VOL. XX. LEGAL Sotice. ' Whereat) letters of administration have been err an ted by the Renter to the undersigned upon the estate of Charles X>swald. 8r late of Oakland twp. Bntler conntv,Pa. dec d Allperaons who know themselves indebted to said estate will make immediate pavment, and tboeo havinK. claims against h same will present them properly authent ta" d for settlement Either to myself or my AikOipey. J B MoJUNKIN, PHILIP OSWALD. Att'y for Adm'r Administrator Oct 17, IHB2 5 -'No 3710 Butler 8t Pitts Pa " Koad Keports. Notice is herebv given that the following foad reports have Wen confirmed nisi, by the Court, and will be presented on the first Wed nesday of December, 1882, being the sixth day of the month, and if no exceptions are filed they will be confirmed absolutely: No. 4, June term, 1882. Road in Buffalo township, commencing at a point where the Kittanning and Pittsburgh road crosses the Dennv Mill road being so ranch of said Denny Mill road as lies between said point and where it intersects Bearcreek and Free port road. No. 6, June term, 1882. Road in Venango, beginning at or nt-ar house of James Uiggins and leading to the point of intersection at or near the house of Frank McNamee. Butler county ss: Certified from the record this 14th day of Nov. 1882. W. B. DODDS, Clerk. Two Stray Steers. Two stray ateere came to the premises of the dtibecrlbar, Concord twp., Burler county, Pa., alwat the flint of September last; both are red and white; one ordinary size, the other rather «nall, each supposed to be a year old last spring The owner is requested to come forward, prove property pay charges and take them away, otherwise they will be disposed of ac cording to law. EDWARD GRAHAM, Oct. >O, 'B3. Concord twp., Butler Co., Pa. " r " $25 Reward. Win be given on the return o' the following described note, which was lost while in poesee sion of John M. Thompson, in or about the Court House, Oct. 10, 1882: The note was dated March 16, 1878; of the sum »5,5<>0. Syable to Ellen Dunlap and signed by James eron. The above reward will be freely paid on presentation of the note at Bunbury, Butler * oaDt *' ELLEN DUNLAP. Two Farms for Sale. Tli« heirs of Itobart McKinney, dee'd, late of A lama twp . Dutler couuty, Pa. will sell at I rivate tale, and in lots, a farm of over 200 .Acres, (situated one and a half miles from Templeton ft%iion, on the Pittsburgh A Western Railroad, ii' -aid Adams twp. For particulars inquire of A. J Flemirg ou the premises. - ALSO A FARM OF 123 ACRES in Cherry twp., Butler Co., Pa., on the line of tl.« Sheuango & Allegheny Railroad, and mid- TTY between Bovard and Anandale Stations. For paiticulare as to this farm, inquire of Mr. Alexander Porter, living on adjoining farm. A. J. FLEMING. Pinafore P. O. Butler Co., Pa. E. W. CROUP, DENTIST, JBUTLE R, J? .A., Partner of the firm of DIEFFENBACHEK & CKOUP, will continue the business at the old firm on Jetlersou street, Miller's Building, three doors East ol Lowry House. All work solicited by the Arm, will be done up by me. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. GCLD FIL.LINGB and PRESERVING of the Natural Ttcelb, a specialty. All communications by mail will receive prompt attention. E. W. CROUP. Public Sale of Valuable Real and Personal Estate. BY ORDER OF COURT. Will be offered at public sale at the Court -House in Butler, Pa., ou Thursday the 7th day of Deo. 1882, at one o'clock, P. ML., all that cer" tain lot of ground situate at the corner of High and Jefferson, streets in the borough of Butler, Pa., on which ia erected the three storv brick building known as the First National Bank building, described in deed from Charles Duffy dated 12th January 1872 to the First National Bank of Butler, Pa., as follows, namely: i'iJsguning at the Southwest corner of High •ad Jafl'srson streets, thence South along High street twenty (20) feet to line of lot new owned T>y Charles Duffy, thence West by the line of said lot parallel with Jefferson street eighty (60) feet to a narrow alley thence North by said alley twenty (20) feet to Jefferson street thence Kast along Jefferson street eighty (80) feet to *. ->e of beginning. Being part of lot L . iu the gene ral plan of the Bor- V f Sutler. Being a portion of a larger ough of . " /(OHVeyed to Charles Duffy by i i i/Ti ""Q and wife by deed, dated John M. jg 7a The same naving January 3d, A. D., • jj, Thompson by Dr. been conveyed to Joh , 20 J. Cooper McKee by deeu kad thereto the A. D., 1871. Reference be< ■£ Mine will more fully appear-ei. said grantor (Duffy) his heirs and . ,? right of way from Jefferson street by a WI. stairway lading to the upper story ofbuilu. to be erected on the lot hereby conveyed aad ou the lot of the grantor adjoining it on the south, 1 and thence by a hall and stairway to be buildea i in said building so as to have ingress and egress by said hall and stairway from the Jefferson street entrance to the upper stories to be built on the lot of said Duffy as aforesaid, and also to , the upper storries of the building of the Butler Savings Bank on the lot adjoining lot of said | Duffy on the south. The building to be erect ed on the l°t hereby conveyed to be of such , height that the stories or floors will be level with the -floors of said Butler Savings Bank and the aforesaid and described Jefferson