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The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-30

A good story is told Of q well-known
landlord who has been having any
amount Of trouble during the haru
times to collect rents from his tenants.
There was a certain man with n large
family, who had occupied a part of one
Of his houses In the suburbs for a num-
Der of years. The man was thoroughly
,onest, but down on his luck. The land.
lord bore the loss Of his rent with con,
siderable fortitude until he thought II
was some one else's turn TO help the fel
low a little; men he went to MIN one DAY
and told him. with all seriousness, thai
he was intending to give the house O
going over; 1t was out Of repair; and he
had decided to expend a little money on
1t and make some important alterations
and, as 1t would be some expense for
the man to move, he generously offered
to order a team for him and settle the
bill himself.
The matter vas arranged with the
utmost friendliness on both sideC and
the landlord went his way, feeling quite
q little like the celebrated Pharisee,
A week later he asked his agent about
some fats that had been empty for a
month or two. "All rented" said the
agent, and he named the parties,
whereupon the landlord Immediately
descended to the plane of publlcans and
sinners. When he had recovered him
self sufficiently to talk English, he pro
ceeded to inform the astonished agent
that inc Of his acquisitions was the
man he had just moved at his own ex.
pense out Of the house in the suburbs
Hartford Post.
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A si,npIe Month Wash.

After the teeth have been cleaned
'Secandum artem," writes an English
physician, a very simple and efficient
mouth wash will be found in water
REDEEMED with the permaneanate OF
potash. A bottle containing a strong
solution OF this may be kept IN the
u~ressing-room and a little added to
the lumber full of water we mean to
use. This permanganate is a useful
ulslntectant in many ways. SUCH a
wash swcetens the breath, too; that
is, II the mischief arises from the
teeth Foul breath is a terrible
allilction, and. as it may some
tlmes point to diseases of dangerous
character if a mouth wash does not
remove 1t, a medical nan should be
Onsulted.
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Carlyle gave us the philosophy of
clothes; now DR.. Seitz, of Munich, gives
us their bacteriology. On examining
n worsted stocking he found 056 thriv-
Ing colonies, while on u cotton sock
there were 712. Both these articles had
been worn, but no information is vouch-
safed as to the personal habits of the
wearer. Thirty-three colonies were
found on a glove, twenty on a piece OF
wooden stuff and nine on a piece Of
cloth; none of these articles had been
worn. On a piece of cloth from a gar
ment which had been worn a week
there were twenty-three colonies. or
the heterogeneous found on articles
of clothing relatively few were capa-
BILE of causing disease. The patho-
genie species were almost without ex-
ception staphylococci.
In one case, however, DR.. Seitz found
the typhoid bacillus In articles Of
clothing from twenty-one to twenty
seven days, and the staphylococcus pyo-
genes albus nineteen days after they
had been ORR The anthrax bacillus
found In clothes was still virulent af-
ter q year. The microbe of erysipelas,
on the other hand, could not be found
after eighteen hours, nor the cholera
vibrio after three days. DR.. Seitz stud
led with special are the question
whether in ~tuberculous subjects who
sweated profusely the bacillus was con-
veyed by the perspiratlon to a piece of
linen worn for some time next the skin
OF the chest. The incubation of two
guinea pigs. however, gave negative
results.-British Medical Journal.
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Past Recognition.

The Louisville Courier. Journal saw
that two young men Of that city,
statesmen in a dry goods store, hired
bicycles and took Il spin into the
country. When they were perhaps
ten miles out, they decided to have &
race.
One of them got far ahead of the
other, and in dashing round a turn
ran into a pile of stones The wheel
was demolished, and the rider found
himself lying among the spolIcs.
An aged woman who happened to
be passing was met by the second
rider.
"My good woman" said he, shave
you seer a young man riding a bicycle
Oh ahead?"
NO" said the woman; ''but l saw
a young man on the road a spell ago
who was sittin' on the ground mend
in umbrellas
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-30

