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FOR RENT.
DRESS AND CLOAK MAKING,

DIX AND CLOAK MAKING,
Mrs. LA. BUTTERF1ELD, from Boston, Mass.
IS prepared to do dress and cloak making in all
their branches, at the corner of Fourth and
Mulberry streets. Boston and New York styles
received every month.
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FOR RENT OR L

FUR RENT OK SAFE.
A new two-story frame dwelling house, con-
tanning eight rooms, and closets and pantries.
Possession given May 10th Corner Sixth and
7 Pearl street. Apply to
J. N. HARTERT,
Lower YanEtOn.
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FOR RENT,
FOR L OR TRADE.
FOR RENT.

The brick store occupied by Chas. Eiseman &
Co., situated on Broadway, will be for rent on
the LIST of January next. Apply to
BURLEIGH BROS.
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A Wealthy Beggar.

A professional beggar has recently
died, in Berlin, leaving a fortune OF
more than q million and half marks to
his heirs. He had many children and
grandchildren, and lived in splendid
style, giving sumptuous entertainments.
The soirees were only attended by mid
dle-class society, and were held only
during TIE winter. In summer the
lovial old gentleman invariably left bis
house for four or five months. 1t is
now known that he has regularly fre-
quently, at least until a few years ago,
the principal bathing.places of Ger
many, and that he gathered his immense
plunder by begging. In wretched dress,
with an invaiid's cap, blue spectacles,
long snow-white hair, and apparently
palsied limbs. he used to shamble slow
ly along the promenades. He never di-
rectly asked for anything, but used to
receive voluntary offerings from the
visitors, and these amounted to large
sum, which was regularly dispatched to
Berlin every week. His biggest har-
vests were collected in the great gam
bling towns, when those were in full
bloom of their prosperity. It was sup
posed that he had formerly been rich,
but had lost everything at the gaming
tables. He would pace to and fro in and
around the great building at Baden
Baden, and more than once during the
day some player who had made lucky
stroke ofsbusiness would sympatheti.
cally pressa piece of gold upon the old
mans acceptance. He is said to have
driven this profitable trade for thirty
seasons.
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take off your coat, and we'll have it out
here instanter. Do you deeline9" Mr..
Guckin did decline to fight, and, red
dening, muttered an apology. Every
we'll, off you. go; and now, your turn,
Mr.. Chickjove. .
"Ah, you shan't intimidate me, sir, "
shrieked the choleric little husband of
the lady with palpitations. eff you lay
finger on me, sir, I'll have the law on
YOU"
eyes, I know you're solicitor" said
the doctor, calmly, "and that's why |
am going to make an offer to you. I
hear your influence will be paramount
at the approaching election of coroner
for this district. Get me elected, and /
promise to renounce my private prac-
tice. I'll never call upon your wife nor
any other lady, except in a friendly
way" -.
"You shan't call on us in a friendly
way" howled Mr.. Chiekjove. eyes,
sir, I'll get you elected coroner; that's a
good idea, for We shall be we'll rid Of
You. You'll go and live in London.
Where's my wife2 Let me pass, sir.
Mr.. Chickjove went in to fetch his
wife, and Jack remained alone with Mr..
Daisop.
"Mr. Daisop," said he, "when I've
had my tea, I'll 60 and propose 10 Emily;
but conditionally, you know, on my
getting that coronorship. don't want
to have my wife's jealousy excited"
"You're right, there" said Mr..
Daisop, laughing. GA good-looking
husband with large female practice
wouldn't quite suit a tender-hearted
creature like our Emily" And he left
the doctor to his tea.
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A Cool Customer.

