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tramp called at his house and begged For

tramp called at his house and begged for
something to eat, saying that he was on
his way to California, but had had hard
luck, having been taken sick after start
ing. Mr.. Stafford made him welcome,
and his wife cooked supper for, the
stranger. They allowed the tramp to
remain over night, and he was enter
tanned for week until he recuperated
his health, when, bidding them good
by, he started on for California. Two
months ago the stranger who, during
his four years. absence in California had
/" struck it rich,'' came back to Dakota,
and, in disguise, again spent the night
under Mr.. Safford's roof. The tramp
was particular to inquire into the Cir
cumsfances of Mr.. Stafford, and was told
by him that he had s'plenty of hard work
to do but very little money The next
morning the tramp departed without
making himself known, and the CONVEX
sation and incident had been forgotten,
when Mr.. and Mrs. Stafford received
through the Post-office a sealed pack
age, which contained the deed of one of
the finest farms in their neighborhood,
having good house, barn, stock, horses,
wagons, agricultural implements, and
every thing complete. The deed was
accompanied by an explanatory letter
from the girer, stating that he wished
them to accept the deed of q farm which
he had purchased especially for those
who divided with him when in need land
treated him kindly when footsore and
poor.-La Crosse lWts. } Democrat.
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American Life In Paris.

What is called the American colony
in Paris consists of about 2 200 families,
large proportion of them from the
South. A great many Of them might be
regarded almost as permanent resi-
dents. A goodly number of them are
people of limited means, who find that
they can live SO much cheaper here than
in AFT American city that they have con-
cluded to stay. One of these remarked
to me to-day: a can live better in
Paris on SIS 900 per annum than | could
in New York on $4,000" He then pro-
ceeded to detail the difference. In New
York he would be regarded as nobody
unless he owned or rented brown stone
house ut from 81 600 to 5000 per an
mum. Here he could obtain a suite of
elegant apartments, in fashionable
neighborhood, at from $500 to 81 900
per annum, and make as good an APP
pearance as any one else in his sphere
In New York he would have to pay $40
per week for a coachman, whilst here
he could engage q landau, with q fine
pair of horses, and liveried footman
thrown in, 70 be always at the reasona-
bic call OF his family, for S12 to $I5 per
week. Then he said he could clothe
himself and family at one-half the ex,
pense. and much better, than he could
in New York, that servant hire was not
half the cost, and service much better;
that there were always anusements here
az moderate cost, and a cab at call to
take him and family home at all hours
OF the night for francs, whilst in New
York such q luxury would cost So.
Then there was little or none IF the
troubles of housekeeping in Paris,
as a family can be fed cheaper than it
can feed itself, if satisfied with
French living. But, he remarked, an
American can never feel contented or
comfortable in Paris until he goes to
housekeeping and orders his own food,
and prescribes the mode Of cooking it,.
A Frenchman loves the. table d'hote, but
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SoTHERN, during the last summer,

SoTHERN, during the last summer,
having hired an attenuated livery-stable
horse for drive up the road, stopped
at one of the roadside caravansaries,
and while his valet was covering the
animal, John Mccullough came BY.
Mccullough Ned, what do you put
that blanket over your horse forP he
looks too weak TO bear up under it.
Sothern.-" Oh! That is to keep the
wind from blowing the hay out of him.
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1t is highly improbable "
individual as a perfectly sala
tented woman exists. 4 thess
whose position in sociesy s!e =.
surroundings are entirely = 8.
with her ambition and desires. y
py creature has not yet ben - g.
and Der pleasing and beiic
has been lost upon her discon
tiers. In whatever. condition q
stances she may be placed, tnels n
ably something beyond neg = ~
is essential to her happlness,
dition of affairs has exislea q.
all time. We are told that sns ~.
of Eden possessed every po.
dition requisite for the con-
piness OF its occupants.
doubt that their condition ~ 4.
better than that Of any inv =.
! this mundane sphere torasy,
they should have been supE ...,s1
py and contented. But 49, ,..'.ss
from the lack Of dressrns - y
causes which history does e Il Y
our fair mother Eve would ~ = ! y
isfied, but must needs So ~ /
thing more Thus It hs 4, Z. 81 =
since, and the constant, rss.' vi =
- 4 i u m
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The young men Of this country will
be pleased to know that an Ohio barber
has invented a machine by which he can
SINCE off the human hair one thirteen
one hundredths Of an inch closer to. the
skull than it is now possible to bring it
with the clipping machine. Any young
man who will go out into society with
great struggling locks nearly three
eighths Of an inch long strockling
down his back ought 70 be ashamed Of
himself BurIsBg,op Hawksye. !.
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inconsistencies an Actaal Nv

