Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A. JI. HILL, Editor and Bufflne** Manager* TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER | YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUB, INDIANA. Office aver Adams Co. Bank 2nd doer. Wil attend to nil professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence ®n north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Harts Mill. 25jy79tf w. H. MYERS, Brick di Slone Mason Contract DECAIUB, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his line. Perrons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates jd application, v2on4sni3. K N. WICKS, J. T. MKKRYMAN. STICKS & MERRYMAN, •Attorneys at Law AND Beal Estate Jefnla. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dkqpateh. I’aXiiion, settlement of decedent’s estates, and collections a specialty. Ofliee up stairs in Stone's building—4th door. ▼ol, 25, no. 24, yl. OrT'kITCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of each month to treat all Chronic Diseases. Consultation free. Call and see him. All letters of inquiry received at the homo office at Piqua, Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write io him and make a statement of your case.—v2sn3tily. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, Sp oc ta clcs, ebe Repairing done at lowest prices to guar antee good and sound work fete —- ’ tt B AIXMOK.VrM't. W.H Nt»Uca,CMhler. D. Btci»a«aisb, Vice I’roi't. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy aud sell Town, Township and County Ordera. 25jy"9tf I PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBCATCB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining e.auiies. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are No Uries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, .old and reuled on tea•enable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. C 0. F. building. 25jy79tf "FRANCE 4 KING. , ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR .IN DIANA. E. N. WICKS, I attorney at law, DECATUB, IMDIAMA. All legal business promptly atlendsd Co Office up tfl>irs iu Slone's building fiihdoor. v25u24 year 1. I WALL’S Btarrh Pure. I» Rsoemmentled by > CslEliCß Will <J»ia»o Any Citse; JuMtiiNfc Hum. P. J. . 7W«to. 0. Gontktu«fl ! take plvaeureln liformlngyeu that I have•Caurrh Curs. It has cured me—l was very v. » J don't hesitate to say that It will cure ft n y I ftak • n properly. Yours truly.., .4. WPiTM KRFOP.D. Worth g!O, A Jh.K?le._ K. Itwsir, J^k.Mies, writes; Have had Cats. .11 l.irliO y-au It Calittb Cure cured ms Consiii'.r it wurlb sl9 00a UoUl«, Xlad’s Cstarrb CurelssoM bgajt Diagglstiat WQ. per bottle. Mioutsetured ar>4 aoid by F. J Vh£NEY fit CO. Sole I'roprielvri. TOLEDO, OHI& R A. Pierce S Cu , agent' at Dee tlur ar. STS es»«ATl*ou«an<l» of graves RfeS’nhFin* l ‘ nnll “ l| y robbed B fca&* o f Uieir victims, lives eiruloogdj, happiness and health restored i i>y the use «l the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and peiu»anently cures Impuleiicy (caused by excess* q( any kinu ) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of Belfyil.use. a* loss of energy, I ss of memory, tint versa I lassitude, pain iu the b*ck, d mpe»« of vision, prematuie old age, ind /nany «rtber diseases that lead to insanity consuuipiLiun and a premature grave. Send forcirAwUrs with testimonals free < . t>y mail. The fnHgorator is sold at X x'fl per box, or six box£« for $5, by all * r uggists. or, will be sent fra* by mail, rely sealed, on receipt of price, by ad<z. sec 1.4 ;II EX RY, Druggist, 111,1 ’’ , *fbr the United States. 187 n-. Agents at Dej.tUt Sole Agent-, R. A Pierce & Co., So

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John T. Bailey, attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent Decatur, Indiana. Special attention given to collections.—nos2.tf. R. B. FREEMAN, M. D., _ PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Daughters, Wines, Mothers, I B t ■ ■ • Dr. J. B. MARCHISI, UTICA N Y . DIrCOVKREII OF DR MARCHISI’S UTERINE CATHOLICOS A POSITIVE CURE FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, This Remedy will ac‘ in harmony with the Female system at all lime* and also immediately upon the' abdominal and uterine miiFC ei* and restore them to a healthy and strong condition. Dr. Marchiid'e Uterine t'atholic<*n will cure falling of the Womb, Leuccorrhcea, Chronic Inflammation and Ulceration of the womb, Hidden tai Hemorrhage or Flooding. Painful, Snppre-pvd and Irregular .M end r inti on. Kidney Complaint and ii* eepec ally adapted to the Cbnr ge <>f l