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SPONGE FISHERIES.

S~PoNGE', IT, speak Of them in a general
way, are zoopdytes, ua!(-animal, half-vege-
tabl, They grow on rocks in the sea,
ana fishing for them is a regular trade on
the coast oil Greece, Sy ia, the West IuJies,
and elsewhere. In some instances they
are secured by diving, and in others by
being pulled up by a prong"d instrument.
Some new and interesting Information res
p,ci9g tie Syrian sponge f, heries is con-
deuSed as follows il the Pail Mall Budget,
fom the commercial Report Of a BRUSH
yice-consul at Beyrout for 1878: "The
total value Of the sponges d,hed on the
coast If Syria, is from twenty to twenty
five thousand pounds. The production is,
however, falling eff through excessive
fishing, and the consequent exhaustion Of
the Fl -hary-gronnds. About two uodrel
and fry to lElro hundred boats are at
present employed in this industry on the
coast Of syria, manned by about fifteen
huulrel men. The centres q rroduc:ioA
arc I}ipoIi, Nual, Lattakia, and BatrOun
OH the caa,t of Mount Lebanon. The
best Qua iliesare found In the neighbour
hoo Of T. ipo,i and Batroun but tho boats
visit all pats Of tho coast, from Mount
Carmel in HE south, 10 Alrxandretta in
the north. The majority OF The boats used
are ordinary fishing boats, three parts
dechcd over, and carrying one mast with
an ordinary lug sail. They ae from eigl-
tea to thirty feet in lcng b. aad are man
ned 10y a crew Of four o. five men, Que OF
whom IS specially engaged for the purpose
Of hau!ipg, while the rest are divers. In
some eases, the men own their own boats,
but generally they are hired fer the season,
which extends from June to the middle OF
O3.obar. No wages are paid; the remu-
nrla;Ion consists III au equal share OF the
produce OF the fishing. The profits Of a
good diver reach as high as forty pounds a
season. Diving is procti,ed from q very
early are UP TO forty years, beyond which
few are able t. continue the pursuit. 1t
does not appear, however, that the prac-
tice has any tendency TO shorten HE,
although, rs the diver approaches forty,
he is less able to compete with his younger
aud more vigorous brother. The time
duri0g which a Syrian diver can remain
under water depends, Of course, on his age
and training. Sixty seconds is reckoned
good work, hut there are rare instances 81
men who are able to stay below eighty
seconds. The men on the coast, however,
mako %cxtraordinory statements as to the
length of time their best hands are able to
remain under water, and gravely assert
that eight and ten minutes are not in'possi'
bilities. The manner ofdiving is as follows
the diYer,-naked, Of course,-with an
open net around his waist for the receptacle
Of bis prizes, seizes with both hands an
oblong white stone, to which is sttacheda
rope, and plunges overheard. On arriving
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EO the Working GLASS; We are
feN prepared TO furnish all classes with con
seAnt employment at home, the whole of the
sAle' or for their spare moments. Business
new. iight and profitable. PersOns OF either
lex easily earn nom % cents 70 S5 per even
'nG, and proportional sum by devotinp their
|hote time TO the business Bows na,i girl,
earn nearly as much as men. That ali who
see TINS notice may send their address,, and
fest the business We make this unparalleled
oeer 10 such AZ are not well satisfied we
WI se1e ore dollar To pay for the trouble OF
writing Full particulars, samplers worth
several dollars - commence work on, and
'opy OF Home nnd Flreside, one Of the largest
'hd beat Illustrated Publications, all sent iree
~ mail keSs7r, u you want permanent pro.
iDT-ANd. &Tfp.
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lated nice little sum for the purchase
of a coy home nest. Thither wife and
child were to be taken at once; and Mary
wrote joyfully that she never knew how
much she loved Will until she saw him
standing before her at his fathers door,
when she had supposed him to be dead
Not word of poor Carl Blumenthal,
except to say that Will was so good he
did not blame her or Mr. B. in the least,
and would certainly shake hands with
the latter should he chance to meet him
only, he was very glad that he got
home when he did.
We rejoiced, of course, in Mary's Joy;
but, if the truth must be told, we were
very sorry for ourselves; and as to poor
Mr.. Blumenthal, he was scarcely to he
thought of at all-his future stretched
before us such gray, dismal blank.
We broke our dreadful news to him in
fragments, giving him morsel at time
as we thought him able to swallow it.
After long period of silence, the de-
serted German shook his head sorrow
fully, and said: "That one little woman
she have dreadful smile" (poor fellow,
he meant irresistible'D, "and she speak
German like to break my heart. She
should not ought to, with her husband
not dead"
Evidently he could not divest himself
of the idea that Mary was in some way
to blame for Mr.. Murphys unexpected
appearance.
Brunhilda actually cried for sympathy,
andttook melancholy pleasure in run
ming to the door for our letters. But
such is the ingratitude of human nature,
that she was probably compared, some
what to her disadvantage, with the lost
one.
About six months elapsed, when we
one day encountered our blighted friend
with fair-haired little woman clinging
to his arm and looking very happy. She
was evidently German, and as evidently
his wife; and he subsequently informed
US that she was an old sweetheart who
had followed him from home. She had
arrived just at the right time to act as a
poultice for the wounds inflicted by that
lone little woman" with the dreadful
smile"
This arrangement naturally "made
things comfortable all round" with the
exception, perhaps, of two lone women
who had lost a treasure that could not
be replaced.-Harper'S Bazdr.
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and fish about for the cake of saponace-
Gus material in the bath-tub. Life has
few joys which can compensate for the
feeling OF weakness which is engen-
dered by the elusive habits of that cake
of soap.
A WESTERN editor, who thinks the
wages demanded by compositors an i'm
position, has discharged his hands and
intends doing his OWE typesetting in
future He says: "oMiNG To the exoR-
bitant Vases dEmANdEd by primers WE
haze CoNCludEd 10 do OUR own type
seTTiNg IN The fuTuRE; END a1thouGH
we nEDer EARNED Tue Business ace do
Not s9E ana great mGsTeIyerI in TIE
ara"
SEWARD, in his autobiography, just
issued from the press, tells of the train
ing he received in boyhood for diplo-
matte career He had to drive the cows
to pasture and bring them home; take
the grain to mill; bring the lime from the
kiln, and do the errrands of the family
generally, the time of his elder brothers
being too precious to permit them to be
withdrawn from their labors.
A LOUISIANA paper says that in that
State horse-stealing is managed as fol-
lows: 1.-THE owner Of a horse makes
bargain with the thief to take the horse
to Iberville or Baton Rouge and sell him.
The thief brings the owner half the
money, and tells the name of the pur-
chaser. Then the owner goes and re-
claims the horse as having been stolen"
Miss THURsBY, the leading member Of
the Broadway Tabernacle Church choir,
New York, has been engaged by Maurice
Strakosch TO sing in concerts in America
three years for 800, 900, with the hotel,
travelling and incidental expenses of her
self and sister, who will accompany her
She is to have July and August in each
year for rest, and to retain all her pres
ent engagements up to the Goth of May
next. She is also TO have the right to
sing in private concerts in Europe, con-
cession which will be worth fully $1,000
year.
A NEWCOMER in a Texas town always
enjoys himself. After spending short
time looking around the place, he grows
weary and finally asks the clerk of the
hotel if there is any chance of having
fun that DAY. Ana the clerk, scratching
his head moment, says: "Well, /
dunno. reckon we can get up some
thing for you before night. Haven't
been shot at yet, have you? MOI Oh,
well, you will be soon. Just loaf around
the streets a little while, and even if
you amt shot at yourself, you can dodge
the bullets intended for some other per-
SON Maybe YOU might object to IL
coming in that way, sort O secondhand
ed, you know, and if you do, why, wait
little while, and I'll go out with you,
and guess we can get up something
real lively" Two minutes afterward
that man is studying the time table for
the leaving time of the next train, and
not even the clerks promise to let him
carry revolver that he shot man with
last week can keep the guest in town
over night.
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Death of a Brave Woman.

