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Year: 1879

A FARCE. The "Prcss' office adver-
tlses to do "All kinds OF Job Work in the
best Of STYLE OH short notice" &C.. when
in reality its entire working force form
paper job office and al consists merely in
an apprentice boy who could not for the
lite of him get up anything more difficult
than the phnest kind of poSter-and
even if he coud. the capacity of their job
olice. in proper material, is too limited to
admit of anything more. But then they
have been perfectly saf, in publishing this
standing f.Ischood, for they have had no
orders that would test the matter. After
all, the advertisement referred to is but in
keeping with the general character Of the
paper.
Year: 1879


The Master stood in His garden
Among the lilies fair,
Which His own right hand had planted
And trained with tenderest care.
He looked at their snowy blossoms,
And marked with 0bservant eye,
That His flowers were sadly dropping,
For their leaves were parched and dry.
"My lilies need to bs watered,
The Heavenly Master said;
"Wherein shall draw 1t for them,
And raise each dropping head Z"
Close to His feet, on tho pathway,
Empty, and frail, and small,
An earthen vessel was lying,
Which seemed Of no use at all.
But the Master saw, and raised It y
From the dust In which 1t lay,
And smiled as He gently whispered,
" This shall do my work to-day"
ut is but an earthen vessel.
But It lay 70 close to Me;
It Is small, but 1t is empty,
And that is all 1t needs to be.
So to the fountain He took 1t,
And filed 1t full to the brim
How glad was the earthen vessel
To be OF some use TO Him.
He poured forth the living water
Over His lilies fair,
Until the vessel was empty,
And again He filled 1t there.
He watered the dropping lilies


Until they revived again,
And the Master saw with pleasure
That His labor had not been In vain.
His own hand had drawn the water
Which refreshed the thirsty flowers,
But He used the earthen vessel
To convey the living showers.
And to itseli It whispered,


AS He laid it aside once more,
"Still will lie in His pathway.
Just where did before"
"Clese would ! keep to the Master.
Empty would remain,
And perhaps some day He may use me
To water His flowers again"
Year: 1879

THE DISTRESS IN MANCHESTER The dis dress began with the Arctic weather, which set in all over the country in the opening days of December. The immediate result of the in tense frost was to throw number of men, en- gagged in every department of work out of en- ployment. The very picks and spades of an army Of navvies were arrested in a single night, as by magic, through an iron frost which rendered all out-of-doors work impracticable The severity of the Winter remained unabated during the month which followed, and as the Christmas holidays approached, the suffering was intensified by the annual of time, which on this occasion proved to be most inop0 p0ortune. The large number of joiners who not obtained work, since the recent disastrous strike in the building trade, increased the number of those who experienced in it's full force the pitiless rigor of the season. Without doubt, however, the chief cause of the distress was the unparal- leled depression ot the Manchester trade in al- most all its departments. It would be incor- rect to say that the recent distress has come upon the community unnoticed or without warning. Since the Winter of 1874-5 busi- ness has gone from bad to worse, and, as a consequence poverty and privation have been spreading through the community in ever-wid- ening circles. The prolonged and ever-deep- ening depression of the staple trade in nearly all it's forms has forced many large firms to discharge considerable portion of their em ployees, and to reduce the wages of those still retained. Hundreds of clerks, travellers, and warehouse men have consequently been thrown adrlft on the world, many of whom are total ly unfit for any avocation outside the narrow groove in which they formerly worked and prospered. Many a reluctant conscript in the forlorn army of the unemployed has found his way into it's troubled ranks through no fault whatever of his but simply because of con spiracy of events, which it was impossible for him to forecast, much less to cOntrol.-AH the YeGr Round.
Year: 1879

