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The daily gazette., 1880-01-20
Rate Of Interests for Governments.

The New York Times of Monday
morning says: "Senator Morrill, holds
that with a per cent 30-year bond the
government could gain all the advantage
that could be reaped from bond at a
lower rate, with longer term. In the
house committee on ways aud means the
proposition of Mr.. Fernando Wood was
discussed, and his long bond received q
good deal of sharp criticism. No one
disputes that rate of interest MS low as
can be obtained should be striven for,
but it is quite absurd to impose restric-
tions on the treasury which, while hav-
ing low rate of interest for their OBJ
iect, shall defeat refunding, or secure IL
only under conditions that neutralize a
portion of the benefits to be derived from
a low rate. Up to the present time the
subject has been treated with indifier-
ence by congress, but its importance not
only to the government, but to all inter
ested in the proper adjustment, but to
all interested in the treasury to the loan
market, cannot safely be ignored"
The daily gazette., 1880-01-20
LINENS.

A large exhibit Of Table Linens,
Towels and Napkins, at attractive
prices.
The daily gazette., 1880-01-20
Gentle Stock GansbIi,sg.

ELEGANT PARLoRs WHERE WEALTHY
WOMEN OF A SPECULATIVE TURN
MAY INVESTS IN "sTRADDLEs," !"
"PUTs" AND "CALLs" LIKE THE
WALL STREET MEN.
A ladies' Stock Exchange, for the ex-
elusive use of those of the gentler sex,
who are possessed with a speculative de-
sire, has been established In the brown
stone private dwelling No. 40 West
Twenty fourth street. The two lower
floors have been set apart for this bust
ness, and will be open daily from 10 a.
m. TO 5 p. m. for ladies of known charac-
ter and position. The rooms are sup
piled with stock and news indicators
and telephone, and it is proposed as
the volume of business increases to con-
meet the rooms with brokers' offices by
telegraphic wire. The business is to be
conducted strictly according to the cast
iron rules of the New York Exchange,
the minimum order being for 100 share
lots. The manager is Mrs. M. b. Favor,
who owns the house, and the transac-
tions, she says, will be made through a
responsible firm of brokers. The orders
to sell or buy will be communicated by
telephone to the brokers, who are to
keep each separate transaction precisely
as II the order were given on the Stock
Exchange, and Mrs. Favor says that con-
tracts can be made, executed and news
of it received within six minutes. The
"contract" business, better known as
"puts" and "calls," will be conducted
for the ladies through Russell Sage, who
has won the pseudonym Of "The Nestor
of Straddles."
About year ago Anthony Dimmock
started ladies' room in connection with
his Uptown Exchange on Broadway, but
the publicity OF the rooms made ladies
timid about entering, and short time
ago the establishment of Ladies' Stock
Exchange was agitated, and resulted In
the present venture by Mrs. Favor. The
Exchange was formally opened yester-
day morning for business, though little
specuating has been INDUCED in since
Friday, when one lady bought LOUIS
Vile and Nashville at 98, and sold out
on Saturday at Ill, clearing $1,000 by
the transaction.-N. Y. Star.
The daily gazette., 1880-01-20

The Way of Some Women.
From the Boston Post.
We know of man whose wife doesn't
kiss him because he smokes. She kisses
him because she loves him.
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20
Leap.Year Difficulties.

He was a nice young man, with cane,
high hat and patent leather boots. He
strolled leisurely down Fourth avenue,
putting dsintlly upon cigarette, and oc-
casionally twirling the waxed ends of
his mustache. He was accosted by a
stout woman with q BOrid complexion.
"Top of the mornin' to We, Mister
Charley" said she.
"Good morning, Mrs. McGuinness," J"
said the nice young man.
"Me darlint boy, would ye-" and
she bestowed bewitching smile upon
him. He lodged out of her reach. The
recollection that it was leap-year rushed
upon him. He answered.:
"Madame-really-I can't-1 am very
sorry if cause you pain-but my af
fections have already been bestowed
upon another-and, madame cant
can't marry you."
She gazed at him in astonishment
and then said, Indignantly: "Wht
axed ye to marry me! The idea of thu
loikes of me, a poor lone wildly, wild foul
children to support by washin', AKIN u
to marry me. l was only goin' to Ak "
ior that dollar for washin'."
He sighed and gave her a dollar, ant
walked sadly away.
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20

