!)C crrst Ufpfcliro . IS rUtil.IBnHD EVfBT WTtDNBSDAT, BT ' J. E. WE NIC. OfTloo in 8inoarbaugh Co.'s BailJLn,' , ELM STREET, - TIONESTA, PA. XICIIIMH, l.no IIIl YKATl. No nboripf tmin received for ft shorter period thun three nmntlm. OiirroKiwmilom't" i-oli- ltPfl from all parti of the (v.untry. Nonntkowl 1 betakf-n of anonymous '.'omnimiicutiouti. RATE3 OF ADVERTISING. Onn flqnars, oris Inch, on lnprt'on.... 0(1 Ono Hqnarn, ons inch, one moDth. ...... 8 Ofl One H'liiarn, one inch, throe mouths. 6 00 Ono tJqnftrn, one inch, one year 10 00 Two H')iinriM, one year 15 Ofl IJnnrter Column, one year 80 OH Half Column, one year 60 CO Ono Column, one year 100 00 I-egal notices at fstahllRhnd rates, Marriages and doath notices gratia. All bills for yearly advertim-menta collected janarterly. Temporary advertisements must bo pid for in adranco. Job work, casli on delivery. Vol. XIV. No. 49. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1882. $1.50 Per Annum. rt o Tho Priceless Things. Those are vulgar thing we pay for, be they stones for crowns of king; While the precious and tho poerl-rs are m priood symbolic things. Common dobts are scored and cancolod, wolghod and measured cmt for gold; Hut the debts from men to ages, thoir account is never told. Always see. the noblest nations keep thoir high- oat prize unknown; Cha-ronea's nmrblo lion frowned above unlot- torod stone. Balaklava Marathon andwho shall mete the worth of these ? Shall wo huckster with our lifeboats that defy the leaping seas ? Ah. tho Oreoks knew I Gamo their viotors . honorod from tho sacred games, Cndor archos red with roses, Unshod to hear thoir shoutod naroos; Bee their native cities tako them, breach the wall to make ft gate I What snprorae reward is thoirs who bring such honors to thoir State ? In the forum stand they proudly, take thoir prizos from tho priest; Little wreaths of pine and parsley on their . naked temples pressed I We in late days are lower? Ay I ft manful stroke is made, And we raie a pur so to pay It making manli ness ft trado Sacrifice itself grows venal surely Midas will subscribe; And the'ehallow souls are satisfied when worth - accepts the bribe I But o'n here, amid the markets, thore are things Uipy dare prize; Dollars hide their sordid laces when they moet anointed eyes. Lovers do not seek with jewels; flowers alouo can plead for them; And one fragrant memory cherished is fa dearer than gum. Klatesmen stoer the nat.on safely; artists paes the burning tet," And their country pays them proudly with a ' ribbon at the breast. When tho soldier saves the battle, wraps the flag around his heart, Who shall desecrate his honor with the values of the mart ? From his' guns of bronze we hew piece, and carve it as cross; For the gain he gave was priceless, as unpriced would be the loss. When the poet sings the love song, and the song of life and doatn, Slaking millions cease thoir weary toil and wait with wondering breath; When ho gilds tho mill and mine, inspires the slave to rise and dare; Lights w ith love the hcpolees garret, tells tho tyrant to boware; Wberu ho steals tho pang from poverty, with meanings now and clear, Reconciling pain and peace, and bringing blessed visions near; His reward? Nor cross nor ribbon, but all others high above, They may wear their splendid symbols he has earned tho people's lovo I John Boyle ffReUly. Mrs, Symington's Bargain. All women we are told have their weaknesses, and Mrs. Stanhope Sym ington was a cbina maniac, as are most people to some degree in this aesthetic nineteenth century of the world, lint Mrs. Symington excelled in the matter. She would prowl in second-hand stores, penetrate into the cavernosa recesses of tenement-houses, drive long distances into the country to old homesteads where the had heard vague rumors con ceming "flaring blue, "old green glaze," "buttorfly yellow" and "genuine old India wares." She would remorse lessly turn the choicest pieces of mod era bric-a-brao from her tables to make way for spoutless tea-pots, cracked bowls and noseless jugs. She crowded her drawing-room with brackets, shelves and cabinets for tho accommodation of ancient plates, which she called 'plaques," and pitcheis, which the re- christened "vases." Mr. Symington, a meek little man with limp yellow-white hair, a flat nose and colorless eyes line dun glass mar bles, began to liud it no slight task to make his way through his own house without breakage or misfortune. "I wish there was not such a thing as old china in the world," he lamented upon one particular occasion, after he hud knocked a tiandleless cup from a trinod draped in olive velvet. " Stanhope," reproved his wife, not without severity, "would you retard the progress of modern civilization? This cup, fragile as it may seem, repre sents an era in decorative history." Well, it won't represent it much longer," observed Mr. Symington, as he gathered up the fragments with something very like vindictiveness in his faded eves. 