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The Osceola times., 1884-07-12

florist. "They will look pretty, l think,
but l have something prettier TO make
up for next week for four bridesmaids"
WHAT" asked the reporter.
well, YOU see these bows and arrows
of gilt? I'm going to twine them closely
with pink roses and daisies and place
them in the position to shoot. Then the
bridesmaids will carry them over their
arms. But the best of it is, there is to
be a floral Cupid standing on an arch OF
roses over the bride and groom, and at
this the arrows of the bridesmaids will
seem to point as they approach IT,"
"How much does such a decoration
cost"
"You mean the bows and arrows?
Well, the whole four will only cost $50
but if they were bought separately OF
course they would cost much more. The
horseshoes are cheaper, although more
flowers are used to fill them. They cost
the six, SIS, which is only So piece"
(Which are the favorite flowers?" ask
ed the reporter.
'The favorite flowers?" repeated the
florist after the journal man. swell
now, there are so many lean hardly tel
you. Ofthe common garden flowers you
might mention the syringa, that sweet
smelling white flower. / sell dozens o.
punches day, and when it is mingled
with the pink ounce blossoms the etfect
is very good. Then the. e are the daisies
They are very plentiful this season, bu
are great favorites nevertheless; anC
then the star Of Bethlehem flowers
which can be gathered in the meadows
and woods round about here. A biz
cluster of daisies will cost YOU b cents
and nice cluster of garden roses ma,
be had for 25 cents, but the latter do no
last any length oftime.
| I'm dearer flowers there are the pinl
carnations, the Jasque roses, heliotrope
scarlet geraniums and what not. Carna
tons are selling at 10 cents half dozen
white heiotrope is little dearer. Jaqu
roses are at all prices. You see, all tn,
school commenceInents will be comin
off this week and the week after, an'
they are very good for our trade. In
getting up some new designs that III
tell you OF later on"
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the body by changing hands, but he can
also reach many parts of his work more
readily. The same is true of the use of
the file and other tools, and all mechan-
les are compelled more or less TO avail
themselves Of the fact. Anybody can
soon learn TO write with the unaccustom-
ed hand by constant practice. Begin,
for example, with the letter m and prac-
tice on ii every dav, and expertness is
sure to be attained. 1t is also true that
the feet may be educated in the same
way. Good dancers are compelled TO
educate both feet alike, and SO are good
skaters. A mechanic working treadle
will use one foot and rest the other.
Operators of the sewing machine soon
learn the same expedient. Base ball
players learn to throw equally well with
either hand. 1t often happens that nice
points in game are made by tn S
means.
"Engravers who use magnifying glass
with one eve sometimes get distorted
vision, and are compelled TO learn the
use of the other eye. Unequal use OF
the eyes frequently cempels the employ
ment of spectaclos with glasses of differ
ent power. Ii is matter of common
sense that both sides of the body should
be used as nearly alike as possible, and
it is disregard Of this fact that makes
many lop-sided and distorted people.
An oarsman who could not row equally
well with both hands would make a
poor show. A pugilist who could not
uses both his fists with equal facility
would be at an immense disadvantage.
II is obviously only an absurd custom,
as well as pernicious one, tina. educates
people to write or TO do anything else
with one hand only. 1t is like using
only one barrel Of double-barrelled
gun. 1t is like trying to hop intead OF
walk. 1t is playing the piano with one
finger. If one hand is TO be unedueated
it might almost as well be cut off The
reason why one-armed persons gener-
ally do not appear TO be at very great
disadvantage is because two-armed per-
sons voluntarily, and in pursuance OF a
foolish custom, behave as If they had
only one arm"
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A SCHOOL GIRLS EXPERIENCE.
Married at Fifteen, the secret Comes out
whom She 10 Twensy-One.
n. Y. sun

