Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 31 December 1892 — Page 5

HOLIDAY AND HOLY DAT-

Yuletide Theology by Dr. Tal" mage.

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Christmas Lesiontl-^1898 Bo a T®nr of Wonders—Tribute to tho Dying Year.

Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Text, Colossians ii, 16: "In Respect cf a holy day." He said:

What the Bible here and elsewhere .calls a holy day we, by change of one letter and change of pronunciation, call holiday. But by change of spelling and accentuation we cannot change the fact that holidays have great significance. Whether you take the old style of my text and call them holy days, or the modern style and call them holidays, they somehow set all my nerves a tingle and my deeper emotions into urofoundest agitation.

For years Christmas day, startiwr in the midst of one week, and New Year's day, starting ia the midst ot another week, we have been per--plexcd to know when the holidays begun and when they ended,and perhaps we may have begun them too soon or continued them too long. But this year they are bounded by two beaches of gold—Sabbath. Dec. 25. 18:)2, and Sabbath, lan. 1. lStKJ.

I propose that wc divide this holiday season, the two Sabbaths of tho holiday and the six days between, into three chapters—the "first part a chapter of illustrious birthday: the second part a chapter of an annual decadence the third part a chapter of chronological introduction.

First, then, a chapter cf illustrious birthday. Not a day of auy year.but has been marked by the nativity of some good or great soul. But what are all those birthdays compared with December 25. for" on or about that day was born one who eclipsed all the great names of the centuries— -Jssus of Bethlehem, Jesus of Na/.aroth, Jesus of Golgotha. Jesus o?

No wonder we celebrate his birth —i'rotestant church,Catholic church, Greek church. St. Isaac's of St. Petersburg, St Peters at Rome, the Madaleine at Paris. St. Paul's in London. Joining all our American cathedrals and churches and log cabin meeting houses and hom?s in keeping this pre-eminent birth festival.

Elaborate and prolonged .efforts have been made to show that the star that pointed to the manger in which CUrist was born was not what it appeared to be. but a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Astronomers, you know, can calculate backward as well as forward, and as they can tell what will occur a hundred years from now among the heavenly bodies 60 they can accurately calculate backward and tell what, occurred eighteen or nineteen hundred years ago. And it is true that seven years before Christ in Chaldea,about three hours before day dawn, there was a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. But I prefer the simple story of tho Bible, that a light, of some kind —stellar or meteoric—pointed from the sky to the straw cradle.

When it is so easy for God to make a world that he puts eighteen millions of them within one sweep of the telescope, he could certainly afford one silvery or fiery signal of some kind to point the world to the place where the sovereign of the universe lay incarnated and infantile.

If a kin? at the birth of a son can have the palace illumined and couriers sent with swift dispatch to announce the gladness at the gates and wake up an empire with cannonade. I am not surprised that at the birth of the Hon of God there was celertial agitation, and my only wonder is that.instead of one star or one meteor giving signal, all worlds did not make demonstration.

You see, the birth at Bethlehem must have been more novel and startling to the lieaveus than the crucifixion ou Calvary. It was ex pected that Christ would be maltreated. The world always had maltreated its good and great friends. Joseph hurled into the pit, Shadrach

fowered

jut into the fierv furnace. Jeremiah into a dungeon. David hounded from the'-throne, Elijah compelled to starve or take his food from the beak of a filthy raven, and Socrates condemned to'death, so that the Calvarian massacre was in the same old iine of malreatment.

As the finger of light that Dec. 25 •ipoiuted to the straw cradle, now all •the fingers of Christendom this moment, fingers of childhood and old •age, fingers of sermon and song and decoration and festivity, point to the :great straw cradle. Am I not right in sayinp that the first of the three •chapters of tho holidays should be idevoted to the illustrious birthday?

As far as possible gather the ciiildiren aucl grandchildren, but put no •estopple on racket, whether of laughter or swift feet or toys in shape of rail trains or trumpets or infant effiigy. Let tho old folks for one day at least iav nothing about rheumatism or prospect of earl}' demise, or the degeneracy of modern times, or the poison in confectionery.

If children and grandchildren can not have full swing during the holidays, when will -they have it? They

wfti be still soon enough, and their feet will slacken their pace, and the burdens of life will bear them down. Houses get awfully still when the children are gone. While they stay let them till the room with resoundin mirth that you can hear the echoes twenty vtars after the\r are dead.

