VOL. XX.
SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
PITTSBUa^^POsIiION
SOCIETY.
OPEN from SEPTEMBER 6 to OCTOBER 13, 1883.
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failsT>^
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roaai»lalntH?" V\ e cUim it u specific* bini
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nervous system, whereby the brain is relieved
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irregularities of the blood, stomach, bowels or
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PILLS
A DISORDERED LIVER
IS THE BANE
of the present generation. It 1b for the
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BICK-HEADACHE. BILIOUSNESS. DYS
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are Developed, and the Body Robust.
drills and Povor.
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My plantation In In a malarial district. For
several years I could not mako halt a crop on
Account of bilious diseases and chills. I was
nearly discouraged whon I began the use of
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my laborers soon became hearty and robust,
&ud I ha"e had no further trouble.
They relievelheenjoinedl.trer,rlean««
the lilood from polaonooa humors, nnd
ranir the bowel* U» set ii*tiirnlly, with
out whleh no one inn feel well.
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Okay Huh or Whukfiw chanced to a Drossy
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jin-aoiy
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"Advu titiH iu the Cn
BUTLER. PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1883
Ex-Chief Justice Agnevv on the
Death of Ex-Chief Justice
Black
At the meeting of the members ol
the Pittsburgh Bar recently, Ex-Chief
Justice Agnew jiaid the following
touching and eloquent tribute to the
memory of the late Ex-Chief Justice
Black:
MR. CHAIRMAN:—Iam glad your
adjournment on Saturday has given me
nn opportunity of meeting with you in
the expression of sorrow all feel for
the death of an eminent citizen, great
lawyer and an upright judge. I heard
of it too late last week to express my
regret for his death and sympathy at
his loss.
My lirst personal knowledge of Jere
miah S. Black began in 1852, wLen
holding a special court at Greensburg.
it was just at a time when the con
troversy upon the statute of limitation
leading to the overthrow of the opinions
of Chit-f Justice Gibson in Wagonuer
vs. Hastings and cognate cases, jostled
under by the exalted administration of
Judge Black, for the formerehief justice,
and caused his strong nature to rtfbel
in a spirit of boiling indignation, so
marked afterward in his dissent in the
second case of Hole ve Ilittenhonse.
His effort then was to impress upon
me the great injustice done to Judge
Gibson. The profession, however,
sustained C. J. Lewis. It was at the
same court, he afterward told me with
unction, I was about to commit him for
contempt. Though myself not aware
of the fact, as I was not introduced to
him until evening, it seemed that com
ing into the little courtroom at Greens
burg, be was talking outside the bar
in his usual genial but rather loud
tone for a court room, and I ordered
the tipstaff to silence that loud fellow
outside. Few men have filled a larger
space in the minds of Pennsylvanians
than Judge Black. As a judge he left
his impress upon the jurisprudence of
the State in important respects. The
great case of Sharpless vs. Philadelphia
set the current of judicial exposition of
the constitution, which sustained the
grand railway system of Pennsylvania,
by means of municipal subscriptions to
their stock. Antagonized, as he was,
upon that important question by Lewis
and Woodward, themselves eminent
judges, and supported by Lowrie and
Knox, his opinion was a model of clear
statement, strong argument, and lucid
expression, and kept its place until a
constitutional amendment superceded
it. Later in life his opinion ran in a
ehaunel favorable to a wholesome re
striction of corporate power ; a doctrine
adopted into the new constitution, nnd
essential to the welfare of the State. In
the affairs of the United States he left
a record equally lustrous. Called into
the cabinet of the President in 1857, in
the transition period of the Union, and
running into the closing hours of an
administration fated to be torn by
elementarv discord, sectional dis
sension and treasonable secession, he
bore himself so "clear in his oflicc,"
that after a score of years had passed,
and bright robed peace had taken the
place of war, he held a high and lumin
ous place in the esteem of his country
men. Yet this happy end was not
reached except through years of pain
ful silence, and a misconstruction which
he bore with a virtue, addiug new lus
tre to his character. Few men could
have suffered so long, under the
severity of adverse opinion, to protect
the reputation of an early and much
revered friend. Happily, vindication
came before the end, to brighten the
vows of an illustrious career, and in
this respect, one regret is, he had not
lived longer to dispense fully the merits
enveloped during the hours of the na
tion's trial, when his patriotism reared
a wall of defense against the machina
tions and assaults which threatened its
life.
