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VOLUME 25.
ri'lli WAYNESBORO' VILLAGE RECORD
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Jr. E. AIIIBL*RSON, D.,
, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
WAYNESBORO', PA.
Office at the Waynesboro'. "Corner Drug
ore." [jane 29--tf.
- B. FRA.NTZ,
Has resumed the practice of Medicine.
OFFICE—In the Walker Building—near
cthe Bowden House. ,Night calls should be
•made at his residence on' Main Street ad
oiniug the Western School House.
July 20-H
C. SNIVEL-Y, M - 17.,
AND SURGEON,
WAYNESBORO ' PA.
Oilie.e at his iegidenee, nearly opposite
'he tiomien House. Nov 2—tf:
DOTTG-E,A.s,
AT:real:4l'2Y AT LAW.
WAYNESBORO', PA.
Practices-in-the se,veral.Courts of-Franklin
and adjacent Comities.
N. B.—Real Estate leased and sold, and
Fire Insurance effected on reasonable terms.
December 10, 1871 .
;ILK, StRIIGNAERi v
( FORMERLY OF MERGE:USE URG," PA.,)
®citizens
Ms Professional services to the
‘ficitizens of 'Waynesboro' and vicinity.
Dn. STRICKLER has re:inquished an exten
sive practice at Alerversburg. where he has
,been prominently engaged fora number of
yeitrs in the practice of his profession.
He has opened,an Oliice iu Waynesboro',
at the residence of George Besore, Esq.. .1
Father-in-law, where he can be fount at al
times when not professionally engaged.
July 20, lBil.-tf.
DR. .I. M. RIPPLE. • DR. A. S. BONEBRAKR.
RIPPLE St.. 33011BRAXE,
11'A.YESBOR0'. PA.
Having associated themselves in the prac
tice of aedieine and Surgery, offer their
professional services to the public.
Office in the room on the ..orth East
Cor. of the Diamond, formerly occupied by
Dr. John J. Oellig, deed.
July 18, 1812—ly
• A. K. B ISHOLTS,
SI.DENT DENTIST
lAik;.-•
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--)1.-Y;;:-.)_7-1"
WAYNESBORO', PA.,
(lAN be found in his office at all times,
riJwhere he is preliared to perlbraa all
Dental operations in the Lest and moat
tkil Ifni manner. _ _
We being acquainted with Dr. Bramis
lioltssoeially anti profession,illy recoil - num:
hint to :La desiring the services of a Deutitst.
Drs. E. A. HERING,
" M. RIPet.,E,
" A. 11. STRICKLER,
" .1. B. AM BERSON,
" I. N SNI V ELY,
" A. S. BONBRA KE,
" T. 1). FRENCH,
33.A_ TZ, 73 TZ, 1 T - I
MEM subscriber in forms the public that he
continues the Bid-herb!, business in the
room next door to Mr. Reid's Grocery Store,
and is at all times prepare to do hair cut
ting. shaving,s hampooning etc. in the best
style. The patronage of the public is respect
fully solicited,
Aug 23 1871
PTIITMFTTIM774:: • InrirTiZrelli
r rim subscriber would inform the public
that he is at all times prepared to make
o order Gents Coarse or ene Boots, also
coarse or fine work for Ladn-s or Misseq, in
cluding the latest style of lasting Gaiters.—
Repairing done at short notice, and measur
es taken in private families if desired Shop
on East Main Street, in the -room formerly
occupied by J. Elden, as a flour and feed
F tore.
THOS. J. HOLLINGSWORTII
4. H. FORNEY & CO.
Produce , cogortiesion iretrchaats,
No. 77 NORTH STREET,
BALTIMORE, MD.
Pay pafticular attention to the sale of
Flour, Grain, Seeds, &c.
July IS, 1872-ly
ZaZZZIYZZF 0000.;$ 1
TO THE LADIES!
L. HOLLINBERGER has just
.I.Tkreceived a full supply of new Millinery
goods. Ladies are invited to call and examine
her Mock.
DIAZECIND OK S.,.'O2CE 1
•
NOTICE'
A Matter of Importance to Parents !
We are selling school books from ten
to fifteen per cent less than they can be
had elsewhere.
Sept 26-tf .BR WIC:BILL & GEISER.
