© HARD WOOD FLOORS. __ owes wee : y aw a > Bom £ Chinese jugglers and Indian fakirs have pretty much the same ‘‘stock in trade.’’ Here is an account of some tricks performed by a Chinese: When the conjurer asked the specta- INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR CON- : STRUCTION AND CARE. Quartered White Oak Said to Be the Very Best Material -How to Wax and Polish. They Do These Things Better In Englan Than We Do In America. ‘called for a pumpkin. ~~ “A pumpkin,’’ answered the conjur- * It i8 only a few years since advocates er; ‘‘that is impossible. Pumpkins are of the house beautiful began to preach out of season.’ : in favor of hard floors, and there is now However, he was only talking, for hardly a village in the country where presently he took a pumpkin seed and this doctrine of health and beauty has Planted it in the earth. Then, having not penetrated. Yet every one who has made his little son, 1 od 5 yon old, lie discarded carpets and adopt ed hard wo 4 down, he thrust a knife into his throat. floors has found some drawbacks in the + The blood poured ont into a vessel, and ; 7“ with it the man moistened the spot way. In nine cases out of ten the fico. ; : a xd : where the seed had been planted. is simply shellacked, often without p.®- Next he covered the corpse with a vious filling, and every scratch of the : : A - pootheel shows on its surface. The wood Sloth and placed a Wooden bel] over the a tors what they wanted to see, some one is’ soon laid bare and permanently stained, or perhaps the wood is oiled with clear oil which has not been prop- erly robbed in. The residue gums on the surface and collects dust and debris, and altogether the hard wood floor, which has been well laid by the carpen- ter, is a source of discomfort and disap- In a few moments a sprout was ‘seen rising from the soil. Tt grew and grew and burst into flower. The flower fell, the pumpkin showed itself and in- creased in size with extraordinary ra- pidity. ; ; As soon as it was ripe the man picked it from the stalk, showed it to the pub- : after lic and took up a collection, : which, of course, he lifted the cloth and found the boy perfectly nnharmed. The second feat, by a different per- former, was even more startling. A peach was called for by one of the spec- tators. : pointment. European housekeepers suffer from none of these disadvantages because they try none of these experiments. The European floor is a floor of parguetry. . It is made by gluing together thick esses of hard woud ot & Pine Mackies. “dk is March,” suid the magician. a and raove durable floor than “The land is still icebound. Peaches when a thick floor of hard wood alone is are not to be obtained now except in used, for every builder knows that the “yp on . Evia mba dots fs mat ore of solid ard wood, | DP, ell,” answered the spectators, but cue of two thicknesses of hard wood Jou 31 A Sloe #34 oUEht to be cid dri able to bring a peach down from heav- ‘over a pine core. These doors are patu- rally more expensive, becanse they are mote trouble to make. So the veneered floor is more durable, though a very ex. - wellent floor may be laid in hard wood * peven-eighths thick over a rough floor of pine, providing the wood has been properly seasoned. Or a thinner floor. may be laid over a perfectly level floor of pine. LS Builders recommend quartered white oak as the very best material for floors. “This is a western wood and costs about $100 a 1,000 feet in this state. Maple and birch, which are much cheaper woods, also make excellent floors. Na- tive birch, which may be bought in this state as low as $40 a 1,000 feet, in a - very hard, smooth wood, and makes a very durable kitchen floor which does not sliver up like Georgia pine. Narrow boards, measuring about two inches or ~ less laid, make a most desirable floor. . The skillful carpenter matches his joints with faultless precision, planes and 0 pig and thank these kind gentle- scrapes his floor and polishes it down _ o : : deo rel en.’’ At the word out leaped the child, with hard wood shavings after it is laid, ,);04 ang well. — Philadelphia Times. as well as finishing it before. When this is properly done, bardly a joint is visi- ble, and it is then ready to be filled. paradise. ’’ .33 The conjurer grumbled, but finally consented to see what be could do. He began by weaving a roll of ribbon, which he cast into the air. It took. at once the shape of a ladder, which went up to a tremendous height. placed a child, and the little fellow ran up the rungs like a monkey. Up, up he went till he vanished in the clouds. Some moments passed, then a peach dropped from the sky. The magician picked it up, cut it into slices and of- fered it to the bystanders. It was a real ' peach. Then a