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The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

la the principal street, thas which YOU
enter IN coming from Caltsro. you md
on the night hand, first the powder Al az.
azlue, an Insignificant looking uuare
building; second, the prison. At first
sight you suspect your guide ia Impos.
ing on you. The prison has no windows
and the door Is a permanent aperture,
without means of closing II. The prison
sy EN- is as odd IS the prison. A
maietactor is ordered To lodge himself in
the sbote OF Gu prits, and he goes there.
lie has no special guards-he commun-
ity watches over nun. tie receives no
fooj, but the government gives him 8
hal pence a day TO purchase all necessa-
ries. Uuder the circumstances it can be
imagined that un ess succored by his
family be can scarcely live luxuIously,
Unaccompsniei by any guard the prs
oEers go daily h Valer the princes gar
den, and takes bis horses ont for exer
else. they gallnp about for a couple of
hours, and then, having put the animals
IN their stables, return to their uncom-
Portable quarters. A C ndemned person
docs not on that account forfeit his
CLAM s TO public confidence. One exam
pie will suffice. A short time before the
declaration of war a commercial house
IN Trieste notified the prince that a cargo
OF ammunition had arrived at Cattaro, but
could not be delivered until its price,
80, 900 francs, had been paid. The
MASTER should leave in three hours after
the receipt OF the dispatch, and, under
ordinary circumstances, six hours at least
ara rapftyrad Fp, tha snrranv - Fs.
Unless redeemed at the time there would
be a delay of many days in delivering the
cargo.
The authorities bethought themselves of
a helnous criminal, a man with chained
ankles, and who, for the crime of murder,
was undergoing an exceptional punish
ment. In order to prove an alibi, he had
travelled an extraordinary distance after
he had committed the crime, and in an in.
credlbly short time. The idea struck the
authorities that this man might be useful
under the circumstances. In these noun
talns a man on foot travels much more
quickly than on horseback.
"Can you carry these 80, 900 francs to
Csttaro in three hOurs?" the man was
asked.
Certainly" he replied. He started;
the sum was duly delivered, and having
brought back the receipt, the man retired
to his unbarred prison. In another coun-
try it is more than probable that under the
circumstances the prisoner and money
would both have disappeared. But in
Montenegro the case is different. Love OF
country Is the predominant passion, albeit
that the country is not worth much. 1t
Is 30 small that the criminal cannot hope
to escape detectloni and he cannot endure
the idea of perpetual ostracism. Some
times the Montenegro goes abroad fol
five or SIX years, but it is only that he
may return later on to display his splendid
wardrobe, the fruit Of his tolls IN foreign
oountrles-in Albania, Herzegovina, ever
Austria.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

In January last Howard BlackmOre
and Thomas Welch got astray from a
Gloucester fishing schooner on Burgeo
Bank, southwest of Newfoundland.
They were subjected to terrible suffer
ings, and Welch died. Blackburn held
his hands around the oars until they
froze in a curved position, andthus was
able to row nearly two days, until he
came to the habitation of Francis
Lehman, at Little River. Lehman
took care of him until he was able to
to return home and tell the story, which
was published in Gloucester. 1t at.
tracted the attention of Mr.. William
Litchman, of M~arblehead. He was a
native of Little River, which place he
left when a boy, with his father, walk
through the woods to the coast, living
on game and sleeping in camps OF
boughs. In the spring his father
shipped for a fishing trip OF the schooner
Mechanic, of Marblehead, leaving the
boy with a Mr.. Bennett. On returning
from the trip Mr.. Lehman took his
son on board the schooner, and they
came to Marblehead, where William
entered the employ of Jonathan Is.
Mason.
His father went to Gloucestsr and re-
NAMED there until 1888, when he disap-
peared. William married at manhood,
and changed the spelling of his name to
Litchman. For many years he sup
posed that he had no relatives, until
1874, on the death of Mr.. Mason, his
former employer, a letter was discov-
cred among his effects from Mr.. Lich-
man, his father, written in 1912, and
dated athis home, in Franklin, La, in
curing for his son. The father now
being dead, Mr.. Litchman supposed
again that he had no relatives
except his wife and children, one
Of whom is the Hon. Charles II.
Litchman, the eloquent labor advocate,
who now holds a position with the
Railroad Commission by appointment Of
Governor Butler. On writing to Fran
els Litchman, at Little River, N. F.,
an answer was sent which has just
been received, showing most conclu
sively that he and William are brothers
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

