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Administrators Sale Of Real Estate.
Thomas Martin, Adm'r Of the estate Of
.s Evan Haney, dsesased,
Nancy Hsnsy, t 81. $

- =
nY virtue II N srdsF Of sale Issued By ths
Probate Court ef NonRoe County, Ohio,
and 70 me directed, will easr for sale, st
public auction, free Of dover, On the prsni.
ses, on a A s M
Saturday, tAs Sd day Of april 1850.
between the hears ef 10 sselosk . N. and
o'aloek p. n Of said day the following d.
|scrihsd real ssts4s sf Kyan Haney, decesssd.
70 Wit: ~ = sy,,5 -
The north hal. Of the nolthsast quarter ef
section IisJ ninsAssa, IN township ~ feaf,
Of vsngs t61 six, containing (e0l eighty
acres. 'e@fs -
Said premises % ordered 10 Be ssid 10 sp.
praised at q. .2oo. and may sell Tor tive thirds
Of said spprsisemsnt.- ss Esasai
Tsans OF SALB.--Ons third cash in hand,
one third In one ysas and one. third In two
years, With interest; deferred payments to be
secured my mortgage on the premises sold.
THOMAS MARTIN,
Adn'r of the sststs Of Ksan Hassy, ass'd.
neh2, ,'sewB. se a
erRices L DAssss, Attya. ,eyf
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sHERIFF's SALE.
Thomas Dillsn

Thonas Missels stal, Trsstsss.
nY virtue Of esrtsia vsali. sxpsnal
i issued from. the court Of 0smnsn pisas
within snd for the county Of Monroe
and 6tsts Of 0Ais. In . case psndirG IN said
court bsswesn The shove nsmsd- parties, and
TO ne directed, will offer ses sais q pubiie
auction at the east deer sf the court house
In Woedsneld. on
Saturdsy. the I7tA, dov Of Apyi, 1880.
bsswesn the hsurss Of 10 e'eleck ., =. and :
o'clock p. N. Of said day. the following Dc.
soribsd yssl estate, situate in Nesrss essa-
u, Ohio, to vit:
A shnrsh building known - the United
brethren in Chsists Chareh, situate IN frank
lin township. said eouasy, aud lscstsd o.
the ,seushsast quarter Of the southeast quas-
ter Of sscsion twenty two, township six and
range ssvsn.
eaid property - ordered 70 b ssld 10 ~.
praised ss 500, and may sell fer two.thisds
Of said sppfaissnsnt. Terms Of sale, eash
before esulrmation.
iFn Wu. E1AD,
nshls.'s0 Sheriff Y. 6. ..
ePIIsss 1 DRIsss, Attsrneys.
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DRESS MAKING,


ss% es:s - ~ nls=s
MISS .F.@A. JONES
las just reosived . new supply Of Spring
IL Patterns for Ladies', Misses and Chill
drsn, and solieits tks patronage Of the ladies
II woodsHsld and vicinity. She Il prepared
To DO FIRST CLASS WORK.
Also. cut and 6t for those who desire - have
them made elsewhere;
Patterns Of all styles for sals--aprl .'7su3
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,Es
sl.p q. A. L. MORRIS, ;,
REAL ESTATE AGENT,

JERUsALEM MONROE CO.. o.
CPRciAL attention paid 10 the selling and
~ trading sf fssms, and desire all persons
wishing 10 sell or trade their property 10
send ne thsir names and address, describing
their land and property, their lswsss cash
price. and whore they desire TO lecats. and |
will como and see them, OF write, ~ the case
may require, giving them all the Information
and assistapcs ! am able to give. intend
to devote my entire time and attention to
this business. and will msks no charge unless
make . sale for you. mean what say,
and wish you to write to me At Jerusalem,
Mon roe County, Ohio. ian2o, ,'Sotf.
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rRc splRif or DEnOCRACY.. Y.
fuRselY, HAiCH 80, 1859.
fSsssb sAvills 0asstts. 18th iast.l
Father Cull's Lecture Last Night

