Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-11-05

showed that the land had been cultivated
for centuries by a people having knowl
edge Of manufactures and arts.
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT was much easier
last evening, and renewed hopes of hi' re
covery are entertained His strong will
~ustains him in his severe sickness, but his
bodily strength is very small.
A FRENCH saraat has announced that he
has discovered an antidote for nicotine in
the common watereress. Il destroys the
poisonous effects of nicotine, but does not
alter the aroma of tobacco. This viii be
good news to the inveterate tobacco chewer.
AN ukase has been published at ST.
Petersburg, reducing the term of service to
those who enter the army under the age of
twenty, from seven to FIVE years, and
promises a further deduction Of one year if
the conduct is exemplary This edict is to
be followed by another restricting marriage
in the army
LABOR ABRoAD.-The working men of
Paris are now making great complaints in
reference to the further heavy reductions in
wages. Three years ego the stone cutters
and sawyers were paid IS cents a day, which
rate, at the beginning of 1869 was reduced
to 20 cents, and is now to be still further re-
duced to 55 cents,
A MIDDDLE-AGED widow of Suneook n
II. refused to pay her road tax, and being
told by the surveyor that she must pay the
amount assessed against her or work it out,
she chose the latter alternative, joining a
gang Of men who were working on the
highway and laboriug until sundown. She
said she would be on hand the next day and
continue her work
CHEAP SCHOOLING The total number of
pupils registered in Philadelphia last year,
was so, 1913. The actual expense of the pub
lie schools for the year was Sl,092, $40 II.
The annual cost per pupil amounts to the
small sum of $l2, 48. The Mayor reports
that no city in the United States educates
is children at as low a cost as the city of
THE ladies' of Dallas, Oregon, lately got
up some tableaux for the benefit of church,
among which was one called the New Or
der of Things" In it the men were repre-
santed as nursing babies, making bread and
talking one another to death, while the
women were chopping wood and doing 9th
ar outdoor work The picture was received
with applause.
LARGEST HOTEL IN THE WORLD-.WheH
he new Union Hotel OF the Leland Broth
ers in Saratoga j. completed, it viii be the
largest hotel in the world 1t will have a
frontage Of one thousand and City feet, five
stories high. 1t is to be huilt OF brick, and
divided into nine compartments. almost fire
proof The contractor Is to finish the grand
hotel BY the l>t day of June next,
GRFAT TNnr-Srpr- -
.Lo va,uo Of boot, and shoes manufactured
10 Massachusetts, the present year, will ex
,eed s95. 600 600. The wholesale dealers in
Boston are forming Shoe and Leather
Dealers Exchange. Since January lat
nearly 800, 600 cases of goods have been
shipped from that city, an excess of fully
thirty three per cent over the correspond
log period last year.
THE French Empress, it is said, has re
auested NJ. Alexander Dumas. Sr, to ac-
company her East, as the historiographer
Of her travels. Parisians think that Dumas
would be more conspicuous than the crowned
head, and hat the triumphal arches, the
huzzas. and the flowers, and stares would
all be for him, as the people in Egypt and
everywhere else have the same feeling of
admiration for him that Paris felt thirty
years ago.
A FRENCH chemist, observing the diff
Guilty offndjng door numbers, in the night
time, has invented method by which the
numbers Of houses and the names of shops
are easily visible in the darkest night. The
invention consists in rubbing the figures and
letters with certain phospboric paste,
which makes them slime Ike characters of
FIRE. The application needs only be made
once a month and involves hut trihiug
cost
Mormon Church PROPERTY TO BE
TAxED. There seems to be a chance for a
lively conflict between the Mormons and the
United States government The revenue
officers have received instructions to tax the
church property of the Mormons, and the
many-wived are enraged 1t is thought the
Mormon officials will not submit, the Brig
ham now has a chance to execute the threats
he made to Senator Trumbull, to put the
obnoxious officers outside of the Territory
BEECHER says: 'Laziness is one of the
most iuexcusable of crimes. | know men
justify it sometimes because they have genius.
IF they have-which they usually have not
they are AL the guilty il they are
lazy For. if man has genius, land that
is a term which, when properly used, means
an organization so sensitive that it easily
goes into a state cf exaltation, and produ
ces results more fruitful than can be produ-
ced by ordinary meanS), the more he has of
it the greater is the responsibility that God
laid upun him TO use it.
SENSIBLE ADyIcE.-We commend the
following from a Western journal Of recent
date TO al men hereubouts who contemplate
going West. We get letters every dsy
from young men who want to come out
West. 1t is impossible to answer them ALL
We can say in general terms that capable,
honest and sober young man can do better
here than in the East The chances are in
his favor. A. Webster said, There is room
above But there is no room here for men
who expect fortune 10 drop out of the skies
or spring spontaneously out Of the earth
1t is a good deal here as elsewhere. We
have to work ior.our own bread, and those
who work hardest get the most and best y