One. f inr, ons inch, otin ln"n on.... (I 01 Ono H inurn, rum inch, one mini' ii 8 (" Cine H (iiftrn, onn inch, three, mon.hs.... 6 C( One Kinin, one inch, one yerr 10 00 '1 wo 8i(iiM'w, one year ........ IS 01 IJnartnr Column, one year. ........ .... AO 00 Half (Vilnnin, one year.. ...... ........ 60 CO Ono Column, one year 100 CO Jfrvl notices at f ntftWUhed rate, MnniMrns and death notions (rratia. All bills for yearly dvertixftnent collected quarterly. Temporary advertisements nmnt la l'.iii for in advance. Job work, cash on delivery. J. n. WCNK. i::.m riTancT, tioncsta, pa, X J SUMS, ei.co IMCIt YICATl. Nil xiili"?1! ipdotift rnceived for a shorter period Dinii three months. ('.irmfinilfin'OKili Med from all purts of tho r-.-mh-v. NiiiiriU'owl 1 l.'a tk-n of anonymous ' ll'.lllllUlicivtlllllH. ri Hi f;' H I " . M f V ' V '-' ' V r . ft t i 11 . i lliJ ! 1 U ii I " Vol. XIV. No. 49. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1882. $1,5.6 Per Annum. Tho Priceless Things. Thone are vulgar thing we pay for. be they ' stone for crowns of king; Vriiiia tho precious and the peerl-f areui priood Bymbolio things. Common debt are scored and cancolod, weighed and mnamired ont for gold; But the debts from men to ages, tholr account is never told. Always ooe. the noblent nations keep tholr high oat prizo unknown; Clucronea's marble lion frowned above unlet tered stone. BaUklava Marathon andwbo shall mete the worth of these ? 61mll we huckster with our lifeboat that defy tho leaping seas ? Ah. the Greeks knew I Game their victor honored from tho sacred cam en, Under arches red with rones, flnshod to hear uioir snour-eu iiaraot); Boo their native cities take them, breach the wall to make a gate 1 Whit eoprome reward is their who bring such honor to their State ? Iu the forum stand tbey proudly, take their prizes from the priest; Little wreaths of pine and parsley on their - naked temple prossedl We in later days are lower? Ay I a manful stroke i made, And we raine a purse to pay it making manli ness a traxlo Sacrifice itaolf grow venal surely Midas will subxoribe; And the'rhallow son) are satisfied when worth accept the bribe I Cut e n here, amid the markets, tiiore are things they dare prize; Collars bide their sordid lace when they moet anointed eyes. Lovers flo not seek with Jewels; flowers alone can plead for thorn; And one fitgrant memory cherished is U dearer than a gem. KUteamcu steer the nnt.on safely; artist pats the burning test, And their country pay them proudly with ' ribbon at the b re ant. When the soldier saves the battle, wrap the flK around bis heart, Who shall dtwcrste hi honor with the values of the mart ? , From his guns of bronze we hew a piece, and carve it as a cross; For tho gain he gave was priceless, as unpriced would be the lose. When the poet sings the love song, and the song of life and death, Making million cease their weary toll and wait with wondering breath; When he cilda tho mill and mine, inspires the Blave to rise and dare; '. Lights with love the hopelee garret, toll tho tyrant to boware; When ho steals the pang from poverty, with meanings new and clear, Reconciling paiu and peace, and bringing blessed viaions near; Hia reward? Kor cross nor ribbon, but all others high abovo, They may wear their splendid symbols he has earned the people' love I John Boyle (Rcilly Mrs. Symington's Bargain. All women we nre told have their weaknesses, and Mrs. Stanhope Synv incton was a china maniac, as are most people to some degree in this aesthetic nineteenth century of the world. But Mrs. Symington excelled in the matter. She would prowl in second-hand stores, penetrate into the cavernous recesses of tenement-houses, drive long distances into the country to old homesteads where the had heard vague rumors con- cerning 'flaring blue," "old green glazfl," "butterfly yellow" and "genuine old India wares. She would remorse- lesblv turn the choicest pieces of mod ern bric-a-brao from her tables to make way for spoutless tea-pots, cracked bowls and noseless jugs. She crowded her Jrawiiifr-room with brackets, shelves and cabiuetH for the accommodation of ancient platee, whioh she called "plaques," and pitcheis, which fche re- chrihtened "vases." Mr. Symington, a meet little man with limp yellow-white hair, a flat nose and colorless eyes like dim glass mar bles, Ix-gan to ilud it no Blight 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 handleless cup from a trinod draped in olive velvet. " Stanhope," reproved hia wife, not without