Bloomington Progress, Volume 14, Number 43, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 February 1881 — Page 1

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The schooner Daniel Goaa went ashore on

the Island of Matagorda, and the Captain, his

wife and child, and one sailor were drowned.

Mr. Chaplin gave notice in the British

House of Commons that he vonld move, on

the U2& of February, that the importation of

foreign cattle into England be prohibited, inasmuch as slaughtering the animals after landing

has failed io check the introduction and spread of contagious disease.

Gen. Colley's adrance guard attacked the

South African Boers, and, after a protracted

and obstinate fight, was repulsed. . Both sides

suffered severely. -

The British Government has received in

formation of the outbreak of a rebellion in

Turkish Armenia.

About 20,000 miners attended a meeting at

Leigh, in Lancashire, England. After the

meeting a party of the miners went to a neigh

boring colliery and attacked the men at work

?Aere. A desperate riot ensued. Hnssars charged on the mob. Several miners and po

licemen were severely injured.

As condition precedent to peace, Chili de

mands the surrender of the allied fleet and

the payment of $30,000,000 indemnity, with the

right to work the guano deposits until the cash

s iarftrked.over.

A London correspondent of the New York Tribune says there is knowledge of the exist

ence of Irish plots to destroy "Woolwich, Plym

outh, the Hydej-Park magazine and Windsor Castle. In all these places the guard has been

doubled, and a strong force of troops has been ! dispatched to defend them, the police having full information of murderous designs. A new cible company hiss been formed in 1 raris, with the intention of connecting Central America ani Cuba with Europe. The lot of Government employes in Turkey is not one to be envied. They will be paid no salaries until the end of 3Iarch, and it is not certain that they will be paid even then.

lreroiial.

Ex-Senator Sprague has filed his bill of divorce against his wife, Kate Chase Sprague, in the Rhode Bland courts. The bill charges desertion, neglect of doty' as a wife and mother, extravagant and needless expense which has caused great embarrassment to him, leaving his house and remaining away without his permission ; associating with other men than Tfrfm, thereby causing great scandal ; and, finally, with having been gui't" of adultery at various times and places. Mrs. Philip Boos, who V J the honor 'to be the foster-mother of G; -d Duke Louis IU. of Hesse Darmstadt, dica recently at Lancaster, Fa. Gen. John Love, of Indianapolis, died last week, of heart disease. Ho was a graduate of West Point, and served in the Mexican war and the Rebellion, commanding the Indiana Legion. He was appoints by Gov. Williams one of the new State House Commissioners, which position he held at the time of his death. lino Lettellier, ex-Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Canada, died recently at River Onelle.

General. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of New York providing that telegraph wires shall be laid under grouud. The sub-committee of the Ways and Means Committee of the House have decided to report favorably on the bill doing away with the tax on matches, bank checks, bank deposits, and bank capital ; A bill has been introduced in the Illinois Legislature providing for the punishment of -wife-beaters by whipping on the bare back, and fine or Imprisonment -r-Il is understood that the House sub-Committee on Commerce will recommend that $1,000,000 be appropriated for the improvement of the Lower Mississippi river and $600,000 for ' v the improvement of the Upper Mississippi " It is rumored in Canada that the Marquis "5Sl M&mewiB soon be created Duke of Greenwich, The tithwaa worn by one of Lome's ancestor. One week of comic opera, by the Soldene Comic Opera Company U the attraction at McVicker's Chicago Theater; with the latest Parisian and New York success, "OlivetteThe opera is highly spoken of, and is presented fey a capable company. Next week Annie Plx ley will appear in bur s;iecilry. "MXiss," which crows better and m Iter in the hands of this talented little actress. The proposition is made that the Government shall fit out a naval relief expedition to ro in search of the nu&sing Jeannette and the whalers in the Arctic sea, from . whom nothing has been heard since last year. ' The remnant of Vic'cria's band are causing a great deal of suffeziog to settlers and mining prospectors in the vicinity of the Black and Hagdakiii mountain ranges. Since the death of Jtlieir chief and a number of their brother warriors, the band has held together with the avowed object of killing as many white people as possible before they can be hunted down and exterminated. At th? pedestrian contest in New York, last week, Hughes made ovor 568 miles. Albert 558 and Vint 550. ' The five leaders divide - ' ' 98.000 between them, and the managers receive about $800. A diamond pin awaits Hushes, who has already been presented with biippers, flags, handkerchiefs and bouquets. The winner eclipsed all previous six-day records. 1L T. Bemis, who represents the pacer -Sorrel Dan, has challenged Maud 9. and St Julien to a contest at the summer meeting of - the Chicago Driving Park, the terms to be 2,500 & corner, the association to add $7,500. Tee butter and cheese dealers of Chicago have secured the appointment of an inspector, ; and pay his t alary, ti prevent the marketing of adulterated goods there. During the month of January the number of immigrants who arrived at New York was 8,07C, which is 2,390 more than for the corre- .. sponding month of last year. Black small pox, said to have been communicated by Russian immigrant on their way - to Yankton, ha prevailed at Jefferson Union county, Dakota, a French Canadian settlement, for several weeks. Thirty-two deaths have occurred and sixty persons are down with . the disease.

Political Samuel G. King has been nominated for Mayor by the Philadelphia Democrats. - A Washington special dispatch- to a Chi cago paper says that " Some of the inflation Democrats, dissatisfied at the political outlook, have a scheme for the formation of a new party, the object of which is to secure an alliance between the Democrats and the Greenbackers. The plank of this new party, it is said, will be 'Down with the national -banks and a check to the rule of corporations. The coalition is. thus far only visible upon paper, and it cannot be learned that any Democrats of prominence are engaged in it. The first objective point i to secure the control of the lower house in the Forty-eighth Congress.1 The New England Agricultural Society recommends its President, George B. Loring, to President-elect Garfield for appointment as .. National Commissioner of Agriculture. The action of four Democrats of the Tennessee Legislature in breaking the dead-lock and voting for Republicans for Secretary of State and Comptroller gave rise io angry .discusbionsinthat bo ly. and an investigating committee hag teen appci tied. FinnnciaJ and Industrial. - A company called the TTnited States Telegraph Company has been organized under the lavs of the United States and under the laws of Iowa. Mr. Kirkwood introduced a bill in the United States Senate incorporating the company, and giving it the right to lay lines and to enter and occupy Government postomces, that telegraph offices may be established therein, and maintained for the full period of 100 wear, and that the tariff charged shall not be more than 20 cents for the transmission of twenty words or less to any part of the United States whero postal delivery U made.

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A SepdbKcanr Ievoted to. the Adanvcement of the Local Interests of Monroe

Established A. D., 1835.

BL O OM IN GT ON, INDIANA WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1881. New Series.--VOL. YIV.--NO. 43.

