ADVEII," gtl HATES.
mo. 3 mom. 0 mom. lyr.
1.50 1.75 3.30 0.50 1200
3.01 3.51 0.50 9.00 2).1)0
4.9 5.2.1 9.00 17.03 25.00
11.50 17.03 25.00 45.(0
13.5) 22.00 40.01 uo.no
20.00 40.00 01.0) 110.01
30.04 0100 110.0) 2)0.00
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Administrator's and Auditor's Notices, 111.1Xt.
City Notices, 20 cants per line let Insertion. 15 cents per
too each subsequent Insertion.
Top lines agate corkethuto a square.
ROBERT IREDELL, JR.,,Puitiasunn,
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Coal anb 'lumber
FROW, JACOBti ..t: CO.,
WEOLEPALII DEALERS IN
ROUGH & WORKED LUMBER,
SASH DOORS AND BLINDS,
WILLIAMSPORT, PA
b 3 .Orders from the trade solicited
A FILOART. U.OTT°. U. Y. oTTO. U. W. 1111.1,111
F ILBERT, OTTO dr. MILLER.
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
LUAIBER,
WILLIAMSPORT, PA
MILL ON CANAL WEST OF MAYNARD STREET.
OFFICE AT TILE MILL.
W. F. CRANE, AtinNl. 4, Aug CO•ly
REMOVAL -1
Sit r~i'll & OSIVIUN'S
COAL AND WOOD YARD I
Th on
ellai and Wood Yard ham
SIDS to the
east dof Om Jordan Bridge, SOUTH whore will
be constantly kept a non and full.eupply of
- Egg, Stove Nut and Chestnut Coal,
..n.cted from the boot mint, In the country.
OUR COAL
•
under Cover—and It In to the Interent of every on to
verchuhe
DRY AND SCREENED COAL
AIWA large stoc 01l kind,. of good Wool constantly
market
ou handmire. and deliv k
ered f e
to ell parts of the city at the lowest
,
Valley D . C e l f!uY, A lMZ ' i t l a ' Tt “ t n lt e tP . l: ` r r ,V; ` 3 `.31°0 f the
b r i t il a j
&locker.
gar - THIS ISTREPEOPLICS COAL YARD.—(F4
Our Coal I. xelectoll from thn boat ines atiltho Lehlgu
region, and knowing this to be the tort and th will give
perfect mallafactlon, them In no non In offering to rental
he money. All we salt Is a trial. Orders taken at Dasll3
er'tt hat al. to
FRANK LIN 5311T11 .
.1 , 14' HUI
COAL CONSUIOERS,
LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST!
P. IL STELTZ
Hereby Informs the citizens of Allentown, and the pub
Ilc In general, that ho la prepared to furnish 101 kinds of
C 0 A L
from hie well atorked Yard, formerly U. 0 uth k Co.'s, at
the Lehigh Basin, lu the City of Allentown, where he will
constantly hoop ou hand a full supply of all kinds of Coal,
at the very low.' market price.. Ills coal la ulce and
clean, from the very beet mince, and in quality Importer
o any offered in Allentown.
Ile will sell Coal by the CAR LOAD, at very email tro-
Ate, as ho Intenda to do buidneas atom the principle of
Quick Salvo and Small Profits." Give him a call, and
upon comparing price. you can judge for yoursolvea,
Ho will deliver Coal upon call to any part of the City
upon orders being loft at the Yard, or Woluabelincea store
R. lf. STELTZ.
mAr3l-l(
REMOVAL.
TREXLER S BROTHER:9',
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LUMBER,
L':;4l;Y.:‘,",°,4:::::l7,?,,iro.`,:iireggr.r.^,lrollf.7: thnt
(hey
NEW YARD
near the cornier of Tenth and Hamilton streets. formerly
occupied by Braces & Miller, as a Lumber Yard, where
they will constantly keep on hand a largo and seasoned
•lock of
L•UMBER,
such an silklrt.L4 of
PINE, HEMLOCK, CHESTNUT, POPLAR, SHINGLES
PICKETS, I.ATIIS,
lu fact everything usually kept by the trade
Ltif-All Untie of lumber cut to order nt Aloft notice.
Thankful for pant (alone, we truat our friend., a. well
no the public In general, willire no a cell at our New
Yard, where we will ore our beat endeavors to render sat
!auction butte as retards quality and price, (net 23'6841
TO En iONTILACTOBS AND BUILD-
The ;thdi•rslgued Is prepared to soutract for furnishing
SASH, BLINDS, WINDOW FRAMES,
DOOR FRAMES: SHUTTERS.
Aud all kinds of building lumber Agent for
HOPE SLATE COMPANY'S LEHIGH SLATE
Wholoonto and rotall dottier In tho
CELEBRATED CUCUMBER PUMP.
Order,. left at the EMILE HOTEL will receive prompt
alto:Litton. lost sake address,
Wm. 11. illEltr,lN, P
Quskustown, Bucks Co., a.
tier 22-11
11131:13
REVIVAL ! !
Tho imbncriber. having leaned the "Ohl llnpe Con!
Yard," wouldrexpeetfully announce to the citizen. of
•licutowa Rod the public in general, that they havojunt
got
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COAL
Consisting of Stove, Egg, Chestnut end Nnt from the
EYCK MOUNTAIN MINES. •
Orders left with A. A. II Cher, Sie & Ilotteestoln. nl
the Engle Hotel, !lope Ito Mug !1111, ger III, or tho Yard, will Ito
attended to In tt
BUSINESS
like rammer. •
Order. for Coal by the cor filed at short retire nod itt
the lowout
Alwayo on hand a largo clock of
BALED HAY,
which will Lc •old at tho lowest market
L. W. KOOl - S & CO.,
at the OW !lope Coal Yard,'
Hamilton Street, earuer of Lehigh Von'''. Rsilrosid
ALLIINTOWN, PA
L. W. Koons
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VOL. XXIV.
H . A. STEEL.
UPHOLSTERING,
WINDOW SHADES BEDDING STORE,
op 13-ly
WINDOW SHADES,
With fixtore. complete. from k'•W a pale. uP to 416. O.
WHITE HOLLAND SHADES AT ALL PRICES.
SHADES OP ANY STYLE AND COLOR MADE, TO OR
DER.
STORE SHADES MADE AND LETTERED.
LACE AND DRAPERY CURTAINS.
ALL KINDS OF 'WINDOW DRAPERY
PATENT MOSQUITO CANOPIES.
