PpiiniiQ JfKßi Bemorrflt. HARVEY SICKLER, Publisher. VOL. VIII. Ppmiitg SitwccaL A Democratic weekly _ M2 and the average amount paid each teacher 81951714. The Governor then recommends that the salaries of teachers be increased, but as the legislature has nothing to do with that question, his rec ommendation amounts to little. He also calls attention to the fact that there are not less than seventy-five thousand per sons in the State between the ages of six and twenty-one who do not go to school.— When it is considered that six is regarded by many sensible people as too early an age to send children to school, and that be fore they have reached the age of twenty one, very many more have thrown away their school books, the statement of the Governor will not appear so astounding.— The expenditures for the support of the Soldiers' Orphans' Schools from Dee. Ist, 1897, to May 31, 1868, amounted to 8236,- 970 26. The total number of pupils, 3,- 431, and the average cost of each pupil for six mouths $69.06*5. The Governor as serts that the schools are all in good condi tion and prospering. The Agricultural College is discussed, and this branch of the subject is wound up with the average com mon-place copy-book phrases about the j blessings of education. The military department is briefly con sidered. There are seventy-seven volun teer companies in the State, aud a number of others organizing. A reduction of the number of men now required, to an aggre gate of fifty officers and men to each com pany, the Governor thinks, would cause military companies to increase by the hun dred. In recommending a new registry law, the message says that 'it is alleged that frauds were perpetrated, surpassing in magnitude, perhaps, any that have been consummated heretofore in the history of the Common wealth. " Without proof, on mere allega tion, "these frauds" are presented as the ground for any other registry law, which the Governor hopes will not be subject to the objectionable features pointed out by the Supreme Court in last year's bill.— Since the new registry law will be worth nothing without "exceptionable features," it is a matter of little consequence with the radicals whether they make a new bill or not. A department to protect the interests of insurers is recommended, and also a desk for the collection of statistics. The deaths of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens and Hon. Dar win A. Finney are appropriately referred to. The whole number of applications for pardons during the year has been Bixteen hundred and twenty-three. The number of pardons granted has been one hundred and six. In the Philadelphia county pris on the following persons are confined un der sentence of death : Edward Ford, sen tenced May 12, 1861; Jerry Dixon, May 30, 1863; Patrick Finnegan, February 9, 1863; Newton Champion, Dec. 1, 1866 ; Alfred Alexander and Hester Vaughn, July 3, 1868. The Governor thinks it would te mereiful if authority were given him to commute the sentence to imprisonment at labor in the penitentiary. The message concludes with a very ppor stump speech to the radicals. It congrat ulates them on the election of Grant. It attributes to the downfall of the rebellion, the recent political reforms in England *, the expulsion of the Bourdons in Spain ; the troubles in Cuba ; the literal move ment in Germany and the waning influ ence of Louis Napoleon in France. Until we read this wonderful message, we never knew that the war for the rebellion had ac complished so much. It will be news to most people. The Governor carefully avoids any allusion to the suffrage question I or to the measures now before Congress to \ make suffrage question universal by an i amendment of the Constitution, which are the most important of auv before the coun try. The silence of the Governor is signif : icant, affording ground to hope that the rad icals will not venture to put any of their , darling schemes against the power of the 1 Stat© in practice. TERMS, $2.00 Per. ANNUM, in Advance. NO. 24. pis? airb pjmrfoisf. What is the difference between a hungTy ► man and a glutton ? One longs to eat, and the other eats too long. A gentleman complaining of the various imposts and taxes, says he can not put on his boots in the morning without a stamp. An eminent artist lately painted a snow storm so naturally that he caught a bad cold by sitting too near it with his coat off. Fanny Fern says that the men lika to "pick the ladies to pieces." We have cer tainly found it very pleasant to take them apart. A debating society had under considera tion the question,—"ls it wrong to cheat a lawyer ? " The decision arrived at was. "No; but impossible." An unwashed street boy, being "hed what made him so dirty, his reply was ; "I was made, as they tell me, of the dust of tk* ground, and I reckon it is just working out." A milkman, the other day, in sjieaking of the dullness of the market, said, — "I can't make anything now-a-days, there is so much composition in the busi ness." He probably told the truth unwit tingly. A poor Irishman who applied foy a license to sell ardent spirits, being questioned as to his moral fitness for the trust replied,— "Ah, sure it is not so much of a charac ter a man wants to sell rum." A chemist, discoursing oi drug.-, ed that all bitter things were hot. "No,' observed one present: "there is one of a different quality, and that is a bit ter cold day." Teacher—"lf a man gave you a hundred dollars to keep for him, and died, what would you do ? Would you pray for him ? " Candid pupil—"No sir; but I would prav for another like him." On some railroads it is customary to have locks on the stove, to prevent a passenger from meddling with the fire. A wag hav ing been asked why they locked the stove, eooly replied that, "It was to prevent the fire from going out!" "I fear," said a church minister to his flock, ' 'when I explained to you in my last •charity sermon, that philanthropy was the love of our species, you must have misun derstood me to say specie, which may ac count for the smullness of the collection." At Adrian, Mich., a lady saw an engine house with a steeple, and innocently asked a gentleman attendant, ' 'What church is that ? " The gentleman after reading the sign, "Deluge No. 3," "I guess it must be the Third Baptist." "Peter, my boy, does you understand de seventh commandment ? " "Yaw." "Vat is bim den ?" "You shall not play ter teyfel mit your neighbor's ducks." A certain deacon, being accustomed to Bnore while asleep in church, he received the following polite note : "Deacon is requested not to com mence snoring to-morrow until the sermon is begun, as some persons in the neighbor hood of his pew would like to hear the text." Boys, if you don't want to fall in love, keep away from muslin. You can no more play with the girls without losing your heart, than you can play with gamblers without losing your money. The heart strings of a woman, like the tendrils of a vine, are always reaching out for something to cling to. A LOVABLE WOMAK.— Here is Words worth's idea of a lovable woman : "I saw her, upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too, Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty, A countenance in which yon meet, Sweet records, promises as sweet, A creature not too bright or good, For human nature's daily food. For transient sorrows, single wiles, Praises, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles." I - There is a good story told of a French auditor of accounts, who besides being a good practical joker all his life, played a trick after he had the power of enjoying it. He left four large candles to be carried at his funeral, and they had not been burning fifteen minutes before they went off aa fire works. "Mother, where id the man going to sleep ? " asked a little girl of fifteen of her mother, who had just promised a traveler a night's rest in their out-of-the-way hut.— "I'll have to put him in with you and Kate and .Bet and Jack, I suppose," she replied ; "and if it is too crowded one of you mutt turn in with me, and dad, and Dick, and Tommy end the Twins."