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The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-20

A true assistant to nature in restor-
ing the system tn perfect heiAth, thus
enabling it to resist disease, is Browns
Iron Bitters.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-20
Gard to The
PUBLIC.

We take this OPP
pOrtunity to inform
our patrons and the
Public in general
that we have a full
stock of everything
pertaining to a first
class country store.
We do not sell
goods at less than
cost, unless, as it
happens sometimes
we have goods on
hand that have de-
precIateu In value,
but, we claim to sell
them at as small a
profit as possible.
Thankful for past
favOrs we will en-
deavOr to merit a
continuance of the
same.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-20
No Khskey!

No Mhskey!
Browns IRON BITTERs
is one Of the very few tonic
medicines that are not COM
posed mostly of alcohol or
whiskey, thus becoming a
fruitful source Of intemper-
ance by promoting a desire
for rum.
Browns IRON BITTERs
is guaranteed to be a nom
Intoxicating stimulant, and
it will, in nearly every case,
take the place Of all liquor,
and at the same time abso-
lutely kill the desire for
whiskey and other intoxi-
eating beverages.
Rev. G. W. RICE, editor OF
the american Christian Re
vTrU, says of Browns Iron
Bitters:
Gin, o., Nov. rs, 1881.
Gents The foolish vast
ing of vital force in business,
pleasure, and vicious indul-
gence of our people, makes
your preparation a necessity;
and il applied, will save hum
dreds who resort to saloons
for temporary recuperaton.
BRowN's IRON BITTERs
has been thoroughly tested
for dyspepsia, indigestion,
biliousness, weakness, debil-
ity, overwork, rheumatism,
neuralgia, consumption,
liver complaints, kidney
troubles, &C., and it never
fails to render speedy and
permanent relief
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-20
Other rellsntFeature

Other Excellent Features
1. All the News, Complete and interss-
ing.
Q. The Farmers world-A full page Of
Agricultural and Farm News.
q. The Literary .World-A full page Of
Long stopies and Short Stories, Com
ic Ballads and Serious Poems Fairy
Tales and Sailors Yarns.
4. The Housekeepsr's Colunn-whst
Every Woman Wants to Know.
s. lhe Veterinary Departnsnt-with
prescriptions free for all Subscribers,
and full instructions for the treat
ment of live stock.
& The best Chess Column in the world
for Amateur players.
2. Tho best Checker Depart nent in tho
world for both Amateur and profess
sional players.
8. A Corner for the Young Folks-Rid-
dies, haradss, Puzzles, Enigmas,
Acrostics &c.
8. Complete Market Reports-Unhvalled
in detail and accuracy.
10. Answers to Inquiries.
Each department is perfect of it's kind,
and all combined make the best
Weekly Newspaper ever published.
The New York World has no su
perior on either side of Wa
ter as a Live, Brilliant,
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paper.
Unequallsd Offers
To Club Agents.
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WORLD BUILDING, NEW YoRK.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1882-11-08

A man considerably under the in
iiuence Of liquor strayed into the office
of the Inter-Ocean last night. He
said he was the champion lightweight
fighter of Montana, and was spelling
for some one to 'tread on the tail of
his coat" He fell up against Jim, the
good nature'l porter, who accom-
moIated him. He simply threw him
over his shouler and landed him In
the ash box ia ,he back yard, where
he slept of his debauche and struck
"ut this morning in the direction of
billings.
"Watcrwagon jack" Is ut loss to
know why he should he arrested SIM
ply because some lunatic shoots at him.
The officer would have displayed bet
ter judgment in taking in the shootist,
and making an example of him.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04
The Lick Observatory.