'But. Stanhopo." cried his wife, ' what are you going to do with those pieces? ' "Ihrow 'em into the ash barrel, 10 course," said Mr. Stanhope, spiritlessly, But Mrs. Symington rescued them from his grasp with a ehiiek of appre hension. "Are you mad, my dear?" she eiacu lated. ' I can mend them with a littlo cement and a great deal of time; and even then I wouldn t take twenty dol !aro for this exquisite cup. And I have been thiuKinp, Majihorc -" " Well, mv dear." said thn Inoklem eonoolast, looking dolefully at his finger which had been cut with one of the pieces of broken crockery, " what have yon been thinking?" " That I should like to go np into Maine next week," said the lady, in sinuatingly. "Into Maine? In midwinter?" echoed her amazed spouso, openiug the dim yes very wide indeed. To see Aunt Grizzel," explained Mrs. Symington "my Annt Grizzel urumpton, you know, at Wild Mver." Humph 1" remarked Mr. Syming ton, bandaging his flngor with his pocket handkerchief. I didn't know that yon cared bo very particularly about yonr Annt Grizzeh" "My dear," said Mrs. Symington. merging her speech into a mysterious Whisper, I've just remembered, all of a sudden as it were, that she has a set of very old flaring bluo china. .She must have. It belonged to her mother before her; and how I've forgotten ?'t all these years I'm sure I can't imagine. Even now I shouldn't have recalled it to my memory, I suppose, if I hadn't chanced to see, at Mrs. Hepburn's afternoon tea yesterday, the darlingist little egg-shell cups, with bridges and pagodas and willow trees all over 'em, exactly puch as Aunt Grizzel's mother used to have. Then it came to me like a flash of lightning Annt Grizzel's ohina 1" "Probably it's all broken by this time," gloomily suggested her hus band. Nonsense I" said Mrs. Symington. briskly. "Annfr Grizzy never broke anything in her life. She is careful ness itself; and up there in Maine, you Know, tney don shave clumsy waitresses to fling things about. No, no ; you may depend that fche has it all safe and sound in one of those odd little three cornered cupboards of hers. A treasure, Stanhopo, a perfect treasure. Money wouldn't buy such a set as that; a hundred years old, if it's a day. So, if you won t mind, my dear, X II just run up to Maine, and see about it." "Do as yon please. Arabella." said Mr. Svmineton. resiffnftdlv. TTa Irnaur that Mrs. Svmineton generally did as she pleased, and he saw no especial ad vantage in debating tne question. . "Thanks, dear; so kind of you!" uttered Mrs. Symington. "And of course I can't go to the polar regions entirely unprotected, bo I'll order one of those comfortable seal dol mans that everybody is wearing now, and a new plush hat with a cluster of ostrich tips. One must go dressed like other people ; and if you can give me twenty-five or thirty'dollars 1 dare Bay Aunt urizzy will let me have the set for that (she don't know the value of old china, poor thing I) and the jour ney won't be more than thirty dollars both ways, if I go by sea, including a stateroom.!' "It appears to me," said Mr. Syming ton, disconragiagly, "that this is n, good deal of a wild goose chase, going dancing up to the northern boundaries of Maine at this time of year for an old set ci trumpery china which probably aidn t cost ten dollars to start with." ' Oh, Stanhope, it did 1" cried the lady, indignantly. It was real India ware, imported, without paying a dollar of duty, by an old sea captain in the India trade, expressly for nay grand mother Urumpton. And besides you are bo groveling and prosaio in your ideas. As if tho original cost of a thing of this nature signifies I it s the costhetio value that wo look at, don t you see?" Ah 1" said Mr. Symington. Well. if you must go, you must go, I suppose: and of course I shall have to give you a check for what money you are likely to want." And Mr. Symington sighed deeply and went upstairs to get a piece of court-plaster for