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AUCTION SALES.

Rf WIN. L. WALLS CO., AuctiOneers,
10 600 and ai SsT Z Marble Ia BSS.laing, ...u
SALE OF FINE RosEwoop BOOKCASE, WAL.
Lounges n soFhs, wkRSRd HAsH o SIDE
boards ~ THO R9SEW9 S6I rIAN9s
HNH accompanying at 10 O'Clock, We will sell at
anne nne Walnut Bo SSzssse' cost s'o'
: fine walnut Marble top Chamber Suites.
fine Walnut sideboard
4Cottage Sets, Marble top Tables
% rolls white and check Mating.
Serving Machine, &c, &C.
At II clock
Mahogany Piano.
1t W. L. WALL CO, Aucts.
RS WIN. L. WALL & CO., Auctioneers,
~ Original Horse and Carriage Baxaar,
No. es Louisiana ay. between 9Th and 10th sts
PRREMPTORY SALE or DROVE HORSES,
Mss, WAGONS GARTsi ;SSS,x,xc II. or,
nm % % Se6ss, Nc S sHy s1 at
FORTY HAD HAD, S bP'H HORSES AND MULES.
Among which viii be found some very fine Driving,
Work and Saddle Horses.
rsnted sound, and broke to harness; very hand
some, and would make fine horse for a Park
One pair Brown Mules, "A hands high; sound AMI
Kind In harness
number Of Horses and Mules, of which a full
description VIII be given at sale, and Warranted
represented by the auotioneer
Regular sale days Tuesdays, THURSDAYS and Satur-
days, without regard to weather.
1t W. l.. WALL q CO, Aucts.
RY LATIMER CLEARLY, Auctioneers,
- Successors to Cooper Latimer,)
Southwest Pennsyl ania and llth street.
SEkS And four fkhf BoTfoM Pleas
URE BOATS AT AUCII9N;
~, ISL, at So o'clock we shall sell, at Crouch s
18th street wharf, one Sail Boat in good order,
and four Flat Bottom Pleasure Boats.
Sale positive, the parties owing to dissolve
partnership.
Terms: Cash.
iy26d IPatl LATIMER CLEARY,
DY GREEN & WILLIAMS, Auctioneers.
- Southeast corner 18th and d streets
10 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, IN
THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, LYING
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within the iast twenty years and the nnmsroaa N
IoItsni surgical OPERATIONS performed b. Br John
st2n p the reporters 81 the SEn and manv
and again before the public besides bis standing a.
eient ansran,es q shs sns rsspOnsbty sun
SKIN DISEASES SPEEDILY CURED cc,x,x
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sh. Houldn't Marry a Mechanic.

A young man commenced visiting q
young woman, and appeared to be wclt
pleased. One evening he called when il
was quite late, which led the young lady
to inquire where he had been.
81 had to work tonight" l-is
"What, do you work for a livinss'
she inquired in astonishment, j, aaaa -
Certainly" replied the young man,
Il am mechanic" .,...,,
Il dislike the name of mechanic,
and she turned up her pretty nose. liSP
That was the last time the young
man visited that young lady. He is now
wealthy man, and has one of the best
women in the country. for q wife -
The lady who disliked the name of
mechanic is now the wife of miserable
fool-a regular vsgrant about grog
shops-and the soft, yerdant, silly, mis-,
erable girl is obliged to take in washing,
in order to support herself and children.
"Yoi dislike the name Of mechanic,
eh? You whose brothers are well dress.
ed loafers We pity any girl who isas6
verdant, so soft, as to think less of
young man for being mechanic--one
of Gods noblemen-a most dignifed
and honorable Parsonage Of heavens
creatures.
Far better to discharge the we'll I'D
pauper, with all his rings, jewelry, brszes
ness and pomposity, and take to your
affections the callous- handed, industrious
mechanic
Thousands have bitterly repented
their folly..who have turned their backs
to honesty. A few years have taught
them a severe lesson. siss
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A Horrible Joke,

The anccdote of Mr. Webster and bis
tooth brush reminds correspondent al
Kingston, Ontario; of q little anecdote
of the late Sir Alan Macknab, Canadi.
an celebrity. Sir Alan was travelling
on one Of the steamers on Lake Onta
rio: The state rooms each contained
two berths, and the boat being crowded,
Sir Alan was allotted a cabin in which
some other person was given the lower
berth. On the morning after starting,
Sir Alan, having over night placed his
comb, tooth brush, etc, on the wash
stand, was SURPRISED, while lying in bis
berth, to see his fellow-passenger using
his Sir Alan's tooth brush; and, think
ing it but fair to have joke at the mans
expense, jumped out of bed. and taking
basin of water, put his feet in it, and
sosping the tooth brush, began to wash
his toes with it.
Say, stranger" cried the horrifled
locker on, "you don't use that brush to
clean your toes p
why, what else would you suppose
l use it for? p was Sir Alan's reply.
swell, I'm darned" exclaimed the
stranger, rushing from the state.room
thofoushly disgusted.
The brush was given to the poor.
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Smoking Hams.

