Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1885 — Page 3

tfljc Dtmorrcitir Sentinel z_— — . RENSSELAER. INDIANA. f. W McEWEN, - - . Publisheh

A Bost.w lady recently invited Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to one of her .small receptions, and then half apologized to him, fearing he might think ihe invitation was inspired by a doubl .-motive. “Oh,” said he in his usual kindly manner, “use me just as yon please. If I can be of any* service to j-ou, 1 shall be very glad.” A writer in the Atlantic, speaking ■of the maliciousness of the mockingbird, states that if young birds are placed in cages where the parent birds ■can have access to them, they will feed their offspring regularly for two or three ■days, and then, as if in despair, will -poison them, giving them the berry of ■the black ash. A negro in Monroe County, Alabama, adopted a novel means of re--venge the other night. He had been forbidden by a colored woman to visit her daughter, and to avenge himself thought he would burn the old woman ra little. He loaded his gun with fat .meat, and slipped up to her house at 8 •o’clock in the evening and fired on her. The load took effect in the calf of her leg, tearing away all the flesh from it. A doctor, who ought to know, says -that the practice of the wholesale use of smelling salts, which came in with the universal fashion of carrying smelling bottles, is sure to have its influence on the olfactory nerves sooner or later, and render the victim unable to distinguish cologne from asafcetida. More than all that, it causes headaches, sore throats, and red noses. The last argument will have its weight. The smelling bottle must go. The Long Island Bailroad is testing the plan of having a special produce train, which is intended to take the farmer, with his team and its load, into New York, so that he will reach there •early in the morning and return again at night. This, if successful, will bring all parts of the island (a hundred miles long) into direct connection with the city, and must ultimately result in making a market garden of nearly the whole island. Gas is used in few bed-rooms in 'Europe, and in very few upper-class houses. It is being taken out of pretty nearly all the old houses in England and on the Continent. It is deemed unhealthy, consuming the fresh air of the rooms, besides being a very hot light, having the property of soiling the ceilings and dimming the paintings. Lamps and candles are taking the place of gas in all houses, except, possibly, in halls, kitchens, and like rooms. Speaker Carlisle is making a collection of the most curious communi•cations he receives, such, for instance,’ as a letter from a Minnesota man, who wanted an appropriation by . Congress to provide him with a good sleigh. He -told what kind of wood it was to be ,made of, how many bells it should have, and how thick the steel of the runners should be, and, in a postacriptum, intimated that the salvation ■of the country depended on the appropriation being made promptly. Mr. Wm. D. Howells is so fond of ■delineating women in his stories that his readers marvel where he makes his after hearing that he dislikes miscellaneous society, and seldom fre•quents it. His intimates explain this by asserting that his wife serves as the •original of his characters. He looks at her in different angles, and, with the -aid of his imagination, evolves divers .and diversified personages. So it seems that the wife of an author may really have her literary uses. The postoffice at Leek, N. Y., is a •curiosity since the recent fire there. The letter-boxes were destroyed, and tomato and peach cans are nailed to the wall and used instead. A novel plan has been adopted to designate the boxes. J. E. Button’s bears a large button; Mr. Cole’s has a piece of coal attached; Mr. Wood’s can is marked by a piece of wood, Mr. Cobb’s a piece of corn-cob, and Mr. Knott finds his mail in the can with a hemlock knot attached. The Cheyenne Live Stock Journal revives at considerable length an article recently published in the New York Sun, and criticises and refutes the assertions of Mr. Wilkeson, its author, who charged that the “Western man holds his Eastern brother in profound contempt. He does not like his waps, or speech, or clothes. He considers it to be legitimate to loot him. For Western men, who may deal squarely with each other never deal squarely with a ‘tenderfoot.’" He made many other equally untrue statements. A prize of ten guineas was offered by the Pall Mall Gazette for the list of the ten greatest living Englishmen, divided nto ten classes. Some 1,500 persons sent in their judgments. The greatest unanimity was found in the case of Mr.