Judge Black was a true type of a
class of men called from the middle
waiks of life, who, by the vigor of his
intellect, varied acquirements and
native, energy, force their way to the
highest positions, and Command recog
niton, notwithstanding the absence of
early culture and of mere polish of
urban training. Born on tbe 10th of
Janurary, ISIO, of Scotch-Irish parent
age, he partook of the rough, strong,
manly, earnest and religious nature of
that hardy race which peopled the
western counties of Pennsylvania.
He was a true representative in intel
lect, form and feature. The east of his
mind even surpassed tbe giant mould
of his form, while his countenance por
trayed the strong bold qualities of his
brain. His imagination like tbe blows
of a blacksmith's hammer, drove bril
liant sparks from the heated mass,
crushed by the ponderous strength of his
logic.
He was a great lawyer, but not as
great as some viewed him, but great
iu knowledge of elementary principles,
great in his conception of right, and
grand iu his masterly operation of his
convictions. It was the greatness of
vigorous thought, varied acquirements,
keen preception, forcible utterance and
captivating style. Hut ho was not
great as a mere lawyer. Mi ii far less
able often surpassed him in research,
and brought more logical connection
and legal astuteness, to the argument
of mere legal questions. His real merit
was not as a lawyer only, was
not seen HO much in his speeches as in
his writings, where his concentrated
thoughts and his combination of qual
ities, stores of learning and gems of
literature, shaped by his favorite read
ing, (the Bible and Shakespeare) east
themselves into moulds which genius
alone can form.
I shall not detain you longer, except
to say that his life bore witness to the
earnest convictions and strong elements
of his nature. A prayer to (lod for
dying strength and for the welfare of
a wife he loved with the strong throb
bings of his heart, closed a life of vir
tue.
Lancaster is proud in the posses
sion of two big sunflowers, measuring
respectively forty-eight and forty-nine
inches in circumlerenco.
The Annual Visit to the State
Institutions.
For the ' mzi.x.
On August 13th the County Com
missioners, accompanied by Clerk of
Courts, W. B. Dodds, County Treasur
er, J. 11. Miller and his estimable lady,
left Butler on the 7:30 train on the
West Penn railroad, to pay the annual
visit to the State's prison and other in
stitutions, wherein there are parties
confined from this county for punish
ment, correction and medical treat
ment. Arrived in Allegheny in due
time and sought our hotel, and after
dinner visited the penitentiaries, both
old and new, the new being styled the
Riverside. It is built on the site or
ground of the old House of Refuge,
and when finished will be beyond doubt
the best building of the kind in the
State. We were shown all through
the new building and was told, if 1
recollect right, that the part now finish
ed will accommodate seven hundred
persons. The prisoners from our coun
ty all appear to be in good health with
one or two exceptions. Billie White,
as he is called, looks as if he fretted a
good deal but says he has pi'etty good
health. 1 see no change on any other
of our men there except John Lefever;
he is in good health but looks a year
older than when we saw him before.
The warden and his subordinate officers
are very kind to him ; he is janitor of
the room where they make brooms.
The provisions furnished the prison
ers were show to us and were of the
best quality. All admit they are
treated well but, at the same time, are
longing for the day to come when they
will be set at liberty. On Tuesday we
boarded the Leetsdale Accommodation
and visited Dixmont Hospital; arrived
there about 10 A. M. and introduced
ourselves as the representatives of But
ler county. Dr. Keed being absent we
were taken in charge by one of the as
sistant surgeons and shown through
the entire building. All our party
were much pleased with the appearance
of the building and the clean and tidy
R>anner in which it is kept. While we
were viewing the place all the persons
from our county who are therein con
lined were brought together—the ladies
in one room and the men in the hall.
We have, I believe, twenty-one or
twenty-two patients in all. Their con
dition is very much the same as last
year. Mrs. Catharine Stang appeared
to be more noisy than before and car
ried on a loud conversation in Dutch
all the time we were in, not one word
of which we understood, although she
spoke loud and long. We also noticed
that Miss Cratty had failed or at least
looked more careworn and paler than
when we saw her last One or two
others have failed very much and I
don't think will survive many years.
There are several men from this
county that possibly would be as well
at home ; they are out at work there
and they could do the same at home.
