Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVII.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A. J. HILL, Editor and Buslncaa llanaarer. ; ' TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. BB.Altmm.rrMt. W.H B. STVTXS.titI, Vice Prw't, THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy an< sell Town, Township and County Orders. 26jy79tf ATTORNEYS AT LAW, | . DECATUS, IBDTASA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining coenties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0 0. F. building. 25jy79tf E. H. OOVERDALH, •Jfltornry at Law, —Jaxi>(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DECATUR, IMDIAXA, Office over Welfley's grocery, opposite the Court House. B. R. FREEMAN, M. D. I PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. I DECATUR, INDIANA. I ’ I Office over Dorwin & Holthouses' Drug Store. Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe,- Professional calle > promptly attended. Nol 26, No. 34. ts. | - — . I W. H. MYERS, triefs A* Slone Jlason < onlrach DECATUR, INDIANA. I * JoliciU work of all kinds in his line. Per- < sons contemplating building might i make a point by consulting him. ( Estimates on application, v2sn4smß. ' 1 ’ SEYMOUR WORDEN, -A-uctioneer. ‘ i Dccalur - - Ind. v s Will attend to all calls in this and ad- ’ joining counties. A liberal patronage so- [ licited. n36tf. mjcustHcrechter ~ t ' CIGAR MANUFACTURER, I ' s DECATUR, - - INDIANA. J A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking “ Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes aud Pipes of *ll kinds always on hand at my store. 8 r G. F. KINTZ, i Civil Engineer and Convey 0 8 ncer. t u Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal <1 instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. J Special attention to ditch and grave a Toad petitions. Office over Weltiey’s Oroeery Store, opposite the Court House, De- $ eatur, Indiana. 87-m6 XTOTICE TO Bl ILDERS. '* STONE AND BUICK WORk, e Cisterns and Chimneys contracted for, or built Io order, and workmanship guaranteed. Ordt-rs and correspond- c euce solicited. 1 F. W. SCHAFER. a ■ — - - - r INGOTS AnD SHOES. ti ) One Door west of Niblick. Crawford and * • Sons. Henry Winnes, J DECATUR. INDIANA. One of the best tel.cled stock of Boots, f Shots, new and Seasonal le Goods, etc,, in- c eluding everything It- h:s line, and prices , guaranteed as low as can be found in this < market. Come and see for yourselves. of F r - ,eti 11 KflKKr flare annually robbed l • t ), e j r vietims. lives I prolonged, happiness aud health restored '] by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR } which positively and permanently curee * Impotency (caused by excesses of any ? kind ) Seminal Weakness and all v , diseases that follow as a sequence of Self- j Abuse, as loss of energy, loss of memory, f universal lassiiude, pain in the back, dimness of vision, premature old age. and J many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave. Send for circulars with testlmonals free | by mail. The Invlgoratoi is sold at r fl per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, I c F. J. CHENEY, Druggist, i. 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. ’ Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce & Co., Sole Agents at Decatur '

Haugutei*. »♦ l»e* »«<> Mothers. Dr. March tai'* < ai'ioli<-«n. Female Kentedy. Guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded Will cure Female diseases. All ovarian troubles, ivflama-ion and ulceration, fallit g and displacements or bearing down feeling, irregularities, barchange of life, luccor. hoea, esides many weaknesses springing from the above, like headache, bloating, spinal wiakness' sleeplessness, nervous debility, palpitation of the heart, etc. For sale by Druggists. Price $1 <’*' and $1 50 per bottle. Send to Dr. J. B. Marchisi, Utica, A. Y., for pamphlet, free For sale by Dorwin and H.lthouse. —No. 2 m 3 Posifre Cure lor Piles To the people of this country we would say we have been given the Agency ot Dr. Marchisi’s Italian Pile Hint nent-warrat-ed to cure or money refunded Internal, External. B ind, Bleeding or Itching Piles, Price 50c a bos. Foi sale by Do: win and Holthouse —No. 2m3. Hock Candy Cough Curt. Warranted ’0 cute or mcney refunded. Coughs, t o ds. Hoarseness, Throat ana lung ticube-. for ebnarea ) Rock Candy Cough Cure contains the healing pr ,e ties o' pu e white Kock Candv with streets of Foots and Herbs Only 26 ets I. r s » M cheapest to buy. For sale by Doiw p arjd H'Hht'Use Xo ?mo.

The Decatur Democrat.

