VOT, XX. RH.MHJOM. JOHJWHTin. ~ A NEW FIRM. ~ DRY GOODS 1 NOTION HOUSE OF! PBDGHtWGITZEL fl ILIj, OX OK ABOUT APRIL 2ii cl, 1883, Open Their New Stock of Dry Goods end Notions r«.r (be examination of I lie public, in llie room formerly occupied by Sc«tt ? n Conleclionarj', U:;*ON BLOCK, MAIN ST, BUTLEF, PA- §T ERMS CAS H§ t u r> E '...'* JOHN BICKEL, WHO IS TIE SOLE Kill [OH THESE SHOES IH BUTLLR, And Who Takes Orders for the Custom Work of this Firm. ALSO 350 Pairs of Slippers, bought at Sheriff's Sale to be closed out cheap. JkJL^&O 500 Pairs of Plow Shoes, all sizes, to be sold cheap. ALSO A large assortment of Mens'Fine Wear in all the Latest Styles, Low'and High Cuts English Bals, Buttons, Pom Pedro, etc. ALSO All the Best New EDgland, New York and Philadelphia makes of all kinds ot boots, Bhoes and slippers always on hands. ALSO All kinds of Leather and Findings, large stock of French Cnlf and Kips American Calf and Kips, Moroccoes, Linings, Sheffield Red Sole and Baltimore Oak-Sole Leather. ALSO Our own Hand Work, which CANNOT bo excelled in Butler either for Style, Work or Muterial. ALSO Farmers can hare their repairing and mending done on the same day they bring it in. JOHN BICKEL, MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA. NEW STORE. NEW STOCK A NEW AND COMPLETE STOCK OF " lEEIHEt HP EIHOII6S JUST BfCIHIDI" OAK A SD HEMLOCK SOLE, FRENCH AND DOMESTIC KII'AND CA I.E. C01.1.A It. WKT.T. SKIRTING UI'PEK, BELTING, HARNESS AND LACK LEATHER ROA"N A USTID IPIIISJIK: ZLIHSrHsTG-S, ETC. ALSO MiSIFACTCHKR OF ALL KINDS OF Carriage, Buggy and Wagon Harness, Collars, Etc., Etc. And carry a full stock of Whips, Robes, Blankets, Bruslics, and all other Goods belonging to the Business. AU Kinds of Repairing will Receive Prompt Attention. •yPlease call and examine our Goods and get Prices before you purchase elsewhere. 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Stings, etc. *®"f p drlr ' l U P , 1 used the Fluid during Cholera prevented, our present affliction with P un " c< l and Scarlet Fever with de- healed, cided advantage. It is In eases of I>eath it indispensable to the sick- 1 should be used about room. -WM. F. SAND- the corpse —it will FORD, Eyrie, Ala. prevent any unpleai- I ant smell. The eminent Phy -a I Efctaii, J. MARION ■Scarlet J? ever■ sims, M. D., I I York, says: "( am ■ fin r A/1 9 convinced Prof. Darbys ■ VUIOU. M Prophylactic Fluid is a 1 valuable disinfectant." Vanderbllt University, Nashville, Tenn. 1 testify to the most excellent qualities of Prof. 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. LurroN, Prof. Chemistry. Darby* Fluid is Recommended by Hon. ALEXANDER H. STHPHE-NS, of Georgia ; Rev. CHAS. F. DEBMS, D.D., Church of the Stranger*, N. V.; Jos. L&CONTE,Columbia, Prof..University,S.C. Rev. A J. BATTLE, Prof., Mercer University; Rev. GEO. P. PIERCE, Bishop M. E. Church. INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY HOME. 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 claimed. For fuller information get of your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the p* prietors, J. H. /EILIN & CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA Oh,Myßack! That's a common expres sion and has a world of meaning. How much suf fering is summed up in it. The singular thing about it is, that pain in the back is occasioned by so many things. May be caused by kidney disease, liver com plaint, consumption, cold, rheumatism,dyspepsia,over work, nervous debility, &c. Whatever the cause, don't neglect it. Something is wrong and needs prompt attention. No medicine has yet been discovered that will so quickly and surely cure such diseases as BROWN'S IRON BITTERS, and it does this by commencing at the foundation, and mak ing the blood pure and rich. Logans port, Tnd. Dec. I, IESO. For a long time I have been a sufferer from stomach and kidney disease. My appetite was very poor and the very small amount 1 did eat disagreed with me. 1 was annoyed very much from non-retention of urine. I tried many remedies with no success, until I used Brown's Iron Litters. Since I used that my stomach does not bother me anv. My appetite is simply immense. My kidney trouble is no more, and my general health is such, that 1 feel iiko a new mas. After the use of lirown's Iron Bitters for one month, 1 have gained twenty pounds ia weight. O. B. SAKULNT. Leading physicians and clergymen use and recom mend BROWN'S IRON BIT TERS. It has cured others suffering as you are, and it will cure you. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor, Main and Cunningham Sts. G. