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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08
MEN OF LITERARY GENUS

Tasso's conversation was neither gay
nor brilliant. Dante was either taci
turn or satirical. Butler was sullen OIL
biting. Grey seldom talked or smiled
Hogarth and Smith were very absent
minded in company. Milton was very
unsociable, and even irritable when
pressed into conversation. Kirwin,
though copious and eloquent in public
addresses, was meagre and dull in col
loquial discourse. Virgil was heavy in
conversation La Fontaine appeared
heavy, coarse and stupid; he could not
speak and describe what he had Just
seen; but then he was the model of
poetry. Chaucer's silence was more
agreeable than his conversation. Dry
den's conversation was slow and dull,
his humor saturnine and reserved
Cornille, in conversation, was SO insipid
that he never failed in wearying; he
did not even speak correctly that Ian
guage Of which he was such master.
Ben Jonson used 10 sit silent in CON-
pany, and suck his wine and their hu-
mors, Southey was stiff, sedate, and
wrapped up in ascetitism. Addison
was good company with his intimate
friends, but in mixed company he pre-.
served his dignity by a stiff and re.
served silence. Fox in conversation
nvvcr naggcu. ms asiInIauivil anu VAR
ety were inexhaustibic. DR.. Bently
wag lonuaeinus cn olen ,poo Ern,;,,.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

A young man left Walla Walla. Or.
egon, several weeks since for the pur.
pose of making general tour OF
northern California. Before starting
hcsolcmnlypromiscd his friends to send
back all the particulars of that country.
But one letter was received from him,
containing two lines, which says
"Thc girls are all from Boston, and
whiskey Is twenty cents q drink"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08
LACE MAKING IN IRELAND.

In 1916, during the great famine in
Ireland, when so many thousands oi
children were left orphans, the Irish
ladies addressed themselves to the tasl,
of finding occupations by which those
children could earn livelihood. La.
dy DeVere was the first to start the
project of lace making in Curragh,
county Limerick. She began by teach.
ing the mistress of school the art Of
making application flowers, giving her
own Brussels laces as patterns. The
work was so good as soon to command
a high price. 1t is known as Irish or
Curragh point, and is very handsome
lace, though rarely seen in America.
Since the establishment of Lady De
Vere's school, numbers of Others have
sprung up in various parts of Ireland.
That at Belfast, founded by the late
Jane Clarke, exhibited in 1851 fine i'm
itations of old Spanish and Italian
points. The Irish lace is very beauti-
full. IL is made of flax thread, the
groundwork in crochet, into which are
introduced flowers and patterns in ad-
mirable imitation of antique raised
Venice point. Irish Brussels is made
at Clones, county Monaghan; Irish
guipure at Carrickmacross, in the same
county; and the finest Valenciennes,
closely resembling the most beautiful
lace Of Ypres, is made in the schools of
the Countess Of Erne, at LishnalSea,
county Fcmanagh. There is also lace
school at Mallon, county Cork, under
the superintendent of the nuns OF q
convent.
How much suffering this industry
has arrested In ireland, and how much
IL has done to promote prosperity in
the island, IL is difficult TO compute.
At any rate, it will be seen that in Ire
land, as in almost every other country
of Europe, lace making has been re-
sort in times of trouble or scarcity
and in every instance, when prosecuted |
with fidelity, and under such circum-
stances as to bring il into popular no |
tice, it has proved valuable source Of
wealth.
Women in all ages have manifested
u decided taste for any kind of light
work that more or less develops the
artistic imagination, or has to any cx-
tent the nature of recreation rather
than labor. Can we not make this
tendency of the feminine mind an
available source of occupation in this
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

The race of mankind would perish,
did they cease to help each other.
From the time that the mother binds
the child's head, till the moment that
some kind assistant wipes the death
damp from the brow of the dying, wc
cannot exist without mutual help, All,
therefore, that need aid, have a right
to ask IL Of their fellow-mortals.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