I THE NEWS CONDENSED. the east. Seven structure, including the Union Hotel woe* consumed by fire at New Mil- . .1, l aiisinga osxof SI . The St. I Iron and Steel Works Is b.nkAt a fifteen-minute conference of the iron nmnufacturers and the Amalgamated Association ot Iron ami Steel Workers held tn littsburgh action was taken which will lead to the gravest oom: U.-Hti.Jts in the iron trade. Mr. John Jat+oft. »„ behalf of the Amalgamated Association, said that the workingmen, after thoroughly reviewing the situation, had reached the decision that the state of trade did not justify any lower scale of wages than is" now P a ***• Neither did they believe that the now Tariff law would have such .an effect upon the iron trade as to render It ini. possible for manufacturers to par tIW same wages an now prevail fun! tot the e reasons they peremptorily Ffeflls’ed to accept anv re- , WYfcts for the year beginning June 1. W motion of a manufacturer, the conrertnee immediately adjourned sine die. At a private meeting, held later, the manufacturers determined to insist on a general reauction, and a strike is considered inevitable unless the manufacturers recede from their position. Joshua Gifford, a wife-mttrderer, aged 77years. was #e«tettcM to be hanged on June 22 a< Oswego, N. Y... .Fifty members »r tne Pennsylvania Legislature who ♦let'vea in the Union army of the war nf the Rebellion visited the scene of the battles before Petersburg. Virginia They were welcomed to the city rrl Petv,Bbu 'P *>y Senator Mahone.... lhe largest sale of quinine ever made in • this country took place at the auetonrooths of ourUette A- Dennis, New York, the total amount being 33,4 3 ounces... .Several tenement houses in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pa., were damaged bv fire to the extent of $20,00(1 Henry Merriott and Mary Pcsufi • were arrested in New York, charged with j stealing 8 i S,(D i wtMfth bt diamonds from Franz Kramar, r jeweler Os Paris The man confessed tt> the robbery. Three parts of i die diamonds were found at the prisoner s lodging.... .Frank Mann, of Oxford, Mass, shot Mary E. Moore, of Millbury, n the same State, and then himself, in c wequence of a lovers’ quarrel. Both are dead. Mann was a widower, and Mrs Moore was separated from her husband, intending to marry Mann when she should have obtained a divorce ... .In the horse-bicycle contest at Boston the former won by twentv-two miles. Seven thousand persons witnessed the close. Edison* the electrician, aud others filed papers at Albany, N. Y., for the incorporation of tb»‘ Electric Railway Company of the United States, the object being to develop el.-ctricity <is a motive pOWCT. Th® capital is placed at 82,(M 0,000.... A. O. Tinstinan Ct) , cok« manufacturers, of Pittsburgh, Pa., have made an alignment. The liabilities of the firm are I31&C01 of which ' 8;20.000 is secured THE WEST. The President of the Louisville, Xew Albany and Chicago Railway Company has issued an order directing the cassation ot all i unnecessary work ofi Sunday. The order states that efforts will be made to abrogate mall contracts that involve the necessity of Sunday trains, and that in future no excursion trains will be run on Sundays, even to camp-meeting grounds, and promises all possible consideration to such of th* employes as have conscientious scruples against Sunday w0rk..... In Kansas, says a recent St Louis telegram, the condition of the winter wheat crop is i such that the production will probably be j favorable. A large part of last year’s WDPiit area will lie devoted this season to corn, thd wheat germs having been killed during the winter... Henry Fotham was hanged by the Rheritf nt Helena, Moftt. formirfder... .The regatta of the Northwestern Amateur Rowing Association "ill be held at Muskegon, Mich . July 21 and*?. l)n. J, H. Ball, in a ilrnuken fight nt Ball'x MilU, Mo., with Tennessee Jones, fatally stabbed the latter... .Thieves tore out the conn-r-stone of the colored Methodist Church at Terre Haute. In 1.. and stole coins, scrip and other contents.. ..The store: in Dariingtm, Wis., occupied by Hooi er. Driver Bros., >in<i Farrington A Co., an<l the Darlinirton A,, .. office were dc?troyed hv fire. Loss, 375,000; insured for J.w.l 00. Union City, Ind,, forty-seven miles from D:.v 'xm. Wns visited by a great conflagration the other pig-’.t, destroying the principal p ntJon of lhe town. The ioss is estimated at the heavy sum of $050,00:'. Thf, most noteworthy dramatic attraction that has been afforded Chicago theater goeis f. r some time is the Jefferson comedy season, which opened at McVicker's Theater on Mondav last. -The Rivals, which was selected for the opening performance: was the first dramatic work of the famous Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and was first produced at the Covent Garden Theater, London, in 1775. Mr. Joseph Jefferson and Mrs. John Drew personate the characters of Bob Acres and Mrs Malaprop. Following “The Rivals,” the ‘■Cricket on the Hearth.” “Lend Me Five Shillings,” and other sterling old comedies, will be produced. An engagement took place between Apaches and Mexican troops at Suqueach canon, 163 miles southeast of Hermosillo, in which the Indians were defeated with the loss of manv killed and wounded. The loss ot the troops was slight... .The profits of the diamatic festival at Cincinnati are estimated at $20,000. The actor who Jacket! the vocal canucity of a calliope and the facial propor- . tious of the sphinx was at a terrible disadvantage in the immense Music Hall ... '1 lie Circuit Court at Lafayette, Ind , has refused th- petition of Mandler for a new Ina) of the case recentlv won by Mrs. Gougaz lie will appeal to the Supreme Court.... I The floor of a farin-liouse near New I nu- j adelphia, Ohio, in which a large companv was gathered, gave way, precipitating aB . into a deep cellar Several pel sons were injured, at least oneot themfatailv ... Harris 4 Co., bankers at J lHathe han J have failed, with liabilities estimated at »■> >,«UU The Diegan Indians have left their rerervation on the Upper Missouri for the sweet Grass vallev, with the intenti-n of kdUi>«- what caltle they can find, as they are starvinv The agent ot the Jiegnns is Plain d for not furnishing the Indians the rations to which they are entitled. The May crop report of Ohio State Board of Agriculture, based on 882 township reports, gives the following averages, compared with May. 1882: Wheat—winter Idl ed and plowed up, 10 P r cent. of total acieaire; corn! txm or the rest, bJ per <.» nt, m'tkinf the tobßl probabilitiesob P’*r cent, OT SSut ‘To'.kxi bushels, with goyd "•a'l er till ha. vest. Rye, condition .2; bar ev <3- meadows, ' pas.iue-. _-, M “ri g|.igs,-.3, lambs. 'JI. lhe pio.- rtion of *-eed corn that- will germinate, 49. P l< '’'. OI “ tionof spring plowing done HJ. proportion done in average seaums, at tnisu. i , •• --■• Theresa Fair, wife of the Nevada s J* na^ )r and millionare.has filed a petition for d - “cree on the ground of her husbaml s a lulteries. Current rumors are t*» the■ t ft< ct that Fair will allow the case to g>> ny Jofaidt. and has already ai ranged that she shal. ree'' e £3 nO.iWinca-hauvl ?1. » o,** m real ej" 1 - 1 *- Twentv-two small stores and dwellings In East Sb Louig were burned, the loss amounting to f'Yori. The police station was among the buildings destroyed and tour prisoners in it were rescued with consider able difficulty. THE SOUTH. Paymaster Mason, of the I nited States arniv, was robbed of his valise, conl—^o^X l son Jr . forkiUing Walter H. Dav>s April A mfficvlty occurred between wah Cam. a prominent farmer living near Little Spring. Jranklin county. Miss <md Mont Eagle Tenn.. bad been chosen tor the : a mad dog and became so frightened that he 1 died before reaching home,

