Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1885 — Page 2

SONG OF OCR PRESIDENTS. First Mme General Washington, Great man and high. Who kept his little hatchet bright And never told a lie. Be won us many a battle, boys. And set our country free. And shouldn’t we be glad to get Another such as he! Chorus.—Now a cheer for every President, That ever yet has been! And three times three, whoe’er he be. For the next that shall be seen. Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! ■ Hurrah! hurrah! hurray! Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah, my boys! For the next election day! John Adams next, then Jefferson, James Madison also. And after them another James, Whose name it was Monroe. Another Adams followed him. And then “Old Hickory" came. Stout Andrew Jackson, stern and grim, Of Democratic fame. Chobus.—Now a cheer, etc. « Van Buren next; then Harrison, Who ruled a month and died. When Tyler had to take his place. And fill his own beside. Then Polk, he donned his polka, And Taylor told his tayle, And when four years again were gone, ’Twas Fillmore did prevail. Chobus.—Now a cheer, etc. Now some will call the next our Pierce, And some will call him Puree; But either answers well enough Tie purpose of my verse. Buchanan next, and after him Our bincoin good and great, Who through the raging storms of war Steered safe our ship of state. Chobus.—Now a cheer, etc ~ But Lincon's death, by murder foul, Brought Johnson to the fore, And after him came General Grant, The hero of the war. Then Hayes came, and then Garfield, Struck down by traitor’s hand, When Arthur took the vacant place. And rules to day the land. Chobus—Now a cheer, etc., etc. —Laura E. Richards, in Youth's Companion.

HAL BURTON'S MISTAKE.

BY JENNIE S. JUDSON.

When Hal Burton wrote and mailed these two notes, one morning, he little imagined the trouble he was calling down upon his devoted head. The first one ran: Dear Oud Feucow: If you really want her, don't let me stand in your way. Go in and win. I thought you understood that 1 was fooling from the first. Yours in haste, Harry. And the other thus: Dbar Miss Mabel: Owing to pressing business engagements, I shall have to defer my call tor this evening. May I come soon again ? Your friend, Harry Burton. The first of these two notes, addressed in a bold chirography to Miss Mabel Benton, was placed in that young lady’s hands two hours later, and the flush which overspread her face as she recognized the dashing hand, told a story in itself. “Dear Old Fellow” were the words which struck her amazed vision as she began its perusal. “Whatin the world can Harry mean ?” she stopped to say, but as she read or! the flush on her cheeks deepened to a redder, angrier hue, and when at its Close she raised her eyes they were full of both pride and pain. This note was intended for Tom Steele, or some young man of that set,” she thought, with bitterness, “aiid has been sent me by mistake. I shall act on this revelation of fate, however, and in future avoid Mr. Burton and the jesting he has enjoyed so much of late. ” “Hal is getting dreadful polite,” muttered Tom Steele as he threw the note just received and read, among cigar-ends, tapers, etc., which adored his center-table. “May he come soon again ? When I’ve scarcely missed seeing him one night for a week, what does the boy mean ?” “May I have this waltz, Mabel,” whispered Hal, as the two met in Mrs. Trenton’s ball-room, two days later, his eyes full of undisguised admiration as he looked down at her. * “What hypocrisy!” was Mabel’s mental comment, as she caught the expression, and she answered, coldly, “I ■am sorry, but my ball-book is "quite ■full,” handing it indifferently to him as she spoke. A strange light spread into Harry’s ■eyes as he saw on every other line the name of a handsome young fellow, who had lately come to Morton, and who had already supplanted him as Mabel’s escort for the evening. “It is full,” he replied, carelessly, and he returned the book without another word. But he gnawed his mustache fiercely as he walked away. Mabel’s manner lost none of its gayety because he held himself distantly aloof from her for the rest of the •evening. She had never been more animated.

“If she can throw me over like that,” thought Harry moodily, as in his room that night he went over and over again the events of the evening, “and for the acquaintance of a week, too, she is not the girl for me, and I have no earthly reason to care.” He did care, though, as a pain at his heart gave proof, but he smothered it down and determined to make no sign. “In the cast of characters for our Say,” announced the chairman of the orton amateur' theatrical committee, a week later, “we, have assigned the rt of ‘ Norman McGregor’ to Harry Burton, ‘Janet Grey’ to Mabel Benton, and ‘Edgar Montrose’ to John 8. Fremont. ” ' “There couldn’t have been a more suitable cast, as far as real .circumstances are concerned,” thought Harry reading over the play. “Normanand Edgar are bdth 'ifi love with JJmet Grey, Norman desperately jealous, and Edgar successful for the time; happy •circumstance for me,” he added, with a, sigh, “if the real affair could assume’ the aspect of this at its close, for Norman so successful in the end.” “Why are women so wild always,” he cried, giving a savage clutch at a paperweight sitting near, “about handsome <nep? I could 'have sworn she cared for me until Fremont came, and now she ■scarcely deigns a glance in my direction. Heaven knows I wish I could give her up as easily she has me, but I .can’t do it, and it costs a desperate effort to wear the indifferent face I do. ” As Janet Grey, Mabel was more fascinating than she knew, and Norman yoGregor. the unsuccessful suitor, found her constant coldness prompted more by nature, he feltj than by the

