Bloomington Progress, Volume 15, Number 50, Bloomington, Monroe County, 29 March 1882 — Page 4

Hekbt Rkxsb aw entered the private Office of Or. Gray, of the Yale Lunatic Asylnm

W Uttca, N. Y.: and shot lum, but the wound is not fate). Bemstww went to the Jul and gave himself ap. He claimed thai ho wan an mhsssmtor from heaven, sent by Gniteaa and others to ihoot Iter. Gray. Bemdww had with bun, when searched in jail, two navy revolvers and one single-barrel revolver and one is-

wacer, one dam, cleavers ana a ootue or chloroform, with about thirty bnndlea of

tannage. Nbab Beading, Fa., an aged couple,

wholived alone in a farm-boom, vera attacked by two maaked borglam, who bound

unlr VKuma ana pianaena toe noose 01 is x,50ft A pcraua meeting in Beading, Pa.,

rautsed rcaotntions requesting President Arthur to pardon Sergeant Mison, and then oonirtb-

Wwi J2.SO0 for the family of the unfortunate. ....F.A. Palmer, late Auditor of Newark, H. J., has goae to State's prison for twenty years for forging warrants on the city treasury.... Ihe manufactory of the Pond's Extract Company, to Brooklyn, vatnad at 100,0'K), and the roosdhouse of the Oil (Sir railroad, at Newcastle. Pa., with three engines and four conches, were burned.,... John Sylvester, of Waverly, Has., the first to masaf actors locomotive cranks in the United

States, ia dead Jobs V. Coles, a widely-

knovra advocate of temperance, wno was one of the leaders in the old Waihingtonian movemont, died suddeniy at Boston from the effects of a fall down stairs while following aburgnv who had robbed nin. He was esteemed wherever known, and has led thousands of men into tbepatbaof sobriety. Dfrcrjioan operatic performance by Patti is Ikwton, with an audience of nearly six thousand gathered in Mechanics' Hall, theeurtain took fire when lowered at the dose of the first act. Two Journalists at jpped the people from gorging the exits Tne New York Assembly adopted a resolution that the President of the United States be askxl to commute the sentence of Sergt. Mason tcdismissal from the

Thx arrival of immigrants at Castle Garden, New York, in one day bat week, aggregated 3,368, a majority of whom are English or Scotch. . . .At Lawrence, HaasL, the Pacific nulla shut down last week. The lockout affects 5,300 persons Boyal B. Conant, when cashier or the Eliot National Bank of Boston, embezzled 470,000, and was sentenced to Dedoam jail for seven years. On the ground that hie heahh haa been undermined by two years' confinement, President Arthur has granted him a pardon. A ooavaWTioa of Illinois fanners to protest against railway irregulariHee waa held at SpringneliJ, March IS. About 100 delegates, mostly farmers above SO years old, were in attendance. Besotations were adopted in favor of the enforcement of the existing railroad laws, condemning the giving of passes, declaring that the Railroad and warehouse Commission would fail fat itr doty unless it gave the people a passenger rule of 1 centa per mdeand freight rates as low as the lowest, and upbraiding the commit ion for acting as servants cf the railroads ratot r than of the peopia. John Wkstwosth, of Chicago, fatniharly known as " long John," lectured be. fore an immense audience, in that city, on hia personal leeoBeettocB of the period when ho was in Congress The Grand Jury it Omaha .naScted twenty-five notere, two of them for assault to coconut murder. Edward Welch, President of the Labor Onion, was jailed. Bartier Shanncn, formerly a member of tho City Council, gave 93,000 bail A Salt Lake dispatch says that news of the passage of the Elmunds bill by the House waa received there without any aausnal demonstration. Many of tho more ignorant Harmons have been made to believe flat it means ultimately confiscation of their property. Other MorcionB sad most of the son-Mormons believe it will cause immigntion, start a business boom, and make property more vrJnable. Dispatches from Ixwlsburg, on the Southern Paeilic roac, state that seventy Apache coots, ea route so the San Carlos reservation, are ou the war-path, and have killed a white man named Michael Conned. .Gen. Maakemne was preparing eight companies of regulars to take tho neki . . Tin four days over 75,000 signatures were obtairuxi in Chicago to a petition for the pardon of Strgt. Mason. Dbtrctivb Oorhak, of Providence, B. L, after an investigation of several months, arrested Joan Mote, at Cracker's Neck, Ma, for oompheity in tti robbery of n Alton train at Bhie Cat. The accused was employed by the railway as telegraph operator, and kept iho Bang well informed. . . .In asnowuiide at Genoa, liev., lb. and Mrs. Boron, Miss Borl.n ana from seven to twenl y Indians were kilted. Same of the bodies liave lieen recovered. The citizens of Delias, Ore., seised Tnoson Langdao and a man named Harrison, for killing A. B. Croaks and & J. Jerey. At the hotel where tbe mnrden-ra were under guard a party of masked men appeared and shot Langdon, following up tho work by hanging Harrison to the trust k-work of the bridge. Ax the request of the Northern Pacific management, Geo. Tarry has ordered a company of infantry to the headwaters of the Little Missouri, to protect fae-cutters from the Indians.

J Anas M. Davis, Deputy Revenue Collector at Saahviile, waa waylaid and shot dead by a gang of twenty mormstiniera, near Mclunnviile, Term. He b said to have arrested fully three thouaaetl men for illicit and ia known to have killed several. Ax Tampa, Fit., a yoong Englishman named a D. Owens attacked a young lady with a knife and stabbed her nearly to death. He was captured and J laced in jail, but within an amor waa taken oat by a nob and hanged to a shade tree in the conrt-honse yard where the United States Court waa is session at tbe time. The Mayor and Sheriff protuated, and Lieut. Danes, of the Th rd Unted States artillery, ordered out the garrison to renu the prisonerr but before the troop arrived Owens was a dead man A convicted horae-ihief in Texas named Bendy jumped from a train near Ban Antonto aad was shot dead by the goardj. Tna owner of the eVf deposits of fcli -piano in Uvalde county, Texas, says the supply cannot tie exhausted ia a century. An analysis shows ovtr II per cent, of ammonia. The eaTBs ham recently been readied by railroad backs, and tbe first shipment has been made. The proenct k expected to bring 50 par ton. WiJmiKWm. Qaw. Mdos, who bnilt the wings of the Capitol, has been asked by the Joint Committee on Additional Accommodations ins opinion on the projset of raising the dome fifty feet in order to make room in the Capitol extension for library accommodation. In reply he says that sncfa alteration would be dangerous, and would mar the present symmetry and beauty f tbe building, and the foundation and walla could not safely be trusted to support the additional weight necessitated by the proposed alterations. Tbe Senate Committee on Territories hax instructed Mr. Saunders to report a bill for the adnasaion of Southern Dakota. It provides that a census shall be taken this rammer, and, if tbe population be found sufficient, a State shall be created from the soutbro portion, and tbe northern shall be called the Territory cf Korth Dakota A Washington dis

patch says it has been recently discovered that tlte Meawan Claims Commission have been