A very tall and shabby looking man,
after having a glass Of liquor, asked
the bartender 4 he conld change $50
bill. The gentleman informed him that
he could. "Well," said the tall one,
"l'll go out and see IL can find one"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

Of this be certain, that no trade can
be so bad as none at all, nor any life
as tiresome as that which is spent in
continual visiting and dissipation. To
give all ones time to other people, and
never reserve any for ones sell, is to be
free in appearance only, and slave in
effect.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

A brow-beating Yankee lawyer, in
cross-examining witness, asked him,
among other questions, where were
you on particular day 10 which he
replied, ain company with two friends. "
"Fricnds exclaimed the lawyer
"two thieves, suppose you mean"
"They may be so, replied the witness,
"ior they were both lawyers"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

Walking with her father in Regent
Park the other day, a little girl, seeing
a white duck swimming close TO q
majestic swan, was heard to exclaim
"Oh, papa, look at that little white
duck with its nursel
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

A New York man, courting a young
woman, was interogated by her father
as to his occupation. al am paper.
hanger upon large SCALE" he replied.
He married the girl, and turned out to
be n bill. sticker.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

"My dear" said a husband TO his
wife, on observing new red-striped
stockings on his only heir, "why have
you made BARRIERS poles out of our
child's legs2' Because he is little
shaver" was the neat reply.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

A countray divine of Georgia thus
condoled with the widow of the do
ceased member of the Legislature; al
cannot tell how panied was to hear
that your husband had gone to Heaven.
We were bosom friends, but now we
shall never meet again"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

Near Knoxville, the other night, a
young girl, who was unexpectedly inter.
viewed by the family as she was about
eloping with the object of her virgin
affections, knocked theold man down,
laid out two brothers with cistern
pole, kicked the hired man in the
stomach, and got away with her lover,
and "made the rifle We wish that
heaven had sent us such n woman as
that.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08
BoILrseAJ JoINr OF BrFr.-Tbe Irish

BOILING JOINT OF BEEF.-The Irish
Farmers Gazette gives explicit dircc-
tions for boiling a joint OF beef II
says: "All meat, poultry excepted,
should be put into cold water, and not
boiled too ias.. In every case let care
be taken to remove the scum from tho
top of the water just before IL bois
This keeps the meat and the water
clean and agreeable in appearance. As
the water decreases from evaporation,
rcplonish with hot or boiling watcr,so as
TO keep the meat always covered. II is
usual to allow quarter Of an hour for
cverp pound of the meat in boiling,
reckoning from the time the water be.
gins TO boil but this is rule which
will, of course, be departed from ac-
cording as the meat Is required to be
over or undcrdonc. II is always bet
ter to boil slowly than quickly. Rap
id boiling bardcns the meat. Perfect
ly fresh meat requitcs longer boiling
than that which is tender or ripe.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

Aunt Gertrude, why is loaf Of
your bread like the sun p ut isn't q
bit like the sun; and now you Just
leave of asking such foolish questions" "
"Yes, i Is, Aunty, cause it'siight ,chen
II rises"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

What is the difference between
forms and ccrcmonies2 We st upon
one, and stand upon the other
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

The fool seeketh to pick ny from
a mules hind leg The wise man let.
tcth the job out TO the lowest bidder.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

His honor looked at Timothy Hen
derson for long time. Timothy was
worth looking at. If he had been
wrecked on an island and lived there
score Of years alone, he could not
have been more dilapidated in general
look.
Timothy, do you want to be sent
up for three months ?" asked the court.
"No, sir"
"You are willing to do most any.
thing if let you go, aren't your"
eyes, SIR"
"Well, now, will you wash your
face?"
eyes, sir"
"And have your hair cut2"
"Yes, sir"
"And clean your finger-nails 2"
eyes, sir"
sand get money enough to get
shaved with, even if you have to steal
"a au
ayes, sirn
Well, you may go. am here to
enforce the law, but / don't believe
you come under my Jurisdiction"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

