to hear from a neighboring amateur gardener "Goodrxnnrrifng, Miss Peppard. How backward you ara this year I Tour radishes are just showing, and we've had at leasfe-a dozen a day for three days past. And our parsley's up, au4 our onions doing nicely. And you nsed to be so forward I So Miss Peppard, who was . a dear little sweet-faocd, wonderfully bright old lady, living in the neatest and most comfortable manner on a small income, with a faithful colored servant-woman a few years younger than herself, a roly poly dog, a tortoise-shell oat, and three biros, had two reasons for being sorely vexed: the loss of her money and the loss bf the days which she had expected would start the green things a-growing, "All the money I had," she said to Poteona called Ona for short as she rocked nervously back and forth in her rocking chair, her eyes sparkling and her cheeks flushed. '1. only wish-1 could catch the thief. I'd send him to jail as sure as grass is green." "Dat's sho' enuf. Miss Peppar'" Peteona alwas dropped the "d'' "an' it 'd sarve 'em zackly right, w'en dey war ketohed, to be drug to de lockup by de neels. Then after a slight pause, whioh was Unas way, she added an. afterthought: "Dono, dough; s'pose dey might aa well take de pore wretch by de head." ' , i'All the money I hadl" repeated Miss Peppard; "live-and-twenty dollars; and X can t get any more for two weeks, for borrow I never did and never will. And there's the garden all laid out and ready for planting, and Mrs. Brown sets out her lettuces and cabbage plants to-morrow morning, and she II be aend ing them here with her compliments her compliments, indeed I before ours t,ave begun to bead. "If she do, I'll frow 'em ober de fonoe," said Ona. "Better eat them, dough, I guess. Her complimen's can't hurt em." " And, oh 1 my conscience I" Miss Peppard went on (she could invoke her "conscience" thus lightly, dear old lady, because she had nothing on it), " baby's picture was in that pocket book. And I can't get aiother. Polly said it was the last, and the photographer don't oome that way but once a year. "Well, well, -you are a pore soul. sympathized Peteona. "to go an' lose dat ar pioter dat lubly thing jus" like a borned angel. . An' yer sister's onliaat chile 'cept five. Wish I had dat rob ber yere dis minnit; I'd box his ears so he oooldu t set down fur a week. "He wouldn't be here long, "said hex mistress. " Of all things in the wide world, I hate a thief. I'd have him put where he'd steal nothing for a year or two at least." " Might be a she: dar's she robbers," suggested Ona; " an' dey's all wuss den caterpillars. Caterpillars takes yo' things right fore yo eyes don t sneak in yo' pookit Take a cup of tea, Miss Feppar . Uar no use of frettm no An' de cat'i ben a-settin' on yer skirt for half ax hour, wantin' you to notioe her, pore thing. Bhe jus came in off de po'oh a minnit ago." Miss reppard took the tea, and spoke to the oat; but she couldn't help fret ting, and she slept but little that night, and awoke the next morning almost as vexed as ever, and denounced the thief at intervals'of about half an hour from breakfast until dinner, although Peteona emphatically remarked: "Dar's no use cursin' an swearin', Miss Peppar'; can't do no good . Wish 1 bad dat robber here, dough." But after dinner, for whioh Ona served a soothing little stew and a cool ing cream custard, the old lady became a little calmer, and retired to her own room to write a letter to her sister Polly, who-lived .away off in Miohigan; and she had just written : " And I can't make a strawberry bed this summer, as I intended, and 1 11 have to wear my old bonnet, and dear I dear I how I shall miss baby'a picture I". Peteona opened the door tang ceremonie, as she always did, and -walked in with a mysterious air. " Pusson want to see you, Miss Peppar' man pusson. 'Bout a boy s age, I guesp. " What does be look like, and where did you leave him 7" asked the old lady, laving down her pen. and looking a lit tle alarmed. " Out on de po'eb. I lock de do. An' he's a dirty, ragged feller dat looks ius' like a dirtr. ratrged feller. Shall I broom him off, liss Peppar 7 Looks as dough he ort to be broomed off or gib eumdn to cat pore, bony, dirty soul." " I'll come right down," said Miss Peppard: and down she went. And there on the porcn stood a dim, ragged, forlorn-looking boy of about twelve yean of age, looking exceedingly " bony " and half starved, sure enougn, He pulled off his apology for a cap when Miss Peppard opened the door. imt said never A word until the old lady asked him, in a mild voice she nevt r spoke unkindly to dirt and rags: "Well, my boy, what do you want 7 ' "Then you lost your pooketbook yesterday 7 " he blurted out Tna"a&iM h Aimrlv. "That it was stolen from me : for I felt it in my pocket a moment before I missed it, Do jcu know the tblei I "I'm him." was the answer; and be raised a pair of dark eyes, that looked like the eyes of a haunted animal, to her face.' "My conscience I ".exclaimed the old lady, and fell into a chair that stood near, while reteona darted out arid seised him. shouting : " Golly I got yo' wish mighty soon dis time, Miss Pep par . Bun for de constable. 