his cut hnger. Mrs. bymington went to Wild River. in the northern boundaries of Maine. where the pine forests were thatched with snow, and the icicles tinkled in the woods of a moonlight night like so many castanets gone mad. She made the greater part of the voyage bv sea, and was consequently very seasick, for the water was rough and the gale tem- pestous. " 1 will come back by land," she said to herself, as she sat in the little hotel at Portland, and viewed her green and yellow complexion with a Bhudder, " Money wouldu t induce me to risk my life again in that horrid steamer, where one is bufleted and seesawed abont on waves that are as high as a house. The palace-car fare will be something of an extra expense, and I shall lose my ro turn ticket by steamer, but I'm sure Mr. Symington won t grudge it to me when he hears how I've been pitched and tumbled about on the ocean in peril of my me. Andshe"put on her black brocaded silk, her new plumed hat, and the seal dolman, and took the northward-bound train, resolved to present an imposing appearance to Aunt Urizzy urump ton when she should reach Wild River station. It was very cold a dull, bitter .leaden cold with the ground frozen like a rock, the streams bound in ioe, the sky gray and bitter, with an ineffable gloom. Aunt Grizzel Grumpton lived in a little one-storied house on the top of an uncompromising hill, here a solitary cedar tree was twisted around like a corkscrew with the force of the east wind, and the few lean sheep huddled behind the rocks in shivering groups, picturesque, but far from com fortable. And even after they had come in sight of the old building whose one coat of red paint had long ago been worn away by the suns and rains of well-nigh a century, Mrs. Symington had serious doubts whether the one horse sleigh in which she was jerked and jolted up the incline would not be blown sheer away by the rush of the tompest before they could reach their destination. However, it waen't. And once in Aunt Grizzy's cottage things were very comfortable. There was no wide throated chimney, filled with moss fringed logs, such as the fancy of city dwellers is apt to depict in the solitary farmhouse. Feople in Maine know better than that. But there was an im mense cook stove, which heated the room to an atmosphere of eighty odd degrees; the craoks in the window sashes were pasted over with brown paper, and sand bags were laid on the top ledges, while a double rag carpet covered the floor, and a wood-box, heaped to the very top, stood in the angle of the chimney piece. Aunt urizzy s dress was of blue homespun flannel, and she wore a worsted hood pulled over her ears, and a little plaid shawl folded over her breast, and she was addicted to the use of snuff, and said "Hey?" whenever any one ad dressed her. My cheeny?" said Aunt Grizzy. Well, I'm free to own that I think a deal of that cheeny. But I don't know, Niece Arabella, how you came to hear of it." . ' It ia an heirloom in our family. Aunt GrizzeL" said Mrs. Symington, exerting herself to speak loudly. " Hey ?" said Aunt Grizzy, with her hand placed sounding-board fashion behind her ear. " Every one must have heard of it." said Mrs. Symington, at the risk of breaking a blood-vessel in her throat. Aunt Grizzy's wrinkled face fairly beamed. Well, I calculate it ain't absolutely ugly," said she. " But still, if you ve really net your heart on it, Niece Arabella But it ain't unpacked. I always put it away this time o year when mere ain t no tea parties given. " Oh, never mind that." said Mrs. Symington, her heart leaping within her at this easy conquest of the fort. " It will be all the more convenient for me to carry it. People always keep such treasures put away in secret places." " Iley said Aunt urizzy, and Mrs. Symington repeated her words. " Oh, there ain t no secret about it I said Aunt Grizzy, as she turned the hiss ing sausages in the pan. "Onlylhaint had time to overhaul it since you've been here." "Naturally?" interrupted Mrs. Svm ington. "But I suppose it is all in good condition ?" ' "Sartinly, eartinly," said Aunt Grizzy. You can look at it yourself if yon like, Niece Arabella." Oh, that is not at all necessary," said Mrs Symington. " But now as to the price, Aunt Grizzy ?" "I ain't one to haggle with my rela tions," said Aunt Grizzy, giving the fry ing pnn a shako over the blazing sticks. "Set your own price, Arabella, and if I don't like it I'll make bold to say so." Do you