GILT, ROSEWOOD AND WALNUT CORNICES.
CURTAIN BANDS, TASSELS, CORD, Jtc.
FURNITURE STRIPS CUT AND MADE.
STAIR AND VESTIBULE RODS.
FURNITURE RE•UPIIOLSTERED AND VARNIMIRD.
Carindx •ndltingx,l d tLnew, mode, altered s o
Put
UPHOLSTERERS' MATERIALS OF EVERY
DESCRIPTION AT WHOLESALE
A NEW THING.
SILK FINISHED WINDOW SHADES
otl3-ly
I . E. WAERAVEN,
NO. 719 CHESTNUT STREET,
In now roceiviug kiln Fall ilurnnintienn. couniullng In
Dart of
CURTi IN MATERIALS,
WILLIAM OSMUNI
In Silk, Ito hair, Worsteda Linou and Cotton, embraelniv
many novelties.
Lace Curtains
natal., St. Gallen and Nottingham make.
CORNICES AND DECORATIONS
of uow and original designs.
WINDOW. SHADES,
by the thousand or single ono at manufacturers' price.
MUSA UITO CANOPIES.
MEM
Earpetz aub Clad).
FLOOR OIL CLOTH,
44, 5-4 and 8-4 to New and Elegant Doxlgnx OW Lower
to Price.
KRAMER'S "OLD CORNER."
CARPETINGSI
AT OVA NOW AND NLHUANT 000011,
635 MARKET STREET,
A full stork for Spring Salsa of
AXMINSTERS,
VELVETS,
BRUSSELS,
TAPESTRY,
INGRAINS.
VENITI ANS,
MATTINOS.
OIL uLOTII9,ike.
LEEDOM, SHAW & STEW ART,
635 MARKET ST., PHILADELPHIA
Jun 18-am
RICH ..t.ND ELEGANT
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, &c..
S. C. FOULK
flax resumed the .
CARPET BUSINESS
AT 19 S. SECOND ST., PHILADELPHIA,
(Between Market and Cliextuut SOLO
Wilt, a fell axx ,rtrnent of VELVET , BRUSS_ELS, THREE
PLY, INGR to
AIN d VENETIAN CARPETS Olt Cloth
Window Shade.. ' fie., at reduced prices. cop 16.1 y
dire II)roof Salto.
HERRING'N
'IRB AND BURGLAR PROOF
(WITH DRY FILLING:)
Awarded the Prise Medals .st World's Fair London
World's Fair , Now . York, Exposition Universelle, Paris
i'ARREL, HERRING & CO
n•RVtY OILLAX.
Ccst. BIATURWY.
Olio. W. Myna..
It. E DONAUOUNT
629 CEIES'PNITT STREET,
HERRIN°. FARREL k SHERMAN, NEW YORE
lIERRINO, FARRELL it CO., NEW ORLEANS
WATSON'S CELEBRATED FIRE
AND BURGLAR PROOF
t,'2'td , - - ;'
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SAFES
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.... '...f.iiii. ESTABLISHED IN 1843.
TITS OLDEST 84FR 1101:18.8 4.8 PII4I.4.B.ELPLILI.
The uolf Sem. femme DOOR,
•
Ototranived Free from Damper.,
Aldo price. , from 15 to 1 . 0 Per root. lower than Gibe
maker.. Plow) iteud for Circular and Nio h t .
T. WATSON h IiON.
Late of it•ano k Watson. Multufeeturers.
„dm,. • . No. A 3 S. Fourth St.. Philadelphia.
R. 11i. ROBINSON A: CO..'
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MILITARY, CHURCH, SOCIETY,
THEATRICAL GOODS, FLAGS, BAN
NO. 181 NORTH THIRD STREET,
ZE hal OW Sbab to
No. 40 North Ninth Street,
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MASONIC lIA_LL,
Cl.lair out at reduced prices
I[;!!IEEM2i!I3IMI3
SAFES
PHILADELPHIA
11ERRINO iCO CIIICAOo
(13ucculmorm to MlLtser,)
NERS, BADGES, ETC
E=
the 3J:rbiob
ILifc Ifnournnce
T"E
AMERICAN
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF PHILADELPHIA
ALEX. WHILLDIN, J. 8. WILSON,
Preald.t. Secretary
GROIVTH OF THE AMERICAN
Dale. . No. of polldeß. Amt. luxurod.
840, Dee. 91, 991 .1.0 , 0, , M 00
Sil, Dec. 91, 1170 $1,20o,00:1 90
1897, Dec. 91, VDU 618,312,.78 93
&11, Doc. 31, 10,.142 . 1114,7f9,901 60
The AMERICAN lsones policies on all deslrablo plans,
at low tato.. and for •rrurlty and prompt.. In meeting
looses la nuoprpaoxed by. any Company In Um United
BOARD OF TRUSTERS
ON. JAMES POLLCON. r
Er-00. of Peoria., Director U
H. 2illnt. . .
• . .
3. EDOAR TIIONISON , Pros. Penna. R. It., =3 S. 3d St.
GEOIIIIE NUO ENT, Gentleman, residence, Clormuntorru.
ALBERT C. ROBERTS. President Fourth National Book
PHILIP B. MINI/ I.E. Sued Merchent, BB Market St.
HON. ALEX. O. CATTELL,N• rth SounWa tetorS r. Mo t, rchaut,
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o tree
ISAAC lIAZLEIIIIIIST, Allortioy-nt•Latr, TLS Walnut St.
L. JI. WIIILL DIN, Iderchnnt, %loud 22 South Front St.
ENIt\II K BEN N Err. Morchaut, 713 South Fourth St.
lIEORCIE W. 111 I. 1„ President Seventh National- Bank.
JAMES L. CLAOHORN, Treat. Commercial Nat. Bank.
JOHN WANAMAKER,
Co Oa r. 6th k tutu
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Market lothin
Sg
ts. , n o do S
81 . 8
& E.
620 Cha•tuut Street.
AVM. J. ROMIG, M. I)., Agent,
tO EAST HAMILTON ST
MEM
WOULD !MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE CO,
NO. 160 BROADWAY, N. Y.
GEORCIE L. WILLARD. President
W. S. TISDALE. Vice President.
11. V. OAIIAOAN, Secretary.
Table showing Ist,The amount of Total Rea Used Also!,
2d, The amount of I unnrance Llahllltlus. M. Per Pentane
of the (armor to tho loiter, of New York Lae Neurone°
Companies, more than three months old, comullod from
the New York Insurance Commissionere' Ileport fur WO.
