Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 August 1890 — Page 6

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Home seekers will iind tlie last of the public domain of agricultuial nnd grazing value along the ^great Northern I railway in North Dakota and Montana.

FREE LANDS

I Ifttoi' .more along the Groat Northern Kaiiway line. Kusiiifss chances. Write F. 1. Whitney. St. Paul, Minn., for

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Settlers on^freo Government lands along tho Groat Northern railway line in Northern Dakota and Montana get low Tates and line markets for products.

.HUNTING FISHING.

LOW RATES

I Finest resorts in America I along the Great Northern railI way line in Minnesota, DakoI tas and Montana. Best cliI mate for health seekers.

'Montana produces tho fluest I horses and cattle. Free range yet in'.Mouse. Mi'.ti and Sun River Velleys und Swoet Grass Hills.

HORSES, CATTLE.

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The regions tributary to I Great Northern Railway "Lino Montana, prpduce all tho ,jrecious and bases motuls. I New towns and railways aro being built.

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•Hu--. have made Montana tile richest State per capita In Union. Plenty of room for I miners and ftock rai6ors. Now is the time.

Along &e Great Northern 1 VflTTHfl 'Hallway fcino in .Montana are 1 Ulin free ranches ond pasturngo, 1 mines of precious metals, Iron nnd coal, aud new cities and 1 ir \T .towns}. Now is your chanee. lullj)|,

Surrounded by a One agricultural and grazing country, close to mines of precious metals iron ahd coal, possessing a water power unequalod In America, it is Montana's induBtral centor.

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ft&*\ for any disability, whether contracted in service or not. AU their widows, minor children and.dependent parents whether able to ti pSIfprnrinanual labor or not. Writo at once to

CliAPIN BROWN, Att'y-at-law, 3g, 4}j St.^ N W., Washington, D. C. No fee unless claim is ill lowed. 13 years'experience.

Dnn lelion Liver and Kidnev Cure.

It purifies tho blood, cures' "female debility and all chronic diseases of both sex, and is ski guaranteed to cure rheumatism or money re--

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-unded. Sent to any address on receipt of price $1. Six bottles $5. Address H. L. Harland, •Crawfordsvlile, Ind. For sale by all druggists Send for circular.

gHERIFF SALE. By.virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed from the Clerk of Montgomery Circuit Court, in a cause wherein Walter F. Hulett, administrator, is plaintiff, and Willard Craig is defendant, requiring me to make tho sum of live ^hundred and niaety-flve dollars and fifty cents hfith interest on said decree and costs, I will oxtjjoso at public sale to the highest bidder, on Monday, the 4th day of August, A. D„ 1800, between tXhe hoars ot 10 o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clock pin of IBaid day,, at the door of the court house in Crawtfordsville, Montgomery county, Indiana, the Tents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, the following real estate, to-wlt:

All the right, title and interest ot defendant TWillard Craig, as heirs at law of Robert A. Craig' deceased, in and to the following real estate'I'he northwest quarter of section fifteen (15), township nineteen (19) north, range three 8) west. Also tlw northwest quarter (M) of tho (southeast quarter (if) and the northeast quartor Oi) of the southwest quarter (,"), aU In see-

Uon flftion (15), township nineteen (lfl) north •range three (8) west, and also tho east half (jrf) of the southwest quarter (X) of sectloh ten (10) •owushipjxineteeu (19) ncyth, range three (3) vestv k'Also lot No. twenty-three (S3) in N. A. •JJunn's heirs' second edition to Crawfordsvlile Indiana. Also lot number one (1) in block nun* |er two (2) in the original plat of the town of Darlington. All of said land «vnd lots being in Jlontgomcry County and State of Indiana.

If such rente and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree,-nterosts uinl costs, I will, at tbo samo timo aua placo. osjio^* to public sale the fee simple of saU real cstate.or BO much thereof as may bo sufficient to discharge raid decree, interest and costs. Said sitle •will be made without any relief utiitevor from or appraisement laws.

E. P. M'CLASKKV. Slierll Mnntg. o. By B. COX. JOHNSTON A .K., NS ION Deputy. Atty's." .r I'lainti'll. JUtY Jith, A. !.. lfmo.