OK the night of Thursday last, Mrs.
Mary Patton, widow of Capt. Patton, of
the old clipper ship Neptune's Car, and
at one time famous for having navigated
her husbands ship from Cape Horn to
San Francisco, died at her residence in
Brooklyn. At the time of her death,
which was caused by heart disease, Mrs.
Patton was fortyone years of age
Mrs. Patton's famous voyage was made
in 1856, when she was a woman of
twenty. She had been married three
years before, in Boston, to Capt Patten,
"a young skipper of twenty-five, who had
been appointed to the command of the
clipper ship Neptune's Car, launched
shortly before for voyage around the
world After his marriage the Captain
hesitated about undertaking the voyage
if it would compel him to part from his
bride. The owners of the vessel there
fore gave Mrs. Patton permission to ac-
company her husband, and year and
half's circumnavigation of the globe be-
came her bridal tour.
Mrs. Patton was the daughter of a sea-
faring man, and had inherited love for
blue water. She soon became proficient
in the use of nautical instruments, and
the log of the Neptune's Car for the en-
tire voyage was kept by her. When the
ship returned TO New York her owners
placed her in the then already important
California trade, and, laden with a cargo
valued at nearly 81 100000, she set sail
again in August, 1856, for San Francisco.
Within few weeks out Capt Patton
discovered that the first mate was en-
deavOring to incite the crew to mutiny,
and ordered him put in irons. The sec
ond and third officers were both i'll of
fever, and so the entire management of
the ship devolved on the Captain him
self. He had been i'll at starting, and
under the added strain was soon con-
fined to his cabin with congestion of the
brain. Before the ship had passed the
Falkland Islands he was unable to ap-
pear on deck, and by the time Cape
Horn was reached he was raving mad.
In this emergency his wife assumed COM
mand of the vessel and, aided by her
previous studies of navigation and the
assistance of willing crew, she brought
the Neptune's Car safely into San Fran
cisco on Nov. 10, 1856, having navi-
gated the ship and nursed her husband
at one and the same time.
When they arrived Capt. Patton was
helpless, being blind and insane For
tunately he was Mason, and the men,
bers of his craft in San Francisco pro-
vided for his welfare there, and obtained
a passage for him to New York. The ex-
penses of his illness had beggared him,
and husband and wife arrived in New
York utterly destitute. The New York
Board Of Underwriters Immediately pre-
sented Mrs Patton with purse of 81 900,
and further contribution of 81 ,500more
was made by parties interested in the
cargo of the Neptune's Car. The pub
lication of her exploit secured host Of
friends for her, andher husband breathed
his last surrounded by every comfort.
After his death Mrs. Patton went to
Boston, from which place she returned
after few years to New York, During
the last five years she has resided in
Brooklyn with her SONY Y, Sun.
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A SUDDEN CURE.


