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BONO, ve Into, some find him Boon, t he rose in May, i nightingale in June, luetics are gray; i wmio with smiling eyes, i with tonrs to some, .ve sings, for sortie Lore sighs, io Love's lips are dumb. :l you como to mo, fair Love? i you como goon or late! -ltd or smiling skies above, light of mm or moon? you be sad, will you be sweet, ig, sigh, Lovo, or bo dumb, -I it be summer when we meet, 'r autumn ere you come? Pukenham Bealty. "JR EXPERIMENT. it," said Kate, dashing a lins upon the table, and own braid go tumbling . ' said Beth. r' said Nannie, who was suf- :h a dreadful cold. t is it, pirls?" said I, turning my o down in my lap. Mio suppers," said Beth. the everlasting gossip," said Kate. so differed frorahobe," said Nan- whom boarding-house life was a perience. all three, and much more," was wanted to say, bu being the ' ho four, it seemed my duty to ! of things; so I said, quite ' lidn'tseo anything unus pper to-night." i rouble," groaned Beth. kt too usual. I am so !ind butter and apple ' e that I fuel like guash t the sight of them. I .-..-iico of toast or a bowl of k occasionally, without ' i '-l that I had disarranged I -mil economy of the house." are bad enough," said Kre nothing to the gossip. 'Ing it whispered round ii and his wife had a mux last night,' or that has worn three new iiili,' or that 'Mr. Jewett no Into the other night, and as though he fell upstairs.' 1 Kate locked as scornful as a o with a dimple in it would uld stad everythig else," said . "if it was odly hobe-like. Oh I uid odly sit dowd in a dead with by feet in the stove oved, braided mat in frod of the stove 1 ice cat od it, I should be per- lpy." 1 laughed at this idea of bliss, r the laugh there was a sudden lor each one of us recalled such , and the presence that had made like. vere not sisters, or even kin to her, but meeting as strangers in Ttoarding-houso, a strong friend 1 gt-6wn,up between us, starting, f, m the fuct that we were each i d and had our living to earn, and :; turned by many congenial tastes. ie doing our daily duties in rather t cheeul way, usually with few i:nts, bill to-night were under 1. Outside.'a November rain was the windows, and inside, the smoked. whs pay-day at tne manufactory o Kate was book-keeper, and that .nvays a hard day for her; Beth had d two of her dullest pupils through iuisio lesson; audi had had a time '.vol that afternoon with a yretch boy, and was at my wits' end to do with 'hiiii on the ' ; and Naniie was .more than k so we sut there quite still for '. Finully Beth spoke: "I sup a might make these rooms look a : ieasanter. We each have a few - a aad knickmicks." you suppose I would hang my ictures against this awful paper ?" vute. "Besides, what would be the ' Just as wn rrnt. rvniV;nn i j - 'wjimg uicuiy some man would want the room i we should be invited to go up high I've boarded in this liouse two ars and in that time I've advanced om the first floor back to the third floor ont, and two moves more will take me ut on the roof." "We bight go sub where else," said xannie. "Oh! you poor little innocent!" LUghed Beth. "You'd 'change the sace and keen the nain Th, .n out alike." At this Nannie lifted such a woe-be-e face that I felt something must be ae. 3 "Girls 1" said I, in my most impressive ool-room manner. ut here there was an interruption, for uie left the rocking-chair and rushed rd the bed. Nannie !"cried Kate, "don't muss the ; it's hard enough anyway." But spoke too late, for under the corn ed influence of homesickness and in uza, Nannie had flung herself on the 1 in a forlorn little heap, and was lift up her voice in a hoarse cry. i his was simply dreadful. :eth and I purred over and cuddled , ,nnd Kate slipped downstairs and td the cross kitchen girl into mak i bowl of sage tea, and by the time as back with it the invalid was what comforted. ! cn quiet was restored, I spoke ' "Girls! let's go to housekeep Nannie stopped the bowl half J her lips, Beth sit upright on the and Kate dropped the stick of u her hand back into the box. here's the furniture coming from?" "'11 pay the bills?" said Nannie, o'il do the work?" said Beth. who was bora south of Mason's and Dix on's line. "We'll all do it," said I. answering the last question first; " and as for the furnishing, that needn't cost so very much; and about the bills Kate, how much do we all pay a week?" "Four times five is twenty, and two dollars for washing makes twenty-two," said Kate, with bookkeeper promptness. "Why," said Beth, beginning to be eager, " lots of families live on less than that, and pay for everything out of it clothes and doctor's bills and every thing." Well, we talked till midnight, and the more we talked, the more feasible the scheme seemed, and it was decided that we should commence tenement-hunting the very next morning; and after Beth and I had gone to our own room. Kate came hurrying across to say she had some spoons and forks which had been her mother's, and that Nannie said she knew