Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1896 — Page 4

Special Sale of Wash Goods. Pijnities. . . . Chailies. lalcand ibc good's, pY that «ere cheap at Keduwd to - - 15 c d»ced'to C '- rL ’- 8C Jiieonette nnchcsse. Good styles, re- |f|n o . duced to - - lUu Swivel Silks. . „ Al! colors, 40c and 50c All Wool Chailies. Moods,—Silk and QCp All colors, Reduced cotton, reduced to Zuu to - - - 25 c SHIRT WAISTS. Your choice any $2.00 waist, reduced to $1,50. - -11, —■—r— Your choice any $1.50 waist, reduced to SI-15- I Your clioiJe any $ 1.25 waist, reduced t 0.51.00. You choice any Si.oo waist, reduced to BSC. Your choice any 7;c \vaist,„reduced to 65c. Anything in Wash Goods must CO at the “ o E oA" blo?k ti ’< Boston Store.

A’iw democrat A i - i-c —- . I V. J)i .4 CKB CAN, PreprieSor, .. 2 _ A ■ ~ __ | - . - - j FRIDAY, JULY 17. 1896. - ■ —-—■ j Rate* of Subscription. Year,, tn advance. SI 50 ; X’c Months 75 ’ FwJt M0nth5.....;.. .50 I All subscriptions pot paid during the year j vjl be charged at the rate of H2.QM. —- . ■ ' - — j '.’ dice in Democrat Building, east sldeof Sec ond Street—ground door DEMOCRATIC TICKET. I ° EOK PKESIDEN T. /- WILLIAM-.!'. BUY AX. - -- of Nebraska. -1 FOR VICE I'HESIDESTNNATHAN SEWALL. "t Main -t vrr. niKtr. ♦ fovertiorß F. Shively" Lieulenant-G<>' John C. Lawler I Vipclalc Judges'-Finn district, Edwin Taylor, second dist.. F. E flavin; third dist.. I Theodore Davis: fourth d;st.;JJa!an<lo Lotz: ; tilth dist . (1. E Ross. Secretary <6 Stale S M. Ralston ; Auditor of State Joseph T. Fanning ! Treasurer of state . Morgan Chandler Attorney-General .1 <1 McNutt j Keporler Supreme Court Henry Warrutn > Supenntendent Public Instruction Prof w, B. Sinclair I Slate Statistician .. ■. ...<>. 11. Downey DISTRICT TICKET. Prosecuting Attorney *> DAVID E. SMITH. '.. . " ' of Adams County. CoCnty ticket. Sheriff. PETER P. ASH BAUGHER. . * Treasurer; KiNAS NEI’ENs Jf WANDER. Auditor. NOAH JIA.WOuDA Surveyor,. WILLIAM !•;. FI'LK. County. A . B . ELLAS CliiS'ii P' -' ' ijpmmß-duner-let disfrict. • HtSIIPI! E. MANN. Commissioner- -JJnfi.distriel. ' I . SA MI LL !)‘ >A Sv..-. ’ fS.".oi-a.- r;ui- ■>' tc;-.;Oo>. | UU’i'.e.. noU :■ t-fiat you ai'..‘.r..>jt: i "'< lully I W.'iein.o‘c'invo.i'.e at Portianxl; Indianli: j ■w the 2b h of July 1896, for the purpose ; nomitfatihg one representative fori Die conn'ics ci A flam's and Jay ami - yiiie for Ure'etitni’ips <tf Jay. A Jams tirnl .. JSiackford. RQqieci fully. -Michael MiiL-r, . ■ • L > . Burker.rt. A T - • -■M , _ .B.«prssentat live C-ora. . J. S Railing, breeder oi recorded Duroc Jersey swine. 1 I hav?* . iitfe heid of hogs nt present, have sows .bred foi; September farrow for sale. Male pigs from six to seven months old! pigs two months old. AU breeding stock ' recorded. I’edigress fuinisbed. I will sell for ; cash or good notes. Write for' ” what yon want or come amr-see them. Residence four and <nie-‘ouu.h ’miles Southeast of Decatur JjiaU' Wanted—Severai-Jiustitoit My gentle men loti-ladies to travel ,in Indiana for — ' wstablisbed. "reilabie housetp 'SalaTy and- expenses’. ’Steady pokitp.n. Enclose reference ayd seif-aiidi<<sst J ■ stamped envelope. Jhe Dominion (kv. ) Third »tnalia Building, ('hicayo, Illinois. oowg4

Kaiironi companies no longei may carry their business letters : over their own roads without paving i postage to the government. Ai ■ order has In-n received at Chicago from Postmaster Gcnefal ilson. ibv Major Steward and Postmaster i'■ . * Hesingi, insisting on the enforcement ■of the postal laws against railways * carrying their own letters. An exI ception is made in favor of letters 1 that have to do with the business ot the tram carrying them. But al: letters to station agents and officials are forbidden to be carried without . postage and the inspectors are directed to inforce the law. The railroads, however, will not be required to mail their letters as ordinary l citizens and corporations. Tliej | will be supplied by the government | with a ’specially J 'stamped envelope, i which they must cancel on delivervjj i to the train man. Tire express companies have been using such en- ! velopes for some years. Compliment. i An author some time ago received a singular compliment. A burglar broke c into his house and found the manuscript of a novel, which he took, leaving ihe ; following note; ‘‘Sir—l began to read j your novel, and I was so deeply interested iu it that I was obliged to carry it ■ away, but it will be faithfully returned when finished. ” The manuscript was duly sent back, with a really clever critique on it.