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THE WHOLE ART OF GOVERNMENT CONSISTS IN THE ART OF BEING HONEST. JEFFERSON.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, GCTOBER 21, 1S52.
VOL.: 13.
No 2.
JEFFERS
Xtiblii.cd tiy Theodore Schocli.
TliRMS Two dollars per annmim in advance Two
. :i irs and b quarter, half yearly -and if nut paid be
i ;thc end f the year. Two dollars Stmlrt half. Tlmsc
cnploycJ by the proprietor, w ill be chaifit-d 37 i-2
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cents, per year, exitu.
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except t me option 01 tne Uditor.
IO Adverlixunents not excelling one square (six
teen lines) will be inserted three vvoeks for one dollar,
and twenty-nve cents for every subsequent insertion
Tne CJianje lor one anu tnrce nertions me niiiic
A libcramiseount nrnde to yearly advertisers. I
IE? Ail Icltcri aJiesse J to the Editor must be post- j
paid. . I
JOB PRISTISG.
Having a cneml assortment of large, elegant, plain
and ornamental Type, we are prcpaied
to execute c very description of
Cards, Circnl us. Bill Heads, Notes. Ulank I'.cceipts
Justices. Lezal and other Bmnks. Pamphlets. 6 c.
printed with neatness land despatch, on reasonable , tjQU an(j fcei;urr dissatisfied, will, on ap
terms, t i o .
AT THE OFFICE OF THE
jef forsoai;iu Republican...
The Visible invisible. :
I was one day traveling through the,
State-of Connecticut, without a penny in
my pocket. About three miles from the
vimnrrr nr . 1 siiitrionlv nnn
s j j
pectctily mct'an.ow irsena, Jim w aiKcr.
xsays, .Jim, wnat arc your prospects.
I asked. lie smiled,' sadly.
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"Bad, Bsnson, bad!" he replied, in a
melancholy tone.
"How hoV I asked.
""Why, I haven't a cent in the World
without clothes and haven't tasted food
for nearly three days."
"What, is it possible starvi
plenty"'' said I. ; . .
n amid
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"True. I am too poor to buy, ashamed
to beg,
"titi nnin'S! fir Tiirriiii m
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'Ah! well,,. Jim. Ill have compassion
" ' , ,
on you. 1 must, teach you a little oi.my
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e fared well without
philosophy. I have
rnonev atid can tra'v
ravel all over the La-'
ion in the same way."
, -r T.
'Iwishlcoald ,'said Jitn, sorrowfullv.
"Well came along,
aud I'll show you '
J
v von
how. I jl mpart lesson number one." i
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Jim followed me into the vilhage and
a pretty one it is, too and after a little
C'OrfJi tt." fniinr? n r!il-n clirm trlilTi wv '
, t- " i i i t -
entered. Jim looked at mc to sae how 1
would proceed. With a confidential air I
approached the little Irish
woman who
kept the house, aria ordered a half pint
of rum, a ioaf-of'bread,:and some cheese.
as x was not Hungry, i gave an to Jim,
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AVPP.nt n nnrtin'n rf thn vnm tvlin crrpprlJ. .
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ly devoured nil. j
"Madam,"
aui Xj "mis young man
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nn.'l imrifilf lnvn'snmo Vmciriosc in tYin v!l.
i n-. -ii i l ji -i
r P , , , . -ii u i
3ou for a few hours, when we will call and
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nay you for what we have had. ,
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I ho irnniin tr"ic ivnll cnriinnri inn iin.
" .
positing tue,.D.unaies, we sauntered lorta
to find the "needful'7 wherewith to redeem
our pawn3. Tivas not long in devising a
plan'.. Passing up, the main street, we
soon arrived ,at, the principal hotel.
T?Jnr1mfr fl-.A Inmllnprl T -r?lr.rl liJrn if hr
A - c - .
IIUU1U AiUv IUU U- I J 'J liX. IVl VUW H11J
for the purpose; of ivjng'an exhibition?
He said that he "could suiime, and forth
with showjed me a yery handsome apart
ment, well-calculated forctUeipurpose; and
capable of holtlin?r at least one-hundred
-.?' ,v"i:!j r.. ijj j'"vi; - .
