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VOL. VII—NO. 312

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The Latest Fad

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SPECIAL LOW RATES

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BIG FOUR ROUTE

For Following Meetings:

"Y. P. B. 0. E." AT 0LEVELAN1). July 11-15. NATIONAL TEA0HEE8' ASSOCIATION

ASBORY PAHK. July 0-13.

BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLES' UNION TOltONTO. July 10-22. LEAGUE OF AMEKIOAN WHEELMliN

DENVKU. August 13-18.

KNIGHTS 01 F7THIA8. WASHINGTON. D. C., IN AUGUST. G. A. fi. AT PlTl'SBQEGH,

September 10-15.

Ask nearest Agent lor DaU: of Sale, Return Limit, Routes, Train 8orvlco, etc. E O. M'COKMICK" D. B. MAHT1N, l'ass. Trafllc MitUK'r. Gon'l Pass'r&TktAgt

CINCINNATI.

GRAHAM & MORTON

TRANSPORTATION CO.

"liukc and Rail Route to CliicRpo via St. Joseph.

Tho favorite pfiseouger steamers "City of Cbicueo" and "Chleora" make double daily trine between Benton Harbor, St. Joseph and Chlcngo, oonnccttng at St. Joseph with the Vaudalia lly. Equipment and service the best and time lens than by any other lake route. The following schedule will be observed on and alter June 10:

Uetweeu bt. Joseph and ChicagoLeave St. Joseph (Vandalla Dock) at 3 p. in., daily ex* cept Sunday (Sunday leave at p» m.) and at m., daily includlmr Sunday* LeaveChlcaaro rom dock foot of wnbaah aveuue at 0:30 a. m. and 11:110 p. m., daily Sunday Included alBO leave Chicago at 2 p. n., Saturday only.

Milwaukee Division'The Steamer Held will mako tr'-weeklj trips between St. Joseph and Milwaukee, leaving St. Joseph (Vandalla Dock) at 8 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Leave Milwaukee from Vandalla Dock, foot of Broadway, Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday at 7 p. ID.

For Information as to through rates of freight or passage via these routes, apply to agentf Vandalla Ry.

J. U. GRAHAM. President. Benton Harbor. Mich.

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War Duels

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FRANK LESLIES'

Scenes^ Portraits

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Civil War.

PART II contains the following full and double-page illustrations of Our Great

Rebellion:

Portraits of General Sherman. United States cavalry scouting in the neighborhood of Fairfax Courthouse, Va. Movement of troops from Collins' Lino Line Dock, Canal street, New York. United States arsenal at Charleston, S. 0„ seized by State authorities, Dec. 2 8th, 1800. Portrait of Major Robert Anderson. Portrait of Brigadier General Beaurgard. Scene on the floating battery Charleston Harbor, during bonbardment of Fort Sumter.

Battle of Rich Mountain, Beverly Pike, V.. July 12. I Battle of Carrlck's Ford, July 15t.h, 1801 The engagement' at Beallngton, Va., ietwerni Ohlo^and Indiana regiments and a detachment of Georgia troops. Rescue of Major Reynolds' Battery of Marines from the foundering steamer "Governor" off Cape Hatteras, Nov. 2nd, 1801. Explosion of Bhell In cutter ot United States steamer "Niagara" Nov. 3d, 1801. General McCow'an addressing tho Thirty fifth Abbeville (8. C.) Volunteers, in front of Charleston Hotel Group of Ellsworth's Chicago Zouave Cadeta. Tho Railroad Battery protecting workmen on the Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore and Ohio liailroad. Return of Federal foraging parties into camp near Annadale Chapel, Va. The attack upon the Batteries at the entrance of Aquia creek to Potomac river, by the United States vessels "Pawnee," "Yankee," •Thomas Freeborn," "Annacasta" and "Resolute" June 1st, 1801.

THEO. McMECHAN,

DENTIST,

CHIWIOHDSVrLLB. INDIANA TandWiM serviceto Mw public. Motto

TALL (SNAKE STORIES.

Some Curious Revelations by a Reptilian Expert. :V

Crawlers XI at Possess But Little Brain Power and Are Very Tenaclona of Llffr-Bcoetlclal to

Farmers.