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Affection. Talk not of wasted affection I Affection never was wasted. If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning back to their springs like the rain, shall fill—them full of refreshing; that fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. —Longfellow. Brewers iu England receive $6. 85 a week; in Germany they are paid $5; in Holland, 40; in New South Wales they receive $23. A cynicar cxclianee gives out the foliowingqin which lire truth holds a good I pari: It is ezsiei' to sell .a bicjlcle,-tbaß. ' a wagon. Men-will fmy sHotgilns and , pay l.u*./tl.inn when they have to give their 'ictes in payment for ulermils whipii timyjiave to earn, t.lieit living. I I’liey pay the-retailer o hundred per cent on Lieer wJlmiit a pn>i<*sl and kick j'*;bui;l -the Io or 20 per cent the groceryi inan Risk’s 'Billiards al ‘25 cents a game does not seem v(-i \ liiglr to ,1b ‘in but l-aeaß! ticket-ps tor el oil makes them j gtiiiit; '■ i J 2 i iA—good Jaym—fif 80 acres- . .av£lLauU-uia>l good liousec gobi.! Warn, ■rml thbrouglilv Good orc'iard, close to fchooiy phurch and ' fie postrdltoto two Ave/ls of vvater Call or atidi, s-rbisWiiht v 34tf ; ' ’.j.. • / % - \ ’. I have lands m and 1 ' ' '.exiun I will sell ip Adams or a'ljoimnJ CHuntjps and in 1 proper case, will givY.udATetynce in‘money, --iptf David Studabaive'r. • * . '■ 2 ‘ .t. . . g . Lost. ' ' Yatrj; charm with a small i : 1 • a bed. Please return , th ciii < ami receive i 'J - ; . ’i4 f| ,u7"'i ■! ' -A .YUJi^JXCiUXIXJ+G-W- »V VFV* g|fP7{p~ I -■ ’Bt A dams Cor.'NTV’Bank ’ T'Wn -you need I>r. E. H. Leßrup, ’ >ou-cair phone him as his residence. Phone 11T ■ ■

BIG DEMONSTRATION Ovation to the Democratic Nominee For the Presidency. --— • I SALEM ALIVE WITH PEOPLE., ■ ■ ~ *■ • | llamis ami Di’lesations From Surrouniltnjf Country Go Io S«m> mill 11.-ur the Hoy Orator—Kain Came Near Spoiling the Great Event—General Political Gossip From All Section* of the Country. Salem, Ills., July H>.—lt is doubtful if the peopKof this town ever before allowed' their enthusiasm to bubble over to such an extent as it did yesterday. The discharge Os blacksmith’s artillery aroused the people to an unusual state of activity early in t*e day. Wagons loaded with fanners from the surrounding country began to arrive almost at daylight, and by noonday the hitching racks around the business center of the , town and all the feedingyards anil livery crowded. And they I came in on excursion trains from neighboring towns and adjoining counties to , take part in the great celebration given herein the afternoon and evening in honor of William J. llrymi. the Demo- I eratic lidininee lor p l \siilen.t. who ;li> years ago first saw the light’of day in this qm' t. sleepy, obi country town. *' A severe storm commenced during the forenoon and for a t.me ir io (l k, <i as though the demon strut i->n.M as g. Jug tu be a it.’,;•!•>. l.r was alt. r 1 o\ .ouK when the ram cease,i. v Portrait ot the Nominee. A bafnmr upon which was iastcncd a po'rttait “of the Hem 1 ■; - .it: ' nomim ■ was placed on the platlorm. ll.meatli it was the m >tto: "Bryan Bring. Silver , and Success." when it,was biought for- ■ ward the crowd indulged m some eqs t.h:i'-mst.ie cheering. A Dig banner was 1 heli posted bearing this motto; "Our ; Billie made his lir-t jxiiltieal speech under-a campaign flag-in iss'iat Salem. ’ ; This occasioned another bust of ap- . plause. At intervals there would be a lull and then the enthusiastic multitude let off steam by giving cheers for Bryan, free silver