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And proved the moral well, That ierseverance to the end At last will nobly tell. Take courage man ! resolve you can. And strike a vigorous blow ; In life, a great field of varied toil. Always hoe out your own row. ittteccllcmcons. XETTIE GRAY. Kvervbodv said that Nettie oray was a beauty: not one of yoar polished city belles, but gar, romping, saucy piece of nature's ewu handiwork, yet gentle and affectionate itlal and possessing a depth of feeling and KLtiment which few were able tofatbom Now "sweet Nettie Gray," as she was call ed, had long been beloved by one Charlie Grafton the handsome young merchant, who bpt the only store the little village of N could boast; where he had, for some four or v. years, dealt out tea, sugar, coffee, tobac co, calicos, silks, pins, needles, hardware, tl every variety of merchandise, to the vil lagers and surrounding tarmers, till he had realized quite a little fortune: a p art of which te invested in the purchase of widow Mor ton's beautiful cottage and grounds, which at tho death ot her husband, she bad been obli ged to dispose of, and took a cheaper place, wbere she could live less expensively; which from the surplus of the price received for the cottage, she realized a snug little income. Charlie had also taken the widow's son into the store, as his increasinc business made it ceeessary to procure assistance. The salary pa: .1 to little Johny was a material help to his mother for which she was very gratetul to the young merchant, and she never failed to speak word in his praise whenever an opportunity resented. This, with numberless acts of generosity which. Charlie never tired of performing, made aim the heroe of the little village, and caused him to be beloved and respected,- by both young and old, for many miles around. To say that Nettie Gray was indifferent to his uny visits, or for the ardent love he enter tained for her. would bo doing injustice to her warm, appreciative heart. But the spirit f mischief seemed to possess her; and, though he was uniformly kind and gentle in her dis position towards her lover, and would con Ver82 freely and unreservedly with him upon 4ay topic, yet, when h approached the sub ject that lay nearest his heart, she was off "tea frightened bird. Not that she was araii of him, or that the subject was distaste j' to her, (for her own heart was equally in vested,) but she delighted to tease him, and heartily enjoyed his discomfiture on such oc ClJioD3. She knew he loved her with all the t rength of his soul, and 6he had no fear of bating his affections from herself an cvtnt which would have given her the deep en. tharue had began to think seriously of ttimage, and why not? There stood the cot . embowed in trees, many of which were dmg nnuer taeir heaV7 loa,j of rare ff uit occupied. It needed only the gentle pres bright eyed Nettle to make it a cie ?'3 ncome was more than Buffi nd K Eatisfy taeir most extravagant wants U, "J "ouiu tie not marry? Many times Cf V or ine express purpose 5 vicital va:- it. - been a,uown wisnes, out had as otten to sa !eventc1 from saying what ho wished tt tJ7 tte little mischiefs running away Tc.6-8! WOrd tJ utterei uPon the subject, fctow f -n j "PP1" her place ' from the , J lair datnsals in it who would pladlv C T?pted his band- waa out of the ques 'j anw,Nettie he l0Ted n Nettie on Qtl felt pure she returned his affections but how could he ever get married, if he was not permitted even to propose. I must re sort to some stratagem," he thought; and he partiauy iormea many plans to bring the lit tle beauty to terms, and often abandoned them. His mind was busy with such thousrhts. as one bright morning in September, he walked siowiy towards larmer Gray's mansion. lie leisurly ascended the hill, at the top of which upon a level table land stood tho great old house, when he was startled by a familiar voice calling out. "Bring the ladder, Dick! I want to get down." - And, looking up. he beheld Nettie seated in the wide spreading branches of a large apple tree that stood in the field near the road, Dick, perched upon the topmost round of a ladder, that leaned against a pear tree, was quietly filling a basket with the rich fruit. "Wait a minute, sis," relied Dick, with out looking up; "I have got my basket al most full. I'll come in a miDute." "Come now, Dick ! quick ! quick !" again called the impatient voice of his sister. .luck evidently began to taint there was something wrong, for he turned around, and his eye instantly caught sight of our hero coming up the road, but a few rods from where they were. He instantly descended from the tree ; but instead of carrying tho ladder to assist his sister to descend, he gave a loud shout, threw his cap into the air, cleared the wall with one bound, and ran rapidlv down the hill, shouting at the top of his voice, "O, iur. uraiton, i ve treea a coon i i ve treed a coon " Then placing ' his hands upon the ground before him, he turned some five or six summersaults, utterred as many boister ous shouts