Irving, who heads the poll with 1,337 votes; Lord Wolsely, as greatest General, came next, with 1,060; Mr. Sala, as journalist, Mr. Millais as painter each received between 800 and 900 votes. Mr. Buskin, as writer, received 568 votes. The voting on the others was more scattered. None of the rest received a majority of the votes recorded. Pbof. Simon Newcomb, in reviewing the performances of the “Georgia wonder girl, " Miss Lulu Hurst, in the current number of the Science, says her success aflords a striking example of the unreliability of human testimony respecting the phenomena of force and action. He points out that her manifestations were purely physical and the result of force being exerted under favorable conditions. Though ordinary observers were mystified, yet the character of the performances, according to Prof. Newcomb, was absurdly simple, and illustrates the credulity of believers in the movements of chairs, tables, and pianos without human agency. James Carlyle, brother of Thomas, has much of the latter’s nature. He is taciturn and unsociable, and expresses profound contempt for almost everybody and everything. To a visitor recently he said, speaking of a school inspection they had just made: “Ye make a terrible to-do about eddication noonday, but what was the case when I was young. The day at the schule when I was 9 years auld, my teacher was heatin’ me say my catachers, and I said ‘He believes’ instead o’ ‘He believeth.’ He knocked me doon and pu’d my legs and bangit me on the desks; and I ran oot an’ lay at the fit o’ a hedge among the dokens and nettles for three hale days.” Mahlon Holland, who abandoned his property near Bangor, Me., several years ago, and settled down in the Northwest as a trapper and hunter, died three years ago, and recently his relatives, who had been in charge of his farm, decided to bring his remains East for interment. Those who went after his remains found that Holland had been buried in a box made of old boards, and that he could not be taken eastward until he was put in a more substantial coffin. In making the transfer his missing will was found, giving Holland’s property to his relatives, as he had promised, and also a memorandum stating where he had buried $2,100 in gold near the lake. The papers had been buried with Holland bv mistake.

In one State at least, says the Chicago Tribune, there appears to be a growing determination that murderers shall not escape from justice upon the insanity dodge. Dr. Beach, who was hanged at Hollidaysburg, Pa., recently, for the murder of his wife, is a case in point. This man, who had a reputation for being eccentric, indulged his eccentricity to the extent of murdering his wife in a particularly brutal manner, and then coolly notifying her relatives of his crime. It was shown upon his trial that a former wife had separated from him because she believed him insane ; that her father, who is a physician, had treated him for insanity; and that the prisoner’s grandfather, two uncles, a cousin, and an aunt had all been insane. This was infinitely stronger testimony than .is usually introduced to establish insanity, and yet the jury disregarded the evidence as to his own unsoundness and the cumulative hereditary testimony and convicted him. A new trial was asked for and refused by the court. Then his counsel sought to obtain a commutation of sentence, and this, too, was denied. At last they besieged the Governor for a pardon, but he, also, turned a deaf ear, and the murderer was hanged. It was clear enough to all concerned that, while the man might have had some mental defects, he was perfectly well aware of what he was doing and of the responsibility he assumed. It is probable that this salutary lesson will not be lost upon other eccentric people in Pennsylvania who may be murderously inclined, and upon cunning lawyers who resort to the insanity dodge as an avenue of escape for their clients.

Rachel and Ristori.

A correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle writes as follows: “In 1856,while in Paris, at the Hotel du Louvre, I was at breakfast one morning with a friend from New York, and we were talking about the great performance of Kistori in ‘Medea,’ which we had enjoyed on the preceding night. At the same table were seated a party of ladies and gentlemen who were discussing the same subject in English as we were. One of the ladies said: ‘Rachel is a great artist, and is almost faultless, but Rachel is a machine; Ristori is a woman.’ The manner in which these few words were said was such as cannot be described. The face of the speaker lighted up with enthusiasm, and her clear and sonorous voice attracted the attention of every person in the room. I said to my friend: ‘That lady would make a fine actress herself.’ My friend replied: ‘Do you not know who she is?’ ‘No,’said I. ‘That lady,’ said he, ‘is Charlotte Cush-* man.’” The style in which napkins are folded is no criterion of a good board-ing-house.