and Democratic success. Governor Altgeld Failed to Appear. Although Governor Altgeld had been advertised to speak, he did not come. Word was received that the govelmor’s health was such that he could not come. He was greatly exhausted after the Chicago convention and has not yet fully recovered. When this fact became known to the throng of Democrats there were general expressions of disappointment. At 2:15 it was annoujjfc'ed that the distinguished "Son of Salem" was ap-. proaching. AH the bamts started m afresh; the crowd howled like mad. This was kept up until Air. and Mrs. Bryan were seated on the platform. AVhen quiet was restored, Hon. L. M. \Kagy introduced Rev. F. B. Ypung of the Methodist Episcopal church, who prayed for the blessing of the God of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln. Mr. Kagy then said he was hapjiy to be able to present His old classmate who had been made famous by being chosen to lead the Democratic party. Mr. Bryan needed no introduction. It was not only in Air. Bryan’s honor that the assemblages had come, it was to honor a principle dear to all Democrats. He concluded by paying a eulogy i.o Mr. Bryan. Audience Moved to Tear«». Mr. Bryan then spoke for some time of his love for the people of Salem and surrounding country with whom he had associated in his early days. He thanked the people of all political parties for the demonstration in Ins honor and then drifted into a free silver speech at some length. Several times duiing. the -speech Mr. Bryan showed by the huskiness of his voice that he was deeply moved. There were many of the former neighbors of the speaker who frequently applied their handerkerchiefs to their eyes. When he had ended Mr. Kagy introduced Mi s. Bryan, who came, forward? and bowed amid loud cheers. Another public demonstration was made Isat night which equalled if not excelled the one during the afternoon. KA NS AS ]’ It O H 1151 T It»N I SIS. Anti-St. John Gu-tion Denounce Ihe exGovernor lu Stroiiu- \\’or<N. C' Topeka, Jnby IB.—That portion of , the Kansas Prohibition party antago- I. nistic to the faetioirheinle.il by ex-Gov-ernor John P. St.-Jiilin, nmt- in s-lar-e I convention at the capitol yes.terdaj to nominate presidential ebclors and a state ticket. The convention is allied I to the miti-'inal fiohibition party which , recently nonnn,tied Joshua Levering of Baltimore for president. The attendance, was small. * .. .-, F. M. ‘Steves, editor of the Burlin- ' i game Fulcrum, tlfeolljeial organ ot the j party, in the opening spe -ch denounced | St. John, calling,him a traitor and said I that the ex-governor hail given up the card-inal principles of p'rohiuition lor iree.silvcr. Permanent Chairman Mont Williams, in the'eourse of a speech, said ho was ' glad that (he, party had got rid of 'Mi's. Gougar, John. P Sk JiiFin and others. .’’'The party was also-weary dfAl-ts. .Alary ■ Elizabeth Lease and Airs. Foster, lie v said. -j The.resolutions , committee in its re- I -jsport indorsed the national platform i adopted at Pittsburg and followed wilh planks cover irtt wmitan siijlTage, declaring for. silver and oppo- i ng furl her issues of government bunnX; favoring atari.!, on luxuries only; mm" ition to a]tpropriations for sectarian scn.ools; Sunday observance; liberal; pen.-ions; national ai- ‘ bitratioh of iisputes of all kinds; dire’et ■ elect ions of president,, vice president and ! senators, and lower salaries lor ail pubL .i lie officers. Towa R<• js ■ 11. i > >•;11> (•>ii v> 111! <»n. J Des Moises, la , July 16.—The lbpublican state convention yesterday whs remarkable in point of attendance and Interest. Among the distinguished men present were Senators Allison and Gear