Gov. SpuaotE, the famous stallion •fcned by J. I. Cnse. of Racine. Wis., died at Lexington, Ky., of pink-eye. The animal's winnings on the turf last vear amounted to 810,000. Ex-State Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee, was reai rested at Nashville upon an order of the court based upon suspicion that he was about to leave the city, and because his sureties were ts doubtful WoHll Mt. Polk Wai most hospitably entertained oy thb Sheriff... .In the United States Circuit i Court at New Orleans Judge Billings renI dered a decision in favor of Mrs. Mvra ( lark j Gaines against the City of New Orleans for •| the sum of sl,sfc?s,M7. Mrs. Gaines has , fought her cases persistently for a generation, and is naturally greatly elated over this decision The defendants will appeal to the United States Supreme Court. | W. A Braggs «X' Co/s fertilizer sac- , ton*, Kelly A White’s box factory and several smaller stores in Richmond, Va, were destroyed by fire. Loss probably $25,000; partly insured... .Cattle thieves on ’ the Mexican border have been causing great , trouble of late, and the Governor of i Texas has ordered the rangers to act promptly against the bands of thieves.... I>. F. Walker was executed at Trenton. Ga., i ; and John Lee.(colored,' at Gtlinesville. Flit A I row followed the former hanging, the ' I SJieiitFs brother being shot and others badly . injured. Governor Helson. a negro, suffered I the extreme penalty at Lewisville, Ark., making a religious harangue on the scaffold, ' and asserting that he would meet his victim in heaven. At Orange. Texas, Hal Holmes, a desperado on trial for murdering his fourth man. ran from the Deputy Sheriff, mounted a horse, and galloped off with yells, while j Holmes’ sister covered the Deputy with a I six shooter and made him hold up his ! hands. POLITICAL. The Pennsylvania Legislature hag bnacted a law prohibiting the performance bf any play repre eating Biblical characters. ... .Secretary Chandler has appointed Commodore Shuieldt Superintendent of theNavi al (Observatory. Chairman Cooper, of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee, has issued a call for the meeting of the Republican State Committee in Harrisburg, July 11... .Tne lowa Republican State Con; vention will be held at Des Moines, June 2f • next. The New York Legislature has adjourned sine die. The Senate referred to the Finance Committee a message from the Gov- I ernor calling attention to the neglect of the Senate to confirm his nomination for Emigration Commissioner. Before adjourning, the Assembly passed the bill forbidding the giving of free passes on railroads to any one except employes and officials of the roads. The political topic of the day in New York is the split between Gov. Cleveland and Tammany Hall. John Kelly and hit faction think the Governor has treated Tammany unfairly in the matter of patron<ge. The Tammany legislators have therefore brought about a final adjournment ot the Legislature, leaving twenty six of the Qovternor’s nominees unconfirmed. Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, refuses to sign the resolution appropriating 12<’4,H0 for double tracking the Hoosic Tunnel Line. WASHINGTON. The Societies of the Armies of the James and the Potomac will hold a consolidated reunion at Washington May 16. Fare from all points will be reduced... .The British Minister, West, has requested the dismisiid <>f Edward O’Meagher Condon from the ■ alleged 'incendiary utterances against England. Following is the regular monthly Debt .statement, issued on the Ist of May: Thtce an 1 one-ball l»r c< nts» J?™'£s Fcnr anil one-half per cents Four per cents Three per cents .MS lietundlnft certificates i Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debtsl,3H‘,4"e,ooo Matured debt Legal-tender notes 346,4 4 ‘-’’ J,, Certificates of deposit 1 ,F i Gohl and silver certificates 1 Fractional currency 7,0'8,'>73 Total without interest $52\'»55,'75 Total debt (principal* $1,8'3,52«,'h’<1 Total interest 9,711,225 > Total cash in treasury 319.15 .(<»1 I Debt, less cash in treasury 1.574.07 >.s<> Decrease during April 2,55 t .4 '2 ■ Decrease of debt since June 30, 1882. 114,331,575 Current liabilities — x-*.-Interest due and unpai<ll 2,J".'l> Del it on which interest has ceased.. 9,'. 01, 'BS Interest thereon 36 »,722 Gold and silver certificates 152,104,951 U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit l'»,l' 5,000 Cash balance available May 1,1883... r 5,25:<,02$ < Cash tn treasury 310,159,101 , Available assets— Bonds issued to Pacific railway comj anies, interest payable in lawful

Prindnal outstanding 64.623,512 Interest accrued, not yet naid Interest raid by United States 57,283,388 • Interest repaid by companies— Et 4. i Bv transportation service 16,51 6," By cash payments, 5 per cent, uet earnings • • • • • • • ■ • • •• 655,1 js Balance of interest paid by United States 40.11-.155 The increase in the capital of the national banks (luring the last six mouths has been $8 677,500. and the dec ease in circulation $3,399,791. The increa e in lawful money deposited f to! retiring c rculation was $ I J*'-, 401.... Ine President has appointed William b. Woods, at present a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court to be United States District Judge of ( the Seventh district... .The President has decided to name the three steel cruisers to , be built for the navy, the C hicago, the bos- . ton and the At anta. The Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision in the ease against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy | railroad, known as the Ruggles suit, the gist of thedecDion being that the state otllliii-'is has a r ght to tit maximum charges tor the | conveyance ot freight and passengers.. . The Millers won two notable t ictories in the Sui rente Court, the DeuchSeld and U ’'-' ?' ton patent suits having been deeded in lavor of the defendants. The royalty Foui.'htt > be recovered under the Deuch- I fie d pa’ent for cooling and drying meal , amounted ti si.Ori.WK’. while the Downton . vat nt for manufacturing middling flour ’was Estimated to be worth S3,< <>.llo -... .Tne Supreme Court denied the petit on for a re- I hearing of the Louisiana and Yurginia bond cases. Gov. Bvtleb has written a letter to Mr Folger. Secretary of the Treasury, ask - tog that steps be taken to prevent the landing of Irish paupers (or “assisted emigrants ’) at Boston Mr. Folger replies that, the Governors communication has been sent over to the State Department, and that the matter complained of was brought to the '"'"'’e of the Secretary of the Treasurv by a letter from the Collector of the Port of Boston under date of April 20. GENEK.IL. Direct telephonic conversation has been had between New York and Chicago over the wires of the Postal Telegraph Company. Sentences containing several words were transmitted, and the voice of the speaker at one end of the line was distinctly recognized by the receiver at the ether. A terbible: catastrophe is reported from Victoria. British Columbia. The steamer Grappler. which plied between Puget Sound and Ala-ka. was discovered to be on fire when about four miles from land. She had nearly 100 Chinese passengers on bo ird and these became uncontrollable Threats to shoot those who would not obey orders proved useless, and when the ship wa-tinallv beached, the ternned Ce.e-tials rushed blindly into the water al«>OTgh bv availing themselves of the facilities at land all might have been saved, tier sixtv perished by tire or : - Win" e the miners were ascending the tale m ne at N-’w Glasgow. N. 8 . the rope broke, and the cars were hurled down the shaft, killing four men and two boys and injuring manv’others, some fatally The Mexican Government has contracted with a French firm for improving Vera Cruz harbor at a co-t of 510.047.00tt The work is to be tmI ished in twelve years. I Gen. Crook, in a telegram to army