" W ill .you or JL lurnish the light lor the
i ' - - w '
room" I asked. "For:Jny.part, I think,
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it better lor you touransu.cverytuing,
and charge it in'vour bill; asI'Won t wish
to change 'a note .for a tfi'fic
"Very well,-Eir.. I'll furnish every tiling,
t ' iVl .
and charge .yoirten dojlars, -for all, said, . 1 !, f? ,
, r ' 'r t magician.-r-l sent back funds to pay the
the landiera. - - ' r L- o- - , " "
'L hone 1. shall.. T will n-jinf, tJiirtri
candle, -a. taDje,iandSitili the'.caair3.'and .
benches you-caln procure' ' 1 '
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navmg arrangea uiimai.tery txtipip tuei,
hotel, leaving, Jim, behind. Findings the r
t-r t . t 1 t "r . . l'
prlnting-cfflieeof the .'Pjjoele's Heicld,'
I askcdy'"Is -the Editor '-inV3
"Ah!" said I, "happy to lihd yii-in: :
I apa anxious - to K'avc h. job '-done, iu the
, . t, ' i
course P;. the day ; f;,s. 'M ; t
.Ta aeat 'at the table, I commW
ed Witftfi.n.a legible hand, the follow
ing glaring jMiupunccment:
' . L- t. . : . , , ,A
' $10NSIBtIi MOECE AU, i '-i '
T.3'tcowK2-jMiiiiciAK or ftS1
"Yes,4k safd K pbrjlittltf iellow, ' Dau ; v-
dressed in a 1ilue vest anjl drahnp-utajJiis 1 J . , J .
f. i ,7ft - !Vi' t- ' 1 T'Vl all eyes toward the door, to catch a
shirt sleeves rolled up, and jaistick of type , J ' , , L XT L
inWdtn" - - ' - , glimpse of you, but you came not. Not
f T . T H -1 1 I
xi E.nau p.apnc, is-xs. the pjarce saD-ointed-.-the Duped Witnesses.
for dispatch m xvcry. branch of the 'Art We. were bitr-but we only laughed. You
Precfrfe.5 Your job, sir.'' had told us your intention, though we
East ! ! ! !
Will have the honor of appearing be
fore the inhabitants of this village, at the
, t-J
Saloon, this evening, and go thro with
,U
j
his most wonderful feats of Necromauc'.
Ihe first and most astonishing feat of the
Visible Invisible,
In which the past, the present, and the
future will be revealed, and in which Mons.
Morceau will assume several distinct cha
racters. The entertainment will conclude
with the laughable Afterpiece of
THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT ! !
In which it is expected the audience
j J. . .... -rii ;t.
JSSAnV persons VIStlting the JiiXhlbl
plication to the Magician,
ncy refunded.
Price of admission, 50 cents; children
b.alf ice- Doors eu at 6 ,clock' pre"
ciscl V.
na;ing finished thJ bilj - read ifc to
the Editorj wuo appeared astonished at
fchc woundcrful performances, lie prom-
isea to nave an reauy in a iew nours. x
t d d hcd for biIs I
re-
, (iucsted tlc cditor to call at the hotel and
! witness the performance, after which I
-
, . ,ft . , t Jim and
j myself, one with the bills and the other
j with the paste and brush, put up the an
' nouncement.
j In the morning, crowds of persons con-
i i
gregated arU"d tbe C0TnQr"' TCadmS
bills, and resolving to visit the "show, I
without furthennvjtation. Everything was '
progressing favorably. The hopes of Jim '
i"uo'w-'"i ... . , . -w "-r
trfrr rnri1 nf. tlio nrnsnnr'f, of our an-
i r
proachiug good fortune: but, for tlib life
r ... . . ,
oi him. he could not imagine how we were
to get out of the scrape, for he well knew
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foor nnrl tnld him tn hft rMfiv to do 111V
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bidding. To this he cheerfully assented. '
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nc evening, "mz, wuu tne iaie oi
wj a . t
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cor nifl nf T?ntiif " hsifi o.nmn. It, w.is sir
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o clock, and the people began to gather.-.
'
: comfortable seats. I took my statiou at
."the aoor, and was bappy to find plenty o:
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customers.