Near the city OF Philadelphia there
are a few quainu old villages where
QuaKers and Quaker customs are tc
be found just as they were in the days
of GOOD old William Penn. You have
no idea how odd some of these Gus
toms are. A few days ago, a New
York lady was travelling through one
of these villages, and. being tired, she
stopped at an old brick farmhouse
to rest. Immediately there came out
a little girl, dressed all in gray, who
invited her to come 10 the house and
have a cup of tea and some cakes.
When the lady had partaken of heI
refresnment and turned to go, sh5
OF red the old fashioned maid 10 gray
some candy out of a sweet-meat boz
which she carried at her belt
mo, / thank thee" said the little
une bashfully. Il thank thee-bui
no."
"Please take the candy, urged the
lady. ~ want to give it to you be-
cause you have been SO kind to me. >
For a minute the little one besi-
tated. She put out her hand, as II
yielding TO temptation, and then
drew 1t back resolutely, as she said.
II thank thee, no Imay not take
the candy now. because when thee
asked me first, II / would have some.
l told thee no, and now / may not
take any until thee comes some othe'
day."-New York Ledger.
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A HOLE.
Discovery of a Party of Explorers in
Montana Mountains.


A few weeks ago a number Of we'll
known residents ST Butte left here oil
a prospecting expedition to the b.
Hole country. Among the number
were W. d.. Clark and Thomas ]. How
ard. They are men of unimpeachablC
~veracity. who number their friends By
the hundreds in this city. This latter
statement is perhaps made necessary
by what is to follow.
The gentlemen returned to Butte last
evening, and to-day filed for record 8
location notice of the Catalpa lode
claim, which the notice says is located
three miles south of Divide Station, on
the Fleecer Mountain, q portion OF
country that has not been prospected
very thoroughly on account of the
large amount of snow in that locality
during the summer months. The re
markable part Of the locating of thi:
claim is the statement OF the locators
that they discovered a tunnel fully fiji.
ty feet long, which had been driven
into the mountain apparently several
years ago.
In prospecting along the side of the
mountain the men found several pieces
of good-looking copper ore in a hollow
| which they at first supposed had been
a buffalo wailow In the days when
those animals roamed the prairies OF
the Big Hole country, The prospect
ors, believing that there was lead
Il nfrrnvuInrx In 4l,4 xt0tnifu hnnnn "
dig in the mountain side. After an
hours hard labor they were consider
ably surprised to find the earth sudden.
ly yield to tie blows of the pick and O
big hole loom up before them.
They cleared away the earth and en-.
tered a tunnel about six feet high and
four feet wide, walled In with blocks
of stone. The top Of the tunnel was
protected by large fat stones, and fol-
about twenty-five feet there was not q
break in the primitive timbering
About twenty-five feet from the mouth
of this tunnel the p~rospectors came to
a spot where the earth had apparently
broken down the stonework, and after
clearing away the debris the men were
enabled to go In about twenty-five oil
thirty feet further. Here they came
TO a ledge, which was carefully exam.
ined, but as TO what was discovered
there the men will say nothing, except
that they found some implements
made of stone which had apparently
been used in driving the tunnel.
The men are positive that the work
vas not done in this age or generation
for the reason that at the mouth Of the
tunnel there was a hardy pihc tree
growing and the ground surrounding
it was covered with a growth Of sage
brush which has not been disturbed
for years.
The men are very reticent as to the
discovery, and all efforts to ascertain
the extent and richness of the ledge
have been ~unavailing. They will re,
turn to the place as Don as they secure
a quantity of supplies.-Butte Inter.
Mountain.
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Tree Planting in France

The French thoroughly appreciate ths
advantages to be derived from sys-
tematic tree planting. Tracts Of sand
have been covered with pine forests,
and the word Lande, borrowed, as 1t is
thought, from the German, Is losing its
meaning Of "waste." Till a century
ago q large portion of the forest Of
Fontainebleau consisted of bare sand
hills, but the planting of pines was DO
gun, a variety capable Of standing the
severest winters was eventually found,
and millions of trees now difuss
healthy and agreeable odors, besides
furnishing timber and fuel. The de-
composed fir needles, moreover, grad
ually form a crust of vegetable mold,
permitting the growth Of trees and
shrubs less able than the pine to live on
air. The department of the Landes,
once q barren region with sand so loose
that one had to walk on stills, is covs
cred with pine, and the problem of
draining the subsoil has been solved, as
described in Edmond About's story Of
"Maitre Pierre" The losses by fire and
anxiety to produce something more re-
munerative than pine are now, how
ever, inducing schemes Of artificial fer
tilization. In many French watering
| places dunes have been transformed
into woods, thus holding out to seaside
visitors the attraction Of agreeable
shade and a change from a monotonoue
beach. Shifting sands have been pre-
vented from extending inland. In some
cases dunes have been acquired by
companies which, after planting them,
have cut them up into building plotA,
and have seer them dotted with Villas
Elsewhere municipalities have taken
up the matter, and In large operations
the district or the department has pro-
vi5ed the funds.
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PERHAPS HE IS METHusELAH JR.
Bogota Probably Has the oldest Man
In the World.