The second chapter of the holidays must speak of annual decadence. This is the last Sabbath of the year. The steps of the year are getting short, for it is old now. When it waved the springtime blossoms the year was young, and when it swung the scythe, and cradle through the summer harvest fields the year was strong, but it is getting out of breath now. and after six more throbs of the pulse will be dead. We cannot stop this annual decadeuce. Set all the clocks back, set all the watches back, set all the the chronometers back, but you cannot set time back.

For the old family clock you might suppose, that time would" have, especial respect, and that if you took hold of these old hands on the faci of that centenarian of a time piece and pushed them back you might expect that time would stop or retreat, for at least a few minutes. "No. no!"' cays the old family clock. "I must go on. I ^aw your father and mother on their wedding day. I struck the hour of your nativity. I counted the festal hours of the day in which you brought home a bride. I sounded the knell at your father's death. I tolled at your mother's departure. Yea, I must sound your own going out, of life. I must go on. I must go on£$Tick. tock! Tick tock!"'

But there is a great city clock high up in the tower. There are so many wrongs in all our cities to be righted, I so many evils to be extirpated, so many prisous to be sanitaried—stop the city clock until all these things are done. Let Common Ctuncil and all the people of the great town dc-

Olivet. Jesus of the heavenly throne. The greatest pictures have beeu made about scenes in his lifetime. The greatest sacrifices on fields of battle or in hospital or on long march or in martyrdom have been inspired by his self abnegation. The finest words of elonueiK-e ever sp tlcen have been uttered in the proclamation of his trospel. The grandest oratorios that have ever rolled from orchestras were descriptiveof his lifetmd death.

cree that the City Hall clock shall stop. We do not want the sins of 18U2 to be handed over to 1893. We do not want the young year to inherit the misfortunes of the old year. I By ladders lifted to the tower and by I strong hands take hold and halt the city clock. "No, no!'1 says the city clock.

took! Tick, tock!" ot the capitols at

cannot wait until yon correct all evils or soothe all sorrow or drive out all sin. I have been couuting I the steps of your progress ss a city.

I have seeu your opportunities. I have deplored your neglects: but time waste'! is wasted forever. I must go on. I must go on. Tick,

But in the tower Washington and

Loudon and Berlin and Vienna and aud all the great National capitals there are clocks.

Suppose that by presidential proclamation and resolution of Senate and House of Representatives our national clock iu the Capitol turret I be ordered to stop. "Stop. O clock. until sectional animosities are cooled off, until our Sabbaths are better kept, and drunkenness turns to sobriety. aud bribery, fraud and dissipation quit the land! Stop. O clock in the tower of tho great United

States Capitol!"' '"No, no!"' says the says the clock. "I have been goin? on so long I cannot afford to stop. I sounded the birthday of American independence. I rang out the re--turn of peace in 1SG5. I have seenmany presidents inaugurated. I struck the hour of Lincoln's assassination. I have beat time for emancipation proclamation, and Chicago tire, and Charleston earthquake, and epidemics of fever and cholera. Nations never stop. Thev march on toward salvation or de rolition. And why should I stop? I chime for the national holidays. I toll To:- the mighty dead, I must go on. I must goon. Tick, tock! Tic'.:, tock!"

Sorry am I to have 1892 to depart this life. It has been a good year. What bright days! What starry nights! What harvests! What religious convocations! What triumphs of art and science and invention aud religion! But, alas, how sacred it has been with sorrows! What pillows hot with fever that could not be cooled! What graves opening wide enough takedown beauty, strength, and usefulness! What octogeuarians putting down the staff of earthly pilgrimage and takinjr the crown of heavenly reward! What children, as in Bible time, crying, '"My head, m}' head! Aud they carried him to his mother, and he sat on her knees until noon and then died."

What mingling of emotions in this closing year! What orange blossoms for the marriage altar, and what myrtle for the tombs of the dead! Hosanuas and lamentations in collision. Anthem and dead march mounting from the same ivory keys. I advised that vou.divide this.season into three chapters—the first a chapiter of illustrious birthdaj', the second a chapter of annual decadence, the third a chapter of chronological introduction, and this last chapter we have reached. Iu olden times there the was a style of closing an old year and opening a new one that was very suggestive.