Stolen,

On Monday, June 16, from near VanLeven's cardfu, one mile west of the city, a thoroughbred hound pup, black and tan, four months old. For any information leading to his reeovery I will pay a liberal reward. Leave -word at this office. WM. DOYEL.

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LOCAL NEWS.

Leslie Davis sj»eut Sunday In the city, Albert Ruflner spent Sunday in Chicago. Bert Sparkes spent Suuday in South Beud.. Ed Vancainp spent Sunday in Indianapolis, John L. Gohen spent Sunday in Waveland, Mace Townsley was tn SVilliamsport this week.

Mrs 0. B. Anne is visiting friends at Knox

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Mrs. E. C, Voris and daughter are visiting in Danville, 111. Mrs. W. Vf. Seawiiglit is visiting relatives in Frankfort.

Jitn Layrnon washers from Anderson to spend Suuday. Capt. G. W. Lamb, was down from Frankfort this week*

Miss Daisy Gregory, of South Bend, is visitiug relatives in the city. Services have ceen suspended in most of the churches until September 1.

Daniel Ellis was fiued $11.40 by Mayor Carr Saturday afternoon for provoke.

Sam Grimes, of the Brazil Times, has beeu visiting friends her* for some days past. John Watson, and wife, of Jamestown, N. D., are visiting S. E. Watson and family.

A small house was burned near the Oak-Hill cemetery Saturday. The place was vacant Brazil will soon cet a china ware factory. It is said the building alone will cost $150,000.

Aaron Nutt and family and Jerre Voris and wife are summering at Cedar Lake, Starke county.

One [.lain drunk wasarrained before Mayor Carr Monday morning. He was fined aud costed §11.40,

County bonds to the amount of $500 have beeu redeemed on the New Market and Western gravel road.

The Vandalia has commenced to operate on its new extension from South Bend to St. Joseph, Michigan.

The population of Atiica, as given by the census supervisor, is 2,817 in ten years. Wiiliainsport gained 100.

The blackberry season may be said to be near to an end. The crop this year has been large aud the prices reasonable.

The Ben Hur entertainment, under the management of D. W. Cox, opens at Chautauqua, New York, in a few days.

Read the proposed creamery project in this issue of the REVIEW and then lend your assistance to boom it It is a winner.

Mr. Chas. Marshal), of this city, has taken the position of book-keeper for the Shelbyville water works vacated by Fred Sheets.

Marion Watts was up befor Mayor Carr Saturday afternoon charged with assault and battery. He was fined $11.40 and costs.

Gertrude, daughter ot Jacob M, Troutman, died at the home of her. father Saturday morning of typhoid fever, at the age of 25 years.

Mike Zeller sold $300 worth of crinoidB to Frank Springer, of Los Vegas, New Mexico, during a visit ot of Mr. Springer to this city.

In 1880 the population of Fountain county was 20,228. The census just taken makes the number 19,946, a decrease in ten year of 1,182.

Wheat is being brought to town in considsiderable quantities this week, and the four or live buyers have been kept quite busy in handling it

Prof. Robt. Hill made quite a successful balloon ascension and parachute leap from the Blnford grounds last Monday afternoon. Fuily 2,000 people witnessed it.

Most of the ministers of the city are enjoying a summer vacation, and there will be no preaching in the Methodist or Presbyterian churches for some weeks.

E. A. Cunningham, who graduated at Wabash College last June, was in Crawfordsville yesterday to stand an examination for teachers' license. He will probably teach in Montgomery county this winter.—Lafayette Times.

By having a small claim of which he was unaware upon a piece of land near Joplin, Mo abounding In lead and zinc oroducin£_vQualities, Israel H. Patton, of this county, was given $6,000 to quit claim, which he did.

The greenback party of this state is to be re-organized and nominate a state and other tickets in time for the election in November. Jim Mount should not overlook this. Here is an opportunity to join another political party.

Mayor Carr is in receipt of a letter from the Ohio Military Academy at Portsmouth, O., which authorized him to appoint a good young man to that institution. The expenses for a boy with the appointment are $250, without the appointment $350.

