VOL. XXI.
A. TKOUTMAN,
DEALER IN
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS. TRIMMINGS.
Carpets, Oil Cloths, Rugs, Mats, Druggets, Stair Rods, Etc,
(u)
FOR FALL. FOR FALL.
New Black Silks.
New Colored Silk?.
New Colored Cashmeres.
New Black Cashmeres.
New Black Silk Velvets.
New Colored Silk Velvets.
New Colored Silk Plushes.
New Black Silk Plashes
New Shades Ladies' Cloths.
New Dress Goods.
WEW RIBRONS, FISCHtS, TIES, HASD SATCHELS,
Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Towels, Corsets, Velvet Ribbons, Knitting Silks,
Embroidery Silk on spools, all colors.
New Fall Hosiery. |
Underwear for men, ladies and chil- j
dren. Largest assortment, lowest.
prices.
CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS
Carpet Room Enlarged. Stools En
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NEW FALL STYLES.—We are now prepared acd showing our entire Fall
Stock of Carpets and Oil Cloths, in all the Newest Designs.
OIL CLOTHS, 1 to 3 YARDS WIDE, IX ALL QUALITIES.
Please call and examine stock and prices.
A. TROUTMAN.
BUTLEtt, FA.
HENRY BTEHL $ CO,
Dealers in
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ROOFING- |t ( DEALERS IN
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WHERE TO BUY MENS' AND BOYS' CLOTHING,
At the Store of the undersigned, the acknowledged leader in
. CARPETS, CLOTHING
AND
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS.
We wish to say to the trade this fall that we have a larger and more varied stock of Carpets,
Clothing,
HATS AND CAPS,
and Gents' Furnishing Goods than ever before.'
REMEMBER WE HAVE THE LARGEST
The LATEST STYLES, the LOWEST PRICE 3. We have all grades and all prices, from
the Cheapest to the Best made.
3> A. H E C Iv,
The Leading One Price Clothier and Gents' Outfitter,
2nd DOOR, DUFFY'S BLOCK BUTLER, PA,
Union Woolen Mill,
BUTLER, PA.
H. FCM.FiRTOX, Prop'r.
Manufacturer of BLANKBTS, FLANNELS, YARNS,
<£c. Also ctjstopi work doue to order, spch aa
carding Uqlls, making Blankets., Flannels, Knit
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j White Quilts.
| Canton Flannels.
i Yarns of all kinds. Germantown Yarns,
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Country Factory Yarns, Zephyrs.
I The above Yarns in all colors.
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jln new Fall Shades, Ladies' Jersey
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BUTLFIi. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER U. 1883
THE GREAT NORTH- WEST
Notes Made on a Trip Ovor the
Northern Pacific R. R.
Taking a good map of the line and
retracing our course, 1 got from mem
ory a tolerably complete panorama of
this transcontinental belt, as seen from
the car window. Let me try to pre
sent the Northern Pacific in brief; and
remember, if you please, that the pre
vailing color in the picture is brown,
not green.
Minnesota: Lakes, forests, farm
bouses, Xew England thtift. aud a
quick succession of villiages; toward
the western border the level bottom of
the Red River basin.
Crossing the Fargo in Dakota, the
other slope of the Red River valley,
towns of yesterday bright at night with
the ehctric liifht, miles of gigantic
prairie farms cultivated by armies of
men with steam engines; then an un
dulating prairie, with smaller farms
and flourishing little towns, to Bis
mark and the Missouri River.
Across wes-tern Dakota, from the
Missouri to the Little Missouri, a nak
ed, broken, brown prariie, with buttes;
few water courses, no trees, few settle
ments. The experiment of wheat
raising is in progress here and there,
as at Dickinson and at Richardton;
practically all of western Dakota is wild
erness still. Everywhere bunch grass
which cures into hay as it stands.
Good gracing land; ranches north and
south of the line. Under the surface
of the prairie an inexhaustible supply
of imperfect coal.