SHINGAES
rirql E subscriber has now for sale a prime
• article of Chestnut Shingles, a supply of
which he will continue to keep on hand.—
has also for sale a large lot of dlastering
Laths.
NOTICE '111) BUILDERS.
A fine rot Pine Building, Lumber for sale
_lkand will be furnished in rough, or hew
ed in proper sizes to snit purchasers of
Ttillq. Apply at NTONTERGY SPRINGS. •
April 1, 1572-11
Some one has gone from this strange world
Of ours,
No more to gather its thorns with its flow-
No more to linger where sunbeams must
fade, • •
Where on all beauty death's fingers are
laid; •
Weary with mingling life's bitter and sweet
Weary with parting and never to meet,
Some one has gone to the bright, golden
shore ;
Ring the bell softly, there's crape on the
door! •
Ring the bell softly, there's crape on the
door!
Some.one is resting from sorrow •and sin,
Happy where earth's conflicts enter not in;
Joyous as birds when the morning is bright
When the sweet sunbeams have brought us
their light,
Weary with sowing and never to reap,
Weary with labor, and welcoming sleep,
Some one's departed to heaven's bright
shore
Ring the bell softly, there's crape on the
door !'
Ring the bell softly, there's crape on the
Angels are anxiously longing to meet
One who walks with them in heaven's
bright street
Loved• ones hat e whispered that some' one
is blest—
Frele•from earth's trials, and taking sweet
:rest.
Yes there' is one more in angelic bliss—
One less to cherish, and one less to kiss ;
One more. departed to heavens bright shore
Ring the bell softly; .there's crape on the
door;
Ring the bell softly , there's crape on the
door!
At that time, in Kentucky, (said the
Hon. Mr., Knott, M. C.,) the law was
very strict against what is termed "games
of chance." 'About a dozen of the boys
were detected playing "seven up" or "old
sledge" fbr money, and the grand jury
found a true bill against them. Jim Stur
gis was retained todelend them when the
ease came up of course. The more lie stu
died over the matter and looked into the
evidence, the plainer it was that he must
lose a case at last—there was no getting
around that painful act. Those boys had
certainly been hettine. t' money on a game
of chance. Even public sympathy was
arou'ed in behalf of Sturgis. People said
it, was a pity to see him mar his success
ful career with a big, prominefit case like
this, which must go against him.
But after several restless nights an in
spired idea flashed upon Sturgis, and he
sprang out of bed delighted. He thought
lie saw his way through. The next day
he whispered around a little among his
few friends, and then when the case came
up in court lie acknowledged the seven
up and the besting, and as his sole defence,
had the astounding effrontery to put in
the plea that old sledge was not a game
of chance! There was the broadest sort
of a smile all over the faces of that sophis
ticated audience. The judge smiled with
the rest. But Sturgis maintained a coun
tenance whose earnestness was even se
vere. The opposite counsel tried to ridi
cule him out of his position, and did not
succeed. The judge jested and joked in
a ponderous, judicial way about the thing,
and did not move him in the least. The
matter was indeed beginning to look'grave
The judge lost little of his patience, and
said the joke had gone,far enough. Jim
Sturgis said he knew of no joke in the
matter—his clients could Lot be punish
ed for indulging in what some people
chose to consider a game of chess. Judge
and counsel said that it would be an easy
matter, and forthwith called Deacon, Job,
Peters. Burke, and Johnson, and Domi
nies Wirt and Miggles, to testify ; and
they unanimously, and with strong feel
ing, put down the legal quibble of Stur
gis, by pronouncing that old sledge was a
game of chance.
'`.!What do, you call it now ?" said the
judge.
"I call it a game of science !" retorted
Stut.gis; "and I'll prove it too !"
They saw his little game.
He brought in a cloud of witnesses , , and
produced an overwhelming mass of testi
mony, to show that old sledge was not a
game of chance, but a game of science.
Instead of being the simplest case in
the world, it had somehow turned out to
be an excessively knotty one. The judge
scratched his head over it a while and
said there was no way of coming to a de
termination, because just as many men
Could be brought into court who would
testify on the other. But he said he was
willing to do the fair thing by all parties
and would act upon any suggestion ,Mr.