requirements of art, a bitter thing to bear, now that he was called upon every night to suffer from it. Even the relenting, demanded by the plot of the play in the end, was one in which she put so little animation that he drew no comfort from it, and was only withheld by pride from giving up the character which brought him torture every night. The afternoon of the last rehearsal came, and all final arrangements were being completed. Mabel, wearing a gossamer over her bewitching Scotch costume, was putting some finishing touches to the stage decorations, while Mr. Fremont prepared evergreens for her, when this conversation carried on in the gentlemen’s dressing-room met her interested ears: “Hallo Tom,” exclaimed Hal Burton’s familiar voice, as some one entered the room; “glad to see you back; when did you come ?” “To-day, at twelve.” “Sorry you staid so long, my boy; we have missed you woefully in this affair, and I told Hackett last night if I could only lay hands on you, we’d have ‘Norman McGregor,’ at your service, done up in style. The character is very distasteful to me.” “Pshaw, Hal, my talent doesn’t lie in that direction. ” “By the way,” remarked Hal, suddenly, as if recalling something, “did you get my note before you left?” “Why, yes, I did; but I must say I don’t understand yet the cause of your overwhelming politeness. That little appeal, ‘ May I come soon again,’ was quite beyond my comprehension.” “What are you driving at, Steele?” “The note of regret you sent the night before I left ” “My note of regret! Is the boy mad ? I wrote you a note in regard to that horse of Brown’s; told you I had no intention of standing in your way, and hoped you’d be successful in getting her. Is not that the one you received ?” “No such note has ever reached me,” Tom answered, decisively, while Hal, illuminated by a swift idea, broke into a fit of laughter. “I have it now,” he said. “I wrote Miss Mabel Benton a note the same morning, and, in my haste, exchanged the envelopes. How very careless; But my overwhelming politeness, that is rich,” and he lapsed into another merry peal, in which Tom also joined.

“But what can Mabel think of me?” he wondered next, as he remembered that all allusion to the horse had been made through the pronoun “her.” His eyes flashed as a sudden idea suggested itself to him, but ere he had time to follow it out he was called upon the stage. The play proceeded smoothly to the end; no lack of life characterized Mabel’s acting in the last scene as before. The interest she threw into it seemed to spring straight from her heart. Her downcast eyes, the natural flush upon her cheek, the trembling of the little hand which lay within his own, told Hal a glad truth; and when at the last she ra sed her eyes, it was to find in his a look of exultant gladness. “You ran away from me this afternoon, Mabel,” whispered Harry, as they stood that night in a little entry back of the stage, waiting for their cue. “I wanted an explanation of your late cruel conduct toward me; won’t you give it to me now?” Blushing and trembling, she vainly attempted a reply. “Was it because of that note I wrote to Tom Steele?” he inquired, with a merry light in his eye. “Yes, it was, Harry; but I don’t think it fair for you to tease,” as her eyes drooped beneath the laughing light" in his. “Then you know, Mabel,’to what it referred?” “Yes. I overheard you tell Tom Steele ” “What reparation do you intend to make for your unmerited treatment of me. Miss Benton?” he next whispered, as clasping one arm about her he drew her' close to his side. “I have been very miserable of late; more wretched than you can imagine, and deserve a rich reward for the suffering you have caused ” “Some one else has suffered, too,” she whirred, with a swift glance from her eyes. “Ah, Mabel!” he cried, impulsively, “if such is the case, promise to take what I give you, and give what I ask in retxjrn ” “What do you demand ?” “Your heart for mine,” was the quick response; “are you willing to make the exchange ?” “Oh, Harry,” she said, “I must go. They need me in the dressing-room.” “Little witch! do you think I’ll release you till the promise is made ? One little word is all I ask, and, sweetheart, that is ‘ Yes.’” “Some one is coming. I have no time to promise. Please, let me go f” “The whole world may come,” he answered, with' decision; “btft .you shall not leaie until you say what I desire to licftr “Well, then,” with a'fjput, “since you compel me, I'will darting swiftly from his hold’,* with a 1 mocking little laugh.' f .3 A moment later, however, when •on the stage he sang to her: “You tangled my life in your hair, Janet; ’Twas a golden and silken snare, my pet; But so gentle the bondage my soul did implore The right to continue thy slave evermore,” eyes spoke so plain and glad a “yes”, that he scarcely needed the confirmatiojfcgiven by ggutle lips, a|, after the playTwas'over, they walked’slowly and happily home. •t ' ' Changed His Mind About Her. “I shall never call on Mrs. Smith again, ” sayl Mrs. J ones. “I never want to see<her any more.” ' “You women are very foolish to quarrel over trifles, ” said Mr. Jones. “Mrs Smith is a very plesant person, a little talkative, perhaps, but on the whole a very estimable woman. You shouldn’t attach any importance to what she says. What was the trouble?” “She sajd you weren’t very prompt in paying your debts.” ♦‘Well, by thunder!” shouted Jones, jumping to his feet, “I would give $25 if she were a man for just ten minutes.” —New York Star.