Tn o olinT-f fi.n TT-iorl cnpnnf r-fifl rlnl-
. .. ... c.
lars in my possession, bailing dim to me,
I gave him a dollar, and told him to get
uui uuuuiuj auu ua.i iui uiu uu uii w a. ucu
Office. lie started.
Having conned over
a brief address. I entered the room, dres
. nn i,:.i, t
OllAlllt 111 Ul 11II1' VUII11 I11I1L11 1. 1IUU UUl"
jkAAuvwt j
rowed, and took my position behind the
unu l"J i''-'"" lu, i
table. I glanced around the large
irrrn '
lrge assem- ,
blage, ahemed, coughed, spit, gazed again
, , , .?
and at length, with a spasmodic effort,
. - ' , f, '
i.j auu"uu iu liuu uuu mu iuuvj tt iu" nuiuoi
a o a
"Ladies and Genteemen
highly honored by your presence
ning, and shall do my best to render en- find that jt 13 in',-?ef-a bundlc of minute
tire satisfaction, as far as promised in the j fibres each of which is -not more an
bills. The first wonderful feat, is that of. ten tbou5a-n,dtl1 part of an inch in diame-'
, . .17 T -lj mi- .1 , ter. some of them are evon less than Inlf
the Visible Invisible. This rcnownddrl'I u re uen sstnanuair
feat has been performed by the renowned
Fakirs of the Eastern world, and has as
tonished all who have witnessed its exhi-
bition. The disappearance of the F. ,
r.,,..a t.PA... . ,
uck i3 louoweu uy mat oi me ecccnmc '
Money Ufianger, and the utter astonish
ment of the Duped Witness. In a few
moments the performance will com
,
mencc
". .
Bowing low, I retired to the outside.
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.I Tn n r H wn hocfinr Inff flii I'lllnrrA Mhu
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Some years 'afterwards, while acting jn
capacity of a steamboat clerk t.cihan-
- r. ,r-
ia witnn.es. of niv. wonderful nerformancii.
! He laughed heartily at my ingenuity; and
j
55UIU.
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"I am sure, Mr. Benson, there was not
a pcr.oq in tliat room who grudged you
the moli ey they had paid. At first, we
t sat in silence then, watches were fre
f until after 8 o'clock, did we dream of the
uuul
ou were playing. Presently, your
b ,
-speech
Tl'
and the words of your handbill,
flashed across our minds. We were the
did not understand you at the time, A
fiddle was procured. Then we were.sat
isfied, and went home as merry as if the
Invisible had performed."Canoi Reg
ister. . . -. .
SMore than 83,00'o;0'00 are invested
in churches in Pittsburg. ' ' j
The Huniaii Flesh.
It is established by chemistry, that
there are seventeen elementary substances
in the composition of the human body.
More than nine-tenths of the whole bulk
of the system is composed of four gases
which are invisible when in a free and
uncombined state, viz: oxygen, hydrogen,
carbon and nitrogen. Besides these sub-
stances, there is, in every full man, enough
stances, there is, in every iuu man, enougu
phosphorus and sulphur to tip a gross of
t. . . , , .i A
friction matches; enough potash, soda and
lime, to form a lye sufficiently strong to
bear up half a dozen eggs at once; enough
heu, will, on ap- -ron tQ makc a ood.sized pCnknife-blade; all its burden into the bone called the stir
, have their mo- rf q oU ; rup to lt is filsfcencd. The
lusuiuueu vuuo -"-fa"
copper to give a flea a heavier burthen in
proportion to its size than was ever borne
on the back of a camel.
The entire body, that part of it which
possesses vuamy, is uul u cuueuUu
cells, each one of which is a mere round,
fillnrl wifli fluid, and
: far t0Q sma to bc seen wjta tue naked
cmll fW. thnt 12-
WU.V.W. .... 1
I f ,tlwi 11 un cfr
i iiiiu i ii i i n: .-i 1 1 i i n:.ii tn i.iii. in n i v u ui&u&4
upon a single inch in length of the thread
of a spider's web.