At the Montana border, the so-call
ed Bad Lands, in which Nature, gone
crazy, has produced a vast agglomera
tion of fantastic hills of vividly colored
ash and burnt clay—a landscape which
seems to the new comer as unearthly
as if a piece of the moon had dropped
upon this spot.
Nearly four hundred miles along the
valley of the Yellowstone, close all the
time to the clear river with it 3 islands
and fringes of cottonwood, and shut in
on either side by the cliff edges or ter
raced slopes of the uplands beyond.
Cattle and horses iu great herds all
along the line. Here and there, in
fant cities which have come to stay.
The scenery of the Yellowstone yalley
is pleasing in all respects save that of
color; iu the early summer it must be
charming.
All of Dakota, as seen from the rail
road, is prairie; all of Montan is moun
tain, valley, and canon. The landscape,,
in each Territory is alike destitute of
green, The eye becomes accustomed
to the prevailing russet, but it does not
cease to long for the living hue.
At Livingstone we come to the Belt i
range, the first spur of the Rocky i
Mountains. Snow peaks appear over 1
the foot hills. The road climbs the !
range, passing the summit at the alti
tude of Mount Washington, and des
cends through a fine canon to lioze- j
man and the Gallatin valley, one of
the garden places of the continent.
Up the Yellowstoue the general
course of the railroad has been south of
west. After crossing the Belt range it
makes north latitude fast. With the
Belt range on the right hand, and the
mountains of the Main Divide on the
left, we run up the Missouri valley to
Helena, between hills that look as if
they had beeu tufted by an upholsterer.
This valley, too, is charming in every
respect but that of color. We cross the
Missouri agaiu. 1,200 miles above the
point where we passed it at Bismark.
Beyond Helena another climb over
the Rockies. The mountain scenery
is on the whole disappointing. The
eastern front of the main divide is bold
and rugged, but not particularly im
posing. The scenery on the western
slope, as the road descends from the
Mullan Pays, is hilly rather than
mountainous.
In a few miles we have passed from
the waters of the Missouri system,
flowing to the Gulf of Mexico, to those
of the Columbia, aud the streams that
are now followed for nearly a thousaud
miles are of the color pf pile green
quartz, and they rush to the Pacific.
The fitter Root, Clark's Fork, Snake
River, and the main stream of the
Columbia itself seem to have sucked
the green out of the country which
they drain.
The extreme northwest of Montana
and the little strip of Idaho < rosscd by
the railroad is a region of picturesque
scenery, great gorges, mount; ins, rush
ing streams, and tall forests. Skirting
the beautiful Tend d'Oreille lake, the
road turns southward again into Wash
ington, and cuts the corner of that Ter
ritory through 200 miles of sage brush
and sand, dismal beyond description to
the eye, but which will speedily be de
veloped into one of the richest winter
wheat regions on the continent.
At the Oregon line we join the main
stream of the Columbia, aid accom
pany to Portland and the Pacific a
river which is nobler than the Hudson
and finer than the Rhine.
Portland, with 30,000 people, is al
ready laid out to accommodate a pop
ulation as large as that of Paris. Spec
ulation in real estate has carried prices
to extraordinary (inures. If v. e town
was ten times bigger than it is, the
value put on land in desirabl : or pros
pectively desirable quarters could hard
ly be higher. For example, the owner
of a corner lot SO by 100 feet said that
he had recently refused $42,000 for the
property. His lot ia away from the
present line of business improvements
and is occupied by a cheap two-storv
wooden structure. The owner of an
other corner lot 50 by 150, not on one
of the busy streets, asks sjo,ooo for
the land. Close on the borders of the
Chinese quarters you find that the rul
ing prices for real estate are those ot
upper "fifth uvenue in New York city.
The same thing is true of Seattle.
The town has eight or nine thousand
inhabitants, with the life anil bustle ol
a place of 40,000. On the principal
business streets there are lots held at
SI,OOO a front foot. Land is dearer in
Seattle, probable, than in Milwaukee
or Buffalo. Rents are high. Small
I cottage and cheaply built tenement* in
rurs command S4O or $45 a month.
