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The Penn's Grove record., 1888-02-25
The sparrows are nesting again.

The sparrOws are nesting again.
The thaw has made much slush and
mud.
CAPT. J. d. Whitaker is still froze
up in Boston Harbor.
Committeeman Springer began scrap
ing the roads on Tuesday.
Miss Ella Crispin, of Salem, is visit
ing her friend, Miss Ida Sack.
James Borden is Il travelling sales
man for &. G. Green's medicines.
jackson Lawrence has moved into
widow Aliens house on Harmony st.
Smith Hewitt and John Caley, left
for the Bay on Thursday night to fish
for rock.
Smith ami David Walling found
two largo shear-poles in the river on
Tuesday.
II the small boys with their marbles
indicate the arrival of spring, then 1t
has come.
Mrs. u. Layt on, of Wilmington,
spent last Sunday with relatives near
PennsgrOve. ..
Nehemiah Atkinson, formerly of,
P~ennsgrove, and once in the navy, now
lives at Norfolk, Va.
Thos. Hunt has purchased IA build
ing lot ON Railroad Avenue and viii
have Y house erected thereon next sum
me-.
On Friday afternoon james ID. Tor
ton was given a surprise visit by II
number OF friends, and II social Time
enjoyed.
Mrs. Joseph G. French and da lgl-
ter, Mrs. Chandler, spent last Sunday
with Mrs. Edwin +. James, in VIII
mingtOn.
Frank, son of Rev. 7. G. Carmaii,
who is now attending il school OF pi'aI-
macy in Philadelphia spent last sun
day al home.
Capt. Robt. Dole arrived home on
Tuesday. His schooner brought Il
load of shingles fiom Georst"wn 10
Philadelphia.
The ice has broken up in the river
and nearly disappeared. Navigation
will soon be be resumed if the warm
uvoathar Continues
Frank Slmpkins, the genial railroad
conductor, has moved into one OF the
apartments of Summerills' block and
will open q branch jewelry store.
Annie Gallagher, of Cumberland
Co., Pa, and Andrew Gallagher, re-
Gently arrived from Ireland, aye visit
ing their brother John Gallagher.
Bevs. L.. d. Stultz, of BIldseton;
Enoch Chester, of S%harptown; and
Mr., Thackera conducted the all-day
services in the Bethel ehuicl, III Fri
day.
THE last parlor social by the $. Panis
faiso'"Re e"ii''i''oo
enCe year will be held at MIS-. Sarah l..
I"'u''
ing.
County Clerk Flynn will give t" each
Inspector of election in the county til"
combination" LOT opening t'e ne"
patent oaiiot ooHes 'oi 'he ep''"S e"o'
ton.
We neglected to state last week
that the st. Pauls Mite Society have
e very successiui IN clearing AL the
parsonage FURNITURE oi dep' TIE pass
year
The friends of John A. Fealherer
will be pleased tohear that he is recover-
lug from the severe fall he received on
the ice last week, ny when ms mp
was sprained.
All members of Union Lodge X. of
P. are requested to be present at the
ice cream and fruit supper they will
treat themselves to next Wednesday
evening, Z9th.
John Gallagher took a trip to Nor
folk, Va, last week with lis brother
in-law James O'Neal, who is a cap
tain of one of the Philadelphia and
Norfolk line of steamers.
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MAWERS-FRlANT-Feb Feb. 10, by
Rev. Margerum, Arthur Mawers and
Sarah Friaiil, both of Sharriown.
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SHlRTIMaS.

For Women's Dresses and
Boys Shirts Waists. as well as
for Mems Shirts. There is no
Sturdier. stronger cotton stuff
OF the weight. For thick and
thin wear anywhere, AS pretty
as good. In all the chintz
colors. and they are deep and
fast. Plump yard wide. And
the price is but I24c. Never
before equal quality for so little.
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PRICES -
FOR COPYING AND ENLARGiNG.
P .\P IIS.

