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Inns, 3rd, 1863
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PROPRIETOR*
fhe MEANS HOTEL, is one of tha LARGEST
aad BEST ARRANGED Housei In the country—lt
U fitted up in the moat modern and improved style,
and no pains are spared to make it a pleasant and
agreeable stopping-place for all,
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Manufactured by
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At TUNX&A JYJTO CIC, Ta.
who has the exclusive right for Wyoming County, is
one of the very few Machines that will cut Hay,
Straw, Stalks. Ac., better than the old fashioned
Cutting boxes, used by oar grand fathers.
Those who valne time and labor ; and would avoid
a noedloss low of both, in feeding their stock, should
get etw of three improved Cutters.
No man ever found any thing better ; or ever
went back to the old machine after a trial of it,
A SUPPLY CONSTANTLY ON HAND,
and 'I
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TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1867-
CORHT O LANUSOW RUSSIAN AMER-
[ CORKY O'LANUS ON RUSSIAN AMER
ICA.
DEAR EAOLX ;
1 begin to think this is an ungrateful
country, and that genius is not appreciated
here.
All my efforts to serve the public have
been nnavailing.
I have some thoughts of leaving Brook
lyn and going where talent is recognized.
The purchase of Russian America opens
a new field of enterprise.
A splendid field for ice companies and
skating pond proprietors.
The climate they say is pleasant after
you get used to it.
There are none of the sudden changes of
temperature you experience here.
It freezes steady the year round.
II never rains there ; snow is the near
est approach to it they ever experience.
Winter usually sets in about the first of
November, aud lasts till the middle of the
next November.
They have a short summer about the
first of August.
Which lasts about twenty minutes,
The people avail themselves of the op
portunity to lay in their winter supplies.
The population is mixed descent, like
that of the Eastern States
The principal races are Esquimaux, Seals
Russians, Bears and Walruses.
The chief productions of the country,are
ice, furs, ice, aurora borealises, icebergs,
whales, whale-oil and ice.
The ice-crop is the largest iu the United
States.
A statistician in the State Department
has computed that a tax of half a cent a
pound on all tha ice produced in this new
territory would pay off the national debt
in six months, with a balance sufficient to
pay the salary of the Secretary of State.
To say nothing of the income tax that
might be collected from the Esquimaux.
The peculiar wants of the people would
open a new market for tha products of
American industry.
The principal diet of the Russians is
fried candles.
Since the introduction of kerosene oil,
the candle trade has declined and it is noth
ing like what it was when Garibaldi made
long sixes at Staten Island.
The annexation to the States of so large
a canddle consuming population would
create a revival in the trade.
But the political advantages are still
much greater.
What a lot of new offices will be crea
ted.
Collectors, Assessors, Postmasters, aDd
all such.
The Esquimaux are not much addicted
to correspondence ; but it wouldn't be the
fault of the postmasters if they had nothing
to do.
The territory would soon want to be
come a State, and if its sentiments at all
coirespond with the latitude, it would be
sufficiently Northern in politics to insure
prompt admission to the Union.
There* is a suspicion that, owing to their
very northern situation, the popular ideas
of the population might run to an extreme
that would out-radical the Radicals.
Their views on the suffrage question
might out Beecher Beecher.
Suppose, for instance, they insisted upon
extending the franchise, not only to the
human population of all the races, ages
and sexes, but give the vote to seas and
walruses.
Barnum's learned seal might be one ot
the first Senators sent to Washington.
I think of going out to the territory to
run for Congress.
A fellow couldVetire]on the proceeds of
one term.
The amount of mileage of a member ot
Congress from the North Pole to Washing-;
ton, at the present rates, would amount to
$149,892,14.
A man could afford to go through a
great variety of temperature at this rate.
The new territory has not been named
yet, and Secretary Seward is open for pro
posals on the subject.
Expecting to represent the country of
ficially, I also feel interested.
We would like to have something origi
nal and expressive.
Johnsonia had been suggested, but A. J.
is rather played out,and the name would'nt
go down.
Being of Rnssian extraction, a name
with a Muscovite flavor would be appro
priate.
All Russian names end with off cr ski.
This has divided public opinion into two
portiea, the "off" and "skis."
I belong to the "skis." Mr. friend
O'Pake, who belongs to the same party,
has suggested the appropriate name of
"Coriolanuski."
Modesty forbids my expatiating on the
eupboDj and elegance of this name.
"Frobjinski" sounds well, but his Indians
doD't belong to the Esquimaux tribe.
"Highandryski" would be very appro
priate.
This name was suggested by a report
that Joe Reeve was going out to the terri
tory to try and induce the Esquimaux to
adopt the paid fire department system.
The /oris" have a great many names.
