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TEEMS—Two Dollars per Annum if paid within the year; Two Dollars and Fifty cents after the expiration of the year. .ADVERTISEMENTS—Cone Square (10 lines) three insertions, $1,50; for each subsequent insertion, Thir ve Cents per Square. A liberal discount made to yearly adver tisers. LOCALS.—Business Locals Ten Cents per line for the first insertion, Seven Cents for subsea uent insertions professiairat (anis. J. B. AMBERSON, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, WAYNESBORO', PA. Office at the Waynesboro' "Corner Drug ore." [jane 29—tf. 17R_ I:6 A. N 1 1 1 , Has resumed - the - practice - of Medicine. -- OFFICE—In the Walker Building—near : the Bowden House. Night calls should he made at his residence on Main Street, ad ;joining the Western School House. July 2U-tf . • • I\/1" .PHYSICIAN AND .SURGEON. WAYNESBORO' PA. Office at his residence, nearly. opposite he Bowden House. Nov 2—tf. JO iSmr VSSONG, ATTORNEY AT LAW, lAVING been admitcd to Practice Law at the several Courts in Franklin Coun ty, all business entrusted to his care will be .promptly attended to. .Post—Odiee-address_ :Mercersbuit, Pa. .L.E rzz. ATTORNEY AT LAW, 'WAYNESBORO', PA, Will give prompt and closeattentiontoall Business entrusted to lkis care. Oftice next .door to the Bowden House, in the Walker [july JOSMra-I ATTORNEY AT LAW. WA I..NESBOILO', PA. Praclices in the several Courts of Franklin and adjacent Counties. N. 13.—Real Estate leased and sold, and Fire Insurance effected on reasonable terms. December 10, 1871. 63., A\., 11., STUMM, (FORMERLY OF MERCEILSIIERG, PA.,) ifiFFERS his Professional services to the NlYcitizens of Waynesboro' and vicinity. DR. STRICKLER has relinquished au exten sive practice at Mercersburg, "as been prominently engaged for I. years in the practice of his profession. He has opened an Office in Waynesboro', at the residence of George Besore, Esq., 't is Father - in-law, where lie can be found at times when not professionally engaged. July.2o, 1871.-tf. DR. J. 3f. RIPPLE. DR. A. S. BONEBRAK.E. RIPPLE & BONBRARE, WAYNESBORO', PA. 'Having associated themselves in the prac -tice of Medicine and Surgery, otter their professional services to the public. Office in the room on the Forth East Cur. of the Diamond, formerly occupied by Dr. John J. Oelli g , July- 18, 1872-1 y A. K. BRANISHOLTS, RESIDENT DENTIST WAYNESBORO', PA., CAN be found in his office at all times, where he is prepared to perform all Dental operations in the best and most r•iii !Ifni manner. We being acquainted with Dr. Branis boitssocially and prOfrssionally recommend }mini to all desiring the services of a Dentist. Drs. E. A. HERING, " M. MP P " A. H. STRICKLER, " J. B. AMBERSON, " I. N SNIVELY. " A. S., BONER Alin, " TA). FRENCH, LP. JE3RA_CIC3E3II.II.I, PHOTOGRAPHER, S. E. Corner of the Diamond, WAYNESBORO', PA., MS at all times a fine assortment of Pie tures Frames and Mouldings. Call and eas specimen pictures. June t£ UlllO A N fa.TEL. Cornar Aleg ermen C.HAMBERSBURG, Penn' a. LA.:*.TTZ 4 , , UNGER, Proprietors The UNION has been entirely refited end re-furnished in every department, and under the supervision of the present pro prietors, no effort willbe spared to deserve a liberal share of patronage: Their tables will be spread with the best the Market affords, and their Bar will always contain the thoicest Liquors. The favor of the public solicited. Extensive Stablingand attentive Hostlers, Dec. 14-1-v ibo ix.. for Sale: III; subscribers would inform the pub ] lie that they have now for sale a good article of brick and will continue to have a supply on hand during the summer sea son. B. F. cC li. C. FUNK. June 13—tf NOTICE TO. BUIL DERN. A fine lot Pine Building Lumber for sale „tt and will be furnished in rough, or hew red in proper sizes to suit purchasers of Dills. Apply at Mommr..EY April 4, 1872—tf Votirg, PEOPLE WILL TALK. You may get through the world but 'twill be very slow, If you listen to all that is said as you go : You'll be worried and fretted, and kept, in a stew, For meddlesome tongues will have some thing to do, For people will talk. If quiet and modest, you'll have it 'piesum ed, That your humble position .is only assum• ed, You're a wolf - in sheep's clothing, or else you're a fool ; But don't get excited, keep perfectly cool, For people will talk. If generous and noble, they'll vent out their spleen ; You'll hear some loud hints that you're mean and 'selfish ; If upright, honest, and fair as the day, They'll call you a rogue in a sly, sneaking way, For people will talk. And then if you show the least boldness of heart, Ora slight inclinati&i to take your own They will call you an upstart, conceited and vain ; But keep straight ahead, don't stop to ex plain, For people will talk. If thread bare your dress, or old-fashion ed your hat, Some one will surely take notice of that, And hin't rather strongly you