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DAILY JOURNAL

HATlUiDAY. MAKCll 28, 1801.

Another Jolly Rooster Fight. TIN! knowing ones of llio city, those IT old S|iorls, say that there is another noting main on the string for to-nior-h,ir if tlio Sabbath sun will only shine,

four

birds have been procured and LKKI nii'l fi'athers will fly if the weather

I- only pre ipitious.

Dill Not Vote for Two Years. I Juror Jacob Swank, the gentleman Limonly reported us voting for two tears sentence for Coombs, says that ho ,1 no such thing. Ho voted for ten tears from the bogining up to the time LTOUH! for twenty-one years. It was line other juror who kept his identity

DL'i'alc 1 who voted for two years.

Wanted to Steal The Mayor. JOnoqfthe electric light liiioli bill nj ii in tlie plant, for tins city lcarno greatly impressed with tho llajor's knowledge* of electricity and the Iriims systems of electricity lighting, lie m? accordingly olTered a position at I large salary to travel for the company |n was forced to decline,

TheOoutract is All Eight. I Tiie report has been circulated that lie Council did not contract with the I'estcrn Electric Company for its plant lit with skeleton company which the

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uses an a shield to protect it

lorn suits. There is nothing in the roIjrtiis the contract is made with the lerterii Electric Company and is •wijK'ci with their seal.

Deaths.

IThis morning at four o'clock Mrs. lirv Nolan, aged 70 years died of great Jbility «t her homo on North street. funeral will occur to-morrow afterfmatftmr o'clock from tho Catholic llMl.

Ibi-i evening Mrs. Mollis Davenport, »il S'Vitieil .if tho grip at her homo in "iiJij. J'lie funeral will lie conduct Jliy Bier J. C. J'arnhill to-morrow Irwrgut «gbl o'clock. Interment at

A Correspondent Captured. piie .V.itii.iial Traveler, a commercial •T. Louisville, has the following to "I "lie of our leading hotels. The

Louisville boy" referred to is J"y Kiimsbrook:

^N'utt 1 louse, Crawfonlsvillo, Tnd.. I. lireaizer, proprietor, seems to ijitured one of our correspondents •jwiolv nnd for gixid. An extra bill j'l'.inil orchestral enlivenment seems I. ''""e the business. He writes: Tie to ppond Sunday in Crawfords-'-"ought I would try tho Nutt ,!' onl,r'ng "10 'lining room on

I heard sotinds like unto fcolian ''lancing about I discovered an LUifyillG boy leading the well-

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Rov. II. M. Middloton will preach at tho Methodist church to-night. —N. C. MeCay will load tho Y. M. C. A. meeting. It- will bo an Uustor song service.

O- W. Paul is now postmaster at Dalton, Oa., and is running a general store there.

Capt. I\ T. Munhall has been confined to his home since lost Monday with tho grip.

Tlio regular quarterly communion service will lie hold in tho Methodist church to-morrow morning. •The children of the Col

Sunday school will give an Easter entertainment to-morrow afternoon. —Tho suit of O. 1. Ilanna against the T. 11. nnd I. railroad has been dismissed at the plaintill's cost on agreement. —Dr. Ramos will be at the Robbins House on Thursday, April '2d. Any patients desiring to see him should call early.

—The engine purchased bv the city will either he the Atlas or the Westinghouse. Both companies are making a big light.

—Crawfordsville had a glove light on one of tho principal stroets last Saturday night and the police did not interfere. Wnvnetown Hornet.

—Tim Fnrrell. tho telegrapher, has returned from a two months' sojourn in Virginia. Ho will accept a position with the Rig Four at Yeodersburg —The ladies of tho third section of tho M. E. church will give asocial in the church parlors Thursday evening, April '2nd. Supper from 5:30 o'clock until 8.

1* riends wishing to view the reremains of Rev. .John Sairord can do so at the residence after four tomorrow or on Monday morning from ten o'clock to twelve.

1). ]•'. MeClure goes to 'Chiciigii Monday morning and will return the middle of the week with a full line of millinery and an experienced or. Miss 11 1LT1 I\

Such a large number of applicants for teachers' license presented themselves this morning that Mr. Zuck was obliged to turn away a number of them because of the lack of room.

—Ed Voris returned from Water Valley on the Kankakee last night. I lis party killed 90 ducks yesterday. Congressman Rynum did' all the cooking and is pronounced an artist.

