Ratos of Advertising. One Square (1 inch,) one Insertion - 51 OneHquare " one month - -8 00 OnoHquare " three monir.s - o uu OneHquare " one year - - 10 00 Two Squares, one year - !" Oq iJuarterUol. " - - su ra Half . su uu One " " - - - - 100 00 Iegal notices at established ralos. Marriage and death notices, gratis. All bills for vcarlv advertisements col. No Subscriptions received for a shorter period than throe months. Correspondence Holieltod from all part of the country. No notice will bo taken of anonymous cmnwnnlcaHotm. looted quarterly. Temporary advertise ments must lo paid for in advance. Job work, Cash on Delivery. VOL. XII. NO. 9. v TIONESTA, PA., MAY 21, 1879. $1,50 Per Annum. &ht Joust glfpuMtom. 18 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, BY iT. 33. XrX3XTGC OFFICE IW ROBINSOU & BONNER'S BUELDIKO ELM STREET, TI0NE3TA, PA. . TEBMfl, 1.60 A IEAII. 4 U II f r" . ' i w r-vw-rw 1 . II McRsnrln? the Twilight. BT MRS. V. r. SEI.OVEH. I am nitting in the twilight, with my face against the pane, And measuring the shadows with an aching heart and brain ; They are deepening slowly, surely, and the piglit is coming on. Will some bright star light earth's pathway when the gleam oi day is gone T How memory bears me backward to a brighter, fairer day, When I bounded through a mossy wood to join tome child at play j Our hoarts were lree and merry then, with not a shade of care, Till the waning ot the daylight bronght its shadows on the air. I remember then how fleetly through the lcaiy grove I sped, That my eye might catch tho home-light ere day's glimmering light had flod ; And I minded not tho shadows as, in all its splendor bright, Through tho darknoss on my pathway shone a mother's beacon light. I've boon measuring the shadows all along life's many years, Till my eyes are dim with woepiug and my heart is drowned hi tears; My loot are pieruod and blooding by the thorns in life's dark way, And I'vo found my sweetest treasures iu my clasping turned to clay. For tho light of home is sadly quenched in deep fuuoreal gloom, Tho hand that led uiy youthful feet lios home less in tho tomb Tho kindred one where soul meets soul my worship may not own, And amid a world oi busy foet I walk the earth alone. Life's skies are docpciiing and the clouds are gathering thick and fast, Will tho stur of hope shine once lor mo when tho rago is overpast T The burden of my soul is borne upon the windless air, j ul tho twitter of tho night bird seems but rru iving my despair. So I'm silting in tho twilight, with my lace against tho uno, And measuring the shadows with my aching heart and bruin ; Oil, spirit of my mother, gleam upon my soul to-night, Till I have proved the promise mine, "At eye it shall be light." Brittol County Journal. 'DOMESTIC ECONOMY. I don't suppose Emily and I would have tUTuineu it had not bei i'd of marryinglast May if oen for old Miss Vantel- tuyfel's legacy. The old lady left all her household lurniture, including her china, silver and table-linen, to Emily, who was her favorite niece as well as name sake: and. of course, that made us think at once of setting up a home of our own. We had been engaged two years already, there was no likelihood that my salary would be raised, and altogether we de cided that we might as well make a be ginning. Emily's papa and mamma in fact, the whole family objected at firat to what they called our want of common sense; but finding us quite unmoved by their forebodings, they yielded, and be gan to make preparations for the wed ding. "But now, Charles." said Emily to me, as soon as everything was amicably settled " now, Charles, we have a great deal to learn. Suppose we begin by studying domestic economy P" "IIowP" I asked, somewhat be wildered by this proposition. " In this way," was the prompt an Bwer. . She drew from her pocket a small note-book, and placed it in my hand. " See here," she added, proudly. " that is mv beginning, and I intend to follow it ud. You must have a book too, Charles." I er lanced over the first page and read " Useful information. Heard Mr. Smith tell papa that beef was sold by farmers for just half the price asked by cit; butchers. Mem. To buy our beef am mutton always of a' farmer. Might order vegetables, milk and fresh eggs at the same place." " There, Charles dear, what do you think of that?" asked Emily, trium phantly. " Isn't that economy P And onlv think how voir will enjoy a nice fresh-laid egg for vour breakfast!" "But, my dear girl," I said, trying to look crave. " we couldn't buy a whole sheen or a whole ox at once, you know " But if the whole animal didn't cost as much as half an animal at the butch er's price, what then? ' persisted Lmily, looking annoyed. " Even then, mv darling. I think would be cheaper to buy our chops and cutlets