Lititz Record

              P u b l i s h e d E y e r y F r i d a y M o r n i n g by
J . FRANK BUCH.
OFFICE—On Broad street, Litlti,
Lancaster County, Pa.
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Celluloid collars,
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Hats,
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BROAD STREET, LITITZ, PA.
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THE T0ÜNG WIFE.
" I don't like you ! I wish
never married you !" cried
I had
Elfrie
" And Colonel Saybrooke certainly
. R. BOMBERG-ER,
L I T I T Z ,
Has now in stock a large assortment of
STOVES, HEATERS andRANGES
HARDWARE, PAINTS, OILS,
Skates, Sleds and Sleigh Bells.
IIOUSEFURNISHL NGr GOODS
Clover Seed, Horse and Cattle Powder, &c.
R E P A I R S F O R L I T I T Z P L O W C O ' S I M P L E M E N T S!
r p H E OLD
Lititz Baiery ana Confectionery.
I n addition to its extensive dally output
of Bread, Bulls, Buns and Cakes, will con-stantly
receive and keep in stock
F r e s h Candies,
D r i e d F r u i t s,
N u t s of a l l k i n d s,
O r a n g e s , Bananas,
W h i t e Grapes, &c.
A f r e s h stock just received, which will be
sold at Special Holiday Prices.
I. P. Bomberger.
Egcpach'g Ba^erij,
LITITZ PA.
Fresh Bread, Rolls,
Buns,Sweet Cakes,
Streislers, Sugar
Cakes, &c.,
Served dall In town and country. AllordMf
tor funerals or public gathering« promptly
attended to. A special feature In the busln«M
will be I he baking of GENUINE BYE aid
BRAN BREAD. My aim shall ba furnish «
food article at all times. Give me a trial U f
satisfy yourself.
Have also added allTneeessary tools for w
lamenting cakes, and am now prepared t«
ornament cakes for weddings ana parties la
any style desired.
HORACE Jj, aaOHBAOH.
WARWICK HOUSE.
ONE SQUARE N, OF R. R. STATION
L.ITITZ, P A.
This well-known Hotel is conducted in good
style and offers excellent accommodations to
the traveling public at the lowest.rates,
WH B J S Y o u COME TO L I T I T Z S T O P HE R E.
F. G. CARPENTER, Prop.
STURGIS HOUSE
HOTELvMDvEISTÁÜRANT,
LITITZ, PA.
This well-known House still continues to
accommodate the public in the manner so
well known and highly appreciated by its
many patrons.
—THE CHOICEST—
J ) E N N HOTEL,
PENH, LANCASTER CO., PA.
The, proprietor has ample accommodations
for t h e traveling public a t reasonable rates.
The bar is well stocked with choice
LIQUORS, WINES AND CIGARS.
I n passing by the way stop.
Sloct84 B. J . 1BACH, Prop'r.
Union House,
AKRON, PA.
Ail neccessary accommodations for man
and beast, at the most reasonable rates. All
kinds of Temperance Drinks and Choice
Cigars at the bar. The house is one of the
finest building* in the village. When travel-ing
the way please give me a call.
•(©.Telephone connection.
JOHN A. GETZ,
8jun-.tf Proprietor.
AT T H E BAK.
LAGER B E E R a n d other REFRESH-MENTS
at all times.
Returning thanks for many past favors. I
hope to receive your patronage in the future,
EDW. S. STTJRGIS, Prop'r.
LITITZ SPRINGS HOTEL
LITITZ, PA,
Just received a new lot of Duffy's Genuine
medicinal Malt Whiskey for I n v a l i d s . Also
a fine lot of pure Juniper Leaf Distilled Gin,
for medicalpurposes, the finest Gin now In
use. Also a new lot of Mishler's Genuine
Herb Bitters, non alcoholic,for dyspepsia,
Anewlo-of GrapeMilk, a r e f r e s h i n g d r i n k,
non-alcoholic. Also a freuh lot of the
unequalled Yineling Ale. Rieker Beer,
Vlnemont pure Wines, sweet a n d sour, and
New York Oysters. Mealsat all hours in t he
Restaurant.
C H I C K B N S A N D W A F F L E S E V E R Y S U N D AY
F O B S U P P E R .
