Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Page 5

SENATE AND SUGAR.

TRUSTS SEEM TO CONTROL THE PEOPLE’S SERVANTS. Subterranean Connection Between the Upper House of Confreaa and Wall Street Benedict Arnolds Who Have Betrayed the Democratic Party. Boyar Trost DominationThe sugar trust is capitalized at 175,000,000. As fully two-thirds of this amount is water, the market price of •100 worth of stock should be about •30. Owing, however, to the monopoly which controls the refining business and the many advantages which our refiners have in supplying our markets with refined sugar, it is likely that, even without any protection whatever, sugar stock might sell as high as 45 or 50. Trust stock selling at 50 would indicate profits of 10 or 12 per cent on actual capital. The difference between 50 and the actual market price ot sugar stock represents the beneficial effects—to the trust —of tariff legislation. The present selling price being above 100,it is certain that the owners of trust stock expect to make 12 or 15 per cent, a year out of the sugar duty which is now promised them by the Senate. On Jan. 24, when Warner’s free sugar amendment passed the House, sugar fell from 85} to 83. The decline continued until Feb. 1, the date on which the tariff bill passed the House, when sugar sold for 755. Undoubtedly the decline would have been much faster and greater had not the sugar magnates in the meantime, turned their attention to the Senate where two or three traitors, masouerading as Democrats, held the balance of power. Negotiations having been concluded with these Democrats for revenue, whereby they agreed to defeat or delay all tariff legislation, by making a sham fight against the income tax clause, or under cover of special demands for local industries (compensation depending upon the extent of the opposition promised), the price of sugar stock at once began to rise. On March 20, the day before the new tariff bill was reported in the full Senate Committee, •ugar jumped to 931. The New York World, which believes that there is a subterranean connection between Wall street and the Senate Chamber, which has been worth millions to certain “insiders” and to certain Senators, says that on this day (March 2 J), “Senator Brice was in conference with Mr. Havemeyer,” of the sugar trust, The trust did not cease its efforts. Two more concessions have been made to it. In each case the concession was heralded by sudden advances in the price of stocks several days before the Finance Committee had announced publicly that the sugar schedule had been modified. On April 26, sugar sold for 1004. The World said on May 4: “The report that the schedule was to be changed became generally known, although there were many who were still skeptical. Sugar continued to rise on inside information.” “Sugar quoted April 27, 103}. “And still no word from the Finance Committee. Everybody about the Senate, from the clerks up, were operating in sugar. Everybody was sugar mad. Two days later came Secretary Carlisle’s interview, which furnished ihe first official confirmation of a change in the sugar schedule to an ad valorem “Sugar quoted April 30, 107 L “And sugar still rising. Why, this rapid advance is explained by the value of the concessions prophesied. * On May 5, sugar sold for 109. This great advance of thirty-three poifits over the price of Feb. 1 has enhanced the market value of sugar stock over $35,000,000. Perhaps $30,000,000 of this increase went to the clique of “insiders” who were bold •nough to waylay the Senate. Perhaps the remaining $5,000,000 is where it can be drawn upon by the anti-income tax and protectionist Democratic Senators as a reward for “Senatorial courtesy” shown the trust. This courtesy promised a bill which will give a gratuity of about $15,000,000 a year to the trust. If this courtesy can prevent the passage of any tariff legislation it will allow the trust to continue to enjoy a gratuity of nearly $20,000,000. Another evidence that sugar stocks have been manipulated on private tips from the Senate chamber, and that the sugar trust has dictated legislation, is supplied by the Sugar Trade Journal, the organ of the trust. This journal, with remarkable foresight, made an emphatic prophecy on April 5 of what would come to pass. On May 3 this journal said boastingly, foolishly and threateningly: “It seems to be generally conceded that if any tariff bill is to be passed it will contain a sugar schedule such as suggested in ours of April 15, placing 40 per cent ad valorem duty on au sugars, with i cent per pound extra on all sugars above No. 16 D. S., and 1-10 cent per pound more on sugar from bounty countries. This is, in fact, exactly what was reported on May 7 to the Senate committee. Byron W. Holt

