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TIONESTA, PA., AUGUST 13, 1879. $1.50 Per Annum. hhalowEvIl;Micc Sh i.'l o'er Mio sunny gvB I saw a shadow punt With subtle charm; So quick, so lull of life, With thrilling joy so rifp, I started lust, unknown, My step cro it was flown llnd done it harm. Why look up to tho hlueT The bird was Bono, I know, Fur out of sight. Steady; and keen of wing, The slight, impassioned thing, Intent on a goal unknown, Had hold its course, alone In hi Ion t flight. Dour liltlo bird, and fleet, Ftinging-down at my foot . Slindow lor song: More sure I am of tlioe ITiiHAon, unheard by mo Thiui of some things lelt and known And guarded as my own All my 1 it o long, Mary Mupet Dodge, in Scribncr. A' KISS FOR A BLOW. "Thomas," said Miss Browne to tlio man-servant, "what fa tho namwif the family living in the third hon.se (low us on thii side tho street the house with the ash trees before it? Oliver says the name i Thurston, but children can't be relied upon in the matter of names." . . '"That bo the nume, miss," said Thomas. " Leastways,' its Thurston on the door." "Thurston! A pretty set they must be, tool . That Thurston boy pummels Oliver within an inch of his life whenever lie goes into the street. I cait keep Oliver in the house, and I can't bear this thing any longer. Why, the poor child came honir yesterday with his nose bleeding and mud on his new suit, and 1 Lave made up my - iiSmL send a line to young ThurslonV "Snail I take it round, miss?" I ."Directly." And Miss Nora proceede to indite this frigid note: "Mr. Thurfton : "Dear Sin You will doubtless be sur ' prised at a note from a stranger ; but I fiel 'obliged to call your attention to the be liaviour of your son toward our little Oli ver, who cm scarcely go into tho street without receiving a blow from hiin. I have endured this sort of thing till endurance b no longer a virtue, and must request yout early interference. Respectfully, "JL Bhownk." Tho next d:iy nho received this reply : " Mr. Thurston regrets that Mrs. Brownt hits been put to any inconvenience by tin cou luct of his grandson, and bogs to auk it Master Oliver did not provoke the quarrel, and bear his tart in it?" "Our Oliver provoke a quarrel 1' cried 'Miss Nora. " What an insolcni old man !'' and straightway returned : ' . " " I cannot lelieve for an instant that oui Oliver was to blarm in tho affair. I have inquired into the matter, and it seems that the blow was entirely unprovoked. I am only astonished that you should uphold your grandson in such a grave fault. "II. Bkowne." . " Mr. Thurston thinks that if you can se cure a faithful report of the affair from Master Oliver you will find that it is six of one and half a dozen of the other, so to speak. Mr. Thurston also lcgs that you will reorganize your own child's manners- before offering suggestions to your neigh bors." "If I can secure a faithful report from Oliver! When will impudence cease!" Woman-like, she meant to have the last word : " Mr: Thuinlon:- - "Sin f can rely implicitly upon our Oli ver's word. And if I fail to reorganize the manners of our boy, it must be because your own furnishes him with such evil examples. . II. BllOWNE." ' What an ass that Mrs. Brown is!'' said Grandpa Thurston to the person who had been doing- up this tender correspondence for him. "(Jive it to the simpleton hot and .heavy this time, Luce. You weren't savage enough in your last." "I propose we duty the subject here. She's a born scold, and will have the last word, say what you will:" and as Grandpa Thurston Jwas paralyzed, and could only ' hold a pen by proxy,Jlhe correspondence came to a standstill. "They found my last unanswerable'1 thought Nora. " What common people . they mfist be, to bring'up a child sa badly ! ' Shoddy, no doubt? I'm glad I don't know theiu that people are not obliged to know their neighbors in the city.. Thejr must be insufferable." Miss Nora Browne had been left in charge of her sister's household, while the lady and her husband traveled abroad, un hamperedby Master Oliver's presence. Her hOme was some hundred miles away in land, and her acquaintances in the city were lew ana lar tietween, while even these few were generally out of town at this , season ol the year. However, she was sur prised one morning by a call from a friend, who, having become .tired ot the mountains, had returned to the city for a few days. "How lonesome you' must be, Nora!" said Miss Elphinsloiic. "You must drop in upon us olten ; the horse cars ruu within a block of our door. And we'll have such larks! By -the- way, we are going down the harbor to-morrow in Cousin Lucius' yacht he's just home from Europe, you know and you must