Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — Page 1

VOLUME XIX

I Adnptted «Cthe/ I * t\^t Why Was It ttat Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, out of the great number of similar preparations manufactured throughout the world, was the only medicine of the kind admitted at the World’s Fair, Chicago? And why was it that, in spite of the united efforts of the manufacturers of other preparations, the decision of the World’s Fair Directors was not reversed? BECAUSE According to Rule 15-“ Articles ® that are in any way dangerous or o offensive, also patent medicines, O nostrums, and empirical prepara- ® tions, whose ingredients are con- o sealed, will not be admitted to the o Exposition,” and, therefore— ® ■Because Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Is not a O patent medicine, not a nostrum, and not *9 a secret preparation.] o Because its proprietors had nothing to ® conceal when questioned as to the for- o mula from which it is compounded. o Because it is all that it Is claimed to be o —a Compound Concentrated Extract of O Sarsaparilla, and in every sense, worthy q the Indorsement of this most Important o committee, called together for passing O upon the manufactured products of the § entire world. o Ayer’sZSarsaparilla ! Admitted for Exhibition I ® AT THE WORLD'S FAIR ®

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An Indiana Boy Distinguishes Himself. Edward Biederwolf of Monticelio has won great honor in Prin eton theological seminary, having captured the prize of $750 in gold offered for the best essay ■written by any member of the senior class. Th.s is the largest cash prize ever offered by any theological seminary in this country. Mr. Biederwolf is the sou of German parents. He is twentyeight years old, and spent several years in Wabash college, from which institution he went to Princeton. I» the contest for th s prize nearly every state in the union was represented, and the fa f t that it fell to a Hoosier boy is cause for c mi gratul it.on along the valley of the Wabash.

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The Late Lamented. Among the expenses of the late legislature, as audited by the state printing board, are the following items- 3uß reams of paper; 2.680 pages of paper; 320 ink stands; 95 waste baskets; I,7oosheets blotting paper; 1,472 pen holders; 192 gross or 27,648 pens were purchased; 74 bottles of ink; 168 eiasers; 64 reams lithographed letter heads; 68 boxes envelopes, and 15,488 envelopes of various sizes; 3,100 leaa pencils; 1,194 scratch books; 213 boxes of rubber bands; 140 boxes of paper fasteners; 6 pairs shears; 26 bottles of mucilage; 7 paper fastening machines, and 3 cork screws. Noting these things, the Plymouth I emo*-rat exclaims: “What they did with all that stuff in sixty days is more than any body can te’l!”

Money in the Legislature. Grand Jury May Yet lavestlgote the Lobby. [lndianapolis News.] One matter concerning the recent Legislature wbicn did not teach the grand jury vas an investigation of the use of money in relation J o the building and I an association laws. The reports on he subject ire numerous and notorious. . The story runs that ti meeting of the association was teld, where it was decided toassess ■ach in proportion to its business. A lat ge sum of money was secured. Ciiis was placed in the hands of a ommittee. What become of the nonev is not known; but another assessment was made. One asses taiicn was assessed $215 for it hare and refused to pay it O e >f the officers of this association declared that he had been able by eason of bis personal and politic al influence to prevent certain ‘vicious” legislation, and besides, h ! and some of the officers had spent their own money A man who was a lobbyist at the riie'ai Assembly has a claim of S3CO for money expeudedjthat he is trying to collect; but no. one seems willing to pay it, although the account was marked correct by tbo president of a building and loan association, who was also chairman of the meeting in which the funds were raised. Another man, who is secretary of one or two associations, wants some one to pay him $375 for money “judi i clonsly expem ed.” There is a many-sided row on hand, and several ‘philanthropists’ who were able to keep down legislation detrimental to society in general and tc some building and loan associations in particular pay* ing the tills out of their own or the stockholders? pockets, are carrying hatchets under their coats It is even said tnat some|of these ‘philanthropists’i.avedeclaredthat they will be out of the. busmess in two years; and when the next Le-