from the butcher," said I. per suasively : " because you see, we should get so tired of a whole animal before we had eaten it all. " Well, we won't argue. You know I don't approve of arguments, Charles,' replied Emily, leeiingiy, ana so me bud ic.t, whs dismissed. However, I took Emily's advice, and began to study domestic economy, nrovided mvself with a note-book; asked my married friends so many ques tions alxiut Drices. values and quantitiei that I became Dositiyelv tiresome; I lost no opportunity of adding to my stock of knowledge as regarded mei, provisions, ' wages and house rent. All the informa tion thus gleaned was carried duly to Emily, and carefully classified by her under various headings. The evenings we spent together were no longer devoted to the "sweet notli gs " with which ordinary lovers are wont to delight themselves. On th contrary, we gave ourselves up to the most abtruso and perplexing calcula tions, in which my slender salary was divided and subdivided to suit our plans. I should have enjoyed these evenings much more if 1 could have persuaded Emily to add up a column of figures without counting on her fingers, but I could not. Seventeen - and - si x let me sec eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three." she would say, drumming each finger on the table until she reached the sum total, winch she gave with triumphant emphasis always. However, finding that my remon strances seemed to hurt the dear girl's feelings, I said no more. About this time our correspondence lost much of its distinctly lover-like character, and for the same reasons. I used to send Emily so many scraps of uselul information lor her note-book, and get so niitny directions in return, that the result were rather peculiar. For instance, I would write thus : "Mr O. D. P. T. L. I Lamb is always dearer than mutton, and does not go as far. I And that cream of tartar is certainly cheaper by the liarrol, but Jones' wife says she never buys but half a pound at a time. Lver yours, uiarue." But perhaps you may not understand the meaning of those six initial letters at the beginning of my note. Why, that was a very simple and convenient ar rangement to save time and space in writing. Instead ol having to write over and over again, "My own dear precious darling little pet," I just used those initial letters, and Emily knew ex actly what I meant every time. It was really a capital idea, and we were the originators; and the truth is, if it had not been for the publicity involved I would have taken out a patent for the invention. In the. same way she would write to me: " D. O. D. D." (and I understood " Dearest old darling ducky," at once) " Please find out if corned beef is more economical when hashed. Ask your friend Smith, there's a 1). S. P." CoAld any one with ordinary intelli gencefail to read " dear sweet precious" m those last three letters? Then, again, what could be more touching and tender than this closing sentence: " Come up to dinsvjr to-night, for I am going to make the apple dump lings, P. O. P." Of course that means " precious old pet." But enough. I have, as I said be fore, an obioction to make public the tender secrets of two fond hearts. There fore I will pass over the rest of our courtship, the wedding, witli its aceom nanving bustle, and our trip to Niagara, and come at once to the time when we began our housekeeping. ' After much searching and many vexa tious disaDoointments. Emily and I had nicked out a "flat" for a house we could not afford. The agent said that this Hat consisted of live spacious and elegant rooms. Mv own impression was that there were one room and four closets. 1 le said that it was infinitely superior to any house he had ever seen. I differed from this view also, but I Baidnothing lint, then there eertainlv was a fine bay- window in the parlor, and a beautifully tiled hearth in the dining-room; so we took the flat without further discussion But when tho refrigerator arrived on the first load next day our troubles besran. I must explain that this refng erator was not among Miss Vanteltuy fel's gifts. It was a new one, of the Intent, and most nonular stvle. which had iust bought. I had been naturally a good deal influenced in my selection of that reirigerator Dy me very agreeauie and intelligent salesman at .inc oi oo. s. He had entered so heartily into m views, he had been so patient while surveyed the entire stock, and he had laughed so appreciatively at my criti cisms, that I felt as if I could not do less than take his advice, after all And he made it plain that the very largest refrigerator one can get is always the- right one to buy. So I bought it, and though I was certainly astounded at the price, still that salesman's bland and cordial assurance mat i naa aone a wise thins. " a