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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-20

is about to ripen. If no measures were
taken to prevent the depredations of
these troublesome creatures, very few
pine apples would escape their destruc-
uvejaws. The planter has remedy:
Sweet potatoes are cooked, and while
they are yet hot the sulphur ends of
common matches are broken off and In
troduced into them. The phosphorus is
difiused throughout the substance of
the potatoes, and these being placed
among the pine apple plants, are eaten
by the rats, which almost Immediately
fall dead from the effects of the poison.
1t is about the month of March that
the fruit begins to ripen, and the first
lot of the season generally reaches here
early III April. 1t sometimes happens
that quite number of vessels loaded
with pine apples will arrive on the
same day. glut is produced, and ruin
Gus prices are the result. OF late years.
however, four or five pine apples pre-
serving companies have been established
in the Bahamas. The new epternrise
has proved eminently successful. and
the Bahama export of the fruit has been
benefited as well, for the reason that the
preserving companies draw off a large
part of the crop from the market. the
natural tendency being to prevent an
undue accumulation of the fresh article
in the spring and early summer.
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MIR. sarsaper,s Refrlnerator.

A COUPLE of weeks ago, Mr.. Sarsa-
n per told his wife one morning that
he had got about tired of buttering his
bread with spoon, and so that day he
sent home a refrigerator. 1t was %
beauty and he felt proud of it, so much
so that he had good deal to say about
it at the store
81 suppose you have to put ice in it,
don't you ?" said one one of the clerks
6 Certainly" said Mr.. S., " but then
it takes very little. It's an improve
ments on all the others ever made. Full
of little boxes and places for all sorts of
things. Keeps everything separate -
meat, vegetables, milk, and SO on, with
out any mixing up. 1t makes hot wealth
er so much more comfortable Bob, to
pull up to the table and find everything
nice, cool and crisp, instead of limp, sour
and slushy. We wouldn't be without it
again for anything. / wish you would
run in and look at it, Bob, the first time
you're going by. It's curiosity, and l
know you'll get one as soon as you see
it. Don't bother about ceremony-run
in any time" Bob said he would.
About two o'clock, one morning last
week. Mr.. Sarsaper was wakened out of
the slumber that always keeps company
with an easy conscience, by his wife
poking him in the ribs, and calling on
him to hustle out and see what the mat
ter was. The door bell was jingling like
all possessed.
Mr.. Sarsaper crawled out of bed, and
after banging his nose ON the door-post
till the blood started, giving himself a
black eye against the corner of the man.
tel, and falling down over pretty much
everything in the room, be finally made
his way to the front part of the house,
threw up window and peered out into
the wet and murky gloom.
Who's there 20 he demanded, look
ing down at the top of an umbrella.
Me !" came up in thick voice from
the under side of it.
Who's me?"
Bob"
Oh, it's you, is It'll What's the
matter, Bob Anybody sick ?"
"Oh, no. You see I've been out to
Sedamsville with some of the boys to
institute lodge, and I'm just getting
refrigerator of yours as 1 was going by,
and so 1 thought I'd stop in and see it,
without ceremony, as you said. Come
down and let me in. Pm in hurry to
get home and can't stop but minute.
Mr.. Sarsaper said something that
would bend the types double If we should
undertake to print it, and slammed
down the window.
He remarked to Bob the next day
that for downright freezing GOODNESS his
refrigerator was bake oven compared
to the prank practiced on him.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-20
Singular Wagers.

When Mr.. Penn matched himself
against Hon. Danvers Butler, to walk
from Hyde Park Corner to Hammer
smith for wager Of 100 guineas, some
body remarked to the Duchess of Cor
don that it was a pity young fellow
like Penn should always be playing
some absurd prank.
Yes" the old lady retOrted, it's a
pity, but why don I you advise him bet
ter ? Penn seems to be pen that every
body cuts and nobody mends."
What would the free-spoken dame
have said to couple of clergymen run
ming race on Sunday for crown
sideY Such thing has been DONE
Soon after Swift received his deanery, he
dined one Sunday with DIR. Raymond, of
Trim, whose house was about 200 yards
from his church. The bell had nearly
done ringing for evening service, when
Swift exclaimed:
Raymond, I'll lay you crown be-
gin prayers before you"
20" Done !" said the Doctor and off they
ran. Raymond reached the door first,
entering the church, made for the read
ing desk lat as quick walking pace as
his sense of propriety permitted. Swift
did not slacken speed in the least, but
ran up the aisle, passed his opponent,
and without stopping to put on sur
plice, or open prayer-bOok, began the
Liturgy and went on with the service
sufficiently long to win the wager.
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THE TIMES, NEwBIooMF1ELD, AaAuGusri 20. 1878