Twas taken by a friend. says Paris
correspondent, to see the wonderful
plaster casts of living human beings
which are among the curiosities OF the
Russian department. How the thing
is done it is impossible to imagine but
there the two statues are, recumbent
female figures, undoubtedly taken from
living women. One lies slightly turned
upon her side, her lips Parted in a smile,
as though she was trying to suppress
laugh. The other, who was much the
finer of the two, lies face downward,
her feet crossed and her head pillOwed
on her folded arms as though she had
thrown herself down to sleep. The
minutest details of the texture OF the
skin, nails, ETC., are very perfectly re-
produced, the "goosefesh wherewlth
the skin is covered being amusingly
noticeable, and showing that the pre-
paration used for these casts, the COM
position whereof is secret, must De
applied cold. Then all the little in.
dentations in the soles OF the feet and
the palms of the hands, and the curve
of the nails and their trimmings OF skin
and flesh are produced with startling
accuracy. The process By which these
figures are produced is still secret, but
ii is certainly a wonderful discovery.
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20
Perpetual Motion.

Albert Pietrewski. Pole, living in
New York, has a motor which he de.
ciares when once started will run till it
wear out.
The model that he exhibits consists of
a pair of hollow metal wheels, four feet
in diameter, which revolve on the same
axis. but in opposite directions. The
moving power is nine metal balls placed
within the wheels so as to bear the rim
down at first, and then gravitate toward
the axis, where a side groove runs the
balls of to grooved radius of the wheel
revolving in the opposite direction.
Four balls were placed in the grooved
radii of the first wheel and four in the
radii of the second, and when the mo-
mentum had been gained, the ninth
ball was added, to give additional power.
To the axles of the wheels, which is also
the axle of smaller groOved wheels that
regulate the speed of the machinery,
the shafting is applied.
"Give me n cast iron wheel sixty feet
in diameter" said Mr.. Pietrowski, "and
/ will show you a motor of 300 horse
power, that requires nothing to keep il
in operation. 1t will continue to run
until the material is worn out"
Severalof the engineers who witnessed
the working of the Pietrowski machine
Yesterday, were sanguine in the opinion
that for all practical purposes, leaving
out the engine of the locomotive and
steamboat, it will be found of great
value
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20

Years passed by, during all of which
Tom had looked in vain for his early
friend, the stranger. in his timid awk-
wardness, he had not thought to ask the
name of his benefactOr, and the only
opportunity to do so had been lost.
Well, years slid away, and Tom was
elected member of Congress from the
very county where he spent his stiug
Cling boyhood.
He went to Washington, not in cow
hide shoes and butternut. colOred home
spun, but dressed something as imae-
ination had pictured, as he looked
after his benefactOr, on the eventful
day of the sleighride.
A nobler looking man, the ladies in
the galleries said, never Rad appeared
upon the floor, than this Yankee men,
Der, who, if ne spoke through his nose,
always drove his arrows home to the
mark.
One day there appeared in the House
the venerable form of an ex-member,
whom all present delighthed to honor.
/ 1t needed but one glance at the genial
face for Tom to recognize in him the
giver of the Latin grammar.
g He mad come ne said, to listen
to the gentleman who had so manfully
defended the right, and to wish him
God speed"
"lf," said Tom, with his old modesty
ait has been my good fortune to do any
thing for our country in the hour Ol
her peril, / owe my ability to do so, in
a great measure, to yourself
"To mew echoed the astonished gen
tleman: to me! do not recOllect
ever having had the pleasure Of meeting
you before in my life.'
"Ah. sir, have you forgotten, then
the little school-boy among tine hills O.
New Hampshire, to whom you so kindly
sold Latin grammar"
The gentleman mused.
"Soid-sold Latin grammar! Nov
that you recall the incident, l do recol
lect little fellow who interested me
and to whom gave some school books
"Weli, sir, am that boy. You tolt
me that might pay. for them when
got to Congress. If you will honor mi
by meeting a few friends at dinner,
| will settle the bill"
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20
A Curiosity.

