Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 July 1890 — Page 6

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THE SCIENCE OF LIFE .'.-Scicntific nnd Standard Popular Medical Treatise .L."..he iiviors nf Youth,Premature Decline, Nervous l'r,v .cjJ Debility, Imparl!lea of.the Blood.

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-i* ESSAY on NEUYOUS ar.d i'.'J' '.Mi T5EBII«ITY.Dr.Pnrkeronda corps -., '..T, Physicians may bo consulted, confi:.£!ai:v. bv mr.il or In person, at the office of a« IT-.BODY MEDICAL. INSTITUTE, K'i. Ii::!ll:-.cta St., Boston, Mass., to whom a!l -t,ir hooks or letters for advice should be u. wicit at chare.

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[For L08T or FAHJJTO XANHOODi General and NERVOUS DEEILITYj JWeakneu of Body and

HEALTH, WEALTH.

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Homo seekers will And the last of the public domain of agricultural and grazing value along tho ^great Northern railway in Nor! Dakota and Montana.

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1100 or more along the Great I Northern Railway lino. Buslness chances. Write F. I.

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Whitney, St- Paul. Minn., for I Book -, .Maps, £c. Write how.

HUNTING -FISHING.

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Settlers on^free Government lands along the Great North-1 ern railway lino in Northern Dakota and Montana get low i, rates anl flue markets fori piljipo products. UillijU

Finest resorts in America along the Great Northern railway line In Minnesota, Dakotas and Montana. Best cllinato for health seekers.

Montana produces the finest 1 nflCQPfl horsosa and cattle. Free) uUIlOllUj range yet InlMouse. Milk and Sun Hirer Velleys and Sweet I fl A fTlfllT 1} Grass Hills.

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In Motana. Free.^c&nds, New Towns. NJJsr Railways, New Mines tow Rates. Largest arejiar good vacant- land.

Sweet GrassHnS/^Illk and lieyg, reached onij^y the Great li-MfiS'was'Line, The I !klsers' paradtle.

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Sun River Valley^ Montana, reached onijoy Nocttigif StdBPI

Tho regions tributary to Great Northern Railway Line Montana, produce all the I precious and bases metals.

New towns and railways are being built.

Uo to tho Grenii Reservation of Monti^i and get a good treo honiSk1!!,!. Low rates and free l-™e Meepors on the Great Northern Railway Line. Go now.

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nunuo Those have made Montana

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the richest State per capita In Union. Plenty of room for

MTV Tin miners aud ftook raiders. Now

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Along tho Great Northern Railway &iue in Montana are free ranches and pasturage, mines of precious metals, iron nnd coal, aud new cities and towns. Now is your chance.

YOUNG MM.

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fmp ill) 1 cultural and grazing country, UilDlil 1 close to mines ot precious motalB Iron ahd coal, posseps"p A 1 ing a water power unequaled filUilO- 'in America, it is Montana's 1 industral eenter.

Tho Valleys ol lted, Moose, Missouri, Milk and Sun rivers reached by Great northern Railway Line. Half rato excursions !-eut. 9. and Oct. 14. 1S90. Write K. I. WHITXsEV, St. l'anl. Minn.

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How 1 s.-tvpii My Life.

I was taken -sick \*h'-le at the dinner tablo with terrible 'iistriwsm my stomach. Hefore th's I had been hourly and strong. For 14 days I kept gutting worse, ilespite the efforts of two doctors, lost forty pounds, ami was satisfied that I could live but a few -lays My trouble was

Stomach tuid Liver Complaint,

resulting in an attack blli'.us colic. At this time I saw Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Honndoiu. N. Y.. advortised. and sen I for a bottle. I also son -, for tuy physician and told him that 1 was goiug to try the Favorite Remedy. lie .-xamined and told me to use It tlireo days and let h-Vm know the result. I walkoil four miles in the three days. Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy lias saved mj lite. V,\ S. Hitzer, Slate Mills, lioss Co.. Ohio.

Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy

Made at HOL'-NDOl'T, N. Y. $1 for |5

HER IFF SAI.E.