N6golo of Co.
It Total (76x8 168. 1.16 b. No C.
emltaed
1.28,717,320 33 027.183.371 49 01.0364
8.840.4.58 381 • 8.03.431 81 1.48/143
2,070,142 91 2.492.811 83 .6824
2.1418.351 79 3.694.00 66 .7142
1.143,315 MI 1,141.90 COI .2755
6, (a).876 34: 6,04).381 OU .1080
276,819 tr.P 1.212,612 130 .582
1,51.642 73: 1.081.3 , 72 38 1.m67
994.638 41! 1.8511.73.5 81 .5W2
2.111.464 6t 2.007.184 66 1.0518
307.4.14 D. 1.510,561 61 .2941
1.64.5.381 80 3.7113,691 61 .4847
147.685 71 3.56,1482 14 .4140
1,57,671 81 1,911.791 67 .40623
609.659 819, 426 OD JIM
9'31.95 93 915,554 54 1.1402
340,193 91: 330.274 70 1.6106
15.248 5, 105.378 68 .6615
215,151 701 370.706 37 •7 , 242
518.762 14, 1,616.822 27 .31(81
14.5.7816 821 :107. 278 671 .7024
315,497 14 159.913 63 1.365
utnal Life....
Sew York Life .
United State. Lite'
Manhattan Life ..•
Knickerbocker—.
Equitable
Guardian .. ...
lIUMO
Germania
A
Security • • ..... • ••
North Americo.—
Nolioual
Globe
Brooklyn
Widow, aOrphauv
Universal
Groat Weateru....
Continental Life—
American Po
p
ular
World Mutual
Average per cordage of realized cash assets to total
moots of the New York Insurance Companies,
Deeembor IL 1868, . tit 34
Per Centage of the World Mutual .7454
A vornge of losses paid to total 10001110 of the Now
York Life Inouranen Companies 14.58
Per Coning, of the World Mutual 11.%
Average of losses to amount tuaurea of the Now
York Insurance flornpaules .82
Per Centatie or the Wort./ No/oat
ALLIINTOWN. November 17th. 16LO
Dl•turutt Fromm Rhea, 800.. Allentown. Agent of the
World Mutual Llfo Inzurance Company of Now York.
Dear Sir :—Permit to thank you for the prompt man
ner In which you kayo collected (or no the 0100 Insured In
your Company on the life of Daniel 11. Kemmerer, onr
humbuud and brother. We are truly thankful to you fur
loving persuaded lam two years a`o to runko thle•wfeo
provlelon for the wanta of bin family. Then ho wan to
u enjoyment of excellent health, with a post life and
mill record Leib Indicative of ninny years of uidifulucepi
our midst, and to us titers this 3;in:iv's!uu seemed uluwst
eleee gtud uutleceseary. But Providence. to the wind...
hiCh Is no often hard for us to uutierntand, ordained
otherwise, and from a severe attack of Typhoid Fever .
April last he never entirely recovered. but continued
sinking until his suffering• were ended. and he departed
thin Ilfe a few week. ago. Always careful of his lured
ones. this provision for their needs recalls to us anew his
forethought and love. and from The midst of our grief and
, ors %vs 'could thus publicly lt , titify to the rid. of Life
.Rurance. and to the rellAbility lthd PromPth ooo of the
World Mutual LIM, which you represent, In partloglar.
May thin example be the mute of [natty Imitating the ez•
ample of our departed loved one's care and forethought,
•od likowlee Mauro al once, for no one knows the day or
hour In which they may be takert,alck or galled away,
and thus he preveuled from blearing.
AMANDA KEMMERER, widow.
REUBEN lii - KEMMERER, brother,
Admlulatratora.
•
J. K FRUEAUFF,
fJeuerul Agent fur the State
N 0.5 North queen tit., Lancaster, Pa
MARTIN KEINIM ERER,
Agent for Lehigh County. Allontown
MEM
'VIIE OLD ALLENTOWN CHINA
1 AND GLASSWARE STORE STILL AHEAD OP ALL
COMPETITION.
Fifteen years experience and means to buy not only fur
moth but during the seasons and times of most advantage,
enables the proprietor to offer goods at lower prices than
those not having these advantages. I return my sincere
thanks to the people of this city and Lehigh and adjoining
counties for appreciating these facts by their constantly
Increasing Patronage. Necessitating various enlarge•
meets of uur store, lire last of which but recently con•
pleted, gives us now about twenty-ono hundred feet of
shelving ono foot wide. Nearly half a tulle of shelving
twelve inches wide . , well filled with goods. besides large
quantities on the dour. It Is very evident them areno two
stores in the county put togs her have sock a stock as this
or the trade requiring It. It Is therefore the interest of all
to call and examine the goods and prices al thii store be
fore buying elsewhere. The proprietor being fully son
scious of hilt mivautages,'will nut under soy hunorablo
circumstances perrolt•ny person to undersell him in these
goods. Suck things may be pretended by those having uu
knowledge of the business, and may find bramsdocia and
.houtbasf a couvenient article to hide their deficiencies in
other respects, but It will nut bear the Inspection of a dis•
morning public. Our goods are Lathe latest and most im
proved patterns, our heavy sales requiring almost an en
tire renewal of stock two or three times annually, thus
preventing the possibility of old stock on hand,. As lam
now selling off preparatory to retire front active business,
greater inducements than heretofore are offered lu the
price of goods to all buyersott the China Sture.37 E. Ham
ilton St., orarly opposite the OOTLUILII Reformed Church.
jou 6.1 y T. C. K EII:JAREN.
ami
SI P. NEWHARD :v.
S.lt. ENGLEMAN,
CHINA WARE,
BELGIAN 6. BOHEMIAN GLASSWARE,
LAVA WARE , •
P ARIAN ' MARBLE OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
O. 4.. WEST HAMILTON ST.,
A LLENTOWN, PA.
arc 21.3 w
BRA DBE nt'S
AZD orals
PAINOS,
CVO •MD UPWARD/I
TAYLOIrk PARLEY'S AND T. P. NEEDHAM A SON%
ORGANS AND MELODEONS, •
•5D Alr WPT/11104. •
WAIL G. NISCHER, •
Otaaral
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1011 ARCH Bt.. !Ind HP. XL YENT A 81.
ler.lllo il
dre I.ly
ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1870.