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1883.

headquarters, promises to observe the treaty stipulations with Mexico, but intimates that he has assurances from the State J Governments of Sonora and Chihuahua that, should his troops cross the border in pursuit of the hostile Apaches, such action will not bc r regarded as a violation of the treaty. Advices from the border state that Gen. j Crook crossed the frontier with his com. mand on April 26, leaving guards with orders to permit no one bearing orders for hint th follow, lhe Indians are forty miles from Gaudaloupe, in the Sierra Madre, where it will be difficult to reach them. The directors of the Vanderbilt rail, roads—the New York Central, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and Michigan Central— have just elected officers. The position of Chairman of the board was created iq each instance, the incumbent tn have general supervisory c ontrol Cornelius Vandefbilt was chose n Chairman of the boards of the New York Central and Michigan Central, and W.liiam K. Vanderbilt of the Lake Shore, . the latter retaining the I’residency of the Nickel-Plate, William H. Vanderbilt retiring from the Presidency of the sevi eral companies. James H. Rutter was made President of the New York Central, J' hn Newell of the Lake Shore, and H. B. Ledvard of the Michigan Central The senior Vanderbilt thus relieves himself of the active management of the three raihe ad companies (although still a member of the d rectories), the task devolving upon his two sonsßus ness failures for the week ending the 4tfi inst. numbered lff2, a decrease of fifty-tour from the preceding week, but th’rty s x more than in the corresponding I week of 1882. Joseph Pulitzer, of the St. Louis h , is reported to have purcha c ed the New York Hor7<7, intending to transplant I a portion of his St. Louis staff to his newlyacquired property, and inaugurate radical changes in the management and policy of i the par er.... .Moody and Sankey, tne evani gelists, arrived at New York last week on | board lhe steamer Alaska, from England They return to that country in October The Rev. Josiah Henson, Mrs. Harriet I Beecher Stowe’s idoal of Uncle Tom in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” died last week at Dresden, ; Ont. aged 91. A French journal in the City of I Mexico sa.\s France ought to make special I efforts to secure a treaty of commerce with Mexico, which offers a field for great enterprise . and not peimit Americans to become masters of its .mmei S 3 resources.... .Precautions have been taken at Halifax to "guard agains?; a suspicious craft, alleged to i have left Boston a* few days ago, loaded , with torpedoe , for the purpose of wrecking shipping in Ha i;ax harbor. The crew are ; supposed to be Fenians. FOREIGN. A real setback for El Muhdi, the j False Prophet, is reported from Cairo. It is ' alleged that Col. Hicks,, an English officer in ' command of Egyptian troops, had a half- 1 hour s engagement with 5,000 rebels and defeated them, with sight loss on his pait. ! ' Over 5 *0 of the False Prophet s troops were ; killed, including his Lieutenant General | The Affirmation bill was defeated in the ■ House of Commons—2.l2 to 2891 A Dublin dispatch says the Grand ! Jury returned true bills for murder against | Peter Tynan, alias “Number One,” John . Walsh and P. J. Sheridan, and a bill as ac- > ces-sory to murder after the fact against Fitzharris. Walsh and Sheridan are in America. and Tynan is supposed to be here. The | Idisjatch adds: “Now that true bills for | murder have been found, it is considered no j longer open to the United States to refuse to extradite Sheridan. Walsh aud Tynan. It is believed Tynan will turn informer.” The Grand Jury also found true bills against Lawrence Hanlon, James and Joseph Mulleit, and Daniel Delaney, on the charge of attempting- to murder the juror Dennis Field Tnev also found a true bill for conWilliam Moroney and Daniel Delaney; and against Edward O’Brien and Edward McCaffrey for participating in the murder of Cavendish and Burke. The FreeniGn’s Joumftl, of Dublin, declares that the British Government was informed from the first of all the facts connected with the dvnamite plot concocted at New York, the facts being so minutely rei vealed as to show that the spy was in the governing council of the conspirators.... The Irish Nationalist party in London is organizing a fund for the relief of the families ot Irishmen who have been arrested for political offenses or who have been obliged to flv the country.... It is reported that ’ the Orleanist ‘ Prince, Due de Aumale, is seriously ill in Sicily.... Prince Bismarck is again ill, suffering greatlv from neuralgia. His physicians have orI dered strict quiet and an avoidance of all physical exertion... .Bradlaugh having written to the Speaker of the House of Commons asking that he be permitted to take the oath, Northcote moved that he be prevented from so doing. Bradlaugh explained his j position from the bar of the House, after whi h Northcote’s motion was adopted, Gladstone voting with 164 others in the negI at ive. Bradlaugh then quietly took his seat, and the mat:er was dropped

