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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-10-27
THE DRESS or STA TEsMEM

A Washington correspondent OF the
Chicago Times says Andy Jobnson's
dress was of tho old school style OF
politician of some twenty years ago,
with hut one modern concession, aud
that was that the coat was frock
instead Of q swallow-tail Ills style Of
dress, the conventional one of the
american gentleman of the years
gone by, consisted of shiny black
broadcloth coat and trowsers, with q
vest of deep black velvet. There are
but few Of the Congressman of the
present day that wear this style of
dress, but take them as n class, proba-
bly, they are as badly dressed a set
OF men us one can find anywhere in
The country, s.nfl f.iI An
Throughout Congress there are many
men who make it a point of dressing
in the most eccentric possible manner.
Luke Poland, Of Vermont, was one
OF the eccentric dressois in the House.
lie used TO always move about in u
blue coat adorned with dinner plates
of bdttons His vest was generally
white, and opened so as to display a
wide cxpanse of dainty rufiied shirt
bosom nudcr whose shades cleaned
hero and there tinv diamond buttons
This old man never in his life passed
a picrglass without taking good
square look at himself Two of the
best dressed men in Congress are Clark.
son Potter of New York, in the House
and in the Senate. General Burnside
Clarkson Potter had rather oyer.done
the matter in too closely adberinr ID
The eut after the English fashion. and
he affects the English stylo Of pro.
nunciation. Yet there are but few
men in the House who are his equals
in ability and capacity for work. Gen.
Burnside the best dresser in the Sen.
ate affects the undress military style.
and In his peculiar cravats waistcoats
and original colors never fails to at
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was once a tailor in his early days, and
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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-10-27

GLASS Probably the Romans were
the first to cmploy-glass for windows,
Somc remnants of glass pancs arc to
be found to-day IN their frames, in the
buried houses Of Herculaneum and
Pompeii. They substituted glass as a
material for bottles, in place Of the
leather which is still in vogue among
the poorer classes in the Orient, Epi-
cureans in wine then, as now, deter
mined the agc Of their article by the
seal upon the cork and the label i'm
pressed upon the. glass. Glass goblets
were less popular Gold and silver re-
luctantly yielded the palm to their
now. tangled rival which sought popu-
larity by appealing, not to the poverty
of the poor, bnt 10 the desire ofnovclty
among the rich Even artificial stones
and pearls Of glass were not unknown.
Whether mirrors Of glass were known
to the Romans, or whether they de-
pended exclusively, as they certainly
did chiefly, upon the resources of the
Jews--polishcd mctals---is question
of grave dispute among the learned In
such mattcrs-a dispute into which
We shall not venture TO enter. IL Is
safe, however, to say the only uee Of
glass which modern art can claim with
assurance, as exclusively its own is the
employment ofitip optical Instruments
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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-10-27

There are but three things that
mako the hcintcgrity Of Christian faith
believing the words ofGod, confidence
in His goodness, and keeping His com
mandments. i s fHf LA
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-10-27

wifc-beatcrs IN 'thc Hub,T are called
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The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
Won't Do For Tavern-Keeper.

Mr.. Beecher is part owner of the Twin
Mountain House. Last Tuesday while
wandering about the premises at very
early hour he encountered one of his part
ners, and broke out in this vein:
"What glorious morning A very bri-
dal of the earth and sky. What softness
What tranquility What true inwardness
of nature 1t makes the heart feel throb
of new life, and it fills the soul with an
ecstacy inetfable. See how the deliquesceat
sunshine trembles through the trees. See
how the hills lift up their misty crowns to
Heaven. And there's that ugly pig pen-I
think I'll have that covered with wild hon
eysuckle viLe."
"Wild honeysuckle vines?'' exclaimed
his practical partner, "cover pig PEN
with wild honeysuckle vines You might
as well furnish feather beds for the pigs.''
Mr.. Beecher was about to enforce his Pc
culiar views on the subject, when the other
interrupted him.
''Now, see here, Ward, don't you inter-
fere in the management of things around
these premises. It amt your forte. You
know Eyarts says you're nothing but an
overgrown boy and overgrown boys amt
adapted to this sort of business. 1t takes
a smart man to keep hotel"
The pastor showed his right thumb in
the arm hole of his waistcoat, and pursued
his walk kalone.-Brooklyn Argus.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
Centennial Notes.