Sturgis would make for the solution of the
difficulty.
IV. A. PRICE
S. B: RINEFIART
Mr. Bturgis was on his feet in a see
ond :
"Impanel a jury of six each, Luck vs.
Science—give them candles and a couple
decks of cards, send them into the jury
roam, and just abide by the result!"
c t , tiett pettrg.
efAl t skb,
BING THE BELL SOFTLY.
Alit.ittllaurous
Science vs. Luck.
BY MARK TWAIN
A FAMILY NEWSPAPER-=-DEVOTED TO LITIRATUEE, LOCAL AITD'OLIT4WAL..NEWS.
WAYNFSBORO 9 , FRANKLIN COUNTY, PA., TILUIt§DAY,; FEBRUAIIy „0, , 1873.
There was no disputing the.fairness of
the proposition. The, fcur deacons and
the two dorninies, were sworn • in as the
"chance" jurymen, and six inveterate •old
seven-up professors were chosen to.repre
sent the "science" side of the issue. They
retired to the jury room.
In about two hours. Deacon Peters sent
into court to borrow three dollars from a
friend., [Sensation:] ,In about two hours
more, Dominic Miggles sent into • court to
borrow a "stake" from •a friend. [Senses ,
Lion.] During the next three or four hours
the other donlinie and the other deacons
sent into court for small loans. And still
the packed audience waited ; for it. was a,
prodigious occasion in Bull's. Corners, and
one in which every father of a family was
necessarily interested.
The rest of the story can be told brief
ly. About .daylight the jury came, and.
Deacon Job, the foreman, read the fol
lowing verdict : •
We the jury in • the cate of common
wealth or Kentucky vs• John Wheeler et
al., have carefully considered the points
of the case, and tested the merits of the
several theories advanced, and do hereby
unanimously decide,that the game com
monly known as an old sledge or seven
up is eminently a game of science and not
of Chance.
-In demonstration whereof, it was 'here
by and herein stated, iterated and reiter
ated, set.forth, and made manifest that
during the entire.night, : the .chance never
won a game or tuz nealaek, although both
feats-were-common-and-frequent-to-th •
opposition ; and further more, in support
of this our verdict, we call attention to the
significant fact that the 'chance' men are
all buited, and the 'science' men have got
the money. It is the deliberate opinion
of this jury that the 'chance' theory con
cerning seven-up is a pernicious doctrine,
and calculated to inflict untold suffering
arid pecuniary loss upon
. any community
that takes stock in it."
"Thet•is the way that seven-up become
to be set apart and particularized in the
statute bookssof . Kentucky as being a
game not of chance but of science; and
therefore not punishable under law,' said
Mr. Knott. "That. verdict is of record,
and holds good to this day."
The welcome letter is read—thilce wel
come, for itsays, "I will be home to-night."
H - ow softly bright the mother's eyes, as
she' busies herself about the house, Making
it fresh and inviting for the absent one.
How merrily the children shout and caper
as they are told that "Papa is coming
home to-day"
Mother prepares his favorite dish for
the late tea; sinter Anna practices over
the old Scotch ballad papa loves hest, and
Rob and Hattie can scarcely wait for
nightfall. •
The hour comes at length, and brings
papa, laden with all those parcels which
are so delightfully mysterious to the club
drch.
What a glad shout and rush to greet
papa!
• What a flood of happy questions and
answers! ,
What an undoing of parcels, whose
wrapping are so troublesome, and whose
Btrillaß will knot.
Then the pet rabbit and Mips Dolly's
new dre ,, s, made by Hattie's own tiny fin
gers, are shown and much admired.
The evening, swiftly glides away, the
good-nights ate said, and all go to rest;
while the clock ticks on more contentedly
than ever, now the p master is home again ;
or at least mother thinks so, as . she lies
listening to its sound a few moments be
fore falling asleep.
"Jimmy, father is coming,, let's run,"
an two dirty, ragged little creatures hurL
ry out of the basement, into which a drun
ken man stumbles the next moment.
Finding no one there but his poor, mis
erable wife, he begins the usual order of
things by cursing and abusing her.
The abuse at length reaches blows, and
the wretch'd woman escapes into the street
calling for help, her husband following
her. .