Satan Denounclnif Sin. “Surface indications point to the possibility of the Democrats passing a tariff bill, but it will be possible only through the consent of the sugar trust This has long been known to comparatively few persons and the secret has been well kept. The Democratic party might survive the defeat of their tariff bill, but can it withstand the infamy of passing a tariff law for the United Mates dictated by the sugar trust, wnich is the most unscrupulous monopoly known to any civilization?" The above quotation is taken from the Brookline Chronicle, and is a fair representation of a good deal of the material which our Republican contemporaries are putting forth on the assumption that it is argument. Now, it is a fact that the representatives of the sugar trust have been vigorously employed in Washington for the last two or three months. But what have they been doing? Simply endeavoring by persuasion, intimidation, and corruption to induce the Democratic majority in Congress to continue to the trust the infamous opportunities to plunder the American people secured to them through the medium of the McKinley law. It is well known that the duty upon refined sugar of a half-cent a pound has been just so much bounty to the American sugar trust, and, taking into account the hundreds of millions of pounds of sugar that are annually refined, this bounty has accorded an enormous profit, enabling large, regular, and ex- , tra dividends to be paid upon a tremendously inflated capitalization. If the representatives of the sugar trust were assured that they were to be as well treated under the proposed law as they have been under the McKinley law, they would not have made the least effort to interfere with Congressional proceedings. We should like to have the question answered by some of Our Republican contemporaries whether a protection on refined sugar amounting to less than a half a cent a

pound would be a deal with the sugar trust, and, if so, what can be said in defense of the McKinley method of granting half a cent bounty to this industrial combination? If it is infamous to pass a tariff law which concedes favors to the sugar trust, what can be said of a law which concedes the more than equal favors to the sugar trust, and also to the coal and iron combinations, to the manufacturers of worsteds, woolens and cottons, to the glass ana crockery syndicates, and to scores of other kindred and exacting monopolies? Considering the virtuous indignation shown by some of our Republican friends at the possibility of the continuance of a few of the existing protection duties, we cannot understand why they have ever been protectionists— that is, why they have not long before this come out in advocacy of free trade as a means of ending, once and forever, the system of granting favors to special interests.—Boston Herald. The Voice of New York. On May 3, a big mass meeting was held in Cooper Union, in New York City, to condemn the inaction of the Senate on the tariff bill. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Reform Club. The call, which was signed by one hundred and fifty of New York’s leading business firms and men, asked for the immediate passage of the tariff bill “with or without the income tax.* On May 4, the New York World said: “The Cooper Union meeting last night showed clearly what the people of this great center of the country’s trade desire. “They want tariff reform. They want an end put to delay that has been hurtful. They want the Wilson bill passed without the further waste of time. “This was the substances of all the speeches made there by men who have a right to speak for the metropolis, wno know its needs and the desires of its people. It was the meaning of the enthusiasm aroused by the words of the speakers. “The meeting was significant upon another point of interest also. It brought out strongly the fact that the World was right when it tald Senator Hill that he misinterpreted New York sentiment as to the income tax. Mr. Jas. C. Carter was apolauded to the echo when he frankly declared himself in favor of that feature of the pending bill, and characterized an income tax as the fairest of all possible ways of raising a revenue in an emergency like that to which recbless pension legislation has brought us. Mr. Coudert was hissed by about three to one of the audience when he criticised the income tax feature, though he protested his readiness to accept it as a condition of tariff reform. “There never was any reason to suppose that one in three of New York’s voters would object to this just tax, as there was never any reason why they should do so. “In urging the speedy passage of the tariff bill New York speaks for the business and industrial interests of the whole country, for those who have money and those who have none, for capitalist and laborer, for the captains ot industry and for the rank and file. The Democratic Senators have decided to stand together and pass the Wilson bill. Let them do it quickly.”

Getting Out of Patience. The tariff bill is not making much headway in the House of Lords (U. 8. Senate) at Washington. If these corporation tools and millionaires don’t soon get a move on them, they will surely bankrupt this country. We are apprised by the Washington correspondents that our Senators, Cameron and Quay, are battling hard to delay the passage of the tariff bill. Yet our own Quay says it will pass. If such is the case, why keep us on our sick bed and destroy the business men of the country ana keep our working people from employment. The important magnates called Senators are possibly speculating in the impoverishment of the people so they can buy their re-election cheaply. They had better get a move on them and dispose of this tariff legislation one way or the other. We have been patient with our Congressmen and Senators but this will soon cease to be a virtue. The public servants must not become the people’s masters and neglect the public business. This country is sustaining losses of untold millions by indecision and willful neglect of Congress to promptly dispose of the tariff bill. Obsolete customs, whether they be called Senatorial courtesy or any other high-sounding name, must give way to more modern methods. The American people want rapid action and will not tolerate delay.—National Glass Budget