Ladoga Leader: Whtrein lies the cause? In 1880 the census population of Ladoga within the corporation was 028. Since that time scores o! new houses have been built, and every house In town is occupied. The recent census only

IOW 892. Who will explain? The assertion of many traveling men that Crawfordsville whisky is lamentably inferior finds superior backing in the statement that during a recent storm it rained upon the streets of tho Hoosier Athens fish from two to four inches in length and angle worms in quantities.—Lafayette Times.

The Vandalia, it is reported, is considering the feasibility of runing a line from Waveland to the Shades. The company, if having control of the Shades, would make it, no doubt, a much more sought for summer resort than at present, and the attendance would be fully as large in a few years as at Maxinkuckee now.

P.ockville Republican: Last Wednesday one of the twin infants of Brainard Sprouse, after a serious illness, to all appearances died. The father, who was not at home, was sent for nml t'-o littl" n-'fl was hid nrejvirntnr--' dre-siii ii fr Imriitl. !3y nud by thj dibcovwas made thai the child was alive. It is now reported much better.

It has been suggested by some that a dime saving and ioau association be established in this city. Quite a number of our neighboring cities have organizations of this kind and they are doing a wonderful amount of good. The object of such an association is to provide for its members an opportunity of saving small sums of money in weekly Installments, and to assist in the purchase of homes or of fuel. The shares are $25 each and the dues are 10 cents a week.

Fred H. Sheetz has been appointed superintendent of the Crawfordsville water works and will take Iub position next Monday.

Will Richmond will start with the "Kindergarden" company this -season. The company opeDs at Ciucinnati in a few weeks.

Sunday school convention ht Gray's Chapel August 27, commencing at 9:30 a. m. Basket dinner. Come And enjoy a pleasant day. y':

While boring a well at Danville, workman struck a vein of patroleum at a depth of 140 feet The find is thought to be a valuable one.

The colored camp meeting has been in progress at the fair ground all this week. Tomorrow an admission fee of 10c. will charged at the gate.

Reynolds «& Slauery have been awarded the contract for constructing eight miles of gravel road in Tippecanoe, county consideration, $2,400 per mile.

The Schuman quartet, of DePauw University, will give an entertainment at Music Hall Monday night. Wherever they have been they have received much praise from the press.

The Parke county fair association offer presents to the value of fifty dollars to the couple who will be married in the grand stand on Thursday of the fair. Mr. Lagle should have waited.

The Monon Railway Company has subscribed twenty thousand dollars toward defraying the expenses of the World's Fair, in Chicago. The company expects to carry many thousands of passengers to the great snow, when ever it opens.

About one o'clock Monday morning an alarm of fire was sounded, caused by the renewal of the elevator fire on North street which had been smouldering since the last fire and broke out afresh again. The lire company was on hand promptly and soon extinguished the flames.

Quite a number of Cincinnati people arrived in the city last Saturday aud were taken down to the Shades of Death by Bayless. This pleasure resort is getting a National reputation. When the Vandalia people build their tracks to the place it will become prominent among the summer resorts of the country.

The republicans of the "state of Boone" nominated their county ticket last Saturday: Judge, R. W. Harrison clitx, F. W. Hunt: auditor. A H. Allen treasurer,. James Burton recorder, N. B. Osborn Bheriff, J. P. McCorkle prosecutor, J. O. Pedigo surveyor, Wm Wilson coroner, A. B. Jones commissioner, George Shirley, and Thos.Sbaw.

He Confessed.

At the time of the abrupt departure ot Rev. J. W. JoneB from the paBtorate of a church in West Lafayette, there were many rumors concerning the cause of his going away. These reports alleged improper conduct with a married woman on that side of the river, but the matter finally dropped out of mind, only to be revived by a telegram in the Chicago Herald, which states that Mr, Jones sin had been found out) somebody had posted the church where he was stationed, in Salt Lake City. The Bishop has required the minister to surrender his charge, and the telegram says Jones made a full and complete' confession of his indiscretion and asked for the forgiveness and prayers cf men. Jones was an able minister, and had a large number of warm friends up to the time of bis abrupt departure from the west side of the river. The going away may have been accelerated by the rumor that the injured husband was out gunning for him, or threatened lo do him bodily harm if lie could be found.

A Fish Story.