F >r the past two years there has beeu
w »n dor fully active speculation in Seat
tle, as iu all the promising towns in the
X jrthern Pacific country, at.d the op
pjrtunities of the future have been
largely discounted. It is safe to say
that SIO,OOO invested in Seattle with
ordinary discretion two years ago
would mean $75.000 or SIOO,UOO to
dav.
Two conclusions are to be drawn
from these facts. The first that events
have justified and are continuing to
justify the unbounded faith of those
who have looked to the railroad to
bring prosperity and high prices. The
second conclusion is that the two years
in which to make a thousand per cent.,
say, on money invested in Seattle real
estate were the years 1881-1833 rather
than the years 1883-1885.
The best memory "of a journey crowd
ed with striking scenes is Mount
Tacoma, the Ranier of the geographies.
I owe to this magnificent eminence the
tribute of respect and sincere admira
tion; and vet the man who attempts
to describe such a peak, the most glor
ious spectacle offered by Nature to hu
man eyes, must be either a great artist
in words or a fool.
Every other mountain that I ever
[ saw, and in regard to which I had
formed considerable expectations, was
disappointing, at least at first view. I
think this is the general experience.
One comes to believe that the ideal
mountain may be seen sometimes
moulded in cloud piles on the north
western horizon, but is never to be
realized in rock and snow. Tacoma
makes you fairly ashamed of your
skepticism.
Milk and Infec'ious Diseases.
An outbreak of typhoid fever in St.
Pancras, London, has been traced to
the milk supply directly, and indirect
ly to a sycamore tree. During Au
gust there were 223 cases of the epi
demic within a limited area. The sani
tary officer conducting an investigation
began by making a map of the district
showing the distribution of houses
where there had been sickness, lie
was able at once to discard two theo
ries of infection, namely, the condition
of the Regent's Canal and contaminat
ed water from the mains, and speedily
to find an adequate cause in the milk
supply. Out of 431 persons attacked
during the summer, 3(>B were known
to obtain milk from one dealer and the
remaining 63 might baye done so in
directly. Houses supplied by other
dealers escaped; and in familes which
depended upon the fatal milk-cart,
those who drank milk were attacked,
while those who preferred beer did not
have the fever.
The dealer obtained milk from live
farms, but the houses in St. I'ancras
in which the fever bud occurred had
been supplied mainly from the same
farm. This was in St. Albans; and as
direct evidence that this was the source
of infection, the sanitary officer ascer
tained that certain porters in the deal
er's employ were attacked after drink
ing the milk, that there were addition
al cases on the farm itself, and that
houses in St. Albans supplied with the
same milk were also infected. The in
vestigation having been narrowed
down to a single farm, the water sup
ply naturally fell under suspicion.
The milk cans and pails were found to
be washed every day in ft dairy with
water obtained from a well adjoining a
cess-pool. A sycamore tree stood be
tween them, and its roots probably
pave opportunity for the percolation of
leakage from one into the other. This
was the most satisfactory explanation
which sanitary inspector could give of
the outbreak of the fever.
It is by no means certain, however,
that the milk was not infected by the
prevalence of the disease at the farm.
A dairyman in Dundee, for example,
who kept his supply of milk in a room
where his little boy lay prostrated with
scarlet fever introduced the disease in
various households, until there were
seventeen cases and four deaths. In
stances are constantly arising where
infectious disease is directly communi
cated by means of milk that has been
directly exposed to contamination in
dairies or farm-houses. It is possible,
therefore, that the sycamore tree had
less to do with the spread of contagion
than the inspector supposed. The rel
ative situation of the cesspool and the
well, however, naturally suggested the
final step in his series of ingenious de
ductions.
Our Mock Legislature.
The Senate met yesterday, did noth
ing, as usual, and adjournet}-
The House met yegterday, did noth
ing, as usual, and adjourned.
Ju the two pretended sessions of the
Senate this week, there was not a
quorum to confirm appointments, count
ing all present.
