Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 22, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 December 1880 — Page 6

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M-an-fed Jewess Cit-Mta Tfatfar Hair. TmoiMrtom oC eUig the hair by Jew upo their NUK-rke is one Yrr tri-oUr observed in those places where the llebrw community is ntm t h large numbers, and where every 4eavor is made to ntainUun the re-Uftt-W MliM4MM and ObMrVHIHMM tC th pe-aple pur and undented. This imo tfc is mtivetvally followed in Poland, Southern Spain "and Northern Africa. Tb aet of removal of the hair is regarded a An important ceremony, and tks place o the evening of the day wrvVMHtuT t the wedding, at the bride's Wose, aod bt the presence of the rwpjWMittitivf relative of both families. Tfce reason invariably assigned for the c-t-tavkig of I be head for mall orthodox oases it amounts to this -ha always been the same, viz., that the bride's atatio$ may henceforth be lessened in tb sight of men, and the danger of her eeiag lured a wav from the strict est lWlity to her husband reduced to a mMhihih. At present, however, this o-brvauve is more or lees limited to Europe and Xorthern Africa, for tkroturboittr the East the shaving of the

a woman indicate that she is t She Mi a jtow, and regarded as a reproach, In Jndia, indeed, the remov ,ai oi a wowaa's hair is viewed with such hor ror that if a married woman were to Have her head, the husband, by the Hindu law, would have full authority to put her away. Consequently, the Hebrews in Armenia, Syria and throughout the East hare yielded te popular prejudice, and it is rare indeed to meet with young married Jewesses wearing wigs in ihoe countries. Still, the custom is sot altogether forgotten or ignored, for at weddings it is uetial for the bride to wear a small wig over the natural hair. Doubtless, however, the inarch of civil isation has not been Without its effect oa. the rkmly born and laintilv bred Mwitwrs 01 ismei, noionij; in lohuoh, y"'ri fw U1, re. And as many a husband has been xri&tag to run all risks to retain as a joy forever the golden locks or sable tresses ior vh!ch he siglied in his lover days, m m:iny a youujj wife has been too delighted that she his been spared the MTweleome attentions of some rutlilese? Figaro. When at Krakau, Poland, some years aero, where o-fourth of the population H Jews (aad "the rest fleas''), we noticed a nrettr vounr -irl with a most elaliontte wiy. icwassuosequenuyexprnmeu w , ik uy our Jewish guide, who. 4ike all lus countrymen there, wore the tradi-, toal gaberdine and side curls, that, as 1faf,vlad0nMIS (.'HS wtoekt std 1 inclit") for a reamed woman to show j her own hair, she invariably shaved the I bead, as in such a climate a mum of . Batrat bair was unbearable if one has L , a a z . . . nu "s wv w 1W- ?KU , . , . i tt. t ..i. i i u it. luier lire taw ur bmuuiuiiai. He said, "Talaiudie; and, anyhow, it K always done." The old women dispensed with the wig and merely tied a g&udv handkerchief tightly round the bead in a most unbecoming faehioa, In traveling in countries where there are many Talmud ic Jews, such as Russia, Austria and Koti mania, una vimine such towns s V, arsaw, Cracow , Brody and Jassy, I i jT obrved that the Jewess cover j 1' , "B " cr'",ur lr as rcquireii uy meir xaimuuic iraujtiens. This is justified by a reference to th treae Ketuboth, Chapter 7, Section (, where one violation of Jewish ewtMH, sufficient to cause divorce and the lose to the wife of the kUubnli, or dowry the hue band has con tracted to irive, is "if she so forth her ? head bare," exactly according to the - - . Hbrew. DeSola, I modern Rabbi, in ' his translation rfa oortion of the Mieh- - Ha, translates it, page 359, "If she goes ctt with her hair. loose bareheaded." II does not understand the roMMral of the hair, but that it should be oorered. " There lately appeared the following passage in a fiuuraatne article on "South Krpean Fofklore,1' from the learned pan f Mr. Wr. R. S. Ralston: At IntrodaiMMna the women disfigure Ihemselves whea they marry by cutting off tlieir hair, obeying a custom more barbarous than that which of old oronped a brWe's locks in Sparta, or still hides away a married woman's tresses in Kh-s.1' The above gives a wider interact to the quer as it would appear that the practice of shaving brides is not restricted to certain sections of the Jewish community. Is any further okw or saggetioa to be found in the words of St. Paul? "For if the woman 1ms net covered, let her also be shorn; bt if it be a sin for a woman to lie shorn or shaven, let her be covered.1' Notes mml Qtttries. The First CiNWell. Tkk death of Colonel E. L. Drake, , the irst man to sink a well in Pennsylvania hi search of oil, and the pioneer in the petroleum business of that State, hi anaettneed as having occurred in Tfew Bethlehem, Pa, on Monday last, hike the majority ot the early operators i oil, he made a fortune, lost it, and in his declining years found hiraelf kt poverty. Unlike many of the am elat, however, he was not reduced to abject want, for the State of Pennsylvania, recognizing the benefits whfe she hail derived from his ingenuity and enterprise, granted him a pension, which has leen the support of himself and family now for several years. It was by the merest accident that .Cotonel Drake's attention was irst directed to the value of potroleum, in 18&8. Half a century before that date ajhjt Nat Carey had peddled the peculiar oil which wa skimmed in small pnLmm from the waters of Oil Creek, 4 had paraded its virtues as a pur-