The now telegraph scuemo seems to be going with a rush. Thirty wires between Washington and Boston are nearly completed. A consolidation with the Western company will probably soon be made. Dun's Mercantile Agency has ismed its annual circular of failures for the your 1SS0. The tables indicate that the mercantile failures in the United States during the year 18S0 were in number 4,735, with liabilities aggregating nearly $66,000,000. The failures for 1873 were in number 6,658, with liabilities of $PS,(K10,003 The decrease, thorofore, for the past year is 1.923 in number, and in liabilities $27,000,000, thus Bhowing an improvement equal to 40 per cent, in number, and a Baving in losses by bad debts " in the same proportion. While

the comparison of the last, year with

the previous one is so extremely favoraVle, the comparison of 133$ with 1S78 is even more remarkable. In 1S73 the failures numbt-rod 10.478, while in 1SS0 they numbered only 4.735, indicating: a lessened number of casualties by 5,743, equivalent to nearly fiO per cent. But iu the amount of liabilities the change for the better is even greater, for in 1873 the indebtedness of-those who failed was $"234,000,000 while in 1880 it did not reach 566,000,000. a lessened amount by 8163,000,000. When it is remembered that the number of persons now

engaged in business, as compared with 1878, is nearly 10 per cent, greater, and that the ex

tent of the transactions during the past year at least trebled those of 1878, the significance of

the lessened number of failures and the re

duced loss by this cause will be apprehended.

Following is the public-debt statement is

sued by the Treasury Department Fob. 1 :

9 tx per cent, bonds 2O2,2rt(i.550 Five per cents 4fi.fi5-V50 Four and one-half per cents i5O,0iK),tH)l) Fonr we cents 738.480,550 RevtuuUiij? certificates. 807,330

Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,673,365,400 Matured debt t 7,J72,285 Legal tenders 346,743.726

Certificates of deposit ... 8,630,000

r rcciionul currency (315,320,433 less amount esthua'i'd as lost or deetrm ed $8,375,9&i .... 7.144,499

tiofd and silver certifi

cates 53,341,100

Total without Interest.

Unclaimed Pacific-railroad interest...,

415,857,923 7,937

Total debt

Total interest. ... Cash in treasury...............

. . . ir.,077,4H'J ... 221,674,535

Dbt !ess'cayh in treasury. .......... .$1

Decrecc dnrmg January

Decrease nince .Tune 30, 1880

current Iiatiimiea

Interest due and unpaid .$ Debt on which interest has ceased Interest thereon.

Gold and silver certificates

United States notes held for redemption

of certificates of deposit. :

Cash balance available Feb. 1, 1881

,891,709,568

73,167 50,153.727 3,039.713 7,37;385 753,389 53,841,700 9,630,000 118,61;,447

ivmiirkB made hy Mr. Pawen on Monday, ana

umeiKHM uw. UKunn a gem sum urn iuu. wiu ''i'""Menf from the vuargea lr Ji-ired ly that Senator. Mr. Paires reitended his previous btateiueuto, nnd

! the subject was dropped. Hen. Loan tfuve imtice i that bevmild next day call up the bill peeing (Sen.

weut OOdflBhillg in open Grant iiron the retired list of the army.

A ! TUP I't'.lIMl-lt ApprnpTillUOU mil WHS uuui-i 7'urnn.-i I timi. Two amendment were adopted. One limits

' Uie fee of Iht- examining surgeon U $1, and the j other provides that the money paid Inmate of KolI (lien- Homed hU Im- paid through the Treasurer t

there institutions. The Histrlei of Co itmota mu occupied the attention uf the House oX Keprcucutalives. Mo ection was taken. Senator Cockroll intiOLluccd a bill iu the Senate on "W'eduedday, Feb. 2, providing for an appropriation of $5,(HK) for the publication of a descriptive catalogue of all puhlie documents from July 4, 1876, to date. X meptrnge wa received from thePrefcidenttrans)i4HIngthereiort of the sjiecial Poi:eu conmiisi-ion and fitt'innig an Indian policy for the future. Mr. Mcpherson made a f ovoraUe Teport r-n the bill t appropriate fl0(,ftf'O to equip a vessel t'i warch for the Jcmiiette In the. Arctic regions. The Morgan electoral-count resolutions oeimpied a large portion of the clay, and were finally adopted. 1 he Hoim paired tlte District of Columbia appropriation. 1 be I-gislative appropriation, frt'tting at-iile $17,1S1,i(h, wan reported favorably. The Spealter iTejited a missnge from the President, accompanied by a recommendation from the Secretary of the Navy, that $'JtK),O0i le appropriated tor naval htatioiiH oil tlw, American isthmus. The. Apportionment bill coming up, Mr. Cox entertiviiifd the Uime with flowery tributes to our institutions and our progre&j.

Total $ 221,674,535 Available assets

Cash in treasury 221,(174,535

Bonds issned to Pacific railway compan

ies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 04,023,512

Interest accrued and not yet paid .'123.117

Interest paid by United States. 49.528,560

interest repaid by companies

Interest repaid by transportation of

mails 14,052.966

By cash payments of & per cent of net earnineu. : 655.198

Balance of interest paid by the United

States.... ; 34,820,401

and burned to death fonr persons, women and children, near San Mai-eial. Four other persons were only saved from a similar fate by the tiuelv arrival of some soldiers.

Four men who

boats near St. John, N. B., woro drowned.

blinding storm came on after hadputo.;tto sea. Three men who robbed ft safe in Chicago of $10,000 in money havo been discovered, and about half of the cash haB been found. A hatchet left at the aceno of the crime furnished the ilow by which they were detected. Mrs. Shepherd killed her two little boys, aged respectively 3 years and 7 months, at Whitevalo, Ont, and then stabbed horeelf fatally. Moso Twiggs, ono of two negro laborers found guilty of murdering their ' overseer, William Driscoll, has been hanged at -Waynesboro, Ga. Herman H. and Charles G, Zeigler, who have been employed for a number of years as tellers in the Detroit Savings Bank, are found to havo embezzled $30,000 of the funds of the bank. The embezzlement- has been going on for & number of years, Dr. "Washington F. Hanbauh, a dentist

of Piqua, Ohio, shot his wifo dead with a pis- j

tol, then blew hiB own brains out with a shotgun. Frank HIcGrulh was hanged at Charleston, S. C. last week, for the murder of Josie Small, July 12. His neck was not broken, and he died from strangulation. Tom Buford has been acquitted of tho murder of Judge KUiolt, at Louisville, on tho ground of insanity, but was remanded to jail, and will probably be sent to tho Kentucky lunatic asylum. Burglars took $2,000 in stamps and money from the po&tofhce at Yassar, Mich. About fonr months ago, Col. Totter, oi the United States Geological Survey, who was employed near Albuquerque, N. M., suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. Hh remains were discovered borne days ago, and three of his murderers havo. been hanged near the 33onc of their crime by a party of lynchers. John Hornstcta, a German of 62 year?, who lived at Decatur, 111 . married a girl of 19. As usual in such cases, their married life was not happy. His wife deserted Hornstcin, and he attempted to kill her and then ' severed his own jnjrular vein. Wilham McKiimoy and Columbus Cas?, one an elder in the Method church and the other a Rnnday-school Superintendent, quarreled near SomerBet, Ky., when Cuss knocked McKinney down and beat his head to a jelly with an ax. An east-bound stngo coach on the San Antonio and El I'aso line was stoppel near Boeme. Tex., by two masked highwaymen. They appropriated whatever was valuable in themail-

