Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 52, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 April 1883 — Page 1

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A dainty parlor with numerous esaychairs a glowing fire in the nickel bqnned heater a pretty little woman Intoning for tle footsteps of the lord ted master. T ii charming picture of domestic bliss John Aekerman folly appreciated as he stepped into the room ft

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. VWell, Mollie, what's the news?" ' "Oh, nothing, only supper has been waiting half aa hoar. Come, let us hurry and cat; I want to talk with you." "I thought there was something on jour mind; didn't know but I was going to get a lecture for being late." You deserve one, for this is the last evening I shall spend with you for two whole weeks; shows how highly you, appreciate your wife's society." Mrs. John Aekermaa tried to frown, but failed completely. In another half hour they were back fa the cheery parlor, and Mollie began: "I think Tom is a splendid fellow, and there were never two brothers more alike than you and he." "Thank you, my dear; I honor your judgment." "And, John, I have the most brilliant plan concerning him !" "Bo tell!" John said, with a movement' toward his coat pocket, where the evening paper lay in uncut solitude. . Mollinobserved the motion, and pronmyy informed him that he should nasKul a vnnl until aIia war triTYincrh

afjawWing. "I am going away to-morrow, and then you may read the paper from the time you enter the house until midnight with no one to bother you," ah

dmatioa. Somehow, the vision of the little parlor without llol lie's lively chatter did not seen to strike him very favorably; perhaps this was why he tossed the paper to the other side of the room, and obediently promised to listen. Holtie perched herself on one arm of his chair and commenced : "You know my sister Amy is coming same with me for a long visit, and dont 'you think it would be splendid if she and Tom would fall in love with each other? They could get married and set up housekeeping in the cottage Ijke this one across the street, and oh, John, it Would make me perfectly happy!" -John Aekermaa laughed long and heartily. ' "Match-making, by Jove!" he said at last. "Miserable yourself, and want everybody else to be; is that, it Mollie?' "Dont laugh, John, for I'm in earnest. I know they will like each other, and I have set my heart on the match; just think has nice it would be to have Amy here always; and Tom is such a darling! Amy should furnish her parlor just like ours, only where this is blue her's should be a"1t for she is dark, you know.

John was laughing again by this time, and it took considerable management ' to reduce him to order. This once accomplished, he fell in with, the plan readily enough. "I tell you what it is, Mollie; voo dont want to say a word of this to Tom or Amy, or they will take a dislike to each other immediately." "X know it," wisely rejoined Mollie. crWaea I told Tom I was going to visit Aunt Hetty I did not mention Amy's rpe, and I dont think he knows of her existence; as for Amy, I have been with iter so little sinee I was married that I am sure I never spoke to her of Tom."

well, see mat you don do so now; you couldn't mention his name without

praising him to the skies, and she would . see through your puns at once." Mollie departed the next morning, leaving directions enough to distract a man if he tried to remember half of them. John did not try; he only had a eonfused recollection of something to be done with plants, silver spoons, canary-birds, etc. Jenny, the servant, would know all about it, he reflected. "Dont have Tom at the house when we return,? was Mollie's last injunction. "Amy wQl be tired with the journey, and I want her to have a chance to

beautify a little before she meets him."

When they reached the depot Mollies courage began to fail. "I am almost sorry to go, John," she aid. "Suppose something should happen to you while I am away?" "Nonsense, darling! Go and have a mod time; and be sure and come back m two weeks and bring Amy with yoa." Mollie's heart was so thoroughly in her pet plan that she found it very hard to refrain from all mention of her adorable brother-in-law during the two weeks that followed; once she did refer to the cozy party of four which they would make, and Una ahe was obliged to turn it off on Jenny, the little maid of all work as making the fourth. The day before Mollie was to return Aunt Hetty fell ill. A nervous attack she called rt, but Mollie privately announced it contrariness. Aunt Hetty declared she must die if left alone with the servants, and Amy felt obliged to postpone her visit for a few days at feast. .Mollie could go on as she had intended, and she would follow as soon as Aunt Hetty could spare her. Thus it happened that Mollie had arrived home aloue. "Amy will certainly come up next

week," she assured John; "but i coma aot wait another day. It seems an ago ,.s afoce I went twn"

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on the following Saturday set her mind completely at rest. She was really sorry o bear John sav. one morning : ' "I think we had better take that run down to Camden's to-day. We must go sometime this month, and of course you won't want to go after your sister comes." "John, you know we cannot stay away all night; I gave Jenny leave of absence until Friday, and it wont do to leave the house alone." "IH get Tom to some and sleep here." Mollie had ao other reasonable objection to offer at this, so she prepared toga. "There are three keys," said she, as they left -the house. "You can give one to Tom, and I will leave one with Mrs. Gates, next door. The house might get on fire, and then it would be better to have a key handy, so they could get in the house and bring the things out." "Yes," said John, sarcastily ; "or I might hire a squad of policemen to watch the house day and night." About 11 o'clock that evening Miss Amy Arden alighted from an express and looked about the depot as if expecting some one.