Must and Shall Be Pawed. As the pinch comes on in the Senate debate on -the tariff, it is evident that the bill will be passed sooner or later by a party vote. Republican obstruction will doubtless be very defiant at first, but it cannot be maintained. Senator Allison must have alarmed the Pennsylvanians by his remark that he thought the bill might get through the Senate in six weeks, possibly in four, and that he “expected to aid as well as he could in the progress of it. ” The Pennsylvania program is obstruction and filibustering to the end of time. The organ of the Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia utters the dire hope that Senator Quay may speak for a month, and that even so his speech may be the shortest one made by any Republican. This shows that it has no real hope of defeating the bill. With a clear majority and a presiding officer in its favor, some way will be devised of having a vote, and the result is certain.—New York Post.

Offensive Features. Speaking of the Senate tariff bill, the Wilmington, N. C., Messenger (Dem.) says: “To real anti-protection-ists there are features that are absurd and offensive. Putting 55 per cent, tax on collars and cuffs is an example. The tax on sugar, iron, and salt is without defense—an abomination and a stench." It adds, however, that unsatisfactory as the measure is it is greatly to be preferred to the McKinley bill. More Milla, Less Hills. Commenting on Senator Mills’ assertion that the tariff bill could be passed by the Senate in forty-eight hours if the majority so willed' it, the Atlanta Journal (Dem.) says: “If we had more Democrats like Roger Q. Mills and fewer like David B. Hill and Arthur P. Gorman in the Senate, that body would command more respect from the country and the future of the Democratic party would be safer.” The opponents of an income tax say it is as much class legislation as the protective tariff. There is this difference: The protective tariff taxes the many for the benefit of a few private individuals, and is levied on people In pro]x>rtion to what they have to buy; the income tax is levied upon people in proportion to their wealth, and not for Srivate, but for public, benefit—Oakmd County Post Senator Chandler remarks that “Senators Gorman, Gibson and Camden are protectionists; Senators Brice and Faulkner are half protectionists." Does Mr. Chandler imagine he Is disclosing a secret in telling this?

THE JOKER’S BUDGET.

JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Wanted Willia'a Respect-His Favorite Animals--In Desperate Straits ■■No Use For Fire-Light, Etc., Eta. wanted willie’s respect. Father—Bobby, I thought I told you to divide that apple with your little sister. Bobby—Well, I wasn’t going to have Willie Bryan think we had only one apple in the house. his favorite animals. Sunday-School Teacher—Do you love animals? Boy—Yes’m. “That’s right; I’m glad you do. What animals do you like best?” “Snakes.” “Goodness! Why do you like snakes?” “Cause it ain’t wicked to kill ’em.”—[Good News. in desperate straits. Lawyer—What are your assets? Client—About $15,000. Lawyer—What are your liabilities? Client—Only $5,000 and a dressmaker’s bill that hasn’ come in yet. Lawyer—Better assign.—[Hallo. NO USE FOR FIRE-LIGHT. Mrs. Percushing—Henry, I smell fire, I tell you! Mr. Percushing—Well, I can’t find any fire, and I’ve been all over the house. Mrs. Percushing—Well, light the candle and take another look. How could you find it in the dark, you idiot?—[Judge. sized up. Miss Breezy—Oh, what delicious dreams of bonnets they are going to wear this summer 1 And I know just what I want 1 I have it all in my mind now! Miss Curtly—My! Are they so awfully small, then? THE CIRCUS SEASON IS ON. Tommy—Mamma, my teacher says that we should give everybody a show. Should we? Mamma—Why, certainly, Tommy! Tommy—Well—can’t you give me mine this afternoon. Mamma—What do you mean, Tommy? Tommy—Why, the circus is here I A SURE THING. Hotel Proprietor—We don’t allow any games of chance here. Gambler—This is not a game of chance. * My friend here has no chance.—[Brooklyn Life. DIFFERENT NOW. Barlow—Before you werennarried you were full of theories about managing a wife. How did they turn out, Mcßride? Mcßride—lt is a condition and not a theory which confronts me now. —[Judge.