All the bones, before birth, are soft,
like jelly; only six of the two hundred
and fort?"six wluch find ,n the adult
being fuuy forraed, or ossified, at birth ;
tjj0Se are tbe j0ne3 0f hearing,' three in
cacn ear. ,
Every bone in the body is in immedi-
ate connection with some other bone, ex-
cept the hyoid bone, which is situated at
, . , . .
the windpipe, just
under the lower jaw.
Its length is about two inches; but twen-
.
muscles, seven ligaments and one mem-
, , , .. Ar
brane are attached to it. More than one
.
ha
half of the substance of the bones is com-
.
posed of phosphate of lime, that substance
, . , 'it t
about which so much has recently been
j said as a remedy for consumption.
Some phvsicians appear to have iust dis-
covered that phosphorus composes a part
of the human system, although the more
J '
scientific members of the profession have
long used it with great advantage, especi-
ally in chemical union with iron.
ny, , p i i x
J
somewhat over 500 in number. Some of
them, as on the back of an adult, are 27
1U ltiUlu' auu &UU1U as In luu ear'
-..- . , ,
are noc over a I0urtu a- men long.
a
Muscle is termed lean meat. Muscle
divided into fibres ; and if we take the
the smallest of these fibres which can be
I feel seen hy tlie naked eJe! and Pace it in on imported cigars is eight cents per
this.ve I tbe field of a powerful microsrope, we shall found England, b return, pute the du
inia ee- j v t . ty on American cigars imported into her
t , that size. A rope formed by twisting fif
ty of these fibres together, would be too
sma11 t0 be-Seen by the unaided vision
Could we unravel the fibres of a single
cubic inch of clear musole. thav wnnld nn
""J
S x t i 1 i .nrvrfc i
1UUUU W MfULCU OU6 OVer OUUU mijeS in
length. Could ,all the muscular fibres of
an. adult be placed in a continuous line,
they would forma thread which would
reach more thai? 400 times round our
:
dobe.or over 10.00.0.000 of miles. Chem
ically examined, diied, blood and dried she was great grandmother. Now, as. the
muscje are.found to be precisely the same. son, of a great grandmother must be eith
The little glands which produce the ?a grandfather or grand uncle this boy
. (David) was one or the other. He is his
sweat are situated beneath the cutis, or, wn grandfather,
true skin. Each gland, sends up through j l
the skin a little tube, about a quarter of f
an inch in length, through which the sweat
is poured, out" These glands number a -
t , 0E'nn ' ' u e 1.x. ,
bout 2500. in a square inch of the palms
' i t ' t
of the hands and soles of the feet, and a-,
bout 1800 in a square inch of the remain-
der of tho. surface of the body. The to-
tal number of pores, therefore, in the hu-
t t t . , nnn nnn , , .
man body is, about 7,000,000, and the to-
f ' . ' "u v
tal length of the tubes, through which the
sweat, is poured out, is nearly 28 miles.
The weight of the brain and spinalcord
of the male ranges between 46 &,G3 oun-
ces, but that, of the female is often found
as low . asi 41 ounces, and very seldom
higher than 47 ounces. In man, one
thirty-sixth of the whole is brain, yet it re
ceives one-sixth of the blood of the entire
system. Surrounding And within the rev-) An exchange paper says, the most dig
olution of every healthy brain, there ore ' nified, .-glorious, aud lovely -.work of,, na,-.
about two ounces of water.
r!,TC3l . SUn Cmm,U"
ear is divided into three parts external,
.-.'Jli'i. j i. t " - .
miaaie, ann j.niernai ear-T-urattnere ?s
the external ear, or porch to the Jiouse in
which sits the:.goA; of-. listening, .Every
sound, as all very well know, spreads it.
out upon the air in an undulatory or wa
vy manner, just as when we cast a stone
into a stream, certain waves are produced,
which spread out in constantly widening
circles. This wave in the air enters the
ear, and raps, as it were, upon the tittle
e memurana ypum, which
' "-ted at the bottom of the external
j i . . ...
ear.
Within the middle chamber, and on
; the inner side of this door, stand those
' three little houses, which act as servants
tmuc utw; uuusus, wmcn aci
in tbe ball to communicate
. to the brain. No sooner, tl
sQund
the message
then does the
rlirm flii mnl.
or hammer, the handle of which is
' fastened upon the anvil. The anvil throws
tdow which opens to the car, to vibrate,
and teu tie story to the nerves vvlaicli
surround it and through them it is com
municated to the brain.