"A snako has no means for separatln(r flesh from bones and feathers," said an expert to a reporter for tho Washington Star. "It swallows Its prey alivo. Tho latter usually dies of suffocation. In the process of deglutition tho breathing of tho serpent is interfered with, so that after performing it tho reptile yawns widely in order to tako In air. Sometimes at this moment tho victim, though already on Its way,to tho stomach of its devouror, has been known to turn about and crawl out again in safety, effecting its escape., "When two snakes are In a cage together, and both get hold of the same frog or rat, they will advanoe upon It until their' heads meet, when one of them will proceed to swallow tho other. Keepers of' serpents at zoological gardens have constantly to bo on the lookout for'?r such accidents. have known one valuable reptile to bo rescued after, several feet of him had been consumed. When discovered in this predicament only a foot of his tail stuck out of tho mouth of a comrade. "Cannibalism Is very common in snakes. A box of Imported serpents labeled 'ton cobras' or 'fourteen' vipers' will often be found short In the number on this account. It Is a curious fact that these reptiles, as a rule, seize animals bigger than themselves. The structure of their ribs permits great expansion of the body, and a snako of superior size is disposed of by doubling up in tho stomach. "It is often askod what these crawling creatures are good for. For one thing, they are able to penetrate where no larger carnivorous animal Sould venture, into dense and noisome morasses, bogs, jungles and swamps, amid the tangled vegetation of the tropics, where they feed on swarms of smaller reptiles. Tho hedgehog, weasel, rat, peccary, badger, hog, goat and many kinds of birds keep snakes within due limits as to numbers, while the latter devour innumerable lesser vermin. Thus the balance of nature Is maintained. "Snakes havo small brains, slight Intelligence and little sensibility to pain. They can live for a long time deprived of their vital organs, while the heart, if taken from the body, will continue to beat for a considerable time. If the head bo severed it will try to bite, while the body will continue to move, coll and even spring. "Many serpen which do not live In trees will climb them in search of birds' eggs. They do much damage In poultry yards. When once the eggs are missed from a hen's nest and- a snake's track is discovered tho farmer knows that tho thief will repeat the offense, so a watch is set and no mercy, is shown to the culprit when caught. "On tho other hand, snakes are of important use to agriculture by oonsuming- the mice that devour the crqps. Snake catchers who pack serpents 'for transportation across the ocean commonly supply them with food for the journey in the shape of eggs. "There is a well-authenticated story: of a cobra that got thrpugh a 'chink ln! a hen-house and ate so many eggs firom under a sitting fowl that it could not get out again .through the same oraigk.j

Next morning it w^s killed and ?h'tl open, when, as the eggs were ..found^to' be unbroken and still warm,.the experiment was tried of replacing them 'tinder the mother, .who, in due time,! hatched out the broo4 none the woAef for this remarkable accident. "Black snakes, though not venomous, are killed by farmers wherever: found, because of the havoc they make, in poultry yards. This kind of serpent' climbs trees with ease and has been' described as the 'nimblest creature living.' Tliero is one very extraordinary serpent called the 'anodon,' whose business, according to Prof. Owen, Is to restrain the undue increase of small birds by devouring their eggs. Par back in its throat it has certain projections which serve as teeth, though, in reality, they are points of the spino projecting Into the gullet."

TALK ABOUT WEATHER.

New York Man Who Tells the Temperature by Tasting the Atmosphere. There Is a man in New York who 13 an expert weather sampler, and just as the tea expert tastes his brands to appraise them, so this man tastes the weather, lie will at any time of the day, or at any place, so long as it Is in the open air, taste the atmosphere and tell you what the temperature Is. He never gets more than two degrees away and seldom more than one. The other day, says tho Tribune, a friend played a joke on him by using a thermometer which was not in working order. Tho sampler, after tasting the weather, said that it was thirty-ond. degrees above zero. The thermometer said it was thirty-seven, but the' expert would not be convinced that he could be wrong. Ho insisted that they walk along until they found another thermometer. They found it and it! registered thirty-one degrees. "When the leaves turn early," says a: Michigan !„man, "we have a hard winter. When they turn late wo have an openwintor. One would suppose that the time at which winter set in would have everything to do with the turning of tho leaves, and it Is known that some open winters set in early and some cold ones set in late. 13ut I have noticed that tho time of .cojd weather beginning, does not mark the turning of tho leaves. The present winter sot in early'in Michigan. "There was unusually cold weather In October, but the leaves did not turn until a month later than the average time. All lumbermen arranged for an open winter on that account, and they have Dot been mistaken. In faet, I havo never known the sign to fall."

DISEASE SPREAD BY DOGS.

BOB, Startling Statistic, from the French BepubUo Regarding .Consumption.