For some years the following sentence
has stood as the shortest into which all
the letters of the alphabet coald be COM
pressed:
~. Gray: Pack with my box five
dozen quails."'
The above sentence contains thirty.
three letters. A Utica gentleman re-
Gently improved on it as follows. using
only thirty-two letters:
"Quick, glad zephyre, watt my javelin
box"
George w. Pierce, a Boston lawyer,
has now forced the twenty-six letters Of
the alphabet into q sentence of only
thirty-one letters, as below:
"Z. Badger: Thy vixen jumps quicl
at fowl"
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20
VOLUME XII.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

A pretty dear is dear 10 me,
A hare with downy hair,
! love hart with all my heart, D..
But barely bare bear.
IT'S plain that no one takes plane
To have pair OF pears,
A rake, though. often takes a rake
-. To tear away the iares
AT rayS raisr thyme, time raises all;
And through the whole. hole wears,
a writ in writing Fright" may write
IL wright" and still De wrong.
For "wrisht" and "rite" are neither right"
And don't TO wright belong.
Beer often brings bier TO man,
Coughing coffin brings,
And too much ale will make us all
As well as ether things.
The person lies who says he lies
When he is but reclining,
And when consumtive folks decline,
They all decline declining.
A Iuail don't quail before a storm;
A bongh will bow before it;
We csnnOt rem the rain at ALL
No earthly powers regh DER 1t.
The dyer dies awhile, then dies;
To dye he's always trying
Until upon his dying bed,
He thinks no more Of dyeinc.
A son of Mars mars many a sun;
All deys must have their days,
And every knight should pray each night
To him who weighs his ways.
lis meet that man shoud mete out meat
Ts feed mi.iortune's son;
The fair should fare on love alone,
Else one cannot be won.
A lass, alas, is sometimes false;
OF faults a maid Is made;
Her waist is but barren waste
Though stage she not stad.
The springs sTrng forth in spring, and shoots
Shoot forward one and all;
Though summer kills the flowers, il leaves
The leaves 10 fall in fall.
would a story here commence,
Bat YOU might find it stale;
20 lets suppose that we have reached
The tail end Of our tale.
-Chicnco Inter- Ocean.
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20
the entrance of some of these vaga-

bends.
THE various manufacturing estab-
lishments in Columbus, Ga, give en-
plOvment to POI adult males, 100 fc.
males and $50 children-a total os
2,G4l persons. This is the number
steadily employed. In times of unusual
activity it is frequently doubled. The
population of Columbus is about $1,000.
AT the State Agricultural Convention
at Cuthbert, GA, Prof. VIM. NJ Browne
reported experiments on corn and cot
ton conducted the past year at the ex-
perimental farm in Athens, showing that
cotton seed or stable manure will furnish
all the ammonia needed In making COM
posts on the farm.
THE heavy rains among the mountains
of Tennessee did considerable damage to
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad by
causing landslides. Hundreds of thoI-
s,nds of dollars will be required after
this road is turned over to the carrier
company for completion and mainten-
ance, to put it in complete and perma-
nent running condition.
THE Lynchburg (Va.) Ne'cs learns
from a reliable gentleman who has just
passed over the Huntington route from
st. Louis, that large numbers of negroes
are actually returning on foot, and that
the Chesapeake and Ohio road is lined
with them, making their way back to
North Carolina He remarked that they
were not bringing any of the fine farms
with them, nor half of the good clothes
they wore away.
Ten years ago large colony of Gel
mans from Cincinnati, none of whom
could speak English, purchased tract
of land in Lawrence County, Tenn.
said to contain 4, 100 acres. 1t has since
been discovered that it contained only
2,O57 acres, and they were defrauded Gu
of So, 500, besides the interest on thi
amount for ten years. The colon!
has brought suit in the Supreme Cour
at Nashville for the recovery of thi
sum.
The Commissioner of Agriculture ha
received reports informing him of tn
existence Of asbestos in several localitie
of the State, and some specimens hav
been sent to him. He tested them il
the fire and found that the fibres, eve,
when separated from each other, woult
stand white heat. He intends, as sooI
Is possible, to send out an agent ana
have the deposits inspected with view
Of ascertaining their exact quality and
their probable extent and value.-Cot
umbia IS. CO. Register.
MATT. WooDLEIF, the Texas des.
perado, gambler and murderer, the
Tread of Houston and South Texas, was
killed at Lake Charles, La, on Monday
Many years ago Woodlief shot and
killed a man in Columbus, Texas, and
,fterwaid became q desperate character
In 1873 he attacked and fought street
iuel with Alexander Erickson, Chief Of
Police at Houston, Texas. About ter
shots in all were fred with revolvers
Both men were shot down on Mair
, street, and lay within a few yards O.
each other. Woodlief was shot in th'
I hip and his hip-bone was broken by {
!. bail, and Erickson was shot through tn
1 thigh and the bone broken. Both re
o covered, but we're cripples. But fe'
regret Woodlief's taking of, as he wa
d a terror in Texas. and, in fact, there !
' rejoicing that he was killed.
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20