In the six pretended sessions of the
House during the week, there was not
a constitutional majority for any con
tested proposition, and several stale
stump speeches only hindered adjourn
ment each day immediately after grant
ing leave of absence.
Tneye may W people who can strain
courtesy so far as to call such unmixed
mockery of legislation a Legislature,
but they would be in great p rii if com
pelled to confront a commission of
iunaoy.— l l hi la. Times.
—Thrilling local from an esteemed
contemporary: "Andy came home and
as his father saw him, said mother for
Gad's sake kill the fatted son for here
comes the prodigal calf, then he smiled
one of his most pensive smiles "
A railway conductor, lately promot
ed to deacon of the church, as he start"
ed around with the contribution basket,
involuntarily remarked: "Tickets, gen
tlemen !" The contribution was un
usually large.
—We understand that seal-skin coats
are going out of style, and in conse
quence, colds are increasing among the
fair sex. How fortunate there is such
a remedy as I)r. Bull's Cough Syrup!
A Glimpse of Denver.
To one who has traveled one th >us
and miles by railroad, oae-third of it
over arid prairies, the sight of
the "Queen City of the Plains,'
embowered in long lines of cottou
wood trees, is a welcome and
refreshing sight. Denver is located on
i the Platte River, at an altitude of 5,
i 197 feet above tide, on the western
borders of the great plains aud within
j fifteen miles of the Rocky Mountains,
j whose range may be seen for 200
' miles, forming the segment of a circle
!of which Long's Peak, fifty miles to
| the north, and Pike's Peak, eighty
miles to the south, with their sky
piercing, snow-capped summits, are
the two ends
Iu 1860 this Eldorado of the West
was but a straggling camp, of log
cabins and tents; to-day it has a popu
lation of 65,000, is provided with
broad thoroughfares, diverging street
railways, gas mains, electric lights,
Holly water supply, and miles of irri
gating ditches, as well fts nearly fifty
active artesian wells. It is the con
verging point of seven different rail
ways, the capital of this centennial
State, the home of large mining and
corporate institutions, as well as two
of the largest ore smelters in the world
It is also the main distributing point
for New Mexico and Arizona and the
destination annually of thousands of
health-seekers, tourists and miners.
In educational advantages, Denver is
second to few cities in the land, and
the value of its public buildings sur
passes those of any other city of its
size in America.
The whole city, its history and
growth, have been phenomenal, aud
to young men of the crowded Eastern
cities it offers opportunities for lucra
tive employment and investment of
money, beyond any city I have ever
known. Outside of the city, more
over, since plans of proper irrigation
have been matured and artesian wells
sunk, an energetic and active young
man with a thousand dollars of capital
can buy a ranch or farm and by indus
trious cultivation make enough in
two or three years to pay for all his
outlay and have a profit besides. The
people are aggressive and most indus
trious in all their business pursuits
(there seems little use for idlers here),
and they are thoroughly social and
helpful toward each other.
With regard to the climate, the at
mosphere is dry and clear more days
in the year than with us East, and the
air at 30 degrees does not feel as cold
as it does with us at 45 degrees. At
night one notices this particularly.
In consumption, bronchitis, asthma
aud catarrh the climate is of great ser
vice, but in emphysema of the lungs,
all nervous troubles, rheumatism and
neuralgia, it is not beneficial but often
very hurtful. Especially in the case
of partiai paralysis, the climate being
a stimulent rather than a tonic, aud
producing a more severe attrition of
nerve force and consequently an in
creased want of strength and tono.
From Jeremiah to Henry.
The late Judge Black, in one brief
provision of his will, has left on record
a proof of his humanity and good sense
which speaks more eloquently than any
paneayric. To his grandson he leaves
S2OOO to be paid him with its avails on
reaching his majority, provided he
drops the name of Jeremiah Sullivan
Black and takes that of Henry Yantriess
Black-
As to the relative merits of Yantriess
and Sullivan, there may be some room
for difference of opinion, but the im
measurable superiority of Henry to
Jeremiah admits of no question. The
filial spirit of the parents of the junior
Jeremiah naturally made them desire
that their own heirs should bear the
name his honored grandfather had
rendered illustrious. But the wise old
man saw that it was a mistake to
handicap a child with such a name; so,
by his will, he emancipates his grand
sou by striking from his youthful
shoulders the heavy weight of Jeremiah
Sullivan.
