VOL. XX. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS/ Estate of James Young Dec'd. Letten of Administration in the estate of Jaraen Young, dec'd., late cf Clav towusliip, Butler eouuty, Pennsylvania, having been r ran ted to the undcrbiiined, all persons know ing ihemaelte# indebted to e.dd es tate will plea«e make immediate pay ment and any having claims against laid estate will present them duly authenticated for settle ment. ROBERT A. BROWN, Administrator. Coulteraville P. 0., Butler county, l'a. Eslaleol W. P. Brown, LATE OF HARRISVILLB. Letters testamentary on the estate of W. P. Brown, dec'd, late of Harrisville borough, Butler Co., Pa., have been granted to the un dersigned, all persons knowing themselves in debted to Slid estate will please make immedi ate payment and any having claims against ■aid estate will present them duly authentica ted for settlement. R. L. BKOWN, 1 EL .„ # ROBKRT BLACK. J Harrisville, Butler County, Pa._ j Orphans' Court Sale. By virtue of a decree of the Orphans' Cour of Butler county, to us directed, as well as l»y the authority given us in the last will and tes tament of Samuel G. Meals, dec'd, we will offer for sale at public outcry on the premises in Washington township, on MONDAY, FEBUARY 5, 1883. at 1 o'clock P. M., the following real estate: 80 Acres and YS Perches more or less, out of the northwest corner of the farm lately occupied by the said Samuel G. Me-'!- 'Vc'd. About7s acres cleared, bulunee gixiti v ~ >er; Good two-story frame housirand bunk U..ra recently erected thereon. -One-tHird of the purchase money on co'": irmfttion of sale by the Court, and the n-"i t I rr in tw<» equal annual installments WII\ . . v:.il interest from that date, to be secured b> . ..iJ and mortgaga. G. W. MEALS. OQe of the Executors. " ASSIGNEE'S SALE. ' : 'Ue nLder»igned offers for sale 70 acres of Uml, more or less, in Yeningo twp., Butler coii'n y. P*.. bounded on the north by Kelly l.e,r, e*4t by Siipual 3talker. south ay; Julia and on the \T6«t by Joseph Murrin und l:e;ra of John Murrin; 60 acres cleared. 10 of Which aro meadow, good orchard, all under laid with coal, good dwelling house, two stones ligj, part log and part frame, with kitchen at tached. good frame stable and hay house, well watered; one mil<> and a half east of Jlurrins vifcte. Sato on the premies on January 13th, J#M. at one o'clock P. m„ with privilege to ad- JiHiro to tlie Court Ilou-e in Butter, on the 15th d&v 01-Januarv, 1883, at o'clock, P m. Terms cash on delivery of deed. Dec. 18, 1882. MICHAEL McBRIDE. Assignee of James Murrin. " ASSITIXEE'N SALE. The undersigned, Assignee of David Zeigler, Jr., will, in pursuance of an order from Court, offer for sale the followinz property on the {Premises, in the borough of Harmony, on Tuesday, January 30th, 1883. atone o'clock, p. M.: One Steam Flouring Mill, situate in the bapoagh of Harmony, Butler county, Pa., with ail the machinery Ac., necessary to run said mill, on a lot of ground in said Borough, bounded north by an alley, east by an alley, ■ou(h by a lot and woolen factory of John Pearce, and west by a street, said lot being 00X80 feet, more or less. TKKMS: —One-third in hand on confirmation ofUJe, one-third in one year; and one-third in two years with interest, secured by bond and mortgage. F. A EDMONDS, Assignee ofD. Zeigler, Jr. ORPHANS' COURT SALE. By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court of Butler coanty, the undersigned aa Adminis trator of Charles Oswald, late of Oakland twp., dec'cL, will erpoee to public sale on the prem<s on. Friday* January 19th, A. D., 1883, at 2 o'clock, P. x., all that valusble tract of land situate in Oakland twp., said county; bounded and described as follows, viz: On the north by lands of Dennis O'Donnell: on the east by laoda at Egid Neff; on the south by lands of M. (Bouse, and on the west by lande of C. Kelly aiM John Bippus; containing about sixty thtei'acres.(subject to survey). Log house and barn thffeon erected, about forty five seres cleared, under fence and in good state of culti v at ion. TERMS OP SALE:—One-third purchase mon ey on confirmation of sale and residue in two equal annual payments, with interest from con firmation of sale. Unpaid purchase money to be secured by bond and mortgage on the premises, embracing attorney's commission of 5 per cent., and waiver it the year and day. or ali the pur chase money at confirmation of the sale by the 06art, at' tlie option of the purchaser. J. B. McJtJNKIN, PHILIP OSWAT.D, Att'y. Adm'r. of Chas. Oswald, dec'd. i| , i. jan3.3t Notice. Application will be made to the Legislature o&this State at its next session, for the pa-ssage of, a law changing the Road laws of Jeffer son. township, Butler eounty, Pa., and ex tending to said township the provisions of the Act of Assembly approved April 2nd, 1869, and the supplememt thereto, so far as the same may.be applicable thereto. HENRY BOWMAN AND OTJTERH, Citizens of Jefferson township. Dec. 13, 4t 1882.) Notice. A general meeting of the Farmers Mutua Fire" Insurance Company of Hsnnahstown BHW county, Pa., and vicinity, will be held atthehonae of Mrs. Krausie, in Hannahstown, on Saturday the 13th day of January, 1883, at one o'clock, P. m. All members are respec tively invited to attend. JACOB BECK, Pres't. HKKRY HECK, Sec'y. aecl3,3t KOTICET