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VOLUME 2.
REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY MARCH 28, 1894.
NUMBER 45.
Beuond all
Competition !
As will be seen elsewhere in thiB paper, wo attended the greatest Bale of Dry Goods (boM
at a tremendous sacrifice) ever held in Philadelphia. The Press of that city
said such a sale at such a sacrifice had never before been at
tempted in the city of Philadelphia. ONE MILLION
DOLLARS' WORTH OF THE
FINEST
Ever brought to the city had to be sold in thirty days. The sale attracted retailerB from
all sections of the country, and as we are always on the lookout for biirgains we
made it suit to attend the sale, and now offer the goods we bought at from
50 to 75 cents on the dollar. This places us beyond all competition
as other dealers to meet our prices would have to sell
goods at lesB than cost. Anyone calling at our
store can see the advertisement of the
'
We also made a bid
Hill Coffees,
and other Novelties.
OUR CAPES
The following list will show you what we will sell you the goods for and what
they originally sold for. Our opening will be
Friday Evening, March 30th.
A fine orchestra will be in attendance from 7 to 10.80 p.m. Come and see
grand display of goods and spend a pleasant evening with us.
Our Former
Price. Price.
Dlmltys $ .12 yard $ .18
Uluok Lawn .121 .1H
" .15 .20
" " .25 .40
China Dress 811k .25 .50
" " ' .50 .75
Silk for Waists ..05 1.25
" " " .(15 1.00
6 pair Lad ion' Blank Kid Gloves, two
0, two Or, two Hi, 1.50 2.00
30 pair Ladies' Kid Gloves, tana,
modes and reds, 1.00 1.25
!03 yd. Turkny Rod Print .(HI yard .OH
400 " Bloaohod Miwlin .08 .10
200 " Fancy Dress Goods .20 .25
12 do. Ladles' Kibbod Vests .05 each .10
2 " " " " .15 .25
2 " " " " ,r) iifl
2 " " " " !i5 !il5
78 yds, Mull Crepe .121 .18
220 " Jaequard Hultlngs .25 .35
The above is
SPRING
above sale as published
the Philadelphia
Items.
in
for a few nice things in Fine
Breaa ana Butter Plates,
Sis and
We think our bid will be accepted. The lot is a small one and will
be sold at less than they cost to import.
are 25 per cent, cheaper
other stores.
Our Former
Price. Price.
42 pair Ludlos' Hose, black, (3 pr. $1) .35 pair .60
113yd. India Dimity .15 .25
30 " Figured Swiss .28 .35
8 " Batiste .50 .75
101 " Bonfraline ,59 .75
88 ' Undford Cord .50 .75
tilt " Wool Suitings .45 .75
7 ' Imported Dress Goods .05 1.25
H " " " " .05 1.25
i " " " " .(15 1.25
7 " " " " .05 1.25
1(1 " " 1.00 2.00
18 " Blaok Broad Cloth for Capes .75 1.00
101 " Tun " " " ' .75 1.00
17 " Nuvy blue " " " .75 1.00
0 pair Laeo Curtains 1.25 1.75
12 " " " 1.75 2.50
12 " " '2.00 2.75
" " " 2.75 3.50
" " " 3.50 5.00
175 yds. 0-4 Brown Shooting1 .17 yard .25
only a Partial Last.
J. B. ARNOLD.
GOODS
China, consisting of
F
than you can buy them at
a
eiers
THE QUESTION.
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1 asked her today,
Bat the gave me no answer,
Neither word would she uf,
Though I asked her today
In the most approved way
Of the modern romancer.
I asked her today,
Hut "lie nave me no answer.
inn.
IT hat spoken at last.
Shall I take htm or leave him?
At my feet he It rat.
lie ha spoken at last.
If hie hope I should blaet,
Would tt really grieve hlmf
He hag spoken at Inst.
Bhall 1 take him or leave hlmf
11 KH MAMMA.
la he rich, at they say.
Or a penntlese masker?
I must find out today
If he's rich, as they say.
For she's not aald htm nay,
And again be may aak her.
b he rich, as they any.
Or a penniless masker?
-Yankee Blade.
At the Nice Rao Meeting-.