Winfield S. Catlin, a young man living iu Sugar Creek township, is earning his tuition and money to defray the expenses of an educ^f tion In a novel manner. He visits all the deep boles along the creek, and by diving, being an expert swimmer, he locates the large catfish by punching around him with a stick. Whenever he strikes a large one it can be told by its "roaring." This roaring noise is made by the huge fish lashing the water by Its tail and fins, and heard by a person under water sounds like thunder. After finding the fish the daring swimmer, working under water all the time, builds a pen of rocks in front and on each side of it and then with a hook fastened to a pole it is held while he ties a cord through its gills and hauls it out. Within a few weeks Mr. Catlin has caught eight fish from seventyfive pounds dqwu to twenty-live, aud finds a ready market for them at 10 cents a pound.— Rockville Tribune.

Grand Sunday School Pic nic.

Saturday, Aug. Oth, 1890, given by Potato Creek, M. E. Sunday school, there will be an all day picnic. Ice-creaui and other refreshments will be served on the grounds. The silk crazy quilt which has been made by the young ladies of the church will be sold to the highest bidder. The proceeds of the quilt and picnic will be

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THE CRAWFORDSYILLE WEEKLY REVIEW.

Doug. UriiBth is quite sick. Frank Lewis spent Sunday in the city, i' Parke Dauiels was iu the city Saturday. John Bible, our next sheriff, was in the city Monday.

Prof, J, B. Evans, of Waveland, was in the city Monday. Mrs. Chas. Wasson is visiting her sister in Evansville.

Will Humphries is making a tour of the Pacific slopo. Airs. Sol Tannenbaum spent the week with friends in Lebanon.

Will Brown joined the Kingfishers at the Pine Hills Thursday. Miss Essie Pursell is quite sick at lie* home on west Market street

The festival at Wesley Chapel last Saturday night, netted the Epworth League $35. Quarterly meeting at Robert's Chapel, Aug. 2 and 3. First service on Saturday at 10:30 a.m.

The Vandalia line will begin to run all regular trains through to St Joe, Mich., next Monday.

H. M. Robertson has been chosen principal of the Brown's Valley school for the present season.

Charles North has purchased a meat shop in Eiwood to which place he will remove bis family shortly.

in the purchase of a new organ

for the church. A special invitation is extended to all Sunday schools to be present Don't forget the date, Saturday, Aug, 9th. Come one and all and enjoy a pleasant time.

By ord rot committee.

Brother Pittman on His Muscle, Wm. Pittman, of the Darlington Echo, seems to haTe become out of "sorts" last week, judging from the following extract from the Echo:

Mrs. Rachel Mong.of local notoriety, bas circulated reports to the effect, that on one occasion during a visit to my house I threatened to kick ber out of doors, and that on another occasion my wife bruised her up and made sore places on her hands and arms. She has also circulated various other slanderous reports, all of which are lies, cut and dried and manufactured out of whole cloth without even the shadow ot troth for foundation. She did come into my house on one occasion, and become so abusivea and distressed a sick girl, who was suffering from a nervous derangement, to such an extent that I was sent for, and I told her if she did not shut her mouth I would put her out of the house.

A Prominent Druggist.

'•Eleven years ago I was suffering from an attick of White Swelling. A great many prominent physicians attended me butfailed to effect a cure. I commenced using Swift's Specific (S. S. S.), and after using it ior a few months I was entirely cured, and since then have had no symptoms of its returning. I feel that the cure is entirely due to the curative properties contained in S, S. S. 1 can cheerfully recommend it as a medicine to all suffering humanity." PAOL W. KIRKPATRICK, of Kirkpatrick & Wafford, Druggists,

Johnson City, Tenn.

Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.

B, F. Graves, a former citizen of Washington county, has been murdered in Indian Territory.

The First Step

Perhaps you are run down, can't eat, can't sleep, can think, can't do anything to your satisfaction and you wonder what ails you. You should heed the warning, and are taking the first step into nervous prostration. You need a nerve tonic and in Electric Bitters you will find the exact remedy for restoring your system to its normal, healthy condition, Surprising results follow the use of this great Nerve Touic and Alterative. Your appetite returns, digestson is restored aud the Liver and Kidnevs resume healthy action. Try a bottle. Price 50c., at Nye & Go's, drug store.