severity, " would you retard the progress of modern civilization? This cup, fragile as it may seem, repre HPTits aii era in decorative history." "Weil, it won't represent it much longer," observed Mr. Bymington, as he puthered up the fragments with thintr verv like vindictiveness in hia faded eves. " Hut. Stanhopo." cried his wife, " what are you going to do with those pieces?" "Ihrow 'em into the abh barrel, 10 coure." Buid Mr. Stanhope, BpintleHbly, 15ut Mrs. Symington rescued thorn from his grasp with a ehriek of appro lit-iiBion. " Are you mad, my dear "she eja. -lated. " I can nieiii! them with a httKi oernetit and a great deal of time; atid even then I wouldn't take twenty dul Hrrf for tl.ia exfj'Ubite cup. And I lave ', fen tl.iuUn?, rr.ioie-" " Woll. my dear." said the luckless ironoolafit, looking dolefully at his finger which had been cut with one of the pieces of broken crockery, what hnvo yon been thinking ?" " That I should like to go up into Maine next week," said the lady, in sinuatingly. "Into Maine? In midwinter 7" eche'ed her amazed spouse, opening the dim yes very wide indeed. lo eee Aunt Gnzzol " explained Jtlra. Symington "my Aunt (Irizzel Grumpton, you know, at "Wild River." "Jiumpnr remarked Mr. Byming ton, bandaging his linger with his pocket handkerchief. " I didn't know that you cared bo very particularly about your Aunt Grizzel." "My dear," Baid Mrs. Bymmgton, 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 blue hina. .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. Liven now I ahouldn t have recalled it to my memory, I suppose, if I hadn't chanced to see, at Mrs. Hepburn's afternoon tea yesterday, the darlingiet little egg-snell cups, with bridges and pagodas and willow trees all over 'em, exactly ruch as Aunt Qrizzel's mother used to have. Then it came to me like a flash of lightning Aunt Grizzcl's china 1" "Probably it's all broken by this time," gloomily suggested her hus band. NoDsensel" said Mrs. Symington, briskly. " Aunfr Grizzy never broke anything in her life. She is careful news itself ; and rip there in Maine, von Know, they don t have clumsy waitresses to tling things about. No, no ; you may depend tbat she has it all safe and sound in one of those odd little three cornered cupboards of hers. A treasure, Stanhope, 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, 1 11 just run up to Maine, and see about it "Do as yon please. Arabella, said Mr. Symington, resianedlv. He knew that Mrs. Symington generally did as sue pleased, and be saw no especial ad vantage in debating the question. . "Thanks, dear: so kind of you!" uttered Mrs. Symington. "And of course I can't go to the polar regions entirely unprotected, so 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 say Aunt Unzzy will let me nave the set for that (she don't know the value of old china, poor thing !) 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, discouragingiy, " that this is n good deal of a wild goose chase, going dancing up to the northern boundaries of Maine at thus time of year for an old set of trumpery china whioh 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 nyy grand mother Grumpton. And besides you are so groveling and proaaio in your ideas. As if tho original cost of a thing of this nature signifies ! It s the (esthetic value that wo look at, don t you see?" ' " Ah I" 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 finger. Mrs. Symington went to Wild liiver, in the northern boundaries of Maine, where the pine forests were thatched with snow, and the iciclee tinkled in the woods of a moonlight night like po 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 tern 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 shudder, " Money wouida t induce me to risk my life again in that horrid steamer, where one is buileted and seesawed about on waves that are oa high as a houso. The palace-car fare will be something of an extra expense, and 1 shall lose my re turn ticket by steamer, but I'm sure Mr. Symington won't grudge it to me when he hears how 1 ve been pitched and tumbled about on the ocean in peril of my life." 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 Grizzy Grump 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 mil, wnere a solitary cedar tree was twisted around like a corkscrew with the force of the cant wind, and the few lean sheep I huddled behind the rocks in shivering groups, picturesque, but far from com fortable. And even after they hud come in sight of the old building whose one coat of red paint had long ago been wcrn away by the eups a.n.4 rwns 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 bo blown sheer away by the rush of the tompest before they could reach their destination. However, it wasn'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 tho fancy of city dwellers is apt to depict in tho solitary farmhouse. 