By virtue of a corallied Cu|iy of a decree to me directed from the Clerk of Montgomery Circuit Court, In a cause wherein Walter F. llulett, administrator, is plaintilT, and Willard Craig is defondant, requiring me to make the sum of five hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty ccnts, with interest on said docroe and costs, I will expose at public sale to tho highest bidder, on Monday, tho 4th day ol August, A. D., lbflO, between tko hours ot 111 o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day, at the door of the court house In Crawfordsvillo. Montgomery county, Indiana, the rents and profits for a torm not exceeding seven years, the following real estate, to-wit:

AdI tho right, title and interest of defendant, Willard Craig, as.heirs at law of Robert A. Craig, doceascd, in and to tho following real estate: Tli# northwest quarter (u) of section fifteen 16), township nineteen (19) north, range threo (3) West. Also the northwest quarter (ij) of the southeast quarter (?, and tho northeast quarter of the southwest quarter' (if), all In section flftiou (lr), township nineteen (19) north, range three B) west, and also the oast half (J) of the southwest quarter (K) of sectioh ten (10), township ninoteon (19) north, range three (8) •west. Also lot No. twenty-three (•£$) in N. A. Dunn's heirs'second edition to Crawfordsvlllo' Indiana. Also lot number ono (1) in block nunv ber two (2) in the original plat of the town of Darlington. All of said land nnd lots being In .Montgomery County and Stale of Indiana.

If such rents and profits will not sell for a SUf{ flclent sum to satisly said decree, interests and costs, I will, at the same timoand place, expose to public salo the f»o simple ot said real estate,or so much thereof as may bo sulTcient to dis(Siarge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will bo mado without any rel'of whatever lrom Taluatlon or appraisement laws.

E. P. M'CLAKK KY. Sherilf Montg. Co. By E. 11. COX, JOUNf/TON A JOHNSTON. Dejiuty. Atty'a. fo.-3'laiLtliT. JULT 12th, A. D.. 1HJ0.

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Oa Monday, Juuo jfi, froiu near VanLaven's pardeD, one mile west of the city, a thoroughbrad honud pup, binck and tan, four months old. For any iufonuatiou leadinp to his recovery I will pay a liberal reward. Leave word at this oflice. Wn. DOYEL.

LOCAL NEWS.1

The census will give Attica about 2,500. Kokorno Dispatch says tho boom in that city is dead, very dead.

Rev. W. H, Hickman was In town two or three days of this week. The blackberry crop In this locality is reported OB quite promising.

Frankfort has an establishment known as the "Clean Meat Market," A letter from Payson, Utah, will be found in this issue ot the RRVIEW.

SIX new school bouses will be erected in Montgomery county this summer. 'j-' George Wasson, of this city, has established a store in Hillsboro, Fountain county.

Case & Co. will pack up their stock of goods in ai out ten days aud ship them to Kansas. James A. Mack will manage the hotel at the Battle Ground and has already taken charge.

A case of scarlct fever was reported in town this week, the only one known thus far this season.

The sale of the personal property of the Ellis Little estate, in Ripley township, took place on Tuesday.

Mr. Ellas Brown and family remove this week to Kokomo, which place they will make their future home.

Architect Sharpe, of this city, has furnished the plans for a church at Andistown, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.

Monday the mercury in the thermometer reached 92 degrees, as it has done a half dozen or more days this summer.

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FREE LANDS

In three games of chess on Monday afternoon between Prof. HlgginB and Rev. Pettit, at the jail, Higgins won two.

The new boilers for heating the college buildings were received last week, an^^are now being placed in position.:

A. D. Kellison furnishes tti^/feaders of the REVIEW this week with a T^-y interesting letter from Great Falls, Montana.

Mayor Carr is about to bogjn the building of anew residence on east fefain street in what is known as the Brush-Rus&ell addition.

Ladoga has a population of 1,050 and is twice the size of either Darlington or Waynetown in the number oVits inhabitants.

Posters announce/the fair at Bainbridge on the 1st, 2od, and 4th of September, have been put up t'j various parts of the city.