Consumption now carries off five per thousand persons in France, or one hundred and seventy thousand a year, says the London Blspatch. In England the mortality has fallen to two per thousand. The towns where this scourge is most intense are Paris,where the mortality from it is one out of five deaths Dijon and Nancy, where it is one out of seven, and Marseilles, where It is one out of six. At the Protestant congress at Havre, held to stod

Dr. Gilbert, who Is" a"cbnsumptive "specialist, said that drunkards are particularly subject to it There is drunkard's phthisis. Now, the habitations of inebriates are dirty and ill-kept, and cleanliness is a great obstacle to tho spread of contagious diseases. In La Cite Ilavraise, or mansions built for working-class tenants, tho mortality from consumption is very high, notwithstanding the hygienic principles according to which the architect worked. There were five out of twelve deaths from consumption. This might be explained from the tenants' habit of spitting about. A woman's dress that swept the spuma of a consumptive on tho stairs picked up tho germs, which she inhaled when brushing the garment. Dr. Gilbert is, for this reason, against tenement houses or mansions for tho poor. Tho shaking of clothes and bedding from tho windows and balconies was another source of contagion.^ The subject of dogs as a means of propagating consumption was also gone into. A report of Prof. Cadiot, of the veterinary school of Alfort. shows that they must often be a vehicle for spreading it. He had long treated dogs suffering from tuberculosis for cancer, but latterly the mir croscope showed him what their disease was. Between the 14th of last .March and the 7th of April eight dogs died at Alfort of tuberculosis. From the 1st of October, 1801V to the 1st o'f

August, 1808, he made:forty post mortems out of nine thousand, and found in all the forty cases tuberculosis to be the cauBe of death. Tho disease Is very catching frOm a dog. It originates in the Intestinal mucus, because dogs eat bones picked by tubercular patients and lick up what they leave on plates. They also keep about them if attached to them and in this way some get affected through the lungs. If tho dog Is often:contaminated, by the human patient he in turn spreads the disease to other human beings.

PUSHING TRAD6 IN AMERICA.

Manj Tricks Resorted to by European Dealers In Wines and Liquors. There is a trick in the champagne, and in fact In all wine and liquor trades, known as "pushing." A French house whic casts envious eyes on the American market has to "push" its wine to get it sold here. The agents resort to all manner of expedients to sell their wine. They give prizes to head bartenders, stewards, etc. Tiiey create a fictitious demand by asking for a certain b^and in hotels and restaurants where that particular: brand is not In stock. They employ their men to "make the rounds" and do the same thing. When they are with a crowd they order their own brand, pay for it and make the rest of the pai ty drink it. Then, of, course, the next man who orders calls! jfor the same wine. This "pushing" o£ wines makes it impossible to judge of the American, taste for any one particular champagne. One brand may be "pushed" into demand one.yeqr

NOW A DESERTED VILLAGE.

Virginia City,- Kit., Once Gay and Tmperoui,1 RspidI/ Falllor.to Ruins. "A poet could write on 'The Deserted Village' with Virginia City as a subject and .surpass'. Goldsmith's immortal production on the same topic," said a resident of San Francisco to a St. Louis Globe-Democrat man. "The first time that I was ever there the population of Virginia City was greater than that of the entire, state now. Everything ran wide open. Magnificent hotels and. opera halls, palatial residences, stores that would havo done credit to New York, millionaires who spent money freely,' maUtaliiing a society that for brilliancy and gayety could not be equaled. in the United States. I Was there a short timo.^gq.: The hotels an'd opera houses are (dosed,the residences empty," the storeS removed to other and more pr&perous places.' DweUings"~ thjit cost hundreds of th^j^'ndsof dqlla^^are givenjgver' to tfig. bats', "an$ Ih^Sr'pkeb^p$nyi o£ glass,^Jthe shutte'rsTiarigln'g upon a single hinge or flagging in^the-^vfcind givp a grewsome sense of .'loneliness. Iil years 'to come it will afford magnificent spectacles of ruins, and even now in some sections of the town there is a sense to the behQlder of being in a city of the past. Millions were* made and lost, and the history of :,Virginia City would be one of the most thrilling stories ever written."

THE CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL.