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL, TREASURER H. C. HEINEMAN, SECRETARY DIRECTORS: J. L. Piuvls, E. A. Helmboldt, William Campbell, !J. W. Huikbart, A. Troutnian, Jacob Scboene, G. C. Hocusing, j John Caldwell, Dr. W. lrvin, J J. J. Croll. A. B. Rhodes, | H. C. Heincman. JAS. T» M'JUNKIN, Gen. Ae't BUTLER vrn FLORAL CHROMO c»ito», EE m E Mlzr bit, an.l >■ llluitr»t«4 ■I IS Bi M llook. all who irmm In I nH.I ■ I B B '- »taißp. fur uo«U«e u4 M. aUMJSJ««I.Ii.(. Miatl.. thl. HP« ™ ■«■■■■ 1.8. IIDIOUTAeO., NCWTttI. low in !>•»•*•. sellini; f.ist. nre«l«-«l fvrry whrr<-, I.lb«*r»l Itrxllr/, <«»ri , t»un A ( </« N. 1 ourth bt., I'tuladclpliia, i'S* Tf iril[D( WANTED $ 100. MOA WKKK. ?I'J a day at home easily made 9'fc('<wtly outlll free. Address Tkuk & Co. Augn.iTu, lliiiut. mans) ly. BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28. 1883 DUKES' LIFE. THE PRAYING JUROR. What G. Wash. Breakiron, One of the Twelve, Has to Say. The First Step Taken at Harris burg. UNIONTOWN, March 19—The feeling over the Dukes' verdict here is still as great as it was the night the verdict was rendered, and more particularly among those who were warm friends of Dukes previous to the trial. Dukes went around among his particular friends and told them a marvelous story.about Nutt going into his room and assaulting him. Then when asked by these friends in regard to letters said to have beeu written by him to Captain Nutt, he would reply that that was all talk ; that he had written two letters to Nutt, but they were such as any gentleman would write, and no offense can be taken from them, and this way he worked on the sympathies of many people and ob tained their influence and accomplish ed his end. He is still at his home in German twp., and has not yet decided what he will do. His attorneys have not seen him since the trial to settle on their fees. AMALONO ASKS FOR PRAYER. George Washington Breakiron, one of the immortal twelve that acquitted Dukes, states that immediately afier the charge was delivered and the jury retired to make up the verdict, Ama long said in a very solemn voice, "Will some one please lead in prayer?" whereupon Juror Clawson knelt and all the rest followed suit. Claw son made a long prayer. He eaid he did not know bow long it was, but that they were on their knees a good while, and when they arose the letters were read and a ballot taken, but that he (Breakiron) did not vote the first time, as he did not know exactly which way to vote. After the first ballot he voted with Amalong for acquittal. When asked what he thought about such letters being written to a father about the daughter he loved, Break iron looked very serious for a moment and then BP id: "They say he loved her powerful.'' When asked if he prayed he replied: "Oh, no; I never could do that." A MODEL FATUER. He was then asked if he had not a daughter, to which he repl'ed, "Yes." "Well, Wa.-h," the interviewer said, "wasn't your daughter a little unfor tunate ?" He hesitated a moment, and then said, "Yes, but she got him?" "How got him, Wash ?" "Why she made him marry her." "Well, Wash havn't you more than one daughter ?" "Yes, I have four." "Didn't you have two daughters that were unfortunate?" Here he studied some time and did not know what to say, but finally he replied: "Well, if I must tell it, they were all three unfortunate; but they all got their man." This man Breakiron is 52, years of age, and can scarcely read or write. He lives in Bullskin township, about four miles cast of Connellsville, in the mountains, and six miles northeast of this place. Amalong and several oth ers wanted to maee this uian foreman, but he said be would rather play fore man on some case that was not so important. He said that he acted conscientiously in the matter, and sup posed that whatever Amalong did he thought was for the best, as he seeme to regard him in a fair light. TIL K IGNORAMUS SCARED. Breakiron is still excited, and when approached this morning at his house he thought his time had come. He had heard that the jury would be pros ecuted for perjury, and he thought the Dewspaper man was an officer. He says he barely got out of Uniontown with his life. When he went through Connellsville on his way home they threatened to rotten egg and stone him. Amalong sticks close to bis house, afraid to venture out, and Law rence Knotts, one of the other import ant men on that jury, keeps his fireside close company on the outskirts of Brownsville and has not yentured into town since he arrived bome. DECLARING DUKES' SEAT VACANT. HARRTSBURU, March 19. —Unless in dications are greatly at fault, Dukes will have very little show of getting his seat in "the