street entrance is to be used in common as a right of way for the aforesaid lots of the Butler Savings Bank and the grantor." For chain of title, reference is made to the dead from the County of Butler, dated 15th of August, 1811, recorded in deed book D, page 643 to Hugh McKee, whose interest became divested by judicial sale as appears by deed from George W. Reed, Esq., Sheriff ol Butler county, dated the 15th December, 1847, record ed in deed book S, page 607 to Christian Otto, who by deed dated 11th March, 1853, recorded in deed book T, page 664 conveyed the same to 'lsaiih John McKee. who by his last will and testament, dated 7th March, 1853, recorded in will book D, page 114, devised the same to James Cooper McKee, who by deed dated the 20th September, 1871, recorded in deed book No. 64, page 316, conveyed the same to John M. Thompson, who, ana Lauretta his wife, by deed dated the 3d of January 1872, recorded in deed book No. 64, page 314, conveyed the same to Charles Duffy, who by deed dated the 12th January 1872. recorded in deed book No. 30, page 295, eon veyed that portion of the said lot of ground, No. 116, hereinbefore described, to the First National Bank of Butler, Pa. It being that portion of said lot upon which is erected a three-story brick building, used as the First National Banking house, etc. —of the First National Bank of Butler, Pa- Also, at the same time and place, the follow ing personal property, namely: one calendar clock, 2 desks, I letter press with stand, 2 fancy covered top tables, 1 long table, 1 fancy chair, 1 rug, 1 stove and pipe, 1 stove, 1 book case, 2 stools, 9 chairs and one step ladder. Terms of payment: As to real estate, one half cash on day of sale and the other half within six months thereafter, with interest. ■n«l with such security as shall be satisfactory to the Receiver, and no deed to be made to the purchaser until the consideration shall be fully paid: aud as to personal property, cash to be paid on day of sale. JOHN N. PURVIANCE, Receiver of First National Bank of Butler, Pa. Butler, Pa„ Nov 9, 1882. 3t. tCCa week In your own town. Terms and $5 free. Address fl. HAJLLETT&CO. rortUnd, Maine. m«», i Union Woolen Mill, BUTLER, PA. H. FULLERTON. Prop'r. Manufacturer of BLISUIS, YARNS, &c. Also custom work done to order, such as carding Bolls, making Flannels, Knit ting and Weaving Yarns, &c., at very low oriccs. Wool worked on the shares, il de -8 red. rar 7 - I *' PRATT'S Forty-fifth Great Annual Sale of BOOKS at AUCTION. Every evening and private sale during the day, for a short time, at BORLAND'S AIC TION ROOM, 109 Wood Street. Pittsburgh. Pa.. 100,000 new and choice books, Bibles and A 1 bums, to be sold at half regular prices. novß-6t. J. K. PRATT A 880, SSSSTEAS indiaA&Aij From the Districts of ASSAM, CHITTAGONG, CACHAR. KANGKA VALLEY, DARJEEL -ING, DEHRA DOON, ai:d others; Absolutely Pure. Buperior in Flavor. Tiie Most Econom ical. Requires only half the usual quantity, fold by all Grocers. JOHN C. PHILLIPS & CO., Agents of the Calcutta Tea Syndicate, 130 Water St., N. Y. Novß-ly. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sts. G. C. ROEBSING, PRESIDJNT. WM. CAMPBELL, TREASCBKR. H. C. HEINEMAN, SECRETARY. DIRECTORS: J. L. Purvia, 8, A - Helmboldt, William Campbell, J- W. BurUhart, A . Troutman, Jacob Schoene, 0, C. Roessing, John Caldwell, Dr. W. Irvin, J ; J. Croll. A. B. Rbodas, H- C. Helneman. JAS. T. M'JUNKIN, (Jen. As't- BUTLER Planing Mill —AND— Lumber Yard. J. L. PURVIS. L. O. PURVIS, S.G. Purvis & Co., HaWUFACTtTBBRS AND DBiXSBB IH Rough and Planed Lumber OF EVERT DESCRIPTION, FRAMES, MOULDINGS, SASH, DOORS, FLOORING, SIDING, BATTENS, Brackets, Gauged Cornice Boards, SHINGLES & LATH. PLANING MILL AND YARD Near German Catholic Church jan?-80-ly OLD COUNTRY TEA HOUSE! RWKABIXSKKD XS4A. FAT HO MORE FKBIGUT ON GROCERIES. The Largest and Most Complete RETAIL GROCERY IN THE UNITED STATES FREIGHT PREPAID WITHIN 50 MILKS OF OUR CITT Order of $25 and upwards, freight prepaid. Orders ol 950 and upwards, toight prepaid. Or if preferable, a discount allowed ol 2% per cent. Orders of f 100 and upwards, freight prepaid, "M- a discount ol 3 per cent. PARL7 M LIV,NO OVER 50 MILES FROM PITTSBURG Orders C* or np w srds, a discount of 2 per of *SO a™ l upwards, » disco ant of 2* Pe Or C de a A'of 1100 or npwartfs, a discount of 3 p«r cent. . . .. Single families not wishiu t0 buy $585 worth or over can cluo together with another family which will place them in the sam.'' position a# larirer buyers. No charge for boxing IgJ"Please send for our Monthly P " lctJ L ' Bt (Housekeepers Guide,) a book of 24 pagC* t g"- lnjc all our prices and a complete description, to parties ordering living out of th« city on railroads. Wm. Haslage & Son, 18 DIAMOND malO.ty PITTSBURGH, PA. BOOTS AMrrSHOES MADE TO ORDHt AT JOHN BICKEL'S. French and American Kip boots made to order on short notice, also Fine wear lor Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. Repairing also done on short notice. 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I The physicians her* use Darbys Fluid very successfully in the treat ment of Diphtheria. A. STOLL«NW*»CK, Greensboro, Ala. Tetter dried up. Cholera prevented. Ulcers purified sad healed. In cases of Death it should be used about the corpse —it will prevent any unpleas. ZiU Sjnel!