Mount Carmel Item from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania • Page 4

IN A WINE CELLAR. CZSIEE RENTISS Bells! Bells! Bells! IF YOU WANT A Life 'Worth Urine St. Louis Magazine. Isn't it a blessed, good thing that th millennium has come, or is about to dawn, rather, for old maids? But, thank heaven, good, charitable Josiah Allen's wife tells us it's no disgrace to be an old maid, but only a little unfortunate and unhandy, giving an unequal and one-sided appearance in funeral processions; that there are worse things than being an old maid, and that it's possible for a tine, good woman to make for herself a pleasant home. Ono room and tiny kitchen, a window made bright with baskets of ivy and bright-hued, fragrant flowers; a small, but select library, and a plain-cased, sweet-toned piano; a neatly-kept room here, after her day's work has been done, and well done, too, with her cat, poodle, parrot and canary for company, she can cook and eat her frugal supper, and sip her chocolato in peaco and happy content, until somo ono invades her sanctum to ask her to "write an essay, or make a speech at the next convention, go and nurse a small-pox patient, bei; for the flood, Kre, or cyclone sufferers, and Widow Gray comes to ask her to take the "out of sight table" at the festival, that she will not have, as the crisis is near at hand.

She thinks "better so, than to become the prey of dudes and loony batchelors," and what a fate she has escaped, and firmly believes with Miss Catharine Sedgwick, "It takes a very, very smart woman to bo an old maid." Xlie Silent Woe of Ittormonlara. Boston Transcript. An intelligent writer of Halt Lake City, Mrs. Paddock, in a letter which lies before me, tells this story: "A few years ago an educated young journalist came to Salt Lake City from Europe with his young wife. Both became sincere believers in Mormonism.

Then strong pressure was brought to bear by the priesthood upon the husband to force him into polygamy. The wife, finding opposition in vain, at last gave her nominal consent. A second bride was brought into the house. In a short time the first wife became a mother, but llits huaut never cried aloud. It canr voiceless inco the woi-ld.

But it wept in secret all the time. Sleeping or waiting the tears flowed from its closed eyes, and in a few weeks it died. The mother said that it died of a broken heart. Every day of its life it shed the tears that its mother had repressed before its birth. Its weeping face is the symbol of the face of Utah.

A territory of previous-minerals and wealth of soil, with intoxicating air and blue sky, but filled with silent Woe." JB A ZOors glees! ESKATKS, GPBANKS, KNIVES, SSPOONS, STABLE AND CARVING KNIVES, EPOCKET CUTLERY, ETC, FTC. METALIC OIL CLOTH -ZBinsriDiisra- Headquarters for Builders' Miners' Supplies. Bergstresser Son, jan 7-ini Reliance Drug Store N. E. Cor.

4th Oak MT. CARMEL, Is headquarters for pure Drugs, Fine Cigars, and every tiling connected with a first class drug store. Skill and experience is exercised in the prescription department, which is under the supervision of thoroughly qualified and reliable pharmacist. Toilet articles and fancy goods in great variety. Physician prescriptions compounded day or night.

Soliciting your patronage we are Reliance Dru Store, J. B. YOUNG, Prop'r, jan 7-ini TH0S. H0RAN, BLACKSMITH, SECOND STREET, BETWEEN MAPLE AND VINE, MT. CARMEL, Is now prepared to do all kinds of NEW WORK In the most satisfactory manner.

REP AIRING Done skillfully and promptly- HORSESHOEING a specialty. Those wishing any work done in his line are invited to give him a call. THOMAS HORAN. mar.io-tf RESTAURANT, OAK STREET, Between Fourth and Fifth, MT. CARMEL, PENNA A Tour Through the Largest Etab- llhment lu the World.

Paris Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. The establishment of 11. Calvet Sc the largest, I believe, in tbe world, is situated in a street, called the Cour de Medoc. Through great iron gates into a large courtyard half filled with barrels of wine ready for shipment, into a hallway, we went, up carpeted stairs to a reception room, whence wo were ushered in the private office of M.