really sensible thing in selecting that refrigerator," was a great - . T , 1 .1 P. . " . .... comiort. isut wnen uie rcirigeiaior ut terly refused to go into our kitchen, I must confess I had doubts as to my wis dom, though I did not express them to Emily. " What shall we do r" asked she despairingly. The men who had forced it up the stairs wiped their hot faces and grinned " I'll tell vou," said 1, witli sudden in sniratlon. " We must get a carpenter to take down Ihe door casings. Then it may pass But. Charles." exclaimed my wife, " that won't do. It cannot stay in the kitchen, because then there will be no room for the kitchen table and chairs no, nor for the cook, either! ' she added, dolefully. ( h!" said l. " wen, men, my dear, we must get a mason, and knock out these side walls at or.ee." But the result was that I had to go back to my friend, the agreeable sales man at Zinc & Co.'s, and ask him to ex change our large refrigerator for a small one, the very smallest to be found. 1 did not tli'nk lie was as genial tins time. 1 supposed alter what 1 had seen of him that he would have shown pro found sympathy at the recital of my per plexities. But he did not. I don't think that he heard all I said to him. and I found that I had been mistaken in my estimate of his character. He was not such an agreeable and intelligent young man as I had imagined. However, I icked out a second refrigerator, and then I was obliged to buy several articles to make up the diflerence in price, bo I took a sausage-chopper, an ice-cream freezer, and a set of croquet. A great part of our furniture could not be accommodated in our rooms, and was therefore stored for us by Emily's mamma. So we had to do without s. piano, a bufl'ct, or a bureau. But then, as Emily cheerfully observed, small rooms have their advantages. " For you couldn't poke the fire, raise and lower the window-shades and ring the bell for Ottilia without leaving your scat at the breakfast table, if you lived in large rooms," she added; and certainly that was very true. And, by-the-way, I haven't told you about Ottilia yet. Most people would have called her our servant, but Emily said she was our "assistant in house keeping." She spoke of herself in her note answering our advertisement as "a young person of culture and refine ment who had met witli reverses and had had a blight.' " My own impression of hr was that she was calculated to blight any one who might be doomed to her daily compan ionship. She had an unpleasant way of becoming suddenly abstracted while in the performance of her daily duties, and then raising herself with a prodigious start and a succession of hollow sighs. On one of these occasions she informed Emily confidentially that " the Vision of the Loved and Lost had glided on tne scena." As a number of mishaps, including much broken china, had resulted from these inopportune appearances of the lioved and Lost," we did not look amia- ly upon them. But when 1 advised Emilv to chance her handmaid, she re fused, on the ground of compassion. " Why, Charles, shois such a well educated and refined ydsSK woman that ihe could not endure thVannoyances of panied by tomato sauce, made its appear-n-dinary service," said my wife.earnestly. aroe. My drooping spirits revived. 'She tells me every day that she is sp "Chops are always chops," was my next or happy with us, and she looks up to me as if I was her mother. " Very affecting, certainly," was my comment, "considering that you are twenty, and she will never see forty again." " Oh. Charles ! why, she is only thirty ; she told me so ; and you know she says that she is a blighted being," concluded my wife, solemnly; "so you ought not to be impatient with the poor thing." Of course Uttuia remained, and a nad to reconcile myself to her woe-begone ways. But her cooking was uur great est trial, and before many days Emily announced to me her intention of joining a cooking class." It's such an opportunity, my dear!" she told me one evening. " Pro fessor Stoopann is a very accomplished man, who ha3 the most charming ideas about cooking. He considers it a hne art, and he can make any one a perfect cook in ten lessons. We begin to-morrow." " Don't you think it would be wiser to ach Ottilia something," I observed, " and let her do the cooking, instead of attempting to do it yourself P" " o, indeed," said miiy, promptly. " I must take the lessons, and -then in struct Ottilia by example rather than precept. IJesides " in a whisper " I'm afraid the poor thing doesn't learn very easily; she s had so much trouble, you know." So my wife became a member of the illustrious Stoopann s class, and grew more enthusiastic over his teachings dav bv dav. "Its wondermi periectiy. wonneriui how much that man knows!" she ex claimed, when the course