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The Penn's Grove record., 1882-01-21
The Jack Rabbit of Texas.
An Animal that Can Give Points in Speed
to a Greyhound.

An Animal tina Can Give Points in Speed
to a Greyhound.
The iack-rabbit is an inhabitant of
Texas, and of some other western
Sts ties. He is often called the mule
cared rabbit and, by the cowboy, is
familiarity spoken of as the muley."
He is not a rabbit at all. A rabbit is
an unobfrusive little animal, who is
found by school boys, in a hole in the
ground, at the end of q long track in
the snow.
The so-called jack-rabbit is quite a
different kind of soup-meat. He is
identical with the British hare, except
that he is larger, his color lighter, and
his ears much longer. His avoirdu-
pois is about twelve pounds, and his
ears measure, from tip to tip, about
sixteen inches. He does not bUrrow
in the ground. He lies under cover
of a bunch of prairie grass, hut is very
seldom found at home, his office hours
being between sunset and sunrise. He
is to be found during the day on the
open prairie, where he feeds on the
tender shoots of the mesquite or sage
grass. He is not a ferocious animal,
a stranger might be led to suppose
from an examination of what purports
to be his picture, under the alias of
1.-THE Texan Hare" in Governor
Roberts book.
The jack-rabbit has several enemies,
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The Oldest Man in the World.

Spain may well boast of the Oldest
man in the world. In the old city OF
Bogota resides a man who, according
to his W account, is one hundred
and eighty years old : his neighbors
assert, on what they believe the best
authority, that he is even older. The
oldest Inhabitants, some of whom are
about ninety, declare that he was a
very old man when they were chill
dren. His signature has been discov-
cred on a subscription paper drawn up
in l7l2, for the erection of a new con.
vent. A very aged Spanish physician
vouches for the age of this wonderful
man, whom he found, one day, en-
gagged In his favorite occupati, IN of
gardening. His skin had become of
the consistency OF parchment, and his
hair was white as snow and as thick
and bushy as a turban. He freely
discusses the subject of his great age,
and attributes 1t to very careful and
correct habits. He eats but once a
day, and then takes a half hour for it,
asserting that a man ought to eat
enough in that time to Last him "a
hours. He fasts on the first and ff-
tenth of each month, devoting these
days to drinking water freely. He
chooses ,3e most nourishing food and
always eats il cold. 1t is well known
that the Spaniards can boast of large
of unusual longevity, which
they attribute to a large consumption
of onions, of which they claim to raise
: re finest in the world.
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The Dog in the Bible.

You will search in vain, through
Holy Writ, for any praises of this
much be-laudea animal. 1t IL only
in the a%pocryphal book Of To0it, the
stupid and superstitious book of mans
devising, which some have thought to
foist into the Old Testament, that this
detestable beast appears, in his modern
character, as the friend and COM
panion of man.
That the majority of Gideon's raw
recruits Tapped the water las "A dog
lappeth," was reason enough for dis
missing them from the conflict, which
was, for all time, to symbolic the
victory of human civilization over
british barbarism. "Is thy servant a
dog, that he should do this thing ?"
are the strongest words which the
Syrian Hszael can find, to express his
horror of the base and treacherous act
Elisha predicts of him. "a living
dog is better than a dead lion," is one
of the bitter speeches by which the
hero of Ecclesiastes indicates for u
how deeply he had sunk into doubt
and disbelief of all things noble and
excellent. "Give not that which il
holy unto dogs" is the warning that
marks forever the sInderance between
this unclean animal ard hannah kind
/" Without are dogs IL one Of the
points, in the descript o. Of that
holy city into w1ich no him thst
defles may enter.
In the thirty eight refe tnces which
the Bible makes to this amin al, there
is not one which is not disparaging,
one of the very worst being the soil
tary n which ia alleged as favorabls
O him. Moreover, the dogs came
and licked his -ores," is sometimes iD-
terpr1ted as ii it were intended to con.
trast their pity of L-zlrus with the
rich mans hsrdn ess. But rs both the
English moreover" and its Greek
equivalent indicate, the sense is ex.
actly the contrary of this. 1t is meant
as one more detail of the misery and
degradation TO which the poor man
had been abandoned by his kind, one
more of the evil things of this life
which made up his lot, that he was
exposed to this annoyance and, per-
haps, pain from these filthy and de-
graded oeasts.-Penn Monthly.
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The D~ispensary.