Tabbeez, a city or North Persia, has been visited by an earthquake which destroyed many houses and caused the death of a "great nn'inl e. of people. Thee ty, however, i ontaiuedfew buddings worthy of no.e except its citadel and the fine remains of a mosque. It hai been a center of trade between Persia, India, Russia and Turkey, and was well known for its manufact .res of silk. Itissupposed to have been founded in the time of Haroun-a’-Ra chid, toward the clo-e of the eighth century. A French cruiser arrived at Loanda, on the Congo river, recently, and the commander took possession of the International Company’s propertv. Hemy M. Htanly repri -e Its "the lot ma ional Company, a Belgian concern, and the seizure grows out of the rival claim of De Brazza to piioiitv of possession in behalf of "the French Government.... A dispatx 11 from Rome to the London Standaiil savs t hat Cardinal Jacobinl, Papal Secretary of State, has sent a dispatch to Cardinal McCloskey asking if it is true that he received Alexander Sullivan, President of the National League of America, and demanding an explanation of his action if the fact is as stated.... The meeting of Francis Joseph of Austria and Humbert of Italy, at Berlin, has been deferred until next November... .Anothervessel, the Wilhelm Barenks, has been sent in search of the Dutch Arctic expedition. Another defeat is scored by the Gladstone Government, its leader being compelled to announce that instead of the pensions which it was proposed to bestow upon Lord Wolselev and I.ord Alcester (Admiral Sevmour) they will each be given a lump sum of money. The public outcry against the proposition to pension not only the naval and military commanders in Egvpt but to saddle upon the country an "adilitiiu to the pension list by continual"' the grant to their heirs maie, proved too g.eat to lie resisted Vithur Sullivan, the musical member of the , firm of Gilbert A Sullivan, comic opera manufacturers, has been knighted..... Unfavorable weathe in England is causing anxiety in regard to the harvest The Farmer and “the Gentleman.” “One day,” said this gentleman, “before harvest, I met a fashionablydressed person with a large handful of ears of wheat taken from my fields. I saluted him respectfully, and expressed my admiration of the beauty of the wheat. ‘Yes,’ said he, 4 it is truly a fine sample, and does the farmer great credit who grew' it.’ 1 acknowledged | the compliment, asking him from which one of my fields he took it. After he I had pointed it out he assured me he ali ways liked to take a good sample home 'as it interested the ladies. I pon this, noticing with admiration the style of his coat, I asked him to allow me to look at the skirt. He readily did so, j and I quietly took out my pen-knife i and cut a large piece from the tail, i The gentleman bounced and swore, but I told him I always took samples of cloth, as I found they greatly interested my wife. I added, that he had no more right to take my wheat than I to take | his coat, and that I wished the public ito bear this truth in mind. ” This was experience bought with a vengeance.— ‘ Journal.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The E^tosvilla Union Stock Yards Company has been incorporated, the capital stock being $30,000. Henby Neitmyer languishes behind the 1 bars at Rushville for the second time, on ! the c harge of selling diseased beef. His shop has been closed by the Sheriff. At Portland, William Pitzenberger, while in the act of throwing a belt in Kant Jc English’s stave factory, had a leg torn off. H. C. Beyer, a Jackson county farmer, sold in Seymour, the other day, twelve shouts, 7 months old, w-hich weighed 2,500 pounds, for 8181.30. C. B. Price, a Delaware county farmer, marketed seventy head of 11-months old pigs in Muncie, a few days ago, w'hich averaged 306 pounds, and brought nearly $1,500. i Thk shops of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, at Galion, are to be greatly enlarged this summer, and that city will no doubt be the terminus of the Altantic and Chicago branch. The contract for constructing the new county jajl and Sheriff 's residence at Washington, was awarded by the County Commissioners to Joseph Miller, of that city, for the sum of $25,500. The new game law in this State prohibits the killing of wild ducks between the 15th of April and the Ist of September, and the exposing of ducks for sale after April 15 is , also a finable offense. Dr. Mclntyre has sold ihfe Commercial of face, at Mitchell; to W. T. Moore, who takefi charge of its management next week. Its faame will be changed to tee Mitchell Repub- | Ziean, and it will continue to advocate the Claims of that party. It is rumored that there will shortly be important changes in the ownership of the Evansville Journal., the oldest morning paper in the city, and Claude G. Deßruler, the present editor, with a third interest in the ! paper, will probably step out A young married man, named Thomas Shanan, residing in the vicinity of Dundee, Blackford county, while at work on his farm, recently, ate a wild parsnip, thinking it to be an eatable of some kind In an hour he was taken with convulsions, which ended in his-death in about twelve hours. At Fairmount, last week, a lady, with a baby in a little carriage, was talking to another lady and letting down the top of the carriage. The baby’s finger lay across the ride and was cut entirely off. The lady did not know it until she saw it’s bleeding finger on the sidewalk at her feet, as the baby was asleep and did not cry. R McKim, Esq., the well-known coal merchant of Madison, has decided to build : and equip a SIO,OOO observatory at Asbury University, Greencastle. This generous gift will be counted in the fund required to make binding the munificent donation proposed by Hon. W. C. DePauw, of New Albany. The President and Trustees of Ashbury University, in an appeal to friends of the institution to raise the $150,000 required to secure the DePauw donation, urge the women of the church and of the State to contribute and solicit sufficient funds to endow a woman's nrofessorship in the uni- I The twenty-ninth annual convention ol j the Grand Commandery Knights Templar of the State was held recently at Indianapolis. I Reports of the grand officers showed un- | usual activity and increase during the past year. Receipts, $5,656.45; expenditures, $2,702.90; total membership, 2,225; increase during the year, 219; deaths, 22. Reports from Brazil are that the coal trade has fallen very low. The mines are running about half-time, and it is feared | that it will be so all summer. The rollingmill is still running, employing from seven-ty-five to 100 men and boys. The furnace has blown out for repairs; it will probably be idle from four to five months. A pension of $4,000, received from the Federal Government, by Henry M. Williams, Esq., of Fort Wayne, has been equally divided by him between the City Hospital and St Joseph Hospital, of that city. Mr. Williams is a son of the Hon. Jesse L Williams, and the pension is for injuries from a gunshot wound received in the war of the rebellion. A letter was received at the Governor’s office, a few days since, which was mailed by the late Governor Williams to R Brinkerhiff, of Mansfield, Ohio, February 28, 1880. The envelope had inadvertently been addressed to Mansfield, Indiana, though in the letter Mr. Brinkerhoff’s Ohio address was plainly indicated. It has just been thirtynine months coming back to the office. Vincennes township has voted to take $90,000 in the capital stock of the Vincennes ami Ohio River railway by a majority of 43. As on this township hinges the fate of the road, it will no doubt be pushed through this sum. mer. It will run from Vincennes to Jasper, Indiana, a distance of sixty-two miles, and will open up the best coal region in Indiana. Albert Netter, of Cincinnati, is at the head of the enterprise. Burglars entered the store of Osborn & Wible, at Paoli, the other night, blew open their safe, and took therefrom about $l5O in cash and a fine watch. They also obtained special deposits amounting to as much more, belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church Building fund, the Odd Fellows’ Lodge and William Farrell. In their haste, they left about S2OO of special deposits which they failed to find, and also a number of notes and drafts. In the suit of Miss Adessa 8. J. C. W ray vs. Mrs. Elise Owen, for defamation of character, on trial in the Jackson Circuit Court, at Brownstown, the jury retired about 5 o’clock, and near midnight returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, awarding her $75 damages. Miss Wray is the lady who became famous within the past year or two by her successful twenty-mile races on horseback with Helen Barclay, in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. In the complaint Miss W’ray asked for $10,009 damages. Gilbert Yost, one of the burglars arrested for robbing Vail's jewelry store in La Porto several months ago, and who pleaded guilty at the February term of court, was sentenced the other day to fourteen years in the penitentiary. His sentence was delayed to give him an opportunity to have the remainder of the plunder restored, and to tell who his accomplices were, which would probably have mitigated his sentence, but as he failed to do either the judge gave him the limit of the law. A desperate attempt to murder Passenger Conductor C. Harris, of Elkhart, by tramps, took place the other morning a6 South Bend, just as he was starting his train from that city. Noticing about a dozen tramps on the baggage car, he pulled the bell-rope, and jumping off walked forward, when he was immediately set upon by the whole gang. The first one he knocked down, but the rest coming at him with 1 bs, struck him on the leg\ breaking it and bringing him to the ground. They would in all probability have finished him then, but, becoming frightened