was half through. " And ho s such an economist. too! Why, he has been teaching us that nothing need be wasted m a nousenoui, not even our old But there! I came very near tclline you my secret, and I want to surprise you some day." That same morning I ran across my old collece chum Jack Percival on my wav down town, lie nadjust returned from a three years' tour of the Continent, so I had a ereat deal to tell him. He seemed to be much interested when he learned that I was married and keeping house, and he readily accepted my in vitation to dine with us the next day When I went home and told Emily nbnnt. t. she at once nrfmosed that we should invite a young lady to make the nartv complete. " It would be much pleasanter for your friend to meet a young lady," she said. " But then our dining-room will be so crowded with four at the table that Ottilia will never be able to wait upon us." said 1, Emily looked shocked. "Uttuia!" she exclaimed; "I hope you don't ex Dect Ottilia to wait on the table when strangers are present! Why, I wouldn't suirarest such a thins to her." "Then what is the use of keeping her?" I asked. "Oh, Charles, you never have any sympathy for that poor thing! We can hire a small boy to wait. Ihe grocer has a verv nice boy. and I think I can get him cheap," said my wite. w r . . . Verv well." I replied. " have it your own wav :but what shall we have for din ner ? Jack is terribly particular about his dinner. I can tell vou. and I think I'll order something from Dclmonico's for this time." "Oh, no, indeed! you mustn't do any thins of the kind." said Emily, decided ly. " I'm just going to show you now the inestimable value of Professor Stoonann's instructions, and 1 know vou' 11 be proud of your dinner. Leave it all to me. Charlie. ' " But what are you going to give us?" I insisted. Emily made answer, conu dentlv : "Just wait and seo, I tell you. This much vou shall know, and no more You're to have 'Potage St. Beuve, earni.' and a Russian fish pie. Oh, yes, I'm going to give you your favorite lamb chons with tomato sauce, for one course. Now, don't ask any more ques tions." When I brought Jack home the next afternoon Emily met us with 6uch a cordial welcome that I could see he was Dleased. The grocer's boy was in at tendance, looking very well, the table was prettily decorated with fruits and flowers, and I felt intensely hospitable as I took my seat, and Emily began to dis pense the 6oup. The only drawback was that the vouns lady whom she had asked had been obliged to decline at the hist moment, but as there was barely room for three people in our dininx-room, I was not so much disappointed at this as was my wife. However, she and Jack appeared to be getting on so well that I didn't think he regretted our intended guest either. As I was saying, the soup was on the table, but wk'i my first view of it I be gp,n to have fearful misgivings. It was an almost colorless fluid, with a slice of lemon, a sprig of parsley, and several cloves floating in each plate, and it tasted like hot water well salted. My resolu tion was taken in an instant. I made up my mind that I would eat iiiatroup, and I did, but Jack never attempted a second spoon tui. " What is this, my dear P" I asked with great cheerfulness, pretending to be en tirely at my case, as the next course appeared. Emily smiled sweetly as she answered, "That is Russian fish-pie, prepared after the same recipe used in the emperor's kitchen." "Let us see, then, whether our tastes agree with the emperor's," I said, face tiously, turning to Jack, but he didn't seem disposed to talk much, I fane'ed. Truth compel me to say that, alVr the most careful dissection of that fish-pic, I did not discover any fish. I found an onion, a slice oi liard-Donea egg, some more parsley, and finally a scrap of meat, but that was al1. I was getting percep tibly nervous now, when a new course relieved me. " Here comes something at last." I said to myself, as a dish of chops. each with a fringed white paper wrapped daintily about the bone and accom- reflection. Alas! I didn't know Profes sor Stoopann. The moment I auactea my cnop i found it a fallacy. It was composed of something, I could not tell what, care fully shaped, and then tied fast to nothing more or less than a tooth-brush handle, beautifully scraped and polished. This was too much. 1 looked at Jack. I saw the expression of dismay on his face. I glanced across at Emily, serenely unconscious of my feelings : and yielding to an uncontrollable impulse, I orderedthe boy in a voice of thunder to remove that dish. As to the rest of that dinner I can only say it was worthy oi me oeginning. Even what appeared to be a magnificent tait or pudding collapsed like a soap bubble at the first touch of the spoon, and left nothing but a little