A MELANCHOLY woman lay
In sickness on her bed
And, in faint and broken voice,
To her sad husband SAID:
Dear David, when my earthly form
Has turned to lifeless clay.
o wait an weep little while,
Nor throw yourself away.
Il know woman, kind and true,
On whom you may depend;
Oh! marry Amarillo Jones
She is my dearest friend"
Yes, Hannah, l have wanted long
To speak o. this before;
For Amarillo Jones an
Have talked the matter o'er.'
Then you an Amarillo Jones
Have been too smart and sly;
i tell you, David Wilkinson,
I'm not d-gOiH' to Gie!"
Her dark eye flashed; her strength returned;
She left her bed of pain;
A week had scarcely passed away
When she was well again.
Chicago Tribune.
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OFFENBAcH believes in himself, which
is lucky; and they have it in Paris that,
when somebody asked bin if he wasn't
born at Bonn, he calmly replied; " You
are confounding two different men. 1t
was Beethoven who was born at Bonn.
was born at Cologne
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THE Agricultural College wants a
gentle $1,000. They ought to have it,
as the progress made in scientific farm.
ing by the students is most gratifying.
The faculty have arrived at the con
clusion that the time-honored method Of
reaping hogs can be improved on by the
use of machinery, and it is a soul-in-
spring sight to behold the bucolic
neophyte seated on the patent reaper
chasing the hog around a ten-acre lot,
blitholy whistling: "0h, what shall the
harvest beS"-B Boston 7rdOeller.
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A JUROR deaf in one ear is ineligible.
He should hear both sides.
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STATIONS.

PASSENGER TRAINS RUNNING EAST.
tpslis except sundaysl tsabiaysl
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Intelligence of Cows.

The London MN journal says:-"Thai
cows have memory, language, signs, aud
means of enjoying pleasant associations
combining for aggressive purposes, has
been recognized, but scarcely to the ex.
tent the subject merits. Travelling in
Italy many years ago, We visited some Of
the large dairy farms in the neighborhood
of Ferrara. InteHpersed among much Of
the low-lying, unhealthy land, remarkable
for the prevalence on it of very fatal forms
OF anthrax in the summer season, are fine
undulating pasture lands, and the fields
are of great extent. We happened to stop
at farmhouse one fine autumn afternoon
when the cows were about to be MIXED.
A herd Of over one hundred was grazing
homewards. The women took their posi.
tions with stool close to the house, and as
the cows approached, names were called
out, which at first were we thought ad-
dressed to the milkmaids. Rosa, Floren-
"a, Giula, Sposa, and many names, which
were noted by us at the time, were called
out by the overseer, or one of the women,
and We were astonished to see COW after
COW cease feeding or chewing the eud and
make direct, sometime at a trot, for the
woman that usually MIXED her. The
practice, we found, was not confined to
one FARM all the cows on each farm knew
their respective names, and took up their
position in the open just as readily as the
individual members Of some large herds in
this country turning from their fields take
up their places in the sheds"
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Cattle on the Highway.