at the approach of the train men. broke and ran, and escaped. Mr Harris is one of the oldest and best-known conductors on the bak' Shore road.

During the past month Several horses have been stolen from the farmers living ul ' the southern part of Jennings county, but the direction taken by the thieves with the ’ horses could not be found. The other night ' two more horses were stolen, aud Sheriff Verbarg and his deputies, learning the direc- I tion they had taken, started in pursuit 1 They went south toward the Ohio river, and telegrams Present to the Sheriffs of the counties along the Ohid tiver itifoirning them of the fact A number of Howard county farmers have lately been victimized by a “Tongue-sup- ‘ porting company,” of Molfßwk, N. Y. The mode of operation is as follows: The intended victim is approached by a plausible fellow who pretends to be the ageut for a patent w’agon-tongue supporter company, i and proposes to ship a sample of the article' ■ to the farmer if he will agree to use it, thereby make it known to his If he agrees to this he is then induced to write his name on a postal. A week or ten days afterwards two gentlemen call on the farmer and present a postal order on the '‘Tongue-supporter Company” for six dozen I tongue-supporters at $3 each, or $36 per ■ dozen, the order bearing the farmer's signature as originally written. W. J. Holliday, of Indianapolis, has dis- ■ covered an old and Revolution- I ary document that has been in his posses- ■ 1 sion, unknown to him, for years. His great ' I grandfather, Philip Bush, was a quarter- I I master in the American army during the | X’ar for independence, and the paper in I ' question contains several feb'eipts written 1 iby Bush. Below is given the language df. j ' one, signed by an officer who had charge • Os the Hessian prisoners. It was written 103 ! years ago: Received Dec. 23rd, 1780, from Philip Bush, A. D’t. Q. M., the sum of slxt£ potinds for straw delivered to the British prisoners of war in this . town (Winchester, Va.), for the use of the United ' States, having signed two receipts of this tenor I to date. Christoef Frey. I Another receipt shows that Continental inoney was evidently the currency paid by < Quartef master Bush,for the price paid for two wooden buckets for the Use of the British prisoners was fifteen pounds. , Kokomo Gazette: On the farm of Samuel Grim, in Jackson township, Howard county, ’ may be seen something in the way of a mastodon that will astonish any one who may be so fortunate as to see it. Sometime last month, while Mr. Grim was ditching, he came upon something which astonished him very much, and which, upon close examination, was found to be a very large lower jaw bone, w’hich had become petrified. The di- ■ mensions are as follows: Length of left ride of jaw bone, three feet; circumference, ( measuring around the teeth, which are fast i in the bone and petrified as hard as 1 two feet. The weight of this piece is twenty i five pounds, while the whole jaw will weigh fifty pounds/ One of the teeth, when first taken out of the ground, weighed five pounds. Beside the jaw was also found ' something resembling a horn, but it was so ' brittle it could not be taken out whole; but ■ upon digging the full length of it, and then i measuring the space it occupied, it was found to be six feet in length. Mr. Grim I managed to preserve enough of it, however, ’ t.n onnhlp. him to measure its circumference, J of this great mastodon, weigmng uuc and ten ounces (being one of the smaller ones), may be seen at the Gazette office. Some time last October Detective Rathbone, of the United States Secret Service, 1 arrested some twenty counterfeiters in Tipton county, among the number being Jacob Masters, his son Christopher A. Masters, and Afred W. Smith. The trio were tried before the United States District Court at Indianapolis, and acquitted upon a tech- j nichality. The citizens of Tipton, believing | them innocent, came to their rescue, and showed considerable indignation that they should have been arrested at all. Since that time they have had occasion to change their minds, and now see that they made a mistake in defending them, because more than once Masters and Smith have been heard to j brag of not only being able to worry the United States Courts, but also of their acquittal. Since that event they have become a great deal bolder, and a great deal of counterfeit money, part of which is known to have been printed here, has been circulated in Tipton county. But a few days ago a large amount of this spurious currency was found buried in the door yard at the residence of the Masters, who believed j that their acquittal in the United States Court gave them immunity from a second arrest on the same charge. There are State laws against counterfeiting as well as United States laws, and the acquittal under the latter does not relieve them from responsibility under the former, as they can be tried under either or both, and acquittal by the United States Court does not bar prosecution under the statutes of the State. Detective Rathbone accordingly caused the indictment of the trio by the Grand Jury of Tipton county, and arrested them and ‘ lodged them in jail The trial will come off about the middle of May. when they will undoubtedly get their just deserts, the sympa- j thy of the public not being with th n this ' time.