In the Spanish SIT ions OF North and
South America, the first thing which
strikes the stranger about the HOUSEHOLD
is the picturesque and unique furniture
of native manufacture. There are some
objects of factory make, imported, but
these are more for show than use. The
staple furniture of a Spauish-Amerlcan
house is a part Of the country itself.
You suspend Your sombrero lbroad-
brImmed hat at the door on a hat-rack
of the straight stem Of a minOsa or
SEINE Other rough-barked tree, with
polished horns for pegs. You rest your
s~addle-bags on a stool made of bamboo
or Embarked branches, with a seat of
rawhide, the hairy side out. Your host
ess receives you, rising from an arm-
chair constructed Of three splendid bulls
horns fastened to a rough cylinder of
wood, with rawhide stretched between
the horns to form the seat and arms.
The abundance of cattle in these cOun-
tries has brought the ingenuity of the
natives into exercising itself to utilize
the products of the herds, and the re-
suit is the various forms of domestic
furniture. A popularity of all Span
ish-American furniture is the absence
of metal in its construction. Wooden
pegs are used in its construction.
Wooden pegs are used instead of nails
to faSten the horns to the wood, but the
manufacturer appears to have a rooted
objection even to the use of these. He
relies principally on the leathern thongs
with which he sews and ties everything
together. And even his knots are Pc
culiar. They are never the hard knots
we commonly use, but an intertwisting
of the thong or cord, such as is popular
with sailors. These knots vary with
the countries in which they are found.
Knots used in Southern California,
Arizona and New Mexico are different
from those of Old Mexico, while in
Central or South America nearly every
State has a different method of making
them. But wherever or however the
furniture is made, it is very durable.
The writer brought the chars, stools
and settees from Venezula. They were
not new when he bought them, and they
have been in constant use, needing only
al occasional bit of cord or a nail to
keep them sound. Our farmers may
find suggestions here for the use OF
horns and other waste products of
slaughtered animals.
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"The articles people forget to take
with them when they leave the cars
include everything you can think OF, .
said Porter No. l at the Chicago and
Northwestern railway depot. my
gracious. everybody is dreadfully care
less. Whatever things people forget
come into my hands to be held Tor
Identification. The collection that is
gathered up every day would astonish
you. Sometimes | got as high as thirty
packages of all shapes and sizes maday,
besides yalises, umbrellas, o~Vercoats,
rubber garments, ladies' satcheis, ana
the Lord only knows how many more
things"
"What was the s~trangest article you
ever found in a carp
ga baby, I found n last summer
nicely wrapped up, lying aeleep on a
car seat after all the passengers were
gone. The baby's owner never claimed
it, and so it was sent to the FoundIlngs'
hospital. l suppose it IS there YET.
Probably its mother did not leave IL
behind entirely by accident.
"Are men or women most tOrgetiuIF'
"Women. They are always leaving
something behind. Parasols, rubber
shoes. purses. cloaks, shawls-oh, they
strew their goods around in a dreadful
way. Then when they come flying back
after their things they are likely TO
think that the railway employees have
have got up a conspiracy to rob them.
They are pretty sure to look cross II
suspicious when they inquire Tor thelr
stuff. They conclude That somebody
else is to blame for their mistakes.
When, they get their goods back again
though they are all smiles and go away
pleased enough"
Glow is it with the men?'
''ThevdOn't make as much fuss as
women do about their missing things
unless they are really important. they
leave behind more canes than anything
else. Some leave their ~overcoats or
their valises. Sometimes we lind bun
ches of game, dinner-pailS, shot-guns,
base ball clubs, spades, boots, old hats. "
"What is the most valuable thing
you ever found left behind on a carr"
"a little over a year ago l found a
large pasteboaTd box full Of silver dol
lars hidden under a car seat. 1t con-
tanned $500. About an hour afterward
a white faced man came tearing into
the depot all out of breath. lie had
missed his money. He said he was en-
gagged in conversation with another
man when he got off the train, and had
forgotten all abont the box until he
| reached his office. lie was happy to get
| 1t back, and as a token of his gratitude,
he took a counterfeit 25.cent piece u OF
his pocket and offered it to me. Several
years ago a young man who lives in
Evanston left a poeketbook containing
$500 on the seat of the car. l found 1t
and returned it to hlm. He was the
worst-scared man | ever saw until he
got his money back"
"Nhat becomes Of the articles that
are not reclaimed?'
"'They are turned over to the general
baggage agent after being in my hands
a day or two. They are marked with
the date and with the number Of the
train on which they were found. Some.
times owners turn up for articles which
have been in the baggage agents pos
session for several months. Every two
years the goods remaining in his hands
are sold at public auction.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