There will be between $50 and 200 build.
ings-a little city in itself erected on the
Centennial grounds.
Tt is stated that a company of 400 Egyp-
tians will erect @ row of buildings on the
Centennial grounds IN imitation of a street
in Cairo. Next
Machinery Hall alone, it is said, is large
enough 70 hold all the church edifces of
Philadelphia, 500 in number. This viii
give the reader some idea Of the magnitude
of the buildings now in course of erection
there.
The photographers will have see, 900
building put up for their special aceommo-
dation.
The Japanese village in Fairmount Park
next yeav will be one of the curiosities of
the Centennial.
Smokers will be glad to hear that a
Turkish tobacconist viii erect divan in
Fairmount Park next year.
There is no truth in the rumor recently
circulated, that the exclusive privilege for
selling beer on the Centennial grounds had
been purchased for $4,000.
Great Britain will occupy $4,000 square
feet.
A fifty cent. admission fee will entitle the
ticket holder to visit every portion of the
grounds.
No space in the Centennial buildings
viii be allotted to citizens of countries
whose governments have not appointed
commissions.
All the nations in the world but three,
Prussia, Italy and Greece, have accepted
tbs invitation Of the Government to par
ticipate in the Centennial exhibition.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
Japanese CON.

One of the greatest culiosities in Japan
to a stranger: is the wonderful variety of
coins that are used daily. In some instan-
ces it takes 1000 pieces to make one dollar
These are called "cash," and are seldom
received by foreigners, who as general
rule, refuse to take them in change. I'M
aeine making a trade of five cents and Civ
ing man fifty piece, then receiving
in change 450 Of these coppers. This coin
is peculiarly made, having square hole in
the centre. They are about the size of our
dime pieces, and nearly two-thirds the
thickness. Next to this comes the quarter
of a cent, then the half cent, eight-tenths
of cent, and the one and two-cent pieces.
In silver coins they have the five, ten,
twenty, fifty cent and one dollar pieces.
In gold the one, two, five, ten and twenty
dollar pieces, which are very pretty coinages
indeed. Next to this comes the govern
ment series of paper money, in various de-
nominations, ranging from five cents to 100
dollars. This money is made on quite in
ferior paper to ours, and from general ap-
pearance will not last like the American
money.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
Wonders of Minute Workmanship.

In the twentieth year of Queen Elizabeth
blacksmith named Mark Scaliot, made a
lock consisting of eleven pieces of iron,
steel and brass, all of which, together with
a key to it, weighed but one grain of gold,
He also made chain of gold, consisting of
forty-three links, and having fastened this
to the aforementioned lock and key, he
put the chain about the neck of a flea,
which drew them all with ease. All these
together, lock and key, chain and flea,
weighed only one grain and half.
Oswaldus Northingerus, who was more
famous even that Scaliot for his minute
contriyances, is said to have made 1900
dishes of turned ivory, all perfect and COM
plete in every part, yet SO small, thin and
slender, that all of them were included at
once in a cup turned out of pepper-corn
of the common size. Johannes Shad, of
Mitelbarch, carried this wonderful work
with him to Rome, and showed it to Pope
Paul ", who saw and counted them all by
the help of a pair ofspectacles. They were
so little as te be almost invisible to the
eye.
Johannes Ferrarius, Jesuit, had in his
possession cannons of wood, with their car
riages, wheels, and all other military fur
niture, all of which were also contained in
pepper-corn of the ordinary size.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
There They Were.