IXDIANA LEGISLATURE.

and District Courts of tbe United rstnu'soi mini bv and agninat national bank,, resident of t ! State, without regard to the amount involved ii I such suit. The bill estfil.-lihing n State Bo:ir

High or Low Heels. Some time ago Mr, Morey devised au apparatus for registering the steps, which he has called an odograph. It consists of a small cylinder, rotating by means of clockwork in the interior, and of a pen which marks on the cylinder, and is raised at each step by an impulse communicated by a ball of air beneath the sole. Observations have .been made on a number of young soldiers. It was ascertained that the step is longer in going up lull than in going down hill. It is shorter when a burden is carried; longer with low than with high-heeled boots ; longer when the sole is thick and prolonged a little beyond the foot than when it is short and flexible. It thus appears that the heel may with benefit be almost indefinitely lowered, while it is. disadvantageous to prolong the sole of the boot beyond a certain limit, or to give it an absolute rigidity. Some influences which lengthen the step lessen its frequency ; so in going up hill the step becomes at the same time longer and less frequent. In walking on level ground the length of the step and its frequency are always proportioned ; tho quicker the walk the longer the step. "Nature here proves the folly of the high heel in a most practical manner ; and the objection to them in men is equally applicable to tliem in ladies; and if they could only see themselves as they totter along perched up on high heels and walking as if stepping on egg-

off; There were no passengers.

PROCEEDINGS OP CONGRESS.

Fires and Casualties.

A building owned by the American Express Company, in Broadway, New York, was destroyed by fire, tho other nihx. The entire loss is estimated at $600,000. SweeUer, Pembroke & Cos Btock of dry goods on the first floor was damaged $300,000 by water. Lawson & Bros. stock of laces and embroideries on the second floor was damaged 1150,000, also by water. The remainder of the building was occupied hy S. & M. Davidson, whose eutire stock of shirts, worth $100,000, was destroyed. The building was damaged $50,000. All losses are covered by insurance. A very disastrous fire has occurred at Mad.son, Ind. The flouring mill of W. Trow & Co. was destroyed, the loss being $125,000 and the insurance $56,000. The explosion of forty quarts of nitroglycerine at an oil town near Bradford, Pa., caused the instant death of J. O. Gushing and Andrew Lesper. For being intoxicated, a man named T. D. Brown was placed in the jail at Baldwin, Mich., which was soon afterward destroyed by fire, the prisoner perishing in his cell The heaviest rain known since 1S61 visited the Pacific cos at a few days ago, causing the rivers to overflow their Laiks and doing a vast amount of damage. It ;s thought that $1,000,000 will not cover the lois caused by tho Sacramento river alone. Eight Chinamen were killed near Santa Cruz, CaL, by an avalanche. They were cut? tiag fenber on th 3 mountain side, when tbq earth came down and completely hurried them. Tires reported in one day: Horticultural

Hall and a Baptist church near bv, together 'uemtsBed for dronkenncPB, ou the rolireJ nt ... , . . . ' , ! of tho array. Mr. MaginniB charged that tbo finrtinga with Several - dwellings, at Philadelphia, I of the court-martlnl had reached tbo Prisklent in

one of his spasms of reform. A bill forthornlUtf of the widow of Capt. Page, of the navy, an officer

who rempneaat the outbreak of tuc war, emised a

shells, their ludicrous aunAnrnnpA wrmid

bags and the driver's watch, and then made at once stop fashion. Any one ac

t customed to country life and ioag walks on the hills, must have felt that terrible

leg-vearmess which a dav's shopping with a lady entails. The slow, irregular walk, the frequent pauses, and the difficulty of taking short steps with proper halanco are trials well known to men. Without a good-shaped low-heeled boot, no lady, however pretty her foot or i . i

Mr. Beck spoke for an uour in advocacy of i graceiui uer carnage, can waiK oecomhis resolution for free ships, to wliich Mr. Blaine re- j ingtyi with ease to herself, Olid a proper

plied that from the inception of the wav Congress hud done nothing to upho'd the navigation interests of the United States. Tho Naval Appropriation bill, ' which fiets aridc $14720,787, was passed. Bills were also passed for the sale ot a portion of the Tjeavonworth military reservation, tn authorize, the construction of a railway bridge across Niagara rivnr, and to estabMh on assay oftico hi St. LouK The Honsn iiidn'ged in an excited debate on the North. Carolina confo-stcd Beat of Yeatea

vs. .Martin, and on a demand for the previous qne&-

ilr. Dawea presented in the Senate, on the 27tii nit,, the petition of 50,000 citizens, praying for 4 full observance of tho treaties made with the Indian tribes. Bills for public buildings at Quincy fU.f and Minneapolis were reported favorably.

flexion of the muscles of the feet and

legs. Half the ricked ankles come from heels being too high to form a proper steady base for the weight of the body, and the narrow pointed toes prevent their proper expansion and use. Make a footprint in the sand and then go and place vour boot in it what a nianrin

tion the Republican refused to vote, breaking ilio J there will be! Horses even, with a

quorum. In the United States Senate, a bill waa reported for the suppression of contagions diseases in domestic animals, on Friday, Jan. 28. The moruiug hour was filled by discussion on the Chicago Lake Front bill, Messrs. Davis and Edmuntts being tho

chief contestant. Mr. Blaine introduced a bill toes-

horny hoof, suffer horribly if their shoes

are cramped and do not allow the foot to expand. Much more might be written of the accompanying ills of tight and high-heeled boots ; but as long as women will bear the pain so as to appear taller

cmer eoniestanu. jar. uiaine inrromicea a diii rocs- Mj Z- r t i -ii n ' and to have tiny feet, so long will they

foreign commerce by American steamship, m the ? nature s gifts. Legs and " foot. WPI'fl mPOTl Tia fra nao tr ovavnica

ihe t-ccretary of the Interior with withholding information due to the Senate. Mr. Dawes intro- ! duced a bill to establish the right of j tho Poncas and to settle their affairu in ao- i

cordance with the recommendation mode by the recent Investigating Commission. Mr. tvernan introdnced a bill to legalize the collection nf tuxes on account of shares of national bank, Mr. Wallace

introduced a joint resolution, proposing a constitu- j tional amendment, according to which tho President J

and vice President thould be elected by direct vote of the people of the various districts. Each State i? to have as many districts m it has members of OongresB and Senators; each district to havo one vote; tho vote to 1m oauvaAPcd by a ii ard of iState Canviiflaers, consiKtiug oi the Governor, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Secretary of State. The return U then to be made to the Speaker of the House, and to be conclusive proof of the result The votes are to be counted by Congress in joint convention, and a plurality vote to eiect.