"DamlongwxyofF" is Russian, peculiar
and expressive.
"Eversofaroft" is not so emphatie.
"Jumpingoff" is not bad for the extremi
ty of creation.
The subject of names opens a wide field
for discussion, and I will leave it to a Con
grass who is paid to attend to each bnsi
-1 nets.
I have, however, devised i cost of arms
for the new Stete.
An iceberg Hlnvninsted with the rays of
aurora borealis, a walrus rampant, and the
universal Yankee seated on a barrel of
whale oil whittling- the north pole with a
jack-knife.
Motto: "Fiatjustitia mat tealuunm n
Let justice be done to the seals
Yours, on ice,
CORRY O'LANUS.
—Brooklyn Eagle.
THE FASHION.
Recent letters from Paris say the decis
ion of the dress-makilg world appears to
poia tto a still closer approximation to the
odious "fashion" of the First Empire. The
most fashionable women now wear ao
crinoline at evening parties ; but trail aft
er them long trains of three quarters of a
yard in length unsupported by aught, save
a trailing petticoat of starched muslin of
nearly equal length. Bead trimmings in
jet, amber or mock pearls, are more in
favor than ever, and are worn as neckla
ces, as band across the hair, as "squaw
bells"—cover the whole of the stomach, —
and on every part of the dress. False
hair, false stomachs for thin woman, false
ears most clevery imitated in gutta per
cha—the real ears being hidden under the
hair, —false cheeks—called plumpers, and
inserted between the gum? and real cheeks,
to which they impart fulness and round
ness—with false hair, enambled complex
ions, afkd artistic padding, make op a total
considerable removed from the "simplici
ty of nature," but greatly in vogue at the
present day. Jewelry is worn very large
and showy; ear-rings, especially being
often worn so large one wonders the ear
does not tear away under such a weight.
Though usually hollow, these ear-rings are
anything but favorable to the preservation
of the form and freshness of the ear. It
appears to be resolved, in high places,
that the bonnet shall be replaced by the
more picturesque styles of head dress com
mon in Spain and Africa, and known here
as Louis XV hoods, mantillas, and so on.
It is probable that the definite return of
the weather—should it ever occur—will
be followed by the appearance of various
startling changes in the fashionable toi
lettes.
THE IDLER. —The idle man is an annoy
ance—a nuisacce, —he is of no benefitjto
anybody ; he is an intruder in the busy
thoroughfare of every day life ; he stands
in our path, and we push him coutempt
ously aside ; he is of no advantage to any
body ; he annoys busy men ; he makes
them unhappy; he is a unit in society.—
He may have an income to support hi 9
idleness, or he may "spunge" on his
good-natured friends; but in either case
he is despised. Young men, do something
in this busy, bustling, wide-awake world !
Move about for the benefit of mankind, if
not for yourself. Do not be idle. God's
law is, that by the sweat of our brow we
shall earn our bread,
Oh, pa, Mr. Smith was here this morn
ing, and when ma told him you would not be
home till late, he said her lips were like
honey, and that he wished he was a bee,
and then he kissed hor. They gave me a
stick of candy not to tell any one, but I
don't think they'll mind you, you're so well
acquainted with ma."
In a Railroad station is a placard an
nounced " No smoking," posted over an oil
lamp. Two Irishmen appear, one smoking
" Mike,,' says the other. " Ye're trans
gressin, the rhules of the establishment. "
" How's that ?" says the 9tnoker.
" Don't you see there —no smoking ?"
" Yis; but can't ye see, ye spalpeen', the
remark is addressed to the lamp ?"
George Francis Train says our
modern marriage service should read thus:
Clergyman —Will you take this brown
stone, this carriage and span, these dia
monds, for thy wedded husband? Yes.
Will you take this unpaid milliner' 9 bill,
this bigh waterfall of foreign hair, these
affectation accomplishments and feeble
constitution for they wedded wife ? Yes.
Then, what man has joined together let
the next best roan run away with, so that
the divorce court may tear them asunder
"Dick," inquired the maid, "have you
been after that saleratus ?" "No, I hainL"
"1 f you don't go quick, I'll tell your mis
tress." "Well, 1 tell, mistress as soon
as you please. I don't know Sally Ratus,
and won't go near her. You know lam
engaged to Deb."
A Traveler stopped at an inn in a neigh
boring village, and, finding the landlord
and landlady fighting, cried out, " Halloo,
who keeps this house ?" The wife repHed,
" That's just what we are trying to deeide.
A Yankee being asked to describe his
wife, said :" Why, sir, she'd make a regu
lar fast, go ahead steamer, my wife would
—she has such a wonderful talent for blow
ing up."
CONTRARIES. —PeopIe say they shell
peas when they unthell them. ; that they
•kin a calf when they unskin it; that they
weed their gardens, when they are weedy
enoogh already.