The family would sit up until twelve o'clock at night, and when the clock struck twelve the family would all go to the front door of the house, take down the bar and turn back the lock and swing the door wide open to let the old year out aud the new year in. And that is what we arc going to do. With the same measured step that time has kept since it started it will come to our door in the closing night of this week. "Why?" you ask. "Have you any forebodings or premonitions?" No! "Are you expecting the millennium this year?'' No! "Why, then, say this about tho coming year?" For the simple reason that I find as the years go by they become more and

more eventful. Compare the Nine t.eenth century with the last half. The surges of this ocean of times arc rolling higher and higher.

And so I expect that 1393 will bf a greater year than 18:)2. Its wed ding bells will be merrier. Its ob sequies will be sadder. Its scientific discoveries more brilliant. Its pros peri tics more significant. Its open ing more grand. Its termination more stupendous.

In what mood shall we open the (loor of the new year? AVith faith. strong faith, buoyant faith, tri umphaut. Cod will soe you through. His grace will prove sufficient if you trust him. You can go to him al any time and find sympathy. He will console and help in every crisis. Come, now. let me unstrap that knapsack of care from your shoul ders. Come prosperity or adversity. come wedding or burial, come health or sickness, come life or death, come time or eternity, all's well, ail's well. If you keep your heart right, all else will be riglu. Liviug and dying, may it a'l be his!

Thus iu three chapters I have counseled that the holidays bo grouped. May nothing interfere with their felicities. May they be so spent that they will be food for pleasant reminiscence further on. You know that after awhilo the old homestead will be brokeu up. For years and years the children come home to spend the holidays, and the

house is rummaged from garret to

cellar, and the scenes of childhood

a'*e rehearsed, and we laugh till the tears come as we talk over some boyish or girlish freak or cry over

co'v.e

old troj'eh eu'lea, but tV

heai'L swings back aiaiu to mirth, for it does not take a half second for tear of the eye to strike the smile of the lip. For a few years the grandchildren make the holidays merry.

One of the many uses of grandchildren is to keep old folks young. Then after a few years the annna! gathering at tho old homestead is

half broken up for father or mother j» is gone. About two years after (for there are generally abont two years between the time of their going) the other half of the holidav"season i: broken up'. Then the old house goes into the possession of strangers, and the son? and'daughters b.y that time liavo homes of their own. They plant their own Christmas tree3, and hang up their own children's stockings, and twine their own I10II3' and mistletoe, and have their o'vn times.

Meanwhile we. their parents am"

r~:m''hvirinK=.

will. lion".

the atonement of our blessed Lord, be keeping holidays livelier and higher up—in the presence of tho very Christ wh ise oirt the earthly Christmas commemorates,

uiki

ci ::it of Days'' who saw the first year open and will see the last year close, in companionship with tho ever widening circle of heavenly kindred, many already there and many soon to come, and the tables of that festivity will purple with tho grapes of Eschol. and redden with '"the new wine of the kingdom." and glow with "twelve manner of fruits'' from the trees of life, and the gifts of those holidays will be mansions and thrones and crowns of glory that never fade away. Oh, ttiat these delightful holidays of earth may fit us for those more delightful holidays of heaven!

Tex a?.

Blosijuitoes in

St. Louis Giobe-Deino^rAt,

"Speaking of mosquitoes," said FM. Goodwin, a guest of the Southern, "reminds me of q.n

once had at Galveston, Tex. I arrived at the Island City late one night, very tired, and was soon sleeping soundly. About 4 o'clock in the morning I awoke, fully convinced that I was being roasted alive, 1 discovered that my bed had no mosquito bar and that several thousand of those ravenous songsters had been presenting their bills. A mosquito bite it rank prison to me, and cause a swelling resembling a boil. Bv daylight my eyes were swelled shut, my hands were puffed up like a prizefighter's after a mill, and from head to heel 1 was in about the same cpndition to which the devil reduced Job. It was two days before I could leave my room. Galveston island and the low land of the coast is a great breeding ground of the mosouito. When there iaa strong oreeze from the sea they are blown into the baj-, and the city is thus kept during the greater part of the year comparatively free from these, prsts. They are always to bo found, however, nn 1 it is necessary to sleep under bars even during the months of January and February. Railroad bralcemen in south Texas are sometimes compelled to wear mosquito netting over their faces while on dutv."

