VOL. XXIV. RO DREPORT. Notice is hereby given that the following road reports have been nled 111 the offline of the C It rk ut Quarter Sessions and Have Keen connrint-tl nisi by the court, and will be presented on W ed hesday. the Ttli day of Sept,-lux,; If no excep tions are Hied, they will be confirmed absolute ly- R D. No, l, March sessions, IHB7, County bridge across Buffalo creek In Buffalo tp. where the Butler and Freeport road crosaes said creek 'between Sarversvllfe and Jacob Fry s farm. May 31, IHST; viewers report bridge proposed necessary, and the erection of the same will re iiulre more expense than the township of Buffa lo should bear; and did locate the site thereof urn the site of the old bridge and report no 'chaugre necessaiy In the course or bed of the public road to be connected with said bridge, and assess no damages to anyone. No. 3 March session. 1887. Petition of citi zens of Concord tp. to view, vacate, change and supply that that part of the public road known as the Concord road, between the bridge on the wpring run and the farm of Allan Jenkins to the bridge on the farn of Robert A Brown, .mne l; tie were report the vacating, changing and sup- Dlylngrroad prayed for Is necessary, and have thereiore vacated, changed and supplied the Same for public use, and report the probable Cost of making the road to be forty dollars, and the said cost should be born by the tow nslilp. No damages assessed. No. B March session 1887. Petition of citizens «. liEUBEN Me EI. VAIN. Clerk. Register's Notices. The ftegtolef hereby gives notice that the fol lowing accounts of fcxecutors, Administrators and Guardians have been nied In this office ac cording to law, and v.'lll be presented to Court lor combination and allowance on Wednesday, the 7th day of Sept., A. P., 1887, at 3 o'clock p. ni. of said day. I, Final account of John Blekel, executor of ionti Rlmpp, dee d, late of Butler, Pa. ii. Final account of Win McCoy .and George IVltner, administrators of Abner iWlmer, dee'd, tate of Worth twp. 3. First and final account of Fleming West, administrator of Michael Knox, dee d, late of Forward tp. 4. Final account of Henry Biehl, guardian of Hattie Doershelmer, dee'd. minor child of Samu el DoersUUmer, dee'd. 5. Final account of John Bubeck, administra tor C.T.A. of Carolina Bubeck, dee'd, late of Harmony. Pa. C. Final account of Daniel McJlackln, admin istrator of John McMackln, dee d, late of Clear field tp. 7. First and final account of Joseph Bestler, administrator C.T.A. of Peter Über, dee d, late Centerville. Pa. 8. First and partial account of Samuel Schla gel. executor of Henry Scblagel, dee'd, late of Butler tp, 9. Final account of Joseph G, McClymonds, administrator of John Mcclymonds, dee'd, late Of Muddyereek. 10. Final account of Ell Henshew, administra tor of Elizabeth Kreidler, dee'd, late ol Harmony Pa, 11. Final account of James A Gallagher, guar dian of Robert E Gallagher, minor child of Wm Gallagher, dec't, late of worth tp. 12. Flual account of J C Snyder, administrator of Zephanlah Snyder, dee'd. late of Brady' p. 13. Final account of William Irvine, adinlnls rator of Thos 1 Wilson, dee'd, late of Jackson tp, 14. Final and distribution account of Wm Jrvlne, surviving administrator of Margaret Wilson, dee'd, late of Adams tp. js. Final account of Catherine E Rankin, ad fainlstratrix of Peter ftankln, dee'd, late of But ler borough. ln -10, Partial account of Samuel AdaUiS, aijm d istrator of James G Frazier, dee d, late of Mil dycreek tp. 17. Final account of Minerva Maxwell, execu trix of G C Maxwell, dee'd, late of Allegheny tp. 18, Partial account of Elinlra Hlndman,execu trix of Henry Miller, dee'd, late of Clay tp. IV, Final account of Daniel Fiedler, guardian Of Kdwaril Sahll. minor child of C 'S;*ll, dee'd, late o( hfnamaUl r tp. 20. Final account of Minnie 9tarke, adminis tratrix of George F Starke, dee'd, late of Saxon burg, •ii. First and ilnal account of Amos Seaton and Ulan Seaton, executors ol Wm seaton,dee'd, late of Venango tp. 22. Blnal and distribution account of Zelie Muntz, acting executrix of Henry Muntz, dee'd, late of Zelienople, Pa. 18. First account of Peter New, Joseph New and George Trlmbour, executors of John New. dee'd late of Summit tp. «24. Final account of Hultena W Trax, adm'x oi Wm F Trax, as tiled by t Agnes Grossman her administratrix. register and Recorder's ofllce, Aug. 8,1887. M- H- PYpJtLY, Reg. and Hec. Widows' AppraisemerAs. The following widows' appraisements have been tiled tn the office of the Clerk of the Or phans' Court of Butler county. Widow of Asa W. Waddell, dee'd, S3OO 00 " A. E. Shook, dee'd, 74 50 " John C. Mai tin, dee'd, 3< JOO " Franklin Fisher, dee'd, a) oo The above will be presented to Court on Wed nesday, Sept. 7,1687. and ft no objections are made, be COD firmed absolutely. Buffer Co. SM, Cer'.lned from the records this sth day of Aug. 18S7. REUBEN McKLVAIN, B. & B. GRAND CLEARANCE SALE. -OF SUMMER DRESS GOODS, SUMMER SILKS, SUITS, PARASOLS, ETC. To make rcom for the largest and in oat elegant stock of FALL GOODS, Foreign and Domestic, yet opened In this mar ket, This Is your opportunity for bargains HEAL IJVE BARGAINS. Prices put on the balance of our spring and summer stock are meant to move the goods, and that quickly. Many all-wool SI.OO Dress Goods go at 50 cents; fiO cent Ores* goods go at 25 cents. This sale to be emphatically a cleajance sale as we must have the room. Large line of 52 Inch Tricots, mostly light fhades. at 50 cents. ;fcj-lnch All-Wool Tricots at 87 1-2 Cents,down from jo cents. Very large assortment of Printed Challts—the Dest goods—wool or mohair filling, at 25 ce.-.ts a yard. Sold regularly everywhere at 35 cents. Suits and Parasols. In these departments, the greatest tuts have been made in prices, many parasols offered at one-half their real value and price; the same may be said of all made up summer Suits, La dles' and Children's White Suits, Satlnes, Light Weight Wool Suits, etc, etc. Black and Colored Silks, We continue to offer the VERY BEST VALUES in Black silks from 75 cents to *2-00 and np.to be obtained anywhere. This Is beyond question, and we cheerfully stake our reputation upon comparisons. New lines of Colored silks, es pecially good one 19 Inches wide at 80 cents. New Fall Goods. Early arrivals commencing, a few of which are 3S Inch All-Wool Sorelty Checks, 45 cents, very stylesh effects. 4i Inch All-Wool Clierfci, 75 Cts., 87 1-2 Cta. fI.OO, special values and large line of shades. New lines Kali Dress uoods arriving dally. 