Most people have 8 notion I
homesickness is; many hlSi
from it, but it has been LETT II : Y
guished French physician y o.
as an actual disease. a. a. M
that it is uncommon Srlon az
and old folks, and mora ffeqas1ko
men than women. Those Nke1.i
liable to it are the young tlo
drawn from the country VI ~
infantry. Town lads aFe tee ~
ed to change and hustle Y u q
susceptible, while the cavSlFy ~
supposed to be too busy q e
time to devote much atteniio1 y
and its concerns. DR.. Reg 81
nostalgia (that is, homesick KRIS III
Of insanity. Its symptoms ~ =
patient becomes sad and no.
bears to eat, retires to weep ~
solo, and gives himself up 70 reya
home. In the second stage 4
the aspect of ill-health. sal.l
headache and sleeplessnesss ~
the disease advance, dellriuua
ton and decay set In, terul1
death. Occasionally veterans q
afflicted by the malady. This =
happens when fighting has ~ 4!
in retreat, in the bittefness 9! y.
when they feel forsaken, coA = /
CRY, when they have to sleep
ground, agonized from thirst \.
their wounds, when they ~ !. +
prisoners, and become famillsr W
strange bedfellowst hat InisefJ
them within these circu1zsl. u
lterly downcast, dishesrt 81 =!
soldier thinks Of his hou1e. hl
tents, his wife and BARNS -
| iveliest memory, and 2 y sa ! a A ~
nostalgia is added To the ot1st A. !
of which he is already = ue'
! sells Mn1a5ine. ~ e s'.
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PITH sND POIsr

Watermelon. begins and -
W.-Breakfast Table. 1
VERY proper slang Of the i,
8 Nominate your snn-stroka
Express. ~
AN editor is a man who !.
the departure of Other. peouls \.
cool and delicious summer s. ,. Y
Rochester Democrat.
Do not advertise. D..
advertised until he was wosth I
three or four millions. Than 3
crazy, and then he died 49,.
press. Res. a.n sssa
II, Mr.. Potter win summon !.
lantic City fora three weeks; s.
at the expense OF our beloved ..
he will learn something 10 en- !,
tage.- Graphic.
A WESTERN editor declars. &
wears no mans collar. Certs;sl.
What would q Western editof
mans collar toa-Nsu Haess
ALEXANDER STEPHKNsis ~:
this weather. By the aid q ~
candle you can read the Lords
through his body when L 4 ~
on a scent piece. Boston m
WHEN a man is found des1 i.
Black Hills with his skull cr,,.i.
throat cut, and n bullet hollis
uted over his bod, ths CoroldfI
are five hours deciding whsl3s
death was caused BY violence 4
itation of Divine Providence.
THOSE poisoned arrows In |
America in the Smithsonian Ins
Washington are dungeons thipri
with. The points are tippa !
woorari, a most deadly poiscn. !,
seems to never lose its venom. n
time ago some experiment. NJ.
on rats, and though the point an
row only pricked the hind MI
rodents, they died within fvo I
after the application was nlad
THE boy stood squarely on liz ~
Already two were OUT; +. s.
The grin that ligiltened 10 49,
$3.50 Shone round about his snouf
The boy, he raised the ash I'd
And called for. one hip hfch,
The pitcher put it In redsllof-
It hit him in the eye.
i Again the gallant youth stood n
Determined he would SOON ;s;',s:.
The next one hit him In the s(o66s
He playeth ball no moro.
Relatives and friends are inyif6f 611
without further notice. Bostoa NJ
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according to a telegram to ~ Paris
paper from Vienna, landed property in
Cyprus increased in value ten-fe1d on
the mere newssof the occupation of the
island, whereas in Bulgaria the finest
properties do not find purchaser at
the twentieth part of the price they
would have fetched before the war.
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"A 5-year-old son of Isaac Ruth, of
New Albany, Ind, died from eating a
dog-button which had been left in the
front yard by the police,
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A MAMMOTH peanst grow n
farm Of julie Charville, nsa s.sll
mines, La, was found g s ~
bones of a minnow. ny on III
ton is that the minnoH !, ~
caught in the vines dufins =
of the farm.
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DURING the great plague in London
me pit was-dug in the Charter House,