and picking up Lis cap, ran with all his might to the house. The little rogue evidently loved mischief as well as did his pretty sister. Uiiarue s nrst thought was to go to the as sistance of Nettie, and he leaped the wall and approached the tree. Taking the ladder from the pear tree, he was about placing it for her to descend, when a sudden thought suggested itself. "She cannot run away from me now, and, not stopping to" consider the ungallar act, he grasped a lower branch, and. with some gay remark, swung himself lightly up, and took a seat by her side Nettie was an amiable girl, and could take a joke as good naturedly as she could give one, only laughed heartily at the trick her brother played on her ; complimented Charlie upon his agility, and invited him to help nimseu to me tempting iruit thai hung in such profusion about them. After chatting on a variety ot tnemes, he determined to ap proach the subject, and if pos.sio;c, get an in telligible answer, lor some time he sat in silence, then, "Nettie, I have something to say to you." "Ah! have you T she replied. "Well, L-aarhe, please help me down, and vou can say it as we walk to the house." Charlie saw the mischief in her eyes, and resolved to go on without heeding her re quest, yet be changed somewhat his mode of attack. "Nettie, I am going to be married." "Married ! Charlie, married !" Without heeding the prayerful glance that was raised to his face, he went on. "Yes, Nettie. My business is bow very prosperous ; I have a pretty home, which needs only the additional charm of a pair of bright eyes. I have found a sweet, gentle girl, whom I love with ill my heart, and who is willing to become my wife, and L have re solved to marry. I have tried a long time to tell you, but you would not hear it." Nettie had listened to this speech in utter amazement She had long believed that she was the beloved of Charlie Grafton's boart ; and she meant, after she had teased him to her beard's content, to listen to his love, and become hi3 dutiful and loving wife. Bat her hopes were now suddenly dashed to atoms It was too much. A giddy faintness came over her, and, but for the support of Charlie's arm, she would have fallen to the ground. Charlie noticed her emotion, and feared he had gone too far. It was but for a moment, however. She soon regairfed her self-pos- scsston, and sat upright ?y his side, iter face was very pale, but her eyes flashed proudly, as she replied, and there was a spice of bitterness in her tones. "May I ask the name of her who has been honored with the offer of the hand and heart of my noble friend ?" "First let me describe her. Sho i3 a beau tiful girl, and possesses a warm, loving heart She has but one fault if fault it may be called She delights to tease those who love her best, and often has she given me a severe heart-pang. Yet, Nettie, I love her deeply and fervently, and it shall be the object of my life to guard her from harm to protect her, as far as I am able, from the slightest breath of sorrow, anl I shall be abundantly rewarded by her love. Nettie, I have never offered her my hand, though she has long possessed my heart. I do it now, Nettie. Dearest, can you 8sk her uame?" Nettie gave one long, inquiring look, as though she but half comprehended his words. "Will you be my wife, Nettie ?" . "What?" 6be replied, half bewilderingly. 'Are you not going to be married ? Are you not forever lost to me ?" "Yes, if you will consent to be mine." She realized what it would be to love him ; her head Bank upon her bosom, and, bursting into tears, she murmured, Yes, Charlie, I will." Soon Master Dick came bounding into the orchard and hand filled with a huge slice of bread and butter, while with the other he tossed hia caD into the air. showing that he fully comprehended the state of affairs shout ing at the top of his voice, "Hallo, Mr. Grafton I ain't you glad I treed her for vou I Both greeted ' this a!lv with ft bunt of laughter, and soon all three were engaged in a wild romp up the green turf. We hardly need add that the same autumn witnessed - a right merrv wedding at the old mansion of Farmer Gray. Short I shall give Patent Sermon. you a sermon to-day drawn from the following text : The lady who before the tub, Is not ashamed to ring and rub; Or on the floor ashamed to scrub. Aid cares not who calk to see, Her laboring so industriously, "Will make a wife for you and me. My brethern, since you know that mar ige is a divine institution, and that every one of you should have a wife.what kind of a rib would you select r A pretty useless lit- tie doll, or one big and spunky enough to wrestle with a bear, and come off first best ? I imagine you would care nothing for either extreme, but you would look for personal charms. O, you foolish idolators, at the shrino of beauty ! Know you not that hun dreds of husbands aro made miserable bv handsome wives, and that thousands are happy in the possession of homely ones ? homely without, but beautiful within. Alas ! what is beauty 7 It is a flower that wilts and withers almost as