The Dickinson press., 1884-11-08
General Condeusations.

A lady writes to the New York Sun
this cure for snoring: ga remedy TO.
snoring, and I have had o better half
who was greatly affected that way, is to
let the person so afflicted before going
to bed drink a cup of strong coffee with
out milk or sugar in it, and lie on their
right side" We are inclined to believe
shat this will be effective, but the man
will not ecure more than forty winks.
A Sabbath School teacher, says an ex-
change, had grown eloquent in picturing
to his little pupils the beauties of
heaven, and he finally asked: "What
kind of little boys go to heaven?" A
lively little four-year-old boy, with kick
ing boots, hourishing his fist. "Well,
you may answer" said his teacher.
Dead ones!" shouted the little fellow
at the extent of his lungs.
The commonwealth of Massachusetts,
has been most %grievously shocked by
the discovery of gang Of desperadoes
at Lowell, eight in all, sever boys and
n girl, none of them over Ii years of
age, who for some time have been L
rying on o systematic plan of robbery.
One of the gang, q lad of nine years, has
turned states evidence,
In his recent lecture at Birmingham
Professor Max Muller referred to the
Veda, the Brahim's Bible. "He said: 1t
is older than any other book in the Ar
van tongue, and surely the knowledge
of what the world was like 1,5OO years
before the beginning of our era, and of
what our own ancestors thought and be-
lieved nearly 1000 years ago, is worth
having and looking at. It had been,
and still was, the foundation of the re-
ligion of 1853 ,OOO, 900 of human beings.
1t does not say much for the manners
Of the people who attend marriages al
the fashionable Church Of st. Georges
Hanover square, London, that the rec.
tor and church wardens have been OBJ
liged to put up the following notice
"It is earnestly requested that all per-
sons will refrain from talking in the
church before and after as we'll as dur
ing the marriage services, andthat the,
will behave as in the house of God"
A learned Bostonian writes: Gal
though the Indians did not know how
to swear when the white men came
they soon learned to swear, and hat
sufficient words in their language TO
the purpose. Eliot, in the Indian Bibl
uses the Indian word Osh (my Father
for Creator, &C., and the early mission
aries, when addressing the Indian, uset
Gosh, (your father.) The Indians soo1
saw that that was the necessary wore
for profanity and adoptedit. Gosh is il
use to some extent now, and perhap!
some pious people who say gosh ar,
not ware that it is downright swearing
in the Indian language"
Mr.. J. Fl. Tingue, of Seymour, Conn.
who offered $50 to any young woman
who would within 80 days gather ant
forward to him a string Of buttons con
Gaining not less than $500 different pat
terms, has paid out about $1,000 thu
far, and now exhibits, in the agricultur
al Dom in the Capitol, in Hartford, Sew
eral of the strings in polished oak cases
There are buttons of every possibl.
shape and design, and some of the col
lection, especially of oxydized meta
buttons, are very handsome. Some o
the strings are made up of the latest ant
richest designs, or new patterns fresl
from the mandatory or store; other
are of ancient buttons, small and worn
as though cut from cast-of clothing o
past generations.