The Detroit Free Press says: j. r.
Ham was one of confederation OF men,
some of them holding high official and
social positions, who, by means of
forged deeds and other devices, perpe
trated one of the most gigantic land
swindles ever heard of. He is now
serving ten years eentence on convic-
tion of sending to Blanco county, Texas,
for record,a forged deed for GAO acres of
land, and has sent to the Free Press
office two letters, one of which is given
below, the extract with which it COM
mences having been cut from our paper
by him and attached to his letter as q
sort of text:
81. R. Ham, the man who came near
to stealing one-half of Texas, is anxious
to get out of the Austin penitentiary.
He thinks he can render valuable service
in clearing up real estate titles; but he
cleared too much when he was at liberty,
and Texas will find him most useful
where he is"
AUSTIN, Texas. Have been looking
over your valuable paper nearly all day,
and to my great astonishment find my
name in the paper. I desire to correct
you, lest you might iniure my reputa-
tion. You state that I am the man who
came near to stealing the one-half of
Texas. Now this is all a mistake. I
only got away with 1853, 900 acres of land
that there are no adverse claimants for.
This land is worth on an average five
dollars per acre, which would only make
about $900,0G0. This amount would
hardly be the interest for one year on
what Jim Fisk and Jay Gould gobbled
on Black Friday, and yet they are not
happy. You state that I think I could
render valuable services in clearing up
real estate titles. In this you arc quite
right. Yes, I can "read my titles
clear" You state that am anxious to
get out of the Austin penitentiary. In
this you are mistaken. In the first place,
there is no penitentiary in Austin; in
the second place, l have never been in a
penitentiary, and have no aspirations in
that direction. If I could get out of
the Austin Jail it would be good enough
for me. If they would turn me over to
the Lord I would be satisfied.
Very respectfully, J. r. HAM,
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The Dog as an Article Of Food.

By most people the dog is valued only
during his life; his skin is not particu-
larly valuable, and his flesh is little es-
teemed. This is by no means, however,
the case everywhere. It is well-known
that the Chinese use the dog as regu.
lar article of food. Many of the North
American tribes look upon an entree OF
dog as the greatest possible sweet NOR
sci they can set before stranger. Sir
Leopold McC,intock relates that in the
Sandwich islands he had the most pro-
fuse apologies offered to him because
there was no puppy to be had for feast
to which he was invited. The Esqui-
maux, too, look upon dish of young
dog as a great treat, and it is related
that a Danish captain. provided his
friends with feast of this kind, and
when they praised his mutton, sent for
the skin of the beast and exhibited it to
them Ths Greeks and Romans also
used the dog as an article Of diet, and
many ancient writers, such as Galen and
Hippocrate9 represent dog-meat as q
highly desirable dish.-!Cin cinnah En-
0uiTGr.
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Wanted More "Ointment."

A Washington correspondent tells this
anecdote: In the year 1877 an official
from the regions of Puget sound came
to the capital to transact some import
ant business with one of the executive
departments. It was his first visit
to the seat OF government of his coun-
try, and it was evident, from his dress
and manner, that he was infinitely more
at home on the frontier, attiredi in buck.
skin, and sleeping with the blue canopy
of heaven for a covering, and living, on
his round of official duty, on the pro-
ducts OF his rifle. The amenities and
comforts OF civilization were new to
him; but, with genuine American SELF
assertion, he purchased an "outft" OF
broadcloth, mainly swallow-tail, on
the "slope," and travelled in Pullman
cars over the mountains and across the
plains and prairies to the capital. Ar
irving here, he sought out the best
hotel, and put up there. At dinner
that day, after astounding the walters
by his extraordinary gastronomic ca
pacity, having tasted of every dish on
the menu, the Puget Sounder touched
bottom on the dessert. Amongst other
things there were apple dumplings,
with a sauce Of sugar and butter, and a
strong infusion of cognac, a combina-
tion OF Ingredients not Objectionable to
the frontier official. The steward, in
doing out his dumplings, assigned to
each q becoming ration of sauce. The
PugetSounder, by partiality for sauce,
caused it to fail in it's distribution to
dumping, so that the supply OF the
former was prematurely exhausted, leav-
ing but leathery mass OF bare dump
ling. The frontier official, in his time,
had swallowed worse things than WASH
ington hotel dumplings; but after nib
bling around the doughy mass and Sc.
lecting from beneath the covering all
the apple he could scrape out, the
waiter, noticing the situation, stepped
up and inquired: "Governor, will you
have some more dumpling?" The off,
cial, first looking at the waiter to see if
be was in earnest, and then at his plate
full of excavated dumplings, replied,
"No, thank ye; but, if it's all the same
to You, I'll take a leetle more Of that
S.intenaent"
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How Astor Lost His Money by Saving It.