ife. Send for pamphlet, tree. AH lett< r- ui i <tulry freely answered Addr« t». J a- a ove. FOIt NALR BY ALL DKi GLUTS. Fr’se fl s'p« r bottle. Be euru and a-k for It. Ma alvi’e Uterine Cathol'cnn Take no other. Difference in Phrasing in England and America. The following peculiarities in speech in England and America are noted by oliservers: An American takes a passage “on'' a boat, an Englishman takes his “in” it: a “railroad” in America is a “railway” in England; the American “locomotive” is the English “engine”; the former “switches off.” the latter is “shunted" to a side track; our “depot” is the English “station,” for they use depot only in its original sense, as a magazine where stores are deposited; we send by “mail” they by' “postthe “baggage” of an American traveler is the “luggage” of an Englishman; one “buys a ticket for” the end of his journey, the other is “booked for” his destination. If we take a hack we mean a coach, but the English hack is a riding horse. In shopping the same difference exists, An American “hardware merchant” is an English ‘ironmonger;” “dry goods” here are there known as “haberdashery;” and though we may buy “calicoes” at our “stores,” we must not fail to ask for “prints" at the London "shops. Again, In dross, the Englishman wears “trousers” and “I,rages,” the American “pantaloons" amt “snspeiiders j” an Englishwoman may appear in a "gown,” the American wears a “dress;” only a child iu America puts on a “frock,” but in England It is th. p name of a man's garment. A “levee” tn England means correctly, only morning receptions. Ju America it may be attended at night. The language of country life varies widely, or the same words are used with various meanings. “Lumbm?" jj) America is wood for building, ami is a source of ample revenue: in England it is worthless ami is used merely for trash that is cumbrous and in the way, as the dismembered relics of old furniture in an unvisited lumber room. The plain tables ami shelves of “board” here are “deal” tables and shelves in the old country. Our fields of “corn” are fields of 1 f jjerp; and the somewhat riotous “tavern” of pur crossroads is the good old “pm” of English comfort. Tilings to Remember. Hope is a fatigue ending in a deception. Jlun pardons and forgets; woman pardons only. . To be faithful ■without loving is to have the patriotism of virtue. Jjpve comes when we expect it the least and when we dread it the most. Hate enters aom.etjmes into great souls; envy comes only from little minds. Every one of our actions is rewarded or punished, only we Jo not admit it. Women love themselves us much as they can; men as much as they wjsh to. We should not measure the excellence of our work by the trouble it has cost us to produce it. To pretend to have many good friends is a sweet illusion of people who believe that they merit the affection of others. In youth, grief is a tempest which makes you ill; iu old age >i is only a gold wind, which adds a wrinkle to yon» face oml more white lock to the others. Our affections are llk« OUT t.eeth; they make ns suffer while they ata coming, after they have come, ami when we lose them. They are not less the smile of our life. A Frcirnh husband follows his wife in life as a dog foilcws his master: lie makes a thousand detours, lg' rejoins her from time to time, and quits her no mf’-p towards the end of the route. Balm tor IJaid-Heads. Abundant hair is not a sign of laaljly or moiltlil strength, the story of Samson haying giw>n rise to the notion that hairy men are strong physically, while tlw fn.'t is that the Chinese, uhp are the most omliiylng of all yacps, are m<is||y bald, and as t.< tlm supposition that long and ydek hair is a sign or token of intellectuality, all antiquity, ail mailhouses, and all eonunon obsury ation are against it. The easily wheedled Esau was hairy. The mighty Caesar was bahl. Long haired men are generally weak and fanatical, aud men with scant hair are the philosophers andjsoldiers and statesmen of the world.— London La ncet. Qvicksess of discrimination is pneof the first requisites to the successful pu'r suit of professfoual horse-stealing iu Arkansas. When confronted recently bv two sheriffs, one covering Idm with a “bull-dog” revolver, ami the other with i a long rifle-barrelled pistol, a thief said, “(teinltimen. if you laith had guns like llist” (pointing toward the revolver.! “I'd base given you a tussle; but 1 don t want no track with tluiq tarantulas and lie thrust his thumb in the direction of the alemler-barrelled weapon.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1882.