THE NEW DEAL.

Sketches of President Cleveland and His Constitutional Advisers. With Portraits of the President, Vice President, and Most of the Ministers. THE CABINET. A List of the New Ministry. Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware. Secretary oj the Treasury, Manning, of New York. Secretary of the Interior, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi. Secretary of War, William C. Endicott, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney, of New York. Postmaster General, William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin. Attorney General, Augustus H. Garland, of Arkansas. BIOGRAPHICAL. Brief Sketches of the Public Services of the Chosen Ministers. (We are indebted to the Chicago Daily Neirs for the following brief sketches of the President and his advisers:)

GROVER CLEVELAND, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Grover Cleveland Is a native of New Jersey, born at Caldwell, Essex County, March 18. 1837. His father was a minister, and the President has living relatives prominent among the Protestant clergy, not to speak of his numerous clerical ancestors. After receiving such instruction as was procurable from the common school in various places of the paternal residence, young Cleveland was sent to the academy at Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y. Upon leaving this seat of learning he went to New York City, where he filled for some time the position of clerk in an institution of charity. He is next heard of making his way West, with an enterprising young man, with Cleveland, Ohio, as his objective point; but visiting, while on his way, an Uncle residing in Buffalo, he was induced to remain in that city as clerk in the store of his relative. He was 18 years of age at the time, an ambitious young fellow i ossessed of the earnest desire to become a successful lawyer. His uncle favored his aspiration,and we soon find tlq* youth a clerk in the office of a prominent law flrm. and at the same time enjoying the comforts of a good home at his relative’s house. He was admitted to the bar in 1859. His first political office was as Assistant District Attorney for the county of Erie, under C. 0. Torrance. He held the position three years, until the end of his°superior’s term of office, when he was nominated for District Atto ney on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. In 1870, five years after this failure, he was elected Sheriff of Erie County, and in November, 1881, was elected Mayor of Buffalo by a decided majority. His Incumbency of this office was successful and popular. In the fall election of 1882 Mr. Cleveland was elected Governor of New York, receiving 635,318 votes to 342,464 for Folger. He was nominated for President July 12, and was elected Nov. 4, receiving 4,874,983 votes to 4,851,981 for Blaine, 175,370 for Butler, and 150,369 for St John.

THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, VICE PRESIDENT.

Thomas A. Hendricks was born in Ohio on the 7th of September, 1819. He was graduated from South Hanover College, in that State, in 1840, when he removed to Chambersburg, Pa., and began the study of law. Three years later he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his profession in Indian*). Hie career opened auspiciously, and in a few years he became a lawyer of excellent standing. In 184-8 he was elected to the State Legislature, and in 1850 was a delegate to the State Cons titu tonal Convention. The next year he was elected to the House of Representatives, and in 1853 his term expired. He was appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office byLPresident Pierce, and from this on he has been on*) of the most important political characters in Indiana. In 18 ohe ran for Governor against Henry S. Lane, and was defeated. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1863 for the long term. After leaving the Senate in 1869 he practiced law in Indianapolis until 1872. He was then made the candidate for Governor of the State, and was elected by a majority of 1,148. His name was presented to the Democratic National Convention in 1868 as candidate for the Presidency, and he would no doubt have received the nomination but for the Ohio delegates, who, by persistently voting for Horatio Seymour, finally caused a stampede in his favor. Again, in 1872, he was proposed as a candidate in the Democratic National Convention, and but for the unexpected fusions of that time he would probably have been the nominee of his party. He was nominated for Vice President in 1876, and was nominated for the same office in 1884. He was married near Cincinnati on the 25th of September, 1845, to Miss Eliza C. Morgan, by whom he had one son, born in 1848, but who lived to be only 8 y<arsof age. This was the only child, and its death greatly affected the father. He was nurtured in the Presbyterian faith, and was a member of that communion until the organization of St. Paul’s Episcopal 'Church in Indianapc Ha in the year 1862, when he became a member of that parish, and was elected Senior Warden. THOS. F. BAYABO, OF DEIAWABB, BSCBBTABT OF RTATUP, ' ‘ Thomas F. Bayard is the hereditary Senator from Delaware, repres nting the third eu> cessive generation Of his family to occupy n seat in the United States Senate from that State, Besides hia grandfather and father, his uncle.