soon is it is plucked, a trancient rainbow, a fleeting metaor, a de ceitful will-of-the-wisp, sublimated moon shine. The kind of wife you want is of good morals and .knows how to mend trowsers, who can reconcile peeling potatoes, with practical or fashionable piety, who can waltz with the churn dash, and sing with the tea kettle who understand broomology. and the true science of mopping who can knit stockings without knitting her brows, and knit upon her husband's raveled sleeve of care; who perfers sewing tears with her nedle to sewing tears of scandal with her tongue, 6uch is decidedlv the better half. Take her if you can get her let her bo up to the cl- bow in the suds of the wash tub, or picking the geese iu the cow stable. iMy hearers my text speaks of a lady be fore the wash tub. You may think it absurd but let me assure you that a -female ean be a lady before the tub in the kitchen, as much as in the drawing room or m the parlor. What cons titutes a lady ? It is not a costly dress, paint for the cheek, false hair, and still falser airs, but it is her general deport ment, her intellectual endowments, and that evidence of virtue which commands the silent respect and admiration of the world. She would be rogmzed as a lady at once. It matters not where, or in what situation she was found whether scratching for bed-bugs with a hot poker, or hollowing hallelujah at a Methodist camp-meeting. All that I have further to say, fellow bachelors, is, that when you marry, see that you get a lady inside and out one who knows how to keep the pot boiling and look well to her household, So mote it be. Dow Jr. Jjcalinj the Devil In the early days of the State of lndianna, the capital was Cory don: and the annual sessions of the General Assembly usually brought together as wild a set of wags as could be found in the State, who had to rely upon their own resources for amusement, for there were then few theatres, concerts, or shows The lovers of mischief had established a mock Masonic Lodge, into which they would entice such as were a little green, and take them through a variety of ridiculous ceremo nies, to the infinite amusement of the crowd. On one of these occasions, it being understood that a good natured, athletic j-oung man, about half a simpleton, was to be initiated. Uie room was crowded. Judge Grass, (it being a character in which he was peculiarly happy") had consented to act the role of the devil; and, to make the services more impres sive, had put on a false face and a paper cap, surmounted with horns, and with some chains iu his hands placed himself behind the screen. After taking tae candidate through a va riety of ceremonies, he was brought to a stand before the screen, and told that he had then to confess all the crimes he committed during bis life. The candidate confessed some frival offerees, and declared that he could recolect no more. At this the Judge came out from his hiding place, groaned and shook his chains. The frightened candidate related some other small matters, and declaired that he had disclosed all the crimes he had ever committed. At this the groans of the pre tended devil became furious, the chains rat tled, and he shook his horns in the face of the terrified candidate, who, starting back in alarm, cried out: "H-h-hold on, M-ni-ister D-d-devil, if I m-m-must t-tell you, I d-d-did k-kis J -judge G-g-grass' w-w-wife a c-c-couple of t-timesl" The groaning ceased. Big words pass for sense with some people, and sometimes may be very success- fully employed when nothing else wiu answer As when a man in great alarm, ran to his minister to tell him he could see spots on the Rtm. and thought the world must be coming to an end. "Oh ! don't be afraid," said the good min ister, "its nothing but a phantasmagoria." "Is that all?" said the frightened man, and went away quite releived. '. A newly imported "help," afier being established as maid-of-all-work. was seen shortly after with a pail full of slops, care fully exploring the parlors, the drawing room, the library, the boudoir, the music room, and other places, as if in search of something which she could not find. At last meeting the lady of the bouse, she in quired, seriously, "If ye plaae, misthress, where' the pig ?" Spring is come again. Movement to Revolutionize Cuba. . The New York San. which Is a SUfpuster journal, whenever a Cuba expedition is on foot, this morning prints the "flag of Free Cuba," in its columns. It says editorially. "We display once more in our columns the emblem of Cuban libcrtv the emblem under which her patriot sons are, perhaps, at this moment startling the ears of their op pressions with the cry which rang through the thirteen colonies; in the glorious days of our Revolution 'Give us Liberty or give us death? "We seek to raise no idle excitement. We have good reason for the belief that if the flame of rcyc4t-Las not already been kindled in the Island of Cuba it will be before the end of this week. The Cubans have, by many bitter disappointments, realized the truth of the poet's l'nes, that 'Who