38 to 52 Inches wide, at 45 cents to f 1.25 a yard. Send to our Mall Order Department for sam ples, and secure some of these bargains before all bold. Special values in all lines of Staple House keeptff Urjr tioods, Sheetings, Linens, Etc. Etc. HOGGS £ BUHL, H5,117, IIS, 121 Ftderal St, Allegheny, Pa. nns" THE BUTLER CITIZEN. A DRAMATIC SENSATION, | The Throbbing, Thrilling Drama. How to Save Money. By T>. HECK, day and evening (luring theconilni; season at D. A. UECK'S GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM, N"o. 11, North Main St., Duffy's Block, BDTLGR, - PA, Cntlllfurther notice. This powerful work is a wonderful and variegated combination of tragical comedy, and comical tragedy and never talis to bring down I lie house. The actors are all Stars. The costuming will IMJ a strong feature. The following briefly outlined Is the PROGRAMME : BONO- The happy man no more reflects, Who buys Ids clothing at D. A. Heck s ACT I,— SCENE l-Time 9 a.m: Enter young man with friend. Young man expialna to his triend that the direct cause of Ids engage ment to the wealthy farmer's daughter was his purchase of an elegant suit at l>. A. Illvc K'S Great Clothing Emporium. Friend tumbles to the Idea anil is iu;ule happy with a new suit. Hat, shlri.s. Collars Ties," Underwear, Gloves. Hose,.trunk Valise, Umbrella, etc. Scene closes ivlth song. Joined in by the audience. SONG—The day w ill be in tensely cold. When D. A. Heck is undersold, &c. Acr U. — SCENE 2—Time l: a.m. Enter throng of people, old men, young men. ladles, chil dren, managing matrons w,th marriarable daughters, who with one accord talrly shriek with delight at the vondeiiul bar gains shov*n. The beautiful young lady. Cinderella rinds some Jcweiery, a pair of Corsets, a pair of Kid moves, un elegant pair ol llose that set her off so exquisitely that a dude from Untonville and a young man from Greece City both propose.as the Greece city man has on one of D. A. lleck s irreslstable suits, Cinderella decides to patronize home industries and accepts uini. The Ciilonville dude talks of duels, suicides, 4c., but decides not to leave this world while in- can get clothing so cheap at D. A. HECK'S Great Emporium. Song by company, joined by audience: Tis our experience, one and all, And eveiy one who tries it knows. That D. A. HECK has got the call, Aud takes the town in selling clothes. ACT III.— SCENE 3.—Time ten years later: HECK'S LARGEST EMPORIUM. Ten years are supposed to have elapsed. 1). A. HECK'S Store quadrupled iu size. Butler a metropolis. Arrival of several excursions, electric trains and a number of balloons, with crowds of people to buy Clothing, Underwear, Hats, Caps, Collars, Neck Ties, Hosier}-, Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, Umbrellas, Trunks Valises, Satchels, Bill and Pocketboqks, cloth, llalr and Tooth finishes and innumerable other articles winch space forbids to mention. Scores of pros perous men and plump matrons gather around the proprietor, all agreeing that their rise in the world began from the mo ment they began to buy their goods from D A. HECK, Cinderella and her about to de part for JJt. Chestnut (this fs no chestnut) The Uidonvllle dude, a dude tip longer but a rich business man In the city of Butler- Population 10.000, noted chiefly for being the most enterprising city In the county, and for fair dealing aud for the fact D. A. HECK'S Emporium, Duffy's Block, is the headquarters for good goods, fair dealing and low prices. All will now Join in singing:— How D. A. Heck Is selling clothes, Way down at bed rock— Just watch the crowd that dally goes To D. A. llock'i in Duff") Block. Curtain falls to slow but sure music. Tutt's Pills REGULATE THE BOWELS. Habitual Costiveness Cannes deran(foment of the entire system, and bo- Ml diseases that are hazardous to life. Persons of a costive habit are subject to Headache, Defectlvo Memory, Gloomy Forebodings, Nervousuess.Kcvers, Drowsiness, Irritable Temper and other symptoms, fehlch unfits the sufferer for business or agreeable asuclatlonS. Regular habit of body alone can cor rect these evils, and nothing wcweds so well In achieving this coudj [lon afi Tutt s Pills. BythelrusQ not only Is the system renovated, but Jn conse- Sueuce of the harmonious changes thus created, lere pervades a feeling of satisfaction: the men tal faculties perform their functions with vivacity, and there Is an exhilaration of mind, freedom of thought, and perfact heart's ease that bwpeakg the full enjoyment of health. SECRET OF BEAUTY la health. The secret of herith Is the Hwer to digest a proper quan'.ity of food. Tli is en u never be done when t' c liver does not aof its pni-t. It Utile drlv:.) ; wheel In the mechanlim of man, and vi en i||«an} •t order, the whole syster. I eeomes de ranged, and Fever, Dyspep i>>, Jick Hend- She, Constipation, Janna -. , llillousCol a»d General Debility ensae. To restore e fanctfous of the Liver and Impart that beauty which always attends a healthy constitution. Dr. Tutt's Liver Pills are recommended. They are not a cure-all, hut are designed solely for the disordered Liver and the diseases which it produces* Tutt's Liver Pills BTIE UP THE TOBPID LIVER. (SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS, 35C. £jS£&5"M[R. b an Inflamed na burning' sensation. There ate severe SMMtSTtVispasms of sneezing. ° U.SXT frequent attacks of headache, watery |f#VA UufbK and inflamed eyes. Try the cure, Ely's Ceam Balm, 4 particle is applied into each nostril and is agreeable. Price oU cants at Druggists :bv mail, registered, 00 cts. Circulars five, ELY BJJOS, 235 Greenwich St. New York. —THE "Bradford Restaurant/' Spilth Main Street, In the Bishop Buildiiig. SEALS AND LUNCHES bervfed a(, alj hqtjrs at reasonable rates. OYSTERS, GAME, And everything' In season. The patronage of the oil men and travelling public respectfully solicited. Fine cigars and Tobacco always kept on hand, S. K. Eckelbcrger, Proprietor. WIHTM agents »v m w'-b^r e ' s VI HH I LU "POI.MTICAL DISCUSSIONS, DIPLOMATIC and POPULAK,'' Including speeches, bv JA.MKS <;, BLAINE. Apply at once for terms and territory, P. J. HI,KM 1 N'(! & CO., 4-|5-4i f. fitji Ave., Pittsburg. ninwEvi^ ■lll II 11 U V Price I,lst of Outflts, 11/1 II 11 I* I to J. F. W. Dorinan, (■III 111 I No. 217 Kast German 111 II 1 I I 1 Street, Baltimore w " * Maryland, U. S. A. PERMANENT STAMPING For Kensington, Arrases AND OUTLINE WOBK DONE, Also JlessonsJ in tame piven by ANNIE M LOWMAN,;NortIi street, Butler, Pa. jne£C-ly The Scientific Housewife. She was learn'd in all the lore Of science, and her store Of attachments was bewildering and grand; She could tell you what to eat, From cereals to meat, And analyze all eatables off-hand. She loved a learned mail On the scientific plan, And the couple formed a partnership for life. She cooks the family fare In a way that makes him swear, And very often leads to vulgar strife. The meat is burned and tou^'h, The pastry is vile stuff", The vegetables are always umterdone: But in baking wretched bread That is heavier than lead This scientific woman takes the bun. A PATENT HOUSE. Wonderful Arrangements of Mr. Dickerson's Home. One of the most remarkable houses in this or any other country is that of Mr. K. N. Dickerson, the million aire patent