House. The feeling against the murderer is intense, al though it has not found expression in speeches of condemnation of his iu famy. The offering of a resolution as to his seat to night by Representative Bierer, (Democrat), of Westmoreland county, was fo'lowed by no discussion, notwithstanding many members felt like opening their vials of wrath on the murderer. The resolution was quietly referred to the General Judi ciary Committee, which is required to make a report as soon as possible. The committee will meet to-morrow and its decision is expected to be in favor of declaring Dukes' seat vacant, in which event another election would be held. Dukes was expected to night, but up to a late hour did Dot ar rive. The last time .he was hero be stopped at the United States, but the night clerk this even ing said he would not give him a room if he applied for accommodations again. The resolution offered by Mr. Bierer is as follows: WHEREAS, The facts developed in the case of the Commonwealth against Nicholas Lyman Dukes, a member elect of this House Irom the county of Fayette, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of said couuty of Fayette, on the 12th, 13th und 14tb days of March A. D., 1883, most clearly prove the said Nicholas Lyman Dukes to have been guilty of a series of acts, since his election as a member of the Legislature, unbecoming a citizen and member of this House, most infamous in their character, and disgraceful to him as a man, subversive of law and the good order and well being of socie ty, which prove him to be a catiff died I in villainy, the traducer aud assassin | of character, the willing violator of the j laws of God and man, utterly unfitting ' him for decent and respectable society, j disqualifying him from receiving the confidence of men of honor and integri ty, and whose admission as a member of this House would bring lasting in famy and disgrace upon the House of Representatives and the entire Com monwealth of Pennsylvania; therefore, be it Resolved, That the s'-at in'Ulm : House to which the said Nicholas Lyman Dukes was elected on the 7th ' day of November, A. I> , ISB3, by the electors of Fayette county, be and the same is hereby declared vacant, and the Speaker, the Hon. John E. Faunce, be requested to issue a writ for an election to fill the vacancy. BOROUGHS AND CITIES Must Keep the Streets Unob structed or Pay Resulting Damages. JUDQK WHITE'S CHARGE. • In his charge to the jury, in the case of Williams against Monongahela City, recently tried in Washington, Pa., Judge White, of Pittsburgh, laid down the law showing the duties of borough ahd city authorities as well as road supervisors, in regard to keeping street# and roads safe for travelers, as well as the care required from drivers. The following is the charge : Gentiemen of the Jury: —The main facts in this case are not in dispute. That the plaintiff was injured, and seriously injured, is not questioned. That he was injured by his sleigh run ning over a pile of frozen dirt in the street is not denied ; that the said pile had been in the street from either the Bth or 18th of December until the Ist of February is not denied; and also, it is not denied that some of the city offi cials, members of the street committee, kuew of its existence. The disputed questions of fact are mainly as to the speed at which the plaintiff was driv ing. It is also a question of doubt, under the evidence, whether the plain tiff had any previous knowledge of the pile of dir'., and perhaps I may say the extent or permanent character of the plaintiff's injuries may be a question for the jury. Boroughs and cities are bound to keep their streets in a reasonably safe condition for travelers. They should not perm it an obstruction in the streets, or anything that is likely to endanger the safety of travelers. Persons who may wantonly place obstructions in the street, may also, under some circum* stnuces, be liable in damages for a per sonal injury ; but the borough or city is liable where the city officials have actual knowledge of its existence, or where it has continued long enough to give them information, although they may not have had actual knowledge of it. The neglect of a city to keep its streets in such condition is called in law negligence. If the dirt pile was some nine feet from the curb stone in the street, four feet in diameter at the base, aud some eighteen inches high, and bad remained on the street with the knowledge of the officers of the city having charge of the streets, from the Bth or IBth or 20th of December until the Ist of February, I have no hesitancy in saying the city was