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ISOXE SHAKES. Experiences Wiib the Arkansss Azne. "Speakin' 'boat the Arkansas ager," I tai.i the man with the sandy goatee and j squint eje3 as he lesned back in his, , ciiair, "that's wbar yon saw my Learfc- j s-trings, in case I've get any left to saw on. Gentlemen, gazi on mo." Th? crowd gared. "V/Len I moved down into Arkansaw ! from Tennessee ri.- in' of sixteen years | ago I was pnrty?I was, for a faot. I had j a dozen skulemarms in loTe with me to j once, and han^ me up if every gal in the ; ballroom wouldn't br&*k her neck for the honor of dancin' with me ! Yes, I i was purty, and I was good. I "was so j party that children cried for me, and , so gocd that I was taken for a preacher j on more'n a hundred cccashuns. Whar I has my party gcno ? Why, I're got to j be the awfalest alligator in the bull swamp, and I'm growin' meaner afe the rate of a mile a day 1 Fact?solemn fact, and that cantankeroas ager is to blame for the hall of it. I've got a squint to my eyes, my nose has bin driven back br an inch, and what teeth I've got left have to be wedged in every Sanday with pine pegs or I'd swallow 'em. | Pn>^t? f W k o foa cmhf f\f mv Tihltt I JL UJL VJ i ?f 1AJ| Wi ?S?j.+su , down in St. Louis killed a Texas steer j dead'rn o. door nail, and I was trying to j look handsome, at that!" "Xou said you had the ague." <kijaid so! I>o yon 'spose all the other ! oalaroitics in this hull kentry conld have j busted me up in this way ? Xou bit I; had 'er! I struggled with 'er right along j ? ?-?~~ fur 'leven straight y'ars without a 1st j up. Gentlemen, let me harrer ycnr j souh with a few timely remarks. Your j Michigan agar is a grasshopper, and j one dose of fcyneen knocks 'tr dead, j Out in Illinoy theageris bigger?about like a squirril. In Missouri she's about the size of a woodchuek, and when she strikes down into Arkansaw, she's a wolf three feet high, seven feet long, and built to take hold like a thousand buzz-saws. Great slams! but what tussles I've had with that ere cutter! Say, did ye ever ride in a one-hoss wagin' over a sicne quarry? Was ye ever seated on the top rail o * a fence when a hurricane moved it at the rate of six miles a minit? Did ye ever have a cyclone pick ye up and mop you over forty acres of river bottom, wallop ye through ten acres of woods and use ye for a tool to knock down a hundred acres of cane brake. Well, that ain't the ager?not! tliA AyVflneiTP Vin/3* if*o m-ilv thft first I faint preliminaries." !He stopped to relight his cigar, and i then continued: "I hain't long to live, and don't keer , . bo stretch this thing any. Tellin' the < truth has alius been ray stroag pint, | and alius will be. Maybe ye'll get some j idea of the Arkansaw ager vhen I tell I ye that I once unjinted both shoulders ; ia shakin', and it s-as a light shake at that. When I had on one of my reg'lar double-back-action shakes I could jar a jug of whisky out of the crutch of a tree twenty-eight rods off. Nobody dast pile up cord wood within half a mile of my cabin, and that's a solemn fact. I devoured kyneen just as you eat com' beef, and my hull system finally got so bitter that a dog who smelt my leg couldn't get the pucker out of his mouth inside of ten days. Gentlemen, I do not wish to prolong this agony. My failin' is grub. Fust I kaow I'll jump the ager and begin on Arkansaw skeeters, and when I'd get there I'd harrcr ver souls till ve couldn't sleep fur Etwo weeks. We will now have some cigars, and I will seek a few needed reposes."?Little Bock Gazette. Preparing for tli e End. "I have be3n a resident of Washington for thirty-two years," said Bob Strong to a Washington correspondent. "I was on the police force at the Capitol for six or seven years nnder French. My brother was the contractor for the building of both wings of the Capitol. Of late years I have been employed at the jail?for the past twelve or thirteen years?six years at the new jail. For the last ten or twelve years I have been ^ the person to ad jnst the knot and fix tne ropo at executions. i aid ic at tne hanging of Bedford and Stone and put the rcpe over Bediord's head. The physician always suggests as to the arranging of the knot about the neck so j that it will not go too far back of the ! ear. I always remain on the scaffold until the body is lowered into the coffin. I was considerably shocked at the Stone exhibition, -when the culprit's head was cut off as clean as if done by a saber. The reason for his head being t jerked off was not the length of the fall, but Stone had gained flesh, and at the same time the muscles of the neck withered away?turned to a Kind oi Iiroth. Ke -weighed 206 pounds at the time he was hanged. The rope Guiteau will be hasged by is three-quarters of en in?h in diameter and of manila. The prisoner stands on the trap, and after the drop the head is supposed to be on a level, or to go jnst below the '. floor of the platform. I always test the rope with a 200-pound sand bag, at a drop of seven feet. I talk to Gaiteau every day. I never have spoken to him directly about his coming death, but he makes fun of it when talked to on the subject. His brother paid him a visit to-day, and he told him how to dispose of his hat and clothes. Some of those I have seen executed exhibited great courage before death. Wood and Wright weakened, Wood more than others. Some of them had been given % coffee and brandy, and had to be snpported by the priests. From what I have seen, I think that Grdteau, when he feels that th9 thing is settled and he knows that there is no more hope of getting away, will not go npon the scaffold same. I think he will die like a cur. The scaffold is now ready and the rope prepared. When I prepare the rope the first work is to get it limber and the notches out of it. Then I rub it with tallow where it goes around the neck. I saw nino men hung at one time in Australia, when I was a sailor on a whaler in 1S3S. I will not use any one of the ropes that have been donated in hanging (iuiieau. I will use one of Pmy own, the one used when Bedford was hanged, as no better one could be get in America. I am not afraid of any <./-? mistake being made. None has yet. I am fifty-eight years) of age the 9 th of March. Astonished. Lobsters are getting scarce and high, it is said, alosg the New England coast. Those persons who like them and want them cheap had better go to Halifax. A letter from Halifax to a London editor says that lobsters are so cheap and plentiful that they may be purchased for a cent apiece. An Irish officer, being unaw-tre of this fact, and thinking that they were in all probability two and six-perce or tnree smiling s oacii?as in ms own extortionate country?gave his sergeant a itovereign, and bade him order the worth of it in lobsters, as he had some friends coming to snp with Lim that night Judge of his surprise when, on arriving at his lodging, he found a cartload of the delicate crustacea there L ' awaiting for him. "Why, what is the meaning of this he began. "J. Deg pardon, sir, said trie servant, ||r "the other cart will be up presently." This is almost as ridiculous as the ignorant young housewife's order for half-a-dc zen Lalibut. At the estate in England known as AElvedon," owned by an Indian prince who is an enthusiastic sportsman, there are one hundred and forty acres of woods and meadows, inclosed by a wire fence ten feet high, devoted to breedinc tvheasants. Six thousand birds j o JT ? ? . form the breeding-stock, and at the height of the laying season, two thout sand eggs are picked up in a day. These are sold all over the onntry, snd Elvedon eggs are the most sought for by other gentlemen who rear pheasants. The amount prcmist d to the English Ej Weslejan thanksgiving fund now Bp|^. reaches more than Sl.500.000. Only $200,000 remains unpaid, and this is H beias gradually rodtJ^ecL ? grgwftc " ' -rr.