The ladies of tho third section of tho 51. E. church are requested to meet at Mrs. .T. 11. Ruffner's Monday at 2 o'clock to make arrangements for the social. A full attendance is desired. —R. H. Taylor has gone to Chicago to meet with college Y. M. C. A. men from all the states between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi. Two representatives are to be. present from each State.

-One of the judges in the DemoreVt contest last night wassomewhat unsteadv on his legs considering the nature ol the entertainment, llis unsteadiness, however. may be attributed to a hole in the carpet.

Mrs. John Campbell was buried at, Smartsburg this morning. She died Thursday evening at the age of 88 year?. Sho was a Mexican war pensioner and the second to die in this county within two weeks. -V. Q. Irwin has received word that the residence of Gilbert H. Brown nt Okahumpku. Fla„ was destroyed by fire on the 24th inst. It was a two-story frame dwelling. All the projxrty down stairs was saved, but all upstairs was lost.

—Rev. J. L. Kellev, one of the early methodist ministers of this State will lecturo nt the M. E. church next Monday evening at eight o'clock. Mr. Kolley has been a misiter in Iowa for 50 years and will lecture on early Methodism in this State. There will be no admission fee.

—James Ames, one of the regular panel, who was rejected by the defenso in the Coombs case, has figured in murder trials beforo. He was one of the twelve men who tried and acquitted Owens, of Lndogn, for the poisoning of his wife. Everyone believed in Owens's guilt at the time.

—Jesse Taber, court reporter, has a big job before him in preparing a copy of tho evidence in tho Turpio-Lowe case for the Supreme Court. The case makes 4,866 pnges of short hand notes, and over 5,000 pages of documentary evidence, all of which has to bo copied within two hundred days. Tho evidence in tho above case will make a wheelbarrow load of manuscript.—Loiransport Journal.

—Swank & Clark aro leading quarters for gents' furnishings. —Dressed chicken at D. L. Lee's to-

—For tho latest thing in ties see Swank & Clark. —A Jewel cook book free, get a ticket at D. L. Lee's.

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PERSONALS.

—Joro Townsley is still very sick.J —Harry Morgan hiw returned to tho city.

—William Hulett went to Indianapolis to-day.

—Mrs. S. C. Campbell Cincinnati.

is visiting in

—J. W. Kamsoy is reported some 1 ter to-day.

—F. P. Mount went homo spend Sunday

-Miss Edna Xieliol

Chicago to-day.

ored Baptist in the city to-day.

son returned from

Capt. Alex. Rice,

—Abe Strause returned from Terre Haute this morning.

Miss Julia Martin left for a visit in abash this afternoon.

-Miss Lizzie Maxcdon went to I'aoli this afternoon on a iMt

Will (iultra is homo from I'ortsuioiith to

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his vacation.

l»r. II. (!. liistine, of r,.n Dodge Town, is visiting in the city. -Joe Scott last night returned from a short, visit in Lincoln. Neb.

—Charley Ivritz went to Waveland this evening to spend the week. Charley Bowers and Will Maxedon went to Linden this afternoon.

Mrs. .Toe Taylor returned from a visit in Lafayetto this afternoon. —Will llenkle and wife went to Brazil this afternoon to s]end Sunday.

-Mrs. Elizabeth Essiek and Miss Helen Thomas are visiting in Attica. —Miss Mayme Somcrville returned from her visit in Lafayette last evening.

—W. 51. Reeves and wife went to Bowers this evening to spend Sunday.

—Miss Mabel Coddington. of Covington, is the guest of J. 51. Martin and wife.

Miss Ota Nicholson returned to her home in Crawfordsville to-day. Laravette Journal.

-Miss Minnie Scott is announced to sing a solo in Trinity church at Lafayette to-morrow.

Mrs. A. G. Dinnen. of Chicago, is in attendance upon the bedside of Michael Dinnen. —Mrs. Prof. Coulter went to Greencastle to-day to meet her husband who is returning from St. Louis. —Mrs. ,1. B. Glover who has been the guest of T. H. Ristine and family, returned to Springfield. 111. to-dav. -Miss Jessie McClelland, who has been sjiending the winter at Aiken.South Carolina, returned home last night.

Misses Mayme and Bertha Wilhite went to Linden this afternoon where they will act as judges in the declamation contest, of Madison township this evening.

Easier will be observed at the Nuit House to-morrow in elaborate stvle. A fancy Easter menu card, extra music and all the dainties of the season will make the hotel a delightful place to spend the noon hour.

