Punxsutawney Spirit, 1892-11-09

              - wr PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1892. THE ONE PRICE CLOTHIER, Overcoats. 4 Would call Special Attention to hit Immense Line of i i ,A. ii no. Ik | A, MIMWEUX 1 if | ODD ARTICLES OF DIET. II' In Men's Boys and Chi A BORN TRADER. FUNXSTJTAT .Clauton North We can assure you that such a stock can't bo found in this county outside our store. In Light Weight and Medium Weight Coats we show more Styles than all the other stores combined. It will surprise everybody when they see the Quality, Style and Workmanship for so little money in all shades and colors. All Wool, satin sleeve lining, prices $8, $9, 10 ai l .12. In Heavy Weight Chinchilla and Storm Coats we will not take a back seat for the best of them. become truly French in their and both have that look of unatl woeful dishearten ment which every female art student assumes from the til she is first told by Courtoi*, Fleming or some other bright light that aa jtt she doesn't equal Murillo or Rnbaai She will spend hours choosing harmonious draperies for a "costume model," and yet will sally out in a conglomen* tion of colors which sets one's teeth oa edge. Tho little Italian beggar who poses for her is artistic if her hair It matt**! into a solid wad; so, to be Mr* tistic, too, the student lets her locks get in about the same condition. It never seems to occur to her that what is s&uec for the Italian isn't sauce for the (*nite<' Statesiau. 'Tis tho life of disappoint ment she leads which imparts that sad dened, nothing-is-worth-while exprw •ion. ecrable taste, both look as If the poor. They both dresa and you couldn't ever tell the private hotel on the Champa arm in arm with the fine lady : AN OLD LONDON TAVERN HOUSEHOLD BREVITIES. —Corn starch used in puddings or otherwise should also be allowed to cook fifteen or twenty-minutes, after it becomes thick, in a double boiler. —To make tinfoil labels adhere to collapsible tubes use a mixture of the best fish-glue and gum arabic dissolved in water. A little glycerine may be added to advantage.—Detroit Free Press. —Raised Graham Biscuits.—One pint of graham flour; same of wheat flour; teaspoonful of salt; same of sugar; pint of warm milk; quarter of a yeast-cake. Raise over night. In the morning, drop Into gem pans and raise the same as biscuits before putting into the oven. Hake in a hot oven.—Boston Budget. —The Care of the Plana—The bluish color on the piano is caused by the action of damp air on the polish. A bit «f chamois leather, with a drop or two of sweet oil, is a good polisher. Rub the surface thoroughly; then finish by going over it with the bare hand. No polishing material is equal to the hand for fine surfaces.—N. Y. Ledger. —A mustard footbath will frequently ward off an approaching cold. A tablespoonful of mustard to two quarts of hot water is the proportion for an adult; for a very young child double the quantity of hot water may be used. A bucket, on account of its depth, malies a better receptacle than a tub. and while the feet are being soaked a warm blank«t should be thrown over the knees, covering bucket and all. X. Y. Tr'b- Review We need not say that the frog is more palatable, although we do not think ; that in Rngland we have the small green kind of the Southern French I swamps and the sedgy lakelets of Calat bria. After all, these foreigners are only to our domestic i friends as the oysters of Ostend or Marenness to the coarser of i the British qualities. Toads are not to be tackled with impunity; the toad, ! like the skunk, is overcharged with ■ venom, und he keeps the troops of his natural enemies at bay by the instructive knowledge that ho is an animated poison-catapult. Nor is the snake often I eaten in England. Yet we dare ioSfiy that snake meat might be preferable ty starvation, or, possibly, to the stonubreaking yard of a workhouse. We know at least that the iguana or great tree lizard of the tropics—and he claims very close kindred with the deadly serpents—is habitually served at the most sumptuous tables. As Tom Cringle says, when breafcfasting off iguana among the Cuban pirates, he should never have distinguished the creature from chicken had it not been that the bones are a trifle big. Messrs. Edwards and Bates and Wallace inform us that the canoe men on the upper tributaries of the Amazon can always make themselves happy with alligator, although they only have recourse to it as u last rssort. Their chief objection is that the meat tastes inns <y. Even hardened alligator eaters, however, have qualms with regard to the cayman caught near villages. For there is generally more than one notorious