BoRota Probably Has the Oldest Man
In the World.
The oldest man in the world, 1t Is
said, Is a citizen of Bogota, In the Re-
public Of San Salvador, He declares
that he Is 1856 years old, but from the
tales his neighbors and relatives tell he
Is much older than he claims to be.
He Is a half-breed Indian and Span,
lard, and his name Is Michael Soils. He
lives with an old planter named Louis
Hernandez, who is himself SO years Of
age. Hernandez says that as long as ho
can remember old Michael was known
as a nan far past the century mark.
1t has also been ascertained direct from
the records that lone Michael Soils, a
man now 1875 years of age" contributed
ten days work toward building the
Franciscan Convent which was erected
at San Sebastian In 1912. If 1t Is really
true that tho old patriarch was 125
years old in 1912, he has now passed the
second century mile post and Is fast
winding out the first decade of the
third.
Doctors who have lately made q study
of the case of this double c%entenarian
say that there Is not an ounce Of meat
on his bones, and that the skin, which
resembles parchment, is drawn 80 tight
ly over his frame that 1t cannot be
pinched up between thumb and finger.
He is unable to walk, but has good
hearing and good eyesight, and a large
crop of perfectly snow-white hair and
charlottesville Commercial.
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Just Idke DINER Cbildren

The Queen and Prince Albert were
not unlike the rest of the worlds fond
mothers and fathers in their chlldren's
early days. Any quaint saying was
treasured and repeated again and
again. The Empress Frederick was
quite an unusually advanced and gift
ed little girl, and the Queen to this day
recalls with pride how "yicky," when
only 8 years old, taking n walk in
Windsor Forest, pointing to the view,
turned to her g%oyerness and exclaimed
In a pretty French accent, "voila le
paysage qui deroule a mes pieds."
Another day, 1t seems, the Princess
Royal had been rather naughty. Her
governess, pointing out a little girl in
the High street, said; "Do you not see
what a very good little child that is?"
81 dare say" answered the Princess,
.dryly, "and I have no doubt she has no
daily governess."-Woman at Home.
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Or. Kilmcr's SwAMP-Reor curs,
all Kidney and Bladder troubles
Iamplet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y,
Very Married People.

1t is usually considered a note.
worthy circumstance for a man OF
woman to be married three times;
but of cd the number would have
been thought littlel of. Saint Jc.
rome mentions a widow that married
her twenty.second husband, who in
his tuln had been married to twenty
two wives surely an experienced
couple!
A woman named Elizabeth Mast,
who died at Florence. 1858, had been
married to seven husbands, all of whom
she outlived. She married the last
of the seven at the age Of 10. when
on her deathbed she recalled the good
and bad points of each of her hus.
bands, and having impartially
weighed them In the balance, she
singled out her fifth spouse as the
favor, te, and desired her remains
might be inferred near his.
The death OF a soldier Is recorded
In 1881, who had five wives, and his
widow, aged 80, wept over the grave
of her fourth husband. The writer
VINO mentioned these facts vainly
added, The said soldier was much
attached to the married state.n
There is an account of gentleman
who was married to four wives, and
livel to be lis years old. When he
died he left twenty-three 'children'
alive and we'll, some of the said
children being from three to four.
score years old.
A gentleman died at Bordeaux, in
|1772, who hal been married sixteen
times In July, 176s, a couple were
living in Essex, who had been mar.
ried niuety.one years, the husband
being IO7 and the wife 100 years Of
age. At the church Of St Clement
Danes, in l772, a woman of So was
married to her sixth husband.
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A very pretty Joilet-table Seen re.
cently at one of our large shops, and
intended for a young girls room, was
finished entirely In white, the entire
frame being covered with double.
faced white canton flannel, writes
James Thomson in an article on
Dressing Tables for Girls Rooms
In the Ladies' Home Journal. The
mirror was a large Square M
Across the top w9s a broad band OF
nnelY-plaited dotted Swiss muslin,
caught OF each corner with ~rosettes
OF white gros-g grain ribbon. The side
draperies were trimmed with narrow
rufies of the muslin, and the lower
part with the muslin laid in large
box.plaits, finished at the upper edge
With a quilting OF ribbon. Over the
top OF the table was a cover of the
muslin lined with white silk and I'm.
ished with Ave rows OF narrow white
ribbon. This was made as a sachet,
and perfumed with orris powder. The
pin cushion which, was to accompany
this table was a large one of white
silk and muslin.
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THAT WORKED
aow a Little sran Avoided o Eight with 9
Big One.