Squirrels are devating the crops in Douglas aud Lincoln couuties, Washington.

Huppy Meeting of Two Friemls. John M. Allen, 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.Allen said, "Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy has saved my life. It is a cure for gravel— and the only cure.'' 19-1

A wreck on one of the Georgia railroads a fiew days ago destroyed 8,000 watermelons.

"I was troubled with catarrh for over two years. I tried various remedies and was treated by a number of physicians, but received no benefit until I began to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla. A few bottles of this medicine cured me."

JESSK M. BOOSGS, Holman's Mills, N. C.

The Chautauquans in California are holding an annual reunion at Pacific Grove, near Mon terey.

Ayer's Cathartic Pills are recommended by the best physicians, because they are freefrom calomel and other injurious drugs, being composed of purely vegetable ingredients. While thorough in their action, they stimulate and strengthen the bowels aud secretary organ?.

According to the Wilmington Every Evening a uail was found in the heart of a cow that died near there recently.

Children Cry for

Pitcher's Castoria.

Constantinople is belived to have founded the first hospital in the world, as we now undersiand a hospital.

To keep the beard from turning gray, aud thus preventing the appearance of age. use Suckham'B Dye for the Whiskers, the best dye made.

About 4,500 species of wild bees are known— of wasps 1,100, of which 170 and 16 respectively live in Britain.

The declining powers of old age may be wonderfully recuperated and sustained by the daily use of Hood's Sarsaparilla.

Mrs.Eva B. Hart, wjio died near Syracuse, N. Y. recently at the reputed age of 103, smoked as for back as her children can remember.

Sunday Morning Safe Breakers. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July US. —Saf«

breakers for the past six weeks hav( each Sunday morning operated on safet in large establishments here without noticeablo success until yesterday morning, when they robbed the McCormici Harvesting Machine Company of SI,000. Tho greater part of the booty was ir cash.

An Olfl Settlor Gone.

ELKAKT, Ind., July 28.—Joel Ellis, ^ged 70 years, who settled hero in 1881, d^ed unexpectedly Saturday morning. Ha was one of the very first commercial navigators on the St. Joseph river, having sci'eyal warehouses and steamers here atone time. j'olltlcnl.

HUNTINGTON, Ind., July 28.—The Republicans of tho Wells ana Huntington district have nominated Hugh Alexander, of Wells County, for State Senator, and George A. Yopst, of this city, foi prosecuting attorney.

Held for Trial.

PERU, Ind., July 28.— D. T. Sw&n and wife wore tried here Saturday fdr^the larceny of five dollars' worth of -book« taken from the Murphy League rooms. Swan was bound over to court in S30d and his wife was acquitted.

Fatally

Shit.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 28.—James Coy, a son of Sim Coy, early Saturday morning fatally shot Edward McPeak, one of his father's bar-keepers, during a quarrel over politics.

THE ORDER OF THE TALL HAT.

An African Potentate Whose Authority Depends on Possessing a High Tile.

I was most heartily welcomed, when at last I arrived at my destination, bv my old friend Lieutenant Liebrechts, a Belgian artillery oflicer, who was in command of Bolobo Station. I was right glad again to shake hands with Liebrechts we were very old friends, having occupied the same quarters together at Leopoldville in 1883. What a'changfe in this Station at Bolobo since I first saw it in 1883! There had been much trouble between whites and natives then, and the Station-houses had been burned to the ground even now the grounds were cncircled by a high stout palisade. Nice, well-kept houses and stores had been built. There were also flocks of goats and sheep, good poultry-yards full of fowls and ucks, and immense plantalious of sweet potatoes, maize, and peanuts, and gardens of vegetables. What was more important still, fhe relations with the formerly unfriendly and hostile natives were now of a most satisfactory nature in every way.

The villagers of all the surrounding country were constantly visiting the Station and exchanging presents.

Markets had been re-established for the sal. of food, pottery, and native produce, and long-standing feuds between the different tribes were amicably settled by the happy intervention of Liebrechts. It is such as he who are required to gain the confidence of the African savage, men with a keen sense of justice, and the will to enforce it. My life at Bolobo was a happy one. Liebrechts and I spent our time "in visiting the different chiefs, superintending Station matters, and making little excursions into the interior in search of guinea-fowl, partridges, ducks, or the more formidable buffalo of the plain.