Mr. Douthett, of Adams township, wo
think, could be released with safety ;
also a man from Donegal township and
one from the borough of Butler ; these
are all anxious to get home. From
everything we could see and learn we
believe the patients to be well treated
and well cared for, the investigation
committee to the contrary notwith
standing.
On Wednesday we visited the Re
form School at Morgan/a where we
have four scholars, viz: Pearl and
Lillian St. Clair, Mary Collins and
We were welcomed
by the warden, Mr. Quay, and shown
over the entire building and its work
shops are surely a credit to the State
Pennsylvania. Hundreds of small
hoys from six years old upwards are
all busy at work in some useful occu
pation. Here as at the State prison
the provisions were shown and most
certainly was of the best quality. They
raise all their own vegetables and have
some to sell. The scholars from our
.county all look well but Mary Collins,
and she is undoubtedly failing; her
friends,if she has any, ought to take her
home, as 1 am sure her health isgiving
way although she is kindly cared for
where she is, and I have heard it said
that she never ought to have been sent
there.
We were invited to dirmor along
with some other visitors, by Mr. Quay
and his lady, who is highly educated
and a great talker, and entertained us
with a description of how the institu
tion was run, Mrs. Quay addressing
herself more particularly to Mr. Dodda,
who, at first, squirmed and wiggled a
good deal under fire and appeared a
good deal like a fish out of water, to
the great amusement of his companions,
but finally proved himself worthy of
the occasion and came oil' with flying
colors. lam as ever your fellow citi
zen. G. W. H.
Mnny a man's religion is very fair
religion if measured by the standard of
the old saw—'Tis a good knife ; it will
cut butter when 'tis incited.
—Mr. Marry lloche, Wrightsv'lle,
Pa., says: "I was entirely cured of
chills and fever by using Brown's Iron
Bitters."
—lt is pretty well decided by the
moral people of this country that the
sparrow must go. It is plausibly as
serted that he pecks at the green corn
and fills his crop with the seeds that
the farmer plants ; but the real reason
for his compulsory retirement is that he
killed Cock Itobin, and confessed the
murder.
—At ijuito, the only city in the
world on the line of the equator, the
sua sets and rises at (> o'clock the year
round. Your clocks may break down,
your watches get cranky, but the sun
never makes a mistake here. When it
disappears from sight for the night it is
C o'clock, and you can set your watch
accordingly. In one part of the city it
is the Summer season and in tho other
part it is Winter.
|C£</°No family dyes were ever so
popular as the Diamond Dyes. They
never fail. The black is far superior
to logwood. The other colors are
brilljaut.
The Discovery of Luray.
A correspondent of the .Atlanta C<»i
stituhon tells its readers how the oave
was discovered, and how the party
makinsr the discoveries were deprived
of their gain :
A wandering photographer who
chanced to he near Luray (then Lo
raiue} was impressed with the belief
thiit their was a cavernous formation
in some of the hills that throng about
the village. Why he thought so only
those who know how thoroughly such
a man must must study nature and ac
quaint himself with woodcraft can un
derstand. At any rate he persuaded
his views to a local hunter named
Campbell, and the two started out en a
systematic and persistent search for a
hole in the ground.
For a long time they were unre
warded. One morning, however, they
came upon a bowl-like depression in
the side of a mountain, from which
they thought a vague current of air
was issueing. They began picking
through the loose stone and sand that
made the bottom of the sink, and after
going about ten feet, dropped through
an open cayity of indeterminate di
mensions. A rope was tied around
Campbell's body, and he went far
enough to discover that tho new found
cavern was vast and measureless.
The hole was then carefully covered
over; and the discoverers, keeping
their secret, sought the owner of the
land. On a short bargain they bought
the land for S4OO, and took the deeds.
They disclosed their secret, secured
help, and made a thorough exploration
of the cave. The exploration opened
up the weirdest, moat picturesque and
marvelous range of underground scen
ery, iu my opinion, in the world. Ido
not see how anything can surpass it.
For more than five miles winding pas
sages lead through vaulted and fluted
chambers large enough to quarter a
regiment, past pools of crystal water
caught in glistening basins, through
corridors of enchanting beauty into
vast and silent cathedrals and beyond
archways, to pass under which a child
must bow its head—all filled with sta
lactities, knolls aud columns, fashioned
through the patient and ceaseless work
of centuries upon centuries into the
most singular resemblances and simili
tudes that are startling. Nowhere is
there a of life, except that in one
huge chamber a solitary bat flutters in
uncertain circles amid the lofty tops of
fluted columns. No other bat was
seen there—and this one was so wiz
ened and wrinkled that he might have
been distilled from the darkness and
dungeon-like vapors of the cavern—
the one blind and pinched, and chilled
evolutiofl of a cycle of gloom aud si
lence. There is one oilier sign of life
—the skeleton of a human being half
embedded in the bottom of a gorge.