can't pay your way ; But don't get excited, whatever they say, For people will talk. If you dress in the fashion, don't think to escape, For they criticise then in a different shape You're ahead of your means, or your tail or's unpaid ; But mind your own business there's naught to be made, . For people will talk. Now the best way to do is to do as you please ; For your mind, if you have one, will then be at ease. Of course you will meet with all sorts of a buse ; But don't think to stop them—'twill be of no use— For people will talk. ffliuellaugotts Pading. Peter Cartwright. The Northwestern Christian Advocate says : As a mere antique, we shall miss him. He died only week before last, but he. was older than the photograph, the Protestant Episcopal Prayer Book,. the American Post Office, the telegraph, our oldest railway, ocean steamers, and the Constitution of the United States. He was cotemporary to John Wesley, George Washington, John Hancock, Pat tick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Hen r y Clay, James Madison, John Randolph, Roger Sherman, Richard Henry Lee, and other' shining names. He came into the world before Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Theodore Freliughuy sen, Thomas Ewing, Rufus Choate, Edward Everett, and others who made their rec cords long ago. When he vas born, the Union had but thirteen States; it was still under the articles of Confederation, and the Continental Congress was in ses sion in New York. When the first cen sus was taken, five years after his birth, the country had a population of less than 4,000,000. His long life of 87 years seems a short one, but the peciod o is more golden than the seventy five 'years that witnessed the invention of printing, the mariner's com pass, gunpowder and the RefOrmation.— The period bounded. by 1785 and 1872 has no rival in history, and Peter Cart wright's lifc spanned it all. He died as old as the Republic, and all his labor was given to Methodism, that mainstay of the Republic as sturdy and vital as Puritan ism. At Cartwrighes birth John Wesley was still living. When he was converted in 1801 the American Methodist Church had less than 73,000 members, and the whole world had 'less Methodists than are now within the patronizing territory of the Ni»lhwestern.. Long before his decease, in 1872, the world had 3,000,000 Wesleyans and a Methodist constituency of over 12,- 000,000. ROMANCE OF Tat WAR.—One Colonel Washington, a wealthy planter living near Nashville, Tenn., was rescued from a mob of drunken soldiers, whom he had offend ed, by Col. Downey, of Tiffin, Ohio, to whose regiment the troops belonged.— Downey has since died, leaving a widow and family in poverty. Washington also died recently, and in his will, it is stated, made a beque'st to the widow and children of Downey to the value of $100,000. Gratitude has still a home in the human breast, as is evinced by this generous deed. A FAMILY NEWSPAPER---DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, ETC. WAYNESBORW., FRANKLIN COUNTY, PA., THITRSDAY,,OCTOBER 31,1872. [COMMUNICATED. One Hundred Years Ago. This country was then a vast forest •in habited by deer, wolves,bears, wild turkeys and Indians. There were then no railroads, few machine shops, no good roads, no rea pers, mowers, threshers, and many other things which lighten toil. Money made in this wilderness was well earned. Long before day the farmer began his toil which ended late at night. The land was clear ed of its timber by cutting trees and burn ing saw logs, which would now sell at high figures. This was the sport of young men in the evening to come together to .roll logs on piles and make a great fire.— There was plenty of this out-door muscu lar development. Our forefathers, too, .enjoyed pure air, made more pure by the forests which inhale what animals exhale. In many ways they were blessed - by health giving means that we now do not enjoy. They had houses built of logs, not plas tered, airtight, nor ceiled above head ; a large stone chimney built at one end of the house, was the fire place in which logs were piled_and a fire_kindled,nround which the family gathered after the day's work was done. The girls engaged in - spinning flax or wool for bedding and clothing, while many a garment was made from the sheep's back without taking it from the farm. The young men went af ter game, returning late at night finding for their "tea" "a crock of milk" and a large dish filled with corn mush. This eaten they retired to the second story or garret—provided with hundreds of ven tilators in the roof and gables—to sleep, if the fearful howls of the wolves at the sheep pens would not awaken and 'terrify them. Few were the School Houses then, bu -few as they-were;those-not-ventihtted-wer • almost unknown. Fortunately the style of architecture provided air holes suffi _ciently, and cases of lung disease were few. As the obstacles in the way for fast living disappeared by degrees—as wealth pour ed in upon the American people all lux uries increased—a gradual contraction of "air holes" was necessary to follow speci fications belonging to the architecture in use. "All things have changed" says the modern reformer. Houses must change also in material, form, appearance and finish. "You must go in for improve ments or you will get behind the age."