The uncouth Scripture nomenclature
of the Puritans is happily going out of
fashion. Parents of robust good sense
have discovered that there are other
aud better ways of keeping greeu the
memory of their ancestors than by com
pelling their children to perpetuate
names which ill-fit their youth and in a
peculiar degree invite grotesque and
ugly nicknames. The enthusiastic
Puritans who first brought these names
into vogue did so by throwing aside
the good old Eugiish m\mus of their
fathers goiug to Moses and the
prophets for substitutes. From this j
begiuuing, successive generations of j
children have been Danieled and Sam
ueled, Simoned and Petered in endless i
iteration. But these are minor evils.
The verv commonness of the names
make them tolerable. It is such names j
as Jeremiah, Abraham and Ebenezer j
which try boys'souls, but it is notevery
man who remembers it in maturer years i
and does what he can to save his own ]
descendants from a repetition of his ex- 1
perience.
■ "llou't Nicodemus your child into
nothing" is sagacious advice, but it is
not necessary that the name should
crush him in order to be objectionable.
Any name which is peculiar or ugly, or
which is distinctly and strongly associ
| ated with some incongruous character,
is sure to make him the target for the
, small wit of his playmates, aud, unless
of a callous organization, will make
him often very unhappy. It was doubt
less some memory of his own boyhood
I that induced Judge Black to release his
; grandson from the life-long thraldom
of Jeremiah. It is bad enough that
the iniquities of the fathers must be
visited upon the children unto the
third aud fourth generation, but, as
there is no coi"pu!sion in the matter of
names, parents should discriminate a
little. Let them follow the example of
the honored sage of Brockie, who was
content to perpetuate the name of
Black, but took unusual precautions to
earry "Jeremiah Sullivan'' with him to
the tomb.— l'liila. Press.
I Packer vs. Hammett & Co'
The Supreme Court of this State
lately filed an opinion covering ninety
five pages of legal cap in the famous
j case of Asa Packer against Noble,
Hammett it Co., which was a bill in
equity asking the court in Carbon
county, Pa , to decree an account stat
, ed. The proceeding was beguu more
| than tweuty-six years ago. Since that
i time all the original parties to the suit
have died. The suit grew out of a
contract bv Asa Packer to build part
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad for
$2,500,000. Noble, llammett llall
were then his partners in business.
He offered them one-filth interest in
the undertaking on certain conditions.
They hesitated to sign the contract, and
Mr. Packer went ou with his work.
Soon after Mr. Packer was financially
embarrassed, and practically expelled
from the firm. In time he became
became prosperous again, and one of
the wealthiest men in the State. The
proceedings were begun by Mr. Packer
for an accounting wheu in financial
straits. In 1870 Noble, Hammett &
Co. filed an amended bill, in which
they claimed they were partner in the
successful railroad enterprise, and were
entitled to $12,000,000. They present
ed the contract, in which their names
were signed in different kind of ink
from Mr. Packer's. Several decisions
hare been made against their claim,
which are sustained by the Supreme
Court, on the ground that Noble and
Hammett signed Mr Packer's proposi
tion without his knowledge and never
notified him of their acceptance of it.
Their object in this was doubtless to
to protect themselves against loss if
the railroad enterprise should be a
failure, and at the same time be in a
position to demand a share of whatever
profits might accrue.
Coleridge on Literature.
Lord Coleridge talked in an easy but
sympathetic and serious way to the
students of Haverford College, near
Philadelphia, upon the authors thoy
should read. Putting Milton next to
Shakespeare, he told thein that John
Bright said he had built himself up on
Milton. He then named Wordsworth,
and said: "If I had any fault to find
wi'.h America, it is that I fear you do
not do Wordsworth quite the honor
which he deserves." Gray, Shelley
and Keats followed in the order named.