40 feet long, IS, feet wide aud 20 feet
deep, and in fortnight received Lila
bodies. During this dire calamity there
were instances of mothers carrying their
own children to these public graves, and
of people delirious or in despair for the
loss of friends, who. threw themselves
alive into these pits.
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A GOOD way to economize en- doc
tors bills is to use plenty of disinfect-
ants about the house in summer.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-11-13
MANNERISMS.


The airs and graces of habit, the ~.
fectations put on for vanity, are as
many as there are lines in human ges.
ture, expressions in human faces and
words and accents to correspond, says
an English writer The gliding walk
TO suggest the movement OF swan,
with the long throat curved and the
neck and head bent; the brisk half.
jump, half-run, to indicate the heart
free from care, the innocent ndirete of
young person TO whom skipping
ropes are still matters OF late remem.
brance; the slow and stately move.
ment OF one who desires TO express
moral majesty and womanly dignity ;
the overwhelming courtesy of another
who affects department, as if it were
his or her right by birth and breeding
TO be the exemplar of manners to q
comparatively rustic audience the
airs and grace of sultra.refnement and
those of unconquerable cheerfulness I;
those of poetic melancholy and those
Of noble enthusiasm the devotion"
to great cause possessed by some
feather headed little worldling whose
thoughts never scared beyond herself
and her pleasure; the air Of matron-
hood in a young wife who adopts
young men slightly older than herself
as her sons, and that of juvenility in
an old girl who, at thirty-nine, chooses
for her bosom friend the young deJu.
tdnte of eighteen; how well we know
them alll-signs of mental emptiness
as they arc-symbols Of vanity
which can never be satisfied, but is al
ways seeking for more than it can get
by the ways OF truth and nature. Airs
of deep thought, Of extensive reading,
Of pure taste in art, OF knowledge of
science-these also meet us at every
turn, to deceive us by their affected
graces when we arc young, and before
we are able to judge the false from the
true. In time to come by our own
line and plummet, which we learn to
use when we find out that what
passed for depth is shallowncss, aud
what looked like an extended arena is
only narrow enclosure, and that the
airs and graccs Of intellect were as
false as those of the universal sympa.
thizer or the stole who could laugh at
pain and exercise sorrow.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-11-13
A BRAVE WoMAN'S FIGHT