HUMOR.

Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he smiles very complacently on coachmen.

After a man has led a fast life for a while the fast life begins to lead him. The exultant exclamation of the chiropodist: “I came, I saw, I corncured.”—Carl Pretzel’s Weekly.

Variety may be the spice of life, but judicious and systematic advertising is the pepper and salt of a newspaper, and the butter of the advertiser. The customer, however, gets the best of the cream. —Carl Pretzel’s Weekly. A German newspaper contains the following advertisement: “If Charles Frankenberger will either call or write to Karl Schmidt, on the Kaiser strasse, No. 26, he will hear something to his advantage. His wife is dead.” “When I married Panl,” said the old lady, “he was made to say, ‘With my worldly goods I thee endow.’ Paul was keeping a dry goods store then, and I thought the goods belonged to me; but I soon found out the words meant only one calico dress a year. ” Did you give your mother that nice clabber I gave you for her yesterday ?” asked a man in a country wagon, of a small boy on one of the streets of Austin. “Naw,” replied Johnny; I thought it was too sour for her, so I put lots of sugar in it, and ate it myself.”— Texas Siftings.

Two friends who had not communicated for some time now met under circumstances not suggestive of gloom, and after effusive greetings: First Gent (loq.)—“And the good wife?” Second Gent (with due solemnity )“In heaven —two years.” First Gent—“My dear fellow, I’m shocked to hear it.”

He was reading a patent-medicine almanac. Suddenly he jumped up and shouted to his wife: “Somebody run for the doctor; I’m sick. I’m the sickest man on the footstool. There ain’t a disease known to medical science that I haven’t got pronounced symptoms of. I have reached the advanced stage of everything. Somebody run for the doctor quick!”— Detroit Post. While returning from school one muddy day Tommy fell into the gutter, with the result that it was difficult to decide which was mud and which was Tommy. When he arrived home the following dialogue occurred: Tommy—- “ B-o-o-o-o! I’ve fallen down!” Ma—- “ You bad boy! In those new knickerbockers too!” Tommy (never at a loss for an excuse) —“B-o-o o-o! I hadn’t time to take them off' when I felt myself going. The biggest bore on earth is the man who has just had a tooth drawn. He wants to tell the whole story, from the time the tooth first began to ache to the heroic manner in which he allowed it to be extracted. We have an old and valued friend in the office at this moment who is relating to us all the harrowing details of his dental experiences, notwithstanding that he knows we are ever head and ears in work, and going to press to-night. When he reads this paragraph we trust the awful extent of his guilt will appear before him in all its enormity. A lawyer took in a new boy, and, as he had suffered to some extent from the depredations of the former one, he determined to try the new lad’s honesty at once. He therefore placed a £5 note under a weight on his desk, and walked out without a word. Upon his return, half an hour later, the note was gone, and balf-a-crown in silver had taken its place. “Boy! when I went out I left £5 under this weight.” “Yes, sir; but, you see, you hadn’t been gone five minutes when a man came m with a bill against you for £4 17s 6d. I guess the change is correct.” “You paid a bill?” “Yes, sir; there it is, all receipted. The man said it had slipped your mind for the last four years, and so ” He didn’t get any further before he was rushed for the stairs, and he isn’t in the law business any more.

SONNET ON THE STEW’. Softly the evening star Was shining in the west. And Luna from her golden car Shed gracious peace and rest. A maiden, starry-eyed, Looked up with lashes wet; Her lover whispered—“ Stewed or fried?" She faltered, “Stewed, you bet!" —’Burlington Free Press. HOW HE SAW’ HIM. She raised her arms, soft shining links of love. And wound them round him; then, as rose sprays rear Their buds of morn, she rais?d her lips above Unto responsive lips that bent an ear. “What is the matter, sweet, my own?” she sobbed, And for an answer he but softly sighed— Sad sound to her in whose white bosom throbbed X£Tbe anxious heart of a half-frightened bride. Still, still she queried, then at last he said— His eyes refulgent with devotion’s light. His hand caressing her sunbeamy head—"My pet, I saw Tom Robinson last night." She, wondering, gazed upon him. "And does he Always cause you such woe?" He crushed a blush And answered, “When I saw him, dear, you see, I had four queens against his. straight club Hush!” Was/nngfon Hatchet.

Certainly, of Course.

