WE WAS TOO SMART. 80 Beparionss of & Cowstryman With | London Confidence Men, ey its oomfidence men, who is eile expert #8 America’s, says a 3 the Boston Herald. Their methods are very similse. It is not . worth while to record their routine oper- ations, but one recent instance, as ilins- trative of their resources, is amusing apd instructive. An old Scotch travel- ing man, who bore somewhat the ap- : Penzance of a comatryman, but who the ropes perfuctly, was accosted. He decided to bave some fun at the ex- pense of the would be swindlers, so he to fall readily in with their statements—to be nn particnlarly casy victim. They bought him a splendid dinper, calling him Mr. Kenny of Dun- dee—a namo which from a traveling bog; which he had bor- rowed from Mriend, Fe enjoyed their * hospitality hrgely, and are prodigiously’ _ and expensively. They paid the bill, and the osnal talk sbous a lottery prize, ete. Then he sav it was about | time to ‘“‘oap their gama.’ Said he: “Gentlemen, I thank you for the din. ner. It wes very good, and I have had a very pleasant time with you But I won't go to see you draw your lottery prize. Oh, no! I know all about the lot- tery prize. My name ‘is not Donald . Kenny. It is Robert Ferguson, and I'm “pot from Dundee, but from Lochnoven, where I've lived with my danghter for 20 years. 1 am ton oll a fish to be osught. Good night!” And be went his way rejoicing. © Two weeks later, when he went home to his danghter in Lochnoven, one of the first things she said to him was: : “Did you get the £20 nll right?” “What £207" “Why, the £90 yo telegraphed for.” | And it developed that the confidence men whom he had beaten at their own had an ace up their sleeves, which they played after he had left them. HE KEPT THe CHECK. Tarfmsn Green Morris Waa Ton Conning | For the Bauks. ‘With so many tank © robberies all around us it is pot surprising that there should be some aneasiness among deposi- tors. In general, however, the New Yorker has a clear bead. He has faith in the Clearing Honse p=ociation, becanse he really does not ga evstand the mystery of it, and ae Ww iieves in his | bank through thick nud thin bécanse he | bas seen the banks of the city stand to- gether in soppost of aveclon ed instita- tion. I am reminded of what happened : to Green Morris, the tuorfman, who lived | in Brooklyn and racid horses om all the tracks of the metropolitan circuit. He had a big yesir of winnings at Monmouth park, and received at the end of the réa- son a check from the awociation for $67,000. Eighteen months later he showed that Sheek to mie, considerably “Why, Grom, " said reproschfully, © ¢'this check is 18 months oid. What do you mean by keepir it so long? It is nearly warn oat. Don't you know that “4 scheck shomld be deposited ai ence or oashed? Suppose the bank was to fail?” ' @reen chnekled koowingly and wink- i» . ive 1 . od as be folded it wp and put it bark in} his thook. “I ain't been TACin Homes for nothin these goin ou nigh 20 year. 1 ain't got no faith in no banks. 'They's too much failin to sujt me. That's whut I've allos been afraid of, an taat’s why I'm holdin . an to my check. I ain't a-goin to have . mo bank failin with my money iu the, . safe. - Besides 1 ain’t had no vee for the, $67,000, an it's jes’ as easy to keep it in my pocket this way.” i This szme Green is worth now §30¢ . 