J. F. STURGIS, Prop'r.
TOBACCO BUYERS'
can be had a t the
BOOKS ready for use
_ Record Office at all
times. Also the best quality of tobacco
packers' Sample Tags, ready printed.
Saybrooke, passionately. " Let go of
my hand I I don't want you to come
near me!"
She was only sixteen, this beautiful,
passionate young creature with the
blue, glittering eyes and red lips and
hair like golden mist—and Colonel
Saybrooke looked down upon with
grave astonishment. Elfrie has been
in a " temper" with him ; but never
one like this.
Elfrie!"
Don't call me Elfrie! don't look
at me," she sobbed. " You don't love
me—you won't let me go to the opera
with Ralph Eytinge !"
" No, Elfrie, but "
" I want to go home to mamma. I
wish I had never left mamma. You
are too old and cross and sour for me !"
Elfrie raved on in her ectacy of
childish anger, never for an instant
noticing the stern, settled pallor that
had come over her husband's face.
He rang the bell.
" Send the close carriage round to
the door, Hammond. Your mistress
wishes to go to her mother's."
Presently Hammond came, with the
announcement that the carriage was
ready. Elfrie perched a tiny velvet
hat, surmounted by a blue-bird's wing,
on the top of her veliow} hair, and
drew a costly cashmere scarf round
her shoulders, as she rose.
" You will tell me good-by, Elfrie ?"
But Elfrie never turned her head.
She was a spoiled child, both by tem-perament
and education, and as yet
Hyde Saybrooke had failed to find the
key to her nature.
He sat silent and sorrowful after she
had gone.
"She is right," he suddenly ex-claimed,
" I ought never to have mar-ried
her. I am too old, too grave, too
dreamy. She is a thing of light and
and air and sunshine—-and if I have
done her injustice in forcing her into
an unequal match, may God pardon
me!"
Elfrie was sitting ready shawled and
wrapped up, waiting for the carriage
to bring her home that eveniug, when
Mr. Fortescue, the old family lawyer,
walked in.
Elfrie started up, pale and' trem»
bling, for there was a nameless some-thing
in Mr. Fortescue's face.
" Oh, Mr. Fortescue, what is it ?
Some thing has happened to Hyde!
He is ill—perhaps dead !"
" Neither one nor the other, my
dear child," said the old man. " I am
merely the bearer of a note from your
husband."
And breaking open the sealed mis-sive,
Elfrie, read that Hyde Saybrooke,
weary of the perpetual commotion of
his domestic circles, and painfully
conscious that there existed a disparity
between himself and his beautiful
young bride, in other and more serious
respects than that of age, had decided
to leave her.
" Not because I do not love you,
dear Elfrie, more tenderly than ever,"
he wrote, " but because I would fain
atone, in so far as it is possible, for
the grave mistake which has over,
shadowed your future and blighted
my own life. You will be happier
without me, and as for myself, I must
expect to reap what I have
sown ; the bitterness of a cup, which
few men are called up to drink. You
will be left rich—may you enjoy the
wealth which has never done me any
good ! Dearest Elfrie, good-bye, and
think of me, sometimes as one who
loved you very dearly—who will love
you forever ?"
Elfrie handed the letter to her
mother, with a hand that shook like
an aspen leaf.
" Read it, mamma, and tell me
what does it mean ! Has he" gone ?
Has he left me ? Oh, tell them to call
him back again—to tell him I never
meant it! For I did love him,
mamma—I was learning to love him
so dearly!"
And Elfrie sank white and senseless
to the floor.
She had her way. She was back
once more in the home of her girlhood,
freed from every shackle, except that
of a name, while Hyde Saybrooke's
money made a sort of golden halo
about her foot steps. Yet—such is the
inconsistency of woman—she was
miserable.
" Elfrie," said her mother, gravely,
" I don't know what to make of you
You are not a bit like yourself."
"I hope I never shall be, mamma,"
said Elfrif, with a slight shudder.
" My old self, as you call it, broke
.noble heart and darkened by nature-let
me now study for my new self."
" But, Elfrie, you are independent
now !"