lIUBBELLINM. A Vivlil Picture, Drawn l>y a Master Hand. [Dorman B. Eaton, in North American Review.] Could the curtain of secrecy be lifted, we should see a vast drag-net of extortion thrown out by the committee from Washington, over the whole land from Maine to California, with every humble official and laborer —from those under the sea at Hell Gate to the weather observers on Fike's Peak—entangled in its meshes; and, busy among them for their prey, a series of tax extortioners ranging down from Hubbell, the great Qmi-stor. to little Hubliells by the hundred, each paid a commission on his collections in true Turkish fashion (to which the large amounts extorted beyond regular plunder rates are added). These minions, book in hand, are haunting the official corridors and tracking the public laborers. They range around the bureaus for names and salaries, which all high-toned officials contemptuously withhold. Neither age, sex nor condition is spared by these spoils-sys-tem harpies. They waylay the clerks going to their meals. They hunt the Springfield arsenal and the Mississippi breakwater laborers to their humble homes. They obtrude their impertinent faces upon the teachers of Indians ami negroes at Hampden School and the Carlisle Barracks. They dog the navy-yard workmen to their narrow lodgings. The weary scrub-women are persecuted to their garrets; the poor office lioys are bullied at their evening schools; the money needed for rent is taken from the aged father and only son; men enfeebled on the battlefields are harried in the very shadow of the Capitol; life-boat crews, listening on stormy shores for the cry of the shipwrecked, and even Chaplains and nurses at the liedside of the dying, are not exempted from the merciless, mercenary, indecent conscription, which reproduces the infamy of Oriental tax farming. We know of the head of a family who hesitates between defying Hubbell and taking a meaner tenement; of a boy at evening school blackmailed of $3 while' wearing a suit given in charity; and of a son pillaged of sl7 when furniture of the mother he supports was in paw n; and many have consulted us as to the safety of keeping their eamifigs, which they need. In every case there is fear of removal or other retaliation. Pages could lie filled with such cases from the reports of citizens. A newspaper before us gives that of a laborer, with a family, earning $750 a year, pursued by a harpy for sls, and also that of a boy of 13, earning $1 a day, with another harpy after him for $3.60. To women and girls no more mercy is shown. A “FAIR COUNT.” What It Means According to the JUt'publicaii StandanL The action of the House of Representatives in Congress in the determination of certain contested-election cases on record is gn indefensible, outrageous proceeding. Mr. Robeson and Mr. Hoar had decided that the country would not be entirely safe without a half-dozeu more Republican members of the House, and, with the help of Mr. Keifer, the extra half-dozen were voted in. These, in turn, assisted Mr. Robeson, Mr- Hoar and Mr. Keifer to save the uouutry by their votes for the old flag and an appropriation. Two of the seats stolen in this conspiracy to save the country belonged to Alabama constituencies. There has since been an election for Governor, Legislature, etc., and the election for Congressmen will occur in November. In one of the Alabama districts (the Fourth) declared vacant by the House conspirators, the Pemocratip vote in this last election was 11,94:0, and the pq|i|bined tag-rag and bob-tail opposition polled 4,873. 11l the other Alabama district (the Eighth) for which the House conspirators declared Ml’. Lowe to be the worthy bob-tail, the vote was 11,827 Democratic and 11,521 opposition. The Eighth district was believed to lie the stronghold of the bob-tails —if they had any stronghold—ami the most of the bobtail Sti’te ticket was made up of supposed influential from that mountain region. If the Eighth district had given a bob-tail majority, all the Republican press would have pointed to the result w isl; pride as a vindication of the act of the majoylfy iff the House, who had assumed to override the decision of a previous election. As the Eighth Alabama district did not give a bob-tftil majority for Governor in the ejection of Aug. 7, it only remains for the Republicans to declare that there was no election, and to demand a “fair count.” Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, has taken that “shoot” already. He tells the women they must stand back and wait for a "fair count” before questions of female suffrage, prohibition or any other thing can la* considered. A “fair count • was qupo 185 to 184. It is a great burden qn the mind s of some persons that'tliey should be for so long a time charged wjtif the responsibility of saving the eoiifftey, 'fiiey ought to lie relieved of it. A physician calls attention to the fact that, if tobacco-smoke be instantly ejected from the mouth and throat before descending into the chest, and be made to pass through a cambric handkerchief drawn tightly across the open lips, a permanent deep-yellow stain, corresponding in size and shape to the opening between the lips, and having numerous sjiots pi ff darker hue pervading it, will be left qn Jhe handkerchief: but the prqlqnged puff from the chiist after inhalation from a cigarette fails, under similar cirpumstances, tp produce any but a scarcely pppcpptilde and sjieedily evanescent mark, what iu the latter case liecomes of the substance which stains? This physician thinks it remains in the lungs, and he therefore condemns the common manner of smoking cigarettes as dangerous. Rear Admiral Nicholson takes occasion to deny the statement that he notified the Egyptians that he would retffrn the fire if they fired on any of his veasgls. The denial is scarcely necessary. If the Egyptians had opened tire on him. smj the aim qf their gunners had lieen at all accurate, the admiral wouldn't have had a ship to tire from after the first discharge from the Alexandria forts. The wealthiest city in the United States, in proportion to population, is Portland, Qru,