;g . g . 3gg
SEASONABLE SPEcIA I.IIIE
BLUE AND COLORED DRESS SILKS,
PLAIDS,
POPLINS,
PAISLEY AND DROCHA SHAWLS,
BLANKE'F SHAWLS,
WATER PROOF,FOR SUITS,
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WHITE AND COLORED BLANKETS,
Embracing the most complete stock of Dry
Goods at
POPULAR LOW PRICES
It will be to your interest to examine my
stock before purchasing elsewhere.
M. J. KRAMER,
"OLD CORNELL"
SEAMAN & TRAEGER,
17 SOUTH MAIN STREET,
BETHLEIIENI
BLACK Oros Oralo SILKS, BLACK DRAB D'FRANCE
SILKS. BLACK TAFFETA SILKS. The /org cat and
cheapest smorituent of SILKS we have ever had the pleas
ure of offering the Public.
BEAMAN AG TRAEGER.
lUiI4 , V V 11' 1.1 T i - LEs 1•.1 X VS I L
SEAMAN dr, TRAEGER
FRENCH SILK POPLIN, MARBLE POP
LINE,PLAIN POPLINS.
BEAMAN t TRAEOER.
BLACK ALPACAS, In all oriel., from tho lowed
utubere to the Moot /What..
SEAMAN St TRAEGER.
COLORED .4 L P4CAR, nil price.. •er7 cheap.
SEAMAN A: TRAEGER
DRESS ROODS In every variety of Plain and Varney
Slylre,
SEAMAN Ltr. TRAEGER.
BLEAVIIND and US/ME-ICI/RD SIIEETINOS
SILIRTINGS le very large •eeertreeet CHECKS,
TICKIMiIi end k)ENIAIItI.
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
SHAWLS. Large mud exteanlvo 101.urtotiontof BLACK
TIIIBET, [MBCHB and PAISLEY. BLANKET. CHE
NILLE, ILIISSES', Irt great variety of alzoilirld colors.
SEAMAN at TRAEGER.
SPECIAL ATTENTION lB requested to our
elegant •od complete of LADIES' DRESS TIII
MI NOS. counlellog pert of 11ULLIONcoid TASSEL,V,
FRINGE, REAL GUIPURE and BRUSSEL LACE,
GIMPS. BRAIDS, NEW STYLE FLUTED TRIM
3fING. Qr. BUTTONS to eeveral hundred dllforeut
etylee.
SEAMAN & TRAEGER:
HOSIERY, GLOVES, UNDER CLOTII
ING for LADIES', CHILDREN and GEN
TLEMEN. WOOLEN YARNS, &c.
SEAMAN & TRAEGER
FLANNELS, all wldthx, Red, White, Btu.. Mixed
and Plain. , n Rome•rade Flannel.
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
ZEPHYR IiORSTED, GERMANTOWN
WOOL,-BASIIMERE YARNS, EMBROIDER
ED WORSTED WORK, and a full heaortinent
In that line. . _
BY MAIL we Fend sample+ of any good• capable of be
ing sent by +ample through the roan with prigon attached
to each piece. We And thin to be a great courouieuce to
partle• utotble to pernuea whit us.
SE IIy AMAN & TRAEGER.
FAMILY GROCERIES, Staple and Fancy. bleat). kept,
temptingly gotten up sod of the Beat Qualltlee.
SEAMAN it TRAEGER.
CROCKERY, omerythlngrequlrell In Ihni line fur how.,
keeping purpomt.
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
20 '3t, 1 1 1 .:241 , 1AZ.V. mad all aorta of Wooden Were
BEAMAN & TRAEGER.
AU kinds of Country Produre taken In exchange for
gouda at the highrct price*.
SEAMAN 4.c TRAEGER.
We are endeavoring le keep a Dal Vale uf every article
to the way of Dry Goods, Smell( Worm Notions. Cr..
Crockery. Wooden IVare. and In feet everything
(except Carpetn) 10 be feund is a retail elm,.
SEAMAN & TRA EGE LI,
MAIN S'TREE'T',
@EI
FURNITURE.
JOSEPH WA L'I'ON & CO.,
CABINET MAKERS,
No. 413 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA.
Our establishment In one of the oldest la Philadelplils.
and from lung experience and superior fernlike we-are
P r UeT d an " :lla u :l n tlrl Cue furniture, r ig ' iral :o bi :al I UM . . p ri cod
furniture of euperior quality. A law stork of furniture
always us bane. Oouds made to order,
Oa untsrs. Diwk 'York net Office Furniture for Banks.
Offices and Moms, made to tinter.
Jon. WALTON. J. W. LiVrixeurr. Joe. L. Story.
feb
TEIE SECOND STREET FURNI
TURN STORE.
337 N. SECOND BT., PHILA.
The Ohl eland valet:lll3W twenty years, trluelphaul le
YOUNITUIte.
• .
During the recent depression In basins., we laid In for
cub. cheapest and best snorted stock. In the city. which
we an will at reasonable prices. New Patent Sofa
Bedsteads which snaked a good bed at night, suitable for
eak room or offices,
COTTAOEand WALNUT CHAMBER SUITS. Straw.
linen. Excelsior and Straw Mattresses,
gfirPurior Hails Upholstered in any style to suit
pureAusere.
WINS BROS.
eb o.ly
RR N. SZOOND St., lab. Vine, But side.
Drp 415aab5
REPPS,
&CI., SC., &c
Respectfully,
BEAMAN & TRAEGER
BETHLEHEM
THE CORNELL IRON WORKS
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OF TWENTY-TIMER YEARS-AN EIGIIT,ACRE
ESTABLISRMENT-TIIE FOUNDRIES, YARDS,
AND 8110 PS ON TWENTY-81XTR AND CENTRI.
(MEM
In February, 10.47, , tw0 yctung, skillful, and
energetic mechanics, Joht*B. and William
W. Cornell, began the manufacture of iron•
work for building purposes, in a little wooden
shop at No. 143 Centre-st., with but a single
assistant and a capital of $l,OOO. Since that
period, and especially in the last decade, the
use of iron in architecture has not Only ad
vanced with rapid strides, but the Cornell
brothers, by dint of integrity, enterprise and
perseverance, have attained both to liberal
fortune and to an honorable place among
"artisan princes." To-day their active
capital is over a million dollars, and their pay
rolls bear the names of 000 workmen, whose
wages amount to more than $12,000 weekly,
while the Insignificant foundery of 1847 has
grown into a fine, five•story Iron-fronted
building, and expanded till it covers two-thirds
of the whole block. Moreover; the expansion
of their business compelled In 1800, the em
ployment of extensive founderi e and shops
. 4 i i
on Twenty-fifth and T wenty-sixth-sts., and
the lease, within the last six months, of the
entire square bounded by Twenty•sixth•st.
and Twenty-seventh-sts., Eleven-ave. and the
North River. To-day the Cornell "
Iroa-
University" covers eight acres, furnishes
regiment of mechanics with constant employ
ment, and turns out every year thonsands of
tons of iron work.