ami neatly ull the lowa congressmen, i Senator Allison's spiwh, wliiclt warmly [ commended Major McKinley and sits- ! tamed Ibe St. lioiitx platform, was the I real point ot interest. Thivkonutor spoke with im'i’c lltun usual warmthKumi I w hen lie pointed to the picture of Hm ’ Ohio man the eonveiitimt went wink ■ with apfilause. The St. Ixinis etmli- ' dates and platform were tmaniimmsbr I indorsed. Fort LIST CONT ENTION. Dlft'orviivo ot Opinion* n» to tin* Av* lh»n to ll«* Tiikeu nt Nt. Loiil*. I Sr. Gn is, July Di. —It Ix'eomeH more’ ! and more evident each day as the date of the meeting of tlm national convention draws near that the party will clash over the indorsement of Bryan i'oi president. Letters from all parts of the country arc pouring into the national committee headquarters, soma^demanding anti soinodenouncing the indorsement of the Democratic ticket, and everything indicates that there is a, decided difference of opinion as to the best action to be taken at the coming convention. It is iheopinion of some of the Populists here that the party is near the dani ger lino of a split over the question, i They express the hope, however, that : Rome definite plan of action agreeable I to all can be decided upon at the meeti ingot'the national executive eommiti tee. w hich is to be hold here next SatI urday. Many of the Populist leaders I are awaiting the coming of the free silver senators who bolted the Republican i convention. Upon the course they take ■ w ill depend in a measure the -action vs 1 the ;'.*Hi-Bryan w ing. If the silver Re- , public.ms eonie out onenly for Bryan ’ and the Chieag i piatt'Ym tiieopposition may not make much of a tight. < :irl Brown** h !*<»pull-*t l>eli*i;;ite a W \-“i 'e • d >\. J nl.v Di.—-The Populi -'ts of the Disfrietiot' Uoltmibia at a called j 11^- ’tin;; iasl night elected delegates and | ; alternates to the. St. Louis convention on July 2-’ as follows; Delegates—i t'.'irl Browin', Alexander Kent, H. S. I Doyle and .1. il. Turner. Alternates— I H. B. Martin, M. J. Bishop, S. i L Hines anil Mis- Jennie L. Monroe. The Carl. - Browne elected as a delegate is he whe . became well known in con'neetioii with ■ the Uoxey movement. ' Senator Jones on the I’opulM Convention. WA-' tixo rox, July 16. —Senator Jones ! savs he has no doubt of the indorsement : of Ijryan and Sewall by the Populist convention at St. Louis. He says he expects opposition to como from a few Populists who regard themselves as leaders and who would not indorse any Democratic ticket, but he says the rank and file of Populist delegafes will sweep over this opposition. Chicago Platform Kepudhited. New York, July 16.—The executive committee of the State Democracy met last night and repudiated the Chicagc platform. It also advocated the putting of a third candidate in the field. The resolutions were adopted only after a prolonged debate and it is said that at least ijve district leaders will considei the advisibility of resigning from tlte organization. - Sewall Want* Another State Convention. Boston, July i'i. —Arthur Sewall left Boston last evening for Bath. To ati acquaintance he said that he was iu favor of holding’ another state convention m Maine in order to harmonize the state and the ifUtional platforms. He also expressed great confidence in the prospects of victory for the Deiiiocratic ticket this fall. . COMMISSION SELECTED. Men Named to A.tjiwt Cluinis of British Subje«'ls Against the Vlilted States*. Washington,- July 16.—The representatives of the United States and Great Britian on the commission to adjust the claims of British subjects foi damages sustained through the seizure of their vessels While sealing in Benring sea, before the. adoption of the first modus vivendi, have at length been selected. The treaty ratified by the last session of congress, provides for the appointment of two commissioners, one from (treat Britain and the other from the United States. The British commissioner will be Hon. (reorge K. King, at present one of the justidtis of the surpreme court of Canada, while for the United States the commissioner will be Hon. William L. Pntnain. United States judge for the First circuit court in upper New England. It is understood that Don M. Diekin ’ son of Michigan has been selected as I counsel for the United States before the ! Bering sea eonini’i-sion. * New Gas Well In Illinois. Odell. Ills., July 16.