Il tIH..sH HHH.r btK oues
The big man was just drinl
nough to be spelling for a fight
That was appare.t TO every n IL
The cafe. lie hadn't been there tel
minutes before he PICKED a quarre
With a man three sizes smaller, WIN
had been quietly minding his owl
business in q corner Of tie room.
"Sir, you've insulted me-" eX
claimed the big man.
"You are mistaken" quietly re
Iponded the other -.
YOU'RE a liar" Numbered the biz
man, "and II you know what thai
ueans you'll fight"
Certainly" was the rejoinderi
Without a tremor of perturbation
"but it must he after I've finished
aating; l never allow tribes TO inter
tere with my dinner. Waiter, hurry
up that porterhouse steak! Nevel
mind IL ii is a bit rare"
The big man, nonplussed for The
time being by such a display of cool
ness, SAT down at a table near by and
glared at his prospective victim. We
all felt sorry for him, but the bii
man looked dangerous, even If ne
was ''three sheets 10 the wind" and
We decided not to interfere.
When the little mans steak cam
n he said something to the waiter.
Two minutes later the walter said
something to the big man. 1t Wa:
noticed that he didn't look quite sc
fierce after that, and soon afterward,
remarking with assumed carelessneSs
that he would be back in o minute,
he left the room.
Then some of US ventured to sug
sest to the little man that it was a
good opportunity for him to skip
which, considering the discrepancy
IN size between him and the man who
lad forced a quarrel upon him,
would involve no disgrace.
much obliged for your good adj
vice" said he, as coolly as ever, "Dut
there is no necessity for that; the
other fellow has run away already. "
When fifteen minutes had slipped
by and "the other fellow" hadn't
shown up we concluded that the lit
tie fellow was right and wanted to
know, of course, what had caused the
stampede.
ION, Just a little bluff" he re
piled. 81 wasn't any more anxious
10 fight with that brute than the rest
1f you were, though. l knew he was
l coward or he wouldn't have picked
out a man so much smaller than him,
self to fasten a quarrel on. l just
old the waiter that 1t would be
8orth a dollar to let him know that
[ was Tim McCool, alias the 'Kilken-
ny Cat light weight champion oil
Ireland. just landed and ANXIOUS to
get on a match with somebody.
knew that would work. l never get
into u scrap whe 1 can buff my way
out Of it, and as l keep a cool head on
my shoulders l generally ~succeed."-
New York Herald,
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Tom Thumb and the Colonel.