lawver of New York, who is as remarkable a man in h»s u r ay as his house is among others. Ho is over six feet tall and is stout and ac tive, the very picture of health and intellectuality, with a grave, kind face and exceedingly gentle manner. He is profoundly versed jn fljl the sciences, and in building this bouse he detei mined to make it as perfect a dwelling-place as money, brains aud science and good taste could accom,- plish. The houfee is on Thirty-fourth street, near Fourth avenue, and seen from the outside is a quiet but large brownstone building, and it sets close to the ground, having but one or two steps to reach the hall door. On the left side of the ball is a small recaption-room, furnished elegantly in every detail, and with several handsome paintings; among them, one representing an inventor, poor and distressed, showing an invention to a rich man well fed and sleek,tilted back in his chair and wearing a look of disdain for the poor inventor who is trying to explain the merits cf bis model. The interior of the hall is finished iu dark wood and the floor is of inlaid wood over a floor of solid concrete. The staircase is wide and of polished wood; carved and massive bannisters support a wide hand rail, and each newel post—and there is one on each landing—holds a gas lamp, which, like all the burners in the is lighted by eleptricity. On the left side of the lower hail is a row of little closets, one for each member of the family, for wraps,hats apd umbrellas. The iight for this ball comes from the roof, the stairs turning in such a way as to give a square well of light which is shed through a beautifully colored window. The ceiling is of carved wood, the heayy beams sup porting another floor of concrete, aud these in turn others,so that the whole bouse is made absolutely fire-proof. No wall is hollow, and there is no possibility of fire,unless a little wood work in one room might burn, but it could not communicata to another one. fhe billiard and sewing-rooms are on the ground floor also. The bil liard-room is beautifully fitted up and has on two sides a raised divan so that the ladies can have a full view of every game. Above the mantel piece Is a carved oak head of, I think, Andrew Jackson, wbiph was sawed off the bow of one of the United States frigates by a sailor one night in revenge for some reason of his own. In this billiard-room are por traits of several of Mr. Dickerson's ancestors who were chief justices, colonial governors and governors of New Jersey, and who held other prominent positions. The parlors are beautifuly furnish ed in a manner entirely unlike any others I have seen. There are four cabinets, each of them representing the finest lacquered work in the world, each representative pieces of French, Japanese, Chinese and Eng lish handicraft,and each is filled with priceless pottery and exquisite works of the carver's art. On the chimney is a blue and silver candelabra which once belonged to a famous but unfor tunate French Queen. The walls are made of the most delicately carv ed satin-wood, and upon the little tables are albums and volumes con taining the rarest engravings, etch ings and prints, The ceiling is painted in cream and blue, and a large circular ornament in the centre which sustains the elegant and graciful chandelier is of open work iron and is in point of fact a ventilator. Of the chairs and sofas, divans and tapestry I can remember next to nothing; therefore their har mony with the surroundings must be perfect and unobtrusive. The wide hallway is fitted up as a sort of outer parlor, with magnificent pictures, di vans, a piano and a large organ, and beautiful rugs and statues and little cabinets with rare and fine pottery, immense vases, and, in short, every beauty money or taste could suggest, {ill well chosen and placed with cor rect judgement, each article exactly where it seems to belong of right. The parlors and dining-room are on the second floor, and also a large sit ting or morning-room. The dining room has been considered so remarka ble that an illustrated description of it was published in Harper's Maga zine. Ia this room are specimens of the finest porcelain extant, and other antiquities, some of which are over 300 years old. The ceiling is in stamped leather,and there two screens which are marvels of Chinese and Ja panese handwork, and in the large west window, which is some sixteen feet wide by twelve feet high, is set the magnificent piece of Japanese wood-carving that was so much ad mired at the Centennial, fitting like a frame oyer two feet deep and repre senting an arbor with vines, foliage, trees and fruit, all carved in full re lief, and as perfect as nature. This is all open-work, and you can thrust your arm up to the shoulder in be tween the leavs and branches. There is po other such piece of work in America. I skip the chambers, the sitting and music-room and go to the library above the dining-room. In this room is a collection of the rarest and most select and scientific books to be ob tained by money or research, and here also are more beautiful aud his toric pictures and relics, beyond the value of money. Among them is a flask, covered with leather, which came to this country with Christo pher Columbus. The library is furn ished in Turkish rugs, great soft arm chairs, a handsome carved table, and the bookcases and cabinets for the relics and pottery ore of carved wal nut Directly above the library is the laboratory, where there is a powerful dynamo, an immense stereopticon, a photographic outfit, telescope of great power, microscopes, chemicals and models of various kinds, and also the easel, paint-box and easy cbair and work box and easy chair and work box of Mrs. THckerson. It is in thi3 room that Mr. Pickerson passes much of his time working at his own inven tions, some thirty or forty of which he has patented. In all this house a window is never opened and no dust falls, and this is managed by a system of Mr, Dicker son's own invention, and the air is always as pure and sweet as if they lived in a camp by the seashore all through the house from the cellar to the roof In every room there is a system of ventilation, consisting of open work places in the floors by the chimneys aud in the ceilings, by which pure air is brought in and the foul is carried off constantly night and day. This is done by an imemnse opining in the cellar, and the outdoor air enters it, passes througn first t» filter of sieves filled with cotton wool, which catches every particle of du%t, and then, as if this were not enough, the air is washed through a spray of prater, and then finally, through the pipes, Feaches the different rooms [ute and free from any extraneous matter. The dynamo machine also in some way which I failed to under stand occasionally fills the house with ozone. There is also an automatic system | of governing the temperature of the hon.se which