them. In twenty-seven Of them he dis
covered injurious traces Of the habit. In
twenty-five there were various disorders
of the circulation and digestion, palpi-
tation of the heart, and marked
taste from strong drink. In twelve there
were feeble bleeding of the nose, ten had
disturbed sleep, and twelve slight ulcer
alton of the mucuous membrane of the
mouth, which disappeared in ceasing
from the use of tobacco for some days
The doctor treated them all for weak
ness, but with little effect until the
smoking was discontinued, when health
and strength was soon restored. Now,
this is no "old wife's tale" as these
facts are given under the authority of
the British Medical Journal.
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RAILR o pfs
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
May I2th, 1875.


TRAINS LEAvEHARRIsBURG AS FOLLOWS
For New York. at $50, sic a. m. 2OCp. M,
For Philadelphia, at $40. $40, aIb am.
For Reading, at $40, $40, GAS a M and 200
For Pottsvllle at $40, $40 n. M, and 1857
?. m, and. via schuylklli and susquehanna
For Auburn Via 3. q s. Br. at $50 a. m.
For Allentown, at $40, S.lOa. M, and at 400,
The $40, Si0 a. M, and s7.55 p. M, trains
have through cars for New York. NJ.
The 500 a: M. and 100 p. M, trains have
through cars for Philadelphia.
SUNDAYS:
For New York, at $40 a. m.
For Allentown and Way Stations at b.2U a. m.
For Reading, Philadelphia and Way Stationsat
Las p. m.
TRAINS FOR HARRISBURG, LEAVE AS FOL
LOWS;
Leave New York, ats45 a. M, LOO, $50 and
" As D. M
Leave Philadelphia, at 9.l5 a. m. 400, and
40 p. m.
Leave Reading, at TAO, 7.4O, ll.2O a. m. 80,
6.l5 and IL. 35 y. m.
Leave Pottsville, at 61O, 9l5 ain. and is5
y. M.
Aud via schuylkill and susQuehanna Branch at
S.l5 a. M
Leave Auburn was. Il $. Br. at IL noon
Leave Allentown, ut 1890 $50, 9.05 a. M, 1918
i.30 and 9Ob y. M.
Leave New York. at $50 y. IN.
Leave Philadelphia, at 720 p. m.
Leave Reading, at 4.40, I40, a. III. and 1913
pm.
Leave Allentown, at2 80 a. m, and 905 p. m.
j. L. WOOTEN, Gen. Manager.
G. G. HANCOCK, General Ticket Agent
tDoes not run on Mondays
AVia Morris and Essex Il. r.
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What Smoking Does for Boys.

A certain doctor, struck with the large
number of boys under fifteen years Of
age whom he observed smoking, was led
to inquire into the effect the habit had
on the general health. He took for this
purpose thirty-eight boys, aged from
nine to fifteen, and carefully examined
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ADDRESS Excelsior Manufacturing CO.. AZ La Sale
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DUNCANNoN STATION.