"That's Jim, I'll be bound," mutters
the policeman, as he buttons up his coat
and starts down the narrow, dirty street
in the direction of the sounds, while the
children cower tremblingly in the corner,
now and .then peering forth to see if "fath
er is coming." Loud, fierce words and
oaths reach their ears, and soon they see
the "star" shining, and know by that the
policeman is coming back, and, by the
noise and confusion, that he is taking
"father" to the station.
When they are qquite• past and out of
sight, the frightened little objects draw a
long breath of relief, and wine out of the
corner and back to the hovel they call
"home," comforting themselves with the
assurance that "Father won't be home to
night, anyway."
"My darling is coming home to-night,"
whispers the young girl to herself; as she
flits about, now here, now there, restless
with joy, and snatching every possible
moment to read again the dear lines
which brought the glad tidings. She
counts the hours and moments as they
drag along—to her at least—and; as the
time draws near, she takes out the white
dress and pretty ribbons she wore the
night John told her "she looked so beau
tiful," and after a careful toilet and a last
smiling, lingering look at the charming
picture she meets in the glass, runs out to
the garden and gathers a bouquet -of the
freshest, choicest flowers, and placing one
on. her bosom and another in her hair, she
selects a sweet half-opened rose for "dear
John:" In a few moments the well
known step and voice are heard, and the
next instant she is clasped .to her lover's
breast.
Nur now does she even whisper the fund
Corning Home
words of the morning—that is only far
her heart, as vet—but her eloquent, hive
lit eyes and. blushing"faceitie an all-sufll
cient answer when her lover's. deep, ten
der heart whispers,, "Is my darling so ve
ry glad to see me?"
When the brown curls press the pillow
late-at night, she looks out at the bright,
glimmering stars, and thinks,. "what—a
beautiful world it is !"
Ah! the beauty she sees is owing chief
ly to the feet that her lover haS come home
to-night.
There is another' coming home—to a
dark, dreadful home. So utterly dark
and wretched my pen refuses to attempt
a description of it. Banished from all
things beautiful, holy,, and pure, to a
world of darkness, pain and despair, who
can measure the fathomable depths of woe
and anguish which must attend the corn
ing borne of the lost?
In a bright, a glorious mansion, they
are making ready for the coming home of
many loved ones.
There, is a joyful flutter of wings, a tun
ing of melodious harps and lyres. The
soft, pure air is ladened with the refrain,
"They are coming home ! they are 'coming
home!"
• Here, close by the gates, a faithful_
mother is waiting to welcome home her
child. , The fond husband waits for, the
absent wife; the "lost baby" rongs for its
mother, and the gentle sister looks' eager
ly for her brother, the wild, young insoth
-erT-to—whom she—whispered — at — parting - , -
"Meet me in heaven, Charlie." Friend
waits for fiicnd, the pastor for his flock.
There is a glad, expectant stir, the pea•r•
ly_gates_are_openetLwide,_and_amid_the_
triumphant anthems of heaven's host, the
ransomed enter in. Oh, -what a meetiik -,
for that mother, husband, sister, friend.
But far above all these is the joy of the
. ved with the Saviour, of the repentant
prodigal with his Father, of the sheep
with the Shepherd. No more temptation
for the sinner and the prodigal ! No more
wandering for the sheep in rough and
lonely ways ! No more weariness, pain
or sorrow ! At home forever, where all
is joy, love and peace !—Christian Union.
Wedding Tours.
Wedding tours have become as fashion
able as they are expensive. As a fash
ionable custom we protest against them.
Let all who can afford it enjoy the-lux
ury to their heart's content, but let none
in moderate circumstances, who have to
work for a living, and who need a thou
sand things more than they do a view at
Niagara, or a week at Saratogo, purchase
a chain of notoriety, or respectable con
formity to custom, at an expense of from
two to five hundred dollars, by spending
a few miserable days among, entire stntm
gem, amid the bustle and confusion of ho
tel life; or enjoying the doubtful luxury
of being rode on rails.
Circumstances, in this as in every ques
tion, determine proprieties. But what we
protest against is the tyrannical reign of'
fashion. It has no right to dictate in this
matter. It may be that the fancy be li
censed to treat with poetical indifference
the ordinary affairs of life on so inspiring
an occasion as that of' marriage, but we
can discover no valid reason, oeNertheless,
why common sow. should be entirely dis
carded as too vulgar or material a thing
to be associated with the heavenly bliss
of material experience.