Concerning the Lick observatory the
San Jose (Cal.) Times says: The OBJ
servatory is situated on the lowest of the
peaks of the mountain, at an elevation
of 4 ,2S5 feet above the sea. We found
here ample testimony that the $4,000
which Captain Frazer has paid out this
year has been wisely expended. Almost
One-half of the observatory proper is now
being rooted. When completed it will
be 210 feet long, with width in the
center of 60 feet, and is 40 at each side.
At one end of this structure stands
dome 80 feet in diameter at the base and
46 feet high, in which is mounted fine
twelve-inch refracting telescope. This
instrument is twice the size of any other
glass in the State, and is capable of a
power of l POO diameters. 1t can cause
the moon, which is almost 100000 miles
away, to appear as though it were but
200 miles distant. The remainder of the
finished section of the building will be
devoted to a clock room, q large work
shop, a dormitory and waiting room,
and a reception room for visitors. The
excavation for the great dome is so feet
diameter. The dome will be built on
the solid rock and will be occupied by
the famous thirty-six inch refractor.
This glass is the largest in the world,
the next in order being the Vienna re-
tractor, twenty-seven inches, the tele-
scope at the Naval observatory at Wash
ington, twenty-six inches, the Newhall
instrument at Newcastle, England,
twenty-five inches, and the recently
erected refractor at the Halsted observa-
tory, Princeton, twenty-three inches.
The focal length necessary for the Lick
telescope can not be determined until
object glass is tested. Hence it is now
impossible to build the dome for its re-
ception, for its length may be anywhere
from forty to sixty feet Two small
structures adjoining the main building
are already supplied with apparatus in
dispensable to the astronomer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A gentleman had his picture taken
recently; cost him 5000 and still he is not
happy A fellow took it out of the hall
when the latch was up.-BOSton COM
mercidJ Bulletin.
I'm what condition was the patri-
arch Job at the end of his life?" asked
Sunday-school teacher of a quiet-looking
boy at the foot of the class. Dead"
calmly replied the quiet-looking boy.
When Troy man disappears mys-
teriously, his wife sends round among
the neighbors to find out whose wife is
unaccountcd for. A woman has curl
osity about such matters. Boston Post.
A domestic is being sent away.
Madame, if you wish to look at my
trunk" 1T is useless, girl" Ma
dame, insist. Six months ago you lost
ten francs. | know you suspect me of
having found it, and | wish you to see
that l do not carry it away in my trunk
French Paper.
"A preacher was eXhorting his unbe-
levers, and his text was The Flood"
As he waxed eloquent, he said: 'And
Noah warned the wicked that they might
repent, but they needed him not and the
floods came and drowned them all, and
what doyou suppose they thought then?"
Chicago Times.
Mamma, asked little Edith ''be
all grown folks hateful?" why,
Edith?" replied her mother, "What put
that idea in your head?" Nothing,
mamma, only | know everybody who
comes here is hateful, cause I've always
heard you say SO after they went away
Boston Transcript.
We never have had the experience. but
we should think it would roll an editor
fearfullv after he had worked the most
of the day, getting up an editorial de-
claiming that man is better of for
being married, to 90 home and be jawed
all the evening because he forgot to bring
two dozen clothespins, or some such
thing. SOmerCille Journal.
"A Connecticut optician has invented
spectacles that he claims Twill enable
any one to read small type under water. .
We cannot believe that short-sighted
man would care to stay under water
longer than the time it would take him
~ lctu u Cululiih vi OuPil Gil MAJ Mt IT,
ports. So we fear the invention is lack
ing in practical utility Texas Sittings.
=" No, Samuel" calmly replied Mrs.
Bartlett, in answer to his furious and
sarcastic questions, "no. 1t isn't because
there is no grey cloth in Burlington that
| patched your summer trousers with
seal-brown basket cloth, but I'm going
to break you of your loaferish habit of
going in your shirt-sleeves during bust
ness hours, or I'll make you the laugh
ING stock of the town. And when Mrs.
Livermore makes up her list of super
lluous women" she leaves Mrs. Bartlett
out, every time. Darlington RasCb-Eye.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04
Animal Psychology.