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

A vessel that has had oil in it may be easily cleaned by first pouring into it some diluted carbolic acid.

In stamping letters it is sometimes better to wet the envelopes than the stamps, for this does not remove any of the mucilaginous substance of the stamp?,-and the stamp is not so liable to be lost from the letter.

Tea or coffee stains of long standing may be removed by rubbing the cloth with glycerine, after washing once, a so:ond washing leaves the linen as clean as before-

Ink stains are so frequent that everyone at time desires something to remove them. To remove them from linen, rub the spots while wet (if stains are old wet with water) with tartaric acid to remove them from silk, saturate the spot with spirits of turpentine after a few hours rub the spot, and the ink stain will crumble away without injuring the fabric.

VOTES OF THE STATES-

Tabulated and Complete Figures ot the Recent Election.

•Some of the Surprises—The Latest Elecoral Kstluiate.

This table gives the vote of the country at tho lust election. Tho' figures are otlieial, hut they may in some instances bo changed by tho canvassing boards. Tho results, however, will vary only slightly from those hore given.

Cleveland.

Harrison.

Alabama Arkansas California ....•• Connecticut... Colorado Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois .... Indiana ..." ... Iowa ...j. Kansu* Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada N. Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina

Weaver.

Bidwell.

I?8.ir8 87.8'M 117.008

9.197

85.181 II.831 25,226

2T9 113

48,974 117.7N5 77.025 38.1520 18,0?

7.1'5 4.1V 1.8 2 f.71 5.1

Fusion 1V"S lu.iirj

63,5' 4

4,843

IW.SWSl Fusion!

48.nor 8.7119 390,288

42.9 9 10.43U 22,007 22.20S 20.5! ft 168. Ill 23.500 1.831 3.3.83 7G 7.519

U88 2f0

Bt2,74n 196.3:171 Fusionl 175.-If,1

25,870 13.050 6.4 "*2 4.5"3 0,442

2111.79 157 241 1115.441 35,3 *2 62.K 0J.-.3S 20-M«8 222 708 l*,73fi 1,-IOrt 228 824 1«.84R 87.227 2,680 45 C53 1.V5.CW ty*' 45'J 100.3415 17,-iSfi 405.181 »1.5'Jfl 51(5,011 28,1)75

87.OS!

40.011 11 17.5,85.' LW.UvW 1(7 077 •'I I.U37 26UHU 17. MS

3.062 5.8" 3,318 20.PC9 44,41 910 4.2JS 530 4,902 125 370 8.1 1 38 10 2,R3U 875 20.0'2 15.421 25,123

III." 92 30.394 lO.I-Sd 41,183 7,305 83.131 7,210 l.iC.7 iH'iV 13.430 44,732 17.0K, 14,852 2.08l 8,711 2-.'8 2.410 211,382 23,622 00, US) 4!-

B4.9T* 7-10 4H.07S 171.'112 6-.4.90S KV!Sol Fusion .404.115 3(.7ii

N0rth Dakota

Ohio

nrp"

Oregon Pennsylvania Khode Island South Carolina South Dakota. Tena-.'SiOe Texas Vermont "iiVr.nla Washington \Vet Virginia .. Wisconsin Wyoming

!4.--:-fl 54:0 IS aim 13(5 -1 7, 230.14 10 3 Oi

I3.38I 31.825 VD,077T.47r 3".092 113,070 35.40D 80.293 170,719 8,:.7.'

4.S.V1 2, UVi 1.421

ig i.wrr 2.1.811

Totals

I0,2i'i Hi .051

2, 6'2,1.5 13.132 001

fct.r.7 1-.313 Fusion

4, IOC,

9.909 7.5SC

la..Vi7.9.'-.oi5,183,9:ti! 1 ,U 8 ,Ot iS7 7,121

tt.

The star indicatc-i increase over 18 8 d.-ig^e^ (t) the decrease ovc-r iSSS. Besides tho voto given above, t^iero wore tho following: Wing, Socialist, 32D votes

Si»8 In Rhodo Isiawd total. -'I.V.IO. £cattering vole: l.'.'OT in Arkansas. y.Oj-l in Georgia, 4 in Maim it iu Massachusetts, 105 in (Miiith Dakota. 3,WO in Toxa?, 11 in \onuont, and 1:21 in Wisconsin. Total vote of Hie country. 12.086.4-15. Cloveland's plurality over Harrison. 373,0 6.