1'eople 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 cracks 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 Grizzy'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 is an heirloom in our family, Aunt Grizzel, " said Mrs. Symington, exerting herself to speak loudly. " Hey 7 said Aunt Grizzy, with ner hand placed sounding-board fashion behind her ear. " Every one must have heard of it, said Mrs. Syminkton, 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 set your heart on it, Niece Arabella But it ain't unpacked. always put it away this time o year when there am t no tea parties given " Ob, never mind that," sa 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. " Hey r said Aunt Unzzy, and Mrs. Symington repeated her words. " Oh, there am t no secret about it I said Aunt Grizzy, as she turnod the hiss ing sausages in the pan. " Only I hoin t had time to overhaul it eince you've been here. "Naturally?" infVrupted Mrs. Svnv ington. "But I suppose it is all in good condition ?" "Sortinly, eartmly, said Aunt Grizzy.- "You can look at it yourself if you like, Niece Arabella," Ob, tbat is not at all necessary. said Mrs Symington. " But now as to the price, Aunt Grizzy r "I am t one to haggle with my rela- tions," said Aunt Grizzy, giving tho fry ing pan a shake over the blazing sticks, Set your own price, Arabella, and if I don t like it 1 11 make bold to say so. Do you think, Aunt Grizzy," hesi tated tho 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. bymington, 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 should wish you to feel that I had dealt fairly with you in a matter like this. " Well, I hoin 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 home the next day, through a whirlwind of snow, hav ing been fed upon pork and sausages, sausages and pork, at every meal sinoe 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 shiveringly inside of her seal dolman and fleece-lined fur gloves " Aunt Grizzel will never die a natural death; she'll be blown away, like Mother Hubbard." Bat all these petty tribulations were forgotten as a thing out of mind on the brilliant January morning on which,, in front of the sea-coal nre in her own cozy drawing-room, she unpacked the coarae wooden box wherein were con cealed the priceless treasures of Aunt Grizzy Grumpton's china. "Don't touch them, Stanhope," said she, with a small shriek of dismay, "Men are so dreadful carelefs. Oh, here they are on the top, all wrapped in separate pieces oi paper." " Eh F said Mr. Symington, stan ing by with a hammer and screw-driver brandished in either hand. " Are these antiques T' "Good gracious me!" gasped Mrs Bymington. " What can this possibly mean r For the china which she unwrapped from its coverings or coarse brown p per was a cheap and common style, such as is associated in the mind with tea chromoa, gaudy lithographs and salosmen ot the lleuraio persui uon white, with a bond 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 Grumpton's old chine," said Mrs, Byrauton. burKticg iato tears, and punhing the hideous atrocities away with a force which CTacked two plates. ' I'll write to Aunt Grizzy at once, and this misunderstanding shall be cleared up." In the course of time an answer came from Wild River, stiffly written in pale ink, and conveying in its tout ensemble the general impression that Aunt Grizzy had wrestled with it as u it had been a fit of the Asiatio cholera. "Dear Nktok" (it 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 (458) 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 Spec tackles and a Fur Muff, being so Cracked and Old-fashioned that it wasn't worth no more. But lam told that she puts it on Ebbonr Shelves in her Best Parlor. But Helen never was more than nalf-Witted, and your Set witch yon took home with you is worth a Deal the most Monney. So you have the Best Bargain. With love, I remain, Your Aunt to Command. " Gbizzel Gbumpton." "Ah I" said Mr. Symington, who had been listening intently to the contents of this much blotted and besmeared piece of manuscript, sealed with Aunt Grizzy s thimble top, and still retaining a subtle odor of fried sausages and grid