VOLUME 3.
REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, OCTODEU 3, 189k
NUMIJER 21.
Childrens'
Reefer Suits
BOYS'
Long Pants Suits
FOR
von
$3-50
Mens'
All-wool
SUITS
for
$6.50.
Monti' Good
Business
SUITS
for
$8.00.
Mens' Good
Black Suits
for Dress
$10.00.
Remember we
have one of the
Finest
CUTTERS
in our Merchant
Tailor - Depart
ment. Suits for
20.00 and up.
Make a
Our Fall
Stock of
Base - Hit
Overcoats
and come to
Bell's
are coming
daily. .
OOME IN!
Where?
TO THE
"Bee Hive" store.
"WHERE
L. J. McEntire, & Co.,
The Groceryman, deals in all
kinds of
Groceries, Canned
Goods, Green Goods
Tobacco and Cigars, Flour
and Feed, Baled Hay and
Straw. Fresh goods always
on hand.
Country produce taken in
exchange for goods.
A share of your patronage
is respectfully solicited. ,
Very truly yours,
UawenceJ.Mctntle&.Co. ,
Th Grocer 7 men.
Children's
SUITS
Boys' Knee
Pants Suits
with extra pair
pants
$3.00.
FOR
S2.00.
Black or Blue !
Men's, Boy's and
Children's
SUITS
ANY - SIZE - OR - STYLE !
Single Breasted Sack Suits, sizes from 3.3 to 48,
Blue or Black.
Cutaway Frock Suits, Blue or Black.
Regent Cutaway Suits, full long style.
We buy all our suits from the finest manufactory
of men's suits and if you find any of our clothing to
rip we ask you to bring the suit back and we give
you a new suit.
Match Us If You Can.
BELL,
TIlP fiNl V Glotnler, Hatter
lilt) Unb and Furnisher.
Under-
Price
Undcr
Wear, 75c. per suit.
in
J. S. MORROW.
DEALER IN
Dry Goods,
Notions,
Boots, and
Shoes,
Fresh Groceries
Flour and
Feed.
GOODS DELIVERED FREE.
OPERA HOUSE . BLOCK
Beynoldsville, Pa.
Hoys'
Knee
Pants
SUITS
FOR
$I.OO
Mens'
Prince - Albert
SUITS "
kou
$15.00.
G. A. R.
Suit,
the Best in the
world, for
10.00.
Two sets buttons
Gents,
Call and ex
amine our
flil-wool Pants
FOK
9J.OO.
Hats! Hats!
For tho Children,
llatw! Hats!
For tho Mon and
Hats! Hats! Hats!
For Everyone.
Wed a Neck
tie to your Col
lar. We will tie
the knot for
STYLES
and PRICES
to suit the times.
We have them
for you.
25c.
Important to All !
To Save Money rjo to the
People's Barrjain Store.
Cut price in every department.
Fine line children's cotton underwear
from 10c. up; children's all-wool red
flannel underwear from 18c. up; heavy
quilted ladies' Jersey shirts at 2To.;
men's merino undorwear UOc. per suit;
men's all-wool underwear 11.40 a suit;
biff line top shirts from 45o. up; deslra
able line of men's fine panU from 85c.
up: every customer buying a suit of
boys' clothes will get a 50o. bat free;
tine assortment of shoes at reasonable
prices; men's first-class gloves from 25o.
up; handsome table oil cloth at 17o. per
yard; big line hats and caps at prices to
suit every customer.
Call and be convinced that we always
make quick sales and small profits.
A.KATZEN,
Proprietor.
NINE HE COMES.
"One I love, unci two I love,
Three 1 love," .lie', snylnir, '
' And around the maliten's Dps '
Tender smiles are playing.
"Four I lovn with ell my heart. '
Five end six end seven
Surely to me lone- lite lienrt
Hath born fondly lvenl"
"Here I find another need.
Klfcht IhiiIi loves. I know It.
And Mill another? Nine he comes
I find Just here below III"
Softly tlnth the ulinilnws He
Over nil the o;rnc,
And the Hxht wind whlpcrs low
As through the trees it passes.
In the sl:j tho cloud fleece flies,
I'nrsitcil by nun ray klsws.
For they are too cold to thrill
Willi love'e delicious blisses.
Tint there rometh throiinh the mend
The mnlilen's blithe young lover.
Conic mid then the Apple seed
Alnny truths discover.
-Loll lo llelle Wylle.
THE SLANG OF LONDON
ITS RHYMING FEATURE, WHICH IS
PECULIAR TO ENGLAND.
Say "Daisies" Tor Hoots, and Tan Will tlnre
Me.de Good Start, but That la Not All
of It by Any Mesne A Dissertation on an
Unknown Science.