Coming to American potts, he said:
"You may be surprised at the name I
shall select from your American poets,
when I tell you to learn Bryant. Ido
not say Longfellow, because, although
he is a s veet and noble and delightful
poet, he is not American—l mean that
his poetry might just as well have been
written in England, or Italy, or Ger
many or France as in America—but
Mr. Bryant's poetry is full of the char
acteristics of his o*n country, as well
as noble, natural and invigorating."
Among prose writers he named Lord
Bolingbroke "as a writer of the most
perfect English;" next, "the greatest
advocate since Cicero—and I say this,
even remembering your own Webster
—Lord Erskine;" then Burke, Hooker
—not to be read as a whole, "except
by theological students"—Lord Bacon
and Cardinal Newman. Among Amer
ican writers he named Daniel Webster,
and "your greatest writer, the master
of an exquisite and an absolutely per
fect style—Nathaniel Hawthorne."
The appreciation which the little talk
manifested of the aspirations of youth,
and the vital importance of the forma
tive period of life, made it a delightful
aad winning address.
—A witty burglar, caught in a dry
goods store, remarked that he was
there to take orders.
—A scientific monthly asks: ' What
are crowds This is an easy one.
Crowds are what we see goinginto the
store that advertises extensively.
—Mr. J. A- Caughen, Wrisjhtsville,
Pa., says: "I used Browu's Iron
Bitters for general debility and they
have done me good."
—An Ohio breach of promise suit
brought out letters on which the post
age was thirty-two cents, and in which
the word "darling" was used G2O
times.
—Hereafter the retail sale of intox
icating liquorn on credit in Prussia
will be punished by withdrawal of the
license.
Little drops of lager,
Little sips of gin,
Make the red proboscis,
And consume the tin.
—' What influence has the moon on
the tide ?" the teacher asked John
Henry And John Henry said it de
pended on what was tied: if it was a
dog it made him howl, and if it was a
gate it untied it just as soon ns a cow
or voung man came along. It is such
things as this that make school teach
ers want to lie down and die every day
at 4 o'clock.
—Most-girls, aimost from babyhood
if permitted to be with their mothers
in the kitchen, love to see the work
done, particularly the cooking; and
nothing delights them more than to be
allowed to attempt to make some sim
ple article themselves. This early
play will not be forgotten. Girls that
grow up under such training or indul
gence will have no fear of the real
cares when it comes to them as a duty.
"L" writes to the London Times:
"I find little article 'the' occurs 200
times in first column of the Times—
for sake of average, say, 1,000 times
on every page, making Ifi.OOO for en
tire copy, equal to 48,000 letters.
Now, if we reckon that every line iu a
column numbers forty letters—takiug
leading article type as an example—
and that a column is made up of 150
lines, then we learu how C>,ooo letters
aie consumed. And so we come to
a-certain that an ordinary copy of the
Times devotes eight columns of letter
press to article 'the'. Surely this lit
tle verbal parasite might with advan
tage be stamped out."
FOB THE CITIZEN.
A Third Party Necessary.
EDS. CITIZEN .- l>o you kn >w of AI
instance where the Italers of a liti •tl
party to which they were loyal advise
or urge that party to take up a raw
sue which they knew or believedwou' 1
divide aud defeat it ? I know of in
such instance and take it to be a fixoi
fact that self preservation is the tir-t
law of nature, with political parties as
well as with individuals. Both Re
publican and Democratic parties seek
to hold all the voters they have, an 1
get as many more as possible. This
was true in 1875, when to hold tin
liquor vote they were induced to repeal
the local option law and it has been
true ever since. The liquor interest,
now wielding a power sufficient to
cause success or defeat, life or death, to
come to either of those parties, com
mands their leaders, under penalty of
political death, to stop this work and
they do their utmost to keep erery man
in rank and file, subject to their will*.