The ST. pstrjck's Soeiety, the Emerald
,Societv. thg Knights .of Erin and the
Ancient Order or Hlbernisns we're pres.
ent IL their reRalia. I'd
Altar he Cholrshad rendered few
choice and appropriate sslections of mu-
sic the Rev Father Gull OF Bsllaire, de-
hyered An interesting lecture on ST Pat i;
riek The following 10 IN outline OF his
r.m.rks: aB aas IA
Accordius to the received version OF
his hjs,ory 81 Patrick was born In the |
year 3s7. at Bnulogre, ON the coast oil
ficsr,iy. When he,aitAiusd the sge Of
sixteen be was captured BY some Irish |
deuredators, who had made an incursion |
Into Gaul, and wss sold into slavery. |
Ha remained slave about six ysars.
and on his return he spent four years In
the school Of ST Martin. Bishop Of
Tours, who was his cousin. Il wes in |
that school that he was said to have had |
Z vision, in which be received divine
call To po 10 Ireland. II may be that
shis 10 not an historical fact, yet his |
huo~ledRe OF the degradation OF the |
people anoue whom Sc had been I dave |
ana HE desire 4. .ArinQ them 10 kuowl |
edse OF the true God. mivht easIly lead
hin 10 believe that be had received q di.
,srs c.li from Heaven. gEs
In The wear <lS be visited ST German.
N. by whom be was baptissd. He was
eoaseersted IN the year l3l, BY Amator,
nishup Of Ebrssux, end was sent by St.
Cslestine 10 preach the faith to the lriah
He was not the irst missionary to preach
N. Ireland. for Paladius .,receded him; !;
be< uot 10 Palsdius, hnt 10 ST Patrick,
,bsloncs ne honor soS Apostle OF sshe
If;sh.
he found the religion OF the people to
d Ia uost degrading idolAtry, but they
soon tArev down theiF nltars with their
own hands. 4 stranger In strange
land, be csms to give Them new selig-
Ion and the rev God. He feared not
The result, bat preached openly and In
she presencs Of kings. He went ffom
eue paTt ofthe ssl6n6 70 she Other, seek
ins TIE cfoUsis of people on their great
national holidsys. Al the assembly IN
honor on 8G 0fycu. sons on AfmG0RnIuh
ks cooverss6 - psincss and IL 600 peo-
ole
He received donations Of money and
laed that n uieht esiabl,sh schools.
In the year ls9 the number Of Christ.
i.ps had become 90 great that he had
heea reeu,red 10 eoasecra,s i ersa. nan.
b6f q psissin. and fwc biskops, Ssson.
disns and Anxilios. 81
Ous 81 tke ereAt principles Of Saint
Ps,rick Ne thas The holy See was the
ssss Of saprepe authority. and the Bish-
op Of Rsns wss ths head 81 The Catho-I
lie church "Hhen any question srises
.hss 10 diflculs to be solved II is rightly
70 b sent 10 the chair OF the Apostle
IPeter. which hath The srpremacy." ~
Saint Patrick nav have written other
works but only his Confession and o.
single letter remain to us.
He died Il Saul in the year 465, and
was succesded in the See Of Armagh b,
Benienns,
In 40 the country had become entire
a.. s,~;, - ~. ~or,.l .e>d V.pv naor4
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Even the Austrian Dist hss made .
liberal appropriation for Ireland-e7b.
600 to pay the cost Of the EnPrsss's
fof.hanting TIP thefs.
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~ . week In ysuy own tswn. Terms and
Am IS susls fsss. oAadrsss y. HAILnss&
q rNtlxAd, Rsfns. dsssTST.
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Boston Suburbs.

Boston has, perhaps, the finest SUBJ
urbs of any city in America, if not in the
world. The population outside of the
city, within a radius of twenty miles of
the City Hall, is 100000. The roads
connecting these suburban cities, towns
and villages are as near perfect as roads
can be made, and no higher compliment
can be paid to them than to note the fact
that they are the paradise of the bicycle.
The house of the suburban Bostonian is
generally cosy and unpretentious, many
of the dwellings, being of wood, but the
grounds are marvels of culture-horti-
culture-and good taste. About $4,000
of the suburbans ride into Boston in the
morning and ride out again In the even
ing, and the collection of 100, 900 fares
every day forms a mammoth business by
itself. Steam railroads radiate IN every
direction, like iron spokes, from the
Hub; and from Cambridge, Chelsea,
Somerville, Newton and other towns jogs
the sloyaend sometimes sure street car
horse. Many of the suburbans use sea-.
son tickets. The Boston and Albany
Road brings in I, 900 season tickets every
day. The BSsnd and Maine carries in
l 800 daily and the Lowell Road an
equal number. The cheap package
tickets have reduced the number of sea-
son tickets. The Boston and Providence
Road sells $4,000 package tickets every
month. The rural Bostonian lives in his
suburban residence not only in summer,
but during the other three seasons as
well. A man with an easy conscience
and a horse and buggy can put in very
enjoyable time in the suburbs of Boston.
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An Ant Worth Going To.