The partership heretofore existing between D. A. Hdck add J. N. Patterson, under the firm nrme of Heck * Patterson, expires by limita tion April Ist, 1883. Persons knowing them selves indebted to the above firm will please call afi4 Stttfe the same on or before the first of April, as after that date all claims not paid will bo left with an attorney for collection Any I periohi having claims against the linn will present same for settlement HECK A PATTERS :>N. BYE WANTED. TS® highest market- price Vill he paid by us for rye delivered at our wholesale liquor store in Butler. jlO 2m JACOB REIBER & BRO. ELECTION NOTICE. There will be an election of officers of the Glade Mill Mutual Insurance Company, on Saturday, the 13th of January, 1883, at one o'clock r. u., at the Glade Mill School House. H. OSBOIIN, President. d2O-3t. ~ NOTICE is hereby given, that applicstion will he made to the Legislature at the next session for the par age ef a law entitled. "An Act requiring exe cntort, tdminbtrators and guardians, to give public notice of the sale of personal property of decedents within the county of Butler." The object of said act is to compel executors, admin istrators and guardians, to give public notice of the sale of personal propeity of decedents by publication in one ot more newspapers or other wise. JAMES T. AUSTIN. d3O-4t NOTICE. PLTTBBL'BGH A WKSTERN R. R., OFFICE OK GENERAL MANAGES, PITTKHIKGH, PA. On and January Ist, ISB3 the Foxburg Division of the Pittibnrgh ar.d Western Rail road Co., wjll be open for Freight and Passen ger Traffic. Agents are now prepared to name ratea and receive freight for all points on line of tike Pittsburgh and Western. E. K.HYNDMAN, jsn,3-3t. General Manager Cftfiawerk m yftiirr.wn town. Terms and $ »«WCOTLLT free. Address U. HALLKIT & Co Portland, Maine. inar£),iy • ! Union Woolen jVlill^ BL'TI.EB, PA. 11. FULLEKTON. Prop'r. Manufacturer of BLANKETS, FLANNELS, YAKHS, Jfcc. Also custom work done to order, sn LI as carding Rolls, mikinsr Blankets, Flannels, Knit ting and Weaving Yarns, <xc„ .it very low prices. Wool worked on the 6Lares, il de «tr«d. rav7 1 y Fr >M the cf ASSAM, ' HI T I'A CONG, CACHAR. KANGRA VALLEY, OAKJEEL -ING, DEIIRV DOON, at.d cthei>. At'eolutely Pure. Superior in Flavor. Tne Most Eeonoin- Icul. Requires only half the u»u il quantity. gold bv all Grocers. JOHN C. PHILLIPS & CO , Acenlß of tLe Calcutta Tea Syndicate, 130 Water St, N. Y. Novß-ly. "BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire insurance Co. Office Cor. Main and Cunningham STS. J. C. ROESSIXG, PRESIDENT \VM CAMPBELL. TREASVKKIS H. C. HEINEMAN, SKCBBTARV DIRECTORS: J. L. Purvis, E. A. Ilelmboldt, William Campbell, J- W. Burkhart, A. Troutman, Jacob Schoene, G.C. R >essing, John Caldweli, Dr. W. lrvin, J J. Croll A. B. Rhodes, H. C. Heineman. JAS. T, M'JUNKIN, Gen, A«'T PA. Planing Mill —AND— Lumber Yard. J. L. PURVIS. L. O. PURVIS, S.G. Purvis & Co., HAHOFACTITRBBS AND DEALERS 111 Rough and Planed Lumber OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, FRAMES, MOULDINGS, SASH, DOORS, FLOORING, SIDING, BATTENS, Brackets, Gauged Cornice Boards, SHINGLES & LATH. PLANING MILL AND YARD WEAR German C;tl9ioUc < iuirfb lIK\KI G. HALS; FINE mm Till Oil, COR. PENN AND SIXTH HTBEETB, Pittxburgh, Pa THE Cleveland Wetk'y Herald FOR 1888. ENLARGED AND IMPROVED. AN liwnoriiblc, liidepeiiflcii'. PROKRMIVE and Reliable Jonrnal. All LLIE NEWH from All Parts of the .World. The most liandMome »n<l IK-MI arraused newH|>:iper in I lie Stale. Every department. In flie liandH of a eompetent Editor. . Stall correspondents at Wiwli liiKtou and CnliiiubuK. Send for our catalogue ol pre miums to club agent*, embrac ing A JEWETT fi GOODMAN ORGAN. A WHITE SEWING MACHINE, CASH PREMIUMS, BOOKS, ETC., ETC. EVERY ONE AN AGENT. A premium lor two or :my n umber ol SUBSCRIBERS* TERMS: $1,25 PER YEAR, Sample copies sent tree. Address, THE HERALD, C LKVKI-A.VI), O. LOST The snbscriber lost FR«>ni his faim in Wa-ih inxtoii, t[>. Uutler county , in Ooti.licr !II*T H dark red heiler, a little mixed willi lirindle, star on the forehead and wide in the horns, in very good order and about two ytarc old. I purchased Ihe heifer at Ihe vendue ol Mr. Sam uel Smith , Esq ,of said Washington LW|»., and she was stolen or broke from NIV said farm shortly afterwapis. I will give a iiberal reward to any person giving me inforuialiou of her alive, or for oiformation of her if kill ed or stolen. The last 1 l.eard of her wesat Hamilton's barn, formerly burn of said Samuel Smith. HI'GH YOUNG, Fairview Borough, Uutler C<»., l'a. Dec. 30, 1862. 4t. MEN WANTED OK BALARY- We yet iie<>d a few nfore jreliablo men to tell our Nureery Stock. Any man of nluck, energy and perseverance CFTN succeed without previouw experienco. Bituations irtEiWA>KST, and pay large. .Paiticulara free on application. Ad dies*, STATING AOE. at.d em lofing stamp. It. G. CHASE A CO., (The Chase Nuin ries). OEXEVA, N Y. RUPTUREiPILES Cured <rn contract. Safe arul certain method. Little or no pain. Without cutting or tying. Best care and board : for patients, $3 to $8 per week. For 1 circulars and. other information ad dreDr. R. VaullUEier, . 832 French Street, Erie, FU. For Dyspepsia, C "» 11 vne e .s. A 1 AL hTjksick Headache, *^jjfChronic Diar- Q rhooa t Jaundice, Impurity of the L Fever and ' Ajjue, Malaria. Iw and all Diseases *'■ JUL caused by De rangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED I.ITFR. Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes ths pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for Khcumati>m; general loss of appetite; Bowel# generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax; the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy, with considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful scnsr.ti nof leaving undone something which, ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; the patient complair.i of weariness an! debility; nervous, easily startled: feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation of the skin exists, spirits are low and desDonden:, and, although satisfied that exercise wouldbe bene ficial, yet cr.e can hardly summon up fortitude to try it —in fact, distrusts every remedy Severa. of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occur Tea when but few of them existed, yet examination after death has shown the Liver to have been extensively deranged. It should be used by all persons, old and young, whenever any of tlie above symptom* appear. Persons Traveling or Living in Un healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid all Malaria, Kilioutt attacks. Dizziness, Nau sea, Dr jwsin?;s, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no in toxicating beverage. If Yoxi have eaten anything hard of digest sn:i. or feel heavy after meals, or sleep less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors' Bills will be saved by always keeping the Regulator in the House! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly r.afe pui *atiTf, alterative and tonic can never t • icf The remedy is harmless and dot * iz< ' interfere with business or pleasure. IT PURELY VEGETABLE, An 1 I-.is «i the power and efficacy of Calomel or Qrinine, without any of the injurious after effects. A Governor's Testimony. Simmons Ivor Regulator has been in use in my fanu y f r - ;::e time, and I am satisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical science. J. GILL SHORTER, Governor of Ala. If r. Alexander 11. Stephens, of Ga., *ay« 'lave derived some benefit from the use of £im :.s Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a furti. r trial. " The only Thing that never fails to Relieve. M —l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never rrtve Kund aryth. ■'» to benefit me to the extent Simmons Li»*<.r i gulator has. I sent from Min nesota to f -r it. and vi< tild send further for such a rrcdic»r.e, n-:d wculd advise all who arc siin» J *rly affi< I- ! to % ve it a trial as it sc-ins the oul/ iliing that never fo,!s to relieve. P. M. JANNEY, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. \7. Hnson says: From actual ex peri nee the r«ccf Simm ■.:> Livtr I-emulator in my practice i • *e l**en and am sr.: ified to use and ;>rc*:crijc it a purgative Kxcd.-.m. I 'i. 1; • : '*/ the Genu';:' , . \ic!i ahvayi has • . • i . >.r the red Z T v.de-Mark and Si "ii.ia.-.j of J. If. Zi~.TI.IN & CO. FOK. SALr. T.V ALL DH V- -CISTS. m;- 0 ihon will cure ilyspcp .11, heartburn, mala ria, kidney <iliver complaint, and other v.-asting dis.as.-s. C'WT 'Tllffl - BROmWS BIT As enriches t!ie blocii . j s l.c system; eves weak:' -- lac': of energy, etc. Try a ! BBWK' T; BROWN'S mm ry a **-■'>t"g- . ■ » - ) tJ 3 S g gm rr/«, is tlie only Iron pre- -.ui.;n thnt il jes i:ot cole tlie t«.tl 1 »':11 l:ct cause lieii'lache o; cio,>at:o:i, as other 1 i<jii prepartti .:■> . ::!. 'i n q/p f QfM' Q Q mm BITTERS 1 adies and all sufferers from neu ralgia. hysteria, and kindred corn p'aints, will f::id it without an equal. , • Tf _ BUFFALO, MX THE ONLY ASSOCIATION OF PROHI.NKNT Lady Physicians IN THE WORLD. This institrtion was foi mod for the POIC pur pose of trmlin# tlie tli>cu cs of women. It in i-onipo c»l only »>f phyr ic.'nn.s u li<> Ir.vo obtninrd a lemlin# lank* m tlio i-nfo bv tin It vcknou lc'!ft| ability anil Micros*, antl %\ho have ntaile the health and IHHC.'I«CH of won en a stnily fi»r yofirg. Luili- * can be succc-cfiil v ireatnl :it li nio, \vitli«»iit any oilier expense than Ihe cost ot the meilicir.e. Advice i*y m;«il fr r. Si-n-l staop for c;miliars and '(*sfhiinnlalß from ladies who have been pernianenily cured. "LjfIDIiES'TOITIC" I Is the Favorite Prescription of the Women's Medical Institute I fur Pro'.ij sns Uten. or Fnl'ing of the M'onib, | l.eiiron hoea or \V 1,.i p.; Inllnminntion !ii»i I L'lcointi in of th" Woiiii.; ie<- Klooil injr, Ai:ieiiorihr.cri or l:iek of nionllil.v vMtn. lion, Wpaknc"? in tin IC.ick iiiitl StoniHi !). Knliit iK'ftn, Nt'ivons I'r -trmioM, lijspepsia, Kiiiney I Compl.-iint-, Uarrcniief.", and n« ntm ir ilnrinj; I'rt t-nnnc". Nt rcf.nlnr |« rio<V < lir.i p-c of iifo. :ir<! r :hr ilclillilj i f wunicn. It vonit vt 'y <jnex tjuick antl j'ei mct.t til ■<l"A C nc Fir.t Tcttle Is £ufticier.t. bv PrDggists. Price, SI.OO. in the CITIZEN. I BUTLER. PA.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IT. 1883. AN INSECT MENAGERIE- | A VISIT TO A QUEER OLD CURIOSITY SHOP AND ITS KEEPER. 1 Mrs. Mary Treat and Her Swarm of Insect Companions—How Spiders are Tenderly Taken Care of. VINELAND, N. J., Dec. 29.