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GLEANINGS.

-Greece is oiing up her guns for a war.
ANY two apples are alike if they are
pared.
-Hemming is the name of great Eng
lish needle maker
The Servians declare that the Sultan
is not the Boss for US.
AT the international potato exhibition
in London, 1000 dishes of "tates' were
placed on the tables.
"A New York paper says: "The new
Brooklyn Jail will contain 300 cells. -
What rich place for practical joker.
"A police notice from neighboring
city announces the theft of "guilt- noun
ted " harness. The thief must appreciate
his "gilt.'
A piano which had been in use for a
number of years at female seminary at
Oxford, Pa, was recently sold by auction
for twenty-five cents.
The latest instances of "married in
haste" was that of couple united in
it was humming along at the rate of forty
miles an hour.
"A London paper contains the adver-
tisement; ''Wanted, a situation, either
as private detective or publisher of
weekly newspaper. Can be recommended
in both capacities"
Two of the largest wine casks ever
imported into England have been landed at
the London and St. Kathrine docks. One
contained G3S gallons of sherry, the other
600 gallons of port.
Lord Albemarle, who remembered all
about such things, says that Qeen Victoria,
when seven years old, used to water her
own feet as much as she did the flowers.
That is how they come to grow.
Welsh widow, as she was turning
away from her dead husbands open grave,
received a whispered offer of marriage: but
she softly replied that she had already
accepted another offer as she was going
into the church.
An old man who died about four months
ago in Maysviile, KY, hid 81, 200 worth of
United States bonds in two mustard boxes,
and buried then in pile of scrap wood in
his shantv. The wood was sold about ten
days ago to a ragpicker for seventy. five
cents, and while he was gathering it to-
gether bystander picked up the mustard
boxes and found the bonds.
An enterprising grocer in the town of
Sauta Clara, California, has adopted an
original method of business. Each side of
the store is fitted up for business on it's
own account. In the general arrangement
each side is duplicate of the other, the
difference being that one side is cash and
the other credit. When customer comes
in the first question asked is " Do you
wish to bny for cash or on account ~ If it
is Il cash customer the goods and prices
on the cash side are shown, but if it is one
who wants credit he is shown the other
side, and for the first time in his life, per-
haps, made to relize the value of ready
money.
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English Inns and American Hotels.

a friend writes: g shall never forget,
when remembering the minor pleasures of
my visit to England, my first experience of
an inn We went directly to Chester
and, to the disgust of the porters, declined
to go where, being evidently gentry we
should have gone by instlnct-to the ee-
giant spic-and span, bran-new 'Grosveuor,
but insisted on being carried to one of the
old fashioned inns. We found a large
house with its traditional 'landlady in the
bar and were shown into a waiting room
while our parlor was made ready This
proved to be a large apartment furnished
III a comfortable, home-like way, with the
same sort of furniture that would have
been found in an ordinary English house
| mean, there was nothing in the room that
suggested it had been furnished on con
tract When dinner-time came. we found
the table laid in our own parlor, the waiter
and his boy in black coats, white neck
cloths, and white cotton gloves, and the
table set like ones own and differing in 10
iIHp'Il, NOV eNeh III the duaIlty Vi tHe
furniture, from what one often saw after
ward in England at the tables of very good
people. We had ordered our dinner before
hand, the landlady having come up and
asked us what we would like, very civilly.
and kindly helping us to choose, so that
when we sat down, the tresome waiter we
had left three thousand miles away, with
his skipping alterations from freezing ne
elect to pushing obsequiousness, and his
bill fare with its chaos come again,
and its damnable iteration, were a forgotten
nightmare, and the dinner was foretasre
OF Paradise. | remember that after dinner
when the dessert was set,--the cloth being
actually removed and the old mahogany
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even though you may be person of conse-
quence and self, Importance at home, you
will be let severaly alone upon your arrival;
you may even be member of Congress or
village editor, yet the citizens will not
turn out with a brass band to welcome you.
Some come here filled with village couceit,
and are soon so wounded that they stalk
gloomiiy away, cursing California as
swlndle and devoting the balance of their
lives in some obscure retreat to slanderng
us. This is the habit of this sort of para
site: and all new countries suffer from their
ordure. Happy California. to be rid of
them so easily, by wounding their vanity
and conceit. This is the land where strong
arms and stout hearts are welcome, those
also with heads strong enough to recover
from inconsistencies and to accept the facts
of different climate, different seasons,
different sort of people, and many other
matters entirely different and strange from
what they were used to in their old home.
If you cannot accept all these differences
you had better remain away: California is
no place for you. This is a country for
change and regeneration, not for settling
down in the same contemplate hole in
which you have wallowed for years. Here
you either become a new and better man
by virtue OF your natural ability, or you
fall far below the station you may have
been helped into elsewhere. If there he
any place wheIe ability aud worth have
their reward, and the bad and incompeteut
find their level, it is here. 1t is the farmer
and mechanic that is wanted: book keepers,
doctors, and lawyers will in short order
resume the bottom station they should
never have left. Thousands of clerks, and
other gentlemen, are here suffering for en-
poyment just as they are all over the
East, and over Europe tool, but there have
been few instances where the farmers and
mechanics did not get work at good wages
when they went where it was obtainable.
There is really no place in the world where
a person can do better with a little money
than in California. Not to set up a real
estate office, or other parasitic concern, and
idle away ones hours in sloth, living on
the productive industry of others: not to
sit down in any kind of laZiness and pray
the Good God to feed the hungry: but to
put the money into land, going to work to
cultivate it, or to enter upon some other
form of labor, fairly earning ones living
so as to be able to look mankind squarely
in the face. These are the kind of men
wanted in California, and to these is offered
everything that constitutes men healthy,
wealthy, wise, and happy. Thousands of
strangers are beginning to understand this,
consequently we witness vast immigra-
ton, which the State has made no provision
to encourage, but which is stimulated
mainly in private manner by letters to
friends and by the encomiums published by
delighted residents. S.P.
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THE OLD HOSTLER'S EXPERIENCE.
BY IRWIN RU SELL.