OR AWFORDS VILLE, INI IAN A, FRIDAY, JULY 0,1894

Eand

allowed* to

fall from grace in.the next,-, The.idea, according, to the New York Tribune,: Is to spend a greatHear of money, oneyear In 'getting a wine -before the publie and then to. make a'l&rge ..profit on succeeding year's, "it is living on one's 'reputation. So. tliat if the salie of a few brandsin&ea^es feom year to year that isjiot a fair estimate from which "to ,araw\^ncl\isionB,' and the same holds true If thi^sale of a few brands decrease^, But .v^lien ye take tvven tythree Anterieanlt agents' and compare their sales fbr t^o years we get a good idea of tlig .vhoJe- trade iR this country. •Owjpide^of those twenty-three houses all ^thej^'oglen'tjslii .. this country 'brought here in'1808 only 9,808 coses. •Cast yeart'.'all other jagents" imported 9,227. The imijortfi- ior 1898 of twentythree a&e&ts-,ii$d'all Others were 860,622 casesfbut'last yeiar they fell off to 278,520.4 Whists 'a decrease of 72,102 cases, represenWng wine. which would 6oB£th6Cion?iinler rfv'er 8^,000,000. But a consumption of 278,530 cases, most people will gay wj^have not the financial taste for cfiampagne, is a very great'de'al.

Marriage In England. v.

Some curious marriage statistics of England and Wales have recently been made public. Taking all persons above 15 years of age, there are 8,716,808 unmarried males, 4,851,548 married :miles, and 484,990 widowers, against 8,008,005 unmarried females, 4,*010,049 married females, aud 1,124,810' widows. English scientists have these rather puzzling .questions to answer: Why does the number of widows so'1 greatly' exceed that of the widowers? And again, how can there be 4,910,849 married females and Only 4,851,548 married males, unless some 100,000 or so persons have been guilty of bigamy?

Watery Meadows.

Much of the land classed as "meadow" in tho Adirondack region is a curious swampy soil, covered with vegetation that rises so as to hide tho underlying cold, dark water. One may walk for miles upon such meadow, the feet sinking into it as into a watersoaked sponge, and. deer frequently feed upon the grasses of the meadows and seepiingly enjoy in midsummer the perpjtna'l cool footbath of their

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GOOD YEAR FOR IRELAND

Peace and Prosperity the Rule During 1893. I

Harvest. Were Abundant and the Agricultural Clause. Enjoyed Many of the Comforts of Life.

The year which has just drawn to a close has been remarkable as one of tho most peaceable and prosperous whloh has passed within the century. In view of recent occurrences it can hardly be considered uneventful, says the London Times, but theso occurrences were exceptional and do not affect its general character. The people, as a whole, have never been freer from distress and the evils which follow in its oourse. Since tho year 1820, which is treasured in remembrance, they have not been favored with so dry a summer or a season more favorable to agricultural pursuits. Although the total area under cultivation showed a decrease of 5,805 acres in cereal crops and 21,280 in green crops, and some of the crops were light and thin for want of rain, yet tho drought was^not felt so severely in Ireland as in England, the soil retaining a large store of moisture from previous years, which was drawn to the surface and preserved ths vitality of tho seeds and roots.

The result was that the harvest was saved in such good condition and so much earlier as to more than compensate for any deficiency in the acreage under cultivation, which, after all, was but slight. The total extent under cereal crops was 1.489,898 acres, and under green crops, 1,158,627 acres. The extent under clover and grasses was G42.050 acres, being an increase of 18,170 acrcs, and under hay or permanent pasture 1,525,108 acres, showing an increase of 0,184 acres. There is also an abundant supply of sound potatoes and of turf, which arc appreciable elements of comfort in the small farmhouses aud laborers' cabins. -These advantages have had a tranquilizing- and encouraging effect upon the agricultural classes, who are heartily tired of political agitation, and disposed to apply themselves to more profitable pursuits. There are many satisfactory signs of a beneficial change in the moral as well as the material condition of tho poople. Not the least impressive of these are the willingness and comparative punctuality with which rents are generally paid, the utter failure of the attempts which have been strenuously made to revive political excitement, and the greater readiness to adopt the practical suggestions of those who are competent to give good advice and have no selfish object to gain.

Among the most active and successful of the agencies which are endeavoring to teach them better methods and habits are the congested districts board, the Royal Dublin society, the^ various .educational institutions- and industrial companies for employing teachers to point'out the best systems of, dairy farming and butter making, establishing creameries, and encouraging small inariufocturers '.and cottage work adapted to the circumstances of the country. The .well directed efforts of these several organizations are effecting A marked imprbteimenf every where,.'although no reduction has been effected in the amount of actual pauperlsinrwhich represents a stage of almost lippejoss destitution^ It appears froni.ptio of, "the last weekly returns for the: year that the number receiving relief ln the workhouses was 42,999, and outdoor relief 6St185, tyhich Is a few hundred more than in the corresponding week of the previous year.