How to l ender assistance in accidents.-
in case 0f a fracture or a dislocated limb,
jet tjie sufierer lie on the ground until a
J J - I""'"" -- M1V
cured, for in raising him up he may die,
from faintuess or loss of blood. When
i procured place the door or gate along-
side of him. cover it with something soft
and let men convey him steadily home,
; but do not put him in a vehicle of any
' kind. In Pits, if a person fall into one,
Jet him remain on the ground provided
temporary suspension of the heart's action,
you may cause death by raising him up-
right, or by bleeding ; but if the face be
: red, or dark colored, raise hnn on his
UCiUy 1111 U IT VUtVl lf(t.LVX VU 1113 Jill 11JU
diatciyj an scnd for a surgeon and get a
vein opened, or fatal pressure on the brain
may ensue. In hanging or drowning, ex-
' nnnf xltviiT wofnv rtn Ilia r o 1 immn.
Pose e cnesc as qCKiy as possioie,
is kept in a sitting posture. In case of
children in convulsions deluge the head
with cold water, and put the feet into
warm water, till medical aid can be pro
cured. In case of poison, give an emetic
of a teaspoonful of mustard flour in a tea
cupful of warm wrater every ten minutes,
till vomiting ensues or medical assistance
is obtained. In case of burns and scalds,
let the burnt Part bc baed in a mixture
pentjne and olive oil equal parts
till the pain abates; then dress it with
common cerate and defend it from the
air.
An Item for Cigar Makers. It is well
known that journeymen cigar-makershave
justly complained that their trade has
been ruined by the foreign cigar makers
In ti l
"""b"-J
Iron tn Knronn. inadfi into c?iiars bv "n
ta-
, - r-i ----- ya -- j r
nfr inilnr rpt.nrnnn and sold in tins c:o
pau-
per labor," returned and sold in this couu-
American well-paid labor. Under the
present Locofoco Tariff the American du-
country at ilC0 (Mars pcr pound i This
is' the kind of reciprocity which has made
England the richest manufacturing peo-
P'e 10 he world, while it has given a death
i ',. -i ,.Jt c
country.
I . Eaniily Puzzle. A boy at Norwich
is literally his own grandfather It is in
thl!
and her daughter-in-law (Jane and
a
m!,n 'Jnn,v,o f,d liiccAn nrr,.1 Tlio
widow married the son. The daughter
1 married the father. The widow was,
therefore, mother (in law) to her husband's
(atllC1 a?d cs,cl"tly grandmother to
her own husband (llenrv.) lv this hus
band she has had a son fDavid,) to' whom
IVo more Putty. The anxious inquiries
Concerning the price of tins' article are a-
. boufc to be Bileiicel- Some Down-East
operator has got a way of setting glass
. . fa -.J , i" i
without putty. The window sash is made
entirely of wood, the outside permanent,
( The inside is framed in such a manner
the parts can be readily removed,.ipr
fhe PurPose of inserting the glass which
i is placed between sups of India liubber,
t t a f i4i " i i
i which, when the parts of the sash are re-,
placed, causes the glass to be perfectly'
I firm. The moveable parts of the sash are
' secured to their place by a knob-screw,
which makes a Prett fluish- j
That was a tunny man, who, one not
day, wished himself a skeleton, placed, in
in a steeple, so tnat tne wiun migui wma
tle'through his ribs.
ture is womaur-tho uest -niaur-r-and thcn
Berkshire pi
' Canine. It has been discovered that
'ili. .j? i i !'
i wien a 10W Jr?1 Vli yY
,time on sausages exclusively, Uk-v .begin
to "(growl."
From the National Intelligencer.
ANewUsc of (he Leaves of flic Pine.
(Finus Sycvcstris.)
Not far from Bereslau, in Silesia, in a
domain called the Prarie of Ilumbolt,
there exists two establishments as aston
ishing for their produce as for their uniou.