By way of introducing tho snbjoct lot
mo promise that there is aoertuin school
Df thinkers dwellers for tho most part
In very unfashionnblo districts of Lon
don who hold thnt n poUcoinnn In plain
clothes, dress he ever so plainly, may
always be known as such by a cursory
inspection of his boots. Whether this
opinion is veil founded I know not, but
its existence, and also the existence of
rhyming slang, was brought to my no
tion not long ago in Oxford street not
the Oxford street of west endors mid
Do Qnincey, but Oxford street "out
Stepney way. " I happened to be rather
stontly shod, and I wear spectacles,
which are, I suppose, often assumed for
the purpose of disguise, and as I passed
by a group of ill favored loiterers at a
street corner I distinctly heard ono of
thom remark to another: " 'Ero's a tec.
D'yer dick 'is goggles and 'is blanky
daisies?"
I walked quickly away, but the words
remained in my mind. The opinion they
conveyed, except as affording proof that
tho speaker belonged to the school of
thinkers above alluded to, did not inter
est mo so much as tho words themselves.
"Too" is of course moroly an abbrevi
ation for "detective. " Much might be
written nbout "dick." It is puro Ro
many, cornice tod, as ovory student of
that attractive language knows, with
tho Sanskrit "drish" and tho Hindoo
stance "dokhno," moaning "to sec,"
But "daisies" being tho slang term
and, as I shall show, tho rhyming slang
term for "boots" is a good specimen of
a most singular perversion of the English
language, which is well worth tho at
tention of any one who cares about lin
guistic oddities.
Rhyming slang is peculiar to England
and, I beliovo, to London. The French
language, so rich in slang, does not ad
mit of such treatment. It is of modern
origin, and I doubt if any trace of it is
to be found in tho records, which are
fairly plentiful, of the slang of last cen
tury. Nor do I recollect any instnnco of
its appearance in the works of Dickens,
Barrison Ainsworth or Bulwor Lyttou.
Rhyming Blnng expressions in'uy bo
divided into two classes the simple
and the oomplox.' The simple method
consists in substituting for a word soma
other word or phrase which rhymes with
it Not that every ono is free to choose
his own rhymes. Usage lias established
certain rhyming slang equivalents for
certain words, and, although no doubt
new rhymes aro always being intro
duced on trial, yet when one has become
reoognized as belonging to the dialect
It can never be dislodged. For instance,
the rhyming slang for "a pocket" is
"skyrocket," and noitiher "locket" nor
"socket" would be tolerated. The eyes
aro "mince pies;" the ear and the nose
are, oddly enough, the "frosty and
clear" and the 'I suppose." How, when
and why these particular rhymes were
universally adopted will never be
known. As Professor Dowden remarks
ia connection with a Tory different sub
ject, "To the eyes of no diver amid the
wrecks of time will that curious talis
man gloam. " Who was "Charlie Pres
cott, " whose name is immortalized as
a synonym for "waistcoat?" And why
should coat and trousers be concealed
under such circumstances as "I'm
afloat" and "round the 'ousos?"
Other examples of what I have called
the simple form of rhyming slang are
"cat and mouse" (house), "elephant's
trunk" (drunk), "bull and cow" (row),
and "I'm so frisky" (whisky). But if I
am asked how "daisies" can be the
rhyming along for "boots" I answer
that we have here an example of the
second or oomplox form of the jargon,
which finds its highest development in
the mouths of experts. Having got your
rhyme say, "skyrocket" for "pocket"
you are permitted, within certain ill
defined limits, to make your slang
equivalent shorter and more occult by
omitting the rhyming portion. Thus
"pooket" booomes "sky" and "daisy
roots," the simple or first standard form
for "boots," is contracted into "dai
sies. " In the same way no master of the
language would ever give brandy or gin
their primitive names, "Jack the dan
dy" or "Brian O'Lynn." The one ia
always referred to as "Jack," the other
as "Brian." It will be seen that words
treated la this way must have a tend
ency, in constant wo, to lose sight, ns
it wore, of their original forms and to
become merged in tho great mnss of or
dinary prosuio slang. For instance, in
aut 1, Bcono 1, of "Tho Cotton King"
somo ono says that somebody has "a
streak of black across the chivvy. " An
Adolphl nndictico knows, of course, that
"chivvy" means "faco,"btit thooarlier
form of the word, "chevy chaso," be
ing now rarely if over used, the rhym
ing original is probably known to few
playgoers, and tho word "chivvy" is
thus in danger of being left with no
more poetry about it than is attached to
such terms as "conk" or "boko, " the
ordinary slang for nose.