gative and liniment. He mailed it Sen eon Oil, from the fact that Ked Jacket,

the Seneca Chief, bad imparted to the white the secret of its powers. It fame mm a medicinal agent was jmrely local, when Carey, with vial of the stuff, plodded front hamlet to hamlet and established a demand for it that brought him no small profit. An attempt by General Franklin to introduce this "great 'natural medicine" to a Southern market later on ended d!sa trottftly, the Baltimore merchant to whom a wag on-lond of it was consigned dumping it into the Chesapeake Iter, unable to endure the odor which 'it sent forth, and unwilling to believe that his Southern customers could accustom themselves to the remedy, no matter what the nature of their ailments. Northern patients, however, took more kindly to it, but amour them even it was known more as a liniment than as a medicine. For several years, until lSoS, a firm in this city, Kvelith & Uissell, had received from Titusville, Pa., about a gallon of this oil a day. which, mixed with other ingredients, 'they sold an the then celebrated "Mustan.r Liniment." Their I stiimK if nit utbjs oputViirnil in tn vai-v primitive method of clipping blankets ( m a spring ermeated with t pring permeated with the article and wringing them into pans. This spring was owned by the firm, and when they were unable to meet their indebtedness to persona in New Haven, Conn., the latter took the Titusville roperty in payment. This was in 1858. Colonel Drake was then a conductor on the New York & New Haven Railroad, whose shrewdness had already attracted the attention of the owners of the newly-acquired property. They sent him to Pennsylvania to perfect their title to it. He became satisfied from his observation that Seneca Oil WK TWMUiaasAd nf mnw urnivartiiui tliuti had ifr 1mmmi f.r.1inwl tr if ,) tW could secure it in any quantity. He suggested the idea that the oil could be obtained in paving quantities by sinking a well. He was laughed at as a lunatic by the Pennsrlvanians. Returning to" New Haven he succeeded in interesting some capitalists in the novel theory, and in organizing the Seneca f)31 fYnmnv. of -litfh lio'u-na Ntitwiiiit. manairer. In the spring of 19 ho commenced sinking a well on Watson's fiat, at a spot about a mile below Titusville. The move was considered so ridiculous that it was onlv om imau with tlie greatest difficulty that he could hire assistance in the work, u finally secured the services of an old Sltlt-borer namel William A. Smite and his two sons. The boring of the first petroleum well was begun on the 1st of julv, 1859. When the three men quit work at sundown on the 29th of August tilfv hil drillwl tn a dmtl, i j " r. v feet six Inches. lne cuter bmith was first at the hole the following and to his astonishment it moming, was filletl with oil. A barrel of it was dipped out in a few minutes, and the news of Col onel Drake's sanity ran like wild-fire up Oil Creek Valley. The discovery was flashed over the countrv, and then be gan the ever-memorable oil excitement, which mde ami beggared men before t enheMsvil Tn-ilat- thn nit ravinn J J honey-combed with wells, the supplv of Ietroleum far exceeds the demand, "and farmers who own no oil stock own no oil stocK are skimming from the same creeks over which old Nat Carey labored hundreds of gallons of the stuff which is to watte. runntng Colonel Drake continued his opera tions in petroleum until 1861, when, broken in nealth and ruined in pocket, "?.Vou u l" H,H:V 111 1K ,n mimrH i limn ri.. ii.ii .m.BBiui L'l ' r'V0 0 " in " fteltl!' J" I?'? the State granted him a j pension of $1,500 a year, payable to his n un in ihb uvkiii ui uur surviving mm. He settled in New Bethlehem, where he spent the last years of his life, a confirmed invalid. His co-pioncer, Smith, still lives in Butler County, Pa., destitute, and with a large family on his hands. A statue to Colonel Drake's memory is to be erected on the new Oil Exchange now being built in Titusville. N. 1'. Timet. FlttshHrgh Iren and Steel. Onb-twelfth of all the pig-iron produced in the United States is wrested from the glistening ore Uy the furnaces of Pittsburgh and Tier immediate vicinity. In the matter of blast-furnaces her record dates back to 1791', when the primitive structure erected By George Anshutz sent its smoke into the clear sky, now darkened by the warm breath of fifteen huge furnaces, capable of roducing half a million tons of pig-metal every year from the ores that come from far and "near. And to further prepare this metal the first result of fire upon ore there are in Pittsburgh thirty-five rolling-mills, wherein eight hundred boiling or puddling furnaces are seething like miniature volcanoes in constant eruption, and whose product is here fashioned into one-quarter of all the rolled iron made in the broad Republic. Ascending into the realm of steel that perfected, purified form reached through these cmcial boilings and meltings and hammerings Pittsburgh claims, with pardonable pride, sixteen enormous establishments devoted to making all manner of steel, including the finest grades of "tool" steel, until lately supplied bv the English manufacturers. In this Pittsburgh excels, and makes two-thirds of all the crucible steel produced in this country. 0. F. Mulltr, in Harper' Magmim. ' i ' m t ' Sixty-two soldiers of the regiment stationed at Fort Townsend, Vv. T., are legally married to squaws belonging to Indian tribes in the neighborhood.