Put some live Goals in an iron pan,
sprinkle with brown sugar, invert a
funnel over it, and put the tube in the
ear the smoke gives almost instant
relief to ear-ache.
TO REMOVE SUBSTANCES FROM THE
EYE.-Make a loop Of bristle or horse
hair, Insert it under the lid, and then
withdraw carefully and slowly. This
is said to he never failing.
A simple remedy for neuralgia is to
apply grated horse radish, prepared
the sa,ne as for table use, to the tenn
pie, when the face or head is affected,
or to the wrist, when the pain is in
the arm or shoulder.
GARGLE FOR SORE THRoAT.-Take
one ~teaspoonful of cayenne pepper,
one tablespoonful of salt, one pint of
water, two tablespoonsful of vinegar (;
sweeten to taste with honey or loaf
sugar. Mix together and bottle.
To PREVENT CHoKING.--Bresk an
egg into a cup, and give it to the per-
son choking, to swallow. The white
of the egg seems to catch around the
obstacle, aud removes it. If one egg
does not answer the purpose, try
another.
THE following drink, for relieving
sickness Of the stomach, was intro
duced by DR.. Halahap, and it is said
to be very palatable and agreeable
Beat up n egg very well, say for
twenty minutes then add, of fresh
milk, one pint; water, IL pint sugar
to make it palatable; boil, and let
cool drink when cold. If it becomes
curds and whey it is useless.
PREVENTIVE OF DIPHTHERIA-Dr.
J. w. MacLean, of Norfolk, Conn,
writes in view OF the great increase
Of fatal cases of scarlatina and diph
iberia, 1 wish you would publish the
results of the use of a preventive
against the contagion of these diseases.
During the four years past | have used
ii, and in forty, well marked cases of
d~iphtheria, where 140 persons were
exposed to the contagion, not a single
case has been reported to me. l use
one drachm of Monsel's salt or the
sub-sulphate of iron, in eight ounces of
cold water, adding plenty OF sugar,
simply to overcome the taste of the
iron. OF this solution 1 give from two
to eight teaspoonsful each day, accord
ing to the proximity of the disease.
AS it has proved so ef1cacious in my
hands, | am anxious to have it gener-
ally tested"
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In the Twilight.

only two girls IN the twilight,
BY the blaze OF the hickory fire,
And a dog crouched low at the foot-stool,
Ofthe white haired, aged sire.
Only the shadows dancing
on the ceiling, the wall and the floor,
And smiles on the old mans features,
Thinking he is young once more.
While over the girlish faces,
Thai shine in the freight there,
Pass ripples OF sunny laughter,
Showing their thoughts are fair
Fair for the beautiful future,
That comes 70 us all sometimes,
Like jewels agiow in their casket,
Or echo of some sweet rhymes.
one with eyes ofheaven's blue,
And hair like the sunsets gold,
Thinking of warriors bold and brave,
And the old, old story untold.
ora palaces warmth and shining light
And the dance and carriages fine,
with praneing horses and coschman gay,
The loaded tables and sparkling wine.
The other, with eyes of deepest brown,
And dark hair brushed away
From a brow of marble so calm and still,
And cheeks where bushes play.
Building her castles, too, in the air
OF and changing scenes,
O~fmountain and river, and southern skies
But alas for girlish dreamsi
Like the logs that lie and moulder
On the hearth before them now,
They pass into dust and ashes,
They fee from the winds that blow.
so shall their brief dreams vanish,
Floating away, one by one,
AS cloud which at evening bending,
Fade from the setting sun.
For life shall come with its tailings,
Its phantoms and passing show, .
And the heart will have its longings
AS wild as the winds that blow
Longings for something higher
Than palace, carriage or ball
For the rest from the endless pageant,
Which God keeps In store for us all.
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The Scrap Book.