man-eater, although identification is difficult, who has his haunt among the tree roots near some favorite bathing place, and, on principles of reciprocity, has a weakness for human beings. — London Saturday ner of cooking htm supersedes the most costly refinements of elaborate batteries de cuisine. The elephant's foot, or rather the slice below the pastern, which is a famous dainty in eastern hunting camps, is treated on precisely similar principles, which shows that the simplest cookery of all nations has much in common, like their folklore. Shakespeare's British hedge-pig, like its cousin the porcupine, by the way, is shrouded in a plastic tenement of elay. Then he is laid to temporary rent in a bed of smoldering cinders. When supposed to be done to a turn, the dwarf pig is dug up. and then the prickly skin is detached with the splitting of the case of clay. All the generous juices, with their bouquet, have been confined and transfused. dren's Clothing Yes'r no! That's all I want out o' "The Missourian tloubU'tl up liis fist ai><i brought it down on the table. Hut look here 'em buck, 1 It's!], now. i mean it. I want " 'What!' cried Smith. Think twice Uriggsby; don't l>c ' " 'Jumpin' bluebottles! Say, you roped me in, you diil. I was a dog-gone fule, en I want them bosses back.' "'I did, Mr. lirijrgsby; aud you have a fortune—a fortune, sir, if you'll only ' '"Stop right thar, Smith,'commanded Mr. Uriggsby. 'You kim eround en got a span o' my best bosses fer the county right on yer self-aetin'. easy-to-open, child-Uiu-managc-it gate—hey?' " 'Hello, Smith,' said lie. " 'Why, Mr. Griggsby,' chirped Smith, jumping up and shaking hands with the long-haired man; 'how are you? And Mrs. G. and the twelve little U.'s— all well, 1 hope? This is my friend, Maj. Muffin. Major, Mr. Uriggsby—a man that owns the finest ' "Well, that very afternoon a longhaired, spare-boned former eatuc into the tavern where Smith and I were having a little set-to at pedro. again.' " 'Don't lose any sleep on fay account, major,' he said; 'I never traded with a man once that I couldn't trade with him " 'Better be careful.' said I, 'these Missourians won't be trifled with. I'd rather do most anything than get a Mlssourian down on me, biflith.' '"Finest thing in the world—for trad ing,' said he with a wink. " 'Gate doesn't amount to much, does it?' I asked, after looking at the model he carried with him. "Well, along in the summer of '78—I think it was—I met Smith 'way down in Missouri. He hod a patent gate aud was trading county rights to the farmers for everything from butter, eggs and poultry up to horses and cows. " 'I've swapped my way right through life, major,' he once said to me, 'and I'd trade my last coat for a tin soldier if there wasn't anything better in sight;' and I actually believe he'd have done it That was his nature and I allow that nothing ohort of death can changc a man's nature. "I once knew a man," said he, "who went by the very uncommon and distinctive name of Smith—and .lohn Smith at that. Now, there was a born trader, gentlemen. A clever trade three times a day was as necessary to that man's comfort and happiness as wore his meals. the I.AMt. The major was in his usual reminiscent mood. T?ie Spirit of stnlil ISy III11* to noon" We show everything in the market. It would be useless for us to try to describe or tell you all about this line. We have all the novelties in double-breasted straight-cut in homespun and fancy worsted and cheviots and in boy's clothing, we can give you them made the same as the men's. Children's Jersey suits. We can truthfully say we have more styles than the whole town and prices that surprise everybody. MEN'S UNDERWEAR morni but closes its eyes miring1 the middle of the day; tlie dandelion is in full bloom only during strong light. This habit of some flowers is certainly very curious and furnishes one of the many instances which prove the singular adaptability of everything' in nature. The reason for all this is found in the manner by which this class of (lowers are fertilized. It is obvious that flowers fertilized bv night-llying insects would derive no advantage by being open during the day. and. on the other hand, that those which are fertilized bv bees and other day-flyers would gain nothing by remaining open at night. Why may we not suppose, then, that the closing and opening of flowers may have reference to 4heir relations with the different classes of insects? in support of the theory (which is not new, by any means.) we may observe that wind fertilized flowers never sleep.