Sow to make lovely waffles. We expected a tedious time finding a rent within our means; but it is aston ishing how fortune helps those who try to help themselves. That very week a nice little scholar of Nannie's stopped after school to say that her, parents were going to move out of the city. We knew where she lived a pleasant house in a respectable locality; so after supper Kate and I hunted up the land lord, the next day we went in a body to inspect the place, and the bargain was concluded. Between that time and our departure we bade fair to lose our reputation of being the quietest boarders in the house, for every night thero was talking and laughing in one room or the other, while we stitched and hemmed and figured this last the hardest of all. Jvate, with a confidence born of much handling of money, made out a list in a twinkling, which list was perfectly sat isfactory to all of us until we inquired ; r-. . i . prices, une tning we were agreea upon, that was, rigid economy, so we and cheapened this and left out that, until it looked quite reasonable. Well, the first day of December found us in "our own hired house," and as Beth turned the key in the hall door, we felt that we had burned our ships behind us. The outgoing tenants seemed to regard our experiment in the light of a huge joke, which they were willing to help along;, so they gave us a number of house keeping things, among others a braided mat, and a half-dozen plants all in blos som, and sold us their range at a very low price. Beside this, we had a couple of bedsteads with the furnishings, a few dishes, our trunks, and a half-dozen packing boxes of different sizes. . The next fortnight was a busy one. We rose early and went to bed late, and lived in picnic fashion, while we painted and pounded, and planned. We were in a state of mind where we wished for no advice, much less help, from anybody outside; but after jamming considerable plaster from the walls, and skin from our knuckles, wo decided there Were times when a man could be made useful, and at Nannie's suggestion a certain young architect from the boarding house was taken into or confidence, and did val iant service in putting up shelves and hooks. One Friday night, with the last screw in tho kitchen clock'shelf, the work was done, and I doubt il many brides, going into - houses luxuriantly appointed with out care of theirs, feel half the satisfac tion that we did in looking rouud on the result of our' ingenuity and hardwork. And it was a right cosy little place. There was a good-sized sitting-room with two sleepiug-roous opening from it, a kitchen adjoining, a store-room, closets, etc., and as the house was on a corner, we had the sun most of the day. Kate and Nannie painted the floor of their room soft gray, and covered their dressing-table and wash-stand with blue and drab chintz. The one window was draped with full curtains of unbleached cotton, trimmed and looped back, with bands of the chintz, and a low cushioned chair and ottoman were covered with the same blue and drab covering. A low painted bedstead and chest of drawers completed their furniture, and strips of blue and gray carpeting before the larger piecQs took away any suspicion of bareness. The room Beth and I shared was pre cisely similar, except that our floor was painted a bright warm brown, and our cretonne covers and bits of carpet were scarlet and white. But it was on our common sitting-room tnat we lavished our greatest skill. Tho three windows were curtained with full draperies of cheese-cloth, over cream colored shades, a big crimson bow at the top of each window where the draperies parted. Nannie, who was not in the least au?s thctic, pleaded to have the whole floor covered, but as this meant twenty-five yards of carpeting, she was voted down on the score of economy as well as of art. A wido margin was stained a most delightful dead-leaf brown, and nine yards of crimson and wood colored carpet made a square large enough to come well out around the cen ter table. And the table we saw it one day in front of an auction-room. The top looked as though opposing forces had fought across it, but the standard was good and solid ; so home it went, and when it was covered with Beth's old gray shawl dyed crimson, and the student-lamp set over the darn in the middle, the effect was all that could be desired. Then we had Beth's piano and the plants, and nobody knows until she tries it how far a piano and plants go toward furnishing a room. We had a comforta ble lounge, bought "in the cloth," and covered by our own hands, a big Shaker rocking-chair, and two or three smaller rockers and camp-chairs. The wall-paper was subdued J and our Jew pictures and brackets made quite a show, and when we had scattered our books and trinkets about the room, it was a decided success. "There, Nannie," said Kate, when we reached the cozy kitchen on our tour of inspection, "you can tuck your little feet right into the oven, and feast your eyes on the braided mat, and if the cat was only