Rates of Advertising. One :sqnare (1 Inch,) one Insertion - ! One .Square " one month - - 3 on One Square " three months - 6 00 OneHqiiare " one year - - 10 00 Two Squares, one year - - 15 Co Quarter Col. " - - - - 30 OH Half - 60 00 One ' " - - - 100 00 Legal notice at established rates. Marriage and death notices, gratis. All hills for vcarlv advertisements ro!. lectetl quarterly, temporary advertise inputs innst ho paid for in advance. Job work., Cash on Delivery. 18 PUBLISHED HVEUY WEDNESDAY, BT a:. 33 "wjejistic. OFFICE CT ROBINSON db BONffER'B BOTLDIKQ L'LM STREET, TIONESTA, PA. TERMS, 1.60 A. YEAR. ,, .h',' ""l!,,4,,;i1l,,,,n'' rorolvn.1 (r n shorter p tliaii Hiroc months. Correspondence solicit'.! Iron, u mrt "I the country. No notice will bo taken o anonymous coi uniciiUoii'. VOL. XII. NO. 45. TIONESTA, PA., JAN. 28, 1880. $1.50 Per Annum. Hotter Lock Another Year. Oh! never fink 'nenth fortune's frown, lint hrave hor with a shout ol cheer, And front bur lairly face hor down She' only stern to thoeo who fear! , Hero's " hotter luck another year!" Another year! Aye, hotter luck another year! We'll have hor smile instead ol sneer A thousand smilus lor every tear, With homo nmde glad and goodly cheer, And iM'ltor luck another year Another year! - Tho damsel lorlune still denies The plea that yet delights hor war; TmImiI our manhood that she trie, She's coy to those who doubt and lear j .She'll grnut till suit another year! Another yenr! t Ilore's " butter luck another j ohi'!" She now denies the golden prize; rtut spite ol Irown and scorn and sneer, Ho Ann, and wo will win and wear With homo mndu glad and goodly cheer, In bettor hick anothor year! Another year! Another year! If. Gil more Simms. The Bsllo of Wolf Run. A company of strolling players !n a burn. The great spaco is lighted by lamps ul -viry description, the mo.-t ambitious ol which is a circle of hoops stuck i tilt of candles. This does duty as the grand chandelier, and is quite effective. .Seated near the stage, before which hangs a green c urtain, are two persons a man and a young girl, whom, even the unpracticed eye might take as rustic lovers. He is a tall, finely-formed young fellow, with a noble head and keen, sparkling; blue eyes. She is the beautyof Wolf Run, faultless in figure and feature, and with a something in her expression denoting that she is not quite Mitisficd with her position, even as the belle of Clio village, or her surround ings. Margaret Lee had never in her life seenanlay, therefore she was prepared lu.riHlize all the emotions of novelty, terror, wonder, delight, with which a novice looks on 'he strut and action of those who cater to the-profounde6i emotions. Of course, she firgotwhen she whs; rf course she was dazzled and terribly stirred at the love scenes, which were, as Usiul, exaggerated. "... The hero of . the drama was a hand sonV, worthless rascal, who learned, Jjefore the evening whs through, to play at our unsophisticated little Margaret, readi ig her admiration in her eyes, ami enjoying the smiles, the tears, ana almost spoken interest, of the beauty of Wa'.f Run. "Pretty good wasn't it P" said Charlie Vance, as he held her lleeey red shawl to wrap about her, at the close ' of the performance. Margaret had no words, she" -only gasped : "Oh. Charlie!" as they gained ; the door, and caught at his arm: for their stood the hero of the stage, still in his bespangled velvet finery, and evi dently stationed at that particular place in order to catch a glance at her lovely face. "Confound his impudence!" Charlie Vance muttered between his teeth. Margaret shivered a little as they left the barn. Everybody, was laughing and talking. The solt, clear, round Wbon shed its, light upon a scene of sylvan beauty; but the two spoke but fw words until, they had reached Mar garet's home a.souare while house set back a garden. "A little of that goes a great ways," said tho young fanner, who had evi dently been thinking the matter over. "They stay here a week or more. I dun't care to go a sain, do you P" 1'Oh.T do believe 1 could go every night." said Margaret, fervently. "They're a hard set, Maggy," said her lover, a little malice in his voice. " I low do you know ? Are you sure of that ?" she asked, eagerly and re provingly. " Oh,' they're generally thought to be. Well, good-night. Maggy;" and he had gone ten steps before it occurred to him that they had parted without a kiss. 44 don't care," lie said, sullenly, hall aloud; "and that fellow stays' at her . Ttncle's tavern, too. Why should it net tle mo so, anyway?" Now Margaret and her cousin Air.e wero n 1 most as inseparable as sisters. It was with a quick beating licart that the former took her way to the tavern next day, meeting Anne as usual at the pri vate entrance for