An Iowa COW succeeded in killing
al elephant, a lion and q camel.
Brave COW! She did it by getting
under the train bearing these crea-
lures, and ditching it.
idaho doesn't attract much immi-
grafton. Trees are so scarce there,
that it is sometimes necessary to go
forty miles, TO find a place to lynch a
man. It's exaultingly announcement.
Three gentlemen, during a con
versation, agreed to pay el each, to
the one who should tell the tallest and
most ridiculous story. The first COM
menced his story thus "There was
nee a wealthy editor" "Stop :"
cried n of the party here's your
money" -
Not long ago, in a French provin-
cial theatre, a barytone made a fear
jul croak. Kisses and laughter in the
audience. The artist came gravely
forward, and, saluting the, audience,
said "Messieurs, 1 discover that /
have issued a false note, 1 withdraw
it from circulation"
"You are on the wrong tack y said
the pilots wife, when the hardy son
Of the loud sounding sea sat down on
it and arose with the usual exclama-
ton. "No;" he replied, after a criti-
cal examination I'm on the right
tack, but shoot me if 1 amt on the
wrong end of it,"
A couple of young men went out
fishing the other day, and, on return
ing, were going past a farmhouse, and
felt hungry. They shouted to the
farmers daughter; Have you any
buttermilk ?" The reply was, gently
waited back to their ears: "Yes, but
we keep it for our own calves"
"Why, Mr.. Bank said a tall
youth to a little person, who was in
company with half a dozen huge men;
II prott st you are so very small, 1 did
not see you before.n "Very likely :"
replied the little gentleman. II am
like a sixpence among six copper
pennies not easily perceived, but
worth the whole of them.p
You can't add different things to-
gether;"said an Austin, Texas, school
teacher. eff you add a sheep and a
COW together it does not make two
sheep or two cows" A little boy, the
son of an Austin avenue milkman,
held up his hand and said tThat
may do with sheep and cows, but if
you add a quart of milk and a quart of
water, it makes two quarts of milk.
I've seen it tried.n
Mr.. W. c., a conceited snob, was so
fond of fine clothes, that he reyelea
in them by day, and dreamed of them
by night. One evening, he visited a
lady, and removed his ~overcoat, etc
in the hall, preparatory to entering
the p%arlor, when the lady heard him
the following: Taking the over
coat and hanging 1t up, he said
Hang there, you fifty dollar over
Pulling off his gloves and put
ting them on the table: Lay there,
you fve-dollar gloyes.n Placing his
hat on the rack and his cane in the
corner: Island there, you fifteen.
dollar cane" Then entering the
he was about to sit down,
the lady pulled the chair from
under him, and as she left the room,
said; Lie there, you two cent fool :"
He has not been around since.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-01-21

A finely dressed gentleman was pass
ing a new building, when he was stop
ped by a negro hod-carrier.
"Say, boss, am you de mar dat CUB
de lecture las night?"
Il am" was the response.
Didn't you say dere was a dignity
in labor, higher dan any thing else 3
man can know?n
"Yes, l did and L hope you laid it
to heart.n
II did boss. An didn't you say you
loved dignity better'n anything else ?'
II did"
Well, suppose you take this hod,
and try a little dignity on dat sixty
feet ladder. l want to go across the
street to see a man."
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extent. Not far from the surface of
the salt the piece of mating was dis
covered, and 1t was probably preserved
by the salt. Two feet above the mat
ting were found the tusks and bones
Of an elephant, and these bones were
fourteen feet below the present surface
of the soil. The question irresistibly
arises, how many years has it been
since elephants lived upon this CONT
nent, and what race of men capable OF
manufacturing such mating, lived
and hourished hundreds of years
before them p Washington RepubH-
an.
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Confined Air a Protection
Against Cold.

AS confined cir il q poo conductor
of heat, all fabrics that are porous,
that is, full of little interstices, tubes
or holes, filled with air, are the best
protectors to keep heat from escaping
from the surface of the body. A
loosely woven garment or bed cover is
warmer than a compact, firmly woven
one, because the air In the texture of
the former conducts away heat less
rapidly than the more solid ones.
Loose fitting garments are warmer
than close-fitting ones, for reasons
above given, and also because the air
space between them and the skin, is a
non-conductor of heat.
Stone, brick, or wooden walls, with
perpendicular air spaces in them, are
warmer than solid walls, because the
air conducts heat away less than the
solid materials. A sheathing of tarred
paper, or p~asteboard, or of any thick
paper even, placed midway between
the clap-boarding aud the plsstering,
to form two thin air. chambers instead
of one, adds greatly to th4 warmth of
a house or other building. Two half.
inch boards, set a little apart to leave
an air space between, makes a far
warmer house wall than the same
thickness of wood in inch boards.
A layer of loose straw put between
the wall and the earth banKing-up of
a cellar, adds much to the warmth, on
account of the air in the meshes of the
straw. The same is true in covering
roots or apples to be left out in heaps
over winter.
Double glass windows are several
times warmer than single glass,
because of the o conducting film of
air between. So of double doors.
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Good Night.