—Most readers of the Preis are doubtless familiar with the name of Mrs. Mary Treat, whose studies in natural history have been from time to time recorded in the columns of the monthly maga zines and other periodicals. At pres ent Mrs. Treat's observations are con fined chiefly to spiders, she and the Rev. Dr. McCook, of Philadelphia, be ing the only persons in this country who are making a speciality of study ing the habits of the little creatures. Calling at her cottage in the suburbs of this city, where she is cosily, "at home" in a suite of sunshiny apart ments, which she occupies alone, I found the spider-lover—a cultured, re fined, delicate little lady, whose hair is lightly touched with gray—return ing from a morning spent in an oak epening at a short distance in the rear of the house. In this bit of woods it is her habit, when the weather is fine, to devote a portion of the early part of each day to Taking observations of all sorts of homely wood-born things which live in the bark of trees, crawl upon the ground and burrow under de cayed logs and dry leaves. After a pleasant apology for ber serviceable dress and stout boots, I was ushered in to the study of the specialist. Books and papers marked "with the author's compliments," occupy the reading stand ; in the sunny bay-window a microscope is stationed ready lor use; bright woods, gathered leaves, souvenirs of an autumn journey in the North, adorn the walls, and a small table placed at a sufficient distance from the window to allow easy passage around it, holds several large boquets of more brilliancy than beauty. A BUILDING SITE FOB SPIDEBS. "Those are not placed there to ad* in ire," she says, in answer to the notice they call forth, "but to intice some spider, out in search of a building site. Several have settled down to business olready. Would you like to take a peep at them in their own domiciles?" moving around the table with as much pride as though it was a plush-em broidered sunflower she was about to exhibit. "There is one of my especial pets; isn't he a beauty?" There he was —a brown, hairy, long-legged fel low, sitting with his knees doubled up, evidently waiting for some uncautious visitor in the edible line to come along and supply him with a meat dinner. "How do they subsist now that fly time is over ?" I a.-^ked. "Oh, I forage for them," she answers. "When the weather is cold they eat nothing. There is a colony of them now un er that bell-glass in the light; they have gone into winter quarters. Sometimes they keep active the winter through without food ; but whenever days are sunny dinners are plenty, for I throw open doors and windows, set out some growing things to make the room bright as possible, and the flies come buzzing in and I am able to harvest a nnall crop. It is a poor day when my spiders and I together cannot lure a few unwary victims into a neat little trap. By moderate strategy I make the c- pture and they put the prisoners to death." "Is it true that they devour their kind ?" "Sometimes. The male is a hen peeked fellow, and the female will eat him if she gets a chance. Occasionally a mother spider kills some of her nu merous progeny to feed her remaining ravenous brood of spiderlings. At one time I brought up aa entire family in a bottle, and you can have no idea how interesting I found them. The babies, in astonishing numbers, swarm on the mother's back and crawl over her body until big enough to wean, which is not until they are from four to si\ weeks old. At that time she kicks, shakes or scrapes them off by the dozen, and after a few rebuffs they run away to set up house-keeping for themselves. It is amusing to watch the mother feed her brood. I have frequently offered her a nice plump fly, which she accepted eagerly, and immediately several of the little ones were bidden to the feast. Three or four would gather around and suck the juices while she held the dain ty morsel for them- When they had drawn plenty off they scampered and a new relay came up to lay hold of the tid-bit." "It is plain you do not share the popular antipathy to spiders," I re marked, endeavoring to make satisfac tory inspection and still maintain a rc speetful distance from a sprawly black creature that goes Stalking about on some mysterious errand connected with its spinning. "No, I have no antipathy for them," she says warmly. "They are pretty good companions when one lives alone I have spent several years studying them here and in portions of New England, cultivating their agriculture closely, and yet I feel that I am only beginning to know their ways. They are learning to know me and will take building materia! from my hand when I offer it. A spider lives several years, and besides their domestic life, their building and spinning and weaving which are beautifully and systematical ly carried on, there are births and deaths to be chronicled and curious characteristic traits which only the close observer discovers. MOURNING FOB TIIE DEATH OK A SPIDER. i At the time of my last visit one fine specimen had just met an un timely death, and his skeleton, packed with care, had been sent by mail to I)r. McCook who pronounced it a genu ine epcira slellatu, a valuable acquisi tion which—while the doctor profound ly regretted that Mrs. Treat could not | have had more ample opportunity lor studying its h in life—be was proud to add t-i his collection now tliat it was dead. Stella la'a disease had