A race) meeting Is much the same all
the world over, and the Nice gathering
can hardly be called the exception.
There is the same noisy crowd and
crash at the railwny station the races
are held at Le Var, some few miles out
of Nice proper and the familiar line
of beggars, blind, halt, lame and more
so, as ready with curses as blessings all
the way from the station to tbe course.
The three card trickster, the fortune
teller and the whole brotherhood of the
ring, each with bng and board, the lat
ter bearing an English name, as a rule,
are to be seen, each in bis appro
priate plane. The enn may shine with
greater regularity and brilliance and
tbe landscape with its Blim rows of
encalyptus trees look more delicate and
fragile than we are accustomed to, bnt
otherwise all has the appearance of tbe
"correct card."
It is a charming little course at Le
Var, and in fine weather it would be
difficult to find anywbete a more repre
sentative gathering of beauty and fash
Ion than may be seen in the paddock on
a big day. Pall Mall Budget.
Missionaries.
Archdeacon Farrarsets forth forcibly
the large debt of science to missions in
these words: "Is it nothing that through
their labor in the translation of the
Bible the German philologist in bis
study may have before hint the gram
mar and vocabulary of 250 languages?
Who created the science of anthropol
ogy? Tbe missionaries. Who rendered
possible the deeply important science of
comparative religion? The mission
aries. Who discovered the great chain
of lakes in central Africa, on which
will turn its future destiny? The mis
sionaries. Who have been tbe chief
explorers of Oceanica, Amerioa and
Asia? The missionaries. Who discov
ered the famouB Nestorian monument in
Singar Fu ? A missionary. Who dis
covered the still mote famous Moabite
stone? A missionary. Who discovered
the Hittite inscriptions? A missionary. "
Exchange.
A Possible Derivation of "News."
The word is not, as many imagine,
derived trom the adjective new. In
former years between the years 1505
and 1730 it was a prevalent practice
to put over the periodical publications
of the day tbe initial letters of tbe car
dinal points of the compass, thus:
N
W-
-K
Importing that those papers contained
intelligence from the four quarters of
the globe, aud from the practice is de
rived tbe term newspaper. New Vork
Mail and Express.
Mahone'i Flesh Wound.
General Mabone was wounded at sec
olid Manassas, and some one, to comfort
Mrs. Mabone, said: "Ob, don't be nil
easy,' It is only a flesh wound." Mrs.
Mabone, through her tears, cried out:
"Oh, that is imposKible! There is not
flesh enough on him for that." Those
who have seen General Mahone can ap
preciate the remark. Buffalo News.
Would Feet Natural.
Wife What effect will these powders
have?
Doctor He will seem rather dull aud
stupid, but don't feel alarmed.
Wife Ob, no. He's that way when
hs'a perfectly well, you know. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
To Test SteeL
The simplest way to tell iron from
steel is to pour on the metal a drop of
nitrio acid and allow it to act for one
minute. On rinsing with water a gray
ish white stuin will be seen if the metal
is iron; a black one if it is steel. To
ronto Mail.
Old authorities taught that a peer, if
be wasted his property so as to be un
able to support tbe dignity, could be
degraded by the king. It is now held
thut degradation can be effected only
by vote of his peers.
The oldest ruins in the world are
probably the rock cut temples of Ipsam
bul, or A Ijou Sumboul, in Nubia, on
the left bunk of tliu Nile, They are
over 4,000 years old.
All Cutbolio priuces give the pope tbe
title of holy father or venerable father,
III replying be calls them "my dearest."
An Aerofcatlo thine.
The man was tall and lank, with keen
bine eyes, looking over nose like a par
rot's beak. A shaggy growth of uneven
whiskers sprouted in patches from his
face, and he wore a long drab ulster,
which partly covered a huge pair of mud
covered topboots, into which were stuffed
the ends of a varicolored pair of overalls.
With a badly worn carpet gripsick in
his hand he leaned against the wire fence
beside the register's office and called a
bootblack.
Two Italians responded, and each
claimed the customer. After a volley of
Mulberry street expletives each grablied
a foot and set to work. The man eyed
them closely and clutched his grip a lit
tle tighter. In a moment the bootblacks
renewed their dispute, and in their anger
yanked the man's feet in the air. For a
moment he poised, balanced on the wire,
and then with a whoop fell backward
upon the withered grass plot. A crowd
collected, and the Italians scampered off.