Richard 8., was a member of that body from IKK to 1839 and from 1841 to 1846. A greatuncie. CoL John Bayard, was a member of the Congress of confederation of 1786. Two brothers named 1 ayard were among the

Huguenots that fled from France to escape the massacre of St. Bartholomew's day in 158-v. They went first to Ireland, and later to New York. Senator Thomas F. Bn yard was born at Wilmington. Delaware, Oct. 29, 1828, anil was educated at Mushing school. Though trained for a mercantile life in his early yeais, he adopted the profession of the law and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He was appointed United Blates Dis:riot Attorney for the State of Delaware in 1863, but resigned the following year. March 4, 1869, he succeeded to his father's seat in the United States Senate, a place he now h'.lds by a third election. He was a member of the electoral commission of 1876, and has often been a prominent figure in Democratic conventions. He has been the reco nized leader of his party in the Senate for a number of years, and at the last two National Democratic Conventions his name was favorably considered in connection with the Presidential nomination. Senator Bayard's career as a lawyer has nothing in it of more than local importance, though he has long been recognized as one of the best lawyers in his State. He has made a record in the Senate of being a diligent, conservative, and watchtul member. His constant attendance on the sessions of the Senate, his long service in that body, and his close attention to its business, have made him one of the best-informed Senators. Though a thorough partisan, his political opinions have not narrowed his grasp of public affairs. He is a graceful and pleasant speaker, but is not given to much talking. He is a man of good judgment, well balanced, and deliberate. Personally he is tall, smooth-laced, and a fine specimen of physical manhood in the prime of life. Socially Mr. Bayard’s family is said to be exclusive, ana to have aristocratic tendencies. He, however, is of a genial nature and popular with his fellow Senators.

L. Q. C. LAMAR, OF MISSISSIPPI, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

L. Q. 0. Lamar is a native of the State of Georgia. He comes of an old family which has distinguished itself in government affairs ever sinod the Declaration of Independence. He was born in 1826. and graduated from Emory College, Georgia, in 1845. He was admitted to the bar in 1847. Ho moved to Mississippi in 1849 and soon after was elected adjunct professor of mathematics in the university of that State. At the same time he held the place of assistant editor of the Southern lieview. He returned to Georgia in 1860, locating at Covington for the practice of law. He was elected to the Legislature of Georgia in 1853. and in 1854 moved to Lafayette County, Miss., where he owned a plantation. He was elected to Congress in 1856, and re-elected in 1858. He resigned his seat in 1860 to become a member of the Secession Convention of his State in 1861, and the same year entered the Confederate anu£, being shortly promoted to a colonelcy. In 1863 President Davis sent him to Russia on a diplomatic mission. At the close of the war in 1860, he became professor of political economy ana social science in the University of Mississippi, and the following year professor of law in that institution. He was elected to Congress in 1872 and again in 1874. and succeeded James L. Alcorn in the United States Senate in 1877, to which place he was re-elected for the term beginning March 5,1 83. He has been in public life ever since he came of age, and is a man of large experience, though not a hard worker like Bayard. Hets Suiet, reticent, and something of an idealist, mring the troublous reconstruction period he was liberal and conscientious in his views and threw his influence on the side of harmony between the different sections of the country. His mind is remarkable rather for its line temper than its force. He is an eloquent speaker when aroused, though he is not olten heard in Congressional debate. He made a national reputation in his eulogy of Charles Sumner on the floor of the House. He is a man slightly above the average height, possesses a full, rounded figure, and has the bearing of a student and scholar.