here, you would have reached the climax of earthly happiness." The young architect looked inquiring ly, and Nannie's ideal of bliss was ex- Elained to him. lie made no comments, ut looked at her with a peculiar ex presion in his handsome eyes, and I felt that the stability of the society was threatened. The next night as we were sitting down cozily to our tea and toast, and baked apples and milk, thero was a ring at the door, and Kate, answering it, came back with a basket. "It's directed to you, Nannie," she said, holding it to the light. So Nannie opened it, when out stepped a plump, self-satisfied Maltese kitten, and attached to one fore-paw was a card which said : "The Climax." Beth turned the card over, and read the young architect's name. "Oh, Nannie?" she said, turning on her reproachfully, "I hope you are not going to spoil everything." But Nan nie was busy filling a saucer for the new comer, and made no answer. I may as well say here that, soon after, the young man came to me in a very straightforward way, made known his intentions in regard to Nannie, and asked permission to visit her. That night, while she was gone on an errand, I laid the question before the other girls. "I move," said Kate, who was rather given to sounding phrases "I move that he be granted leave to withdraw." "Oh, let him cornel" said Beth, with true Southern obliviousness of conse quences. Well, he came, and came again, and the little romance unfolded in a kindlier atmosphere than that of a boarding house parlor, and after a while I think we all rather enjoyed him, as he was a high-minded, intelligent young fellow, who conducted his wooing with very little nonsense. Some evenings he would come in with his drawing-board under his arm, and establishing him self at our kitchen table, put in his niar velouslv fine lines and figures, with Nannie sitting beside him with her sew ing, making quite a Darby-and-Joan picture. Kate sometimeb shook her fist at him from the covert of the sitting room, but she usually ended with "Bless the children I" But to turn from love to figures. How much did it cost? Now, I do not expect to be believed when I say that our entire furnishing, from the small mirrors in our bedrooms to tho big iron spoon in the pantry, cost exactly $128. 63; nevertheless, that was the exact total. It may seem more cred itable when it is understood that our dressing-tables, wash-stands, and otto mans were packing-boxes, and that the inviting cushioned chairs were originally barrels. Of course our bedsteads were not furnished with hair mattresses and rose blankets, but we had warm cover ings, and clean straw-filled ticks, which were simply luxurious after boarding house mattresses. Our table was not set forth with cut- glass and silver (except Kate's spoons and forks), but it was clean, and the food wholesome and varied. And about the cost of living? We elected Kate treasurer, and every Satur day night each of us put five dollars and a half luto a box kept for the purpose, and she paid for everything out of it. We questioned her often, during the first month, how the money was holding out, but she made no satisfactory answer. The hrst day of January we each found on our plato at supper the following no tice: "The first monthly meeting of the Home Co-operative Society will be held this evening in the kitchen, as soon as the dishes are done. A full attend ance is desired, to hear the report of the treasurer." Every member was present, and the treasurer read her report. After setting forth at some length the origin and ob ject of the society, she presented the following iigures: In Account with Horn Co-ofertiti Society. Dr. 1 Cr, To Caah t7.3 By ton coal t T.kf " groceries OT.OU " meat and vege tables 1S.T5 " milk 2.60 " labor (waahing, Ironing and cleaning)... S.CO " rent 18.00 I74.T5 " balance on hand t.ts K'.atjte $97.43 w.u "Which means," said Kate," droppin her otlicial manner, "that we have ha all this good time, and don't owe a cent for anything, and have si dollars and seventeen cents apiece coming back to us;" and she counted out four little piles ol money. "And coal in the bin, and food in the larder," added Beth. The next month we paid five dollars a week eaeh, and had a surplus, and after that, four dollars a week usually covered all expenses. When we started, though we asked no advice, we had floods of it, and no end of dismal predictions. "You 11 ouarrel.' "You'll run in debt," "You'll find the work too hard," "You'll get tired of it," aud, most dreadtul of all, "You 11 be talked about." "Well," said Kate, when this was brought up, "if a good name in the past. and orderly living in the future won't save us, why, let them talk. They must talk about something, and while we are under discussion somebody else will ea cape." So that was disixiged of. And we did not run into debt, and we did not quarrel. It would be too much to say that we never differed, but our dif ferences were never bitter. We used to think sometimes that Beth shirked her share of the work, but she