1t Is the delight of importers OF tinery
to get hold OF some thing entirely novel,
keep it cut of sight until a fashionable
season has actually begun, and then
suddenly and extensively display it.
thus gaming a few weeks OF monopoly
before his domestic rivals can put
duplicates into the market. There are
several dealers in hats who originate
styles OF their own, usually in felt ma
t~erials, and are able, through an ac-
CURED reputation for fashionable leader
ship, to force them into popularity i'll
nearly every instance. Having per-
fected the designs for the winter. they
close the doors of their factories as
tightly as the portals of a Masonic
lodge. and manufacture a full stock as
securely as possible. Rivals send spies
to discover the fresh shapes, and some
times successfully, but rs a rule it is
possible to keep the jealousy guarded
goods safe from competition until they
are shown to the public for sale. Thus
they are preserved unique and distinct
i've, and very profitably so, for the
prices are five to ten times the rates
Tor ordinary articles of the same quality.
The belle with plenty OF money with
which to CRAFTY her whimsical fancy
will gladly pay ten dollars for a plain
felt hat, though intrinsically it may
not be worth two. provided she is SURE
she will not meet its counterpart On
every block of her walks abroad.
But about the cork bonnets. The
sheets are so thin that they can be used
like cloth, and the surface, which is
left to its natural color, has somewhat
the appearance of leather, The bonnet
and muh are trimmed in a correspond
ing style with fur, and the effect is odd.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

Harrison Raymond lived for many
~yearsin Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio,
and amassed considerable property, most
which was in cash. He would not
trust his money to the keeping of a
bank, but hid it about his own premises
keeping the hiding-place secret even
from his own family.
A short time ago he told his wife that
he had hidden about $4,000 in money
and that pretty soon he would inform
her of its whereabouts, so that, in case
of his death, she would know where to
look for it. He neglected to do this
and about a week ago he died of apo
plexy. After his death an examination
of his papers showed that he had $780,
600 in money all hidden about his pre-
misses. The most thorough search failed
to reveal the hiding place. and the widow
began to despair. :
Then she was impressed with the
notion that if she prayed with faith the
Lord would direct her to the place
where the money was hidden. On
Wednesday she prayed all day and all
night. On Thursday morning she was
impelled to go to the bee-hives, which
stood on a bench near the house, and
II the excitement of expectation she
knocked over one of the hives, disclos-
ing to her view the top of a bench with
a pile of greenbacks of large denomina-
ton upon it. \ search under the other
shive resulted in finding a total of SIS.
600.
In the afternoon one Of the family
dropped a bunch of keys through the
barn floor, which ~neceSsitated taking
up a plank to find them, and when the
young man put his hand down he struck
half-a gallon fruit jar. which he pulled
out to find partly filled with $40 gold
pieces. Other jars and a grain bag were
also found containing gold and silver,
aud when it had all been counted the
total amount figured up over 1913, 600.
The widow was overjoyed, and in her
statement to the correspondent sand she
believed that the discoveries were in
din ect answer to her prayers.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

