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
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FREIGHT PREPAID WITHIN 50 MILKS OF OUR CITT
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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.
GET THE BEST
Watches,
Clocks,
Jewelry,
Spectacles,
And Silver-Plated Ware,
at the lowest cash prices at D. L. CLEE
LANDS, one square South of Court House.
Clocks, Jewelry and Spec
tacles carefully repaired to order and satisfac
tion guaranteed.
FEKRIB ARMOR,
Justice of tlie Peace
Main street, opposite Posiofflce,
ZKUBNOPLK, PA.
DARBYS
PROPHYLACTIC
FLUID.
A Household Article for Colrerul
Family die.
v For Scarlet and
I Eradicates |*yp«»old Ferera.
ATcMUCaMw ■ Diphtheria, Sall-
I VALARTA
■ ■ Sore Throat, Small
Poi > Measles, and
all Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting oa
the SicV should use it freely. Scarlet Fever nas
never been known to spread where the Fluid was
used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it after
black vomit had taken place. The worst
cases of Diphtheria yield to it.
FeveredaodSlokPer- '
sons refreshed and
Bed Sores prevent
ed by bathing with
Darbys Fluid.
Impure Air made
harmless and purified.
For Sore Throat it is a
»itfe cure.
C*ataeioq destroyed. ,
For Frosted Feet,
Chilblains, Piles,
Chaflngs, etc.
Rheumatism cured. |
Soft White Complex
ions secured by iu use.
Ship Fever prevented.
To purify tfie Breath,
Cleanse the Teeth,
' it can't be surpassed.
Catarrh reliev«l and
cured.
Erysipelas cured.
Burns relieved instantly, j
Scars prevented.
Dysentery cured.
Wounds healed rapidly.
Scurvy cured.
Aq for Animal i
or Vegetable Poisons, |
Stings, etc.
1 used the Fluid during
our present affliction with
Scarlet Fever with de
cided advantage. .It is
indispensable to the sick- !
poom. WM. F. SAND
w'oia, gy.-ie, Ah
■ Scarlet Fever |j j
I Cured. I 1
gJCAIX-PQ*
PITTING of Small
, Pox PREVENTED
! A member of my fam
ily was taken with
i Small-pox. I used the
Fluid'; the patient was
i not delirious, was not
' pitted, and was aboqf
the hotue again in thre«
weeks, and no others
. had it. J. W. PA*K
' INSON, Philadelphia.
I Diphtheria I
I Prevented. 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
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XIsT THE WORLD.
This Institution was formed for the sole pur
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composed only of physicians who have obtained
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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.
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