join us." "I'm sure I don't know," said Nora " never having heard of ' Cousin Lucius' ; etUtence before." Never heard of Cousin Lucius ! Well, live and learn. But you'll come?" " Wild horses couldn't keep me at home, . thank you.'' The next day Thomas and old Russet took Miss Nora down to the wharf, where the Sunbeam was ready to put out. What a day it was! Not a cloud in the whole wide heavens, mid "Cousin Lucius" on dock, brown-Warded and . white-handed, with great liquid eyes, and a smile that set the pulses beating when it beamed upon one. and that one happened to be a girl of twenty with an untenanted heart. The party was quite a family affair, Mr. and Mrs. Elphinstone, their sons and daughters, with one or two friends, making up the list. "This is a regular snare, Nora," said Ellen Elphinstone, when they were drop ping down the harpor. " I don't know how you'll feel about it, my dear girl ; but, you see, we are not going to sail for the day merely, but out into tho broad Atlantic, and along the coast, and heaven knows, where, just as Cousin Lucius pleases. We may be shipwrecked, or cast on a desert shore. But we shall bo away a week, at the very least." "Oh, how superb!' cried Nora; and then her face lengthened. " But, Nell, what ever shall I do? I have no things." " Providence will provide. You see, I had no time to notify you after our change of plan; but I packed up a double supply of 'things;' so don't worry." " But there's the housekeeping, and the servants, and burglars " " But you've a housekeeper ?'' " And there's Oliver, and Oh dear I it's delightful, but I ought to be at home." "But your nephew has a nurse?'' " Why, he's eiht years old, Nell. To be sure, his nurse lives with us still, and re gards him as the apple of her eye, and Thomas looks after him like a detective: still" "Oh, come! throw your conscience over board," begged Lucius, coming up to close the argument. " I'm afraid it's so light it will float," laughed Nora. "But I may as well enjoy myself ;" which she straightway proceeded to do( after the most approved method of flirtation, as Nell called it. Lucius got out his chess-board, and they played for hours together. " What ever can you see in that game?" Nell would harangue. "Life isn't long enough to learn it." " It is linked sweetness, long drawn out," Lucius returned. On wet (fays they read Browning below, or repeated in turn all the old ballads they could recall, or danced to Nell's violin. So hey drifted along the coast, touching here tnd there at some port, or going ashore in merry groups for books, or mail or a garden jj.irly. Nora acknowledged she had never had such a gay time in her life. " Oh, if I could live on a yacht forever!" she said, one star-lit night, when she and Lucius were sitting apart, as they had con tracted a habit of doing. "So you like a sea-faring life?" "Yes; how dull it will be to return b commonplaces! Just think, Mr. Elphin stone, a fortnight ago I had never heard of you ; aren't you mortified ?'' ' "Such is fame! And now?" " Why, now I feel as if I had known yt.u a hundred years or more ;" and then Nor hung her head at her own rash words. "1 regret that the time has seemed so 'o:ig," laughed Lucius. "Tome this fort dght has seemed like a dream. Tell in about yourself, Miss Nora," he said, after a pause. " How little I know of you, in spite ol mir long intimacy ! I've taken you en liicly on trust, haven't I? 'Continual com (nil in a fac3 the lineaments of goppel look-",' " he quoted. " Mattery, thy name is man. What can I tell you about myself that you don't know already? You know my favorite poeta and novels, my religious views, my slender accomplishments ; you know 1 live in the country, and am just now keeping house in the city for my brother and sister, who are abroad. Do you like boys, Mr. Elphin stone ?'' , '"What a digression 1 I can tolerate them. By-the-way, speaking of boys re minds me of a correspondence I've had witlf an anxious mother on the subject. I rather think I have one of the precious epistles about me; they're such sweet-tempered specimens, you ought to see them. Listen, here's one of them,'' as he struck a match and read : " Mr. Thurskm: "Sir lean relv implicitly upon our Oliver's word. And if I tail to reorganize the manners ot our boy, it must be because your own furnishes him such evil examples. " "11. 