The I'lcct.'on was full of surprises. The I total result, falls two inilion voti-s short :f some of tho ante-election estimates.

i'ountiiig

tlie scattering voto and all, the vole of tlie (.•oiintrv for 1 $!•.' Is 12.|ji0,H.ri. Hut. of this-number 234,4 voles •""re contributed by the six new .States,

TLorefo.T, the actual gain over four yoars I igo is only 41V,0:."?. Th" vntn for in 1SS3 w::s:

Cleveland Harrison

Colorado

r.4-0.,.nri

Kisk. Pro 24.907 Streoter, Union i.abor 14S,1U5 Scattering 4,319

Comparison shows,.therefore, thntCleveYu-

ia,,d

gains l'J.OiiT vol.o«. Harrison loses 2.7\2 votes. Tho Populace gain over SlreoLer Is SiO.fO, votes, while tho Prohibition! t.s gain only 2T.:l". Tlie largo increase of the Populace volo is due partly, lo fusion, which gave it the llemo -ratic vole iu Idaho, Kansas, Wyoming. Colorado and much oT the Oregon vote.

The greatest increase in the voto of any eni!-tale was in Illinois, wii c.li allows a gain of 12.VijO tho largest, decreasn was 52."118 found in Mississippi, where an educational nualilicatioii for sulTrage was recently enacted. New York Htute was a great disappointment. Tho natural i'i-crea-o would have shown a vote of 1.410.o. hut onlv 7,o^) moras votos than four yoars ago wore polled.

While tho Australian ballot system was in some degree responsible for tho light volo. It can not account for it wholly. A fair assumption seems to bo that the people generally wero apathetic.

Tho volo by electors, if there bo no further changes, will he:

rou

I-SYZI.ASD, 11 Missouri K'Now Jersey 0,New York

AlaV.amn Arkansas Connecticut California Delaware Florida Oeorgiu Illino's Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maryland 9 Mchigau f| Mississippi 01

exDerience

SiNorth Carolina 3 Ohio 4,South Carolina 12 Tennessee -'VTexas 1.". Virginia lSlWest Virginia 11 [Wisconsin

Total

FOB HARRISON.

California 1 Oh'o 12 Iowa 13 Oregon .. M^inc 0 Pennsyluania .... .... 32 Massachusetts IShode Island... 4 Micnigan South Dakota.... 4 Minnesota Vermont

... 4

Montana a Washington .. 4 Nebraska 8 Wyoming .... 3 New Hampshire ...,

Wyoming

North Dakota 1 Total ron

PALMETTO BLIZZARD.

Sleigh Hiding in South Cnrolina—Orange Tree* Nipped.

___

V/nAVER.

ltlnhn

I North Dakota 2

Oregon 1

Oregon

ansas 10

N a a Total oo

CODE OUELLO.

M. Clcmancenti nntOl. do Rouloda ntn a

liit

tie Sport.

As ouo of the sequels of tho great Panama scandal at Pari«, Messrs. Clemonceau and De Roitledo. after an inflnito amount of parley and rod tapo, tnel on honor's fatal Hold. Thursday, and wasted powder and load to tho oxtontof threo rounds, to the terror of spectators and satisfaction of themselves and their assaulted "honor." Il.ppilv no one was hurt in tha loast, and the ducllisto received tho congratulations of their friends upon their wonderful

codIiicss

in' tho hour of danger, aud upon

their happy oscape from injury, after which tho party returned to Paris. Tho duel occurred on thn paddock of tho St Ouen raco course.

HARRISON'S HOME.

Tlie 1'resldeiit Will lieturn to Indimapollg and I'ractlce Law,

A Washington special of Thursday Mates in positive terms that President Harrison will return to Indianapolis at tho expiration Of his term, for permanont residence, aud ros,umo tho practice of law, but will not associato himself with At-torney-General Miller, as has been reported. Mrs. Mcfvoo will spend half her •.iir.o with tho President and the remainder with her husband at lioston. At other times ho domestic affairs of General Harrison will bo'sup«rlnt'jndod by Miss Jo•ophine. who has been a member of the family for many years.