Said the fat street-car passenger: “I know a conductor on this very line who worked industriously at his post for ten years. His honest ways attracted attention, he was promoted, and now', ‘ gentleman, he is one of the most trusted clerks in the company’s employ. You needn’t tell me that honesty doesn’t have its own reward.” “Very 'true, vary* true,” responded the slim passenger. “T happened, to kqow a shrewd . fel|o>v, on this line* severahyears ago who let no chance slip to put every car fare, he could into hjs own pocket. He kept up his stealing for two years and then stopped. Poor fellow——” “The same old story,” interrupted the fat passenger, “the same old story. Kicked off; now out of work and loafing; on the edge of a drunkard’s grave.” “Oh, no; not by a large majority.. He’s now one of the big stockholders. ’ — Buffalo News. Bbioks made of cork now constitute one of the new German industries. The usual size is 3.0x4 and $ and 21 inches. They are prepared from small corks, refuse and cement, and have not only been used for certain building purposes, on account of their lightness and isolating properties, but are also employed as a covering for boilers in.preventing the radication of heat. London cabs earn $11,000,000 per annum. 1

DEATH’S DOINGS.

Register of the Distinguished Dead During the Past Twelve Months. An Extended List Embracing the Names of People of WorldWide Celebrity. Men Eminent in Statesmanship, War, and Help to Swell the BolL JANUARY. In Baltimore, Judge Nelson Poe, a cousin of the late Edgar Allan Poe. At Galveston, Texas. Mrs. Campbell, wife of Janies Campbell, the trusted lieutenant of the famous buccaneer, Lafitte. At Washington, Mrs. Patterson, wife of ex-Senator John J. Patterson, of -South Carolina. John Allison, father of Senator Allison, of lowa. Coi. J. I. Nevin, editor of the Pittsburgh Leader. Mary, seventeenth wife of the late Brigham Young. W. J. Wise, the wealthiest citizen of Vincennes, Ind. Luke Clark, a veteran Fenian and exiled Irishman. KeshUb Cbunder Sen, a celebrated scholar and philosopher of India. Charles H. Van Fossen, a well known Kansas City journalist State Senator Pliny Hoagland, of Fort Wayne, Ind. W. P. Rathburn, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Chattanooga, Tenn. John William Wallace, President oi the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Dr. H. A. Dubois, leading physician of New Haven, Conn. Gen. Fadejew, Russian Director of Roads and Canals. Hon. David Sankey, of New Castle, Del., father of the famous evangelist. Hon. Philip I hillips, exmember of Congress from Alabama. Samuel Williamson, a leading citizen of Cleveland, Ohio. Abram French, for forty-five years a crockery importer of Boston. Charles Delmonico, famous New York restaurateur. Ex-Congressman 8. Bridges, of Allentown, Pa. Mrs. Valeria Stone, of Malden, Mass., who had distributed 5i,500,C00 m educational endowments. George Swarbrick, an eminent New Orleans merchant. John Martin, of Alton, 111., aged 102 years. Ralph Sellew, a leading citizen of St. Louis, Mo. Amos D. Lockwood, a leading cotton manufacturer of Providence, R. I. Wm. G. Weed, a prominent lawyer and politician of Albany, N. Y. In London, Earl Grosvenor, aged 81. In Lexington, Va., ex-Gov. John Letcher, aged 71. In Washington, D. C., Hon. E. W. M. Mackey, Representative from South Carolina, aged 38. In Albany, N. Y., Dr. Elisha Secretary of the State Board of Health, aged 60. In New York, Dr. Edward Lasker, member of the German Parliament, in his 55th year. •

FEBRUARY. Thomas Kinsella, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle and ex-member of Congress. Hans Larsen Martensen, famous Danish preacher and theologian. Jacob Seasongood, a prominent Cincinnati banker. Mrs. Catharine Pattison, mother of the Governor of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Elx, widow of the late Gen. John A. Dix. Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Austin, of Vincennes, Ind., a Mason of high degree. Gen. Biron, a distinguished French diplomat. Prof. Guyot, who had been connected with Princeton College for thirty years. Stephen B. Ives, a prominent lawyer of Salem, Mass. Rev. Simeon North, of Utica, N. Y., President of Hamilton College. Mrs. Mary Lynch, of Brewer County, lowa, aged 105 years. Gen. J. L. Gilbert, a prominent citizen of Bloomington, 111. Rev. John S. Inskip, of Ocean Giove, N. J. Thomas Chenery, for seven years editor of the London Times. Ex-Gov. Samuel Price, of West Virginia. J. A. Warneck, of Dixon, 111., who fought at Waterloo under Napolepn. Col. L. A, Hardee, of Jacksonville, Fla., proprietor of the largest orange grove and nursery in the world. Judge A. M Chadwick, a leading cilizen of Omaha, Neb. Col. George Bowers, of Nashua, N. H., an officer in the last two wars. George A. Ingalls, a prominent lawyer and pioneer citizen of Chicago. Gen. W. T. Spicely, of New Albany, Ind., a veteran of the Mexican war. Col. Henry S. Pratt, of Detroit, a veteran of three wars. Pierre Michel La Pice de Bergondy, of New Orleans, a soldier of the war of 1812, and an immensely wealthy cotton and ?ugar planter. Ur. Richard G. Radway, of New York, the well-known patent medicine manufacturer and advertiser. Prof. S. W. Williams, of Yale College, a famous Oriental scholar. Samuel Donaghy, once a prominent politician in Pennsylvania. In Boston, Wendell Phillips, the famous agitator and orator, aged 73. In Paris, Eugene Rouher, in his 70th year. In London, England, Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald. In Paris, France. General Emmanuel Felix de Wimpffen, aged 73, and General Jean Paul Adam Schramm, aged 95. In St. Petersburg, Russia, W. H. Hunt, United States Minister, aged 60. At Hartford, Conn., ex-Governor R. D. Hubbard, in his 66th year.

