Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 July 1890 — Page 6
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Home seekers will find the last of tho public domain of agricultural and grazing value along the Jgrent Northern Tailwpy in North Dakota and Hontana.
NEW
FREE,
LANDS1
1300 or more along the Groat I Northern Railway line. Business chances. Write F. I.
TOWN
Whitney. St. Paul, Minn., for Books, Maps, J&c. Write how..
Settlers onjfree Government lands along the Great Northern railway .line in Northern Dakota and Montana get low rates and fine markets for products.
LOW
RATES
nnWiPTMn *1 Finest resorts in America HUII1 111IX I alone the GreatNorthern rall-
I way lino in Minnesota, Dako-
TTTnnTlin I tas and Montana. Best •-•111101111'Ui I mate for health seekers.
Montana produces the finest liorses and cattle. Freo range yot iriJMouso, Milk and Sun River Volleys and Sv. Grass Hills.
CATTLE.
In Motann. Freo Lands, New Towns, Now Railways, New Mines, Low Ratos. Largest area of good vaca.nt land.
Hills. Milk and Jleys, Montana Groat by the :s Line, radl4e.
SHEEP, HOGS.
The regions tributary to £at Northern Railway Lino ,na, produco all the pus and bases metals, owns and railways aro .built.
COAL.
-Go to the Great Re^Wition of Montana and get IP good free homestead. Low rates and free Free Sleepers on the Great Northern Railway Lino. Go now.
I These have made Montana the richest State per capita in I Union. Plenty of room for 1 miners andftock raisers. Now
Is tho time.
Along tho Great Northern Railway &ine In Montana are Vr lree ranches and pasturage, ''.mines of precious metals, iron •'.and coal, aud now cities and towns. Now is your chance.
GREAT JILLS.
YOUNG
MAN.
1 Surrounded.by a fine agricultural and grazing country, 1 close to mines of precious tnetals iron and coal, possessing a water powor unequaled in America, it is Montana's industral center.
The Valleys of Red, Moose, Missouri, Milk and Sun rivers reached by Great northern Hallway Lino, naif rate excursions Sept. 8, 23 and Oct. 14,1800. Write F. I. WHITNEY, St. Panl, Minn.
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anainria for soldiers, sailors, paOllQlllUo rents, widows and minor children $3 to $12 a month. Under Act June ST) 1890, all soldiers and sailors are entitled for any disability, whether contracted in service or not. All their widows, minor children and dependent parents whether able to perform manual labor or not. Write at once to CHAPIN BROWN, Att'y-at-law, 323, 4s St, N. W,, Washington, 1). C. No fee unless claim lb ullowc1.. 18 years' experience.
jUa.ii lei ion Liver and Kidney Cure.
It purines tho blood, cures fctnalo debility fcnd all chronic diseases of both sex, and is guaranteed to cure rheumatism or money refunded. Sent to any address on receiptor price $1. Six bottles $5. Address n. L. llarland, Crawfordsville, Ind. For sale by all druggists. Send for circular.
gitER1FF SALE. By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed from the Clerk of ilontgomery Circuit Court, in a cause wherein Walter F.Ilulett, adTnlLlStotor, is plaintiff, and Willard Craig is dqfendViit, requiring mS to make thb'sum of fire liundrid ana nlnety-flvo dollars and fifty Cents/ with interest on said decree and costsf I will expose at public sale to the highest bidder on Mon---day, the 4th day of August, A. D., 1890, between'" the honrB oi 10 o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day, at the door of the court house in Crawfordsville, Montgomery county, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, the following roal (State, to-wit:
All tho right, title and Interest of defendant Willard Craig, as heirs at law of Robert A. Craig', deceased, in and to tho following real estate* Tho northwest quarter of section fifteen (IB), township nineteen (19) north, range three (8) west. Also the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter (X) and tho northeast quarter Of) of the southwest quarter (if), all in soction flftion (16), township nineteen (19) north range three (8) west, and also tho east half (j of the southwest quarter (if) of sectloh ten (10), 1r.nnahir»«Inatnnn /1rt\ whmma township nineteen (19) north, range threo (3) west. Also lot No. twenty-three (23) in N. A. Dunn's heirs' second edition to Crawfordsvillo Indiana. Also lot number one (1) in block nun ber two (3) in tho original plat of the town of Darlington. All of said land and lots boliu: in Montgomery County and State of Indiana.