sweetened froth behind, too scanty to be divided. I was not at all surprised wrlicn Jack pleaded an engagement, and hastened away, without waiting to smoke a cigar with me. He was going to dine, I knew. Having seen him down stairs, 1 re turned to mv wife, who was both as tonished and indignant at my somewhat warmlv expressed opinions about the dinner. That soup!" she exclaimed; "you didn't like that soup? Why, it's one of Professor btoopanns own inventions. He taught us to make it of the water in which the potatoes have been boiled, and it is very nourishing as well as economical. The professor has lived on it for years." "And that nsii-pie. ' i interrupted, what was that made of? for there was no fish there Emilv looked disappointed. "Why, how did you find that out so soon?" she asked : " lor I thouslit the deception wa perfect. Professor btoopann said no one could ten tne nuicrence. j.iiai s won derful. But since you ve guessed so much I'll tell vou the rest. Thatjish- pie was made entirely of some scraps of . i . . . . . cold roast Deei. anu is even more eco nomical than the soup." "And how about those cnopsr ian you tell me, my dear, what they were made ot, or why you placed sucn an un palatable joke on our table?" was my next question. Hut iust Here Lmuv Durst into tears. I I think you're too cruel," she sobbed. "After I'd taken such pains and burned my face and my poo or fin gers and tried all the professor's best dishes iust to be scolded it's too much!" "But, Emily. don't you see " I be- can. &ne interrupted me. " I cut all those handles off our old brushes, and I polished them all myself with sand-Darjer. and tied them on. and everything, and then vou find fault. It is cruel ! do oo oo !" " Still, mv dear, it is a pity that you had not chosen some other occasion lor that display of ingenuity," said I, not yet vanquished. "You must have noticed that Jack ate nothing." "Oh. Charles, vou are too unkind ! Didn't he praise that pull' pudding? and wasn't it really lovely? and all made out of one egg and two spoonfuls of sugar! Wasn't that asucccss, 1 should like to knowP But you are a monster of ingratitude. Oo oo oo!" Let mo draw a veil over tins scene. Suffice it that peace was finally restored by a compromise. I agreed to say no more about the dinner, and Emily pledged herself to abandon Professor Stoopann's methods forever. Perhaps, if no new cooking class is organized in our vicinity, I shall bo safe; but I am not sure. Harper s JJazar. Introduction of Wheat Into America. Prior to the discovery of this continent by Columbus, there was no cereal in America approaching in nature tne wheat plant. It was not until 15:10 that wlieat found its way into Mexico, and then only by chance. A slave of Cortez found a lew grains of wheat in a parcel of rice and showed them to his master, who ordered them to bo planted. The result showed that wheat would thrive well on Mexican soil, and to-day one of the finest wheat valleys in tho world is near the Mexican vapital. Prom Mexi co the cereal found its way to Peru. Maria D'Escobar, wife of Diego do Chauvres, carried a few grains to Lima, which were planted, the entire product being used for seed for several succes sive crops. At Quito, in Ecuador, a monk of the Order of St. Francis, bv the name of Fray Iodosi Rixi, introduced the new cereal, and it is said that the jar which contained the seeds planted is still preserved by the monks of Quito. Wheat was introduced into the present limits of the United States contempo raneously with the settlement of the country by the English and the Dutch. TIMELY TOriCS. In China, where the opium habit ruins and destroys many men annually, the efforts of the government to abolish or diminish the use of opium have re cently been more energetic than ever. All these efforts have been in vain, as were those of many years previous. The Pekin government have at last determined to take the final step in the business, and an edict has been issued, which goes into effect next year, making the use or sale of onium nunishablo lv death. It is hard to say how the edict will be met by the ten million opium eaters of the Ce lestial Empire, or what proportion of them will come to this country to enjoy their fascinating custom. There was buried in the cemetery of SI. James the Less, in Philadelphia, re cently, the man who was known as the Alan ol Koots not lreek roots, but na ture's own. Joseph Smith was born in the mining districts of England eighi y one vears aero, and comins to this coun try located at Ashland, Schuylkill coun ty, Pa. While he was living at Ashland he chanced to find a curious root m the woods one dav He whittled aim lessly on the root for a lew minutes when, lo ! it became a perfect owl's head. Joseph's interest in roots was at once excited