The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-04-11

the testimony of thenewspapers, to have
thus far proved the foresight of those
who advocated the idea; it is filled on
that day by an orderly assemblage OF
Young men. who, contrary to the opln-
ion of the ulere theologians, call for
such books as have a tendency to refine
and elevate, while the worthier perlodl-
Gals of the day and week are liberally
patronized. Cameron Press.
As A curiosity of journalism the IL
bcrian -1drocutc may be mentioned. TINS
newspaper discusses strictly national
matters, such as coffee-growing, vanilla
husbandry; the palm tree as material
for soap: and it treats of the religious
as well as the social affairs Of the Colo
ny. The price of a years subscription
is "a bushel Of mhulled, red-'ipec coffee, "
and we are told that III Liberia "cotfee
lies waste and worthless. under the tor-
ests in which it grows" The Adrocate,
though published in Monrovia, is really
edited by Mr.. f. 5. Morris, in Philadel-
phia.-N. Y. Tribune,
OUR exchanges, without regard to
party, almost universally condemn the
the recent salary grab on the part of
Congressman. If a limit is not now put
in the Constitution of the United States,
regarding the salary question, beyond
which in all future time there shall be
no possibility of passing, there is no
telling where all this is going to end.
Human nature is SO constituted, you
know, it can never get enough-Olean
Times.
The Boston TranScrlot knows
man who has not given his wife a cent
for the last month for fear of being
summoned before a Congressional COM
mittee on charge of trying to influence
her action by the improper use OF mon
ey.
THE Bank of England covers five
acres Of ground. and employs 900 clerks.
There are no windows on the street.
Light is admitted through open courts;
no mob could take the bank, therefore,
without cannon to batter the immense
walls. The clock in the centre of the
bank has fifty dialS attached to it.
Large cisterns are sunk in the court,
and engines in perfect order are always
in readiness in case of fire. This bank
was incorporated in 1884 Capital 800
coo, 900. !
EVEN after boys get to be six feet
high, they sometimes say queer things,
as this by a correspondent proves: "A
few years ago student at B-College,
a lanky siX-footer from the backWoods.
was introduced to me rs my roommate
for the session. Preparatory to leaving
for dinner, I remarked handing him a
key, That is my key in the door, and
here is yours. lie studied the door for
some moments very intently, and at
last broke forth:
'Wal-yaas-I see but whar under
the canopy is my key-hole. >"
How He GOT OyER.-In Scotland
they have narrow, open bitches, called
sheep-drains. \ man was riding don
key one day across a sheep pasture, and
when Mr.. donkey came to a sheep drain,
he would not 90 over it. So the man
rode him back a short distance, and put
the whip to him; thinking, of course,
that the donkey, going So fast, would
jump the drain before he even knew it.
But not so. On they came-and when
the donkey got to the drain, he stopped
all Of sudden, and the man went over
Mr. Jacks head. No sooner had he
touched the ground than he got up, and.
looking Mr.. Donkey straight in the face
he said: VERY weel pitched but then.
how are We going to get over yersel?n
\ NEW directory shows the popula-
tion of San Francisco to be 1S8. .323; in
crease during tie year about 10000.
The directory shows also that there are
I1.OOO Chinese.
MENTIONING that wood fires are
cheaper than a DOCTORS visits. Charles
Dudley Warner aPologetically adds:
g Not that l have anything against
doctors; I only wish, after they have
been too see us in way that seems so
friendly, they had nothing against US. "
THE great bridge across the Missis-
sippi at st. Louis viii be completed by
the first of July. 1t will be one of the
finest structures of the kind in the
world
GENERAL SPINNER yesterday entered
upon his thirteenth year of service as
Treasurer Of the United States.
The majority against license in Cen
tre was 1888, Union township claims
to be the banner Local Option dis
trict" in Centre-1O9 votes against IL
cense, and not one vote in favor.
WHEN one nation meets another in
deadly conflict, individual intelligence
is important, numbers are important,
but more important than either is it
that the moral standard Of the country
should be high, that it should have faith