15KOWKE.' "There! Don't I pity Mr. Browne. Isn't she a Xantippe? Think of marrying a woman of thai kind ! Ye gods !" " But but you are not Mr. lhurston ?' gasped Nora. " Not exactly. I waa ins amanuensis on this interesting occasion. Grandpa Thurs ton has a mischievous grandson, besides myself, who had come to fisticuffs with said Master Browne. Grandpa Thurston is paralyzed, and can neither walk nor write, therefore the burden fell upon your humble servant." " Yes I think the wind has changed, Mr. Elphinstone," said Nora, after a pause. "I must go below." " Let me bring you a wrap instead, Miss Nora." "Thanks; but it is growing late. The others have already gone ; I really must follow. We get in to-morrow?" "Yes. Kemember this is our last night at sea. Let us make the most of it." " I have enjoyed the voyage. It is only the end that is unpleasant. Good-night. ' " Oh, what a fool !" thought Nora, as she lay upon her pillow, "ever to have written that silly, bad-tempered note to Mr. Thurs ton ! it did sound spiteful, I confess. Perhaps I ought to have told him I was the author; perhaps he already suspects it. ' Isn't . '.ho a Xantippe? Think of marry ing a woman of that kind !"' she quoted. "Who wants him to? He needn't have taken pains tg assure meof his indifference," she groaned, inconsequently, " as if I didn't know the difference between flirtation and love-making. ell, we get home to-morrow, thank goodness! But, oh, dear! it might have been all so nice 1" When they parted next day Miss Nora was cordial in her thanks, but omitted to ask Mr. Elphinstone to call and see her. Nobody but himself observed the omission. " So you don't want me to cell ?" he asked, deliberately. " Does our ac quaintance end here?" " If you ever hapn to come to Axmins ter, 1 shall be glad to see you'' with a blush. " And why may I not see you here ?" " I am going home to Axminster," she evaded. "Then I shall certainly happen to go there." The Elphinstone went to some fashion able sitrings directly, and Nora lost sight of them lor the once. She had dreaded lest Lucius should inquire her residence, and in calling establish her identity with Xantippe, and she was greatly relieved when Mr. and Mrs. Warner returned from Europe, and she could pack up and start of! for Axminster. But fate had not designed that the affair should end here. The Axminster train was thrown from the track, and when Nora came to her senses, she was lying in a cool room, with Nell Elphinstone bathing her brow, and a racking pain in her head. "What is it? Where ami? Where how did you come here, Nell?" she cried. " Hush, dear ! It was so lucky that the train came to grief just in the midst of your friends, so to speak. Now go to sleep, that's a dear. The doctor says that you are in no danger, but you'll have to stay here a long time; and nothing could be nicer than to have you here. And your sister has sent up a nurse, as she's not well herself ; so don't get excited." Nora had, indeed, fractured an arm, and sustained bruises that would detain her at the Bitter Springs for some weeks ; but as she began to mend she found that her lines had fallen in pleasant places, after all. Lucius Elphinstone made it his business to .entertain and beguile her invalid hours; brought in the latest books, the choicest flowers, amused her with descriptions of the fashionable follies at the springs, with scraps from the operas and tidbits from the burlesques of the day. " You see, we had a picnic in the neigh borhood at the time of the accident," Nell confided to Nora one day, " and I insisted npon going with Lucius to view the wreck, and do wnat I could for the injured, and vou were the first victim we stumbled upon, i wish you could have seen Lucius' face, it looked so white and strange, as if the iron had entered his soul." " He is very good to care," said Nora. " Dear me, how coolly you take it!" " I am very grateful." Had Lucius really cared for her, or was he only shocked ? " I am almost sorry that you mend so rapidly," Lucius said to her on the follow ing day. "I hear that you will take wing to-morrow, and 1 shall have no one to listen to my nonsense." "There are plenty of listeners, Mr. Elphin stone:'' " But none exactly like yourself." "Thanks. Who is that, coming up the lawn? It looks like why, it is Oliver!" "Oliver?" repeated Lucius, aghast, see ing the color that trembled on her check, the light shining in her eyes. But before she could reply, the door opened, and Oli ver was in her arms. " Why, Oliver, did you rain down ?'' " I ain't a pollywog, aunty. No, I played hookey just to come down and see you. Mother don't know and Jack Thurston he lent me the money." "Jack Thurston 1" " Oh, yes. Jack and me's all made up ; we ain't going to whip each other no more. Oh, 1 say," turning to Mr. Elphin stone, "you're Jack's cousin, ain't you ?" " Did you ever see Mr. Elphinstone be fore, Oliver ?" " Lots of times, over to Jack Thurston's. Jack thinks there's nobody like him, you see. Jack and me got mad the first thing about you and him. Jack