MARCH. At M’ashingten, Hon. Kenneth Raynor, Solicitor of the Treasury, aged 76. At Columbus, Miss., Bishop H. H. Kavanaugh, of the Methodist Church, aged 83. At New York, Madame Anna Bishop, once famous as an opera singer, aged 68. At New York, General Godfrey Weitzel. At St. Petersburg, Count Adelberg, a distinguished Russian statesman, aged 91. At Denver, Judge Thatcher, of the Supreme Court. In Santo Domingo, General Baez, exPresident of that island. At Rockford, 111., Colonel Norman Curtis, the oldest Freemason in Illinois. At Boston, Dr. Ezra Ab-' bott, noted for his great Biblical and historical learning. Napoleon Joseph Perche, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New Orleans. Hon. John Proctor, one of the wealthiest citizens of New Hampshire. John M. Scully, of New York, a leading Ir.sh Nationalist. Joseph Longworth, a prominent citizen of Cincinnati. George W. Lane, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Joseph D. Murphy, a wellknown theatrical manager of Philadelphia. Rev. Francis Hawley, the aged father of Senator Hawley, of Connecticut. Helen King Spangler, of Coshocton, Ohio, an authoress of some celebrity. Wendell Bollman, a famous bridge builder of Baltimore, Md. Dr. L. P. Yandell,' of Louisville, Ky., who had a national reputation as a physician and medical writer. Otis P. Lord, ex-Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. George Ball, a public-spirited banker, of Galveston, Tex. ■ Henry A. Tilden, brother of Hon. Samuel'J. Tilden. Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, at London, England. Ex-Congressman John Tatfo, North Platte, Neb. Richard H. Home, English poet and essayist. Henry Brown, of Niagara Falls, formerly a slave in Virginia, aged 121. Mrs. Annie Key Turner, of California, daughter of the author of the “Star Spangled Banner.” In Omaha, Neb., Right Rev. K. Hf Clarkson, Bishop of Nebraska, aged 58. Amos. P. Morrill, Judge of the Eastern District of Texas. Edward D. Payne, of Dayton, Ohio, a brother of the Senator-elect. Archer, a, retired shipmaster, of Salem, Mass., who was a prisoner at Dartmoor. Abraham' Breath, of Alton, 111., one of the sixty men who enrolled themselves to defend Owen Lovejoy in the riots of 1837. Gen. James K. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh,-ex-member of Congress Irotn Pennsylvania. Cardinal Pietro, of Rome, Italy. Rev. Dorus Clark, eminent Congregational divine, of Boston. George Cragin, of Utica, 'N. Y., one of the founders of the Oneida Community, in 1848.

’ APRIL. Jobd J. Cisco, a well-known New Y’ork banker, formerly Assistant Treasurer of the United States. Henry B. Hurlburt, of Cleveland, a prominent railroad man. Hon. Henry C. Land, a leading citizen of Cincinnati. Francdis Mignet, French historian.' James Hamilton, of Bath County, Kentucky, the largest short-horn cattle-dealer in the world. Editor Danielson, of the Providence (R. 1.) Journal. Absalom Watkins, of Chattanooga, Tenn., one of the oldest and bestknown editors in the South. Mrs. Kate N. Doggett, of Chicago, a prominent advocate of female suffrage, and President of the Woman’4 Congress for several terms. Augustus a veteran banker and Democratic politician of New York. Matt H. Finch, a prominent lawyer of Milwaukee. Mrs. Stratton, of New Haven, Conn., mother of the late Tom Thumb. Judge Granger, of Washington, D. C., a brother-in-law of the

late Stephen A. Douglas. John Parrott, the pioneer banker of Caliiornla. Prince Leopold, known as the Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria. The wife of Hon. George W. Julian, of Indiana (she was a daughter of the late Joshua R. Giddings). In Paris, France, Maria Taglionl, the famous dancer, aged 80. In New York, Dr. Willard Parker, in his eighty-fourth year. In New York, Gen. Emerson Opdycke, aged 51. In New Jersey, ex-Gov. Marcus L. Ward, aged 71. At Irvington, N. J., Dr. Sandford B. Hunt, editor of the Newark Advertiter, aged 58. At Brighton, England, Sir Michael Costa, aged 74. At London, Charles Reade, the popular English novelist, aged 70. M. Jean Baptiste Dumas, a French litterateur and statesman. Dr. James G. Ramsey, physician and author, of Nashville, Tenn. Ex-Congressman Charles D. Hodges, of Carrollton, 111. Harrison Gray Otis, a distinguished citizen of Boston. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Jabez Fitch, of Ohio. Emanuel Gerbel, German poet. Jem Ward, the old-time English pugilist. Rev. Thomas A. Cheek, a noted lowa colored minister. Henry Hitchcock, of Galesburg, 111., a prominent railroad man. Gustave Richter, famous German painter. William Procter, the well-known soap manufacturer, and Alf Burnett, a noted humorist, both of Cincinnati. Ex-State Treasurer John M. Milliken, of Ohio. Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Chicago, aged 69. Henry J. Hutchinson, one of the famous family of singers. Jas. T. Todd, the oldest Freemason in Maine. Col. Charles G. Hammond, a wealthy philanthropist of Chicago. Samuel J. Walker, at one time the most extensive real-estate operator in Chicago. Rev. Dr. Btckersteth, Episcopal Bishop of Ripon, England. Count Ribbing, a noted French dramatic author. Hon. Dwight Foster, exSupreme Judge of Massachusetts.