1t is almost a point Of honor with
the genuine Yankee of the old school
not to appear astonished at anything
he encounters. His most emphatic
exclamation, in the presence of some
altogether unex. ected fact or as,
founding phenomenon, Is 81 want
TO know!" as il his sensations were
limited to a mere desire to be made
fully aware of the circumstance. Per
maps he has acquired this impassiye-
ness, by imitation from the Indian
who, taken from the primitive life OF
his mountains IT plains, beholds the
vast buildings and mechanical mar
vels Of New York and Washington
| without the smallest expression OF
yonder or admiration.
The Yankee, however, generally
says something" when he is sur
prised, but that something is drawn
very mildly. An incident will Illus
rate this:
When Gen. Tom Thumb and his
! wife were on their return from their
wedding tour in Europe, they stopped
for a day or two at Hartford, but
did not place themselves on exhibit
tion.
There happened to be In Hartford
It the time an old farmer from the
neighborhood Of Litchfield Hill, who
heard that Tom Thumb was in the
place, and resolved that he would see
him before he went home.
The farmer found his way to thu
MOTEL where Tom Thumb was stop
ping, and was told to go, If he wished
to see him, to a certain room on the
second floor and rap on the door.
The farmer went up and knocked
as he was hidden. But it happened
that the room vas occupied by a Ger.
tain Col. Jones. a prominent poll.
tician who lived in an adjoining
county, and who was a man or n O
nous stature, measuring almost seven
Feet In height.
The Colonel had already been raj.
lied o little on the fact that his next.
door neighbor down The corridor was
Tom Thumb, and when the visitor
knocked at his door he was rather out
VI humor.
Come inl" he called out.
The farmer opened the door and
peered In.
Pm a.lookin'," he said, ',for Gen.
Tom Thumb"
Sir" said the Colonel, raising
aimself to bis full height, ''you see
lin before you"
- want to knowl Be you Tom
Thumb"
81 Yesln
You don't say SOP said the
farmer. "Wal, I guess you've erowed
some senee you had your pictur' took,
hain't yer"
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-30

Darkest Time in the Revolution.
The close of the year 1850 was. in the
Southern States, the darkest time Of our
Revolutionary struggle. CORVALLIS
had just destroyed tho army of Gates
ut Camden. and his two formidable
heutenants, Tarieton tho light horse
man, and Ferguson the skilled rifle
man, had destroyed or scattered all tho
smaller bands who had been fighting
for the patriot cause. The red dra-
goons rode hither and thither, and all
through Georgia and South Carolina
none dared lift up their heads to op-
pose them; while North Carolina lay
at the feet Of CORVALLIS as he started
through 1t with his army to march Into
Virginia. There was nc organised force
against him, and the cause Of the pat
riots seemed hopeless. 1t was at this
dark hour that the wild backwoodsmen
Of the western border gathered to strike
q blow for hberty.-St Nicholas.
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Burdette Goes shopping.

am constrained to admit that wo.
men may shop more adyantageously
on the cash system. but it is not in
the way OF man, writes Robert j.
Burdette In an article on .My Christ
mas Shopping" In the Ladies' Home
Journal. / cling to the good, easy
old way where you hand your ''trans-
fer over the heads of everybody in
the line, and say in one breath,
'Purchbysame : carrobagjsmastbrO =
sstreesta-charge,n which by inter
probation is, These goods have been
purchased by the same person whose
name appears hereon; will you be so
kind as to send them to this address,
in care OF the baggagemaster at Broad
Street Station and charge them to
the account OF the purchaser? Thank
you; good afternoon And that's
all there is of it for the next thirty
days, then It clouds up and begins to
rain; there is a great deal of thunder,
attended by atmospheric disturb
ances, with mean temperature and
local cyclones.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-30
Kitchen Schedule.

Housekeepers troubled with forget
full servants can reduce their cares
considerably by making out schedule
lof the work to be done each day Of
the week and placing it in the kitch-
len, where it can be seen by the maid
who presides owe the Household
work.
The duties Of the week, II appor'
TONED to certain days, will make
work easier to mistress and maid, and
II these days and duties are putdown
in black and white in view of the
Kitchen goddess thy will impress
themselves more readily upon hel
mind and leave no excuse for the for.
gettines which servant girls are &C
addicted to.
A constant bugbear of the kitchen
is the maid who '~sforgets" that there
Is no sugar, or butter, OF coffee just
at the moment when diner ia ready
to be served. There Is nothing more
exaspsrating than this phase Of do
nestle annoyance.
A Boston cooking school once had
a wooden marketing card" for the
kitchen wall, which could be used to
advantage by housekeepers. and could
be copied in homemade form. IT
consisted of a light wood frame pro-
vided with slips of dark wood upon
which were marked the names of the
different housekeeping stores-sugars,
tea. soap starch, etc.
These wooden slips were arranged
In slots and could be moved into place
against the light background. When
any particular supply gave out the
corresponding slip was brought In
view upon the card, and when the
grocery order was given nothing
necessary could be forgotten. This
plan will work to perfection with the
most difficult" of help, who will re-
fuse to understand all other modes Of
exercising their memories .-Bostop
Globe.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-30

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