A BARBER’S RECOLLECTIONS. Stopfe* of Webster, Clay. Mason, Daniel Hivu, and <>ther.4. Told Ibtwiu-n the Stroke* of a Kazor- Samuel Scottron*.* Kecoll<*<‘t ions. “Next gentleman 1" were the familiar words which fell on the ears of a Star reporter the other evening while he sat waiting his turn iff a small and oldfashioned, but elean ami well-ordered barber shop on DeKalb, just above Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn. The summons came from the proprietor of the plaee, an aged colored man, named Samuel Hcottron. The barber is a man of short stature, inclined to corpulency, and of light yellow color. His hair is long, and grows in a fringe around a bald spot in the center. He speaks with great precision, ami uses language which marks him at once as a student mid a man.,of intelligence. Among the people of his race he must occupy a prominent position. “Been in the barber business long?” queried the reporter, ns the barber soaped his face with a hand as soft as satin and a touch as light as a woman's. “About fifty years,” was the reply. “That seems to me a long time.” “You must in your time have shaved some distinguished persons?" “Yes, sir; I have shaved almost every distinguished politician, divine, aud professional man of the time. I knew Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Y’. Mason, and a host of others.” “What sort of a man was Webster to shave ?” “Well, he was taciturn and uncommunicative. The first time I shaved him he spoke in monosyllables only. Next time he came he asked Capt. Peck for me. He asked where the boy was that shaved him the last time. I was sent to him, and he asked me where I had learned my trade. I told him in Philadelphia, and I sai<J I knew Mr. Clay. He expressed some surprise at that, opened his mouth, and we had a long talk. Mr. Webster was a most interesting conversationalist, and I learned a good deal from him. After that he came several times, and we always had a talk together. He got to calling me by my Christian name — Samuel.” “You say you knew Henry Clay ?” “Yes, I knew him very well in Philadelphia. He was a great friend of my father. When he was chairman of the African Colonization society he tried hard to persuade my father to send me to Africa. I objected strenuously; but the more I objected the more he wanted me sent there. The last time I saw Henry Clay was in New York City, at the end of the city hall park, where the postoffice now stands. He was a candidate for the presidency then. He had arrived by the boat, and had been brought up from the river in a cavalcade, Clay's carriage stopped just opposite to where I was .standing, aud be saw me- in the crowd. ‘Samuel,’ he said, beckoning to me. I was allowed to go up to the carriage, and he shook hands w ith me and asked me how I was getting along. When I left the carriage lie began to deliver his address. Clay was a splendid man, and everybo<ly that got close to him loved him. He couldn’t help it.” “How did vou come to knqw John Y. Mason?” “I shaved him in Philadelphia. I shall never forget an incident about Mason. He was to make a speech to the Sons of Toil in thfft city, ami he did make it. W'hen it was over the Sons of Toil came up to him to shake hands with him. He was looking toward the presidency then. After hand-shaking for about an hour, he joined the committee who had charge of the meeting, and. addressing one of the number, said: “ ‘I am not a democrat if I have to go through any’ more of that hand-shak-ing-’ ” “I overheard the remark, ami I said to my uncle who was present that I believed the hard fists of the Sens ot Toil had hurt Mr. Mason’s delicate fingers.” “Os course vou often shaved Uncle Dan'l Drew?”* “Yes; and for nothing, too. He thought he had a right to be shaved free, because I was allowed the privilege of barbering upon his boat. Once he gave me 10 cents for shaving him, but then he“ Was bantered into it by old Commodore Peck. He said: “ ‘Drew, I’ve watched you, yon hever pay that boy. Now let’s see you pay up.’ ” “Mr. Drew once gave me 50 cents for watching all his family baggage all night and carrying it up-stairs at the house. It was the hardest-earned halfdollar I ever took. But after I had got through with the job one of the ladies of the family said : “ ‘Good-by, Sam; coma and shake bands,’ and she put a $5 bill into my hand. I heard Mr. Drew say once to ' some of tin* Hudson River railroad people that after they had sold the road twice, he would own it. That came out true. Mr. Drew once put away $lO,000.000 where it should never be touched, but is in the family now. The times I’m talking ai)(|fft for the most part were before the railroad, Theje were no railroads built then, and the people from that scutum had to use the Hoosatouic. New Yorkers in those days were jealous of Bostonians ami Bostonians of New Yorkers.” “What other great men do you remember?” “Some time when I’m not busy I can talk to yon of a number more. In 1865 Capt. Peek put Gen. Grant under my charge. The captain told the general I had a favor to ask of him. I had a son that was in the ariffy sick. I had a long talk with the general, hut 1 said nothing about the favqr. He i|idn't forget it, however, and asked me what he could do for iqe, and I told him. Mv son was soon after discharged.”— New York Star. The Pepe’s Fun. Pius the XI. had some amusing experiences. It is related that not long before his death a very stout lady went to see him week after week. Being at times irritable from the state of his nerves he said on one occasion: ’What, madame, are you here again ?’ ‘Yes, she replied, ‘faith brings me here, your holiness.’ ‘Ah!’ said the pope, ‘you English know your Bibles well. I suppose that it is written there that faith ranuwes nililiffiaius,’ Upon one occasion an Englishman went to pay his respects to him, who could speak no language but his own. Prior to going he had endeavored carefully to commit to memory the terms he was told he should address him in. However, on presenta-