Tho Palmetto Stato enjoyed a penuino blizzard, Tuesday. It struck Charleston, S. C., and for the first time within the past fifteen yoars years house tops wero covorcd with a thin coating of snow and sleet. Tho mercury avoraged about three or four degrees below freezing point during the day, and pedestrians, not being accustomed to ice, had a hard timo gotting along the sidewalks. Tho orango trees in the city are injured somewhat, and will probably boar only one crop this year. They, usually bear two crops. Planting and truck farm crops ara not far enougli ad* vanced to suffer auy damage. Strawberries are well protected, and the plaut" will escape without severo trouble. A-

Wilmington, N, C., the sleet storm report^ ed Tuesday evening has not yet abated^ and has now reached tho proportions

a lirst class snow fall for that climate. Many sleighs of rude and hurried construction are now on the streets, a sight very raroly witnessed there.

"DISTINGUISHING MARKS."

An elaborato decision by tho commis_ sioners in tho Bible-Davis Montgomery county contested election case, lias beeu made known. The board ruled that distinguishing marks on ballots must consist of marks that had been purposely madoby tho voter, and not marks which had beon made "by blots from tho stamp mark made by tho votor. It was also held in the mat. ter of tho tally-shoot, showing five more votes cast for Davis tlinu the certificate had on It, that the tally-sheet was pre ferable evidence, and that oven if tho ballots were cast by Illegal voters it wa9 not conclusive ovidenco that they had voted for a certain candidate of a certain party, merely because it was proven that said ill?gal votor? hnd jpnychrd |j) a certain political procession. Tho board wii2 also of opinion that certain students voted illegally, but there was no power that could bo bronglit to boar on such poisons to force them to stato how thev had voted* and it was impossible to surmise for what candidate they had voted. The election return gave Davis 3,524 and Bible3,S1S, and the hoard gave Davis 3.827 and Bible :'.S23, again of three for Davis and five for

Bible. These gains wore all niado by the board counting 1.allots that wero thrown out• by the election judges on account of "distinguishing" marks, tho board deciding such marks were not made purposely. and therefore wore not "distinguish ing" marks. Da^Nwos therefore declared florid.

CHRISTMAS OBSERVANCE.

Hull Combination noctlrut Church.i

m&lMlluitu

Con.

There was a Christmas sensation at North Derby, Conn., which the worshippers who had a share in it will not soon forget. A dog and a bull formed a combination which proved demoralizing to the congregation of tho Long Moadow meeting house, otherwise known as tho Church of the Freo'Jmen, as it was the first, church in the Stato to take under its roof colored people on an equality with whites. The dog was dozing in a carriage which was tied near the church when a stock dealrj. drove a herd of cattle by tho meeting house. This dog ran among the herd and stampeded them. One bigs'eer, becoming frightened, dashed into the church aud caino to a stand iu thocenterof thocdilico.

Tho pastor was in tho midst of his sermon. As far as his hearers were concerned tho diseourso ended and everyone tried to get out at once, and tho steer wus loft In ui.d sputed possession of tho place. When the animal became tired ho went out. Tho pastor re-cntored the pulpit and when his congregation had returned be took up his sermon.

A GREASER SKIRMISH.

Sol«H«r» ltoutcil by llnndits and a Number ou llctliSIilet Killed and Woumlud.

A battle took place Tuesday near 1,03 Animos. Mexico, east of Guorero, between ."•CO Mexican troops and 250 revolutionists, In which thirteen soldiers wero killed and many wounded, and several of tho rovolu» tionists wore also killed and wounded Tho report says tho revolutionists were com-manded by General Estrada and the Mexi.au-troops by Genoral Garcia. Tho Mexican troops- were routed. Tho town of Gnerero is now in danger of being captured by tho revolutionists. Many of the Mexican soldiers aro flocking to the standard of General Estrada. Tho revolution is assuming a more serious aspect than it was thought it would at ilrst-

A" KENTUCKY TRAGEDY*.

Near Ilopkinsvillfl, Ivy., Biid Adams Tuo-day. was shot and instantly killed by his mistress. Mrs. Jennie Whitfield, a daughter of tho notoi'iou9 John Chatnblisc, who was killed oignt years ago by E C. Hopper, who shot him and was afterward acquitted.- After living with Whitfield, tho woman went off wlth'Adains and lived with him. Adams whipped one of her children several days a"go, which so enraged her thai, she drew a pistol and fired, tho ball taking cflecl in tho brain killing him instantly.

TWILIGHT MADNESS.

