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FEMALE INVENTORS.

The inventions made by women have
not been very numerous, and they
have generally been in a direction one
would least expect But since women
were the inventors of the deep-sea tele-
scope, the horseshoe, machine for
separating the cotton from the seeds,
one for the weaving of silk, and life
boat such as that recently exhibited at
the Fisheries Exhibition, which i. is i'm
possible to swamp, it is not surprising
that in the metal trade a woman should
have perfected an invention which has
no doubt great future before it, and
which has earned for her in addition to
the numerous medals mentioned the
first laureate crown ever offered to one
of her sex by the Central Society of
French Architects in Paris.
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OYSTERS FOR DYSPEPSIA.

1t is not as generally understood as It
should be that oysters have medicinal
qualities Of high order. They are not
only nutritious, but wholesome especi-
ally in cases of Indigestion. 1t is said
"there is no other alimentary substance,
not even excepting bread, that does not
produce indigestion under certain cir.
cumstances; but oysters, never" Oyster
juice promotes digestion. BY taking
oysters daily, indigestion, supposed to
be almost incurable has been cured in
fact, they are to be regarded as one OF
the most healthful articles of food known
to man. Invalids who have found all
other kinds of food disagree with them
frequently discover in the oyster the re-
quired aliment Raw oysters are highly
recommended for hoarseness Mony OF
the leading vocalists use them regularly
before concerts and operas but their
their strongest recommendation is the re.
markably wholesome influence exerted
upon the digestive organs.
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MOTHER EWES TOMB.

Situated in the desert, about quarter of
mile from the western gate of the City
of Jeddah, is an object of interest to
Christian and Mussulmau alike-the
grave of Eve, or, rs she is called in
Arabic "Sittna Hawwa," the mother of
mankind. 1t is difficult to trace the
origin of the legend that allots to Eve
this desert tomb as her last resting place,
and it is doubtful whether it is of any
great antiquity. However this may be-
the tomb is regarded with great venera-
ton by the numerous pilgrims who visit
Jeddah, and few fail to worship at the
shrine.
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A CLEVER BRIeAND.

The Continental Times" has good
story about famous Italian brigand
ohief. He was as is usually the case,
fond OF gay costumes, could sing good
songs and relish good jokes, principally
such as are of a practical kind. A cele.
brated italian physician who, not salts
fed with the legitimate game of his pro-
fession. was q keen sportsman and an
unerring shot, met at an albergo near
Milan man not very dissimilar from the
signor with whom the Torinese counts
became so inauspiciously acquainted A
conversation sprang up, in which bandits
ond their proceedings were discussed,
and the doctor, alluding with some nat
ural pride TO the precision of his aim,
said that he much desired that one of
them would cross his path. Armed with
his trusty gun and pistol, he walked at
large, and should like to see the mon
who would dare TO molest him. Evening
drew on, and his new acquaintance the
noted brigand chief - got started from
the inn first by half an hour. Proceed
ing, in the direction the doctor was to
take, he broke off u branch from chest
nut tree. and fixing it in the middle of
the road, suspended from its top small
lantern he carried with him. Presently
the doctor was heard approaching with
his firm military step. On coming to a
turn in the road he suddenly perceived
the light, and, hating called out to
know "who comes there?' A breeze
agitated the chestnut branch, and the
lantern moved.
"If you advance another step you are
dead man" cried the DOCTOR
The wind, however, took no notice of
the threat, and the lantern continued to
swing.
"If you don't answer 1 shall frel'
shouted the doctor; and suiting the
action to the word, he raised his gun,
took aim, and
"Bastai |" said voice to his ear, and
lie found himself pinioned by an iorn
grasp from behind. "You must not
waste your powder" said the brigand,
because 1 want it, and 1 also require
your trusty gun and pistols. And now,"
lie continued, relieving him of the arti-
ces in question, "you need not be al
armed for do not intend to shoot you,
but I shall take away your arms and
ammunition, as you do not seem to me to
make good use of them"
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ABSENCE OF MIND DETROIT.