--New and stylish suitings at Swank .t Clark's.

'I'll Holders of Gntvi-l lliiad IJoim/n. Parties who hold Montgomery county gravel road bonds past, due if not presented at the Treasurer's office and Ktampe(l''NOT PAID FOR WANT OF FITN'DS" will receive no more interest on said bonds after April 1. 1801.

A. F. RAMSEY.

Treasurer Montgomery County.

Xotlvc To lSulltlerx, Contractor* and Others. Tho ordinance (No. 125) adopted by tho city council November 11th, 1878, relative to building or remodeling any building within the city limits requiring a permit to first issue before BUCII work is commenced, is still in force and all contractors, builders and others aro hereby notified that tlio same will in future be vigorously enforced. All persons contemplating building, altering or repairing any building within tho city limits must first obtain a permit from the Board of Public improvement, anil through the city Clerk, nnd failure to this lays each offender liahlo to a lino and cost of prosecution. Attest: WILLIAM C. CAKII, Muvor.

C. M. SCOTT, City Clerk. March 27,1891.

A Useful Department.

The Indianapolis News is doing the jeoplo of the State, remote as well as near, a great sen-ice through its department of classified "Want" advertising, such as "Wanted,""ForSale,""ForTnule," "To Let," "Marriages," "Deaths," and various other heads at the low price of one cent a word for each insertion.*-Tho extent Y)f public benefit comeB not alone from the vast circulation of tho paper in all parts of the State, but because by over twenty, years of habit, tho |eople are looking to this channel and hence the buyer and seller landlord and tenant, employer and employe, tho loser of valuables and tho find or, meet each other through this common medium. The method is child-liko in its simplicity: you just write out your "Want" in the fewest words and remit to the paper one cent for each word, repeat ing tho amount for each insertion desired.

Where Beligious Services Will Be Held To-morrow. COLLKOE CHAPEL.—No lecture to-mor-row.

Y. M. C. A,—Meeting Tor men only at -1:30. conducted by N. C. MeCay. ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL Clinton,—Tho usual services of Easter Sunday will le observed to-morrow morning and even-

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—James 51. Wuugh returned from Chicago last night.

CuitISTRAX Cm• licit.--- Regular services at 10:30 a. in. and 7:30 p. m.. conducted by Rov. S. W. Brown. Sunday school at 2 ]). m.

MISSIO.VAHY BAPTIST CiuriKii.-- Sunday school at !):45 a, m. Services at 11 a. in. and p. m„ eondueted bv Rev. (i. P. Fimon.

SKCONH BAPTIST CIH:IICH. Easter sermon to-morrow morning bv Itnv ,1. Ii. Milk r. Easter services in "an afternoon bv the cliildren. No evonjnjr service.

CKNTEH PUKKA VTHWAN Clinton.— Regular services to-morrow at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 ]. in., conducted by Rev. R. J. Cunningham. Y. P. S. C. E.*atfi:30 p. in.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL ('lniicn.— Rev. H. M. Middleton, Presiding Elder, will conduct services this evening at 7 o'clock and to-morrow morning at 11 clock, followed by 'communion. In the evening tho Sunday school will hold Easter services.

ST. BEHNAKD'S ROMAS CATHOLIC.— Low Mass at 7 o'clock a. m. High Mass and sermon at 9 o'clock a. in. Instruction of children, 2 o'clock p. m. Rosary 2:45 j). in. Vespers and benediction 3p. in. On tho second Sunday of each and every month the only service will be Low Mass at 8 o'clock.

Collars and culls. Coon brand, at Swank .V Clark's.

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THE 0HUB0HES. "ONLY CALICO."

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Sir Joseph Hobson, who planned the tunnel under tlio St. Clair river at Port Huron, Mich., was a railroad builder in Canada and the United States till 1S70. He built tho international bridge at Buffalo, ami was upon its completion made chief engineer of the Grand Trunk railroad. Ho is a Canadian by birth, and is about ti'i years old. T. E. Hi 11 man lives at Sarnia, Out., is 50 years old, and has credit for the actual construction of the tunnel.

A LITTLE NONSENSE."