-: r*-.' " ?vtfer;-? : >s\ * ; > flBBCBBBDnDOBBBBMBBMBBMOSSSBBmOBBBfl mcxens' rames. ll&ader, are jot: an enthusiastic a3- I mirer of Charles Dickens ? Is it neces- I sary to jcyr general perce of mind tnat a fnll set of the great novelist's works > adorn year book shelves? if so, take the kindly warning of a friend; confine yourself to the book3 alone ; touch on the characters therein delineated, if yon ; please, but never so far forget yourself; as to attempt a Dickens party or reception, call it what jou please, if yon own j comfort is at all at heart. XT? ? l-~ -J a<1 awmaaIttao TTor. ! YT V UUUUC'i UlUWli? uu? : mony Ciub, and bting desirous of mak- ' ing the winter months fly as rapidly as j porslble, it was our intvcti^n to give a series of receptions in order to promo'.e ; sociability in the neighborhood, and the first attempt of the season was to ba j in the shape of a Dickens party in costume. A few had ventured to suggest, that a Shakespearean reception would : be preferable, perhaps foreseeing tha fact that there would be discord among the ladies should some of their number j be assigned the more disagreeable parts, but, alas ! the minority were overruled, and self-blinded we plunged into the j seething caldron oi unrest which lay ba- : fore us. It was all decided; the club were to | receive their friends in the role of the more celebrated characters, presenting ; every style of costume imaginable, high j life and lo^ life, from Sir Leicester I Dedlock and ladv, Agnes and David [ Copperfield, to Sam Weiler and the | marchioness, Turveydrop and Fanny j Squeers, while every card sent out con- ! tained a suggestion as to the part the : recipient should personate. it was a matter fcr sell-appro Dawon ; that everything had been so quickly arranged, and we were already congratulating ourselves when a bomb (metaphorically speaking) handed in our very midst, coming in tbe shape of a society meeting. No sooner on the eventful evening referred to had we gotten together than the remarkable intelligence was received that in assigning the characters Mr. and Mrs. Micawber had been for A 1 _ 1 J-V _ I _ T\- .1 gotten, he a mac a x/icseas partjr ?iw j out those personages wa3 a failure, j The news was meekly received, although i one of the male members had tha au- j dacitv to wink as a ei?n of impending ! trouble. With a little remonstrance j the ladies, carrying all before them, ' settled the question; a Micawber there must and should bo; a3 for his spouse, | we were told that no one could be more j peculiarly fitted than she who had been ; assigned the part of Lady Dedloek; so ; _ t 1 A 1 i-tj ! 30 ieast our xauy memuejre iuzu. ua, > although we ccnld but observe that it was a pretty steep descent from a Dedlock to a Micawber, at the same time admiriDg the versatility of a genius j that could fill either p .*t equally we'll. The lady selected to fill this desirable j new position demurred somewhat, but she had evidently been coached in private beforehand and soon gave \ray, agreeing to resign the satin for th9 ool-nn TViort en vfifltVk Art AcrtflS. What gir], so ran the argument, would [ willingly appear as Betsy Prigg or Mrs. j Gummidge while one cl the reoeiving j club was adorned in the bewitching | evening costume of a century ago? It j was not mentioned until after the meet- j ing, but each gentleman understood in tinctively that there was something I of the proverbial female jealousy j in the proposed changes. Then Sir j Leicester spoke out: Would it not be j well to leave the characters as already j placed, some from high life, some from ; low ? If we had made a mistake it certainly was to be lamented, but any dif- 1 ferent action would only make a snarl of j the whole affair. Could we not get along without a Micawber ? he suggested; if all other paities of the kind bad represented tins character since tne f0712 ding of Cheops, surely there would be a novelty in having him left out. Poor representative of the Dedlock arms! How they pounced upon him ! Ob, yes! 'twere well enough for him to talk, he that was to appear as an English lord of dignified carriage and in full evening dress, too ; suppose that he had got to represent Jerry Cruncher ? And here the remarks took the form of a challenge : Would he ? Dared ho ? 'Twss not hard to get up a costume, pour some mncilage on his head to make his hair stand erect, and? But trie gentleman reierrea to nere oroKe in i with remonstrances; he preferred that some other party should have the benefit of the mucilage. In this manner it was then that the first note ol internal discord was sounded in the Harmony Club, a note which reverberated all through the ensuing week. Fanny Squeers affirmed that a Dickens party must necessarily be funuv, and demanded with grim sarcasm that the funny vein in the character of Agnes or Esther Summerson be demonstrated. Tarveytop declared that he would change his pait, jast to be in harmony with the discontented representatives of | me gentler sex. Sir Leicester observed that lie would : bo Tulkinghorn and keep out of the way, i trying to be as quiet and unobstrusive j as" that gentleman was, at the same time j boldly declaring that there was always ! sure to be a racket if ladies were concerned. David Copperfield, in order that no ' trouble might be found with him for j personating a respectable character, j wavered between Qailp and Fagin, and all the ladies with one voice dcc'ared | that it was really too bad, and they | couldn't understand why there should be so much indecision. But enough; sarcasm became the order of the day; ererybody was hitting at everybody, and necessarily, as Turveydrop had prophesied, the party, when at length the appointed time arrived, had more of the character of an ungenteel squabble than an evening entertainment. Have you ever been interested in any- j tning oi tne iunci, my mena? it so, j you can unite with me in warning all to give such affiir3 a wide berth. There are too many of the sort of! people delineated in the novels of; Dickens alive now, to make snch a thing : an entire success, n | Signs That >'ever Fail. * Solomon said, many centuries ago ; j "Even & child is known by his doings, j whether his work be pure and whether j it be right." 1 c-r?c\ o 11 f f! /> rvr^Tr rIot? crr\ fr* school and glad of ever? excuse to neg- j lect his books, I think it is a sign that I he will be a dnncc. When I see a boy in haste to spend i every penny as socn as he gets it, 11 thind it is a sign that he will, be a spend- j thrift. When I see a boy hoarding up his pennies and unwilling to part with them j for any good purpose, I think it is a sign that he will be a miser. When I see a boy or girl looking out j for "number one," and disliking to : share good things with others, I think . it is a sign that the child will grow up : selfish. ! TYTt V T -^-3 vvaen j. see uuys auu gins uxtcii quarreling, I think it is a sign that they will be violent and hatefal men and women. \ When I see a child obedient to his i parents, I think it is a sign of great fn- 1 tnre blessings from Almighty God.? Kind Words. Inferiority of 3Ian. This is conclnsive evidence of the ' inferiority of the sterner sex: A woman : will take the smallest drawer in a bn-! reati for her own private use, and will store in it dainty fragments of ribbon, scraps of lace, ruffle?, velvet, things for , the neck, bundles of old love-lettero, I pieces of jewelry, handkerchiefs, fans, : and things that no man knows the name of; all sorts of fresh-looking, j bright little articles that yon could not : catalogue in a column, and at any time she can go to that drawer and pick up anything else; whereas a man, having the deepest, widest, biggest, j drawer assigned to him, will put into it ! a couple of socks, a collar box, an old i 4- pr?