1 11 hold him. Could hold a' dozen like him or two or free." " Let him alone. Ona," said her mis tress, while the boy stood witbSt mak inor the slichtest resist anoe.T. " AinT be to be drug to the lookup 7 asked Ona, with a toss of her turbaned head. "Wait till we Lear what he has to sar." said Miss Peppard. Then turn ing to the boy, she asked, as mildly as ever : "Of course you haven't brought me back - . "Yes. I have." interrupted he. Here 'tis, money and alL 'cept what L had to take to fetch me out here. found your name in it on a card, and where you lived." " But, bless you f " exclaimed the 6ld lady, more and more surprised, "whit made you take it u you were going tc bring ilback 7 Oome into the kitchen and tell me all about it. Ona, give him a drink of milk." " I sha'nt do it &Dect robbers Brits thirsty s well as odder folks, dough." And she handed him the milk, whioh he drank eagerly. ..t , 1 mr: t. 3 "now go on, eaia xuiaa jrepparu. "Why did von steal tav Docketbook 7 and why, having stolen it, did you bring it back 7 Are vou a thiei 7 " 81)086 I am." he stammered : " but I don't wont to be no more. I wouldn't 'a took it a year ago, when my mother was alive J but she died, ana father he went to prison soon after for beatin' another -man ; and I hadn't no friends ; and it's hard gittin' along when your - mother a dead and you hain't no friends, and your father's in prison." " 'Tain't soft, dat a de fao ," said fe-i toon a, gravely. "Bo I fell in with a iraneof bad fel lers, but I never stole nothin' but dings to eat till yisterday. I oome out of the bouse ol refuge two weeks ago w nouse of refuse 1" exclaimed Pe teona, holding up her bands. "An a-settin' in my clean kitchen, on my clean oilclof I Wot nex'7" "I was there for breakin' a winder and sassin' opp," said the boy, with a show of indignation, " and nothin' else, though they did try to make me out a reg'lar bad un." And then he went on, under the influence of Miss Peppard's steady gate: "And the fellers said I was a softy not to have the game as well as the name, and so I went into that store 'cause I seen a lot of folks there, and I stole your pocketbook. And " dropping his eyes and voice there was a pioter of a little baby in it." " My sister Polly's child I" cried Miss Peppard, her wrinkled cheeks beginning to Rlow. "Heronliest child 'cept five," said Peteona. "Aad it looks like," continued the boy, bursting into tears "it. looks like my little sister." "Your little sister?" repeated Miss Peppard, her own eyes filling with tears. " is she with her mother 7 " '3 to be hoped she be," said Ona, with a sniff, " or some odder place wbar she II be washed. Her brudder a dirty nuff for a hull famly." " 8he's in a place ten miles or more from here," said the boy, " with a wo man wbo used to know motber. Mother give her fifty dollars just afore she died. She managed to save it and hide it from father somehow, to keep Dolly till my aunt in California could send for her: but my aunt's dead, too, and I'm 'fraid Dolly 11 have to go in the orphan asylum after all. Father don't care nothin.' 'bout her. But if she does, if I'm a good boy, I can go to see her; but if I'm a thief And when I saw that picture I said I will be good. It seemed as though the baby was a -lookin' at me and wantin'. me to kiss her. Nobody ever kissed me but her and my mother. Here s your pocketbook. Miss reppard took it from bis band. opened it, found its contents as he had described them, and then sat lor lull five minutes in deep thought. " i on want to be a good, honest boy," she said at last,' so as to be a credit instead of a shame to your baby Bister ?" : ' . " Yes," answered the boy. "It's mostly 'yes, ma'am,' in dese parts," corrected Ona, "Weil, in try you," said Misa pep pard. , ' " ion r starting from his chair. " Yes, I. I want some plants and seeds from 1 the store where you sto took the pocketbook, and I am going to trust you to get them for me. But be fore you go there, do you know any place where you. can buy a suit of clothes, from shoes to hat, for