and he began to collect all the curious ones he could find. He soon had his house filled with hundreds of shapes that were conjured out of laurel root, pine knot or stone, his strange fancy growing by what it fed on. It is a sign of the growing interest among women in regard to me ways and means of industrial education that a petition is being circulated and numerously signSd by women in all the States of the Union, which will be pre sented to the next Congress, asking its favorable consideration of a plan for thr establishment of national schools of de sign. A Washington paper thinks that thorough training in schools of art and design will make the women and men who receive it sell -sustaining. Skilled labor always commands its price, and technical education underlies the suc cess of many branches of industry, and will help to solve the labor question. It is in this belief that the petition has been circulated and signed by professors in schools throughout the country, and by a list of women s names Irom all the States, including several hundred in this district, and also in the hope that Con gress will take such action in tho matter as the importance of the subject de mands." While no new cases of the plague are reported in Russia, European medical journals show that there exists, and not without reason, the greatest fears that witli the return of warm weather it will break out again with unabated virulence, and that its ravages will then not becon fined to one distant district, but sprend all over tho empire and infest as well adjoining countries. There is now known to exist in St. Petersburg, Vitefsk, Odessa, Warsaw and in other districts in Russia a bubonic afiection, with wh'ch Russian physicians areunfamiliar.'whicli is very similar to, if not identical with, a bubonic diseas which preceded the re cent outbreak of the plae in Astrachan and previous ones in Persia and Meso potamia. By some, indeed, this dis ease is considered a mild form of the nlasrue itself. While each new case of ihe plague causes the greatest alarm among the people, as the probable fore runner of renewed devastations, the medical fraternitv see in this seemingly trivial bubonic affection cause for the gravest apprehension in the near future At any rate, danger of recurrence will not be passed lor more man a year. Newspaper readers will remember the trial of England's criminal phenomenon. Charles Peace, who figured so much in type and on tongue a few months ago. Just before his execution this notorious outlaw made it known that he had mur dered Cock a Manchester policeman, for which crime William HaUron, a young Irishman, was soon to be hung A clever dodge on the part of Peace, the public thought, to provoke investiga tion and thus gain respite. So Peace was hung. Shortly afterward the Cock mur der was again looked Into in accordance with tlie suggestion of Peace. Itwas found that the bullet which killed the police man fitted the executed man's revolver, and that it did not tit young llabron's weapon. Other points were revived and llabron was released from the Portland prison. He was not informed of the pardon, but supposed he was soon to be iiung. His neck had been measured a lew days before. At last it dawned upon him gradually that he was not to die. The relief aflccted his nervous system, but under good treatment he rallied and is now a happy man. Thus after an im prisonment of three years and when witlnnastepol the ganows an innocent 1'ian is saved from martyrdom to law. At the fifth anniversary of the Wo man's Christian Temperance Union, of New York city, Hon. William E. Dodge nresided. and in an address he told the story of a lady, belonging to one of tho nest laniiiics in icw iuik, nun hand a leading citizen was so much tho slave of intoxication that he would leave his business often and remain at home on a drunken debauch for weeks The wife withdrew from society, o which she was a bright ornament, and exerted herself to redeem her husband if possible, or to prevent his vice lrom becoming known. At length, when t ho truth could no longer bo concealed, she confided in the speaker and his wife, and through their efforts the husband was induced to sign tho pledge, which he kept for several years. " This day," said Mr. Dodge, " he is occupy ing a very high position in this city, though I fear lie is not entirely temperate. While nono sutler more, none can labor more effectually than women; and I rejoice in the work which the ladies of this Chris tian Union are doing for the cause of temperance." ITEMS OF INTEREST. What docs Vicksburg, Miss.? The scavenger is an offal fellow. Lost nt sea The contents of the stomach. How to get rid of your fat Sell it to the soap-grease man. Pack your furs in cam fur, fur there'll be no fur-ther use fur them