<"v AnnKiApc on/^ o rvaiy of braces and a pip?, and to save his life Lo can't shut the drawer without; leaviig more ends sticking Out than there are pieces in it. * : y FACT5 tOK Tills t LiiJ-UL.". The brain cavity of the elephant i& verr small in proportion to the size of the sknll itself. Some fifty billion feet cf lumber are annnally ' aken away from the pine regions of ilichigan. The ancient Scandinavians celebrated days of death with rejoicing and those of birth with monrning. One of the largest machine bilts in the world,recently fini hed in England, TOO 1 /-r o v> A fiir foof tC"TO. yjua xccu aui;^ ?vv .? A dram manufactory in Massachusetts, established in 1853, "has converted during that time 30, COO sheep skins in dramheads. The center of the population of the United States, for 1830, is put ac a point eight miles west by south from j the city of Cincinnati. One tribe of Indians never will cut a stick that has been on fire. They say that the fire has a spirit which has entered the wood and will get cut. Two large war-vessels, with their guns, powder and shot and $150,000 in money, were once refused lot the largest known diamond belonging to the Rajah of Barned. In the reign of the Roman Emperor Titns.3.000 men were compelled to fight as gladiators, and 10,000 during the reign of Trojan. Both emperors were noted for their clemency. The cultivation of the sweet-scented violet is pursued nowhere with such ardor and success as in Hamburg. Many persons have from 2,COO to 3,000 pots. The flowers bloom the year through and attain extraordinary size and fragrancy. So fearfully does the sand blow over the Colorado desert that it act3 like a mechanical "sand-blast." The telegraph poles are polished as smooth as glass; the paint on sign-posts is worn off as clean as if scraped and rubbed with sand-paper; and glass bottles, left for a time on the ground, lose their transparency and are turned into ground glass nnfoi/^Q Qnd in. The practice in Pensylvania coal mines is to leave pillars of coal imposition to support the roof until the rest of the level has been taken out. Then the pillars are sometimes removed, bnt it is a dangerous operation, even when strong and numerous timbers are inserted. It is in this part oi the work that most of the casualties of the mines occur. "Bobbing the pillar" is the term used in describing the coreless removal oi coai. irum muse. uuu uc miners continue the practice because it is an easy way to get the coal. When we reflect how common a pet the parrot is, it is singular that the best ornithologists differ entirely upon the quesiion, "Do they require water ?" The naturalist connected for thirty years with the London Zoological Garden says j positively that they do not; that the parrots there are kept altogether without water. Yet quite recently a naturalist of Liverpool was prosecuted and ?Z J 1 4.1^ TT fr\y liiltJU. UY Clio CUUl uo Ul kiWi | the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals I for sending a few of the birds on a twodays' journey without water! The Style. Though it would seem that the peo- j pie of ail countries are equally vehe- J ment in the pursuit of this phantom, ! style, yet in almost all of them there is a strange diversity in opinion as to what constitutes its essence; and every different class, like the pagan nation, adores it under a different form. In England an honest citizen packs up himself, his family, and his style in a buggy or tim-whisky, and rattles away to spend Sunday. A baronet requires a chariot and a pair; a lord must needs have a barouche and four; but a duke: ^ ' ? J ? Tw* tt IntviKfl* I \JLil IX UUAO UOIiUUki Au.ui.kycx his style along tinder a coach and six, half a score of footmen. This style has ruined the peace and harmony of many a household, for no sooner do they set up for style, than all the honest old comfortable "eans ceremonie" furniture is discarded, and you stalk cautiously about amongst the uncomfortable splendor of Grecian chairs, Egyptian tables and Etranan vases. The vast improvement in-furniture demands an increase in the domestic establishment, and a family that once required two or three servants for convenience, now employs half a dozen for style. Bell Brazen was one of these patterns : of stjle ; and whatever freak she was j seized with, however preposterous, was implicitly followed by all who would be considered as admitted in tho stylish arcana. She was once seized with a whim that tickled the whole court. She could not lay down to take an afternoon loll but she must have one servant to scratch her head, two tc tickle her feet, and a fourth to fan her delectable person while she slumbered. The thing took?it became the rage, and not a sable belle in all Hayti but what insisted upon being fanned and scratched and tickled in the true imperial style. Sneer not at this picture, mv most excellent townsman, for who among yon bnt are daily following fashions equally absurd.? I:vin?. Hotels in Japan. Bridget is unknown in Japanese hotels, as also is the hotel clerk. True to the custom of living in the face of the people, the city caravanseries are entirely open on the front ground-floor, and about six feet from the sill or threshold rises a platform about a foot and a half high, upon which the proprietor may be seen seated on his heels behind a tiny railing ten inches high, j VknoTr wrifli Vi-io c/vxvnnf. Vi<"wlkn If if ifi I winter, be is engaged in the absorbing j occupation of all Japanese tradesmen at j that time of year?warming his hands over a charcoal fire in a low brazier. ; The kitchen is usually just nest to this j front room, often separated from the ! street only by a latticed partition. Ae I we enter the hotel the landlord comes j to meet us. falling on tiis hands and j knees, bowing his head to the floor, i One or two of the pretty girls out of the ; bevy usuixlly seen in Japanese hotels, j comes to assist us and take our traps. Welcomes, invitations and plenty of fnn greet us as we sit down to take off our shoes, as all good Japanese do, and ? s tnose iUtiiy foreigners done, wno tramp on the clean mats with muddy boots. We stand np unshod, and are led by the langhing girls along the smooth coriJdors, acrof-s an arched bridge which spans an open space,in which is a roo&ery, garden, and pond stocked with goldfish, turtles and marine plants. The room which oar fair guides choose for us is at the rear-end of the house, overlooking the grandest of scenery; and wo fee.' that we have found a place of rest. Bulls and Bear?. The etymology of the term * 'bear" is believed to be this : When a dealer in stocks, or for that matter in merchandise, had sold more than he was capable of delivering he was naturally bare of the article, and it was naturally his interest that prices should fall in order that he should cover his engagements and be no longer bare. From the ad- j jective, the transition to the substan- j tive of the same sound (bear) was easy, i The growling bear being thus embodied, his anitjpe, the bull, was not long j in making an appearance. It is some- ! what curious to find in the popular mind a diffused notion that bulls are the more virtuous creatures. This is sometimes a fallaoy. The bull is usually a speculator who proposes to gain merely by market fluctuations, and to fish in troubled waters. The real inventor, for instance, is often a bear id spirit because he awaits an opportunity to buy cheaply. The cotton manufacturer who contracts to sell cloth is in spirit a bea. of yarn und other mate rials, "which he requires to buy chcapb ?that is, unless he haa already bought too much of such materials, in which case he has over-traded. Some amouat of speculation is no doubt good, wholesome, and necessary in business. It is only when the one party is much oveiIvt* t hfl ft TVO V f. V f.Tl H f KSJ VliO "J * mischief results. "When sorrow has left its track, what has became of the re*t of the hurness. I A STRANGE INFATUATION. How a Pennsylvania Girl Went Crazy on Kathin?. and How ??he wns Cared. Dr. J. P. Gardner writes as follows in the Medical and Surgical Reporter: I lay the