n. Y. sun.
Nine years ago, when little Miss Mary
Fendert used to trip off to the public
school in West Fortieth street from her
fathers fancy goods store in Eighth ave-
nue., near Forty-second street, people
stopped to watch her pretty form go by.
Her jet eyes sparkled with good nature,
and she shook her long and glossy black
curls gleefully. She came to be known
among the neighbors as "pretty Miss
Mary" ana had several score of devoted
youthful admirers of her own age, which
was then l5.
One day John Eder, plain-ieatured
German grocer, who kept store near
the school, met her chucked her under
the chin, and asked if he might 20 with
her to the school. She playfully said he
might come along, and every day for sew
eral weeks he was herescort. One after
noon he told her that he was going TO
marry her. She ran home in alright
but did not tell her parents for fear they
would scold her. Next day on Jan. 26
1877, she found the grocer waiting for
her two blocks from her home.
"If you do not marry Inc to-day" he
said, according TO the story that she tells
an bring minister to your house and
make YOU my wife"
She says she was frightened, and prom.
ised TO marry him after school was out
In school she told friend that she
was going to be married after school
hours because she couldn't help herself
Her schoolmate saw Eder come nm and
take her away when school was dismiss.
ed in the afternoon, and ran as fast as
she could and told Mrs. Fender. Ger.
want was sent scUrrying in the direction
the couple had taken, and found Miss
Mary as she was leaving the house of a
German minister on the West side noar
the school building. The servant seized
the girls hand and hurried her home
Eder made no attempt to prevent the do.
parture of his bride, but lit a cigar and
walked off in en- opposite direction Ua
never made another effort to see the uirI
who was sent away TO the home of other
relatives to guard agair st any such meet
ing. Miss Mary never assumed her mar-
ried name, and her parents locked nm
her marriage certificate and kept the ad.
venture a family secret.
Last month Miss Mary Fendert. grown
TO be good-looking maiden of one and
twenty, with luxuriant hair and a bloom |
Ing complexion, became acquainted with
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WARS WHIRLlGIG.
County to Call Nut Men for Uncle Sam.
Harrisburg Telegraph

The Old DRAFT Box Used in Dauphin
County to Call Nut Men for Uncle Sam.
Harrisburg Telegraph.
In the lower market house this after
noon among the numerous articles offer
ed for sale by Auctioneer Ensminger
was the old wheel from which the names
were drawn during the days of the draft
in the latter part of the rebellion. 1t is
an ordinary round box, moving in the
centre and has sliding door with
paddock. Philip Ensminger, the father
of the present auctioneer, was blind and
it was his duty to draw the names.
When the draft was over the wheel fell
into the possession of the blind drawer
and has been laid away. A great many
whopassed 1t by stopped and looked at it
sadly, being reminded of the time when
from its depths was drawn their names
and they had either TO pay $500 exemp-
ton fee or from $500 to $500 for a sub
stitute.
The wheel was purchased by b. NJ.
Mead, Esq, for 1925 and he designs pre-
senting ii to the Dauphin County Histor-
ical Society. The key to the paddock on
the wheel could not be found and as yet
ii has not been opened. II is under
stood that the wheel contains the names
of those who were lucky enough not to
be drawn" A list of these might be
interesting reading,
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ALL SORTS.

The Rothchilds own S400,0O0,000 of
United States bonds.
In six years Henry NJ. Stanley has
succeeded in establishing chain of in
ternational stations across the African
continent.
Since 1862 the United States Govern
ment has collected from distilled spirits
taxes amounting to the enormous sum of
81 on, 100000.
The Oldest daughter of Lord Lytton,
though only fourteen, has taken up the
family pen and written one of the most
blood-curdling ghost stories that has
seen the light for many day.
II is said that oysters in England are
worth 81 cents dozen, and would be
worth twice as much but for the intro
duction of American oysters, which con-
troll the market
The Government Tea Inspector for
the port of New York, during the past
twelve months, condemned $4,000 pack
ages of tea. His decisions have been
sustained in every instance.
Alexander Gumle,on Ruffleton Scuffi-
Teton Olerda Whittleton Southenhall
Benjamin Franklin Squires is given as
the name of a 92-year old man living in
Clay county, North Carolina.
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a well-to-do young German. who -.
nounced his desire to marry her Hi. a'',
addresses were received with favor ans LIE
as result the previous marriage was "n' Nv
yeaied in motion made by Lawyer Yen.
Chambers, to annul the marriage of NJ
Mary Eder TO John Eder. The comnl.;';
alleged that the nuptials were tronaL,
about without the consent of the br;1a
parents and through the treats of tHs
defendant. Judge Truax referred tbe
case.
Lawyer Yenni visited Grocer Eder n,
his place of business. 81 am perfectIv
willing to let the suit go by default,' Ed.
er said. Miss Mary is entitled I, ba
cleared OF the bar TO her happiness.
suppose she never cared for me anyway.
thought her very pretty girl, and
that's why wanted to make her marry
me. | have never seen her from the
hour she left the inister's house."
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SfiO0N

Here you have used twenty-four fig
ures, and you have used the knowledge
of the ordinary method Of multiplication
which you have learned in school. But
| can show you how you can do that same
sum with about half the figures and the
use of common sense methoo, easily
learned and never forgotten: My way
of multiplying $3.50 by 333 would be first
to remember that 33t is one-;hird of a
hundred. If therefore, multiply $3.50
by 100 will have three times the result
l desire, but it is very easy to get one
third ofthat by dividing by 3. My meth :
cd of multiplying $3.50 by 3St is first to
multiply by 100, which is done by sim
ply adding two ciphers and then divid-
ing by three, as follows:
3 25S0OO
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A PLEA FOR THE LEFT HAND.
Some Of the Reasons for Using Either
Hand In Any Kind OF Work.