6aped by a ring of oooseumeelMM Jwn, who have, by periiry maA fraud, secured awards amount in to 81.3W.000 for ecUon al

leged to have been seized by tbe Mexican Government. Further payments to the ring have been stopped, and the net arions buernees is to be invootignted Gmteaii is making nearly 120 a day by the sale of bis autographs and portraits. Wit A Coox, a criminal lawyer in the District of Columbia, who ha been connected with the eases against the star-route ring, has severed hie connection voluntarily with tbe prosecution, aad in so doing haa endeavored to throw serwua doubts upon the honotty of tbe present attempt to bring the star-rmte people to justice. He claims that Col. Bliss, the principal prnaecirtor, haa become identified with the star route ring through the purchase of a share in the Rcaiblican, and that for some time ha ( Mr. Cook) has not been consulted or advised witn about the character of the cases or wbit fas to b done in tne matter. Thzke is likely soon to be serious embarrassment m the Census Office, and unless Congress shall make additional appropriations it will be impossible to complete the census work, there now remaining in the treasury to the credit of tbe mnsusappropriation bat 90,000. This money will soon be sxhaastad. The rtifliTmlty in that she nsttmatnt hare jinim inaitn quatp. A Wasbisoton tehrram says thai Senator Ben Hid has impnived so rapidly that he hopes soon to ride cat His physioiai think tbe causer haa been entirely removed. There is no truth whatever hi the report tel-m-rapned from Washington that the Georgia Senator was in a dying condiym.

At the Cabinet meeting the oase of Cadet Whittaker waa disposed of, by adopting the reocromendation of the Academic Board of Vest Point, that he be dismissed for being de ncieut in his studies. It is not decided who eat his ears. . . .The Wuys ard Means Committee at Washington has instructed the subcommittee to report a bill aoolisbing nearly all internal revenue taxes except those ou liquors, manufactured tobacoo and bank circulation.

MnnsrsB Lowsia has responded to the inquiries made in response to a resolution in Congress relative to the imprisonment by tho British Government of Irish-Americans that, a far as he could discover, the prisoners had oroken the laws, and were therefore belligerent The Costa Rica earthquake was true as regards the quake, and three churches and a number of buiktiugs were destroyed in Cartago, but fortunately no lives were lost. The first dispatch from Panama said 8,000 persona wen killed. Thk Secretary of War estimates that about 85,000 persons have been rendered destitute by the overflow of the Mississippi and its tributaries. Of these 30,000 are accredited to the State of Mississippi, 20,000 to Arkansas and 25,000 to Louisiana, Ii, is believed that the necessity tor relief will continue from thirty to sixty days. A New Tobk journa states that the Mot rial Union Telegraph Company has informally agreed to transfer its wires to the Western Union, and that tbe Baltimore and Ohio line will also be handed over to the monster enterprise, part of the consideration being a majority of the Directors of the Mew Jersey Central road, in order that the Baltimore and Beading roads may have easy access to Now York The Garfield Monument Committee of Cleveland announces contributions of $106,000, of whioh T5,000 was raised in that citv. A new appeal is made to swell the sum to 250,Q0&. Tim Chilian official paper publishes the protocol nude try Envoy Trescott. Chili agrees to make peaoe only ou the cession of Tarapaca in perpetuity, the twenpation of Peru as far at. Hoquequa until $20,000 indemnity is paid, and possession of half the guano islaada of Pern. TCLRKIU. Gov. LrrriiEFiEiiD and the' other in cumbents of State offices in Rhode Island have been renominated, with the exception that Samuel P. Colt was selected for Attorney General. WASiiracrrox telegram: "A prominent Republican, a close and confidential friend of ex-Senator Conkling, who has seen him almost daily of late, says Conkling docs not want and would not take any office at present. He says that had the President's letter Offering Conkling the Supreme Judgeship reached the latter before the nomination was made, Conkling would have declined then, and the public would have known nothing about it He says Conkling's ambition is to return to the United States Senate from New York. His plan is to devote himself to law practice and accumulate money enough te make him independently rich by the tune of the next SenatoiideleotioninNew York.'"....Tho author of the bitter attack on the character of President Garfield, published in a Washington journal, proves to be William Brown, of Kentucky, a delegate in the Chicago Convention. FORE (CIV. Fifty; liberal members of the British House of Commons signed a memorial favoring greater leniency toward imprisoned sua pects. Secretary Forster has announced that the daily period of solitary confinement will be shortened ninety miiiutes. . . .Skobeloff asserts that the Czar not only indorsed his Pan-Slavic speech, but in an audience with him fctdvised bun not to withdraw a word of it Since his return to St. Petersburg tho Czar and the people have lionized him. .. .At Odessa a Nihilist printing office has been discovered and seized and several persona connected with it arrested, A ooRBESFOKDBKT of the Daily iVetos sends a pitiable account of the state of -affairs in the prison palace of Gaichina. The Claris said to be stupefied by captivity, musio alone preventing his mind from becoming completely unhinged. He is afraid to sMjompany the Czarina for out-door exereise. Ho spends hours daily vith tbe children in the gymnasium, climbing rope ladders and turning somersaulbi. A bate collector and agent named Crawford was shot while driving to' church with hta' family, near ClonmeUon, County Westmeath. He is in a critical condition. Some mumbers of bis family were also injured. A po lico sub-inspector nainod Doherty was fatally shot in a dismrbanse at Tabbercurry, County Sligo. Several arrests were made 'Victor Hugo, whim entertaining some journalists in Paris, received a telegram from 3t. Petersburg announcing . that the Czar had spared tho lives of five Nihilists at Lis request Whereupon Hugo toasted the Czar.... A Borne newspaper publishes a remarkable article by tbe Secretary of the Committee of the General Staff, urging the prompt completion of the military organization, ami the alliance of Italy with Germany and Austria against a probable Fraaco-BuRsian alliance. At Dublin a cannister of gnnpowder was thrown into a house where several detectives livet Properly was badly damaged, but no one hurt. . . .A fire near Northampton, Eng., destroyed twenty-five houees and rendered 100 persons homeless. Another at Emod, Hungary, destroyed 350 houses and caused the loss of Dine lives .... The Pruwian E .-onomio - Council has rejected the tobacco-monopoly faitl, and adopted a resolution in favor of increasing the tobacco tax.

ADDITIONAL SEWS.