a very little money 7 " Yes, ma'am," answered the boy, in a voice that already had a gleam of hope in it "Second-hand Bobby's 7" " Well, go to second-hand Robert's, buy the clothes By-the-bye, what is your name 7" " Dick Poplar." . " And, Dick," continued the old lady, " do you know any place where you can take a bath 7" " 'S to be hoped he do," said Peteona. "Yes, ma'am." ' " Take a bath, tmtonthe new clothes. throw ''with a slight motion of disguBt -" the old ones away " '3 . to be hoped he will." said Peteona. , "Then go to the eeedstore and give them the note I will write for yon. And here are two nve-dollar bills. " An' dar money is soon parted I" ex claimed Peteona. "No matter 'bout de fust word." But the boy fell on his knees before Miss Peppard and sobbed outright "An hell nebber come back any mo , ' sang una, at the top of her .voice, as she went about her work that alter noon after Dick's departure "no, he'll nebber come back any mo , But he did. J ust as the sun was sink ing in the west, a nice-looking, dark- eyed, dark-haired boy, dressed in a snit ol gray clothes a little too large for bim, and carrying a package in his arms, came up the garden path to the door of the mite of a cottage. It was Dick, so changed Peteona scarcely knew bim. and the package contained the seeds and onion-sets and young lettuces and cab bages, and before dark be had planted them all, under the superintendence of Mibs Peppard, in the mite cf a garden, and Mrs. Brown had no chance of send ing her "oompliments " that season. "And now ma'am," said Dick, after supper, " I'll go. I thank you ever so much, and I wish my mother had known you. "PVhaps she knows . her now, ?aid ma. And I will be a good bey I will. indeed. With the help of uod." said Miss Peppard, solemnly. "With the help of Uod," repeated tne boy, in a low voice. " But l guess you d better stay here tonight," oontinued Miss Peppard. You can sleep in the woodhouse. Pe teona will make you a oomfortable bed there." " Shan't do no such thing t " said Pe teono, defiantly. " Ona I " reproved her mistress. " nil my disnes is wasned, i mean. Miss reppar ," said una. " And then to-morrow morning you can start lor tnac uaoy, i ve always wanted a baby. Cats and dogs and birds are well enough in their way, but a baby is worth them ail." ' (Jolly I now yonr e talkin . Miss Peppar' I " shouted Ona, " l's always wanted a baby a wile baby too, "And if you choose to stay in Ham mertown, said Miss reppard, "you may nave a home here until you can better yourself. There's plenty of work for you ; and the youth upon whom we have depended for errands and garden help, etc., is " A drefful smart, nice, perlite boy I" chimed in 'Ona ; " as lasy and sassy as he oan lib. An 1 11 call you in de morn in' w'en de birds arise, an' we'll hab dat ar angel here in a jiffy; an' won't de oat an' dog an' birds look pale w'en dar noses is outer i'mt. But dar noses '11 be as straight as ebber." The very next night a sweet baby girl with great bine eyes and fair ourla sat upon Miss Peppard's lap, looking won aenngiy about, as sue ate her supper of bread and milk, et Peteona and the dog and oat and the ' irds, whose noses, by-the bj e, were a And before 1oe(? the most pop'lar traight as ever. k Poplar became Iful, I know, but couldn't help it boy in that neigh borhood, he was so olever. so obliging. and not a bit "sassy." De Lor' works in funny ways, sho' enuf," said Peteona, one April VI ay about a year after the return of Miss Peppard's pocketbook. "Who'd blieve me and Miss Peppar ebber wanted Dick drug to the '.lookup by de heels An' all the time he was a-bringin' me an' Miss reppar' de lubliest chunk of susrar. the sweetest honev-bner of a chile dat Aber coaxed ole Peteona for ginger- snaps, one snail nab more, de Lor bress and sabe her!" pouring them from the cake box into the little uplifted apron. "Peteona 11 bake dem de hull liblocg day. for ebber an' ebber. for de blue-eyed darlin wid a little time lef out for her odder work." Harver't Weekly. Words of Wisdom. He who is starving does not look to see if the proffered loaf be fresh or stale. Those who have made mistakes and suffered for them are the ones to help others ; to show that any error can be atoned for. You may mrad a rent in a damaged reputation so that it may not show, but you oan never make the reputation quite wuoie again. Beauty may attract love at first, but it alone cannot retain affection. It is the sterling qualities of the heart and mind that win in the long run. te love our friends all the time- when we are bo absorbed in working for them that we seldom think of them, as