think. Aunt Grizzy,"' hesi tated the city lady, "that twenty-five dollars would be a reasonable compen sation for it ?" "Well, yes," said Aunt Grizzy. "It never cost me that, because " "No, of course not," hurriedly inter posed Mrs. Symington, and she pro duced the twenty-five dollars, all in gold half eagles, with the exultant feel ing of one who has picked a precious diamond out of the dust. But I should wish you to feel that I had dealt fairly with vou in a matter like this. "Well, I hain't no reason to com plain," said Aunt Grizzy. " Some folks fancies cheeny. I don't. A plate's a plate to me, and a cup's a cup, and you're kindly welcome to my 'set if you've took a notion to it." Mrs. Symington went homo the next day, through a whirlwind of snow, hav ing been fed upon pork and sausages. sausages and pork, at every meal since her arrival, and retaining a very vivid recollection of the Maine winds and tempests. "I don't think I'd go back there again, even for a Bet of old china." said Mrs. Symington, as she seated herself on the velvet cushions of the palace-car and shrank Bhiveringly inside of her seal dolman and fleeoe-lined fur gloves ' Aunt Grizzel will never die a natural death; she'll be blown away, like Mother Hubbard." But all these petty tribulations were forgotten as a thing out of mind on the brilliant January morning on which, in iroat ot the sea-coal fire in her own cozy drawing-room, she unpacked the coarse wooden box wherein were con cealed the priceless treasures of Aunt Urizzy Urumpton a china. "Don't touch them, Stanhope," said she, with a small shriek of dismay. Men are so dreadful careless. Oh, here they are on tho top, all wrapped in separate pieces of paper." " Eh Y' said Mr. Symington, stand ing by with a hammer and screw-driver brandished in either hand. Are these antiques 7" "Good gracious me!" gasped Mrs. Symington. ' What can this possibly mean r For the china which she unwrapped from its coverings of coarse brown pa per was a cheap and common style, such as is associated in the mind with tea chromos, gaudy lithographs and salesmen of the Hebraic persm1 lion white, with a band of imitation gold around each piece, and a coarse flower sprawling below, as if it had been laid on with a miniature whitewash brush. This is never my Grandmother Orurnpton's old china," said Mrs. Symington, burbting into tears, and pushing the hideous atrocities away ill- 1. 1. til 1 . tf wuu a jorce wnicn cracsea two places. "I'll write to Aunt Grizzr at once, and this misunderstanding shall be cleared up." In the course of time an answer came from Wild Eiver, EtifHy written in rale ink, and conveying in its tout ensemble the general impression that Aunt Grizzy had wrestled with it as if it had been a fit of the Asiatio cholera. "Dear Nejck" fit said). With Love and duty I take up my Pen to in form You that the China is all right Bo't from Snefly & Pipkin, in Boston, last November, at Eight (88) the Set, to be transported at my own Dammage. As for my Mother's old Set, witch Captain Babcock bro't from Calcutta in the Year 1796, I Gave it to his Neice Helen Hosmer two Yeres ago for a Pare of Gold Spectackles and a Fur Muff, being so Cracked and Old-fashioned that it wasn't worth no more. Bnt I am told that she puts it on Ebbony Shelves in her Best Parlor. But Helen never was more than Half-Witted, and your Set witch you took home with you is worth a Deal tho most Monney. 8o you have the Best Bargain. With love, I remain, Your Aunt to Command, OnizzEii Gbtjmpton. "Ah!" said Mr. Symington, who had been listening intently to the contents of this much blotted and besmeared piece of manuscript, sealed with Aunt Urizzy s thimble top, and still retaining a subtle odor of fried sausages and grid dle cakes. "A seal dolman at three hundred dollars, a thirteen-dollar hat, a pair of fifteen-dollar fur gloves, a fifty-dollar journey and a twenty-five-dollar investment, all for a set of china which you can buy anywhere on the Bowery or Grand street for ten dollaisl now does that look, my dear, as viewed in the light of political economy?" And Mrs. Symington answered only by her toars. "There, there, Bella, don't fret," said her husband, kindly. " Let the thing go for what it is worth. Forget it." " Bat I can't help f-f fretting," sobbed Mrs. Symington. One thing is quite certain, however I never will be such a fool egain. I will n t spend another cent for ceramics until I have econo mized enough to pay for