"They could not nave received my second postal," she concluded, after waiting nearly half an hour in the ladies' room. "Well, I can very easily find the house." A hack soon deposited her in front of the pretty cottage' on Lake street; all was dark, and Amy pulled the bell several times without hearing a sound from within. Where could Mollie and

John have gone? There was a bright light in the next house, and Amy re

membered hearing her sister speak of her kind netghbor, Mrs. GatesI perhaps they were spending the evening with her, or, at any rate, ahe might know of her whereabouts. Amy ran aeroes the small grass plot which separated-the two cottages and rang the beU. Mia. Gates soon explained matters.. "You do look a little like Mrs. Ackerman when yoa laugh," ahe said in conclusion, "so I suppose its all right to let you have the key; but she wasn't looking for you until Saturday." "She probably did not receive my second postal, which I mailed yesterday morning." "Well, 111 give you the key, of course; but are you not afraid to stay alone in the house?" "Oh, Im not at sU timid," laughed Amy. "But there's a gang of burglars about the city," urged Mrs. Gates. "They've been in three houses on this street, and only last Sunday night there was a dreadful robbery on State street, and a woman nearly killed. You are welcome to come in and sleep on our parlor sofa, if yoa are afraid." "No, thank you," Amy said. "I will risk it for one night, and you say-John and Mollie will return to-morrow." She let herself into the deserted house, not without some thrills of fear, if must be confessed. How quiet everything was! Oh, if Mollie was only there I She took a survey of the rooms, the neat kitchen last of all, where she concluded to look for something to eat. Hark! what was that? Only the silvertoned dock striking the midnight hour. "That woman's talk about burglars has made me nervous," she thought, continuing her search for eatables. Hark, again! Surety that was a key turning in a lock; then a door opened and shut quietly, and- there were footsteps in the halL Amy's small stock of courage went down to zero. What would happen next? Instinctively she grasped the poker lying on the range near her. The next instant the door opened, and a great broad-shouldered man with blackened face and hands stepped into the room. Amy felt herself growing white with fear, but she raised her poker threatingly; for a moment they stared at each other in silence, then the man spoke. "Who the are you?" Amy tried to shriek for help, but the sound died a .ray in her throat; she was too thoroughly frightened to speak or move. Presently the man came toward her. "Will yon please lower the poker, or else move away from the sink? I would like to come there and wash my hands," he said, looking very much inclined to laugh. Was ever such affrontery known before? Still speechless, Amy moved around toward what looked to be an outside door. "Dont glare at me in that frightful way," he went on, with a glance into her terror-stricken eyes, "I will look more presentable when I get my face washed." Then came a hearty langh, which reassured Amy a very little. Certainlv this was a most extraordinary burglar, or else there was some ridiculous mistake. She would dee to Mrs. Gates' protection, at all events, she thought, dropping her weapon and tugging away at the huge bolt with trembling fingers. By this time the young man had finished his ablutions, and presented quite a different appearance. "Iam Mr. Ackerman's brother," he said, politely; "he asked me to remain in his house to-night, as a means of protection in his absence." "Mr. Aekerman has no brother," contradicted Amy, stoutly. "Are you sure of that?" "Certainly I am. Mrs. Aekerman has Sit made me a visit, and she would ve mentioned him if such a person .existed.'' "Can it be possible yoa are Aunt Hetty?" "Aunt Hetty, indeed P Amy was finding courage and voice fast enough now. "I beg your pardon," said Tom; "but Mollie told me she was going to visit her Aunt Hetty, and you said she had been visiting you; hence my mistake. "I am Mrs. Ackerman's sister." "Strange I never heard her speak oi you ! However, I am sorry I frightened you, Miss Miss Arden, and if you wQI allow me I will explain matters. I am abookeeper at Bolton's hardware establishment--

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interrupted Amy, "ready to cry with vexation and nervousness. "Or a burglar," added Tom. "WtU, as I was saying, I am book-kseper there, but there was a press of work in the foundry to-night, and, aa they happened to be short of hands, Z offered to stay and assist; this account for my late arrival, also for my blackened face and hands. Have yon examined tba phonograph album?" he asked, inddeo It. "If you will kindly do so, X think you will and a very good representation of me there, which will convince you that I am on terms of Intimacy here, at least."

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himself at the sight of Amy's white, distressed face. "I am afraid I was rude," she said; "but it was such a shook to me; I am very tired and lorn sprang to her side, or ahe would have fallen from sheer exhaustion. He helped her into the parlor, brought wine sad refreshments from Mollje's generous store-room, and they were soon talking matter over quite calmly. It was after 2 o'clock when Tom proposed to go and ask Mrs. Gates to come over for the rest of the night; but Amy protested against this, saying she was not afraid if he would remain in the house. Mollie was almost beside herself when she came home and found how affairs had gone in her absence; crying one minute over Amy's fright, laughing the next over Tom's graphic description of the same, it was some time before they settled down into anything like quiet. As the days and weeks went by Mollie could not determine whether certain lans of her were to prosper or not. 'om spent all his evenings with them, but he and Amy were always on contrary sides of every question, and they tantalized each other so unmercifuUy that poor Mollie sometimes despaired