Ireceived hews idea, says a cores
pondent, in regard to smoking hams
LET them remain frozen and wrapped
in papers through the cold weather. In
the Spring smoke the barrel by gradual
ly burning under it, inverted, a bushel
of cobs; then rinse the barrel in warm
water to be used in making the brine
for 100 pounds of meat, use ten pounds
of salt, two quarts of molasses, two
ounces of saltpeter, with water enough
to cover the meat. Scald the brine
skim it, and put it with the hams pack.
ed in the smoked barrels Treated in
this way the hams have the taste of
smoked meat, without smoking, and will
keep, like other salt meat, through the
Summer. r."-BoSton Culticator.
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MEMORY PICTURES.

Dark hickory boughs against blue perfect Sc
Sharp-shapen fir-trees crowning son,bre rocks
The cadence of winC- nurmurs fresh and free;
The merry sunlight on brown girlish locks;
The sounding of two tender voices low;
And all SO long ago!
A building of sweet castles in the air,
Frail as the dim, calm cloud DER distant seas
Delicious idlesse, carelessness of care;
Fragments of song; unutterable case;
Life's music all at soft pianissinso-
And all so long ago!
A purple whorl of sunset in the west;
A'great gold star through wide oriel seen;
Two lilied hands upon placid breast;
A mute pale face ineffably serene;
A mourner kneeling in impassioned woe
And all SO long ago ..
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Preserving Eggs.

The most convenient and satisfactory
way to keep eggs fresh is to punch i,il-
merous holes in a tin pail, fill it with
fresh eggs into kettle Of melted tai.
low, which is as hot as can be without
burning ones finger when thrust into
the liquid; then lift the pail out quick
ly, and the melted tallow will flow out,
leaving thin coating over every egg.
Let the eggs be removed as soon as pos,
siblc from the pail, and be placed on thS
ends in keg or barrel, which sholld
be kept in cool cellar until wanted for
use. Eggs have been kept in this man
ner more than six months, so fresh that
expert judges supposed they we're fresh.
AS the eggs are so much colder taai ths
melted tallow, thin pellicle of coldtal-
low will be formed almost instantly,
which will render the shell impervious
to air. 'tsc
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What They Thought About IL in
iS47

In 1647 the "Simple Cobbler of Aga,
wam' wrote in Massachusetts as follows
of the ladies' dresses of that period: 81
can make myselfe sick at the time with
comparing the dazzling splendor where
with our gentlewomen were embellished
in some former habits with the goose.
down wherewith they are now surcingled
and debauched We have about FIVE or
six of them in our colony. If I meet
any of them accidentally, l can not
cleanse nay phansie of them for moneth
after. 1t is enow to break the heart for
to see our goodly women imprisoned in
French cages, peering out of their hood
holes (big bonnets) for some men of
mercy to help them with little wit, and
nobody to relieve them 1t is no mar
vel they wear drailes on the hinder part
Of their heads, leaving nothing, as it
seems, in the forepart but a few squir-
reIs brains to help them frisk from one
i'll favored fashion to another 1t is no
little labor to be continually putting up
English women into outlandish caskes !;
who, if they be not shifted anew once in
a few moneths, grew sour for their hus-
bands. When hear a gentle dame in
quire what is the newest fashion Of the
court, with desire to be in all haste, what
ever it be, I look at her as the very giz.
zard Of trife, the product of quarter
of a cypher-the epi.ome. of nothing"
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An,wer Their 9uestIons:

Those parents run the risk of losing
their children's esteem, who put aside
their trivial questions as of no conse-
quence. An interrogation point SYM
bo.izes the life of childhood. "Why p
and What? p are the Keys with which
it tnlocks the treasurers of the world.
The boys numberless questions seem
trivial, but the wise parent will never
put them off il he can beip it. 1t is his
rich opportunity of teaching. He is
met halfway, and there 10 the difference
between impressing the truth on an ea-
ger mind and an uninterested one. The
little fellow helping you at your work
and plying you with endless questions,
may learn as much in half an hour there
as he would in a week when his body is
a prisoner in the schooI-room,, and his
thoughts are out Of doors. af.g a.
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Home.