A SERIOUS SMASHUP. Spencer—What is the cause of Ponderly’s illness? I hear he is laid up with nervous prostration. Ferguson—Yes, the result of a mental accident, Spencer—A mental accident! Ferguson—Yes. A collision between two trains of thought. A FUTURE FINANCIER. Mrs. Deßroker—Well, my son, how did you and the boys come out on your peanut speculation ? Small Sbn—When we got through I owed the other boys fifty cents. Mrs. Deßroker—Hum! Small Son—Oh, it’s all right now. We organized. Mrs. Deßroker—Eh? Small Son—Yes. I capitalized at sl, gave the other boys half the stock for their debt, and then sold them the other half. So now they owe me fifty cents.—[Good News. AN OBJECTION. “Are there any more jurymen who have a prejudice against you?” inquired the lawyer. “No sah, de jury am all right, but I want to challenge de Judge.— [Green Bag. THE TENDER HEARTED GIRL#. Miss Passe—lt is my conviction that marriage is a delusion and a failure. Miss Caustique—How comforting it must be to have that conviction, dear.—[Chicago Record.

A PROVERB ILLUSTRATED. “You should see Cholly in hla new suit. He is out of sight.” “Then he illustrates a proverb.” “What proverb?” “Out of sight, out of mind.”[New York Press. THERE TO STAY. “Is anybody waiting on you. madam?” inquired the floor walker. “Yes, sir,” retorted the middleaged matron, fiercely. “I reckon they’re waitin’ to see if I won’t go away without stayin’ for the 17 cents in change that’s a-comin’ to me!”— [Chicago Tribune. WHERE TERROR MAY BE BEEN. “I’ve passed through frightful experiences,” said Jaggers, proudly, “and seen the most thrilling exhibitions of human terror. Once in Africa I saw a couple of tourists overtaken by two enormous and ferocious lions, and once—- “ That’s nothing,” interrupted Staggers. “Were you ever on an elevator with a couple of women when it stopped between floors?”—[Chicago Record. A FOND MOTHER. “Dear me!” cried the nurse, “the baby has swallowed my railroad ticket. What shall I do?” “Go and buy another right away,” returned the mother. “I’m not going to have the baby punched.”—[Harper’s Bazar. TROUBLESOME CHILDREN. Aunty—What a lot of pretty dolls you have. , Little Niece—Yes, aunty, they is zeal pretty, but I do have so much trouble wiz zem. Sometimes I fink they muat> be all boys.—[Toronto Truth.

PIANO. “Bobby is attending to his piano lessons very faithfully of late,” said the youth's uncle. “Yes,” replied his mother. “I don’t have any trouble with him about that now.” “How did you manage it?” “Some of the neighbors complained of the noise his exercises made and I told him about it. Now he thinks it fun to practise.’—(Boston Gazette. CONSOLATION. The young lady at the piano was playing a difficult selection from Wagner. In the midst of it all she suddenly stopped in confusion. “What’s the matter?” inquired one of the company. “I struck a false note,” she replied. “Well, what of it?” said another. “Nobody but Wagner would ever know it, and he’s dead. Go ahead with the music.” And she went ahead.—[Chicago Tribune. A CONVERSATIONAL DIFFICULTY. “Don’t you like Professor Thinkins !” asked one girl. “Oh, dear, no!” replied the other girl. “He’s so fatiguing.” “He has the reputation of being very brainy.” “That’s just the trouble. When he talks you have to listen to what he is saying, or you can’t reply to his remarks.”—[Washington Star. WAS APT TO EXAGGERATE. Smith—Hopkins told me that his wife had been run over by a coach and seriously injured. Jones—You can’t believe what Hopkins says, he is such a braggart. I’ll bet it was only a delivery wagon. —[Texas Siftings.