The Ming of the Bee. If we press the abdomen of the bee ot wasp, so as to cause the sting to pro- j tude, it is but natural to think that the ■ sharp, dark-colored instrument was the sting itself. This, however, is not the case. The real sting is a very slender jistrument, nearly transparent, keenly pointed, and armed on one edge with a row of barbs. So exactly does the sting resemble the many-barbed arrow of certain savage tribes that, if the savages had possessed microscopes, we should .certainly have conjectured that they borrowed the idea of the barb from the insect. What we see with the unaided eye is | simply the sheath of the sting. Many savages poison their spears and spears, and here also they have been anticipated by the insect. But the sting is infinitely superior to the arrow poison. No poison that has yet been made, not even the terrible wourali, or curare, as it is sometimes called, can retain its strength after long exposure to air. The upas poison of Borneo, for example, loses its potency in two or three hours. But the venom of the sting is never exposed to the air at all. It is secreted by two long thread-like glands, not nearly so thick as a human hair, and is then received into a little bag at the base of the sting. When the insect uses its weapon it contracts the abuomen, thereby forcing the sting out and compressing the ven-om-bag. By the force of the stroke which drives the sting into the foe its base is pressed against the venom-bag and a small amount of the poison driven into the wound. As a rule, if the bee or wasp be allowed to remain quiet, it will withdraw its sting, but as the pain generally causes a sudden jerk, the barbed weapon cannot be withdrawn, and the whole apparatus of sting, poi-son-bag, and glands is torn out of the insect, thereby causing its death. — Good

SOME NEW FABLES. A Chicago lady once applied to a Learned Judge for a Dlroro?. “What is the Name of your Husband ? w inquired the Learned Judge. “I have no Husband yet, but Inasmuch as I contemI plate Matrimony, I fe»l that I should be Prepared for the Worst.” A child Awakening from sleep in the Dead of Night, cried out to .its Mamma hi affright; "Oh, Mamma,” said the child; ,tt Big Kitty at the Window.” “Be tillin', n*y Dear’’ Replied the mother, “I have been Married too Long to be Worried by anything Shoft of Snakes in your Papa’s Boot.” A philosopher once Found a Woman ■ weeping over the Grave of her child, i “How foolish of you to Weep,” said he, “for haff the child lived, ho might have ! become a Poet.” Hfeafjng this, the ' Woman dried her eyes and Wfc’iit on her way Rejoicing. This Fable teaches that we should not repine before coni sidering what the future Alight have ; been. A Dog and his Tail fell into a Dispute as to which should Wag the Other. An itinerant Wasp passing that Way casually Remarked: ''Speaking of Tails, reminds me that I Posses.? ffnfl : which May possibly be influential enough to Wag you Both.” This Fable teaches that 10 cents worth of dynamite is a Digger man than a church Steeple. An Editor once Owned thiee Hundred thousand dollars worth of Railroad stock, twenty One Thousand dollar Government bonds, six white Shirts, a j country Residence oh th* Hudson, a farm in Illinois, a span of Horsts a Wagon, two suits of Clothes and a Plug hat. This Fable teaches that all the liars are not dead yet.— Denver Tribune. A child who had a mild type Os the Measles invited a number of her acquaintances to a Party. Producing from the pantry a Bowl of Sweetmeats, she Said: “Behold now an Act of Generosity. I will Take the Sweetmeats, and you, Unless yOu immediately Take your Departure, will Take the Measles.” This fable illustrates the ingenuousness of childhood. A man who had Been Drinking went Home Late one Night, and Hung his Hat and Cane upon his Breath instead of upon the Hat Rack. The hat rack, i being of a naturally Sensitive Disposition, began to chide the Man. “Pray, be calm,” said the man, “What I am I doing is intended simply as an intimation to yOu that I am Fulhf than a Goat.” This Fable teaches us that haste frequently leads us to misinterpret the motives of others. An Angle-worm was once Observed by a Cattish wriggling about in a Pond. “Poor, "dear Thing,” said the Catfish; “My heart bleeds for you. For fear you will be Drowned, I will Take you in Out of the Wet 1” To which the Angleworm replied: “I am Grateful for your j Sympathy, but if you Take me in, it ' will be your Gills that will Bleed for | me.” Misinterpreting this remark for i the Angle-worm had preVioflsiV's-diri- > lowed a Limerick hook. By this Fable we are taught that it is best to inquire into a contract before undertak- j ing it. j A sympathetic pawnbroker once Call- | ed upon an Afflicted Clothing Merchant j to Condole with him upon the Loss of his Wife. “Oh, Moses,” quoth he, “You were so Wild with Grief when I saw j you Sitting by the Coffin yesterday that I could not Bear the Sight but Crept away Weeping.” “Were you Not by the Grave?” inquired Moses, removing the Handkerchief from his Eyes. “No,” replied Abraham, “I was not by the Grave —I was too much broken up with Seeing you by the Coffin.” “Oh,” exclaimed Moses, “you Should have Been by the Grave —I just raised by the Grave!” This fable teaches that the depth of human sorrow is boundless. Short-Hand Talking. Among the common errors in the use of language are these: The mispronouncing of unaccented syllables, as terruble, for terrible; the omission of a letter or short syllable, as goin’ for going, and ev’ry for every; and the Tunning of words together without giving every one a separate and distinct ' pronunciation. I know a boy who says, “ Don’ wanter,” when he means “ I don't want to;”“Whajer say?” when he means “What did you say?” and“Woerede go?” instead of “ Where did he go?” Sometimes you hear “ficood” instead of “if I could, “wilfercan” instead of “I will if I can,” and “howjerknow?” for “how do you know?” And have you never heard “m—m” '■ instead of “yes,” and “ni—ni” instead 1 of “no?”

Let me give you a short conversation I overheard between two pupils of our High School, and see if you never heard anything similar to it: “Warejergo lasnight?” “Hadder skate.” “J ertind th’ice hard’n’good ?” “Yes; hard’nough.” “Jer goerlone?” “No; Bill’n Joe wenterlong.” “Howlate jerstay?” “Pastate.” “Lemmeknow wenyergoagin. woncher? I wantergo'n’showyer howterskate.” “H —m, ficoodn’ skate bettern’you I'd sell out’n quit.” “Well, we'll tryerace’n'seefyercan.” Here they.took different streets, and their conversation ceased. These boys write their compositions grammatically, and might use good language and speak it distinctly if they would try. But they have got into this careless way of speaking and make no effort to get out of it.— Christian at Work.