- The eminent Phy sician, J. MAKION SIMS, M. D., Mew York, says: "I am convinced Prof Darbys Prophylactic Fluid is a valuable disinfectant." tfanderpiit iinlvotufty, > T a«bv}l}e, Tip*. I testify to the most excellent qualities of Btof. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. As a disinfectant and detergent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which I am ac quainted.—N. T. LUFTON, Prof. Chemistry. Darbys Fluid It Recommended by Hon ALBXANDHR H. STEPHENS, of Georgia- Kev. GHAS.F. RB?MS, D.D., Church of the stranger*, N. V,; ' Jos. LICOWTS, Columbia, Prof.,Unlver«ity,S.e. Re*. A. J. BATTL«, Prof , Mercer University; Rev. GEO. F. PIERCE, Bishop M. E. Church. INDISPENSABLE TO EVERT HOKE. Perfectly harmless. Used internally or externally for Man or Beast. The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here clajp/esj. fir fuller infjrmation get of your Druggist a pamphlet df tedd i»'<he propuetors, J. H. ZEILIN ft CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PHILAJjjvLt-rllA NOTED MEN! DR. TOHN F. HANCOCK, late President of the National Phar maceutical Association of the United States, says: " Brown's Iron Bitters has • heavy sale, is conceded to be a fin* tonic; the character of the manu facturers is avoucher for its purity and medicinal excellence." DR. JOSEPH ROBERTS, President Baltimore Pharmaceutical College, says: "I Indorse It as a fine medicine, reliable as a strengthening tonic, free from alcoholic poisons. ' DR. J. FARIS MOORE, PH. D , Professor of Pharmacy, Bald more Pharmaceutical College, says: " Brown's Iron Bitten is a safe and reliable medicine, positively free from alcoholic poisons, and can be recommended as a tonic for use among those who oppose alcohol.'* DR. .EDWARD EARICKSON, Secretary Baltimore College of Phar macy, says • "I Indorse it as an excellent medicine, a good digestive agent, and a non-intoxicant in the fullest sense." Dr. RICHARD SAPINGTON, one of Baltimore's oldest and most reliable physicians, says: "All who have used it praise Its standard virtues, and tne well known character of the house which makes it Is a sufficient guarantee of its being all that is claimed, for they are men who could not be in duced to offer anything else but a reliable mtdicinc for public use." A Druggist Cured. Boonsboro, Md., Oct. is, IMO, Gentlemen: Brown's Iron Bit ters cured me of a bad attack of Indigestion and fullness in the stom ach. Having tested it, I take pleas ure in recommending it to my cus tomers, and am glad to say it gives en* : re satisfaction to ali." OTO. W. HOMTMAK, Druggist. Ask your Druggist for BROWN'S IRON B'TERS, and take no other. One trial will convince you that it is just what you need.. THE MeCSml BUFFALO, NX THE ONLY ASSOCIATION OP PROMINENT Lady Physicians XIsT THE WORLD. This Institution was formed for the sole pur pose uf trusting the diseases of women. It is composed only of physicians who have obtained a leading rank in the profession by their acknowledged ability and success, and who have made the health and discuses of women n study for years. Ladies can be successfully treated at home, without any other expense than the cost of the medloine. Advice by mail frte. Send stamp for circulars and testimonials from ladies who have been permanently oured. "LADIES' TONIC" Is the Favorite Prescription of the Women's Medloal Institute for Prolapsus Uteri, or Palling of the Womb, Leueorrhoea or Whites; Inflammation and Ulceration of the Womb; Irregularities, Flood ing, Amenorrhoea or lack of monthly visita tion, Weakness in the liack and Stomach, Kalnt ness, Nervous Prostration, Dyspepsia, Kidney Complaints, Barrenness, and ait atonic during Pregnancy, at regular periods through change of life, ana for the general debility of women. Jt positively give* quick and permanent One Pint Bottle Is Sufficient. Sold by Druggists. Price, SI,OO, BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1882 WOE* THE FROST 18 OS THE PtJNKItf, BT BESJ. F. JOHNSON. When the frost is on the punkin and the fod der's in the shock, And you hear the kyocck and gobble of the struttin' turkey-cock, And the clackin' of the guineys and the cluck in' of the hens, And the rooster's hallvlooyer as he tiptoes on the fence; O it's theq's tlie time a feller is a feelfn' ftt his best, With therisiu' sun to greet him from a night of gracious rest, As he leaves the house bareheaded, aud goes out to feed the stock, When the frost is on the j unkin and the fod der's iu the shock, They's somekin' kiud o' hearty-like, about the atmosphere, When the heat of summer's over and the coolin' fall is here — Of course we miss the flowert and the blossoms on the trees, And the mumble of the hummin' birds "and buzzin' of the bees j '• But the air's so apertizin', and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the early autumn days Is a picture that no painter has the colorin' to mock; - - When the frost is on the punkin and the fod der's in the shock. The husky, rusty rustle of the tosaols of the corn, And the raspin' of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn; The stubble in the furriea, kindo' lonesome like, but still A-preachin' sermons to us of the barns they growed to fill; The straw-stack in the medder and the reaper in the shed; The hosses in their stalls below, the clover overhead; O it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin of a clouk, When the frost is on the punkin and the fod der's in the shock. —lndianapolU Journal. ~ SELECT. Origin of Popular Phrases. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "A Bird in Hand is Worth Two in The Bush."—This saying originated from the following circumstances,- Will Vomers, the celebrated jester to Henry VII., happening to call at Lord Surrey's, whom he had often, by a well-timed jest, saved from the dis pleasure of his royal master, and who consequently *as always glad to see him, Was oh this occasion ushered in to the aviary where he found my lord amusing himself with his birds. Som ers happened to admire the plumage of a kingfisher. "By my lady," said Surrey, "my prince of wits, I will give it to you." Will skipped abpnt yith dejigjjt, and swore by the great Harry be was a i most noble gentleman. Away went Will with his kingfisher, telling all his acquaintances whom he met that his friend Surrey had just presented him 1 with it. 1 Now, it »o happened that Northampton, who had seen this bird the day previous, arrived at Lord Sur rey's just as Will Somers had left, with the intention of asking it of Sur rey for a present to a lady friend. Great was his chagrin on finding the bird gone. Surrey consoled him, how ever, with saying that be knew Som ers would restore it to him if he (Sur rey) promised him two another day. Away went a messenger to the prince of wits, whom he found in rap tures with his bird, and to whom be delivered his lord's message. Great was Will's surprise, but he was not to be bamboozled by even the monarch himself. "Sirrah," he said, "tell your master that I am obliged for his liberal offer of two for one, but that I prefer one bird in the hand to two in the bush." Hence originated this oft-repeated saying. "Name of Countries"—The Phcani cians, who were a great commercial people in the young days of the world, are thought to have given the present names to n)ost the countries around the Mediterranean Sea. The Phoenician language contained the words Europe, Asia, Africa, Italy, Spain, Gaul, Brit ain, iEtna, Sardinia and Siberia, as well as many others now used as the aames of minor places. Europe, in Phoenician, meant "white complexion," and was applied to the country north of the Mediterranean because they were of a lighter complexion than those of Asia and Africa- Africa signified the "land of corn," and Asia meant "the middle land," being; so named because it was between Europe and Africa. Italy was "the country of black pitch;" Spain was "the land of rabbits;" Gaul or France, the "land of yellow hair;" Britain "the country of tin;" Aetna, "the smoky furnace;" Sardinia, "a man's foot," and Siberia, "thirsty land," because it is so dry. "To talk like a dutch Uncle."—Dr. Brewer, in his "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable," says the significance of this saying is to offer "severe reproof," and quotes from the Latin classics to prove the awe in which an uncle's re buke is held. He does not treat the word "Dutch" under this bead but in a neighboring paragraph declares that "during the rivalry between England and Holland the word 'Dutch' was synonymous with all that was false and hateful." So a 'Dutch uncle' may be regarded as more caustic than one of any other country. According to Hotten, a 'Dutch uncle' is 'a personage often introduced into conversation, but exceedingly difficult to describe. I'll talk to him like a Dutch uncle'conveys the notion of anything but a desirable relation.' 'Dutch' is a slang term for any language which is unintelligible to the hearer. To talk double Dutch backward signifies extreme quickness to the use of gibberish. This may tend to explain the above. "0. K."—lt has been asserted that these letters were first used by Andrew Jackson, as an abbreviation of 'all cor rect.' One of 'Old Hickory's' friends, however, came to the front with the declaration that from close and intimate acquaintance and connection with Jack son during his whole Presidency from 1829 to 1837. he knows that Jackson never used such an expression. He was a very courteous and gentlemanly person, and retained his military habit of devolving all his epistolary matters POETRY. upon his secretaries; that 'O. K." was popular slang of Jackson's day, which was then attiibuted to David Crock' tt. Still another assert that this peculiar mark of approval was first officially used by a statesmen oonnected with the New York city government about 1837, and the introduction was cotcm poraneons with the invention of 'pipe laying' as a political fine art. The fact is that neither Jackson, Crockett nor the aforesaid Mew York city states man had anything to do with its origin. The cabalistic letters are authentically traced to Old Keokuk, pacific chief of the Sac and Fox Indians, who when he sold lowa to the United States Government, signed the deed with initials 'O. K.' His co-chief, the fiery Black Hawk, refused to sell or sign away the rights of his people to the beautiful land, and hence the Black Hawk war. Old Keokuk years ago passed on to the happy huntingground of the Great Beyond, but his sign con tinues to supply a long-felt want in the English language. "Abomination of Desolation."