Nothing is more novel and stunning in it's effect upon travellers from this country in En- gland than the constant obtrusion of the ever lasting sixpence in places where we should consider 1t an insult to all proper or sacred feeling. An Englishman in almost any rank will accept pay or money for kindly services which here the poorest would offer gratuitous- ly. II he tells you the way on the streets or gives you the time of day or light for your cigar, no matter how good his coat, the chan ces are that you will not offend him by tip. Ii a lady calls at a friends house she is ex- pected to tip the servant who shows her to the drawing groom if you stay by invitation at private house over night, you will find the whole corps of servants drawn up waiting for their money in the hall in the morning; their master saves himself so much of wages by your gf:s, and counts on saving It. Very few Americans would be willing to throw the pri- vacy ot their homes to the public to increase their income; but if an Englishmaris house, IS ms castle or can by any means be made d show place, he turns an honest penny by ex- hibiting it. The shilling or crown or sovereign paid by visitors to the servant who escorts them through the great houses goes, not to the servant as is often supposed, but directly into the pocket of the master. In the case of Chats

 worth, Blenheim and places of that grade, the revenues of the dncal owners are increased thousands of pounds by this means The American is just as fond probably, of the al- mighty dollar as his British cousin, but he manages to get it in different way..-1rt- 6u7ae. 5..r. - -.
Year: 1879

HABITS OF THE CRAWLING AND How TO AN GLE FOR HIM.-The grayling himself rarely exceeds two pounds in weight, and the aver age weight in catch is about half pound, so that they run considerably larger that the brook trout. He is constructed upon the model of the trout, though not quite so chunky, his head being perfect copy. His fins also re- semble the trout's, with the exception of the dorsal, which is very large and beautifully marked and gives him strength and swiftness. His color is purplish gray, darkest on the back, and his sides are silvery. There are in- dications of speckles on the belly like the trout's but his distinguishing characteristic is 8 series of irregular black spots on each side just below the gills, resembling the letter T. You will always find him in the holes if you approach them carefully, and the ordinary angle worm IS as good bait as you can find. He does not rise to the bait like trout, con- sequently you must fish near the bottom of the holes, and this you can regulate with float, which also enables you to put your line into every nook and corner you desire. He is a strong, free bitter, and, as he runs with the bait in every direction with the swittness of an arrow flying out of the water with amazing leaps; you must keep firm hand on him and his head must be held up stream. Any sud- den jerk will inevitably pull the hook out of his mouth, which is very tender

 Once out of the water give him no chance to struggle in the air. Take him directly over your basket and seize him by the gills. If you take him by the body he is as hard tohold as an eel, and will inevitably flop back into the water. In thls connection it should be stated that the ordinary creel is of no account as the scribe can bear witness. Any 1.-two pound grayling will flop out of it. A basket with a flat top, made of canvas, convergiDg to the aperature, will take them in as easily as if they were led into a hopper. The sensation of the bite of large grayling is like an elect ric shock. It is not like the dull humping tug of the bass or pickerel on the end of q trolling line, but rapid succession of sharp fierce jerks and then your line goes dipping, missing through the water in every direction, and the slvery creature flies out of the stream in curves like those made by a salmon. -CAi- cGgO TaT6une.
Year: 1879

A Boston wife softly attached a pedometer to her husband when, after supper, he started to go down to the office and balance the books On his return fifteen miles of walking was re- corded. He had been stepping around bill Hard table all the evening.
Year: 1879




New CASTLE, Oct. 20.


The past week has been one to be not
ed only for its lack of events. The ship
yard bubble presented the only subject
of interest, and many in their minds
had everything located. Saturday came
with break in the long dry spell, and a
series of events.


About 1O:30 a rumpus was kicked up
on Delaware street, nearly opposite the
Court House. Two arrests were made
but no charge was brought against the
offender and they We're discharged. At
tile Delaware Iron Works some part of
the machinery got out of order and the
whistle was blown several times, caus-
ing quite commotion upon the streets,
nearly everyone supposng it to be an
alarm of fire.