A gentleman stepped into Bakers shoe
store the other day, placed pair of what
once were slippers on the counter, and said,
savagely:
"There they were.''
There they were, indeed F; run down at
the stern, stubbed out at the bow, busted
in the waist, and saggy in the keel. The
decks were crushed with croquet msllet,
the bottoms battle SCARED with gravel.
There was an air of inconsistencies about
the insteps, and painful suggestion of
dropsy and verbose veins all over them
which made the proprietor lean over the
counter and wiring his nose of monster
tear.
"There they are" said the customer,
"after being sOorm single day IN the hoase!"
The look of genuine disgust which over
spread the proprietor's countenance can
never be counterfeited. We would rather
have been in Donaldson's balloon, drag
ging along the surface of Lake Michigan,
than under that just contempt as the de-
moral Ized slippers were flung under the
counter and the customer was proftered a
dollar and seventy-five cents.-South Bend
Union.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
Two Rival Preachers in the Pulpit.

There was double service in church at
Nottingham, Manitoba, on recent Sunday.
a quarrel had divided the congregation, and
each party claimed to be dominant. Each
had called a new minister, and the two
clergymen were on hand to begin their
labors. The first to arrive took possession
of the pulpit, and the other sat behind the
chancel rail. The man in the pulpit gave
out a hymn, the other one gave out another,
ard both were sung confusedly by the rival
sections of the assembly.
The man behind the railing started off
Oh his sermon, and the other began to read
a chapter of Scripture. When the reading
was over, and it was plain that the preach
ing was going to last much longer, the par
tisans of the readersang another hymn with
a loud organ accompaniment. The musical
noise drowned the voice of the clergyman
in the pulpit, but when it was over he was
found to be preaching right along, as though
nothing unusual had happened. The clergy
man in the chancel, less cool, was unable to
fix his thoughts on discourse, and SO re-
manned silent and beaten. At the close of
this extraordinary scene adeacon explained
that it had been enacted " under legal ad-
vice.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
A Mistake.
From the Washington Capital.

FROM the Washington Capital
Mrs. Straw heard good story concern
ing our friend Mrs., who, you know is
on the briny deep.
Mrs. switchem-Do tell us she was so
free with her laughs on others we enjoy
any thing on her.
Mrs. straw-The story runs that deal
er in aticles of yertu here had in his estab-
lishment an exquisite statuette in Parian
marble of the Venus of Milo. Our friend
heard of it, and gave it an inspection one
day. After gazing at it for some time she
said:
Did You select that, Mr.. Delf?"
"Yes, 'em," he responded.
Why, you must be good Judge of a
figure. But did you ever see mine ?''
Mr. Def responded, blushing, that he had
not.
Nine" she continued, sis allowed to
be the finest figure in Washington
Shouldn't doubt it, num-" responded
Mr.. Deli, shifting uneasily from one foot to
the other.
g should like to show you my figure
she said earnestly. Deli blushed all over.
J" Come up to my house some time. Better
come up in the morning. when it won't be
likely for any one to interrupt ns.''
Poor DELI He fairly sunk under table
and stammered out something about being
= member of church, when our friend
continued
It cost me one hundred and twenty dol
lars in gold, is pure Parian marble, and I
would like to have your opinion, as you are
such an admirable judge
Light dawned on Deli. She had been
speaking Of a statuette. and not a corpulent
middie-aged lady.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
A Sad Blow.

A Vicksburger, who prided himself on
his choice language, was over in Louisiana,
the other day on business, and he stopping
at farmhouse to get drink of water,
the woman remarked that the crops stood
in great need of rain.
"Yes, rain is the great desideratum,
he replied as he handed the tin dipper
back.
"Mary Mary ~ yelled the woman in
loud tones.
A white headed girl of sixteen came out
of the back room in response to the call,
and the mother continued
"Take square view of him, Mary he
don't look as if he knew enough to plow
cotton, and yet he just got off word as
long as from here to the mule-p and back,
and he may be holdin' on to more ~
The Vicksburgsr walked right away from
there.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
e4<Es<b--'
SYMPTOMS.