Jtrrxta Love, of Iowa, in a suit against the American Union Telegraph Company for neglect in sending a message to make porchasea on wheat contracts in Chicago, decided that, as the laws of Illinois prohibit option deals, the plaintiff cannot recover damages The explosion in Ghebe'a furniture store at Bipon, Wis., was immediately followed by flames which destroyed all the buildings on the north skte of the public square, causing t loss of (150,000.... The elevator of Bumes A MoGUI, at Hawley, Minn., filled with wheat, was swept aw iv by flamer, the loss bting $200,000. Rkv. Patjxi Baoley was greeted with a shower of eggs at Clarksville, Ark., whose citizens felt indignant at reflections cast upon the town in bis letters to a newspaper.. ..A Mormon elder has left Chattanooga for Salt Lake City, with 1TB converts from Southern States. Bbbeui was decorated and thauksgiving services held in honor of the Emperor's eighty-sixth birthday. In reply to an address the octogenarian ruler remarked that each new period of hfe reminded him that the Almighty chose His instruments Eight hundred Jews were expelled from Moscow for not having passports. Oar a farm near Pittsburgh, D. T. Lawson demonstrated his theory that boiler explosions do not occur from low water, but are caused by the bursting of water into steam wlien a vacuum is caused by opening tbe valve. The test ww made before Pehrenbatob, the General Supervising Inspector, and the boiler flew into fragments at a pressure of 235 pounds. Rhodb Island Democrats, in convention at Providence, nominated a full State ticket. Horace A Kimball was selected for Governor and J. G. Perry for Lieutenant Go v-

Juixm Force, of Cincinnati, haa de

cided that suits against insurance companies may be brought ia any State where they do

uiwunor. A 'Washington telegram of .March 23

says: The Secretary of War has ordered 30.1,-

000 rations to be issued at New Orleans for the benefit of Louisiana flood sufferers, 200,000 at Memphis for Mississippi, 60,000 at Helena for Arkamavs. and 10.000 each at Charleston. New

Madrid and Gayoso, for Arkansas.

Perfectly Frank in a Friendly Way. Boston Post A 'West End husband and wife agreed to sit down and have a quiet chat. Eaoh agreed that people were blind to their own faults, so they made an agreement that each would bin perfectly frank and in a friendly way tell tho other his or her faults, so that they could help eaoh other to correct those faults, and approach perfection. It was their duty to help eaoh other to attain that state. Bo they began, and in less than ten minutes the neighbors began to take an interest in the transaction, and stood around and cheered to see the husband come flying down the front steps, hatless, with his Ooat torn, hia hair ilishevoUed, and he making desperate efforts to keep out of the way of a pairof tongs in hU wife's hands. It always works just that way.

"OH. MAMMA!" exclaimed a hrloht.

littU) loy, 'there goes an editor." " Hash, my child," said the kind-hearted Kly ' hnsb, the poor nnfortnata man

maj hoar you,'

DOINGS OP C06RBM The Senate) at its session on the ISth, eon" enrred in tho House amendments to the appropriation for the Mississippi sufferers. Mr. Sherman presented a protest by soldiers against restoring Fitz-John Porter to tho army. A bill was passed for the erection of public buildings at Tcrro Haute, Ind., and Peoria, 111. Mr, Logan addressed the Senate on his bill to expand tho revenue front liquors in popular education. The I'oatoffice Appropriation bill was taken up. The item for fast mails was increased to $650,000. Stn Edmunds secured the msortion of a clause providing that the executive of eaoh house shall havo the right to send letters on irablio business in official envelopes, and that Senators or member may frank any package containing only printed or written matter. In executive session tho Senate ratified the declaration that the United States accede to tbe rod cross treaties of Grneva providing for the caro of the wounded on the battlofields of civilized nations In the Uonso, Mr. McLann, rising to a question of privilege, charged that the Speaker bad invaded tho privileges of the House. After considerable argument, Mr. Keuua offered a resolution declaring that tbe Speaker has no right to leprimand members, but withdrew it after au explanation by the chair. The Chinese bill was taken up, and Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, made a vigorous protest against its spirit. Mr. Convene introduced a bill to prohibit the consolidation of railway

' companies. Mr. Belmont offered a resolution, which was passed, that Jacob B, Shipherd furnixh copies of all correspondence and any other evidence tending to show what ho attempted to do to enforce the claims of the Peruvian company. A resolution was passed requesting the President to arrange with Nicaragua for the 1 settlement of olaims. Mr. Hondcrsou reported