WHEN one of those overcrOwded
elevator trains in New York jumps the
track and kills q lot of people. the
managers can't say that that they didn't
Know it was loaded when it went of.
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20

To make q suberb soup use the proper
soup herbs.
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20
The Labor OF an Editor.

The London Times, speaking of the
work of an editor, says it can only be
appreciated by those who have had some
experience in it. The meerest slip OF
the pen, an epithet too much, a wrong
date, a name missrelt, or with wrong
initial before it, the misinterpretatiOn
of some passage, perhaps incapable OF
Interpretation, the most trifiing Offense
to the personal or national susceptibility
of those who do not even profess to care
for the feelings of others, may prove
not only disagreeable, but even costly
mistakes; but they are about the least
of the mistakes to which an editor is
liable. The editor must be on the spot
till the paper is sent to the press, and
make decisions on which not only the
approval of the public, but even great
causes, may hang. He can not husband
his strength with comparative repose
in the solitude of a study, or the fresh
ress of green fields. He must see the
world, converse with its foremost or
busiest actors, be open to information
and on guard against error. All this
should be borne in the mind by those
who complain that journalism is not in
fallibly accurate, just and agreeable.
What Dickens Said to the Boy.
When Charles Dickens visited Amer
ica for the first time he stayed a few
days-says an old writer in the Repub-
Hcan, of Spring6eld-at the old City
Hotel in Hartford, occupying rooms on
the first floor, which had windows reach
ing nearly to the street level. A Hartford
lad, who has since become distinguished
citizen, appeared at school one morn
ing and loudly proclaimed that he had
not only seen Mr.. Dickens at the hotel,
but that the great novelist had spoken
to him. Deeply did his mates envy the
youth, but his noble spirit was shortly
tanned when it was finally ascertained
that he had climbed up on the window
sill o. room where Mr.. Dickens wa
shaving, and that the latter had turned
at the noise, and razor in hxnd, waived
him away with q stern $50 away
boy"
Richland beacon., 1880-03-20

AN Albany woman brings suit against
q telephone company for trespass in
putting its wires on the roof OF her
building. 1t isn't the trespass, however
that troubled her SO much as the fact
that there is gossip going on over her
head that she cannot get hold OF.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-08
DO 1t Well.

Whatever you do, do ii well. A Job
slighted, because Ii is apparently unim-
portant, leads 10 habiiual negligence,
that men degenerate insensibly in their
workmen
That is a good rough job, said an old
man in our hearing. recently, and he
meant that it was a piece of work not
elegant in itself, but strongly made and
well put together.
Training the hand and eye TO do work
well leads individuals TO form correct
habits in other respects, and n good
workman Is. in most cases. n good citi-
zen. For one need hope to rise above
his present situation who suffers small
things to pass by unimproved, or who
neglects, metaphorically speaking. TO
pick up cent because IL Is not dollar.
Some of the wisest lawmakers, the
best statesmen, the most gifted artists.
the most mercifui judges. the most ingen-
ious mechanics, rose from the great
mass.
A rival OF certain lawyer sought TO
humilate him publicly by saying: "Y ou
blacked my fathers boots once" Yes"
replied the lawyer unabashed. land l
did IL we'll" And because of his doing
even mean things well, he rose to
greater.
Take heart, all who toill all youths in
humble situations, all in adverse cir
cumstAnce. and those who labor unap-
preciated. If 1t be put to drive the
pillow, strive TO do it well; If IL be but
TO wax threads, wax 1t well: IL only TO
cut bolts, make good ones; or TO blow
the bellows, keep the iron hot. IL Is
attention 10 business that lifts the feet
higher up on the ladder.
Says the good book; " Seest thou >
man diligent in his business, he shall
stand before kings; he shall not stand
before mean men"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-08
A Woman's Life Work.