-—Gas has I struck on the fartn of E. A. Hunter, I m-ar OdolJ, while digging for-water, i Ti-o depth whore I In-gas was struck is , J 75. and the )>res<nre is so gix-'at that it rises Io the siirfaee throimh Ln) feet of wai'i-i'. and if the pressure does not ‘ abate it will be used for lieatiiig mid , lighting ptirpo’si ■ FH9M THE. WIRES. . Tin- Ma-toiii'- til ami lodge of Canada, ir, s'-ssion-at Belleville, Ont,, elected ollicw'X . today. .- sqv I dwaVd ll.aiilon challenges Jake Gan.U,:i,;il' for a race for the professional soiill . < liflaiip'.oiisliip oi’.A meriea. ‘■l ‘rdil+al l.a valet la, <1 an of Ihe Sacred : college, Rolne. is dead at the age of 7(', ‘ years. lie was created u cardinal in 1868. i The Republican niitiifhlil exeepti-ve com mitt.ee has decided to locate national headtpiarlers at tkii h Now s'erk and Chicago, i Word ecaies from I’itlsLutg that,, the 1 iron and sie< i mdu •try i s more enconragj ing t hail at a.q’ Hine since the stoppage ol I the mills.,. The I niled States arid IL-iyti Telegraph ar;;l Cable coii-.p.-my. j-ap'italiz.ed at^l.' f "a. (Kit), lias been ■incoi'tnjia’t<-d with (be. New York si c a ~; v o'l' st ate.' Lord Dniiravcu’.s yacht, \'al.kyrie III A Railed from New - Y»’tk for the Clyde Where she may be overhauled and raced against Emperor William’s Meteor. A monument, was unveiled in St. Mary's ichiwh, AJ<l"i iHHiibtiry, Eng, r t. > John llemiuge anil Henry (.'ond.-11, who eolI. lec.tr-d and lu st published. Shakespeare’s . writings. ’ I!cVr Aii'ltei-s.'wlio was to endeavor I,c reach lie.-, nori h pole by balloon, has been . 'delayed by the construction of his ballon I house and jie will not now lib able to set ‘ out upon hts aerial voyage-before tlw mid-. I .(lle.of ACgUst. \

Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report IW Po a ® ABSOLUTELY PURE 1 ' > ■ 2. i

ENGLISH CAVE DWELLERS. Evidence* of Thein Found In the Region Made Merry by Kobin Hood. The town of Nottingham is 124 miles north of London. A part of the town is on low lying ground close to the rive! Trent, where floods sometimes occur, but the rest of the town is built on a series of red sandstone hills. It. is situated on the southeastern fringe of the great Derbyshire coal field, and the historic forest of Sherwood formerly spread almost up to the city walls. Now this forest has, in a great measure, been cut down, and this has reduced the rainfall, raised the temperature and rendered the climate of the town drier and more braeittg than it used.to be. The mean annual rainfall is now 25 inches and the temponiture 47 degrees. As sandstone is soft and easily cut it is only natural that the early dwellers n caves came and lived in holes dug in the hills of Nottingham, particularly as the fori-st close at hand was a good limiting ground wlicre game could be' captured for fix'd. Bronze mid otic r tools ein.pleyi.-d l y i early mid prehistoric. ihliaJutanls | are occasionally found, mid the lir.-t ; name kn< >n to have!. :i given tot'noj place was Siiotin-ml.am. This in Celtic | means "ihe home among. th.e rocks. ’’ Afterward it b .came otr-of ..Alb.', townsq of the kingdom of Jl reitt, ami in tlm | ninth and tenth eenturios \vas one of the live chief northern strongholds of the Danes. Alre.ttlywh.it is now known as the ('astlehill was a strong’y fortified position, and it was in his atb nipt to capture tins fortress that Alfred the Great was signally defeated by the Dam-si Two hundred years later, when William the Conqueror in his turn subjugated the Saxons, he rebuilt the castle of Nottingham tint! placed'it under the command of I:is natural (jou, William Pevtrel. But it was here also that Saxon resistance continued for many a long year, for ir was in the great fori st bard by that Robin Hood mid his merry men dwelt. These out laws were Saxons who were dissatisfied with the Norman rule and preferred a lite of brigandage tv submission. The holes dug in the rocks, the passages made through the sand stone mountains, enabled these bold foresters to occasionally appear in the town and close under the Norman battlements. — Boston Bost. BAD BILL'S BREAK. It Was a Sensational Feature and Shut I’p