— Philadelphia Press. awakes a:, four o'clock iu the That flowers actually sleep is eviden to the most casual observer. The daisy opens at sunrise arid closes at sunset, hence its name—"day's eye." The morning glory opens with tin' first faint streak of light, but never lives to see another dav The "John-go-to-bed at- Why Fluwprn slnwp. —To Make a French Pilau.—Dress and cut up two chickens, cover with boiling water and cook until tender. Skim out, wash one pint of rice; leave enough of the water which the chickens were cooked in to cook the rice; cover and when soft take out; butter u large pudding dish, put half the rice in the bottom, spread butter over it and put the chicken on top. Put pieces of butter between the chicken and more over the top, pour on the gravy, then the rest of the rica and smooth it; beat the yolks of two eggs and spread on top of the rice; bake in moderate oven threefourth of an hour. When you put the chicken over to cook remember to add salt.—Philadelphia Press. —lioilcd Duck.—Dress duck and season with salt and pepper, truss and tie it in shape. Take one-half pound flour, one-half pound butter, out of which make a paste in which put the duck, tie cloth around it and boil two and onehalf hours or until quite tender. Be sure to keep it covered with boiling water. When done place on a hot dish and pour the gravy round it. Make the gravy by stewing the chopped giblets until done, then put in a lump of butter, a finely-chopped onion, let cook u few minutes, then stir in a tablespoon of flour and a cup of the water iu which the duck wus boiled, liurberries are nice with boiled duck.—Housekeeper. —To Cure a Hunion. — liiitlie the affected pnrt in liot wat'sr to which a teaspoonful of salt, a tublespoonful of starch and a few drops of arnica liave been added, wipe dry with a soft linen towel and apply iodine with a camel's hair brush. Wear a loose shoe out of doors, and while in the house a shoo which has the leather covering" the bunion entirely cut away. Bunions are caused by undue pressure. A good plan, if you have to be out a good deal, is to have the shoemaker cut a piece from your shoe where it presses upon the bunion, and replace it with an invisible patch.—Ladies' Home Journal. —Tutti Frutti Jelly.—Soak one-half box gelatine in one-half pint cold water. Dissolve with one pint boiling water. Add juice of three lemons, and one and one-half eu ps of sugar. Strain the mixture in order that it may be perfectly smooth. When it begins to stiffen put in a layer of jelly in a dish—a glass dish produces the most attractive effect— then a luyer of sliced bananas, then of jelly, one of sliced oranges, then cocoanut, and finish with jelly.—Ohio Farmer. The new "cornet" skirt has a foundation skirt of five bell gores, and is made with a si it'llt train, which is easily shortened if desired. The front presents the fashio'ialile sheath effect and the back widens gradually to the edge of the slight train and partly conceals the side scalds. The back is lined with crinoline to produce the flaring effect from which the skirt takes it name; anil the cornet plait is secured against disarrangement by two short elastic straps underneath. The use of the foundation skirt is optional. The skirt is very graceful in effect, and makes up handsomely in cloth, serge, vicuna, camel's hair and India cashmere.—N. V. Post. Thw New i ornet Skirt In this line we can surprise you more than ever. Men's heavy kersy pants, the best you ever saw for the money Everything in the market in dress and ■evening pants, beautiful styles and lowest prices. 1ST EG K WEAR. Men's and Boys' Pants In shoes for men and boys we positively have no rivals. We sell the celebrated J. T. Wood shoes. There is no better. Also the enameled patent leather tip, the handsomest shoes in the county, congress or lace. They are beauties. We still carry a full line of Candee rubber boots. There is no better. In 'leather boots we have the best in the market and are closing them out at almost cost. JStaK, Sloes! Boots, Boots! RUBBER AND LEATHER! In this line we have always took the lead. There is scarcely anything made in underwear that we can,t show at our store. Light weight wool, heavy balbrigan to suit men that can't wear wool. Camels hair, natural wool, prices from $1.00 to $5.00 a suit. Boys' underwear all grades and prices. A line of flannel shirts with stiff collars. Something new. Call and see them. "That Smith was a character, gentlemen. A born trader, if there ever was one."—Detroit Free Press. "What did I tell yoiK major? Didn't I say that I never traded with a man once that 1 couldn't trade with him again?' "Smith didn't say a word for some time; then he remarked in an off-hand way; " 'I should say they did,' I chipped in; 'didn't I warn you of these Missourians?'" 