The traveller. of course, gets his
impressions of a people from the out
side. These are correct as far as they
go, and it is in a sense safe to g%eneralize
on them, though not to ~particularize.
He catches very oon the moral atmos-
phere of a strange land, and knows
whether it is agreeable OF otherwise,
whether the people seem pleasant or
the reverse. lie learns to discriminate,
for example, between the calculated
qenudhlichkeit of Switzerland and the
more spontaneous friendliness Of
Bavaria. He can pronounce at once
upon the cordial good humor of
the Viennese, the obligingness Of the
people of Edinburgh, the agreeableness
of the Swedes, simply of street.
knowledge, without ever entering a
private house or receiving any personal
hospitality. He knows the willy, poeti-
cal ways by which he is beguiled IN
Italy, but grows fond of the sunny race.
In Spain he is pretty certain to be
rubbed the wrong way, most of the
time. He is conscious of an atmos.
phere of suspicion, of distrust, of con
tempt often. He cannot understand,
for instance, why attendants In churches
and cathedrals are SC curt and disobllg-
ing, keeping him away, on n p%retense
and another, from the sights he has
come far to see, and for which he is
willing to pay. Incidents occurred both
at Granada and Toledo that could be
accounted for only on the snppOsition
that the c~ustodians liked to discommode
strangers. If we had been French
men, whom the Spaniards hate as the
despoilers of churches and galleries, we
could have understood it. By reputa-
ton the Spanlard is at home hospitable,
and on acquaintance gracious, and
generally willing to oblige. But the
national atmosphere is certainly not
what the Germans call gemuthlich. In
no other European country is the
traveller likely to encounter so much in
civility and rudeness, so little attempt
at pleasing him and making him like
the country. At least, the attitude is
that OF indifference, whether the
country pleases him or not. Perhaps
this springs from a noble pride and
superiority. Perhaps it is from a pro-
vincial consciousness of being about
two hundred years behind the age.
But, elsewhere, the ~pleasantest people
to travel among are those whose clocks
stopped two centuries ago. Individually,
l have no doubt, the Spaniards are
charming. Collectively, they do not
appear to welcome a stranger, or put
themselves out to make his s%Ojourn
agreeable,
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! possession of the suspected thief.
Madame will find that the letter | bring
co~Iroborates my statement
The Countess glanced hastily through
the letter, and ringing the bell desired
that her maid might be told to bring
the remaining earring Immediately; tins
was done, and the dapper little man,
bowling deferentially, departed with
the precious duplicate safely in his
possession.
The Countess descended to her slCdge
and drove to the club, to call for her
husband en- route for the Bots. Cross
ing the Place de la Concorde, She re-
lated to him the latest incident in the
story of the diamond earring.
"You never were induced TO give up
the other!" cried Count Iyanoff in
credulously.
"But l tell you, mon ami, an officer
Of police came himself to fetch it,
bringing a letter from his superior
youching for the truth of hisstatement. :"
'If the Project himself had come, /
don't think l should have been cajoled
into letting him have it after last
nights experience" laughed her has
band. However, for the second time
of asking, we will go and INQUIRE"
THE coachman turned and drove as
directed TO the Bureau of Police, at
which the Count had lodged his COM
plant the night before. After a some
what protracted delay the Count re-
joined his wife with a semi-grim look
of amusement upon bis handsome hir-
suite face.
The police know nothing of your
detective or his epistolary efforts" he
SAID, drawing the fur rug up to his
chin as the inpatient horses sped away
merrily over the frozen snow; sit was
the wrong man they had got bold of at
Brussels. Your second earring has
been Melted by another member of the
light fingered fraternity, and upon my
honor l think he is the more accom-
plished artist of the two"
And from that unlucky day to this
the Countess Iyanoff's celebrated dia-
mond earrings knew her pretty ears no
more.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19
LovEIN a CoITAuE.