would be free themselves must sti ike the blow. "Therefore ever since their abandonment by Quitman and others, their betrayal by professed "friends in the. United States, and the squandering of the resources of revolution which they had collected, they have devoted themselves to a new plan in which the iuitia- j tive and the first effort for freedom should be ; exclusiceTy Cuban. Upon this basis they j have organized patriot clubs throughout the Island, and the members count by thousands. Their co-patriots in the United States have aided all their plans, and will share with them in the dangers and the glory of the struggle for Cuban rights. "All the stories set afloat about the organ ization of American expeditions, are wide of the truth. -This last is a pure Cuban move ment. The first of this month was the time fixed by the Clubs throughout the Island for 1 a general rising, and, unless their plot has been discovered, or some untoward event has happened, they are in arms against their op pressors. "The New York Convention of Cuban pa triots a small but determined .band sailed on their dangerous mission in the latter part of March. If the patriots in tho Island had not already risen on the day fixed, the land ing of the New York Convention would be the bignal for revolt, Arms and ammunition have been provided, and all arc bound by a solemn obligation to stand by the cause until victory crowns their efforts or the last man has fallen. Most of the Cubans who have from New York are young men; macv of them sons of the leading men on the Is land, and all fired with the determination to free their native soil or die m the attempt. They go forth taking their lives in their hands, The Cubans will now prove the sincerity of the loud-spoken American sympathizers. Ihey strike for their own liberties. Will government see to it, that they have fair play ? Will Mr JJuchanao stand up to his pledges and professed policy ? Will Senator Urown and Tammany Hall back their brave words by deeds of practical sympathy ? . The next steamer from Havanna may bring us stirring news in the meantime, let those who have talked Cuba, prepare to do some- thing to strengthen the hands of her patriot sons. ST "A good action is never thrown away.' This is the reason why, probably, that we find so very few of them 'lying around loose.' True beauty is but virtue made visable in outward grace. Beauty and vice are disjoin- ed by nature herself. Speak.- but little, and to the purposo, and you will pass far somebody. Men are like weathercocks, which are never constant or fixed but when they are worn out and rusty. If a man is happily married, his "rib," is worth all the other bones in his body. Fashionable intelligence long dresses make clean crossings. Lies are hiltless swords, which cut the hands that wield them. What is that which shows to others what it cannot see itself ? A mirror. The costume of the Spanish ladies has not changed for two hundred years Ink is a caustic which sometimes burns the fingers of those who make use of it. "Whatever enlarges hope, will also exalt courage. An indescrete person is like an unsealed letter, which every body can peruse. He is no mean philosopher who can give a reason for half of what he thinks. The last invention in Ohio is an India-rubber meat saw. Progressive age, this. To speak harshly to a person of sensibility is like striking a harpsicord with your fiats. Religion and medicine are not responsible for the faults end" mistakes of their doctors. Ox TnE Bcstle. The editor cf the Hun tingdon Globe, (we judge he is an old fogy,) thus prates about something which he has seen in a store window . "We observe in some of the stores, an ar ticle called a hustle, for the the ladies, but which, to our mind, would make a better horse-rake, or something else. It looks to us to be made of sheet iron, and twisted iround the waist. The ladies thiuk it a model in vention. When we first saw them we were very inquisitive to know what they wore, and when informed, we were then anxious to know if thev were a substitute for hoops, but no sir, only "an addition. . We think they are very bandy, for. the reason that when a lady goes out walking, if she has any children, she can set them on behind so nioely, and save tho trouble and inconvenience of bein bothered almost to death leading them." ''Good morning.Patrlck slippery this morning" 'iSlippery 1 and be jabers its uothing else, yer honor. Upon my word I slipped down three times without getting up once. lVew Important from Jamaica Insur ectloa oftlie Black Souloque. The New York Courier des Etats Unit has a private and reliable letter from Kings ton, Jamaica, from which we quote as follws: Encouraged by the acts of their neighbors, the Ilaytiana, our blacks appear also disposed to attempt a revolution In the parish of Westmoreland has recently been imposed a new tax. to which the negro population are not williDg to submit. Some of thedisaffcted raised the standard of revolt, and entered the little village of Savannah, where they distroy ed some property. The police having arres ted three or four of the ringleaders; their par tisans, far from being discouraged, continued their work of distraction, menacing with fire the City Hall, if the prisoners were not re leased. Informed of these facts, Governor Darling had dispatched against the revolters a body of five hundred men under the com mand of Col. Whifefieli. 