" I was more than independent be
fore, mamma, had I but known it."
was
" Hush, mamma!" Elfrie held up
her finger, while a scarlet glow over-spread
her cheek; " not even from
you will I hear a word of disparage-ment
of the noblest and- truest man
that ever breathed upon this earth!"
And Mrs. Percy, who was a gay
widow, with a certain shallowness of
nature which Elfrie fortunately had
not inherited, shrugged her shoulders;
" It's a pity you hadn't found it out
before!"
Elfrie burst into passionate tears
and hid her face in her hands. Alas !
was she not daily and hourly becoming
more cognizant of the fact embodied
in her mother's words ?
At least," she said, with a quiver-ing
lip. " I can study to become more
worthy of the love he once lavished
on me!"
" But you will lay off that mourn-ing
dress, Elfrie ? It looks so strange.
People make remarks! And, after
all, you are not a widow."
"Not a widow—but worse," Flfrie
said, smiling faintly. " Let them talk,
mamma. I shall always dress in black
until—until they put me in the while
muslin shroud that is the end of all
things !"
"This is strange talk, Elfrie, for a
girl of sixteen!"
Is it, mamma ? But, you see, I
feel at least sixty !"
And young Mrs. Saybrooke kept
rigorously to her word. She attended
no more'parties.went to no more balls,
operas nor concerts, but moyed like a
gentle young Sister of Mercy through
scenes of trial, woe and suffering.
Her soul was daily becoming refined
in the alchemic fires of self-denial and
charity—and Hyde Saybrooke would
scarcely have known his butterfly
bride now.
" I told her how it would be !'
cried Mrs. Percy, fretfully. " Poking
about in those nasty tenement-houses
where nobody ever goes but the tax-collectors
and the missionaries—and
now she's down with the fever."
A film came over Mr. Fortescue's
eyes.
" She has followed in her Master's
footsteps," he said, solemnly, " and if
it leads her to the very gates of the
grave, who shall dare to murmur ?"
But there came a time when the
angel Azrael folded his pinions across
the threshold, and then there was a
new watcher at Elfrie's bedside ; one
who never tired out, neither grew,
weary, for the might of love upheld
him! And at last she opened her eyes,
pale, emaciated and weak as an in-fant,
but with the burning fever gone !"
" Mamma!" she murmured faintly,
" I have had such a sweet dream ! It
seemed to me that Hyde was beside
pressing my hand, whispering to
A F i n e Marine View,
Landlord—"Why, how is this?
This is no marine piece. It is almost
an exact representation of the interior
of my saloon."
Artist—" I meant it for that."
" But I told you to paint me a bit
of sea coast, a tasty marine morceau,
a—"
" That's what it is, sir. Don't you
see the schooners crossing the bar ?"—
Philadelphia Call.
He was Tired.
" Do you ever have a dreadful tired
feeling come over you ?" asked a
patent medicine manufacturer of a
friend, who complained of not feel-ing
well.
" Oh, yes; often," replied the friend.
" You should try a bottle of my
cure all. How often do you exper-ience
this tired feeling ?"
" Every time I see your advertise-ment
on the fences."
A Perplexing Art.
The latest society craze is palmistry
—reading a person's character and
fate in the lines of the hand. The
lines of the four-in-hand have their
significance, also, as a man discovers,
when he handles them for the first
time.
Palmistry was all the rage in Paris
two or three years ago, and it has only
recently struck New York, just as the
Paris fashions get here after they
have ceased to be the mode in the
French capital.
The soirees of our ultra-fashionables
will be enlivened by hand-reading this
winter. A very distinguished profess-or
has recently arrived from the other
side, and his services are already in
great demand among the bonton.
Aristocratic ladies hold out their
beautiful hands to have the lines
traced, and he congratulates himself
that his lines have fallen in pleasant
places' Beaux will grow jealous of
him, and study palmistry themselves,
so that his services may be dispensed
with.
Complications will arise, there is no
doubt of it. A young man will say
to a young lady: " Give me your
hand, please." She will blush, hang
her head and whisper: " Ask pa."
Then he will be compelled to marry
her or stand a trial for breach of
promise. Or she may cry, indignant-ly
: " How dare, you ! You know I
am engaged to another." He can get
out of it by saying ; " Pardon, Miss,
I asked for your hand to study the
lines of life."