II lriuIurr the prices Iur 'upNfn. in,t rulirg
ing >lla II pictures have irvu II, iIgh that ptr.
sons ut moderate means could uuI thuId it. hut
q ing to 4 rumiinHtiun 81 Circumstances am
rlahlrd Ia nil"r ni>i class Work at muu,uallN
low prirrS-Nt l"r cent lower lhLI ever hrturr
Two NJ the ull,>i Jlh largest photo copying
houses III \. y. represented iilln> VII" "lnll"H
rnrnrrlItim-lualiiN al w"I considered Any
snail picturr, M natter r"N much lc;lcrrl 81
taird il may hc. -" lhJl ih' outllu"- aye dis
rcruahlr wItltm'.lItN tIg class :: copied lud IA
lJrg,tt Ia ANY SIR desired. lirlutr> lHul-hru
III oil, Water tolnr>. llulitu luN ri tlIN"I.
The fact thai ,u moi irIClm uu thr mu>iitr>>
tor q living is q guarantee Il.tlI riu rIri iNrr
prices than travelling IurrI>, most III whom Iri'
resent >ulug small lIS copying tWl.r liid nii"I
NOH worthless pictures Al rnulhtnu> pTI"r> ~rtni
Tor >tnIplr pictures, prices ~ ~ili~lt 'ii"u
gluII hri"rtI
w. n. COMPTON.
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Space forbids ustelling more
of the things in the store that
are reminders OF the warm,
blue skies and the bursting
buds, as we must speak of
some OF our remarkably cheap.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1883.
S.
SALES.

SALES.
Feb. 25-G. II. Elkinton, Agt. a farm.
Feb. 81, Samuel Hurff. L. 7. Neck.
March samuel Wallen l.. p. Neck.
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imported goods very hard at
all points. Only half Andcr.
sons prices, 2oc.
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Harriet J.. NordirI. Ii. ia.
tomplt, lor sale Of
Amt Charl, + Wowlly and wife rMUitga9ed
DptIS IInupIiy.
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of
REAL ESTATE

~IIERlFt''> SALE
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-25

you. He holds the marble in one hand
and fires it out with the other with n
skill that / have never seen anywhere
else. An American baseball will not
do there. Throw one of our balls for
an Arab boy to catch, and you would
have fight on your hands in a minute.
1t is too hard for him to have any fun
With
Coming down Mt. Lebanon one
night, I could hardly believe my ears
az from out the darkness | heard, with
a clear. melodious note, some one whis-
Ting In the sweet bye-and-bve. |
soon found it was an Arab boy, guard
ing shcep-fold. His father and moth
or and Ike hal all been to school in
Beirut and there, way up on that sacred
old mountain, they had n happy
Christian home. If any one ever asks
Won what good the missionaries do, you
can tell them that for one thing they
make boys life happier, make II bet
ter man of him and raise him from the
low level of little better than brute
to be respected and loved. They make
his home a home indeed, where he has
kisses instead of curses, and, best of
all, fathers and mothers love-
The Interior.
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The Strength of the Anarchists.

More than half the total number
some fifteen thousand-were located in
New York, some five or six thousand
in Chicago, and the others were dis
tributed among the suburbs of the two
cities named, and in Cincinnati and St.
Louis. Scarcely an appreciable fol-
lowing could be found in other large
cities. They differed from the Mill
lists up to the time of the Chicago hang
ing only in this, that the Nihilist was
pledged by solemn oath to kill, and to
kill whomsoever the COMMITTEE"
would direct. The American branch
proposed to kill only after the failure
of other means. "Other means to what
end? ?" one asks, and the intangible an
swer, after much "mouthing" of Glib
erty" lin America y, must be finally re-
solved into permission to enjoy at will
what their more fortunate neighbors
have accumulated. Since Nov. IL,
1887, they had changed materially,
and now their motto had become "Re-
venge and Our Rights" their motive
to kill, and their great reliance dyna'
mite.-Americdr1 Magazine,
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Not So Strange.

Who has not, at some time, stood
meekly by while a sbop-girl talked of
her personal affairs with some intimate
friend, and wondered how zone small
head" could enable her at the same
time to sell her goods and entertain her
visitor? One person at least seems to
have solved that problem. A gentle
man one day went into small store to
make trifiing purchase, and while the
pretty saleswoman rolled up his parcel,
she also told an admiring young man,
who was leaning on the counter, the
story of her last attendance at the de-
batting club
"He was Just as disagreeable as he
could be that night" she went on, I'M
dismayed by double audience. HE
said if Kate Hooper and [ sat in the
back seats and laughed, the committee
would give up inviting us to come.
Thank you' (as she passed the customer
his change, and she went on with her
story to its bitter end of quarreling and
parting.
Still the gentleman fingered, and
though she several times glanced at him
in surprise, was evidently determined
to prolong his stay beyond that of the
young man, who finally took the hint
and withdrew. Then said the Gus
toner:
Il lave been greatly interested in
watching you, and seeing how many
things you could do at once You
seem to be able to give your attention
to several occupations Mt the same
time
"Of course" returned she, pert hut
fiattered. Anybody must be stupid
that can only do one thing at time.
"You did up my package, told a
story, put your counter in order, and
gave me my change" said the gentle
man, admiringly, land, as one might
say, at the same moment. Now, have
heard it declared that 4 person can
only give his entire attention to one
subject at time. This is most in
teresting easel
"Wel, [ don't know as Tn any
smarter than anybody else" said she,
bridling, "but, at any rate, that's what
! I can do"
cob, there's one thing ought to
MENTION" said the gentleman. You
know you gave me my change jrst as
you were telling your friend that in,
terestins story. You should have
given me eighty-tive cents, but instead
YOU made it II dollar and eighty-tive
1t was very kind of you, but You must
allow me to return it. Good morning Y
So he left the girl who could turr
her attention in SO many directions
wondering, as she looked at that extra
dollar, if she did not appear rather
foolish
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She Mode q Sale.