Yesterday forenoon citizen who was
aurried and angry entered grocery store
on Antoine street and called out to the
owner
"Why do you keep a dog around here to
eat folks up?"
"Didt my dog eat you oop?" was the in
nocent query in reply.
"Not quite but he tore my coat half of
my back, and you've got to pay for it,"
"How much?"
"Well, it will cost as much as 50 to get II
repaired You'll either pay it or I'll have
the dog shot"
"Oh, I'll pay dot" said the grocer, and
he did, but the man was hardly out of sight
before he jumped foot high and called out;
"Dunder and bitten, but vhas der
greatest shackass in America Why,
sells dot dog to my fader-in-law moro as sir
weeks ago."
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POsTAGE STAMPS.

Making postage stamps is all elaborate
piece OF work In printing, steel plates
are used, on which 200 stamps are en-
glaved Two men are kept hard at work
covering them with colored inks and
passing them to man and girl who are
equally busy printing them with large
rolling hand presses Three of these
little squads are employed all the time.
After the small sheets of paper
upou which the 200 stamps are en-
graved are dried enough, they are sent
into another room aud gummed The
gum used for this purpose is peculiar
composition. made of the powder of
dried potatoes and other vegetables
mixed with water, After having been
again dried, this time on the little racks
which are famed by steam power, for
about an hour, they are put in between
sheets OF pasteboard and pressed in
Hydraulic presses capable of applying q
weight of 1000 tons The next thing is
to cut the sheet in half; each sheet, of
course, when cut contains a hundred
stamps. This is done by girl, with a
large pair of shears, cutting by band be-
ing preferred to that of machinery, which
method would destroy too many stamps.
They are then passed to other squads,
who perforate the paper between the
stamps Next they are pressed once
more, and then packed aud labelled, and
slowed away for dcspatching to fulfil
orders. II single stamp is torn or in
any way mutilated, the whole sheet of
100 stamps is burned. Five hundred
thousand are burned every week from
this cause During the process Of manu-
faoture the sheets are counted eleven
times
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SunbeamS.

Hair 'em-scare 'em-Bangs.
Rued remarks. remarks that get you
into trouble.
Can the music of pet cat be said to be
purr-pet-ual9
1t must be an extravagant woman who
"beggars description.
What kind of field is older than you
are One that is pasturage.
Why are the glories of Greece like
iron because they are DER.
A fare saved is beer gained" re-
marked Smith, as he walked into town.
How can man shave with silver
razor BY cutting off his heir with
shilling
The impecunious man who married an
heiress, always speaks of her as capital
wife
It's all folly to say that men cannot
serve two masters. Schooners are two
masters.
What time by the clock is the best for
a pun "A joke takes best just when it
strikes one.
Query for heads of families. How is it
that the dresses ladies want to wear out
are mostly worn indoorsp
"Ah, said Judkins, "deerskins are
very scarce this year |" Yes" re-
sponded Budkins, and scarce skins are
very dear"
Why isn't turkey like girlS Be-
cause a dressed girl will walk about and
a dressed turkey won't. And vice versa
the other way,
The orator who gets drawn didn't
think he cut pretty figure. What is
stronger in death than life? An old
yeilow-legged hen.
When the types are made to say that
an honest man is the nobbiest work OF
God, it is time TO throw glass bombs into
the composing-room
A Toronto man waited until he was
oiRlty-tlree years old before he got mar.
r'ei. That's ike running three miles to
nat good start fora fourteen-inch Jump.
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OWNED TO his RECORD.