is beyond me to explain, though it looks very simple. There is a great furnace, and the hot air is carried through many small pipes to a little engine-room, where it is sub divided into sufficient quantities for each room, and, in sonje indefinable manner, as soon as the room reaches certain temperature a little machine stops the hot air itself aud lets the cool air Lave a chance, and thus tbe temperature is kept equable all the time, by this system you oau have the climate of Florida with its salt sea breeze all the year round or you can have the mountain air.spicy with balmy resinous odors. The income of the pure air is so strong that if you hold a handkerchief by the cor ners to any of the ventilators it will be blown out straight or it will be d;awn closely to the grating by the counter current of impure air. Tbe bath-rooms and sinks are all operated upon a new principle invent ed by Mr. Dickerson, and they pre clude the possibility of impure air or sewer gas. As far as odor is concern ptj, you mijrht stand blindfold in any bath-room and imagine yoursf lf in the parlor. All over the house is that immacu late cleanliness, and in no place nor corner is there an odor in the slightest degree; not even in the kitchen, which is a model of convenience on scientific principles. They might cook cabbage, onions, garlic or even sour crout, and every breath of odor goes up the fun nel which hangs like a gigantic um brella over the range and seizes every smell before it has a chance to disperse itself through the house, and no hos pitable odor of cooking dinner meets one there. There is a hydraulic dumb-waiter which carries the food from the cellar to the second story, where the dining room is. There is a large and very pleasant servants* parlor, and a laun dry with the most perfeot possible arrangements—porcelain-lined tub 3, with stop-cocks to carry the .water away, and the hot and cold all arran ged so that no dampness can remain and no slopping occur. There is a steam mangle and a hot-air room to dry the clothes in. The frames for drying the clothes on slide in and out and the heaviest counterpane dries in ten minutes. This hot air after use in the drying-room is all caught and carried to the roof and dispersed. A funnel also carries off the steam which arises from the tubs Each room having its own ventilators, does not communicate with any other. All the electric generating appar atus, the steam engine, hot-air furnace, air filterings and coolings and hy draulic works are in the front cellar, while the kitchen, landing and ser vants' prarlor are in the back part of it. There are also bins for different kinds of vegetables, for wine and fruit each having its own compartment and kept at a temperature considered best adapted, and all the cellar is of concrete and as clean as a parlor. There is an immense ice box, which is a room in reality, in which three persons could easily stand, and a round this are shelves for different articles, There is also an automatic elevator which is the most perfect thiug of it 3 kind ever seen—absolutely safe and very comfortable. When you get in a spring closes the door aod it cannot be opened by any means riutil you reach a floor. Then it opens autom atically until you are out, when it closes tightly behind you of its own volition. In short, it can't fall, you can't pinch your head off, nor hurt yourself by accident or design, and it is so simple that a child could man age it. This, too, is Mr. Dickerson's invention, and works by hydraulic power. These are but a few of the arrangements for comfort, health, and convenience based upon striotly scien tific principles in this elegant and model home, but they are all that my unscientific brain could take in. OLIVE HARPER. A Lightning Act. H. liraus, of Harrisburg, is a gen tleman who has introduced into America a number of wonderful in ventions connected with photography. It was Mr. Kraus who, while resid ing in Brooklyn, first took photo graphs by electricity in this country, and last night at his gallery in this city he gave an exhibition of the latest iuvention concerning photo graphy, a new light for taking instan taneous pictures. The light is the invention of Prof. Goedicke, a Berlin chemist, and while its flash lasts but one-fortieth of a second it) a dark room, yet in that brief time the party in front of the camera is photograph ed. The light is eight times more brilliant than a two-thousand candle electric light, and can discount sun light. It is used exclusively in taking pictures in the dark or at night. —£lay fever victims are beginning to quake as the time approaches for the aanual development of the dis ease. BIJTLER, PA., FRIDAY, AUG! ST 26, 1887. A Prince of Villainy. [Bancroft's Popular Tribunals.] A remarkable career of successful crime was led by a man named Rob inson. lie was a native of New ' York, and while attending school in ; his thirteenth year he forged the name of a cashier of a bank at the j suggestion of a boy a few years older, ivho had forged tbe president's name. [He was successful in this and drew $7,500 on the check. Soon after he attempted a robtory of $7,000 with ! the same companion, Granstine, and another accomplice ; in carrying out j the project Granstine murdered a i young woman, but was apprehended and hanged for the crime. When 16 years old Robinson, with the aid of an accomplice, robbed his own father of $2,500. lie then went to Pittsburg, and obtained a place as cabin boy on board a steamboat. At the instigation of the steward he stole $3,000 frorji a sleeping passenger. He met the steward again in Cincin nati, and together they traveled to Xew Orleans, where they engaged in new crimes. Obtaining a responsible position in a hotel, he remained there several months, and then, with the aid oi others, succeeded in lobbing the safe of $5,000. Suspicion was fastened upon him, and he wa3 ar rested for the crime, but managed to establish his apparent innocence. On one occasion he met two men in Albany, Hunt and Edwards, by whom he was known to be a skillful penman and a sharp rascal. They made him their partner and expended S3OO on him for for dress and jewelry, that he might passed for a gentleman After due prepartion he presented at L bank a forged check for $2,500 and obtained the money without difficulty, "i'hey theu went immediately to Philadelphia, where he practiced ou oue name for several days. At length he was able to counterfeit it so well that he prepared a check and drew §2O,QOQ from a hank. The iarger part of his share, which was SO,OOO, he sent to his mother, telling her that he had drawn it in a lottery. By the same means the scoundrels secured *15,000 iq Baltimore, in Cincinnati another check for $20,000 was passed, ftnd on going to Louis ville a like amount was obtained in the same way, but Robinson became dissatisfied vyitb the division, quar reled with his companions and sep arated