following item before my professional brethren, as mnch for the sake of professional variety as for that of information. Nevertheless, it may serve for a provoker of deductions: While practicing medicine near Mount j Airy, Md., I was called to see Miss JU. i S., residing west of Clashtown, Pa., on j the Chambersburg turnpike, near the foot of South mountain. I had previously been informed of the amphibious character of the case by a lady from that neighborhood, who was sojourning at a friend's near Mount Airy, and whom I happened to be attending at the same time. On my way to the patient's house I called at the residence of Dr. John Carpenter, within two miles of the place, and invited him to visit the case with me. This I did, because Dr. Carpenter wis a man of sterling integrity, and hence I could feel confident oi any statement he might testify to as to so peculiar and strange a pathology. We arrived a few minutes after our patient had left her bath, and while her nurse was arranging her hair and placing the bladder of ice on her head, which had ever to be there when she was on "dry land." When 1 commenced my examination I found I should have little trouble, in conseirion^o ni Vipr nharmin:? intelligence and conversational qualities. I found no organic lesson, and very little, if any, functional disturbance. The appetite and functions were good and regular. On inspecting lier bath fixtures, I found a pool of cold water in an adjoining room, fed by a spring at the foot of the mountain. And one feature of her idiosyncrasy was that this pool must have ice in it the y- ar round. Upon inquiry as to the amphibious nature of tiie whole ohing, I found that about nine years before she had been advised by a friend to bathe once a day fV>r crnnA cliirht nerrons trouble. She conceived the idea that twice a day might facilitate the cure, and so she went to thrice a day, and so on, till she had for six years been doing as I had fonnd her. She had actually been going under the water about twenty to twenty-five times a day. Here is her "modus operandi:1' She would take four or five bathing spells a day, and would be thrown (not slid down quietly) into the water four or five times ac each f-pell. I must confess that the allowance which I had previously made for exaggeration and my increduality both vanished at the sight of tacts, and Dr. Carpenter, their family physician for a number of years, said it could not well be exaggerated. He asked me how I accounted for it. I took my tobacco out of my pocket and asked him how he accounted for my ability to chew that. "0? yes," replied the old gentleman, "I see, I see; force of habit, force of habit." He requested me to name the disease. I laughiagly remarked that if he would have me to coin my terms I would do so. He agreed, and I called it a case of amphibio-nervo-pyschological nonsense. He said he did not think my dictionary I could be improved. She was anxious to be cured. I drew heavily on her reasoning faculties, acd fina lly convinced her that stratagem alone could relieve her, and at once proposed my plan of treatment. She wa;i much pleased, and appeared to feel hcpa revive. Here "was my method: Compose her to sleep awhile before the morning bath was demanded, and, so continne to cheat her out of one bath the first week, two baths the second wee k, and so on till done. She was delighted with the idea, and I proposed, as 'I resided about fifty miles away, thai Dr. Carpenter superintend tne treatment, This was satisfactory, and I left bim to decide the sleep-producer, onl;,1; advising no preparation of opium. A brain and nerve-food diet was also decided on, and the choice of that left to Dr. Carpenter. Hott Parsons Wooed. "I never knew precisely why she bro'ie her engagement with me," said Mr. Parsons solemnly. "I think she nsed to love me. She said so anyhow, 2nd I think she meant it. 1 tried my best to deal fairly with that girl. Soon after she accepted me I said to her one pvprnna ~ o " 'Annie, von know that it often happens that marriages tarn ont unhappily because people do not understand each other beforehand. You think you know me now, but you really know very little about me. You do not comprehend my nature and mj peculiarities as you will ten years henco.'" " She admitted that it was so, but she said she couldn't see what on earth we were going to do about it. " 'I will tell you what we can do,' said I. ' There is a noble science jenown as pnrenoiogy. ic enaDies us to read a man's inner nature. The bumps on his head are the symbols of his soul. A phrenologist fumbling about over a man's skull can discern whether he is cruel or selfish or passionate or unfeeling. lie can tell whether a certain spirit is the kind of a one to form an affinity for a certain other spirit, and whether the two are likely or unlikely to be congenial.' " She said she hadn't verv much faith in it; but I assured her she was wrong. I told her I would have my head examined by a competent phrenologist, and would get him to describe my characteristics in writing in full, so that she could study me at her leisure. " She raid she thought that would be splendid, and I thought so, too. "So I paid a professor to feel my head all over and to put the results of his exploration on a piece of paper. It was not quite so favorable as I expected it. I admit that 1 paid him five dollars eitra to strike out his assertion, that my combativeness was eleven and my philanthropy minus two. I may have r? V\n 4- w> r? wt a. uuiic rri. vj-i.r 9 uub mj inuuvca vyci c ^uuu. " Anyhow, the evening I was to take it around to her the thought struck me that she might want to satisfy herself of the correctness of the report, and so I went to the barber's, had my head shuved close, and then I got the professor of phrenology to map cut the whole tcherce cf bumps on my scalp with a paint-bmsh and ink, dividing the f-kull off into sections, so that it looked like the ground plan of a cemetery. When the ink was dry I put on my hat and went to her house. I saw the servant-girl looking curiously at my head as I put my hat on the rack, but - * J i.v 3 t x i_. ?r _ see sa;u noting, ana i went mio xne parlor. "Pretty soon Annie's father came down and said I would have to excuse her that evening. -I was light sorry. Btit I handed him the manuscript, and bending my head down asked him if he would be kind enough to um over the cemetery lots and verify the written statement. I saw that he looked vexed about something, but he seemed rather interested, and so after he had read tho manuscript and careiu'ly glanced over my scalp, I asked i him if he considered it, upon the whole, | satisfactory. ' 'Perfectly so,' he said; and then I j said that the professor tcld me I had j some bumps that were not even found J on Daniel Webster's head. "He said something about that being ' turprising' and then he added, ' But I the matter does not concern me, Mr. i Parsons.' "' Way not?' I asfced. 'Your son-in j If.w's affairs concern you, don't they?' ! "Then he got up and said that I was | net going t j ni^riy into the family; that my engagement with his daughter was I broken off. As scon as he said that he j walked out of the room, and of course ' I wcxt away, but to this day I never j learned whar. was the matter, and I don't | know ytt. Hard, wasn't it. And it will j be three months before the hair will i grow again to cover the cemttery lots." Mr. Parsons sadly sneezed three times ! as he finished the s'ory and tied a fresh j knot in the silk handkerchief which ! enveloped his head under his hat.?Our i Continent. * \ !