of them being friends, not to mention a nearer relation. Of one thing she was certain; she never tormented her John in this ridiculous fashion. They were all together as usual, one evening, and Tom for the hundredth time was describing Amys appearanoe on that memorable evening when she so nearly brained him for a burglar. "And little did I susect then," he went on, soberly, "that she would ever have the privilege of brandishing the poker over me for life." "What do you mean?" cried Mollie, staring first at Tom's solemn visage and and then at Amy's flushed cheeks. Just what I said Amy andVI are going to set up housekeeping in the opposite cottage, where I suppose -she win continue to flourish aU sorts of murderous weapons at me." 4 "John, darling, it's coming about exactly as we planned," shouted Mollie, springing up in excitement I spare the reader the congratulatory scene that followed. Tom declares that it was worse than being taken for a burglar. Well, it did come about just as Mollie desired. Mrs. Amy even made cardinal the predominating color in her parlor, and it harmonizes charmingly with the dark beauty of the mistress. The sisters are inseparable, and as happy as two mortals can ever expect to be. Tom is something more than book-keeper in the Bolton hardware business now, and he and John are talking oi buying two handsome properties in the suburbs of the city. Mrs. Mollie declares that she would rather remain in the little home on Lake street, but what woman was ever proof against a handsome establishment in an aristocratic neighborhood? Not our little Mollie, I am sure.

Senile Softening of the Brain. This is one of the most frequent diseases of the brain in advanced life. A portion of the brain undergoes fatty degeneration, a term explained in former articles. The softened mass varies in character and consistency in different stages, but at one stage it resembles moist gelatine. In another form of it the mass is as fluid as cream. Its most common cause is an obstruction in the neighboring arteries, which cuts off the supply of blood to the part. Suoh an obstruction is often attributed to embolism a smaU particle swept from the heart to some capillary and lodged there; or to thrombosis a larger bit (perhaps of clot) thus swept along and lodged in some artery; to a tumor pressing on an artery; to a flow of blood from a ruptured vessel already affected with degeneration. Sometimes a feeble heart, unable to send the blood to all the oapiUaries of the brain, may give rise to it. It is often due to prolonged intellectual efforts,

strong and continued emotions, blows

on the head, alcohol, or to disease of the heart, caused by acute rheumatism. Softening of the brain may be either acute or chronic- The former is fatal

within ten days. More commonly there

are no premonitory symptoms, and the

attack resembles that of paralysis.

When premonitory symptoms occur

there are pricking sensations, cramps, blunted touch, diminished power of motion, increasing weakness of the

affected side and clumsiness of the fingers, hands and feet, aud a tottering gait. Some of the symptoms of chronic softening are increasing feebleness, loss of memory, fretfulness, fits of uncontrollable weeping, dull pains in the head, a sense of confusion, thickness of speech, gradual loss of muscular power, Hstlessnesg, and later, paralysis of ono side, childishness, helplessness, disposition to sleep most of the time. The

appetitr and the weight may remain good.

Wf there are premonitory symp

toms, the diet must, be rigidly simple, nourishing, and of easy digestion. Milk is the best Nothing should be

allowed tending to increase the action of the heart. Youth's Companion.

A Funning Judge, Judge Peters, United States District Judge for Pennsylvania, was an inveterate punster. 'Even the presence of his official superior, the aristooratio Judge Washington, of the Supreme Court, whose dignity was seldom relaxed by a smile, could not repress Peters from indulging his whim. Once, while the two Judges were on the bench, Peters remarked to Judge Washington that the witness had a vegetable head. "How so, sir?" asked Washington, with dignity. "Because he has carroty hair, reddish cheeks, a turn-up nose and a sage look," answered the punster. But not even the shadow of a smile rested on Washington's face. "I am the District Judge," said Peters, on a certain occasion, "but Judge Washington is the strict Judge." Congress having passed an act to increase the salaries of United States District Judges, a gentleman congratulated Judge Peters upon the fact. "I don't know that it will be of any advantage to me," answered Peters, dryly. "Don't you perceive that the act provides for the increase of salaries of certain District Judges, whereas it is known that I am a very uncertain Judge." "He is my all, Judge," said a gentleman presenting bis only son, along, thin stripling, to Peters' notice. "Your awl and your last, too, I suppose; but I cant call him a strapping ieUow," was the punster's reply,

GOSSIP FOB THE LADIES.

jMuietto's Hair. "Oh, loosen the carls that yon wear, Jeanette, Let me tangle' my hand In your hair, my pet, For the world to me had no daintier sight Than yonr brown hair veiling your shonMexa white. K was brown with a golden gloss, Jeanette, It was finer than the Bilk of the floss, my pet, Twas a beautiful mist, tailing down to yonr wrist, Twas a thing to be braided and Jeweled and kissed. Twos the loveliest hair in the world, my pet, My arm was the arm of a clown, Jeanette, It was sinewy, bristled and brown, my pet, But warmly and softly It loved to caress Yonr ronnd white neck and Its wealth of trass, Your beautiful plenty of hair, my pet, Your eyes had a swimming glory, Jeanette, IicvcalhiK t'.ic old, dear story, my pet; They were gray with the chastened tinge of the sky When the trout leaps quickest to snap the fly. And they matched with yonr golden hair, my pet. Your lips but I have no.words, Jeanette, Tliry were fresh as the twitter of birds, my pet. When the spring is young and the rosea are wet With the dew-drops in each red bosom set, And they suited your golden-brown hair, my pet. Oli yon tangled my life in your hair, Jeanette, Twas a silken and golden snare, my ret, But so sentle the bondage, my soul did Implore The right to continue yonr slave evermore, With :sy fingers enmeshed in yonr hair, my pet. Thus ever I dream what yon were, Jeanette, With your lips and yonr eyes and yonr hair, my pet. In the darkness of desolate years I moan. And my tears fall bitterly over the 6 tone That covers your golden hair, my pet. - Miiee O-ileiUey. SnaJupcwe Married Them. "To be poetic," said a young man to the young lady who hod won that priceless treasure of his love, "I love you more than a pair of overshoes." "I don't understand you," the young