She was Il pretty woman, and she
bowed to me bewitchinglv as she came
in, says writer in To,c!t Topics. She
held up one finger archly, and said, i'm
petuously:
Now, sir, want you to stop your
writing and look at my book"
Then she blushed charmingly, as If
embarrassed at my look of amazement.
I said:
My dear madam, L am busy to-day,
and beg you will excuse me"
She sat down beside me and made
herself comfortable at once.
Now, don't let me hear another
word about that; you are going to buy
book of course"
But, my dear"
She took my hands gently but firmly
in hers.
81 know-you are busy man-you
write all day, and are too tired to real
you hardly find time to look at tl(
paper-you-"
Eyes, madam; that's precisely tn.
ease"
She chucked me deliberately under
the chin.
"Do you mean to say that you ara
going to refuse me Il miserable little
dollar for this beautiful book?"
| gasped feebly and glared at my Of
boy. He was evidently interested.
l said:
You must be n successful book
agent; you have the most fetching
qualities L have ever SEEN"
Rash words!
She rose at once, and, sitting down
upon the arm of my chair, threw one
arm around my neck, and bending
down looked tcnderly into my eyes.
Nov, you know, darling, you arc
going to do just what l say; you are
going to buy
| heard my otfice-boy chuckle to him
self. protested. | said:
My dear madam, this is really-em-
bonassing-do you know am mar
! ried man-that l.
She replied: 81 have nothing to do
with that; l am here for business"
| L replied: THAT statement is I'M
necessary: the fact is quite apparent.
But am really fond of my wife. You've
! got hold of the wrong man..
| She seemed tritic hurt at this, but
she did not take her arm from my neck.
She remained in this compromising at
titudc apparently lost i'll thought. l
broke into cold sweat.
I'll tell you what I'll do" she said,
suddenly, bringing her face danger
ously near my own; IF you'll take a
copy of that book I'll promise not to
kiss you before L leave the office!"
L bought the book.
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In a Panther,S Embrace.

Short. savage roars broke upon my
ear, mingled with the wild shouts OF the
natives. who were evidently being
chased by the now furious beast, says
writer in the Times of Hldtd. At this
crisis l felt that my hat would proba-
blv do more for me than my gun, so L
crushed the former on my head. and,
without waiting to adjust tite chm
strap, l seized the latter in my bands
and faced the enemy. The panther had
meanwhile hoored heater and got HIM
by the arm, but, dropping him. she at
once came for me with lightning bounds
I could see nothing, owing to the
beasts tremendous speed, but
shadowy-looking form with two large,
bright, round eyes fixed upon me with
an mmeaning stare as it literally flew
toward me. Such was the vision of
moment My presence Of mind did not
desert me. raised my gun and fired
with all the care could at such short
notice. But L missed, and the panther
landed, light as feather, with its arms
round my shoulders. Thus we stood
for n few seconds, and L distinctly felt
the animal shifting for my throat.
Mechanically 1 always turned my
head so rs to keep the thick, wHdded
curtain of my helmet cover i'll front OF
the creatures muzzle; but still l could
hear and feel plainly the rapid yet cau-
tious efforts it was making to find an
opening so as to tear open the jugular
Vein / had no other weapon but my
gun, which was useless with the animal
closely embracing me, so L stood per-
fectly still, well knowing that Sandford
would liberate me if it were possible to
do 50. At the first onslaught we were
so placed that he could only have hit
the panther by firing through me, which
! would have been very injudicious, to-
say the least of it. AS may easily be
supposed, the animal did not spend
much time in investigating the nature
of wadded hat-cover, and before my
friend could get round and take an aim
without jeopardizing my own life the
beast pounccd on my left elbow, taking
n piece out, and then buried its long
sharp fangs in the joint till they met.
| At the same time | was hurled to the
i earth with such force that | knew not
! how | cot there or what become of my
| gun.
Still. throughout | maintained clear
impression of what was going on. l
knew that was living on the ground
with the panther on the top of me. and
l could feel my elbow joint wobbling
in and ont as the brute ground its jaws
with a movement imperceptible TO the
bvstanders, but Which felt to me as
though ] were being violently shaken
all over. Now listened anXiously fol
the report of Sandford's shot, which
knew would be heard Immediately, and
carefully RETAINED from making the
slightest sound or movement lest ms
aim should be disturbed thereby. In {
few seconds the loud and wecome de
tonation, which from its proximity
almost deafened me, struck upon my
ear L sat up. I was free. The pan
Their gone!
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THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Does 1t Pay7