There has lately been discovered a
species of ant which deserves to be at
once introduced to the attention of all
children, servants, and ladies keeping
house. No vestry should be ignorant of
the habits of so admirable a creature, and
sanitary boards of all kinds should with
out loss of time be put in possession of
the leading facts with respect to them.
This ant, it appears, abominates rub
bish. If its home is made in a mess it
gets disgusted, goes sadly away, and
never comes back. Dirt breaks its heart
The insect in question is a native of Co
lombia, and matches its eggs by artificial
heat, procuring for this purpose quanti-
ties of foliage, which in the course of
natural fermentation supply the neces-
sary warmth. When the young brood is
Matched the community carefully carry
away the decomposed rubbish that has
served its purpose as hotbed, and
stack it by itself at distance from the
nest.-LondOn Telegraph.
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A Chinese Restaurant.

We called at fashionable restaurant
Some wealthy tea-merchants were to en-
tertain delegation Of noted country
men that evening The first floor was
in the throes of cuisine agony for SO
great an occasion. Buns baked light
brown, with guests insignia of rank
burned on the top; little pyramids of
cherries, plums, and sliced oranges were
erected on sauce-dishes, one dish forming
a course. Heaps Of thin cakes and
pickles were Oh all sides. The refresh
ment rooms were upstairs, the first room
being for commoners, second for little
higher grade, the third for aristocracy.
In the latter an open scroll of gilded
iron ran up the sides and across the top,
from which hung silken curtain divid-
ing the apartments. The smaller por-
coursed most hideous jargon of sounds
while the guests ate. On raised dais
was a most exquisite china and gilt
opium pipe, with tubes, so'that they
could smoke at the end of the repast.
The other half of the room was hung
with highly-colored maps and pictures,
and furnished with quantity carved
chairs and tables in ebony and gilt.
Covers were laid for six at table, and
consisted simply of ivory chop sticks
three plates (the size of an individual
butter dish), in choice china and wine
glass holding tablespoonful. We in
dulged in cup of delicious tea served il
odd cups with covers, and partook spar
ingly of some dried fruit Some chopped
fddle-strings everyone declared looked
tempting, but no one had any appetite
The guests arrived before we left, ant
were preceded by the host, who usheret
them in with much ceremony and over
whelming salaams. They were hand
somely attired in blue broadcloth, taste
fully corded with black, and wore th'
red button of rank and opulence upol
their caps. After the ceremonies the,
settled down to easy chit-chat, ant
seemed to bubble over with humor ant
wit, which, of course, was lost on on
uneducated ears, but was greeted witt
shouts of applause by them. The mex
amusing thing was the waiter, who wa
so much inflated with the awfulness O
the occasion that he would swell into tn
room with an immense server, holding
as if bent to the ground with the weigh
of good things, in the centre of whicl
would repose, like an island in mid
ocean, single sauce-dish of rice ant
meat.-San Francisco Correspondence
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Lightning Strokes.

The fatalities from lightning are very
much greater in number and extent than
is generally supposed. In European
Russia alone, the deaths for five years
1870-74-were ,452 men and S1Swomen.
No fewer than 1902 fires are here also
officially reported from the same cause
during this period. In Prussia, where
the registration of the causes of death is
exceptionally careful, 1,004 persons were
reported as killed by lightning in the nine
years from 1869 to 1877. If we may trust
the report of our Registrar General this
country is more fortunate in this regard,
for during the same period only 1874 such
deaths are registered for England and
Wales; but our returns are admittedly
incomplete
In Austria-from 1860 to 1877 (eight
years)-hghtning occasioned upward of
10000 fires, and destroyed more than
1,700 lives. In Switzerland the returns
seem curiously variable. For example,
in 1866 only three such deaths are re-
ported; while in 1877 we find as many as
thirty. OF the deaths by lightning in
France M. Boudin some years ago col.
lected statistics which showed that during
the thirty years, beginning in 1884 and
were struck dead by lightning in that
country. During the last ten years OF
this period the deaths amounted to $50,
Nothing, indeed, is more striking in these
statistics than the uniform preponderance
in the numbers of the male over the fe,
male sex. With the exception of Swe.
den-where for some reasonnote planned
and not easily to be imagined, this pre-.
ponderance is not so observable-there
seems to be generally about two men
killed to one woman. The traveller who
accounted for the immunity of the Swed
ish women by their comparative tlack ot
personal attractions was as ungallant
and we believe, moreover, as incorrect in
his fact as he was certainly wanting il
the decorum that forbids jesting on seri
Gus subjects. The country seems inva
riably to suffer more than the town; the
village more than the great city
Public buildings fare, it seems, little
better than private houses, though cen
tury and a quarter has elapsed since
Franklln's famous experiment with the
kite demonstrated the possibility of con
trolling the electric fluid, and nearly {
century has passed since the learned
taking interest in lightning conductors
were divided into hostile factions ON the
famous question Of ''knobs or points.
Mr.. Anderson estimates that at least one
half, and perhaps two-thirds of the pub
lie buildings, including the churches ant
,hapels, of Great Britain and Ireland
are without any protection against light
ming; while it is believed that not five ou
of thousand private houses are fittet
with conductors. ST. Pauls was among
the first buildings in Europe to be pro
tected, Benjamin Franklin's "ightnins
rods" having been first set up over ST
Christopher Wren's dome, in 1768.-
| London NeUs.
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lord Marchmont's Recipe for Lon
geyitV.