The general trade of the country has, ,not shown much enterprise, but,! ^though limited in volume', it has been [sound and steady. Except'in two or three instances there have been, no heavy- failures during the year. Twt of tho failures were those of contract-: ors, one of whom wa4" carrying out light railwoy work in the iftrfest of Ireland. As a rule,'credit has been, well maintained, and all the 'banks: have been able to pay good dividends, especially the Ulster companies, yvhioh: have given-as high as from 10 to 20per cent.

GERONIMO ON THE BENCH.

The Famous Apache Acting as a Justice of the Peace In Alabama. John P. Clum, a post office inspector, who spent some time recently in the camp of the renegade Apaches at Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama, reports that they have made creditable' progress in the arts of' civilization. Mr. Clum should lea competent judge,, for he spent several years with these Jndians on tho San" Carlos reservation, In Arizona, and afterward It became his duty, in April, 1877, to assist in the Capture at Ojo Caliente, N. M., of

?6eronimo,

Francisco and other Apache

enega*U5s. Subsequently Geronlmo escap^d again, and after a new career of bloodshed and rapine surrendered to Geil.: N. A. Miles. This was-*ifril800. •letter the Apaches of Geronimgtejiand, men,1 women and children, were "sent to Alabama. For the first yearo^two the mortality among them was very great, hut, according to tl^e New York

Evening: Post. ihey have how become acclimated. Each family has a frame? house, equipped with cooking range' an4' .necessary" furniture, to live in. The Indians have adopted a civilized style of dress the men weave baskets and the. women wash clothes. A company of infantry has been formed out of the ypung monj and their barracks is a,part of the Indian village. Geronimohas been elected an alcalde, or justice* and tries minor offenses reported to him. Ills sentences to terms of imprisonment in tho guardhouse seem to give, general satisfaction. This onco bloodthirsty chief Is now content to make an honest penny by selling bows and arrows and also photographs of himself. The young children are being educated in the settlement, and the' older ones attend the Carlisle school. While these Apaches are pris oners of war, they are virtually on parole, and come and go as they please.

TYRANNOUS DOORKEEPERS.

An Odd Type of Man Peculiar to the Wholesale Business nouses. From all outward appearances tho most important men—ip their own estimation—in the large wholesale drygoods establishments of the city are the doorkeepers. In this respect they occupy positions' analagous to their prototypes, the floor-walkers of the retail establishments, says the New York Herald.

No dpnbt the positions have their responsibilities, tnul what positions have not in a large business house, from tho

EDu porter 10 liie lie'uu ol Hie esTaljlislTment? Responsibility, therefore, is not monopolized by tho doortenders and affords no reason for tho fine assumption of superiority which the actions of the men imply.

The duty of tho doorkeepers is primarily to take the time of the salesmen and clerks on entering and leaving the stores, shaking hands with hayseed customers and bawling out the names of tho salesmen they desire to see in stentorian tones. In addition to these they are expected to exclude peddlers and beggars and to see that no one removes small parcels of merchandise unless they bear the proper "out check" of some one in authority.

It is in the manner in which theso simple duties are performed which makes many of the doorkeepers ridiculous. They would bo obnoxious were they not so supremo'^ absurd. In a voice, the volume of which might do credit to tho lato Count Johannes in passion, and with a look supposed to strike terror to a guilty soul, one of them stationed in a Uroadway jobbing house overawes little messenger boys and creates in the minds of some of the firm's humbler customers an impression that he is a powerful factor in tho firm.

This latter quite possibly is what the man desires to do, for as a supposed power these simpletons seek to propitiate Cerberus. They drop an occasional cigar into his hand and somo time during the winter probably send him a turkey or a big pumpkin. With the proprietor of the peanut-stand on the corner and the bootblack, both of who are priviledged to ply their trade in consideration of keeping the sidewalk clean, he exercises a mild 6ystem of blackmail.

The vender, in return for his favored glances, supplies him with peanuts and apples the bootblaok shinos his shoos for nothing. No newspaper boy Is permitted to enter the store without tho understanding that he is to give the doorkeeper a paper. Such are the perquisites of the position of doorkeeper in a wholesale downtown house. Not all of them, of course, accept theso potty tyrannies, but some of them do, and display a very contemptible spirit, too, in doing so.