We hoar a great deal about the way
in which slang hns invaded our conver
sation and our literature; but, iu spito
of the rooent popularization of the cos
ter, I doubt if much rhyming slang is
heard in west end drawing rooms.
And I have only conio across ono exnm
plo of its employment, except occasional
ly in a music hall song, in what might
bo called a literary form. There is a
poem which begins thus, and renders
who liavo followod mo bo far will find
do dilllctilty in translating it:
I was sitting one night t the Anns Maria,
Warming my plates of meat.
When there came a knock at the Rory O'Moore
Which made my raspberry beat
This opening makes one wish for
more, but I am sorry to say that I can
only recollect tho first stanza. Pall
Mall Budget
THE EAGLE'S EYE.
Wliy It Can See Iloth N arbyor Dint ant Ob
jects Kitmlly Well.
All birds of prey have a peculiarity
of eye structure thnt enables them to
sco near or distant objects equally welL
An caglo will ascend moro thun a inilo
in perpendicular height, and from that
elevation onn perceive its unsuspecting
prey and pounco upon it with unerring
certainty. Yet tho sumo bird ran scruti
nize with almost microRcoplo nicety an
object closo at hand, thus possessing a
power of accommodating its sight to
distanco in a manner to which tho hu
man eyo is unfitted, and of which it is
totally incapable
In looking at a printed pngo we find
that there is some particular distance,
probably 10 inches, nt which we can
read tho words and seo each letter with
perfect distinctness, but if tho pugo bo
moved to a distanco of 40 inches or
brought within a distance of five inches
we find it inipossiblo to read it nt all.
A scientific man would therefore call 10
inches the focus or focal distanco of
our eyes. This focus cannot be altered
except by tho aid of spectacles.
But an caglo has tho power of alter
ing tho focus of its eyo just as it pleases.
It lias only to look at an object nt the
distanco of two foot or of two miles in
order to sco it with perfect distinctness.
Of conrso tho eaglo knows nothing of
tho wonderful ooiitrivanco thnt tho
Creator has supplied for its accommo
dation. It employs it instinctively nnd
because it cannot help it The ball of
the eyo is surrounded by 18 littlo plates
culled sclerotic bones. They form a
complete- ring, and their edges slightly
overlap each other. When it looks at
a distant object, this littlo circlo of
bones expands, nnd tho ball of tho eye,
being rolioved from tho prcssuro, bo
comes flutter. When it looks nt a very
near object, the littlo bones press to
gether, and tho ball of the eyo is thus
squeezed into a rounder or moro convox
form.
Tho effect is very familiar to evory
ono. A person with very round eyes is
near sighted, and a person with flat
eyes, ns iu old age, can see nothing ex
cept at a distance. The eagle, by the
mere will, can make its eyes round or-
tint and seo with equal clearness at any
distance. Philadelphia Times.
Beer by the Found.
"What do you think of getting 1
pounds of beer for a nickel?" said a man
the other day. "Well, out in the south
ern part of the oity they soil beer in this
way altogether, especially at the little
German groceries with a saloon annex.
When people come into the place for a
pitcher of beer, the vessel is set on
scales and weighed. Then the oustomer
is asked if ha wants lager or common
beer. If he wants 5 cents' worth of the
first, he gets 1 fcf pounds, but if he wants
oommon beer he gets 1 j,' pounds. The
doaler I saw did not know how the cus
tom of weighing beer originated. The
stand has been handed down for several
generations, and beer was never meas
ured otherwise than by weighing.
Louisville Courier-Journal
A Ran Stamp,
An interesting and valuable addition
has been made to the splendid collection
of stamps in the Philosophical museum.
It is a half crown stomp, lettered
"Amorioa," and is the sole survivor of
those attempted to be foroed upon our
oolonists at Boston who threw the chests
of tea into their harbor, for the oolonists
destroyed all the stomps as well, except
this, which Mr. Pbilbriok, Q. C, is
fortunate enough to be the possessor of.
Another valuable addition is a series of
fine specimen oopies of Australian
stamps sent by Major E. H. Watts of
Newport Boston Traveller.
A Harrowing Circumstance.
Mrs. Threodly I can't see why news
papers always give all the harrowing
details of an accident
Mr. Threadly What have yon found
now?
Mrs. Threadly Where a man was
takon home fatally injured, with a sam
ple of silk in his pooket still unmatch
ed. Chicago Inter Ocean.
A PEN PICTURE.
The Man Ilad Not Meant to Make Trouble,
but Was Unfortunate.
"A strong wind had set in from tho
sen, banking lingo masses of clouds over
tho city. The rain descended in n blind
ing, staggering dnlngo, and solid sheets
of fire flashed athwart tho angry skies,
followed by crashing peals of thunder.