1t has been objected to those who
speak of the emotions of an ant or a
bee, for example, that we are not iusti-
fed in applying terms derived from hui
man psychology to animals so remote in
structure from the human type. DR..
Romanes replies to this objection by
showing that the ground of all inferen-
ces as to the mental processes of animals
is an argument from the analogy of their
actions with our own. "Now, it is of
course perfectly true that the less the re-
semblance the less is the value of any
analogy built upon the resemblance,
and therefore that the inference of an
ant or bee feeling sympathy or rage
is not so valid as the similar inference in
the case of dog or a monkey. Still it
is an inference, and. so far as it goes, a
valid one-being. in fact, the only infer
ence available. That is to say, if we OBJ
serve an ant or bee apparently exhibit
ing sympathy or rage, we must either
conclude that some psychological state
resembling that of sympathy or rage is
present, or else refuse to think about the
subject at all; from the observable facts
there is no other inference open"
Assuming that we are justified in con-
Guiding that the mental processes are
similar when there are similar external
appearances, we still need criterion of
mental as distinguished from reflex ac-
| ton; for we find both in men and ami
mails examples of actions that are mind
like and yet not truly mental" COB
jectively considered, the only distinction
between adaptive movements due to re-
flex action and adaptive movements due
to mental perception, consists in the for
mer depending on inherited mechanisms
within the nervous system being so con-
structed as to effect particular adaptive
movements in response to particular
stimulations, while the latter are indie
pendent of any such inherited adjust
ment of special mechanisms to the ext
gencies of special circumstances" The
criterion proposed is therefore-"Does
the organism learn to make new adjust
ments, or to modify old ones, in accor-
dance with the results of its own indivi-
dual experience?n If it does, we have
evidence that the limit of monumental
action has been passed; that's, we are
able to fix, by means of this criterion,
1.-The upper limit of monumental action"
After distinguishing reflex from mental
action, it remains to distinguish lin
stinct' from treason" DR.. Romanes
action into which there is imported the
element of consciousness, and treason
or intelligence" as 1.-THE faculty which is
concerned in the intentional adaptation
of means to ends. "-LOndon Nature.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04
Why the Faro Bank Wins.

That is something that great many
clever men who play a great deal
against faro do not know. 1t is not that
there is a steady percentage in the
banks favor in the cases of "splits,'
but that the bank plays with the most
money, that the bank always wins in the
end. That is a simple enough PROPOSE
ton, but is seldom understood. A bank
with $4,000 cash has as many more
chances of winning in the end the money
of player worth 800 as the bank S
capital is greater than the players. The
player can only lose his 500 once; the
bank can lose two hundred and fifty
times before it has reduced its chances to
the players. In other words, the chances
in favor of the bank, as quoted, in
addition to the percentage on "splits,"
is two hundred and fifty to one. This
is susceptible of absolute mathematical
demonstration, yet will be read with
amazement by many who occasionally
buck the tiger. The ordinary player
who goes with ten or twenty dollars to
lose in a bank having 100000 to lose,
can do a little Sunday morning work in
figuring out his chances of beating the
bank.-Sdn Francisco Call.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04
Disposition Of a SuppOsititious Estate.

The Cambridge (Md.) Chronicle gives
an interesting history of the late Gen.
George Winthrop, of Johnson's Cross
Roads, near Seaford, Del. who left a will
disposing of $4,000, but no assets that
could be found. A letter from Mr. John
N. Wright, the administrator under the
will, cOrrects a report of the disappear
ance of the servant who nursed Mr..
Winthrop in his last illness, and says he
is still at Cambridge, and has not been
at any time ''hard to find" 1t
seems that some years ago Mr.. Winthrop
began to talk about a fund of some
$4,000 or $4,000 coming to him from
his ancestors in Massachusetts,, and had
been due him for some thirty or forty
years. According to his account, his
relatives, the Hon. Robert Winthrop,
of that State, among them, both behaved
very handsomely about it. Upon the
long-lost sleeps turning up in the flock,
they waved limitations and litigation,
and were ready to pay him his own,
principal and interest, and he, not to be
Outdone, refused to accept dime of in
terest, and so the matter was finally ar
ranged on the last basis, he receiving his
principal, some $4,000. This sum he
invested in bonds, which he was fond of
talking about, and almost annually would
90 off to attend the annual reunion of
the family at Cousin Robert 81 the Hon.
Robert Winthrop), and would give
minute accounts of their pleasure and
splendor. Being known to have been
worth some $1,000 or more here from
the sale of his store in Cambridge, etc,
he was thought to own some 500, 900, or
thereabouts. He made will some years
back, bequeathing various legacies, and
then made three residuary legacies, and
at his death it was thought these last
would receive from $4,000 to $4,000
each. 1t transpired at his death that he
had not 5000 in the world that could be
| found. and hence the comment. Re
GENTLY prominent citizen wrote the Hon.
Robert Winthrop on the subject, when
10! that gentleman never knew our Gen.
GEORGE Winthrop, and never heard OF
any such pecuniary transaction! Inc
solution is easy. Either as mOnoma-
MAC. or to increase his consequence, Mr..
Winthrop invented the whole story, and
knowing that he only owned some Sl,5OO
or 50 600 at the date of his will, devised
that lust as he wished it, and had ne re-
tanned his means each of his legatees
would have received just the same, re-
siduary and all; but these last being the
least favored, and calculating upon
diminution, he gave the specific legacles
first and left the residue, whatever II
nigh be, to the others. 1t turned out
that he was unfortunate in business, and
had to live, and his all did just last his
life out. And this is the whole matter "
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