000 or $400,000, axl yet cannot Hie | his name. —New York Presa i re “Christ fiath Risen.” | 15 All at once is heard in the distance | . the clear boom of the cannon capone: | ing the hour of miduight. The Kus: scian| priest, standing on the steps of the al! tar, swings his cerser and anpoune 5 t tones which penetrate to the fart! wnt) corners of the edifice, ** Christos ves res” (Christ bath risen), aml the people on.’ swer him with cne voice, ** Vo istitie, voskres” {In truth he hath risen). Tie, woman standing neares; the priest lighas ber taper nt the coreecrated one present- | ed to her by him, ber neighbor in tun receives the light from ber, and so on, | till in a minute, 6s it were, the chapel was illuminated with « hundred lights. Fathers and mothers, sons and daugh- | 4 ters, friends and relitions embraced ‘one another, kissing three times ov tl: forehead and either chick and exchang - ing the Easter greeting. The whole cou gregation, then passing before the priest, did the same with hin, snd high wav now followed. —(hambers’ Journal A asp s—— i— i Transporting Carp. When packing live carp for transpo: by post, some authorities recommc rd placing in the'r riouths a small piece of bread, well steerd in brandy, but J de ‘ not myself approve of this plan, as Ibe lieve it tends to sveonrage the fish ina! ‘disastrous love {ur ardent spirits. The | eminently respectable Dutch, on the b other hand, Leep carp through the win- . ter hung ep in-haskets;, bot feed them! © om ablarhieles: cree of bread and milk, | which ti fail to a; i. —=Cornhill Magazine iit able, “My,” said the shee clerk boarder, “but I did get afine Jot of sarcasm from my tailor when I had to stand him off ‘again. Still, I rather think I deserved be | Soda “In other words,”’ gargled the cheer- ful idiot, ‘‘you deem his remarks both cutting. and Sing * — Indiana ~ Journal Eyes and Darkness. sin a dark room cannot at fl. be seen by one going in from the sun # light, because tho pupil of the eye has been oon! Simtranted ays ing the clent rays ual Le light to enable the individ- to soe ‘clear! " they had caught! PRIVILEGE OF SENIORITY. “Stop erying, lleginald. Your grandmother's turn cores next.” | DEATH OF LINCOTN. | | the White House, and was told by - | with him and Mrs W. G. RICE. JOM BR PROCTOR. : P. HARLOW. THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. William G. Rice, ove of the rw Silla service commissioners, was Govarnss Hill's secretary s number of Is He is » native of Albany, N.Y. The "other mew commissioner is John . ex-postomaster of of St. Louis and father of the pl trolley car system. Join iE Frcs Fentnckion, was appointed JOR: moralist conld not exposure, and once enlarge to admit sufl- ‘D. B FIELD & 7. B. MORSE DANIEL HUNTINGTON. ra AAR 8 NER iii. A i A Rae S sta (HANDLER WHITE. MOSYS TAYLOR. M. 0. ROBERTS CYRUS W. FIELD. PROJECTORS OF THE ATLANTIC CABLE. Daniel Huntington's great historic Rainting. “The Projretors of the Atlantic Cable." wns recently presented to the ork Chamber of Commerce, The canvas is 7 feet high, 9 feet long and cest PETER COOPER. $20,000. idoor, and Mr. Gs STYLISH CYCLING COSTUMES. 1 is the great fad this year znd thousands of new riders are wondéring t At the right is a bloomer co ume for the ambitious New Woman. Jepter is the mere eonvention suit that is still clung to by the rs. In the center iy an attractive costume for a man. { ~tolling of the bells ao NOAH BROOKS’ RECOLLECTIONS OF | vee GREAT TRAGEDY. | a | The President id Not Want to Go to the | Theater, But Would Not Disappoint the. People Under a» Pablio— A Sorrowing Weeping Sky That April MWorning. | The afternoon and evening of April { 14, 1860, wero cold, raw and gusty. | Dark clouds enveloped the capital, and | the air was chilly, with occasional show- ' ers. Late in the afternoon I filled un ap | pointment by ealling on the presidont at him ! that he ‘had had a notion” of seading {for mo to go to the opin that evening Lincoln, but he add | od that Mrs. Lincoln had already made np a party to take