Professors of palmistry are turning
up everywhere. Some of them are
turning up trumps, others turn up
missing when the hall receipts are
small, and they are compelled to jump
their hotel bills.
A L i n c o l n A n e o d o t e.
Here is a little Lincoln story I
never heard until yesterday. Early
in the war a number of young
amateurs in Washington formed a
club and made preparations to give
some performances for the benefit of
the soldiers. Of course, the first
thing they gave was " hamlet" that
was to be followed by " Romeo and
Juliet," the "Lady of Lyons" and
so on. The managers went to a num-ber
of public men and asked them to
become honorary members, and give
liberal contributions to their funds.
Among others whom Ithey visited was
President Lincoln. He said he would
be very glad to be an honorary mem-ber,
and then he added ; I am sorry
I cannot find timé to see your perfor-mance,
but will send you my check
for $25, and that will represent me
me well enough, I guess." Then the
fun twinkled in his eye, and he said:
" Why can't you let me ia as an
active member ? l a m a fellow of
infinite jest: and I think I would
make a good gravedigger."
me,
me! Oh, if I could have died then!
Oh, Hyde! my husband ?"
" Elfrie!"
He was bending over her, his dark,
sad eyes into hers.
" I meant only to see you once, and
then to go—but, Elfrie, I could not
leave, until I knew that you were
safe!"
" Dearest, you must never leave
me!" she uttered ; " I have learned to
value and love you at l»3t. Oh, my
husband, it is like welcoming you
back from the grave."
" Shall I stay, Elfrie ? Do you love
me at last ?"
And to both of the earnestly-uttered
questions she answered :
" Yes."
Colonel Saybrooke was happy at
last. He had lost his wild 1 i ttle Elfrie,
but in her place was a tender, true-souled
woman.
For Elfrie had discovered at last
that she had a heart.
Where "Violins are Made.
In one of those mountainous dis-tricts
of Bavaria, there is a town call
ed Mittenwald, shut in by snow-clad
peaks and dense forests, in which every
yard is crossed by a labyrinth of ropes
and poles, on which hundreds of
violins are hung up to dry. For
couple of centuries the entire industry
of the town has been violin-making,
for which the surrounding forests pro
duce the best of material. Men, wo
men and children all haye their alloted
share of the work, and violins, cellos,
bass violins, zithers, and every stringed
instrument, from a copy of some old
and priceless Stradivarious, perfect in
form, color and tone, down to the
cheapest banjo, are exported in great
quantities, all handmade, to eyery
quarter of the glohe.—Brainard's
Musical World.
Aetice, P u s h i n g and Reliable.
The Lititz Drug Store can always be
relied upon to carry in stock the purest
and best goods, and sustains the reputa-tion
of being active, pushing and reliable,
by recommending articles with well es-tablished
merit and such as are popular.
Having the agency for the celebrated Dr.
King's New Discovery for consumption,
colds and coughs will sell it on a positive
guarantee. It will surely cure any and
every affection of throat, lungs, or chest,
and in order to prove our claim, we ask
you to call and get a trial Bottle free.
Wit a n d Humor.
When a dude sprains a finger
would it be proper to describe the oc-casion
as a monkey wrench ?
When a girl gets in a husband a
better man than she expected him to
be he is a sir prize to her !
A statistician claims that for every
four and one-half marriages in the
world there is one divorce.
Hugh Conway must have had refer-ence-
to the toboggan when he wrote
the work " Hauled Back."
In Tennessee the young: men do
their courting in presence of the eld
folks. There are no elopements.
So many bicycles and tricycles are
used in the streets of Paris that police
regulations have become necessary.
Dr. Mary Walker has one great
sorrow. She ha3- no little boy for
whom she can make over her old
pantaloons.
Locomotives now run in Jerusalem,
and the shrill steam whistle is heard in
the streets once trod by King David.
Liberty is always pictured as a wo-man
because liberty to survive must
be vigilant, and there is no blind side
to a woman.
Wife—" I've heard it's bad luck to
be married on a Tuesday." Husband
—" If you'll leave of ' on a Tuesday'
I'll confirm the rumor."