Matt Morgan has organized T.,
class for art study in Cincinnati civ; u'e
his services as tutor gratuitously
The Nickel Church. to be brn4 -.
Palestine, Texas, is to be paid for b a.
not less than 100000 persons contrih:!
ting nickel apiece. ''ou'
Mr.. Freeman A. Smith. who H.
been for nearly thirty years treasurer az
the American Baptist Missionary I'M Vi
is constrained by ill health to resgn ~,
position. Baptist Weekly. = lily
The sound of Christian hell e
remarked in the Missionary Herald
seems to be peculiarly offensive ~"
Moslem. But these bells are vet to rim"
all over Turkey"
Contrasts: The Conservatory =.
Music at Milan, Italy, last year had two
hundred and seventeen pupils. The
New England Conservatory in Boston
during its last winter term had nine HIM
dred and seventy pupils. Christian
Union. '''N'
The church at Newton, n. H.. was
formed in 1855, and is the oldest Bantis,
church in the State. After having been
without a regular pastor more than
seventeen years, it has called Rev. D. T.
Crafts to the pastoral relation, and he has
accepted the call.-BaptiSt Weekly
General Emil Frey, the new Swiss
Minister in Washington, recently, in
company with Mr.. John Hitz, visitedtbe
Wallack school building in that citv,
Upon leaving he expressed himself much
pleased with the American system of
teaching and building and arranging
schools.-N. Y. Post.
The London Times, commenting on
" the progress of religious liberty in the
United Kingdom" says that ''no courage
is now required to profess tolerance TO-
ward differing creeds and doctrines.
Rather the praise of singularity has to be
earned by open adhesion to rigidity and
positiveness of belief which was the com.
mon mark formerly of all but a sectarian
minority"
DR.. David Gordon Lyon has been
appointed to the Hollis Professorship of
Divinity in Harvard College. The chair
has been vacant for many years owing to
an insufficiency of funds DR.. Lyon is
thirty years old, a native of Alabama,
and a graduate of Harvard College.
The chair he accepts is the Oldest in this
country, and was founded by Thomas
Hollis, a London Baptist layman, in
1721.-N Y. Herald.
Recently three hundred Brahman
ladies, representing the most influential
families in Peru and its neighborhood,
held meeting for the purpose of pre-
sentinga petition to the education COM
mission on the subject of the difficulties
in the way of female education in India.
The meeting was eloquently addressed
by the Mahratta lady Rahabbal Sans
krita, who stated that ninety-nine out of
one hundred educated men in India are
opposed to female education, The mu-
nicipality of Poona have since offered to
become responsible for girls as well as
boys schools.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04
A Good Little Boy.

Two little Austin school boys got into
a quarrel, and one of them said to the
other:
'If it wasn't for your ma being such a
good woman, L d tear your shirt all to
pieces
"You tear my shirt, if you dare!"
81 amt going totear it, because your
ma would have to mend it, and | don't
want to put her to any trouble, because
she gave me two cakes the other day. y
AS with some grown up people, the
way to child's heart lies through his
stomach.-Ie1aS SytingS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04
SOME TIME,

"'Some time,' the biue-eyed MAIDEN cried,
'Some time I'll be rich mans bride:
I'll have his gold when he is old,
And grandly in q coach I'll ride"
S'Some time" the brown-eyed maiden cried,
And blushing, turned her face aside,
"(God grant it me y III married be,
To him whom Heaven shall provide"
The blue-eyed maiden had her way;
She married one both rich and gay,
And when he died she took his pride,
But that is all she tOok-they say.
A handsome lover came one day
And bore the brown-eyed maid away,
He was her life, and she--his wife.
What more is there to ask, or say?
Outing,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04

AT Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County,
Cal, recently, young lady attempted to
take a loaded revolver out of the drawer of
a sewing machine, when the weapon was
discharged. The bullet struck her fairly
and squarely over the heart. She fell to
the floor dead, as all supposed, but at
once came up smiling. The steel ribs of
her corset had turned aside the bullet.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04

This seasons vests will furnish
patches for next years trousers, Sweet
are the uses of diversity.-M Y. COM
mercidl AdUerttser.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04

The latest Boston euphemism for
taking boarders is "having few re-
munerative guests"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-04