this outrageous swindle." " Gently, my dear, gently," said her husband. " Now you are going too far. Aunt Grizzel was honest enough. You said you wanted her china, and she sold you her china at your own terms " But I didn't mean this china," said Mrs. Symington. "How was she to know what you meant?" said Mr. Symington. "China is china, and to me one piece is as good as another." And Mrs. Symington was too broken down and spiritless even to argue the point with him. 11 'mar. Cloves. Cloves grow on trees from twenty to thirty feet high, having a handsome pyramidal shape, with leaves that are largo, glessy and evergreen. It is a Dative of Malacca, but is now grown in nearly all the spice islands of the In dian ocean, the larger part of the crop coming from Ainboyna, in the island of Ternato. Many years ago the Dutch undertook to control the pioluction of this spice and to confine its growth to this island; they, therefore, destroyed the clove treesin the other spice islands, but the high prices which they de manded gradually led to its cultivation in territory outside of their jurisdiction, and they afterward abandoned that policy. Still, most of the cloves now produced are grown in Dutch territory, and the high prices which, have pre vailed during the lost year cr two have been attributed partly to a failure in the crop at Ternate and partly to the Aoheen war, which has considerably interfered with the Bupply usually derived from Sumatra. The cloves of commerce are not, as many suppose, the fruit of tho clove tree, but are the flower buds. The ripe fruit in shape resembles a small olive; it is of a dark red color, with one or two cells contain ing as many seeds, and it is also aro matic to a certain extent, and some times appears in commerce in a dried state under the curious name of " mother of olives." It is not nearly so pungent, however, as the flower stems. Indeed, the whole treo leaves, bark and wood seems to be impregna ted in some degree with the strong, dis tinctive clove flavor; but the flower buds are the principal commercial prod uct of the tree. When first gathered they are of a reddish color, but in the drying process, which is generally partly done by wood fires and partly in tho sun, they turn a deep brown color, as they are when they reach us in America. Although the tree grows wild to some extent, it is regularly cul tivated in plantations, tho plants being some ten or fifteen feet apart and care fully pruned and cared for. The Game of Rights and Lefts. John Debois took a great deal of trouble to get a good pair of boots in St. Louis for nothing, but he aohioved sucoess. He was a traveler staying at the Grand Central hotel. He went to a store and ordered the finest pair that oonld be made. He was exact in his stipulations as to the material and style, and wished them sent to his room at a certain time. Then he gave the same order in another store, except that the delivery was to be made half an hour later. The boy who brought the first pair was sent back to have the left boot stretched, and the boy who carried the seoond pair was sent back with the right one. Dubois then put on the rem nants,, for which he had not paid, and caught ,the net out-bound train. Shops and Shopping In Mexico. Shops and shopping, of the uppor sort, in Mexico follow French or Eu ropean traditions more than American. Fanciful titles over the doorway are adopted instead of a firm name. A drv goods store is The Surprise," "The Springtime," "The Explosion;" a jeweler's the "Pearl" or "Emerald;" a shoe Btore, ' The Azure Boot," Bnd The Foot of Venus." The windows are tastefully draped and a largo forco of clerks is seen shoulder to shoulder within. These clerks are more demo cratic in their manners than Americans would venture to be. They shake hands with their patrons if they have enjoyed a slight previous acquaintance and inquire after the health of Miss Lolita and Miss Soledad. There are those of superior social position among them, however some who are met with at the balls of the Guatemala minister, for instance. The explana tion may perhaps be found in the limit edchoico of occupations open, which leaves to many who desire to work no more important places. Until of late it has not been eti quette for ladies of standing to shop except from their carriages a consid erable part of the shopping, as for furni ture and other household goods, is still conducted by the men of the family just as it was not etiquette