Calvet, whose hearty greeting placed us at once entirely at our ease. "I am forbidden by the physician to go down into the cellars, but ray son will do the honors of the house in my stead," and as he spoke a young gentleman of about 20 rears of age entered tho room and was Yv'e then went office where a introduced to us. through score of a largo clerks were busily engaged wording at high desk. through a "tasting-room," where buyers come to test the wines which they are in search of, then "down into the bowels of the earth," where tho air was cool and fragrant with -the juices of the grape. The regisseur gave us lighted candles to carry, tallow dips fastened at the end of long sticks, and preceded by him and M.

Calvet, we went on a tour of inspection through the dark cellars and gloomy ways of the most wonderful )lacc of the kind I ever saw. Our steps ed us through vault after vault, each filled with wine casks in six or eight rows and five to six tiers high. Rows, tot against the walls, are composed of two barrels touching each other at one end and having the other on a little alley, which separates them from the next row. Our gentlemanly guide made us taste all the principal Mines, and it goes without saying, some of them were the most delicious in existence. Prom these vaults or cellars we wont into smaller ones, still down under the earth, be it remembered, where cobwebs thrive and green mold grows spontaneously out of the dampness and darkness.

In these smaller vaults we found wine in bottles bottles piled up to the roof in rows of four deep, and covered with the dirt and the mold of years and years of repose. We wandered from vault to vault, until we had been shown over 1, 230,000 of. bottles, most of which had been there many years awaiting their term of maturity. Add to all these almost innumerable bottles the more than 24,000 barrels or barriqucs in stock in the same cellars there are 300 bottles in each and every barrel--and you will have some idea of M. Calvert's wine-cellars.

Wo hurried ourselves, but it took us more than two hours to go through the vaults of this grand establishment. My friend and I were both interested in the way which the regisseur had of taking'the wine that we tasted from the barrels. "Have you any preference?" he asked. "None whatever" was the substance of my reply; but my companion, pointing to one barrique almost hidden beneath a coating of green mold, remarked that thit brand might do as a starter. With a very small augur tho man bored a hole in the barrel head nearest us, and I expected to see the rich red fluid squirt out.

It did nothing of the sort. The man had plenty of time to lay down his augur and take up his crystal ware. Across the head of each barrel is fastened a stout oaken board. Against this board he got a leverage and with an adze pried on the head stave of the barrel. This pressure pushed the stave inward against the wine, thus forcing it to find vent at the little auger-hole.

A buyer, when tasting, seldom swallows the wine in his mouth. He gently shakes the glass about, so as to agitato the wine to the bottom; this permits all the perfume, or bouquet, to rise, so that he may smell it. Then he takes half a mouthful of the wine, but instantly spits it out again. Of course the taste remains and the stomach runs no danger of being too frequently dosed with a liquid which, no matter how fine and valuable it may be, is not exactly suitable to bo drunk in this manner. Tho Fresh Yodiig Chick.

Merchant Traveler. Once upon a time two fresh young chicks were promenading along the garden walks hunting for a free lunch. Presently they espied a June bug, and, without the eerfvmonv nf nti introduc tion, they set upon tho stranger, and tho larger chick took him in and cared for him, while the smaller chick was fain to content himself by hoping for better luck next time. He, however, expressed himself freely and remarked: "You may be larger than sir, but you have no ancestry." "I have, sir. My ancestors are of the best Puritan stock, straight from Plymouth Rock." "That's nothing, sir.

I happen to know the eggs from which tho members of your immediate family were hatched, cost only 8 cents a dozen, while mine cost 50 cents, and scarce at that. Fudge, sir; you need not converse with me relative the pride of lineage, for I am too smart 4or you," and he strutted away. Moral. Tho winning aristocracy is the aristocracy of wealth. Texas Sittings.

Mono-Poets is the new name for bards who write one bit of verse and then die. Why is it that this kind of of poet is so scarce, and the other kind that having scribbled one ode never Suits sending effusions in to the editor, i ao plentiful JOB PROTTDSTG Of any kind done with NEATNESS AND DISPATCH GO TO rue item PRINTING OFFICE MT. ARM EL. PENNA. Bill Heads.