Their victim, with one bootshlned and
the other muddy, picked himself up
slowly.
"Gosh," he muttered, "maybe them
'ere fellers knowed I kept bills in my
boots, or else they were durned hard np
fer work."
He ascended the steps to the bridge
and was soon swallowed in the crowd.
New York World.
Fast Colore.
A useful point is made by a writer In
The Economist in regard to the term
"fast colors," as applied to printed and
woven cottons. The rule is laid down
that the more delicate in shade a dye is
the more difficult it is to fix it in the cot
ton fiber, but even the crudest colors will
fade if goods are Imperfectly treated in
the laundry. Any of the goods, in fact,
that are sold as fast colors, whether of
domestic or foreign manufacture, are
practically fast, but when subjected to
the powerful chemicals of which many of
the washing soaps are composed, or when
hung out for hours on a clothesline and
exposed to the bleaching influences of
snn and air, the colors must necessarily
fade to a greater or less extent. It is
well known that the chemicals con
tained in washing soaps and similar
compounds are in many cases as power
ful as those employed in the process of
bleaching muslins. In not a few in
stances, too, they are probably of a
greater degree of strength, the result
being that they weaken the cloth to an
extent that the bleacher would not be
disposed to risk.
Shuffleboard.
Shuffleboard is popular enough in Eng
land and Scotland and used to be popular
here, but it is doubtful whether It ever
penetrated this country as far as Buffalo
or Pittsburg. It obtained here in drink
ing saloons run by Scotchmen, and the
last of the boards are now to be found
in one such place in Brooklyn and a very
few in this city. It is the same game as
that which is played on shipboard, but in
reality both are forms of the old Scotch
sport of curling. Shuflleboard as it is
played most commonly is played with
one pound weights on a long thick board
kept well sanded. It requires skill to
slide the weights to just the right place,
and it requires more skill for the other
fellow to knock them off after they get
there. New York Sun.
Ear; Sucking Boston Girls.
There is a new fad in Boston. It has
its origin among young women mostly
of the genus known as the matinee girl
It is drinking raw eggs at the soda foun
tain in "ladies' lunch" places and similar
innocuous resorts. The girls stop, ask
for an egg and swallow it from a glass
without blinking. Providence Journal.
In the Medical museum, Washington,
there are two skulls all cracked up like
a couple of eggshells that have been
knocked together. They formerly be
longed to a couple of Norfolk negroes
who butted each other to death because
a woman couldn't decide which of tbe
two she liked the better.
The sooner a man finds that he has not
the capacity to know even one thing
thoroughly, the more general and reli
able information he will begin to accu
mulate concerning the world in general.
Milwaukee Journal.
The royal title beg has now almost
disappeared, and when used in the alter
ed form of bey is applied to a military
rank in the Turkish army. Originally it
was deemed more honorable than that of
sultan.
The smallest republio in the world is
Franceville, one of the islands of tbe
New Hebrides. The inhabitants consist
of 40 Europeans and 500 black workmen
employed by French company.
A little boy, being asked if he was the
oldest in the family, replied, "No, mum;
my granny is."
There are just three women physicians
in the state of Delaware, and not one
of these is native born. There are no
women lawyers, women journalists or
women ministers in the state.
Sire was originally used to designuto
the proprietor of a farm. Rising in
dignity, it was afterward applied to a
nobleman, then used iu add reusing a
monarch.
Love with a young man is never so
serious as with a young girl, became he
has his mustache to distract his attention.
THE BALLOON Ire BATTLE.
Blew II Is Managed and Information Trans
mittal and Beeelved.
Balloon and wagon have formed a junc
tion and are ready to start with the
troops. Away goes the wagon, with the
balloon hanging on to its tall, while the
attendant sappers on each side keep it
steady. The train moves along at a good
round pace, easily keeping np with or
even passing the infantry, and makes for
the particular spot at which it has been
determined to commence balloon opera
tions, which is usually on the top of a
good high hill.