from them. From Louisville Robinson went to New Orleans, where he robbed the custom house safe. His accomplice, a negro, was arrested on suspicion and whipped, but refused tp divulge anything. Securing employment on a plantation, he opened a safe and abstracted $4,000. His next victim was a United States officer, whom he robbed of $4,000 belonging to the government. Another man was con demned for this deed, and Robinson stood cooly by and saw him executed. In traveling from point to point he was constantly robbing his fellow passengers. For knocking down a man with sling-shot and taking $1,300 Robinson was arrested, but escaped by paying his lawyers lib erally. In Cincinnati he and his ac complice broke open a jewelry es tablishment, and his partner in crime was imprisoned for seven years. Memphis, Yicksburg and in turn weiie successfully visited by this prince of villains. He again sent his mother money, $5,000 this time, leaving in his own pos session SSOO in altered bills. One of his accomplices in many crimes was hanged for murder in Cincinnati. In St. Louis Robinson obtained money by forgery, and achieved great success as a pickpocket. For six mouths he was in the county jail at New Orleans, and at various times he was arrested, but false swearing, bribery and the skill of his lawyerg cleared him, After becoming notorious in the south andi east, with detectives on his tracks, the country became too warm for him until he came to Cali fornia. At Marysville he attempted to kill his wife on account of her un faithfulness. He escaped his pursu ers and went to Nevada, He follow ed his profession successfully where ever he went, but at last his rare luck deserted him. After perpetrating many successful felonies in Sacra mento, he was at one time drinking and gambling in a certain place with a lew companions. With two or three others they started for a saloon; one of them was an acquaintance of but a few hours, and was thought to have money. As they readied some bushes in the road Robinson and his accomplices threw the man to the ground and robbed him. Robinson was soon arrested, brought to trial and sentenced to death, and was to be executed on the same day with two highwaymen, Robinson, however, was respited by the governor. But this did not please the vigilance committee. They demanded that this rascal should be hanged with the others. When the hour for execution arrived the sheriff brought the three men from the sta tion house, and, after reading the re prieve of Robinson, ordered the two men who were condemned, to the place of execution and Robinson back to prison. But as the guards were taking him there they were over powered, and their prisoner taken to the grove where the other prisoners were meeting their deserts. After the sheriff had discharged his duty with the two condemned, and had washed his hands of what was to fol low, Robinson was mounted on the same scaffold by the vigilance com mittee and speedily sent to follow his comrades. Unfortunate Punctuation. A young man wrote thus to th object of his affections: "I love you not for your fortune—it is a consider ation that never influenced me in choosing a wife." Being unfamiliar with the rules of punctuation, he awkwardly inserted a full stop after the words "I love you not," and the young lady, in her grief, despair, and outraged feeling, entered a convent, while her lover, aftjr waiting in vain for a reply to his lett.*r, became the drivpr of a soda-pop wagon- This i 3 a romance of the period, as it were, and shows, my dears, how necessary education in general and the study of punctuation in particular is to the happiness of mankind. —A man ought to eat onions once a week says a do^tof. —The death of a child in Middle town, 2s'. Y., was caused by eating peanuts the other day A piece lod ged in her throat resulting in the swelling of the bronchial tubes. The Word's Largest Cities. The following information is often J inquired for, says the Pall Mall Ga zette, aud as it may be useful in many cases for reference we have compiled a table of the largest cities of the world, with their populations as stat ed by the latest authorities. In the absence of any official cansus the Chi nese cities have simply to be estimat ed, aud, of course, must be accepted as an approximation only. We have not given any city whose population is below 500,U00, although there are I mauy we could enumerate which ! closely approach that figure. It will be seen that in the 35 cities tabulated j below there are 32,510,319 souls, or nearly the population of the British isles, a fact which cannot be grasped j in a moment by any ordinary intel lect: Aitchi 1,332,050 Bankok , 500,000 Brooklyn, N. Y fi 1,000 Berlin, Prussia 1,122,330 Calcutta, India 760,298 Canton, China 1,500,000 Chang Choofoo, China.... 1,000,000 Chicago, 111 715,000 Constantinople, Turkey.,,, 700,000 Foo-choo, China 630,000 Glasgow, Scotland 514,048 Chow-foo, China.... 600,000 Ilang-Tcheon, China 800,000 Han-Kow, China 600,000 King-te-Chiang, China.... 500,000 Liverpool, Eng....,,..., 5?3,000 London, Eug., 3,955,819 Madrid, Spain 500,900 Moscow, Russia 611,974 New York, X. Y 1,400,000 Paris, France 2,269,023 Pekalonga, Java 505,204 Pekin, China 80O,00Q Philadelphia, Pa .! 850,000 St. Petersburg, Russia, 766,964 Sartama, Japan 962,717 Sian, China 1,000,000 St. Louis, Mo 5.QQ.00Q Tat-S.een-Loo, China 500,000 Ticn-Tsin,China 950,000 Tokio, Japaa 987,887 TVchautcaufu, China 1,000,000 Tsiu-Tchoo, China BQO QOQ Vienna, 4ustria 726.105 Woo-chang, China 800,000 Where the Old Maids Come In. "Do yoq know, sir,, 1 inquired an American tourist of his comDanion, while doing England, "the reason for the fresh, healthy appearance of the English people ? Their complexion is far superior to ours, or our country men over the pond." "Well. I know what Prof. 'Vsley says." " "And what reason does he ad vance?" "Well, 'Uxley says it is all bow ing to the h'old maids! Yon surprise me." "Pact. 