>' S0LITARr^C0yFjy5ME>rT. The Story of a Prisoi!er Who Was Shut Up for Xin(?Yea1''' Taking the pencil h ' drew a rongh sketch of the interiy of the prison. ' 'It looks like yo^are in ? well when yon stand in the canter," continned he when he had concluded his drawing. "The guard whoj-'ands in the center there can see everything that's going on down every one cf &he galleries. Every one of those double marks is for a gal- ' lery, with cells along each side and a j: man with a loaded gun at each end. i They keep twenty-four bloodhounds ' all the time in'one of the halls. Every ' one of the halls runs into . the center circle. So a man has no 1 chance. You can't find out how the piace is fixed when you get in, because . you've got your head all tied up in the : black cap. I got more accustomed to : it after I had been there a year or so, but it was terrible not to have any one : to talk to and. to go on from day to dav i in the same celL It breaks the best i men down, The brain goes first. It < always affects the brain. When a man i is broken dovm so that ho will die in a little while if something is not d.-ne for : him. they take him to the hospital and : let him stay there until he gets strong enough to sland it a while longer. I worked at the trade of bottoming chairs; some of the:n make shoes and some : cigars. They are glad to work at any- < thing when t hey have to be shut np by themselves. There is no talking al- : lowed; no whistling; no unnecessary : ?*.W-?-k/3 Tf vnloo am , iiuiou Ui axij iuuut JLI MAW violated, two guards come to the cell, they drag you out; you have to hold your hands Above your head. They catch yon by the shoulders and throw ycu down. Then they beat you with < their black-jacks. They are clabs with ropes to them. There .is no beating allowed, but thsy do it anyhow. Then yon are put in the 'cooler.' It is the deepest dungeon in the place, with scarcely any light in it. You get exactly three ounces of bread a day and a quart of water while, you are there, and you stay twenty-one days. 'Is that the only punishment?' No,* they have a tight bos they put you in. It has water in it which strikes you just under tho armpits, and there is more water running in all the time. You have to pump with your hands acd feet as hard as you can 1 - i> L? r -. Li.: 10 Keep xue water irum gtiuaug uvw your head. I have seen men who were left until they were broken down and who were nearly drowned. I was 'ducked' twice. That's what they call it. "I was buried for nine years, and I nearly forgot how to talk. My throat and tongue got so I couldn't use them. When all but my last year was up they let me out of my cell to carry water to the other prisoners. I had a wife 3ud child when I went in. One day in 1876 the keeper and another man oame to my cell. They read me a notice that my wife had married again. Before they got through, the keeper looked at me and stopped. He pulled the other man away. 'Stop,'said ho. 'he's hurt enough. He was right, but I lived through it. Every day the keeper would come, open the trap in tlie door of my cell, put m my food, talk to me for a mir.uto or two and go away. It was the same thing for ten years, day after day. The grand jury would come into the prison occasionally, and before they came, everything would be fixed up. But they didn't see anything. We could count time that way. Once every month, too we got a bath. At la3t the day came for me to get out. It was December 21 last, the day before Christmas. They took me to the door and told me to go. I stepped out ar.d the fresh air struck me. I trembled like a leaf. A bootblack was standing across the street. He saw me coming and said 'Welcome out.' I had hard work to keep from crying, l wandered around the city hunting work. I was resolved te die sooner than go back."?St. Louis Republican. Health in Siddie Age. At ths age of thirty-five, says a writer in the Family Doctor, mankind, according to some eminent anthorities, is said to ha re reached the meridian of life, while oihers r ame forty as the middle years oI our earthly existence. But be the case as it inay, no one who has taken the ordinary means to preserve his health in youth and early manhood shonld feel other than young at the age af forty-five, from which period, until that of sixty, if life be spared to us, we shall do well ta consider ourselves middle-aged, and ;o adopt greater precautions for the p reservation of health and cosseqnet happiness than might have been deemed i ecessary when youth was / vw nnv cirla inri if this 18 done. the WU UUi. L-iuv. ??? 9 period of mid Ue-age should be one of the greatest activity of both body and mind. What though the hairs are turning gray? That but shows one has suffered sorrov? and survived it, or that, sorrow apart, he is a man who thinks. And what thoi.gh the limbs be not quite so nimble? Calm "enjoyments foster thought and general habits of that true temperance which conduces to long life and contentment more than anything else in this world ; and whatever some may say to the contrary, I maintain that the desiro to live long is inherent in every healtiv sane man or woman, i To die of old age is the only natural death, and if death may ever be said to be pleasant, the only pleasant one. Though younger than some of my professional brethren still in harness, I have nevertheless seen death in many shapes and forms, and in almost every case I have found the aged more resigned to the inevitable than those less advanced in years. For a well-spent life is like a well-spent day?at its close there is a wish for rest. A TVoman-Hatiug Farrct. The oldest and most interesting parrot in St. Louis, in all probability, is owned by Frank Cafferata. Mr. Cafferata says that the bird is over sixty years of age. "Let me tell you about him," Mr. Cafferata said, addressing a friend the other evening, "Let me tell you about liim," he continued, as ne warmer up on b:s subject, "he is the most extraordinary parrot that ever lived. Why, he has forgotten more than most parrots ever knew. He was brought to St. Loui3 from New Orleans, and could speak no other language at the time of his arrival than Spanish and French. Both these languages he could handle splendidly. Time rolled on, and he soen forgot Lis French and Spanish, and learned English. While I lived at the old old Oliva Strset Hotel he wss in the habit, whenever he heard an omnibus approaching, of shoutinsr 'Right this way; all aboard for the Juio and Mississippi,' to the great mortification of porters. He has no use for women, and will try to exasperate tnem Dy mocking them whenever an opportunity presents itself. I don't know why it is, but it is true, nevertheless, that the old fellow won't permit any familiarities from any person who is not a child. A child he will defend in a spirited manner, but persists in attempting to bite every grown person who approaches him. In the morning he raises a tremendous fuss until he procures his regular breakfast, consisting of bread and coffee."?Missouri Republican What are Forest Trees? The land department of the United States department of the interior has - ^ 4?1 J aeciaea mat usage orange, vaLzupa auu ailanthus are not timber trees within the meaning of the act of Congress for the encouragement of timber planting, passed June 14, 1878. Consequently . the planting of either of these kinds of trees is tot deemed a compliance 'with said act which will entitle the planter to obtain a grant of governmant land. The commissioners states in substance in deciding against these trees that they are Scnthern in origin and apparently not adapted to stand the severity of "Northern winters. He does not doubt that they would do wp??"