the family. "Oh, Mag!" cried Anne, her eyes sparkling, 41 you've made a conquest.' "What do you meanP" asked Mar garet, her fair face Hushing, her pulses beating tumultously. " Why, you know last night. Oh, isn't he glorious! exquisiieP And only think he asked papa who that very lovely girl was in pink ribbons in the second seat and that was you! Papa laughed and told him Lis niece, end somebody else said something very handsome about you at the table, and then papa up and said you were engaged to Charlie Vance, which sounded so ridiculous. And I give you my word of honor tlu gentleman turned pale." "Nonsense!" said Margaret: but the flattering words had accomplished their work, aud it was not hartl to persuade her to stay to dinner, where of course her lovely blushing face did not a little execution. " Well, Maggy, what is it to be?" asked Charlie V ance, sternly. This was only a week afterward. All the soft ness had gone out of hisfaceashesi okc His eyes had lost their gracious, spark ling beauty. It might be that his cheeks were a trille thin, and certainly his dark lace was haggaid. "Oh, Charlie!" she stood on the other side of the spacious hearth, droop ing "I'd timid, her lace very white, aud the large eyes startled in expression, like those of a frightened fawn. 44 You are changed, Maggy. I don't say it alone, (iod help us both, it's talked about all over the place. Last night, when I heard something at Dille way's, I felt like going home ami blow ing my brains out." 44 Oh, Charlie!" The voice was nioie plain live, a;;d the little figure drooped yet lower. 44 And it all comes of that infernal vil lain. It all comes of your going back and forth to the hotel, and with yonr Cousin Anne, to see him." Margaret lifted her head with a piti ful gesture. 44 lie is going away to-day," she cried, a great pain in her voice. And. you will ?ee him before he goesP" 44 Oh. no, no, Charlie. Oh, don't look so cruel. I can't see him now, you know I can't!" 44 Since yon've heard that .he's got a wife elsewhere, ehP" 44 Charlie! I don't care ; it isn't that," she answered, chokingly. How could she add 44 It is because I have found him base, untrue, when he seemed to me like an angel of light." Her red lips quivered ; the tears stood large and,sliining en her lashes, her eyes were downcast, her hands folded with the rigid clasp of despair. 44 1 shall never see him again," she whispered, hoarsely ; 44 but if you say all is over between us, why it must be so." 44 1 don't say it need be, mind," he said, looking pitifully down at her. 44 1 can overlook a good deal, I love you so much, so much! God in heaven only knows l ow much I have loved you. But I won't have the face of that man between us. God! no! no!" and his great shoulders lifted with the scarcely drawn breath, while a dark red hate smoldered in his usually soft eyes. 44 It shall bo iust as you say," she murmured, meekly, without looking up. "It shall be just as you say," he re plied, quickly. 44 Do you think you ci uld learn to love mo again, a little?" he asked, the anger all gone. She was so beautiful. 44 Try me, Charlie. You are so strong and good, and nokde; I always felt that and one can't long like where one can't respect, canoneP" Her hands were on his arm now, and the lovely plead ing eyes uplifted to his. 44 You won't see him again P" 4I won't I swear 1 won't! What should I want to see him for nowP" she sobbed. 'Then, we will watt. This troupe goes to-morrow. Don't cry, darling; I dare say it will all come out right;" and alter a few low-spoken words, the young man left her, but by no means with peace seated on his bosom's throne. " Mamma, if anybody comes, say I'm out," called Margaret,, from the top stairs. 44 Well, I guess nobody'll be here to day, unless it's that actor fellow," was the response. 44 Don't walk in the sun," she added, for mother and father, were proud of their darling's beauty, and they secretly wished for her a better match than even their neighbor's son. Deep in the woods she struck, deter mined never to see that too fair fatal face again. 