fur some time. You wouldn't think it, but a bed cover is like a blister. It's a counter pain. The careful husbandman is having a little trimming put on his trees, and liis economical spouse is having her bonnet put through a similar process. The man who hns a sclking wifo ' Can't please her with a sonnet; There's just ore way to end the strife Buy her a summer bonnet. . Wuterloo Oburvct. J. P. Sanderson, chief elephant catcher in India, has caught ninety-four ele phants since his arrival at Mysore in De cember. Four men of the elephant catching force have been killed. " I have read the papers !" was the reply of a simple appearing old gentleman from the country, who was asked io take a hand in a game of cards on an Erie train. P. S. 2sovi is the time to subscribe. To liE Trusted. One grocer asks another: "Is Mr. a man to be trusted P" " I think you'd find him so," was the reply. " If you trust him once you'll trust him forever. He never pays." An old bachelor, who particularly hated literary women, asked an author ess if she could throw any light on kiss ing. " 1 could," said she, looking arch ly at him, but I think it's better in the dark." The New York Commercial Adrcriiser has heard from the war in South Ameri ca. It says: "A terrific engagement took place on the 5ih ult, between the Chilians and Bolivians. One brigadier general lost his hat." A most interesting sight to see is that of a young lady with " lips like rubies," with "teeth of pearly whiteness," and with cheeks that liave stolen the " deep carnation ol the deathless rose," with her mouth full of gingerbread ! An Illinois man sleeps every night on a spot of ground left bare for the purpose in. his house, and has an attendant shovel clean earth over him to take the place of bedclothes. He believes that in this way he guards against disease. T.Wj our good nature and not our fine furniture that makes home attractive. New York New.'). But when all the bed slats fall out of place, and waken you up with a crash about mid night, Avhat becomes of your good na ture? New Haven lieyistcr. Every young man in the Sioux nation carries a pocket-mirror, cither of glass, backed with quicksilver, or of some shining metal; but an Indian maid is not permitted to look at a reflection of her face, even in a brook, for this is the masculine privilege. A boy ten years old, son of W. A. Al bert, while playing in a corn bin in the elevator at Pcniield, 111., was drawn down a spout which was discharging into a car, and was drowned in the corn. No efforts could rescue him, although for some time his gasping could be heard. It is entertaining to note the variety of opinion that prevails regarding perfect happiness. The printer, for instance, imagines that the millennium means a time when ho will get fifty cents per thousand ems, and bedstead slats will be used instead of leads. Sc. Louis Times. A six-year-old boy, who had been im prisoned up stairs "for some mischief, "raised" a fine brood of chickens by fish ing with a hook and line from his prison window. SHOULDN'T HE MISS-ED. Tho antiquarian's bride Miss-Terry II! . . 1'!ii The tailor's Miss-Fitts The billiardist's.. The cynic's The atheist's Tho editor's The liov's The politician's.. . Miss-Cue M iss-A nn-Thrope ....Miss-Bell-Lief . .Miss-L-Laneous Miss-Chief Miss-Count Miss-Sal Miss-He Miss-Spent Miss-Fortune I he monk's The soldier's Father Time s Everybody s banta-Claus Miss-L-Toe Perhaps this is all a Miss-Take. Boo- ton Commercial Bulletin. Words of Wisdom. Fear naturally quickens tho flight o guilt. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. Tears are the gift which love bestows upon the memory of theabsen and they will avail to keep tho heart from suffoca tion. How many useful hints are obtained by chance, and how often the mind, hurried by her own ardor to distant views, neglects tho truths that lie open before her. Don't you wish sometimes that the world would stop talking and let you think? And have you never been exas perated to hear some one utter the very thought which you had cherished as all your own, and which you were just going to utter? Beware of him who is slow to anger. Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to iury. When fancy is the ground of passion, that understanding which composes the fancy qualities the passion; but when judgment is the ground, the memory is the recorder and this passion is long retained. Quit brooding over your troubles, misfortunes ami losses. A bravo man, with a soul in him worth anything, gets out of such pitiful ruts and laughs at dis couragements rolls up his sleeves, whistles and sings, and makes the best of life. The earth is not Paradise you are only on the road there, if you take the right direction.
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