the place of General and Mr& Grant, who had somewhut an- expectedly left the city for Burlington, !'N. J. The party was originally planned for the purpose of taking General and Mrs. Grant to seo ‘Our American Cons. in'’ at Ford's. theater, and when Grant ‘| had decided to leave Washington ha (the president) had ‘‘felt inclined to give up thé whole thing,'' but as it had besa announced in the morning papers that this distingnished party wounld go to the theater that night Mra Lincoln bad rather insisted that they onght to go in order that the expectant public should not be wholly disappointed. On my way home I met Schuyler Col- fax, whe was about leaving for Cali- fornia, and who tarried with me on the sidewalk a little while, talking about in San Franciseo and Sacramento that he wished to meet. Mr. Lincoln had often talked with me about the possibil- itfos of his eventually taking up his res- idence in California after his teem of office should be over. He thomght, he aid, that that comntry would afford better opportunities for his two boys than any of the older states, and when i ho heard that Colfax was going to Cali- i | fornia he was greatly interested in his | trip and said that he hoped that Colfax | would bring him back a good report of what his keen and tnd cheervation wonld note in the country which he (Colfax) was about to see for the first time. The evening being inclement, [ staid within doors to nurse a violent cold with which I was afflicted, axd my roommate, McA, and I whiled away the time chatting and playing cards. Abont half past 10 our attestion was attracted to the frequent galloping of cavalry or the { mounted Jae! past the house which { we occupied co) New York avenue, near awhile guict was restored, and we re- tired to our sleeping room in the rear part of the house. roommate : “Will, I have guessed the caase of the clatter outside tonight. You know Wade Hampton has disappeared mountains of Virginia. Now, my theory of the racket is that he has raided Wash president and has attempted to carry him off.” . Of conrse this waz said jo- cosely and without the slightest thought that the president was in apy way in danger, and my friend, in a similar spirit, bauteringly replied; ** What good 1 will that do the rebs. unless they carry off Andy Jobnson also?’ The next morning I was awakened in the ry dawn by a loud and harried kacckong m my chamber door, and the voice of Mr. Gardner, the landlord, “Wake, wake, Mr. i ol Sowa 4 ! slipped out. Brocks! | have dread- vt the key of i, tarned iner came » begone, we trembling znd « who “drew Priam's curtain at the doad of night," and told his awfal story. At that time it waa believed that the prow; dent, Mr. Seward, Vice Preaident John sou and other members of tho govern- i ment had been killed, and this was the burden of the tale that was told to pa {I sank back into my bed, cold and shiv | ering with horror, and for a time it seemed es though the end of all things { had come. 1 was aromsed by the loud | weeping of my comrade, who had not ! left his bed in another part of the room. ! When we had sufficiently collected ourselves to dresa and go out of doors in "the bleak sad eheerivis April morning, ‘we fonnd in the streets an estracolinary. spectacle. They were suddenly erowided with people—men, women and children ! thronging the pavements and davkenin L Bl p % ' the thorcughfores. It roomed asif every ‘body was in tears. Pale faces, stroamisg eves, with new and again an an frowning eountenance, Were on every side. Men and women who wers stun gers accosted one ant her with distressed looks and tearful Jo jou vies for thé wi fare of the president a rd Mc. family. The president stil! lived, bor