As early as 1847 but little iron was used
in building, and the $1.500 worth of work
furnished by the Cornelis for Samuel How.
land's store on Broad-st. was the largest ar
chitectural iron undertaking of the season.
About. this time the question of using
wrought iron girders in buildings was agitated
and in 1848 the Government architect, then
building the Custom-House at Savannah, w rote
to the Cornelis, asking if they could make
wrought iron girders not more than two feet
in depth and yet strong enough to sustain
an estimated weight 01'40,000 pounds. Hope
less as this seemed, the return mail carried
an offer to furnish the girders, and the work
was successfully accomplished. Next year
similar girders were furnished for Bowen &
McNtunee's extensive dry goods store on
Broadway. In 1810, the idea of making
buildings fireproof by the use of wrought iron
beams and brick arches, began to be' enter
tained, and the Cornelis proposed a plan and
executed the work for a structure of this kind
for the Atlantic and Sun Mutual Insurance
Companies. During the next two years they
supplied the iron for the Seaman's Savints
Bank, and the brownstone Court building in
the Park. In 1853, Paul N. Spofford and
others erected a large fire-proof sugar refinery,
for which the Cornelis furnished $130,000
worth of work, that being the largest amount
of iron ever pot into one building In lids
country up to that time. During this. anti
the five following years large quantities of
work were furnished by the Cornelis for a
variety of buildings in the city. Iron had
now come to be recognized as a necessary
building material, wherever first-class work
was desired, and large orders came pouring
in. In 1860 the firm was principally occupied
in erecting A. T. Steward's store on Tenth. st.,
which is built entirely of iron; and iii 1860 and
lust limy mum extensive contracts won vi.m.
B. Astor and Clallin, Mellon & Co., besides
supplying the iron for the Third-ave. Rail
road Depot. In 1802 and 1863 large amounts
of iron work were furnished to the United
States Navy Department for war vessels, in
cluding especially theoturrets and turret ma
chinery for the ironelads Miantonomah anti
Tonawonda. In 1805 the firm supplied more
than $325,000 worth for the Stoek Exchange,
including the burglar-proof sides with compli
cated locks for the safety-deposit vault.
Among the principal structures for which the
Cornelis have filled large contracts during the
last three years are the Herald Policing, the
Park Bank, the New York • Life Insurance
Building, and the line stores erected on Broad
way ty Arnold & lloyt and Lake & McCree
ry. The new five-story lire-proof store on
Unior-square and Fifteenth-st., which the
Cormils hove nearly completed for Tiffany &
Co., yin probably be the finest specimen of
iron architecture in the United States. There
are u?ward of 16,000 distinct castings in the
walls aid inside columns of this building, vary
ing in weight from half a pound to more than
three tons, and including beautiful Corin
thian iapitals, each composed of more than
70 disinet pieces. The firm is also now em
ploye' in getting out the large amount of iron
work •equired for Mr. Stewart's Grand Hotel
for wtritinewomen on Fourth-ave. and Thir
ty-seond-st.
The Cornell founderies on Twenty-sixth-st.,
when iron is converted into an admirable
substiude for brick and marble, are in a mal
odorant manufacturing locality abounding in
goats and ragged urchins. The principal
establshment covers 35 city lots, extends 425
feet of Twenty-sixth-st.. and runs 200 feet
acrosithe block to Twenty•fifth-st., on which
it bast frontage of 450 feet. This area in
cludem high-walled yard for the storage of
stack of pig.iron 'and old "flasks" (rough,
woods boxes in which molds are made),
a Coragated lion shed containing heaps 01
moldhg sand, and a compact cluster of 18
bricidmildings of various sizes, some of them
latelyrected, anti others worn, battered and
amok-stained. The work is, included in four
depannents—pattern-making, molding, chip
pingond finishing.
Th3y or forty skilled pattern -makers occu
py thaw° tipper stories of the main building
on Tenty-sixth-st., and a dozen or more
' flask-takers work in a good sized shop on the
I growl floor. About a thousand feetof spruce,
I wort' $3O, are daily converted into flasks, and
aboutloo feet of the best white pine, worth
$7O [thousand, are also consumed for patterns.
Efil pattern is varnished with a mixture of
(kohl and shellac, and, after being used Is
storetaway with the 50,000 or 60,000 others
whiclhave already been accumulated. The
I finer awed patterns are made by a firm of
I wotuisorkers in Centre-st., and in these cases
lone tithe first castings is frequently used as
a pattn. The pattern department in a "house
'work foundery is .one of unusual difficulty
1 and iportance, and the Cornelis have invest
ed atrast a quarter of a million dollars in this
brans alone.
Thiron used In moulting is a mixture of
the bit Scotch and American pig, about two
fifrintreing of foreign manufacture. Very
little rap-iron is used. There are two furna
ces Ali a combined melting capacity of about
65 tau. The 200 molders begin Work in the
morng,. and about 3 in the afternoon the blast
is turd on and the molds are soon filled. The
moidg material is moist "green sand," which
is clnper, though somewhat more risky than
the 4 , sand and loam ordinarily employed.
As urly all the castings are hollow an Mill
sualumber of "cores" alt necessary. These
are ale of nine parts white beach sand, with
one Sit damaged flour, baked in ovens over
nigl The heaviest castings are the huge anti
tint ldy columns or "shells", which some.
tim eigh six or eight tuns. About 20 night
ban are employed to take out the castings.
Tit ext morning a new set of hands clean
1 off sand, "chips" the surface of each piece
wit chisel and a long handled hammer,
em ha it with a fire-brick, and applies a coat
of eral paint. The catmint' are promptly
cut down to the required length in large, self
feeding, double-headed lathes, and any requir
ed planing is done. A dozen powerful cranes
and several heaVy two-wheeled trucks are used
for moving the more cumbrous castings. In
the finishing department, the work is fitted and
fastened together with bolts and screws, just
as it is to be set up in the building, so that
sometimes a whole front, 23 feet wide and five
stories in extent, lies on the floor. The most
interesting room in this department Is one in
which a dozen men screw together and paint
the abaci, the hollow "shells" anu the elabo
rate leaves constituting the Corinthian capitals.