Near midnight cries of murder, ETC.,
were heard along the front row and four
men were seen in deadly struggle along
side the fence. At first it was supposed
to be those who had fallen asleep there
in the early part of the evening, but on
one of our citizens going to the spot with
lantern he saw that party of three
were beating stranger. Some one fur
ther up the street fired pistol and the
three ran off leaving the man bleeding.
He was found to be badly hurt, his nose
was bitten through and his face other
wise disfgured. After washing him he
was taken to his boarding house. The
parties who committed this deed are
known, and in justice to the residents
of Dobbinsville, it must be said they do
not belong in that section. Be- ween 2
and 3 O'Clock in the morning couple of
men were seen searching in the neigh
borhood of the fight for something. A
hat and slipper were found there i'm
mediately after the fight. 1t is supposed
they were the articles being looked for.
Year: 1879

A democratic member of the Potter
committee, in conversation with your
corr espondent to-day, said that it might
be reasonably nticipated that the cipher
telegrams would place some OF the people
concerned in an awkward position. The
document would not, however be awk-
ward for one side only. One object of
the investigation, and quite as important
as any, will he to discover the thieves
who unlawfully distracted the kilograms
and made them public When this is
done the next move-but with this, the
committee, of course, have nothing to do
will be to have them indicted in the
courts and brought to justice. There
seems to be- no doubt in the minds of jur-
lists that the theft of these dispatches is
equally criminal with tampering with
sealed letters. At any rate, 1t Is high
time for a judicial decision ON the sab
.ject. On this same point there Is a deal
of curious inquiry here as to the night of
Gen. Butler to make conditions with the
committee before delivering the teIe-
grams in his possession. They certainly
are hot the private property of Gen.
Butler, and some think the committee
snould put him on the stand aud have
him tell what be knows about il.


THE NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE.


AT least half dozen of the republican
Senators who voted with Mr.. Conkling
in the New York custom-h house cases al
the last session now say openly that they
intend to stand by the administration
Secretary Sherman says he feels satisfied
the nominations will be confirmed. II
Mr.. Conkling finds that he cannot beat
them he may still be able to delay action
As there is nothing whatever for HIM to
gain by dilatory tactics he will probably
not resort to them. 1t is reported thai
Secretary Sherman will send to the Sen
ate the letter said to have been addressed
by him to Senator Conkling asking fol
an opportunity to reply to Gen. Arthur
Year: 1879

London Ford,


We have not as yet heard the last OF the
6crapes in which the late King Victor Emmanuel
used to involve himself with the fair sex of bis
Kingdom 4 case Of compensation Of peculiar
kind is to come shortly before one OF the Italian
courts. It is claim for 50, 600 lire which the
Re Galantuomo had agreed to pay to q tiiscon-
solate beauty, and Of which she alleges now
that she received only one-dfth, while the re-
mainder stuck to the fingers OF the agents in
trusted with the negotiation.
Year: 1879

AS the subject of hell has been, and
is still under discussion in the theo-
logic world, the orthodoxists in civil
ization should be concerned to know
what the inhabitants of heathendom
think of it. The natives of the Mar
quesas Islands. according to an Amer
lean who has lived among them for
years had studied their character, Gus
toms and creed picture hell as region
of profound darkness, no ray of light
ever entering it except on the arrival
of a spirit from earth. By this ray
the newly condemned spirit is guided
to the special seat appointed for him
or it-and there he remains in i'm
penetrable shadow until the next COM
er brings a flash of light. There is no
other punishment for the doomed.
They are, however, ,singed on entrance
because they are then obliged to pass
a huge demon, who flaps his wings
and exhales fire continually. Women
it may be interesting to know, are sell
dom sent to the Marquesan Tophet,
owing to the love (witness the GUS
tomary egotism of the male animal
even in Polynesla) and devotion they
bear the native chiefs and priests, who
(here is gallantry) would be inconsol-
able without them, even in Paradise
But women are not admitted to the
highest circles of the good place, pre-
pared alone for men, who can, how
ever, descend to them when they wish
to enjoy feminine society. There are
different places of divine life for wo-
man, the loftiest being reserved for
those who have lived and been loved
most intensely in this world, and
whose greatest bliss will come from
the visits of the spirits of the chiefs
priests,
Year: 1879