horrible thing happened. The ead of the child dropped out of the sky and was followed by the trunk and then the legs. With tears in his eyes the man picked them up and placed them in a box. But after much show of grief A POINTER FOR THE CARELESS. It is this process that is so often neg- How Unused Railway Tickets May Be Re- : deemed at Slight Cost. Some men with valuable unused raii- lected and upon which so much depends. ~ It should be a thoroughly trustworthy . wood filler, purchased from a dealer way tickets on their hands sell them to | whose name is a gnarantee for bis goods. = scalpers, while others go to the railway These fillers usually come by the pound, © company that issued them and obtain often in paste form, and may be thinned | their value in money. Most men, how- to & proper consistency with turpentine. ever, do neither, and nocept the loss It is applied to the wood with a brush, when the ticket is worth less than a dol- and all that remains on the surface i= lar. Indeed, many men do not realize polished off with hardwood shavings or that railway companies stand ready to ‘excelsior. This filler is allowed to dry redeem unused tickets even of small about 12 hours, applied, or of prepared oil if you prefer richer by many thousands of dollars 4t. Where oil is used it should be thinned per year by reason of this neglect or ig- with a certain amount of ‘‘drier.”’ porance. : ~The best wax is a preparation of tar Every railw pentine and beeswax, pre ‘ gogetber, and is kept by all dealers in road issuing the same. It is a simple parquetry floors. The chief mistake that matter to inclose the ticket with a let- . amateurs make is to apply this wax too = ter directed to the general passenger generously. says that a pound of wax onght to cover ' paid and explaining the reason why 300 feet of surface. After the wax is the ticket is left unused in the hands of applied and rubbed brush it should be a awhile and a second coat a : the floor is used. When all these things have been dome A great many American families at- the company usually acknowledgea the _ tempt to take care of a hardwood floor receipt of the ticket holder's communi- without a brush. This is a waste of cation and promises to investigate the "much laborious energy. The work can matter. The investigation: consists in " be accomplished by the use of a brick the proper identification of the ticket wrapped in flannel and then in cotton, | and a little bookkeeping to set all right but it cannot be properly accomplished = in the accounts. Then the purchaser re- ‘except by a’ strong man, while an ordi- ceives from the company a check for the "nary servant can readily wield the 22 amount due, along with a letter request- pound brush, which sells in our shops at | ing acknowledgment on the part of the from $8.50 to $4 and with care will last = recipient. That closes the transaction many years. It should be passed first = and there is no material loss on either across the grain of the wood. Then the side. —New York Sun. . ay ticket ‘bears the name ay be returned. pplied before m On it he and after the sympathetic spectators had taken up & collection for his benefit he | opened the box and said, ‘‘Come forth, | some secure place each and when a coat of wax is value, so that the companies must be | yperly melte¢ of the general passenger agent of the An expert in this matter = agent asking him to refund the money in with a weighted the purchaser. It is courtecus to incloge llowed to stand for a stamped envelope in which the money | ‘floor should be vigorously polished with | the grain of the wood. = nt + Finally a piece of old carpet is laid down and the floor is polished under | this. A properly cared for floor should | be polished with the brush It should not be rewaxed once a month or once in two or three | _ months, according to the amount of wear on it. After a certain period of | time it may be necessary to scrape the floor and apply some kind of restorer, "A City Built In 8 Cherry Seed. : At the time of the French Crystal Palace exposition a Nuremberg toymak- er railway approaches, bridges; etc. A powerful microscope was used in city, and than 500, 000 people ¢ “exhibited a cherry stone within the | once a week. | cavity of which he had built a perfect oftener than | plan of the city of Sevastopol, streets, | though this should be hardly required = results of the toymaker’s unless the floor has been improperly these 500,000 sightseers ~ dressed. . franc piece in the hands Of course the best way of polishing ' ious workman, the total such a floor is in the foreign fashion, thus taken in netting hi with a brush attached to one foot of a fortune.