| gifts up heah-like good OF Paul.
Obed'ent to de Mahs'r's call
To tell my 'sperunce. tell it all.
OF SHAME's put up;
An Is led GLORY out de stall,
To win de cup.
Den, all you snnahs clar de track,
Is mounted on OF GLoRY's back:
Her hufs is gwine ia click ia clack,
Dat's how dey's gwine.
An Satan's rattlin', shacklin' hack
Is lef' benin.
All, Christuns: in my foolish days,
| rid de debbil's blOoded bays:
PERsUMPCHUs PRIDE, an WORTHY WAYS
An made 'em lope;
But now Is turned 'em out to Craze
Widout a rope.
Yah! Yah. on how | used to -. Well
De 'ticiars faint no use to tell.
But oncet | rid de road to hell
Wild mar bit,
An went two-forty on the shell
Toward de pit.
Like Baaam, when he rid de ass,
! sisted on trablin fas'-
But 'twuz pace at c'udn't las,
An | got th'owed.
| cotch RELIGION, trottin' pas
An, back COED.
An now simply 'vises you-
You deblsh boys Is talkin' to
Don't nebber hab thing to do
Wild Satan'S bosses;
Dey'll buck an fling you in de sloo,
Fus' one you crosses.
But git RELIGION well in han,
An ride her like a little man
Dere Amt no boss in all de Ian
Kin run agin her
An you'll come by de icdges' stan
A easy winner.
.Scribner for November.
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revealed, the waiter, in putting on the
table some handsome old Worcester plates
made in the days when there was a Wor-
cester that had something better to do than
making bad copies of japanese perfectionsl,
whispered that Mrs. -, thinking We
might like, as Americans, to see some old
china, had sent these up and how was it
possible after that to feel that we were in
a hotel? The surprise was reserved, how
ever, for bedtime, when, on going to our
chamber, we found small fire Pickering
cheerfully in the CRATE, the candles lighted,
the curtains of the four, post bedstead
drawn and the clothes turned down, while
at one side of the room, placed upon a
cloth of its own and with its own towel
stand supplied with bath towels, was the
welcome hat-batb, an English gift to the
world worth all the sewing machines and
steam engines that were ever invented.
Here was a comfortable lap of fortune to
have fallen into, and we hummed with DIR.
Johnson those lines of Shenstone that no
home staying American (at least, since the
good old days of Bunkers") can ever
understand the sense of:
Whoe'er has travelled LIES dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome at an inn!
Among my "reminiscences of travel, do
not know of any sharper contrast than be
1.
the hotel we went to on arriving in New
1Ork-one of the three or four first class
hotels; for, whereas in Europe no one who
is merely after comfort, and not after
snowy way of spending money, ever goes
in a city to the tirst-class hotels, here at
home it is never safe to go to any other.
At this hotel we were shown into a big
bare room, containing just what was neces-
sary for decent liying-a carpet, bed, a
bureau, looking glass, a table and four
chairs, with the inevitable furnace hole in
the wall, the gas burner, where no one
could use it in dressing, and the wash
basin in the narrow coSet-a scientific
desolation your room being exactly like
every other in the carava1sary) which we
Americans have carried to perfection. At
dinner, we sat in the well lighted, hand
somely proportoned dining hall, and fed
with the multitude-the gentleman in front
of US enjoying his ice cream, water melons,
peaches and coffee all at once-he at the
tail of the carte while we were at the head.
\ ct for all this bare and bleak discomfort
we paid far more than for the English
hospitality. ''-ScriJner's for Nopem5sr.
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BUBBLES.
money.