guilty of negli gence. The main question, gentlemen, in this case is, Was the plaintiff guilty of contributory negligence ? Because, notwithstanding the city may have been guilty of negligence, yet if the plaintiff was also guilty of negligence which contributed to the result, he is uot entitled to recover. Negligence, in its general definition moans want of care, the negleot to do something which an ordinarily careful or prudent man would have done, or doing something which an ordinarily careful and prudent man would not have done under the circumstances of the case. The traveler has a right to presume that the high way, or the street, is in a reasonably safe condition for the entire breadth of the street He is not confined to travel in what is known as the beaten track. It is true that country roads are not generally opened out to the width the law fixes for country roads, generally thirty-three feet. In cities, however, they are generally opened out to the entire width of the street; and accord ing to the evidence in this case the street was graded and paved from curb to curb, some thirty-seven or thirty eight feet wide ; all travelers, therefore, have a right to travel on any part of that street, but when the traveler leaves the ordinary well-beaten track of the road, and goes to one side great er care is required of him than when traveling in the beaten track. Greater care is required traveling at night than in day time, although the the traveler has a right to presume the street is clear from all obstructions, and is safe the entire width ot it* Yet the traveler cannot drive on recklessly and indifferently; he is bound to exer cise some care, to look where he is go ing, because there may be obstructions in the highway from no fault of the city council. There may be vehicles or ac cidental obstructions in the highway, something that may be dangerous may have been placed in the street a few hours before the traveler passes, and yet the city authorities, having no knowledge of it, it not having been there long enough to visit them with knowledge, might not be responsible .or an injury resulting from it. There t >re, while the travelers have a right ; to presume the street is clear the entire ! width of it, yet they are bound to keep i their eves about, bound to drive with ! some degree of care and prudence, in consequence of the accidental obstruc tions that may exist. The degree of ' care required of the traveler is a a de gree of care that would l>e exercised by an ordinarily prudent or cautious man , 1 under the surrounding circumstances. I It'is alleged in this case that the plaintiff was driving bis sleigh very fast, at a break-neck speed, as one of the witnesses stated, and several of them testified thai he was driving at the rate of what is'called a five minute gait which would be a mile in five minutes or twelve miles in an hour. Other witnesses, however, testify that his speed was simply an ordinary trot ting speed. This is a question of fact for the jury. Even ten or twelve miles an hour in a sleigh might not be negli gence in itself. It on the surrounding circumstances. There is no doubt that the injury to the plain tiff was greater than if been traveling at a much slower rate of speed. If the horse had been walking and the sleigh had struck the pile of dirt just as it did, it is not at all likely the plaintiff would have been injured as stri juslv as he was; and in that sense the speed has something to do with the extent of the injury. But that in in itself does not prove that the plain tiff was guilty of contributory negli gence. The question is, whether, under all circu'instances of the case, the plaintiff was driving at a speed beyond what would have been the speed of a man of ordinary care and caution, and whether the injury resulted from that degree of neglig.-nce. A two-horse wagon would be ft usidered as driving at a reckless Bpet d perhaps that would go as fast as an ordinary buggy on a street, and per haps a sleigh might go more rapidly than a buggy, and yet the driver not be guilty of contributory negligence. It depends largely on the character of the street and the surrounding circum stances. Concord Twp. School No. 7. The following is a report of Bvers' school No. 7, for term ending March 8: Laura Turner, Clary Dellaire, Anna Golden, Birdie Moorhead, Emma Del laire, E. L. Byers and W. C. Wick were present every day during the term. Mary Curry, Sarah Curry, Anna Golden, Mary Sheakley, Birdie Moorhead, Cora Byers, Emma Del laire, Laura Turner, Clary Dellaire, Willie Sheakley, M. E. Smyers, W. C. Wick, Elmer Curry, Mattie Thessen, Alfred Turner