Iron for building purposes is more costly thnn
brick and less expensive than marble, but the
advantage in its favor increases in exact pro
portion to the degree of ornamentation. Iron
architecture is still in its infancy, and no reason
can be given why this metal should not. be
cheapened and perfected into one principal
businesSbuildingmaterial, at least in cities and
large towns.
A steam engine, with two 80-horse power
boilers, furnishes the motive power for the
various machines In use. The establishment
is also supplied with a steam pump and shun
dance of hose. Strikes have been unknown in
the history of this firm, whose workmen are
paid by the hour. It requires 12 or 13 hours !
to mold a large column, and the Cornelis get
the work all done in one day by culling 'the
time a day and a half, and paying for it at that
rate. Beside the Twenty-sixth-st. foundery
the Cornelis also occupy two lots on the south
side of Twenty-fifth-st. as a stable and store
house
for patterns, four lots on the north side !
of Twenty-sixth-st. as a finishing shop and
yard for unfinished iron, and three lots on the
same side of the street, east of Tenth-ave., for
the storage of finished work. A large shop
200 feet square and one story high has been
erected on the block west of Elventh-ave., and
the rest of the square, which includes abou
00 lots, Is used as a yard for storing Immens e
quantities of miscellaneous iron.
The down-town establishment includes ten
different buildings, and extends in Centre-st.
front No. 130 to No. 141, in Walker-st. from
No. 108 to No. 109, and on Elm-st. from No,
87 to No. 93. The main building, one of the
finest structures on Centre-st., is 72 feet square,
and was built three years ago. There is a
first-class blacksmith's shop in the basement,
and in the first story are spacious and comfort
able offices, an architect's room, and a ware
room containing numerous samples of orna
mental iron work. The remainder of the es
tablishment is mainly devoted to finishing
"inside work" and to the manufacture of
rolling-shutters, patent lights of glass and iron,
and fire-proof safes and vaults.
J. B. & W. W. Cornell, whose achievements
have thus been briefly glanced at, were sons of
a Long Island farmer, and their career has been
marked not only by invariable promptness in
the execution of work but by a large and un .
ostentatious benevolence, especially through
the channels of the Methodist. Church of which
both are leading members. W. W. Cornell
is also President of the New-York City Sun
day•school and Missionary Society of the M.
E. Church.—.N: Tribune.
Tin: TIRELESS BRAIN
Our brains are seventy-years clocks. The
angel of life winds Omit up once for all, then
closes the case, and gives the key tnto the
hand of the towel of the resurrection. Tic-tac!'
tic-tae I go •the wheel's of thought; our
will can not stop them they cannot stop
themselves; sleep cannot still them, mad
ness only makes them go faster ; death
alone can break into the case, and. seizing
the ever-swinging pendulum which we call
the heart, silence at last the clicking of the ter
rible escapement we have carried so long be
neath our wrinkled forehead. If we could
only get at them, as we lie on our pillows and
and count the dead heats of thought after
thought,and image after image,jarring through
the over-tired .organ ! Will nobody block
those wheels, uncouple that pinion, cut the
string that holds these weights, blow up the
infernal machine with gunpowder ? What
a passion conies over us sometimes for silence
and rest—that this dreadful mechanism, un
winding the endless tapestry of time, embroid
ered with spectral figures of life and death,
could have but one brief holiday ? Who can
Wonder that men swing themselves off front
beams in hempen lassoes ? that they jump off
front parapets into the swift and gurgling
seaters beneath ? thatAhey take counsel of the
grim fiend who has but to utter his one per
emptory monosyllisble,and the restless machine
is shivered as a case that is dashed upon a mar
ble floor? If anybody would really contrive
some kind of a lever that one could thrust in
among the worksof this horrid automaton and
check them, or alter their rate of going, what
would the world give for the discovery?
Men arc very apt to try to get at the machine
by some indirect system or other. They clap
on the bralas by menus of opium, they change
the maddening monotony of the rhythm by ,
means of fermented liquors. It is because the
brains is locked up and we cannot touch its
movements directly, that we thrust these
coarse tools in through any crevice by which
they may reach the interior, alter its rate of
going for a while, and at last spoil the machine.
—Hamm
APPRENTICE LAW.—An indentured appren•
lice in Philadelphia, who ran off" from his
employers because things didn't suit him, has
had the alternative placed before him by Judge
Paxson, before whom the case was heard, of
returning to his master or going to jail. The
judge closes a long argument as follows:
All I decide now is that the defendant must
return to his service. If having done so, his
employers refuse to pay him the weekly wages
stipulated in the indenture, or fail to give him
the schooling to which he is entitled, or to
properly perform any other covenant which
they are bound to peform ; let hint resort to
the law for redress. It is strong enough to
secure loin all his legal rights. But he need
first he taught the salutary lesson that it is not
fin• him to sit in judgment upon his own case,
and vindicate his supposed right by an unlaw
ful act. The law will not permit this in any
case. It would be most pernicious and sub
versive of proper authority on the part of mas
ten if apprentices were permitted to decide
their supposed grievance in this summary
manner. And it would be most unfortunate
for the apprentices themselves. If they would
make useful men and law abiding citizens,
they mutt begin by exhibiting their respect
for law and order in the days of their youth.
If not cultivated then, they will never learn
the lesson later In life. All I decide now, Is
that this apprentice must go hack to Ids em
ployers. He has the option between that and
mprisonment.
FRENCH nom.s.—Warnt a pint of new
milk, melt two large spoonfuls of butter, add
a little salt. When cool, sift in one pound of
flour, one egg well beaten, one spoonful of
yeast. Beat these well together, but avoid
kneading. When risen, form it into rolls,
band as little as possible. Bake on tins, and
serve.
A 13ACIIELOICR Pt DDINO.—Four ounces of .
gritted bread, the same .of currants and apples,
too ounces of sugar, two ounces of suet
chopped line, three eggs, a little essence of
lemon. 801 l It two hours. Eat wtth liquid
sauce.