also brought letters of condolence from nieu ofeiuiuencrf of our own ami other nationalities, to who-n the death of a spider, and su"h a spider, was a deplorable event. Oa the occasion of a yisit in late autumn, Mrs. Treat was manifesting great enthusiasm over a tent-building spider wbieh had finish ed off a queer little triangular ediflce under the edge of the table, a dainty, gausy affair, more rare than but not as beautiful as the orb-weaver's struct ure. Another busy worker had struck his tent under shelter of a big leaf, were the least touch would apparently be Hke an earth quake among such fairy-like formations; a:;d I—who had ruthlessly demolished many a fragile structure by a vigorous stroke of a broom found myself involuntarily walking about on tip-toe and speaking in hushed tones while makinga sur vey of these dainty specimens of spi der-crochet. Certainly it is a generous house mistress who not only offers these little creatures building spots rent free, but helps them to the choicest noolfr for no-ting. A lover of spider-kind like Mrs Treat might find opportunity to study antiquities in web-weaving by going into a certain old curiosity tbop which I explored in San Francisco not long ago. "Not a cobweb has been removed, not a spi der's nest disturbed for twenty odd years," proudly asserted the gray old proprietor of the years' accumulated dust, and of the strange birds and monkeys; and then he added, plaintive ly, "Yes, there were three that were brushed down somehow. I was sorry to loose them." It looked as if many generations of spider families had found occupancy there and all the tribes of spiderdom had been engaged in spinning fresco. "Ilere is a gift which came from the North,', Mrs. Treat said, holding up a pretty gray cocoon that looked like soft woven silk attached to the foliage ends of some dry grasses, the whole snugly packed in a box, like a jewel in its case and sent by mail. 'This holds the eggs of a different species. I shall put it in the sunshine to hatch, and by-and-by, when the baby spiders issue from the cocoon, I shall have an excellent opportunity to study them as they are growing up. 1 get a great many specimens from New Hamp shire put up in wooden boxes and bottles— spiders, nests and cocoons, some have their houses sent with them; and others build when they reach here." A little tray was next set out for inspection, the contents of which were very interesting, as they con sisted of nests of various construction brought from the spiders' out-door haunts. They were of surprisingly beautiful workmanship, and their style of architecture is as varied as beauti ful. "I have seen even a naturalist search a plat over and over for a loug time for one of these r.ests," Mrs. Treat continued, "aud then failed to find it, although I confined him to a space of but a few inches, so cunning, lv are they interwoven among the grasses." Various materials are used in their composition—fiuesticks, moss, drj r oak leaves, blades of grass and cot ton. In some the tiny sticks, an inch or mose long are pilled up in real log house fashion and hidden away among the moss heads, like a toy bouse iu a mimic forest. Others dwell in a rolled leaf held together with stitches. A little to one side iu the rear of the cottage, a large circular plat is enclosed by an ar bor vitae hedge, so compact that only ants and spiders can pass iu at random. A narrow gateway lets the outsider iuto this enclosure. In the centre a line maple tree offers shade in summer; birds' baths are scattered about, seats are at the disposal of such favored visitors as are allowed to invade the privacy of the Insect Menagerie, as the spot is called. Mrs. Treat speaks enthusiastically of the mats of English violets that stud the sod in spring, and of the tall ferns that shoot their fronds through the evergreen wall. It is bleak aud de serted now; the spiders which spun their white tents and hung their gossamer patterns all along the arms of the trees aud from tip to tip across the hedge rows, have disap peared in the depths and closed the doors of their burrows upon them. The birds know that they are wel come and their merry twitterings is heard all day long. In autumn a small forest of pokeberries was allow ed to rljien its fruit under the cot tage window, the birds coming regu larly from their outlying haunts to get their daily rations. When frost fell the remaining crop was harvested and stored in the cellar, and now each day brings the little pensioners in hungry broods awaiting to be fed. Mrs. Treat gives her whole time to her work, and her lield of study widens every day, "There is enough to fill up a lifetime if I were to stay here and watch the small life that populates my own house aud garden," sho said in reply to a question. — Philadelphia Press. At a recent agricultural exhibition at Ludenburg, Germany, was exhibit a threshing-machine which was driven by electricity at the rate of 1,400 revo lutions a minute, and which at the same time, illumined the enclosure in which it worked. At the eighty-fifth annual Fat Cat tle Show in Islington, the <£ueen and Prince of Wales were among the ex hibitors. The Queen won a prize of i ")0 at the Birmingham Agricultural Exhibition, and expressed her desire to have a cup in lieu of the money. "If you would be truly happy, my dear," said one New York lady to another, "vou will have neither eyes nor ears when your husband comes home late from the club." "Yes, I know," answered the other, wearily "but what am I to do with my nose ?'