Does it pay, little boy, to be fretful and cross,
Just because something seems to go wrong7
Is frown any lighter to wear than smilep
Does complaining seem manly and strongP
Is an angry word uttered with any more ease
Than the soft word that turns wrath away?
Should you make It rule TO give blow for blow
DO you think, little boy, it would pay?
Does 1t pay, little girl, to be sulleu, and pout,
ThoGgh vCur playmate unkindly may teasef
Does an angry retort or fit OF the sulks
Make you feel any more at your ease2
Does your scolding Or fretting bring right out OF
wrOngf
Is heart ever won IN this way?
DO your friends love TO see the dark trowh on
your brow?
And il not, little girl does it pay?
Does it pay, little boy, little girl does 1t pay
To be rude i'll yOur action or speech;
10 forget the kind counscls Of parents who love-
And esteem not the lessons they teach?
To have selfish regard for your comfort alone;
To be wilful i'll having your way;
To respect not the feeling of playmate and friend,
Little boy, little girl, does it pay3
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-25

The Grecian island of Cephalonia, in
the Mediterranean, contains two rather
remarkable natural phenomena. The
first is rock which oscillatcs several
inches to and fro with the regularity of
pendulum, pressing firmly against a
fixed rock one moment and directly
afterward opening space into whick
the clenched hand may be thrust. The
motion is due to some unknown cause,
having been found to be quite indie
pendent of the seas action. In the
other phenomenon about half million
gallons of water daily flows upon the
land by four inlets and is sucked into
the earth. The water has been collect
ed in short canal to drive two mills.
but disappears among the rocks, with
no visible outlet, after being thus used.
-ArkanSdlU Traveller
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-25

Come i'll, uncle"
The lawyer had caught sight Of an
old negro at the door.
Il amt yo' uncle, but I'll come in.
Time white folks dun stopped calm
ever culled generman er uncle.
thought de cibil rights law gwine stop
dat, but it doant pear like hit did. My
name is Stebcn Wheeler, sah."
"All right, Mr. Wheeler; glad to see
you. Sit down. What can do for
you?"
The old fellow sat down, and, after
glancing at an array of law books
said:
pear ter hab Ell good deal O law on
han yere.'
Yes, n good deal of it,
Il went inter Ell lawyers Office down
DO street yander, but he didn't pear ter
hab ernutf books ter suit me. SEE l,
dis amt no place fur me. Amt ernufl
law yere. Is you got any law fur me
yere, sah?'
What sort of law do You want?"
DE law O jestice, sab. OATS WIT
I'm after.
Well ] think So What is your
caSe:"
Wants ter sue er lady, sab, fun
whut da calls er brich O promise"
IF your case is well founded, I'll take
it. Such cases, however, are rather
risky, Who is the woman?'
Shes my wife at de present, soh?"
What, sue YOUR wife for breach Of
promise? | never heard of such 6
thing"
Den mebbe You amt got no law yere
fur me. But. sab, de case is ez cl'ar e2
daylight 1t WIZ dis way: sorter took
| or lilin ter er lady name Merry Bowles
She want goodlookin'. but she 'peareG
ter be er GOOD pusson, an, mon dat
she said she had money. Wen VT
'gunte talk bout gittin' maird tole her
| did, dat wuz too po', but She 'lowe(
dat she had three hunnud dollars saved
up, an dat after We wuZ maird / mou
hab it, l tuck her at her word, did
but after We WIZ maird an aXed hel
war dat money, she didn' fetch it. She
had dun promised, you see, an now e
she amt in er brich o promise, nebel
seed nobody dat WIZ. Any law up dal
| in dem books fur dis case?'
NO"
"Ain't even dis much?" (measurins
on his tinger.)
NO
"Den I leabes you alone in yo' ig
nunce o. jestice. Good mawnin', sab.
| -4yL111s01D Tlnreler
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he can he industrious, and he can train
his mind to concentrate itself.
"If it pleases God to take any of my
children, hope it will be Isaac, said a
father. Isaac was a very dull boy. But
when the dull boy" died Mt the early
age of fortyseven, he was known as the
great DR.. Isaac Barrow. He had filled
the Greek and the mathematical chairs
at Cambridge, had written several books
on geometry and mathematics, and com
posed series of sermons, which are still
read because they are storehouses OF
thought, and enforce lessons of indus
try, goodness, prayerfulness, and truth
fulness.
He, too, ascribed his success to his
industry, and not to his natural parts.
--Y0uth'S Companion.
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The Elevation of the Stage.