a resolution tbat tne secretary of war state the reaaoFS for sending troops to Omaha. Mr. MoMiDaa reported to the Senate, on the 17th, a bill for a bridgo across tho Mississippi between Minnesota and Wisconsin. An appropriation of $100,000 was made to continue work on Davis island dam, on the. Ohio river. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill for a pnblio bnilding at Columbus. A resolution against tbe withdrawal of silver certificates was referred to the Finance Committee. Acts for Government buildings for the lourts and postofflces at Fnnkfort, Minneapolis and Jefferson City were passed. The ebair submitted a rcso' lntion of the Iowa Legislature for an amendment of the act donating puhliO lands to the States for agricultural colleges. Tho postomce appropriation was taken up and pawed, including the restoration of tho franking privilege. Tho Fortification Appropriation bill was passed. Mr. 8hcrman introduced a bill to print 30,000 copios of Blame's memorial adiitcss on Garfield, Spoeohus on the Tariff Commission bill were made by Messrs. Beck and Pendleton. The House passed tho S nate bill extciidin; tho northern boundary of Nebraska. Mr. Fsgo failed in au effort to resume consideration of the Chinese bii. Some timo was spent on two bills for the rcliof of Paynaaten for losses suffered by the defalcation of clerks, but both measures wore killed. A hill wag passed authorizing tho Consul t Fayal to accept a cold medal from the French Government, The Speaker submitted an estimate by the Secretary of War that 85,003 persons were rendered dostitut-J by the overflow of tho Mississippi. A bill was gissod for bridging the Missouri river near St. barles. Mr, Bunnell reported a substitute for the bill to amend tho internal-rovenuo liiws. The anti-CIiincso bill occupied tho sole attention of the Hou3 on the 18th, the entire day being given np to debate on that measure. Speeches were made by Messrs. Flower, Moore, Btiiry and iVilliams. There was no session of the Senate. Senator Teller, from tho Committee on Public Lands, reported a bill to the Senate, on the 20th. to fix tho period of residence necessary to acquire .titles to homesteads, making it three yean instead of five. A bill was reported for a public building at Erie, Pa A resolution was pat m-d allowing Mr. Butler $3,500 and Mr. Kellogg $0,500 for expenses incurred ia mooting contests for their test?. The 'Biplouiatio and Military Academy bills were reported, with amendments, as was also tho act for the admission of Dakota. Messrs. Beck and Morrill made speeohes on the Tariff-Commission bill. Mr. Pondleton presented a memorial of the National Tobacco Association protesting against the passage of a Free-Loaf b.U and asking tbe abolition of export stamps. The executive session was wholly consumed in considering tbe nomiuatiOJ of Samuel Seabury, of Njw York, to be Naval Constructor, on which no action was taken. In the Honse,the Speaker submitted a message from the President stating that, in compliance with the constitution) the Governor of Nebraska, on his request, was given authority to employ troops to protect the Stato against domestio violence. It was agreed that the House recede from its amendment to the Mississippi relief bill authorizing an expenditure for strengthening the levees. Mr. "Inbt'ell introduced a bill to abolish all taxes on banking and the stanvo tax on matches and perfumery. Mr. Manning presented a bill to appropriate $5,000 for a monument at the grave of Thomas Jefferson, and Mr. Beach an act setting aside $10,000 foi a memorial shaft at Washington's headquarters at Newburgh, H. Y. A resolution from the Maryland Assembly asked an appropriation for a monument to Francis Scott Key. Mr. Neal asked permission to report the Distriot of Columbia code without the provision for mixed schools, and a hot debate ensued, the scheme being voted down. It was resolved to take up the Tariff-Commission bill whenever the House shall go into committee of the whole, and to continue its consideration until definite results are reacbod. On a struggle over tbe Alabama Claims bill the House was in session until after midnight. Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, introduced in the Senate, im March 81, a joint resolution providing that all Postmasters, United States Marshals and District Attorneys, the Clerks of all courts inferior to tho Supreme Court, and all other civil officers of the United States exercising executive or ministerial powers within any State or Territory shall be elected by the people within their districts. Mr. Hale offered a protoat against tho admission of Dakota until her record hi purged of the charge of repudiation in Yankton conuly. Amendments to tho Lifo-Having bill wore adopted by which a pension rull is created for disabled surfmen. The Military Academy Appropriation was passed, as were l ino bills to bridge the Mississippi between Minnesota and Wisconsin, to abalisb the reservation at Fort Abcrcromble, and for tho sale of the Otoo and Missouri reservations. Mrl Frye introduced a bill to inoorporatoa oompariy to build a ratlwav between New York anrf Washington. The capital is to be $10,009,000, and ex-Senators Gordon, Wallace and Oreswell are among tho promoters. The time of transit is to bo six and one-half hours, and the fare $5. The House adopted a resolution to make thcOenuva Award bill the special order for April 11. Mr, Gibson submitted a telegram from New Orleans, stating that the supi;ioi distributed by the War Department are exhtusted. The House bad another long lcb..tf .1:1 tlie Chinese bill. The Senate at its sagsion on the 22d, amended (he diplomatic appropriation to provide that all Consular agencies with their compensation bo horeafter enumerated in tho estimates of the Secretary of Slate, when the bill passed. The Senntoin executive sfiw ioii conllrnie J 'Samuel Blatchfora as issociato Justice of the Snpremo Court. A. Ij. Morrison, of Chicago, wch nominated as Marshal for New Mexico. Tho House adopted a resolution calling 011 the Secretary of War for information as to wbat further relief is necessary for tho M'rwimppi sufferers. Tho Chinese "bill was talton up and debuted. Mr. Washburn, of Minnesota, made Iho point that it was tho duly of tho Government to prevent the degradation of labor, and Randolph Tu;hor, of Virginia, replied to the talk about endangering our trado with China, by showing that Ihe total commerce between the two countries last year did not amount to 830,000,000, and bad fallen off 33 per cent. Kinoo the adoption of tho present treaty. Mr. McLano, of Maryland, former Minister to China, made a powerful argument in support of the bilL Mr. Kweon, of Iowa, expressed great fears lest the sunsibilitioB of the Chinese Oorernment should be wounded. Terrible Fate of Fire Little Boji. St. Joseth, Mo., March 17. Yesterday afternoon five boys went out to a cavo they had mode in the hillside. The cave waa nino feet wide, ten feet deep and five feet high. Tne boys were soon about the place at 3 o'clock. An hour or two later a playmate of the live found the retreat had eavcl in. He told a man who was working near by that he foil rod tbe boys were buried within the place. Tae man only laughed, and treated his fears as a joke. This did not satisfy tbe little fellow, and with his hands he began tearing tho dirt away, and within eightuon inches or two f et of the ground he struck an ou'ntrntchod band. Ho gave the alarm, and raisi d some half-dozen men to work removing the earth. Tho livo boys were found buried boncath tho earth, all stiff and cold in death. Tho names of tho lads wcro Jack Montgomery, aged M j B in Montgomery, aged 8 : Nick H.all, aged 15 ; Allen Bhodes and Mike Qarrish, 17. It seems the boys bad dug this eave for the purpose ot spending their idle time, and they contemplated further improvements and to make tho place quite attractive. Qarrish was the last orie taken out, and his heart was palpitating feebly when ho was unearthed, but ceased very suddenly. Jnst how long they remained buried is not known, but they were seen at 8 o'clock, and at 6 the accident was discovered. Boom for Millions. Germany now claims 45,000,000 inhabitanto. In area it covers 204,719 square miles, he State of oxaa has i

274,351) sduare miles, so that to pdt the whole German empire on its surface,

mile for mile, with its 45,000,000 of

people, there would etill be territory enough left to make three countries larger than Portugal, Switzerland and Denmark combined. With the outlook

of this one State for the future homes of

Europe's surplus millions, to say nothing of our other great States and Territories which at present are sparsely populated, there is not much danger of oVeremigration for centuries to come, Springfield lteptibtiean. INDIANA ITEMS.