Admitting that marriage should . ele
vate one above the unromantic things of
this world for a time, we believe there is
a return again in most cases to the vul
gar things of earth, to labor; to duty, its
perplexities as well as its ordinary pleas
ures.
It is not inexpedient, then, to be wise
in, this matter. How many, however, are
slaves to this fashionable folly, who have
not the courage to break away from it ?
How many are led into an extravagance
in this matter, which they cannot right
fully. afford, merely because some more
fortunate, (or, we might say in many eas
es, more unfortunate,) do so. How many
contrary to reason and good judgment,
follow this fashion, merely to make a
show, for the sake of appearance, which
must. sooner or later, appear to have been
false and counterfeit.
The Laws of Health,.
There are few things with which the
majority of us are less acquainted than
with our own organization and the condi
tions upon which our bodily health de
pends. And yet it is much more impor
tant that we should learn how to avoid
disease and to cherish health'in ourselves
and in those who are dear to us, than that
we should possess a knowledge of the dead
languages or any other-lore included in
the ordinary round of collegiate. educa
tion. Physiology should Jae taught in all
our seminaries and educational intitutions.
Whoever understands even the leading
principles of this valuable science must
regard with regret the manner in which
its laws' are set at naught by society at
large: In their dregs, in their debt, in
their household economy,' in their busi
ness pursuits, in their amusements, in a
thousand things that they do and neglect
to do, three fourths of the commtinitf as
habitually and constantly violate the rule;
of hygiene to ruin their constitutions and
shorten their lives. Surely% if anybody
knew the physiological consequences of
overstimulating the brain, or neglecting
to protect the lungs, of overtaskiug the
stomach, of breathing impure air, we
should have less drinking, less consump
tion, less dispepsia, fewer of all the ills,
not that flesh is "heir" to, but that it in
vokes upon itself by its own folly; than
we have at present. If physiology and
the conditions of health were universally
understood, the mortality of the human
race, in large towns especially, would be
materially dimini3hed.
A.,Tger, •
.4:114 proverb h it, that `,`murder
will out." There' are any curious things'
in this 'line wrttpped p in a story pub
lished by the Sacram •nco Union- 7 a . stoiy.
es full of horrors as any ,which 'even a .
Mrs. Wood could frame. The story isin
the form of an affidavit _ made , before al
justice of the peace in Sacramento City.
Anna Lohry testifies that on the 19th of
February. 1869, she left home to, gather
some early spring &wen, and after a time
found herself in the vicinity of what wa
known as the Corliss Ranch. Sitting down
to rest, she was made the involuntary wit
ness of a terrible struggle between two
brothers, resulting , seemingly from a quar
rel over the distribution of several 'thou
sand dollars.
,She saw the death blow
struck, and screamed, which attracted the'
murderer's attention: The latter, smitten
with terrible remorse, prayed by all things
she loved on earth, to go to the aid of his
brother. She was almost paralized with
fear and horror, but managed to reach the
side of the dying man. She held' his head
and tried to - bind up the wound, but the
man died in a few minutes. The mur
derer wept such tears as only a murderer,
and a fratricide at that, can weep, and
then the matter or his own safety came in.
- He - urged - the girl to take his brother's
share of the money and keep silent, but
she refused. He seemed half-minded__to_
kill her, but finally, with revolver•at her
head, made her swear a dreadful oath that
she would not reveal the secret of the
murder for four years, that term being
named because his mother could not leave
the State before that 'period. The mur
derer went to a place near by, where were
-two- horses; - and - took - a blanket - from one
of them and prepared to cover up the body.
Then they left the spot.' Several times
he put the revolver to her head on the
fearful journey; but - finally she saved her
life.
The murderer had promised to release
her from the keeping of the secret, if pos
sible, in less than four years. So she met
him several times in the Uniontown grave
yard. Finally he released her from what
she had considered binding, and so she
just now makes this affidavit
To think of that deed ! To think of
the scene at the brook, when the murder
er made her wash her apron of the blood,
while he washed his hands and was death
ly sick ! To think of that young girl car
rying. that terrible secret for fbur years,
because she thought it binding !—no words
can set it forth. We once heard Beecher
say that he would like to know, for one
half-minute, the feelings of a murderer.