A QUEER EXCUSE. “See here, Postman, my name, Hoffman, has two f’s, and yet you are continually bringing me letters addressed to some Hofman with only one f.” “That only happens on Saturday nights, sir. You see, I and a few friends have a little party every Saturday evening, and, of course, when I deliver the last mail I’m apt to see double.—[Fliegende Blatter. MAKES A DIFFERENCE. Harry—And, dearest, do you think of me all daylong? Dearest—l did; Harry; but the days are getting longer now, and of course—well, you know that must make some difference.—[Pearson’s Weekly. A MISUNDERSTANDING. Servant—Mr. Greatman is at home, gentlemen. I am to show you up. Mr. Tim McDoolan, (one of the rising politicians of the ward)—Ye are, hey? By jarge, if that’s his game, we’ll take a hand! We can show him up a thunderin’ sight worse’n you can shew us up 1 [Exit, slamming the door.] —[Chicago Tribune. EVERY CLUBWOMAN WANTS AN OFFICE. Mr. Sarcas (reading the prospectus of the Ladies’ Mental Improvement Club, to which his wife belongs)— Twenty Vice-Presidents? Why, you’ve only got a membership of twenty-three I Mrs. Sarcas—Yes; but, you see, there weren’t enough of the other offices to go around.—[Chicago Record. DOING HER DUTY. I saw her at the village pump, Beside the broken wall; I heard the handle creak and thump, I saw the water fall. She placed the pail upon her head, And as she passed me by, ‘‘l’ve just been milking, sir,” she said, And winked the other eye. -[Pick-Me-Up. HER FAVORITE FLOWER. He asked her fav’rite flower; Her tastes he quite forgot, And thought in that sweet hour She’d say: “Forget-me-not.” He asked her fav’rite flower»Ah! sad the story told; A maid without a dower, She answered: “Mari-gold " —[Puck. RISKING A GUESS. Teacher—ln which of his battles was Gen. Custer killed? Numskull (after reflection) —I believe it was in his last.—[Brooklyn Life.

Quaint Relics in a Georgia Cave.

J. W. Keys of Cartersville, Ga., who recently discovered in a cave fifteen miles from that place a curious piece of stone or pottery, in semblance of a human figure, says that the cave has several entrances, and that a young man unearthed at another point an earthen pot with a handle shaped like a swan’s neck. The figure that Keys discovered was found more than a mile from the entrance of the cave, and was buried under six feet of earth. It seems to be an earthen jar, shaped at the top like a human head. The chain found about the neck of the figure is made of twenty-four strands. It resists such acids as have been applied to it, but the nature of the material has not been determined. Along with the figure were found bones, arrow heads, bits of pottery, and part qf a flint-lock gun.

Where Monks and Nuns Are Plentiful.

The religious statistics of Belgium for 1890, which were only published toward the close of last year, give the number of conventual institutions and their inmates in the kingdom—--229 monasteries, with 4,775 monks, and 1,546 convents, with 25,828, sisters and nuns. These have grown during the decade preceding from 218 monasteries, with 4,120 monks, and 1,346 convents, with 21,242 sisters. The increase was not so great as in the period of 1870-’BO, when many of the religious expelled from Prussia settled in Belgium. In the next decade many of these returned, owing to the relaxation of the church laws. But there are still over 80,000 men and women belonging to the various orders, and. taking the population of Belgium at 6,000,000, we find one “religious” monk or sister—to every 200 persons.—{London Guardian

SOMEWHAT STRANGE.

ACCIDENTSAND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Queer Facts and Thrilllnq Adventures Which Show that Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. “One of the best pieces of detective work I ever saw,” said James 0. Sutter, of San Francisco, “ was done by a private detective of little or no reputation at the time in our city. A swell restaurant was completely demoralized by a series of petty thefts. Its plated ware, which had to be of a high quality, was stolen free’y, and it frequently happened that the pockets of overcoats on the racks were pilfered. The proprietor, recognizing that his living was at stake, offered an excessively large reward for the detection of the thief, and the detective I refer to undertook the job. He planned out a series of mirrors, reversing the dodge of the dime museum man, who makes a portion of a figure invisible, and so planning the glasses that he could overlook the entire room while seated at a little table in the far corner. His planning involved some little expense and seemed so far-fetched that he had some difficulty in persuading the proprietor to adopt the idea. He had his own way at last, and then, when everything was ready, he arranged to have a little more silverware than usual scattered around and made his observations. He caught three men on the first day, but rightly supposing the work was being done by a gang, who were doubtless operating other houses, he had the three shadowed and continued his observations the following day. He finally captured seven, and traced their operations to nearly every hotel and restaurant in the city. He has never made public the exact secret of his angles in the looking-glasses, but has popularized himself so much among the hotel fraternity that he has never lacked for work, and has got in the way of refusing jobs in other lines.