An ascent is an easy enough matter
and is soon accomplished. The balloon
is securely fixed to the end of the wire
rope, and the two men who are to ascend
take their places. At the word of com
mand the men who have been holding
down the car let go, and up shoots the
balloon, nnwlnding the rope as it rises
and allowed sometimes to ascend to a
height of 1,000 feet. And suppose the
officer receives Instructions to move the
position of the balloon, is It necessary to
haul it down? Not a bit of it. A man
is placed at the end of the wagon who
carefully guides the connecting rope so
that it cannot get entangled or run risk
of being cut, and away goes the wagon,
sometimes at a trot across fields and up
and down hill, nntil the balloon itself is
a long distance away from its original
station. Next, suppose that it is neces
sary to lower the balloon. Is it needful
to wind in all the wire rope that has been
paid out from the reels? No such thing.
The balloon is brought to earth in a
much more expeditious manner.
A long, stont pole, in the middle of
which is a pulley wheel, is laid across
the rope. Half a dozen men seize the
pole and run it along the rope, and their
weight soon brings the balloon down to
the ground. Passengers can then be ex
changed, or any other operation can be
carried on, and then the men run the
pole back, end up shoots tbe balloon
again many hundreds of feet into the
air, without having been away from its
exalted position more than a few minutes.
But it is not necessary to lower the bal
loon in this or any other way whenever
it is required that messages should be
exchanged between those below and those
above. There are various contrivances
for doing this. Sometimes, for instance,
A wire is attached, through which mes
sages can be sent to a telephone. Another
plan is to send messages down the wire
cable. A little wire hook is fastened
around the cable, and the letter or pa
per, weighted with m small sandbag, is
sent fluttering down, Tbe human voice,
it may also be added, can be heard both
from a considerable height and depth, so
that verbal communication is not difficult
if there is no wind. Good Words.
Sensitive Horses.
Harsh treatment, though it stop short
of inflicting physical pain, keeps a nerv
ous horse in a state of misery. On the
other hand, it is perfectly true, as a be
sotted but intelligent stable, keeper once
observed to me, "A kind word for a hoss
is as good sometimes as a feed of oats."
A single blow may be enough to spoil
a racer. Daniel Lambert, founder of
the Lambert branch of the Morgan fam
ily, was thought as a 8-year-old to be
the fastest trotting stallion of his day.
He was a very handsome, stylish, intel
ligent horse, and also extremely sensi
tive. His driver, Dan Mace, though one of
the best reinsmen in America, once made
the mistake, through ill temper or bad
judgment, of giving Daniel Lambert a
severe cut with the whip, and that sin
gle blow, put an end to his usefulness asa
trotter. He became wild and ungovern
able in harness and remained so tor the
rest of his life.
In dealing with a horse more than with
moat animals one ought to exercise pa
tience, care and above all the power of
sympathy, so as to know if possible tho
real motive of bis doing or refusing to
do this or that. To acquire such knowl
edge and to act upon it when required
is a large part of the ethics of horse
keeping. Youth's Companion.
Tho kings of Sardinia foriueily de
scribed themselves as "By the grace of
God, king of Sardinia, of France, Spain
and England, of Italy and Jerusalem,
of Greece and Alexandria, of Hamburg
and Sicily, ruler of the Midway sea,
master of the deep, king of the earth,
protector of the Holy Land."
Presented With Throne.
King Behanzin's throne has just ar
rived in Paris, a present to the city
from the victorious General Dodds, anil
has been placed in tho Trocadero mu
seum. It is a curious block of wood,
carved with rudo reliefs representing
the king aud bis court. Puris Jonrujl.
Ancient Preservation of the Dead.
Herodotus gives a good description of
the manner in which the early Ethiopi
ans preserved their dead. Having thor
oughly dried tbe corpse, they plastered
it over with a paste made of gypsum and
then painted the face and exposed parts
so as to make thorn look as natural as
possible. Dead bodies served iu this
manner remained intact for hundreds of
years. St. Louis Republio,
All They Have to lo.
When Miss Limberjitw returned from
Washington, she remarked to her friend,
Miss Chatterbox, "Only think of it, Mat
tie, tho men iu congress are puid liberal
salaries, and all they have to do is to
talk!"
Miss Chatterbox How ridiculous!
Exchange.