for ladies to be seen walking in the streets. The change in both these respects ia as cribed to the horse-cars. The point of ceremony, it appears, was founded somewhat upon the difficulty of getting about. The American touch appears in the streets with increasing frequency, in signs of dealers in arms, sewing ma chines, and other of our useful inven tions, and of the insurance companies, a novel idea, to which the Mexicans seam to take with much readiness. The principal shopping hours are from 4 to G o'clock in the afternoon. From 1 till 3, or even 4, little is done. There is a general stoppage of affairs for dinner. It is b-1 a short time since that interesting person, the commercial traveler, has been known in the country. The profits of favoraWy situated houses, in the absence of keen competition, have been very large, and methods of doing business in some in stances correspondingly loose. The Mexican merchant does not necessarily go into a fine calculation of the pro portionate value of each detail of a for eign invoice, but "lumps" the profit he thinks he ought to receive on the whole. Some articles, in consequenoe, can be bought at less than their real value, while others, in compensation, are exorbitantly advanced. It is the smaller trade, however, and that most removed from metropolitan influences, that is the gayest and most entertaining as a spectacle. How many picturesque market scenes does one linger in ! Each population has its own market-day, not to interfere with any other. The stone flags of the plaza or the market-houses, which are plenti -f ul and well built, are hidden under a complication of fruits, grains, cocoa sacks and mats, striped blankets and rebozos, sprawling brown limbs, em broidered bodices and kirtles, as if with an excessively thick, richly col ored rug. A grade above this is the Parian, as at Puebla, a bazar of small shops, in which goods, sales-people and customers are all to be put upon the can vas with the most vivid hues. The leading merceria (dry goods shop) of the same important city of Puebla, called "The City of Mexico," bui a facade entirely in glazed tiles upon an un glazed ground of red, with allegor ical figures larger than life between the pilasters as part of the pattern. llar per'n Magazine. Graves In China. In every direction, as far as the eye can reach, little hillocks of earth, from three to six feet high, are scattered promiscuously over the country. These being covered with grass, now dried by the autumn and scattered as they are over the cultivated fields, makes one think of haycocks after a harvest of timothy or red-top in America. They are the tombs or graves of past genera tions of Chinese. And, as the leading religion or superstition of the country is ancestral worship, these mounds are never disturbed or plowed over, but stand for indefinite ages. It would seem to a Etranger that this sentiment over the resting place of the dead must, to a material extent, reduce the pro ductiveness of the land. For there seems to be no system of cemeteries as in other conntries, but the owner of the field at death is buried, as have been his ancebturs before him, in his own soil at some spot at a respectful dis tance frorc the graves of his predecei Eor. And thus these tumuli go on in creasing in number and closeness of proximity till it would seem to be only a question of time when the dead will possess all the soil and starve out the entire nation. Letter from China. A gentleman of this village has a fam ily of three or four little girls. Not long since the children were talking about a pair of twins. One of them, an elder one, turned to her father and said: " Papa, what do they call it when three babies come at once ?" A little one, who was much interested in the conversation, and who had heard talk about the smallpox, at once interrupted and suid, with much animation: "I know, papa." "Well, what do they call it?" said the father. "An epi demic," said the little one, proudly dis playing her knowledge, Port Jervit Union, The KignMTind. Once, when the night-wind clapped its wings, And shok the window-bare and roof, J. heard the souls of battle-kings Drive by in clashing proof I Sometimes a runic strife it kept, Of winter nights, in sleoted trees; Or UDderneath the cavos it crept A swann of mnrmnring bees. Or, now, wild huntsmon of tho air In hollow eh ae their bngles blew, While swift o'er wood and hilltop bare ; Tho shrill-voicod qnarry flew. Sometimes I heard of lovers flown, Safe, undor ward of storm and night, To where, in sylvan lodge, there shone ' A taper kind and bright. These things the night-wind nsed to toll, And'etill would tell, if I might hear; But sorrow sleeps too sound and well To lend a dreamful ear. ' Edilh M. Thomas, in the Century. 