the Whole Revival. Bad Bill was a well known character in the west, and there are many Stories told of his exploits, but one ol the be*t has never been printed, and was related to a reporter by a man whe was present' when it occurred. Great Bend, Kan., now otm of tin 1 best towns in the state, was at one time about the worst. That was when it was a railroad terminus before Dodge City was established. A traveling evangelist went to Great Bend and tried to start a revival. There were a few Christians in town, and these all attended the first meeting, the only one of the unregenerate present being Bad Bill, who took a front seat. Every one feared trouble when he walked into the church, but lie sat quietly during the exhortation. The evangelist requested all who wanted to g() to heaven to,stand up, and every person present excent Bill arose. When they were seated again, Bill got up, and, drawing two pistols, said: "You say you want Io go to heaven. Now, anything 1 can do to help this game along and give pleasure to the players, I’nl in for. Yon all want to go to heaven, and I'll give yoil aS good a chance as you'll cvi r have. The first man that gets tip I’ll give him a tickeX clean through, wit hout-any stop overs.’’ The evangelist crawled under a serilt ami the members of' the coitgregatiun laid 'on the ch-airs. ‘‘Well,’’ said Bill, “I see ydu wasn’t iin earnest, so we’ll pul: out the lights and ea'll t’hf.s moetjjig adjourned. ” -One by one he shot lint the lights, and bymorning the evangelist was on liis way Jn Hutchinson, while the meinbyrs of tlic congregation kept, quiet and made I im furllier attempts at holding a revi val. — Washi n gton S lar. Wasted Time. Watch any ordinary’ coming fogctlu’T ' of people and st e how ninny minutes it ' will be Ijefcre S'omebody-fi'ets. That is, makes or less ccinpiapniigstf.teI nient of something or,.other; which most I probably every oiie ill the room km w I \ before,.and winch probably mibcdy ctiij A help. Why say anything about it’ It is .: '(.-old, it is Jmt, it is wet, itis.dry 7 soim:--body has kt ;il-;"ii tin appoi.ntment. or ill •j cooked a meal; stupidity or bad faith ■! soiucwlk re has resulted in discomfort : : there a-rc ph nty of things to fret about, ' ' -if we-use weak enough to heed trifles. It is simply astonishing how much an- • ' noyance may bo found in the course of ' ; evY; day’s jiving, < ven atfhe simplest, if oia (’inly la eps a -sharp i' .<ut on that side of things. Even ll<.ly;Writ <.P,.. ai" pn ne to trouble, as sparks fiy.,up .. aid. But 1 ven to the sparks By--1 ing upward, in the blackest ol smoke, ] there’is a Ji’lno sky above, and tlieoess ‘ time they waste on the road the.sooner I they will Tc-itch ite-- Fretting is all time* wasted on the road. —l’itt.sburg Dis1 pillch ' '' * Tli« first paper.-made in'western I I rbpo was m mufa(,4ui'ed in Spa’n in >GIt is >6aid that the process came from 1 tiro-r/vt, being brought, into bpain by I the Moors. -0

— _____ — $ Getting; T«rj- Much Mixed. One curious symptom of tho overthrow of common sense by science in such a study as domestic economy is tho fact that tho papers are frequently marked by grotesque misspellings, not merely of scientific terms, but even more especially' of common words which in other papers would present no difficulty whatever. This is a mark of the papers of .senior schoolgirls, who study the subject of domestic economy as well as of older students, and to such an extent that an examiner is forced to the conclusion that this study is in some occult way a danger to orthography. Tn invest in "cousins," to havii the fingernails nearly "paired,” ‘‘poodles’’ of water, ‘‘niineh meat." "roasted stake," to have the drains "slushed” with water ami to break a class up into "drafts," may be taken as a few examples of this tendency. But scientific terms ar' -1 yno means safe from variations, as the two following quotations, this tie.'" iroln the jia'persof schoolgirls, . will show: ."Gar bonny cassid" is an i unusual yIJ 'l. ci gniz. able form of ear- ' bonic ticjd, "Lack tail ducks” may notv-lie s-. 