" He is sure possessed, madam r'-T Taeeifth Night.
If, when you hear certain ladys name,
You feel your pulses give sudden START
Or blush as if some secret sense of shame
Had stirred jnst then the currents of your hear
And If that name-to put it rather strong
In euphony seems very much above
All other Rames-I think can't be wrong
To venture the opinion, you're in love.
If, when at last by come auspicious chance,
You meet the lady at ball or play,
You shrink abashed before her modest glance,
And quite forget the words you meant to say
And if, moreover, gazing at her hand,
You wish upon that hand you were glove,
1t isn't very hard to understand
iSee =" Romeo and Juliet y, you're in love.
If with two ladies' on summers day,
You SIT alone at luncheon or at tea,
And think if one of them were but away
"a mile or SOY how happy you would be-
Yet find your wits in such giddy whrl,
You scarcely speak to her you're thinking of,
But prattle gayiy with the other girl
There's reason for supposing you'ie in love-
If all at once your amatory pen
(Which neer before attempted lyric lines
InUita musa --bane of gods and men)
To fervid song and madrigal inclines-
Wherein You rashly rhyme of youth and truth"
And call your subject "darling. duck or dove,
Or sadly beg some cruel ady's ruth
The symptom is unfalling you're in love.
If of her sex no other you can find
One half so bright or beautiful as she;
If to her fangs yon ale wholly blind
(The faults, mean, that other people see);
If in her = pug yoT see a I" Grecian nose,
And never doubt the angel bands abo We;
Are silent when she sings you may suppose,
Beyond the slightest question yod'rc in love!
John g. SAGE.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
A Deer Joke to It's Author.
From the Virginia Enterprise.

From the Virginia Enterprise.
Denver, Colorado, gives an instance of a
joke being carried too far. 1t was perpe-
trated years ago, but only lately came to
light in public dress. Some time after the
Atlantic cable had been established, a tele-
graph operator at Denver sent the following
dispatch sa
To the Emperor Napoleon, Garden of The
Tasiseries, Paris, France
Gov. Gilpin win not accede to the cession
of Italy to France. Please let Bohmeia
alone.
The operator supposed it would make
some fun in the Omaha Office and stop there,
as the station agents had general under
standing in regard to each Others jokes.
By some hook or crook the dispatch went
on, and diyed under the ocean and came mp
smiling in the Garden of the Tuileries, in
France. The manner of its reception by
Napoleon has been lost to history. All that
is known is the Emperor did not pay for it,
and the facetious operator was hunted up
and obliged to pay bill Of $185.50 in gold
for his little joke. That operator was an
tirely satisfied with the result OF Sedan,
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
POETRY.
THE ABsURD1TY OF TT

1t Is all very well for the poets to tell,
By way of their song ado-ning,
OF milkmaids who rouse to manipulate covs
AT Five o'clock in the morning.
And of moony young mowers who bundle outdoors
The charms of their straw-beds scornine-
Before break of day, to make love and hay.
At Five o'clock in the moIning
But between me and you, it is all untrue
Believe not word they utter;
To no milkmaid alive does the finger of Five
Bring beaux-or even bring butter
The poor sleepy cows, if told to arouse
Would do SO, perhaps, in a horn ing:
But the sweet country girls, would they show their
curls,
AT Five o'clock in the morning?
1t may not be wrong for the man in the song
Or the moon-if anxious to settle,
To kneel in wet grass, and pop but alas
What if he popped down on a nettle?
For how could he what was under his knee
IT, in spite of my friendly warning.
He went out of bed and his house and his head
At Five o'clock in the morning?
1t is all very well such stories to tell,
But if | were maid, all forlorn-ing,
And lover should drop in the clover, to pop,
At Five O'Clock in the morning:
If liked him. you see I'd say Please call at Three
If not, I'd turn on him with scorning:
Don't come here, you fat with conundrums like
that
At Five O'Clock in the morn'ugr'
John Paul.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
Professions and the Presidency.