RENSSELAEB JASEPR COUNTY. INDIANA’, FRIDAY. APRIL 12, 1895

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gislature meets they will devote their energies to vengeance. Once, when it was reported to the lobby that a cert iin senator was talking in favor of the Stoisenberg bill, a xobbyist is reported as sayin~: “Why, what does he mean talking that way when he Las SIOO of oul money in his pocket?” Kn effort will be made to hav the matter investigated at the next session of the grand jury. Bl ■ B Ladies, Here’s Your Chance! I will teach Pr >f. DeLnMorton’s *Tailor Systen.” at prices until April 15, 1895, as follows: TWo scholars at $9 each, or t ree scht lars at $8 00 eaeb. I will also furnish scholars with system, instruction bo k ana diploma when completed. Terms- half in advance; balance when completed. Former price SIO.OO per scholar. Remember this offer will not last longer th n April 15; th.se entering thereafter at regular price. I have one scholar, who will be the O coond andthird? I will also cut and fit until Apiil 30 at reduced prices, Call for t.rins. Mrs. Hester ripps. They Were Thrifty. Manj stories are being told of the corruption of certain members of the late republican legislature, and the Indianapolis News, a res publican paper, says that “people who are credited with a knowledge of the inner workings of the session are commenting upon the acts of some of the members. They say that six members of the upper house were well paid for their sixty days’ service as members of the general assembly, and that they will not soon forget the generosity of “disinterested citizens” who w re opposed to any changes in *he building and loan laws The assertion is made that one senator twice made an open demand for money and the third time secured a snug niece of property in a town not a thousand miles from this city t It is declared also that eight hundred dollars was the amount ot money required to defeat the me tropolitan police bill and that the insurance companies contributed freely to those who were their friends. No names were men tioned, but a state officer is quoted as saying that he has sufficient evidence a ainst one sen tor to convict him in court, if he were on trial, for soliciting bribes. A chairman of a committee is accused of accepting a bribe of one hundred dollars to make the proper kind of a report.

Sil vex* and Cxolcl. Something everybody wants, something all cun get by securing a copv of Vick’s Floral Guide for 18 Ju, a work of art, printed in 17 different tinted inks, with beautiful colored plates. Full list, with description and prices, of everything one could wish for vegetable, fruit or flower garden. Many pages of new novelties, encased in a chaste cover of silver and old. Unusual and astonishing offers, such ns Sweet Peas for 40 cents a pound, S3OO for a name fcr a New Double Sweet Pea, etc. If at all interested in seeds or plants send 10 cents at once for a copy of Vick’s Floral Guide, which amount may be deducted from first order to James Vick’s Sous, Rochester, N. 1., and lear: the many bargains this firm is offering. For the First Time Since the Crucifixion the Planets are in the Same Position. Tha Christia,, era wes first invented five hundred years at er Christ’s death by a learned monk called Dyonysius Exiguus, and it i is now admitted that its inventor made an error in his calculation of at least lour years, and that tl e birth of Cnrist really occurred ia the year which i< now called 4 B. 'i C. This would 1 ake 29 A. D. the , most probable date of his crucifixion. If some astronomical calculations recently made may be be-> lieved. the planets which gravitate around the sun are this week in relatively the same positions in tie heavens as they were in the spring of 29 A. D., which is the yea when Jesus Christ is gem rally 8 ipposed to have been cruc fi?d and to have risen from t :e d ad. Not since ihat time has 'his coincidence lecurred.

‘A FIRM ADHB ENO i TO CORRECT PRINCIPLES.”

The Laboring Man Speaks. Monon, Ind., May io, 1894. Lyon Medicine Co., Indianapolis, /nd.: Gents—l think it my duty to send this statement to yon of the benefit I have received from LYON’S SEVEN WONDERS. I have been afflicted for twenty years with stomach trouble of the severest nature. Would have seasons of the severest suffering from one to two months at a time. Between these times of suffering was never longer than three months. There was never any time that I was entirely free from misery more or less. These spells of great suffering would sometimes come on with sickness and vomiting, and other times would come on in form of rheumatism, but would finally center itself in my stomach. I have doctored with a great many physicians, but none of them , could teil me what the trouble was. I was unable to get relief until I got LYON’S SEVEN WONDERS. It is now sixty days since I began taking this medicine, and am now for the first time in twenty years free from pain and misery. lam compelled to say it is a blessing to a poor man. J. J. HackkTT, Blacksmith.

Each of the heavenly bodies has its own time for making a revoltu tion around the sun. The earth, as everybody knows, goes around once a year. Mercury takes but a cjuaiter of this 6me. while Saturn is employed for 30 years in making a circuit of the path laid out for him. Consequently, in all these >undreds of years they have never at moved into the .fame positions which they occupiea.in Apn' 29 a d. To the millioift"of Christian people all over the world it is an important coincidence that + hey should see, during Holy Week of this year, the heavenlV bodies almost as they we e when Christ looked up to them nightly in the rapid succession of events which marked the fortnight preceding His crucifixion.