A. H. GARLAND, OF ARKANSAS, ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Augustus H. Garland was born in Tipton County, Tennessee, June 11, 1832. His parents removed to the State of Arkansas the following year and settled in the bottom lands of the Red River Valley. At a suitable age young Garland was sent to Bardstown, Ky., to be educated in what was then the most famous seat of learning in the Southwest. His academic studies were pursued in the Catholic colleges of St. Mary and St. Joseph. During the latter part of his residence In Bardstown he read law, and attended the trial of causes in the court-room whenever he had the opportunity. At that time the local bar was very strong. Garland profited greatlv by this practice as well as by his studies, which he pursued with persistent devotion. Returning home he continued to woo that jealous mistress the law, and in 1853 was admitted to practice at Washington. Ark. In 1866 he removed to Little Rock, the oanital of the State. He was

admitted to practice as an attorney tn tin Supreme Court of the United States on Dec. 26, iB6O. By that time he had attained professional reputation, and tn ths same ye«r was a Bell and Everett elect r. He opposed the secession of Arkansas as long as there was any hope of a peaceful solution of sectional differences. When, however, war was inevitable, he threw in his lot with his State. He was a member of the Provisional Congress wh ch met t Montgomery, Ala, in May, 1861. and took part in drawing up the Constitution of the Confederate States. During the struggle between the Federal and Confederate governments he gave his counsel to the Southern cause, first as a Hep? resentative and afterward as Senator. He was serv ng as a Senator in its Congress when the Confederacy collapsed. In 1815 Mr Garland petitioned the supreme Court of the United States, to practice therein without taking “the ironclad oath,” at the same time submitting an argument in support of his petition which was a masterpiece of reasoning. He won his cas 1 . which was not decided until the December term of the Supreme Court, 1867. While it was pending he was elected unit id States Senator from Arkansas. He appeared to take his seat in the Senate March 4, 1867, but was not permitted to do so. In 1874 Mr. Garland was elected Governor of Arkansas without opposition. His election as Senator took place in Junuary, 1876, without opposition. He began nis term as successor to I'owell Clayton, Republican, on March 5, 1877. In 1883 he was re-electe I, and his term of service would not have expired until March 3, 1889.

DANIEL MANNING, OF NEW YORK, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

Daniel Manning was educated in a newspaper office. He began at the age of It as an errandboy. became a reporter at 15, and subsequently a city editor, and graduated the general manager of a newspaper company. He afterward became identified with the management of the Commercial National Brink of Albany, and finally its President. While employed in the newspaper office he became famili ir with local politics, and as a reporter of legislative proceedings of New York ho acquired an extensive acquaintance with State political affairs. He already had something more than a local reputation as a politician when, in 1878, he became a member of the New York State Democratic Central Committee, of which body he was made Chairman in 1882. He managed the campaign that elected Cleveland Got e nor of Now York, and was the first to name the latter lor the Presidency. Cleveland's nomlnatlpn lor the office is generally conceded to lie due to the adroit management of Mr. Manning, and bis election to the no loss ably conducted Presidential campaign in NewvYork. Mr. Manning is a remarkably uccesstui organizer and shrewd pel tician. He has had no experienoe in pnblio affairs nor as a m i nag r of great financial interests. His personal habits of close economy and hi* success In private business enterprises may be the foundation for great success as Secretary of the Treasury. His record is yet to be made. Mr. Manning is 47 years of age and a native of Albany, N. Y.

WILLIAM F. VILAS, OF WISCONSIN, POSTMASTER GENERAL.