N. sun.
81 can tell you at once how many
bricks will be required to build house,
or how many rolls of paper will be need
ed to paper room, or how many yards
of carpet to cover floor" said an expert
who advertises his ability to teach quick
methods of mathematics, and also a
method of writing with the left hand.
But oil these sums can be done read
lily by any one with pencil and paper in
hand" the reporter suggested.
True" responded the mathematician,
but consider the saving of time and
money that a ready and prompt method
of calculation will effect. Take a gr o.
GERS clerk, and see how many sums he
is Obliged TO do in the course of day.
so with other clerks, bankers, brokers,
and accountants. One-fifth oftheir time
may be saved by quick processes
"Givc an illustration of your plan.'
Certainly; although | do not make
my living by talking to reporters. Here
is a simple illustration. Suppose you
wish to multiply 1850 by 33a. Take a
pencil and paper and the result won Id
be this:
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CHATTER or THE CHERuBS.

mamma. Pm afraid our dog il going
TO get the hives" "What makes Won
think so, Freddie?" "Why saw him
ton Free Press.
ooh, mamma, mammal" said little
girl the other day as she saw chicken
without any feathers in its tail. See
dat ole hen! She has lost de ribbons out
Of her polonaise. Paris Beacon.
Little Mortimer say, mamma, how
can para get lost sitting right still in the
library
Mamma-He can't, my child.
Little Mortimer-Oh yes, he can. He
told me just now TO run away-he was
lost in thought!-Lowell Citizen.
A Halsted street youth, dining at his
uncle's, at the Stock Yards, made such a
hearty dinner that his aunt remarked
Johnny, you appear TO eat WELL" "Yes,
auntie,' replied the precocious urchin.
"Pve been practising eating all my life.'
Chicago Sun.
Little Willie was saying his prayers as
usual at his mothers knee, before retir-
ing 70 his nightly couch. He had pro-
ceeded as far as "If ! should die before
wake" and then hestated. "Why do
you stop" asked his mother, what is
next" Il guess you'd had real nice
funeral" he replied with childish sim
plicity.-Chicago Sun.
"You are the duliest boy ever saw"
impatiently droned bald headed old
crank to his nephew this morning.
well, nuncky," replied the graceless
scamp, "you can't expect me to get things
into my head as quickly as YOU do; for
you don't have the trouble of getting
them through your hair.'-Chicago sun.
Mother, what was the weather made
for?'
"Yon shouldn'task such foolish ques-
ton, Johnny"
ooh, yes; that's good way to get out
Of it, You say foolish cause you can't
answer it,"
"Well, can your
"Yes, 1t was made 10 talk about
Kentucky State Journal.
A Stock Yards small boy thoughtlessly
calculated while at break fast this morn
ing; "Oh, dear, how | sweat quite TO
the horror of a very precise aunt, who
reproved him for making use of so inele-
CANT and impolite term. "Oh, yes, |
know all about it" he replied in an inn
patient manner and petulant tone;
horses sweat; men and women perspire.
but giddy young things like you only
glow. Chicago Sun.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-12
OUR SANITARIUM.
Warm Weather Maxims-How to Epiov
Good Health During the summer.
" AL

N. Joutud.
Now that summer and warm weathe
has come. the great problem is show TO
keep cool and healthy" To aid our
friends in solving this problem we give
the following rules:
Take a sponge bath every morning
with salt water or vinegar and water.
This cleanses the body and cools the
skin without causing chill.
Wear light flannel next to the skin
to absorb the perspiration.
Begin breakfast with fruit. Very little
oatmeal should be eaten, as it heats the
blood. Potatoes and wheat bread are
also heating. Brown bread crackers
and milk are all cooling and healthhrl.
Carry an umbrella or parasol to pro-
tect the head from the sun
Do not wear tightftting clothes.
Do not drink anything stronger than
soda and lemonade. Beer is cooling at
first, but makes one warm if more than
a glass is taken at a time. Oatmeal wat
er makes a delightful drink.
Eat plenty Of fruit and very little meat.
Do not get in temper. II makes one
distressingly warm on June day.
Do not run block TO catch car when
there is another one in five minutes.
Do not go to Coney Island at midday
and sit on the sand.
Go on an excursion whenever yau can.
When you are warm do not rub your
face vigorously with handkercf ief.
Mop it gently.
Do not get into heated political dis
cussion, and smile every time you get
chance.
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His Seventy-Two Children.