—8t. Louis Republic. ~. robust man, who goes skating about | : ree until the surface gleams like marble. Homemade Mucilage. _ But this method is not often possible in | A very convenient mucilage, says this country except in those households = vention, - where there are foreign menservants. — | New York Tribune. Sian Spanish sized Ins Hurry. : “It’s a rapid age,” said the big po- liceman thonghtfully. ‘‘A terribly rapid age. Everybody's in a hurry.’ Sf 0 “What's the matter now?’ inquired © the man who was waiting for a street SBE { : ‘Why, we've haven’t we?’ " “Yea,” : 3 : ur “And the cable car fender “Tobe sure,” “And the cigarettes?’ 4 80.” ak : And yot you read in the papers ev- day shou people 0 blamed impe- | ay mi ema wot | got the trolley car, ? y a snug little Ia- can be made out of onion juice by any one who wishes to nse it. A onion, after boing | maa ds ian: ~~ BOROUGH ORDINANCE, An Ordinance Relating to Dogs’ Running at Large, requiring same to have Collar and Number, and imposing Tax on Owners of the same, requiring Bitches while in Season to be shut up, &ec. : Be it enacted and ordained by the Burgess and Town Council of the Bor- ough of Patton and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same: Secriox 1. That from and after the first Monday of September, 1895, all dogs running at large in the Borough . of Patton shall be required to be reg- istered and to wear a collar and tag with the number of the dog engraved on the tag, the collar to be furnished by the owner of the dog and the.tag and num- | ber to be: furnished by the TownCouncil, which number and tag to be farnished to the owner of the dog by the Secre- | tary of the Town Council on payment of the tax herein after mentioned. Sec. 2. Any dog found running at large in the Borough without being registered and having collar and num- ber shall be captured by the Chief of Police or High Constable and im- pou rded, of which notice shall be given yy at Jeast six written or printed notices describing said dog posted in a8 many conspicious places in said Borough, for at least thirty-six hours after impounding said dog; if the owner of said dog impounded shail come within said time and redeem said dog by paying the tax imposed and a fine of not less than fifty cents nor’ more than two dollars with costs of arrest he shall be released, if said dog or bitch shall not be redeemed, it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police or High Constable to forthwith kill the same. : ; i Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the owner of all dogs and bitches in the Borough of Patton on or before the 1st Monday of September, 1895, and an- nually thereafter to have such dog or bitch Tegitered by the Secretary ‘of the Town - Council to pay a tax of fifty cents for each dog and one dollar for each bitch so owned and repisteled, the same to be paid to the Secretary for the use of the Borough; it shall be the daty of the Secretary to give the dog so ; | a number and the name of the owner of the same in a book to be kept for that perposs ‘which | number shall be worn by the dog and | which shall be evidence of such reg- istration. . : SEC. 4. That no female dog or bitch, | while in season, shall be tted to | ‘run at lazge in the the duty of the owner or owners of the same to keep such female dope shut up | ‘in some secure place while in condition. : Sec. 5. ; Chief of Police fo sieze and shut up in| Th shall be | i male running at large {ale 408 : and his duty to + mes of | same, who may pay a ‘of two dollars and costs of arrest, to the Bur. ' gesa for the use of the , within six hours from the time of Fooniviig isaid notice duly given, redeem female dog or bitch, otherwise the, | Chief of Police or High Constable shall | | forthwith kill and bury the same. Sec. 8. The Chief of Police or High | Constable shall receive the sum of | twenty-five cents for each dog or bitch | siezed and shut up under the provis- ‘jons of this ordinance and twen Ave] | = | i § i # | vents Mldisiona) if he has to | Attest: HARVEY PATTESON, or Patton, Pa., Aug. 13, 1895. | | i | | In Kentucky & Doubtful State? | | The peculiar political conditions that |exist in Kentucky have led many | | people to believe that the state is a have a chance to carry it this fall. For this reason there is great interest, ‘both at home and abroad, in accurate i | i i § i 3 x | parts of the state. The Weekly Cou- | 2 3 rier-Journal is now covering this per- fectly, and is publishing the sews | without bias or prejudice. A close i. By the week, day or meal ‘Attorney and Counselor at Law, ‘HARDER S Poin EBENSBURG, PA. | All legal business promptly attended to, GUN WORKS. gi” BE Sn EA : at $50, $80, $70, on 35 Ar... the make. We give you the big end 4: 8 fe argin usually taken by agents. 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