SUBSTITUTE IfOlt PUTTY.—Mix plaster of
Paris and water to the consistency of thick
cream. It should be prepared in small quan
tities, and applied Immediately, for It quickly
hardens. Brush the sash or frame over with
water before applying the plaster. For re
pairing broken windows It answers very well.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
Daring the past year the investigations by
travelers, scientists, and philosophers into the
varied phenomena of nature and the laws that
govern their innumerable co-relations, hive
been earnest, protracted, and rewarded with
good results. The important geographical and
scientific events which. have occurred in this
period, are given In the following brief mum:
mary
1. The connecting of the North Atlantic with
the Pacific Ocean by rail.
2. Tno completion of the canal across the
Isthmus of Suez.
3. The explorations and discoveries in south
eastern and east equatorial Africa.
4. The additional and conclnsivo evidence
now brought to light of a climate in the ice-
bound region of the Arctic, at a past and remote
period of time, resembling that of the coon•
tries lying near the equator.
C. The marvelous results of the deep sea
dredgings ofProfs. Thompson and Carpenter,
revealieg the existence of animal life at enor
mous depths In the ocean, where it was sup
posed to be hnpossible.
O. The very general disturbance through
out the year of the earth's surface by earth
quakes, distinguishable not so much for the
effects in particular localities as for the 'wide
distribution of the phenomena over the globe,
and Its prevalence in parts of the world where
such disturbances have never been previously
witnessed within the memory of man.
7. The attractive power of mountains, dis
covered In the pendulum experiments made
during the past year at the observiffg stations
upon the Himalayas in
8. The discovery, through the spectroscope,
of a method of determining the proper motion
of the stars, and the fact that the chemical anti
phyttical constitution of Um whole stella uni
verse is identical. •
9. Thu invention and successful practical use
of a self-registering compass, by which every
motion of a vessel can be recorded and preserv
ed from the beginning to the end of her voyage.
10. The discoesry or trees of enormous height
and magnitude ht Australia, one of which was
found to be sixty-nine feet in circumference.
11. Of great deposits of valuable coal through
out thfi whole of New Zcaland,and the finding
of coal upon the borders of the Caspian, Veri
fying in the last particulars prediction of Hum.
boldt made forty years ago, both of which dis
coveries are of the highest Importance to com
merce-
12. The anthropological — researches in Eu
rope, Asia, and Africa, revealing the structure,
mode of life, and customs of the earliest inhab
itants of the earth.
13. The assembling at Copenhagen, last Au
gust, of the International Congress of Pre-his
tonic Archeology, under the auspices of the
King of Denmark, interesting in the circum
stance that it brought into communication with
each other learned men from all parts of Eu
rope; and for the valuable information the pa
pers and descriptions elicited in respect to the
three successive periods of man's early history,
known as the stone, the bronze, and the iron
ages.
14. The return of Captain Hall from the
Arctic regions with valuable information re
specting that mysterious country.
15. The exploration by Dr. Hayes of the
remains of the early settlements made on the
southeastern shore of Greenland.
10. The return or Caphil n Adams anti his
men from the exploration of the Colorado and
Its tributaries.
17. The completion of the French explora
tion of the River Cambodia to the province of
Tallith in China, the official details of which
have not yet appeared.
18. The expedition of Sir Samuel Baker,
which started last October.
10. The escape of Captain Livingston, of
the American ship Congress, through a cyclone
of extraordinary intensity and ftirce, and the
gaining of valuable information thereby.
20. The expedition of the Russian merchant
Soidorow in his own steamar around the coast
of Norway and through the Polar Ocean to
the mouth of the Pltgehora.—Eduealioal Oa:
zette.
ACTION OF TIIE LEGISLATURE
IN THE SCIREITE CASE.
Mr. Mumma called up the Governor's mes•
sage vetoing the bill allowing writs of error in
cases of murder and voluntary manslaughter,
Intended to rover the case of Dr. fichoippe,
which was again read to the Senate. Mr. Mum
ma spoke at length in favor of the bill and
against the veto. He believed that the Supreme
Court ought to have all the power of the lower
court in reviewing the evidence. Beyond all
doubt the case of Dr. Schappc bail been Wag
gled up. The evidence of poison was by no
means certain. The medical profession of the
world had pronounced the evidence entirely
insufficient. This ease Was about to form n
terrible precedent for all time, and demanded
a thorough and able review of all the facts and
points of law. This man should have .a fair
chance at least for his life. Ile differed with
the Governor most decidedly, I e•iIl wash lily
bands front the blood of title victim, Paul
Schirppe.• When the Governor signs his death
warrant the blond of the victim will he upon
his hands.
Mr. Lowry thought this Senate had bees
'slaves to the Executive. Twice had the Sen
ate attempted to do this act of] notice, and they
failed. I is high time that we should look this
thing and the Executive in the face, and how
down this cruel veto. The Executive says,
" I have drawn my sword, and there is no
delay."
He (Lowry) believed that Jerry Eaton was
Innocent. Nearly all the neighbors believed
him innocent. Both branches of the Legisla
ture had appealed to the Executive tier delay.
but he would not be moved. Ile vetoed the
bill allowing commutation of his death sen
tence. Nothing but blood, blood, blood would
satisfy the Governor; but he (Lowry) would
here and now wash his 111111(IS of the blood of
Paul Sclmppe.
Mr. White opposed the veto and sustained
the bill. The Governor seemed to think that
It was framed fore special purpose. lie (White)
had not thoughtbf ficheeppe in this connection,
saxe that ho believed the case to be one of great
doubt. The Governor had pronounced the bill
unconstitutional, but he could not see wherein
it was unconstitutional.
This bill did not'provide tin second trial
before a jury, where the =elides may tint be
represented. The Governor had made a clues.
tion of expediency of the difficulty In getting
the gvidence into the Superior Court. There
was no difficulty whatever, and if there was a
difficulty in the way it was within the province
of the Legislature , to remedy the difficulty.
Various remarks were made, among their
some by Mr. Wallace, who said it was coney- ,
ded that the principle of the first section of the
bill was Just.. It was said that thin bill would
Involve additional cost and the election of ad
ditional Judges. Ho did not believe this was,
or should be, a matter of &ARA and cents. It
was a question of Justice, to which the accused
had a right before God and man.
In our prisons to-day there are nine men
hanging between heaven and earth, simply
because no GovernOr has the nerve to sign
then:death warrants. Then why should not
the Supreme Court review the evidence in
these cases, and, do. Justice to the prisoners?
We have cases demonstrating the righteous-
ROBERT 'BEDELL, JR.,
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ness of this bill, and we know that the Supreme
Court has shirked an examination which might
set justice on her feet, and define definitely
the position occupied by the accused.