—This phrase occurs four times in the book of Daniel. Its signification is as follows; Our Lord had been telling of the re mote and immedite signs of the end of the Jewish economy. He proceeded to describe the siege and destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. On the standards of the Roman armies their idols were painted—and being placed where "they ought not in the holy places of Jerusalem."—they were an •'abomination" to the Jews. The Romans, by their own devastation, caused great desolation in the land. This was at the time of the destruc- tion of Jerusalem by the Romans, A D. 70. "To See and be Seen."—This phrase has been traced to Chaucer's "The Prologe of the Wyfe of Bathe." It al so occurs in Ben Johnson's "Epitha mion," Dr} den's "Ovid's Art of Love," and Goldsmith's seventy-first letter, entitled the "Citigens of the World." f'Two Much of a Good Thing."—An expression often used, and originally occurring in "Don Quixote," part 1, book 1, chap. 6. It also appears in Shakespeare's "As You Like It," act iv., sc. 1. "Through Thick and Thin."—The proverbialism by Solomon that "there is no thing new under the sun" is illus trated by the saying which is found in Spencer's "Fairy Queen," Drayton's "Nymphidiaee," Middleton's "The Roaring Girl," Kemp's "Nine Days' Wonder," Bqtler'g "Hndibras," pry. den's "Absolom and Atchilophel," Pope's "Dunciad," and Cowper's "John Gilpin." "Sardonic Smile."—The Island of Sardinia, consisting chiefly of marshes or of mountains, has, from the earliest period tq tbe present tiqae, Ijeen cqrsed with a noxious air, an ill-cultivated soil and a scanty population. The convulsions produced by its poisonous plants gave rise to the expression of "sardonic smile," which is as old as Homer. "Speech Was Given to Man to Con peal IJis Thoughts."—Voltaire has in "Dialogue" xiv., lis n'employment less paroles que pour deguiser leurs pensees. When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of re claiming It if it took. Thus he assign ed to Talleyrand in the "Nain Laune," the phrase "Speech was giyen to man to disguise his thoughts." "Put Your Trust in God, my Boys, and Keep Your Powder Dry." —This expression is attributed to Col. Black er, who put into his "Oliver's Advice." There is a well authenticated anec dote, however, which makes Cromwell its originator. On a certain occasion, when the troops of the great Christian soldier were about crossing a river to attack the enemy, he concluded an ad dress couched in the usual fantastic term 3 in use among them, with these words: "Put jour trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry." This we have on the authority of iJays, in his "Ballads on Ireland." "Passing the Rubicon."—The Rubi con is considered by Cluverius and D'Auville to be the Fiurnecino of Italy, and their opinion is supported by the inhabitants of Rimini, in whose territory it is; the point being a ford on the Road from Ravenna. The ce lebrity of the event has passed into a proverb; hence to "pass the Rubicon" is to take a desperate step in an en terprise, or to adopt a measure from which one cannot recede, or from which he is determined not to fecede. "Blackmail."—"The extortion of money from a person by threats," is the definition given by Webster. In the Anglo-Saxon the word black orig inally "pale." In 1683 it was interpreted as a meaning "unlaw ful," "wicked," examples of its use in this connection being found in black art, black guard, etc. It was also used as a term of reproach in the books entitled the "Board of Green Cloth." The word "mail" is derived from Sax on mae "rent tax." "Mails" and "duties" in Scotland are rents of an estate in money or otherwise. "Devil Among the Tailors."—This phrase arose in connection with a riot at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on an occasion when Dowton announced the performance for his benefit of a bur lesque entitled "The Tailors, a Trage dy for Warm Weather." At night many thousands of journeymen tailors congregated in and arouna the theatre, and by riotous proceedings interrupted the performance. Thirty-three jof the rioters were brought up at Bow street the next day. A full account of the proceedings will be found in the En glish work, "Biographiw Dramatics," under the heading {'Tailors." "Disguised as a Gentleman."—This phrase originated in a play of the poet Cowley, in 1661. In the comedy of the "Cutter of Coleman Street," act 1., scene 5, Col. Jolly and Captain Worms are chaffing Cutter, who boasts that he, "like the King himself, and all the great ones, got away in a disguise to i which Jolly replies: "Take one more i disguise, and put thyself into the habit of a gentleman." j "Duel."