The Babe store of Somerville Bros, has been clo^nf forsomo reason beet-known to the proprietors and will not be re-opened by them.

Henry Clements was awarded the stone work on Saturday last, for the bridge over Raccoon creek at Ladoga, His bid was $1,000.

Danville lodge K. of P. will hold a harvest picnic July 31, The principal feature will be horse racing for which $700 in purses will be offered. ,•

Mr. Charles H, Fiske, ex-court reporter, at present sojourning at Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrived in town on Monday and will remain for some weeks.

A family re-union of the Davis family is announced at Garland Dell on Thursday, August 8. Big Ike Davis should by all means go to show them how to eat.

A Lafayette paper says trains on the Monon will hereafter stop at the Battle Ground for dinner. If true it will kill off business very speedily at the Junction.

Guy Stockton left this week for the Stat# of Washington and with his brother, Harry, who has resided there for a year or more will go into the real estate business.

The census returns in Indianapolis, Ind,, show that all estimates of the population have been too high. Instead of having 110,000 population the returns Bhow hardly 105,000,

The administrator has been allowed by the court to continue the retail trade of the stock of drugs of the Lew Fisher estate until a purchaser for the entire amount is found.

The case of Cory, the prize fighter, lias been struck from the docket In Boone county criminal court and that individual can now visit the scenes of his childhood without fear of molestation.

Frank Detwille, Frankfort bartender, went to the cellar for liquor, and on lightiug a match a terrific explosion occured. The flesh was burned from his bones, and he died in a few hours.

John S. Mauley, the well-known turonaut, died of consumption last Thursday nt his home in west Lafayette. Mr. Mauley was the hero of 101 balloon ascensions and also several parachute decents. A widow survives.

A Normal school opened at South Hall, Wabash College, on Tuesday, with Profs. Higgins and Patterson at the helm. Over thirty names have been enrolled, and twice thisnuinber is expected within ten days.

Two Freight trains collided on the L, N. A. & C. road at New Providence Saturday night, both trains were badley wrecked. Engineer R. McNally was crushed to death and Fireman Chas. Heflrich was badly hurt.

The Monon has had quite a number oj wrecks recently on its line In which two or three persons have been killed. The need of efficient train dispatchers or superintendent is what that road perhaps should hare.

Speaking of the calling of Judge Rabb, of Wllliamsport, to try the Whitehead case, the Republican, of that place, says: "Judge Rabb had hoped he would not have to try either of these cases and was glad to learn that tho Pettst case, instead of boingsent to Warren county has been sent to Montgomery."

Tippecanoe county will be stuck for a large sum of money growing out of the Pettit and Whitehead cases. Five lawyers will have to be paid for defending Pettit, while Col. W. C. Wilson will come in for a round size fee for assisting in the prosecution. Then, too, the court costs in Montgomery county—where Pettit is to be tried—will be heavy, After careful consideration the Times figures that tho Pettit nnd Whitehead trials will cost the tnx-payers of Tippecanoe county not less than ©10,000.—Lafayette Times.

The Exact Figures.

Tho exact figures as oomph-ted

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show the population of Crawfordsvilie to be, int»i.!e the corporate limits, 6,0157. If the suburbs of Fiskville, Longview,Highland and ono or two others connted as a part of Crawfordsvilie our pnjV 7,000.

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THE CRAWFORDSVILLE WEEKLY REVIEW.