If such rentfeand profits w.lll not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, .nterosts: and costs, I will, at the same time ana place, expose to public sale the fee simple of salt real estate,or Bt) niueli thereof rp miiy -ui'dfiit dischai'Ko sairt decree, infrmt ini'l is. !nil ilo will iw iiiatie without (iny v,^atevo:- from raluatiou or tij'iiraisement laws.
E. P. M'CLASKEY, Sherili Montg. Co. By E. H. COX, JOHNSTON & JOHNSTON, Deputy. Atty's. "-.r Plaintiff. j,uly lath a. i)., 1890.
Stolen,
On Monday, June 1ft, from near VanLaven's garden, on« milf» «at of the city, a thoroughbred hound pup, black and tan, four months old. For any information leading to his recovery I will-jjay a liberal reward. Leare word at this office, Wm. Do\el.
LOCAL NEWS.
oa East Main street by Prof. Hill. Mrs. J. W. Skidinore is quite sick. The population of Waveland is 663.
Remember the balloon ascension on Monday, Preaching at Gray's Chapel August 10 at 8 p.m. 'v-%
Festival at Wesley Chapel Saturday evening, July 26.
Darlington is agitating the question of building a race track. Dr. Georg? Thomson and wife, of Chicago, are visiting relatives in the city.
Mr. P. C. Somerville returned, this week from the lead mines of Missouri. Eight persons are confined. In, the county jail awaiting the September Vermel court.
There were' some eight or nine additional scholars added to the roll this we^k at the^Normal.
Within a year 47 persons from this place have been added to the population of Lafayette.
Quarterly meeting rt Robert's. Chapel on August 2 or S. First service on Saturday at 10:80 a. in.
The Louisvillie, New Alb4ny\JbQ»icago and Wabash railroads have each subscribed $20,000 to the World's fair.
The descendents of Josia'h and Sfary Davis .will hol'l a family reunion at the Shades of Death on August 7.
The African M. E. cLurch of this city held a a basket meeting in J. J. Canine's grove, noar Waveland, last Sundaj.
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Sunday school convention at Gray's -Chapel August 27, commencing at 9:30 a. m. Basket dinner. Come and enjoy a pleasant day.
Th6 damaged wheat from the Crabbs & Reynolds elevator Is being stored in the room recently occupied by Barnhill, Hornaday & Pick ett.
John Lee, of Crawfordsville, was in the city yesterday. Mr. L's candidacy for secretary of state is of the boom order.—Lafayette Times.
Charley H. Pease, cf Waynetown, the veteran school teacher, has been elected principal of the Parkersburg schools. The selection is a good one.
The ladies oJ the M. E, church will give a grand organ recital under the auspices of Mr. LouiB Falk, of Chicago, in their church on August 25th.
The foundation for the Yandes Hall in the College campus has been completed and the iron work is next to be placed in position as soon as it is received.
The county this week redeemed $1,000 of outstanding bonds, of whjch $3,000 were asylum bonds, and $1,000 of the Waveland and Parke county free gravel road.
The Monon is plckiug up. They are soon to receive 300 stone cars, from the Ohio Falls car works at Jeflersonville that will have 60,000 pounds capacity each, ana 25 large furaiture cars.
Wm. Harris and Henry Brown, colored, ongaged in a free for all fight on Market street Friday night in which Brown was very roughly handled. Both were arrested and properly fined,
ARockville editor complains of having gotten lost among the weeds in the court house yard in that place recently. Judging from the appearance of his paper, they have not found him yet.
Wm. H. Caplinger died at his home in New Market Saturday morning from the effects of la grippe at the age of 34 years. The funeral was conducted from the Christian church oh Sunday, Rev. J. C. Ashley officiating.
The loss to the Monon railway at Greencastle by the wreck on Sunday evening, it is said, will amount to $150,000. There must be some poor management on that line at this time, judging by the number of disasters that have occurred upon it during the present summer.
Teddy Ring, the young man who went home one night last week and destroyed the furniture, was given a hearing before Mayor Carr on Friday, and was fined $36.90, and was given 60 days in jail, making in all a 97 days jail sentence. He should have been given 10 years at hard labor,
Henry Alfrey will soon begin the erection of a new heading factory on east side of Vandalia railroad track near the Junction, There will be two new buildings both of brick. One will measure 220 feet by 280 and the other 36 by 70. The capacity of tlie factory will then be increased by about one-half and instead of the 80 employes now on the roll there will be about 120,
The Fair \BAocktioh is advertising for bids for music to be furnished during the progress of the fait. As there is a cornet band here, it Will strike the public that the course for the association is to hire it, if it desires to encourage home institutions, as it professes to do. It is quite probable that the band here can be secured on such terms as will not bankrupt the association.