said he was the best fellow in the world, and I said you was, and I made his nose bleed, and he gave me a black eye, don't you remember, and then you wrote to his grandpa ?" Nora caught Lucius' eye. "So you are the author of those billets doux?" he said, laughing. " Yes, I am the Xantippe," humbly. " But are you not II. Browne ?" " My name is Honora Browne." " Well, Miss Browne, since you leave to morrow, shall we continue our correspon dence ?" he asked. " Tell me, Nora, could you love me a little ? Will you write and tell mc if I may love you forever and aye?" he whispered, Oliver having gone down to look on at the game orlawn tennis. " Love me, a Xantippe, a woman of that kind! Mr. Elphinstone, you are laughing at me." " Come, Nora mavourneen, that's unfair. I low could I guess that you were It. Browne, whom I mistook for Oliver's mother ? Come, dearest, forgive me. Our acquaintance began with a blow ; let us perpetuate it with a kiss." And she obeyed. Harper's Bazar. Reduced to Figures. The annual crop of the tobacco leaf is about 4-JO,000,000 pounds, two-thirds of winch is exportea. Tho traffic in epgs in this Country is estimated to equal $2,000,000 per annum ; 6,000,000 dozens are exported from the country every year. The average yield of wheat per acre is 54 bushels in llussia, 12 in tlio United States, 124 in Austria, 16 1-3 in France, 294 in Great Britain. The world averages an annual product of 681,000,000 pounds of tea, China pro ducing 600,000,000, Japan 40,000,000, India 35,000.000 and Java 6,000,000. Eneland has 35.000.000 sheep, from which she realizes an annual product of 150,000,000. The United States has, in round numbers. 30,000,000 of sheep, over 0,500,000 being owned in California, which ranks as the first wool-producing State in the Lnion. Cotton brings to thisl country more than 200,000,000 per year. Breadstuff, last vear. brought 181,777,811 from abroad, and since 1 865 has brought an average of 100,000,000 per year. Our animal products, cattle,hogs, etc., rank next in importance to our export trade, amounting last year to 183,232,575. The swiftest railroad trains are run in England, according to a German govern ment report, a speed of fifty miles an hour being common between London and Dover, London and York, and Ixndon and Hastings. Trains go at forty-two miles an hour on one of the Belgium lines. The fastest in France and Ger many do not often exceed forty, and in other European eountnes thirty is tim maximum. TIMELY TOriCS. llussia has many and varied troubles. It is estimated that the cattle plague will inflict n loss of 24,000,000 upon the rtupiro this year, and millions of bushels of wheat are being de stroyed annually by a small beetle, for .1 - ,1 . , . mi - n t. - 1 l - vih).i ucsirucii venesa iioHUiiiciemciiucK has vet. hppn found. Aa nn inducement. to the people to destroy the insect, a re ward was offered for every quart of them that were brought in, dead or alive; but 8,000,000 has been expended in this way without effect. The Volunteer Life-Saving Corps, or ganized in New York hv "Nan the Newsboy " and his boy comrades, Gil bert iong and .hawara Jvelly. litis dis banded after an existence of a vear. The boys say that they took this course be cause tliey have not been properly en couraged by persons who promised to support the undertaking. Ihey complain that the nve dollars a week paid to them is insufficient, that the life-saving station is unlit to sleep in, and that tliey have been compelled to pay half of whatever money tliey have earned (by attending excursions as professional. life-savers) to the society. Ex-Governor Allen, of Ohio, was a man of striking personal appearance, es pecially in his old age, when his hair had whitened till it was like silver and beautiful to behold. His complexion to the last was ruddy and clear, and his blue eye bright and intelligent. His figure was erect. A stroke of paralysis had affected his hands, and gave some uncertainty to their movements. This interfered with his wilting, and necessi tated a special seal for him in subscrib ing his name to official acts when gover nor. Otherwise there was little evident e of physical decay or weakening of mental powers up to the time ot his death. The shortest deed on record is the form used in Indiana, according to a correspondent, who says: "Indiana hai had in use for twenty years by statute the shortest form of conveyance that I knew of. It is as follows : ' A B conveys and warrants to C D (describe the property) for the aum of ("considera tion). Being only eight words, besides dates, names, description and sum paid. By the statute the word "warrant" im plies all that is covered by what is known a3 full