A dry suhiect-The mummy.
"A branch concern-The limb of tree
Out of season-An empty pepper box.
A telling blow-The whispering wind.
Never look a gift mule in the hind foot.
Ice is something hard for skates to get
over.
Artillery horses are hitched up with
the tugs of war.
The business of this world is steered
by tllers of the soil.
The man who gets tight is apt to make
very many loose remarks.
The man who bet his pay, felt bad
when he had to pay his bet.
White illusion bonnets are calculated
to deceive the pocket book.
Men are SO anxious to be deceived
that they deceive themselves.
ALL mel' pre- not homeless, but same
men are home less than others.
Some good soul put cent in the hand
of the Beggar Boy statue at the Exhibition.
When man is about to make personal
appeal he commences by peeling off his
coat.
People are altogether too particular
who will not let the fire go out in cold
weather.
An intellectual agriclturst says,
al ta11 ha iol
the land.
When a man comes by a thing hon
estly he is supposed to have passed without
stealing it.
-" In some families" remarks Mrs.
Gargoil, "bad temper and freckles are red
headtary."
MAKING HER CALCULATIONS beau
tiful and bashful young woman of about
nineteen Summers called at the office of a
him timidly if he could tell her how long
people of a certain age would live. mad
am" replied the agent, coughing respetc-
fully behind a prospectus and drawing his
of expectation and average mortality, which
contains all the information upon the sub
,ject that you can desire" WELL" said
she, show long will man of sixty seven,
with wart on his chin and that eats peas
with his knife, live % According to our
table. madame replied the agent, she
should on the average survive eleven years,
three months and sixteen days" That"
said his visitor, would be till the LIST of
August, 1897? Precisely, madame, on
the average expectation of mortality, for
we all must die, and it is, therefore well to
insure against loss to the loved ones in a
company whose character-.' "And
how much could | insure his life for ~
he answered. taking up blank form of
application, let me recommend the I'M
exampled advantages offered by our non
forfeitable endowment policy. Well"
said the young woman, 81 think, Their,
that I'll marry him." "Insure him, you
mean" replied the agent. "No, marry
him; you insure him. You see, " she added,
with burst of confidence. Il love Her.
bert and Mr.. Dawkins is old enough to be
my grandfather. But Herbert is poor, and
Just worship the corner lots that Mr..
Dawkins builds on. And Herbert is very
patient, and says that if will only fix
day, no matter how long he may have to
wait, he will be happy. Now, you say
Mr.. Dawkins will die by the LIST of August,
1887, and as il wouldn't be decent to
marry again till I've been year in m u"n-
ing, I'll arrange to marry Herbert on the
I'd of August, 1888, and if Mr.. Dawkins
Dissent die by then you'll give me $50, 900.
Oh, thank ycu," and with a deep bow she
swept out of the office. Chicago Tribune.
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November begins the thirteenth volume OF
that magazine and opens with full Illus
trated article on Hartford, by Mr.. Charles
Ii. Clark, of the d" Hartford Courant," un
der the title of " The Charter Oak City"
Here are depicted Col. Colts beautiful
estate at Armsmear; the residence of Mark
Twain and Charles Dudley Warner; the
famous Charter Oak itself; DIR. Bushnell,
Yung Wing and General Hawley; the In
surance Buildings; and many other sub
.iects of general interest. For sale by
liinch lie.
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THE AMERICAN FABMER-For Novem-
Der reaches us on time. Its monthly table
of contents for farmers, stock breeders,
fruit-growers poultry and bee keepers and
the followers of every other purai rursuit
is also timely and from the most expert
enced hands The Farmer maintains its
high character for liability and solidity,
and should be in the hands of all our
agricuturists. AS inducements to new
subscribers the publishers, Sam'l Sands &
Son, Baltimore, offer to send all such the
last three numbers OF this year free. The
subscription price is $50, and only 81 in
clubs of five or more.
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4 REMARKABLE CURE