In the House, Mr. Speer gave notice lhat after two

hours' debute

Ycatcs vs. Martin

the body upon. Iu fact, so cramped up and stilted has fashion made the walk nowadays that a lady with wooden legs might pass muster ha the park undiscovered, jTAcj Lancet. What a Boy Knows About Girls. Girls are the most unaccountablest thing3 in the world except woman, Eke the wicked flea, when you have them they ain't there. I can cipher clean over the improper transactions, and the teacher says I do first rate; but I can't cipher out a girl, proper or improper, and you can't either. The only rule in the arithmetic that hits their

with, a loss of over $254,000 ; " a business block in Grand itapida, Midi., org woman burned to death, Joas $30,000: & siioc-store and tenement house Union, Ct., a woman and two children perished; a lamp-bmuor factory at Forestvide. Ct., 1oi-h $75,000, and 300 men thrown ont of employment. The propeller St. Albans, belonging to the Lndingtcn Northern Transportation Company, fenndered in Lake Michigan, sixteen miles out of Milwaukee, and is a total losrf. All the ier3oa8 on board were reacaed by tjmall ho&tu. There are left of the town of Plymouth, S. C, only one store and tho freight vrarobonse of steamer; AH the other tttoreu, residences and building thirty-three ia all, have been reduced to ashen. The fire was caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. About 400 bales of cotton went up in the blaze. The total loss is placed at $127,000. A kerosene lamp exploded at the house of Rev. Manning Hunter, a colored pxeacher of Sumter county, S. C.t and three children wore burned to death. Philadelphia has had another bad conflagration, destroying a building worth $200,000, together with the property of occupants. A horrible accident is reported from .Spring Lick, Ky, Wiley Embry, an old and respected farmer residing near that point, and his six children were burned to death. H's wife and oldest daughter escaped, but it ih thought they will not survivo the terrible bhock, The steamship ltozanna, from London for Barbadoe?. was driven on tho beach, near Long Branch, 2i. J., and is a total lo.O She was valued at $150,0'J0. Her crew nnl passengers were rescued. A widow named Hanlon, and her kou William, were burned to death in the names which destroyed their home at Dorchester, Mupk. "Two brothers named Kelley, and two men enployod by them, were killed recently by an avalanche while eating their snpper near Wood River, Idaho Territory. The baggage-car and passenger-coach of a train on the Air-Line division or the Michigan Central railroad were thrown off the track about four miles east of Kilos, Mich., and one passenger. Capt. Josh, was killed.

on Saturday on the contented ee:it of j cases is the double rule of three. They run he would call tiie prevtou yues- fi) nw -vt

tloii. A resolution was adopted calling ou the Hec- IT a V, -7 " ,1 retiry of State for information in regard to hold, and they WOUld die if they COUld tho Hulifax award. A lively debate took ulsra on no fnrmAnt finmnhnrlv Wlion flnv frv

bill to place Mart Walker, who had h?en u i - MJ

i though they ain't as mean as they let on,

except sometimes, and then they are a good-deal meaner. Tho only way to get alone with n, mvl whnn bIia pomf t,r vnn

bitter political debate, participated in by SIoFsro. ...-ii, l. , ii r Conger, Cox, Bragg, Hooker, Hawley and Beed, No heA1 DOUsense 13 to give her tat for action was reached. j tat nnd that will llnmmux her and when In the United States Senate, on Saturday, j you get a girl ttummtixed she is as nice the 09th nit, Mr. Lamar presented the credentiale of RS a pill, A girl can SOW more wild oats James z. George, of Miwriseippt. Mr. ingauv reso- J than a boy can sow in a year, but girls

gee weir wna oais soweu alter a wnue, which boys never do, and then they settle down as calm and as placid as a mudpuddle. But I like the girls first rate, and I guess all the boys do." I dont care how many tricks they play on me and they don't care either. The hoity toityest girl iu the world.can always boil over like a glass of soda. By and hy they get into the traces with somebody they like, and pull as steady as an old stage horse. That is the beauty of thorn. So, let them wave, I say; they will pay for them some day, sewing on button's and trying to make a man out of the fellow they have spliced to and ton chances to one if they don't get the worst of it. -

In tion for counting the vote in the Senate chamber

was referred to the Committee on the Electoral Count, After considerable debate, theCnicago LakeTrout bill was p&fleect. The Indian Land bill came up, and was amended to provide for the education of fifty copper-colored lads at the Agricultural College at Fort Collin, Col., and to grant to each head of a family one section of land for grazing purposes. Jn the House, the day waa monopolized by the Xorth Carolina contested ease of Veates vs. Martin, the former being admitted. Mr. De La Matvr prevented a petition, with 22,000 signatures, ackiiig that encroachments by white settlers on Indian reservations be prevented. Iu the United States Senate, on (he morning of Monday, Feb, 1, Mr. Baldwin, of Michigan, tooli iu seat, and Che credcntialt of Mr. Conger wore presented. Mr. McPheraon Introduced a bill appropriating $100,000 to fit out a war vessel to search for the steamer Jeanne t to. Mr. Da wop, commenting upon tho Killing of Big ftnake, tho Ponca chief, by white boIdier.-, presented a protest from Standing Bear and otherc agaimH the mile of the old jeseivatioiiH, Sen

ator Logan defended Secretary Hchutzln thu niat-

A Scientific Man's Generosity, When Sir Humphry Davy, after great labor, invented his safety lamp for tho

ter. The severalty bill waa taken up, und an amend- PU1 P0SG ot mitigating the daugOTS to

mow allotments u i uvea vy m- coiiiers worKing in uinainmable tras he nof a tribe which does not touKUt wniihl rtn tnlra mit n inff f ii i i Mr. Voorfwea introduced a bill to oiua not taJte out a patent for it, but

maue n over to the public. A friend said to him :

"You might as well have secured this

at thn commencement of thw year. Mr. invention y a patent and receiver vnnr i

put forward his potal telegraph measure, ,5.000 or 1 0 000 n vmf fr it J

11 wiw passed to enable the Utah Northern Ituil- ' PJ. -. T.