The Chicago Times says The gang
Of cowardly thieves that has been
driven from the heart Of the city have
evidently made up their minds to ling.
er in sight Of the places where they
so long held carnival. AT 6 o'clock in
the afternoon of the 21st ult., two met
entered the residence Of VIM. Marshall,
at the Southwest corner Of Bloom and
Thirty-dith streets, near the limits.
The rear door was open, and they had
easy access. They went up stairs to
the apartment occupied by Mrs Mar
shall and her child. They demanded
the money which they said she had,
and upon her denying any knowledge
Of its whereabouts, the thugs took her
by the hair, threw her against the wall
and chokcd her. They then presented
a revolver TO her face, but she possessed
the Spartan spirit and defied them to
do their murderous work. Then one
OF the outlaws, defed by womans
dauntless courage, picked up her child
by one of its limbs, and, with an ex.
preston that was enough TO freeze the
blood of tiger, threatened to disem-
bowel il if she did not tell them whore
she had her treasures. They were too
cowardly to carry this threat into exc
cution, as the mother still defied them
They tore open the bed d.ticking and
dragged the carpet from the floor.
Underneath this they found 5000 in
bills of various denominations. Not
satisfied with this work, they packed
up all the valuable clothing in the
house and carried II away. They
dropped these, however, In their flight.
These brutes went into the house dis.
guised, having their counteuanccs Gov
cred with masks. This bold and das-
tardly act is worthy of the frontier
banditti. In fact itsurpasscs in cruelty
some OF the riders Of the Western
wilds, who, Notwithstanding they are
members Of the black flag order, sci
dom throttle the throats OF women and
children. IL has been reserved for
Chicago TO produce two Of the most
heartless aud devilisb creatures in the
ranks Of the burglarious fraternity. A
Vigilance Committee may be necessary
il such deeds become general
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-11-13

migbtv interes,s nj s,alse and On M
tained to n mcot cImav Tho second
of these evnlana,;ons sooms ,be nor,
rational If not in i,s cnt;re,v a, leos,
oss.n,iallv and in Tho I;gL, of srhso
oncnt deyelonmcnts the 6,s,v comnrc,
bension Of tho si,rn,;op from ,ho on.
timistic standnoin, or ,ho Rr;,ish Torry
NAV be regarded as oltoye,her nn,yor.
Inv of further consideration
IA wos broadly binted bv Sir S,oc
ford Northcote in his sneec6 delivered
recen,lv at Wulverbamn,on tbara
seems 10 bo no reason for doub,in.
that R1ssia il ENGAGED AZ The nrcseni
time in an attemnt to reonen the Fast.
ern Question in botb its pbases Tho
question proner bv enconracing tho
Afghans to war agrinst England, the
Enropean pbase bv stimnlating tLe
ieud between the Bosnians and the
Anstrians, and also by arriving on her
own part either TO frighten Turkey
into an alliance or TO drag Turkey into
another war The obyious deduction
from .hcse. apparent. premises is that
Russia in submitting the Treaty of San
Steiano to revision by the Berlin Con.
gress sought only TO gain time for rest
and recuperation to the end that she
might be better prepared to make good
her claim by the arbitration of the
sword. In this view of the case her
action at Berlin ceases TO be mystcri.
Gus and the results as developed M to
the present time indicate that the ap.
parent failure in her diplomacy in the
Congress in no wise is 10 be attributed
TO falling skill. Her position today IA
hundred fold stronger than il was
when the Treaty of San Stefano was
signed. Then, had England declared
war against her, Austria was surely to
be counted upon as England's ally /;
now, Austria is herself enbroiled in a
war with Turkey, and scarcely can be
expected to wheel her columns and
fight the battle of her present foes.
And If Austria should make so com.
plctc revolution Russia can count
upon the Bosnians, backed by the Mon.
tenegrins, perhaps also by the Ser.
vians, and aided by Russian contin.
gent to hold Austria well in hand.
This ia Russia's great gain a gain that
goes far toward iustifying high hopes
in regard to the issue of tho coming
war. The demonstration toward In.
dia by way of Afghanistan is not less
directly result Of the delay caused
by the Berlin Congress than is the
Austro. Turkish complication and it
is even more ominous to English inter
ests in the far East. 1t is direct
threat that the true Eastern Question,
supremacy in Central Asia, is about to
be raised. In the matter of posltion
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-11-13
CHRoNoLoGY or TOBACCO.