and Wm. Thessen were present every day during last month. Iva Jiryan, Laura Turner, Blanch Bryan, Ella Brown, Cora Byers, Birdie Moorhead, Fannie Moorhead, Mary Curry, Sarah Curry, Yida Smvors, Campbell Wick, Alfred Turner, E. L. Byers, Wm. Thessen, Mattie Thessen, Elmer Curry, Webster Curry and M. E. Smyers received no tardy marks during last month. Average per cent, of attendance during term, 89 per cent. Average per cent, of attendance during month ending March Hth, 91 per cent. TEACHER. Learning the Banking Business. "What does this 'ere mean ?" asked an old farmer as he entered a bank in Albany the other day and laid down a blank that had been filled out with pen and ink. "It means that the maker of a noto which you endorsed has failed to pay it." "What, that Brown note?" "Yes." "And he hasn't paid it?" "No." "Well, what's that to me? All I did was to write my name on the back." "That's enough to hold you for the debt. It was a regular endorsement." "You don't say so ! Cossarn his pictur; he simply wanted my name to signify that I knowed him. So I have got to pay it?" "Yes." "Well, well! Even as big a fool as I am can learn something new if he only sets about it in the right spirit, I've learned more about the banking business in the last six minutes than I ever knowed in my hull life." Clippings. —Bell (e) boys—Mashers. —Always going to balls—Babies. —The head man—The phrenologist. —"Let our lives," says Mme. Swetchine, "be pure as snowlields, where our footsteps leave a mark but not a stain." —ln paying out S7OO in wages to his workmen, a manufacturer at Mar seilles, 111., privately marked all the bills. Within two weeks of it was deposited in the local bauk by saloon keepers. —Even England has at last adopted our policy which is "the greatest good of the greatest number," and like most noble Americans, she also is on the watch for Number One. —People may feel big and yet do not answer the requirements of the lady who advertised that she had a very nice hall bedroom to let to a lady eight feet by twelve. —lt is a good rule to forgive every man who has done you an injury, and especially if you find that you can't pay him back. That is the way true religion affects many a good man. —Two sharpers beat farmers of Clarion and Armstrong counties out of $14,000 by getting them to sign a lease of land, the concluding portion of which was a judgment note. The notes were afterward disposed of. —One good thing that may be sot down to the credit of the late Congress is its passage of the law reduc ing the postage on single letters to two cents. It is singular that when a great surplus of revenue was reported some Congressmen hesitated to risk lowering the postage rate, lest there should be a slight deficit in the Post Office Department. The increase in the receipts will unquestionably overcome any such deficit within two or three years at furthest; and even if it should not, a part of the revenues c ould uot I>e better expended than by securing cheap postage. A BLACK MAN IN A RAT-PIT. Catching Rodents with Bare Hands. From Philadelphia Times, March 19.] Oil a wager of S2OO a colored man named William Henry Lewis tried on Saturday night to piik up and place in a barrel one hundred live rats. The articles of agreement stipulated that to win Lewi9 would have to trau>fer il.t rats from the pit to the barrel iu sixty minutes aud that the woik must be done with bare hands and arms. Lewis is a Pliiladelphian and is forty years old. lie has fifteen years' experience as a professional rat-catcher. For five yeaTs he was employed catch ing wharf rats in New York for the well-known dog fancier, Harry Jen nings. Twice in New York he won money by picking up rats within a given time. On one occasion he won SSO by picking up twenty-five of the little animals iu ten minutes. They were rats he handled before and he es caped without being bitten. The ex hibition on Saturday night occurred in Frankford and fifty men paid oue dol lar each to witness ii. After the match ended it was hinted that its managers had put up no stakes and that the receipts for admission were divided between Lewis, his alleged backer and the proprietor of the house in which the affair took place. THE SCENE OF THE CONTEST. In the center of the room a space eight feet square was surrounded by a tight board fence, four feet high The floor was covered au inch deep with sawdust. In the center of the ptn stood an empty whisky barrel, the up per head of which was replaced by a piece of canvas, with a hole in its cen ter. The rats were confined in three tin-lined, wooden cages, which stood in the yard. As the visitors