At Squantum, Mass., a man has sued
his neighbor for SSO damages for Killing a
a favorite tomcat while it was giviug a
midnight serenade.
WHAT MAKES A MAN HICH.
There are two questions which almost
every roan has to consider in the course of
his life, but which very few answer correct
ly, and on the correct solution of whiclfde
pends very mueh of the comfort and als
the length of life of thousands. They are
these —What is it to be rich ? and how to
become so ? As to the first of these, noth
ing is more vague aDd illusory thaa every
common and ordinary attempt to define the
word rich. "It is the opposite of poor,"
says one of the popular dictionaries, with
a spasmodic effort to be very clear and ex
act. But when you turn to the word poor
it also is defined as "the opposite of rich
needy, necessitous." Taking this as our
point of departure, then it is at least clear
that he who is always wanting more, and
in need of that which he cannot obtain,
whatever else he may possess, is certainly
not rich. But riches and poverty are de
pendent more on internal disposition than
external circumstances. There is certainly
no given amount of gold or silver, that can
be laid down as constituting wealth. Be
fore the war, a man worth a hundred thou
sand dollars would have been called rich
by variou>ly circumstanced people, while
now it takes five or ten times that sum
with some people to make a respectable
fortune. Every one knows how much his
own ideas OQ this subject have altered
within the last ten years- In Prescott,s
Conquest of Peru it is well treated how the
sudden possession of the precious metals
by the soldiers of Spam produced such a
desturbance of value in Europe, and espe
cially iu America, that a quire of letter pa
per was worth several* thousand dollars,
and common soldiers gambled away in a
single night fortunes that some of the
grandees of Europe would have esteemed
quite respectable. It is said that one man
possessed an image of the sun, made of
pure gold, eigh feet in diameter across the
face. It was taken from the front of the
temples of the natives. But he gambled
it away at cards in a single night, and day
dawned on him a beggar. Heoce came
the Spanish proverb, "To play away the
sun before sunrise." There is getting to
be a reckless sort of gambling and specu
lation with many, not indeed eo disturbing
in degree, but about as absurd and mad in
point of principle, as many of the specula
tive transactions of that world-renowned
period. In the oil regions a man whose
well 9 were producing him three thousand
dollars a day, two or three years ago, has
since been reduced to poverty.
That man is rich who possesses more
than he requires ; and he is poor, no mat
ter what he possesses, who needs more
than ho has the power to procure. The
idea o£richcs as that of plenty, of power,
of dominion and rule. He who has con
trol of his own desires and wants, and can
supply them, is rich. He who longs for
what he cannot command, 19 poor, no mat
ter what amount of money or property he
has, Hence riches and poverty are always
fluctuating, not only with the supply of pa
per or of precious metals, as many suppose
but still more with the demand occasioned
by the hobes and fears or the merchantile
faith of the hour and of the man. When
from any cause the demand is in excess of
the means of supply forthcoming, whether
it be for one dollar to purchase a dinner,
or one hundred millions to construct a
railway across a continent, there is pover
ty-
The easiest way of becoming rich is by
that sort of self denial'which always rigor
ously keeps the wants easily within the
means. When John Wesley began to
preach, he comraenced'as a curate, with an
income of thirty pounds a year. He lived
upon twenty-eight, aud fgave'away'two
He was so far a rich man By degrees
his income doubled fand trebled, but he
kept up his simple personal habits, and al
ways had an abundance. He who keeps
his desires considerably within bis income
has in that a sense of power and plenty
which constitutes the very essence of
wealth. It gives him control over circum
stances which a man of opposite habits
soon and invariably loses. .'Hence it is
that a habit of steady, moderate and well
proportioned benevolence, really enriches
the man who cherishes it, because it keeps
poverty a long way off. Had John Wes
ley began, as many do in all professions,
by spending two pounds a year more than
his income, debt and degradation would
have followed, and habits of expenditure
would probably have increased faster than
his income. Every man, when he has
finished his eduoation, ought, if in health,
not only to earn enough to meet all his
wants and be generous, but to lay by some
thing, however small, for a rainy day.—
The consciousness of this is a mine of
wealth. It makes a man inwardly rich in
the true sense of the term, and the habit
will grow—a manly sense of independence
will grow with it.
"Sallv Mander safe 1" said Mrs. Parting
ton, as her eyes fell on an advertisement
"Do tell me, Ike, who this Sally Mander is
and what she's been doing thst they've got
her ssfe ?"
"I don't know what she's been doing."
said Ike, "but 1 guess she is a sister to
Jerry."
"jerry who, Isaac?"
"Why, Jerry Mander." said Ike, as he
resumed his work by the window, catch
ing flies and impaling them.