Miss Nancy n. Clough died in En-
field. n. H., recently, aged eighty years
and three months. The story OF the
life OF this woman, says IA writer in the
Boston Journal, seems more like ro-
nance than reality. 1t may well be
called romance in real life. She was
the oldest of family of ten children,
five of whom are still living. While
she was vet young her fathers farm in
Enfield became heavily encumbered,
and was likely TO be sold under the
hammer; his health, too, was broken
down, and the future Of that family ap-
peared well-nigh hopeless. Nancy,
foreseeing the disastrous consequences
threatening the future, resolved TO save
the dear home. and went TO work with
heroic energy TO carry the resolution
into effect. She enlisted her brother
Thcophilus, next younger than herself,
in the laudablc enterprise, who cordi
ally seconded her efforts and gave his
efficient aid.
Learning Of the factories that had
Just started in Lowell, Mass. she left
Eom @, and went To that city to find re-
mum eratiyc work. She entered one of
the factories rs an humble operative,
but wrought with such energy and
cAilt ~ NohEtolu piiHh lnpit WIN Nllian
two ordinary operatives, receiving
more than double pay. Every leisure
moment outside OF the mills was also
faithfully employed TO the same end. AS
her younger sisters and brothers came
To q suitable age she summoned their
ready help. while she was the ruling.
directing genius and moving power in
the undertaking.
The result was, that. after some years
of persistent efforts, the mortgage was
lifted from the farm. and the old home
was free from every claim that others
held upon it. Then she decided that
the house must be II built and rcfur-
nished. and the grounds beautified, and
when all was done. the brave girl went
back TO the home of her childhood,
with three sisters and one brother, 10
pass lhe remainder of their days.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-08

Slices of brown bread and dried beef
disappeared rapidly. Johnnie was.
awakened TO have his share; and we
would have walked Lizzie, too, but
mother said "No."
TOO bad. The last spark of fire is
out, or you would have n cup of tea,
Marmie." / said.
Never mind! This is an earnest of
better things. We shall have wood to-
morrow. Father will come. You will
see. How thankful | am for this sup
ply. And who could have brought itp"
She said these last words over again
and again, as did we all. ! do think |,
for one, was really thankful TO God that
night.
At last we got to bed again sooner
than we should, 1 suppose; but the
cold drove us there. But sleep did no.
me awake. Was there really Santa
Claus, thenP j, boy fourteen years
old, could hardly help believing it. We
had not a neigh Dor, that could think
of, who was rich enough 10 give us such
IA bountiful Christmas present.
Father came early next day, bringing
money that he had earned, Ind more-a
letter from grandma, enclosing Il check
for n hundred dollars. She said it was
her Christmas present, and another like
it should come in the spring, TO help
build that house. She had had wind.
fall, and we should enjoy our share OF
it at once. 1t was joyful Christmas.
Mother was right, rs she generally is.
Our crops were good this year, and our
Christmas Of the following year did not
find us in n dug-out.
Mother found out afterward that it
nobody else that put those things down
our chimney Christmas eve. She never
would have done such thing for any
body but mother, though, / am sure.
She thinks there is nobody like our
mother. And | guess think so. too
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-08

a young man who had recently ar
rived from the Fast was engaged at the
United States fish-hatching establish
ment on McCloud river. One day las'
week he took rowboat and pulled up
the river n short distance, crossed to the
opposite side. and prepared TO 60 ashore
Just as he was stepping out of the bosi
the young man looked up on the bank
over his head, and saw what he thoughit
was n large mastiff dog. " Some OF
those Indians have stolen him" ne
thought 10 himself. and ] will take
him home with me-" Climbing tne
trail with difficulty. he was soon lace 70
face with his mastif. He whistlcd' ana
snapped his thumb and fingers, coax.
ingiy. but instead of taking his advances
kindly. the animal uttered n low growl'
and oscillating his tail from side to sloe'
prepared TO go for that young man;
The latter. now terribly alarmed, started
for his boat. tumbling headlong down
the hill. and just managed TO get into ms
craft and push it into the stream as ah
immense speciment Of the California li9h
landed upon the shore. OF course, me
lion would not axe t6 the water, so 'he
Young man was safe; but he says nc
shall oe carftll how he makes overtufts
To strange dogs in strange country
after this. He was entirely unarmea n
the time, and after he got into ms BOAT
heard the growls of another in the busn,
showing that evidently there was par
nfthe creatures. v Portland Orfgo'f'e'''