was the sweetest-tempered creature liv ing, and always willing to make amends. I hen we had to hold a tight rein on Kate, w ho was apt to want luxuries out of season, at exorbitant prices; and I was sometimes a trial about cooking, be ing absent-minded, and apt to burn things up. As to Nannie, she was never anything but a comfort. SVe didn't keep ncr long, tor one day, toward our first Thanksgiving, there was an unusual flutter int the house. We trimmed the rooms with flowers, and tied a white satin ribbon on The Climax ; the minis ter and a few friends came in and almost before we knew it, Nannie and the young architect had gone off together in a hack, witn ine unmax wailing in a basket on the front seat. But this did not break up tho society. for another good friend stood ready to fill the vacancy, and stepped promptly in. And did we not find the work too hard? Well, sometimes it seemed a bother, but, divided among four, it was not oppressive; and if the larder got empty, or other work pressed, we took our dinners out for a day or two. And we did not get tired of it, but after a three years' trial of the plan, are more and more satisfied, for it is home. We leave it in the morning with regret, and return to it gladly at night, feeling that it is ours, that we are not there on suflcrenco, but by right. And this sense of security and permanently en courago us to add comforts and even luxuries to our surroundings, and I think you might hunt up and down the city and not hnd a more contented and com fortable set of people than the members of the Home Co-operative society. Har per's Bazar. The Cowboy's Favorite Gun. I dropped into a large store on El Paso street, which enjoys the reputation of selling more arms than any other house in the city, writes a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. While in specting the glittering array of pistols of all kinds which filled half a dozen show cases, a young fellow of about twenty three entered. He was dressed in ap proved frontier style, sombrero it would take three days to walk around the rim of, white handkerchief tied loosely round the neck, blue shirt, pants stuck in his boots, and large Mexican spurs upon his heels, jingling as he walked. He wished to buy a "gun." In the expressiveness and laconic tongue of the frontier a "gun" is a revolver; a rifle is called by the name of the maker; and the weapon of the sportsman, uncurtailed of its fair proportions, is known as a shotgun. Selecting from the case a handsomely mounted Colt's forty-five calibre revol ver, the clerk said: "How would you like this? It is the newest thing out a double-action forty-five." "Ain't worth a row of beans. No man 'cept he is a tenderfoot wants that kind of thing. Give me old reliable all the time. You see a man that's used to the old style is apt to get fooled not pull her off in time and then he'll bo laid out colder'n a wedge. " He was handed a single-action Colt's of the same model, which, after carefully examining, ho proceeded to cock and fire, twirling the pistol around his fore finger and pressing the trigger the mo ment the butt came into palm of his hand. After some little "kick" about the price the weapon was paid for and the customer left the slore. "There are few men," observed the clerk, as his customer left, "that can do that trick. I have been ten years on the Southwest frontier, among the worst classes, and don't know more nor half a dozen. 'Bill the Kid' could do it; so can Pat Garret, former sheriff of Lin coln county; so can Dan Tucker, deputy sheriff of Deming. Curly Bill could do it best of tho lot, and that's how he killed Sheriff AVhite at Tombstone. "How was that?" "Well, you see Curly Bill was trying to paint the town iw, and White heard of it, and going up to him, covered him with his six-shooter, and told him ho had got to give up his gun. Bill handed the gun out butj first, but kept his finger inside the guard, and as the sheriff reached for it he gave it that twist you've seen, turned her loose, and the sheriff passed in his checks." SELECT SITTINGS. Center of Earthquake Trouble. Though some terrible earthquakes occur in Europe and Asia, South America seems to be the center of trouble. In 1812 the city of Caracas, in Venezuela, was destroyed in three shocks, each of which did not occupy twenty seconds. In 1859 the rity of Callao was also com pletely demolished, this being the second time. The lirst time a wave came in from the sea one hundred feet high, and with out warning burst upon the city. In 1822 an earthquake produced some strange changes in the Andes. Moun tains were leveled, others were raised, and a tract of land one thousand miles square was bodily elevated about seven feet. It has been learned from old records that the destruction of Herculancum and Pompeii was nearly accomplished by an earthquake sixteen years before the ashes of Vesuvius covered them from sight. Biblical records tells us that earthquakes were felt in Syria in tho time of Ahab, 900 B.C., and also in the reign