The Bishop of Vienna has just drawn
300,000 florins from the Austrian State
lottery.
TheEdinbarg Scotsman says: "A very
singular and interresting occurrence was
yesterday brought to light in the Burgh
Court, by the hearing of a summons in re
gard to a dog tax. Eight and a half
years ago a man named Gray, of whom
nothing is known, except that he lired in
a quiet way in some obscure part of the
town,was buried in old Greyfriars' Church
yard. His grave, levelled by the hand of
time, and unmarked by any stone is now
scarcely discernible; but though no hu
man interest would seem to attach to h,
the sacred spot has not been wholly disre
garded and forgotten." Daring all three
years the dead man's faithful dog baa
kept constant watch and guard- over the
grave, and it was this animal for which
the collectors sought to recover the tax.
James Brown, the old curator of the buri
al ground, remembered Gray's funeral,
and the dog, a Scotch terrier, was, he
says, one of the most conspicuous of the
mourners. The grave wa3 closed in as
usual, and next morning as the
dog is called, was found lying on the newly
made mound. This was an innovation
which old James could not permit, for
there was an order at the gate stating, in
the most intelligible characters, that dogs
were uot admitted. "Bobby" was accord
ingly driven out; but next morning he
was there again, and for the second time
was discharged. The third morning was
cold and wet, and when the old man saw
the faithful animal, in spite of all chas
lisenient, still lying shivering on the grave,
he took pity on him aDd gave him some
"This recognition of his devotion gave
"Bobby ' the right to make the church
yard his home; and from that time to the
present he has never spent a night away
from his master's grave. Often in bad
weather attempts have been made to keep
him within doors, but by dismal howls he
he has succeeded in making it known that
his interference is not agreeable to him,
and latterly be has always been allowed
to hare his way. At almost any time
during the day he may have been seen in
or about the churchyard ; and no matter
how rough the night may be, nothing can
induce him to forsake the hallowed spot,
whose identity, despite the irresistible ob
literation it has undergone, he has faithful
ly preserved. "Bobby" has many friends,
and the taxgatherers have by no meant
proved his enemies. A weekly treat of
steaks was allowed by Sergeant Scott, of
the Engineers; but for more than six
years he has been regularly fed by Mr.
John Trail, of the restaurant, 6 Greyfriara'
place. He is constant and punctnal in
his calls, being guided in his midday visits
by the sound of the time gun.
"On the groun iof harboring the dog
in this way proceedings were taken against
Mr. Trail for payment of tax. The de
fendant expressed his willingness, eonld
he claim the dog, t> be responsible for tho
tax; but so long as the animal refused to
attach himself to any one, it was impossi
ble, be argued, to fix the ownership—and
the court, seeing the pecnliar circumstan
ces of the case, dismissed the summons
"Bobby" has long been an object of curi
osity to all who have become acquainted
with his interesting history. His constant
appearance in the graveyard has caused
many inquiries to be made regarding him,
and cfiforta out of number have been mado
from time to time to get possession of him
and efforts out of number have beeu made
from time to time to get possession of him.
The old curator, of course, was the next
claimant to Mr. Trail, and yesterday of
fered to pay the tax himself rather than
have "Bobby"—-"Greyfriars' Bobby," to
allow him his full name—put out of the
way." •
The Happy Family.
Greeley comes back to tie attack of bit
brethren of the Advertiser and Evening
Post in no very meek Christian spirit.—
He says in his Tribvne :
If it is right to take Jefferson Davis, cit
izen, and imprison him two years without
judge or jury. Whj not citizen Tburlow
Weed, citizen William Cullen Bryant?
But h is popularly believed that Mr Davia
is a traitor, and that, as a traitor, he shonld
long ago have been hanged. Well, it it
also popularily believed that if Mr. Tbur
low Weed had his desert be would long
ago have been in Sing Sing. We have DO
legal knowledge of the fact. Mr. Weed
has never been arrested nor tried, nor baa
even an indictment been found."
" Behold bow pleasant it is to see breth
ren dwell together in unity."
COURAGE IN EYKRY DAY LIPS.-— Have
the courage to do without tbat which you
do not really need, however much your
eyes may covet it ~
Have the courage to show your respect
for honesty in whatever guise it appears;
and your contempt for dishonest duplicity
by whomsoever exhibfted.
Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can pay for new ones.
Have the courage to obey your Maker
at the risk of being ridiculed by man,
Have the courage to prefer comfort and
propriety to fashion in all things. -
Have the courage to acknowledge your
ignorance rather than to seek credit for
knowledge nnder false pretences.
Have the courage to provide entertain
ment for your friends within rour mesas
—not beyond.
VOL. 6 NO. 45.
A FAITHFUL. DOG.