~in Texas, but he has doubts about"their flonrshing, in Northern Dakota. " 'Tis more brave to live than to die." Therefore don't -rc-ait till at slight Coagli develops itself ii:to consumption hut secure a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Synip at tho small, outlay of 25 cents, *ure your Googh and live on toppily. i j S I j LOOK AT TOO SPECIE. Silver Dollars Thnt Arc Worth SoOO tind j Pennies That Will Brins S-3. A numismatic guide, recently com- j piled by a Philadelphian, and fostered i by the mint as an authentic treatise | upon rare coins and their values, con- j tains a complete list of domestic pieces \ which command a premium in the mar-! set. xne rarest unuea ocaies cum is | the double eagle of 1849, cf which taere | is only one in existence, belonging to | the United States mint cabinet, i The next, in rarity is the half-eagle of 1815, for one of which it is said the king of Sweden, to complete his collection of United States coins, paid the enorirous price of $2,000. Only five known specimens of this half-ea<?le are in existence. Another rare coin is the silver dollar of 180i. There are but ten genuine pieces, all of which are qow held by collectors. Several re strikes have been made, but to obtain i fine one from the original die wonld cost at least SI,000. The half dollars of 17SG and 1797, if in fine condition, bring ?40; of the two the 1796 is the rarer, and usually ?ell3 at a still higher rate. The quarter dollars of 1823 and 1827, if in good condition, sell readily at thirty dollars each; bnt if in strictly ?ne preservation donble that sum is cheerfnlly paid. Of the dimes there are none of extreme rarity; still among the rare coins of tbat denomination that of 1804 is the rarest, and if in a good conrlitinn ifc nan he hnrcurhfc at from five to ten dollars, but a real fine specimen would bring a great deal more. Among the half dimes that of 1802 is the rarest, and a very fine piece with that date sells readily at $100. There are other United States coins which are much sought after, and yet pass from hand to hand only for their face -value. The condition of the piece is essential to an understanding of the premium value of any^coin of rarity. The age of a coin is not always a guarantee of premium above face value. A coin brilliant as if from the coining press is considered and known as " proof," while one which is free from the uses and abuses of circulated money is known as "uncirculated," and ranks second to the " proof' in premium value. The following prices will be remitted by any numismatist on receipt of the coins in good condition. None of any other dates than those mentioned are rare: United States silver dollars of 1S04, $500; 1794, 1838, 1839, 3851, 1852, each, $20; 1858, S10; 1793, small eagle, fifteen stais. SO; 1798, small eagle, fifteen stars, $6; 179S, small eagle, S3; 1836, S3 50; 1799, five stars facing, $2; 1854, 1855. 1850, S2: 1795, 1796. 1797, -?om 1 on a to no 01 rcn a 1OU1 j ?OKJ?} JLO\JU} %?!. *J\J cauu. xiou^z dollars of 1S79, 1880 and 1881 are vary rare, as only a few hundred of each as proofs for collectors were struck, and command a premium. Half-dollars?1791, S3; 1796, S25; 1797, $20; 1801, $2; 1802, ?3; 1815, $2.50; 1836, reeded or unlettered edge, $1 50; 1833, with an 0 over the date, $10; 1852, if in good condition, $2; 1853, without sun around eagle or arrows near date, $10. Quarter-dollars?1823 and 1827, $20 eacb; 1853, without sun rays bacfc 01 eagle and no arrows near date, $4; 1796 and 1804, $2 each. Dimes of 1804 are worth So each; those of 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1801, 1802,1803 and 1822, if in good condition, are worth SI to ?2 each; thos9 of 1805,1807, 1809, 1811 and 1846, if in good condition, are worth 50c. to 75c. each. Half-dimes?1802 are worth, if in good condition, $50 each; 1794, 1796, 1797, 1800,1801, 1803 and 1805, if in 1 T ?. *.!? 01 good condition, are worm aryiu iu $2 each; 1795, 1846 and 1838 (without stars), if in good condition, are worth from 50 cents to 81 each. Small 3-cent silver coins?All of the issues of the 3-cent silver coins from 1863 to 1S73, inclusive, in fine condition, from 15 cents to 25 cents each. A fine specimen two-cent copper coin of 1873 is worth 50 cents. Of the copper cents the rarest are those issued in 1793,1799 and 1804. Provided they are in a good condition they bring from $3,to $5 apiece; bur. if fine they sell at higher prices. The copper cent of 1809, if in a good state of preservation, is worth 50 cents each. The cents with the following dates: 1794, 1795, 1796 1797, 1800, 1805,_ 1806,,1808, 1811, 1813 and 1823, provided they are in good condition, bring a slight premium, but when in a poor, or even only fair condition, they are only w^rth their face valne. The nickel cent of 1856 is worth $1, Of the half cents the issue of 1796 is worth So, those of 1793, SI, while those of 1791, 1795, 1797, 1802 and 1811. are worth from 25 cents to 50 cents each, provided they are in a good state of preservation; 1831, 1836, 1840 to 1848 inclusive, 1S19 with very small date, 1852, S3.50 each. A Railroad Official Interviewed. Not every one so cheerfully communicates his knowledge and opinions as recently did E L. Loweree, E-q., cashier of the Cincinnati Southern Railway, that splendid outlet to the South from the Ohio. Our representative waited upon Mr. Loweree, and in reply to certain questions the latter gentleman observed: "I was suffering from a verj? severe attack of rheumatism in my right foot; it was in a terrible condition; the pain was almost intolerable; our family physician waited on me without success; "l sent for another well-known M. D., but even the twain could do nothing for me; I could not get down here to the office to attend to my duties; in fact I could not put my foot under me at all, and after nine weeKS sunering x oc^au w gwi. uwfw Mv friend (whom, of course you know, for he is known by everybody), Mr. Stacey Kill, of the Mount Auburn Inclined Plane Railroad Company, called to see me; he spoke very highly of St. Jacob.? Oil, and recommended the remedy to me in glowing terms. I laughed at the idea of using a proprietary medicine, and yet the party recommending . it, (Mr Stacey Hill, remember), being a man of sound judgment, set me to thinking the matter over. The next day, when the physicians called, I dismissed them, and said to myself that I would let nature take its course. That resolution lasted just a day. On the following morning I, in a fit of desperation, sent a servant for a bottle of ? - - - ? * "? * St. Jacobs Uil. I appnea uiat wonuerim remedy, and it penetrated me so that I thought my foot was about to fall off, but it did not; in fact it did just the opposite. The next morning the pain had entirely left my foot, the swelling was reduced, and really the appearance was so different altogether from the day before that it actually J surprised me. I applied more of the St. ' Jacobs Oil, and that afternoon I walked down here to the office, and was able to attend to my duties and get around as well as any one. Let me say for St. Jacobs Oil that it b--ats railroad time, and is always j sure to win.?Cincinnati Enquirer. Another Use for Electricity. Aeronautics have -i story rich in romance as any penn'd by Julius Verne, but they have ther practical side, and I French aeronauts iiave lately succeeded in tnrning their experience to good ac count. ^ By the aid of "instantaneous" photography and electricity, plans of an enemy's position in time of war and bird's eye views of cities and maps of the country in less troublous periods can be taken by the aid of a balloon without the presence of tho operator. The plan adptc-d is to send up the balloon containing only the photograph lens, but connected with those on terra fi7ma by an electric light wire which governs the instrument and the balloon. If no Haw exists in the chain linking tneso sciences, eieciricnj ?