The bill was passed over the Governor's veto
by the following vote:
Yeas—Messrs. Allen, Billlngfelt, Brodhead,
Brown, Connell; Davis, Graham, Hohszey,
How ard, Kerr, Linderman, Lowry, Miller,
Mumma, Olmstead, Purman, Robeson, Buten,
Turner, Wallace, Warfel and White-22,
Nays—Messrs. Beck, Buckalew, Duncan,
Nagle and Osterhout-5.
WIIAT FACES SAY
There are faces which we meet in the streets
into which has passed a subtler mystery than
the mind can think on. They belong to that
highest type of face of which the standard is
thought. They are of the order of face that
provokes speculation while it repels it. We
would give something to know whence conies
that subtle thing which has so marvelously
incorporated' itself With the physical linea
ments/ It may be born of trouble, a trouble
that has fastened upon the face, and teased it
Into beauty as the wind Makes beautiful-the
snowflakes. Trouble there surely has been,
for there is no mystery without sadness; and
the sad mystery of these faces must have been
wrought by the vexing of years. There. are
faces that seem wanting in depth, albeit they
are full-fraught. Such faces are falsehoods.
Yet they, are false unknowingly. They can
not speak the mind; the lineaments are of the
hardest marble; Nature's chisel has worked
dexterously enough its part; but life has failed
to penetrate the granite front. It has avenged
its incapacity by certain deep but all
delicacy is wanting. We miss the luminous
effect, the shining of the soul behind. Such
faces come upon us rudely, but not with the
disappointment of immaturity. The full
fruition of a divine art is there; only its coarse
fleas blunts our sympathetic perception. Yet
we need hot forget that to the cunning eye
God is as visible in the rude root as in the rose.
Nay, he symbolizes his workmanship by what
is false and fair. The scowl of the murderer,
the 'greeting of lover's eyes, arc the produc
tions of the same art, each exquisitely perfect
in its kind. •
There are faces that haunt the memory,
where met, when encountered, may not be
recalled. They stand out from the darkness
of night, and fade and faint along the dreams
of sleep. You have seen them in the streets,
but did not pause to consider them at the .
time. There was nothing indeed, so it seem
ed, about them to startle you into attention.
It is only when they reappear that they sur
prise, or alarm, or terrify.
There arc faces to be encountered all dis
passionate, save In the eyes which burn with
the passions that deny their intelligence to the
lace. When the wearers of such fleshy masks
die, their souls escape through their eyes.
They would find them the only outlet. With
'other men the spirit might depart as the per
fume departs from the dower. The soul seems
to chafe at being pent up within such narrow
limits as the eyes. You can see it dilating
and contracting upon the keen retina . , as one
Who approaches a window to find egress and
retires, and returns again and again.
There are faces which all men meet, which
airmen know, which all men love. When
they reappear unto the eye they do not haunt,
they soothe. They aro ministering, faces,
faces which scent crowned, like a saint, with
a halo of light of whose subtle irradiation the
heart is alone sensible. In such faces is to be
found no personification of the darker emotions
of life. The lips and the eyes are genial with
a tenderness to which wisdoM has imparted
the exquisite refinement of a faint sadnels.
Such faces can not offend, neither in their
rejections or in their beseeching' ; neither
in their gladness when confronting despair,
nor in their pelicefullness when opposing anger
nor In their love when faceing hate. 'Upon
them humanity has stamped its fairest impress.
They are not more describable than faces which
are weird, or cunning, or intellectual, or
haughty, or depraved. But they embody
the idealism all thinkers on the Madonna, all
painters of Charity, all dreamers of some
sweetest achievement of God, strive to realize.
Nor let them be held impossible because of
this faultlessness of expression; or non-exis
tent because they are rare.—Edueafionnl
Miwazinr.
THE FOLLIES OF GREAT Nip
Tycho Brabe, the astronomer, changed . color
and his legs shook under him on meeting
hare or a fox. Dr. Johnson would never enter
a room with his left foot foremost; lie wdnld
go back and place his rightfootfgreniesl: Julius
Caesar was almost convulsed by the sminll ef
thunder, and always wanted to get into a Mier
or under ground to escape the noise. 'To Queela
Elizabeth,the simple word "death"wils fgll of
horrors. Even Talleyrand trembled and
changed color on hearing the word pro
nounced. Marshal Saxe who met and over
threw imp( ing armies, fled and screamed in
terror at the sight of a cat. Peter the (Irma
could never be persuaded to cross a bridge
though he tried to master the terror he failed to
do so ; whenever he set foot on ono he world
shriek out in distress and agony. 13yton
would never help any one to salt at the table,.
nor would he be helped himself ; if any of the
articles happened to be spilt on the table, he
would jump up and leave'his meal unfinished.
LIAR DONE ENOI7OII. -A revolutionary
soldier was running for Congress, and his op•
tionent was a young man, who had "never
been to the Wars," and It was the custom
the old revolutionary to tell of the hardships
be had endured. Said he :
" Fellow citizens : I have fought and bled
for my country. I helped to whip the British
and the Indians. I have slept on the field of
battle with no other covering than the canopy
of heaven. I have walked over the frozen
ground till every footstep was marked with
blood—"
Just about this time one of the sovereigns,
who nod become greatly interested in his tale
of sufferings walked up in front of the speaker
wiped the tears from his, eyes with the cx•
tremity of his coattail, and Interrupted hint
with : " Did you say you had font the Britifili
and this Injins 1"
"Yes, sir." .
"Did you say you slept on the ground,
while serving your country, without any
kiver 1."
" I did."
" Did you say your feet covered the ground
you walked over with blood
" I did," said the speaker exultingly:
"Well, then," said the sovereign, as he
gave a sigh of tearibl emotion, "I guess
vote for t'other fellow ; for I'll ho blamed if
you ain't done enough for your country."
To SOFTER THE a pound of
metton-tallow, one ounce of camphor gum,
and one ounce of glycerine; melt, and when
thoroughly mixed, eet away to cool. Rub the
hands with this at night. It will render them
white, smooth, and soft.
Ivv,—One of the best remedies for damp
walls Is the' grOwth of ivy on the exterior.
Thu pendant leaves preventAa rain from
penetrating to the wall; and if any damp
arises from the foundation, the plant absorbs
the water, and dissipates it blip* ;from
the under side of every leaf. • :•.,;;