— Duellum, in Latin, signi fies a battle between any number of combatants. In the Middle Ages the use of the Latin word duo, two, and of the familiar term, the "dual number," induced the erroneous belief that the , combats between two persons, then so common, must be the duellum of the Romans ; who, however, had no notion of a practice such as the modern "dael." Neither was dueling known to the " Anglo-Saxons ; but it was probably in troduced into England by the Normans. Up to the time of Elizabeth, trial by duel was a regular judicial proceeding. Dueling declined during the Com monwealth, but revived and became very prevalent during the reign of Charles Ilj Queen Ann, In a Parliament in 1712, recommend ed an act for its abolition, but it was not passed, and the custom pre vailed in Great Britain until 1844, when some new articles of war were issued, under which "any officer who shall send or accept a challenge, or who having been privy to an inten tion to fight a duel, shall not take ac tive measures to prevent it, or who shall upbraid another for refusing or for not giving a challenge" is made liable to be cashiered. Under this rule the practice may be said to be obsolete in Great Britain. Duels are still, how ever, occasionally fought in France, also in the United States among the so called "chivalry', as illustrated in the recent combat between two rival New Orleans editors, who fired five shots at each other in succession, one only taking effect in the hip of one of the duelists, which ended the ''affair of honalj." JOHANNES FACTOTUM. What Citizens May be Presi dent. A correspondent wishes to know whether or not a person born abroad can be President or the United States. The Constitution provides: 'No per son except a natural born citizen shall be eligible to the office of President.' This, of course, operates to exclude all our naturalized citizens from that office. It also excludes the sons .of aliens born abroad who become eitizens through the naturalization of their parents. Both these classes become citizens by 1 force of law, and not by force of nature. In 1855 Congress enacted that all ' children born out of the limits and 1 jurisdiction of the United States whose ' fathers are at the time of their birth 1 citizens thereof, and have ever resided * in this country, are citizens of the ' United States. If these children of 1 citizens born abroad owe their citizen- | ship entirely to this act of Congress, they, no less than naturalised aliens, are statutory and not natural born citizens. It is maintained, however, that this act of 1855 is merely declaratory of the common law; that it made no changes, but was passed through abundant caution to remove all ground for doubt or quibble. A 'natural born citizen' corresponds to a 'natural born subject' under the English common law. Ac cording to Chitty, not only persons born within the dominions of the sovereign of England, but the children of subjects in the service of the sover eign abroad, are natural born subjects by the common law. Hence, it may be inferred, the sons of American citi zens who are abroad on goyernment service are natural born citizens and eligible to the Presidency. The En glish common law goes no further, but by act of Parliament, passed in the reign of George the first, all persons born abroad whose father and grand father by the father's side were natural born subjects at common law were themselves declared to be Datural born subjects. These and other English statutes on thiß subject have never been recognized as in force in the United States, and Kent, writing before the passage of the act of 1855, expresses his surprise that the rights of AmerU can citizens bora abroad should be left so preoarious and so tar inferior to the security which has been given under like circumstances by the English stat utes. The act of 1855 was passed to remedy this defect, hut those who are citizens by force of this law and would not be citizens without it, cannot be said to be citizens by nature, or, in other words, to be of the 'natural born citizens' who alone are eligible to the Presidency of the United States.— Press. Clipping**. The receiving teller: the last woman at sewing society. The value of eggs consumed in New York city alone is Baid to be $18,000,- 000 a year. "Hadn't I better pray for rain to day, deacon ?" said a minister one Sunday. "Not to-day, dominie, I think," was the prudent reply; "the wind isn't right." An exacting officer: Said the Texas sheriff as be was about to spring the trap: "Kick and squirm as much as as you can. There's about four thousand people present and we want them to have all the fun possible." Onions cut up with food for chickens are said to be an effectual remedy for chicken cholera. A little ground ginger mixed with their meal once every day or two is also beneficial when symp toms of cholera appear. Many farmers injure their farm im plements more by exposure to the weather than by use on the farm. An implement which with good care would last twenty years, will, when exposed to the weather, become useless ia five years or even less. A correspondent of the Qermantown Telegraph keeps ruts out of his granary by daubing all the angles on the out side of the building with hot pine-tar, to the width of three or four inches, and also any seam or crack whe-e a rat or mouse can stand to gnaw. This is certainly a cheap expedient—ifefficient. A LEG 4 K FA RCE. Strange Proceed In km in (lie Quarter SesNion» of Erie County. ERIE, PA., November 18 Never in the judicial annals of Erie county have the Quarter Sessions furnished such sensational and exquisite humor as the term now holding. Among the indict ments found by the Grand Jury were three for criminal libel, the defendants being John Boyer, editor of the Daily Leuchttuhrm, and Messrs. Frank Weiss and Henry Herbst, editors of the Weekly Sonntagsyast, a humorous and illustrated weekly. The prosecu tor is John Firch, a prominent young member of