dle cakes. ' 1 A seal dolman at three hundred dollars, a thirteen-dollar hat, pair of mteen-dollar xur 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 How does that look, my dear, as viewed in the lip:ht of political economy? And Mrs. Symington answered only by her tears. "There, there, lSeila, don t fret, said her husband, kindly. " Let the thing go for what it is worth. Jb orget it. " But I can't help f-f fretting," sobbed Mrp. Symington. " One thing is quite certain, however I never will be such a fool egain. I will net 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. Yon said you wanted her china, and she sold you her china at your own terms " " Unt l didn t mean this china, said Mrs. Symington. "How was she to know what you meant?" said Mr. Symington. " China is china, andto me one piece is as good as another." And Mrs. Symington was too broken down and spiritless even to arue the point with him. llazar. Cloves. Cloves grow on trees from twenty to thirty feet high, having a handsome pyramidal shape, with leaves that are large, glossy and evergreen. it is a native of Malacoa, but is now grown in nearly all the spice islands of the In dian ocean, the larger part of the crop coming from Amboyna, 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 treesm 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 produoed 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 supply usually derived from Sumatra. The cloves of commerce are not, as many suppose the fruit of the clove tree, but are the flower buds. The ripe fruit in shape resembles a small clive; it is of a dark red color, with one or two cells contain ing as many seeds, and it is also aro- matioto 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 eo pungent, however, as the flower stems. Indeed, the whole tree 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 prinoi pal commercial prod not 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 the sun, they turn a deep brown color, as they are when they reach us in America. Although the tree grows nnl.l fr unma Mtnt. it in recnlarlv cul tivated in plantations, the 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 achieved sucoess. He was a traveler staying at the Grand Central hotel. He went to a store and ordered the finest pair that could be made. He was exact in his stipulations as to the material and style, and wished them sent to his room at a oertain 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 seooud pair was sent back with the right one. Dubois then put on the rem nants, for which he had not paid and taught the nejt out-ponna wain. Shops and Shopping In Mexico. Shops and shopping, of the upper sort, in Mexico follow French cr 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 "leari" or "jjmeraid; a shoe store, " The Azure Boot," and " The Foot of Venus." The windows are tastefully draped and a largo force 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 themt however some who are met with at the bulls of the Guatemala minister, for instance. The explana tion may perhaps be found in the limit ed'ehoioa 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 carnages 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 is 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 lnven- 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 6 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" t a short time since tbat 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 mto a fine calculation of the pro portionate value of each detail of a for eign invoice, but "lumps' the pront 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 t 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 ful 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 ia the Parian, as at Puebla, a bazar of email shops, in which goods, sales-people and customers ere all to be put upon the can vas with the most vivid hues. The leading merceria (dry goods fehop) of the same important city of Puebla, called "The City of Mexico," has a facade entirely in glazed tiles upon an unglazed ground of red, with allegor ioal figures larger than life between the pilasters as part of the pattern. Har per's Magazine, Graves In China. In every direction, as far as the eye can reach, little hillocks ot 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 flelJs, 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, tis 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 stranger 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 countries, but the owner of the field at death is buried, as have been his ancestors before him. in his own soil at some spot at a respectful dis tance froir the graves of his predecei- or. 