MAY. Count de Hausonville, one of the “immortals” of the French Academy, and a leading politician. At Boston, Mass., George Mountfort, son of one of the celebrated “tea party” which was a prime cause of the revolutionary war, agea 87. At London, Sir Henry Bartie Frere, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. At Brighton, England, Henry (Chevalier) Wikoff, aged 74. At Prague, Bohemia, ex-Empress Anna, in her 81st year. In Constantinople, Midhat Pasha, aged 62. At Nantucket, Mass., Charles O’Conor, aged 80. In Chicago, Cyrus H. McCormick, aged 75. At Pegli, Italy, Sam Ward, aged 71. In New York City, ex-Judge Joseph 8. Bosworth, aged 77. At Evona, N. J., ex-Judge W. R. Beebe, aged 68. In New York, Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith, of Kentucky, aged 90. Thomas Goff, a millionaire distiller of Cincinnati and Aurora, Ind. Dr. Willard Parker, an eminent surgeon of New York. Prof. O. M. Connover, Reporter of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Ex-Gov. Henry M. Matthews, of West Virginia. George Cadwallader. a prominent San Francisco lawyer. Sir Michael Arthur Bass, M. P„ head of the famous English brewing firm. Gen. William Poynter, of Philadelphia. Baron Raglan, of London, son of the famous Crimean General. Catholic Bishop Toebbe, of the Diocese of Covington, Ky. Col. J. F. H. Claiborne, of Mississippi, ex-M. C. and an historian of some note. William G. Halyburton, a well-known Baltimore journalist. Judge Joshua Tracy, President of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway; the venerable mother of Bishop Gilbert Haven. Hon. Thurman Smith, of Connecticut, who served in Congress from 1839 to 1847, and in the Senate from 1849 to 1854. Prof. Samuel D. Gross, an eminent surgeon of Philadelphia. Col. Thomas H. Hunt, treasurer of the World’s Exposition organization at New Orleans. Wm. F. Clogg, a celebrated naturalist, of Boston. Judah P. Benjamin, formerly United States Senator from Louisiana and Confederate Secretary of War, at Paris, France. John T. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., who gave 81,000,000 to the cause of education in the Southern States. Lemuel Shaw, President of the Great Boott Mills, in Massachusetts. Giovanni Prati, Italian poet and statesman. Paris C. Dunning, of Bloomington, Ind., who was' Governor of Indiana in 1846. Charles Adolph Wartz, distinguished French chemist.

JUNE. Samuel S. Shoemaker, ex-Vice President of the Adams Express Company,and a prominent citizen of Baltimore, aged 63. Judge Henry H. Coolidge, at Niles, Mich. John D. Gibson, one of the proprietors of the Gibson House, Cincinnati. At Fort Wayne, Ind., the Hon. James L. Worden, who had been Judge of the Indiana Supreme Court for nineteen years. In Mosquito Inlet, off the Florida coast, by drowning, Gen. O. E. Babcock and Col. Levi P. Luckey. At New York, Gen. James Watson Webb, a veteran journalist, who made a national reputation as editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer. At Hartford, Conn., Henry C. Work, the popular song-writer. Henry G. Vennor, the Canadian weather prophet, at Montreal, in his 44th year. In New Y’ork City, Hon. Noah Wayne Swayne, ex-Justice of the United States Supreme Court, aged 80 years. Gen. Abe Buford, the famous Kentucky turfman and soldier, suicided at Danville, Ind., caused by humiliation and despondency consequent upon the decline in reputation of the Buford family and loss of fortune. At Boston, Samuel B. Gregory, a commander in the navy, aged 71. William A. Beach, an eminent New York lawyer. Col. John A. Stevenson, a prominent Louisiana politician. John Gustavus Droysen, the eminent Professor of History at the University of Berlin. Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir-apparent to the throne of the Netherlands. At Chicago, from wounds received in the battle of Chickamauva, Maj. LuciuS H. Drury, formerly of the First Wisconsin Artillery. At Leavenworth, Kan., of consumption, Col. Charles R. Jennison, who during the late war commanded the Seventh Kansas Cavalry. At Washington, D. C., Gen. Ward B. Burnett, a veteran of five wars, who graduated at West Point in 1832. At Dresden, Saxony. Adrian Lewis Richter, the artist, aged 81. At Madison, Wisconsin, Mrs. Robert C. Cole, wife of Chief Justice Cole, of the State Supreme Court. At Philadelphia, Gen. Wm. McCandless, a leading Democrat. At Leavenworth, Kansas, Col. Edward R. Platt, Assistant Adjutant General, U. S. A. At Reading, Pa., ex-Congressman Hiester Clymer, of paralysis, aged 57. At San Francisco, Calhoun Benham, a prominent lawyer, who, in the famous duel between Judge David Terry and Senator Broderick, 1859, acted as Terry’s second. At Harrisburg, Pa., Charles Fenno Hoffman, poet and novelist, aged 78. In New York City, Gen. Mansfield Lovell, aged 62, At Philadelphia, Bishop Matthew Simpson, aged 74.