Home is the one place in all this world
where hearts are sure of each other. 1t
is the place of confidence. 1t is the
place where we tear off that mask of
guarded and suspicious coldness which
the world forces us to wear in self-de-
fense, and where we pour out the unre-
served communication of full and con-
fiding hearts. 1t is the spot where ex
pressions of tenderness gush out with
out any dread of ridicule. Let a man
travel where he will, home is the place
to which "his heart untrammelled fond
ly turns" He is to double all pleasure
there. He is to divide all pain. A hap
py home is the single spot of rest WHICH
a man has upon this earth for the cult
vation of his noblest sensibilities.
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The last cup of frolic is generally
the hic cup.
A, good drain on a farm-Heavy
mortgage at ten per cent. will drain it
about as rapidly as any thing we know
OF.
A shoemaker" writes that he is not
only willing Ito give woman her rights,
but her "rights and lefts." This is his
''last" joke.
Little Dicks mother asked him what
kind of nuts she should buy for him.
''Doughnuts, mamma me can crack 'em
with my toofs.''
A veteran shop keeper says that al
though his clerks are very talkative du,
ring the dav, they are always ready to
shut up at night.
Mississippi hal 5000, ,000,0 of prop
erty under citizens rule, and the tax
was 100000, and it cost $4,000 to as
sess it, Now her property, under Rad
ical rule, is SlSO,O00,0O0 and the tax is
81, 100000, assessed at a cost of Sl75,-
600.
One of the Siamese twins is still lying
at the point of death, at their home in
North Carolina The other is in good
health. In anticipation of death; ar
rangements have been made for the i'm
mediate separation of the living from
the dead brother.
A Kentucky conversation: Hello,
dar, you darkey, what you axe for dat
old blind mule, hey?" swell, dunno !;
guess l mout take thirty five dollars
''Thirty-five dollars! Ill give yoa five. !"
"Well you may have him; won't stand
on thirty dollars-in a mule trade"
A Scotch farmer is of the opinion that
smut in wheat is fungus propagated by
adhering to the sedan unless this fun.
gus is destroyed before being sown, all
the grains infected by it are sure to pro-
ducc diseased ears. AS a theory this
has been held for many years-but ex-
pertinent has not yet proved the fact, but
it is more than probable that fungii is
transmitted through the cells Of plants,
and if disorganization ensues it develops
rapidly, so much so as sometimes to
Enearly ruin a crop.
A correspondent OF the Country Gen
tleman says: "If care is taken in scald-
ing black hogs, they can he dressed as
white as any white hogs. Hen &c in lres
sing black hogs the water shoulF not he
so hot as in scslding white ones. II
this simple rule is observed, there will
be no difficulty in dressing black hogs
Instead of this color being an objection,
I regard it as an advantage, for the skin
of black hog will always he found to
be smooth and glossy, free from cutaae-
ous eruptions, and always Clean This
is sound. Water for dressing any hog
should never exceed l09o Farenhoit.
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PlitIng frem Smallpox.

The terrible scanning and pilting of
the face, neck, and other exposed parts
of the body, consequent upon the Sc
we're attacks of the smallpox, are well
known. 1t is noticeable, however, that
the scalp is always exempted from
marks, even after the severest form of
the disease, the covering afforded by
the hair preserving it from pit;ing. Re-
memheling this fact it recently occurred
to an English physician, while watching
a photographer using cotton-wool to
shut out light in the process Of 'svignet-
ting" photographs, that the material, if
applied to the face and neck Of small
pox patients, might give protecting
influence somewhat similar to that ai-
forded to the scalp by the hair, and
thereby prevent or modify the subse
quent pitting. Having under treatment
a couple of cases of convalescent small
pox, he therefore applied cotton wool
to protect thesfacs. The disease in
each case was of the distinct form. One
of the two, girl, aged fifteen years, had
an abundant eruption, which, in the un,
protected parts of the body, went
through the usual consecutive changes.
In both cases the parts covered by the
wool were left without res.ige of
marks. The mode of application was
as follows: On the first appearance Of
the eruption, patches of skin about an
inch square were washed over with col
lodion, and Immediately covered with a
thin uniform layer of fine wool the
wool readily adheres if applied before
the ether of the collodion evaporates.
When the whole of the face, ETC., was
thus covered, the wool was brushed over
with solution of starch or gum. The
starch or gum was occasionally reappli-
ed to the edges of the wool to prevent
any shifting by the movements of the
face. This covering was kept on until
the dry crusts fell off the other parts of
the body. In view of the results of the
experiment, the mode Of treatment
would seem worthy Of further trial.
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How 10 Know a Goose.