Those who have been annoyed BY the
cattle of their neighbors invading their
yards and fields, and destroying in an
hour the labors Of year, cannot but re-
joice that the laws of the land do not obi
gate them to submit tamely to such losses,
Judge Waters, of Hartford, county. Md.
whose decision upon this question, recently
given, has sounded keynote which will be
apt to be heard in other sections of the
State. The Pailadelphia Times also. in
receut article, said
Il is popularity supposed that the fruit
and grass growing along public road are
public property. This is not the case.
Every person has the right to pass along
the road, but has no right to the products
growing by the roadside Whenever the
traveller, or cattle and hogs running at
large, diycrge on either side Of the limits
OF the road, they become trespassers. The
true Office Of outside fences, and of all
fences, is not to keep out the stock of a
neighbor, but to keep in ones own. Much
is said Of the cruelty of preventing the
poor mau from turning his COW out in the
public road; but it seems that in strict
equity the right to turn cattle at large does
not exist, and again, it is well known that
the road COW is mostly addicted to fence.
breakingand to Jumping, and is, therefore
a great nuisance. Every person who turns
his stock into the public road for the pur.
pose of pasturing them. does So Mt tho r;sk
of having them impounded by the owner
OF the land alongside of which they may be
found.
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Farmers and Planters

Nov is the time to buy your Farming
~ Implements cheap. | have on hand a
large Stock of Machinery which am deter.
mined to sell. would make special mention
of my two and three horse Furrow Flows.
My two'horse Plow | am selling MS low as
5000, and for strength and steady running it
cannot be surpassed, while my wrought shear
plows connot be beat. The Clipper Rake
with some important improvements is also
being offered low. The all (wrought) Iron
single and double Shovel Flows and the three
Shoveled Cultiyator, which became so popular
and gave such entire satisfaction last year, are
now ready for the Spring trade at low figures.
Remember the Lion Feed Masticator Is the
best Feed Cutter in the market, see it.
heapers and Mowers promptly repaired unless
new parts are to be ordered which must be
done from the company who manufacture the
machine as there is no one keeping repairs ON
hand. So in order to have your machine
ready for moving and reapng bring them in
early so as to give time to order repairs. An
other repairing done well and cheap.
mar Sl-h L. WAGNER.
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waxed with one heatingup. When much
grating is to be done, q little fire for heat
ing the wax should be made on the spot,
between two bricks or stones.
We have seen various Preparations for
making grating wax and we believe We
have tried them al, but prefer our own.
Applying warm or hot does no injury to
the. graft. The object to attain in the
proportion is that the wax viii not crack
in cool, dry weather, or run in warm
weather. If however, upon trial, different
proportions be required, the foregoing can
be altered, though after trying them in
several ways, We have come back TO these.
- Grmaatotca Telegraph.
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The Wool CRoP o. rnE UNITED
STArEs.-The United States produced
19S,000, 900 lbs Of wool in 1876, netting
the growers, 1t is estimated, SAC, 900 900.
OF this California produced about Is, 000.-
300 lbs, and Texas about ID, 600, 900 lbs.
Last year We paid foreign countries $780,
o00,000 for wooden goods; 10000, 900
more sheep VIII enable us to produce ali
the wool We waut ne ere working To-
ward Il Ipls6o we produeed 65 ZOO, 900
lbs; 50 thu. in II years we have increased
our annual wool crop BY 133,000,O00 lbs,
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st. Johns Parochial school,
WESTMINSTER, ND.
sELECT DEPARTnlENr.