4'rees I Trees! Trees! Evergreens, both Common and Rare and Choice Varieties, Deciduous Trees, Ornamental Trees of all kinds, Large Trees for Park and Street Planting, Hedge and Bordering Plants, Fruit Trees and Plants, Budding Stocks and Boot Grafts, Nut Trees, Ornamental and Flowering Shrubs, Tree Seeds. We have alar-, ger assortment than other Nursery in America. ARE YOU IN NEED OFANI ? If so send us a list of what you wish to plant and we will quote you lower prices than evsr offered you before. When you se d the list cut out this advertisement and we will send you by mail ■ one Bmall evergreen TRjIE, FREE, or we will send twenty sampler of our trees 6to 10 inches high, sor 6 sorts, for 2 5 Cents in stamps . Write at once. THE EVERGREEN NURSERY CO., Evergreen, Wis. A circular letter from the eUte tax commissioners to county as>« sessors says: “We ask you to imoress it again on yonr township assessors that their duty in assessing a citizen does not simply consist in tabulating the property, but it goes much further,; nd under their oaths they must see to it that the property is hstea ‘at its true cash value’ and they have an equal voice in deter - mining what ‘its true cash value’ is. See that'the test of ‘true cash value is applied to all property, and without fear or favor, conscientiously carry out the tax law ot the stale, rememb.-ring al ways that ‘when we pay tqually, each will pay less.’ Trees ! Trees!! Trees !! If you are going to set tr?es this tall give me a call. W e sell the best stock at very low prices.— I‘ive thousand twosvear-old grape vines, 5 cents each. Ready for delivery after Jctober 10th. Nurs sery one and one>*haif miles north* east of Foresman, Indiana. F- A. WOODIN. A wonderful edifice can be se. n in Delaware, O. When built the corner posts were of green willow. These have taken root, limbs have sprouted, o* which the owner hangs harness, and the I arn ; s really growing up from the ground.

The G-old Flower. This flower, so fittingly called Gold Flower, was produced bv M. Moser, of Versailles, France, and introduced In Europe last season, the plants selling at a very high figure, only a few plants coming to America. The wlants are two to three inches across, of a bright, shin ng; golden yellow and nearing numerous handsome stamens. The plant is of low, spreading branching growth, with handsome leave! the upper side much darker than thelower, i> I 8 P erfectl ? h «dy. f *rms an excellent border or is grand for bedding, while as a single pot plant it is charming with its clean, ' right green foliage as a background for the flowers, great, shiny yellow disks, brilliant in their reflections as burnished gold. it If h fhZT«A ne » ter ?^’ in ß firm is offering it at the price of ordinary plants, viz., 25 cents a plant ’ ’ By sending 10 cents to Janies Vick’s OnidA^hl’f 91 ’ N ' Y ” fOT Vick ’’ Flo^al Guide, (which amount may be deducted from first order), you will learn all about this beautiful plant Hypericum Moserianinm, and al so regarding their offer of S3OO Sweet Pea * “ Bme f ° r the New Donble

FACTS IN FEW WORDS.

Windsor Castlk has been used for a royal residence 784 years. The golden rod blooms earlier in the season the further north it is. A house well built of first-class brick will outlast one constructed of granite. Owing to the altitude, it is almost impossible to boil potatoes in the City of Mexico. There are between 300 and 400 educated female pharmacists in the United States. Darwin asserted that there is insanity among animals just as there is ainvng people Some of the largest ocean steamers can be converted into armed cruisers in thirty hours. Analysts say that butter is the most nutritious article of diet and that bacon comes next. A horse belonging to the New Haven 1 Conn. 1 police department enjoys nothing so much as chewing tobaooo. The Zuyder Zee is to be drained at an expense of Sl(Xi,lOO,tiOO, 72,782 acres of ground valued at 8130,U00,000 being reclaimed. The tallest man of whom there is authenticated measurement was Funnam, of Scotland, who was eleven feet and six inches in height. The statistics of life insurance people show that in the last twenty-five years the averag) of man’s life has increased from 41.0 to 43. H years To prevent lamp chimneys from cracking put them into a kettle of cold water, gradually heat it till it boils, and then let it as gradually cool In a ton of Dead Sea water there is 187 pounds of salt: Red sea, 93: Mediterranean, 85; Atlantic, 81; English Channel. 72; Haltic, 18; Black Sea, 20; and Caspian, 11. Solitary confinement is calculated doctors state, to prod. ee melancholia’ suicidal mania and loss of reason. Nine months of absolutely solitaryconfinement is almost certain to result in the mental ruin of the convict.

MULTUM IN PARVO.