— We agree with reformer, if he will allow us to discard those things which are' in jurious tO our bodies and minds, and per , haps, to our aesthetic feelings. What manner of man would he be who would sow seeds of plants that produce no fruit? What use is a man who accomplishes no good ? he might just as well be dead.— The object for'which a man is designed to live, is the perfection of his mental and moral nature. An old adage is "a sound mind in a. sound body." The body is the foundation upon which mind—the super structure—rests. There can be no satis factory thinking done when the brain— dependant upon healthy blood—suffers.- Our dwelling houses, churches and school houses, with few exceptions, are in these boasted days of progress and improve ment, killing off the population and dim inishing the strength possessed by the Pi uneers. Yes, fir what we have gained, in convenience, educational advantages, ad ditions to science and art, we have lost in another way—yet how feW realize it to an equal extent. Modern civilization has heaped upon us physical degeneracy. It is probable that the hale old age which we now see, will, in half a century be known only through tradition, or through the pen of the histo rian. Good authority informs us that "the weaker vessell" in the days of the Revolutionary War had greater power of physical endurance than our young men have in these stiring times. How many parents after having enriched their chil dren with an education, and have filled their pocket books, become 'broken heart ed and follow the corpses of "the idols of their affection" to their quiet homes, just when they could accomplish much good ; but parents never dreamed that the seeds of disease were laid long ago, by unfit sleeping apartmpts, foul air sitting rooms vitiated atmosphere in school ' houses and churches. While many are dying of con sumption in the prime of life-gasping for breath—suffering intensely—some escape by what is termed "a weak constitution." These are not able to endure damp feet, damp clothing, or hard toil. Every effect produced has a corresponding cause that produced it. While thorns produce thorns the children of unhealthy parents do not enjoy blessings as did our forefathers.— Now coop these up in an air-tight room with no ventilation but that which is ac cidental, heat, up die stove to blood, send them in a perspiration to the school room —which is no better—deprive them of fresh air, give them no means whereby they can expel decayed particles of the body by the lungs—compel them by clos ed windows to inhale the poison thrown out of other lungs, or by insufficient flues in walls of air-tight brick or frame hous es, and you may wonder why they have "departed" but I don't. You may not know the cause but by scientific demon stration I can prove it to you. Physi cians, teachers, schcol directors and pa rents should all unite to remedy this great evil., It would seem to cost much money to remodel houses ; but, would not the money, pains and losses, caused by present conditions amply compensate for the expenditure? Great care should be taken in the construction of new school houses. Sufficient volume of air space should be given so that every lung can do its natural work. Every impediment in the way of keeping the body warmed and and free from poisoned air should be re moved. Instead of "killing off children" . by care the feeble may gain strength. Let us take as much pains in the de- velopment of our children as does the nursery man or the gardiner with his trees and plants, "which are but for a moment." There are now good books published which give designs of churches, school houses and dwellings. Ample space for play ground (2 acres) .with swings, ladders, ball paddles, race ground, mar ble grounds, if not blocks with which in fants can exereise constructiveness, should be connected with every school. Now AND THEN. - The Dead - Ship-Glertalvon. I 5.:41, A passenger on the schooner Lancaster, from Cape Breton, tells a grim and horri ble story of the scenes on the dismantled English brig Glenalvon, which was en countered Sept. 19th. On boarding it a dismal sight presented itself. Beneath a heap of motley rigging a skeleton was discovered.—The skull_and_ribshad_bee • crushed almost level with the deck. Shreds of canvas trowsers and a Guernsey frock were found among and near the bones.