THE CRAWFORDSVILLE WEEKLY REVIEW.
Miss Mary H. Krout.
MissKrout is wellkuown throughout the country as clear, forcible and polished writer. Of late years she has become prominently identified with the Inter Ocean, where her excellent work may be easily discerned in mauy department, She is most delightfully situated, arranging her hours to Bult herself and having attained that most enviable position of light work and heavy salary. This comes only to those who have been willing to work and wait, and alas, for the great army of newspaper toilers, not always to those, no matter how capable and deserving. Persons who knew MissKrout's ability were surprised that she should take a position in Terre Haute, a few years ago where of necessity the salaries for newepaper work are small compared to those of the great city papers. Her friends understood, however, that there Is nothing ufore valuable to the professional journalist than an apprenticeship in an office wheretine is required to work upon all the departmt nts of a paper. If he can rommence as office boy and serve his time at a "case", so much the better for his future success. Youthful aspirants for literary fame who wish to} commeuce as editor-in-chief, would dp well to bear this in mind. During the last presidential campaign Miss
Krout remained
at Indianapolis as the representative of the Inter-Ocean, doing as good work as was done by any man of the army of special correspondents who made their headquarters at that city. Here she worked eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, eating and sleeping when she could spare the time. As a reward for her labors she has now graduated into the "aristocracy "*of journalism, and she has earned her laurels and her ease. Her friends congratulate her upon both and the inter-Ocean upon this bright and talented member of its staff,— Terre Haute Correspondent. -t
Death of an,Old Settler.
An old settler passed away at the family residence at 508 Kentucky street at 15 minutes before 4 o'clock, yessterday afternoon Sophia Newhard peacefully departed this life. Deceased was born September 30,1800, in Montr gomery county, Penn. In 1817 she moved to Montgomery oounty, Ohio, walking that distance on account of bad roads and heavily loaded wagons. She was then married to Abram Newhard. Her maiden name was Sophia Cope, a sister of Enos and Seno Cope. In 1827 she came to this county where she has since resided. She became a member of the Lutheran church when only eleven years of age. When she came to this state she joined ihe M. E. church aDd finally united with the U. B.,church at Mt. Zion, two miles west of the city, where the funeral was held last Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. She died in the hope of a blessed immortality. During her illness she expressed a desire to be [called home. Her desire was for Heaven and not for life.
Hicks'Prophicies for July.
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A party, from Crawfordsville, consisting of a man and. three women, were on their way to the Shades Tuesday, and when within about a mile of that ylade their carriage was overturned and the entire party spilled out. One of the women, Miss Belle Doyle, had her arm broken, and was brought to town for medical aid. All were more or less shaken up, and the top of the cariiage was emaBhed.-r-Waveland Independent.
That the "test of merit is success*' wo find verified in Dr. Walter's treatment. of chronic diseases. The doctor has for several years given his entire attention to the study and treatment of chrouic diseases and especial attention to diseases of a cancerous nature. He treats cam'tT" without, tlie.n'vnf Vtiifp,nriils or rrmstics. nuL uui.« ia «"J Oeiuie calling en him, as consultation and examination will cost you nothing. Will be at Crawfordsville, Saturday, August 2nd.
The best suckers our city gambiers light on come from Crawfordsrille, and like country villages—some from tho farms—the fellows who learn to play poker and old sledge in the haymow, ami getting on to some of the tricks at cards come into town to practice on old gamblers.—Lafayette Times,
From the fact that the leading "dealers" of this place a year ago have since removed to Lafayette, the above must be an error, as it is understood they located there for the convenience of their patrons and where suckers were the most mumerous.