Formerly, Ibaka was the most powerful chief of Bolobo district. His name was mentioned by the natives of the surrounding villages with a great deal of reverential awe. But his village had become disunited each of his sons was at enmity with him, and Manga, Gatula, Lingenji, Nkoe, Ngai Utsaka, the chiefs of the neighboring territory, being keen traders, had ol tained numbers of lighting men, and Ibaka's word, which at one lime commanded instant obedience, was now but little regarded. His title of chief of Bolobo was of small value he had lost all influence. During my stay at Bolobo many a time he applied to us for assistance against his neighbors, and on several occasions he arrived at our gate in full flight, chased by his own sous, armed with heavy sticks, who sought bv this method of persuasion, to make their father agree to an immediate and complete division of the little wealth he still possessed, or to gain his consent to any other extortionate demand that might have suggested itself to their inventive minds.

Poor old Ibaba was a well-meaning fellow, and very favorably disposed toward the white men. He was, indeed, anxious to be on a friendly footing w-ith his white neighbors, but the other villagers were jealous of him, aud talked him into trifling but irritating acts of arrogance against the Station, which resulted, a few mouths beforo my arrival, in a little war between Ibaka and Liebrecht, who was in command of the Station. As a punishishment for his aggressiveness, Ibaka's town was burned to the ground.

There is an institution among these people which caunot be more correctly described than by terming it the "Order of the Tall Hat." There is in each district a chief who has proved by warlike success that he, of all the chiefs, is the most powerful. A public acknowledgment is made of this fact, aud the elected individual is carried around ou men's shoulders through the different villages, the bearer proclaiming to all that he is the Mokuuje Monene (Big Chief), and that iu future all tribal disputes arc to be submitted to his judgment. Upon his return to the village,- amidst dancing and singing and general feasting and joy, the Fetishnian, or charm doctor, places on the chief's head a tall hat, resembling the stovepipe" of civilized countries, but which is built with a brim at the crown, and not at the base. This hat is hereafter worn on all great occasions, and the wearer retains it until his death, when a new candidate is elected. In times gone by Ibaka had received the honors of election to this proud order, but unfortunately, during the trouble with Liebrechts the towering emblem of peculiar distinction was burned. A sympathizing white man, traveling through the country, heard of the old chief's hsitless coudition, and presented him with a red opera-hat of exaggerated construction, which had probably in year's past formed a prominent feature in a pantomime or burlesque, or had been used with great effect by sortie comic singer or wandering minstrel.

The possession of this truly wonderful creation of the theatrical costumer made Ibaka a proud and happy man. His delight in his new decoration would have been unalloyed were it not for a haunting fear that some one^ might steal it. He kept it when not in use, in our Station house, and called for it only on state occasions and big public drinking-boutv I insisted on his continual care of this valuable acquisition, and would place it on the side of his head for him, and impress upon him the necessity of wearing it in that position, as we while men were very particular about such details. Old Ibaka was intensely superstitious, and was constantly with the Fetishman.who was kept busy manufacturing new ch:,trms to protect him against imaginary evils. The poor old chief was easily gulled, and would accept from any.body anything that had the semblanco of a charm.

One day Ibaka' arrived back from some prolonged- native festival. The old fellow bore evidence of haviug taken more than /his share of the strong wine. He had worn the red opera-hat on this occasion and he now brought it to the Station to see it returned to a place of safe-keeping. Upon closing it up I noticed ,a mysterious lit tie package, and was informed that it was a monkanda monganga (fetish letter). It was, in fact, a Mohammedan prayer,

gircu mm oyoncoi our ooais crew, as a safeguard against all forms of death. It struck me that a red operahat with a Mo ham mod an prayer pinned in it was, indeed, a strange "find" in the wilds of Central Africa.—E. J. Olave, in SI. Nicholas.

MISSING LINKS.

The King of the Belgians did a gallant thing on Queen Victoria's birthday. He traveled from London all the way to Balmoral and back a distance of about 1,200 miles in order to personally present her with a bouquet

There is.a craze in London for queer leather. Some shops are stoaked with fancy articles made from the skins of all sorts of beasts, reptiles aud fishes, including pelican skins, lion and panther skins, fish skins, monkey skins and snake skins, etc.