| referred lately to a case Of triplets in
Scotland. But this is nothing in com
parison with the Rrolificness of a Rus
sian, according to the following extrac,
from the Scots Magazine, March, 1855
There was lately presented to the En-.
press of Russia laboring who has had
two wives, the first of whom brought
him four times four children at birth,
seven times three, and ten times two
The second wife has lain in seven times;
the first time she brought forth three
children, and the other six times two.
The whole number of children by the
two wives amount to ~"
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THE BEAU HUNTERS.

Girls, never marry man unless you
know he is able to support you. Just
think of spending six days week over
the wash tub this kind of weather.-Bos-
ton Star.
The owner of pair Of pretty brown
eyes says the incest compliment she ever
received was from an infant of your years
who innocently asked: "Are your eyes
new ones?'-Chicago Sun.
Girls, you do wed, marry strong
man. Just think how nice it will be to
have a husband who comes up from the
cellar with a wash tub in each arm and a
piled mp scuttle suspended from his teeth.
kentucky State Journal.
Squiggs will not allow his eldest daugh-
ter, who has reached the mature age of
sixteen, to have a beau. He says that
his wife can do all the billing and the
new baby all the cooling that the house
can stand at present. Boston Budget.
A great unsettled question in this coun-
try is, "When does young lady cease to
be young?" The world generally says
after she becomes a grandmother. but
SoHlc WDultu Woli HdNt IL tildt way
Yonkers Gazette.
The father of five marriageable daugh-
tiers was in town few days ago trying 10
buy some four-leaf clover seed to plant
in his back yard. He said that he had
read that when young girl finds four
leaf cloveri it is a sign that she will be mar
ried within year.-Norristown Herald.
The daughters of Longfellow, while
the guests of Mrs. Ole Bull, In Norway,
this Summer, will take trip to see the
midnight sun. What a strange place
Norway must be. In this country the
girls do not have to take trip TO see the
son. The midnight son gener-
ally takes the trip to see them.-Yorkers
Statesman.
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$4,000

"But that is only one trihing illustra.
tien of the system. There is much time
10 be saved in eliminating the fractions.
Most people are AFRAID of fractions. NY
plan gets the fractions out of the way in
many cases. Iapply common sense and
expedients that are not taught in col
leges."
Have you taught anybody YETI"
mo. | cannot get men to come and
listen. They think they know it all,
andare!satisiied with the old cumbersome
way"
"How about writing with the left hand
who wants to do that?"
Everybody who writes ought to learn
how to do it. Take the lawyers copyists,
stenographers, clerks, every one who uses
the pen; in short time they get tired.
The hand is tired, the body is tired, the
neck is cramped. What reliefit would
beif they could change positions and
write with the other hand! You never
saw person who could do it,"
But i have seen picture of a re-
porter talking notes with enc hand and
writing out with the other"
"That looks like mere joke, vet il is
common thing to write with both
hands at once. The type writers do il
every day. That is the reason wny a
person working a type writer can write
faster than person using pen! Now.
ii is no more difficult to use pen with
the left hand than it is to strike the KEYS
of type writer with the left hand. II
is merely a matter of practice. Some
leit-handed people cannot use the right
hand for writing. But il is common
thing for persons who have lost the
hand accustomed TO writing 10 learn 10
write with the other. During the late
war many soldiers who lost the right
hand learned 70 write with the other.
In playing the piano an expert performer
must learn TO use both hands with equal
dexterity. There is no reason why . girl
who learns tosew shouli not be taught To
sew with both hands. Ifthlt were done
the fatigue of sewing would be greatly
relieved, because the body could be fre-
quently rested by change of position"
"Ambidexterity would be of immense
advantage to mechanics in the use of
tools. A carpenter, for instance. who |
can drive nail with hammer in either |
hand can work TO better advantage than |
one who can use the hammer with only |
one hand, because ne can not only rest
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worked off his anger by this vigorous
process, Bodlier began to look about him.
"Hello," he exclaimed: "Why, am a
lion tanner also; these animals are afraid
of me-" From that day he regularly fol-
lowed his wife into the cages, and never
did one of their beasts dare to turn on
him, while to the end of her days he
kept ais wife in wholesome subsection
by liberal use of the ship. When the
"queen" died, Boulier retired from the
profession, but accident led him TO the
Foire aux pains d'epices few week ago,
and there he was so struck with Mile.
Nouma-H -Hawa's exhibition that he secur-
ed an introduction, which was followed
by an offer of his heart, hand and for
tune.
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THE PET SLAVE OF JOE DAVIS.
The Career of Ben Montgomery, who Got
his Education in School Of Polish.
Augusta Chronicle