'Oli, yes, certainly,' muttered •Smith, thrusting them into his pocket. " 'That's the tightest hole I've been in for some, time,' said he, when we were once away from the tavern and clear of those armed Missourians. lie was nervous, and the sweat stood out on his forehead like water. 'Those fellows meant business, major.' '"Hut here's your papers,' said the Missourian; 'don't you want'em?' " "To be plain with you, (iriggsbv, 1 wouldn't. You'll find your horses in the barn. It's all right Come 011, ma ior.' "'Then you wouldn't advise me to keep it?' "'To be frank with you, liriggsbv.' said Smith, very earnestly, 'I'm afraid —after examining the lay of the country, you understand—that it isn't just the thing for these hilly farms——' think I'd better keep the patent right?' " 'Don't worry—I'll see that it's 1: satisfactory, nil right 'miff. Don't " 'Oh, I don 110,' saiil tin' .Missourian; •pretty good gate, ain't it?' " 'Of course, it is; but 1 want you to be satisfied.' " 'Well, Mr. Origgsby,' lie said pleas autly, 'If you really wish to trade back, 1 might be willing ' "The long-haired man got up, went to the door and emitted a shrill whist le. A11 instant later in came a man with a gun over his shoulder; then three or four others strolled through the door, and from the windows we could sc.* armed men coming from every direction. At this stage of the game Smith approached his long-haired acquaintance. 'Why, really,' ho said, 'I can't set "Smith coughed slightly and glanced in my direction. THE GIRL ART STUDENT. ' . ! t 7HE ORIGINAL AND POPULAR CLAYTON Comer Boom Hotel PanUll IliilMht In this line there is nothing made that we don't show. The handsomest tye for 26 cents you ever saw. A full line of working and dress Gloves and Mittens, E. & N. Collars, white shirts unlaundried 50 cents. See cut of the best fitting white shirt in 'the county. Macintosh Coats, Rubber, Leather and Oil coats, Trunks, Satchels, Valises and Umbrellas. NORTH. ONEI PRICE CLOTHIER, Wo should be sorry to be told all about the training of the turtle, which fattens mysteriously; still less should we inquire into the carnivorous habits of the conger eel, which is said to do duty for him. The rats that run loose about the sewers are decidedly to bo - avoided. Hut we have tasted the rats that have run riot in isolated wheat ricks and we can consciously aver that they are both sweet and succulent. Their flesh is white as that of a sweetbread, and lias unquestionably more flavor. We understand that field mice are still more delicate, and, considering the simple and wholesome habits of their various lives, we can well believe it The "Englishman in Paris" speaks of a salmi served soon after the beginning of the siege of the commune, and the very memory of it seems to have made his mouth water. Yet the town mice scarcely gave the experiment a fair trial, for they had been snared on the bastions between the outer boulevards and the fortifications. Thbre is no reason why squirrel should not be excellent, for the squirrel would hop into the saucepan ready flavored after having fattened on nuts and fragrant foliage. Squirrels ore small and shy and difficult to catch, bo that we do not hear much of them even in gypsy cuisine. But the hedgehog figures frequently at tfaoae sylvan repute, though he is hardly Kg enough to bejent to table as a A tltied 1.0 n Muti'* I'tlt nf K»r« Varlrma rriihle '1 ton 14* That >1 t|;tit IU A lady writes to the livening Star o' Washington that the American artstu dent, female, is homely, male, hand some; that is tho general rule. Then are pretty girls, but it is very littl< studying they do, for from the firs! they are in constant demand to pose. The sets are large and not over select blue blood is not tho qualification whicl admits one to tho circle. Tho girl whose pension is up five flights of ding} stairs, over a grocer's on tho Rue Jet Bassina, will trudge off to Colarossi't IJrr Disappointments. Hlte h Peculiar When She (iett to l*ar!»