Ages ago this man, of perhaps a race
the memory of which does not survive,
was doubtless lost in the cavern.
Falling into this chasm, struggling
against its clammy sides in the utter
darkness, and filling the awful still
ness with his dying cries, he died
alone. And now holiday crowds of a
race as strange to him as the phantoms
with which his last terrors peopled the
blackness of the cave pause with laugh
ing speculation over his bones,and the
feet of children run trippingly over the
ways where lie perished so helplessly.
As soon as railroad people became
satisfied of the extent and beauty of the
newly discovered cave, they organized
a company with a capital of SIOO,OOO,
and bought the cave from Mr. Camp
bell and the photographer. The price
given was $40,000; but before it was
paid over the former owner of the land,
who in his ignorance of the cave bail
sold it for SIOO, moved to set his sale
aside on the ground of fraud. lie con
tended that he. had sold simply the top
of the ground, and not what was under.
The courts decided he was right, and
ordered the $ 10,000 paid to him instead
of the discoverers. These latter got
nothing, and Campbell-is now a guide
for the company on a salary. After
paying SIO,OOO for the cave, the com
pany built the Luray Inn, a perfect
model of a Swiss hotel, at a cost of
$50,000. A charge of §1 i« made for
entrance to the cave, and last year
2"),000 persons paid this fee. Kxcur
sions are run twice a week, and brings
from .JOO to <>oo people on a train.
The Virtues of Watermelon.
"The gay and festive watermelon,"
said a State Street physician, "is a
powerful diuretic, and aperient, and the
pulp has a delicious refrigerating taste.
Hut I think people should partake of it
in moderation; and it should lie eaten
with condiments sprinkled upon it. It
should also lie cool when eaten, but not
too cool, so as to produce congestion.
When partaken of in immoderate quan
tities it is likely to result in colic,
pains, cramps; and if fermentation
should set in congestion and dysentery
will follow. Let a man drink much
beer after gormandizing on watermelon,
and a process of fermentation will be
gin which will fill him with gas aud
distend his stomach like a drum. Then
cholera morbus is almost certain to fol
low. Moreover, a melon should be per
fectly ripe and sweet when eaten, and
if sprinkled with pepper or nutmeg the
stomach will !>o stimulated and the di
gestion promoted. When pulled green
an acid soon forms In the pulp, which
is harmful. A good watermelon may
lie preserved for ten days or two weeks
in an ordinary Ice-box. A good circu
lation of air should be around it It
is about !»."> per cent, water, the other
constituent parts are sugar, starch, and
a mere presence of some of the minor
salts."— C'/ii<-a</<> New H.
—When the man has so far master
ed himself that he can live within his
income he has made a long stride to
ward the kingdom of heaven. To
make a show with money you have
not yet earned is to live in a house
built on a acre of purgatory. It is a
homely proverb, but a true one, "The
devil wipes his tail with the poor man's
grille."
The National Park.
The London Times, of the 16th inst.,
gives more than three columns to the
subject of the Yellowstone Park, fully
half of which is devoted to the rather
arduous ta&k of telling how to get
there. Having informed its readers
that the Park is as large as the counties
of Devon and Dorset combined, and
situated in the Northwest corner of
Wyoming Territory, it confesses to an
embarrassment as to how it shall con
vey to them an idea of the exact locali
ty of this hitherto unheard of country.
Having told them that Wyoming Ter
ritory was South of Montana and East
of Idaho, it gives over the effort to
locate the Park by reference to its
equally unfamiliar surroundings, and
patiently describes each step necessary
to be taken by English tourists in order
to reach the Park by way of Liverpool,
(Quebec, the (ireat Lakes and Duluth.
The wonders of the Yellowstone
have heretofore had much greater at
traction for Englishmen than fo.' Amer
icans. It is said that until this Sum
mer 90 per cent of the visitors to the
Park have been English gentlemen
Now, howeyer, that railroads have
made the Park more accessible, Presi
dent Arthur has made it fashionable,
and Uncle Rufus Hatch's Hotel ami
Improvement Company are about to
make it comfortable for visitors, the
number of Americans who will do the
National Park each Summer will be
be multiplied many fold. Probably in
a few years the trip to the Yellowstouo
wiil be as familiar an American expe
rience as the trip to Europe.