HOME, FA KM ASH (UKfc. A M7KAI. residence, tastefully planned and richly adorned with Horn! beauti, is generally found to be the abode of rettnement and intelligenes. A DKKt snow is called the poor man's manure, for the reason that it is a good winter mulch. And a large amount of ammonia is brought from the atmosphere to the earth by the falling snow. Plowixo should Ik. doue only when the soil will crumble looely; when the plow smears the upturned surface, the soil will be injured. Yet to t" make haste with caution" is advisable. Keckxt experiments in England show that thin sowing of wheat in drills is more productive than thick sowing. Hy special culture on small plots a single grain to the hill ha given a vicld of 100 to 162 bushels to the aire, according to the Experiment JiccorU. Chkksk Soukfk. The dish mut be sent to table direct from the oven in the pan in which it has been baked, as it falls if kept standing. Beat .separately the white nnd yelks of two eggs add to the yelks one tablespoonfut of sifted Hour, two of grated cheese, a pinch of cayenne, one of salt, and one cup of milk: when well mixed add the whites beaten to a froth, and stir briskly, pour into a buttered shallow pan, and bake in a quick oven until a rich brown about fifteen minutes.

A cOKRESfoXDENT of the New York Tribune says for the last nine years he has used the soft-soap wash on apple trees. About June 15 he takes a sutnetent nuautitv of the soap, thin a little, let sund half a dav to thoroughly a,wi ,:i-,.. mix, and then psite or plaster or paint u on me irees wtin a targe aint Dru-n. ' First scraping the body of the tree and j seeing that the trunk is clean, put on ' plenty of sap as high on the limlw as j one has time and patience, and extending well to the ground. One will be ; astonished it the beneficial effect. j We would susriresl to those who have, no woodlands that, as a measure of economy, it is well to plant cuttings or roots of fast-growing trees like the weepinr willow, caulpa and silver ma ple. These planted in corners of fields or lar;e wi w stance make a tree eighteen inches in diameter and thirty feet in height, Rural Xem Yorker. Baked Bicak. Pick over a quart of beans at night, and put over them warm water to cover them well. In the morning drain them and put them in i.nlit -ar irilk niia.nu.Hi inf y tnnmiJ fut ol sola. and boil them half an hour; ... . .... ... A again, free from water, and put thorn in a bean-pot, with two tablespoonfuls of molasses and half a pound of salt ork. which has been well washed; fill the pot with sufficient boiling water to cover the beans; place the cover on the pot, and put a rim of paste, made of Hour and water, around it, ami bake in a very moderate oven eight or ten Hours, if bean-pot, put cut the pork one in the center rest at even distances around it- , To Restoke Scratched Ft'KStTUKE. Scrape one pound of i . shavings in a pan; add half a gallon spirits of turpentine and one pint linseed oil. Let it remain twelve hours, then stir it well with a stick, into a liquid; while stirring add one-quarter of a pound of shellac varnish and one ounce of alkanct root. Put this mixture into a "slloii jar and stand it before the fire or m an oven, for a week, (to keep it just warnt), shake itup three or four tunes a tlay. Then strain it

ouiroi-ine-way places soon mase pereu someininif. whicn Jtatl tiie eileut aon nrl tk .iist..,n nf i,.t-;U. iu...