The editor was sitting in his revolving
cane-bottomed chair when Tornado Tom,
che travelling terror of Texas, came in and
demanded retraction of tho statement that
he had swindled nm orphan ont of four dol.
lars.
"Irs n lie clear through" said the Ter
ror, striking the table with his fist "pm
as good man as suiels the atmosphere
in this section"
Perhaps you are BETTER" said the editor,
meekly
MY record'll compare favorably with
yourn," said the Terror, with sneer; 'per.
haps there are few little back racbets in
your life sir, that would not bear u micro
scopic investigation"
"0h, sir" said the editor, visibly agi-
tated, don't recall the past don't bring
up the memories of the tomb | know I've
led hard Gfe-l don't deny it. ! killed
Shorty Barnes, the Bowery boy of New
York-hacked him all to pieces with knife.
have atoned for it n thousand times. l
blew mans head of at log-roll in Ken
lucky, and bitterly have l repented of my
folly. l slew lot of noffensive citizens of
Omaha over paltry four-dollar pot simply
because l got excited. Oh could / but
cheat the tomb of the men l have placed in
its NAV would be happy. But it was all
owing to my high temper and lack of early
training. l know that / have been way
ward, wicked, and you have right to
come here and recaii those unhappy mem-
mories but it's mean for all that. No
body with heart would treat a man like
you have me. Don't leave, stranger; I'll
tell you all. l sawed mans head off with
Rn old army saber just for"
The Texas Terror was down stairs and
halfway around the corner, while the edi-
tor, taking fresh chew of nttlesnake twist,
continued his peaceful avocations quietly
as q aw-abiding citizen. SAT- Lake 7,i.
bIne.
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NEGOTIABLE NOTE.

Any person who comes into possession
of negotiable security of this class for
value without notice of its loss and in
good faith can collect it Of the maker,
whether it was lost or stolen. Publish-
ing a notice will do no good unless the
buyer sees it, and stopping its payment
at the bank will not help the matter any.
OF course if the loss is widely adver-
tised in papers that circulate in busi-
ness circles, it makes it more difficult for
the holder to establish his title, and the
presumption of good faith in the pur-
obase is not as easily assumed
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Philadelphia Markets.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.

FEED'-Wesern winter bran, spot, @is75
MACKEREL-Extram mess s5c. large rs, es "a SOC
extra shore rs rs "a 2Gc
FLOUR-Western extras 800 a 4i5: Penn'a.
innly, ag5 "a 35 ohio clear i25 "a 450: winter
patent $50 "a 415
EsAT.-Pehnsylvana red, No. /, 50; No. ., sOa,.
OATS.-No. 3 white "a 80 No. 9, 35
HAY AND STRAW Tim thy-ChOce Western
Sld Ntw York, sl6 fair TO good Western and
SeW YORK, IL. "a 10. medium western and New
nork, ~. "a L. cut hay as TO quality IS. "a 1850
M rye straw 20 "a 81, Wheat straw 9. a 10. oat
Eggs GS.-Pennsylvania creamery prints, extra, 35
BUTlER.-pennsylvanl extra, 81 "a 2s western
LIVE POULTRY Fowls, 10Y "a II mixed lots
~ "a 10 ROSTERS old g.
DRESSED NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. extra 90 "a
~ dressed turkeys extra, 10, CHOICE 10 "a II,
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RAGS IN RUSSIA.

The rags which the Russian peasants
wear shave struck all travellers who have
visited Russia Sufficient to say that
boots are considered as objects of luxury,
and until now, in little Russia, the girl
buys one pair of boots, and must wear
them throughout her life On Sunday,
when she goes to church, she walks
barefooted in the cold mud of the road,
and only when she has arrived at tho
church she washes her feet in pond OF
water, puts on her boots, and enters full
dressed
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MEDICAL EXPERIENCES.