How lightly said. how careless spoken,
When friends depart with joy u~nbroken,
And hand meets hand with this last token;
Good night good night
How slowly saad, with soft delaying,
When love for yet more love is praying,
And heart meets heart, while lips are saying
Good night /! good night!
But tenderly, with what new meaning,
From agony and anguish cleaning,
We whisper, DER a sick-bed leaning:
Good night good night
And TO the weary spirit, winging
Its flight beyond all Earthly elinging,
Is Death, ~perchance, an angel, bringing
Good night, good night
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Sentiment.

Never respect men merely for their
riches, but rather for their philan
thropy we do not value the sun for
its height, but for its use.-Baiy.
Next.
Next to my God. my kindred
Blood of my blood and near;
Next to my kin, my country
Every broad acre deari
Next comes my friend and n~eighbor,
Mortal as well as 1;
Next are the poor and needy
may not pass them byl
What is my Gods just tribute9
Love and devotion true.
What shall / give my kindred9
What | but give the few.
What to my friend and neighbour
Friendship and truth indeed.
What to h poor and needy?
Succor in time ofneed.
In most quarrels there Is a fault on
both sides. A quarrel may be COM
pared to a spark, which cannot be
produced without a flint as well as
steel.-Colton.
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Homesiek.

oh for a day on the dear old plantation,
Just as the fair southland home used to be-
Oh for a swing on the gate ofthe garden,
Under the boughs of the June pple-tree.
Oh! for a rest in the shade ofthe strsw-stsck
Hearing the hum Of the threshing ma
chine:
Oh for a drink from the spring In the mead
ow,
Under the sweet-gum tree fragrant and
green.
OH for a cantelope juicy snd:mellow,
Fresh from the melon-pateh Town by the
spring;
Oh! for a night on tine trundle-bed pillow,
sleeping calm sleep that each night used to
bring.
Obi Tor a sight OF the well-beloved faces,
Now widely scattered, and some, alas!
dead;
oh for one day in the dear old home places,
Bright with the light OF the days hat are
fed.
When a man has not a good reason
for doing a thing, he has one good
reason for letting it alone Waiter
Scott.
An avowal of poverty is a disgrace
to no man to make no effort to es-
cape is indeed TH"cy-
dides.
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A bright youth, undergoing an ex-
animation, a few days since, for adj
mission to one of the departments,
found himself confronted with the
question "What is the exact dis.
lance from the earth is the sun ?'
Not having the exact number of miles
with him, he wrote in reply II am
unable to state accurately, but don't
believe the sur is near enough to in
terfere with a proper performance of
my duties, if / get this clerkship."
He gotls
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A Curiosity in the Smithsonian.

One sees many curious things while
strolling through the Smithsonian In
stitution. In one of the cases there is
a small, irregular piece of mating.
about six inches long and two or three
wide. 1t is made of the bark of the
Southern cane, and although coarse
when compared with the mating
made by the Chinese, it is well and
neatly made. This small piece of
mans handiwork might form the
basis for treatises and lectures innu-
nlerable. It was found on Petit Anse
Island, near Vermillion Bay, coast of
Louisiana. This island contains a
mine OF rock salt, which was discov
cred during the late war, and which
seems TO be unlimited in depth and
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Two of the Old world reptiles have
recently been discovere at Stuttgart.
Simos urus is the hame given them,
and they form an important link in
the chain of evolution, being land
animals in process of adaptation to
the water.
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The Montezuma marshes, New
York, are likely to beco,0e valuable az
a coal mine. The mari is shipped to
France, by the thousands % tons, and
Is used as a deodorizer, and it also
enters int the manufacture of artifi-
cisl fertilizers.
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The largest and Oldest chain bridge
in the world, is said to be that at
Kingtung, China, where it forms a
perfect road from the top Of M noun
tain TO another.
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Songs of the Soul.

Calumny would soon starve and die,
of itself, if nobody took it in and gave
it lodging.
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A million of dollars, in our gold
coin, weigh S,6S5.H pounds avoirdu-
pois, and 1000, 900 standard dollars, in
u silver coin, weigh IS, OBS. 81 pou DIS.
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No Women Need Suffer
when Warner's Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure can be so e8sily obtained
and so safely used.
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If fall the losses and pain and tears,
Could be stricken out of the desolate years;
ifall the sorrow and care and doubt,
hat burden our past, could be taken out
If all the errors, that lie between
The past and present, had never been
ri could be %trustful, or you be true,
Earth would be Eden for me and you.
Sometimes loves glory, without the stain
Or the blight of sin, shall be ours again:
Sometime Its beautiful star divine
Steadfast over our path shall shine;
Sometime the buried past shall be
Resurrected for you and me.
Hopefully, patiently, l can wait
TIL Gods own angel unbars the gate.
JULIA NJ. DUNN.
Sweet is the breath of praise, when
given by those whose own high merit
claims The praise they give.-Hannah
More.
When Death, the great reeonciler,
has come, it is never our tenderness
that we repent of, but our severity
George Eliot.
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The Widows Mite. ;