Jlohn Nolan, ten years old, of Golden Colo., was bitten last summer by a dog which never showed anv signs of rabie8 aud Is still living. Tlie boy Is healthy,but at dusk begins gnashing liko a dog, frothing at the mouth and biting at evorvbody near him. Ho has all the symptoms of hvdrophobia. Tho doctors think he ha3 neurosis but can give no relief.

DEATH OF ORANGE JUDD.

Orango Judd, one of tho best-known agricultural editors in tho United States, died at Kvarislon, Tuesday. As editor ot tho American Agriculturistand tho Fanner, of Chicago. Mr. Judd was known In nearly overy farm-house In the land.

1IE1YY WEIGHTS MARRIED.

The Bridegroom "Weighs 607 Pomi^DS and the Bride Tips the Beam at S72.

N. Y. World., Two hearts that brat In lumps of fmt— Two folks that weigh a ton.

They don't weigh a ton, of oour«vt} the fat man and the fnt woman wh«i were married in Huber's Museum,^ but Prof. Lan'don, the gifted er and off hand poet, who gave awayf the bride, said so, and 1,179 pouadal avoirdupois won't go into poetry an^ way you can fix it.

CIIAUNCY MORLAND AND ANNIE

The bride's name is Annie Bell, orn was. rather, prior to 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She is no.w Mrs. Chauncey Morland. She won a white satin dress cut princess, witl^ bangaline over the petticoat.

The bridegroom is

rather

a heart

set person, or what would

chunky built.

be taller

was

arrayed

the conventional, black. The clergyman was the Rev. Gvjf| G. Hepburn, said by the manajpeiMf ment to be connected with Graw^P Chapel, which is hard by the ii. scum.

The bridesmaid, Miss Jennie Hic1^ bee. of Brooklyn, has a sister wholk .-' in the profession, a Miss Amelic Hill, a fat lady, of great drawing power. Tho best man was a Mri'. Will Block.

When the clergyman asked "WhoiS piveth this woman in marriage?"} Prof. Lnugdon came to the front andf gracefully handing over the pluriiW and blushing bride, said, "I do. The bridegroom found the ring and the knot was tied.

When it Was all over Prof. Lattg-' don kissed the bride, shook the htnd| of the bridegroom and was going tog wish him many happy returns of th«f day, but caught himself just in time,! The Professor held a red and rosy!. apple in his hand as he presented Mr.% and Mrs. Morland to the spectators.^ "Perhaps," said he, turning to the bridegroom, "you can tell me' what the difference is between the bride and this fine apple?" "No, sir,:' said the bridecroomlil! "What is the difference between the bride and the apple?" "You have to squeeze this apple before you get cider," said thePrOjk* fessor. "But you havo to get 'sifw 1 her before you can squeeze the bride." Si§-:

The applauss that followed closes the event of the day. The bridgrootn was born in Indiana, is twenty-one years old and*'* weighs 607 pounds avoirdupois. The bride was born in Columbus, O., but sh3 now calls St, Louis her home^ Sho weighs 572 pounds.

His Winning Smile.

TIo walks the atrest with a boamtng smile, Ills fact) shines like the sun, And lilii head Is crowned with a brand newt

It is plain his side has won. —Now York

Frivols of the Past.

Bangs weie first worn in thect$ of Louis XIV. Greek ladies had 137 differen styles of dressing hair.

Catharine de Medici impor muffs into France from Italy. Corsets have been worn on tb waists of Egyptian mummies.

On festive occasions both Gree! and Romans wore garlands of ers. 3'j

Shoes with heels 6 inches high wef rrbrn at the court of Louis XIV.

Mary's Little l*a:nb.

No wonder Mary's little ltmb Had drajterlea whlto »3 snow It hail too muoh sense tp wear thei

TraUlng on the ground you know. —Smith, Grays Co.'sMon

Mary, who owned the little lamb, Is married now, you know Her tlrst-born

hoq

Is ten years old,

And he to school does go.

He oft excites the teacher's Ire By fracturlm the the rule I Then, as of old. tho children laugh.

To see the "Kim" at school. —fcotrolt Free Frej

Bryant Fia du Sieclesl.

Tho melancholy days are here: rThe wind la cofl: tho.leaf Is sera Tho weary tramp, with vlpage sals. Is looking for stmt nice vara jalL