4 tl.ASSICS and MATHEMATICS taught.
~ Particular attention paid to English
Composition. Terms perquarter Of 10 weeks,
from ~ 70 SIS according to the studies pur.
sued. +: A. McGIRR, A. NJ, Principal.
A Night School for Young man will be open
from : 10 DIP ,n1o on Monday and Thursday
Of each week, beginning October 10Th, 1916.
oct "a .5sa.
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CHAs. BILLINGsLEA, DDS
DEN list.
Has RemOred his Office to his Rssidsla.
Nert Door Vest ofhe Union Naiioaal
Bank.
DENTAL NOTICE.

nR. GEO. S. F0UKE, Dentist, offers /.
~ services at his Office.
Westminster--eyery Monday, Tuesday sHl
Saturday.
Emmlttsburg-Fourth "Wednesday Ahsr
noon till Thursday Afternoon.
Meehaniestown-Fourth Thursday AAer
noon and Friday.
Rocky Ridge-First "Wednesday AterHOos
Double Pipe Creek-First Thursday.
Middleburg-First Friday.
lUniontown-Second Wednesday AtemOCa.
Ianeytown-Second Thursday Ahernei
and Friday.
Union Bridge-Third Wednesday AneinO0,
and Thursday Forenoon.
New Windsor-Third Thursday AAsnooa
and Friday Forenoon. ieb@
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A Cure for SPAWN and Ringbone.
Parsons, LuzERSE Co., Pa,
June ~. 1877.


PARSONS, LuzERNE CO., Pa,
June IL, 1877.
MeSsrs Editors of tic Anssrican ~
herewith send you a prescription fol
sparin, qoliat, riagJoae and curb, which
have tried in the above troubles Of horses
1t has frequently been sold at very high
prices. was present when young far.
mer paid fifty dollars for it. Being called
upon to copy it. | retained one copy fol-
myself, and now present it to the public.
1t will remove an ordinary splint in forty.
eight hours; SPAWN will be cured in
several weeks.
The ointment should be applied gently
on the growth at night, and in the morn
ing the serum or matter of the growth can
be squeezed out by rubbing the hands over
it. Il should be applied for three days,
then wash clean with soap and water, and
grease for two days, and apply again for
three days, and continue till cured. 1t
was known as "Selden's SPAWN and Ring
bone Ointment" and | have no doubt it is
the same formula that is now being extern
sively advertised as "Kendalls SPAWN
Cure" The following is the formula:
RI ounces mercurial ointment.
ounces tincture iodine.
ounces turpentiue.
ounces pulv. gum eupherbium.
J drachms corrosive sublimate.
ounces puly cantharides.
II TBS. lard.
Melt the mercurial ointment and lard
together and stir in the other ingredients,
and stir till cool.
The addition Of arsenic and red precip.
itate viii be an improvement on the above.
The remedy will act more promptly if the
hair is CUT from the ps=. it is intended to
act upon. Yours, respectfully,
NJ. NJ. GRIFFITH, NJ. d.
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The Sparrow.

Thc T,rf E.LJ ,,,J -. ;,
Ena,lisb u. III, 49,, VI, 81" rar1a says inc
III I ~ 1Pi,iow ".i arlse out every I've other
ads;.os 1870 's,y ~. asiessiss' Inc writer
49, HI IsVpae III = import 1ne sparrow
sDn MN sm =, r ns = some o. the
~ a. a prpo,s "s Ia u'sposeu % MAKE war
S a. OT No. auu aave aus,Sea their
row T%a I;,,lo e e, my liIenas o. Ine spar
No doubt ;n., !. ' tbo"s . Jase mapy Iaul's'
.% ~ O NJ "' s II sp I wHo would war on
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As the time will soon be- here when
grafting viii BE- ia order, we viii repeat
our former advice that every farmer should
do bis own grating. It is o. very easy
operation when once understood, and this
IS readily done by seeing the operation.
A sharp penknife and good fne saw are
indispensable. Splitting the stalk 50 that
the bark shall not DO bruised shaping
the scion wedge-fashion both ways, pre-.
serving also the bark uniujured- -and pla-
cling the RIM Of he rood Of both stock and
scion exactly together, so that the sap can
intermingle--there is 10 danger Of failure
If properly wazed We make shoulder
20 the graft aud think Il adds to the Ger
tainty Of success, though probably weakens
it We prefer also two eyes or buds to
graft. and would rzther have only one than
more than two, Ono years wood should
always Be used when il eau BE- obtained.
as il IS more certain to take and grows
more vigorously.
We wish 70 remind those prepaxfag
grailing wax, that We hare found four parts |
Of resin, one part Of becswaz, and one part
beef lalloW, 10 be the best proportions.
Melt them together 10 a skillet, (which Is |
he beat. 81 a lineup, and mix well. Il
honld remain in the vessel and used a.
'eeded Twenty o. thirty scions can be