'As these troops were marching towards the place of enibarkment, they met a long file of carts, upon which were perched a num ber of blacks, attracted thither by the sound of the drums and trumpets. These people blocked up the- passage from the soldiers, and the colonel ordered them to retire. His order producing no effect, it was necessary to unsheath the weapons, and the sword of Col Whitereld, which had not probably seen the light since the battle of Waterloo; fell upon the fihouldiers of more than one of the poor wretches. Soloque, who lived near by, be held these exploits from bis window. Far from grieveirg ovsr the strokes from which the negros suffered, he contemplated the scene with evident delight. Ah !' cried he, the whites begin at last to see how the blacks are to be treated, sweet words are not for them; they need blows and nocks Souloque evidently adheres to his own system, and hia misfortunes have not yet cured him of his delusions," The Tables Turning. The municipal election held in Trenton on Monday last, resulted in a complete Demo cratic victory, the entire ticket having been elected bv a handsome maioritv. lhis is cheering when it is borne in mind that the Opposition were in the ascendency at the Capital, and quite sanguine of remaining so The Trenton papers attribute it to the fact that the people there are close observers of the mis-rule of the dominant party than-else where, and have consequently rebuked them This is the signal gun of the coming campaign in this State, and is indicative of the manner in which the J'oople will repudiate a party that, during the last Legislature, set their will at defiance, and defrauded them of their rights The election in Beverly also shows a deci ded Democratic triumph, the whole ticket be ing elected by a large majority, notwithstand ing the Opposition made the most strenuous efforts to defeat it. In Princeton, on Monday last, the Demo cratic ticket succeeded by n average majority of forty-six In East Jersey, wherever an election has taken place, the Democracy have been uni formly successful, the vote giving unmistaka ble evidence of tho determination of not only our party, but the people, to fix the seal of condemnation upon a corrupt and reckless administration. The Democracy of Hartford, Connecticut, have nobly redeemed that city. At the elec tien on Monday they secured all the munici- pal officers. The triumph, is a glorious one, and shines like a star in the darkness which I now broods over the rest of the fctate. An Eye-solated Case. A nice question for the lawyers has just turned up in France. An old man living near l'aris, course querulous and exacting, nch but of could keep none ot his servants over a month, iney a i ,1 mi succeeded each other like travelers at an inn Puzzled to know how to attack one to his service, he at length hit on the idea of letting a new comer understand that he had left in his will two thousand francs a year to the one who should "close his eves." Informed of this testamentary clause, the new servant bore and forebore, sticking manfully to his post. He had not to suffer long. At the end of five months the old man died, and Pierre chuckled at the thought of his handsome in come for life, easily enough earned. "But my good fellow," said the notary, in reply to his inquiries, "1 cannot pat you in nossession of vour fjituue. The heirs of Mr. C. have opposed the will, and put it in suit "In suit! Why ! Isn't the bequest clear enousrh ?" "Well, yes, Mr. C left two thousand francs a year to the one who should close his eyes, but tho heirs claim that you have not fulfilled the condition. "Not fulfilled it. WTho closed his eyes ifldidnotr The heirs say you couldn't fulfil it." "And why not? What do they mean Y "They say that as Air. U was a one-eyed man, you could only have closed one eye and not 'his eyes.'" 3T Sir Walter Scott once gave an Irish- roan a shilling in payment for somethm which only amounted 10 sixpence, x-aaay fumbled considerably, but couldn't make the change. "Be jabers, yer honor, an' it's mcsllf can' change ye. "liemember. said the baronet, "vou owe me sixpence." "Augh, long life to yer honor, au may ye live till I pay ye." quoth Paddy. A Satisfactory Reason. A short time ago a schoolmaster was wanted for a Western village. A pompous little fellow, one of the applicants, being asked to give a philosophi cal reason why cream was put with tea. re plied, "Because the globular particles of tho ci ram render the acute angles of the tea more obtuse." He was elected- A Heavy Draw. "I liked your sermon very much to-day, with a single exception," said a worthy pas tr t) a minister who had occupied his pulpit a portion of the Sabbath. - Well, what