warranty. If the word "war rant " is omitted it operates a quit-claim. No seal is required, and a married wo man acknowledges in the same manner as her husband. Mortgages and leases are made in a similar manner." Writing to an English correspondent, who had asked his opinion as to the use of alcohol and tobacco in athletic exercises, llanlon, the rliampion oars man, says: "Jn my opinion the best physical performances can only be se cured through absolute abstinence from their use. This is my rule, and I find after three years' constant work at the oar that I am better able to contend in a great race than when I first commenced. In fact, I believe that the use of liquor and tobacco has a most injurious effect upon the system of an athlete, by irrita ting the vitals and consequently weaken ing the system. I eat whelesome food, take regular and moderate exercise, avoid violent exertion, and generally strive to cultivate a cheerful state of mind, in order that sweet sleep may fol 1 v my daily work." A Myslery Solved. A few days ago Mr. Andrew Daily, a fireman on the middle division, had oc casion to move his quarters, and, there fore, rented a house on Sixth avenue. The house was a good one and the rent extremely low for the character of the pmni.sps and the rate of rents in this city, being only four dollars a month. Mr. Daily was wondering to himself why he wasso fortunate in this respect. Last week he went to the house with an assistant for the purpose of putting it in " npple-pie order" preparatory to taking up his abode therein. While thus en gaged some of the neighbors startled him with the information that (he house was haunted ; that no one could live in it, and that was the reason why the rent was put to him at such a low figure. To an ordinary man this would havo been enough, but Mr. Daily was made of sterner stuff, and went on with his clean ing operations all tho same, inwardly resolving to solve the specter in the house if it was within the compass of human prowess and skill. While at work he and his companion heard a pe culiar noise proceeding from the aper ture between the roof and the ceiling. Armed with light and strong cudgels, it was but the work of a moment to mount through the trap door into the loft. Here they were confronted, in peering around in the darkness, by a snake with a large llattened head hissing furiously at the intrusion into his domains. A blow was struck at hissnakeship, which missed its mark, when it disappeared in one corner of the attie beneath tho eaves of tho roof. Mr. Daily determined that he would not live in the same house with such a venomous dwHler, and proceeded to dislodge tlio reptile. He tore away tho cornice and discovered not only a blowing viper two feet in leiiglh, but also a large house snake, both of which were killed. 1 hero have been no spec ter noises around tho house since, and this resolute work has completely solved the mvsterv of the haunted house on Sixth avenue. How the reptiles got in to such a lofty retreat is now more of a mystery than was the occasion of the strange noises that have frightened away every tenant who has essayed to occ upy the premises for a good while past. Johnston (la.) lribune. When Dr. Thompson was, port pbysi rian, says a New York paper, a W est India captain told him that on approach ing Havana in yellow fever times he al ways served out to every one in his ves sel a tablespoonful of pulverized char coal in a wine glass of water three times a day. and that none of his men were ever affected, even when yellow fever was epidemic all around them. The World's Food Supply. From present indications the probabil ities largely are that Europe will be an extensive importer of cereals at the end f this year s harvests. In England, r ranee and Italy in particular the crops have been seriously damaged by an ex cess of rain and cold. The silk crop lias not escaped the harmful influence of the unseasonable weather and the yield of hay is reported as a low average. Nat urally, the situation presents some alarm ing peculiarities. On looking over the whole field, and giving the yet unripened crop the benefit of all the expectations that can be ra tionally Indulged concerning it. tho French journals conclude that the deficit must at least reach 120,000,000 mishels. which, at the estimated price of 1.33 per bushel, represents an aggregate value of about $160,000,000. These figures af fect France alone; but the horoscope in England, Spain and Italy is scarcely more cheering, while Switzerland, Bel gium and Holland are always in the market as buyers, under tins aspect ot the case French statisticians put down the following as a fair estimate of the amount of grain