tion, he got into a terrible state of nerv- [ ousuess, and forgot every thing. Sacred, in English, was the only word that - would come to his memory. This he ; attempted to translate into French, and what they eventually succeeded in calling the holy father, who burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter, was ‘Sacre Peie. ” The Reading of Novels. That miscellaneous reading is not an entirely unmixed good must have been suggested to many an observer of the crowds in the lower hiill of our public library on any Saturday afternoon, between daylight ami dark. The rule that restricts the retention of new books to one week suggests that a book must be of very light quality that can be read in so short a time by ordinary readers. It can la* safely assumed that a patron of circulating reading assimilates very iittle of the nutriment he receives. George MAcDonald draws a pretty picture of a boy—was it Robert Falconer?—lying on the grass under the sky. to think out his subject, because no universal cvcloptedia was at hand to do his work for him. One may agree with Dorothea Brooke in , her impatience at seeing a lifetime wasted away over work already done; aud one may also have opinions as to the merits of Translation vs. Originals, and yet not regard a human' mind as a species de/oic yrc-s to be stuffed, stimulated aud rendered unwholesome. Perhaps an epigrammatic knack can be acquired by continued reading, but to make that effective it must appear as a case of spontaneous development. "Speaking of guns” will hardly answer, often. Borrowed epigrams entertain when patly and sparingly employed, but the wit to use almost implies the ability to originate. The class of young people who read with the avowed purpose of doing so that they may thereby learn to talk, is not small. "Oh, have you read Delilah ?” “Yes, indeed; isn’t it perfectly splendid ?” “Have you seen ‘Up in a Balloon ?”’ “No: is it good?” “Too lovely for words. Don’t fail to get it.” “I won’t; have you had . ‘Skyrockets’?” “Oh, yes; I dote upon all her books. Who wrote ‘Skyrockets’?” “Why, Rhoda Broughton. No, no, she wrote ‘lvanhoe.’ Let me see—who did write ‘Skyrockets’?” Well, I can’t remember, and it’s no matter; . they went off beautifully, etc. etc. : “What have you been talking about so > long?” “Oh, about books. Effie has read everything:” and the satisfied mammas exchange approving glances, and say to each other: “Such literary tastes are very becoming in young ■ girls. Ido thank heaven my children i are not frivolous," Now, the good pastor of the South i Congregational church says that with change of scene and change of name few novel readers would know a new • book, from au. old. These discrimiua- ■ ting critics hate “Daisy” Miller, and 1 think Mr. James real mean to have made that vivacious young woman a i tvpe of an American girl; though why Daisy Miller is often alluded to as typical it would lie difficult to guess. Bessie Alden, who is never so mentioned, might far better be considered so. Men anj women of a certain caliber find their mental sustenance in quasireligious newspapers, ami they do fur- [ nish much that is nourishing and stim- : ulating. First or last, resumes of much > that is excellent to prose and poetry [ find place iu theii* columns. One could f only ask that the scraps so presented ; might attempt the appetite t > greater ■ keeness; hut, as they say, when the - newspapers or magazines are read, - there is no time for anything else. And on this very plea some households decline to harbor floating literature of any sort. These agnostics are > delightful*to meet. What a good time -a newspaper man has in bringing such neighbors up to date! But this total I abstinence, like all intemperance, has its penalties. It is almost incredible I that a teacher <)f rather uncommon cul- ■ ture in several deparments, but who . repudiated the newspapers, had never heard of Phillips Brooks last Winter, . althougli she had lived within forty I minutes ot New York the last twenty years. Perhaps it was of no consequence; . but it was queer! In the same town there was a clergyman's widow, who j could say, as if relevantly, when an exquisite cloisonne collection was under discussion: “I admire Decalcomauia. too.” It became necessary to find a reason for this- •_ shall we sqy ?—stoppage of circulation. Aud a vigorous search revealed only gn utter lack of free reafiing matter, while logomachy gild anagrams were the favorite evening games I Anagrams, per ue, are not criminal, but anagrams considered in 1 relation to their effects upon human beings are vile conspirators. As a co- . I'Ollary to the Lord’s Prayer, the command to “Go ye into the world ami > preach,” so far the eye runs down the . panel, and at the word preach finds [ itself in such a muddle of pea, par, ear, each, ace, ache, that temporary idiocy . ensues. No; it is certain that not to . read at all is worse than novel-reading. . But the novel readers badly need protection from their propensity. The Alchemists AH Right. . It seems that chemists now say that . it is possible to make gold. Dr. Nor- | man Lockyer has made such discoveries with the spectroscope which led him . to suppose that all substances are identical in essence, and their different proi perties were due to some chemical , changesill the composition. Gold, it is supposed, is merely an alotropic formed of the met.dic variances cflthis'sulistaim i Silver is supposed to be the carbonate , of lead, and t in* chemists do not despair ' of being iu time able to make either gqhj or silver. Very probable the mon- ■ ufacture will cost more than the original metal. It is " ell known that dia* ■ mond dust has been produced through the agency of chemistry, but at a far greater cost than the stones themselves. In their composition diamonds are simply -erystalized charcoal. So it seems ‘ the old alchemists were justified in t their search. They were right in thinking that in the progress of science t gold could lie produced by human ’ means, but in the slang of the day they > were a little “too previous.”- — Demo5 rent's Monthly. A correspondent relates that once in 1 Paris Gen. Skobeleff was seen on a stormy day to run across the street from 1 his lodgings with an umbrella to shelter ’ an old woman who was hauling a costermonger’s cart. He walked by her aide for some distance until she reached a ’ place of shelter, “it’s so hard,” he 1 said, “to dry wet clothes iu Paris, and I lam very tender-hearted when I see an old woman in any trouble,”