—^Teacher—"Willie, spell folt." Willie "F-e-l-t.'' Teacher—"Right. Jiminio, what is felt?" Jimmie—"A lickin'."— Epoch. —Tom Higbee—"1 sa.v. Upson, what would you do if you had a million?" Upson Downes "Nothing." X. Y. Ledger. —A Polite Pupil.—"Johnny Green, point out Africa on tho map." John— "Please, ma'am, it ain't polite to point." —Yankee lSlade. —"lie resembles his wife strongly in one respeet." "What is that?" "She thinks there is noDiidy like him in the world."—Harper's liazar. —About Kight.—Teaeher— "Tommy, to what race do the people of this country belong?" Tommy (with a prodigious effort of the memory)—"To the caucussin' race, ma'am." —Unlucky for .Some, of Them.—Thirteen persons should never sit down together at a tabic—when there is only enough for seven individuals on the table.—Host on Herald. —A Moral Lad.—Auntie—"I'm sure, Tommy, that you are not so wicked as to call your mother 'old woman."' Tommy—"Xo. ma'am. I call her 'old lady.' "—Yankee ltlude. —It Ought To He.—Ro'isom (looking at his wife's new tea gown)—"I suppose that is what you call a fast color?" Mrs. Ransom—"Well, it's the same color you use in painting the town."—Inter Ocean. —Sympathetic Cousin—"Yes, it must have bgen a terrible disappointment when Miss Golding refused .you." Jack Van Broken—"It vuus a crusher. I felt exactly as though I had been sentenced to hard labor for life."—Life. —Milllcent—"Why have you been looking so Intently at the clock?" Gcowge (gallantly)—"You don't suppose I feel boalied, do you?" Millicent —"No I wondered if you had pawned your watch."—Fliegende Blatter. —Cuinso—"It seems queer to advertise methods of suicide." Mrs. Cumso —"What in the world do you mean?" Cumso—"Here is an advertisement which says: 'Try a pair of our shoes, and you will never wear another shoe.' —Harper's Itazar. —Husband, just married—"You want to know what I like best? Of all things, I like liver dumplings, sour-kraut and blood sausages." Wife—-"0, for shame, Adolph! So prosaic and common!" "Can I help it if such divine tasting things have prosaic names?"—Fliegende Blatter. —Not a Conquest.—Clara—"Harry proposed to me last night and I accepted him."

(triumphantly)—"Why,

ho proposed to me last week and I refused him." Clara (coolly)—"Yes, I know it. He told me he did it just for practice. He know you didn't care for him."—Boston Herald.

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You like my dross! I'm verygliultolienrlt: Our "noblest mission is to please," you '(now A clear, dark blue—how many women wear it

Urightened with "cardinal"—all calico.

It tits so prettily, if I dill mnko it I stood before the glass an hour or two, Planning nnd pinning, tlttlng and refitting,

Uefore I thought the drapery would do.

What did you pay! "You're very sorry for meV' You need not be, for I have learned to know, As In life's school I read the lemons set me,

FIKST PHKSHYTEKIAV CtiTlteit, Services to morrow morning conducted bv Prof. E. C. Winslow. Y. P. S. C. E. jit 7 ]).

There are worse tasks than wearing calico.

I have a pair of strong, brave hands to help me, A clear, wise brain to work my puzzles out, A tender heart to enmfort u:id to ic.ve me,

And I am happy beyond wish or doubt.

If 1 should die. I know, without a question. That this great heart would "keep my memory green." And, while 1 live, within little kingdom

I reign loved and undisputed ipicen.

llis cheerful voieo has been m.v sweetest music. Uefore his smile my cares and troubles go Anil fur his salt". —I'll lell you as a .^e^ret—

I'm proud of wearing "only calico

lie nave it to me and I would not cliintro It Tor any "eombiaulliin" Worth may know: Love's rainbow Shines upon my .simple wardrobe.

And that iransllj-ures "only calico." —Adeline c, li-orge, in Good Housekeeping.

ADVICE iV A BUI?GLAR

On How to Mako Houses Secure Against Thiovos.

An Kn-IlurRlar, Writing In tin- l.lglit or Evperlciiop. Gives Sonic Ideas Which •Vrchitccts Might Adopt wit Ii l-rolll —Opinions of (luil IJuss.