that the countries namctl will be compelled to purchase this year: Bushels. France 114,000,000 Kngland 120,000,000 Italy 18,000,000 Spain 24,000,000 Holland and Belgium 12,000,000 Switzerland 6,000,000 Total 294,000,000 On canvassing the wheat exporting countries of the world, the same au thorities estimate the quantity available for purchase as follows : Bushelt. United States 157,500,000 Hungary 7,500,000 India 12,000,000 Australia 21,009,000 Southern Kussia 30,0-0,000 Danubian countries 6,000,000 Egypt 3,000,000 Total 236,000,000 According to this computation there exists at present a wheat deficit in Eu rope of 60,000,000 bushels, upon which, counting upon a reasonable advance upon present prices, the authorities men tioned estimate that Fran.ce alone will be obliged to expend 200,000,000 for foreign wheat. After it is conceded that the foregoing figures are based upon the poorest imag inable prospects of the European crop and the best conceivable of our own nntl other exporting eountries, enough re mains ;to show that the United States will be a heavy exporter of grain this year, which prospect gathers especial importance from the fact that we are by a wide margin the largest exporters of grain in the world, and also from the fact that Southern Russia, from which the above estimates expect 30,000,000 bushels, will not bo able to spare that amount because of the damage already done her own crop by the drought and vermin. While lamenting the misfor tunes of our neighbors across the water in the serious matter of their food sup ply, we trust there is no bad taste in our being thankful that, while we are able to do so much to meet their wants, we are at the same time helping in this way to keep the balance of tradeln our favor. ATcw York Graphic. Curiosities of Sight. Some years ago, Prof. Taft, of Edin burg, when ill, noticed in waking from a feverish sleep that the flame of a lamp in his room assumed a deep red color. There was a ground glass shade on the lamp, and the effect of intense redness lasted only about a second. His explana tion of this was that the nerve fibrils of the retina, with which green and violet are seen, do not resume their activity when a person awakes quite so quickly as the red nerves. Prof. Ogden N. Hood, of Columbia College, New York, records some observations confirmatory of this view in the last number of Silliman Journal, showing that' temporary green color-blindness may bo produced by nervous derangement and prolonged ex citation. Twenty years ago ho took chloroform, administered by a dentist in Munich. "Upon regaining conscious ness," ho writes, 'and raising my eyes to the face of the operator, I was a little ' surprised at not having previously re marked his unusually ruddy complexion, but tho next instant saw that this was' due to an optical illusion, for his hair appeared of a bright purplish-red hue The singular appearance lasted perhaps a couple of seconds, when his hair re sumed its natural color, which was white." Effects of a similar character have also been noticed by Prof. Hood in his own convalescence from typhoid fever. "Tho Pot Game." They havo a new game in Virginia City, Nev. It is called "the pot game." Tlio Chronicle of that city says it is very simple; that almost anybody who has a pair of legs, a big c lub and a pot can play it. " In tlio first place you lay an earthen pot on the gnus, next you blind fold a lady and giv her a seven-foot club. You then lead her off about twenty paces and turn her round and round until she thinks that northesist is southwest. Hav ing collected her senses, she begins to hunt the pot, and when she gets on to the patch of grass, where she supposes it is, strikes vigorously with her club, gener ally missing it by about twelve yards. Tlio other day a lady who was taking a hand in the pastime struck blindly in the air, knocking down a faro dealer. He was completely 6tunned for a few se conds, and. as his back was turned to ward the woman when the blow was struck, he haat no idea of what had hit him. Wrhen he recovered his senses, however, tho woman had handed the club to the master of ceremonies, who was holding the bludgeon in his hand when the faro man turned round. Tho faro man assaulted tho master of cere monies. The pot game soon became a riot, and the laro expert and his crowd had thrashed seven men before the sport was satisfactorily explained." Iron. A writer, whose ideas run in rhymes has.lho following to say of the useful ness of iron : Iron vessels cross tho ocean, Iron engines givo them motion; Iron needles northward veering, Iron tillers vessels steering; Iron pipes our gas delivers, Iren bridges spnn our rivers; Iron pens are usod in