For one half-minute, and no more; that
would be an age. But who could stand
the ordeal of a half-minute of the man of
Corliss Ranch ? Reason would totter.
A Mysterious Chair.
A lady; friend of our assistant informs
him of a strange freak played by one o
her chairs last week. She had been sit
ting in her chair operating her . sewing
machine, when her attention was divert
ed to the crib by the cry of a baby occu
pant some five or six months old. Lay
ing aside her work the lady arose, went
to the crib and took the child out, and
was soothing it, when, happening to look
around, she observed a slight:tremor in
the chair she had just vacated, and then
a slow tilting commenced, the chair grad
ually coming over until it lay flat upon
the floor, as if gently placed there by un
seen hands, not the least noise accompa
nying the movement of the -chair.. No
one was in the room at the time except
the lady and the, child, and they were
some ten feet from the chair. She sat
and watched the movement from begin
ning to ena, which occupied, she thinks,
about six or seven seeonds.. She is much
exercised over the affair,. being utterly at
a loss to account for such a strange oc
currence. She is an intelligent lady, not
in the least given to superstition, but is
inclined to Ix& upo'n it as a token of
some impending calamity, and is nervous
-ly awaiting the issue, and asking herself,
"What does it foreshadow ?" The event
has created quite a sensation in that part
of our city where it transpired, and is the
subject of various conjectures.—Paris Ken
tuckian.
THE LOAF OF BREAD.-1 - H a time of
famine a rich man allowed twenty 'of the
poorest children in the town ,to come to
his hodse, and said to them : "In this bas
ket there is. a loaf of bread for each of
you ; tak it, and come again at the same
hour every day until God sends better
times."
The children pounced upon the basket,
struggled and fought over the bread, be
cause each wished to have the largest and
best loaf, and then they went away with
out a word of thanks to their friend.
But Francesca, a little girl meanly tho'
neatly dressed, stood at a distance, and
gratefully took the loaf that was left in
the basket, which was the smallest, then
she kissed the good man's hand and went
quietly home.
The next day the children were just as
naughty and ill-behaved, and this time
there was left for poor Francesca a loaf
that was hardly half as large as the oth
ers. But when she reached home her
mother cut the bread, there fl.ll out a
number of new pieces of silver. The moth
er was frightened, and said, "Take back
the money this moment, for it is certainly
in the bread by mistake." • ,
Francesca took it back.
But the kind inau said: "It is no mis
take, my good child.. I had the money
baked in the smallest roaf in order to re
ward you. Be always contented and
yielding with the smallest loaf, rather
than quarrel for the largest, and you will
receive abundant blessings."
Time is the old justice that examines
all ()Milder& •
:;,Miseries of Self-Importance.
•i • ObServe how self-impottaa6C makes a
man moody and unhappy. He who is
always thinking of his Own excellence
renders himself thereby unfit to enjoy the
good of otheri, and is prone ,to imagine
`that•every token Of affection given to an
other -is an insult °area' to himself.—
,Hence he is touchy, serisative, irritable,
and envious. He takes offence when none
is meant, and even when - those around
him are, not•thinking of him at all he in
.terrirets their conduct as if it were studi
ously diScourteous, and goes through the
world smarting from wounds which 'have
sprung not so much from .neglect of oth
ers as from his own over-weening self-con
ceit.
There is no surer way to make our
selves miserable than to think of ourselves
more highly than we ought to think. It
isolates us from all about us. It cuts us
off alike from human sympathy and Di
vine assistance. It makes us very Ish
maels, with our hands against every man
and every man's hands apparently against
us. It gives a jaundiced hue to the be
havior of those who, so far from meaning
to do evil to us, have our best interests at
heart, and love us with self sacrificing af
fection. The man who has a wound a
bout him, no matter where it may he,
feels it to• be always in his Way. -Let him
do-what-he-will,-or-gr-where he-may—he
cannot move himself but he is con=cious
of its pain. In like manner he who has
this feeling of self-importance is continu-
a y smarting. °met I,y as a ways
been slighting him. He is constantly
complaining of having been insulted, and
when honor is given to another he feels
nothing but he has been over-looked.