>:*j a part in ballooning much greater than most people imagine.?Pall Hall Gazelle. From an extensive use of St. JaccbsOil in the editor's family, we are able to speak confidently of its great worth in numerous ailments, and fully recommend it as an article most desirable to have on hand in the medicine chest ?Stamford (Conn.) Herald. mLirn In th same brook none ever bathed hin twice: to the same life none ever j awoke. Scroiuious rami uTercome. Under this heading a lady writes to r onr excellent exchange, The Laics of f Life and Journal of Health, telling how ! t in the case of an adopted child she snc-11 ceeded in eradicating an inherited scrof- 't nlons diathesis by carefully regnlating s the child's habit .of living. Hygienic ^ living, regnlation" of diet and hydro- 1 pathy were the only means employed, j "Seven long years of patient and per- j sistent endeavor have reconstitntional- a ized her, purified her blood, giving her t strength for feebleness, saved her from j K!fnr?np<!s and started her in early i j life with the best of all possessions, i good physical health." We judge from < this lady's manner of writing that she is a thorough hygienist, and that she i would not give her sanction to any so- i called drug-treatment for the eradication of scrofula.?Dr. Footers Health < Monthly. | While we were willing to admit that i the habit of economy is a useful, practi- j cal, and most desirable one, few would < think of attributing to it anything of 1 beauty t,r attractiveness. Yet the economy oi money, or its best use?for they l are synonymous?has in it this very ele- i ment. Those who live fully up to or beyond their income, in the wearisome i effort to build up or to keep np a certain ] style of appearances, really, though un- J consciously, sacrifice the very attrac- 1 tiveness which they seek to produce. The difficult and painful effort which it 1 costs they fuily realize; but they imag- 3 ine it to be hidden from all but themselves?and here lies their great mis- i take. 1 Tommy was a little rogue, whom his , mother had hard work to manage. < Their house in the country was raised 1 a few feet from the ground, and Tommy to escape a well-deserved whipping, ran 1 * "? ' i-i 1 ? i- 4/1^ 1 irom ms mower ajuu. uuuu wo house. Presently the father came home, and hearing where the boy had taken refuge, crept under to bring him cut. As he approached on his hands and j knees, Tommy asked, "Is she after yon, ' too?"?Baptist Weekly. ' I [Brooklyn Eaglo.] The Unanimons Choice of Brooklyn. Over in Erooklyn the story ia the same. Dr. 31. H. Eccles, pharmacist, corner of Atlantic avenue and Smith street, says St. Jacobs Oil sells well and has a good reputation among his customers. Mr. L. F. Stevens, who runs the pharmacy comer Atlantic avenue and Court street, don't take much stock in patent medicines, and has not kept the Great German Remedy until a few weeks since, when the great and growing demand for the article among his customers induced him to keep it. He is now selling it right along. At the large and widoly-known pharmacy of Messrs. Heidennreich & Co., corner Atlantic avenue and Clinton street, it was stated by Mr. Vandergrift that St. Jacobs Oil is now selling even better ihan formerly, and that the concern is handling it in considerable quantities. One customer, a lady, whose name he did not feel at liberty to disclose, was using the .Great German Remedy for inflammatory rheumatism, with satisfactory results. Dr. Chadwick, pharmacist, corner Court and President streets, says St. Jacobs Oil goes along bravely.^ There is a good and constant demand for it. He has heard it highly commended by his customers in rheumatic affections, and is exceedingly popular with the people in his neighborhood. Mr. D. C. Pearl, pharmacist, No. 44.7 Court street, tell3 no un certain tale of his experience with the popular remedy. Mr. Pearl says there is a great demand for St. Jacobs Oil. It goes faster among his customers than other preparations used as pain annihilators. The demand for it has recently greatly increased. He frequently has calls for it from the same parties, which is the best evidence that a druggist can have that it is a good thing. It was told the reporter that Mrs. Quabach. a lady residing at No. 109 Fourth place, was a regular devotee at the shrine of St. Jacob. Upon being interviewed, Mrs. Quabach stated that she was subject to frequent atta 'zs of headaches, and used the St. Jacobs Oil with Tf A. V grcub cauioui^iuvriu jlo icucveu. xier when nothing else would. She said her attention was called to the great remedy by a gentleman living in Hudson, who used it regularly. He was a very delicate gentleman and a great sufferer by reason of his peculiar sensitiveness to climate changes. This gentleman found great help from the use of the Oil, believing it to be a wonderful remedy, through his own personal experience, in relieving pain. Mr. Perrin, druggist, No. 544 Court street, said St. Jacobs Oil is selling very welL Mr. John Morriesey, a pharmacist doing business at No. 343 Smith street, said that St. Jacobs Oil is booming. Sir. W. F. Tan Deinse, pharmaceutist No. 254 Smith street, spoke in high praise of the remedy. He said the demand for St. Jacobs Oil is far grater among his customers than for ? _i. mi.? /VI | any outer jmuusui. xuc eaiea ui uie vu arc regular and it is a staple commodity. He had heard numbers of people indorse it, and many of his customers had told him it had cured them of rheumatism and neuralgia. Mr. Tan Deinse concludcd by saying that the St. Jacobs Oil is the most popular remedial agent he ever knew, and he considered it a very fine and thoroughly efficacious remedy for rheumatism. Mr. T. M. Lahey. apothecary, corner Smith and Bergen streets, said the St. Jacobs Oil has a steady sale, and that he handles it in quite large quantities. Unlike some other things in the market, it did not spurt up and then die out, but was a standard article cf every day eale. Coming back to New York, the reporter next saw Sir. {Frederick Ranch, No. 2,369 Third avenue. Sir. Rauch said St. Jacobs Oil had also sold -well, but there is now a greater demand for it than ever. Everybody sesms to talk in its favor, and ho personally knew instances whero it had cured cases of rheumatism of a very stubborn character. Chicago has had 3,439 divorce suits in the last six years, and 13,097 marriage licenses we: e issued in the same time. Brnin and Xerve. i Wells' Health Renewer, greatest remedy on earth for impotenc:, leanr.ejs, mental or physical debility, &c. $1 at druggists. Prepaid by exp, A f/vr P. fl (Vvt.t.q P.ifrv N -T The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, a medical work for every man?young, middleased or old. 125 invaluable prescriptions. THEM ARRETS. l >*EW tOTlK. Beef Cattle? Prime, livo weight 10%"? Calves?Poor to Piime Veals... 6 @ 9% Sheep 6 @ 7 Lambs 7% Hogs?Live 7% Dresxed, city 8 @ 8% Flour?Ex. State, good to fancy 5 00 @ 8 00 "Western, good to choice 510 @ 8 50 Wheatj?No. 2 Red. new 1 30 @1 30>? No. 1 White, new 129 @129^ Rye?State 84 @ 87 T (7f\ 96 Corn?Ungraded WesternMixed 66 @ 70% Southern Yellow 71%@ 71% Oats?White State 52 @ 56Mixed Western 50 @ 52 Hay?Prime Timothy 85 @ 95 Straw?No. 1, live 70 @ 75 Hops?State, 1331 25 @ 26 Pork?Mess, new, for export...17 75 @17 57% Lard?City Steam 10 35 @10 35 Refined 10 70 @10 70 Petroleum?Crude 6S^@ 7% llefined 7 7% Butter?State Creamery 35 @ 42 Dairy ^ 37 @ 40 Western Im. Creamery 35 ? *y Factory 14 @ 32 Cheese?State Factorv 8 % 12% Skims V/%% G% Western 8 @ 12% i Eggs?Sta te and Fenn.. 120 j Potatoes?Early Hose. State, bbl 3 25 (<? 3 50 ErFFALO. { Steers?Exfra G 00 @ 6 25 ; Lambs?Western 5 50 @ 6 50 | Sheep?Western 3 25 @ 5 75 I Hog*, Good to Choice Yorkers.. 6 30 @ G 40 i r-?i r* .1 1 /? rs TO" | riour?v/vvjnmnu, .11;, u i -j \u+ i t.-j I Wheat?Xo. 1. Hard Duluth 147 @147 Corn?No. 2 Mixed 68%@ 69 Oats?No. 2 Mix. West 47 @ 47 Barley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 90 BOSTON. | Beef?Extra plate and family. .13 00 @15 00 | Hogs?Lire 7%@ 8 Hogs?Ci^y Dressed 9%@ 9% I Pork?Extra Prime per bbl.... 14 50 @15 00 ] Flour?spring Wheat Patents.. 7 50 @8 50 j Corn?Mixed and Yellow 73%@ 75 I Oats?Extra White 5i^@ 56% Rye?State 97 @ 1 00 I Woo]?Washed Comb & Delaine 44%@ 46 Unwashed " " 30 @ 31 WATE2TOWN CttASS.) CATTLE 2IA3KET. | Beef?lixtra quality 6 75 @ 7 25 i Sheep?Live weight 5 @ 6 j Lambs 7 1 Hogs, Northern, d. w 8"*? 