In the "Causerie of the Boston
Transcript a good story of Astor is re.
told. One; of his captains had sailed
six voyages to China without chro-
nometer, depending on "dead reckon
ing and "lunars )" Just before start
ing upon the seventh voyage he sug-
gested to MIR. Astor that it would be
safer to have q chronometer. "Wel,
get one," said the merchant. The, cap;
tain did 80, and entered it's cost 10 bis
account current. When Astor's sye felI
upon the item he drew his spancA
through it. The captain exposthlated.
"I tolt you to get one, "said EAstot.
"I tidn't say I'd pay for it. The caps
tain severed his connection then md
there, went into Wall street. engagef.
with other owners, and before night
was in command of as fine q ship aa evsx
foated in New Yorkfs beautiful bay. In
three days he was ready for sea, and
set sail. At the same time Astor's ship,
under the command of new captain,
set sail also. They had race for Hong
Kong, but the captain who, as he used
to put it, had discharged John Jacob
Astor, by keeping the man at the braces,
took advantage of every puff OF wind
and won by three days. The ship was
loaded in the shortest time possible,
and before Astor's vessel, which had
arrived meantime, was half loaded, our
captain weighed anchor, and, with full
cargo of tea set sail for Sandy Rooks,
arrived in good time, got his ship along.
side the wharf, and began hosting out
his cargo, which was sold by auction on
the spot. This glutted the market, for
the consumption was comparatively
small in those days, and when Astor's
ship came in prices had fallen. Two
days later, as the captain was saunter-
ing down Broadway, he met his former
employer. "How much did dat chro-
nometer cost you?" asked the latter.
"Six hundred dollars" "Vell," said
Astor, "dat was sheap. It costs me
over $50, ,000." The merchant..and the
captaiphh have long since paid the long
reckoning. but that chronometer is still
a good time.keeper and treasured
relic, as we'll.
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IS lmpOrtant Business"

A man with a comforter tied around
his waist and whip in his hand called
at the postoffice for letter yesterday,
and for reasons which no human being
may ever understand he suddenly decided
to have his boots blacked, and not tc
pay more than five cents for the Job,
either. The first boy invited to begin
work took a cool survey of the boots,
and then softly replied:
"I'd like the Job, mister, but you see
I haven't time. The secretary of the
treasury has made another call for out
standing fve-twenties, and I've got to
go to the bank"
The second boy had already prepared
to kneel down when be realized the
dimensions of the boots before him, and
suddenly Strengthening up said:
"Say, I haven't time. I've agreed to
take charge of sawmill up the river fol
man who is going away, and must be
at his Office to give 800, 900 bonds in just
four minutes. Some other boy'll be glad
OF the job"
The "some other boy" was near al
hand, and when told that the boots must
be polished off for nickel, he confden
TALLY whispered:
"Don't feel disappointed, but you see
I was 'pinted assignee of big firm ur
the street this morning, and I'm only
here to buy ten thousand postage stamps
to begin work on. I'll send you boy
as 60 up"
"No he WON'T" was the blunt reply
of the man as he got out doors. "I SET
the game now, but can beat it They're
planning to get some fellow whose time
is worth about twenty dollars an hour
to put in forty minits on these boots
and then shake me for my load of wood
but they can't come itl"-Detroit it Free
Press,
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The Zulu KraalS.

The military kraals of the Zulus, OF
South Africa, are, in poinO OF fact, fortl'
fed depots where the various regiments
assemble for their annual training or
mobilize in time or war. The kraal is
usually about 500 yards in diameter
and fenced round with dry stake and
and wattled fence, about five feet in
height, difficult to breach and still
harder to storm, as it is well surrounded
by an abattis of prickly pear, bush
thorns and other formidable obstacles.
Inside this fence are thrown up
tlle mems huts, and a smaller ring is
generally erected in the center. in which
the cattle are kept. The kings kraal is
Ulundi, or Undini, almost in the center
OF the country. Six regiments, num-
bering about 1000 men, are quartered
here permanently. Another important
kraal is situated few miles to the
north of Rorke's Drift, where the mas
sacre of the British forces occurred.
This was the headquarters of Sirajo, a
brother of Cetywayo; it was burnt
shortly after hostilities opened, and the
chiefs son killed in the engagement.
Most OF the other kraals are in the neigh
borhood of Undini, 80 that the king is
constal:...J enabled to inspect his troops.
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The Song Of the Uplands.