An English paper gives some of the
curiosiies of medical life. 1t is the duty
of one doctor to take lunch every day at n
castle belonging to a noble lord. The
household is immense, and there is Just
the chance that there may be some case
of indisposition demanding attention
He gets some OF the hest company and
best lunches in Eng land, and the only
charges guinea for each attendance
There is wealthy man near II great city
who cannot bear to he left alone for the
night There is physician of great
ability who drives out of town nightly to
sleep at his residence he is consequent
ly debarred evening society, and if
he goes out to dinner has to leave his
friends before wine. He has to charge
his patient one thousand pounds year.
One young doctor has Standing engage
ment of four hundred pounds year to
look after the health of an old lady.
She has to be inspected three times a
day, is strong as a horse, and so selfish
and perverse that he has great trouble
with her
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| EH1ATE Of MAHdAhbI mhh'h'N' 'fH'''
TOWNSHIP, COLUMBIA COUNTY, Pa, DRcBHEp
COLUMBIA COUNTY, SO.
The commonwealth OF pennsylvanla,, 10 WI.
son ID. Mellllck Sunbury, Pa, Hiram H. nelllck
Williamsport, Pa, Peter u. Mellick LOCK nuNeh,
Pa; Phoebe oman, Burr oaks, ST. Joseph county,
Michigan Anna Marg ret shane, Burns L'crpss
county, Wisconsin Isaiah :. Mellick. lllSol, zee
County, Illinois Abner Melck, Dixon, Lee county
Illinois Jacob u. Meck, Lyons Guy, CllntOn
county, Iowa Lavina Hendrix, New Heeqi0m,
York county, Pa; Rachel Waring tlchla9dl heo'
kuk county, Iowa; Peter Best, AchlS1n'
Kansas l.. Byron Best, residence unknown, lor-
merly OF AtChlsOn, AtChsOn county, hNiisaS !
Mary NJ. Mcdowell, Atchison, Atchlion COUNTY,,
Kansas William Best, Atchison, Atchison county,
Kansas, Nettlc Robinson, Kansas CITY. JachsOn
county Missouri lineal descendants of Margaret
Melick, deceased and to all other persons lnteres-
ted Greeting you and each OF you are heleOy
cited to be and appear before the Judges ui our
Orphans Court at an Orphans Court to be held at
Bloomsbury, on the nrst Monday OF February
next, then and there TO accept or refuse 10 ,ake
the real estate OF said argaret Mellick, deceased,
at the appraised valuation put upon II by the IN
quest, duly awarded by the said Court. ana re.
turned by the sheriff, or show cause why II snail
not be sold. And hereof fail not . ......,,,.
Witness the Honorable WILLIAM ELNELL,
fresi tent OF our said court at Bio maDurE lhe
nth day OF December 1881 WH. llCkBAuM
CLERK q. c.
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ORPHANS COURT SALE
OF VALUABLE
RseaA Estate J

BY virtue OF an order OF the orphans Court OF
Columbia county, the undersigned Administrator
OF the estate Of Trlct Nanliew, late OF the town
ship OF orange in the said county OF Columbia, de-
ceased Will expose to public sale on the premises
Saturday, December 27, 1884,
at one o'clock In the afternoon the following Dc
scribed real estate, towit certain m ssu0ge
and tract of land situate In the township Of orange
and county OF columbia aforesaid, about one mile
northeast OF Light street, and bounded by Ian OF
Charles Jones, Isaac Boone, f. II. Little, WIN. la-
genbuch, the johnson heirs, and Others contain
Ing eighty-One acres and seventy one pelcheS
strict measure be the same more or less at being
the same tract Of land that Thomas Muilly and
wife by iudenture bearing date the 2sth OF March
A ID 1855 and recorded In the Recorders once OF
IolumDa county In Deed Book . page liS, convey
ed to liza ret Van Lew the deCedent) on which Is
a two story frame house, new and commodous
frame bank barn all necessary outbildings a
large and go orchard and good spring OF wa
ter, with spring house, between the house and
barn. About twenty acre, are well tlmbeied and
the balance is In good farming condition
TERMS OF SALE.-1en peri .ntum OF one-f0urth
OF the purchase money TO be paid at the striking
down OF the property; the One-fourth less the ten
per cent at the confirmation absolute and the re-
manning thrt e-fourths IN one year otter cOntrma-
tlon nisi, with interest IRON that date
White, Atty. ALIEN. c. VANLIEW,
Fec j.ts Administrator.
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Saturday. December 27. 1884
l. XECUrOR'S NOTICE.