MEN TIGERS OF INDIA.

A Strange Superstition of the Ignorant Natives.

The belief Is very general throughout India that men are turned into tigers by eating of a certain root. It Is supposed that tigers who destroy many human beings are men who have partaken of this peculiar root. The Sarimant, chief of Deori, related to tho author of "Rambles and Recollections" the following anecdote "Tho tigers whioh now infest the woods from Sagar to Doori are neither more nor IOBS than men turned into tigers—a thing which often takes place in the woods of central India. The only visible difference between tho two is-that ,tlio metamorphosed tiger has -no tail, while the lora, or ordinary tiger, has a very long one. "In the jungle about Dcori there is a root which if a man eat of it ho Is converted into a tiger on tho spot and if in this state he can eat of another root ho becomes a man again. When I was a boy a-'.melancholy instance of the root eating occurred. "My father's washerman, Haghu.was, like all washermen, a great drunkard and, being seized with a violent desire to ascertain what a man felt in tho state of a tiger, he went one day to the jungle and brought home two of theso roots and desired his wife to stand by him with one of them, and the instant she saw him assume tho tiger shape to thrust it into his mouth. "The washerman ate his root and became Instantly a tiger, but his wife was so terrified at the sight of hor husband in this form that she ran off with the- antidote in her hand. "Poor old Raghu took to the woods, and there ate a good many of his old friends from neighboring villages but he" was at last shot and recognized from the circumstance of his having no tail. "You may bo quite sure," concluded Sarimont, "when you hear of a tiger without a tail that it is some unfortunate man who has eaten of that root, and of all the tigers he will be found the most mischievous."

Tho Sarimant religiously believes the truth of this story and so do his attendants and mine and out of a population of thirty thousand-in tho town of Sagar not one would doubt tho story of the washerman If ho heard It.

Slrls tn Alaskan Society.

Visitors to Sitka pronounce it not a bod thing at all to be a girl In Alaska soctcty, for girls ore a long way above par in tho social swim. There are card parties und receptions, there aro teas and dinners on the trim little gunboats, with men to preside at the urn aild show how badly even the best of tho sex do the things a woman does so gracefully. There are balls In the Russian castle on the hill, where In the old days the Muscovite governors brought their high-bred wives and hold carnival through tho long Alaskan winters. Like the Japanese, in case of company everybody borrows of everybody. The governor's wife Is served from her own china at the captain's dinner, and tho lieutenant's bride may eat from her own wedding spoons at tho paymaster's party, but there Is loss strife and envy and uncharltablencss than in social circles at the great centers of civilization, where everybody Is striving to outdo everybody else.

In the Right Place.

\A. Chicago attorney, somewhat noted for his sharp practice, sent his client one day to watch the case. Word came to him that his case was next on the docket, and he hurried over to find the opposing counsel already beginning. In vain he looked for his client. He was nowhere to be seen. In vain he asked for delay but the court told him that the carelessness of a client would not allow such a thing. At last he glanced into the jury box and saw his client there. The stupid man had thought he heard his name called and had marched in with the rest. The opposing counsel was so anxious to hurry the case along that he neglected to examine the jury. Seeing the thing was in his own hands, the Chicago attorney turned to the court. "I withdraw all objection," he said, "I have my client where I want him."

Jut lee Bills.

Ice accounts for month of June are now due and will be presented for payment. 1 7-7 MABTXN & SON.

Do you have headache, dizziness, drowsiness, loss of symptoms of bjj saparillawillj

tite and other 2 Hold's Sar-

THE PROFESSOR SWOONED.

Because the Youutc LIKIIPH kaughed at Ills Attempts to Speak KnglUli. A rather severe lesson in manners and hospitality was given by Sig. Macchi, commissioner-general of the midwinter fair for Italy, to tho twenty or thirty stenographers who assembled in an offlco of tho Mills building tho other evening to listen to the views of Prof. Buzzoni, a teacher of shorthand in one of the leading institutions of Italy, says the San Francisco Examiner.

Tho object of the meeting to tako steps toward an exhibit of the different systems of stenography in this country at the fair, the ultimata aim being the perfecting of the system embodying tho best elements of the leading systems now in vogue.

Prof. Buzzoni, who speaks very little English, began reading an address, but was from time to time, interrupted by the younger female portion of his audience, who were unable to suppress a desire to laugh outright.