A neck of the flag-staff of old Fort Recovery has been sent to the State museum. Treks are yet twenty-sit counties ol Indiana that have not taken the weather service. During January 149 letters were dropped into the Indianapolis postofflce without stamps, and 181 during February. The Trustees of the Rose Polytechnic Institute, at Terro Haute, havo completed arrangements which will insure its opening a year hence. Postatj Clerk J. R. GhbhaivT was arrested at South Band, for robbing tho mails. He confessed his crime. A iiAND company is perfecting arrangements to drain the huge marshes west of Fort Wayne. The company proposes to drain 7,000 acres of these lands. Trr County Commissioners of Huntington county have accepted plans for a new jail and Sheriff's residence to be erected this summer. Estimated cost, $26,000. Mam- HbbMaS, in the county asylum at JefTersonville, was at hut accounts stDl alive, after sixty-one days' fast. Tho as Jum was visited Sunday by hundreds of people. One of the able county 'Squires of Indianapolis indorses on the transcript in an appeal to the Circuit Court : " Jan uery 13 1882 fild in mye offes 14 day at 3 ocloc in the eiven." The prisoners in the jail at Evnnsvillo have conceived the idea that the build ing is haunted, and tell a variety of strange stories about the apparition, which takes at one time the shape of a dog and again of a black" hog. Fakmers in Southern Indiana are fairly pushing their spring work. Most of them have sown their oats and planted their early potatoes, and many of them have their corn-ground broken up and are preparing it for planting. Wheat could not look better. Wioxe a passenger train was passing through Indianapolis a half-grown colored boy was seen .to hurl a bowlder through' a window, tho stone narrowly missing a lady occupying one of the seats in the coach. Before the train could stop he disappeared on one of the cross streets. Obohakdists residing near Seymour, and having some 80,000 bearing- fruit trees, say the prospect for au abundant fruit crop was never so good us at this time. Late frosts are the only thing to be dreaded now. A good melon and fruit crop alone is worth to them not less than 150,000. Maj. Tjuuhie, a convict from Spencer county, died in the Stato Prison at Jeilersonville recently. Trimble was a prominent s tumpspcakor and".emperance lecturer in the last campaign. After delivering a 6pecch one night, he was entertained by a friend, and committed an offense for -whioh he was 3ont up for two years. The southern portion of Miami county is greatly worked up over numerous proposed pikes to be run from the oat townships into the city of Pe ru. There are tiled in the Auditor's ojfice eleven petitions for gravel loads in the abovementioned district, all of which will be viewed and some action taken thereon during the summer. The State asylums for tho insane being over-crowded, the incurable insane are being sent to their reaptctivo coonties as fast as accommodations ora required for new patients. It is therefore proposed that two asylums for the incurably insane be erected, one- in tho northern and the other in the southern part of the State. Madisot Herald: A pemiliar story comes to us of a family who have resided in Jennings county for many years, and dining all this time have eaten their meals on an open porch facir g the eaxti No weather has been cold enough to drive them from this open porch to take their meals. A gentleman said he dined with tho family when it was cold enough to freeze the victuals on tho table, yet the family sat at the table as indifferently as if they had been ii. a comfortable room, A young) man named lusher, while chopping oord-wood, at Bttshville, accidentally cut his foot so severely .that he was unable to walk. Being alone in the woods, he attempted to crawl home, and, after traversing about cue-half the distance, fell exhausted. Not returning at the noon hour, his widoired mother supposed he hod gone to visit a married (inter, and paid no attention to his abEence until evening, when she started to hunt him. He was taken home, whnre he lingered until 4 o'o'ooit the next morning, when he died from loss of blood and exposure. An atrocious wife-murder was committed at Fountain Station, near Terre Hante. T. K. Kendricks, f. brakeman on the Indianapolis and St. Louis railroad, residing at Fountain Station, left his train at that place and went Home for the purpose, as he said, of getting a pnir of boots. That was the last seen of him until he was arrested. When the officers found him he was asleep upon the floor in tho bedroom tind his wife was lying in his arms dead. Kendricks had not been living with his wife for some time, and it is supposed that he went home for the purpose of inducing her to join him. Failing in this, ha killed her.

The Lower Classes. (The Mechanic The lower classeo. Who are thcy? The toiling man and woman, the farmer, the mechanic, the artisan, tbe inventor, the producer? Far from it. Tinjse are nature's nobility. No matte.' if they are high or low in station, rich or poor in pelf, conspicuous or humble in position, they are surely tho upper circles in the order of nature, whatever tho factitious distinctions of society, fashionable cr nnfashionable decree. It is not low, it is the highest duty, privilege and pleasure for the great man and high-honied woman to earn what they possess, to work their own way through life, to be the architects of their own fortunes. Some may rank the classes wo have alluded to as only relatively low, and, in fact, the middling classes. Wo intist they arc absolutely tho very highest. If there be a class ot human Wings ou earth who may be properly denominated low, it is that class who spend without earning, who consume without producing, who dissipate upon ihe earnings of their fathers and relatives without being anything in or of themselves. The boy who smeared the seat of his trousers with dynamite, when he expected an interview with his father, takes comfort in the reflection that 'lie old man can measure out a drink of only two fingers, with his fight hand, but otherwise thinks he'd havo doiu better to take the walloppiug. He didn't vcckon on the dynamite's working in liolh directions. That's were lots of f(lkd lip an their ijttjo sohemea.

PCPCtAR SClESCE.

SriiPnunous acidaots, in certain cases, as a powerful oxidiziog agent. An eleotrio light is indefinitely divisible without sacrifice of economy. OvsrEB eptgs, when just spawned, aro about one fivc-hundreth of an inch in diameter. Rifles are now sighted up to much longer ranges than formerly, some up to 1,400 yards. Limit bodies of some bulk, held near tho vibrating prongs of a tuuing-fork, are attracted. In Bischof 's spongy-iron filter the iron is saul to bo as perfect a filter rimal chare Jul. Tin form of a hailstone is that of an inverted umbrella, being cone shaped and having ribbed sides and rour ded base. Cotton fibre, when quite ripe, consists of almost perfectly puw cellulore, a compound of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. When well impregnated with creosote or dead oil, wood is sofa against the nttncks of insects, under ordinary circumstauoos. Fon the consumption of bituminous coal, 150 cubic feot of air per pound are required for anthracite, 196 feet for wood, 95 teet Trtje diamond, bort and carbon, differ respectively in a moie or less perfect crystallization, and pans into each other by iu sensible degrees. The milky juice of "he fig tree possesses a digestive p3wer, and when mixed with auimal tissue preserves it from decay a long time. Tub acids contained in fruits all act upon tin, so that fruit preserved in tin cans often contains tin in solution, and ia consoquen-dy poLsououi. OiAt bodies properly selected as to height of tone, when contiguous to colored bodies, exhibit iho phenomena of contrast of oolor mora strikingly than either black-or white substances. At.ttm water is recommended for preventing bugs and worms from infesting flour -mills. Dissolve two pounds of alum in three quarts of warm water and apply with a brush to crevices where insects may be concealed Steei tools should never bo heated, either for forging or somperiug, in a fresh fire unless it be charcoal. If coke is not at hand the tire should be allowed to bum until all the gt is burned out of the coal before the bteel is introduced. Two L'.-ipsic choraists have devised a procass for obtaining sugar in a permanently liquid form. Thi result is said to l:o effected by adding to a puritied sugar solution n small quantity of citric acid, which combines with the sngar and deprives it of its tendency to crystab'sse. An Inhibition of the arts and industries of Bavaria will be held at Number next year, and vigorous preparations are being mat.e in the way of bni'ding. Already contributor 'Jo tho number of 1,70.2 havrs promised to assist, and the whole aft'f-ir ii to be oa the grandest scal.. Amhydbo.us phosphoric acid is Ixlievcd to bo tho most powerful drying agent kuown. When air from which the mo:s'tnre has been removed by ordinary meai-s and then dried by sulphuric acid is subjected to its influence it is found that tho two-mtliouth part .f the weight of the air in the frtn of moisture disappear.'!. A KECtNT telegraphic experiment, of a Miigulor description, consists of the reading of large silvcn d loiters, n.quare yard in size, and lixoc. to a blackened board, by refracting telescopes. This met liod succeeded well at a distance of three, miles, and the inventor, fan officer in t.ho Freuch service, thinks ho will succeed in reading messages at a distance ofsixty miles. JJgcrlne Oc'ditles. ICor. Leisure Ilonr.l In going about Algiers, what strikes one most is the endless variety , in the costumes of the inhabitants Jews, Arabs, Kabyles, Mozabites, Negresses, etc, all dressed differently, and in bright, beautiful colors. The Arab women with the haik and white veil, covering all but their dark eyes, look like ghosts gliding in and out of the crowd; but when at homo they, too, dress in a gorgeous way. The jewels they wesr are quaint, and of a vory rough beauty; for, if the stones are real, they do not mind tlwir being fall of flaws, anc. irregular in i,hape and color; their pet.rls are rough, and the Arab women gtease them tht.t their color may be yellow; the diamonds are set in lead, which give them a dull, heavy look. We went to an Arab wedding, and as both the families were rich, the dresses and jewels worn by the ladies were most splendid. The bride herself a poor litfcla thing of fourteen looked anything but hnppv, seated on a cushion on the floor, while her mother and a professional dresser painted, powdered and gilded her face, plaited her hair, and then dr?ssed h?r up in costly clothes, with all the fumilv jewels heap id upon her. AU the time Iter toilet was going on, three frightful negresses played wild Arab music close to the bride a ears, and others, do'nu stairs, utternd the curious cry of joy which is a sort cf trill on one high note. Little garlands cf white jessamine blotsoms were given to every one, acd when all was ready she was led to her hntibiuid, who was awaiting her in another room. He was a very nuly man, more than twice her age, and when the poor jittlo bride saw him she bnrst into tears in a most pitiful way. We wished very much that an artist could have been with us, for there were so many beautiful Arab ledies sitting round on divans and eushiont ; but as no mau except a :aear relation (n see a woman unveiled, our wish was a vain one. On our way down stairs af :er the wedding, we saw' the servants oE the household seated in a ring on the floor, eating from oae large dish of 'con-jcousson," which is tho principal food of tho Arabs; h is made of tho emoule of Algerian hard wheat, aid if only mixod with good butter it is very nice to eat But what the Arabs generally give us is made with bad butler, and it is almost impossible to swallow it, however much wo wish to ploaso tho kind giver, who stands close by, urging us to eat more, and almost forcing it into oneV. mouth in his hospitidity. J la Iters were not mended by a friend of mine, who dexterously conveyed the-- rancid morsels into a handkerchief ou her lap; fur, us in a hasty search for coppers tli3 contents of the handkerchief were scattered over tho upturned faaes of an expectant crowd, it must Bomowhat have diniihed tho satisfaction which her apparent good appetite had afforded her host. Age of Animals. There is a belief among the East Indians that the elephant lives about 300 years, and iustanes aio on record of tho animals uaving been kept in captivity as long a. 180 years, their ago being unknown whon they were first taken wild from the forest Camel livo from 40 to CO years ; horses average from 20 to 80, oxen about 20, sheep 8 or 9 and dogs from 12 to 14 years. It ban been observed that, as a general rule, tho larger types of animals live longer than th smaller, in the vor'Aibrated classes, qundrnpeds, birdn, reptiles and fishes. Some kinds of birds attain a groat ago ; the swan has been kuown to livo 100 rears, au l it is recorded that the raven hps exevrdod that age ; birds of prey attain to great longevity, and the oaglo has survived a century. Parrots have been known to live 60 and qn long 30 years. Pheasants and domestio ptsaaCry rarely exc; d 12 or 15 years. A tortoise ias plaoi d iu tho garden of Arehiepispisi'opul !?alacoat Lambeth in 1033, dnrjngjhe lifoflArcUViehopLaud, and