Oh, better glimpse Of star
That may never be reached but be hoped for
Oh, better grand life afar,
That at least in the mind can be groped for
Than to have all the senses desire,
And all that the passions require;
But no more, but no more.
Oh, better faith that can cope
With the doubts Of the world and car
quicken;
Oh, better life that has hope
To illume it, though poverty stricken,
Than to have all that rickes can hire
Or buy, so to feast and not tire,
But no more, but no more.
Oh, better love that is blind,
That can see in the loved one no badness;
Oh, better trust in ones kind,
Spite Of all Of its folly and madness,
Than to stand all alone mid earth's mire,
Having food and raiment and fire,
But no more, but no more.
-Eduard S. Creqnler.
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The Cost Of War.

The Gazette de ST. Petersburg,
apropo8 of the cost of the recent cam
paigns, makes some calculations of the
cost in blood and treasure OF the wars OF
the last twenty-five years. In tie Cri-
mean war $50, 900 lives were sacrificed;
in the italian war of 1859, $4,000; in the
Schleswig- -Holstein war, 5000; in the
Prusso-Austrian war of 1866, 45, 900; in
the ill-starred Maximiian's Mexican
campaign, 65, 900; in the Franco Prus-
sian war, $4,000, making total OF
1,148, 900, besides 100000 in the civil
war of the United States.
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Francis Atkins was porter at the
palace gate at Salisbury from the time
of Bishop Burnet to the period OF his
death in 1761, at the age of 1O4 years.
It was his office every night to wind up
the clock, which he was capable OF per.
forming regularly till within a year OF
his decease, though on the summit OF
the palace. In ascending the lofty
flight of stairs he usually made halt at
q particular place and said his evening
prayers. he lived regular and tenn
perate life and took q great deal of e1er-
else; he walked well, carried his frame
upright and we'll balanced to the last.
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A Clergyman in Illinois, who had been
marrying several parties of young folks,
was asked by brother who called on
him how he was getting along. "Oh,
finely" he replied; Sim sailing right
along at the rate of thirteen knots an
hour"
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Help.

My hands have often been weary hands.
Too tired to do their daily tack;
And just to fold them for evermore
Has seemed the boon that was best to ask.
My feet have often been weary feet,
Too tired to walk another day; g4
And I've thought, ITO sit and calmly wait
Is better far than the onward way"
Ny eyes with tears have been 80 dim
That have said, "I cannot mark
The work do or the way take,
For everywhere 1t is dark-so dark.
But oh, thank God There never has come
That hour thst makes the braYest quail
No matter how weary my feet and hands,
God never has suffered my heart to fall.
So the folded hands take up their work
And the weary feet pursue their way;
And all is clear when the good heart cries
BE brave !-to-morrow's another day.
-Ra,per's Weekly.
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Winter is the time for planning, as
the summer is the season for execution.
Winter is the time for thought, as sum
mer is the season for carrying thought
into action. n.-IoWa State Register.
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1t is proposed to celebrate at Pompeii
this summer the eighteen hundredth
anniversary of the destruction OF that
CITY by an eruption from Vesuvius.
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the captain is the sailor, and 80 changes
their places on board according to birth
more startling. The admiral declines
to marry the deposed captains daughter
because of her low degree, and officially
gives her to the sailor now elevated tc
the captaincy. The ex.captain now turns
to Buttercup, who had farmed him as
baby and got him mixed, and being 6
widower, he tells her:
~ shall marry wife
In my humble rank Of life,
And you, my own are She
! Imust wander to and fro,
But wherever may gu
| I shall never be untrue to thee.
| ALI: What never?
Captain No, never
All: What, never9
Captain: Hardly ever
Ali: Hardly ever be untrue to thee"
And that's where an oft-repeated joke
hits hardest.
| The whole business is setting uI
and knocking down of rank and station,
and laughing at the wreck. The poor
sailor who loves above his station, while
he bewails his low condition, is proud oi
being an Englishman. He sings:
II am an Engisbman; behold mel"
Then others chime in:
"He is an EngHshman,
For he himself has said It,
And it's greatly to his credit
That he Is an Englishman;
For he might have been Roogian,
A French or Turk or Proosian,
Or, perhaps, an Italian;
But in spite Of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman-
Hurrsh for the true-born Englishman! i
That's something to be proud of, ever
in the shackels of his low estate. Wher
the admiral comes on board with mis- ret
inue of female relations, the humor ol
the situation flows in song as follows:
"Admiral: am the monarch Of the sea,
The ruler Of the queens navee,
Whose praise Great Britain loudly
chants.
Cousin Hebe: And we are his sisters and his
cousins and his aunts.
| Chorus: And We are his sisters and his cousins
and his aunts.
Admiral: When at anchor here ride
My bosom swells with pride,
And snap my fingers at foeman's
taunts.
Cousin Hebe: And 80 do his sisters and his
cousins and his aunts.
Chorus And 80 do his sisters and bis cousins
and his aunts.
Admiral: But when the breezes blow,
generally go below
And seek the secusion that cabin
grants,
Cousin Hebe And 80 do his sisters and his
cousins and his aunts.
Chorus: And 30 do his sisters and his cousins
and his aunts.
His sisters and his cousins,
Whom he reckons up by dozens,
And his aunts.
After the admiral has officially fooled
himself out of the ex. captain g daughter,
and he has officially disposed of the
sailor and his love, and the captain and
Buttercup, he turns to Hebe:
Admiral I'm the monarch Of the sea,
And when I've married thee,
I'll be true to the devotion that my
love implants.
Hebe Then goodbye to his sisters and his
cousins and his aunts;
Especially his cousins,
Whom be reckons by the dozens
His sisters and his cousins and his
aunts.
Chorus For he is an Englishman,
And be himself hath said it.
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he is an Euglishman.
These extracts will give some idea OF
the style and purposes of the opera and
the comic character of the doings on
Her Maiesty's Ship Pinafore.
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"H. n. 8. PINAFORE."
A Sketch of the Opern which has Created
such Furor.