The confident prediction by SO old and
intelligent a statesman as Hon. Alex. Fl.
Stephens that the next President of the
United States will be a journalist, suggests
the inquiry as to how the different profess
ions have Jared in the past distribution of
that honor. A hasty review Of the list will
be found to result as follows:
Washington was soldier.
Adams was a lawyer.
Jefferson was a lawyer.
Madison was a statesman.
Monroe was lawyer.
John Quincy Adams was lawyer.
Jackson was a soldier.
Van Buren was a lawyer.
Harrison was soldier.
Tyler was a lawyer.
Polk was lawyer.
Taylor was soldier.
Fillmore was a lawyer
Pierce was lawyer.
Buchanan was lawyer.
Lincoln was a lawyer.
Johnson was a lawyer.
Grant was soldier.
1t is true that Jackson was a lawyer as
well as soldier-a judge as we'll as a
general-but as it was his career as fighter
that made him President, he is credited to
that profession. So Pierce was Brigadier
General in the Mexican war; but he didn't
distinguish himself peculiarly as warrior,
so we apply to him the correlative of the
proposition that we applied to his great
Democratic predecessor. 1t should be ex-
planned with respect to Madison that he
studied law, but seems to have been drawn
into public life to soon to make any pro-
gress in the practice. Milwaukee Sentinel
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-03
A Negro Prayer.
From the Educational Monthly.

| 4iou Iuc GupCatIoudi noHbHly.
The following grotesque yet solemn
prayer is verbatim report taken in the
winter of 1928 at Methodist meeting
held by plantation negroes in settlement
near camp:
so Lord God of dis glorious universe,
wilt dou look down in the omnipresence of
dy eye upon desc, dy collard children,
bowed upon de knucklebone dis night.
Take solemn peep upon us, and let a
heap O. light in. Dou knowest what desc
dy poor darkies need. Dere be Sam, dere
be Jerry, and dere be Pompey. Dey are
il: dere sins, dat's what reckon. Help
dem to git up and git from de wilderness
OF sin and come into the clearing of saliva
tion. Take a solemn peep also upon de
darkies in de other cabin, who fiddle and
whirl upon de bombastic toe, while dy
servant Eliminates words to dee May dey
rise above the anthratory things of this
world and fly, like Massa Linkume balloon,
heavenward. professor loves balloon
was anchored near by. Ruler of all humans
on dis earth, wilt dou bress de generals in
de field dis night, if it be circumspection
in dy eye. Bress de colonels in de field dis
night, if it be circumspection in dy discreet
eye, and also bress de Union soldiers, who
carry de musket and chew de cartridge,
fightin' for de Union and de stars and
stripes. Dey fight in scientific cause,
and be de bestest OBJ men but, good Lord,
may dey swear less and pray more. And,
finally, bress dy humble servant now sup
plicating dee in behalf of desc benigkted
darkies. 1t behooves dee to dig deep and
sound in de very bottom of his heart.
May dere be nary blimmage between my
self and my Savior. In de language of de
mighty Washington, dis world is all
feetin' show. To-day we are alive and
hoppin' around like grasshoppers to-mor-
row de sickle of death cuts us down and
spreads us out like grass in haytime. On
every side, dou knowest, o Lord is de
dislocation and destruction of de human
family. Dere be fightin' among one anoder.
and natural disease. But we die to live
again, either as saints or evil spirits. Dere
be discussions on doctrines, Elecshion,
Before ordination, Perfection, and sich
like, confuse de intellects of both black
men and white. But dou knowest, good
Lord, dat desc are vain illusions, splittin'
and drivin' dy creatures into sexes without
mercv. Many dere will be with slick coun-
tenances, white collars, and fine clothes.
who will find the gates shut against them,
while de blind old woman, hobblinp ON |
crutches, she go straight in. Amen.''