Mike—" Phat are yez workin' at
now, Pat ?" Pat—" Diggin' in the
sewer. Mike—" Phat do yez get fer
it?" Pat—" One dollar a day and the
rheumatiz, begorra!"
Patient—" Why do you watch the
thermometer on the wall so closely ?"
Nurse—" Because the doctor said if
the temperature riz I should give you
the quinine."
Anecdote of t h e Liate Mr. Vaiiderbilt.
A retired newspaper man tells of a
pleasing experience with Mr. Vanderj
bilt.
" I went to interview Mr. "V.," he
says, " and the big man was smilingly
silent.
"' Surely you wouldn't hinder
newspaper man making a few dollars,'
I said to him facetiously. ' A talk
from you is worth a great deal; I made
a handsome sum out of my first inter
view with you.'
"' Well, by George, I like a man
who can make money out of me,' said
the railway king. ' It takes a smart
man to do it ; fire away with your
questions.'"
An Unbeliever in Taffy.
Not many years ago a gentleman
was preparing to leave for Europe,
and his wife, while packing his trunk,
said.
" Here is my picture, shall I put it
in with the other things ?"
" Yes, certainly, for I should feel
lost without it. You know I always
take it with me wherever I go."
" Yes," replied the wife, " I know
you do, but I don't believe you ever
look at it."
" Indeed I do, every night of my
life," rejoia«d the loving spouse.
The little yclvet case was put into the
trunk as usual. When the husband
returned and the trunk was beiug un-packed
by the happy coupje, the wife
found the case, and taking it out said :
" Well, tell me now, did you look at
my picture while you were away ?"
" Look at it ? Indeed I did, and it
was the greatest comfort to me."
" I don't believe it," said the wife.
" Why, Mary, there was not a sin-gle
night while I was away thai
I didn't look at it."
Whereupon the wife opened the
empty case and showed him that she
had taken the picture out and packed
only the case. The likeness had re-mained
at home in her upper drawer.
Fortunately, the wife, who, by the way-was
a remarkably handsome woman,
was not an over-sensitive person, and
used to tell the circumstance as a good
joke to her friends.
Killed the Cat.
An incident occurred here the other
day which afforded an illustration of
the ferocity of the English sparrow,
swarms of w'uich are now infesting
the city. It consisted of a battle
between a large male member of the
feline tribe and a numerous family of
sparrows that had taken refuge in a
crab apple tree in the back yard of
the First Presbyterian parsonage, and
whose home had been invaded by the
aforesaid Thomas cat. The latter had
stealthily crawled up the side of the
tree and was perched upon a lower
limb, watching for an opportunity to
rake in an unsuspecting sparrow with
his paw when suddenly the entire
flock of birds flew out of' the tree and
encircled it making a chirping noise
so loud and exciting as to be heard all
over the neighborhood. After flying
about the tree for a moment, a half
dozen or more birds i!e>v at the cat
like lightning and drove their sharp-pointed
though short, bills into its
body. The animal uttere'd a howl of
pain, but was finally pounced upon
by other skirmishers of the bird army,
and pecked so unmercifully that it
was compelled to letgo its hold on the
limb of the tree, and dropped with a
" dull thud" to the ground. Before
it could regain its feet for the purpose
of making its escape a hundred angry
sparrow« dove at the animal, pecking
it about the head and back, until it
was utterly powerless to defend itself
with its paw, which it at first endeav-ored
to make use of. The birds,
seeing the enemy was succumbing to
the terrible punishment they were
inflicting upon it, renewed the attack
with redoubled vigor, and his catship
was soon stretched lifeless upon the
ground, with its eyes picked out of
its head, and its skull perforated iii
many places. As soon as the cat
ceased to show signs of life the spar-rows
flew back into the tree, and
continued their deafening chatter in
honor of the victory.
r Engines, Boilers, Separa-tors,
Horse Powers, Threshing
Machines, and all kinds of repairing
goto A. B. Wolgemuth, Manheim, Pa.
He will give you low prices an
guarantee satisfaction. First-class
maehiniHsts employed. 21a
A Little Mare's Kiss.
When Circusman Cole sold Ms
stock in New Orleans recently three
dun ring horses that he had owned for
years went with the others by mistake.