trees and mav then l)c cut down, of brininn2r Pusie on her fr-et. as she ulva.i (mm .tn.ti;nir. .i vi.,fn ,.,.

thoutbein-r missed, and used for lire exclaimed. "Whvl how did vou know?" ftir fvtlt tile 1i4it a 1 1 tr vtia aml Jfiuf

owl. The weeping willow, for in-1 "I oncewasabttle girl myself, dean", me to his side, asking where hi littl.

, in six years from a cutting will "Oh yes. I know; but then vou never 1 rirl i,.t ,n ll ti.t4 tt, m.l f

you have not a rotrnlar ii-T-evi-j -nappy nun my laotner antt io my ueariamer s loving reasoning, to

them in a baking-dish ami ltaer and my Uetovett dolls. Now you his patience and his symjath v." into small pieces, placing )'mi Bre advantage of me,for Both arms were round Miss ICather-

nf thu Im-mis and the ou are not f-nv, you are ionu oi mile me s necx, auu i'usie said, sfeniiv.

through a hair .sieve and bottle it. t be mceived of. The wimlows, wHh carnes his point, that his prosperity is about a Ublesjoonful on a wad of ba.zc, f their distinct! v denned saes, were one re1- l hls.i!j l mistake. Engo lightly over the face and other parts of llie rao3t frightful features for.rae, dar,n PP"1)' not be foundexlon of mahogany furniture, then rub brisk- t remembr lving awake at night cif J UislMnet.v; lywt ha similar dry wad. and m three amI the fc;ir c(r eiht whUe Hie tncky and deceitful man is sure minutes it wdl produce a dark iatHe Uarknes , and trembli ng to Jail a victim, sooner or later, to tho brilliant polish unequaled. Another With fear of what I did not know." influences which are forever working

prejiarauon may oe inaue follows: Make a mixture of three parts linseed oil and one part spirits of turpentine. It not only covers the disfigured surface, but restores wood to its original color, and leaves a luster upon the surface. Put on with a woolen cloth, and when dry rub with woolen. A Pittsburgh AccemplIshmeHt. Did you ever see a Pittsburgher get a flake of soot off his face? lie never rubs it off. To nib off a flake of soot discloses the stranger. It also leaves a streak of black, half an inoh wide, in place of the flake of soot as big as a three-cent piece. This is not an improvement The Pittsburgher to the manner born blow? it oft. He is an adept in the art. If the flake nestles on his nose, he protrudes his under lip. gives one vigorous whifl. and the obnoxious Pittsburgh snow-flake leaves bis face without a mark. If it lights on either cheek, the mouth is puckered and dretched around in tl.o direction of the smut, with the unerring accuracy of a garden hoe. It is astonishing what almost inaccessible portions of the face and head can be reached by a native burgher in this way. I have seen one who could puff a black flake off the Imck of his neck. Sometimes the lieauty-spot will nestle close In behind the left ear, where it is apparently secure from a blow as a calm center. But the native simply gives it a puff clear around his head, from left to right; the current passes over the left tjar, caroms on the right and comes mck and picks up the wanderer and 'lows him away. They puff these able flakes in any position, as easily a i weekly taper puft the summar oircui. Mttrtwte, in JJnHiHfhH llmkty.

Our Young Readers. WHAT I WOULD DO.