Lord Marchmont, the friend of Pope,
lived to the age of eighty-six, preserving
his strength and faculties to the last.
Sir John Sinclair wished to ascertain the
system he pursued, and received for an
swer that he had laid down when young
one maxim, to which he rigidly adhered,
namely: Never to mix his wines
What luxurious PHILOSOPHERS some
people have! My Lord Marchmont was
resolved to be a long-lived, virtuous,
venerable man; and therefore he laid
the maxim "never to mix his wines. 1"
To get one glass of wine is what some
human beings, bent double with age, toll
and rheumatism, can seldom hope for !;
while another of the race, having moth
ing to bind him and nothing to do, shall
become an example of the beanty of the
maxim" to mix your wines. I"
Lord M. did accordingly for many years
restrict himself to the use of claret, but
his physicians having forbidden him to
take wine, he resolved, with equal self
denial, to "confine himself to Burgundy"
and accordingly with perseverance that
cannot be sufficiently commended, he
"took bottle of it every day for fifteen
years."
All we have to lament iC that thou
sands as good people as this noble lord,
have not an atom either of his pleasure
or his leisure.
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Dreams.

In regard to the not unfrequent incl
dents which happens in human exper-
ience, of ones dreaming that death or
calamity has overtaken friend or rela-
tive, and afterwards discovering that the
catastrophe came to pass ut the exact
minute of the dream, scientists say, al
lowance is not made for the difference in
time between the place where the dreamer
lives and the place where the death oc-
ours. Thereupon San Francisco woman
dreamed that her father in New England
was run over and killed by the cars. She
awoke and looked at the clock. 1t was
midnight A week afterward, she says
that she received the news of her father 8
death exactly as she dreamed it, and it
happened at 9 o'clock in the evening OF
the night on which she saw the occur
ence in her sleep. The exact difference
of three hours in the time, she argued,
made her dream and her fathers death
tally exactly But some cold-blooded
critic points out that there is mistake
somewhere; because when it is midnight
in San Francisco, it is three o'clock In
the morning in New England, hence,
according to her own story her father
was killed six hours before she saw him
Ole. "A correspondent u IAe NeW LII
Evening Post points out a similar dis
crepancy in Bret Harte's poem "He1
Letter." IN which a New York girl
dressed just as she came from the
Dance" is described as writing to her
lover. miner in the "far West" She
ends it up by bidding him "good night,
If the longitude please, for while she sis
wasting her taper, his "sun's climbing
over the trees" The poet has got things
twisted because the sun rises in New
York three hours before it does in San
Francisco, and if it were one or two O'Clock
in the morning after the dance when she
was writing to her lover, he, instead o.
watching the sun rise was, if good
young man of regular habits, like all
Pacific coast miners, just getting into
bed. One needs to remember when cal
culating differences of time, that, al
though the sun appears to move from
East to West, the earth actually does
move from West to East, and that peo
pie West of us are, at any given moment
doing what we were doing several min
utes or hours ago, not what we will be
doing by and by. On the contrary
Eastern people have finished doing fol
the day or night what we are doing at the
present moment.-Free Press.
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Remarkable Clock.