Letter From Montana. GREAT FALLS, MONT., July 6,1890,

Editor Review: This Is a great ci:y, a great state and climate This city is located on both sides of the broad Missouri river, connected by a foot and wagon bridge owned by the Townsite company, stock in which has proven a valuable investment by reason of exhorbitant toll charged for crossing the bridge. This place has 4,000 inhabitants and has all the moderu improvements of a city, such as water works, street railways and electric lights. Has one large smelter running, and another new building that is to be double the size of the present one. The Towusite company is constructing a dam across the river at this place at a cost of more that one-half million dollars. It is to be completed by September and will furnish the finest water power in the world. The stone used in the construction of the dam is secured by blasting the bed of the river on the site of the dam. South Falls is iu the valley of the river and the buildings are mostly brick, manufactured here, aud the brick is of very fine quality. North Falls is situated on a hill aud overlooks the main city. It is composed of frame buildlug's and tents. It is not yet three mouths old and contains 220 inhabitants now and more buildings going up every day. To-day (Sunday) the carpenters are as busy on the buildings as they are auy day through the week' Lots are laid out as far as four miles from the main city and even the most distant lots from the city are rated at fabulous prices. The vacaut lots are mostly owned by rival real estate companies, viz: The townsite company, composed mainly of wealthy residents, and the North Falls company, composed of wealthy non residents, Helena capitalists, aud the rivalry is so bitter between the,..-two companiea that they annoy a prospective purchaser almost fo death in persuading bim to invest wi.tti them or dissuading biui frO(n buying JS'the rival company's plat. The Townsite compauy is reaching out and grasping every? thing in reach ot it, and has absorbed most of its weaker rivals till it came to the North Falls rival when it lost Its absorbing power by reasou of tLe financial strenth of the latter. North Falls scenery is grand. Looking from the bill on which it stands may be seen the broad Missouri winding through the vast rolling prarie, while from the east, Bouth and west may be seen the mountains from 40 to 125 miles distant from here. The snow capped Rockies on the west area grand sight to the north is a vast rolling prairie as far as the eye can see. This is a very windy country. The wind is blowing fiercely now, and as I sit at my window In North Falls and look down on South Falls I can see it enveloped in a cloud of flying dust. Not so here, on this side of the river, for it is a grassy plat and there is no "ust to blow. The air Is very pu:e andexhiliarating. The surrounding country is a vast rolling prairie, extending to the mountains, from which is obtained the timber used for building and fuel here. This iB a fine grazing country for cattle and sheep, and a good agricultural country where irrigated, but a crop is uncertain where not irrigated, owing to the extreme drouths which this country is subject to. The grass is short and coarse, but very nutritious, and stock fatten on it without auy grain, and I am told here that mountain beeves command higher prices in Chicago and are preferred there to the stall fed beeves of Illinois. One thing sure it is sweeter and more tender than the Indiana beef. This is a great shesp growing couutry. The country being very dry is favorable for sheep but hogs will not thrive here uor in this state. A few have been shipped here from the east but they have never surv.v.'d through he months of|-July and August. The grouud contains uo moisture, hence furnishes them no place to wallow. This city is supplied from the Missouri into which flow the cool mountaiu streams. The water Is conveyed to the souli city by means of water works and to the north city by means of tank wagons, which visit the residents each day and supply them with the aqueous fluid, free of charge. This is done by the North Falls company in order to enable them to compete with the Townsite company in the sale of real estate. This country abounds in mineral wealth. Gold, silver, copper, iron and coal are all found within a few miles of the city. The present smelter receives its supply of ore from Neihart, a distance of 42 miles from here. The smelter under construction will get its supply of ore from Butte and will bring 2,000 men from Butte City and other places to work in it. The prospects of this becoming a great manufacturing city causes active dealing iu real estate. I cannot forbear mentioning the wind again. It blows continuously from morn till night. The domestic fowls stay near the buildings for protection from it, and when they attempt to go a few feet away from tho buildings they are blown across the prarie like rockets. Mosquitoes,bouseflies, fleas and dews are unkuown quantities here. Prairie dogs, ani cactus are the pests of the rancher.

A. T. Kellison is a prosperous merchant and postmaster of North Great Falls. Willis Leach, formerly of Waynetown, is keeping boarding house at Sau Couleo, a mining town six miles from here. Ho has 22 regular boarders at $( each per week.

I*. S. I have li.td on my overcoat p- rt of the day aud have been chilled all day, and if I can find some sucker I will discount the "Pioneer Store" at New Richmond on the sale of a summer suit.