Mr. Cole at once bought them back,
saying that he would,never consent to
have the horses become ¿he property
of any one who would make them work
and that he had decided to put them
to a painless death. He proposed
bleeding them to death, feut W. C,
Leonard, a liveryman, suggested that
the use of ehlorofrom would be a bet'
ter and less painful mode. This l
finally decided upon and a relisfble
man procured, who was to have pre-formed
the operation. They were
collected in the circus tent. There,
were Cole, Leonard, the riders and¡i
the clowns, the ringmaster, the
tumblers and leapers, and the three
pet duns—Calling the mare by name,
he told her to kiss them all good bye.
—The intelligent animal, stretching-foward
her head, kissed each one.
This was more than they could stand,
and the sacrifice was put off. Cole
had no place to take them to, so Mr.
Leonard promised to "find some one
who would assume charge of them,
under a guarantee never to work them;
but keep them in good order until
old age should claim them for the
grave. _
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cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion. Use no other. This
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Lititz, Pa., 8oot8
Wonderful Cures.
W. D. Hoyt & Co., wholesale and retail
druggists of Rome, G-a., say: " We have
been selling Dr. King's New Discovery,
Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica
Salve for two years. Have never handled
remedies that sail as well, or give such
universal satisfaction. There have been
some wonderful cures effected b y these
medicines in this city. Several cases of
pronounced Consumption have been en-tirely
cured by-use of a few bottles of Dr.
King's New Discovery taken in connec-tion
with Electric Bitters. We guaran-t
»e always. Sold b y Lititz Drug Store. 1
Said for the Pies.
Ex-GoV. Porter, of Indiana, did not
complete his college course at Hano-ver,
but went from there to 'Green-castle.
Along with a Hamper of other
students, mostly, like himself, young
men of limited means, he boarded with
a Mrs. Standeford, who set an excel-lent
table, and was the kindest and
most motherly old lady that could be
imagined.
She treated the boys so well that at
times they had serious misgivings as
to whether they really deserved so
much at her hands, and on iwaniter-less
occasions, in their enthusiasm,
they promised themselves that one day
they would " get even" with Mother
Standeford by doing something hand-some
for her.
The reporter doesn't know how- the
young men carried' out -their threats,
but does know of Mr. Porter. The.
years went by, and he was in middle
life, with a large practice and wide
reputation as a lawyer, when one day
a very old, bent and careworn woman
went from Greeiieastle to Indianapolis
to consult him on a case.
Her father had many years before
given her a tract of land, about eighty
acres, near Greenville. The town had
afterward extended to the yery edge
of the land, which, in consequence, ,
had become valuable. The conveyance
of the land from her father to herself
was in such form that when her hus-band
became insolvent ia business the
land had been seized for the debt of
the husband and sold to a creditor.
Mr. Porter took hold of the ease of
this client, who offered him one-half
for its recovery; and worked with a
Zeal and thoroughness that were re-warded
with success. When the old
lady came to settle the lawyer, who,
a college boy, had eaten her pies in
«he days gone by, would not take a
ce®t " No, Mrs. Standeford," he said,
" 1 promised myself long ago to get
evea with you, and this is, perhaps,
the «aly opportunity i shall ever
have."
;—Tern iikousand families in New
York areflfiM to make way with their
vegetable <se§wse by burning it in the
Mtefa® range. An effort is being
< made to exiteni iEe practice and if it
Items of Interest.
An eminent Chinese scholar, Prof.
James Legge, is going to bring out a
metrical translation of the Psalms
according to the Hebrew text.
After all, the railroads do not care
half so much about the long haul or
short haul as they do about making a
big haul.
The longest span of wire in the
world is used for a telegraph in India
over the river Eistnah. It is more
than 6000 feet in length, and is 1^)00
feet high.
A large cake of ice, cut from the
Illinois river near Ottawa, contained
the body of a man frozen in the mid-dle
of it. The dead man ,vas Joseph
Johnson, of Peru, TU.
A man who imagined himself a
telephone, and who has been trying
for a year to shout " hello" in his own
ear has been sent to an asylum at
Flatbush, L. I.