Milwaukee boasts Of q haunted dis.
tillcry, which Is just the place whore
lone would naturally look ~ spIrits
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

MITCHELL WAGONS
The Best is the Cheapest

Thomas Reilly has received another large lot Of
mitchell Wagons which are among the very
best manufactured, and which he will sell at the
most reasonable rates. His stock includes almost
all descriptions Of wagons--largcand small, wide
and narrow track. Call and see them.
aprs74 THOMAS REILLY.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08
TIE pLAGUE s7R1cKEN sHlP

TWELVE MEN DEAD AND TWENTY-FIVE
SICK WITH scuRyY ABOARD THE BRE-
MEN, BOUND FROM LIVERPOOL FOR SAN
faANcisco--THE STORY op THE AWFUL
PASSAGE.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08
CHANCES or A CENTURY.

I .
In 1903 Fulton took out the first
patent for the invention Of tho steam
boat
The first public practical application
of the use Of gas for illumination was
IN 1902.
In 1912 the streets OF London were
for the first time lighted with gas.
In 1918 there was built at Waltham,
Massachusetts, mill, believed to have
been the first in the world which com
bined all the requirements for making
finished cloth out of raw cotton.
In 1890 there were only twenty-five
postofliccs in the whole country, and
up TO 1897 the rate of postage was
twenty-five cents for letter sent over
400 miles.
In 1907 wooden clocks began 10 be
made by machinery. This ushered In
the era of cheap clocks
About the year 1888 the first rail
road of any considerable length in the
United States was constructed.
In 1910 the first experiment in pho
Biography was made in Paris by Da-
guerre.
About 1910 the first express business
was established by Harnden.
The anthracite coal business may bo
said to have begun in 1920
In 1926 the first patent for the in
vention Of matches was granted.
In 1845 the first telegram was sent.
In 1903 steel pens were introduced
for use.
The first successful reaper was con-
structed in 1888.
In 1876 Elias Howe obtained pat
ent for his first sewing machine.
The first successful method of vul-
canizing India rubber was patented in
1S47.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-08

"And get money enough to get
shaved with, even if you have to steal
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-29
Legislative Amenities.

From the Proceedings of the Tennessee Assembly.
After the ninth ballot for Senator, a
member, addressing himself to the
Speaker, said /: "Pm getting hungry,
and | move we adjourn for dinner" A
call for the yeas and nays was made on
the hungry members motion to adjourn
and it was rejected.
Cummins said that, as the proceed
ings were illegal, on account of the adj
journment of the House III its separate
capacity, he wanted to know where his
vote should be recorded Noblett re-
quested that it should be recorded in the
Bible, which was greeted with laughter
and uproarious applause.
A member offered resolution provid-
ing for an adjournment till II o'clock to-
morrow, whereupon another member
moved that the resolution be referred to
the committee on common sense. Laugh
ter and applause followed, after which
the proposition was tabled amidst vocif-
erous cheering. A motion was then
made to adjourn until tomorrow at 8
o'clock. Speaker Paine put the motion,
jerked up his hat, and, while a minority
of ayes and heavy majority of noes re-
sounded, declared the convention adj
iourned, and rushed from the stand,
while forr-score Legislators sprang to
their feet, and, with excited gesticula-
ton, simultaneously called for the yeas
and nays. The galleries took up the cry,
and there was confusion worse confound-
ed. The galleries utter groans for Paine,
and Legislators and visitors retired in
high dudgeon and great disgust.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-29