Let the end try the man.—Shakspeare. Poverty is the sixth sense.—German proverb. Light is the task whore many share the toil.—Homer. 11l company makes this earth a hell. —Omar Khayyam. Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.—Broadhurst. Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.—Churchill. Benevolence is allied to few vicus: selfishness to fewer virtues.—Home. I have fire-proof perennial enjoyments, called employments.—Richter. I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.— Burke. The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.—Tryon Edwards. The little Shakspeare in the maid en’s heart makes Romeo of a plowboy on his cart— Emerson. The arrogant man does but blast the blessings of life and swagger away his own enjoyments.—Collier. Never rail at the world; it is just as we make It. We see not the flower if we sow not the seed.- Swain. Drunkenness places man as much below the level of the brutes as reason elevates him above It- Sinclair. There is a consanguinity between benevolence and humility.' They are virtues of the same stock. -Burke.

ODDS AND ENDS.

A FLY'S egg will hatch in twelve hours. Fleas always leave a dead or dying person. A PEt flea has been known to live six years. There are more than 400,000 insects known to entomologists. The army worm has cost this coun try more than the revolutionary war. Farmers of the United States lose 8100,000,000 annually by the ravages of insects. SOUTH American ants have been known to construct a tunnel three miles long. If a man could jump as far in proportion to his size as a flea, he could leap 70 miles. Female spiders are larger and m >ro ferocious than males, and generally devour their husbands. If human dwellings were built on the same proportion as the ant hills of Africa, private residences would be a mile high. Two sexton beetles will bury a mole in an hour, a feat equal to ’ two men burying a whale in the same length of time. A mosquito injects poison into the wound he makes in order that the blood may become fluid enough to flow readily. This is what causes the pain. The utility of the mosquito is beyond question, ft is born in the swamps, and feeds uoon animal an 1 vegetable matter which, if allowed to decompose, would fill the air with poisonous gases.

A Miner's Experience with a Mule.

Patrick Murray, of Perth Amboy, N. J., had an exciting experience a few days ago with a mine mule at Summit Hill, Pa., which he says he ill never forget. When he reached ue bottom of the slope and proceeded to explore the gangway, he attracted the attention of one of the mules, lie is at a loss to know what angered the animal, but the beast came for him at full speed, and Murray started for a ’heading” with nothing but a miner's lamp to guide him. It was a race for I life. The mule was rapidly closing the I gap, when the reached two mine cars. He plunged between them. The mule counterntarched, and began using his hind feet with ter rib e effect. He kicked the stout qak planks of the car into kindling-wood, and while ho was occupied in this manney Murray made hie escape, and returned to the surface.

No Lawyers and No Criminals!

The Island of Panaria in the Lipari group, north of Sicily, is bile sed with peace and happiness. It owns neither lawyers nor prisoners, and crimina s and paupers are equally unknown.

WASTED ENERGY.

Vfc* Wcndsrfut Power ot » Cyctonh Storm. A noted French acientist, H. Mobja, made a careful estimate of the energy expended in the pa.—age of a notable West India cyclone, which la-ted three days and nights, and the conclusion reached was that the force developed was fully equal to 473,00(i,(Wtl horse power, or at least fifteen times the power that is produosd. in tho same length of time, by' all the wi. d mills, turbines, steam engines, and all the men and animals on the surface of tho globe. “Whence comes this latent force?” he asks, and the an wer is “From tho latent heat and vapor which arises in the center of tho nurricane and is then condensed.” Applying this method of computation to mid-continent cyclonic movements with which the people of this region are familiar, some most astounding results will be reached. Suppose, for illustration, a storm is developed of sufficient extent and force to yield to tho htate of lowa an average of one inch of rainfall. To produce this the area covered by tho “low” in its movement across the valley must be from three to five times the extent of the area of precipitation, tor it shp ild be known to obtain even a moderate am nint of moisture you must milk a wide expanse of sky. On the a.orage the area of rainfall in this section of the continent does not cover one-fifth of the territory covered by the cyclone. All parts of this area feel the effects of the passing storm, but only a fraction thereof receives benefit of the rainfall There is a v ast sweep in tho circulation of winds employed In the work of wringing out a purely local shower. And the sum total of energy employed In tho production of rainfall to the extent herein described would be more than equal to the motive power required to operate all tho machinery of the world for an equal length of time.

FEW ANIMALS BURNED.