Company to constniot brancboi in Utah, Idaho " o. my gootl Il'iemi." said Daw:

Moniani. Among Uie bills introduced waa j " I naver thmifrhfc nf tLi.(V . 1

t. prevent food aduiteration ; one to 1 iA i , " " "V

.'uouui iiu nai uibii b.ting iui iu iiiiuo f n khulivj im 1111-

I i

inanity, llinvg enough for all my views

ana pursuits. More wealth could not

Crime and Criminal. i A band of Indians have been committing ! fearful ravages iu Nwr Mexico lately. They :

killed the driver of a mail car near Han Jone. Taey killed three, miners at Chloride culoh,

went adopted to all

dividual inemberp

t take latidw.

ueninn the mirvivors of theliatdeuf Tippecanoe.

In the Houae, Mr. O'Heilly presented a bill providing that no telegraph company fhull charge more for nieHflages tban the rateu of the American ITuion Com

pany

Springer

A U,

road

and

one

compt

rfCriivod while ou duty: one providina that

two members of a firm cannot servo an IMreotorubf

vttte banker nr nir- i-tdr in any private Iwnldng ; increase either Uiy fltUlO or my huppi. house oi-PavingR bunk hall Kervoas hhwtrtr of a I ness. It niiffht Ulldoiihtedlv annhl

national hanK in the came city art that in wmcu me ,,,f i, nt. l , private bank or Bavings intitution wiUi which ho is lo put lour horses to my carnage ; but

eouueeiea is HUiiatea ; ana mat wnen a irtreetttr nan JoHs than tin Kharefj of Uio stock of the bank he becomes diaquulJfied, and cannot continue to ervo. Thrt Iowa coutcKted-elcction cusen were nettled in favor of Messrs. Kapp and Carj)enter, the eoutenteca. At a c&iicitH of Democratic Senators it waa renolved not to eon pent to the principle eatabliwhed by tho InKa-h resolution, but to' bold a continuouB BeftRion t.i torce the package of a resolution that the Vice J'iiit has no oonstitu tional authority to count eleVMtd voteo. Mr. Morgan reported from the Kh'cloral (.'ommittee, on Tuesday, Feh 1, ah a nnlwlitute for Mr. IiiKalls' rcflolutlon on that rnbject, the eoneurrent reHoIntion adopted by Ihe Democratic caucus. It wai laid ou the table to tw printed, dmKideralioii of the cane of Hig Hnake, the Toiica iliivi who was killed while renitstiug amwl, Mas resumed. Mr, Kirkwood replied to the

what would it avail me to have it said that Sir Humphry drives his carriage and four?" Thb greatest natural curiosity in the country is an architect who does business in Detroit. A man said to hiui some time ago : "Draw me tho plans for a residence ; I am willing to pay $500 if they suit," The plans were drawn and thoy suited, yet the architect said that $U00 was enough. He estimated the cost at $12,000, and it amounted to

! only $10,650. He estimated tho time in ! building at twelve weeks, and the house was iuushed in nine.

Wednesday, Jan. 2fl. Sbkate. The Senate pa'aEOd a joint resolution instructing tho Sen-

I ators and Representatives in Congress to labor

for the repeal of somnehof the acts of CougruHS hh confer especial jurisdioHou upon the Oireiiit andDUtriot OourtH of the United Stilt of huHs

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of Health came np. and w.sn engron-e:J after tudi-

ons discussion. ll provult.H luranuaraoi M;en members, ais to be appointed hy the (iovernori with consent of tho Senate, and a Secretary elected by tho board, who shall hold oMco four ream, the term of one-half of tho iivmuerj to expire every alternate two yours. It nlwo provides a coniplete nvsteiii of uaUu.riiiK Ktatiftici, and manes thesta'to JSoani or lieaitb tho center of the system, giving it Rtuwrvitiiou of the registration" of the birth, death, and marriages, and provider for the collection of statistic! through county, city, and township tifti-ers, and dctines thtir duty, with certain powera in tho invetiatiou of an epidemic or unusual outbreak of disease iu any part of tho State. 3lr. Poiudexter's bill permit l lug the formation of companies to dredge the Ohio river at certain points paused unanimously ; altso Mr. Woolen's bill, making it a misdemeanor to buy or sell votes at an election. The first-named bill is a scheme to permit Angus Dean, of Neur Albany, to obtain from Congress the privilege of improving the Ohio river opposite Madison or New Albany in low water, to test the feasibility of a plan which ho has invented for river improvement. House. The House had the usual wrangle over the purchase of ltevised Statutes by the State Librarian for ue of Legislators. Several hours wore upeut in advancing bills to second reading. Five new bills were introduced, among them the proposed consolidation of the blind, deaf and dumb, and insiue under one board of management. Tho Senate resolution directing an investigation of the Coal-Oil Inspector was coucuned in and an invitation was accepted to viail Purdue University, near Lafayette, by special train Tuesday "nexL Representative Jtuum.-on, of Decitnr, introduced a bill making .sis months' failure of a husband to support his wife sultici mt grounds lor divorce. The concurrent resolution petitioning Congress to pass a law preventing the spread uf contagious disease among domestic animals was p issed, and also the bill cuabhug ma i in fact n ring and mining compilings from other States to purchase, hold and convey real estate in litis State. Thursday, Jan. 27. Sekatb. A dry session of th Senate took place, owing to the absence of members on committee duty. Bills were passed : Providing for recording land patents issued by tho Governor ; prohibiting of poolselling, "and reducing the number of peace Justices to three in each township, with one additional for an incorporated city. The resolution to meet in joint session Wednesday next to elect Prison Directors was referred to the Prison Committee. Hocse, The House held a business session, and accomplished a great deal of necessary routine work. A largo number of bills were sununarilv disposed of by indchnite postponement. The claim of Benton eoumy for prosecuting James L. McCullough for murder, although favorably reported upon, was practically killed by a decisive vote, upon the general ground that ii would establish a dangerous precedent. The bill increasing the i;r diem of the Speaker to $3 was rejected, ana the bill fixing tho liabilities of employers for injuries to employes went to' the Judiciary. A strong attempt was made to repeal the law creating a Coal Oil Inspector, as recommended by a mhiority report, but the report was rejected. It was agreed, however, that amendments wer Heedful to the existing law, the chief objection against which tomes from the border counties, who assort lhat owing to its restrictions oils which can be purchased in Illinois at 11 centper gallon, cost 16 in this State. A eompron i so medical bill, agreed upon by all tho medicu men in the House, esmo from tho sptciai committee, and was ordered printed. Among the new hills introduced from the Codification Committee was one grouping together all the laws relative to holding property by married women, and one making a general codification of tho laws relative to mechanics' lien, in which there were also a number of new features simplifying the