lived till 1753, when it perished by accident. Small batraWuans, as the toad, are known to livo about 15 years. Fishes and animals that live in the water attain, in many instances, to a great age. The carp has been known to live 200 years. Common liver trout have been confined in a well SO and even 50 years. A pike has been known to live in a pond 90 years ; and Gesnor relates that in 1497 au enormous pike was caught in a lake near Heilbronn, in Swabiu, with a brass ring attached to it recording that it was put in tho lake in the year 1230 ; the ring is still preserved at Mannheim: . Tho age of tho whale is known by the size and number of the lamina) of certaiu organs in the mouth, formed of a horny substance commonly colled whaloboue ; these lamina) increaso yearly, and, if the mode of computation be correct, iliey indicate in certain cases that the wlmle attains to an ago of 400 years. Strategy Versus Strengtl Scientific American. The sand-hornet is the greatest villain that flics on insect wings, and he is built for a professional murderer. He carries two keen cimetcrs, besides a deadly poisoned poniard, and is armed throughout with an invulnerable coat of mail. He has things nil his own way; he lives a life of tyranny and feeds on blood. There are few birds none that I know of that care to swallow such a red-hot morsel. It is said that not even the butcher-bird hankers after him. The toad will not touch him, seeming to know by instinct what sort of chainlightning ho contains. Among insects this hornet is the harpy eagle, and nearly all of them aro at his mercy. Even ihe cicada, or dramming harvest-fly, an insect often larger and heavier than himself, is his vory common victim. Considering tlicse characteristics, it was of especial interest to witueas such an ii esdent as I have here pictured, as ono o.' these huge tyrants was actually captured and overpowered by the strategy of three black ante. I left the meadow and was ascending a spur of t he mountain by the edge of a pine wood, when suddenly I espied the hornet in question almost at my feot. Ho immediately took to wing, and as he flew on ahead of me I observed a long, pendent object dangling from his body. The incumbrance proved too great an obstacle for continuous flight, and he snun dropped again upon tho path a rod or so in advance of me. I overtook him, and on a oloso inspection discovered a plucky black ant clutching lightly with its captive, while with its two hind legs it clung desperately to a long cluster of pine needles which it carried as a dead weight. lo sooner did the hornet touch tho ground than the ant began to tug and yell for kelp. There wero certainly evidences to warrant such a belief, for a second ant immediately appeared upon the scone, emerging hurriedly from a thicket of pine tree moss. He was too late, however, for the hornot again sought escape in flight But this attempt was even more futilo than the former, for that plucky little assailant had now laid hold of another impediment, and this tinso not only the pine needles, but a small branched stiok also went swinging through tho air. Only a yard or so was covered in this fight; and a the ant still yelled for re-inforeemonts, its companion again appeared, and rushed upon the common too with such furious zeal that I frit like patting him on the back. Tho whole siguifiennco of the scone he had taken in at a glance, and in an instant he had t.iUen a vise liV grip upon the other hind-leg. 'N.w oamo tho final lug of war. Tho h- mot tried to rise, but this second pisscrger was toon tich for him; l.c couid only buz nlong the ground, drag ing his load after him, while his r.aw assaiUu clutched desperately at ever) t Ling will in its reoeh now a dried ! at, now a tin "store, nud even oveiturning n aoorn cup in its gr.vp. Finally, a small, rough stica the rizMf a match was seenrvd. and th; proved to be th ''Li-t- ati-.iw." In mil w-ro the struggle of escape. The v net could do no ui re th n lift his bod f from tl e gumi.d. Ho r !l d and kicked and t'lmbh-d, but to no pri;si except to make it vi ty livoly for hi- captore; and the th-ws of that lively dagger wero ivaatrd on the desert air, for whethar or uot those aula kucw its learching propensities they ccrtniily managed to keep clear of thi busy xtioiiiitv. How long this pell m-11 battle would havo lusted I know nut, for a third ant now appeared, and it "fl netonishirg to see him; with every movement of the hornet, hs in turn wou'd lay hold of a third Btic, and at the same time clutch apon those pine needles to add their impedime nt to the burden of his own bo-w.y. Practically the ant had won the victory, but what they intended to do with the' floundering elephant in their handB seemed a problem. But it was to thom only a question of patience. They hod now pinned their victim securely, and held him to await assistance; it came. The entire neighborhood hod lwea np prised of the battle, and in less than five minutes 4.he ground swarmiil with an army of ro-enforeeni:-nts. They came from all directions; they pitched upon that hornet with terrible ferocity, aud his complete destruction was now only a question of a very few moments. An Angel Fish taught. Ad angel fish, said to be the first even brought M this city, was caught with a hook and line by aomo Italian fishermen twenty miles outside of Farallon Islands in very deep water, brought into the city and sold to au enterprising tobacco dealer on Montgomery street, where it was hung up in the window to excite the wondormout of passers-bv. The specimen is about three aud a half feet long, has a head as large as a man's, beneath which are a pair of wing-iike fins, spreading out over two feet from tip to tip, from tho lower extremity of the wings they are much more like wings than fins and the body tapers oft' to a small tail. The back of the fish is a dark gray and brownish color, slightly mottled and studded with sharp, thornlike protuberances. The under side of the fish presents a most curious appearance, being colored and shaped from the neck down tho entire body like a human body. The thorax is rib-marked and tho abdomen is singularly man-like, and tho resemblance tc the human organization is very remarkable. The novelty and rarity of (ho specimen drew to the store where it is exhibited a number of scientists Charles Woleott Brooks informed the Call reporter sent "o make tho fish's acquaintance that tho one brought in by the Italians is a very rare specimen. It has heretofore been scientifically classed, but not ginerally known as a personal acquaintance, so to say, by even the most fuvared few. Mr. Brooks stated that the squatina, spoaking of it in a friendly manner, is a habitue cf very deep water, where it pursues tho very pleasant pastime of feeding on Hon- lots and soles. Unlike Hun Franolnco ban vivanhm the squatina is never forced to accept a f lice of sturgeon for a solo and pay two bits for it. Yet the sqautiua apDears cauible of m isteriiitr even a whole