BENNETT’S MARRIAGE. How the Founder of the Herald Announced It Years Ago. The following announcement of the impending marriage of James Gordon Bennett, the elder, written presumably by himself, and published in the Herald is one of the curiosities of literature: TO THE READERS OF THE HERALD —DECLARATION OF LOVE—CAUGHT AT LAST —GOINGTO BE MARRIED NEW MOVEMENT IN CIVILIZATION. lam going to be married in a feu days. The weather is so beautifultimes are getting so good -the prospects of political and moral reform so auspicious, that 1 cannot resist the divine instinct of nature any longer, so I am going to be married to one of the most splendid women in intellect, in soul, in property, in person, in manner, that I have yet seen in the course of my interesting pilgrimage through human life. I cannot stop in my career; I must fulfill that awful destiny which the illmighty Father has written against my name in the broad letters of life against the wall of heaven. I must give the world a pattern of happy wedded life, with all the charities that spring from a nuptial love. In a few days I shall be married according to the holy rites of the most holy Christian church to one of the most remarkable, accomplished and beautiful young women of the age. She possesses a fortune. I sought and found a fortune—a large fortune. She has no Stonington shares or Manhattan stock, but in purity and uprightness she is worth half a million of pure coin. Can any swindling bank show as much? In good sense and elegance another half a million—in soul, mind and beauty, millions on millions, equal to the. whole specie of all the rotten banks in the world. Happily, the patronage of the public to the Herald is nearly $25,000 per annum, almost equal to a president’s salary. But property in the world’s goods was never my object. Fame, public good, usefulness in my’ day and generation—the religious associates of female excellence—the progress of true industry—these have been my dreams by night and my desires by day. In the new and holy condition into which I am about to enter, and to enter with the same reverential feelings as I would heaven itself, I anticipate some signal changes in my feelings, in my views, in my purposes, in my pursuits. What they may be I know not—time alone can tell. Aly ardent desire has been through life to reach the highest order of human excellence by the shortest possible cut. Associated night and day, in sickness and in health, in war and in peace, with a woman of the highest order of excellence, must produce some curious results in my heart and feelings, and these results the future will develop in due time in the columns of the Herald. Meanwhile, I return my heartfelt thanks for the enthusiastic patronage of the public, both of Europe ami America. The holy estate of wedlock will only increase my desire to be still more useful. God Almighty bless you all. James Gordon Bennett. Love-Making at the Springs, The o|her night (observes Alary June, who has been visiting Grayson Springs) I overheard a real pretty piece of love’s labor won. and it made my heart beat faster, and brought back memories of the past. It happened down on the dark end of the piazza, next to my open window: “Who do you love?” said he, ungrammatically. “Papa,” said she innocently, with a coo. “AVho else?” said he. “Mamma,” said she. “Who else?” “Brother,” “Who else?” “Sister.” “Who else?” “Uncle.” “Who else?” “Auntv.” “Who else?" “Oo” —and then I heard a whalebone snap aud a peculiar gluggity, glug, glug sound that didn't need a dictionary for translation. Ah, love’s young dream, go on, go on; there will be an awakening some morning about 3 o’clock in the future when a bottle of paregoric and a plaintive wail will recall the hours that have been, but are np ffuu'e, Over in the park I heard of another case. One can hear of these places if she will only try not to. They were sitting on a log near the Rock spring at their devotions. “And you love me ?” he said. “Can you ask it ?” she answered. “I like to hear you say the sweet words over and over again,” he gurgled. “Then Ido love you and love you,” she twittered. “And I must leave you to-morrow.” “Don’t say it.dear heart, don’t say it.” “And what will my darling do when lam far away ? AVhat will she do in these lonely evening hours without nie?” “Ahem," said an old batchelor, getting up frqiff the dark end of the log, and starting off to the hotel, “I'll tell you what she’ll do in these lonely evening hours without you; she’ll be sitting ! right out here on this same log with auj other mash, making as big a fool of it as you are.” Then he went out into the darkness, aud came and told me Avhat I have written, and the two young hearts will read of it in these lines. There is lots of love-making at all summer resoyts> and I have found it prevalent at more places than Grayson. It is usually n harmless species of pastime, aud as it only continues during one season, and is killed off by the frost, a very practical friend of mine calls it the grown-up summer complaint. Music and Morals at Baireuth. A lafly correspondent of The Boston Transcript, writing from Baireuth, says: Hans von Bulow has just been married ami is here with his bride, a I German actress. He is one of the patrons of the AVagner verein and has placed here in its interests. It will be remembered that Mme. AVagner, who is the Abla* Liszt’s daughter, was once the wife of Bulow, aud it is Bulow's daughter who is to be married soon to an Italian Count, at which ceremony the King of Bavaria is to be witness. AVagner has not only Bulow's wife, but his children, who are very lovely young laI dies. The daughter will become a Ro- ( man Catholic on her weilding day, it being Wagner’s will that she shall be of the same faith as her husband. I Things are somewhat mixed iu these