entered the front saloon they were introduced to Lewis, who touched the flowing bowl so frequently that before 10 o'clock, when the rat-handling began, he was in a boastful but good-natured state of intoxication. There were no cards of admission, but a man stood ot the door opening into the back room and took a dollar from everyone who went in. A few minutes after 10 o'clock the pit room was packed with men, some of whom becama impatient at the delay. There was no disorder, however, at any time during the night. Two men were selected to act as judges and timers. One judge had no watch and owuers of time-pieces in the crowd were backward about offering to lend their chronometer, IN THE MIDST or TUE RATS. While the judge was trying to bor row a watch Lewis climbed into the pit. He wore a sleeveless shirt, dark pantaloons and brogans. The legs of his trousers were tied around his ankles so as to prevent the rats from taking refuge therein* His hands and arms were covered with musk, whLh he be lieves will prevent rats from biting him. Forty rats were dumped from the cage into the pit. The rats darted wildly around through the sawdust and made vain endeavors to scale the fence. Finally they huddled in awrig glicg mass in one corner and the judges gave Lew the word to begin. He moved over to the pile of rats and without an instant's hesitation thrust his naked hands and arms in among them. He caught five fat fellows and dropped them into the barrel. He next picked up three, then four, then two, and so on until six minutes had expired, when he bad placed twenty one of the rodents in the barrel. The rats that remained in the pit were wild and he was compelled to catch them one at a time. The first single rathe picked up bit one of his fingers through the nail to the bone and hung there. Lewis jerked his hand up and sent the vicious rat against the ceiling. The wounded finger was dipped in whisky and the chase was resumed. Seven rats were picked up and deftly tossed into the barrel and then Lewis was bitten twice on the right arm. He re ceived four more wounds before the fortieth rat was imprisoned in the bar rel. A LITTLE TARTER CAUGHT. The judges announced that the forty were picked up in twenty-three minutes. Lewis wanted the remaining sixty placed in the pit at oue time, holding that it was unfair to drop in small lots, as he lost time pickiug up the strag glers. The judges held that as forty had been pitted on the first occasion that number would have to be dropped in again, leaving twenty to form the last batch. Lewis worked with great agility, and rat after rat was lifted and dropped into the barrel with amazing rapidity. The fifty-seventh rat he at tempted to touch sprang into his face as he stooped and bit through the man's lower lip. Without flinching he grabbed the little brute and tossed it through the canvas cover. He lost five minutes staunching the blood that flowed from his lip. In pickiug up the other twenty-three rats he was bitten slightly five times. Eighty rats were in the barrel and Lewis had but seven minutes to pick up the remaining twenty. The time was too limited and Lewis gave up the job and got out of pit. The spectators were satisfied with his efforts,however,and acollection amounting to $22 was taken up for his benefit. —A bill has been iptroduced by Senator Lantz fixing the compensation of County Commissioners at $lO per 1,000 inhabitants, according to the last census, with a proviso that the salary shall not exceed $2,500 or full belo v s2' JO. Under this bill, should it become a law, the annual compensa tion of the Commissioners of Butler county would be $520. At such a rate of compensation, we'd have to fill the Board with rather cheap men. —The popular vote for President in 1880 waa a« follows: Garfield 4,450.- 921; Hancock, 4,447,888; Weaver, 307,740; Dow, 10,305. (iarfield's ma jority over llaucock was 3,033. Gleanings. —A joking youth by the name of John Jacobs is 'almost crs/y'at Cagey, ville, 111., because he was fool enough to point a gun which 'wasn't loaded,' at Catharine Edwards, on Saturday evening. He snapped the cap and the gun was loaded to kill, and did its work effectually. The shot entered her hreast and she died instautly. —A wealthy but very parsimonious Maine mau who, two or three davs before his death, awoke in the e\en iug, aud, turning to the watcher at the bed side, asked. "llov, much do they give you a night?" ' Two dol lars and a half," was the reply. "Well you needn't come nny more; I can't stand such a sum as that," and ho duin't. —A gentleman, while bathing at sea, saw bis lawyer rise up at his side after a loug