A. D. KKI.MSON.

Knitting For the Orphan's Home. Ladies liviug either in town or country who enjoy knitting can find employment for themselves as well as the satisfaction of doing a charitable work, by calling upon Mrs. Luciou A. Foote, 204 Lafayette avenue, who will supply each person making application with yarn and a measure for one or more pairs of stockings. There are at the Home about thirty little folks who will require at least sixty pairs of stockings tho comiug winter. This will be quite an undertaking for the good matron, whose time is always occupied,—but "many hands niako light work"—and judging tho future by the past, we feel sure we have only to ask in order to have all the help we need. Let all who feel inclined to assist iu this good cause apply at once to Mrs. Foote, who has nlreadv taken tho initiative by knitting several pairs herself, and will cheerfully furnish the yarn and answer any questions in regavd to the work.

K4¥i

There aro 208,749 railroad bridges in the United States, spanning 8,218 miles, ss® -.

Try a sack of McKeeu's best flour.

WAVELAND.

School begins September 15. Boli Oldshoe took a car load of cattle to Buffalo, N. Y., this week.

The candidates for the county offices combined business with pleasure and flocked in here Thursday.

The A. M. E. church, of Crawfordsvilie, will hold a basket meeting in J. J, Canine's grove on Sunday, July 20,

Dr. S. T. Whittington's family have gone from southern Kansas, where the crops were all burning up, and are iu Seattle, Wash.

The double mail service on the Van. is being boomed for all i» is worth and we'll most likely get It.

The Moody and Clements families, to the number of twenty-nine, held a reunion at the Shades of Death Saturday.

W. W. Williams, who lives on Wm. Whittington's,farm, was this week declared Insane, and will be taken to the asylum. He has a family.

Dr. Moore, when asked concerning the Midland prospects, said, "We are goiug to try mighty hard to put her through to Wav eland this fall."

The town uarrowly escaped another disasterous fire last Thursday afternoon. W. F. Rhoads' harness shop caught fire on the roof, and was blaaing at a lively rate when discovered, but was extinguished before it did much damage.

A remonstrance signed by all who had originally opposed the John Warren gravel road, and seventeen of those who had petitioned for it, was presented to the Park county commissioners Monday at their special session, but the commissioners decided that the ^petition should be granted and appoiuted George Hanna superintendent. The road will be built as soon as the contract can be let,

WATHBTOWN HORNET CLIPPINGS."^*

Wm. Washburn, of Passedena, Cal., is visiting friends in this vicinity. John McCardle has opened out his grand elevator at New Richmond.

Enoch Reeves is selling notions for a Chicago house through this vicinity.

The Tippecanoe Baptist Association will be held with the church at this place in September.

Eli Myers has been selected ias one of the teachers in the schools at Veede.sburg fir another year.

Fred McClure and J. 0. Wilson are prepa:ing to open a grocery store and a meet market in the room on the Green corner.

The demand for workmen in hay harvest has taken all the boys out in the country, and they are earning their dinner by the sweat of their own brow.

Some small boys of this place are trying to break into jail from the way they disturb re liglous meetings. They should be attended to by their parents.

Ed. Sims, who was a Wayue^own youth, but is now knowu as the sailor aeronaut was here over Sunday. Ed. Made an ascension July 4th at Bloomiugton, Ind., and says it was quite a success as he made the jump 2,500 feet. He has now made 3i ascensions, has lauded in the Mississippi river, on top of houses and in trees, has had his leg bio sen aud is considered one of the most uariug aeronauts iu the profession. He says he will make an ascension at Waynetown some time just to show the boys how it is done.

A Colt Show.

On the becomi nay of August there will 1 an all day basket meeting at the farm of Elijah Clore, 12 miles south-west of this city. Games aud contests of diiferent kiuds will help to pass sway the time, but the principal attraction will bo the colt show of animals sired by Mr. Clore's handsome stallion, Western Boy. For the best sucking colts Mr, Clore offers prizes of $15, $1U aud §5.

Everything on a Small Scale.