of Uzziah, 800 B. C. In Josephus there is mention of an earthquake that desolated Judea at the time of the battle of Actium, SI B. C, destroying over 10,000 people. An tioch has been visited by some terrible scenes. The worst visitation was in 528, A. D., when over 200,000 persons were destroyed. Sixty years later another shock destroyed 60,000 more. There are seven native-born Ohioans in the Senate, and thirty-one members of the house first saw light in that State. The bread eaten at table in Turin is a yard long and an eighth of ao inch in diameter, of a pipe stem form, very crisp, and exceedingly palatable. It is called "grissiui," after the doctor who invented it on hygienic principles. The business of monarchy promotes longevity. Witness the ages of the fol lowing rulers : The emperor of Germany is eighty-seven; the king of the Nether lands, sixty-seven; the king of Denmark, sixty-six, and Queen Victoria, sixty-five. Church bells from a Baltimore foundry are in demand in England. Already China, West Africa, Nova Scotia, New foundland, the West Indies and parts of Bouth America have drawn upon the same establishment for its silver-toned bells. A great plague, called tho "black death," beginning on the plains of West ern Asia, swept over Europe during the years 1348-1351, destroying probably one third of the whole population. This, by diminishing the number of people, dou bled the price of labor. It is said that no watch will keep the same time with two people. This is ow ing to the temperature of the wearer, and it is claimed that even the mere physical difference in gait and move ment between different people will affect the time-keiping of a watch, which is probably also affected in some degree by the magnetism of the wearer. An Australian has devised a scheme for bringing down rain to order. The concern is in the form of a balloon, with a charge of dynamite underneath it. Tho balloon is to be sent into the clouds, and the dynamite is to be fired by a wire connecting it with the earth. It is the intention of the inventor, it is stated, to make a trial of the apparatus on the dry distnets of New bouth Wales. Statistics show that the tendency to suicide is much greater among the regu lar gamblers from losses than among business men. The sharp strain of the gaming-table, short though it may be, spoils the nerves, and weakens fortitude more than the strain of business, fa vour, one of the most serene of men, was within an ace on one great gambling night of throwing half his fortune away rather than call a card, and only called it, as he relates himself, because a drop of perspiration rose on his opponent'i forehead- The origin of the trade dollar is thus explained. The Chinese are paid for their tea mainly in silver. In 1873 the United States coined 35.000,000 of the trade dollars for use in India. Previously the Mexican dollar had practically monopo lized the field. The American dollar was heavier and possessed more intrinsic value, but it was fouud that for some mysterious reason the Chinese merchants preferred the Mexican to the American coin, a fact probably due to their hered itary dislike of novelties, and now no trade dollars are shipped to China. The The Chinese heard some years ago, that our government intended to redeem these dollars at par, and being shrewd enough to see an opportunity for specu lation, they hoarded the coins and sent them to this country. At all events, they are said to have disappeared in China as well as in this country. WISE WORDS. Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image. The society of women is the clement of good manners. The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epi gram. No woman can be handsome by tho force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. Strong minds, like hardy evergreens, are most verdant in winter; when feeble ones, like tender summer plants, are leafless. Right habit is like the channel which dictates the course in which the river shall flow, and which grows deeper and deeper each year. It is impossible to make people under stand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, ho that can perceive it hath it. Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving us time to reflect; our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance from the fair, fixes and determines us. A good momory is the best monument. Others are subject to casualty or time, and we know that the pyramids them selves, rotting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive bo dis turbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honfey it will yield us bees. Infinic- .oil would not enable you to sweep away a mist, but by ascending a little you may often look over it alto gether. So it is with our moral improve ment; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit which would have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral at posnhere. A Circus Elephant in a H.ige. Cole's huge elephant Sampson severed his chaias at IUiley, Idaho, and