was the exception?" "I think you used too many technical phr ses." "Did I? I didn't think of it." "You repeatedly spoke of drawing inferen ces. Now that was Greek to many hearers." "Oh, no. Most everyone knows what we mean by drawing an inference." "You are mistaken, brother, as sure as you live; I do not believe . one-half of my congre gation would understand the phrase." fYou certainly oannot be right." "I am. Now there is Mr. Smith," point ing out a man just turning the corner from the meeting house, "who is quite an intelli gent farmer; we will overtake him; I will ask him if he can craw an inferance, and I do not believe ho will understated me." Accordingly the two ministers quickened their pace; as they came up to Mr. Smith, " his pastor said to him. "Brother Smith, can you draw an infer- Brother Smith, thus summarily interroga ted, looked at his pastor some fifteen seconds quite surprised and then rather hesitatingly said: "Well, I don't know, I s'pose I could I've got a pair of steers that can draw any" thing to which they are hitched but I shouldeni like to on Sunday. A California Widow. Captain Saltwater says his first essay to effect a matrimonial character resulted in a manner so discoura ging that be don't believe he'll ever be in duced to try it over again. The captain being out of service some months, conceived a passion for a rather mysterious young lady boarding at the same hotel. Says the Cap tain, I conveyed her round the shops, balls, theatres, churches, and every other place of amusement and information, and at last, when I thought things had gone about far enough, I squares my yards, and says I just as cool as a powder monkey "Ma'am, I've been think -in' I'd like to be spliced." "Spliced," saya she, as artless a3 a turtle dove. "Spliced." says I, "and if you've a notion, why I'm ready to share my luck and dunnage with you, ma'am !" "Captain, I've been thinking if my husband don't write soon, and send me some money and a gold watch from Califor nia, I'd just as leave marry somebody else as not, and if yon will wait a few day? I'll give vou the preference." Her husband had been gone to the Pacific just four montLs, and here was a California widow. "I stood off after that," said the Captain. Mighty Socnik A very smart lawyer of Washington, D. C, had the misfortune to lose a suit for a client who had every reason to expect success The client, a plain farmer, was astonished by the long bill of costs, and hastening to the lawyer s office, said I thought you told me we should certainly gain that suit !" "So 1 did," answered the lawyer, "but you see when l Drougnt it up mere Deiore the judge, they said it was quorum non ju Jice" "Well, if they said it was as bad as that," replied the old farmer, "I don't wonder why we lost, and he paid the costs and a bi fee besides without another murmur. SiB?- ITow to Stop Bleeding. A correspon dent of the Oiio Farmer says "I have no ticed various ways for stopping blood. Tho article you will find enclosed is as easy, and sure a remedy as I ever saw tried. It is call ed punk, aud is found in old trees. It can be obtained by splitting the wood that has it in, and peal it with your fingers. It has to be rubbed up with the hand, and applied to the wound without any other preparation. It will stick itself to the wound, and stop the blood immediately, and without pain or irri tation." 83 Card Playing. "To dribble away life," says Sir Walter Scott, "in exchange ing bits of painted paste board, round a green table, for the paltry concern of a few shillings can only be excused in folly or superanua tion. It i9 like riding on a rocking-horse. where your utmfft exertion never carries yoa a foot forward; it is a kiod of a mental tread mill, where vou are perpetually climbing, but can never raise an men. The New Cent Poisoxocs. It is stated that several instances have occurred in differ ent parts of the couutry, where children have died from the effects of poison taken into the system by swallowing the new iiickel cent -the one with the Indian squaw on its face. As this coin is small and easily swallowed, there is great danger in allowing young children to have them iu their possession. The metal which composes it has had a fatal effect, and would seem to be poisonous. j5? During the search for female compos itors, it is reported that .the following dia louge took place. "Good morning, Mr. Henpeek. nave you any daughters that would make good type setters? ' "No, but I have a wife that would make a very fine devil." EST" Charles Lever, in one of hi? stories tells of a dashing individual who boiled his hams in sherrv wine: whereat an honest hi- bernean exclaimed, "Bedad, I wLh I were a pig meself." 37" A good cure for the dyspepsia is to collect bills for a newspaper. If that don't give you an appetite, you might as well sell your stomach tor tripo and be done with it. S3T Why are ladies like belU? Because you can never find out ther metal until you have given them ring. t i i i n a o o
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