at half past § o'el arning the » ACL menting pe that be bol cvased breathe. His rect and Lv. 2 héart was still The last official] bulletin from the war departmuent stated that he died at 22 minntes past 7 o'clock on the morn ing of April 13. ; Iustantly flags were raised at lial mast. all ver the city, the bells to lind jolemaly, and with incredible swiftiess Washington wont ‘into deep, universal mourning All storvs, government de partments and private offices were closed, anid everywhere, on the most pre- tentions residences and on the humbilest hovels, were the black badges of grief Nature seemed to sympathize in the gen eral lamentation, and tears of rain fell froan the moist and somber sky. The wind sighed mournfully through streets crowded with sad faced people, aud broad folds of funereal drapery flapped heavily in the wind over the decorations f the day before. ~-Noah Brooks in Cen tary [ee Music reserables poetry. In cach are name less graces which no methods teach, and which a master’s hand alone can reach, ——FPopea the trip and the people whom I knew the state department building. After’ As I tarnied down the gas I said tomy with his cavalry somewhere in the ington and has pounced down upon the erving yuag cumstances, Weil they lear to bark pale, | Fike him j} 4 iy Seward 's Peculinrities. The process by which gold is made into thin leaves is called gold beating. | As yot the nse of machinery for this purpose is very limited, nearly all gold | leaf being beaten by hand, First the gold is cast into oblong fn- | gots about three-fourths of an inch in width and weighing two ounces each. These ingots are passed between pol- ished steel rollers and flattened out into ‘ribbons of about an eight-hundredth an inch in thickness. The ribbons are softened by heat and cat into pieces an inch square, . One hundred and fifty of thes pleces) piece above another, and the entim pile until the inch pieces sre estended to 4 inch squares. They are then taken fire m | the case, and each sguaré is cat into, four pieces. The pieces thus obt tived | from the large intestine of the ox—made and again beaten, but with a hmnnier of | lighter weight. Still the leaves nre not thin enough, and once more each leaf is cut into four pieces and again beaten. This last quar- tering and beating produces 2,400 leaves, ‘and the thickness of each leaf is about one two-hundred-thonsandths of an inch. Gold is s0 malleable that it is powible! to obtain a still greater degree of thin- ness, but not profitably. : These thin leaves are taken np with wood. pinchers, placed on a cushion, blown out flat and carefully cut into squares 314 inches in size. The squares are placed batween the leaves of paper books, which have previously been rub- of the gold, each paper book containing 25 squares or leaves of gold, and in this by a aperteis measure. ~Philadelphia Times WHY D0GS. BA RK. to flim by an Indian. . In wri tral. America, Frederick Boyle brings the habit of barking. Ee was discussing with an «ld resident of the country) some traiia of the coyote, as the rn: “tive wolf in called, but which moire near ly resembles the dog. they can find a master to serve, and more especially trained dogs. The coyote, never barks, and only gallops when pur-| sued. as don't these ¢ sy0tos bhurk like pointing to oie I was trying to reclaim, | “And why do they only howl and the pups grunt?’ His answer was, "Ha won't leo n* “Not learn? maid I “*Wiat do mean?’ “No,” he replied, “pot lear, for if he were of an honest breed lhe would bark, to try to imitate his moster, or, | at all events, the other dogs, but all barking proceeds from dogs imitating | Go ¥ mn speak, but canuot.’ - I give this. curious observation as fhe only attenapt Fever herd to aceonnt for! the barking of cur tame dogs. and smariin:e, vor, nuder the be til the third or 5 mrt ge LETation. — Pi insbueg D. “pi Clams Siotmese There wore rirely oeeug stated that erec id in Tore. The glass honses Alexandria were. highly enlebrated | the ingenuiry and skill of their wo! men and the extent of their manuf, tures. . Lay: ard, in writing about his discov eries among the rains of Nineveh od ‘Babylon, says: “In ene chamber were found two entive glass bowie, with frail ments of others. These bow lk are pr he atv of the same period as the id in the ruius of the nals vn whole steers in Tyme en 3 hy Rass Wi Lo first bs Ir=ing the previons excava d rowmiat Iritish mnseuns Gh this 1 give owt ag relic is the : hus ‘title of Ling ar piform churacters, Wa are, ‘therefure » to the latter part ¥ Af para, W ol A-sria, an the { care of a nim able to fix: the seventh vy RRC ¥ quently the wos: uefent Luo men of - transpos CARS, : Herald. . A Bit of Hack. Nothing is complete withort its bit of bluck. It is iu bit of cunning the Frene have taaght vs and 18 post valnas’» for it immediately adds the tonch we have strived fur. No malt color or material if not poiatelle or stp bands of ribbon or piptngs of satin are psd. There are no end of means of deco. | pation, cad all post effective to universal has this fashion become that neither frock nar bonnet escapes it, — Boston Traveller. Reavy Sermon. Mason — Why does Jason: prefer taking a walk on Fifth avenue om Sanday morn- ing to going to charch? Payson-—He says he likes to voud ger! mons in stones rather than to listen to! sermons from sticks.-—New York Her- Alcohol was first distinguished as an elementary substance by Albucasis, in the twelfth century. : The strait of Juan de Tacs was named its shores in 1593. Hundreds of patents have been issued | to inventors of water gas. WONDERFUL GOLD LEARY, How It Is Manufactured and Some of Ti breeds make any noise except hos viug! arch t is con: el n spect In +a 3 i — ESE TON # HRNSYLVANIA a1 AD ie inclosed in a double parchment case | and beaten with a 14 poand hammer | are then placed between gold beater's' #kin—a delicate membrane prepared i into piles, inclosed in a parchment case | THe 4 Bt frain 1, daily bed with red chalk to prevent adhesions | form the leaf is sold, not by weight, bat! i A Writer AfTords an Exgpianation as Given, siving st Johpsonburg at 11:44 a. iting of the native dogs of Cen forward a theory as to how dogs fora | No 3r No. & Dogs will never go wild so long us other dogs?’ 1 asked an old Indian, | - i f : i their master's shout. The master shouts! to drive in cattle to the corral, and the) dcg barks also. In fact, the dog imitates - his master whon ke barks; he tries to) | ' ia No wild] I i : Pallman Buttitx Parior Car to aks, and it is glass houses wile i fT wr Usartiad Radin es of Pet syivanie. i { i 1 } i vr what the) ed with black, a bunchy black chon, i Sc after an old Greek sailor who explored | Lo) will aeets mau BARE IN EIPRCT NOY, ri, 4 po hiimdetphis and Ere Paine Time Table, Tenins ienve orifiwond’ EARTWALD. $104 A. M.—Train & dally exec Senoury, Hurrisburg and iu iste sie arriving at Philadelphia, si p. ty, « ork, 9:35. p my: Baltimore, o:45 Tro Mh, Washi EL, THR Pp, WS. Puliman Fur) oF tur from Hlismsport and passrnder sonches from Kaine to Philadelphia. : Dido Sunduy, oF o£ 3:39 ¢ M.~Trmain 4 daily except SuntEg or Hurrietirg and luternmpedinte stations arrive. mit wt Philadel phi at & Pa.m., New York 83 maa, Puiiinan seeping cars from Hae clabirg 0 Pinsdelphis and New York Yui i re ig RENN all ants 700 are placed between vellum leaves, one gees P. M.