lady replied. "To be poetic indeed. I do not see any poetry in such a comparison." "The comparison is from a man who is credited with saying comparisons are odious. I refer, loved one, to Shakspeare. " "Shakspcare did not speak of one loving more than a pair of overshoes." "He did. Let me show you," and turning to "The Two Gentlemen of Terona," he read : " That's a deep story of a deeper love: For he was more than over-shoes In love. " "The quotation is not quito the thing, but it is near enough." They were married, and he now curries horses for a living.

Woman's Weak Point. If is not the lack of mental capacity, but of physical endurance, which is their weak point. In system the man is apt to be superior, but the woman more than makes up for this deficiency by a quickness of perception which amounts almost to intuition. Bat, when you get a good woman, she too often goes at her work all on fire with zel, does the work of three days in one, and, thus overtaxing her strength, is probably iU afterward to pay for it But the great trouble is that women do not make business their life work, as men do. The young ones, especially, are merely in the store until they get married, and, looking forward to that, do their duties in a half-hearted way, which is sure to fail of success. Of course there are honorable exceptions to this rule, and we have many valuable women in our employ. Women are quick to learn and deft to execute, and there is no reason why they should not learn anything if they only set their minds to it No, it is not a question of mental capacity, but of concentration and physical endurance, John Wannamaker, Philadelphia. She Came,' Saw and Conquered, A Louisville widow at a Cincinnati opera, not long since, turned round in her seat and noticed a finely dressed man, with a very dark face, looking intently at her, with a pair of large block eyes. After a momentary meeting of the eyes she turned and settled back in her seat. Several times during the performance she felt an irresistible desire to look, and whenever she turned saw the eyes of the stranger fixed closely upon her. When the curtain fell she noticed him elbowing his way toward her, but a sudden surge of the crowd swept him from view, and she saw him no more. She talked the matter over with her friends, but thought no more of it The next morning she saw in the personal column an advertisement which brought up the occurrence at the theater the night before. It requested her to send her name and address to "W. De G., El Paso, Texas." Just to have a little amusement she dropped a little note, and two weeks afterward received a reply. This correspondence growing more affectionate, a letter at last came proposing marriage. The answer was favorable. The unknown bridegroom arrived, and for the first time they met face to face. They were immediately married and went at once back to Texas. Gymnastics tar Girls. Physical development among females is increasing in popularity with remarkable rapidity, says the Brooklyn Times. Classes are forming lA gymnasiums where young ladies and girls are taught, and also small clubs which receive instruction in private houses. One of the latest phases is an insatiable desire on the part of many young ladies to learn fencing. It has become a fashionable accomplishment in Europe, which is quite enough to make the .girls here ambitious to acquire it. Last year there were only a few classes, and they were small. This year there, will be scores of young women poking foils at each other. One of the best-knowu gymnasiums in the city is located within a stone's throw of the City Hall. The young ladies who go there for instruction and practice have little retiringrooms similar to bath-houses. When they emerge they hove a costume consisting of basque, jacket and trouesrs. The agility, grace and .skill they show at the various exercises is astonishing. They are quicker to learn than boys, and much more graceful at everything they undertake. At first they are made to make certain movements with their fingers, hands and arms. Then they are taught to swing dumb-bells and clubs, keeping time to the music. As the average young lady does not straighten ont her arms properly when in the first stages of her training, the wooden dumb-bells hove little brass bells on them that jingle when the movements are mode with the proper force. One ot the exercises they are put through is that of marching with sticks for guns. They like this very much and carry their heads with a jaunty air, The advanced classes are required to practice ou the horizontal bar. Beginners at this exercise have great difficulty in swinging their feet over; .but some of the persevering ones go through a great variety of move

ments with the grace of an acrobat. Swinging on rings suspended on long ropes is a favorite exercise. In one corner of the room there are several poles in an upright position, and others inclined at an angle, which the fair gymnasts will spend hours in climbing. The most popular exerciso is that of mounting and vaulting over a wooden