Inc WluoW mlCes
A widowi She had only one
A puny n decrepit son
But day and night,
Though fretful oft, and weak and small,
A loving child he was her all
The Widows mite.
The widows mite; ay, SO sustained,
She battled onward, nor complained,
Though friends were fewer;
And while she toiled for daily fare,
A little crutch upon the stair
Was music to her.
| saw her then and now 1 see
That, though resign'd and cheerful, she
Has sorrowed much:
She has-He ave 1t tenderly-
Much faith and carefully laid by,
A little crutch.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-23
The Poison of Tsbacco smoke

4 series of experiments has been
recently conducted by Herr kissing
of Bremen with the view ofascertaln
ing the proportions OF nicotine aud
other poisonous substances IN the
smoke of cigars. He specifies As
strongly poisonous constituents car
bonic oxide, sulphuretted hydrogen,
prussic acid, picoline bases, and
nicotine. The first three occur.
however. in such small proportions,
and their volatility is so great, .hat
their share in the action OF tobacco
smoke on the system may be neg
lected. The picoline bases, too, are
presentin comparatively small quan-
tity, so that the poisonous character
of the smoke may be almost exclu
sively attributed to the large proper
ton of nicotine present
Only a small portion of the nice
tine in a cigar is destroyed by the
process of smoking, and Il relatively
large portion passed off with the
SMOKE lue pIopOItioi vi hiOOeiliC
in the smoke depends, of course,
essentially on the kind of tobacco
but the relative amount of nicotine
which passes from a cigar into smoke
depends chiefly on how far the cigar
has been smoked, as the nicotine
contents of the unsmoked part of a
cigar is in inverse ratio to the size of
this part, l. G., more nicotine the
shorter the part. Evidently, in a
burning cigar, the slowly advancing
zone of glow drives before it the
distillable matters, so that in the yet
unburnt portion a constant accumu-
lation ofthese takes place, 1t would
appear that in the case of cigars that
are poor in nicotine more of this
substance relatively passes into
smoke than in the case of cigars with
much nicotine also, that nicotine,
Notwithstanding its high boiling
point, has remarkable volatility
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-23
= Facts rs. Fiction.

The people have become SO accus-
toned to reckless charges made
against Republican officeholders that
many have got to believe that thiev-
cry is the rule and not the exception,
and yet occasionally some facts turn
up which conclusively prove that
under no previous administrations
before Republican ascendancy was
there more honesty in the handling
Of public money. In proof of this
we cite the report of Internal Reve-
nue. Commissioner Raum, made
last week, in which he says: The
annual examination of the offices of
the 126 collectors ofinternal revenue
throughout the United States has
been completed, and it has beenf found
that the entire collections of internal
revenue taxes for the past fiscal year,
amounting to Sl46, 6,520,273 II, have
been accounted for and turned into
the treasury. During the past six
fiscal wears the sum of S74S, ,S31 OIL
o., has been collected from internal
revenue taxation and paid into the
treasury without any loss by detal-
cation. The expenses of collection
for the last fiscal year Gncluding the
expenses of this Office will be found
on final adjustment not 10 exceed
s., Jos, 800, or less than 81 per cent.
on the amount collected The ex-
penses of collection for the six years,
have been about s27 ,0S7 300, or 3
6-10 per cent. on the amount collect
ed. This sum has been disbursed
without loss to the government"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-23
Storms in Ohio.

CLEVELAND, August 10.-Reports
continue to come in of widespread
devastation by the recent storms In
Northern Ohio, which have been OF
unparalleled severity. A special
from Wakeman says the storm
there was accompanied by hail,
which cut down crops and gardens
over a considerable extent OF terrific
~. Thirty bridges were swept away
in Holmes county, oats totally de
stroved, potatoes nearly all ruined
and corn greatly damaged. Farms
on the hillside were denuded of soil
as well as crops. Decaying vegeia-
bic matter on the bottom lands has
already become offensive and is pro-
ducing sickness. Barns in many
places were struck by lightning and
burned with stores of harvested
crops. Losses of this character are
numerous and verv considerable In
the aggregate.