How Queen Bess and Her Court Fed. The serving was of the roughest kind. ' Huge joints of meat were brought to ; the table on the roasting spits. The carver held the meat with one hand j while he cut it with the other, ard the . guests helped themselves with their ' fingers. After eating what they wish- j ed. they threw the remnants to the dogs i and eats under the table. There were j no forks with which to take up tl e meat and no plates to hold it. Huge slices of bread served for plates, and were called trenchers. These became soaked with gravy, and were often eaten with relish: if left, they were gathered in a basket and given to the poor. The furnishing of the immense palaces corresponded with the rudeness of the tables The rooms were large and lofty, but uncarpeted, with floors covered nothing letter than rushes. The furniture was scanty, indicating little taste in style or execution, and the great I rooms looked hare and cheeriest. The

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homes of JTtf* England merchants to. : day are far more* comfortable than the palflc? of the great English Queen, I Fowt/i’s Companion. Houses Built ffT Cotton. Os all substances apparently the fi-asft likely to lie need in the couetrwction ol a fire-proof buflAwg:. - otton would, perhaps, take the first tank and paper the secdtl‘l, and yet both these materials are actually being employed for the purpose indicated, and their use will proliably extend. Compressed paper pulp is successfully used in the rriurmfacture 6f doors, wall panelings, and for other Similar purposes, with the result that fflrf risk of warping and cracking is obviated, ffhije increased lightness is attained and thS Ear of dry rot is forever banished. Papier tflaehe, after having served a useful purpose fe an Wnobtru- , rive manner for years as a material for I small trays, paper-knives and other light articles, has suddenly assumed a more Important position in the industrial world. 1 A still more sudden and striking advance It 5* been made in the employment of cotton as S Vmlding material. A preparation called c«Jlii»loid, in which cotton is a leading ingredient, has been Used lately as a substitute for ivory in the manufacture of such articles as billiard and paper cutters, and now a Canadian tiiah’ttfwctnrer has invented a process by which ftttaipressed cotton may be used, not only for doors and window-frames, but for the! whole facade of large buildings. The enormous and increasing demand for paper for its legitimate Uses as a printing and writing material prevents the extended use of the papier niaehe as a hrrilding material, for which it is so well suiteel in many ways; but the production of cotton is practically unlimited, and there seems to be a large field available for its use in its new capacity as a substitute for bricks—or at least plaster—ami wood. Treated with certain chemicals and compressed, it can be made perfectly fire-proof and as hard as stone, absolutely air and damp proof; and a material is thus produced admirablyadapted ft)? the lining—internal or external—of the buildings of which the shell may <n- may not- be constructed of other material, while it easily lends itself to decorative purposes. Hrflndpfl. The grandpa is an individual, aged somew here between 50 and 100 years, of a promiscuous temperament, and is a common occurrence in all well-regu-lated families. Next to a healthy mother-in-law, they have inm-e active business on hand than ary other party in the household. They are the standard authority on all leading topics, and what they don’t know about things that took place sixty-five years ago, or will take place for the next sixty-five yews to come, is a damage for any man to know. Grandpas are not entirely useless; they are handy to hold the babies arid feed the pigs, and are very smart at mending a broken broom-han-dle, and sifting coal ashes, and are good at putting up clothes-lines on washing irean I. grandpa* that could years to olmrmnc hotter. T grandpa myself, but I wont cliurn ouster for fio concern, not if I understand myself. lam solid on this conclusion as a graven image- I am willing to rock baby all the time while the women folks are boiling soap, I am willing to cut rags to work up into a rag carpet, they can keep fflC hunting hens’ eggs wet davs, or picking green currants, or I will even dip candles, or core apples for sauce, or turn a grind-stone, but, by thunder, I won’t churn. I have examined myself on this subject, and I will bet a jack-knife, so long as lie remains in his right mind, Josh Billings won’t churn. As a general thing grandpas are a set of conceited old fools who don’t seem to realize that what they know themselves is a result of experience, and that younger people have got to get their knowledge in the same way. Grandpas are poor help at bringing up children; they have got precept and catechism enough, but the young people all seem to understand that grandpa minds them a heap more than they mind grandpa.— Josh Billinas. Clote Scaurp and the Beasts. An old Mohawk lives among the Mad awaska Melicites, whose version of Clote Scaurp’s departure, as Martin rendered it to us, is a wild and beautiful legend, dimly reminding one of the “Passing of Arthur.” This is the drift of it: After a great many years the ways of beasts and men grew bad, and Clote Scaurp spoke to them, and talked to them, till at last he was angry and very sorry; and he could endure them no longer. So he came down to the shores of the great lake and there he made a great feast, and all the beasts came and feasted with him. But no men came to the feast, for they had grow-n altogether bad, and Clote Scaurp talked to the beasts very heavily. Aud after the feast was done he got into a big canoe, and took his uncle, the Great Turtle, with him, and and sailed straight out from shore over the big lake into the setting sun, and the beasts looked after them until they could see them no longer. But Clote Scaurp was singing, and so was the Great Turtle, and the beasts listened to them singing as they sailed away, after they could see them no longer. And at last they could not even hear them; and all the beasts were silent. Then a very strange thing happened. All the beasts that had always spoken our tongue were no more able to understand each other, and they fled apart, each his own way, and have no more met in council. Aud Clote Scaurp’s dog, his hunting dog, whom Clote Scaurp w ould not take him because his ways bad been evil with the other beasts, goes wandering up and down the world searching for his master, and often he howls aloud in the night.— Forest and Stream.

The Minister and the Forester. A minister of the Interior, in Germany, who was fond of boasting of his numerous olive-branches, while traveling, arrived at a small town in a mountainous district, where he came across a forester whom he invited to dinner. “Are you aware,” he said jovially, "that you are dining with the most aound’antly blessed father of a family in all Prussia ?” Am I, indeed?” exclaimed the man. May I ask how many children your Excellency has?” Four-and-twenty,” was the proud replv. ‘ln that case,” said the forester, “mav I request yon to stay over to-mor-row and stand godfather to my twentyfifth?” His Excellency’s face fell, but b« complied w ith the request of bis rival who bad beaten him bv one.—Quiz,