One is a manufacture which converts pine
leaves into a sort of cotton or wool ; the
other offers to invalids, as curative baths,
the water used in the manufacture of that
vegetable wool. Both have been selected
by Mr. de Panuewitz, inventor of a chem
ical process, by means of which it is possible
to extract from the long and slenderleaves
of the pine a very fine ficaccous substance
which he has named woody wool, because
like the ordinary wool, it can be curled,
felted and woven.
All the acicular leaves of the pine fir,
and of the coniferai in general, are com
posed of a bundle of fibrillie extremly fine
and tough surrounded and held together
by a resinous substance under the form
of a thin pellicle. When by a decoction
and the use of certain chemical agents the
resinous substance is dissolved, it is easy to
separate the fibres to wash them and free
them from all foreign substance. Accor
ding to the mode of preparation employed,
the woolly substance acquires a quality
more or less fine, or remains in its coarse
state ; in the first instance it is used as
wadding, in the second to stuff mattress
es. If the pine has been preferred to the
other kinds of pitch trees, it is on account
of the length of its needle shaped leaves.
It is thought that a similar result might
be obtained from other trees of the same
species.
The tree can be stripped of its leaves
when quite young without any injury.
The operation takes place when they are
still green. A man can gather two hun
dred pounds of leaves a day.
It was first advantageously substitu
ted for cotton and wool in the manufac-
ture of blankets. The hospital of Vienna ! puffing and blowing. The cabman soon
bought live hundred, and after a trial of j bought back his horse for 8-5J. The 'sold'
several years has adopted them entirely. : men offered to pay that sum, if the fortu
It has been remarked, among other ad- J nate one, who found property sufficient to
vantages, that no kind of insects would iPy own debt, would not tell of it in
lodge in the beds, and its aromatic odor j -LOaton.
was found agreeable and beneficial.
These blankets have since been adopted
by the penitentiary of Vienna, the chari
ity hospital of Berlin, the maternity hos
pital, and the barracks of Breslau.
Its cost is three times less than that of
horsehair, and the most experienced up-
holstcrer, when the wool is employed in V' V 7 3 'uu"
. , , , c i- dian, named balola, captured a snake on
furniture could not tell the one from the;thc Smok Mountainf which he describes
other.
This article can be spun or woven, re-
scmbling tue tnrcau oi ncmp lor
... i i i" i p ?i
strength; it can be made into rugs and
horse blankets.
In the preparation of this wool an cthe-
real oil of a pleasant odor is produced.
This oil is at first green; exposed to the
rays oi uie sun, it aaaumua an ui augc 3 ui-
low tint; replaced in the shade, it resumes
its former green color; reflected, it be
comes colorless. It differs from the es
scence of turpentine extracted from the
same tree. It has beeu touna emcient in
rheumatism and gout ; also as an anthel-, present at a lug meeting the other day,
mintic. and in certain cutaneous diseases, heard the assertion made that Pierce vo
Disliled, it is used in the preparation of lac ted against the law to give pensions to
of the finest kind. It burns in lamps like the old revolutionary soldiers aud their
olive oil, and dissolves caoutchouc com-( widows, called on the speaker to have
pletely in a short time. Perfumers in him prove the assertion made in his speech.
Paris use it in large quantities. jThe gentleman took down the Congres-
It is the liquid Feft by decoction of the,' sional Globe for the year 1841, and on
pine leaves which has been so beneficial page 117 he showed tbe place where
in the form of bath. The hath establish- Eranklin Pierce- boasted in the United
ment is a flourishing one. j States Senate that; he was the only man,
The membranous substance, obtained with one exception, from all the New
bv filtration at the time of the washing of England States who had voted against
the fibres, is pressed in oncic anu uriea ; gramiug a puuaiuu uuuer io mu suiuiera
it is used as a cumbustible, and produces,' of our wars, or to the widows of those
from the resin it contains, a quantity of who had been slain in battle. The old
gas sufficient for the lighting of the fa c- gentleman read the speech attentively;
tory. The production of a thousand threw down tho book in disgust, and is
quintals of wool leaves a quantity of com- now hurrahing for old Chippewa at tho
bustible matter equal iu value to sixty top of his voice.
cubic metres of pine wood. L. D.