. | Blown up on a Steamboat. "I>id }ou ever meet with an acci dent while traveling?" inquired the reporter of a clerical looking individual as they sat smoking on the upper deck of a Sound steamer. "Well, I don't know whether it was an accident or not," he replied, "but I was once blown up on a steamboat." "Ah !" ejaculated the scribe, as he i whipped out his pencil and note book ; i "Tell us about it." ' Lighting a fresh cigar the pious faced chap began : "It was in the summer of' 74, and I had just com deted a big contract up iu Albbny, and sacured passage for myself a d wife on one of the steam boats for New York Being very tired we went directly to our state room Just as I began to doze, my j better-half exclaimed: "John, where I are the checks for our baggage ?" "Don't know," I growled. "But didn't you have the trunks sent aboard ?" "Guess not," says I. ell you are a nice one you are,' 1 she shrieked, 'Don't you know, you il j lustrious, half-baked idiot, that all my best clothes are iu those trunk? ? don't you know you miserable villian, that every valuable I have is in that bag gage? Ob, you confounded fool!" "She kept a running fire of abuse nearly all night long. I could hear it in my sleep, and when I told her as soon as she became exhausted, that the baggage had been sent by rail, she started oil again with the fury of a mad bull. Here he stopped and relit his cigar. "You must have had a hard time of it," said his companion, "but how about the accident "Why I have just been telling you," he replied. "Well, there's nothing brilliant in that." "There isn't, eh ? If you've never been blown up on a steamboat by a mad woman, then you don't kuow anything about explosions, that's all." lie flung the stump of his cigar over the rail, and went below to seek the seclusion that the cabin grants. Why De Long Perished. "Senator Jones, who is in Carson, Nev., gives au account of De Long's Arctic expedition, which be got from Captain Nerbaum iu San Francisco. Nerbaum is a Russian who has been for many years in the service of the Alaska Fur Company. He was the last man from whom the De Long far y received provisions. lie says: De i Long left my station, at almost the j northern part of Alaska, and I furnish ed him, at the order of iho Alaska Fur Company, with sledges, dogs and pro- | visions. He took 27 dogs and one In- i dian. I account for the los 3cf the party on the theory that ! they killed the dogs. Ido not believe j that De ljong knew anything about the , undertaking he was grappling with i and was ignorant of the means by I which he could move in that region. : I see by his diarv that there was but one dog left a few days prior to bis I death. He must bate killed the dogs' without knowing their great value, . and when the dogs are gone there is i absolutely no hope left. The dogs could not have died or been lost They were killed. The scent of these ani mals is remarkable, and they will de tect provisions no matter where they may be. When men in these regions j kill Polar bears and have more meat than they can eat, they cache the moat, and it sometimes lies in the ice for years until discovered by dogs. ; The ice is full of those places. If you meet an Indian in that region and kiil his dog he lies down and dies, consid ering that the better part of him is goue. Another great oversight was the neglect to take the right sort of guns. I offered De Long a fowling piece made expressly for use in the Arctic seas and calculated to stand the climate. He refused it because he wanted a gun to kill bears. I explain ed that be needed guns for birds and not bear-, lie would not listen to me, and took Remington rifles, the weight of which hampered him and were of no use. He must have seen seafowl fly ing over bis head all the time, but couM not kill them. The diary says the Indian, after drawing the sledge all day, would go out at night and get birds and kept the party alive two weeks. Anywhere you cut a hole through the ice fish will swarm, but the party had no fishing tackle. All their chances are thrown away through ignorance. lam not saying a word against He Lon?. I liked him person ally, but he was not the man to com mand the Arctic expedition. The j north pole, in my estimation can be rea.'.'bed oiriy by following up the warm current which flows to the pole, and beyond is an open sea. I'ut men in such an expedition who have been raised in the northern part of Alaska aiul who know nil about the region and there is a strong chance of suc cess." It i-i better that onions should re main frozen through the winter, pro vided they can thaw gradually, than to put them in the cellar or other warm place where vegetive power will be aroused. If put in large heaps onions will be sure to spoil, but if spread iu thin layers and covered with hay or straw, so if frozen the thawing will be gradual, they will keep well all winter. Fanny, the mare belonging to Lieu tenant-Colonel John Hodges, Jr., died at Salem, Mass., recently, aged about thirty years. She accompanied ber late master (the major) with the Fif tieth Mas->achus'tts regiment to Port Hudson to their nine months' cam paigne, and afterward with the !