William F. Vilas traces his genealogy to Sir Richard de Vilas, a crusader under Edward 1. of England. He was born in Chelsea, Vt., July », 1840. His father was a member of the Vermont Legislature in 1840, but removed to Madison, Wis., in 1861, where he became promin nt as a Democrat in the politics es that State. William F. graduated from the Wisconsin State University in 1868,and two years later entered upon the practice of the law. in 1802 he raised a company and entered the Union army as Captain. He was rapidly promoted and resigned a Colonelcy in 1868. He is one of the lecturers in the law department of the Wisconsin State University. In 1873 he was one of the committee of three appointed to revise the statutes of Wisconsin. He was President of the Demooratio convention that nominated Cleveland, and is now a member of the lower house of the Legislature of his State, the first elective office he ever held. Col. Vilas is an able and eloquent advocate, a studious and hard-working lawyer, and a brilliant man. WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT, OF MASSACHUSETTS, BECBETABY OF WAB. William C. Endicott is a native of Salem, Mass., where he still res des, and is now about 69 years old. He gradu ted from Harvard College in 1847, and entered upon the practice of law in 1850. Gov. Washburn appointed him to a place on the Supreme bench of Massachusetts, which position he resigned m 1882 on account of ill-health. Until 1860 Judge Endicott was an old-line Whig, but from that time forward was aD< mocrat. He never was prominent in politics until the last campaign, when he was the Democratic candidate tor Governor of the Bav State. As a lawyer he is said to be thorough, painstaking, and dignified. He stood high in the ranks of the judiciary while a member of the Supreme bench. He is a descendant of John r ndicott. one of the first colonial Governors of Massachusetts His mother was a daughter of the Hon. Jacob Crowninshield, who served a term in Congress, and was President Jefferson’s Secretary of the Navy frm 1805 to 18 D. WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, OF NEW YOBK, HECBETABY OF THE NAVY. William C. Whitney v. as born at Conway, Mass., in 1840. He graduated at Yale College-in 1853. and at the Harvard law school in 1864. He at once began the practice of law in New York City, and speedily drifted into politics. He was appointed Corporation Counsel of New York City upon the downfall of the Tweed ring. His energy and ability in clearing up the mass of litigation that grew out of the ring s fraudulent transactions made his repntatlon as a lawyer. He laid the foundation of a comfortable fortune in his profession, and completed it by marrying a daughter of Oliver W. Payne, of Ohio, one of the millionaire stockholders of the Standard Oil Company. Throughout his political career he has enjoyed intimate relations with Samuel J. Tilden, and has labored under the advice and direction of the sage of Greystone for the overthrow of Tammany and the machine rule of New York City. Mr. Whitney conceived the plan of organizing the County Democracy of New York, and largely aided in its execution. He is a successful organizer, and, after Daniel Manning, did more than any other one man to secure Cleveland's nomination and election. He is a clean-handed Democrat. Mme. Buttkay writes from Turin that her brother, Louis Kossuth, is in good health. Mark Twain’s average time to reduce a cigar to ashes is forty minutes.

GOOD MANNERS.