methods by which persons supplying material for buildings can secure payment. A committee, headed by Represent aCive Mason, was directed to investigate the management of the Deaf and Dumb Institute. A bill was introduced appropriating 19,712,63 to cover the deficits of Wilham D. Gaston, late Trustee of Patoka township, Gibson county, . Friday, Jan. 28. Senate. The Senate confirmed the appointments of Gov. Gray in connection with tho benevolent institutions, owing to the abseuce of the Republican Senator from Vigo, and Poindexter co-operating with the Democrats. It was a Btrict party vote enforced by the previous-question gag. The appointees continued wore : Joseph Gilbert, Trustee of tho Normal School ; James P. Harney, Trustee to the Feeble-Minded Children ; Mrs. Eliza Dodd. Manager of the Female Keformatory ; Daniel Mower and Wm. V. Wiles, Trustees "of the Blind Asylum ; James A. Creavens and Milton James, Deaf and Dumb, and Robert II. Tariton, Insane. During tho afternoon, resolutions in memoriam of the late Gov. Williams, were presented and adopted, and eulogies were pronounced by Senators Cornstock, Woollen, Bell, Brown, and others, after which adjournment followed, until Monday. House. The Coditfeation Committee came in with several new bills, including propositions for a Board of Pardons, amending the law choosing Presidential Electors, concerning a Bureau of Statistics, and providing for an enumeration of males in 1883. Sir, Furnas introduced a biii permitting women to vote in Presidential elections. An investigation was ordered, the Senate concurring, ot the House of Refuge, and a resolution unanimously adopted favoring control of railroad rates by Federal legislation. The sample of tho Senate was followed in the afternoon by eulogistic tributes to the memory of the late Gov. Williams. Ex-KjwukerCauthorn, of Knox, l.d off in these addresses, and was followed by Kemier, Ryan, Nell, Reirymau and others. Monday, Jan, 31. Senate. The Senate reconvened this afternoon, and iknator Van Vorhcs. introduced a bill abolishing the oilico of the President of tho benevolent institutions. Tho Committee on Education was instructed lo report on the feasibility of consolidating the various educational institutions under one management. The bill to prevent marriage of drunkard, insane people and felons was referred. Senator Rriscoo's joint resolution "fciat the svmpathies of the people of Iudiana are with the masses of tho people of Ireland in their present legal struggle to reform the nytem of laud laws at presuut existing in that country," was adopted, Horsjs. Tbo House lacked a quorum, and spent the principal time in voting ou motions to adiourn. Tuesday, Feb. 1. The Senate did not meet to-day, and the House remained in session only an hour. It heard reports, received new bills and then passed the Senate conenrrent resolution of sympathy with thu people of Ireland, with tho addition of an amendment by Mr. McKhoohy thanking Congressman Calkins, of this Statu, for his championship of this fpiestitm in the loner honso :f Congress. Bills were introduce d : Amending tbo act regulating general elections : authorising owners of wet lands to drain nnd reclaim the same prohibiting miuorn from loiteriug in naloouR. and providing no exemption for married women from taxation. Tho bill to cnuble nine of a jury of twelve, seven of a jury of nine, and fonr of a jurv of six to return a verdict waa reported from 'the Judiciary Committee with a rec'tmmeiidation that it pass. It was made a Hpecial order for Friday at 11 o'clock. Then (lie House adjourned to the Union Depot, and, joining the Senate, set off for Lafayette and Purdue University.

j pearl. Sorno years no about eighty j per centum of California pearls worn ! hlnok, the proportion having diminished j rapidly during tho lust ton year. The 5 biggost pearl ever found in this enmtry ! waa the celebrated one found about ' twenty years ago in a New Jersey pond, ! i n n ty f

ana SOJa IO mo men jmpress XiUgume.

FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS

American Pearls, With tho exception of about $3,000 worth of pearls which came from freshwater mussels and are found all over the Union principally in the Miami river, Ohio thu Aincricun pcurln come from the Gulf of California. These are as tine us any Oriental pearls and are valued as highly. The fresh-water peurlrt ares nlmo.st all winull, but hvilliaut and somewhat rosy in tint. About ha" f of the Oulitornia pcniLs are b'aek, and command a better price than the white

i Thb great city of London requires a ! yearly supply of 20,000,000 gallons of j milk.

Thb life of a submarine telegraph cable is shown by experience to be from ten to twelve years. If a cable breaks in deep water '-?ter it is ten years of age, it cannot be raised for repairs,- as it will break of its own weight a fatal difficul-

i ty, and for which there seems to be no j practicable remedy. I In 1830 Marshal Soult brought a parI rot named Jacko to the French war

Office, where the bird remained for forty years. He served under eighteen different Ministers, but was always a stanoh royalist. Through every change of administration Jacko cried, Vive le roi! " but -would never say without painful effort, " Vive l'Emperour 1 " He died on the anniversary of the death of Napoleon X, in 1870. Thb greatest amount of cold ever known to be endured by white men overtook Lieut Schwatka's party in search of information about Sir John Franklin's party. They were over eleven months in sleds, and journeyed about 3,000 miles. On Jan. 3, 1880, the thermometer sunk 103 deg. below the freezing point. " The highest temperature that day was 69 deg. below freezing point. For twenty-seven days the temperature was 92 deg. below the freezing point. When rivers are much warmer than the air, they give rise to fogs, because the rapid evaporation from the warm water pours more water into the atmosphere than it can hold suspended in an invisible state, and consequently the surplus vapor is condensed into mist by the colder air through which it rises.

! There are conditions of atmosphere when

no actual fog is apparent in which darkness prevails, and what are called dry fogs, or sometimes blight. In some cases they are clearly due to smoke, as, for instance, the smoke of burning prairies, which may extend over vast distances. The following calculation as to the total number of existing botanical species has been made by Dr. Muller, of Geneva: We have at present in our books about 130,000 species, and, if we suppose that 80,000 (in round numbers) belong to countries like Europe and North America, where there are hardly any species, but some cryptograms to be discovered, tho remainder, or 100,000, representing exotic plants, more or less tropical and southern, we may double the latter for new species, giving 200,000 for these less-known regions, and altogether 230,000 for the whole glob6, with the exception of countries still quite unknown botanically. Adding only 20,000 for the latter, we reach a minimum sum of 250,000 species of plants. Most people remember the terrible railway accident in which Dickens himself and his proof-sheets escaped, wliile so many victims perished. In the train there was a gentleman and lady just landed in England after their return from India. The lady said to her husband: "I see tho great wave rolling on; it is close to us," aud then the crash came, and she was a corpse. The husband was unhurt, and, at a later time, explained his wife's strange words. Ever since they set sail from India she had been haunted in sleep by the dream of the vast silvery wave, and always as it was about to break on her she had. wakened in terror. This was the phenomenon which she recognized immediately before the accident which caused her death.