well as when telling them of our regards. We do not, in our own minds, have a secret contempt for the work of the great man we do not know intimately, but we have for the work of the one we do know.. How beautiful is youth! A little moon- atiiTIA mnaiAal wafAvlvrtrta thA strain of a song, and the. young heart experiences poetry as it never could be entrusted to paper. ' ' . - It is a dreary sensation to find one's self wholly forgotten by mere acquaint ances: but to find that we have no place in tne thoughts oz those we love, seems in a certain ense like being annihilated. Ihe profoundest calm always seems to come lUBt after the most terrific storm. The exaltation of spiritual rap ture follows fast after a far desoent into the gloomy Hades of the soul. ' Life is a series of alternations at best ; and he who mounts Highest to-day sinks deep est to-morrow. Derrick, the Hangman. Derrick was the most famous or in famous hangman in English historv. He is described by-contemporary pens as a "prime villain." and succeeded Bull. the earliest recorded English hangman, somewhere about the year 1593. The earl of Essex took Derrick with him to Cadiz, where, after hanging twenty three prisoners, he was sentenced to be hanged himself for an assault on woman. Lord Essex interfered and saved the scoundrel's life. In return for (his, Derrick, in 1601, with much oomplacency.cut off his preserver's head at the command of Elizabeth. Sir Wal ter Scott enlarges upon Derrick in the " Fortunes of .Nigel."- He throve on hiadreadful trade : lived to a bad old age, and died infamously rich, just in time to lose the intense satisfaction ef presiding over the judioial murder of ivirg utiaries l. Ale is alluded to-as still living in 1647 and as being dead in 1650. During his later years Gregory Brandon was his assistant, and Gregory succeeded him, only, however, to die within a year, leaving his offloe to ttich ard Brandon, his aon. This estimable creature was twice sentenced to death for bigamy. He began his career as headsman by decapitating the earl of Stafford, and in all probability ho was the masked executioner who beheaded King Uharies. The rnaob t o now called derrick takes its nameli-oin its pleasing resembhnoe to the horrible tree so long kept in fun bearing by the English hangman. The Dog as an Article of Food. By most people the dog is valued only uuring uis uie; me bkiu la not particu larly valuable, and his flesh is little es teemed. This is by no means, however, the case everywhere. It is well-known that the Chinese use the dog as a regu lar article of food. Many of the North American tribes look upon an entree of dog as the greatest possible sweet mor sel they can set before a stranger. Sir Leopold MoClintock relates that in the Sandwich islands he had the most pro fuse apologies offered to him because there was no puppy to be had for a feast to which he was invited. The Esqui maux, too, look upon a dish of young dog as a great treat, and it is related that a Danish captain provided his friends with a feast of this kind, and when they praised his mutton, sent for the skin of the beast and exhibited it to themt The Greeks and Romans also nsed the dog as an article of diet, and many ancient writers, such as Galen and Uippoorates, represent dog-meat aa highly desirable dish. Cincinnati En quirer. II flftm. vim at nrtijl 'I..M 4k. .aIsaa! master, you don't know how mqoh two and five make. Now listen. In one pocket I have two dollars, and in the other five dollars. Now, how many dol bus have I got?" " Let me see them, and I will tell you." School was dis missed. A fashionable belt for the feminine waist, says the Wheeling Ledger, is called the uuss band. TIMELY TOPICS. The largest bill ever introduced into legislative as Rem hi v wan th na wla submitted to the Ohio senate. It con tained 8,200 nages,and, as it was insisted that it should be read in full, the senate sat ud till midnicbt to h par it khmnerh even at that, hundreds of pages vere Mr. Eiward King, who has been writing some interesting letters from the South to the Boston Journal, makes the broad assertion that the nrettient women in the world live in New Or leans. He says: "At the grand ball given by the Mystick Crewe of Comns,' in the Varieties theater, several years ago, I saw twenty-five hundred ladies gathered together. It would not have been an exaggeration of the truth to say of any one of them that she was beautiful." The Peruvian government, having be come somewhat alarmed at the rapid destruction of the cinchona trees in gathering the bark for exportation, has naaim) lava In mtihii tha Avil TTaa