A letter from Marseilles, France, relates the dramatic suicide of M. Semama, a rich foreigner who settled in that town many years ago. He was an extremely eccentric gentleman, who had converted the villa he owned in the Prado into a paradise, where, In immense conservatories, he cultivated fruits and flowers in all seasons of the year. He would have all the fruits on the trees within reach of his hand, and every branch which grew too high was cut off. About two years ago he decided upon the manner of his death, and by his orders and under his superintendence a lofty and spacious vault was constructed in the corner of his garden. This vault, which could be hermetically sealed, was furnished with a reclining chair, two large candelabra and two immense pans, which were kept constantly filled with charcoal ready for lighting. On several occasions M. Semama entered the vault after having had the candelabra lighted by his servants; but until yesterday he had done nothing but meditate there. Yesterday, however, he waited until his servant had withdrawn and then set fire to the charcoal. He stretched himself on the reclining chair, in which position he was found dead soon afterward.

In France there exists an order of merit founded by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of which the members are dogs who have distinguished themselves by deeds of bravery. A tastefully designed “collar of honor’’ is awarded to the nominees of the order. Among the animals already decorated in this way one of the most decorated is Bacchus, a large bulldog, whose specialty it is to stop runaway horses by jumping up and seizing them by the bridle. Bacchus’s master resides in the Rue Biscornet. It is calculated that the intelligent beast has already saved the lives of eight persons, if not more, in this way. Pataud, another bulldog, received a collar in 1887 for saving his mistress from the attack of a footpad; and Turk, a splendid Newfoundland, has had a similar honor for saving three young children from drowning on different occasions. One of the Princes of Baden had a curious experience in Rome a few weeks ago. He was invited to a garden party by King Humbert, and, thinking to get to the palace sooner, dismissed his carriage and walked to the palace door. The concierge of the palace did not know him, however, and declined to admit him when he insisted upon the right to pass by her. To make matters worse, he did not speak Italian, and the concierge finallycalled two guards to arrest him. As they were in the act of conducting the Prince to the guardhouse, King Humbert happened to see the trio from the window and hastily sent one of his adjutants to free the Prince. Of course abject apologies were made; but the Prince enjoyed the adventure and laughed heartily in recounting it to his friends that afternoon. The concierge and the two guards he declined to allow to be punished, as the King had proposed. A recent issue of the Medical Bulletin printed the following remarkable offer, “Physicians desiring to obtain a subject on which to observe the process of digestion or other workings of the vital organs, or on whom to try the effects of poisons and their antidotes, may probably do so by communicating with the editor of the Bulletin. Subject is unmarried and not prevented by any ties or responsibilities from acting in this matter as he chooses, and does not object to a probable fatal termination of the affair.”

Nearly every month in the year is represented among the surnames of New York, and some are represented in several languages. Two or three of the months whose names least suggest those of human beings are largely represented. There are many Novembers, three or four Julys, an April in English and one in French, plenty of Junes, and a name that would be the French for February but for the substitution of “ b” for “ v.” September, October and December are unrepresented. N. F. Hill, of Park City, Ky., is bragging of a novel feat in chlckenndsing. He got some eggs of blooded

fowls from Massachusetts and one of them was broken. He pasted a bit of paper over the cracked shell and put the, egg under his setting hen. A chicken came in due time. He says he has saved the shell with the paper patch intact to prove the statement. How he got the chicken out is not explained. Eddie Harmer, aged six years, is the infant prodigy of the Pacific slope. He lives in Oakland, Cal. He can repeat the preamble and Constitution of the United States to the fifth section, has read all of Shelley’s works and is now engaged in studying Ossian. The child has an abnormally large head, but his body is well nourished and his extraordinary precocity does not appear to have affected his health.