horse. They tike a short run and

spring into it wooden saddle, and after much practice they go over almost without touching. The private classes usually meet at the residence of one of their number, so many times a week, for lessons and practice. She Wished to Be in Fash'on. "I don't see why we can't have our houso fixed up like other houses," said Mrs. Breezy, pulling over her work basket to find another pieco of silk for 'her crazy quilt. "What is tho matter with the house, dear?"-asked Mr. Breezy, sinking back in his large arm chair and lighting a cigar. "Everything, " said Mrs. Breezy, holding a bright patch of blue silk beside a green one and wondering if the two colors would look well together. "It isn't half artistic enough. That's what's the matter with it. It wants to be all redecorated and the parlors want refurnishing." "But we've only had this set of furniture a yew, and it seems to me" "No matter what it seems to yon," said Mrs. Breezy ; "you don't know anything about: such thincs. The furniture is new enough, to be sure, but it's all alike. Nowadays you want every piece different. It's awfully vulgar to have a whole set alike in yonr parlor. Beside, it isn't antique. I was in a parlor the other day that was just lovely. It was just chuck fall of spinning wheels, old clocks, straight-backed chairs, fiddle-back sofas and everything of that sort. Every piece different, all antique and made especially to order by a big firm over in New York." "But so was oar furniture," said Mr, Breezy, remembering only too woU how much the set cost "Oh, I know that," said Mrs. Breezy. "But it's now all out of style. Every choir covered with bright lavender silz and the woodwork gilded. Then those lavender silk curtains between tba doors. Oh, it's too' vulgar for anything " "But you thought they were beautiful a year ago-" "Never mind what I thought a year ago," said Mrs. Breezy. "If you expect a woman of any enterprise to think the same way a whole year you don't know the tex. I believe in keeping up to the times, Mr. Breezy, every time, right along, and that satin furniture is all out of style." "Oh, that's the secret of its vulgarity" "Don't chip in interrupt me with such disagreeable remarks," said Mrs. Breezy. ''That furniture must go and the carpet along with it" "What's the matter with the carpet?" asked Mr. Breezy. "I'm sure it's as hhudsome a velvet-" "Oh, yon don't know anything about such matters," said Mrs. Breezy. "Everybody with the slightest art taste knows that carpets are all, out of style. First, I wiU have a hard-wood floor mode, and then cover it with Turkish rugs. I saw a beautiful rug on Fourteenth street in New York the other day for $10, and I think five or six of them scattered " "What" cried Mr. Breezy. " WeU.you don't expect me to put down a lot of imitation rugs, do you?" asked Mrs. Breezy. "Then we want the walla of tho paxlor papered " "But it's only six months ago they were frescoed," said Mr. Breezy. "Frescoed!" said Mrs. Breezy. "Frescoed ! But of course yoa don't know." "I know what it "cost to fix up that parlor," said Mr. Breezy, "and I don't understand how it can be necessary

"Oh, dear! there's that miserable question of money gain," said Mrs. Breezy. "Bat I have made up my mind to make onr house a little like other houses, I shall give an order to , of Fifth avenue, to furnish our parlors in the very latest antique style. I hove picked out a long clock already. It is only three hundred " "My dear" "Don't say a "But I will," cried Mr. Breezy. "This is all nonsense. That furniture in the parlor is good enough for a Queer, and I'll well, it will stay where it is." And it did. Brooklyn Eagle. BWy Fish's Water Treatment It was one mile from London, Ohio, in about the year 1853, when one Christopher Slagle had been given up to die by the physicians, after several consultations. He was a man of naturally strong constitution, but an inveterate user of tobacco. Almost at death's door, he muttered in a feeble voice: "If the 'doctors' can do nothing more for me, let Billy Fish try his water" treatment" With no more knowledge of what to do than could be acquired from the reading of his journal in a year, father undertook his task. Mark, mow, his manner of proceeding: Placing two comforters upon the bed, then two woolen blankets upon them, he prepared his patient by removing all his garments. Then taking a sheet wrung from warm water, quickly spread it and bodily the poor man was lifted into it, too weak to get there himself. Then placing his arms alongside bis body, the wet sheet was wrapped tightly about every part of his body up to and inoluding the neck. Then the first and second blankets were wrapped tightly about him, and lastly the comforter. (A loose wrapping is apt to chill for a while.) Very cold spring water was used in wetting a cloth for his forehead, and very warm applications were put to his feet, a good draught of cold "spring water given to drink, and-the patient slept for one hour. Having the heat of the room at about 75 degrees, he was unpacked, given a tepid bath and thoroughly rubbed. The rolls of refuse that collected upon his skin and removed from his pores were perfectly astonishing. Had a miracle been performed it would not perhaps have been more marked than the effects of that "sheet pack." This was repeated twice a day (in his case) for two days, then reduced to once a day until tho patient got well. Not one drop of drugs passed into his stomach after Billy Fish took hold oC the' 'patient So much of a convert to water treatment did this man become that he was discovered rolling naked at one time in the snow. L. 8. Fish, Cleveland. Of all thieves fools aro the worst; they rob you of time and temper. Goethe,

CURIOUS ARD 8IENHFIC.