The invisible patch on boots and
shoes is thing that the owners of di-
lapidated fancy feet coverings delight
IN. But to get one put on by the cob
bier costs nearly as much as by the old
way. This need rot be, for any boy
can put them on himself in the fol-
lowing way, given by a correspondent
of the Country Gentleman


Take gutta percha, half ounce BIZ
sulphuret carbon, two ounces. In
wide- mouth bottle put the two togeth-
er and shake occasionally until the
eutta percha is dissolved and is ready
for use, when the patch is to be applied
scrape the boot or shoe until the black.
ing is off and the leather is a little
rough. On this dust with fine resin,
minutest quantity serve the patch the
same way. Then spread little of the
cement on both the shoe and patch.
Apply like court plaster, and smooth
with a warm spoon or iron, and the
shoe will aoon be ready to wear. A
few hours will harden the cement.
When properly done the patch will be
invisible, and will last as long as the
shoe. This cement is waterproof
The gutta percha, shaved to thin slices
is kept in India rubber stores for the
above purposes. Ten cents worth will
do the work of family for long
time. The bi.sulphuret of carbon j.
sold by druggists, and will cost five OF
ten cents an ounce. The smell, which
is offensive, soon passes of.
Year: 1879

We have in eur mind, says an ex-
change, q brilliant and cultivated
young lawyer who started In life with
twenty thousand dollars and refined,
beautiful and accomplished wife. He
is now q sort of factotum in q carpet
mandatory, running hither and
thither at the beck and call of those
whom he secretly despises, doing
heavy tasks far beyond his strength,
yet eager and anxious to please, lest
the slender support which he derives
from this msnial work be cut off. We
know a gentleman who was a bank
president ten years ago and owned his
carriage, who now does copying in an
insurance Office at thirty-five dollars
month, supporting-God knows how
"a wife and five children on it. We
know of a gentleman who once
held high Office in western State,
who solicited work at cleaning out
Offices and building fires. Nor have
the changed times less bitterly affected
woman. Jennie Collins, of Boston,
famed for her employment bureau and
working mems home, says in her last
report: MANY kind ladies who hired
their servants Of me in the past years.
have been obliged to apply for employ
ment themselves Of late. I sent la
dy to q hotel-as a housekeeper, and
the most humiliating part of it was,
that her room was in the attic with
two of her former servants We are
constantly learning of women of edu'
cation and refinement, formerly
wealthy, who are engaged as seams
tresses, nurses and housekeepers; and
in one case we even know of lady
who would be at home in any parlor
in the land among educated people,
who served as a cook in hotel for
months.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of New York
paper was planting potatoes on the
increase of the moon or in the light of
the moon; several of his neighbOrs
were present and discussion arose as
to the effect of the moon on certain
crops. Answering its correspondents
inquiry, the paper says: There has
been always q powerful superstition
that the moon exerted q great influ-
ence upon the affairs of mankind, but
this idea has prevailed chiefly among
those who did not understand the ut
ter impossibility that the moon could
exert any such influences. Formerly
the stars were supposed to assist
the moon in these interferences with
mankind and their labors, and to be
able to read the stars was equivalent
to the possession of prophetic powers
Now the stars have lost this reputa-
ton, and the moon is IN fair W ay to
lose what little is left of it. Formerly
crazy people were mOon-struck,' but
now, when we see lunatic derived
from Luna, the moon, and really
meaning moon-struck), we do not
blame the moon for it. The moon has
now fallen SO low as to be supposed
by some to influence only the twining
of beans on the pole, the planting of
seeds, the wasting of fat pork in the
pan, unless it was killed under grow
ing moon, and the making of soft soap.
To reasonable person this seems q
small business for the moon to engag-
ed in, or q very unlikely thing that


the moon can exert any such influence.
If any difference occurs it will be from


other causes, such as soil. weather, etc.