writing, Iron ink our thoughts indicting; Iron stoves for cooking vict uals, Iron ovens, pots and kettles; Iron horses draw our loads; Iron rails coinposo our roads; Iron anchors hold in sands, Iron bolts, and rods and bonds ; Iron houses, iron walls, Iron cannon, iron balls; Iron axes, knives and chains, Iron augors, saws and planes ; Iron globules in our blood, Iron particle in food ; Iron lightning rods and spires, Iron telegraphic wires; Iron hammers, nails and screws, Iron everything we use. ITEMS OF INTEREST. ' I don't precisely just have to," is what they say in tho West. Tho beehive is tho poorest thing on earth to fall back on. Uale City. Hot weather enables a man to leave off a number of bad habits. Picayune. Nat. Burbank says : As soon as a pas senger car is loaded it ought to go oil. There are 54,487 persons employed in the postal service of the United States. Great Britain and Ireland, and their shipping trade, consume 113,000,000 tons of coal a year. Hon. John R. Lvneh, a colored man, has been appointed superintendent of the census for Mississippi. The increase of flouring mills in the four States ol Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota from 1860 to 1878 was from 1,138 to 3,000. Complaints come from Scotland that American cheese is being imported into Ayrshire in such quantitiesthatmuehof the home produce of last year is still un sold and likely to remain unsold. Astronomers tell us that it would take 1,250,000 years, provided there was a telegraph wire from the earth to the nebula in Andromeda, for a dispatch to reach there. So no wire will bo putup. A new hay press has been patented in France and England which delivers tho bales in the form of a solid uniform cylinder two feet one and one-half inches in diameter, which may be rolled along by one man. Says a contemporary : " No change can now be expected before February 1." It is going to be pretty rough to worry along without change seven months. No wonder some fellows undertake to coin their own change. Norriatown Herald. A lady of experience observes that a good way to pick out a husband is to sec how patiently the man waits for dinner when it is behind time. Her husband remarks that a good way to pick out a wife is to see whether tho woman has dinner ready in time. Of Payne, the author of ' Home, Sweet Home," it is said that he was a small man, and had rather a sad face, but a quick manner. Ho was noticeable for wearing a full, short cloth coat, and al ways carrying a gold-headed cane. He talked much anil-with animation, and was gallant in manners to ladies. Tho story is told that Longfellow and Fields were making a short pedestrian tour some few years since, when, to their surprise, an angry bull stood in the path wav, evidently intending to demolish both poet and publisher. "I think," said Fields, "that it will be prudent to give this reviewer a wide margin." ' Yes." replied the poet, " it appears to be a disputed passage." A Humorist on Lake Ontario. We struck our tents at Niagara the falls and took the train for Niagara the city, and there we embarked on a boat for Toronto. The passage was a rough one. A heavy northeast wind chopped tho lake up into a most distressing state of irregularity and abruptness. The steamer was crowded with excursion ists, and they were happier when we left the dock than they seemed to be when we got well out on the lake. Lake Ontario, 1 observed, is just like Niagara Falls. It takes everything you have. At least, it took all the excursionists had. Talk about casting your bread upon the waters! Supper was served on tho boat and I saw one man pay seventy-live cents for a supper that ought to have lasted him two weeks. It didn't last him five minutes. I never saw such reckless extrava gance in all my life. One very pale young man told me he had crossed the lake twenty times, and had never been sick, in all the term im plies, in his life. In ten minutes I saw that young man looking down into the angry waters, and I am a sinner if ho didn't throw up everything he had in the world except his situation. lie looked wretched. In f;u t, it was the wretchedest time L eveif saw anywhere. 1 am proud to say that I was not af fected. I do not think my immunity from the prevailing distemper was owing to any superior physical qualities on my part. I tliiuk it was due to a cer tain moral grandeur and integrity that has always marked my actions, ami also, in a great part, to my rigid training in the high schools of journalism, a train ing that has developed in me an almost unconquerable aversion to giving up any thing 1 once get hold of. JiunUtte, in Jittr'UnytoH llau kye. ( fl
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