ESTATE OF MAGDALENA BREDBENNER, DECEASED.
Letters testamentary IN the estate OF Magdaena
Bredbenner, deceased, late OF Nain township col
umbla county, Pa, have been grant d by the Reg
lister OF said county 10 tn undersigned executor.
All persons having claims against the estate Of
said decedent are requested to present them for
settlement and those indebted to the estate to
make payment TO the undersigned without delay.
G.. W. MILLER,
Dec 5tf Executor,
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T LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that an application will
be made to the Legislature of the State OF Penn
sylyania at the next session for an Act OF Assem-
bly, 20 be entitled An act 10 provide for the cree
tlon OF house, for the employment and support
OF the poor In the township OF Centre, In the coun
ty OF Columbia for the object OF authorizing Cen.
tire township OF columbia county TO erect house
Tor the support aud employment OF the poor OF
said township, LAFAYETTE GREASY
Dec 4th 1884. WILLIAM SH AFTER.
Dec sat
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A vile tongue is ruthless weapon. am
more afraid of any mans tongue than am
Of his fist.
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Search others for their virtues, and
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! DMlNISTRATORs NOTICE.

ESTATE OF THOMAS MCHENRY, DECEASED.
Letters OF administration In the estate of Thom-
as Mclenry, deceased, late OF Benton twp. COlum-
bia county, pennsylvania have been granted by the
Register OF said county to the Undersigned Admin.
lstrators. All persons having claims against tile
estate OF the deceased are requested to present
them for settlement and those indebted to the es.
tate to make payment to the Undersigned admin.
istra or without delay.
HARRIET MCHENRI,
\. l.. Fritz, Atty. LAFAYETTE KELLER,
nov li-6 Administrators.
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POLITICAL NOTES.

Although Colono' Quay has been regularly announced
as "A candidate for Congress ia the XXNth Penn
sylyania District is thought that he may intend merely
to control and not tako the nomination. His cand
dacy has occasoned general surprise and many srinses
Among the motives attributed 70 Colonel Quay are de
sire pot himsei in the line OF march toward tne
United States Senate and yearGns to geteYen Win the
vino overlooked bis Quaneatons I0f delegate 10
the Chicago convention.
Ex-senator Wallace doubts the wisdom OF making Mr..
Payne the Democratic candidate re does MOI think
that the party can afford 10 stake it, all on ONO
The Richmond Dispatch, speaking of Ohio in 1880,
says: The result IN October insured the result In
November just the result IN Ohio IN October this year
will insure whatever result follows in November" That
being its belief, isn't The Dpd,ca dfeadully AFRAID that
tue Republicans viii insure the result In June ny hoi-
mating Mr.. Banner
In consequence OF that annoying obiquity OF vision
with which trade amateurs are always afflicted.
Mr. David \. Wells free trade boom eentFslzing
in New-EngaDd and radiatIng through Pennsylvania.
Mr. Wells has been centralized ia NewEngland Cor many
years without any begedt to his eye'g snd proba-
Div TOO much to expect tu.t ne woHlt ne able
Straight ii he should radlte through Pennsylvania Bat
while there's life there's hope and be - GIT 10 try it
General Green D. Raum sees "~y four men
in the race for the Republican nominaiiol-Arthur,
Blaine. Logan and Edmunds John Sherman Ben
Harrison aud Lucus Falrchild he says may be sup
ported by their states but do not believe they will draw
10 any extent. Arthur has not shown much strength
in NewYork State ~ IL was supposed he would, nut
have idea that he Will relinqulsh the contest His
will be presented TO the convention and his geas
strength in the South, with what scattering votes he VIII
various and Territories, Will make
him strong factor IN the convention BUT II Blaine Is
nominated the man who Il will have to beat Blaine
that The support which Is raylng To MIN
all the country ndicates this naturally am Tor
General Logan. and believe him 10 be In every way
worthy OF the trust
Mr Blaine is the almost unanimous choice OF the
Republicans Of the Pacific coast for the Presidency
The San Francisco ArgO,am has been receiving large
number OF letters from States and Territories OF tho
Pacific slope giving Presidential preferences. In regard
to the Presidency 2675 letters received OF which
2l7 expressed preference for Blaine and IN regard To
the VcePresdcncy. 2572 letters reCeyedOf which
2,l20 were in favor Of Ar. Lincoln.