The Strasburg clock is a very remark
able astronomical clock, constructed
about 1870, by Isaac Hobrecht, and now
in the cathedral at that city, but there is
a still more remarkable clock at Detroit,
Mich, the work of Mr. Felix Meier,
mechanic. 1t. stands eighte IN feet ir:
height, and is inclosed in a black walnut
frame, deliberately carved and ornament
ed. The crowning figure is that of
Liberty" ON a canopy over the head of
Washington, who is seated on marble
dome. The canopy is supported by col
umns on either side On inches below,
at the four corners of the clock, are four
human figures, representing 'Infancy,"
youth, Manhood" and ''Age;" eacl:
has bell in one hand and q hammer i'll
the other. The inches are supported by
angels with faring torches, and over the
center is the figure of Father Time. At
the quarter hour the figure of the infant
strikes its tiny bell; at the half hour the
figure of the youth strikes his bell of
louder tone: at the third quarter the man
strikes his bell, and at the full hour the
gray-beard Then the figure of Time
steps out and tolls the hour, as two small
figures throw open doors in the column
on either side of Washington, and pro-
cession of the Presidents of the United
States follows. AS the procession moves
Washington rises and salutes each figure
as it passes, and it in turn salutes him.
They move through the door on the other
side, and it is then closed behind them.
The procession moves to the accompani-
ment of varied music by the clock itself.
The mechanism also gives the correct
movement of the planets round the sun,
comprising Mercury, which makes the
revolution once in 88 days; Venus, in 224
days; Mars, in 685 days; Vesta, in 1927
days; Juno, in 1888 days; Ceres, in l,
6S1 days; Jupiter. in 1892 days; Saturn,
in % years: Uranus, in 81 years. AS
these movements are altogether too slow
to be popularly enjoyed, theinventor has
added device by which he can haster
the machinery to show its workings to the
public There are dials which show the
hour, minutes and seconds in Detroit,
Washington, New York, San Francisco,
London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, st. Pc
tersburg, Oonstantinople, Cairo, Pekin,
and Melbourne. The clock also shows
the day of the week and month in De.
troit, the month and season of the year,
the changes of the moon, etc. 1t is said
that Mr.. Meier has worked on this clock
nearly ten years, and for the last foul
years has devoted his whole time to it.
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THE sum voted YEARLY for the Catholic

The sum voted yearly for the Catholic
clergy in France is,51 900, 900 francs. VI
this sum 5000 francs go to the Arch
bishop of Paris and 10000 francs to the
Archbishop Algiers. Sixteen other Arch
bishops get 5000 francs each, and
sixty-nine Bishops each 10000 francs.
Toward the expenses of diocesan vista
tions 1000 million francs are contrib
uted. The Vicar General of Paris re-
ceives 4,500 francs; eighteen metropoli-
tan vicar generals each $500 francs, and
one hundred and sixty-seven other vicar
generals each $500 francs. Minor grants,
varying from 2,400 francs, go to canonss,
cures, and other members of the ecclesi-
astical body. Pensions and aid to infirm
and aged priests amount to total OF
SS7, 900 francs.
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SOMERSET, OHIO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER II, $780,

noyed, but on being asked to write the
name of his birth place, wrote only
"alone, alone, alone" A woman in
hospital, afflicted after this fashion,
wrote her name and address thus:
L,aanU sSicldd ,Satreni,
iSu1est Nut is MeU tim
lam.
This bore no resemblance to her real
name and address.
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The Actors Hard Times.

Take the histories of any of the great
artists now so well known all over the
English-speaking world = Miss Lotta,
Maggie Mitchell, Annie Pixley. John T.
Raymond, Billy Florence, Ed Harrigan,
John Mccullough, Joe Murphy, the
Williamsons, Tony Hart, Emily Rigl,
Annie Ward Tiffany and others, whose
names would fill column. All of these
struggled against fate, one would have
thought, in their callow days, and sur
mounted difficulties that would have
crushed less bold or persevering people.
The record OF the California stage shows
how terrible were the hardships some of
these persons endured, and how gigantic
were the obstacles to be overcome. Miss
Annie Pixley, who has made such a repu-
tation in " NJ M'iss," told us herself, when
she was playing at the Standard theatre
last season, that she went through scenes
the Golden States that were calculated to
appeal the stoutest-hearted men in her
company. Frequently she had no better
stage on which to play than three billiard
tables put together. Five or six shawls
pinned together sufficed for drop-cur-
tain, and the scenery was lit up by
tallow dips. Imagine Lady Macbeth
on billiard table, or melancholy
Dane on a green baize cloth. Miss Lotta
began her theatrical career at San Fran.
cisco in the rear of Mike Colfen's Cheap
John store as a jig dancer. Ed. Harri-
gan was caulker, but discovered one
night on the Pacific slope that he could
do more with burnt cork than he could
with oakum and pitch. Maggie Moore
and Mary Anderson could tell queer
stories of their early struggle for fame
out west, and John T. Raymond would
make quite respectable sum of money
by the publication Of the memoirs of his
life and its vicissitudes. .-Ercha,Qe.