83^ PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. Ex. Familv, good 5 75 @ 5 75 Wiiea ?No. 2 lied 1 30 @ 1 33 ! Rye?Mate- 97 @ 97 Corn?State Yellow G9%tf? C9% Oats?Mixed 49 %% 49% ! Butt*"-Creamery Extra Pa 44 @ 44 | Cheese?New York Full Cream- 1313J? I Petroleum?Crude 6 @ 7 Refined 7 7^ ~' ' - - Laying: the Groundwork of Health. Without vigor there can be no healthful egularity in the performance of the bodily unctions. It is to its invigorating influence, hat Hosteler's Stomach Bitters owes a large iroportion of its popularity. The people of America find in it the virtues of a commanding onic, and have learned by experience that it is m efficient antidote to the poison of malaria, whether in air or water. Also that it conquers )iliousness and constipation, and remedies lervous debility. Few family remedies have a nore comprehensive scope, and assuredly there s none the merits of which have been more videly recognized by the press, the public and he medical profession. Travelers and emi ,r&ni3 use it wuu ttuvuuui^c a^aiuob ?iv?o*;udes of climate, and influences of an unhealth:ul nature existing in water or food, and nariners, miners and others to counteract the effects of exposure and hardship. It is with you as with plants; from the flrst ruit they bear we learn wliat raay^be expected n ths fatare. unr t?ranafnoiucrs :aught their daughters that " a stitch in time saves nine." A pill in time saves not only nine, rat ofttimes an incalculable amount of suffering is well. An occasional dose of Dr. Pierce's Pellets (Little Sugar-coated Pills), to cleanse the stomach and bowels, not only prevents diseases but often breaks up sudden attacks, ivhen taken in time. By druggists. Ikon is the most lirmlv united in the fiercest lame, and the same is true of valuable friendihip3. Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" perfectly and permanently cores those diseases peculiar to females. It is tonic and nervine, effectually allaying and curing those sickening sensations that affect the stomach and heart through reflex action. Tue back-ache, and " dragging-down " sensations all disappear ander the strengthening effects of this great restorative. By druggists. Theke are men to whom we cannot possibly jive enough to prevent them from demanding nore. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, weak stomach, nightsweats, and the eaxly stages of Consumption, " Golden Medical Discovery " is specific. By druggists. Those who think that money will,""do anything, may be suspected of doing anything for money. Mind nnd Body. Port Btbojt, N. Y., February 1,1881. H. H. Waen-ee & Co.: Sirs?Tot years I suffered unspeakably from kidney and bladder diseases. The doctors could do me no good. i'our Safe Kidney and Liver Cure not only removed all bodily pain, but banished the agonies 3f mind also Reuben Happen'. If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. On Thirty Days' Trial. The Toltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., will send their Electro-Yoltaic Belts and other Electric Appliances on trial for thirty day3 to any person afflicted with Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing complete restoration of vigor and manhood. Address as above without delay, P. 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WILLIAM HALL'SI5ALSAM FOE TIIE LUXGS. I got a bottle, when to my surprise, I commenced to feel bettor, and to-day I feel better than for tnree years pasi. I write this hoping every on* aQIicted vrith Diseased Lungs wiil taiceDK. WILLIAM HALL'S BALSAM, and be convinced that CONSUMPTION CAN EE CUKED. I can positively say it has done more good than all the other medicines I have taken since my sickness. ALLEN'S Brain Food-cares Nervous Debility & Weakness of Generative Organs, SI?all druggists. Send for Circular. Allen's Pharmacy, 313 First ay.,N.Y. Vegetine. "HE SAYS IT IS TRUE." sekeca Falls, nov. 9,1879. iln. H. B. Stevens : Dear Sir?As you arc an entire stranger to me, I want yoa to know what Yegetine has done for me. Only those who have been raised from death's door can know the value of such a good medicine. Iam 58 years of age. Three years ago I was taken sick with what the doctors called Lumbago. For weeks I was confined to my bed. I had three different physicians without any help. I received no relief. I was a great sufferer: finally I became entirely helpless. The doctor told me there was no help; he said he might possibly save my life by injecting morphine in my arms and legs. The encouragement for saving my life by having this done was so small a chance I could not consent to run the risk. About this time my son read your advertisement in our panei^-a testimony of a person who h..d been very sick with about the same complaint, and was cured. My son went right away to the apothecary store and bonsht a bottle of Yegetine. Before I had used the first bottle I found great relief. I could move myself in bed. After taking three bottles I was able to sit up and move about my room. I continued taking the Vegetxke. and I was in a few weeks restored to my former health. The Vegetixe saved my life after the physicians said there was no help for me. I have had no doctor since. If I feel unwell I take a dose of Vegetise, and I recommend it to my friends. Your Vegetooe ought to be in every family, lly doctor was surprised to see me again in good health. He says " Vegetixe is a good medicine." I tell him it cured me. He says, " It is true." I cannot feel too thankful. Very gratefully yours, MRS. CATHERINE COOXS. Seneca Falls, Seneca County, N. Y. Vegetans "Will Cure Canker Humor, Rockpobt, Mass., March 31,1S76. h. R. Stevexs: Sir?Last fall my husband got two bottles of your Vegetine to take for the Canker Humor, which I have bad in my stomach for several yeara. I took it. and the remit was very satisfactory. I have taken a good iu:*uy remedies for the Canker Humor, and none eemed to help me but Vegetixe. There is no doubt in my mind that every one suffering with Canker Humor can be cured by takii:?: Vegetive. It pave me a good appetite, ana I leel better in every respect. Yours with respect. MRS. ELIZA ANN POOLE. Vegetine is Sold by AH Druggists. 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Thousands of Copies are sent by mail. se< world, every month, upon receipt of price, S3 Address PEABODY MEDICAL IN 4 Balfinch Stre | 3i. satfcor vc&y &> sessa]t?4 ?a &U dis&j .. -/cv lSS A i^biii | m Removing the Capitol, J A few years ago it was the fashion am crag gem a certain clique of politicians, whose utterances were echoed by a portion of the press, to clamor for the removal of the Capitol from "Washington to some representative "Western city near to the geographical center of the country. The topic seemed to -jjjM prove a seven days wonder, however, ard was soon forgoiten in the rush and requirements of the Nation's urgent business. Now, whether the Capitol will ever be removed or not is not near so interesting a question to some people as whether rheumatism nr will rprrmvAfl frr\m {heir bodies. The subject of the removal of this disease from the system has very successfully interested myriads of people,"and from the extended expressions conveyed by the almost innumerable statements received JB from representatives of everyclass of the community, we append the followed brief selection,?premising for the benefit of the reader that the disease referred to is rheumatism or neuralgia and the remedy is that grand old panacea?St. Jacob's Oil.?The Kt. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, Cleveland, Ohio: "Excellent for Rheumatism and kipdred diseases. It has benefited me greatly."? -jd TT/mi n^rtpr- H. Harrison. Mavor ot Chicasro: "Has been used in my family and neighborhood with remarkable results, and I think it an excellent remedy."?John Curr Moody, Esq , Counselor at-Law, Vallejo, Cal: "The relief afforded in a short time was such as to make me disregard the evidence of my own senses."?Captain Paul . 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