A Scene-Painter's Outfit and Car
pcnter's Tool Chest were hurrying
down street when they met Il Toiling
Dramatist.
"Out of the way" they said. haught-
lily, as the Toiling Dramatist barred his
head and bowed low. ave are going
down to the Lumber Yard to get New
American Play"
But" pleaded the Toiling Drama
tist, "here is one 1 have just written.
The Heroine is q pure young girl"
THAT settles it," they said harshly.
what we want is an American Play
that is Purely English, and hasn't a
throb of any other sort of Purity in
the whole Five Acts, and we can make
it Ourselves. Away, Slight Mana
GER"
And trampling oyer his PROSTATE
Form they got their Lumber and Can
vas in twenty-four hours, and sawed out
play which they filled with Circus
Posters and ran every night for Two
Years.
MoRAL-The Race is not Always to
the Swift, but sometimes to the Fellow
who Cuts across the Course and Gets
There.-Buydette
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systematic.

A drummer took the elevator TO the
fifth story of a Western wholesale
house and walked into the office where
one of the proprietors was busy at his
desk. The drummer was informed that
the house needed nothing in his line,
but persisted in opening his sample bag
and making himself the cause of much
distress, when finally the enraged pro-
prietor kicked him down the first flight
of stairs. An employe, observing his
mode of descent, repeated the dose
with like effect, and it was dittoed till
the drummer found himself on the
curbstoned and upholstered highway
Shaking himself he looked back oveY
the course of events and CALCULATED
well, dot ish great establishments.
l don't know dere berticular line OF
pishness, but mein Colt, what systemr
Duluth Pdrd0rdpher.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-25

The new catalogue of the Dresden
gallery, issued by the director, Dr.
Woermann, declares that careful ex-
animation of the pictures recently pur-
chased, at comparatively high prices,
shows that they are not the genuine
work of the artists to whom they have
been attributed Some are only copies !;
some, the works of other less distin.
guished artists; some, forgeries. In
1874 and 1875 eighteen pictures, said
TO be by old masters, were purchased
out of the money paid to Saxony as her
share of the French war indemnity.
Two of them are impostures, three
only copies, two not by the painter to
whom they are assigned, but by some
of his pupils, one is a hastily painted
and unfinished work of the artist, one
is doubtful, and three by different
artists than those named as their
painters.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-25

A BOOKSELLER at Lyons named Roux
is issuing a literary curiosity. 1t is Il
volume entirely of silk, to be published
in twenty-five parts, of which fifteen
have already appeared at the price of
- per number The text is woven in
the silk. As each number consists Of
only two leaves, the whole volume,
containing the Roman Catholic mass
and number of prayers, will have
only fifty leaves, round the Gothic text
Of which every leaf has specially de-
signed medieval border. Both text and
border are woven in black silk on Il
white surface, and the effect is said to
be "very artistic"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-25

The ups and downs OF life are path
etically set forth in the following para
graph from the Star, of Covington,
Ca: "Our editor will take in the
press convention at Canton this week,
and probably run down to Brunswick
before his return. He left in fine trim,
having an extra handkerchief and a
little over $1.25 in hard cash. p. S.
Since the above was put in type, Rev.
Jacob Carr (colored) has managed to
collect 75-cent blowing bill from the
editor, and he will hardly have as big
a time as he expected
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-25

THE new Emperor of Germany is
said to be suffering from a disease of
the ear, and the possibility of his early
death is already being discussed by
premature writer's The illness the
Emperor is suffering from is not can
Ger, but an affection of which the
nature is not generally known. He
has been affected by it for long time,
and during the mortal illness of the
late Emperor William he paid regular
visits to certain well-known special
list in Inter den Linden.