1896 -Romanus Pane, Spanish
monk, whom Columbus, on his second
voyage, left in America, published the
Il rst account Of tobacco under the name
of "Cohoba.'
l535-The negroes on the planta
tions in the West Indies began to use it
1859 - Jean Nicot, envoy from
France to Portugal, sent some of the
seeds to Paris, and from him it acquir.
ed the name Of Nicotiana. When il
was first used in France il was called
"Hcrbe du Grande Pricur,n OF the
house of Lorraine, who was very fond
of it. 1t was called "llcrbe de ST.
Croix, +" from Cardinal st. Croix, who
first introduced 1t into Italy.
1570-At this date in Holland TO-
bacco was smoked in conlcai tubes,
made of palm leaves plated together.
l575-First appeared print of the
plant in Andre Tbevet's Cosmographie.
l5S5-rhe English first saw the In
dams of Virginia use clay pipes, from
which time they began to be used in
Europe.
160i-James the FIRST OF England
sought to abolish the use of tobacco by
very heavy imposts upon it.
l6l0-The smoking Of tobacco was
INDUCED in at Constantinople. TO
render the custom ridiculous, q Turk
detected thus using the plant, was led
through the streets with pipe thrust
through his nose.
16l5-Thc cultivation Of tobacco
was begun in Holland
16l9-James the First ordered that
no painter cultivate more than one
hundred pounds
162O-Smoking introduced into Ger
many.
l63l-First introduced into Austria
by Swedish troops.
l63i-The use OF tobacco forbidden
in Russia under a penalty Of having
the nose cut Off
1863 First used in Switzerland,
where the magistrates at first punish.
ed those found smoking but the Gus
tom soon became too general TO be sup
pressed.
1G90-Pope Innocet XII excommu.
nicated all who should take snuff or
use tobacco while at church.
1924 Pope Benedict revoked the
above Bull, as he himself used tobacco
immoderately.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-11-13
CLOSE OFA WONDERFUL
AREER.
A CRIME OF HALF A CENTURY RECALLED
BY A DEATH IN AN AIMS HOUSE.


A Baltimore telegram Of the 22 ult.,
says The death Of Jane Cunning.
ham, pauper patient at Bayview asy.
lum, at the age Of 73 years, ends a
somewhat remarkable career, and re.
calls startling tragedy OF fifty years
ago, in which she figured prominently
rs "The woman in the case" Sheriff
Swearinger OF Washington county, n
young man Of wealth and high social
position, had just taken to his residence
a beautiful bride, when ho met by ac-
cident Miss Cunningham, then charm.
ing and accomplished girl Of nineteen.
II was case Of mutual love at first
sight. A criminal intimacy followed,
knowledge Of which finally came to
the cars Of the young bride. Shortly
alter this, Swearinger, while horseback
riding with his wifo, asked permission
TO leave her for fow minutes. She
refused to grant the privilege, and af-
terupbralding him for his intimacy with
Miss Cunningham, threatened TO fol.
low him il he left her side. Finding
her in earnest, and anxious to free
himself from the alliance, he hurled her
from her horse and she fell to the
ground corpse. The killing occurred
in Allegheny county. He threw the
body among some rocks and mutilated
the horse, to convey the impression
that the animal had fallen and killed
its rider This theory was accepted
and the murdered woman was buried
from her husbands home, be appearing
IN the role of chief mourner. Suspi.
cion was subsequently excited, and
threats OF an official investigation
prompted the murderer TO fly from the
State, taking his paramour with him.
He was pursued, arrested in New Or
leans, returned to Allegheny county,
convicted Of the crime purely on cir.
cumstancial evidence, and hanged at
Cumberland. On the scafl'old he con.
fessed his crime. Miss Cunningham
lived the life of prostitute in the
South for many years until her beauty
faded, and nearly q quarter OF q CEN
tury ago she came TO Baltimore, and
becoming insane, went TO an asylum
and recovered. Being without friends
or means, she then entered the city
aims house, and for many years has
been devout and protesting Christian.
She was connected with some of the
leading families Of Western Maryland,
and was woman OF education, culture,
brilliancy and beauty.