'Uxley figures it out in this way; Now you know the H'in glish are very tond of rosst beei?" "But what has that got to do with old maids?" "Go slow. This genuine H'inglish beef is the best and most nutritious beef in the world, and it h'imparts a beautiful complexion." "Well, about the old maids? "Yes; you see the h'excellence of this ll'inglish beef is due h'exclusive ly to red clover. Do you see tjip point?" "All but the old maids. They are not in sight as far as I can see," re plied the American with a sigh. "Why, don't you see? This red clover is h'enriched, sweetened and fructified by bumble bees." "But where do the old maids came in?" said the inquisitive American, wiping his brow wearily. "Why it is as plain as the nose on your face. The h'only enemy of the bumble bee is the field mouse, which h'ondermines and robs their nest " "But vyhat have roast beef, red clo ver, bumble bees and field mice got do with old mAids?" "Why. you must be very h'obtuse, Don't you perceive that the bumble bees would soon bo h'exterminated by the field mice if were qqt for -" "Qld maids j" "No, if it were not for cats; and h'old maids of h'old H'ingland keep the country thoroughly stocked up with cats, and so we can directly trace the h'effect of the rosy H'inglish complexion to the benign cause of H'inglish h'old maids; at least that's what 'Uxley says, and that's just where the h'old maids come h'in. Science makes cjear mysteri ous things ray H'american friend." Remedy for Diphtheria. The following, which is pronounc ed a "never-failing recipe for the cure of diphtheria," is copied from a Dub lin paper. The remedy has bean many times reprinted as follows; Put a tablespoonful of sulphur in to a wine glass of water and stir it with the finger instead of a spoon, as the sulphnr does, not readily amalga mate with water. When the sulphur is well mixed, then it is to be given to the patient to gargle, and after gargling, to swallow it, and the pa tient will be out of danger in ten minutes. When the fungus is too nearly closing to allow the gargling, the sulphur in that case should be blown through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus has shrunk to al low of it, then the gargling. If a pa tient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it on a shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful of flour of brimstone upon it, Let the sufferer inhale it by holding his head over it, and the fungus will die. Brimstone kills every species of fungus in man, beast and plant in a few minutes. The Irishman too Much for him At a certain debating society an English dootor recently argued that the Irish were naturally a depraved and dishonest race, and in support of his position he adduced his own ex perience. He remarked that he had at Manchester BQQ Irish patients on his books, and out of this number only 30 paid him his fees. An Irishman arose when the doc tor sat down, and said: "Sor, there is never an eiiect with out a cause; there is never a phe nomenon which does not admit of an explanation. How, sor, cau we ex plain the extraordinary phenomenon to which the doctor has called our at tion?. He finds an explanation in the natural depravity of the Irish nature. I, sor, have another explanation to offer, and it is this: That the thirty patients who paid him were the only ones that recovered. —A little girl who wanted to de scribe the absent-mindedness of her uncle said: "His remember is uo tired that he has tp, use his torget all the time, 1 ' He Makes His Own Money | From Philadelphia Press.] I A little bit of a man, not five feet high, stood on tiptoe in front of the cashier's window at the West End Hotel, Long Branch, and timidly asked him for a pair of scissors. When they were handed to him he pulled a roll of national bank bills 1 from his coat pocket, They were in sheet form, just as postage stamps come, and he clipped ofT a SIOO bill He wrote his name across its face in the space reserved for the President's autograph, and then coolly asked Cashier Keeley to change it for him. Mr. Keely accomodated this maker of i currency after carefully inspecting it and seeing that it was a bona fide note of a national bank in Michigan The little man with this enviable power as n money maker was Mr. Jacob Seligman, who is known through all Michigan as "Jake," He was the leading clothing merchant of the State until he became a banker aud railroad financier, as well as one of the biggest lumber merchants in that region. He is now a millionare, a director in nine banks and the own er of considerable real estate in Sault St. Marie region. Some people say he will be the richest mun in the State if he lives to realize on his in vestments. Yet he went out to Michigan twenty-one years ago with only SIOO iq his pookets* He made bis fortune in a strange way. In or der to start in the clothing business he obtained credit for S2OO worth of goods. He spent the SIOO cash he had in hiring a wagon, a brass band, and four horses, and investing in cir culars and advertising. He made it known that Little Jake would reach town at a certain hour and distribute socks and oyerallsfree from his wagon iu the public square. He told me to day that he emptied his wugon load to a tkroug of people, scattering over their heads at the same time a per fect cloud of dodgers stating that he was going to sell them all sorts of clothing for the next month. For fif teen years Little Jake followed this quaint scheme for making himself known, travelling from town to town until he had a store established in ev ery important city in the State. He was not only the biggest clothing dealer but the biggest newspaper ad vertiser as well. Since then he has made rapid strides to become the big gest banker, but he is still the small est man in the State in size. Horrible F.ecklesaiiesss. iPoughkeepsie Eagle.] People who have been watching the erection of the false work at the east shore anchorage pier at the bridge and out in the river between Pier 2 and 3 have been wonderfully interested in tbe agility and what seemed to them dare-devil reckless ness of the trained men on the job. They have seen them crawling along the girders and braces nearly 100 feet high, leaping from timber to timber or running along the narrow plank, ing, now stooping over to aid in the hoisting of timber or iron, now stand ing on the extreme edge of the river front of work peering down upon the rocks and river below, or going along hand over hand among the braces ap parently with as much ease and com fort as though moving along on terra firma. "They are all used to that kind of work," said General Field, of the Union Bridge Com pany, "and have no fear whatever. When we were building the cantaliver over the whirlpool rapids of Niagara, 240 feet above the rushing waters, they were just as daring as they were here. I remember when we had the job most completed I was up there one day. The cautaluer arms were then with in fifty feet of each other, and it was decided to connect them temporarily with a plank. This plank was fifty five feet in length, about two and a half feet of each end resting on the cantaliver arms. The foreman had issued a strict order prohibiting any of the men from crossing the plank until it was firmly fastened at each end, the penalty being immediate dis missal. There had been a great deal of talk among the men as to who would be the first one to cross. I was standing on the American side looking at the structure when I saw one of the men walk out on the plank, look at it a minute, then look down into the whirlpool below. I felt that he was going to cross the plank, but I was too far from him to make him bear. He waited a second or two, and then deliberately walked out on the plank, and when he reached the middle of it he stooped over, seizing the edges of the plank with both hands, and, throwing his feet