The Smuggler's Secret. "No," said the customs officer, "I uever smuggle, myself, although I came very near doing it once. Yes, while I was iu the service, too. You see, I went over the river one day to look after a matter we had in hand, and a very frank but green-looking countryman sat down beside me. He was fresh and asked many questions, and I rather liked his openhearted manner. At last he hitched his chair close to mine and said: Live here?1 'Yes,' says I, 'Good deal of smuggling going on ?' he asked, 'Well, considerable, I guess.' Now, how do they do it ?' he asked. 'Supposing they wanted to smuggle some silk, how would they do it?' 'Well, the lady 1 'Yes, but if a man was to Ao it?' 'Oh, men never smuggle silk. They take over suits, and overcoats, and neckties.1 'Yes, but suppose a man smuggled silk ?' Well, if it wasn't a large roll, he would place it under his coat.' 'Ah, I see, up the back, eh?' No, that would show as he walked away from the boat; he would place it under the side of his coat, put his hand in the outside pocket, kind of careless ;ike, and hold up tho lower end of the silk roll with the pocketed hand, see said my new acquaintance. 'Now, I don't mind telling you a secret, for I know you won't let on.' Here ho whispered: Tm going to come back with enough silk to make my wife a new dress can't afford to pay the duty, and he winked. 'I'd advise you not to,' said I, but the boat had touched and he was off. Coming back I congratulated myself that he was not on the fern', but just as tho boat rounded to, who should appear but my smuggler. 'I got it here,' he whispered, tapping his coat, 'but it shows a little, and it dropped down twice. Now, seo here, you just put yonr arm through mine,1 and he nilled me toward his silk side. 'We'll n'etend to be talking very interested ike, and I'll bet they'll never notice.' Ami they didn't, for that trusting country chap just walked me right past my own colleagues as slick as you please. I hope his wife liked the dress " Detroit Free Press, Good Imperishable, Says a recent writer : "I remember, not long ago, seeing some larkspur and ladv'u slipper in the midst of a sterilelooking tield. Upon inquiring how these garden flowers came there, I heard that many years ago there was an old house there, but it had been gone more than sixty years. Yet, notwithstanding that tteld had been reaped and sowed, plowed and pastured, season after season, for so many years, these simple little flowers livi d on, a memento of innocent childhood, blooming out of the most squalidpoverty. ICvil has the same immortality. If the children's hands had sown thistles, they would have remained as longt. On ic is a moon-beam and the other is a mean boom let's see, what was the conundrum, anyway.

Jules Yerne. Jules Verne is about fifty-two years old, with a fine, handsome head. Once a blonde, ho wears his beard full, and bis hair is curled iu a haphazard fashion. His features are more 'than regular; they aro line. His eye is bright, of a clear blue, brilliant, yet moist. His dominant expression is sweetness, but a firm sweetness, like rosy steel, which does not bend. His mouth, which says- such charming and clever things, says "yes'4 and "no" with the same smile. But "yes" or "no," it is irrevocable. A Breton, of Nantes, Jules Verne h:is kept the religious traditions of Brittany, but rather like a painter, ho preserves the impressions of his travels, and like a child of tho soil who would die for his faith. He is at bottom more of a skeptic than D'Enuery. No one would stand up more bravely for a doctrine, but no one would, a moment after, make a more questionable speech. In politics it is worse, for he never voted in his life. The son of a lawyer, he came to Paris to study law. His literary tastes led him in another direction, but nevertheless he was admitted to the bar. He then became Secretary to M. Perin, who at that time had the double administration of the Opera Comique and of the Theater Lyrique, After this he followed the bent of his tastes more freely. He contributed a number of articles to the Muace des Families, and about this time wrote a piece in one act, "Les Pailles Kompus, with which Alexandre Dumas was connected, for it was he who had it produced at the Theater Historiquo, aud it was he who bought the first copy after it was printed. After an experience in the stock market, being still iu love with literature, Verne published his first book, "Five Weeks in a Balloon. " It went off like hot cakes, though it was only a trial. But the success was so great that it appeared to Hetzel that here was a new road to literature which deserved to be followed up. He made an engagement with Verne for twenty years, on what then appeared to be splendid terms, but which have since made the fortune of the lucky editor. After the publication of "Five Weeks in a Balloon," he announced to his friends, one fine morning, that ho was about to get married, and then disappeared. It was the only bign of life that his wife has ever given. Since then he has led the same life of study, of travel, and of interminable production. He passes his life between Paris and Amiens, where hehas a splendid house, when he is not exploring somewhere or other on his famous boat, the Saint-Michel, on which most of his stories are written. As for the rest, he is the most charming man imaginable, modestly earning his 100,000 francs a year, to say nothing of the great fortune the stage seems to promise him, Faris Figaro,

Cheating the Lord. Parson Joyner, an old gentleman who rode a circuit years before tho war, has been excommuniccted in the eyes of the progressive world. Parson Joyner committed no sin, but in the opinion of the judges who were summoned to weigh the evidence against him, he merited expulsion from the circle of the anointed. Several weeks ago the parson took ft horseback trip iuto an adjoining neighborhood, and having read of so many railroad accidents and terrible losses of life-, he concluded that as a railroad was being constructed in the neighborhood of his intended visit, justice to his wife demanded a life insurance policy. With but little trouble he found an agent who was willing to insure his life. He made all- necessary arrangements, gave the papers to his wife and went on his journey. Shortly after his return he was arrested by a church officer, on a charge of employing the means of the devil to cheat the Lord. "Brother Joyner," said the judge of the church court-martial, "it is charged that you, in connection with the devil, have been attempting to cheat the Iord, Brother Joyner, you have been fighting the devil a long time, and in our opinion was successful. Now, using a forcible expression, what the devil have you got against the Lord?" "The Lord forbid," said the old man, "that I shoidd have anything against my divine master." ' 'You insured your life, Brother Joyner. Why did you do it? Don't you know that you have no right to take your life into your own hands and insure it? Don't you know that the crucifixion of our Savior insured all our lives? Huh?" 'But there were no railroads then. I went into a neighborhood where there is road. I didn't know how soon it might double np and hit me." "But you were not killed, were you?" "No, sir.""Well, then, don't you sea how foolish it was to insure your life? Leave this house. The doors of White Oak Church are closed against you. Go, and may the Lord forgive your great crime," The old man left, and several days afterward when the life-insurance man called, ho took down a flint-lock gun and snapped at him three times. LHtle Hock Gazette. Man's Self-Importance, Mrs. Jameson, in more instances than one, shows her belief in self-importance being man's prime quality. Here is one tiling that breathes & hard spirit. "Personal vanity in a man is sheer, unmitigated egotism, and an,unfailing subject of ridiculA and contempt with all women, be they wise or foolish." The Countess of Blessington, who was almost as wise as she was handsome, hf left a few outr spoken opinions, of w 'ph. one is that "Self-possession aud Agility ought to characterize a man of birth and genius, and a poet should neither bo gay nor flippant." Here is a stinger: "Men can pity the wrongs inflicted by other men on the gentler sex, but never those which" thoy themselves inflict on women." Though the following would apply equally well to women, it is worth remembering as showing that to a dclicatoniiuded woman the man who prides L hnself on being a bear, growling cut yiupalatable. truths at every breath, is not considered the pleasautest of companions: "Your plain-speaking men," says tho Countess, "are usually either of obtuse intellect or of ill-natured dispositions, wounding the feelings of others from want of delicacy of mind' and sensibility, or from intentional malice." The Countess grows concise, and in saying that a woman's head is always influenced by her heart, and a man's heart is always influenced by his head," utters an epigram worthy of Pope. In the same epigrammatic mood must this have been conceived: "Great men direct the events of their times; wise mon take advantage of them; weak men are borne down by them." Elsewhere she says: "In the society of pa sons of mediocrity of intellect a clover man will appear to have less spirit than thoso around him who possess the least, because ho is displaced in their company."