The planet Venus is at her equinox, with the new moon combining on the 19th. Interested observers will b« curious to watch the results. The combination is well calculated to produce disturbances peculiar to itself outside a regular period though it is. Heat, thunder and hail, are among the results to be looked lor. These things, with threatening storm clouds rising from the northwest, are sure to prevail in the regular period—19 to 22. The 20 is the day when the full strength of Venus will combine with
1'Vulcan,"
that, and the two days
next following to the eastward wa*ch their "antics." A marked fall from oppresive high temperature ought to follow about the 21 in the west to the 24 in the east. By that time the reaction will have started in the west, growing warmer in its eastward progress, culminating in some storm flurries about the 25 to 27. The month will end hot, with regular storm period central on the 31st.
Same Old Story. 4
A confusiou of orders caused a disasterous wreck on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Road, one mile north of Greencastle, Sunday evening at six o'clock. Two freight trains, running at a fair rate of speed, collided on a steep grade, demolishing both engines and piling up a number of cars into a mass of debris. Engineer James Dillard was crushed about the head and shoulders. Morris McAvoy, breakman, was so badly crushed about the chest and arms that his recovery is doubtful. Others of the trainmen received slight cuts and bruiBes. The wreck took.fire in a few minutes and burned fiercely fot several hours. Both trains had been given a right of way, and were running on the time given at the last station. The operator in that city received but one set of orders. .•
Deaths,
Mrs. Charley V. Wilson died Sunday nightat her home oh west Market street. She was bore in Hamilton county, O., near Mount Healthy, Sept. 15,1818, In 1836 she came to this county where she has since resided. She was married in 1837 to Robert V. Wilson, who died on July 17,1859. Three of the children survive her, Bruce, of Topeka, Kan., and Charles and Eugene of this city.
Theodore Baily, aged 18, died at the residence of,his parents on east Jefferson street on Sunday at 12 a. in. of congestion of the stomach. The funeral occurred Monday-afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, Rev. G. P. Fuson officiating.
Austin, the infant son of- William Johnston and wife, died on Monday at 12 p. m. of colera infantum.
Another Four Legged Chio^en.
The climate, atmosphere and something abput Brazil seems to be productive of such freaks of nature as four-legged chickens. In the past three months no less than half a dozen of these curiosities have been reported. The latest is reported by Jaines Miller. Yesterday a hen belonging to Mr. Miller hatched out every egg but one, which through curiosity he broke open. He was astonished to find It contained a well formed chicken with four legs so well developed as to be unable to tell which were tlm muiatiiral legs. It had two Imi-k It.'in's ami two lails, but one head seemed to be sufficient It was placed In .alcohol by Dr. Gilford to be preserved,—Brazil Times.
More Mail on the Vandalia.
A Washington Special to the Indianapolis Journal says: Third Auditor W. H. Hart today presentod to the superintendent of the railway mail service a petition sfgned by the busiuess men of every city and town from T9rre Haute to South Bend, on the line of the Vandalia railroad, asking for an additional 'daily mail on that rout.e There will be no (rouble to get what is termed a pouch mail, and should Congress not scale the appropriation asked for the increased facilities will likely be granted.
PERSONAL.
Hjirry Snyder returned to Joplln, Mo. Wm. Hetlernan spent Sunday in Chicago, E. C. Voris has returned from Maxinkuckee. Miss Lucy Henkle, of Brazil, is visiting in thi cily.
Prof. A. B. Milford and son spent Sunday in Attica.
The wheat threshing in this locality is about finished.
Blackberries are plenty in many localities in this county. Brazil christam church folks will build a new' 1,000 church.
Parke county's hay crop is the finest ever harvested there.Wm. Brush and wife returned from Petoskey, Mich., last Saturday.
Charlie Ensmlnger, of Owassa, Michigan, is the guest of bis brother, Milo. Grant Gould and wife are visiting in Kalamazoo county, Michigan.
Columbus council has purchased an electric [ight plant at a cost of $9,000. M. A. Brannon came iu from Fort Wayntf last Saturday to spend the summer.
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Mrs. Ira Cadwalader has returned from a two week's visit in West Lebanon. Mrs. James-Brown and Amos Southard and wife have removed to Indianapolis
W. T. Brush and wife have returned from an outing trip to lake Petoskey, Mich. The flouring mill at New Ross has been purchased by Mr. Young, of Road dale, who took possession this week.
£. S. Celebration.
There will be a Sunday school celebration and picnic at the new fair grounds, New Ross, July 31,1890. Good singers and able speakers are on programme for duty. Sunday schools and and Sunday school workere are especially invited to be present and participate in the exercises. ,, .........
By order of committee.
Two Drownings.