Ten or twelve years ago there was
miner working i'll the upper levels of the
Comstock at "a per day. He lived in a
little cabin down the canyon, did his
own cooking, and whistled softly,
"There's good time coming, boys. !"
To-day that miner walks about the streets
of Virginia City, as cordial as in the old
days; he dresses no better than any
ordinary gentleman of Virginia, and eats
no better food than conscientious editor
ought to have. And yet, as his fortune
is rated in the stock list daily, he is so
rich that, were his stocks turned into
money, he could lend Scott that $40, 000,-
600 he wants and have enough left TO live
comfortably upon. He could, unaided,
go down and open, at his own expense,
the Darien canal !; or, should his fancy
run that way, he could advertise to-mor-
row that the Government through him
had determined to resume Immediately
specie payment and pretty nearly make
the promise good. He could endow
college in each State of the Union with
-, 0J0, 900 each, or could build a double
track narrow-gauge railroad from San
Francisco to New York, and solve at once
the problem of cheap transportation.
There is no telling, indeed, what he
might not do but what he will do is APP
parent enough. He was here when thirty
feet of ore near the surface was big
mine. At 1,500 feet he has found it
three or four times as wide. He believes
at 4, ZOO he will strike it 500 feet wide,
and get rich, and he is going for it
Virginia Enterprise.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-29
Utilities.
RIBBONS should be washed in cold srlds
and not rinsed.

RIBBONS should be washed in cold suds
and not rinsed.
CHARCOAL is recommended for fatten-
ing turkeys. 1t should be pulverized
and mixed with mashed potatoes and
corn meal, as well as fed to them III small
humps.
MILK and butter should be kept in a
perfectly pure atmosphere, as they read
lily take up foul odors. Cabbage and tur-
nips cooked in the same room will impart
to them disagreeable taste.
GREASE may be removed from carpets
10y covering the s,.ot with whiting and
letting il remain until saturated with the
grease, when it should be scraped off and
another coat of whiting applied, and if
this does not entirely remove it make a
third application, after which clean off
thoroughly with clothes-bush.
WHEN living insects have entered the
ear it is of the first Importance to kill
them as quickly as possible, after which
they may be removed ut leisure by syr-
inging, or by the use of forceps if neces-
sary. Killing the insect may be speedily
accomplished by pouring into the ear a
snail quantity of any mild oil or melted
lard.
COLD ink is prepared in the following
way: Genuine gold leaf is rubbed with
honey in plate of agate or ground glass
by means of a flat pestle, until the whole
presents uniform mass IN which no dis
tinct particles of gold can be seen. This
mass is carefully removed into vessel
with water, which will dissolve the honey,
and leave the gold i'll an extremely disin-
tegrated state behind. The water has to
be removed two or three times until all
the saccharine matter has been washed
away The remaining gold is then mixed
with sufficient quantity of solution of
gum arabic, well shaken, and it is ready
for use. After writing it is to be rubbed
with piece of smooth ivory, when it will
present the luster of pure gold.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-29

HEART DIsEAsE.-Many persons suffer
with heart disease without knowing it
suddenly they drop off, and their friends
are astonished, on post-mortcm examina-
ton, to learn that they died of heart dis
ease. The heart, like the brain, is the
seat of life-its diseases are of several
characters. The most common are valv-
ular. disease, fatty degeneration and
functional arrangement. If the liver
becomes deranged, and digestion i'm
paired, the heart, through sympathy and
iuxtaposition, becomes abnormal. The
following symptoms indicate approach
ing disease Palpitation, giddiness, faint
ness, nervous prostration, deranged di-
gestion, vertigo, cold extremities, etc,
etc, for which the old school administer
iron, opium, anthony, mercury, and
many other mineral poisons. Heart dis
ease is a blood disease-purify the blood !;
remove distractions to lmpid circula-
ton by taking that vegetable Alternative,
VINEGAR BrTTERs, and you will be a
sound person in two or three months.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-29