. Pierce Whiskey. An old gentleman,
Mrs., Palmita, in her speech at the Wo-' a staunch Whig who is spending the sum
mau's Ili"hts Convention, said that it had mer over the lake, having occasion to
been argued that women were the wick- visit the city a few days ago, was detained
t L ? f , . t , , at Madisonville a short time, waiting for
est portion of mankind, which position . t ,,T, , , , ' ,
; 1 ' v a boat. AYhile there he was taken very
she triumphantly refuted as follows : -A(ill gome pronounced it a cholera case
rib taken from a man. was formed into and others something else. But the; old
woman, and was accepted as bono of his, gentleman says he does not think it waa
bona and flesh of. his flesh. If one rib the cholera. IIT. . , e
... , , - . . , , j "For." says he, "I fell m a crowd of
was so wicked, what a mass of wicked Locofoc'OS) 4ho raado mc drjuk tuefr
ncss' the whole man must be!" whiskey, Pierce whiskey they called it,
J an(l it was that I am convinced that mado
1 A gentleman having a horse that star- me sick for I have felt faint ever since.'1
ted anil brake his wife's neck, a neighbor-! Now Orleans Republic.
;ingiGquire told him ho wished to purchase.
it for his wife to ride upon: " No,"' re-!
plie(l the other, "no,;;I will not seethe , g the proficiency, of his pu
little Mlol intend tp-msrry;again iny-J j,is thataiotvoncrof.them would decline"
self." ' " a-husband,
Sometiiixg New. Ingenuity is every
day adding something to the comforts and
conveniences of life. We were yesterday
shown some samples of an improved met
allic Pen, which is exempted from the
great defect in the steel pen, and that is
corroding. This is obviated simply by
the skilful application of Gntta Percha.
Mr. B. L. C. Schlessinger. is the inven
tor. The pen is coated with gutta percha,
which is unaffected by the strongest acids,
and, being pointed with platina, the pen
writes as smoothly as a lead-pencil. They
are to bc had of the sole agent in Wash
ington city, J. SniLLiNGTON, Pennsylva
nia avenue, at fifty cents a dozen, or four
dollars a groce.
A Creditors Stratagctn. A week or
two ago four creditors started from Bos
ton, in the same traiu of cars, for the pur
pose of attaching the property of a cer
tain debtor in Farmington, in the State of
Maine. He owed each one separately,
and they each were suspicious of the ob
ject of the other, but dared not say a
word about it. So they rode, acquaintan
ces all, talking upon everything except
that which they had most at heart. When
they arrived at the depot at Farmington,
which was three mile3 from where the
debtor did business, they found nothing
to " put 'em over the road" but a solitary
cab, towards which they all rushed.
Three got in, aud refused admittance to
the fourth, and the cab started. The
fourth ran after, and got upon the outside
with the driver. He asked the driver if
he wanted to sell his horse. He replied
that he did no want to that he was not
worth more than 850, but he would not
sell him for that He asked him if he
would take SI 00 for him. Yes said he.
The 'fourth man' quickly paid over the
money, took the reins and backed the cab
up to a bank slipped it from the harness
and tipped it up so that the door could
not be opened, and jumped upon the horse'.-
back and rode off 'lick-a-ty-switch,' while
the 'insiders' were looking out of the win
dow, feeling like singed cats. He rode to
a lawyer's, and got a writ made and serv
ed, and his debt secured, and got back to
'the liotol inst as the 'insiders' ?anif nn
A country editor says he never knew
what 'filthy lucre' meant till he got hold
of a dirty, greasy lot of one dollar bills.
Horned Rattle Snake.
Mr. William H. Thorn a?, of Qaalla
Town of Haywood Co., N. C, writes to
it. - A XT il.. i m 1 T
"of the usual size of Diamodllattle Snake
found in tbe mountains of this country, of
d.rk color-onits tail it hasten rattles.
. ou u head tv forked horu3 of about
j thrce fourt,s Qf an jnch long." The In-
d5an said it secrned to be a kiDg among
j nakes of hs specica. Nothing of the kind
, ha3 been seeu heretofore by any of the
0si wnfte inhabitants.
ALcaf for the old Soldiers
The Buffalo Bough notes, nys that an
old and respectable Democrat who was
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