x ANSAS FARMS
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-11

he therefore, and every branch of his fam
lily, have the strongest motives for constant
exertion. You see the effect of this in his
industry and economy.
In Germany nothing is lost. The
produce of the trees and cows are carried
to market. Much fruit is dried for win
ter use. You see wooden trays of plums,
cherries and sliced apples lying in the
sun to dry. You see strings Of them
hanging from the chamber windows IN
the sun. The cows are kept up for the
greater part of the year, and every green
thing is collected for them. Every little
nook where the grass grows is carefully
cut with the sickle and carried home on
the heads Of the women and children,
in baskets or tied in large cloths. Moth
ing of any kind that can possibly be
made of any use is lost. Weeds, nettles.
nay the very good grass which covers
waste places is cut and taken for the
cows.
You see the children standing in the
streets of the villages, IN streams which
generally run down them, busy washing
these weeds before they are given to the
cattle They carefully collect the leaves
Of the march grass, carefully cut their
potato tops for them, and even if other
things fail, gather green leaves from the
woodlands. One cannot help thinking
continually of the enormous waste of
such things in England-of the vast
quantities of grass on the banks by the
road-sides, in openings of plantations, in
lanes, in church-yards. where grass from
yearto year springs and dies, but which, if
carefully cut, would maintain many
thousand COWS for the poor.
To pursue still further this subject of
German economy. The cuttings of the
vines are dried and preserved for winter
fodder. The tops and refuse OF the hemp
serve as bedding for the cows; nay, even
the rough stalks of the peoples, after the
heads have been gathered for oil, are
saved and all these are converted into
sufficient, the children are sent into the
woods to gather moss; and all our read
ers familiar with Germany, will remem-
Der to have seen them coming homeward
with large bundles of this on their heads.
In autumn the falling leaves are gathered
and stacked for the same purpose. The
fir-cones, which with US lie and rot in the
woods, are carefully collected and sold
for lighting fires.
In short, the economy and care of the
German peasant are an example to all
Europe. He has for years-nay, ages
been doing that, as regards agricultural
management, to which the British govern
ment is but just beginning to open its eyes.
Time, also, IS as carefully economical as
everything else. The Germans are early
risers, as may we'll be conceived, when
the children, many of whom come from
considerable distances, are in school at six
in the morning. AS they tend their cat
tile or swine, the knitting never ceases,
and hence the quantities of stockings,
and other household things which they
ccurrnnlata ore aStnni shinn
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-11
The Curious Process of Making Rubber
Balls.

The process of making the hollow rub
Der balls used by children for play
things is quite curious, and may he in
teresting to those not familiar with it. A
Hollyoke writer thus describes it: The
upper room of the mill
prepared to push this branch of the bust
ness for few months, and will probably
turn out some $4,000 dozen of these balls
between January and June. These balls
have solid svrtace, are made from a
different process from that of making the
soft rubber balls which are perforated by
an opening, and, of course, are much
more firm, durable and elastic. The
sheets of rubber prepared for the balls
are cut into strips Of double convex
shape. The edges of the strips are
moistened with a preparation of rubber
and naptha, by which they are joined
firmly together, three of the strips being
used for one ball.
This part of the work is done by girls,
and a skilltul girl can earn about $3.50
per day. When the strips are joined to-
gether, the ball is very near the shape of
Brazil nut. Before the last opening is
closed, small quantity of carbonate of
amonia is put inside, which, when sub
iected to strong heat, will make the rub
Der expand and fill out the ball mold.
The opening is then closed with the adj
heslve mixture and it is placed in I'm
iron mold of the size and shape of the
ball desired. The molds are packed into
frames in which they are subjected to the
heat Of the vulcanizer
They are kept in palace in the frame
by iron rods along the side, and when it
is full, iron plates at the ends are screwed
down tightly upon the molds to hold
them in place. These iron plates are
about ree-fourths of an inch thick, and
so strong is the expansive force of the
rubber in the mold that they have bent
this thick iron into a curve. If one OF
the molds should work out of place while
INFLAMMATION is in process, the molds will
fly out with noise like the report of q
dozen pistols, and the work is spoiled
The action of the heat does the rest
| When the molds are opened they contain
the perfect round balls, with no mark Of
the places where the pices were placed
The slight ridge made by the mold i!
ground off by stone used for the pur
pose, and the ball is done. This is bu
one process of rubber work. Besides the
hollow balls are made solid balls of rub
Der, etc.
See T. G.. Mandt's advertisement of thu
Stoughton wagon and carriages.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-11
Magic Music,