Ob 1 don't yon remember " Long li'-Jio atfo, Wlieu the path was in December : , . Covered o'er with anew 7 Then w lwd a little wtUv -Thru we a little talk, But jealona cys did o.'n divine Tbe footsteps tliere w!W ttot all minOb 1 i be Bnotf, . - - 'I The tail-tale pncW, ; . Long ttmo ago t 1 Oh I don't yon remember, Ou that evening fair, When tbfl jasmine flowers you braided In the raven heir! Homeward theu 1 thoughtlese etntytd, And thciiaBiulne flow;r betrayed ; Forwelithe Jealous glanoe? toeW j- . No Jasmine in our garden grew; Oh! the flower, W The tellle flower, Loig time ago! And wben we were both foshlfldwliver more to meet, - Slyly, little notes were hidden . By the willow seat. But vainly for a note we eongbfc 1 Gould we each other have forgot t-r . . Ah 1 others knew aa well as wa The aecreta of tliat hollow tree Oh I the tree, the h Uow tree, It betrayed both you and bmh IxmB time ago!. Saviuel Lover, . ..

PITH ACT POlUTe FamhiIAB quotations-r-Tho price of stocks. , t A winteb resort Blowing on your cold fingers. An ex-press package The girl who: has jilted you, A study in oil The attempt to get a sardine out whole. The minister who divides his discourses into too many heads will find il difficult to procure, attentive ears for, all of them, " In an instant a man may do what a lifetime of repentance cannot undo," says Henry Ward Beecher. True, Mr. Beecher he may break an egg. To the query of a Danbury dentist to an applicant for a new Bet aa to what sort of teeth she wanted, she said : "Something that won't show dirt." : THE SEASONS ONDKNSET. One lusty, loud and long-continued sneeze, Long puitry days of limp and languid ease, The ccaeeleeB murmur of a million Seas, And then one steady, stiff and solid freeze. A La Crosse (Wis.) minister prayed for those who were smitten with illness, and those who have gone a-fishing, and, also, those too lazy to dress lor church." The world is like a skating park nice when you can glide smoothly over its surface, but cruel and cold to sit down on when you get your feet knocked from, under you. At the theater.' A spectator asked at, the dressing-room for his overcoai "Your number?" asked the attendant. "Find my overcoat first, then I'll give you my number; it is in the pocket of my overcoat." There is a man in Newark, N. J., so close that when he attends church he occupies the pew farthest from the pulpit to save the interest on his money while the collectors are pas&ing the plate for contributions. An Irish priest was addressing his flock on the dangers of intemperance, and concluded bia harangue with these words: "Drink, my children, makes Sou beat your wives, starve -your f amies and shoot your landlords aye, and miss them, too." "I am a skeptic," said an immature person of the masculine gender, in a vainglorious strain. "An epileptic?" asked an old lady, somewhat hard f hearing, " Poor boy I you look like it, so you do." While the smile went round the youth went out. In the review of the past leasons at Sunday-school the question was asked: "What did God do on the seventh day?" Answer: "Eto rested." "What else did he dot Promptly a little 8-yeaf-old boy. : " K read his newspaper." " Professor," said a student in ptnsuit of knowledge concerning the habits of animals, why does a cat while eating turn her head first one way and then another ? " - " For the reason," replied the professor " that she cannot turn it both ways at once." " Your future husband seems very ex-

(acting; he has been stipulating for all

sorts of things," said a mother to her daughter, who was about getting married. " Never mind, mamma," said the affectionate girl, who was already dressed for the wedding, " these are his last wishes." It is mighty embarrassing to a man who has some religious friends staying with him .to have his dog, which has been very quiet during week days, begin right after breakfast Sunday to run to the gun in the corner and then to his master, and wag his tail, and; then run back to the gun again. "JVnamsm," he observed, as he rested unsteadilv with his back braced against the wall while the pale moon beams toyed coldly with his flushed but intellectual countenance, "jVnalismV gran an' gorg'us rainbow (hie), wi wi wiz one foot in er gin mill an tuzzer foot i i in er poor-'ouse."- Brooklyn Eagle, A thin old man with a rag-bag in his hand was picking a number of small pieces of whalebone which lay on the street. The deposit was of 6uch a singu lar nature that the quaint-looking gatherer was asked how he supposed they came there. "Don't know," he replied, in a squeaking voice, but 'spec some unfortunate female was wrecked hereabout somewhere." A ludicrous mistake is reported to have occurred at the opening of a bazar in Glasgow, at which the Princeis Louise and the Marquis of Lorne were present, A distinguished clergyman was called upon by the Chairman to conduct devotional exercises : and the reverend gen tleman had commenced to read, when four pipers of a highland regiment, owing to some misunderstanding, struck up with a wild shriek on the bagpipes, by , way of a preliminary to " The Campbells Are Coming." The music was promptly stopped; but the solemnity of the proceedings had, of course, been shaken. The Cause of Drought. The question is often asked, wiry droughts are more common latterly than in former years. The main reason, we concede, however, to be, because the forests have been cut down. The effects of forests upon the atmosphere are twofold They fill the air with dampness, and again this dampness, when it is con densed into olonds, is attracted by the forests. The roots of trees run deep into the ground and absorb tho moisture that is contained in it a considerable depth belothe surface; This moisture, much of it at least, is evaporated by the leaves, and thus the air is loaded with water. The amount of water that is drawn up from the strata of the earth 'lower down than tho roots of -ordinary cultivated plants penetrate is enormous. This water, if not drawn up by the roots of trees, would gradually make its way into creeks and rivers, and ultimately into V o ocean. Cutting down the forests has two other effects, both of which result in decreasing the amount of rain. Dry and parching winds :Ue unimpeded in their progres, and the result is that they carry off the moisture which is in tho atmosphere. Another result is, that small streams of water have in many in--stances been entirely annihilated, except during tho winter mouths. This has deeroased tho volume of water in the creeks and viverf and consequoutly decreased tho attractive force for the clouds and tho amount of water evaporated from the surface of the earth in our particular section. Cortland Standard. Man wastes his mornings in anticipating his afternoons, and wastes his afternoo.'is iu regretting his mornings,