The National Park is not only as
large as two English counties, it is as
large, or even larger, than two Ameri
can States, viz : Rhode Island and
Delaware, and it lacks but little of be
ing just half the size of the State of
New .Jersey. It is <>ooo feet above the
level of the sea at its lowest eleyation,
and its mountain peaks ascend to 10,-
000 and 12,000 feet. The President's
Party even now find frost greeting them
every morning, with the thermometer
soinetim:" uncomfortably near to zero.
The August sun shining through the
rare atmosphere soon dissipates the
frost where it can get at it, and it is
not unusual IU this month for the ther
mometer to register ninety degrees at
midday, but even this temperature in
this dry atmosphere brings with it no
sensation of more than ordinary warmth.
The hot springs and the great
canyons of the Yellowstone have been
made familiar to the public through re
peated descriptions and magazine illus
trations. A writer in the Cincinnati
Commercial-Gazette found there, in
addition to the other peculiar features,
an epitome of all American scenery.
"It has," he says, "the bold, snow,
streaked peaks of the Rockies, the
rounded and wooded ranges of the Al
letrhenys, bluffs like those of Wisconsin
palisades like those of the Hudson,
savannahs such as can be found iu the
Southern States, prairies resembling
those of Illinois, meadows and uplands
such as may be seen in New England."
It is difficult to picture all these in con
junction, coupled, too, with spouting
geysers, the alkaiine soil of the Ameri
can desert aud the countless natural
curiosities which have made the Yel
lowstone region famous on both sidee
of the Atlantic.
Not the least satisfying feature about
this Park is that it is a National Park,
set apart for the use and enjoyment of
the American people fur all time. It
was a happy thought to dedicate this
region to the public, and one which,
while the country is yet young, can
well bear to be many times repeated.—
J'/i il/i <le I I'll ia Press.
How to Draw A Congregation.
Several years ago we were a resi
dent of Northwestern Louisiana, near
the confines of Texas. The people
were, as a general thing, not much
given to religion. An itinerant preach
er happened to go along in the neigh
borhood during the dearth of religion,
and set about repairing the walls of
Zion in good earnest. But his success
was poor. Not over half a dozen could
be got together at his Sunday meet
ings. Determined, however, to create
an interest before leaving the neighbor
hood, he procured printed hand-bills,
and had them posted up in every con
spicious* place in the district, which
read to the following effect: "lleligious
Notice. Rev Mr. Rauey will preach
next Sunday, in Dempsey's (irove, at
ten o'clock A. M., and at four i\ M.,
Providence permitting. Between the
services the preacher will run his sorrel
mare, Julia, against any nag that can
Imj trotted out in this region, for a purse
of $:">00."
This had the desired effect. People
flocked from all quarters, anil the de
sire to see the singular preacher was
even greater than the excitement fol
lowing the challenge. He preached an
eloquent sermon in the morning, and
after dinner he brought out his mare
for the race. The purse was made up
by five or six of the planters, and an
opposing nag produced. The preacher
rode his little sorrel and won the day,
amid the deafening shouts, screams
and yells of the delighted people. The
congregation all remained to the after
noon 'service, and at its close more
than 20(1 joined the church; some from
motives of sincerity, some for the
novelty of the thing, anil some because
the preacher was a good fellow. The
finah; of the affair was as flourishing a
society as could be found in the whole
region thereabouts.
—Russians drink their tea from glass
cups. They love to see as well as to
feel the amber liquid.
—A peason may have just skill
enough in horseflesh to buy a goose to
ride on, said a wise man three hundred
years ago.
. A persistent fly, who is determin
ed to rest awhile on a person's nose'
will do as much to ruflle his temper as
a hot theological controversy, and
tempt him to use language which no
uar.-on is supposed to know.
Judge Blark on 1884.
NEW YORK., Aug. 22.—A short time
before his death, Judge Plack was
questioned in regard to his opinion of
the outlook for 1884. He said he hop
ed the old ticket would not be nomin
ated unless it were reversed, Hendricks
and Tilden.