1 HUMOR OF THE DAY. A good prophet One hundred per cent. "The simple utteranoe of joy is poe try," says Oscar Wilde. That settles it. We shall allow no joy in our family. It will be tossed into the waste-basket.- i New Haven Register, A fashion writer Bays "raised figures" produce excellent effect. Well, that depends ; if they are on a check theyv sometimes produce tho effect of feend-" ing the raiser to State prison. " The difference between a marriage and hanging," said an old bachelor, "is that in the former a man's troubles commence,' while with the latter they end." Philadelphia Chronicle. It is said that the only obstacle iniho way of transporting live hogn from this country to England is the difficulty of feeding them on the passage. Why not feed them from the trough of the sea? Somen i lie Journal. Said Mrs. Ragbag : "At table, while the servants are present, Mr. Ragbag nnd , myself always talk of the large amount everything costs us. It gives the neighbors such an' excellent impres sion of our liberality." Boston Post. HEALTH MATS. To remove freckles take lemon juice, one ounce; quarter of a dram of pow dered borax and one dram of sugar. Mix them and let them stand till ready for use, then rub it on the face occa sionally. Never stand still in coll weather, especially after having taken a slight degree of exercise; and always avoid standing upon the ice or snow or whore the person is exposed to a cold wind. Dr. Foote's Ucalth Monthly. The curative qualities of common salt are not as freely impressed upon the pnblio mind as is expedient. Inflam mation can be rapidly reduced by a solution of Bait, and for a weak or dis eased membrane local applications of salt rnd water act as magic In case of sore throat, sore eyes or catarrhal affections, simple salt and water as a ga'gle or douche, is a most efllcaciou3 application. The chief virtue of min eral waters is salt, which forms a con stituent either in large or small propor tions in all springs recommended for healing. The unmistakable benefits derived from sea bathing and sea air proceed from that great strengthening medium common salt. A goblet of well iced salt and water is not a dis agreeable beverage before breakfast, and is highly beneficial as an aperient. If ' salt should lose its Bavor " a most important lever of the pharmacopoeia would be destroyed. Concerning the treatment for diph theria, the Food and Health says : I To us it appears that fresh air is the . i i -. -1 1 1 .n .1.- i. nrst necoHBiiy ; we tuuuiu anuw a u:pu therial patient to be near an open win dow. Next, we should use hot malt vinegar for flannel wraps round the throat, gargles of the same diluted with water, and the most tonic diet pos sible. Neither quinino nor mineral tonics, but hot, strong wines, yolks of eggs beaten np in Btrong beef toa ; warm baths made of chamomile flowers; feet placed in mustard and water, aud flannel wraps soaked in hot vinegar around the stomach. The juioe pressed irom raw beef, heated in a farina boiler and given constantly, but, above all, hot red wine. Inhalations of the fumes of vinegar with open month and peneil ings of the same within the mouth. The use of lemons is also to be recommend od. Diphtheria is apreventuble disease, and when we know more of the condi tions under which the health of human life can exist and are inclined to listen to it and act accordingly to it, we shall have fewer epidemics such an those of diphtheria. Well, my son," said a father to his eight-year-old boy the other day, "what have you done that may be set down as a good deed?" Gave a poor boy five cents," replied the hopeful. Oh, oh! that was charity, and charity is always right. He was an orphan, was he?" "I didn't stop to ask," replied the boy. " I gave him the money for licking a boy Lwho .upset my dinner basket" An iron chess-board provided with miifrntttia nhaMHmf.n in a. Berlin DOVt)lty, The small magnet concealed in the figures cause them to adhere to the iroa board and retain their plaoe in spite of considerable sbockt, such for instance as received pn chipboard or pn railway trains.
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