Lewis Holsema, aged 23, and Frank Richie, aged 16, of Lafayette, were drowned in Wild Cat creek at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon while in swimming. Neither could swim. A strange coincidence in the fataWs is that they were drowned at the same hour but two miles apait
Is Consumption Cui'ed.
Read the following: Mr. C. H. Morris. Newark, Ark., says: "Was down with abcess of lungs, and friends and physicians pronounced me an incurable consumptive. Began taking Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, am now on my third bottle, and able to oversee the work on my farm. It is the finest inedi-. cine ever made."
Jesse Middlewart, Decator.Ohlo, says: "Had it not been for Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption I would have died of lung troubles. Was given up by doctors. Am now in best of health." Try it. Sample bottle free at Nye & Co's. drug store.
Mrs Belmont, Gibson county, was married at 13, is now 26 and is the mother of 9 children.
Happy Meeting: of Two Friends. John M. Alien, of Charlotte, N. Y., said to his friend, "Parsons I am about dead with the gravel, and can not find held," Mr Parsons induced Mr. Allen to give Dr.David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Rondout, N. Y., a trial. Weeks went by and the friends met. Mr.Ailen said, "Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy has saved my life. It is a cure for gravel— and the only cure." 19-1
Winter lingers around Bennington, Vt., where up to a day or two ago a small pond was covered with ice twelve to fourteen inches thick.
Wliy it is 1'opulnr.
Because it has proven its absolute merit over and over again, because it has an unequalled record of cures, because its business is conducted in a thorough honest manner, and because it combines economy with strength, being the only medicine of wl'ich "100 doees one dollar" is true—these strong points have made Hood's Sarsaparilla tho most successful medicine of (the day.
A Tree That Smokes.
Newton, a vigorous mountain town west of Charlotte, N. C., has a curiosity that beats by a large majority the rain tree which gained such notoriety iu Charlotte in 1866. It is a smoking tree, and baflles all efforts at explanation. It is a white mulberry tree, and stands on the sidewalk in front of the residence of Levi Yodcr.
According to the description in the Ric|imoud Times it was brought from Illinois a year or two ago and is now about twelve feet high, with a bushy top and many lateral branches. Recently one of the family noticed a puff of smoke proceed from one of the limbs, and by watching it closely puffs identical in appearance to cigarette smoke were seen startingeverv now and then from all over the tree, sometimes from the leaves, sometimes from the bloom, sometimes fi'om the bark of tho tree. Tho puffs are at irregular intervals sometimes two or three at once from various parts of tho tree and sometimes they are several seconds or a half minute apart. They just seem to come at haphazard from any part of the tree, and as they ascend in the air look exactly like the smoke from a cigarette.
Since the curiosity first became generally known, large crowds, both of town and country people, eau bo seen there at any time in the day. All doubting Thomases are soon convinced, ou tho first visit, that tho tree "do smoke." Among the white people it is only looked upon as a curiosity, and many of course make explanations of tho phenomenon, which, perhaps, are plausible enough to their authors, but which carry very little conviction to the minds of others.
But tho negroes didn't like the thing at all. One negro woman, after intently watching tho puffs a few minutes, started off in a run, saying: ,"I wouid't lib dar fur nothing' people better go to doin' better 'bout dis town." A negro man said: "I'm gwine stay 'way from dat thing*. I can smell de brimstone .clear down to the -libery sxr.c.-. v-7
Old and New School.
That the manners of our fathers are not ours, says the New York Evening Sun, is well enough understood, and tho phrase "of the old school" lias come to be used rather as a reproach to the degeneriate present ^feneration. An old lady who belonged to the times when courtesy was perhaps more general, as it certainly was more elaborrate, than kis now administered rather nearly a rebuke to a lad who did not come up to her ideas.
She had known the boy's father when he was in Harvard, as now was the son, and as tho latter could hardly Remember his parents who died in his infancy, he was always eager to learn all he could about them.
The Youth was invited to call upon the ola lady, who is now beyond the term set by tho psalmist for man's life, at a country place one day last summer, and had an interview with hef upon the wide veranda, where she was sitting when he arrived. Ho lifted his hat, and then, replacing it upon his head,, went on talking witn the old dame, who regarded him with looks of disapproval. "Do I look like my father?" the young man asked, at length. "I can not tell," the old lady replied, dryly. "I never saw him with his hat on when he talked'with a lady."