Mamma, mamma, we've had enough
VI Button, Button aud Blind mands's Buff
All! please will you put your work away,
ana tell US OF something new oplay?"
Well; all go out of the ROOM" she cried,
And when my handkerchief shall hide,
You must by magical music trace
Your way to its secret hiding place.
Thus, when the piano soft and low
l touch, you're far from the spot, you know,
But when l shall strike it loud and clear,
Then look you well-you are somewhere
near"
Silence reigus; then melody sweet
Blends with the patter of dancing feet,
And mamma laughed, as she softly played,
10 see the havoc her children made.
Behind the ottoman, sofa, stand,
In every Granny there goes hand;
nder the papers, mats and books,
On all the brackets, in all the hooks.
TIL, happening in the corner, where
Papa sits in his easy-chair,
The music falls width Il sudden crash,
And at him the wild young vandals dash.
They sack his pockets, they roll him about
they turn his dressing gown inside out,
And when they have searched him through and
through.
lis Joaud, tits found, in the toe of his shoe.
-Jutta II. Dana, IA Youths Companion
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-11
The Man That Saved a City.

The inhabitants of Neopolis, hearing of
the approach of Timour, the Tartar, pre-
pared to defend themselves with vigor,
but Nasur counseled them to do nothing
of the sort, but to trust to him alone, and
his mediation with Timour. The people
was doubtful of mis- success, but they
yielded. Before proceeding to the camp
of the besieger, Nasur, who knew it was
useless to approach the great chief with
out present, considered which gift was
likely to be most acceptable. He resolv-
ed it should be fruit, but hehesitated be-
tween figs and ounces.
II will consult with my wife," said
Nasur- ed-Deen, and he accordingly did
so.
The lady advised him to take ounces,
as the larger fruit.
Every good" said Nasur; that be-
ing your opinion, will take figs"
When he reached the foot of the throne
of Tamerlane, he announced himself as
the ambassador from the beleaguered
citizens, and presented, as an offering of
their homage, his trumpery basket Of figs.
The chief burst into rage, and ordered
them to be flung at the head of the rep
resentative of the people of Jengi Scheher
The courtiers pelted him with right good
will; and each time he was struck, Nasur
who stood patient and immoveable, gent,
ly exclaimed:
Now, Allah be praised!" or, "Oh, the
Prophet be thanked!' or, ''Oh. admirable
how can be sufficiently grsteful?"
"What dost thou mean, fellow?" asked
Timour; "we pelt you with figs, and you
seem to enjoy it,
Gay, truly, great sir" replied Nasur
II gratefully enjoy the consequence ofmy
own wit. My wife counseled me to bring
ounces but chose to bring figs and vel
that did, for with figs you have only
bruised me, but had l brought ounces
you would have beaten my brains OUT
The stern conqueror laughed aloud. anG
declared that, for the sake of one fool hi
would spare all the fools in the city, male
and female, them and their property.
Then" cried Nasur, "the entire popu
lation is safe!' and he ran homeward Il
communicate the joyful intelligence,
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-11
Quaint Story ola TOurnam ent.

A correspondent of the American Reg
lister translates the story of tournament,
which took place before Duke Charles of
Savoy and the duchess and the ladies and
lords of his court, the record of which is
still preserved in the archives of Turin.
At royal banquet, one of the lords of
Blonay, he being a married man, asserted
that the married man was as gallant and
formidable in deeds of arms, and in all
things, as the unmarried man, and that
the married woman was as virtuous and
worthy Of praise as the unmarried woman
and offering to prove it by the lance or
sword, if there was any one who wished
to contradict it.
De Corsant, Of Savory, an unmarried
man, presented himself as chapion for the
unmarried. Duke Charles, seeing that tie
question was not provoked by hatred or
malevolence, and that they wished to
fight to pass the time, and for pleasure as
well as for the exercise of arms, gave his
consent. There were to be two trials
with the lance and fifteen strokes only
with the sword. If the msrlied man was
conquered, he must beg for mercy OF
Mile. De Savoy, and of all the unmarried
ladies of tina; house, and from one lady
out of the house Of Savoy, who should be
appointed by his conqueror. IF the un-
married man was conquered he was tc
ask for mercy of the Duchess of Savory
and of the wife of Lord Blonay.
The arrangements completed, the two
champions met on the 18th of May
1904, on the square before the Castle
of Turin. On the first trial they faugh
with so much address the lances wer,
broken to pieces. Having received new
lances, De Blonay broke his boldly, anc
Corsant, encountering the shock, breast
piece, girth and saddle all were carried
to the ground with the chevalier in sucI
way that every one believed it was al
over with him. Not so, however; Corsan
sprang Immediately to his feet, ready t
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-11