high musical circles, and it is well enough not to know too much of domestic .relations if yon are prudish. Never have I been in a region where scandals are so rife as here and at \\ eimar. Such are the stories and such aer the lives of the persons whom we idealize in America, that I would send no young person into such an atmosphere even to obtain the best musical education in the world. Genius condones almost everything here. I cannot soil my paper by relating the shocking things that are passed over here, and are forgiven in high musical and aristocratic circles. This may sound too severe; but I assure you the temptations are terrible to the young student, and the examples the worst possible, in this country where both state and church pardon the most extreme license.” FASHION NOTES. The newest bodices are glove-fitting, with large and full paniers around the hips. Bonnet strings are made of very wide ribbon, tied in a butterfly bow under the chin. There is an effort to revive wreaths of flowers as head dresses and low clusters behind the ears. Many rich dresses have velvet collars and cuff's and dispense with any white lace next the flesh. Aprons of ficelle lace, with a large pocket trimmed with a bright colored ribbon bow, are among the coquetries of French toilets. Black Chantilly lace flounces that have been out of fashion for years are being revived for trimmings of full dress toilets of elderly ladies. The newest Pompadour foulards have black grounds showered over with very large detached flowers, and are trimmed with fieelle lace. Colored laces are meeting with great favor with American ladies. Their designs are usually of Spanish variety, and their colors include all the fashionable dyes of dark green, wood brown, bronze, royal blue, terra-cotta, garnet, ecru, Russian gray, amber, heliotrope, pale blue, and old gold. These laces have been in great demand this season both for dress and millinery purposes. Upon velvet-trimmed dresses the old style zouave jacket is again seen, this also being of velvet, and rounding over the chest, thus giving the bodiee beneath the appearance of a waistcoat. These jackets, accompanying costly French dresses, are frequently bordered with rich passementerie bands or a glittering applique work of jet, ruby or amber beads. There are indications that skirts plaited from belt to toe will again be much worn this Autumn. Imported traveling skirts have already appeared made thus, and above this kilted skirt is the stylish French pannier polonaise, with its exquisite shape and artistic drapery. Over other kilted skirts are worn the Newmarket jackets, with full sash drapery of the dress material caught up in graceful folds above the killings. In such fabrics as foulard, Louisjno Corah and Rumchunder silks the effect is excellent, but with heavy tweeds, cheviots and cool-weather materials the question of added weight will probably form considerable objection with many persons. At a recent informal gathering of ladies at a quiet summer resort not far from this city the following paragraph, read from a copy of a London society and fashion journal, was the text for an animated interchange of views on the prosand cons of crinoline: “You ask me to send you down a crinolette. Not for the world! You must not have one, Amy, Only the most third-rate people wear them, I will send you a little horse-hair bustle which just throws the dress out from the waist. Y'our maid must do the rest, as the w hole secret lies in the ample drapings of the folds of the gown.” At the close of the discussion by coftmon consent a vote was taken, resulting in a unanimous expression of disapproval of the revival of the hoop skirt. Fred Brant’s West Point Fights. Fred Grant was, during his four years’ course at West Point, continually in hot water, on account of his pugilistic tendencies. Ho was a great favorite with the cadets, not because he was the president’s son, for at West Point being a great man’s son rather wars against a cadet’s popularity, but because he was good-natured, lively and accommodating. His fight with plebs were legion. The very first day ho entered camp he had a fight with a fellow pleb who made a remark derogatory to young Grant’s father. It happened in this wise: It was the Fourth of July, and the plebs were watching from the doors of their tents the evolutions of the cadet-corps, when Grant’s tent-mate made a remark to the effect that George Washington was the greatest general that ever lived. Grant said: “I think he was the greatest man who ever lived, but not so much of a general as my father.” "Pooh, pooh,” retorted his tent-mate, “there is no more comparison between your father and George Washington than there is between a plucked hen and the American Eagle.” At this Grant struck him, and one of the hottest fights of that summer's camp occurred then and there. An officer appearing on the scene the affair was a draw’, This was but the beginning of young Grant's pugilistic corner, He was thrashed beautifully once during his pleb camp for refusing to carry a bucket of water for a firstclass man, and after a three year’s course had transformed him into a firstclass man, he, in turn, threshed a pleb for refusing to perform a like duty. They are telling a good story in Mansfield about Congressman Geddes, who unconsciously has been, supplying the barbers of that place in shaving paper for a long time past. It appears that upon the pretense of l>eing anxious to read and digest some of the Judge’s speeches, a tonsorial artist has been receiving, at stated intervals, liberal supplies of documents from Washington under Geddes’ frank and utilizing the same for practical uses in his business. Rival barbers soon heard of the scheme and likewise made application to the worthy M. C. Somewhat mystified perhaps at the sudden and unusual interest taken in his remarks the kind-hearted old gentleman complied only too gladly, and it is stated that every barber-shop in Mansfield today has sufficient shaving paper on hand to last for a couple of years to come.

NUMBER 23.