Sig. Macchi at last asked the speaker to desist and, calling uttention to the professor's lack of proficiency in the English language, spoke of America's boasted hospitality and generosity to strangers, and so shamed his listeners that quiet was restored.

Iiut his treatment had been too much for tho teacher stenography, who had been growing paler with anger as lie proceeded and who at the conclusioslon of his eompatxic.t's words swooned outright.

A doctor was hastily summoned and restoratives were administered, but it. was over an hour before the patient recovered sufficiently to bo conveyed to his hotel.

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Much to tho regret anil mortification of the few who listened attentively to the professor's address, the meeting was adjourned indefinitely. "The outrage that lms been committed to-nlglit," said Sig. Macchi, "and tho lack of manner and breeding shown would be hard to find in all of Italy and I am afraid that this proposed movement inaugurated by one of my counu-y'8 most prominent teachers has received a death blow, as Prof. Buzzoni 'is of a high-strung,* nervous disposition and must feel deeply the laughter and disorder that greeted his efforts."

FIRST SIGHT OF RED HAIR.

flow It Arousoft the Wondnr of Colorado Indians Years Ago. "I was in Colorado in 1875," said- a resident of Canon City, Col., to a reporter for tho Washington Post, "before tho Influence of the -white man was utterly dominant. Tho Indians around what is now Meeker had seen but little of tho white man and knew comparatively nothing of him or his ways or habits exeept from hearsay and tradition. 1 meUn to say that there were many of them to whom tho white man was as much a curiosity as an Indian would be to a New York Bowery boy. As you see, nature saw flt to give me a shock of carmine colored hair. When I first went among tho Indians they all thought it was painted, just as they universally paint thoir own bodies and faces and heads. An old chief camo up to mo one day and looked at my hair very carefully. 'Ugh,' said he, and thon turning to the guide who had our party in charge, ho asked him to ask me where 1 got tho kind of paint that would color and not bo greasy or look dauby. Tho guide told him that my hair wasn't painted, but he wouldn't believe him. Ho came over and once more closely scrutinized my locks, running his hand over them and then looking at his fingers. I didn't know what ho was after. I had an idea that ho was calculating how nice my red scalp would look hung about his dirty old body, and was inclined to resent it. Our guide, however, laughingly told me what tho old chief had said. Two or three more of the bucks gathered about us, and they and the guide had a poWwow. Finally the guide asked me if I would object to putting water on my hair. He said tho Indians wouldn't believe it wasn't painted until they saw that water .wouldn't wash the color out. Of course,

I took some water and rubbed it on my hair and then showed my hands to them. It took four or five days of wondering examination to convince them that I hadn't, found some particular fine paint and got myself up in a bright suit of hair."

TWO ROYAL DIAMOND FLUSHES.

Ileld at the Same Time In One Room and Secured In the Same Way. All the San Francisco men about town who play cards aro talking about the two remarkable hands held a few evenings ago at the Pacific-Union club, and the doctrinc of chances is being calculated to ascertain how soon such a coincidence might be expected to happen again. The general belief, according to tho Examiner, is that no such hands were ever held simultaneously before 6ince poker was first played, and that no one now living will ever see them so held again. For tho benefit of the truly good it may be stated that a royal flush is tho highest hand in poker. It consists of a sequence of ace, king, queen, knave and ten in any one suit. As may bo supposed, tho appearances of this hand are llko the visits of angels and not much more frequent than dentition In hens. Considerable poker is played at the Pacific-Union, but a royal flush had not been seen in months until tho occurrence of tho other night. There are four tables in a row in tho poker-room at the club. Four men were sitting at each of- tho two middle tables. At Identically the same time one of tho players at each of the two table held a royal flush in diamonds. And as if this coincidence were not sufficiently un

usual, eaoh of the lucky two got his hand in exactly the same way, getting the ace, king, queen and knave on the deal and the ten spot on the draw. One only won thirty-five dollars on tats hand, but the winning of the other was sojbig that ho has Kept the exact to himself, so as not to oseii

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A DESPOTIC RULER.