up, he stood on bis head and kicked bis heels and shouted to the terrified onlooHera. He must have been a|sninute doing it, but I felt as though it were half an hour. After satisfying himself that he had kicked enough he regained hia equilibrium and then trotted along the plank to the opposite side from where he started, seised hold of one of the iron braces of the cantaliver and went down it head first, hand over hand, to the bottom. Of course, the foreman discharged him and he laid off two or three days, when I sent for him. He was one of the best men on the job, and I talked tQ him like a Dutch uncle and put him to work again. These men have no fear; they are brought up to the bus iness and feel just as safe 150 feet in the air as they do on the ground. Of course, I can see how the people won der at such things, but we have got used to it. The best time to see them travel is at the dinner hour, qr when the day's work is completed." An Impious Wretch. From Burnet (Tex.) Hero.] A feature of the oolored campmeet ing west of town has been the trance act. One woman has been in more or less of a trance for three days up to Monday night last. That night the meeting was in progress and the tranca was doing its duty in keeping the subject in an apparently oblivi ous condition, when somo impious white man in the audience yelled at the top of his voice: "Fire! fire! who set the arbor on fire?" The colored woman, in spite of the trance, quick ly raised with her eyes bulged out and evidently prepared tQ looomote hence, but seeing BO tire, and sus pecting that a racket had been play ed, she fell over again and was im mediatly lost to all earthly things in the blackest brand of dark oblivion. The preachers at last accounts were searching ia the adjacent timber for the nend who cried "Fire!" and well nigh ruined a good article of trance, but the villain had tied. j Original Draft of an Ancient Chestnut. O Mary had a Utile lamb, regardiu whose | cuticular, , The fluff exterior was white and kinked iu eacli particular, i On each occasion when the lass was seen per ambulating, This little quadruped likewise was there a I gallivanting. ; (»ne day it did accompany her to the knowl edge dispensary, Which to every rule and precedent was reck lessly contrary. Immediately whereupon the pedigog suj>ericr Exasperated did eject the lamb from the in terior. Then Mary on beholding such performance arbitrary Suffused her eyes with saline drops from glands called lachrymary, And all the pupils grew thereat tumultous ly hilarious And speculated on the case with wild conjec tures various. "What makes the lamb love Mary so?" the scholars asked the teacher. He paused a moment, then he tried to diag nose the creature, "O pecus amor em Mary habit omnia tern porn in." "Thanks, teacher dear," the scholars cried, and awe crept darkly o'er 'em. NEW PHARMACY LAW. Important Code for Governing Druggists. A bill was passed by the Legisla ture at its late session designed to regulate the practice of pharmacy and the sale of poisons, and to prevent adulteration in drugs and medicinal preparations in this State. This bill provided for the establishment of a State Pharmaceutical Board, similar in its province to the Pharmaceutical Examining Board of Philadelphia. It is the duty of this Board to grant certificates of competency and qualification to persons who shall open, or carry on as manager, any re tail drug or chemical store or engage in the "business of compounding or dispensing medicines or the prescrip tions of physicians, or of selling at retail any drugs, chemicals, poisons or medicines. Without such certifi cate from the Pharmaceutical Board the transaction of such business is forbidden. The bill provides that the Board shall "consist of five persons, three of whom shall constitute a quorum, who shall be appointed by the Governor from among the most skillful retail apothecaries actually engaged in said business in the State of Pennsylvania and who must have had ten years practical experience in the same, one to serve five years, one four years, one three years, one two years, and one one year in the first instance, and thereafter annually the Governor shall appoint one person to serve as a member of said Board for the term of five years. The said per sons so appointed shall be and consti tute the said State Pharmaceutical Examining Board, and shall hold the office for the term for which they were appointed or until their succes sors are duly appointed and qualified, and shall receive as a compensation for their services $5 for each day actu ally engaged in this service and all legitimate and necessary expenses in curred in attending the meetings of said Board under the provisions of this act, and no part of the salary of said Board or expenses thereof shall be paid out of the State Treasury." The Board is to keep a book of reg istration open at some convenient place, in which shall be entered the name and address of each person qualified under this act to conduct and cajrv on the retail drug or apothecary business, or to hold the position of qualified assistant therein. And it shall be the duty of all persons now conducting cr who shall hereafter conduct the business of retail apothe caries, or those acting in the capacity of qualified assistants therein, to ap ply to the Board and be registered as such within ninety days after notice given by advertisement, and thereaf ter every three years application for registration only may be sent by mail to the Secretary of the Examining Board after being properly attested before a notary public or any other person authorised to administer an oath iq the county in which the ap plicant resides. The fee for examin ation and registration and for the cer tificates shall not exceed $2, and for registration only not more than sl. The Board shall meet at least once every three months at such places as may be deemed expedient to conduct examinations. All persons applying for examination for certificate to en title them to conduct and carry on the retail drug or apotheoary business must produce satisfactory evidence of having had not less than four years practical experience in the business. And those applying for examination for certificates as qualified assistants therein must produce evidence of hav ing not less than four years practical experience in the business. And those applying for examination for certificates as qualified assistants therein must produce evidence of hav ing not less than two years experi ence in said business. Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this section of the act shall be pun ished on conviction by a fine not ex ceeding SIOO or be imprisoned in the connty jail of the proper county for a term not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the Court. A qualified assistant engaged in the business at the passage of this act is one who has not less than two years practical experience in the retail drug and apothecary business. All other assisantants actually engaged in the business at the passage of this act shall, upon the completion of a like term of two years experience, be enti tled to registration as qualified assist ants without examination. An important section of the bill re fers to adulterations. It provides: That no person shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently falsify or ad ulterate or cause to be fasified adul terated any drug or medical substance or any preparation or authorized or recopni/ed by the pharmacopoeia of the United States, or used or intend ed to be used in medicinal practice; nor cause to be mixed with any such drug or medicinal substance any for eign or inert substance whatever for the purpose of destroying or weaken igg its medical power and effect, and and wilfully,knowingly orfraudulently sell or oause to be sold for medical pur poses. Violation of this section is punish able by fine not exceeding SSOO and the forfeiture of the adulterated arti cles. Section 10 refers to the sale of poi- son?, and reads as follows : A poison in the meaning of the act shall be any drug, chemical or prep aration which according to the stand ard works on medicine or materia medica is liable to be destructive to adult human life in quantities of six ty grains or less. 2So person shall sell at retail any any poisons except as herein provided without affixing to the bottle, box, la bel, printed or plainly written, con taining the name of the article, the word "poison," and the name aud place of business of the seller, nor shall he deliver poison to any per son without satisfying himself that such poison is to be used for legitimate purposes. It shall be the farther duty of any one selling or dispensing poisons which are known to be destructive to adult human life in quantities of five grains or less before delivering them to enter in a book kept for this pur the name of the seller and the name aud residence of the buyer, the name of the article, quantity sold or dispos ed of and the purpose for which it is said to be intended, which book of registry shall be preserved for at least two years, and shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Cor oner or Courts of the county in which the same be kept. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of physi cians' prescrptions specifying poison ous articles as are commonly nsed by them as insecticides. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed gnilty of a misdemeanor, and npon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not less than $5 nor more than SSO for each and every offense. Graduates of accredited medical col leges who have not less than three years continous practice, and who are registered as practioners of medicine aud surgery, may be registared under this act without examination. Governor Beaver has appointed the Board as follows; Alonzo Robins and A. J. Tafel, of Philadelphia; Freder ick A. Eggers, of Allegheny; H. B. Cochran, of Lancaster, and A. V. Burns, of Susquehanna. To Make Labels Adhere to Tin. Take of flour six ounces, of molas ses one-half a pint, and of water one pint and a half, and boil as usaal for flour paste. Or, dissolve two ounces of resin in one pint of alcohol. After the tin has been coated with the solution, allow nearly all of the alcohol to eva porate before applying the label. —Dog days ended August 22d. —The nights are getting cooler. —Watermelons are larger than usnal this season. —A picnic and a thunder storm don't agree together. —Peaches are becoming more plen tiful at the stores, but they are still high in price. —Tne battle with the bumblebees has commenced, and all the boys are in fighting trim. —lf a fly smites you on the cheek, "lay for him," and see that he don'* repeat the dose. —Some one has started the silly story that ice creum induces freckles. Don't believe it girls. —lf you want to vote next eleetion you should see that your name is placed on the registry list. —The legal season for slaughter ing squirrels begins September Ist, and continues until January Ist. —While the summer girl is breast ing the wave, her good old mother stays at home and stems tho currant. —But for the house fly, says Prof. Procter, epidemics would carry off 1,000,000 people per year. —The oldest lawsuit in Illinois has been on the docket for forty-two years. It began about as 2 hog and has cost the principals about S7OOO - St. John asserts that theProhition party will polll,ooo, 000 votes in 1888, and will a majori ty party by 1892. St. John is mod est, which is a new aspect of his com position. —Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is rapidly failing. She takes short walks about her Connecticut home, but her strength is gone and she is no longer able to enjoy life with her old zest. She is cheered with the thought that she has done great good in the world and that there is only one "Uncle Tom's Cabin." —A farm hand pitching hay in Al len county, Ohio, was scared until his face shone white through tan and and sunburn, by seeing a wrigling snake in mid air impaled on the tines of his pitchfork. It was a rattler with nine rattles to its tail. —The Chicago Tribune breaks out in poetry over the President's trip to tho west. With the language of Minnehaha, of Hiawatha,it gushes listen:— He is coming west in autumn, In September or October, Coming to see the prairies, Coming to enjoy the fishing, Coming out to have a picnic, Where no gang of office-seekers,. With their tiresome petitions, Lie in wait and dog his foo'«tepff, lie will bring his Donna Frances, lie will bring his priceles Dn'l, And will swing around the circle, As of old did Andy Johnson. —"Wish I could wear a Coney Is land bathing suit," said a young man to his cousin last evening, as he sat on the piazza and perspired. "What does a Coney Island bathing suit con sist of, George?" demurely asked the maiden. "Oh," he replied' "a little cotton to put in your ears." Then they looked at the black cloud until it was time to change the subject. —lt is said that the P. &W. Co. will begin the erection of a grand ho lel at Rock Point, Lawrence country this fall, and make the resort one of the most attractive in the country. The object is to make a second Cres son of it, so far as natural and artifi cial adornments go, tho only differ ence being that one is on the moun tain summit while the other is in one of the most beautiful and picturesque valleys in the country. —Two visitors at Marshfield, Wis, live to tell a wonderful story of light ning. One of them was struck upon the shoulder, the current passing down his leg and through the sole of his shoe, making a clean cut ronnd hole in the leather and entering the floor. The other was likewise struck on the shoulder and the fluid passed through his slippers, making six clear cut holes through the hole of eachj NO. 40