They may talk Of love IN a cottage,
And bowers OF trelllsed vine
OF natures Dewitchingly simple,
And mllkmaids half divine;
They may talk Of the pleasure Of sleeping
In the shades Of "A spreading tree,
And a walk in the fields at morning,
By the side ola footstep free
But give me n sly filtration
By the light Of a chandelier
With music to play in the pauses,
And nobody very near;
Or a seat on a silkeu sofa,
With a glass Of pure old wine,
And mamma too blind 10 discover
The small white hand in mine.
Your love in a cottage is hungry,
Your vine IS "A nest for flies
Your milkmaid shocks the Graces,
And simplicity talks Of piesl
You lie down to your shady slumber
And wake with a bug in your ear,
And your damsel that walks In the morn
ing
Is shod ike a mountaineer.
True love is at home on a carpet,
And nightly likes his case
And true love has an eye for a dinner,
And starves beneath shady trees.
His wing s the fan ola lady,
His foot's an invisible thing,
And his arrow is tipped with a jewel,
And shot from a silver string.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

OUTsUILDINes. -On this subleoi a
pennsylvania farmer says: Farmers
who are thinking of painting the out.
buildings will find that the application
OF a coat of crude petroleum lessons the
AMOUNT OF paint required and will cause
the wood to last longer. A wash which
1 have found very satisfactory for cut
side work Is made by shaking clean,
fresh lime, mixing it with water and
adding to each peck of lime half a pound
OF salt and a pound OF sulphate OF zinc.
This wash may be colored to many de-
sirable shades. For a cream color, /
add yellow ochre: and for gray, lamp
black dissolved in vinegar.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

Aarria9e, as practiced among the
negroes OF ~Senegambia, has been writ.
ten upon in a very entertaining way by
NJ. Berenger Feraud. As III other parts
of Africa, the parental tie is slight, di-
vorce is a matter of everyday occur
renee; women are to all intents and
purposes slaves, and the the marriages
are attended with elaborate ceremonials
simply as pretexts for anusements and
intemperance.
If We fasten our attention ON what we
have, rather than o. what we lack, a
very little wealth is sufficient.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

Herr KrtPp, OF Essen, has Just taLsn
out a patent ON a tiat-headed artillery
proiectile. It' tapers slightly at tue
butt, and not only plerces tue plates
more easily than thepointed kind. which
are apt TO defect when striking iron at
certain angles, but it is calculated to hit
he iron clads below the water. line.
The best of us are hampered in every
effort at improvement, not only by our
faults, but by those of our neighbors.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

Il simple and effective dust ring for
watches has recently been patented by
a resident of Kingsland. England. The
ring, which is OF peculiar form, is fitted
in the ease before the movement and
secured by screws, al er which the
movement is fitted to t 9 ring. The
ring does not afterwar require to be
removed, the wen t alone being
taken out for cleaning, leaving the ring
permanently fixed in the case.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

As A protection to plum trees against
the attacks Of the curculio it IS sugges-
ted that the trees be inclosed and the
orchards devoted to poultry. Mr.. Haw-
kins, of Lancaster, Mass the largest
poultry breeder in the world, plants
plum trees Tor shade almost exclusively
and tiuds the method very successful
against c~urculio, rs the fowls destroy
the insects as fast as they emerge flom
the ground, where they mature after
the injured fruit has dropped. By cam
bining plum growing and poultry upon
the same location the profit from a
single acre of ground can be made very
large,
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

On very cod, damp nights the fowls
should be given a good feed OF whole
corn before they go to roost, as 1t is
%promotive of heat than any other
kind Of food that is usually fed. 1t is
also advisable to change to wheat occa-
sionally, for the sake of variety.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

NHEN you find a daTyman who pro-
nuulces winter d4iryinz a failure the
chances are that you have found one
who does not make the greatest success
Of any kind of dairying. Any one with
any skill at all should be alb e to make
winter dairying pay and pay well. when
its products sell at about double the
price for which they selIin the summer,
while It costs bat little more to carry
the lows through the winter in milk
than dry. While there ia some incon-
venience about dairy work in the win
ter there are many y,ry serious hin-
ORANGES to summer da1rylng, such as hot
weather, hes, etc., which are avoided.
EUROPEAN horSiculiurists have lately
adopted a mode of making root cuttings
root with more certainty by bending
the shoots aud inserting both ends into
the ground, leaving a single bud uncov-
cred nj the middle and ON the surface
OF the ground. The cuttings ere about
ten inches long, AID are bent oyer a
stick laid Il t ou tire ground, holes be-
ing dug ia each side of the stick, for
the reception OF the ends OF the shoot.
The roots form only at the lower end of
the shoot, but the other end being bur-
led prevents evaporation.