The Parvenu. Social culture is never, in any respect, complete in one generation. The parvenu is too much impressed with his own advancement to take it quietly. He is so much flattered by good company around his board that he must keep a list of it and tell it over to to-morrow’s visitors. In short, it is clear that he is not at home in hw new house. It is only when the ways and means and manners of high life have been habitual from the first that they are revealed without ostentation. Taste and Etiquette. Different persons have entirely different opinions in regard to taste and etiquette, says a contemporary. Borne are sticklers for certain manifestations ®f good breeding, while others lay stress upon other and quite dissimilar rules of behavior. For instance: There are men who would be ashamed to eat with their knives even in private, but who will talk at the top of their voices in the public reading room. And men who, though they wonld scorn to remain seated in a horse car while a pretty girl is standing, will throw a banana skin on the sidewalk, regardless of the inevitable consequence. And women who are scrupulously neat as to their hands and fingers, but who will, nevertheless, persist in wearing the biggest hat in the theater that they can get hold of. And women who sing like seraphs, and yet will they keep the car window wide open, though they know that it means pneumonia to one-half of their fellow passengers, and catarrh and sore throat to the other half. And women whose conversation is a liberal education and perennial delight to the listener, and yet their hair presents first-class presumptive evidence that it has had no acquaintance with comb and brush for a month, at least. And men who never forget to lift their hats to a lady, but who cannot be ti usted with impunity for a dollar. And men who would die rather than eat their soup from the <nd of t eir spoon, but who will lie like Ananias upon the slightest provocation. And men who are scrupulously careful to give a lady the inside of the walk, and yet think nothing of calling upon you at your busiest hour and boring you until you wish they were dead. And women who would never presume to help themselvt s at table until everybody else is supplied, who wdl nevertheless say the spitefulest things imaginable about their dear friend behind her back. And boys who never forget to say “Yes, sir," and “Yes, ’m," but who are taken with sudden sickness the moment they are asked to do an errand for t eir mothers. And girls who do not have to be coaxi d to play the piano before company, but who will turn around and giggle when a strange man makes remarks about them in the streets. And men who would not clean their nails in public, but who would shove a pewter quarter on to a blind man. And men who always “beg pardon” before telling you you lie, and who, nevertheless, will inevitably fail to remember to pay the r butcher bills. And men who would never interrupt another while he is speaking, but will advise their best friend to invest in a worthless stock simply because they hgve some of that stock which they wish' io dispose of. And men who are too polite to look over your shoulder when ydu are writing, who think nothing of registering false oaths at the custom house almost daily. Many more instance* might be adduced, but the above will suffice to show that we do not all think alike upon these little matters of etiquette. •

A Safe-Blower’s Kit of Tools.

“How’d you like to go into the safeblowing business for awhile,” said the Police Lieutenant, “just to make it lively for the boys?” “First rate," answered the reporter as he thought of the possibilities of escape. “Enumerate the tools necessary, and the rest will be an after consideration." “The best way is to show you a list of tools caught with a good gang of thieves* a few years ago. They had several grip sacks, and we found a complete set of tools for safe-blowing and burglaries. There were self-cook-ing revolvers of 32-caliber and a quantity of cartriges to match. The tools were formidable implements of the craft, such as the pusher, for opening combination locks, extremely rare and expensive; the jimmies, in three sections and five feet long; a bellows worked by the feet; a lot of half-inch hose and tin tubes for powder to be forced through in blowing open safes; very fine powder in flasks, and a lot of nitro-glycerjne and atlas powder, in cartridges, so arranged as to be exploded by electricity if desired. Then there were coils of water-proof fuse, a fur muff to deaden the sound, and a gossamer to hide the rays of the light; pocket dark-lanterns, a thin spatula to open window fastenings, an adjustable wrench, a bit stock, dozens of drills of silver steel wedges ranging from three-fourths of an inch to four inches in lengths. For coercion and defense you will need two new-pattern revolvers and a pair of improved handcuffs, a map of the United States anil Cook County; a machine for cutting out door locks, and a bottle of whisky. Get those and you will have as fine a kit as the best of ’em carries, and I’ll guarantee to give you a year in the Bridewell if I only succeed in finding the tools iu your possession.” The reporter weakened, and it is likely the new enterprise will fizzle out. — Chicago News.

Koch’s Theory.

Mrs. Winks—What queer things statistics bring out. I see that the figures gathered by the Paris authorities tow that nine-tenths of the male vicns of cholera there were unmarried men. Mr. . Winks—l am not surprised. That proves that Koch’s theory is correct “Indeed! What is his theory?” “That cholera germs are easily destroyed by boiling. ” “Why, what has that to do with the immunity of married men, pray ?’’ “They are generally kept in hot water, you know,— Philadelphia Call.