The third peculiarity, the small scale of everything, is one that runs through nil things Japauese. The men are small, the women are small, the babies are the tiniest things I ever saw. Their homes are apparently children's play-houses, seldom over one story high, aud one is constantly knocking one1? head in passing through a door. Their tableware looks as though made for dolls the tea-cups aro not over an inch high and the tea-pot holds about two ordinary American cups. It is almost needless to add that they have narrow-gauge railways, small locomotives ana cars and also small lire-en-gines. In fact one may say that everything is small, except the kites and prices they charge foreigners. The former are sometimes huge affairs and the latter prove that the Japanese have a luxuriating imagination. I know of a case where a Japanese demanded $600 for an article he afterward sold for just 20 cents. At a llower show one is never expected to offer more than a third or fourth of the first price. The dealers iu curios are another amusing lot. They are generally glad to get one half to oner fourth of the original price, and sometimes even then they get more than tho article is worth.—Tokio Letter.

TIic Tipple of MilHonairca.

It is said by those familiar with his daily habits that Jay Gould doesn't taste a glass of champagne from one year's end to the other, and that his favorite tipple is milk well aerated with vichy to neutralize the bilious tendencies of the lactic acid. William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor, Jr., both drink dry champagne. Tho Yanderbilts are temperate, but buy all kinds of rare wines, from a comet claret to a rare Marcobrunner, aud Willy K. likes his champagne as well as tho next man. John W. Mackay, who has been in New York for a few days, is as abstemious as ever, and rarely drinks champagne. But his capabilities in*the choice of wines for one of those magnificent dinners his friends kuowsowell. are highly admired by experts. Henry Villard is foud of cabbage, and natuwilly enough drinks beer with it, but soda is his regular tipple. General Sherman likes good whisky, in moderation. Russcl Sage drinks enough coll'cc every week to float himself in, and George I. Scnoy is almost as fond of tea.—N. Y. World.

COSSIP ABOUT GEMS.

How Engravers Worked in the Olden Time—Prlneeljr Jewels.

Stones were engraved in the days ol Horace, says the Keystone. They were largely done by hand with diamond ™in points, like glaziers' diamonds the1 deeper and larger parts of the work were executed with a drill. Emery powder was used, but tho wheel and lathe did not como into use until the time of tho Byzmtine epoch. It has been conjectured that the artists, in executing minute work, nsed lenses, or more probably, globes tilled with water.

Iu tho time of Fraucis I., Matteo del Nassaro of Vienna cut tho crucifixion on heleotrope, so that the red spots seemed drops of blood issuing from the wounds of the Savior. Jacomo da Trezzo (1567) was the first to engrave on diamond, though the honor has beeu disputed with him. A noted head of Nero was engraved on a diamond by ono of the Castanzi in 1790.

The earliest instance of an engraved gem is the emerald ring of Polycrates, 740 B. C. Classic history informs us that Helen, Ulysses, and Pythagorus wore engraved riugs. The" fatlfer of the latter, Mnesarchos, was a noted engraver of gems. Orestes, in the tragedies, was recognized as the soiTof Agamemnon by tho engraved rin* which he wore.

Gems to be used as seals were engraved at an early age of the world. A square signet of vellow jasper engraved about 1450 B^ C. is in the possession of the British 'museum. It has eugraved upon it the horses and the name and titles of Amenophis II. Herodotus informs us that the Ethiopians engraved signets. In Judea the breast-plate of the high priest was adorned with twelve precious stones with the names of the twelve tribes dngraved upon them. Strange to say, however, no Hebrew-engraved gem? older than the fifth century are known to exist. The Baetrians and the Hindoos aro tho other oriental nations ot antiquity that engraved gems. The Chinese early in their history used gems, soapstone, and porcelain for seals, with devices in relief.

Jn old times the engravers selected stones that harmonized in colors with their designs. Bacchanalian subjects were engraved on amethysts, marine subjects on beryls, rural ones on green jasper, warlike ones on carnelians, sards, and red jasper, and celestial ones on chalcedonies. In modern times as high as $4,000 has been paid to an engraver of celebrity for one cameo.

The ancieuts placed an immense value on their gems. Iu looking up the subject I line! the following quotatious: The pearl given to Servillia by Julius Cajsar was valued at $24,000 the gems on the scabbard of Mithridates were valued at $37,860 the value of the pearl swallowed bv Cleopatra is nlaced at $25,000 the gems worn by Lollia Paulina, wife of Caligula, were valued at $1,600,000.