after the gathering of bark will be re- 1 l - 3 A A , eirioiau vo cenain seasons, ana in no case will the cuttinc down of trees b permitted. This is a matter in which the whole world is interested, because oinnhnma and nninin ora vamoliai rt suoh importance that the source of sup- i i . . a - . , piy ougut not in any way to do endan gered. T. S. Tnoker and rado miners, have reached New Orleans, after soendinor flv mnnthn unrtinv their way down the Arkansas and Missis- m sippi rivers, iney naa no money to pay their way, and, building a fiat at Canyon City, they . started down the Arkansas river about the middle of Sep tember, floating by day and tying up at niffht. Thev hod to nnah tliAir nrafi over shoals, dodge hostile Indians, andl were irozen up ior seventeen days, but finally swapped their awkward flat for a skiff, and reached New Orleans in safety. The most striking fact with reerard to the French working olasses is that nearly all are possessed of money. However littln they earn they save something. Thrift is their great characteristic: in fact, it is said of the Frenoh-operatives that they spend less in proportion to their means than any in tbe world. Many keep their accumulations in an old stock ing secreted in their houses: others a daily-increasing number invest in va rious seounties, the most popular invest ment being the purchase of land. Everv frenchman, when he can, becomes the owner of the house in which he lives. Of oourse he is greatly aided in this way by the Frenoh land laws and laws of inheritance, which cut the whole country up into small holdings. Sav ings- banks with government securitv. building clubs, sick clubs and friendlv societies are also in favor; but no money is ueu up iu iruuo unions. A striking example of the sanitary effects on. body and mind of work as compared with idleness, is given from tne records of the rsew jersey state prison. . In 1874, when all the convicts were employed, there were onlv three deaths. May 81. 1875. when thev were still at work, only twenty-one out of do were iaie because of illness, and only five were insane. December 81. 1875, after six months of idleness, fifty out or 717 were unfit for work, eighteen were insane, and there were thirteen deaths in the year.- In 1876 only a few were busy, and there were - twenty deaths. In 1877, when 500 out of 835 were at work, there were only eight deaths; and on December 31 there were thirty-eight unfit for work. In 1878. with only 270 busy, there were nineteen deaths. In January, 1879, with the same number busy, there were 107 in the hands of the doctor. A True Hero, The city of Marseilles in France was onoe afflicted with the plague. So ter rible was it that it caused parents to desert children, and children to forget the obligations to their own parents. The city became as a desert, and funerals were constantly passing through its street. Everybody was sad, for nobody could stop tne ravages of tbe plague, The physicians could do nothing, and as tney met one day to talk over the mat ter and see if something could not be done to prevent this great destruction of life, it was decided that nothing oould be effected without opening oorpse in order to find out the mysteri ous character of the disease. All agreed upon the plan, but who should be the victim? it - being certain -that he would die soon after. There was a dead pause. Suddenly one of the moct oelebfated physicians, a man in the prime of life, rose from bis seat and said: "Be it so; I devote myself to the safe ty of my country. Before this numerous assembly I swear, in the name of hu manity and religion, that to-morrow at the break of day 1 will dissect a oorpse. and write down aa I proceed what I ob serve.". He immediately left the room, and as he was rich he made a will, and spent the night in religions exercises. During the day a man uied in his house of the plague, and at daybreak the following morning the physioian, whose name was Guyon, entered the room and oritioally made the examination. He then left the robm, threw the papers into a vase of vin egar that they mightnot oonvey the dis ease to another, and retired to a con venient place where he died in twelve hours. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A hen with a clipped wing has a de- feotive flew. There are but two cotton factories in the whole of Mexico. A lady need not be an athlete though Bhe jumps at an offer. When you have a family jar you can't always preserve the peaoe. A good motto for a young man just starting a mustache Down in front. A Frenoh rhvsioian savs drinkinc boiled water only will prevent yellow fever. . Paris has a munioipal laboratory where wines, beers and brandies onercd tor sale are tested. The debt of the city ef Paris is'now ' nearly $100,000,000, and the interest about $20,000,000 a year. ' On leaving a room make your best salaam to persons present, and retire without salaming the door. The hair-spring of a watch weighs 15,000th of a pound troy; 9n a. straight line it is a foot long. From the debris of their coal mines Franco makes annually 700,000 tons of excellent fuel, and Belgium 500,000 tons. What is the difference between an editor and Ms wife 7 One writes things to set and the other sets things to rights. He lived above his income," Was the dark reproach he bore, ' Till at last it was remembered, ' That he lived above his store. ' In Copenhagen there is manufactured from the blood of cattle a chocolate, which is said to be the most nutritious article yet known to science. The man who married a whole family lives in Traverse county, Michigan. His first wife died, and he married her sister. She too died, and then he married the mother of his two former wives. Alio OUlbUf Ul IUC vlUUIULlUbl ijUtLW UUU Night discovered that his girl wore two Beta of gold mounted false-teeth, and he sat down and wrote a poem entitled, " Rich and rare were the gums she wore." To ascertain the length of the day and night any time? of the year, double the time of the sun's rising, whioh fives the length of the night ; and double the time of its setting, which gives the length of the day. . At one of our schools recently, in answer to the question: "What is the difference between an island and a con tinent, and upon whioh do we live ?" a bright little shaver replied: "The dif ference is that a continent is much, larger than an island, and we live on bread and meat and other things. A Dog Story. This comes from Charleston, Ind. Mrs. Brandlon tells it. She says: "My husband had a dog which he brought from Kentaoky, which seemed to me to have more sense than any animal I ever knew, bhe would look up when order ed to do anything, as intelligently as a child, and if she understood what was said, would give a pleasant bark, and start off to fulfill the order. I have often jp4e her. shut the door after the chil dren, and she would come in at the kitchen door, opening the latch with her foot, and always shut it after her. One time she had half a dozen puppies in the barn, which were-ber glory and her E ride, but one morning when my-hus and awakened he heard a great row at the barn, and went out with his gun, expecting to find a horsethief., As he opened the door Flora went by him like an arrow, and though be called her loud and long she kept right on toward the village. In looking around the barn for the tramp he expected to nnd, he dis covered that everything was all right, except Flora's nest. The puppies were All gone. " We did not see Flora for thi- wilinn eKn nam a loslr Kvi'rt m" r r a of rr.i rr t . about three pounds of sausage, which she kept in her nest until they spoiled, and ee died of grief that summer. Ona of our neighbors saw her; while she was missing, hanging around a butcher's shop in Louisville. She had followed those puppies fifteen miles and re covered them." A Grocer's Trick, This happened long ago in the early days of Minneapolis and is. related to shqw that even in those days the grocer was "up to snnil. A certain well known individual, now a resident of St. Cloud, was dealing in groceries in Min neapolis then, and told the story himself the other day, as follows : "I happened to strike four chests ol tea, which I bought at a bargain twenty-five cents a pound. These four chests of tea was all I bad, and of course, as my customers expected a variety of prioes, I accommodated them. I turned the tell-tale side of the chests toward the wall, and marked the tea to suit cus tomers. Deacon , still a resident of the city, came in one day after some tea, and wanted a good article. I gave him a sample from each of the four chests to take home and try, stating their respective prices as thirty-five, fifty, seventy-five cents and a dollar a pound. Well, after testing the samples, he returned and rendered his decision, as follows : " That thirty-flve-cent tea is a very fair article for the prioe ; the fifty-cent tea is tmuoh better; the seventy-flve-oent tea is exoellent, and the dollar tea is a very so per ior article, I can assure you. Bat 1 can't quite go that figure. Let me have ten pounds of the seventy-fiv-oent tea.' " He was sooommodated. How grocers have changed since then. St. Faul Pioneer IresA,
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