The Ptoinach Not Easily Dethroned When Once It Obtains Mastery. One of the greatest misfortunes that can happen to a man in his earthly career is to discoyer that he has a stomach. He may know it theoretically or recollect the lSssons in physiology of his schoolboy days, but according to tho San Francisco Chronicle, when ho finds out by actual, personal experience that he has'a stomach ho is to bo pitied. Tho whole science of gastronomy—and it is a scienco—has been devised and perfected for tho benefit of tho men who hove mode this discovery. All tho Btudies of the whole glittering galaxy of gastronomists, all tho culinary triumphs of the great restaurants in tho capitals of the world, are due to the simple faot that men luivo fo\md out that they have stomachs, and that that organ, when ohco dlscovciffld, must be pcttvd and flattered and soothed and kept In good humor to prevent its revolting and creating revolution and civil war. It is safe to say that the primitive man never knew that ho had a stomach. It has boon reserved for civilization to make tho discovery, and it Is by no means a foregone conclusion that civilization should pride itself upon having done so.

The maxim that ono never enjoys a good dinner until after it has been eaten is a refinement of modern and degenerate days, containing much sound philosophy from a certain standpoint, but that standpoint is a fictitious und mistaken one. There is no natural reason why a dinner, good or bad, should be enjoyed. Tho one object of eating is to satisfy hunger, and that being done, the dinner should be forgotten. It is only the imperious and arbitrary stomach which Insists upon a further recognition of its olaims, and it is only human weakness which submits to its demand. A modern philosopher, in terse though Inelegant diction, lias laid down this maxim, which is almost idiomatic: "You must down your stomach or your stomach will down you." There is more in this than will meet the eyo of the casual reader. The stomach may, as certain of the ancients believed, bo the real Beat of the emotions, passions' and affections, but we make a great mistake if we subordinate the ego to a single organ, and especially to ono which Is'only too|ready'to|presumeupon tho favor shown it and the license givqn it. Ilieialthydiildren know nothing about thoir stomachs, except that they,ache sometimes if called on to do double duty, and there is nothing so liealthyand happy In the world as a he,althy child. If children of a larger growth could but Ignore tho gastric organ or forget it, dyspepsia would become a lost disease, and all the evils that, follow in its train would disappear.

DOES NOT LIKE CEREMONY.

The Saltan 0/ Turkesy Receives Visitors in Simple Style and Lights Their Cigarettes. The correspondent of an English paper was recently accorded an interview by the sultan of Turkey, and was surprised at, the noticeable lack of ceremony with which he was received. When the newspaper man entered tho royal presence lie found his majesty standing .ready to receive him. Tho descendant of Mahomet II. and of Selim had no rich turbans, no jeweled robes, no ornaments, nothing that distinguishes princes from ordinary people in tho east, except the true ornaments of the noble and well born, polite bearing and refined expression, lie appeared a perfect European prince, if anything politer and simpler than ordinary men. His majesty has even cast off the aigrette which his predecessors wore with the fez. There were no intricate ceremonies to bo gone through as at the reception of tho great mogul or at other eastern courts. There were no attendants present as arc invariably to be sec the private rooms of eastern princes. "Sentiment and tradition," says tho correspondent, "compelled me to do homage to the caliph like an oriental, with a bow. As soon as tho formality was gone through his majesty shook hands, took his seat and desired me to bo seated. The sultan was dressed plainly, wearing no orders, stars or decorations of any kind. He is very fair, lias a round head plentifully covered with grizzly gray hair, and possesses striking features." The interview was of the most chatty and friendly character, the sultan showing marked acquaintance with literature, especially that of the east, and his Information on general subjects is extensive. When the correspondent arose to take his leave the Turkish ruler put his hand on the visitor's head and gave him bj' that act the caliphal blessing.

With the multifarious duties that he has to perform his majesty prays, according to the Mohammedan custom, five times a day with the regularity of a clock, no fasts for thirty days during the month of tho Ramadhan. He abstains from all kinds of alcoholic beverages nnd from gambling. lie patronizes religious and moral institutions not only among his own people but among all the Mohammedans of the world. Moreover, ho does not confine his charity to the poor and needy of his own religion, but, aecordlng to tho dictates ot the ICorun, ho helps tho deserving irrespective of their religious beliefs. Ho allows toleration to the highest degree, and is himself anything but a bigot. Ho Is a great patron of learning of all kinds.

A Wonderrul Tunnel.

The cities of Worsley and St. Helens, in north England, are Bixtocn miles apart, yet they are connected by tho most wonderful canal In tho world. A tunnol has been cut through the great vein of coal which underlios the wholo of Lancashire, and this, filled with wate&from the drainage trenches of that gleat system of mines, makes a remarkable underground canal, in which vie water is constantly five fpet deep. ^This canal is provided with a re^ulai' system of coal boats, whkslM oonsttfntlv moving thousands..ftfAtftns 'tiel betwMHr tha

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