The True History. It is the merry summer time. To him, the mother of the father of his country. “George, dear, where have you been since school was dismissed?” “Hain't ben nowhere, ma.” “Did you come, straight home tram school, George?” “Yes, ma’am!” “But school is dismissed nt throe o’clock and it is now half-past six. How does that come?” “Got kept in.” “For what?” “Missed m’ joggrafy less’n.” "But your teacher was hero only an hour ago and said you hadn't been at school all day?” “Got kep’ in yistiddy, then." “George, why were you not at school to-day ?” “Forgot. Thought all the time it was Saturday.” “Don’t stand on one side of your foot in that manner. Come here to me. George, vou have been swimming.” “No’me.” “Yes, vou have, George. Haven’t you?” “N o a p.” “Tell vour mother, George.” “N u c k.” “Then what makes your hair so wet, my son ?” “Sweat. I run so fast comm’ from school.” “But you’re shirt is wrong side out.” “Put it on that way when I got up this morning, for luck. Always #in when you play for keeps if your shirt is on hinside out.” “And you haven’t the right sleeve of your shirt on your arm at all, George, and there is a hard knot tied in it. How did that come there ?” “Bill Fairfax tied it in when I w asn’t lookin’.” "But what were vou doing with vour shirt off?” "Didn't have it off. He jes took'll tied that knot in there when it was on me.” “George!” “That’s honest truth, he did.” About that time the noble Bushrod came along with a skate strap ami we draw a veil over the dreadful scene, merely remarking that boys do not seem to change so much as men.—Burdette. No Fortune tor the Player. Lottery gambling is like playing poker with a man who has accumulated a strictly private fortune in aces; in the long run you are sure to lose. This is true even when the lottery is not—as our American lotteries are- a barefaced swindle. Here, for instance, is the ease of the State Lottery in Italy. This institution, it is reasonable to assume, is fairly conducted; yet the odds are against the player at the rate of two to one, and the gains to the government are great in proportion. A pamphlet has been published Italy lately, the author being a member of idle Lottery Administration and having access to the. official records, in which the play of a number of years past is tabulated and analyzed, the results showing badly against the “luck” of the players. In the year 1879 the government received 67,513,269 lire in payment for lottery tickets ; in the same period it paid out 32,614,123 lire leaving the snug balance in its favor of 28,721.613 lire or $5,744,322. The worst feature of the gambling mania that is developed by the analysis of players, is that while abating in regions of low education it increases in regions where education is highest. This is easily traced in the cities where the proportion of educated persons is known precisely. In Turin, w here 39 per cent, of thfi population is unable to read or write, an average of 10.73 lire, per head is paid for lottery tickets; Venice, with 47 per cent, pays 14.70 lire; Rome with 60 percent., 18.91 lire: Genoa, with 68 per cent., 18.06 lire, and Naples, with 69 per cent., 19.91 lire. The obvious deduction from these simple facts seems to be that the better educated a man is, on an emergency he is capable of making a fool of himself. The Old-Time Mammy. Rapidly evacuating from this world’s stage ami actions is the old-time darky. Her bright bandana and striped homespun dress, with waist defiant of the present surcingle of fashion, are attractions that will call a servant-hunter to her side among a reriment of the latterday servants who knock at your door and demand if “yer waiit’er employ a lady to do your housework?” The good old-time “mammy” is fast fading from view. and. in a decade or more, what specimens of her left will lie as relics of by-gone grandeur. She may not knowhow to handle ‘deSc yer kerosene lamps,’ but the modest tallow dip she carries to the back kitchen, after the dishes have been washed, will not cast a ray of light over a motley crew of "ladies and gemmen” assembled to discuss tin- latest measure up before the “sisters of fortitude” and the contents of your larder. She may amuse your company by handing around what she calls “paiteeshun water,” but her breath is undefiled with brandy and w ater. She may be a blockhead. a dolt, but her innocent mind is free from "de s’ciety," "de chawming new preacher,” and how she is to get "de fifty cents to pay to de furrin’ misshuns.” Her heart is in her duty, and she will lie awake until the gray morning with your sick child. She will grieve when yon grieve, and there is limit to her hilarity when you rejoice. Faithful old soul! how can the heart of man fail to warm towards you in your declining days, and try to make them the comfortable evening of well-spent lift ?—From the Bast Albany, G'o.., A'etcs. The Forget-iue-utd. There is a favorite legend in Germany of a luck flower which admits its fortunate finder into the recess of a mountain or castle, w here untold riches invite the grasp. Dazzled with so much wealth, with which he fills his pockets and hat. the favored mo:tai leaves behind him the flower to which he owes his fortune, and, as he leaves the enchanted ground the wonts, “Forget not the best of all,” reproach him for his ingratitude, and the suddenly closing door either descends on one of his heels and lames him for life, or else imprisons him forever. If Grimm is right, this is the origin of the word for-get-me-not, and not the last word of the lover drowning in the Danube, as he throws to his lady-lflve the flower she craved of him. The tradition that the luck flower, or key flower, was blue, is iuconsistaut with the fact that <the primrose is the Schleusselblume (keyflower). — Jeteish Messenger.