4 He'll be gone to-morrow," she half sobbed, holding her hands hard against her heart, 44 and I shall never see him again. God be thanked! for, oh, I dare not trust myself.'' The path", slippery, with pine-leaves, i d to a favorite resting-place aclearcd -pot through which ran a crystal-clear i iver. The place combined several dis tinctively beautiful features. Here she sat down, unmindful of the singing stream, the soft shadows, the sweet murmuring of the wind in the tops of the trees. A footstep near startled her. Inthe river, as in a mirror, she saw a vision that had become all too dear to her a graceful figure clad in blaok vel vet, the small hat, with its waving plumes, retlected, wilh the outstretched hand that held if, in the bine depths. She sprang to her feet, a burning flush spreading over brow and neck, and would have tied but that he was beside her at a bound. " My beauty! my darling! my own!" "Sir, those words are an insult to nie!" she cried with spirit, striving in vain to free herself from his caressing arm. "An insult! I would die before I would 'oiler you an insult, my beautiful. ( 'ome wi' h me ; I want to show you a lovelier spot than this conic!'1 " I will not, she said, firmly, wresting herself from him, not daring to look up in his face. "How could you follow me how dared you?" " Ixjve will dar; anything,'" he said, ayly, fastening 1iis powerful eyes on her face, and drawing her glance up to his. "Come, I will woo you like Chude Melnotte." And again ho put an arm about her; but, like a flash of light ning, the two were torn asunder, and the man was thrown headlong with one blow from the powerful arm of Charlie Vance. "Go!" he said, sternly, pointing to the frightened girl. " I can save you from his insolence, but 1 cannot promise to save you from yourself. Go, and think on your broken promises." Later in the day Charlie came up to Margaret's house and asked for her. "Whatever is the matter with the child P" queried the mother. I never saw her in such low spirits." The young man made no answer, but went into the cool, shaded parlor. Presently Margaret came down, white as a lilly. There was an unspoken question in her wide, tearless eyes. "No, I didn't kill him, Maggie, though he deserved it. I don't want tl.e crime of murder on my soul, tven lor you, my poor girl. But I sent him away as subdued and cooled-down a man as ever you see. Such men are always cowards. And now, Maggie, you're free. I never should want to think of the look you gave him while I held you in my arms, aud I should have to think of it. I've come to say good bye, lor I'm off for tha West, and if ever 1-hello 1" There was a low, broken sob, and on his chest Margaret lay a dead weight. The girl had fainted away. Well.alongsickness followed. Charlie could not leave her lying there between life and death, and iho first vkt after she could set up settled the matter. Margaret had conquered her vanity, which, after all, was more touched than her affections, and found that there was only one image in the heart that had been, as she thought, so torn with conflicting struggles and that was the frank, honest, blue-eyed Charlie Vance, who had loved her ever since she was a baby. And of course they were married. Snow Two Hundred Feet Deep. The following remarkable account, from the London Times, of enormous snowfalls in Northwestern India, shows what a world of vapor is carried inland on the monsoons from the Indian ocean to strike against the loftiest mountain chain in the world, and be precipitated in such snow and rains as occur on the foot-hills of the Himalayas. About the sources of some of the great rivers of India occur the heaviest rains ever known ; and further east, in Cashmere, it seems the snows are sometimes ter rific. Some interesting details of this extra ordinary snowfall in Cashmere in 187-8 are given in a paper in the just issued number of the 44 Journal" of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, by Mr. Lydekker. Early in the month of October, 1877, snow commenced to fall in the valley and mountains of Cashmere, and from that time up to May, 1878, there seemed to have been an'aliiiost incessant snow fall in the higher mountains and valleys ; indeed, in places, it frequently snowed without intermission for upward often days at a time. At Dras, which has an an elevation of 10,000 feet, Mr. LydeKker estimated the snowfall, from the native account, as having been from thirty to forty feet thick. The effects of this enor mous snowfall were to be seen through out the dnintry. At Dras, the well bui t traveler's bungalow, which has stood somo thirty years, was entirely crushed down by the weight of snow which fell upon it. In almost every vil lage of the neighboring mountains more or less of the loe houses had fallen, while nt Gulnmrg and Sonomarg, where no at tempt was made to remove the snow, almost all the huts of the European vis itors were utterly broken down by it. In the higher mountains whole hillsides have been denuded of vegetation and soil by the enormous avalanches which wept down them, leaving vast gaps in tho principal forests, and closing the val leys below with the debris of rocks and trees. . As an instance of the amount of snow which must have fallen in the higher levels, Mr. Lydekker mentions the Zogi pass, leading from Cashmere to Dras, which has an elevation of 11,300 feet, lie crossed this early in August l:tst year, and then found that the whole of the ravine leading up to the