"Mother, mother" cried a young
rook returning hprriedly from it's frat
flight; I'm SO frightened! I've seen
sutR = sight!r' aaN is''
What sight, ny son? ?" asked the
rook. se4
"Oh, white creatures, screaming and
running, and straining heir necks, snd
holding their heads ever 30 high. See,
mother, there they go!"'
"Geese, my son, merely geese" calm
" replied the parent bird, looking over
The common Through Life, child, oh,
serve that when you meet any ono who
makes great fuss ABOUT himself, and
tries. TO lift his head higher than the rest
.of the world, you may set him down at
once for goose"
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Humility.

A farmer went with his son into a
wheat field, to see if it was ready for
the harvest "See, father" exclaimed
the boy, show straight these stems hold
up their heads. They must be tie best
ones. Those that hang their heads
down, I am sure, cannot be good for
much"
The farmer plucked stem Of each
kind, and said, "See here, foolish child
This stalk that stood so straight is light
beaded, and almost good for nothing,
while this that hung its head so modest
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EyThis is the way the Chicago Post
celebrates the march of civilization in
that city:
"Desolation continues to reign,
But Cupid keeps up his fire;
There have been 359
Marriages since the fire."
Marriages since the fire."

g"Florence the comedian tells cap
ital story of waiter at one of the Lon
don taverns who was sadly given to
drink. A party Of young men deter
mined to reform him, and one day read
an imaginary paragraph from the paper
relating terrible accident, in which an
inebriste, in blowing out candle, was
killed by the fame igniting with the
fumes Of his breath. Jerry pricked up
his ears at this, and requested that the
paragraph might be read to him again,
which was done,to the evident horror of
the poor man, who Immediately went in
search of the cook to borrow prayer
book. Returning with this, he express
ed desire to take solemn oath upon
| it, bemoaned the fact that he had been a
sorry tippler, and was bringing himself
to ruin. and then swore that never again,
so long as he lived, would he-attempt
to blow out candle !-Ne,v York Ec
press.
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The Burial OF the Governor,

In one Of the Broadway sample
rooms, while two young gentlemen OF
the PERIOD" well up in Fashions habili
ments, were slipping their iced wine, an
elderly man of the "old school, peeped
in.
"Good morning-give us your paw
glad to see you-just in time-come
join u.s." said one Of the Avenoodles hi,
lariously. "We are just having our
fourth champaign cocktail"
"Ah! possible, possible, indeedp in.
terrupted seriously the venerable New
Yorker "Why 1 noticed the death OF
your good old father in the newspapers
day before yesterday"
"Oh. yes" flippantly replied young
New Yorker, giving his head u ready
toss and speaking tlippantly; "the old
governor has gone the way Of all the
earth; but he went easy"
>"Well,I knew him for forty odd years;
but" said the old Knickerbocker; sadly,
81 see by this mornings paper that the
funeral takes place at P. NJ. this day
YES" interrupted Young America;
''it's so advertised but l don't believe
the thing will come off before 5 o'clock
N. Y. Sun.
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Shooting the Wrong Hens.

A PERSON in 4 assion very frequent-
~ jumps st conclusions suddenly. $50,
u say, neislhpr Snobs, if you don't
keep your hens out Of my garden, will
shoot them Y@
Very well, Doolittlc, sho It away, on
" if You kill any of my hens, throw
them ipto my laid." E'siS
Crack went the fowling piece, morn.
ing after, morning, ard large tat hens
wele pitched into ne;shbor Snohs yard.
They cooked we'll. After a fortnight
or so, Doolitile dscovered that Snobs
never had any hens, aid that he had
been shooting his own, they having bro
ken out Of his own coop
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The Things that Make Men.

1t is not the best thing-that is the
thing which we call best that makes
men; it is not the calm experiences OF
life; it is lifs's rugged experiences, its
trials. The discipline of life is here
good and there evil. here trouble and
there joy, here rudeness and there
smoothness, one working with the 9TH
er, which necessitate adaptations, con-
stitute part of that education which
makes a man man, in distinction from
an animal, which has no education. The
successful man invariably bears on, his
brow the marks of his struggles which
he has had to undergo.
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Kew to Edmonish.