IMwrf a MM, I whM rrM a Mm, . Ttm M(Mt mm, attxt-t tkat vvtn wtw Am lMM Mf it hc m th jwiawtN mO, t!Ml' wlMt I'tl 4o K I w aMf4t If I h ttowvr, f4 Ut MHt. .n Mtk MO-M-tr tw.tumui ait itM tttrtMlwli day W Hit ilrlHklMfr Uh mMc, tlw 4 tW nOa. O, If 1 ww a rr, tnM wht I wom44 kl If I were a bnxiV. I wH!.l-nr.k Rtnt aa Aw;hw tin- wwh ai'ktj wime aiM itM.t AittoHi.. "Lktle tartM..m, eonw UHher, twtl lrinWr O, If I wt-re h broo4t, ttettt b wluM 1 wowM If I were a Mat, I vnmiM shine vrUUs nn4 !"rif!.t. To jcttMti lkj low krs rm neeims afur. And xravck.T km tn tk'ikH-risi hwU wuok; U, tlMtM wImk I'd lio if i were a hmt . RiM I kaow tlMtt fur me otter ts Iwvh (teen !Hkf Tor I am a chlW. km it h HntMtfttr 4. m: I WMt si at mv k-4, tw1 ,ty 4y lrt&rn to ret, to tpvti, mtA iie, two at thrtt?. Yet irWfHH hy my books I otuitt wme time Hon-tho Wnfc. Xk sa sweet how th huks irnfw red. ' hQW nws Vh tiHMry l;r.xk ..iy -VnHMwakM tnc mn ihhj- so htMh overIkh.1. M. ft .v. iMkn. hi Our Litti Out. I A CHILI) CONQUERED FEAR, j nv . t. irTTi. ..?;N,tht,ffre fire 1 t"Z' " "ZZ 1. "!r "l! xnee, ner fcicye m fter arms a picture ; ul TxZl uZ ; inmutes she drew a long breath so long that Aunt Kitty laughed, and asked her what the matter wa. of hesitation the little girl answered, m a very sad voice, Because it is almost time to go to bed." m Wh) ft,t you to go to h1;, , , . uecause oecause - l Hon t want to $av." i "Then I will tell von war. Shall I, dear? " " Oh. auntie, you don't know. You can not even gue-is why." -raa " . , J . . . Atini nuiy sioopeu over ana wnislea as l teel about the dark." von l IM5 too snre ot anything, little one. fiat should you say if I told you that I found out voar fear of the dark just because I used to feel as vou feel now? " Still incredulous. Pussie shook her 1 heatl. Sa.Vinr, " UlU WlieU i did it go of anything 4 4Q U'u 1 .11 b ro u vf u f a ;.l - "tome n ere, ami i win tell you," ami taking the child on her ki.ee Aunt Katherine tobl her this little storv of her own life. ' W hen I was a child I was as timid as a liare. I was very shy; I did not like strangers, antl I did not care for companions oi mv own age. l was girls and boys, and then, too, you have l?52PJ? ..LTO; JMlf Atvi n a t"X, tnv awuLi mi tHCi a-s far off as 1 could sec him. filletl me with sflch terror that 1 instinctivelv drew up my small legs, and then took to my heels. I was so afraid of a worm that I have gone a whole block out of me way to avoiti passing one. t am axnuu, i'55ie, inat 1 wsu? xwen coward, but nothing wjis so abiaolutelj awful Kaj, onntti, Uu m!:i,., one thKt wa3 Snoccupiel waslo me the trulv horrill t,l that ,.r,t.J And Mws Katherina heartl littl trnirmur. "Oh, auntie, it always frightens me ! I am glad it frightened you, too." ( id with a closer cuddle she said, so An "Please go on." it. tcnderlv. never ntt.:rinr ridicule or of reproach, tellinr me that ! no one eke could help me in overcom- 1 ing the dread of darkness, but that I ' might conquer it myself. I used to I wonder if I should ever feel as he did about it, and be as brave as he was in every way. " Some little Um passed away, and when I was about seven or eight "years old an idea Hashed through my brain, and I will tell you what 1 did. "It was just about this hour, between six and seven o'clock, and at this season of the year, when I made up my mind to explore the whole house in the " dark. Sir John Franklin and Dr. Kane (you remember I was telling you al-out them only last night?) could not have had a firmer conviction uf the dangers they were braving: than 1 had at that moment " The Dark w.v nuke as un known a region to me as the north pole to them, and set thick with terrible risks and perils; but having made up my mind to do it, the possibility of retreat did not occur to me, for I rememuer i ieu as ii ii were a son oi uuiy, a promise to my father; so I walked out I of th room where all the family were sitting uy the nre-iight, ami began to go up the first flight of stairs Tn the back part oi the house utilighted save by a ground -glass window, through which the hall lamp threw a dim light. I had made up my mind to begin with the worst, and went steadily up, one two, three, four lights of stair j; the kt