JULY. At Chicago, 111., Allan Pinkerton, head of the detective agency, aged 64. Gen. Francis Edward Todleben, the Russian engineer, aged 66. At Swissdale, Pa., Jane Grey Swisshelm, aged 68. In Syracuse, N. Y., ex-Attorney General Daniel Pratt, aged 78. In Princeton, N. J., Rear Admiral George Emmons, aged 75. In Boonton, N. J., .ex-Congr<ssiuan John Hill, aged 63. At Concord, N. H., ex-Gov. Walter Harriman, aged 67. in New York, Royal Phelps, merchant, aged 75. In London, England, George Brittingham Sowerby, artist and naturalist, aged 72. At Morristown, N. J., Thomas Dickson, President Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, aged 60. At New Orleans, Paul Morphy, the famous chess-player. At Waterford, Me., Mrs. Caroline E. Brown, mother of the humorist, “Artemus Ward" (Charles F. Brown), aged 78. In the Poor-house at Lockport, N. Y.,, Louis Gpencer (colored), aged 115. At Cincinnati, of old age, Peter Gibson, a wealthy pioneer. Edward J. Holmes, second son of Oliver Wendell Holmes. At Vienna, Heinrich Laube, German poet, aged 70.

AUGUST. In Washington, D. C., John Pool, of North -Carolina, ex-United States Senator, aged 58. In Cairo, Sultan Pasha, President of the Egyptian legislative Council. In Washington, D. C., Mary Clemmer Hudson, the wellknown newspaper correspondent. In England, Henry George Bohn, publisher, aged 88. In Marion, Mass., Rear-Admiral A. A. Harwood, U. 8. N., aged 83. In Eliza! eth, N. J., Levi B. Chattleld, ex-Attorney-General of New York, aged 76. At Brighton, England, Arthur Richard Wellesley, second Duke of Wellington, aged 77. At Alton. 111., Anderson Riley, a former slave, aged 111. At New Orleans, Robert B. Elliott (colored), formerly a member of Congress from South Carolina. Sir Erasmus Wilson, a well-known English writer.

In Scotland, Lord Lauderdale, from a stroke of lighthing, aged 62. Rev. Lr. John BroWn, delivered ah address of welcome to Lafayette at Newburgh. N. Y.. in 1321. Dr. J. J. Woodward, one of the physicians who attended President Garfield in his last illness. At Huntsv.lle, Ala., Gen. Leroy Pope Walker the first Secretary of War In Jefferson Davis’ Confederate Cabinet, and who gave the order for firing on Fort Sumter. Dr. T. Stanley Beckwith, a brother of the Bishop of Georgia. At London, Lord Odo William Leopold Russell, the famous diplomat. At Phi adelphia, ex-Congressman Henry M. Phillips. 7 SEPTEMBER. Commodore Thomas 8. Fillebrown, commander of the Brooklyn navy yard. F. T. Nichols, editor of the Memphis Avalanche. John Lord Taylor, an eminent Congregational c.ergyman. of Andover, Mass. John W. Garrett, the veteran railway manager, aged 65. Robert Hoe, known throughout the world for his development of the printing press, aged 75. United States Senator Hefnry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island, aged 72 Methodist Bishop Geo. F. Pierce, of G orgia. aged 73. Hon. t has. J. Foiger, Secretary of the Treasury, aged 66. Chief Justice E. H. English, of the Arkansas Supreme Court. At Fortress Monroe, Mrs. Harlan, widow of the late Senator Harlan, and mother-in-law of Secretary of War Lincoln.