We must consult the gentlest manner
and softest seasons of address; our adj
vice must not fall like a violent storm,
bearing down and making those to droop
whom it is meant to cherish and refresh.
1t must descend rs the dew upon the
tender herb, or like melting fakes Of
snow; the softer it falls, the longer it
dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into
the mind TO probe the wound to the
bottom with all the boldness and reso-
luton of good spiritual surgeon. and
yet With all the delicacy and. tenderness
of friend, requires very dexterous
and mastery hand
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Spare Legs.

A little girl was standing at the depot
to see her father and gentleman friend
off, when she suddenly observed to hel
father, referring to his friend who was
tall and lank:..
eff the cars run off the track and any
legs must be broken, 1 hope they'll be
Mr.. H-'s."
"What's that for?" said the startled
H.
Because" she added, ,artlessly, "Aunt
May says you have pair of spare
legs"
The "all aboard of the conductor pre-
vented any explanation.
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4 Boys Composition on sick.

There are great many kind of sticks
in the world, some big and some little.
Some are sticky, and some are not
There are large sticks of wood, and that
is one Kind of sticks; and there are lit
tie bits of sticks, and that is another
kind of sticks, Some people when they
are handling money, it sticks to their
pockets,so that is another kind of stick.
Sometimes when boy is doing an ex-
ample he gets stuck, and that is another
kind of stick. Sometimes when horse
is going along in muddy weather. he
gets stuck in the mud, that is another
kind of stick. That is all can think
Of now, so that is another stick.
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wERTH BEYoND BEAUTY.

Give me instead of Beauty's bust,
A tender heart, loyal mind,
Which with temptation would trust,
Yet never linked with error find.
:. ,sa
One in whose Gentle bosom I
Conld pour my secret heart of woes,
Like the care-burdened honey-fy
That hides his murmur in the rose.
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NUMBER "a
From the Columbus (O.) Statesman, 14th.j j
EPIDEMIC SPREADING,
Radical Robbery on the Public
Works of Ohio.
An Entcrss-i.,.;g Yossty: VINO
Pecketss2,963 ont Of a 90, 900
Approximations.

An EntcrFris,.ig Yossty. who
Pecketss2,963 Ont Of a Ga. 900
Appropriation.
AT the session OF the members of the
Board of Public Works at the Canitol
Yesterday, A. T. Beach. OF Ma.sillon,
engineer in charge of the Ohio canal,
was removed from Office for embezzle.
ment
The Legislature appropriated at its
last session three thousand dollars for
rebuilding Sandysi,ie lock, Tuscsrawas
county.
Mr. Civil Engineer Beach, in the most
uncivil manner, went Cor that three thou.
sand dollars, expended the enormous
sum Of
THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS z~s
in patching up the lock. and then. with
the patriotic zeal of Tom Murphy, Bill
Tweed, and score of other Iatter-day
defaulters pocketed the remaining o.
9650O. ,es
He was generous, was Beach. He
had imhibed largely of moral ideas
Out OF an appropriation of three thou
sand dollars for a specific object, he de-
voted thirtyttive dollars to that business,
and confsrated the remaining 1896 90
to bis own private uses.
Beach has an official bond of Ave
thousand dollars, ont of which the de-
falcation may probably be made good.
W. S. Wilson, Esq, sof Canton, has
teen appointed by the Board OF Public
Works as Beach's successor. -
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A New BIT OF CREED.-Lieut Mas
ters, of the British Navy, has been to
Terra del Faego. He reports the Fue-
gians as believing that the spirits Of de-
parted doctors are transformed into dev.
lis, and that the chief business of living
people is to keep these demons from do
ing mischief. This idea is similar to the
European tradition of DR.. Faust and the
devil, which symboliEes the supposed
connection Of great learning with infer
nal power.
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Good Men Make Good Horses.

A horse is never vicious or intracta-
BILE without a direct cause. If horse
is restive or timorous, you may he sure
that these faults arise from defects in
his education, He has been treated ei.
ther awkwardly or hrutally. Commence
the education of horse at his birth
accustom him to the presence, voice. .snd
sight of man; speak and act gently; ca.
ress him, and do not staltle him. All
chastisement or cruelty conruses the
animal aud makes him wild they are
good men who make good horses.