The gloom was excessive, Tho lights iu
tho streets cast a fitful, sickly glare
ovor tho wet pavements and tho few bo
latcd pedestrians who wero hastening
homo. It was a night for dark thoughts
nnd darker deeds.
I laid aside the book which 1 had
been reading an absurdly impo.siblo
tale of midnight horrors and ghastly
crimes and sat moodily looking at the
raindrops chasing madly down tho win
dow pntie and nt the fierce night with
out Tho cabbies in tho street below
wero swearing, ami tho call bells in the
hotel wero clanging liko wild
Suddenly in tho adjoining room 1
heard a sharp click liko tho cocking of
a firearm. Tho connecting door wns un
bolted and slightly njar. I sat still,
with bated breath and huir bristling all
ovor with terror. A shuflling of heavy
feot nnd a muttered imprecation as
something fell on tho floor. A cold,
paralyzing dread seized on mo, freezing
the lifeblood iu my veins. Qod of heav
ens, what horrible tragedy was being
enacted behind that door?
Sharp, clear and loud, nlxjvo tho rag
ing of tho elements, rang out tho report
of a pistol, followod by a terriblo oath
and a heavy fnlL Pale as a specter, I
sprang, tottering, toward tho door to es
cape, aud with a horrified scream fell
crashing to the floor in a dead swoon.
I awoke with a start The connecting
door was wide open. Above my pros
trate form stood a rough looking man
in his shirt sleeves. His right hand was
bloody. I seemed to fuel his clutches on
my throat already and closed my ryes
with a gasp. I opened them ngain cau
tiously. In his bloody grasp ho held tho
shattered remains of an clcctrio light
globe.
"Sorry, strnngor," he said, "but I
tried to open the durnod thing to light
up, and hit busted. "Atlanta Consti
tution. -
EVERY HOMESHOULDOWN ADYNAMO
Then Housewives Could Magnetise Hum
men and Make Tack Driving Easy.
There is nn easy way to render the
ordinary tack hammer an articlo that
may bo used with comfort and to do
away with nil danger of bruised fingers
from its misdirected blows. A littlo
electricity will do the trick. Tho process
is so simple that it should be universal
ly adopted.
All that is required is access to a
dynamo. Then lay the head of tho hnm
mer on tho frnmework and lenvo it
there for about five minutes. This needs
no strength, but tho hammer cannot bo
detached without tho knowledge that
somo force holds it fast to tho ironwork,
and horein lies the secret By contact
with tho dynamo your hammer has been
magnetized mid will pick up bits of
iron or steel that are not too heavy for
its strength.
Tacks and small nails, too short to be
hold in tho fingers when driving, may
bo easily placed in position for tho ham
mer blows without using tho finger or
thumbs and much speedier work ac
complished. In retacking torn shades
the man of tho house will at once ap
preciate tho blessing of a magnetized
hammer, since ho can pick the tiny
tacks from the box direct with his mag
nut, press them into the roller with tho
same tool aud by one blow drive the
elusive fasteners noma
Carpet laying is made easy and stray
taoks in quantities such as will slip
from the fingers a thing of the past
New York Herald
Frog Catching as an Industry.
Frog catching is a leading industry
along the river, and the most successful
operators work all night and sloop in
the day tima Their tents along the river '
are silent during the sleeping hours of
the forenoon, but at night the swampy
shores are alive with the moving lan
terns of the fishers, or rather the frog
gers. The frogs are caught with an or
dinary fishhook, and the most successful
bait is a small piece of red flannel. The
operator has a reflector lantern fastened
In the bow of his boat, and it is claimed
that the light makes the frogs snappish
without discrimination. The baited
hooks are passed freely among them aa
the cauoes, punts, skiffs and rafts are
pushed and paddled through the
marshos. The frog catchers do a profit
able business with the Toronto restau
rants. Toronto Globe.
Mon Important.
Reporter There is a story just oomo
to the offloe that your daughter has
eloped with your footman. Ia it true?
Banker Yes, sir, it is true. And yon
may add that the rascal has token with
him a brand now suit of my livery.
New York Herald
The Saracens burned the Alexandrian
library and the great library of Matthew
Corviuas, king of Hungary, whioh con
tained 400, 000 volumes. When Granada,
was taken, Cardinal Ximeues retorted
in kind by destroying all the Korans and
Moorish books to be found in the oity.
The torpedo or eleotrioal fish has
two dlstiuot galvanlo batteries. When
Irritated, the fish has been known to de
liver 100 shocks iu two minutes. When
taken from the water, its electrical!
power ia nearly four times as great aa1
when in its native element