| such n Furor.
The Pittsburgh (Pa.) Leader gives a
sketch of the opera under the above
name, written by W. 8. Gilbert, an Eng.
lish dramatist, and the music furnished
by Arthur Sullivan, an English COM
poser. First brought out in this conntry
in Boston, it at once became very popu-
lar there, and when taken to New York
it was performed in half dozen thea
ters at the same time, while it is being
sung by travelling operatic troupes all
over the country. The Leader says:
The object Of this comical, nautical
operatic trife, on a subject Of such
ponderositee as the queens navee, is to
show the hollowness of official preten-
sions and the bombast that holsters up
rank and station; and to laugh down
ignorance and stupidity in high places.
The deck of the Pinsfore becomes the
battle-ground of a comical engagement
between hard.hsted sailors service and
official bombast and emptiness. The
action on board is brisk, and is continu-
ally interrupted with the bursting bomb.
shells of laughter. The farclcal element
is always present in variety of guises
and happy surprises. It stalks about
on deck in the lord high sdmiral-al-
ways accompanied by his sisters, and his
cousins, and his aunts, and the whole
gang" of his female relations. He is
stickler for naval etiquette, eff you
please;" tells how he rose to be "the
ruler of the queens navee," and presents
the crew with song of instruction, SET
ting or singing forth that " the British
tar is q soaring soul" whose "energetic
fist should be ready to resist dictate
rial word" He loves the captains
daughter and she loves a common sailor.
To win the girl he tells her that love
levels all ranks and stations. She takes
him at his official word, officially OK
pressed, and instead of soaring up to
him she fops down into the arms of the
sailor, whom she has previously reject
ed because of incompatibility of rank
and station-a result of the admiral's
official blunder. Official "pomp and
circumstance" and rank and station are
played with like shuttlecock and battle
door. Baby-farming Buttercup makes
regular social revolution on board the
Pinafore, when she sings:
"Two tender babes I nursed,
One WAS of low condition,
The other upper crust,
Aregular patrician,
A many years ago.
Oh, bitter is my cup
However could I do it?
I mixed those children up.
And not creature knew it.
Well, the up.shot Of the mixing was
that the patrician became the sailor and
the babe of low condition the captain
startling. Then the admiral decides
that the sailor is really the captain, and
the captain is the sailor, and 80 changes
their places on board according to birth
mora startling. The admiral declines