sturted to pulverize his keeper, who made, a hasty vetreut. A cage of lions stood in the way of the infuriated animal, which he picked up and hurled to ono hide, killing two horsis. The circus people called on the crowd to shoot the monster, and a lively firing began, but without appreciable effect. Finally a party of men succeeded in roping the beast and he was quieted. Thirty bullet holes were found in his hide. The damage done by his; amounted to $10,000, MORE IN THE MAN THAN IN THE LAND. I knowed a man, which he lived In Jones, ' Which Jones is a county of red hills aad stones, And he lived pretty mnch by gettin, of loaaa And his mules were nuthin' but skin and bones, And his hogs was flat as his corn-bread ponea, And he had 'bout a thousand acres cf land. This man which his name it was also Jones He swore that he'd leave them old red bills and stones' Fur he couldn't make nuthin' but yeUerish cotton. And little o' thot, and his fences was rotten, And what little corn he had, hit was bonghten, And clanged if a livin' was in the land. And the longer he swore the maddor he got, And he riz and he walked to the stable lot; And ho hollared to Tom to come thar and hitch, For to emigrate somewhar whar land waa rich, And to quit raisin' cockburs, thistles and sich, And a waistin' their time on the cussed land. So him and Tom they hitched up the mules, Fertestin' that folks was mighty big fools That 'ud stay in Georgy their lifetime out. Just scratchin' a livin' when all of 'em mought Get places in Texas, whar cotton would sproat "y the time you could plant in the land, And he driv by a house whar a man named Brown Was a livin' not for from the edge of town, And he bantered Brown for to buy his plac, And said that bein' as money was skace, And bein' as sheriffs was hard o' face Two dollars and acre would git the land. They closed at a dollar and fifty cents, And Jones he bought him a wagin and tents, And loaded his corn and his wimmln and truck, " And moved to Texas, which it tuck His entire pile, with the best 'o luck, To git thar and git him a little land. But Brown moved out on the old Jones farm, And he rolled up his breeches and bared his arm, And he picked all the rocks from off'n the groun', And he rooted it up and plowed it down; Then he plowed his corn and his wheat in the land. Five years glid by, and Brown, one day (Which he'd got so fat that he wouldn't weigh), Was a settin down, sorter lazily, To the bulliest dinner you ever see, When one o' the children jumped on his knee, And says: " Yaa's Jones, which you bought his land." And thar was Jones, standing out at the fence, And he hadn't no wagin, nor mules nor tents, For he had left Texas afoot and cum To Georgy to see if he couldn't get sum Employment, and he was lookin' as humble as ef He had never owned any land. But Brown he axed him in, and he sot Him down to his vittles smokin' hot, And when he had filled hisself and the floor Brown looked at him sharp and riz and swore Tliut " whether men's land was rich or poor, Thar was more in the man than thar was in the land." Sidney Lanier, in Southern Cultivator. HUMOR OF THE" DAY. The court cryer. A royal infant. Hot- ton Poet. The butcher who trusts loses flesh.; Boston l'oit. The diver is the man who weights for the tide. Ifeio York Journal. Babies know nothing of politics, yet they are fond of crow. Puck. A door is sometimes a jar and an earth quake always is. Lowell Courier. Iii the midst of all the excitement concerning it, the north pole remains perfectly cool. BlUzard. "The work of reclaiming the Potomao flats is rapidly going on," so says an exchange. "This must bo pleusant reading for Washington dudes. Burling ton Free Preae. A boarding-house cook has been awarded $450 for the invention of a new and improved chicken soup. Per haps the improvement consists of put ting in some chicken. Derrick. "At great heights, dogs lose their power of barking." It is a fine scheme, then, to keep jour dog in the garret, or tie him up to the swaying limb of a tall and lonely tree. Ilaakeye. A young gentleman wishes to know which is proper to say on leaving a young lady friend after a late call good night or good evening? Never tell a lie, young man ; say good morning. Burlington Fr4 Prent. SUE AND ME. (She held him fast in her soft white arms Ami kiwed him whim with a yearning hu', For she was a girl of the upiwr ten, And he well, he wan a dogoucd pug. Mrnhant Traveler. Maud "Isn't this a queer title for a book, mother: 'Not Like Other Girls ?' I wonder w hat she can be if bhe is not like other girls Mother "I don't know, unless she goes into tho kitchen and helps her mother instead of slaying in the parlor to read novels." Life. A horrible example : A Parisian doc tor precribed for a lady who had objec tions against growing stout: "Take i'x ercise, my dear lady. Consider tho ues of the field; they never take excrute, and is a consequence they go on grow ing bigger and bigger every year." But ton Journal,
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