pass from the Cashmere side war still tilled with snow, which he estimated in places to be at least 150 feet thick. In ordinary seasons this road in the Zogi pass is Cicar from snow some time during the moti h of June. As another instance of the great snowfall Mr. Lydekker takes the valley leading from the town of Dras up to the pass separating that place from 1 the valley of the Kisliengunga river. About the middle of August almost the whole of the first-mentioned valley, at an elevation of 12,000 feet, was com pletely choked with snow, which in places was at least 200 feet deep. In the same district all passes over 13,000 feet were still deep in snow at the same sea Ecn of the year. Mr. Lydekker gives other instances of snow in places in September where no snow had ever before been observed alter June. As to the destruction of animal life in the Upper AVardwan val ley large numbers of ibex were seen im bedded in snow; in one place upward of sixty heads were counted, and in another not less than one hundred were counted. The most convincing proofs, however, of the havoc caused among the wild animals by the great snowfall is the fact tfliat scarcely any iliex were seen during lust summer in those portions of the Ward wan and Tilail valleys which are ordinarily considered as sure finds. So, als , the red bear and the marmot were far less numerous than usual. Mr. Lydek"ker estimates tha the destruction to animal life caused by snow h.s far exceeded any slaughter which could be inflicted by sportsmen during a period of at least five or six years. Words of Wisdom. There is no good preaching to the hungry. Better go supperless to bed than to run in debt. The wild oats of youth change into the briars of manhood. The lesson of disappointment, humili ation and blunder impress more Good men have the fewest fears. He lias but one who fears to do wrong. He has a thousand who lias overcome that one. The hardest working men and women are those who do the working and plan ning; and they are few, for most people consider second-hand goods the cheapest. Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler throw off his coat which all the blustering wind could not do lt is easy enough to find plenty of men who think the world owes them a liv ing, but hard to find a chap who is willing to own up that he has collected the debt in full. If a man's word is not as good as his bond the best thing is to get on with out either. If this can't be done 'look well to the bond and treat the word as though it had never been spoken. Wui kills its thousands, but a eoiih its tens ol thousands; Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup, how. over, nlwayg kills a cough. 1'ric only 25 iunl a bonis. TIMELY TOPIC'S. Mr. A. S. Fuller, of Ridgewood, N. J., whose eloniologieal cabinet is said to contain 44 8,000 species of beetles alone," is credited with the declaration that of the hundred thousand species of insects in the United Stales, there is 44 not one hundred whose true history is well known." So he reminds active young men that there is a little room still left for thein in this line of study, and men tions for their encouragement that one person bug-hunting in V.orida 44 found under a dead palmetto fan hundreds of bugs that were previously rated at $75 apiece." Th Detroit free Press says that the practice of locking passengers in the railroad coaches is a custom that would never be tolerated in America. The very fact that the door was locked would stir an irresistib.e impulse in the liberty loving bosom of the average American to kick it open. There is even in Eng land a sort of mild idea of this kind afloat. A gentleman of this city, who has traveled a good deal in Britain, says that most of the knowing passengers there provide themselves with the small square keys that will unlock the door of the British railroad carriage. Those nervous passengers who do not like to travel with locked doors, yet have no key, can easily make one with apiece of silver of the requisite size. Strange as it may appear, the door is unlocked in this way by slipping the silver In the guard's hand while the appropriate words are whispered in his car. Many of our greatest discoveries have been the result of accident, rather than a fixed and definite purpose. 