• ifty ninth into Virginia. Fanny carried her master through the Battle of the Wilderness, and swam North Anna river with him on her ba-k. She was rever wouuded, and afte. - Colonel Hodges's death at Peters ur,', .lulv 30, 18U4, was returned to h s family in Salem. Learning the Grocery Business. A Smull Boy in Detroit Free Press. I went to learn the grocery business with Mr. Ginger, and found him the clear ginger itself, and he found me ditto. I was only fourteen years old, but was lut older in my own war of think ing. und stood risrht on my dignitv the first day I was there. It only «O i; me abemt half an hour to learn the i business, anyway. 1 I-arnt the candy, sugar, oppl", j orange aud raisin business in less time ! than that, for I knew all about it before I got my hat off. After I had been there about twenty minutes, and was pretty well through with a bottle of gum lirops, the boss asked nie if I hail ever been in a grocery store before. I was too full tor reply—at least nty mouth was—but as soon as 1 got mv rnoulh nearly empty I said: 'Often; been iu bigger ones than this, too.' 'Well,' he said you seem to take hold of some parts of it pretty quiek ' OL, ye-! 1 can lesr i anything quick that I set my mind to.' 'See.' said IK-, 'if you can learg t<> dust off those haip chimneys, wasii off those shelves, bring up some potatoes out of the cellar and ieave off eating candy.' 'I don't think I can set my mind to do that. Have you no man to do these sort oi things?' 'No; We always make the boy do th?.t.' 'Well, where's the boy? Ain't he come yet? I'll bet you a quarter that before I'm here long he'll have to get Here earlier in the morning than this.' 'Who ?' 'The boy.' 'What boy?' 'Didn't you say that the boy did all the dirty work ? Come, old fellow, you can't fool me. If you think I'm green, why you have got a hold of the wrong man, and it's me that's telliug you.' 'Ju.-t then there was a lady come iu. She ask"d the price of our best Hour. I referred her to the boss, 'flour has rais ed,' he said, 'i;nd we couldn't let you have a barrel for less than seven dol lars.' 'Oh, I can get it for six dollars aud fifiy cents,' she said. 'ln your misty mind,' says I. 'Hold your tongue, boy'! says the boss. 'Mv advice to you missus,' said 1 'is if you cm get as good Hour as we have for six dollars and a half you'r a tangled up monkey if you don't go and get it, if your credit is creditable.' 'You're an impudent puppy!' remark ed Ibe boss, savagely. 'The some to yourself and many of them,' says I, meekly. With this the old lady marched out sedatelv. 'Hold on, old lady,' I says; 'don't go oil' mad. I'll let you have a barrel at six doliars and seventy-five cents cash!' She kept on out, without let ting ou she heard me. I sang out: 'Good-bye, while you're hanth!' As soon as shj was gone the boss said: 'Boy, you won't suit me. You would drive ail my customers away with your sauce, besides driving me crazy.' 'Neither one of them would be a very long drive, if I'm properly ac quainted with myself, and I guess I am.' 'Clear out!' shouted thj boss, 'before I kill you on the spot.' 'Which spot do you m3an?'siid I, at the same time laughing hea. lily in his face. lie threw a pound weight at me. I made a nice catch, aud said, 'out on Prst base.' He looked wild. I threw it back to him, but he mtiffed it and it went out through a window. I don't know where this would have stopped had not a customer conic in. I looked down the street ami saw the boss coming with a policeman. 1 quickly got inside, locked the door anil ducted out the back way, resolved to srive up the grocery business, and I have luver been in that town since. Twenty-two State Legislatures a e n >\v at work. We are certainly a law making people, if not law abiding. It is said .Jay Gould is changing his habits. We know an industrious scribe who would like very much to catch on to those he is discarding. How many calendars and almanacs for 1883 have you collected? This new rage has apparently taken fast hold upon those who indulge in it, and is spreading all over the country. Malaria is no longer a fashionble complaint, and you must now complain of an 'awful cold on your cheat.' If asked where contracted, give the name of some rich person who recently en tertained company. 'Johnny,' said the teacher, 'a lie can bo acted a.- well as told. Now, if your father should put sand in his su<;ar and sell it, he would be acting a lie ami doing very wrong.' 'That's what mother told him,' said Johnny. There were 46,1G2,738 bushels of grain shipped from the port of New York in 1882. The grain was carried in 103'J steamers and 240 sailing ves sels, but not a pound of it in an Ameri can vessel. The name of Washington appears to be regarded with extraordinary vener ation in Oriental countries,'eyen among roval personages, who might naturally be expected to admire King George and his redcoats rather than the leader of tho ragged Continentals. Prince Taruhito de Arisugawa, the uncle of the Kikadoof Japan, recently made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Washington, and now we learn that the King of Siam, has sent 'roval contributions' to the Washington monument. Per haps when the tall shaft is finished some other Oriental prince will send i uu a gilded pagoda t) tcp it off with, AT THII PA WN-SHOP DOOK. : Iu the winter mornine, ea-lv when onlv a f< vr C were astir. And the Gutters were up at the wind<.wt> anil the snow lay whit? n the street's, AH the wh<el< of travel and trallic were begin* ninsc t" whin and whirr, And the sunshine drove il.c shadows alike ghosts from their ilark retreats, Frm r.u: tiip tenement Louses, from cellars so cold ,-nJ iia iip, That the humid blorsoms of (Jea'h gleam v. lil.e'y on wall aad tioor, The \ta' V'ul eutinels sto'e away from the waking camp. Anil, shiverin; with cold and hunger, ap pealed ;■! the pftwn-.diop door. j i here was one iu lie r widow's weeds who lad striven lrom day to d«v To keep her children in comfort, with plenty of food to eat, But tl.