— Further search revealed five other skele tons. A slight covering of crisped flesh remained on four, showing that they bad died m - ore - recently than the other two. a particle of food was found on board, so that death was no doubt caused by starvation. In the forcastle, which was 'almost filled with water, a most unearth ly stench•was discovered,and only two men could be found, to enter and remain long enough inside to report on what they had seen there. There were two corpses on the floor and one streched across a bunk.— Entering the cabin, a foul oder was dis covered, but not intense enough to forbid a thorough investigation. Toward the end of the steps leading down to the cab in a fetid pool of water was seen, and the men had'to wade through it in order to fach - every - • ortion - of - the - eosin.—Be tween a stationary table and a couch, the head of a corpse protruded from a berth in the wall, and, when brought on the deck, it was found to be in a state of de cay. A buttoned jacket of good material, a flannel shirt, marked •`T. F.," and one boot covered tho corpse. The chronome ter in the cabin pointed to 41 o'clock, and on the stationary table was an open bible turned downward. A revolver with•two chambers loaded, and a bottle containing a piece of paper upon which was written ; "Jesus, guide this to some helper. Mer ciful God, don't let us perish." Tlt e words were detached, and hiatus. occurred between every two or three of them, show ing that the writer must either have been in the lowest stage of debility, or driven to madness by hunger. In the captain's stateroom his corpse was fbund, lying bent on the floor, as though he had fallen from weakness, while struggling with the vain hope to save himself and men. On his bed a letter was found, dated Martinique, May 30, 1862, commencing, "Dear Kate," and signed "Robert C. Hart." The skel etons were wrapped in canvass, the funer al service was read, and they were con signed to the sea. FLIRTING.-It is remarkable, but never theless true, that, as a rule, flirts, both male and female, do not marry quickly. The chances are that a girl who becomes engaged at eighteen, and goes on becoming engaged and disengaged,. as is the custom for flirts to do, ultimately settles down into a confirmed old maid. If she does wed as a general rule, she developer into a virulent wasp, makes her husband mis erable, and brings up her children badly. It is not very difficult to find reasons why flirts do not marry. Sensible men admire in a woman something more than a pretty face and engaging manners. They love intellect, common sense, and heart quali fications, which' the flirt does not possess The true woman allows her affections full play, and is not ashamed of them. She will not lead a man to believe she' cares for him when she does no such thing ; she will not flirt with him just for the sake of flirting. • She has a true conception of what is right, and possesses a great deal more common sense. She has derived her education from something else than three volume novels and the society of the emp typated.. She can be thoroughly merry, but she can be merry without being idio tic. She may attract less attention in a drawing-room than a flirt does, because she is less noisy and obtrusive ; but for all that, She will be married sooner, and make her husband a better and true wife. A true woman does not care for the spoo ny young man. She dislikes his foppish ness, the vivid compliments lie pays her, and his effeminacy. He quickly finds this out and leaves lier in peace. Thus, if he ultimately 'gets married, it is to the flirt, and the happy pair lead the jolliest cat and•dog life imaginable. DANIEL WEBSTER'S ADVICE.—Other young people may find the advice Dan iel Webster to his grandson of value for themselves. He wrote it about four years before his death : "Two or three things I wish now to impress on your mind. First, you cannot learn without your own efforts. All the teachers in the world can never make a scholar of TOU, if you do not ap ply yourself with all your might. In the second place, be of good character and good behavior ; a boy of strict truth, and honor, and conscience in all things.— Have ,but onP rule, and let that be always to act right, and fear nothing—but wrong doing. Finally, "remember your Creator in the days of your youth." You are old enough to know that God has made you and given you a mind and fa.iulties ; and will surely call you to account. Honor and obey your parents; love your sister and brother ; be gentle and kind to all ; avoid peevishness and fretfulness; be pa tient under lestraint. Look forward con stantly to your approaching manhood, and put off every day more and more all that is frivolous and childless. Upright walking is sure walking. Something for Young Men. Few things in the lives of young men are so impressive, or so full of valuable suggestions, as their frequently laments over lost opportunities for mental or mor al culture. Iu his autobio says : "If it should fall to the lot of any youth to peruse this piece, let such a youth remember it is with the deepest re gret that I recollect, in my manhood, the _opporturdtioa for learning_whiel zeg, lected in my youth ; that, through every part of my literary career, I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignor ance ; and that I would, at .this moment. give half the reputation -I have had good fortune to acquire, if, by doing so, I could rest the remaining part upon a sound foundation of learning and science -- Edmund Burke grew re spect while it was not too late to retrieve the most of his errors and losses ; for be fbre his youth was entirely past, he wrote to a friend : "What would I give to have my spir its-a.