Lastly, it is absolutely certain that the


moons influence on our atmosphere


is so very small that it cannot even eff


feet the weather in the least
Year: 1879

The people like to be swindled.
There is not a month, and scarcely q
week or day passes without some
body being victimized. Pedlers sell
the farmer job lot of dry goods for a
hundred and twenty-five dollars, and
he learns, too late, that it would be
dear at twenty-five. A stranger comes
along and stripes the barn all over
with lightning rods at half-pricc. The
first streak of lightning that tries to
climb down jumps off at the top joint,
and away goes his grain, and stock,
and utensils, and the fire shows up
the rod as tin instead of copper. A
cheap insurance man drops round
and he takes out policy at two
third rates, and after his house has
gone up in smoke, he learns that the
company has also gone up A sleek
stranger calls on him and appoints
him agent for reaping machine, or a
patent feed steamer. Don't want q
cent of money, but gets him to sign a
contract that he will make an effort to
sell. In about eleven months he finds
that that contract has been converted
into a promissory note for four humid
red dollars, and sold to an innocent
party, and he has to foot the bill if it
takes his last cent. A sewing machine
man calls with new tangled machine
noieeless, self-adjusting, warranted to
run forever; do better, stronger, fast
er sewing than any other in existence,
and he hauls the WOO! over your eyes
to the tune of forty dollars. After
the first week or two you find the ten
sion gets out of fix; the shuttle don't
work right, the needle drops stitches,
or breaks and your machine is worth
seyenty-fve cents for old iron. An
organ seller comes along. You don't
want to buy any; but he only wants
to take it in the house and let you hear
it, and in spite of all you can do he
makes you help carry it in. He sits
down to it and runs bis fingers over
the keys. Then he rolls up his eyes
and let's his voice out. What music,
and what sipgingl If they can do as
we'll as that in heaven, you want to
go, right away. Then he soft-soaps
your wife, aud gets her to join In on
odd Hundred and he compliments
her on her sweet tones. Your little
girl is cosxed to help the music along,
and you are gone up. 1t isn't bit OF
use for you to talk. Such low price
and on such easy payments, no money
down, and your wife and daughter
carry the day. He has your paper
Year: 1879

discounted at the bank and goes on
his way rejoicing. For four weeks
you are in paradise. Your wife hugs
and kisses you every time you stick
your head in the door, and site down
on your knee with her arm around
your neck Gust as she used to when
you didn't kesr whether school kept
or not and didn't 60 home till morl-
inC while your dear little daughter
bangs thunder out of the new machine.
At the end of four weeks it's all up
two tongues gone in the heavy bass,
hole in the bellows that would sink
ship, the veneer begins to peel off,
and the whole thing wheezes like q
wind broken horse with a nightmare.
Then there is pandemonium in tho
household. The. old woman says it's
all your fault, and you say it's shern.'
and the ecowls about the house would
turn water into vinegar, or give the
pigs the lock jaw. The old wind tor
turer is as deserted as a graveyard at
midnight, and its music is all rests.
And then you go and see . lawyer to
find out if you can't get out of it on
account Of being swindlsd. He says
that's all right, and you pay him five
dollars for saying SO. Time for pay
ment comes, and goes, but no ono
calls for the money. just about the
time you arc congratulating yourself
that the old thing is cheap enough
when you don't have to pay for it, the
banker steps in and shows you your
note. You swear like Turk, but it's
no use, you have to plank down tho
specie, and for another four weeks IL
isn't exactly heaven at your house.
Now sll this is just as easily avoided
as not, if you will only exercise lit
tie common sense. In the first place,


you are very foolish in supposing that
you can get any first class article for
half what 1t is worth. People don't
do business that way. If you jew
them way down, they get even with
You (and little more) by putin in
worthless article. Pay fair prices to
our men here at home, and then you
are safe.-[Iron Valley Reporter.