Was that of Edward II. Hanson Engineer at George
H. had violent congh. ght wrtts throat, great
up ali hope recovery Through the #" Dr. Swayne
Wild Cherry Syrup became sound and hearty man,
and thi, day. although twenty yeats
have elapsed since he cured.
aS-Wc permitted to refer to the following gen
DR.. Swayne'4 Compound Syrup "f Wild Cherry " in
their family for many wears:
SAMUEL q. Sort firm of Jacob Rrigel Co., Dry
Goods No. 2:i: Market street Philadelphia,
ELwOop I. PU-EY Formerly firm OF Wife. Pussy u
Wise. y. f. corner Fifth and Market streets, Pha.J:
ROBERT IlrTCHIsoN, No 200l Sprin2 Garden street
Philadelphia.
JONI 5. LlTHE. Dry Goods Merchant. corner seventh
and Spring Garden streets. Philadelphia.
john d. Ny Frs, Founder Coates street, above Twenty
second, Phila.
And thousands of other, from every section of the
habit;ble globe.
CAUTION-luquire particularly for DIR. SWAYNE'S
COMPOUND SYRUP Of WILD CHERRY the first
and only Wild Cherry preparation prepared by suar
physician.
PRICE SL00, 6 BOTTLES FOR So.
If not sold by your druggist >torekeeper, will
forward half dozen to any address freight paid on
receipt of the price. Prepared only by
DIR. SWAINE Il son.
$50 NORTH SIXTH STREET. PIIILA. PA.
Sold by all prominent drug gists.
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EDUCATIONAL.
MERCERsBURG COLLEGE.

IN it's Course of Instruction, from the
Il beginning its close its Taught in the
Christian religion. Starting with Lessons the Life
of Christ, the Course goe 10 completion in Christian
Culture, Church Confessions and Christian Ethics.
MER ERsBuRG COLLEGE commcnds itself public
favor also by the advantages of its location 1t is
of access being direct railroad communication with
the great horoughres of travel every side and
at the same time sufficiently retired to form
retreat from the stir and noise public f. In this
respect its students removed from the excitement
and distraction of large city, and brought under the
eleyatng and educational power of undsturhed col
lege life the midst scenery almost unrivaed in its
beauty and grandeur In point of air water and gen
eral climate it is all that the most anxious parents
desire.
For boarding. tuition and room. not supplied with
anything but fuel 500 per year Send for Catalogue.
Address REV. f. f. lIIGBEE, u. d., PRESIDENT.
Mercersburg. Pa. june TO- lSI6-16w
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NOTICE.

GEORGE TURNER
THOMAS LOGAN and THE NORTH EAST BUILDING
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Chancery
ORDERED, This 25th day of October,
" 1876 that the sale made and reported by George
A. Blake Trustee for the Of the real in the
above entitled mentioned be ratified and confirm
ed unless to the contrary thereof he shown
before the 18th day of December provided
of this Order be inserted in published
in Cecil county a week for month before the
2Stl day of November next
The Report states the amount of sale, to he $4,000.
A. ". MITCHELL, Clerk.
True copy; test. W. MITCHELL.
Oct -, lS16-lm Clerk.
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NOTICES., &c,
NOTICE TO GUNNERS.

A LII persons are forbid trespassing,
"A with bog or Gun, upon the premises of the sub
scriher, under penalty of the law.
Oct u, lS.6-lm A. J. MICIIENER.
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ST. NICHOLS FOR NOVEMBER is in full
harmony with the Thanksgiving season.
"The Owl that Stared" Borrowing a
Grandmother" and ''Tiusie's Conclusion, -
are three admirable Thanksgiving stories,
and every one of them is beautifully illus
trated. The first contains an exquisite pic
ture by C. S. Reinhart, the second a fine
illustration by Sol. Eytinge, and the third,
one of the very prettiest of all Addie Led
yards pretty drawings. The number con-
tains many beautiful pictures by we'll
known artists, as well as few very conf
cal drawings by F. Beard, F. Opper and
Others
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TO ALL.
DR.. SWAYNE,
COIhI OUHIrT
DIR. SWAYNE'S
Compound SyrupOf Wild Cherry