It is said that the grand duchess of Saxe-Weimar owns the most perfect collection of jewels in the world. The finest and largest turquoises and pearls are among the crown-jewels of Russia, aud the finest sapphires known are among the crown-jewels of England. Among the crown-jewels of Bavaria is a parure of pink diamonds that would conimaud a fabulous sum.

Princely gems have been bestowed at royal weddiugs. The gifts presented to Mile. d'Albe, niece of the exEmpress Eugenie, were valued at $1,600,000. The earl of Dudley presented to Miss Moncriell'e. while yet betrothed to him, a bracelet of fifty precious stones and diamond diaden which was worth $30,000. On the-::-wedding morning he presented her with a necklace of five rows of pearls of enormous value. Mile. Lejeune, on her marriage to tho prince of Chi may, among other jewels received a necklace with an outer circle of forty-two large brilliants, with inner circles each of which continued thirty-seven brilliauts, a magnificent emerald forming the medallion, and three superb brHliants the pendants. When Murat took refuge in Corsica, after the battle of Waterloo, he had two diamonds worth $10,000 in his pockets, while the diamonds in his hat-band were worth $18,000. and those on his epaulets were worth $10,000.

THE ROTHSCHILD HOUSE.

The Origin anil Growth or a Famous Family—The Old Ilouse in the diiclcngagso.

The foundation of the Rothschild fortune was an accident of war. In 1806 Maier Ainschel Rothschild was a small broker, doing business as a changer and lender of money in the house 148 Judengrase, where lie had been born half a century before. Outwardly. Maier Amschel'was not handsome. A portrait of him, painted with unquestionable fidelity,represents liiui as a smallish uian, with a red, pointed beard, keen, small eyes, a many colored coat with a high collar and very tight sleeves, and a nose that would make the beak of a bald eagle classic aud regular by comparison. He was, in short, a fine type of the quiet, keen, calculating Irsaelite, the product of original Semitic traits, molded and subdued by centuries of social ostracism, race persecution aud oppression. But he was, above all, a strictly honest man mid worked his little capital so judiciously that in 1801 lie attracted the friendly notice of William IV., Landgrave of Hesse, the thrifty old monarch who sought to turn an honest penny by hiring out 20,000 of his Hessian soldiers at 100 t-halcrs per man, to King George III. of England to aid in subduing the Yankee rebellion in America.

It was probably by reason of this clever use of his army a generation before, that when, in 1806, Napoleon. Bonaparte and his legions set things spinning in Western Germany, the Landgrave had on hand a large quantity of llorins which became to him a source of cruel anxiety.' Finding that the French army was coming to occupy Cassel, tho Lanclgrave bethought him of the honest Maier Ainschel. Loading his trcasuro bags into his cauriage of state, the Landgrave and his treasurer hied thom by night to 118 Judengasse, where it was turned over to the trustj* money changer with permission

to use me money as seemeu oesr, tin vided it should bo keot safely until return of peace. This, as "the seql shows, proved a rare streak of luck/ all parlies concerned except jtfcl French soldiers, who rummaged !tb| vaults of the Landgrave's castles'

It is related that one of tho peculh and original features of the Ilothschil exchange oflice in those days was large safe or treasure box, hung with counterpoise, like a dumb waiter, i. such manner that it could be lowere at night into deep pit or cellar an raised by day into a large niche in wails of Maier Ainschelvs little office

There is even a tradition that the'( into which it was thus lowered was well, partly filled with water, beneLi which tho safe was plunged, thus ay6r ing all danger from fire. Howfevc that may havo been, tho Laud,rrjave shekels went into it and remainedsaf ly until the thrifty money change sa a chance to invest iu Austrian Jecu ities and iu discounts to his fellovk ci izens upon the giltest of gilt-edge 1 curities. Money was a easli article the war-worn Europe of that periot and people who obtained financial a eotnmodations from the red-bearde Maier Ainschel had to pay for th same.