He believed that Tilden might fill
the office of Yice President creditably
and Hendricks would make an admir
able President; but his choice was
Hancock; he was for Hancock inside
and out, right and left, and under all
circumstances.
•'lf nominated again, would Uan
cock run better than in 1880 ?" was
asked, and the reply was, "He would
have to run better to be elected."
In alluding to the issue of 1880,
Judge Black was very severe on the
newspaper correspondent who gave
publicity to a statement respecting the
tariff, alleged to have been made by
Hancock, but which the Judge charac
terized k as a lie cut from the whole
cloth. He was even more pungent in
his remarks respecting Senator Ran
dolph, of New Jersey, in advising Gen.
Hancock to make a written statement
concerning that alleged interview on
the tariff.
"Randolph is a high tariff man, and
that ought to have disquali6ed him
from giving advice to a Democratic
candidate for President," said the
Judge, taking another dainty chew of
"fine-cut," made from the choicest of
Lancaster county tobacco, and ending
the sentence with the remark: "No
man can be a good Democrat who be
lieves in a tariff for protection, and be
has no right to advise a Democratic
candidate for President."
"Will the Republicans nominate
General Arthur ?"
The Judge hesitated a full minute,
then replied with an emphatic "No.
If Arthur should be nominated he
would not stand the remotest chance of
an election."
Continuing his conversation, Judge
Black said he considered Blaine the
strongest man on the Republican side,
and if he were a candidate, and his
friends concluded to support him for
the nomination, he would sweep them
all down—Arthur, Sherman, Edmunds,
Logan, and the rest—like chaff before
a cyclone.
Judge Black did not consider Blaine
a great statesman—as no man could be
who possessed the loose notions enter
tained by Republicans in relation to
the rights of the States and the Con
stitution—but Blaine is by all odds the
best politician in either party at the
present time. He was the only man
Judge Black could call to mind who
had anything like a following. Said
he, "Blaine has a distinctive, aggres
sive and decidedly able following in al
most every State, but he is not a can
didate. He has assured me of this
himself, and iu such a way that I can
not doubt the sincerity of his state
ment."
"Will not this positive refusal of
Blaine to be a candidate help, rather
than hinder, his nomination?" asked
the correspondent, and Judge Black
responded: "I do not think that is a
part of his programme, hut whether it
is or not, if Blaine's friends start to
nominate him in 1884, I can see noth
ing that will prevent their being suc
cessful."
—The contented tramp is the true
exponent of the summer school of phi
losophy.
When will callow writers learn
that the "valuable paper" dodge is
played out?
—There is a tied in the affairs of
wedlock that too often leads on to the
Divorce Court.
—A Columbia jeweler has a clock
which, with but one winding, will run
a year and thirty-five days. The pen
dulum moves in a circle.
-—An obituary in an exchange
pictures the departed on the other shore
"anxiously watching for the coming of
her loved ones from earth." Are the
blessed in a state of "auxietv ?"
—Buttermilk has become quite a
fashionable drink and is on sale in all
the large saloons in the cities. Its ef
ficacy on election days have never been
tested, the politicians are somewhat
skeptical as to its good qualities as a
beverage.
—Fifty thousand topics of Mr.
Blaine's "Twenty Years in Congress"
have already been, sold and the pub
lishers expect total sales to reach one
million. Applications for agencies
have been received from every coun
try in Kurope, and also from India.
—A young man named Hogan, re
siding in Scranton, has entered suit
against several persons for conspiracy
and necromancy, lie claims he was
introduced to a wizard who cast a spell
over him, making him believe that ho
was president judge of Lackawanna
county. While in this condition he
was induced to sign certain papers
transferring his property to a woman
who was once bis wife. Now that ho
has recovered his senses he wants the
court to interfere and restore him his
property.
Henry (Jroff, a butcher from Chal
fant, Pa., met with a singular accident
one day last week. He was riding iu
the roar of a market wagon, and, in
hurriedly alighting, a gold ring worn
on his little finger caught on a hook.
The weight cif his body in jumping
caused the sharp edge of the ring to
server the* finger from his hand. The
pain so bunuralied his hand that Mr.
(Jroff did not know the extent of his
injury till the driver of the wagon pick
ed up the severed member from the
floor.
Useless Fright.
To worry about any liver, kidney or
urinnry trouble, especially Bright's
disease or diabetes, as Hop Bitters
never fails of a cure where a cure ia
possible. We kcow this.
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