44 It is curious to note," says the Chicago Tri bune, 44 how nearly every invention that has proved to be a service and a blessing to mankind has been the result of what is popularly termed an accident. It is well known that many great discoveries in the arts, in science, and in mechanics have romc to the knowledge of experi menters in a line quite difl'en nt from the one in which they were operating, and what they called a blunder at the time led the way to the most Important re sults. It is said that the Goodyear pro cess of utilizing rubber was purely an accidental discovery, and now it is claimed that Mr. Edison by a fortunate accident discovered that carbonized paper, instead of platinum, was what he was after." The reigning Czar possesses in full measure the family love of being present at great fires.whicii his younger brother, the (irand Duke Nicholas, is enabled to gratify at will by hii position as head of the St. Petersburg fire brigade. On one occasion this passion for " running with the machine " all but proved fatal to b;ith. Wrhen the German Lutheran church, on the Moika canal, took five in the middle of the night, the Czar and his brother were among the first to reach the spot, and, while directing the opera tions of the fireman, incautiously ap proached too near the burning build ing, the belfry of which was already be ginning to totter. Suddenly a huge beam, at least twelve feet in length, fell blazing from the roof, and struck the ground with a tremendous crash close to the spot where they stood, injuring several of the crowd with its flying splinters. General Trepeff, then minis ter of police, at once stepped forward, and succeeded in persuading the Cznr to withdraw, but the (irand Duke Nicholas remained to the end. and saved the greater part of the building. If Mexican robbers, who h ive always been one of the many curses of ill governed, distracted Mexico, were dealt with as were the robbers near Guana juato,, according to a recent account, we should hear of fewer depredations there upon travelers. Thirty highway men, haviug attacked a mail coach with Winchester rifles, were put to flight, five of their number killed and several wounded by two young Americans, only one of whom was hurt. Uo the account re:uls, and it might seem to be a gross exaggeration, considering the disparity of numbers, were not most professional lawbreakers, especially those in Mexico, arrant cowards, who never take tlte offensive unless backed by greatly su perior strength- One might imagine Ih it the Americans had been aimed with Gatling guns from the destruction they wrought, but their most effective weapons were, no doubt, coolness, cour age and resolution. As one of them, George Green, is from Texas, and the other, Frank Senter, is from Massa chusetts, the honors of intrepidity are, as respects section, equally divided They are obviously of the right ma terial; just such citizens are wanted there, and many of them. A hundred brave, firm fellows of their stamp would be more effective than 10,000 pronucia mentos in favor of honest govern men t and strict administration of justice. The education of the two Americans has unquestionably been of the kind most needed there- Their parents have, very plainly, in their case taught the young idea how to shoot- Afghan Cruelty. A Cabul correspondent of the London Times writes: As a specimen of the rule which we come to deliver the Afghans from I give the following, which I heard from Major-General Hills, before whom the case against Ibrahim Khan was tried. Ibrahim Khan, whoisa brother of Yakoob Khan, when he left Cabul with other royai sirdars to join our camp at Kushi, in structed a confidential servant to bury some of his treasure. On Ibrahim's re turn with us the confidential servant and the hiding-place of the treasure was not to be found. Ibrahim, how ever, laid hands on the father-in-law of the man who had been entrusted with the business, and giving him credit for knowing something about it whether justly or unjustly does not appear tor tured him to death by fastening up his head in a bag of snuff and tobacco, which was eventually set on fire, as the milder preliminaries had no effect in throwing light upon the whereabouts of the treasure. t THK GOOD OLD DAVS. The i:tmvMiiaitt Kprre of Our I'elilira. ted Korefntliri-i. The following is from nn address by James P.irton before the New York His torical Sot-ity: This venerable society has seen tit for many years to hold feasts, especially in June, when the festive strawberry gladdens the heart of man. He had asked, why this collation every month P What connection between sandwiches and history? But a vener able member had rebuked him, saying gravely : 44 Let no man speak disiespect fiilly of sandwiches here, for sandwiches built this house." One of the first acts of the Puritans in 1620 was to abolish that most time-honored and beloved feast, Christmas. Some of them made the observance of the day a matter of conscience, and the governor had spared thein "till they should be better in formed ;" but lie had forbidden public games on that day. But in truth the Puritans never succeeded in abolishing Christmas, although they no longer ob served it openly, according to the old chronicles. They had simply changed