1 easily recogniz' d. One might ; suppi: - that it refi rred. to a sju cii s <.f 1 waxifn.wl r-. lated in S"ine way t-> tlo 1 Manx eat, but it i ; ie.‘>’ly iut< iidtffi f'-r ‘ lacteal (ha I’i.gsfl **’ 11;- fund i-ffis of I the.-e 1.1 >.-e.!s was ji-> 1,-ss a mystery to the wriier ti-.m the' spilling of tiu-.r name. —1 Hack via al'a Mag.iz-iue. Water t'.'i a (Juart.In speak:;:;; of the Bapaz.o Indians I Mr. McGee said: "They i. '.-'‘fit a country of broad plums, with mountain ranges bet ween t hem. The mountains , are r< markabTy rugged gial rise sharply from the lowlands. All over the plains live the Indians. The country is one of the most arid regions on tho face of the globe, a whole year passing sometimes without a drop of rain. Geologically it is a curious place. The streams rise in • the mountains, but never reach the sea, and the debris carried by the rivers, instead of finding its way to thoocean, is spread upiat tho plains, the rivers drying up before they rea-'h the sea. Seinland, in the state of Sonora, was.uever seen by a white man until about two years ago, when the bureau of ethnology sent out an expedition to explore that region. Tho natives are constantly vigilant every moment, from day to day, week to week, month to month, yeai to year, expectfirfg a’nd dreading the approach of an enemy. They are always prepared fi ir any emergency. The deal t b of water was the greatest obstacle to the exploration. Every drop we used was carried from 12 to 15 miles by men under heavy guard. Water there is mors valuable than gold, and often we measured it outiti spoonfuls. In counting the dangers and labor of securing water, we estimated its worth .at from $3 to $4 a quart. ’’ —Baltimore American. Kapiil Ri-ailing. What an inesfiinahkt- boon it would be if we had the faculty of grasping sentences, paragraphs and perhaps pages at little niofe than a glance! That there have been men gifted in that way is an undoubted fact. Macaulay possessed that faculty in a remarkable degree, and most editors have it tc a lesser extent. He would take up a volume for an evening’s intellectual enjoyment, and before lie retired he had the contents fully impressed upon his marvelous mind. Dickens was another of the remarkably rapid readers. George Eliot’s * ‘Adam Bede" came to him one day. Before his ordinary bedtime he had read it and prononneed this remarkable dictum, “That book was written by a woman.” Others required days of leisure to read it, and the qui stinn of authorship was the question of the time in literary circle#. ' ' Os a well known lawyer it was once said that able to read a newspapeh article < r a page < f a bn’Ok lit xf lnit :'i (med h> theobsd'ver to be hut a glance. Endowed at the same time with a powerful memory, he was enabled,to digest at lefkiTl'c what he had absorbed in haste. Vi’iy ’much the samexvas said of Daniel Webster., who read "Don Quixote" in 11 single night.—Strand Magazine. A pln'.r.ber in Bremen or Hamburg, by hard Libor and in a favorable season, can make no more than £G.4O a week. Cosmopolitan New York. A curious characteristic of New York I is the extraordinary mixture of languages that has come about within the last fqw years! Few people living on Fifth iivenne. or its short Side strict ’ tributaries realize*ttrat there are miles. of this city where Ewglish is either not spoken at all or brokenly, where there is a mixture of tongues as confusing as ever made. trouble on the tower of Ba- | bel. ■ ’".2/ I A Russian emigrant who settled on I the east side stiffiiod German six years before she. di/ci vi red itwas not the language of the country. She was not a stupid woman, but her tenement and Tier street were GermaiLand her world did not reach beyond.—New York 11 Journal. . ■ An Attractive Perfume. Jklrs.-Gazzana—When (lie mosque of ’ St- Sophia was built at Constantinople, n nrusk was mixed with the. mortar, and that perfume still overpowersl ull others TiHEe'neiglffiorhbdd. _2_ Gazzam —Then that accounts for the wonderful attraction there Ms in Con* stantinople for the Muscovites.—Detroit Frpe Pre®. ' A v T ,'