A H.AH is suggested for mechanically removing scars left from smaU-pox and ulcerations. It is by daily rubbing the part with fine sand. . A small sponge filled with soap:l&ther and dipped in marble-dust offers a convenient way of doing this. Dii. Ellis, of the Canadian Association, has made analyses of the milk of cows feed with different kinds of food. He finds there is n greater amount of fatty matter in the milk of cows fed on distillery refuse, but he saw no evidence thnt tho milk was impaired by such feeding. CiiAins and camp-stools as used by undertakers in funerals, who take these seats from place to place, are rightly viewed by the Scientific American as disseminators of disease, and it with nearly equal reason deprecates the carrying around of the ice-boxes from house to house. Mr. Bouteledge held lately at a scientific meeting that the paper trade was probably the one which turned to immediate use more waste products than any other. In it. was utilized cotton, flax, hemp, and jute waste, and old ropes and canvas rags. In fact, the paper manufacturer could turn to profitable purpose any vegetable fiber. Krdpp'b works at Essen, now employ some 439 steam boilers; 456 steam engines, with an aggregate horse power of 18,500; 89 steam hammers, varying in weight from 200 pounds to 50 tons; 21 rolling mills; machines for making tools, 1,622; furnaces, 1,556, of which 14 are high furnaces; 25 locomotives, and 5 propeUers, with a tonnage of about 8,000. Annual production, 300,000 tons steel and 26,000 tons iron. The main wheel of a watch makes four revolutions in 24 hours, or 1460 in a yea, the second or center 24 revolutions in 24 hours, or 8760 in a year; the fourth wheel (which carries the second hand) 1,440 in 24 hours, or 525,600 in a year; the fifth or scrape-wheel, 12,964 in 24 hours, or 4,728,400 revolutions in a year; while the beats or vibrations made in 24 hours are 388,800, or 141,912,900 in a year. A mixture of 20 ports of hard soap, 40 parts of kerosene, and 1 part of fir balsam has been found very effective in destroying the insects which damage the orange tree. Prof. C. V. Riley is the authority. Other valuable plants, notably the vine, might be similarly protected by a spray from an application of the same recipe. It can be diluted at will with water so as not to interfere with the constitution of the plant. The Japanese are almost a race of vegetarians, depending mainly for their nitrogenous food upon the leguminous plants some forty varieties of peas and beans which they cultivate. These foods are quoted by Mr. Yan Buren, a oonsul to Japan, who has also noticed "an expression of good humor upon the faces of men, the amiability and sometimes real beauty of the women, and the comfortable, open-eyed serenity of the babies." Postmortems in Germany of antemio (bloodless) subjects have exhibted livers discolored with an excess of iron, which has probably resulted from the use of iron preparations as medicines to improve the blood. This observation simply proves that iron alone wUl not improve the condition of the blood, but is merely deposited in and obstructs the liver. Poor white blood is due to a fault in the assimilative processes, and if the blood lacks iron this fault cannot be remedied by merely pouring iron solutions into tfie stomach. Remedies to be useful must improve the assimilation or nutrition and enable tho system to make use of the iron which is sufficiently supplied in ordinary diet Dr. Food's Health Monthly. Buying a Horse. The Turf, Field and Farm says that ."in buying a horse first look at his head' and eyes for signs of intelligence, temper, courage and honesty. Unless a horse has brains you cannot teach him to do anything well. If bad qualities predominate in a horse, education only serves to enlarge and intensify them. The head is the indicator of disposition. A square muzzle, with large nostrils, evidences an ample breathing apparatus and lung power. Next see that he is well and clean cut under the jowl, with jaw bones broad and wide apart under the throttle. Breadth and fullness between the ears and eyes are always desirable. The eyes should be full and hazel in color, earn small and thin and thrown well forward The 1- arse that turns his ears back every ow and then is not to be trusted. He is eather a biter or a kicker, and is snre to be vicious in other respects, and, being naturally vicious, can never be trained to anything well, and so a horse with a rounding nose, tapering forehead and a broad, lull face below the eyes is always treacherous and not to be depended on. Avoid the long legged, stilted animal always choosing one with a short, straight back and rump, withers high and shoulders sloping, well set back and with good depth of

chest, fore legs short, hind legs

straight, with low-down hock, short pastern joints, and a round, mulish shaped foot By observing the above directions a horse may be selected that is graceful in his movements, good natured and serviceable one that will be a prize to the owner. - Why Hr ProttdlewM Killed. This was how it happened : I' was

writing a note at a table in tho Athe-

naium, when two men come in and settled themselves at each side of the fire-place. One had a number of "The Lost Chronicle of Barset" in his hand, and they began discussing the story. "TroUope gets awfully prosy," said one of the critics ; "he does nothing but repeat himself Mrs. Proudie Mrs. Proudie Mrs. Proudie chapter after chapter." "I quite agree with you," replied the other, "it is Mrs. Proudie ad nauseam. I am sick to death of Mrs. Proudie." Of course they did not know me, so I jumped up and stood between them. "Gentlemen," I said, "I am the culprit I am Mr. Trollope and I wUl go home this instant and kill

Mrs. Proudie." In the very next page,

accordingly, the weak and persecuted Bishop is made actually to pray for the removal of the masterful partner who has brought so much grief and humiliation upon him ; and hardly has the tragic prayer been uttered than he is

mado aware oi its fulfillment, Black

wood's Magazine. Men and Women of New York, The women of New York are not beautiful. Many of them are redeemed by their stylo, but their pale, sallow faces and defective figures forbid any idea of beauty that is, of the perfecT

and peerless beauty of feature and color which is a rarity everywhere, but should not be among such numbers as one meets on Fifth avenue. In point of fact, it is astordahiag how raro a thing true beauty is. I saw flocks of pretty girls beaute du diableia the Music Hall at Cincinnati; and a sprinkling of pretty girls in every city, for that matter; but not beautiful women. Beautiful that is, peerless and unquestioned, like Adelaide Neilson or Alice Dunning. I was prepared to see whole flocks of them on Fifth avenue, but I was obliged to take style instead, and style will outrank beauty in New York unless they go hand in hand. I have seen three really handsome men one in Kentucky, one in Boston, and one in New York. But any New Yorker of tolerable figure and with a fair credit at his tailor's and hatter's the hat is perhaps the distinguishing feature of the tout ensemble may present a sufficiently stunning appearance to guarantee his afternoon promenade on the avenue. They are a comfortable, well-groomed looking lot of men, and look as if they found life a very endurable affair. Cor. SanFrancutco Argonaut.