the date on which It had been observed for 3.000 years, and observed it after the old fashion on the last Thursday of November. The Puritans had little to make merry with. For years they had nothing to drink but water; and often the only viand was a lobster, with nothing to make a salad of- Then it was that the clam niade its appearance in history. But often, when the pilgrims had made ready a feast of ground-nuts and clams, Uie Indians would come and eat it. To put a stop to these breaches of etiquette the pilgrims hanged a man, not an In dian that would not have been strange or original but they hanged one of t heir own number for stealing from an Indian. In this tragic way the clam ap peared in history. In this proud and haughty town the vender of the clam, and even the horse who draws his load, are often mentioned in tones of dispar agement ; but it is far otherwise inNew England, where they have " grand an" nual Episcopal clam-bakes." When America began to tx port furs and tobacco and codfish, the people of the country lived extravagantly. Bring ing molasses from the West Indies, they soon learned to make rum of it, and rum became a circulating medium ; but rum and tobacco soon vitiated the fca6ts of our forefathers. Even at the meetings of the clergy the room w as often dark with smolie of tobacco and the steam of hot ruin. If anyone supposed that in colonial times the peo: le were more austerely virtuous than they are now, let him examine the records of the soci ety, and he would soon find the magni tude of his error. John Adams, who began tho temperance move ment in this c untry, records that the price of . rum was in those times a shilling a gallon, though souaetimes it was raised to a pistareen, and in small towns there would be a dozen rum taverns, which were nlarm ingly injurious to the people. Other records show similar facts. From read ing Franklin's memoirs, the lecturer, in common with others, had thought that sage a temperance man. But tho saga cious Franklin, who knew well what to tell, omitted to state that after he be came a prosperous gentleman he was no longer a teetotaller. Tho absurd and barbarous habit of drinking healths was observed in all its rigor, but even this was to be preferred to the slangy habits of modern times. Later, tea and coffee came into fashion, though chocolate, had preceded these dainties in the popular favor, and the chocolate was commonly lxiled with sausages and the whole mess eaten with a spoon. . The coffee in olden times was probably very bad, and even as late as John Randolph's time there was ground for his immoral remark: 44 Waiter, if this is tea, bring me coffee; if this is coffee, Lriupme lea." In the time of the revolution, while the army was starving at Yalley Forge, the people in the great cities were liv ing in luxury and extravagance; and later, when thecommerce of the country was pour'ug in wealth, the style of liv ing was incredibly luxurious. The con sequences of this extravagance were se rious. For one thing it broke up Pres ident Washington's cabinet. Dinners did it. The salaries of the secretaries were all insufficient to keep up the style of living that was thought -necessary. A Curious I'elir. Miss Mary Mellenry, of Philadelphia, lias sent to General Dunn, to be placed in his Lincoln collection, a curious relic of Wilkes Booth, with the following statement: In August, IS(S4, Mr. J. Wilkes Booth registered as a guest at the Mellenry house, Meadville, Pa. He was there on the thirteenth of that month. After his departure it was found that he had, with a diamond, in scribed upon a pane of the window of his bedroom, these words: Abe Lincoln, Departed this Li e, Aug. 13th, 1801, By the effects of Poison. The glass remained in the window un disturbed until the country was shocked by the murder of Mr. Lincoln on April 14, 18B5. A few days after that event Mr. R. M. N. Taylor, proprietor of the Mellenry house, cut the pane from the window, framed it over a backing of black ivelvet, placed with it the auto graph of Mr. Booth, which Mr. Taylor cut from the hotel register, and sent the whole to me, just as it now is. Tlie tremendous energy concentrated in a flash of lightning is shown by Prof. Mayer, of the Stevens institute, in an observation from which he concludes that at least 500 square miles of the earth's surface had its electrical condi tion changed at each flash of the light nings The Sisters of Charity in the United States number 1,170, in charge of one hundred and tix establishment. Choose for Me. In the throng ol a bazaar Bewildered, sighing, Mid toys spread wild, Mid clash and madding jnr, "Wnat to be buying, Choose lor me, father," said the child. In a labyrinth ol flowers, Gold daisies flaring, Pink bolls inlaid, Kound roses ruined in showers, "Which to be wearing, Choose for me, true love," said the msid In livelong, dazzlinn mi ze Joy's flood, lore's passion, Fame's star-arched goal "Which mine of thong vexed ways ? In thy compassion Choose for ine, heaven!" prays the soul. Laura Savford. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Sound logic Telephone talk. Hunting parties on the plains of Texas report buffalo very scarce. Nine thousand miles of new railroad will be constructed in 1880. There's one thing you can borrow on your personal security Trouble. When a stag takes to the water ho swims for deer life. ew Forifc Ucrald. Gen. Grant says he thinks Washing ton is tho handsomest city in the world. An ounce of taking care of yourself is better than a pound of doctor's stufl". Addic Boyd. Darwin has won a $2,400 prize, offered at Turin, for discoveries in the physi ology of plants. A funny conductor says car wheels make more revolutions than arc made in Central America. Oh, it was pitiful, nfar a whole city full, snow-shovel he had none- Gone to borrow one. Ntw Fork Express. The employees of nearly every leading railroad in the United States now wear a unirorm adopted by the company. An ounce of keep-your-mouth-shut i3 better than a pound of explanation after you have said it. Detroit Free rress. Bismarck has bought 40,000 seedlings of the American maple, which he in tends to plant in his forests in the Sach senwald. We know an elderly maiden lady who says she is willing to waste her sweet ness on'some heir, desert or otherwise. Salem Sunbeam. The first colored member of the Ohio legislature, Representative Williams, of Cincinnati, was feasted by his colored biethren recently. Ex -Senator Revels, the colored politi cian of Mississippi, is president of the University at Alcorn. He says he has abandoned politics. Lives of great .men all remind us, For some things they cure not a ruth, But to this f'uet tliey can't blind us; Kneh one wants his own tooth-brush. ! Salem ounbeam. Up to the twenty- fifth of October 156, 731 people had the cholera in Japan, of whom 00,(W7 died. Tho nbolir hmentby the British and Germans of the rigid quarantine there is citied to explain the great mortality, 41 Grandpa," says Minuie, reflectively, with some assurance of being able to im part useful information; ''Grandpa, do you know where this snow comes fromP I-t mo tell you. The angels are up in the sky cutting up ice with scissors." Nav York: Urufiliic. The lollowing are among t he promi nent sales of thoroughbreds forthe year: Falsetto. $18,000; Spendthrift, $15,0 00' liord Murphy, $10,1100; Wallonstein, 9,000; Sly Daner, Sf.OOO; and Mis take, $5,000, besides many transfers ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 each. Remarks a writer: 44 A gentle hand can lead an elephant by a hair." Ndw, what foolishness that is to put into the minds of children. Why, bless you, elephants den't have hair ; they juirt have hides, that's all. Perhaps a gentle hand might lead him by the tail, but, mind you, we have our doubts even of that. ItucUatul Courier. Hon the Count -Ion lines Was Uounced. The death of the Count Joannes re calls ait incideut in the editorial room of the Boston Trun.irriit some yenis ago, before the Count left Boston, ami when the genial Dsn. Haskeil was editor of the paper. The Count's frequent visits had become a source of annoyance to Haskell and his associates in the editor ial room, and but little respect was en tertained by them for the numerous titles claimed by the Count, while his consequential airs and lofty style had become a positive bore. Rushing in late one forenoon, where Haskell, Fox, Dix and Whipple were scratching away for dear Jifo at their respective desks, the Count slapped down a small slip upon Haskell's desk and asked in a loud aud indignant tone : " Why was that item about nie pub lished in yesterday's Transcript " HaskelJ laid down his pen, and, rising to his feet, confronted the Count, who stood in a dramatic altitude with folded arms, and said, in his decided, matterof fact way : 44 Mr. Jcnetf, leave this room (point ing to the door), do not enter it again a long as you live; we are tired of you, ana you may rest assured that as long vs I am editor of the Transcript your name shall never again appear in its columns except under the head of 'Obit uary.' Go!" The Count was so taken aback that he did not utter a word, but elevated his eyebrows, fixed his hat more firmly upon bis head, and strode majestically to the door toward which Haskell still pointed and vanished behind it. The ed.tor sank back in his seat with a sigh of relief, but tlu re was a peal of iaUL'hter fr m those present, in which even the sedate Whipple joined. Bos ton Commercial BulkUn.
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