Letter Heads, Kote Heads, Posters, Circulars, Dodgers, Ball Tickets, Business Cards, Raffle Tickets, Law Blanks, Manifests, Pay Checks, Private Party Invitations, all Invitations, Wedding invitations If you want anything in our line you will be cordially received at The Weelky Item Office, KEISER'S BUILDING, THIRD Between Oak and Maple Streets, HEADQUARTERS FOR ii CUTLERY MINING TOOLS. A large variety of SLEDS- -AND- -SKATES. -SECOND STREET, MT. CARMEL, jan 7-im PENNA. IF YOU WANT TO HIRE A TURNOUT To take a Pleasure Ride or attend a Funeral, jrou can be accommodated by calling at JONES' Livery Stables.

He has a Stock of Good Horses and Carriages, double or single, which he will hire to you at reasonable prices. He has nothing particularily fast for a short distance, but teams that will get there every time in an all day journey. CALL AND SEE HIM. Mar. 24-tf MY OWN MAKE Hand.Made Custom Work.

8 3 CD XJ1 CO cn t-1 yj CO CD fc CD a in Ul li 2 52 2 En CD Ul I W. G. Hollister, SECOND STREET, MT. CARMEL, PENNA. Call and examine my stock, Book-Case for Twenty-Eight Cent.

New York Journal. One of the quaintest book-racks seen in quite a while has just been finished bv a young lady living in Harlem. Every one ad-jnires its unique beauty, but perhaps would not be so profuse in their praises did they know it wan made of a soap-box. The box was obtained from a corner grocer, and was of quite nice, smooth wood. The top and bottom were removed, one of the sides placed down three inches from the top, and the top edges were prettily scolloped.

Tho whole was then coated with oak varnish and a stripe of 'cream leather, pinked at the edges, tacked on to each shelf. The shelves were kept firmly In place by little iron rivets, and were hung from the sides by means of a crimson cord passing through both shelves and fastening into two screws in the wall. A few little pieces of bric-a-brac were placed on the top shelf, while a row of handsome volumes beautified the lower one. The entire cost was 88 cents. "Collaterals" at a Funeral, Detroit Free Press.

There was a queer incident happened some years ago that I have never seen in print. A lady who i3 immensely aristocratic lost her father, and he was buried with much state and style. Thero was a great many relatives, and the lino was drawn very fine. The lady called the undertaker to one side, and said: "You will see that all the collaterals ride in coaches together." "Collaterals" "Yes, collateral relatives, not blood relations you know." certainly," said the undertaker, "your husband must corne out of that carriage, and take the fifth in the row he is a collateral." Now, v-m't that equal to tho Irish undertaker, who said: "The second cousins of the corpse will please step this way 1" Tribute to a Deservlns Man. Somerville Journal.

"I understand you are getting up a sur-I prise party for Smith," said Jones to Brown I the day. iJYes," was the reply; "we think him orthy of one." fmorr 'What has he done to entitl him to your I. consideration?" VV ell. lie has lived amone us manv vears. gone in and out among ua, been a good friend, a good neighbor, and a good citizen, but tho i principle reason for our honoring him is that during his sojourn among us no man has over heard him say, no matter how warm th Smart Elephant.

A menagerie man says: Elephants are great mimics. I have observed that where I have used an elephant as an example to the others they have learned much more rapidly. "We have one elephant which I have taught to respond to questions by a nod of his head. I ask him if he would like a cake, or if he will be a good elephant, and he will bow assent. Another who stands near him has noticed he has received a cake when he 1 has bowed to me, asd so whenever I near him he will bow several times attract my attention.

go to Talcing Care of the Emigrants. Louisville Courier-JournaL There are honest Germans in New York, who, when their countrymen land Castle Garden, on the way to the great west, tell them that the train docs I not stop anywhere before reaching Chicago; and then they sell each immi grant six yards of sausages, so that he may have something to eat on tho long PORTER, ALE AND LAGER BEER. CHOICEST DOMESTIC in Every Style. Lunch during hours. W.

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