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 rrom unma. A gentleman of this village has a fam ily of three or four little gins. 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, poudiy dis playing her knowledge. Port Jerrii Union, The Night-Wind. Once, when the night-wind clapped its wings, And shoek the window-bars and roof, J. heard the souls of battle-kings Drive by in clashing proof I Sometimes a runio strife it kept, Of winter night, in sleeted trees; Or underneath the eaves tt crept A swarm ot murmuring bees. Or, now, wild huntsmon of the air In hollow ehe their bnjjles blew, While swift o'er wood and hilltop bare ; The shrill-voicod quarry flew. Sometimes I hear of lovers flown, 8afo, undor ward of storm and night, To where, in sylvan lodge, there shone A taper kind and bright. Those things the night-wind need to toll, And'still would tell, if I might hear; But sorrow sleeps too sound and well To lend a dreamful ear. Edith M. Thomat, in the Century. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A good prophet One hundred per cent. "The simple ufteranoe of joy ia poe try," says Oscar Wildo. That settles it. We shall allow no joy in our family. It will be tossed into the Waste-basket. New Eaven Register. A fashion writer says "raised figures" produce exoellent effect. Well, that depends; if they are on a check they sometimes produce tho effect of tend 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 in he way of tronsporting live hog from this country to England is the difficulty of feeding them on the passage. Why not feed them from the trough of the sea? Somerville Journal. Said Mrs. Ragbag : "At table, while the servants are present, Mr. Ragbag and, myself always talk of the large amount everything costs ns. 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 Cold weather, especially after having taken a slight degree of exercise; and always avoid standing upon the ioe or snow or wheie tho person is exposed to a cola wma. Dr. Foole't Health Mtndhly. The curative qualities of common Bait are not as freely impressed upon the public mind ' as is expedient, inflam mation can be rapidly reduced by a solution of salt, and for a weak or dis eased membrane local applications of salt rnd water act as magio. In case of sore throat, sore eyes or catarrhal affections, simple salt and water as a ga'gle or douche, ia a most eflieaciom application. The chief virtue of min eral waters is salt, which forms a con stituent either in large or srnali propor tions in all springs recommended for healing. The unmistakable benefits derived from sea bathing and sea air proceed frcra 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 savor" a most important lever of the pharmacopoeia would be destroyed. Concerning the treatment for dirjh theiia. the Fotni and Health says : 1 To us it appears that fresh air is the HTBu IieOOMDitjr , w ta wiumuaaun a u.'u- theriol patient to be near an open win dow. Next, we should use hot malt vinegar for flannel wraps round the throat, gargles oi tiie eauiu uhukm with water, and the most tonic diet pos sible. Neither quinine nor mineral tonics, but hot, strong wines, yolk3 of eggs beaten up in strong beef tea ; warm baths made of chamomile flowers; feet placed in mustard and watfir, and flannel wraps soaked in hot vinegar around the stomach. Tho jmoe pressed from raw beef, heated in a farina boiler and given constantly, but, above all, hot red wine. Inhalations of the fumes of vinegar with open mouth and penoil ings of the same within the mouth. The use of lemons is also to be recommend ed. Diphtheria is a preventable disease, and when we know more of the condi tions under which the health of human life can exist and are inclined to lioten to it and act accordingly to it, we shall have fewer epidemics such as those of diphtheria. " Well, my son," said a father to hia 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 auk," replied the boy. " I gave him the money for licking a boy kwho .upset my dinner basket" . An iron chess-board provide! with magnetic- chessmen is a Berlin novelty. The email inagnbt oouoaled in the figures causa them to adhere to the iroa board and retain their pUoe iu spite of considerable fcbocks such f. r instance as receivod fju shipboard c on railway traios,
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