OF youth just conscious of its own pow
er, to visit the friendly household of one
of our first merchants. A prolongation
of her soJourn here did not excite the re-
monstrance of her parents until they
were surprised by information that her
delay was possibly occasioned by the
frequent calls of a gentleman, u lieuten-
ant OF the British navy, whose attentions
seemed ominously serious, when her
mother took the family carriage precipi-
lately for the city to convey back forth
with the giddy damsel. Upon arraign-
ment before the maternal bar the young
lady did not deny the frequent visits OF
the alleged sutton, whom her New York
friends had seen no reason to interfere
with; indeed, upon stepping into the car
riage to go home (there was no New
Haven railroad them, she said, quite
cody; ats useless to find fault now, ma
for am married"
Such, indeed, was the starting TACT
After short and only finally suspected
summers courtship, she and the lieu
tenant had been clandestinely married,
and before the Mortified mother and
romantic daughter had been in their
Connecticut home twenty-four hours the
bold young sailor was there too, to claim
his wife! But he found her a prisoner,
locked in her own room and both parents
met his appeals with steady refusal to
acknowledge his authority. The girl
was but child, they said, not conscious
of her own mind, and they should resist
with every possible form of law any at
tempt to remove her from their custody.
The husband, urging that they loved
each other, was told that she whom he
had made his wife, in name only, now
bitterly regretted her sentimental folly
and wished to see him no more. As
founded at this assertion, the young man
passionately impugned its truth. Would
he be generous enough to give her up,
he was asked, if she herself assured him
of her desire to that effect? Chival-
rously, though too rashly, perhaps, he
agreed so to do, conide MT, undoubt-
eddy, that she would prove true to him.
And then came the most extraordinary
scene of the little drama. A married
sister strinkingly resembling the impris-
oned young wife had been hastily sum
ulOuSI HULL ILLS CItN 1OA InC pun pOSCs
and, artfully dressed to intensity the re-
seInbIance, hurriedly entered the room
where the lieutenant was present, with a
friend for witness, to learn his fate, and,
with simulated sobs, hastily hid her face
on her mothers bosom. Surprising her
to be the wife whom he agitatedly called
by name, the deceived husband begged
her to go with him. t" l wish to remain
with my mother" was the apparently
fearful answer, without so much as a
glance for him; and, without word, the
lieutenant bowed to parents and child,
and at once withdrew with his friend
from the room and the house. On his
way back to New York by steamboat q
favorite dog that accompanied him leaped
overheard, and ne, plunging instantly
over 10 the rescue, was drowned.-N. 7
Cor. Baltimore Sun.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-11

do mis- duty with the sword. The combat
was sustained long and bravely, and it
would have continued longer if Duke
Charles had not ordered them to desist
Duke Charles accorded the honor of the
day to the married lord, but acknowledged
that the champion of the unmarried had
done his duty bravely. Following the
conditions of the combat, De Corsant knelt
for pardon before the Duchess of SAVOY
snd the married ladies of the court. and
then set out for the Castle Blonay, which,
after long and perilous journey, he safe
ly reached, and asked grace of Lady Cath
crime of the Castle; and now having paid
the penalty of the vanquished, he asked
for his discharge.
On the next day Lady Blonay ave
grand banquet, and invited the lords and
ladies, married and unmarried, of the
neighborhood. Then De Corsant met the
beautiful Zolande, cousin of Lady Blonay
and he concluded that by taking a wife
he should better sustain the cause of the
married than he had done that of the un-
married at the tournament of Turin
Lord Blonay returning tour days after
and giving his consent, the nuptials were
celebrated in the good Castle of Blonay,
when De Corsant bravely cried, 'If any
one says aught against the married man,
he must settle it with me, and I will 30
to him what was done to me in the tour
nament at Tur1n!"