Kerby is young and giddy, and con-
sequently will have his joke occasionally.
As he was walking with wilkins the
other evening he observed quiet-look-
ing colored man walking toward them.
1t occurred to him that it would be ex-
ceedingly funny to pretend to have a
warrant for this man. He stepped up to
the individual and informed him that he
arrested him for stealing chickens. The
man was surprised, and declared that he
hadn't stolen any chickens for whole
year, he hoped to be n niger if he had.
Kerby insisted until he saw the man was
getting mad, then, with smile like that
of a man with boil on his neck, he told
him that il was only intended as n joke.
The colored man seized Kerby by the
collar, and wanted to know If he
thought he could work ON his feelings
like that for nothing. Kerby explained
that he intended no harm, but the man
shook him until he thought that his
spinal column had slipped down into his
boots. Then he threw him down and
dragged him over the cobblestones.
wilkins attempted to interfere, but the
man ierked him down beside Kerby,
with the remark that he was a bad col
ored man when he got mad. Wilkins
said that he thought he was. After work
ing his fingers through their hair and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-29
The California silver Stock Excitement.

San Francisco is now the center Oh n
wild stock-speculating excitement. Lake
everything else of California origin, IL
far exceeds anything of II similar charnc-
ter ever known in other parts OF the
world. The land that produces giant
trees to which the cedars OF Lebanon are
but as currant- bushes, the country
where onions are raised that the stranger
mistakes for cabbages, and plums are
cultivated that might pass i'll Eastern
markets for egg plants, now that il Las
started in the race for distinction as a
center for stock speculation, keeps up its
reputation for wonderful and gigantic
growth, and gives indication of producing
an excitement that will completely dwarf
the South Sea bubble or our own oil or
gold fevers.
In October last ii was announced that
workmen in the Consolidated Virginia
Silver Mines, in Nevada, had struck q
dirt of surprising richness. Examinations
made by experts revealed the fact that
this ledge of ore, or "bonanza" rs it is
called at the mines, extended at least
/, 700 feet in length, and had a depth of
not less than 600 feet. 1t is supposed to
extend through adjacent mines, and the
stories told of the wealth of the find are
almost fabulous. A mining engineer
of large experience estimates that the
" bonanza" contains not less than 81, $780,
100000 worth of bullion. This news
caused the widest excitement Ill San
Francisco, and the stock of all mining
companies on the Comstock front became
the subject of speculation. Stocks adj
vanced from $50 to 500 n day, and
stocks that few months ago were selling
below $50 reached $500. Millions We're
made by fortunate spectators, and
almost incredible stories are told of the
immense amounts realized by some. A
recent California paper publishes list
of some thirty firms and individuals who
have during the excitement made from n
quarter of million to a million and q
half each. Some of the principal favorites
of fortune are John Skae, William
Sharon, Senator Jones, Flood & O'Brien,
John Mackay, James q. Fair and Will
lam c. Ralston. According to the last
rate of stock, the property sold for
$54, 600 per foot.
The Consolidated Virginia and Cali
fornia Mines are controlled by four men
who are in partnership. They own 60, 600
shares of each mine. They could sell out
to-day and realize SEC, 600, 600, and if they
hold ON, and the yield meets their expec-
tations, they will each in few years be
worth hundreds of millions.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-29

No USE of any longer taking the large,
repulsive, gripping, drastric and nauseous pills,
composed of crude and bulky ingredients, and
put up in cheap wood or pasteboard boxes when
we can, by a careful application of chemical
science extract all the cathartic and other me-
dicinal properties from the most valuable roots
and herbs, and concentrate them into minute
Granule, scarcely larger than a mustard seed,
that can be readily swallowed by those of the
most sensitive stomachs and fastidious tastes.
Each of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgatve Pellets
represents, in concentrated form, much
cathartc as is embodied in any of the large pills
found for sale in the drug stores. From their
wonderful cathartic power, in proportion to their
size, people who have not tried them are apt to
suppose that they are harrsh or drastic in effect,
but such is not at all the case, the different act
i've medicinal principles of which they are COM
posed being so harmonized, one by the others,
to produce most searching and thorough,
yet gently and kindly, operating cathartic. The
Pellets are sold by dealers i'll medicines.