A French engineer, named Lerozal, has recently discovered in the district of Gurrero, State of the same name, an immense cave, which, with four Indian companions, he explored for a distance estimated at fifteen miles. He claims to have found in one chamber the bodies of over eight hundred petrified Indians with many articles of pottery in a good state of preservation, and a number of images, supposed to be idols. The Shah of Persia is superstitious. He always carries with him when he travels a circle of amber, which is said to have fallen from heaven in Mohammed’s time, and which renders the wearer invulnerable ; a casket of gold, which makes him invisible at will, and a star which is potent to make conspirators instantly confess their crime. What is said to be the largest shad ever caught in the Delaware was recently brought in at Salem, N. J., near the head of the bay. It weighed eleven pounds, was twenty-seven inches long, eight Inches wide and eighteen inches in girth. Another shad weighing nine pounds two ounces was brought in a few days before by a fisherman from Salem.

There are many “show” houses in New York, being the homes of the rich, where casual strangers call to see the furniture and decoration. The servant that answers the bell accepts a tip, and for such consideration shows the house to the caller. The tips of the curious are a source of considerable revenue to the servants of the rich. A strange and fatal disease has for a year raged in the vicinity of Lawrenceville, Ind. It does not appear elsewhere, and is known to the doctors only as the “black tongue.” The patient suffers terribly. The body becomes spotted, and the tongue, becoming black, swells to an enormous size, producing suffocation.

A prisoner in the Manchester jail amused himself by writing verses in microscopic characters on small pieces of paper, which he pasted on the backs of the roaches that infested his cell. The poetry eventually killed all the insects that carried it, not because it was bad, but because the paste fermented. John Biglin’s wife attempted to keep him at home, near Indianapolis, by hiding his clothes and shoes. He wrapped himself in a red blanket, put on rubbers and marched forth only to be gored by a vicious bull. Biglin has brought suit for damages. The defense alleges contributory negligence. A recent number of La Illustrar cion de Cuba states that on the 27th of February last Madam Buenviaje Carillo, wife of District Attorney Don Luciano Jimenez, of Remedies, gave birth to four robust children. All doing well at last accounts; the little ones soon to be baptized. A condor was killed in Soquel Canon, Southern California, the other day. The bird measured nine feet four inches across the wings, and was the first of its kind ever seen in the neighborhood.

A Thief-catching Parrot.

“A maiden aunt of mine,” said “George Everett, of Syracuse, N. Y., has a parrot which she could not be induced to part with under any circumstances. This bird is an excellent talker and his cage hangs in the bed-room of his mistress. One night a burglar got into the house, and after fansacking the lower part of the house ascended to my aunt's sleeping apartment and proceeded to collect all the jewelry and valuables he could And. While engaged in this manner the parrot who had been watching him intently all the time, cried out, ‘Halloo: what's your name ?’ The burglar was so startled by the sound of the voice that he dropped his dark lantern, and in trying to recover it fell over a chair. The noise awoke my aunt, and she began to scream at the top of her voice. The thief, now thoroughly alarmed, took a flying leap for the stairway, intending to make his escape. In his haste he slipped, and in falling broke his leg, so that he was easily captured by the servants, who, on hearing the screams of their mistress had come running to the scene.”—[Globe Democrat.

Insuring Watches.

The wiseacre who declared that “there is nothing new under the sun” gets another set-back. Here is the idea: For $2 paid annually, a watch —gentleman’s or lady's—is guaranteed against trouble. That is to say, $2 will keep it in repair for one year, no matter how often it may get out of order or what may be the cause. It may be dropped on a brick sidewalk, or you may fall overboard with it in your pocket; no questions are asked and no limit put upon repairs to the movement up to a total of $25, at the rates usually charged. All styles of watches are included in the new offer, except a few special movements. It is a fact that hot one man in a hundred remembers the number of his watch. The register secured by this guarantee is therefore a complete reference in case of loss or theft. A label bearing the register number is also inserted in the cases of the watch, requesting any stranger, in case of personal accident or sudden illness, to telegraph this number to the jewelers, who agree to promptly notify family or friends.—[New Yore Dispatch. \

A GRAIN OF WHEAT.