John Anderson, my 10, John,
We clamb the hill thegither;
And mOny a canty day, John,
We've had wi ane anither:
Now we maun tOtter down, John,
But hand in hand well go,
And sleep thegither at the foot,
John Anderson, my Jo.
TIN, ME Bar
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-03-08

If sheep are all, wed to Craze wheat during
Tie winter and early eplng they will destr, y
Z eat nunber or The eggs and la'sR Ut
chlnch-hugs, Amy worms and OF the Persian
ny These Insects lay their eggs in sptiug
ani tall. and are hatched by the first warm
spell There are many instances where
whea as been saved from destruction b.
the Il Eng Of sheep. Says the Springfield
Republican: 'In pastnring sheep anu lamps
the ben, fl is not only 30 the animals, but 10
The Pastures, which are greatly improved.
Sheep are very indiscrim,nate feeders and
will bite not only grass, tut also shrubs weeds
IN every green thing that starts in earl,
spliug. They thus destroy and keep down
most Of the foul stuff that usurps the place
IT gra,s, n they tend to leave the pastures
Clean for t1ne grass to grow. Their manure,
also. scattered iu small quantities as they
travel over the ground, Is readily absorbed
by the earth and becomes the best plant food
possible, and a%ccomplishes what can MT
we'll ne done by grubbing or top -dressing to
enovate pasture land"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-03-08
A Qutck keparlee.

A good story is told of the late Edmund
Burke, Of New Hampshire. When i'll Con
gress he had controversy with a Mr.. Arnold
of Tennessee. who spoke OF New Hampshise
as y State whose chief products were Ice and
granite, and sneeringIy suggested that its rep.
res+nt.iive was less like his namesake, /, e
English statesman, than like Burke the II ur-
aer' In his response, MIR. Burke said he
" ~ at u loss to know whether. the Tenne, See
Representative Vas like Benedict Arnold II
some other Arnold; and referring to the prod
ucts of that gen,leman's district AS consisting
0ainly OF Digs and hoop poles, brought
down the House with the suggestion that,
while the hoop poles were sent wesF ward and
do .n the Mississippi river. the dogs Travelled
e seward toward the national capital. THIS
was the last ever heard Ut poor Arnold.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-03-08

Cutls stuff Il me caou t ward tue crute,
Of the table, aud leaning forward looked his
Antagonist in the eyes.
PICK it up stranger" said he, EFF yel
lhluk there's been anything foul, take thai
pot. But if yer tech ii, if yer put a hand OUT
t'wafd it, yell wish that ye'd died about the
time yer mother began to expect yer, or my
name is not Chris Gibson"
There was silence then Tor q moment, and
the Hills man got up quietly.
My money, stranger 2" asked Chris.
There was no response. The gambler had
gone.
why didn't you draw on him. Chris p
asked Dir. Hare, the local magistrate. "Why
didn't you draw He had u bead on you"
ut wal careles>ness," replied Chris,
quietly. the fact is that Ihad n, weapon
ON me-"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-03-08
$~t
Useful Girls.

Mrs. Mulch Craik, in the Bazaar, says: 81
once met Git Was a. y garden party a clergy
man wife-a graceful. accomplished woman
WHO Introduced her three daughters, all so
much alter the mothers type that | could
not help admiring them. Yes she said,
with u tender pride, L think my girls are
nice girls And SO useful, too. We are no,
rich and we have nine children. So we told
the gitls that they would have either to turn
out and earn their bread abroad, or stay at
home and do the work of the house. They
chose the latter. We keep no servant only
. char woman to sc,ur and clean. My girls
take il by turns IT, be cook, housemaid, and
Darlormaid. lu the nursery, OF course.
(nappy mother who could say, of COURSE
they are all in all to their little brothers and
sisters But how about education ? I asked.
Oh; the work leing divided among go
many, we find time for lessons, too Some
we can afford to pAy FIR, and then the elder
teach the younger ones. Where there's a
will there's u way My girls are not ignora-
muses.. Or refuses either"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-03-08

Robberies are occurring with alarming
frequency all throughout the eastern and
western States. Recently two well-dressed
~ruf1Ans held up a young man at Springfield,
ILL.,, and ATTEMPTED 10 gather 10 what shekels
The youth possessed, but the latter wouldn't
have 1t that way. and pulling a revolver he
made them throw up their hands and held
them until the police arrived and took them
in charge. The young hero walked off and his
rame was not learned. The thieves were
strangers to the police.