Betting oa a Certainty. In the British amy in India betting among the officers often runs to an extreme of vice that hi sometimes fearful to contemplate. Perhaps it is no worse than in club life in London, where the most amusing as well as tragical stories are told of the curious bets that aro mode. Betting on a certainty is held to be unfair, unless the avowal is distinctly made, so that no undue advantage is taken. An officer in the army had imported for his private apartments a new and beautiful mahogany table. A day or two after it had arrived and had' been duly installed in his quarters, a brother officer, a great swell and very unpopular, dropped in familiarly, and greatly admired the beautiful table. The owner was shaving himself at the glass wita his back to his visitor Col. Brown but continued the conversation until the Colonel withdrew, the latter remarking that he hoped soon to have his legs under that elegant mahogany. The owner of the table, whom we must call Maj. Jones, made up a little dinner party in the course of a few days, and UoL Brown was- one of the number. It was natural that the new table should be the subject of remark, and Brown, who affected to be a connoisseur in all matters, said the table was perfect, with one exception. Jones "And pray what is that, Colonel?" Brown "It is just a little too high. Jones "Do you think so? How high would you suppose it to be ?" Brown "I presume it is the usual height, just thirty-six inches, and it ought to be less than that by at least half aa inoh." Jones "That is the exact height, thirty-five and a half inches, not thirty-six, as you suppose." Brown "Pardon me. I am certain it is three feet high; I will make yon a bet on it." Jones "You wOl lose if you do, for I give you notice that I know its exact eight to half an inch, and if I bet I shall bet on a dead certainty." Brown "I am just as sure as yon are ; I am betting on a certainty, also; my eye never deceives me. I wflllayyou a hundred or a thousand pounds that Unstable is thirty-six inches high; no more, no less." The Major sought to dissuade his guest from his purpose to make a bet, assuring him that he knew the height of the table, and did not want to bet on a certainty, but, when the excitement grew furious, the wager was finally laid at an enormous sum I have heard it stated 'as high as $50,000 10,000. That seems preposterous,

when suoh a trifle was the subject buW

the gambling spirit does not stick at trifles. When the betting was finally arranged, Col. Brown exclaimed, exultingly, "I told you I knew the table was exactly thirty-six inches high; I did know it, because when I called, just after it arrived, I took its measure on my cane as I sat by it, and after I went out I measured, and found it to be, as I have said, precisely thirty-six inches high." "Yes," said Maj, Jones, "I was sitting with my back to you, but I was shaving before the looking-glass, and I saw you taking the measure from the table with your cane. Suspecting that you were preparing for a bet as to - its height, after you left I had half aa inoh taken off, and it is now precisely thirty-five and a half inches high." The applause that followed this result was tremendous, and oompleted the discomfiture of the unpopular Colonel. It was evident that- he had been laying a plan to cheat, and would have pocketed the money if he had won. Ha was sent to Coventry. He sold his commission and returned to England, being unable to stand up against the contempt of the officers, who thoroughly dispised his character. Harper' Magazine. 'TRUMP CARDS." What Josh Bluings Calls Snch. I have never known a sekond wife bnt what was boss ov the situashun. After a man gits to be 38 years old he kant form any new habits much; the best he kan do is to steer hiz old ones. Enny man who kan swap horses, or ketch fish, and not lie about it, is just az pious az men ever get to be in this world. The sassyest man I ever met iz a henpect husband when he is away from home. An enthusiast is an individual who believes about four times as much as he can prove, and he can prove about four times az much as any bodey believes. Tho dog that will follow anybody ain't wuth a cuss. Those people who are trieing to get to heaven on thsir kreed will find out at last that they didn't have a thru ticket. Too long courtships are notalwuss judicious; the party's often tire out skoreing fore the trot begins. Ono quart oy oheep whisky (tho cheaper the better), judiciously applied, will do more business for the devil thrtn the smartest deacon he has got I don't rckolect doing enny thing that I was just a little ashamed ov but what somebody remembered it, and waz sure ono in a while to put me in mind ov it Young man, learn to wait; if you undertake to sett a hen before ahe is ready, you will lose your time and confuse the hen besides. Nature seldom makes a phool; she simply furnishes the raw materials and lets the follow fiiysh the job to suit biift-

INDIANA STATE NEWS, There will be no spring- vacation at Wa. bash College this year, and in consoquenoe c ollege will close one week earlier than last year. The first National Bank of North Xaaiheater has been organized. It will sooooed ! the Tbuataeas of, and occupy the house of " the Manchester Bank. Euza HnrDEHSOH, a colored woman ot Rockport, Spencer county, acknowledges ihat she has killed five of her ohildrem dtectly after they were bom Mas. Johr Lowo, of Jefferson township, la Sullivan county, twenty miles north of Ylacannes, was burned to death, her elotoea having caught fire bom a grate. Jobm Onx, of Port Fulton, Clark oonnty, now 97 years old, a few days ago received l,TO0 back pension due his father, Joseph Gill, for services in the war of 181. W. V. Clan, husband of the notoriooa Nancy Gtom, has fmH tlm Opettttta tor 4tvorce from his wife, who b eenimed la the reformatory, her time being nearly out Bt the explosion ot a boiler at John Casety k Son's flax mill ot Enightatown, the engineer, Con Cleary, and bis assistant, Stank . Broctus, were terribly mangled, both dying in a short time. W. p. BrcEABMOM, of Illinois, has brought