- There are two little girls three and a half years old in Poona, India, bound together in as remarkable manner as tho famous Siamese twins. Their connection extends from about the armpits to tho hips, and is of a flexible bony character. The union is so close that if food is given to one it also relieves tho hunger of the other; and if medicine is administered to one the other is affected, but not to an equal degree. Their brains as well as digestive organs seem to work together, for when one child begins a sentence the other frequently finishes it. When sleeping one lies on her side, the other on her back. When younger tliey often quarreled, but, having learned that when one is hurt both foel the pain, they have become warm friends. They are said by a correspondent of the Pall Mall Budget who has visited them to be quite Intelligent and good looking. They speak a few words of English and can understand the language fairly welL "Siamese Twins*' from India. glass full of bird's-eye tobacco. W« wonder if the ladies who usually dlatk at "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" are In tha! habit of finishing off their meal with at pipe but unfortunately have no meua of ascertaining what is the correct thing to do, as the only other female ia the place is dining behind a curtain In the far corner of the room. I own to having been tempted into trying soma amber-scented cigarettes which *em brought me especially from Algiers but I am not an habitual smoker and am bound to confess I would much ham preferred to snck bons-bons, or even eat ripe greengages, than to fill my month with nasty tobaooo smoke.—N. Y. Journal.irl After the remains of the buck rabbit have been removed our somewhat eccentric dinner is brought to a close by a bowl of rum punch, accompanied by six long church-warden pipes and ft Any one, unless he has spent his life in a velvet armchair as I have, might think me fanciful; but 1 can assure them I was quite miserable, and could not even get through my "buck rabbit" At last I appealed to our host and asked him if he eould not get me a cushion; upon which he in turn appealed to the waiter—and never shall 1 forget the waiter's expression and never did 1 feel more completely snubbed than when he answered slowly and solemnly, without a smile on his pallid face: "Sir, this is the 'Old Cheshire Cheese."1 I was by this time beginning to feel thoroughly uncomfortable, owing to the want of some sort of stuffing to my seat and 1 leaned first on one elbow, then on the other, then back against the hard wood, then upright again; but all in vain, for no change of position gave me even momentary relief and I longed to get one of the evening papers of which there was a plentiful supply hanging over the back of the pews to till it with shavings out of the grate, roll it up into a cushion and sit upon it. The next dish is ;i poiut steak, rosy without being saiguant, accompanied by fresh dishes of young peas ami potatoes. After this comes the "buck rabbit" that is, toasted cheese served in little shallow tins boiling hot, one to each person, with two pieces of toast on the side of the plate. These Yorkshire hams were not intended for keeping, and, as the cook afterwards informed us, were all eaten up in a day. 1 should easily have believed her if she had said one was eaten, up at every meal, judging by the thickness of the sliees to which we were helped and the amount we were supposed to eat of them. for immediate consumption Any one who has tasted a fresh run salmon which has been green kippered and lias compared it with the hard salt fish cured for the London market will appreciate the difference between an ordinary ham and one that is prepared We have willmv-pattern plates, large and hot for the meat, and small and. cold, each with a pat of butter on it, for our potatoes. First wo have the thick slices of hot hum, the loan, tender and pink and the fat succulent, with an immense dish of the most delicious peas 1 ever ate, a nd you tiff potatoes served ill their jackets. Our pew just holds six comfortably and we sit down three anil three opposite each other on either side of a narrow table covered with a spotless whifco cloth. We have black-liandled knives, but not two-pronged steel forks, for which 1 am not a little grateful as I have never forgotten the taste of steel on the nursery forks when I was a child and my parents were away and I had to dine there all alone A Hare of unshaded gas lights np a small, old-fashioned room, the floor of which is covered with sawdust. The ceiling is white, with projecting crossbeams, and at one side of the room is a long oak table at which Johnson, Goldsmith and a few o£her choice spirits were wont to sit and feed; and heret it is said, originated the well lenowo riddle about the number of beefsteaks it would take to reach the moon. All along one side of the room »re wooden partitions, exaetly like oldfashioned pews, with hard, cushionless scats. We are told that this chophouse has been in existence ever since 1007, and is no ephemeral mushroom house of the hour to lie sought out one % day and forgotten the next; there is also an old-fashioned, not to say antediluvian, air aliout the diners quite in keeping with the antiquity of the place. A l.aily UIiim a I tho Famous "l lu'jtilr* V > .. •: 1 ■ ... R :