Wood That Sinks in Water.
There are 418 species of trees found' within the limits of the United States and territories, sixteen of which, when perfectly seasoned, will sink in water. The heaviest of these is the black iron-' wood (Condalia ferrea), found only in southern Florida, which is more than 80 per cent heavier than water. Of the other fifteen the best known is tho lignum vitaj (Guaiacum sanctum), and the mangrove (rhizophora mangle). Texas and New Mexico, lands full of queer, creeping, crawling, walking, and inanimate things, are the homes of a species of oak (quercus grisea) wliiich is about one and a fourth times heavier than water, aud which, when green, will sink almost as quick as a bar of iron. It grows only in mountain regions, aud has-been found westward as far as the Colorado desert, where it grows at an elevation of 10,000 feet. All the species heavier than water belong to tropical Florida or in the arid west and southwest.
Mrs. Cleveland and Her Pictures.
There are women who look like their pictures there are others who would never be recognized from them. Mrs. Cleveftind -belongs to the latter class: •The other evening I sat within a few feet of her for three rather long hours. The wife of the-ex-President has none of the brilliancy, of eyes or coloring which is suggested by her photographs. She is rather pale, though the pallor does not indicate ill health, and her face is ordinarily a quiet one. The sparkle and life which the camera suggests are only occasionally apparent, but the countenance has a sweetness and sensibility which are not in any of the pictures. She is a less handsome woman than the print shops would have us imagine, but,/a more refined and attractive one. .''She is very quick of motion and 'turns the ieaves of her libretto with' a nervousness which one would not expect from her general bearing.—N. Y. Letter. yy
Cairo's Mohammedan University-
The great Moslem university at Cairo, founded iu 975, with its 10,000 pupils and its 370 professors, is the largest in the world. The pupils have no benches or chairs, but study, eat, and sleep on a blanket or straw mat. The koran is the ouly book used for grammar, law, philosophy, and theology. The professors receive no salary, but are supported by private contribution, copying books, aud by presents from rich scholars.
Gen. Dix's Famous Order.
Concerning Gen. Dix's famous dispatch: "If any man attempts to^ haul down tho American flag shoot him on the spot!" Gen. Sickles said to a reporter a day or two ago: "On receipt of the news from New Orleans that an attempt had been made to seize a revenue cutter, Gen. Dix impulsively wrote that splendid dispatch with the true ring of patriotism and fight in it. But ho no sooner saw it in black and white than he began to hesitate and doubt. He first consumed the AttorneyGeneral, and the result of their deliberations was approved bv the latter, but a final resolve was had" on Dix's part to submit the message to the President before sending it. On the way to the White House I met the two officers, and Gen. Dix showed me the dispatch as he had written it, and stating the eircumstanccs, added that the Attorney-General approved it. 'Then send it at once,' I said. 'The AttorneyGeneral's approval is sufficient.' 'Still Gen. Dix hesitated, when I said to him: 'General, if you send that dispatch the President will approve of it as higblv proper and in the right key. ff you show it to him it will never bo sent.' It was sent, Buchanan did approve it, and the North was wild over it for weeks. Gen. Dix narrowly escaped imperishable fame on that occasion."
A Michigan Husband.
A Hudson (Mich.) husband who had been married four years and had repe nedly asked his wife for a cup of coilee like his mother used to make bi'i-am^ so mad over a boiled dinner his wife set before him the other day that he seized a landfill of hot cabbage and slapped it into his better half's face, after which lie rubbed butter •over her physiognomy and 'then emptied a teapot of foiling water ou her suffering person.
Prevention of Boiler Corrosion.
Au Kuglish electrician has invented a material that lie calls altGrion for the prevention of corrosiou in engine boilers. Tho interior of the boiler is coated with the preparation, and from time to time electrical currents are sent through it. It has been pro nounced a decided success by machine "experts.
Tattooing the Io:Iy.
Tattooing is by no moans confined to the Polynesians.' hut tho "dermal art" is certainty carried by them to ar. extent which is uucqualed by any other people. It pervades all the principal groups of islands, and is practiced by all classes, though to a greater extent by the Marquesans and New Zealanders than any others. By the vast num. ber of them it is adopted, simply as a personal ornameut, though there are1 some grounds for believing that tho tattoo may, in a few cases and to a small' extent, be looked upon as a badge of mourning or a memento of a departed friend. Like everything else in Polynesia, its origin is related in a legend, which credits its invention to the gods and savs it was first" practiced by the children of Taaroa, their principal deity.