The portrait of General Grant on
the new $5 silver certificates is said to
be excellent. The fmt impressions of
the new bill have just been received
at the Treasury Department,
One would think a lover would
have his sweetheart's name written on
his heart, but two applicants for mar- ,
riage certificates had trouble yesterday
because they could not spell the names
of their intended wives.
A Michigan farmer, diggiug for
water, struck a spoiitiug well at1 a
depth of seventeen feet, but the water
was unfit to drink. While he was *
cursing his luck a better postéd resi-dent
directed his attention to the fact
that the black adulterant was coal,
William T. Hornaday, chief taxid-ermist
of the National Museum at
Washington, has returned from a big
buffalo hunt in Montana, i.u the inter-of
the Smithsonian Institution,
and is surprised to find how fast the
species is becoming extinct, llc'esti-mates
that there are one hundred
buffaloes in Texas, and not more than
sixty in the Yellowstone divide, where
his hunting was' done, and in his
opinion there are none north of that
region.
Consul Moffet, of Athens, reports
that Greece yields about fifty thousand
tons of iron ore per annum. The
company mining it guarantees 5$ per
cent, of pure metal, and finds its best
market in France. Of late, however,
a very considerable quantity—during
some months from five to six thousand
tons—has been shipped to the United
States. The Greeks who. work the
mines receive the moderate sum of
from fifty-seven to seventy seven cents
per day.
is successful New York will probably
be the cleanest -eity in the world.
—The United .'Siates Goverment
has received through the British Le-
^gatieaain Washington a® official invi-i
tatio® to participate m an International
I exhibition which is to ' be held in
| Manchester, England, next year, to
celebrate €he jubilee of Her Brittannic
Majesty's reign.
—In Washington dwell two women
who own se much brie-a-bracthat they
liave movel int > a larger house to
accommodate it. Among other rare
tfeings is a screen, such as is used in
eastern harems, made of carved wood,
with curious little windows which open
aM shut like doors.
-Wooden T o o t h p i c k s.
" Tl>a toothpick trade has grown to
enormous proportions," said a dealer
in them to a reporter. " Thousands
of feet of soft white pine are yearly
converted into these little infinitesi-mal
splinters. It hag not been many
years since the big goose quill was
the only toothpick going. One of the
hard picks from a goose would frequen-tly
last a man a week or so. He
carried it in his wai3t pocket, and
instead of smoking when he became
lonesome he would draw forth a
toothpick and snap it between his
teeth. The evolution from the old
style pick was not marked by any
intermediate grades worth mentioning;
soft wooden pick found favor
soon •»fter its introduction. They
were found convenient and thorough-ly
efficient. Ttia gold toothpick is
used more a3 an ornament than for
actual service, and 'besides, they ars
too expensive for the general run.
The hotels are the great patrons of
the toothpick manufacturers. In this
city alone thousands of dollars annu-ally
are paid by the hotels, for soft
wooden toothpicks. It is esfisyat-i<I
that each hotel, as a rule, furbishes
ten times the nnmber of -toothpicks!
to outsiders, those who are not guests.
The reason is that every man who
goes into a hotel leans over the
counter, see3 the box of toothpicks
lying there and naturally picks up
five or six in his hand on leaving.
The business is a paying one, and
good proSts are made. The annual
trad3 amounts to thousands, and
New York, perhaps, has the largest
trade of any city.—IV. Y. Mail and
Express. -
S T . E L M O H O T E L , N O S . 3 1 7 a n d 3 19
A.rch street, Philadelphia.—Rates re-duced
to §2 per day. The traveling
public will still find at this hotel the
same liberal provision for their come
fort. It is located in the immediate
centres of business, and places of amus-ment
and the different railroad depots,
as well as all parts of the city, are
easily accessible by street cars con-stantly
passing the doors. It offer
special inducements to those visiting
the city for business or pleasure. Your
patronage is respectfully soticted.
JOSEPH M. FEGER,
oc71y- Propr.
—English Spavin Liniment removes
all hard, soft or calloused lumps and
blemishes from horses, blood spavin,
curbs, splints, Sweeney,: ringbone,
stifles, sprains, swellings, etc. Save
$50 by use of one bottle. Sold by J. C.
Biobst, Druggist, Lititz, Pa. 8oct-0