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So the years wore on. Europe COUJ bined against Napoleon, the Austria securities rose enormously in valuj and when, on the 19th of September 1812, death came upon the prosperou banker aud carried him off, at the ag of 69, he left to his five sons an opulen and well-established bank, with laren resources and unblemished credit.

When, in 1818, the Landgrave turned from his exile in Bohemia, received from the sons the entire sui that he had left with their father seve. years before, with due interest thereon which so pleased the Landgrave Wil liam that ho set about repealing ant modifying the restrictions against Jew and loaded the youug bankers wit thanks and honors.

The Austrian monarch was uo lesj grateful to the Frankfort banker fo having bought his securities iu dar and troublous days, ami in 1816, aftej peace had been' restored, he raise three of the sous to the nobility, an it is for this reason that Baron Freihe Wilhelm voti ltnthschild is Consul Ge eral of Austria at Fraukfort to-dav. N. Y. Star.

A Strange Birthmark,

The extreme calmness and moderati habits of a certain handsome girl ar remarked upon by her friends. Sh moves with tho utmost deliberatio never hurrying under auy circu stances, eats slowly and lightly, ari drinks nothing but a small quantity cold water with her meals, writes N. Y. correspondent of the India apolis Journal. If it were not for brilliant powers of conversation an. her continuous sweetness of dispositioj she would not be interesting, for she never ready to go anywhere or do an thing requiring any exertion, aud sfi passes the greater part of her time wife her mother.

Only recently I learned the cause the pretty creatures lethargy, and case is certainly a peculiarly unfort nate one. She is naturally of a whi and pure complexion, but excitcmen or auy undue exercise brings upon hei face a blood-red mark of most signifi cant formation. It is a perfect imagi of a small wineglass. Its slender ste runs straight down over the bridge the nose, while upon the forehead th,i bell-shaped bowl spreads out with ur» mistakable vividness. There is not Ji sign of this mark while she is in absp lute repose, except beneath minuto eat a.nidation, when a thread-like outlij' of the glass is faintly visible. But tu moment the blood is driven to the heiai it converges at this single spot.

A romantic story is told in relatioto this mark. The girl has had suitors, and one of them was favored by he. above the others. He made his declara lion one day while sitting on the piazzi of a Summer hotel in the broad light day. In the fashion of some timia me he did not fix the girl with his eyes at he put the tender words to her, but a: she made no reply to him he stole look atheriace. She had a handke chief pressed close to her e}'es. As a' one was by to see, he reached towar her and gently drew her hands awa The red wineglass burned like fire, was amazed, aud the girl looked him with a despairing gaze. He aske«what it meant, and she told him. B$| she herself did not know the whola truth. Her father, who was a fast and reckless man, had fallen dead before] her mother's e3*es while holding a wineglass aloft at a dinner party.

The lover was a true one. He will] be married to the girl in a very fcw| weeks.

Curiosities of Chcmleals.

Certain substances which aro deadly] in their effects upon man can be takeal by animals Avith impunity. Horsesl can take large quantities of antimony, dogs of mercury, goats of tobacco, mice of hemlock asd rabbits of bella-1 donna without injury. On the other! hand,dogs and cats are much morosus-| ceptible to the infhnjuoo of chloroform! than man and are much sooner killed] by it. If this invaluable anaesthetic! had been tried first upon animals wet should probably have never enjoyed] its blessing, as it would havo beenf found to be so fatal that its discoverers would have been afraid to test its efJ fects upon human beings. It is evi/ dent, then, that an experiment upc an animal can never be the means I any certain deductions so far as ma] is concerned. No scientist can ev« know when trying some new drug some new operation whether or n^ when he comes to try it upon man th« effect wiil be the same as that upon animal.

Colored Shirts l'or livening Wean

Young Paris mashers are now to wear colored shirts—pink, blue, oi red—in the evening. They are dis playtul with tho regular low-cut even ing waistcoats and to hightun the coi^ trust they are fastened with large je studs. The demand for such shirts already so great that they cau not bi made fast enough. The young princ of Naples has introduced the fushiot'