his Education in q School of Polish.
Augusta Chronicle.
Some curiosity has been revived re-
Gently concerning the reported purchase
of Jefferson Davis plantation by negro.
l briefly corrected it week ago, and am
now able to give some particulars of the
whole affair. My informant is near re.
lation of the ex-President. 1t seems
that General Joe Davis had slave named
Ben Montgomery. He was so very
sprightly in childhood and early boy
hood that the General made him a spe-
cial pet. Ben was pure -blooded negro,
but manifestly ola high type. He had
woolly hair, but his features were as
classical as those of an ancient Roman.
His master not only honored him in all
things, but had him taught in the best
manner. He was sent to France and in
structed most expensively. His chief
accomplishments were those of language
and mathematics. He spoke several for
eign tongues with elegance and wrote
them accurately. He understood integral
calculus and was something of an astron-
omer, but posses sed not one spark of the
inventive or creative faculty, which seems
to be the dividing quit between the typi-
cal negro and the white and yellow races.
After the war Ben, who had the mon
ey-making gift, offered to buy the Davis
plantations for 100000. Payment was
to be made on easiest possible terms but
failure was the result from the very start
and General Davis released Ben from
his bargain. He is now in the West en-.
gagged in commercial pursuits and doing
reasonably well. He is a remarkable
| phenomenal, exceptional and most
worthy black man. but he does not own
the Hon. JEFF Davis plantation.
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now SHE GOT A HUSBAND.
A Girl who Travelled to Montana on =
Matrimonial Venture.

Miss Nettie Brott of Oswego Falls is
the heroine in a rather romantic mar
riage. Some time ago she read an adver-
tisement in newspaper which solicited
correspondence with sone lady, with a
view to marriage if all proved agreea-
BILE" After correspondence and the ex-
change of photographs, the gentleman
sent for the lady to visit him in his
home in Montana. She left here about
the LIST of May for the far West. He
met her for the first time about 200 miles
this side of his home at the town of Bill
lings, in Montana. She would not then
marry him until she had visited his
home and learned more Of him and
his character. She found in his home
his mother and two nieces, who cordially
received her. Suffice it to say that this
daring orphan girl two weeks later fully
determined 10 remain and grow up with
the country. The agreement was that
if she did not like him or he her enough
to marry, he was to pay her expenses
back to this place. She paid her fare
out to him The young lady was a men,
Der of the Baptist church and bore, we
believe, good reputation. The follow
ing is taken from a Montana paper and
tells the sequel to the story.
Married, May Is, 1884, in saltwater,
Mr.. Alexander Hundley of saltwater,
Montana, and Miss Nettie Brott of Os-
wego Falls, N. Y"
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AT THE STAGE DOOR.

Although enter not.
Yet round about that spot
Each night | hover;
And near the keepers gate,
with cigarette wait.
Expectant of her.
The theatre ig out,
| hear the galleiy's rout,
And noise and isumming;
They've dropped tine curtain down.
The eorchestra has gone
sh g coming, coming.
My lady comes at last,
With step not overfast,
hut tending hither;
Knows she me, them pray.
She got my last bouquet
told the call-boy give her.
BE not disturbed. fair queen
OF tinsel, all serene,
You Ill not worry.
And not a word of mine
VIII put that heart Of thine
Into a furry.
Yet suffer me to pace,
And feast upon your face,
Tho I've not spoke.
The reason why lurk
In solitude, and shirk.
Is simply am broke.
The Judge.
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A Wise Tenant
Philn.lelnhin Cnll

Jones-"You don't mean TO say you
have made all these improvements your
self. l thought you were only a ten
ant"
Smith, am"
"Well, if were in your place would
send for the landlord and let him see
the expense YOU have put on it,"
"The landlord Mercy! Don't let him
know that ! have improved his proper.
ty."
And why not?'
He would raise the rent"