the Young Men's Christian Association and of the Law and Order League. Firch had played the part of amateur detective in the League's cam paign against liquor dealers, and the funny paper published a cartoon repre senting an artistic gallows with a strangled corpse attachment bearings 6trocg resemblance to Firch. The deepest interest is manifested in the legal proceedings, the Young Men's Christian Association being arrayed on the one side and the entire German element on the other. AN ANCIENT LAW REVIVED. The latter were dismayed at the opening of the session by the District Attorney claiming an ancient right to "stand aside" any juror called until the box was filled with men acceptable to the Commonwealth, the standing aside being independent of the peremptory challenges, and allowable to the extent of standing aside the entire panel, practically enabling the Common wealth to get a jury of its own selec tion. Such a practice was unknown in the Erie Courts. The District At torney showed that the right existed in an unrepealed statute of King Edward I, enacted in the ninth century, and sustained as good law by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, because the statute has never been repealed by Par liament or our Legislature. The Court had no alternative but to rule in favor of the District Attorney, and in conse quence no German or Irishman could get into the box on the liquor trials. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK. This was a blue prospect for the edi tors and naught but conviction stared them in the face. The saddest look ing man attending court is the editor of the funny paper, Frank Weiss. To look at him one would naturally sup pose him to be an ascetic, his sombre expression being strongly suggestive of self abnegations and funerals, but withal, Weiss is the most comical crea ture in the purview of the court. While sitting in court with features of impurtnrbable gravity,Jheconceived the idea of turning the whole proceedings into ridicule and converting tragedy into travesty. On the second morn ing after the Judge had ruled in favor of the "stand aside" claim, Weiss con vulsed everybody by coming into court with an armful of ancient legal literature, obtained by ransacking ev ery law library in the city, and assert ing a right, under the ruling of the Court, to establish his INNOCENCE BY ORDEAL, or trial by combat. He contended that if unrepealed ancient procedure is good law, his claim to demand the "wager of battle" was as just and equitable as the "stand aside" privi lege. Shrieks of laughter followed the sad-faced man's demands, comical in itself, but the more exquis ite from the fact that he is a little, attenuated, weak-chested, asthmetic body, weighing only 98 pounds, while his adversary is a herculian Christian who tips the scales at 200 pounds, and before whom, in a personal encounter, the funny little editor would melt away like the hoar frost under the morning sun. Weiss has carefully drawn up all his rights under unrepealed laws, and he proposes to make this judicial dis trict SICK OF KTNO EDWARD I. These alleged rights are, first: The "ordeal of lire." lie claims he can de mand the establishment of his inno cence by offering to plunge his arm into boiling oil, pick up red-hot iron, or walk barefoot over nine red-hot plowshares, and that if he sustains no hurt by the operation his innocence is proven and the costs belong to the prosecutor. Hut this test, after ma ture deliberation, he will waive. The next is the "trial by purging." He claims that during the Heptarchy an accused might demand this test, which consisted of chewing a bark of immense purgative qualities, and if he can swal low this and remain unpurged until sundown the accused is innucent, etc. With exquisite pathos Weiss sets forth in his document, that being a sufferer of chronic disentery, it would not be advantageous for him to stake his in nocence on the "purge test." TR'.AL BY COMBAT. "All that remains," says Weiss, "is to demand the trial by combat, and may God defend the guiltless." He describes the procedure of this combat as follows: producing ancient author ity in support, The judges and the clergy are to assemble on a given day and before them the accused must fling down his glove and declare his inten tion to defend the same with his body. The prosecutor will then pick it up and announce his readiness to make good his appeal, body for body. Then both men will bring out their battle axes or jave lins, and, kneeling before the judges, will make oath that the weapons have not been charmed by witchcraft, etc. This done, each is to grasp his axe in the right hand, and the left hand of the other in his left. The accused to say'. "Hear this, O man who callest thyself John Firch by the name of baptism, that I who call myself Frank Weiss, by the name of baptism, did not libel you, so help me God and all the saints." To which the accuser will reply. "Hear me, O man whom I hold bv the hand, and who callest thyself Frank Weiss, by the name of baptism, that Ido hold thee perjured, and th : s I will prove with my body, so help uie God and all the saints."" THE Jl'DGE's PART. Upon a signal from Judge Galbraith the men will come out of their corners and go for each other, and his case shall be deemed just who succeeds in carving up the other before the going down of the sun. The merriment caused by Weiss' claim can better be imagined than described. One stout juror came near having a lit of apoplexy, and another laughed himself into imbecility. During the roars of laughter Weiss stood without a smile on his face, a picture of solid, ; substantial misery. While conscious of the absurdity of his claims and the impossibility of substantiating them, Weiss made the appeal with tear streaming eyes and a tragic earnest ness that almost induced convulsions. The upshot is likely to bo that the af fair will be laughed out of court. Baby Lions In St. Louis. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. About nine o'clock yesterday morn ing the attention of Keeper Weiners, at the Zoological Gardens, was call ed to a great commotion in the lion's cage. 'I knew what was the matter,' said Mr. Weiners. 'I went to the lion's cage and there lay the lioness licking a pretty little cub about a min ute old. She was as proud as onlv such animals can be, but as savage as a meat axe. The old lion sat back on his haunches in one corner looking very much interested, but he knew better than to venture near to offer his con gratulations. She would have scratch ed his eyes out. Lions, tigers and all these flesh-eaters are curious about that. The mother of cubs will not let her lord near her or the young for weeks after their birth, for the reason, I suppose, that he may eat them. They are apt to do it, especially in captivity. After a good deal of trouble this morn ing I got the lion and lioness separated, and put her with her cub in the ad joining cage, with a dark compartment for the cub. She went in the latter place at o jce ard was in there a couple of hours, and I think, from the variety of noises this afternoon, there is more than one cub now ' There certainly seomed to be, for the cries that came therefrom sounded like sixteen dozen cats on a roof. Yesterday afternoon the lioness ap peared in her outer cage and seemed the picture of contentment. The old lion, in his cage adjoining, watched for her growl and her step and seemed all curiosity and anxiety. But when feed ing time came he grabbed his fourteen pounds of meat and busied himself with it, apparently to the exclusion of all other thoughts. When the lioness got her meat she carried it at once to the dark cage where her cubs lay. Xew Leaders to the Erouf. The Republican party is not even asleep. It never was more alive than on the seventh day of November when it left the bosses to try their own de vices without popular support. Two years hence it will take the field with energy and might, all its forces mobil ized under new leaders and with a new purpose, as magnificent an army as ever went to a battle for a good cause.— Wheeling Intelligencer. If you are roasting so hard that your collar is almost melted and you wan't to get cooled off, don't go "and give fifteen cents tor a glass of lemon ade. Just attempt to light a cigar with your last match. Then a breeze will start up. WHAT, AGAIN?—A passenger on one of the Atlantic steamers relates the following amusing incident as illustrat ing England's fanatical devotion to free trade as applied to America : When we were In mid-ocean the ennui of the voyage bacame oppressive. We were tired of pool selling, and as a last resort organized a debating society. The subject chosen was 'Free Trade for the United States.' One of the first things for an orchard - ist to do is to learn, says the Weekly Tribune, speaking of the art of prun ing, to distinguish fruit buds from those which produce mere wood. The object then is to secure a fair annual growth of each, taking care that an ex cess of wood does not smother the fruit buds, but that all are spread or placed so as to have fullest possible iiv r ht and free air on their leaf surfaces. The fruit itself is generally best when screened by the shade of a leaf. If a tree does not make its proper average of new-wood growth in any year, it will decliue unless the fruiting is re duced. According to the last quarterly re port of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, the wheat-growera of that State have, as a rule, been agreeably surprised this year, the amount re ceived from the threshing machine far exceeding their expectations. The most experienced farmers under-esti mated their crop, and that, after stack ing. Fields that had been estimated at twenty bushels per acre threshed, in many instances, twenty-five to thir ty; and fields that were supposed to be badly damaged by cold weather in the spring pave unusually large returns. Many farmers report over forty bushels per acre, several over 50 bushels, and two f>l and G2 bushels per acre respec ticely. An experienced housekeeper furnish es us the followiug recipe for tapioca cream: One cup of tapioca soaked until soft in two cups ol cold or luke warm water. (If the water is luke warm, and kept warm, it will soak in less time.) Boil one quart of milk; beat together the yolks of three egg?, one cup of sugar and a teaspoon of salt. Stir the tapioca into the milk, and when boiling add the l>eaten eggs and sugar. Remove from the fire, add 11a voring, stir in lightly the whites beat en, and pour into serving dish. Serve cold. NO. 4
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