Things have come to a pretty pas* when an ex-convict in sheer disgust feels called upon to instruct American architects how to make houses bur^larproof, says the C'hieajro News. Hut such is tho state of affairs, as the following interesting communication will attest,: "Tu -niK KHITOU: If you will consider a few word: from one who li:ii been a burglar and liousebreaki-r, I vvu 1 say something apropos of the I.imiblom robbery in this city a few days since. "The first thimr that strikes an 'op.'rator' from abroad upon bis entrance into American ciiics is tlio utter absence of any lhing like protection for your hou-ies. Your architects seem io -have lived all their lives in some retired pastoral villar-o where every ono is honest. They do not seem to understand ihal. one chief part of their work should lie to build bnri larproof houses—a ililnu which cau be done so easily that they out-lit to be ashamed of their ignorance. "Suppose Mr. Snell had provided his house with i.:rl!t, handsome openwork iron—or belter. stvi'l—doors and windows, fastened with strong chain locks, or Mr. Umlblotn had pro tecl-ed his windows Willi ironwork, do you suppose any thief would ever have entered them

These 'fillies,' a, Hiey are called, a common all over the old country. When I was 'doing' time in an Krerlish prison I remember how prisoner used to dilate u-ion the verdancy of vile Americans in not any the same. "As a health measure one would appose that tho builders would put tn these miurds .so that every thinp could be opened to the fresh air at nhrht. liut above all they ought to remove the temptation of exposed valuables from us weak mortals. Ex-CoNVii-r. "Please excuse bad wrilluu- from a hand crippled by a pistol shot tn St. Louis ten ears ago."

This indictment of American builders for not constructing houses on the burglar- proof plan is a matte demanding sonic attention. Therefore it has been thought a good idea to obtain an interview with a burglar and see bow tho "profession" would look upon the excunvict's reform notions.

Hut iirst to catch the burglar. There stands at, -j:!-: Ilonoiv street an old. two-story, drab frame house, the front door of which opens on a level with the ground. It is one of a row of si'c tenements, like many other barracklike buildings that were hastily thrown, together immediately after lite great fire. It is here that a Home of l.-iilus-try. a refuge tin' discharged eonviets. is located. It was established a 1 unit six I years ago by the reformed burglar. I "Mike" Dunn, and it i* presided over by

Kev. A. ('. Dodds as superintendent, hi the rear of the home is a broom factory where the ex-convicts are put to work. The home has room only fur those who desire not to return to their former guilty occupations.

A jerk given to the old-fashioned bellknob brings to the door a stout woman, who scans the caller critically from her deep-set brown eyes: "Come in. climb those stairs and go back- to the open door at the end of the hall."

Rev. Mr. Dodds is found in his narrow oflice. seated by a window overlooking the convict workshop. He has thirty ex-convicts at work, several of whom have been well known to the police as bad criminals. He turns to his book of record and finds that he has several burglars in the shop, but he does not like the idea of having them interviewed. "Any one of them, no doubt, could relate interesting stories, lint I don't fancy they are at all anxious to do so," reasoned Mr. Dodds.

However, he finally whistled down a tube and commanded the foreman to send up tiail Ross from the cut-oil' bench. "What a name for a burglar!" mused the reporter, and before he could form any idea of a person to fit the literary cognomen a shadow darkened the glas's doo-- and a short man forty-two years old, the very image of Kditha's burglar, entered, bowing.

Mr. Dodds explained the reporter's mission and the man signified his willingness to talk. 1 le spoke with the hint of a Scotch accent and his language a college professor could not have discounted. "Of course Gail Ross is an assumed name, is it not?" asked the reporter. "Of course it is not," quickly retorted the burglar. "Why should I have an assumed name? That name was worth much to me at one time. It is worth more now, for it is about all I have left except a bad cough and an enfeebled constitution. "No doubt it seems strange to you that a burglar should sail under such a literary name, but why should it? 1 was not always a burglar, and for that matter 1 don't consider myself irretrievably one now. When I grew up my name seemed to look so well whenever I wrote it that it inspired me with an ambition to see it in print. I thought how I could best set about getting my name before the public, and began writing verse. My rhymes were printed

in a New York publication, and some of them even broke through the quarantine and got in the magazines. 1 imagined I was surely on the road to fame when 1 got that far, but—whisky, you know. "All this has little to do with burg-lar-proof houses, but even a burglar has not necessarily lost his self-respect complctely. and he likes to find an excuse for being what be is. I just want to say one thing, anil then I'll give you my ideas about how houses should b.-con-structed to keep out the 'profession.' "As I said, I got to writing poetry, and poetry proved my downfall. Through my verses I met und became engaged to tin daughter of a man that afterward became Vicc-I'rcsident of the United States. Don't asl me her name. 1 still have enough honor io protect her from the disgrace of seeing her name coupled with that of a burglar. Whisky destroyed my hopes. "1 shipped as pantryman to Liverpool and 1 visited many Kuropoan cities. Uetnrr.iiig to America I became a burglar simply because it offered greater inducements than any thing 1 was able to turn my hand to. "Hut enough of that. The first, burglary 1 remember of committing was when