-little more settled I_l_ am too giddy.— This is the bane of my life ; itturries me from my studies to trifles and I am afraid it will hinder me from knowing anything thoroughly. I have a superficial knowl edge of many things, but scarcely the bot tom-of any:" Washington Ervin, when giving coun sel to a young friend, exclaimed, in the bitterness of his heart : "How many an hour of hard labor and study have .1 had to subject myself to, to atone, in a slight degree, for the' hours that I suffered society to cheat me out al" Even Josiah Quincy the last man in the world that we should have suspected of having_wasted_a_ moment in his daily_ Wlameuts more flaw ouLe — his—neglec of that mental and moral cultivation, which he regards as - the "noblest of hu man pursuits." On 'one occassion, he says: "T. resolve, therefore, to be more cir cumspect ; to hoard my moments with a more thrifty spirit ; to listen to the sug gestions of industry, and so quicken that spirit of intellectual mprovement to which I devote my life." It will do no young. man the least harm to ponder well the lesson to be learn ed from these eloquent confessions. The Tragedy of Life. Every one'who mixes with the world cannot but be convinced,by facts that come within his knowledge, that life is a mon- strous disappointment, and death the on ly portal to peace. There is not a day passes in which virtue does not sell itself for bread, in which the good are not per secuted, and the weak trampled upon.— Tragedies, as real as an history of fiction ever pointed, are being played every day ; and faces you admire mask with smiles au inward torture worse than the agony of the rack. Who has realized the fid fillment of his early hopes ? Whose life has not its mortifications, its bitter con. oealment,. its studied evasions, poignant humiliation, its wild uneasiness, its wrest- Hugs and defeat ? But we do not repre sent life.. We represent the fairest por tions and the highest level of it. Beneath us is the great mass of humanity, and tiny writhe, and moan and weep, they toil and starve, and curse and fight, and die. The world goes roiling on as heedless of those who fall as the gale of autumn is heed less of the leaves stripped from the trees, the branches wrenched away, or the flowers which perish by its breath. KEEP OCT I.+Enr.-Half the perplexity, annnoyance and trouble that men have in the world is in consequence of getting in debt. It seems to be natural for some people to buy, and incur obligations with out measure, so long as they can avoid paying ready cash. Give one of the sort a chance to buy on credit, and the ques tions of payment am matters that he cares but little about. But, what a crop of trouble springs up from the seed of debt How many gray hairs it brings, and how often it shortens life, sometimes leading men to commit suicide or murder. And yet how easy it is to keep clear of this terrible monster. Every young M a should form a fixed and unalterable de termination, before commencing his active business career, not to incur one penny of indebtedness, under any circumstances.— Never bby anything without you have the money to pay for it at once. Pay no attention to 'splendid opportunities,' bar gains,' and the like. Such are only traps set to catch victims. If you see anything that you would like to possess, look first at your money pile and make the answer depend upon that. Always pay as you go. If you are short of money, guage your demands accordingly. It is often said that if Aaron Burr had been convicted and punished for trea son, we should have had no John C. Cal houn nullification. If President Jackson had put in execution his threat to try John C. Calhoun, and bung him if fbund guilty, we should have had Jeff. Davis secession. One concession bred another —one fitilure to punish encouraged a re newal of the offense. In general, pardon for notorious, premeditated crimea paves the way for others, until all fear of pun ishment is lost. If even the office-hold inn• disability of two hundred rebel ring lehers is removed, and they go forth without a feather's weight of punishment for their catalogue of woes, caused for an evil purpose, what is there to deter any number of rebellions for years and years to come ? Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. Wise men make more opportunities than they find. • • A. Tale of Pantolooms. A Davenport legal gentleman went out one evening last week to have a quiet game of billiards. He stuck to his cue for several faithful hours, convivialized' with his friends still longer and then went hi - Or •- rest he - alter Scott .come. Jn retiring rest he WLIS most singularly uneasy and tossed about f o r some time without dropping into that peaceful slumber we usually derive from a Clear conscience. His lady was annoy- , ed and complained kindly. It was no IN owever, somet ling drove sleep from his eyelids. • At this juncture his lady was ta ken suddenly ill (how fortunate he was awake I) And he was appealed to hasten ' off to the nearest drug store in quest of a restorative. B e , hastily attired himself, double quicked down the street, rushed into a store, obtained the article so urgent ty—required;and—produced—h is—pocket book. Great Cesar ! What had trans pired ? He had never scan that wallet be fore ; and the pants they were not his own. Could it be possible he was in his right mind ? Was it not rather all a dis tempered dream ? He resolved to see, and Without stepping to take the remedy with him, he rushed back to the wife of his bo som. He did not flourish a revolver, he did not smash furniture, he did not strike attitudes like a gladiator—he simply took - partin the followingconversation : "Jane ?" "Yes, dear." "How are you feeling ?" "Better. Much better. I think a good sleep is alt I need. How kind of you to go to so much trouble ?" "Very kind, wasn't it ?" "Very kind, honey." "Jane, shall I turn on the gas ?" "If you like, dear." T-he-g-as-was-turned-on. "Jane ?" "Yes, dear." "Do they look like my pantaloons ?" "Why, what can you mean, dear ?" "I mean, do . these resemble the trousers I wore home this evening ?" "Why how can I tell dear ?" and Jane raised up with some reluctance, gave a quick glance and screamed outright. "Husband," said she, with some enLar rassruent ; "you've made a ridiculous mis take somewhere, while out with your friends. What in the world have you been doing tonight?" "That's rather thin, Jane. We don't usually take off our pants to play bill iards. When I went to bed to-night I laid my proper pantaloons on that there chair. When I dressed to go out, the pair I have on first fell in my way. I put them on. I discovered at the store they were not mine. I returned at once, and now I find the pair I left on the chair are miss ing:' Jane began to sob, weep, and protest her innocence, while the husband paced the floor in deep reflection. "Jane," at last be said, "I guess you can go home to your parents to-morrow. You and I have gotten along very well for a year or two, but the thing's played." And down stairs he went with a deaf ear to the frenzied appeals and prayers she shOwered after him. An investigation on the morrow disclosed the fact that the misteriouly procured pantaloons contain ed just $3OO more than the pair that had so mysteriously walked. oft: Jane left on the first train for 'her Illinois home. A bill of divorce has been filed, and no one has called to exchange pantaloons and pocket-hooks. THE POOR.—Moore, of the Rural New Yorker, was sitting in his office one after noon, some years age, when a farmer friend came in and said : "Mr. Moore, I like your paper, but times are so hard that I cannot pay for it." "Is that so, friend Jones ? I'm very sor ry to hear that you are so poor; if you are so hard run, I will give you my pa per." "Oh, no ! I cannot take it as. a gift." -Well, then, let's see how we can fix it. You raise chickens I believe." "Yes, a few, but they dont bring any thing hardly." "Don't they ! neither does my paper cost anything hardly. Now I have a proposition to make to you. I will con tinue your paper, and when you go home you may select from your lot one chicken and call her mike. Take good care of her and bring me the proceeds,whether in eggs, or chickens, and we will call it square." "All right, Brother Moore," and the fellow chuckled at what he thought a capital bargain. He kept the contract strictly, and at the end of the year found that he had paid four prices of his paper. He often tells the joke himself, and says he never had the litce to say he was too poor to take a paper from that day.— Model Fanner. A MossTER T.131E-PLEcE.