The sons of Taaroa and Apouvaru were the gods of tattooing, and their images were kept in the temples of those whl practiced the art as a profession, ana to them petitions are offered that the figures might be handsome, attract attention and otherwise accomplish the ends for which they submitted themselves to this painful operation. The coloring matter was the charcoal of the candl'euut mixed with oil, and the instrument used was a needle made of fishbone, and a thread which was drawn through the skin, after .which puncturing thb black coloring matter was injected with in-v struments made for the purpose. To show any signs of suffering under the operation is.looked upon as disgraceful, and accordingly, in some of the islands, while the operation is going on the young man undergoing it will lay his head on the lap of his sister orsome youug relation, while a number of female friends will keep up a sonv so as to drown the murmuring which the torture may draw from him inadvertently, and that therefore, he may not be demeaned in the eves of his countrymen who are present as spectators.
Getting Along on Half Allowance.
The ease with which Gov. Beaver of Pennsylvania gets about ou oue lsr and two crutches surprises almost every one who meets him, says the N. Y. Tribune. In reply to a query on this poiut the general tolls a storv: "A classmate of miueat Jefferson col-' lege lost an arm while fighting in the southern army. At a reunion of our class after the'war I was the first member on hand. After eh'gaging a room at a Cannonsbur^-hotel- I sauntered around the old college buildings, waiting for the rest of the boys of tho class of '56 to turn up. The first ono to put in an appearauce had an empty sleeve. While a rebel shell had taken away my leg, a union ball had torn, away his arm. I invited him up to my room, and he was with me that nighL I noticed that he had no difficulty at all in arranging his clothing and in doing pretty nearly everything else that a man with two arms finds necessary to do. I said to him that the loss of an arm didn't seem to incommode, him. 'Wqll, do you know Jim,' lie replied, 'that sTntc".^ lost my other arm and find that everything want to do can be done with one arm itiitcad of two Ioften wonder what reason
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Lord had for making a man wifti two arms.' Now in my case," the general concluded, "I won't" put the thing as strongly as my maimed classmate Sid, but one leg seems to answer me very well."
Among The Depraved.
There are some curious things in this life," said an experienced officer recently. "Curious things among the wicked and depraved. Have you over noticed it? For instance, you let a. certain minister be called in to conduct the funeral of a fallen woman, and ever after he.will be called to at-„ tend nine out of ten funerals of thesame class of woman. Let a minister officiate at the funeral of a sportingman, and the same minister will be called again and agaiu to do the same service, no matter what he may' have said at previous funerals. Not many years ago a popular and prominent minister was called to officiate at the funeral of a sport. There was a. very large attendance of his fraternity, and the miuister, at a glance, took oc-* casion iu his remarks to inject somefiery darts into the crowd about thelives they were leading. In the language of one of them he 'roasted us.'
That's so,' said another, 'but he told the truth aud we can't blame him And if he is around he shall always conduct the funeral of the boys.' It tlie same about the doctors. You let certain« doctor be called to attend cace of' poisoning or shouting or cutting among the shifting }:opu!f.^ion ara ever afterward he is .*pt io be called again. It's curious but, true." Austin. (Texas) Slatesma?i
Babies' Need of Sleep,
A young baby should spend most of its time in sleep. Never allow it to be wakened for any purpose whatever. A child's nerves receive a shock every time it is roused from sleep, which is most injurious to it. Admiring friends should -be made to wait until it is awake, to kiss it and play with it. After it is nursed at night put it back in its crib, and if it is comfortable it will soon fall asleep. It should never sleep in the bed with an older person. Place the crib with its head to the light so as to protect the eyes from tho glare. A light canopy serves to ward off draughts. Curtains cut off the supply of fresh air and except a mosquito-net4iug in summer, should not bo* used. Until a child is two years old it should spend part of each day in sleep, taking a long nap morning and afternoon.—Ladies'1 Home Journal.
English Coast Defenses.
During the summer the new defenses at "Needles," on the English coast are to be tested by an elaborate series of experiments, it is propose^ to find out whether thfc Brennau torpedo, for which Etiglatypaid $500,000, can stop a vessel passing up at full speed aud also if hostile ships could escape the firo froA the batteries by keening close under the cliffs.