and other valuable preparations entered upon his pro
fesslnal with the important advantage of regu-
lar Medical Eiucatinu i'll OF the best schools in
Philadelphia. and. perhaps in tn" world. lie suisse
qurntly served faithful term OF practice in the Pha
drpha Disprusry. and for many wears attended also
IN the Hospital. In these institutions he enjoyed the
most ample opportunities of obtaining insight into
diseases ali their various forms we'll for
tanning the best methods of their treatment. In offer
ing. therefore to the people of the United States til"
fruits OF his extensive professional experience in the
medical compounds as the best results of his skill and
observation he feels that he but pruttcring boon to
every family throughout the Land. resting he does,
confidently. the merits and cificacinus virtue OF the
remedies he here 18th recommends. The vast amount
testimony all parts of the world has proven
e DOCTOR SWAlNE'S COMPOUND SYRUP OF WILD
CHERRY " the most cilCaciuus remedy known. and it
is admitted Icy eminent ply sic and all
who have witnessed its wonderful healing properties.
The WILD CHERRY. in all ages of the world. and in
all countries where il is known. has been justly ccc-
bratcd for its wonderful medicinal qualities. Int its
great power OF the worst and most dis
trcsing diseases among fully a>Certaiued
until the experiments of That skilltul ply stefan. Dr.
Swaync had demonstrated its high ada tatiQn in
hination with Pine Tee Tar, and other equally vaua-
he vegetable ingredients which chemically combined,
renders action tcHiod certain ami h-neic in
curing all diseases of the throat. breast and lungs Or.
SWAYNES WILD CHERRY OF COMPOUND strike
the vrrauh kidneys healthy action nyigorating the
FRUSTRATING or weakening the body in any way 1t
only the lungs and liver but every organ
dependent upon wasted Impoverished state of the
,I,s,
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Charles Summers Description of Battle
at Sea.

The scene changes. Far away on the
distant pathway Of the ocean two ships
approach each other, with white canvas
broadly spread to receive the flying gales
They are proudly built. All of human art
has been lavished in their graceful proper
tons and in their well-com pacted sides,
while they look in dimensions like floating
happy islands of the sea. 4 numerous
crew, with costly appliances of comfort,
live in their secure shelter. Surely these
two travellers shall meet in joy and friend
ship: the flag at the mast head shall give
the signal of fellowship; the happy sailors
shall cluster in the rigging, and even on
the yard arms to look each other in the
face, while the exhilerating voices of both
crews shall mingle the accents of gladness
uncomfortable. 1t is not so. Not as broth
ers not as friends, not as wayfarers Of the
common ocean, do they come together, but
as enemies. The gentle vessels now bristle
fiercely with death deaing instruments.
On their spacious decks, aloft on all their
masts flashes the deadly musketry. From
their sides spout cataracts of flame, amidst
the pealing thunders of fatal artillery.
They who had escaped d" the dreadful touch
of merchant marring rocks" who had sped
on their long and solitary way unframed
by wind or wave, whom the hurricane had
spared, in whose favor storms and seas had
intermtted their immitigable war-now at
last fall by the hand of each other.
The same spectacle of horror greets US
from both ships. On their decks, Redeemed
with blood, the murderers Of St. Bartholo
new and of the Sicilian Nespers, with the
fires of Smithfield, seem to break forth
anew, and to concentrate their rage. Each
has now become swimming Gologotha.
At length these vessels, such pageants of
the sea, once so stately, so proudly built
but now rudely shattered by cannon balls,
with shivered masts and ragged sails, exist
only as unmanageabla wrecks weltering
lull of peace is now their only safety. In
Amusement at this strange, unnatural
contest, away from country and home,
where there is no country or home to de-
fend, we ask again, wherefore this dismal
duel? Again the melancholy but truth
full answer promptly comes, that this is the
established method of determining Justice
between nations
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NOTICE..
HUGH F. SCARBOROUGH

SARAH A STEELE AND OTHERS.
Iu the Circuit Court for Cecil county. No. 6iS, Chan
Gerry Docket No. s.
ORDERED, That the creditors of Sarah
" A. Steele file their claims with vouchers annexed,
with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Cecil county, in
order that they may be audited before the 18th
day Of February, 1877. A. W. MITCHELL. Clerk
True copy: test. A. W. MITCHELL.
Oct II. lSI6-lm Clerk.