father lifted me over the

fence into a neighbor's yard to steal I flowers. I suppose he didn't think how bad it really was. but the. memory that first theft ha-- clung to me always. Subsequently when 1 took a notion to steal something more than ilower— namely, to gut a jewelry store—1 fortifieil myself with a good bracer of whisky, 'worked' the house without a blush and blamed my father for teaching me to steal. "Now, across the water It is not so easy to gain itccess to a house as here, because of the iron screens. In -New York it is hardly less diillcult. in my opinion at least, for the same reason'. However, out West it is not considered a diflicult feat to enter a house, take it. where you may." "And you ascribe that to-^t'" "To the way the house is built. People have learned to protcct theii basement windows, as a rule, with bars, but still this is not always tinease. One Would think that a man with his millions, perhaps, ill til" bank, with his house loaded with costly an pieces, and a fortune alone, may be, diamonds and silverware, wouid fake every precaution to guard against.' burglary, but he doesn't,. He imagines',' because lie never has been robbed that he never will be. That is about as much sense as the man had who didn't-' want his life insuri-d because lie luol never died. "Whenever I took a notion to 'work' a house 1 didn't stop to go and look' up the police record and see il the place had been 'worked' before. 1 immediately began laying my plans. A mail I with good nerve and a clear head who works alone ought to be successful. .1 always worked alone except once. Then

I was caught and my 'pal' escaped. 1 I was on thi outside and he 'doing* the job. I took my sentence like a man and never •peached' on him. Had 1 been 'operating' alone 1 don't think I would have been caught. "Aljout mi.kin,.'houses burglar-proof

I should lii-s'i. recommend that ople put locks on their .doors that can't lie pick, ii

With—well, with a button-hook.. A burglar depends largely on a skeleton key to gain access. Men of means. however, now have the latch-lock onr their doors, and these can n-it be picked—that. is. not readily. To guard against, entrance bv the doers they should

heavy, should fit light to prevent work with a "jimmy.'. Should lie dotibi.-locket! with a chain-lock on the, inside am! bolted securely at iopnn-I l'oitoni. That will generally builie a sneak-thief, who I doe.s not deserve to'.he-called a burglar.

However, v.lit he finds the door eli'ectua!'y bars him he can go to the rear, climb on a sued, portico, or even 'skin' a a pi in to second-story window. Such a window is a id to as a a to enter a house. That is why there are so many 'seco.-.d-story workers.' as they are called, but I never tried it my-: self. To prevent these fellows all e-..-posed windows—I mean those opening on a porch or shed—should lie well barred. A 'second-story worker'doesn't carry tools as a rule. He is a sneakthief."

The man spoko these words as if the :j "profession" looked on sneak-thieves..' as objectionable characters who should bo excluded from the society of honest cracksmen. "Hut for iron bars and steel doors." he continued, "an expert burglar has little dread, (jive him time and he will go through any thing. It requires a genius to circumvent him, and even genius is not equal to it. And for this reason: A burglar or safe-blower has a greater incentive for surmounting the difficulties i.i the way of access to a treasure than has the inventor for creating them. The one receives his reward in the shape of salary: the other in working for a fortune, perhaps, that lies just, boyond the barrier which he is endeavoring to overcome. The burglar gains a fortune for a few hours' labor the inventor labors for a year, and at. the end of that time gets barely the worth of his work. It is a natural law that where there is the greatest incentive there will be found the greatest results of labor. So it is you will find burglars as smart and even smarter than inventors. "For my part I fail to see how you could make a house absolutely burglarproof. You might make it so diflicult of access that the burglar will find another to suit his purposes as well. One thing is certain, however: A rich man is a fool not to have bars on his windows. They cost little, but they may save much."

Niagara Wearing Away.

From the report of the State Engineer of New York it is learned that Niagara Falls are receding about two feet every year. The first accurate survey was made in 1842, and since that the total recession amounts to more than one hundred feet. This is not strange, considering that two hundred and seventy thousand cubic feet of water pass over the falls every second, or over sixteen million cubic feet per minute.