—The large clock at the English Parlament House is the largest one in the world. The four dials of this clock are twenty-two feet in diameter. Every half minute the point of the minute hand moves nearly seven inches. The clock will go eight and a half days, but it, will only strike for sev en and a half, thus indicating any neg lect in winding it up. The mere winding up of the striking apparatus takes two hours. The pendulum is fifteen feet long ; the wheels are of cast-iron ; the hour bell is eight feet high, and nine feet in diame ter, weighing nearly fifteen tons, and the hammer alone weighs more than four hun dred pounds. In battle or business, whatever the game, in law or in love it is ever the same; in the struggle for power, or scramble thr pelf, let this be your motto; 'Rely on yourself:" For whether the prize be a rib bon or throne, the - victor is lie who can "go it alone." $2,00 PER YEAR dUtlitioPt4lli Wait au it PURIM Ny 7 1 rhen is a 3r enter like eireunistan, ces? When he lters cases. When Why vivial d horn to man in a veston, whose hennery has been robbed of five Brahmas, requests the thief to "call and take away the roos ter, as he is very lonely, and no questions will be asked." "Ah, ladies, "said an old bon vivant, as he opened a ttle of wine, "what is more delightful than the popping of a cham- pane poppinedrtlie ques tion !" unanimously cried the Liciies. An lowan, going to a friend to get him to write a notice of his wife's desertion, the latter wrote, "My wife having left my bed and board—" when the husband ex claimed, "Stop! stop ! There's the trouble_ She didn't leave my bed, but carried it with her." — A — very genteel and amiable young man is now insane. He splits his hair in the middle. The other day in combing it he chanced to get two more hail's on one side than on the other. This destroyed the balance of the head and overturned his brain. He makes a very gentle luna tic, however. A Cincinnati youth, guided by the ad vice of a fortune-teller, sought _to ,make girtlov_e_him_by_means-ofeleetricity_ work ing from - under a chair. - "When the time came she sprang into the air about three feet, and when she came down she lauded in her lover's_ hair and took about two handfulls and told him she hated him.— No match. A strong-minded woman in Detroit made the following gentle reply to a Pol itician who had called at her house to get her husband to go the polls and vote : "No, sir! he can't go!! He's washing now, and he's got to iron to-morrow, and he wasn't doing anything he couldn't go. I run this 'ere house, I do, and if any one votes it'll ho this same Mary. Jane." Abernathy, the celebrated, surgeon find ing a largo lot of paring-stones opposite his door, on his returning home one after noon in his carriage, swore hastily to the paver, and desired him to remove them. • 'Where shall I take them to?" asked the Hibernian. "To Hell!" cried the choler ic surgeon. Pat leaned on his rammer, and then, looking up iu his .lute, said, with an arch smile : "Hadn't I better take them to Heaven ?" Sure they'd be more out of your Honor's way." , Not long•ago two boys were loafing. a round one of the traveling minstrel tofts. in Quincy, 111.., trying to get in. := I.litfif. one of them went up to the door' :fieri. and by signs, made him believe t '#se it le was deaf and dumb, so the door See Per,, let him go in. The other, seeing the welt : , cess of his partner, went up and madeAlW. same signs. ' "What ?" says the made. "are you deaf and dumb, t 40": "Yes," said the forgetful lad. Then tus.3. he received a taste of sole leather, * re membered his.part., THANK Gory.—=At the close of the Rev olution, George HI, desired his Chaplain to return thanks to God. The Chaplain replied "Sire, do you want me to thank God that you lost so many troops?' • "Do you wish to thank God. because you have lost so many millions sterling ?' "No r "Do youovant to thank God because you have lost thirteen of your best colo nies?' "No!' "Then what do you Want to thank God for!' "I want to thank God because it is no worse !" How easy it is to condemn the faults of others,and how great the temptation to do so ! Yet there exists not the man, or woman who has the right to judge their fellow being. It is said of. Peter., the Great that, when any one spoke ill &an other in his presence, he would say, "Is there not a fair side also to the character of the person of whom 'you have been speaking? Come, tell what good quali ties you have remarked about him." If all the world would walk in the steps of this man there would he less unkind crit icism and harsh remarks about our neigh bors and friends. If each would feel o blidged to speak of his own fault first, perhaps the faults of others would seem so trifling in comparison that each would feel that the wisest plan was to keep si lent. Joe. Hardon, a desperado less than twenty-one years of age, hut who has the !Aoodiest history ofany man of his age in Texas has been arrested by the sheriff of Cherokee county. He is reported t o have killed twenty-four men in Texas and four in Kansas, making twenty -eight, since he was fifteen years old.-- His fiither is a Methodist preacher of b standing. The baby oyAer is not much bi27.er than a fair sized pin's head at the end of a fortniolit, and at three months only the size of a split pea. In a year be will become as largo as an ordinary penny, and at the end of four years growth lie is fit for the market. •• LI of con e offers a
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