OCTOBER. Col. J. G. O’Neill, the noted Fenian. Wilbur F. Storey, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Times, aged 68. Signor Brignoli, the famous tenor. Gen. Lynch, the commander of the Chilian navy. Congressman John H. Evins, of South Carolina. James Wormley. the famous hotel proprietor of Washington. Alexander M. Sullivan, one of the founders of the home-rule movement in Ireland. Benjamin Alvord, a retired Brigadier General. Francis B. Hayes, a Boston millionaire. Frank B. Chanfrau, the weU-kncwn actor, aged 65. Judge Robert McFarlr.nd, of the Tennessee Supreme Court

NOVEMBER. Richard Harrington, a Delaware politician of note. Henry Fawcett the British Postmaster General. Bear Admiral Murray, of the United States Navy. Ellis Ames, a venerable lawyer of Massachusetts, aged 76. Bishop J. W. Wiley, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Edmund M. Perkins, of Quincy, 111., a pensioner of the war of 1812. Alexander K. Davis, Lieutenant' Governor of Mississippi under Adelbert Ames. Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence, K. C. S. 1., C. 8., a famous English officer. Isaac Henderson, of New York, who was a partner of William Cullen Bryant in the Evening Post, in his 71st year. Hon. George W- Jones, a distinguished citizen of Tennessee, aged 77. William A. Duncan, Congressman-elect from the Nineteenth Pennsylvania District. Ormsby Phillip?, of the Pittsburg Dispatch. Jonathan K. Cooper, the oldest member of the bar at Peoria, ill. John Fishback, formerly owner of the Indianapolis Senti iel. William A. Wood, the well-known reaper iiivenfaw aged 71 years. Charles J. Faulkner, of Virgina, ex-Minister to France.

DECEMBER. At Wellington, Kan., Capt David L. Payne, widely known as “Oklahoma” Payne. At Arkansaw, Wis., John Jondro, aged 121. At New York, Gershom B. Mott, a Major General in the late war. At Baltimore, Dr. Harvey L. Byrd, a physician of wide reputation. At Vienna, Austria, Fanny Ellsler, the once famous dancer. At Binghamton, N. Y., Rev. Luke Davis, a Baptist clergyman of wide fame, aged 77. At New York, Francis D. Moulton, famous for his connection with the Beecher-Tilton affa r, aged 48. At Cincinnati, 0., Reuben R. Springer, a wellknown philanthropist. At Paris, Emile Felix Fleury, a distinguished French general. At Cincinnati, 0., James L. Ruffln, for manyyears local Chief of Police. At Paris, Pierre Clement Eugene Pelletier, a distinguished French litterateur and statesman.

A Curious Mediaeval Ceremony.

One of the most singular and ludicrous mediaeval ceremonies of the season was held at Beauvais, France, in the fourteenth century, called the Feast of Asses. The flight into Egypt was represented in church. A beautiful young woman, with an infant in her arms, was seated upon an ass elegantly adorned. Entering the church, the girl and ass were placed near the altar, on the gospel side. High mass was then begun, and the Introit, Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, - etc., all terminated with an imitation of the ass’s bray— hin-haw, or hehawn. At the end of the mass, when the priest turned to the people, saying, “Ite, Missa est,” he actually he-hawned, or brayed, twice, as ordained by the ritual. And instead of the usual response, “Deo Gratias,” the people hehawned, or brayed, thrice, in like manner. . A Latin hymn was sung during the mass. A translation of a stanza or two will give an idea of it: “In an Eastern region Chanced an Ass to be. Beautiful and bravest. Fittest loads to bear. Chorus. He-hawn, sire Ass, you sing; Fierce mouth you grin. Hay enough you’ll have, Oats enow to plant. “Here he Is with big ears, Primitive clod-hopper, z Ass as big as ever; Lord of all the asses. Chorus. He-hawn, etc. “Now ray Amen, O ass! [Here they fell on their knees.t Belly full of clover, Amen! amen ever! And away with fodder! Chorus. He-hawn! he-hawn! He-hawn-he! Beautiful, sire Ass, for you can trot. Beautiful muzzle is yours to sing.” —Harper’s Magazine.

The Clock.

“The clock’s a modest thing,” murmured Fitz, reflectively, “always got its hands before its face.” “It’s a mighty open-faced thing,” snapped the old lady. “And no welcome visitor to the spotcash man,” chimed in Pinder; “for it’s always going on ‘tick.’ ” “And an arrant coward,” mused Sukey. “I never saw a clock of any good that wasn’t always running.” “That’s in order to be on time,” remarked Fitzgoober.— Atlanta Constitution.

That Secretary Seward did not like doctors is shown by the following incident which occurred while he was stopping with Lord Napier, the Governor ■of Madras. One morning, when Mr. Seward was feeling especially bad, the; doctor called at the Governor’s house to see one of Lord Napier’s family. His lordship, hearing Mr. Seward complain of feeling ill, asked him if |ie would not like to see the doctor. Mr. Seward replied, “No, Governor, I can not meet a doctor to-day. ' I am not feeling well, and, I hope the doctor will excuse me.” A tedious examination into the causes of the bad odor of the drinking water in the city of Manchester, England, led f to the discovery of an unusually large quantity of Limnsea or pond snails. These little animals had spawned so profusely as to make the water very disagreeable to drink. The city tax-payers are now delighted to know that new water-works are not necessary, and that all they have to do is to supply the reservoirs with a few hundred good-sized fish who will enjoy pond-snail spawn as a diet.