suit against Grant county, Ind., to i

130,000 for material furnished for the i

Court House at the county seat, payment of which has been refused by the oounty. . Right Itav. Joseph Dwbkoeb, Bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne, will sail for liverpool on the steamship City of Berlin, April and will spend three months abroad. Before returning, he wOl visit the Papal Bee John Guthbix, an aged resident of Lawrence county, who claimed that he was the

nrst white child born north of White river in the then territory of Indiana, died at his house a few miles from Belford a few days ago. HEBEimn Purdue University win be the headquarters of the meteorological and weather-service work of Indiana, to which al! too Indiana stations wul report and front which tho reports will go to the department at Washington. Ha. A. W. Bnnuuat, brother of K & Bingham, of the Indianapolis Sentinel, and son John, were stabbed in an altercation at Atfordsvtlle, Daviess county, by James OoMLJohn was killed instantly and the doctor was fatally hurt. Gold U in Jail Eunnx Dawson, who has lived alone as a hermit within two miles of Gienwood, Bush county, for twenty-five years, died a lew days since. Bis nephew, Robert Dawaoa, and a neighbor, forced their way into the miserable little hut to find the old hermit lying in bed ''-vl Joint P. Kvexsl, T. T. Melott and John if. Murphy, two iMmoorats and one Republican, have been appointed Metropolitan Police Commissioners for Indianapolis by the Governor, Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer, who constitute the appointing power onder the law recently enacted, Tex elevator of Mr. John Kading, on the Cambridge branch of the J., M A L railroad at Ratrock. was burned early one morning last week, together with 25,00obusbels of grain. The loss is about 25,000 oa the building, with an insurance of t31,000. One freight-car loaded with malt was also burned, The file is supposed to have originated from friction. Tim Indianapolis Journal has leoetved special reports from over 100 points in Indiana and Illinois concerning the growing wheat crop, the general tenor, of which is decidedly dicconraging. The universal opinion, as expressed by the Journal corns, pondenta, is that the crop has been very much damaged by the unfavorable winter season, and that the injury Inflicted by thi winter storms has been greatly aggravated by the freezes of the past tew weeks. An average . opinion is, the crop will fall one-third short . of t&at of 1883. Of tho surplus of that crop from 10 to 80 per cent yet remains in the hands of the farmers. Ax opinion of the Supreme Court delivered by Judge Elliott, Is of general Interest 40 newspaper publishers ot the State. It was in the case of Thomas J. Shaw' va John 8. Williams, from the Tippecanoe Circuit Court, and the judgment ot that court Is reversed. The court say: ' The chief question presented In this case is whether a legal advertisement ot Sheriff's sale published in a Sunday newspaper is valid. The Sheriff is charged with the duty of giving duo notice of sales, and It. is one of'the ordinary duties ot his vocation . and an act of common labor. The publisher of a Sunday newspaper undertakes to circulate his paper on that day to subscribers and customers, and as the publishing of such a newspaper is his vocation, it necessarily follows that he engages in it when he circulates tho paper jowned by him, and the engaging in such ordinary vocation t? in the inhibition of the Sunday law. An officer has no more right than a private ciUxen to do an act in violation ot law, and an ordinary official act which can be done on one day as well as another without endangering the rights of any person is an act in violation of the Sunday law. An act done in violation of law can not ennstitute a legal notice. The circulation of a Sunday newt paper, its delivery' to subscriberB, Its sal.j to newsboys or custoimmi ia ' neceBsarOy done on Sunday, and ia.therefore in violation of the law. rmuueia great curiosity to See -the "new Dog law that takes the place of die one, paaaed two years ago. We give a sjuopsto of the main features ot the law: The law provides that the township Assessors shall list all dogs over six: months old, between the first day of April and the first day ot'

June each year, and that each male dag

shall be taxed 1, each female S3, and each, additional dog owned by any person, it. Any Assessor tailing to list any dog shall be fined not exceisding t5 in each case, and any one making a false statement of jthe nunv ber of dogs harbored may be fined. 0100. Any dog that kills sheep may be killed, and

any person who Bar dots a (log arter re u known to have killed sheep may be fined 0100. The killing of any listed dog which

has violated none of the proviaiona of .the

law is a misdemeanor subject to a fine of 0100.

Any persons owning or harboring a dog

known to have propensities for killing or

maiming sheep is made subject to a One of 150, and the law authorises any one to kill mad dogs on night. The law does away altogether with the system ot tagging licensed dogs. It makes it a misdemeanor to kilL maun, injure or steal a dog for which the yearly tax has been paid t the county. For the mischievous or wanton injury, or tho stealing of a dog which hat been duly listed for taxation, and which is not known to be a sheep-killing dog, the pwafecmeat ia fixed at a fine not exceeding 0-, with imprisonment tor not more than thirty nay Owners ot ahoep which are kttled by dogs rare required to report their toaaestotba lowwhtp Trustee within ten days, and any person making a falsa statement of the. amouatof danwgesuay be fined ItQS, and imprisoned in the county jtt for thirty days, The surplus paid ovat the anoaat paid tot damages to rireap shall batppa to the school revenue ot the tu n nojh

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