~Trein 4, dally for Suz. ..,, be sud intermediate stations, ary’ . Phiindeipats, 6:52 a. n.; New Yorn ema week dais nnd re n.on Sam's = > wm Washin Erie and ie segs in venper or Buti into We » orn Erie lo” Potlaasipbia. a Wiliam port to BEsit! Hl WESTWARD Sadons. Ao is bo for Ridg wa) Semven Mudiats ste =m, for Brie, ad AM tin w mis 5 WE Baw wah ube, as} EE Suoaay, w ~ sap mr. io on. in Ful at Deve 0 Erle ne ongh em ld in Erie, a timere to Wiiliamepors. { letves Renovo at 635 a. m., ho inst Surday, amriving at Driftwood JOHNSON BURG RAILROAD TRAIN 19 . Ridgway 5 mores at eo . Sosibang st 9:06 a. m, ATTIVinG at Clowmont | TemAN i loaves Clermont at 10:50 g, 1. se Ridgway at 12:00 noon nes Beech Creek Railroad 7 NY C & H. R. BR. R. Co. Lassen CONDENSED TIMETABLE = Read Lown oo. Feb 4, | 1808. rn EP Mt PM FM ils 4 DIAL. Read Up LExp Mall af @aud 5 © wg 3 13 08eoncisinen — J i ry" ry SR AeOE eer i iM Lv. Clearfield June... Ars ii o.. ET ® i ul -. Cloardioid J une. 9. hr. Wiodiand. ane... 78 Sem .. ow NN co nanesanar £ a oan Kite & Sr Suse wed ais sh 9 4 CES Cee olee sd Mani SN io 5 Wo # ¥ dey 1 0 $0Arj w $ . Sow sd bn aR gad & E88 BERS a we t i 2 8 5 re Veyu® » i i it, & i FEES Hil bifid! hs aan ® 5: . : 1 vbians re - w scx ma ppenssn BANE i ro EES TRESE # 4 8 8 8! 74 li jo (W BYTE). hare Junction _ Ulam: Who AT Fave srane au der slzexexlolws EEF: : s Le A Ea BCow wn “ ~, 4 { in ES i i 8 i ¢aRzEITTLES A HN ‘A + "BSH Ar WHI 1. pi tio KS fl Lie. ppt. + 5 2 vn fave N ¥ vin Tarag. Arr ¢° TH Lve RN ¥Y vis Phila Arr 7 a8 ipa (Foolof Liberty Ni.) » tWauskin vs. pie pow We IMLES A M, Bundigs, : Thro Pidiman Buffid Sleeping Car Va tween LC BE a and Phisdeislom, duily om | pep Sanday, on mins Sand 2 Through coqich ta New York, nnd throughs *hilndel phils ous : train leaving 'Wilimnsport 080 a.m. .Uonnedtions~At Wiliam pert with Plasaen-s in und Remiing Ratirond At Jersey Share anetion with the ght Hook Ry. at Mitt Haid At FPhtifpstnoy with Penn's. BR At Churthud | with Lhe Buftaio, Rochester und Pltisby rg nile . At Mabaftey aud Patton with (smbrin Mearfieio dividon of the Peroeyilvsioin Ar Mabafley with the Penosyiesnis sud Northwestern mltway ERRIMAS fl uss “omity. = - = A GPALMER, Oem" tA Superintendent. en gM BIFFALD, ROCHESTER A PITTSBURG . a 2 — On and after June 19th, IRS passengy 10s vs roan DuBois dably exe capt Sanday, + Toth 2% fam : TRAINS DEPART. 4 is i reek. 75 i v 8 Bradford, Buffs sud Roen os 14 Punzsutawney sod Big Ma, 1-44 Pun zsuta woey Big Ran. op. m, Falls Creek. 0 Clos fei, abd Wi L sport i “ Hldgwhiy anc Fmd fora : Put cuts wie ook Big Lan Clearfield mand picbla Sis pon oo? fan “oC Prxsata wney sad Wi Hon TRAINS AK} JVE. a. m. Panxsatawney © ad Dig Rap. “Fails Cres kK, Pun xsi wney in Big Bas “ mdse and fete ' : Lup we 3 Sv phe BK Tew re FE hyn ik Wie y } . Buchester aw nw HA" Pan ssain whey +3 Corweusviie ate! Full an Bailie shepive var fg a on thin fea ving Dai Boi gt 580 3 Pana Dadi Bokecs Roos 1 nse all stations at 2 cents per mils, For tickets, time tables and ™m © eall on 01 address, : M. Londergan, Agent, Dulles 2. CC. Lapey, Gen’! Paes Asal : Rocleine, N Rockentor N i atiem # X. B. Go Mathews, Gen: Supt, R IDGWAY AND CLEARFIKL I» 5 DAILY EXC EYTAUNDAY : WORT “as > ¥4 Fr = SOUTHWARD, Pp. 2% ANS 0 BW 9 3 i. TETATIONS, ~~ Wd’ : ; nd Td + 3 Mi Haven 2 4 ~COroyland i Shorts Mills i Fue Rock Vineyard Ku: Carrier, Broek way ville MoeMin. Sarin il ~ Hasveys Pun . Fa) Te Creed Pu Bais TRAINS LEAVE 81h" Cast yard Womy room Train 8, 717 a.m CPrede A fre og 0B Tran 6 INA p. OL r Train 4 7866p. Ww MN. PREVOST, Genel oc ds op gir ws = } f 3 * TW La ! ™ ¥ ERTSRELEREN vy IR, Wi Merete: © £5} ¥» Ag
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