sturgeon, having a true fissuro mouth

IraotiirniK: its enormous neaa irom ine two joints where its oars should have been set. San Fr.mcixea CalL Au Old Fire Arm. A mau in HurinsrnVld. ' Mass., claims

ono of tl, ) o'detit t hooting instruments

in this co untry. It is of a quaint though

quite orunmoiitai 11 sue, navmg a carvea

linn -lie and being silver mounted. The

barrel is two niches long and ot a very large caliber, so that whon loaded it must havo been full. Tim weapon had originally a flin', lock, and the length of (he gun Li only five inches. It has been

in this country over a hundred years, and is said to have been carried sixty years by one man in Ungland. Tho present possessor has bee:i urged to sell it many times, butkeeps it as an heirloom and curiosity. HlSTOBICAk

Algebra is said to have been invented about 170, A D. Thk punishment of the galleys originated under the Greek Empire. A Quaker affirmation was first accepted as a legal cath in England in 1696. One hundred and ten whalers wero sent out from the prt ot New Bedford in 1876. Count Philip, of Nasai.u, was trepanned twenty-seven times as a cure for headaohe. The English law condemning suicides to burial by the highway, and mutilation by a stake, was abolished under George IV. In the fourteenth oentury, to maintain a lion in the Tower of London cost six pence a day; while human prisoners were supported for one penny. Tire Christian cue torn of legacies for the relief of the indigent and suffering replaced the Pagan custom of bequeathing sums of money i)t games in honor of the dead. Fob nearly two lundred years after its establishment in Europe, the Christian community exhibited amoral purity, which, if it has been equalled, has never, for any long period, been surpassed. Is 711 the Mohamnedaos, sailing from Africa, -landed in Southern Spain, and, in the space of three years, conquered the country, with tbe exception of a few inaccessible regions in the Northwest. The Canadian House of Commons passed a resolution iu 1881, to exempt beet sugar from e ccise duty for eight years. This was foi the purpose of encouraging the manuiaotui'e of beet sugar in Canada, In the long period between the irruption of the barbarians an! tbe revival of learning in the fifteenth century, three persons are to be rememltered for their efforts to keep learning alive Albertus Magnus, the Abbe! Hildegard, and the German student Bahanus. Kansom Cook, the inventor of nn auger for boring at au angle of the wood without starting with a gouge, hit upon the idea of e camiting the lips of .the worm, called tho wood-borer, with a microscope,, and from this model made the auger, which wt.s very successful. Ijf the fourth century the praefeet Symmachus, one of the most estimable Pagans of his age, collected some Saxon prisoners to fight in honor of bis sou. They strangled themselves in prison, and Symmachus lameusod tho misfortune that had befallen him from their "impious hands," but ende.vyored to calm his feelings by reoalluig'ihs precepts of philosophy.