Various Operations it Undergoes Before Becoming Flour. One who has never been in a flooring mill of the largest siee cannot realize what a peculiar lot of noises are made by the machinery. As soon as the wheat enters the machine from the long spout which brings it down from the upper floors it falls between two rollers of iron—“chilled” iron, they call it, and very hard iron it is, too. One of these rollers revolves rapidly, the other more slowly, in order that the separation of the coat, or bran, from the kernel may be mors easily accomplished. The wheat first passes between rollers separated just enough to allow the coat to be crushed. It is then carried away up to the top of the mill again, to a room where the sun vainly tries to shine in through the flourooated windows far above the city’s roofs. It next passes over a wire sieve, which separates the bran from the kernel proper. This bran, which contains much of the flour material, again passes down md is ground once more, this process being repeated four times, making; five grindings, each one finer than the one preceding it. Each time ths fibrous or bran portions are more completely separated, and at last the bran comes out a clear, brownish husk, with every particle of flour removed. The Inside part of the kernel ha* meanwhile been going through a very Interesting process. After the first grinding, or breaking, it passes to • big six-sided, revolving wheel covered with a fine wire netting or sieve. Through this reel the finer portion* of the kernel pass, coming out in what is called “middlings.” a granulated mass, which goes back to the rollers for another crushing. This process is repeated through five reels, all but the first being of silk. The last one has 120 threads to the lineal inch. The flour which comes out of the fifth reel, while white in hue, is yet not of the finest or “patent” grade, but Is classed a* “baker’s,” or second grade fiour. The middlings above referred to ar* purified by an interesting process. They are passed over a fine wire sieve, through which a strong current of air is passed. This holds in suspense the tiny portions of fibrousmatter which may have been in the flour, and, at last, after this process of middlings purifying has been carefully carried out, the flour appears a spotless, snowy white—the “patent*' flour, as it is called. In the process of grinding in thia gradual and repeated way the germ of the wheat— a tiny particle about the size of a mustard seed— is sepa*rated from the white flour. It it what one might call the life-part of the wheat. If it were ground up it would not leave the “patent” flour so white and powdery, so it is separated in one of the sievings, and passes into the darker or lower grades of flour. It contains, however, the best and most nutritious part of the wheat. The lust thing that happens to the pulverized kernel before it is ready for market is the filling of barrels or sacks. Down many stories through a smooth tube comes the white or patent flour. Under the tube is th* barrel or sack, as the case may be, and, as it begins to fill, a steel auger, just the size of the barrel, bore* down into the flour, packing it carefully and solidly beneath its blades. —{St Nicholas.

To See Men on Mars.

“For $50,000 I will undertake to construct a telescope with an objective ten feet in diameter, better Id every respect in proportion than the forty-incn $500,000 Yerkes telescope, and to finish it sooner. For a proportionately larger turn I will undertake to construct a telescope with an objective 100 feet in diameter, more efficient in proportion for every scientific purpose than the Lick or Yerkes telescope. There is no reason in telescopic science why we should not see the Inhabitants of Mara and. see to pick up a pin on the moon.” This is the bold but intelligent utterance of Louis Gathman, an amateur optician, astronomer, scientist and inventor of this city. Mr. Gathman’s scientific career has been something like that of Edison. That is, he has been dependent on his own resources and has been a» all around inventor. But he has taken the greatest interest of all in optics and astronomy. He has had a telescope and has been a student of the heavens for fifteen years. Ten years ago he erected an observatory in connection with his residence and placed in its dome a seven-inch telescope, with which he amuses himself at spare momenta. He makes no pretentions however, to a scientific knowledge of astronomy. —[Chicago Tribune.

Jewelry In a Grave.

The largest amount of jewelry known to be in a single grave was buried in Greenwood Cemetery'several years ago. The undertaker who had charge of the funeral protested against it, but was severely snubbed for his interference. The family had its way, and in that grave is bnjied fully $5,000 worth of with which the body was decked whep prepared for burial. Sometimes families who desire to bury their dead in the clothing worn in life—in evening or wedding dresses, for instance—substitute less costly imitations for the jewelry worn in life, partly from motives of thrift and partly from a superstitious fear that anything taken off a body when it is ready for the tomb will bring ill-luck to future vearers.—[New York Journal.

What Makes the Sky Blue.

If there was no dust haze above us the sky would be black. That is, wewould be looking into the blackness of a limitless space. When in fine, clear weather we have a deep, rich, blue above us it is caused by a haze.. The particles in the haze of the heavens correspond with those of the tube in the koniscope, and the blue color is caused by ttye light shining through a depth of fine haze. — [Science. One of every ten cases of rink num to Ktathnd la dm to rheumatism ' ■ ... -.Sa.