Thus he shuts himself out from every fes
tival, and mopes moct of all when others
are merry. May Go:1 deliver us from
this idolitary of self, on whose altar all
true nobleness and real happiness are
completely immolated.— Taylor.
CIIILDREN IN ScnooLs.—A. German
physician has just come to the conclusion
that children have bodies. The statistics
which he has gathered, if they tell the
truth, are a terrible warning against the
overstimulating of the minds of the young.
One-third of the school children in Neut.
chatel, 'Switzerland, and in Darmstadt,
he found were subject to the sick head
ache. Seventeen•per . centum of the ten
thousand scholars in and near the capital
of Silesia were near-sighted. Curved
spines,.pulthonary diseases, caused by im
perfect ventilation and inhaling of dust,
were frequent. Here is a lesson for us.
The amount of injury done to the child,
directly and indirectly, to mind and body,
in our schools, is alarming. Teachers are
not always to blame; indeed, rarely are
they. But committees, who shape the in
struction and apportion the time, are gen
erally the sinners'. Ignorant of the phi
losophy of education, the laws of growth,
they guage the teacher, not by the influ
ence he exerts, but the number of minutes
spent in driving knowledge into memories
already over-full. Quantityis the thing
desired not quality. Children. in the fields
till the age of seven, then at their school
tasks but four hours out of the twenty-
Tour, that wills be the golden age of child
hood. God speed the happy day.—Her
old ,of Health. •
A' liMDRED 'YEA.TIS . TO COME.—No
man ever appears to think how 'soon he
must sink into oblivion—ghat we are one
generation of milliOns. Yet such is the
fact. Time and progress have, through
countless ages, come, marching baud in
hand—the one' estfoYing, the other build
ing up. They seem tb create little or no
commotion, and the work of destruction
is as easily accamplished as a child will
pull to pieces a rose. Yet such is -the
fact. A hunjired years hence, and much
that we now see around us will have pass
ed away. It is but a repetition •of life's
story ; we are born, we die ; and, hence,
we will grieve -over these venerable piles,
finding the common level of their proto
types in.Nathre, ultimate:
We all within our graves shall sleep,
A hundred years to come;
No living soul for lei shall weep,
A hundred years to come ;
But other men our land will till.
And other men our streets will fill,
And other birds shall sing as gay;
As bright the sunshine as to-day,
A hundred years to come.
ASLEEP TOR NINE YEARS.—The Be
low New Nation prints the following, and
Kingston people want of know who the
lady in question is : "A lady in Kingston
has lately awoke from a nine years' sleep.
She fell into a stupor, awakening at noon
each day, to receive refreshments, which
had to be fed to her, she not being able to
move hand or foot, nor speaking during
the whole interval. If her attendant was
not there when she woke, she immediate
ly Went to sleep again, not awakening un
til the next day at noon. Upon her re
covery she called for her clothes, as if a
wakened from her usual rest ; and upon
her friend coming Wee her she would re
mark : 'How old you have grown !"How
gray your hair is !' or 'How wrinkled
your face is !'—not remembering that she
had been asleep for nine years. Her son,
who was quite a lad when she went to
sleep, and who is now a man grown, she
utterly disclaims, saying he is not her son
at all.
At a ladies temperance meeting not long
since, one of the members remarked that
the temperance cause had been a ble.ssing,
to her,' "for," she added, "I slept with a
barrel of rum for tea years; but now,"
she continued, her eyes brightening, "since
my husband signed the pledge I have had
a man to sleep with !" Then all tne spin
ters laid their hands on their 'beasts and
sang—Amen.
None but cowards lio.
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t .au d ninor.
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.. Giving sev ee s
hundred pounds (if
coal for a ton is a: g "the weighs that
are da en
rk." ' •
Why is the Jettdr . Lin the word
tart' like a nose? Because it .stands be
tween two. i's.
Of earthly goods, .the best Is a .good
wife ; a bad one, the bitterest curse of
human life.
Why is the strap 4 d an omnibus like a
man's conscience? Because it is an in
ward check on the °Mu. man.