Senator Carlisle is one of the m&ny men who have found Friday anything but au unlucky day. His first nomination to Congress and his .nominaflou as successor to the late Senator Btck each occurred on that day, and he was married on a Friday.

The ltev. Mr. Spurgcon has denounced certain elcrgymen with whoso views he does not agreu as "villains." Mr. Spurgeon is a great and good man, but he is uot heavily endowed with si sense of perspective in estimating the tendencies of modern thought.

It is an interesting point in Amorican history if, as stated, the confederate gray uniform was borrowed from the First Virginia Regiment, which borrowed it from the Seventh New York Regiment. The confederate song '•Dixie" was of northern authorship.

M. Ferrari, son of the Duchess of Galliera, is an enthusiastic postagestamp collector, and his private collection is roughly valued at £10.000. And yet he has been known to negotiate the loan of a stamp from his mother, the Duchess, when he wanted to post a letter.

The servants aud mistresses of Vienna have to manage their affairs under the superintendence of the police. The latter keep a "servants' book," in which each girl's dismissals and re-in-gagements are recorded, together with copies of the charactcr given by each employer.

Pope Leo's resident physician follows his Holiness about almost like his 6hadow, and is forever going to and fro with a thermometer iu his hand looking out for the slightest breath of an intrusive draught that might venture to blow rudely near the head of the church.

M. Spitzer of Paris is dead at the age of 74. He was the most remarkableexample of the born collector in our age. He began life with nothing and has ended it the owner of a collection of works of art valued at 20.000.000 francs. The Rothschilds were patrons of Spitzer.

Between the Ural and the Okhotsk' seas there is a spot half as large as thestate of Michigan, which is frozen ground to the depth of ninety-four feet. That is, it has never thawed out since1 the world was created, and probably never will, and even if it should nobody would have any use for it.

Capt. Zeliuski, who has made a careful aud protracted examination of Europeau armies and armaments, expresses his belief that a body of such cavalry as we had in the war, properlytrained to their method of lighting, would be able to defeat a force of double its size if the latter were madeup of cavalry well trained in the European school.

The crowding of the tenement houses in New York City, where the sweating system of work is in vogue, is disgraceful. The state inspectors declarc that it is now worse than ever before, oil account of the great number of Polish und Russian Hebrews who have swarm-1 ed over certain parts of the East Sideand taken possession of those trades in which the sweating system is practiced.

Jeffrc Johnson, who was at one timea slave under the laws of New York, is still living in Kings Count}', that state. A bill of sale, still preserved shows that he was disposed of for £50 in 1809, and he was then "about 9 year old." Two of his sous did good service in the civil war, and it is to the further credit of the old man that he never posed as tho body servant of Washington.

The French fishermen are troubled' by the depredations of porpoises, for which they have not succeeded in find-

ing a remedy. An attempt was madeto catch them in seine nets, but they jumped out of the snares. They were scared away by guns and torpedoes, but the fish were frightened and disappeared with them. They are toonumerous to be shot one by one in an effective manner.

It is worth remarking that the Germans never called Bismarck "The Iron Chancellor." The title is one of French or British invention. Bismarck was called Jer Eisern Graf after the battle of Sadowa, and for years he was known only as "The Iron Count." But this title is said to have been given him in admiration for his nerve in himself arresting Blinde, who tried to assassinate him in the open street.

Emperor William has decided not to give any more presents of jewelrv to persons who may become entitled to receive gift from him but who are not in a position to be decorated. In. future his Majesty will invarably give to such individuals a photograph of himself and the Empress, bearingtheir autographs and set in a frame of either silver or gold, and these frames will be adorned with the imnerial arms aud monogram.

Miss Julia Neilson, an English beauty, who made her first appearance on the Loudon stage two years ago, is expected to succeed Mary Anderson in the affections of the English play-going public. Miss Neilsou is said lo possess a minimum of talent and a maximum of good looks and good breeding that captivated society aud disarmed criticism. She also exhibits abundant sigqs of a passionate heart and good judgment, as well as a fair face, a rich voice, and a noble presence. She is awoman as well as queen.

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