dive. After exchanging salutations, says he: "By the way; how about Gunther?" "He is in jail,.' replied the lawyer, and dived again The gentleman thought no more ot it, but, ou getting his account, he found, "To consultation at sea, about the in carceration of Gunther, three dollars." In the crowded railway carriage: First Traveler—"l say, do open that window there "or I'll suf focate !" Second Traveler—"Don't you open that window there, or it'll give me an attack of pneumonia." First Traveler--"Tbat makes no dif ference! If you have pneumonia you won't have it for a week, whereas, if I am suffocated, I'll suffocate now. Open that window there." People who cannot spend the sea sons of winds and cold rains in suany Florida should keep Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup iu the house. It is the best remedy for colds and coughs and will relieve sufferers at once. —A sharper has been working some counties to the west of us by travel ing from house to house and receiving ware to plate, and after keeping it for a short time returning base metal plated in place of the genuine articles. How people with good common sense can in these days be persuaded to trust their property to an entire stranger, seems beyond explanation, but they do it all the same. —An aged citizen of Cleveland, Pe ter Kimball by name, has laid tho for a universal unpopularity by an nouncing that the fife, if played with force and resolution, is the best medi cine for weak lungs. lie believes that he would have beeu cut off untimely half a century ago but for his fife, in stead of which meloncholy fate he half every ehauce of blowing himself into his second century, having already passen nis ninetieth birthday with great store of health and spiiits yet oa hrnd. Wilsonia Magnetic Appliances are the most wonderful invention of the present day. Each appliance is, in itself, a never failing fountain of mag netic force, which, when worn on the person of the sick, seem to change the quality of the blood, and supply to the nerves the tone and strength lost by disease. See advertisement on anoth er page. —Judge Dean, of Cambria county, Pa., has taken a departure in the license business that creatas consider able comment. On Tuesday he re fused eighty of the applicants for license. The Judge ciphered up that taking the entire number of applica tions (170) and the population, it would make one drinking place for every 264 inhabitants in the county. Deducting the women aud children, it would leave one bar to every s<> men. Assuming that only one-half the mea drink, this would give - ono drinking place for every 28 adult men. This was a trifle more tavern than was nec essary for the accommodation of the traveling public, and entirely too great a proportion of taverns to population. Judge Doan has since refused to recon sider his action. Thomas Jones, Mt. Carmel, Pa., says: "I used Brown's Bitters effect ually for pain in the side, dizziness aud indigestion." The keepers of the famous Eddy stone Light House off the Deavon shire coast have lately been relieved after a long imprisonment. Fierce gales prevented all communication with the shore, and for several days previous to their release the men were in a critical condition. Their reserve stock of food had been exhausted and they had kept themselves alive by drinking lamp oil. They were, more over without fuel, aud the lamps, which they faithfully kept bright, wero the only source of heat in the light house. They were, moreover, re duced to such a condition that tlicy could speak to each other only in mon osyllables They kept signals of dis tress flying for a fortnight in the hope of attracting the attention of passing vessels, but though the signals were seen the weather was so boisterous that it was impossible to send releif. A Remarkable Case. DR. IIARTMAV— Dear Sir: lam in duced by a sense of duty to the sufler ing to make a brieff statement of your remarkable cure of myself. I was a most miserable sufferer from various annoying and distressing diseases of delicate persons, which caused me to be confined to my bed for a long time, being too weak to even bear my weight upon my feet. 1 was treated by the most reputable physicians in our city, each and all saying they could do nothing for me. 1 hid given up all ho|K\s of ever being well. In this condition I began to take your Manalin and Peruna, and, I am most happy to say, in three months I was perfectly well—entirely cured without any appliances or support of any kind. Yours truly, Mas HENRY ELLIS, No. 500 Scott street, Milwaukee, Wis. NO. 19
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