A "monster in human tbrm" savey that the only time a woman does not exage
rate is when she is talking of her own age.
Augustus says young men get tight by
solacing themselves with the "ardent ;"
hut that young ladies get tight by so lac
ing themselves in quite .a different man
ner. Of corsets so.
An Irishman meeting another, asked
him what had become of a mutual friend.
"Arrah, now, my dear honey," answered
he, "Paddy was condemned to be hanged,.
but he saved his life by dying in prison."
An Irishman being asked vrha:the came
to America for, said, "Is't 'what I came
here for, you mane? Arrah by the ow-
- e - W. you may e sure tat it wash t for
want, for I had plenty of that at home."
A young lady in Western New York
has an offer of marriage from a
wealthy lover whose name is Hussey. It
is impossible not to admire the spunk of
that woman who refuses to lie called a
Hussey for any man.
A wealthy but miserably old man (lin
ing in the city.one day with his son at a
restaurant, whispered in his ear, "Tom,
you must eat for to-day and to-morrow."
"Oh, yes," retorted the half-starved lad,
"but I ha'nt eaten for yesterday and the
day before, yet."
The way to wealth is as plain as the
way to market. It depends chiefly on
two words—lndustry and Frugality—
that is waste.neither time nor money, but
make the best use of both. Without in
dustry and frugality nothing will do, and
with them everything.
A young gentleman of Morristown, N.
J., was playing at hay making with a ru
ral Maud Muller, and rather liked it un
til a swarm of yellow jackets crawled up
his nankeen trousers. Maud laughed
heartily at the Irish jig he danced until
she got "some of it in her'n."
"Do you know Brown?"
•"Yes." •
"What kind of a man is he.?"
"Oh, tolerable "
"Thereare worse men than he is, ain't
there ?"
"Y
-e-s ; but I think they are all in the
penitentiary,"
In Connecticut, a certain justice was
called to jail to liberate a worthleis debt
or by receiving his oath that. he was not
worth twenty dollars. "Well, Johnny,"
said the justice, on entering, "can you
swear that you are not worth twenty dol
lars, and that you never will he?" "Why,"
answered the other, rather chagrined at
the question, "I can swear that I'm not
worth that amount at present." "Well,
well," returned the justice, "I can swear
to the rest, so go along, Johnny." And
the n►an was sworn and discharged.
The stringent liquor law in Massachu
setts had an alarming effect on the health
9f some of the citizens. The State con
stables, however, seem to be able to cure
the malady which it has produced, provi
ded they can get a correct diagnosis of
the case. In the town of East Douglas,
two constables visited one of the invalids
and found him bolstered up in bed suffer
ing great agony. Some four gallons of
liquor in bottles having been extracted
from the pillows he was relieved at once.
His pain was evidently sham.
ANECDOTE OF DR. COX..—Some years
ago a new church at Lockport, N. Y., be
longing to the Presbyterian society,. of
which the Rev. William C. Wisner, D.D.,
has long been the very popular pastor,
was to be dedicated. A large number of
divines of that denomination from Ito
chester and vicinity having •beeti invited,
left that city by railroad, grouped in, and
Arming a large share of the men Pants of
a car, in the early evening, expecting to
arrive at Lockpert in time to enjoy a
comfortable night's rest. Among the par
ty was the 'distinguished Samuel Hanson
Cox, D. D., then Chancellor of Ingham
University, at Le Roy. It being mid
winter and intensely cold, and an unusu
ally heavy body of snow being upon the
ground, a furious wind , and snow storm
setting in, the train had not proceeded
many miles before it, became blocked hi
the snow, with a part of it oil' the track,
and so cold and tenipeturms was the night,
the train, though every possible effort was
made, did not succeed in getting extrica
ted until morning.
. .„
When on the wing again, the condue.
for made his round to look after tickets,
and coming among the reverends, was
impelled to reil:r to the discomforts and
perils of the 'light, and also haying vivid
impressions of the same exclaimed :
"I tell you what, gentlemen,,we came
very near all going to h-1 last night."
Dr. Co - x, equalito the occasion and ex-•
prerion, quickly and inapt:tip replied :,
ou doubtless speak for, yourself, sir; but
as for me and my friends here,' we-are
ticketed to a different statiOn. 4 •