- ii . would be due to-morrow, she'd not the money -to pay, And oh, the disgrace and horror of being turned into the street She looked about in her for something that -he could spare From her tenderly noarded treasure —» scanty yet precious store — Ai.d bearing away the jewel that proudly sl.e used to wear, In the dusk of a wintry morning she stood a the pawn-shop door. There were others who gathered around her, \\ hose faces too weil betrayed The shrine at which they worshiped, the vice that had bitten iu Through the fibre of all their being, till un. blushingly they displayed The tokens of their enslavement, the taints and traces of sin. f They are regular coiners, by the den on o drink accursed, The lazy and tattered "hummers," albeit of breadth and brawn, Who are driven at early raoruiug by the scourge of a terrible thirst— Ah ! little have they to hope for whose soul* are already in pawn ! l!ut there outside of the group, with finger* aching and ted, A little boy with a bundle slips into a vacant place ; There are no shoes on his feet, not much of a cap on his Lend, And the great big tears run over the shrunk en and x-areworn face, lie is hungry and cold and wretched ; there is no fire on the hearth, Not a bit of bread in the cupboard, nor even a scrap of meat; • And the little brothers aud sisters are strangers to joy and mirth, When they're pinched by the old of winter and haven't enough to eat. Ah ! sad enough is the picture and little we dream or know Of the terrible storms eucountered, the auguish and sore distress Of many we daily meet iu our journeying to and fro, Whom we never have thought to pity, and never have cared to bless, And driven before the wind of a merciless, cruel late, Like vessels shorn of their sails and urged to a rocky shore. Bereft of their early hopes, and swept from their high estate, Pitiful wrecks ! they stranded close to the pawn-shop door. —Josephine Pu'ltrd, in Harper's Y.'.eLly. Hansom cabs are run in Philadel phia by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and passengers ore carried to nearly any point in the city for 25 cents, or two persons for the same price. A livery man has had some vehicles built in close imitation, and travelers get into them without knowing utiy difference, until called upon to pay a dollar or two Charles F. Freeman, Who sacrificed his child in a religious frenzy at Po cassett, Mass., three years ago, and is now in a lunatic asylum, is regarded as having recovered his reason, and is likely soon to be released. "The child's life was lost,"' he says, "through ignorance aud superstition. Knowl edge and science have saved mine and restored my reason. I intend to be guided by reason through the rest of my life." The components of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup are daily prescribed by the ablest physicians, whose success is due to the specfic influence of these components. Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup skillfully prepared for immediate use, is for sale by all druggists. At Little Itideau, East Hawksburg, Ontario, a hired man murdered a Mr. Cooke and wife, their eldest daughter and one son. Cooke was murdered with an axe in the barnyard; M re. Cooke and daughter were strangled in the woodshed. The son George was killed in bed with un axe. Another 8011 had his thigh broken, but may re-, cover. Fannie Cooke, coming to her brother's assistance, received a Se vere wound in the breast. The mur derer is still at large. In October, 18*1, two tramps enter ed the Utah it Northern Railroad stc tion at Franklin, Idaho, and, pointing cocked pistol at Accent Hinckley, de manded the combination of the sale.' The pistol went off and killed Hinck lt;v. The tramps were arrested anil Michael Mooney, the one who held the pistol, was hanged last Friday, lie died game. He refused to disclose anything respecting himself, his family or his life. It was claimed that the pistol went off accidentally. A Most Remarkable Case. Dying—yet living. Dr„ filler, of, 129 South Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa., savs: "1 am personally acquainted with a middle-aged In Philadel phia, who hail b.-en giveu up to die by • a consultation of many physicians. She was confined to her bed for months, ( and was momentarily expected to die. In this condition she took Manaliuand, to the surptise and disappoimeutof all, sherecovered her health perfectly. Her case is reported in Dr. Hartiudu s book on the "Ills of Life," 31s', page. Ask pour Druggists for one, or address Dr. Ilartman, Oaborn, O. NO. <)
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