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"Unee my fauter spouse to me about wus ioubuh iwj oi i reasoning with me most lovinelv and- CRr?r n lhe '"luring principles of

led to the aUie, dirWl iMt two rooms the outer om tinWhed but never occuPMNl; t he inner one UHftnishwl, and each lighted by a window in the roof, ami 04)mmun!cating by a little door, m low that, small a 1 was. I could not h.hu.i

upright in )Muitt!r through. In utter darkness I climbed the steep stairs, closing the door at the foot, and at lat foimd nivself groping my wav into this inner attic through the door I have ju-st described. Then on my hand-, and knees I crawled under the oavo.-i, breathless and trembling; I left no corner unexplored. I remember going back more than once, to lw sure that I had not 'shirked. In this wav I went into every room, crawling under every bed. which was au eujMK..l horror to me; I don't known why do you, Pussie?" "Oh, auntie, it is dreadful under the beds!" " But what is it you are afraid of? Are you afraid that someone is concealed then, who will hurt you?" "No. indeed; I don't knowie&i it is, but I always feel that .wiW-"H5f is hidden there, auntie .something awful." ' " ell, Piissie, so did I, and a-. I ' fni,WI,Mi 0Ut fpolu 0,lC,, Uml 1 Ml Umt 1 had had a narrow escape, expecting the ( m;xt woud revenl the dreadful thing. 0,1 a.U thi.3 tin,e . the windows seemed to grin at mo; but I thought of mv , father, and of his tellinsr mo that I could conquer if I tried,' and I went on, closing the door of every room as I wont 'iB'?,ni? fu.Mfu,,y jato every closot, , fee!iH w th niS ,ntl un'r ery ? ? . urn,ture wa not set , clo?e to the floor. It was such a long ' , V? IUUl lc,t,as ll 1 ,ft(1 uo wcw , mv father and mother for hours: but at last I began to feel that I was near the J end. and I recall going back and cxploringfor the second time the unknown region wider the last bed, because I felt in my heart that I had not been honest i abM,t 5t 1 WHS coclw t't left corner nearest the window had not been rcnilu in rest twit ml. At last it. w i nnuncu. and I can remember how I j --- - felt when I oiieued the room where the others ing and talking, with door of the were laugbbrijiiit liirlits antl the fire I can remember my "be wildered, feeling, as if waking from : died ut to him as vou r iloinw nnw tlearie, I was so happy as 1 whispered uacK so softlv that none of the rest could hear, I have lieen everywhere in the dark, under the beds ami "all.' I shall never foivet the look he tave mo as he drew me closer to him and kissed me, whispering back, 'My brave little girl!' An when by and by my mother's t lovely eyes beamed noon me as she stooped antl kissed me, I felt quite reaid for all my distress; ami, my darling, I neer a'fterward suffertnl in the am way. Of course I had little thrills and jmnks. but lasting only for a moment I could always send them away when I thought of my father's kiss. If I have anv courage, it Is due Auntie. I will trv." Anil she did try. and did conquer her foolish fears sothorouszhlv that the dark has lost all its terrors for her. and a braver little girl cannot be found in the country. JfurjKfs Xmng 1'cople. - A Great Mistake. Boys anil young men sometimes start out into life with' the idea that ono's success depends on sharpness and chicanery. Ihey imagine if a man is able to " get the best of a bargaiu,M no matter by what deceit ami meanness, he gst him. llis House is built upon , the sand, and its foundation Will be certain tr . ta n w aiiirital n rink. " J not give these truths too much weight. he future of that younr man is ?:ito who eschews every shaim of doubleAn itinerant St. Louis locksmith has hit upon a novel method of attracting attention upon the street. He has a jmall two-wheeled covered waron containing his instruments and drawn by a doukny. j he proprietor walks uxm tne pavement calling out his business, while the donkev s led by a Scotch terrier dog. A stout cord is attached at one end to the donkey's bit, and at the other to the dog's collar. The dg goes ahead antl bv his maneuvers controls the donkey, making him go fast or slow or conic to a stop at the biddinsr of his master. The dog, though a small one, is very frisky and energetic, and sometimes in his seal he makes it rather uncomfortable for the month of the donkev, which is a kind of las.y beat The little caravan attracts much attention wherever it goes, especially from the children, GiLiiootv met a defeated candidate who is a chronic politician yesterday, and sought to console him. savina:: " You ouifht to be nrlad vou are beaten. for now vou can dron politics anil go into some leritimate business." "I was thinking of that." sighed the candidate, "if I could only get credit enough I should like to engage in mercantile pursuits and fall on twenty cents on the dollar. That would set me up in public estimatioa." atvti

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one word of everlasting truth.--" ioUH-j f olk Jittnu.