Malaria a la Mode. "Yes, sir," remarked a- Congressman, in the enjoyment of a 5-cent chariot seat, "no doubt of it in the world. Washington is one of the :nost unhealthy points ou the continent. I hardly strike the town before malaria titrikes me, and it's my opinion that the Capitol should be removed." Well, maybe it should ; but as long as there is any lingerii.g hope that he will die here in the line of his important duties, no man of sense would advocate the transfer. I surveyed this sufferer with great care. He came from the West. He wore a long beard, a- rod nose, an inflamed eye tmd a girth of about eighty-four inches. With the aid of an ordinary iio&gination you could see the red-beaded duck., pale de fcie grot, calves' head a la v iniagrette, terrapin, and champagne, iJl laid away in layers under his bait. From the size of his head and the swelling in his templar veins it was evident that he had a bad ease of Washington malaria on hand. That's one type of the disease. Again, you'll find a Congressman with nerves so unstrung that he can't sign a check for his board, lies a great sufferer. He has to go out about twelve times a dav to sea "tho doctor." He hates to be alone, and the thought of anything to eat operates on him like a red rag on a bull. Then he writes home that he has been taken down with the Washington malaria. Malaria is a peculiar complaint. It is one of those portable diseases yon can carry around witt. you a most anywhere if you have enough money to buy the drinks. Several years ga, when tho virulence of this complaint in Washington was first circulated all over the country by the statesmen who made periodic calls at the capital, we thought it might possibly be true to some extent ; but it did seem ra ther remarkable that the people who lived here in the capacity of natives, and followed the pious and orderly customs of t!io place, never suffered to such an alarming extent as these transient tnvelors. At last it was observed, however, that statesmen who come on here without their families not caring to expose -;hom to the frivolities of the capitol are the first to yield to the ruinous influence of tills malarious atmosphere, whil-3 those who bring their families, and run on regular schedule bed-time, are seldom troubled with the complaint H'o-iAmtoii Capital. Practical Ilnshand Hunting. It is related of a Conn sctiout woman, whose husband died a short time ago, that instead of lounging and languishing about until some cne asked her to marry again, she plainly announced that she wanted a new husband, and sha named the price that fine was ready to pay for a satisfactory article. Of course there were plenty of applicants, and at least one of them met the widow's views, for there was a wedding that very There is nothing romantic about this sort of matnh-mnking, but, on the other hand, there is no nonsense alwut it Instead of listening to a story so tender and ardent that she conld not have the heart to question the suitor's fitness for the place to whic h he aspired, the widow adopted a method that enabled her to talk sense before marriage, and learn what promise there would bo of a sentiment afterward. She did not consume a number of tho best years of her lifo in wishing that oxiv- or another man would propose, but she ascertained, like a snsiblo womau, who waa really iu the market, mid made her obdie i from those that wore avai.cble. Sentimental sta may sneeringly ty that tlie man married for money, but will they mention any other man who failed to do lik -wis when ho had a chance V Ti e widow am!, her new husband began lifn with a dis tinot understanding and without havim; had any lovers' quarro's ; let Keiit ineiitai couples show a Letter Imgiuuuig if tlie;can. Xi to Yuri Herald. Amono the plans proposed to the British Balloon Society is that of a ballooa to be kept under control by moans 4 compressed gas. The gas wmdd be stored in a suitable tank under pressure, and the balloon would be reduced in sit;e or enlarged at pleasure by admitting or withdrawing gas which might be effected by simply turning a crank. The balloon would ol:' course fall when reduced in size and rise as it became expanded, so that ballast a ad waste of gas would bo rendered unnecessary. Improvement in another direction ' is still sought by saronnuts who are striving to travel considerable distia.oes iu predetermined ooursci. Little success has attended those efforts.

It is tho misfortune of many reforms that oranks control thorn. Seymour

PITH AKD POUTT. Romantic youth, rheuinantic age. A rocaHMssTio difficulty Heavy bread. In mule always pats his best foot hindmost. Ton may be left at first, but try to b right at last. "Time makes all things even" except odd numbers. What spring is ever dry, yetkeeisM running ? A watch spring, Taks care of tbe pence at a prize-fight, and the pounds will take caro of themselves. Baxd-hkadkd men are Bensitive to draughts. It is. not tho kind of fresh sir they want Orn. Tovr Thumb gam banquet recently iu St Louis. "Simon sayB Thumbs sup." Hbm " fours ol habit," said the gambler, softly, as he dealt himself all th aces in the pack. Em bkoidered mustard plasters are now recognized as a necessary feiiture vi sssv thetio medication. Ms. Cobb recently married Mis Webb ; he know that they ware intended for each other as soon as he spider. Ties girl that has the most freedom and runs at large most persistently at this age is the one that's maid fast OiiD Deacon Dobson always boasted that he waa "prepared for the worst," and his neighbors thought he got it when he married his second wife. At a concert in Tjondon the fog was so thick that the musicians were invisible to the audienea, aad the coraeta and

horns, Vbbt nearly: Auntie "You go to school, Charley!" Charley " Yes. Auntie " Ton don't play the truant t Charley "No; but Tm learnin. the pianner." Avabkek mo, hitched to his plough . . A jftdd oid mm and cough; I Tfcl tesnt, strange to sur, J Befnsed. to obey. And rana&Uu sight of asoogk. "Dn you get that girl's picture. Brawn? Ton remember that yoa esirl you were bound to have it" "Well, not exactly," replied Brown ; " I asked her for it, and she gave me hex negative." Sophia (sentimentally) "I dearly love to listen to the ticking of a clock. It seems to me that a clock has a language of its own." Mr. Smart "Tei, Sophia, the clock has a language you might say a dia.-ect" A cblzbbatki) lawyer said that tint three most troublesome clients he ever had were a young, lady who wanted U be married, a married woman wlio. wanted a divorce, and an old maid wuo didn't know whit she wanted. " How so I nonage to rid myself of bores?" said a woman ot the world, "Nothing it. easier. When I want to send a man away, I talk to him abmt myself. When I want him to stay indefinitely, I talk about himself." "How beautiful the dome of heaven, this evening I" said Angelica, as aha leaned heavily upon his arm. "Tbei stars seem to look down upon us " "Oh, yes," said practical John; "if impossible for them to look np tons, yoa know. They iawn't" A riEOTURHB was explaining to a littit girl how a lobster cast his shell when hat had outgrown it Said he : " What doyou do with your clothes when yo i'veoutgrown them. Ton cast them aside, don't you?" "Oh, no !" replied the little one, " we let out the tucks." PKBcraDEKoa and age : There is a story of Solorion not contained in tha "Book of Kings." (Two of his court damiiels hal a row as to precedence. Solomon looked kindly, and said : " Let

the oldest go first," and the damsels

braced, and went in together with

twined arma.

A iirrnat boy who was accustomed tossy grace in the absence of his father had a younger brother who found it hard to wait nn'ril. grace was over without helping himself to some of the good things near. On one occasion, when company was present, the young' master of the ceremonies observed tbe small boy helping himself liberally to cake before the blessing was asked, so he deliberately said : "For what we are about to receive, and for what Charlie haa airead y helped himself to, the Jjord make ns te.nly thiuuiul, amen." - HKVBB 8USPKOTKD If, A. tetter on tbe table Ilea ; I do not r)Ulzo the hMia, V. And ystirj- heart i throl-biag and 1 Mm'! Joy-l.ght In ray yearning ye. ! Is -t frora motbw, old and grtyt Or from His Utile trusting maid . Whose hn.rt I won before I ttrijed ! Oat to the m.iuntaras, leagues a-iay ' 1 Metore I brenk the seal, I seen v 4 My lipa ait the envelope. .X And oh I boundless wealth of hope " ' lavished 1 1 that t ft aareea. eaee, fluttering heart! OU, soul, sit sUI'.t Why should my trembling frame recoil t Vy tetter-comes from Bridget Doyie; Tt is It is my laundry bill! A bbioht-iaoxd boy called at Henry Wsrd Beechcr's door in a great harry to borrow his Webster's Unabridged to setdo the dispute two gentlemen down the street were holding over the proper spelling of a word. The quarto waa obligingly handed out, and but why dwell? Mr. Beecher, having no longer a dictionary, can find no worth, with which to express his disgust at the foolishness of the situation. A Matosos clergyman propose, to ascertain "Where are the reapers." He has sent to et -ch member of his church a cord on whiich is printed the rfquoet : Please specify what particular department of Chrintain work you are willing to engage in." Under this is f. blank which the church members are to till up, ""THE MABKEraT"

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