Can they support a party, and by such
support, put down the power that rules
it ? Can they serve God and mammon
at the same time, in the same act ?
They may deny that their pavty is
serving the liquor interest. Why did
it not oppose the repeal of the local
option law ? Why did it endorse those
instrumental in that work ? Why has
it ever since refused to do as much as
even to say it i 3 in favor of submitting
the question of the prohibition of the
traffic to a vote of the people? It is
claimed that you have two-thirds of the
temperance men in your ranks. If this
is true, then are you not doing as a
party double the service for the liquor
interest that it is possible for the Dem
ocratic party to do, in that you restraiu
them from doing the political work
needed to be done? Ido not say th it
your motive is the support of the liquor
interest; it is evident to ine that your
aim is to support and give success to
your party. The liquor men mean to
make money in a business which the
body politic makes legitimate and offers
them for a money consideration. The
union of the two interests results in
ruin aud misery to thousands.
VINDICATOR.
Petersville, Oct., 1883.
—The best recipe in the world for
making buckwheat cakes is the oni
which tells the «poor man how to get
the buckwheat.
—lf every man who has a soft head
should aesthetically conclude to weir a
soft hat, the present style of stiff felt
would go entirely out of fashion.
—There are two cats at the Crystal
Palace Exhibits of London priced at
$50,000 each. Five hundred dollars is
a common price fixed on the exhibits.
—Parental discipline in these latter
days is so tender hearted that truly
good mothers always give their chil
dren chloroform before applying the
switch.
—There is no use in remonstrating
with fate when it is too late. The
English adage runs:—"Nay, nay,
quoth Stringer, when his neck was in
the halter."
—lf you wish your sermon to-day to
be effective you must not imitate
I)r. Mumdrum, whose eloquence Hows
l.ike droppings of sweet poppy sirup.
—A great many ministers know
when to begin a discourse, but not one
in ten knows when to leave off. The
man who has the genius to put his
amen in the right place is always pop
ular.
—The most charming young woman
in the world, and the one whose charms
are always appreciated by young gen
tlemen on the point of matrimony, is
the one who has a feeble and wealthy
old father.
.A Pennsylvania mule, which had
lived in a coalmine for nine years with
out seeing daylight, was hoisted up
the other day; and his first act was to
kick a boy sky-high. Nine years in a
coal mine won't make a mule anything
but a mule.
Not every scholar will be able to
read the following somewhat puzzling
Latin nonsense line. It nevertheless
contains a patriotic sentiment which is
heard in our streets every gala day,
and one which does honor to the Anio 1 -
ican citizen : Quis crudum pro (e
leclum, album et spiravil.
The recent Florida enactment, for
bidding licenses for the sale of intoxi
cating liquors, except upon a petition
of a majority of the voters of the elec
tion district, has been considered by
the Supreme Court and the constitu
tionality of the act affirmed. The peo
ple in any election district may hoLice
declare absolute prohibition if tbey
choose.
The New York World publishes a
list of millionaires in that city, num
bering nearly four hundred. It is esti
mated that there are nearly six hundred
millionaires in Berlin. In France or
Germany, however, where millionaires
are rated by the number of their francs
or marks, it is somewhat easier to be a.
millionaire —a franc being worth a trifl®
less than 20 cents and a mark worth
32 cents.
The small arteries branching up
from the main arteries, on each side of
the neck, and passing over the jaw
bones, supply the face with blood. If
the nose bleeds from the right side,
for instance, pass the finger along the
finger along the edge of the right
jaw till the beating of the artery is
felt; press hard upon it, and the
bleeding will cease. Continue the
pressure five minutes, until the rup
tured vessels in the nose contract.
Iu thecase of the severing of an artery,
the utmost activity is required, else
the patient will bleed to death Tie
a handkerchief loosely around tho
limb, between the wound and the
heart, place a stick thiough it,, and
twist it up tightly till the bleeding
stops. If the wound will not admit of
this, place the thumb on the artery
between the wound and the Leart, and
send immediately for a physician.
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