Mont of Them Enoaped Before the Flnme* Overtook Them. Immense numbers of wild animals andgamo were driven by the late Western tires from the burned districts to the vicinity of the towns and when tho hunting season opens it is believed it will bo the most profitable ever seen. A gentleman living in tho burned region declares that there have l>een very few wild animals burned, basing his statement on knowledge of the habits of deer, elk, moose, and bear. He says that over a week before tho tire broke out there was a decided movement on the part of all sorts of big game. Ho saw half a dozen black bear in one morning, all trotting qlong in the same methodical sort of way. Deer were all moving out, he says, arid a dozen could be seen to cross the head of the lake in an hour if a close watch was kept. “All these wild animals have a sharp instinct for Impending danger," said he. “An old woodsman or hunter will begin to hustle for cover himself when \o sees birds and beasts alike moving Sn the same direction. There have been several forest fires of greater or loss severity since I have had to do with the country between Tower and the Canadian lino, and each time I have noted that full warning was given of a coming disaster by the behavior of the wild animals in the forest. They know bettor than any human being when there is trouble coming, and you'll see them begin to dig for safety a full week bofoie a fire sweeps across the woods.”

Chinese Rules of War.

The Chinese “Rules of War," as carried out by the Imj erial armies now in the field against Japan, are 3,000 years old. They must be very nice rtiles if we may judge of them from the specimens given ny an English writer who has seen them. Perhaps the nicest of them, for the assailed party, is the one that goes thus: “Spread In the camns of the enemy voluptuous musical airs so as to soften their heart.” This military maneuver was held in especial esteem 3,000 years ago b/ its author, Sun-tse, who is still regarded as the highest authority on the art of war.— New York Sun.

Too High to Jump It.

He had been telling what a tremendously hig 1 price he had been charged at tho summer hotel wheie.he had spent several weeks, and how it had swamped him to pay it. ' What did you pay it for?” inquired a sympathizing friend. “Couldn’t help myself.” “Why d dn't. you jump it?” “Jump nothing, was the scornful re ply. “You couldn’t have got ove that bill with anything less than a 4 .-hor.-.e power balloon.”

Rich, but Died of Starvation.

Thomas Brannigan a miser and rc cluse of New York City, was found in the miserable rooms which he ca led homo the other day in a dying condition Death came to him before he could be taken to a hospital He had stored away groat wealth, but he denied him«df every necessary, and died of starvation. His property is re puted to be worth from »75,000 to 8200,000.

Equine Excellence.

England's pre-eminence as a carthorse producing country 1 is unchallenged, nothing equal in bulk to her dray horse being previously known and her' Clydesdales, often over 17 hands, are probably the finest specimens of equine development jn size and strength that the world has seen.

Worse Than a Chinese Orchestra.

In one of the large apartment houses in New York City there are 226 pianos, one to every four persons, togethewith a whole orchestra of piccolos violins, guitars, cornets and one oldfashioned parlor organ. It is said to be the noisest house in America.

A Novel Sunday School.

The most unique Sunday school in the world is on the line of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad among the telegraphers. The regular lesson leaf is used, and all the questions and answers are given by wire.

The Greatest Cavalry Charge.

The largest body of cavalry that ever charged at the same t ! me was the one under command of Sultan s>oliman that charged the Christian army a*t Moe during the first crusade. It is said that 1Q*),000 men figured in the charge.

NUMBER 14

THE SUPPLY STORE.

Pennsylvania Coal Miners Robbed by Their Km ploy ere, A clerk in a Pennsylvania coal company “supply store” has made some interesting revelations regarding that particular method of robbing the workingman. There are twenty-seven “supply stores" in the coal and coke region, notwithstanding the State law on the subject, and all are owned by the <oal companies, or by heavy stockholders in the corporations. Twenty thousand miners or employes of coke ovens are compelled to deal at these stores, and. assuming that the average annual purchases of a customer reach S2OO, we have $4,000,000 as the total of the business. All the supplies for all these stores are bought for cash by one man, who has an office in Pittsburg, and the employe quoted says he is enabled, by the magnitude of his orders and spot cash payments, to buy from 15 to 25 per cent, cheaper than the individual private merchant, while the store prices to miners are from 10 to 25 per cent, higher than at other stores. In other words, he figures a profit to the “pluck me" store of from 25 to 50 per cent, and concludes that the stores are often far more profitable Ito the coal companiesjthan the mines are. These company stores have no bad debts, as other merchants have. A minor can only obtain goods when he has money coming to him from the coal company. When he exhausts that balance he can obtain no more supplies until he has done more work, and, as a result of this system, he often sees no cash for months at a time.

Queer Things About Birds.

No bird of prey has the gift of song Vultures have no sense of smell Carcasses kept out of their sight are never detected by them. The stork has been known to perish in the flames of a burning house rather than to desert her young. The smallest egg is that of the tiny Mexican humming oird. It is scarcely larger than a pin’s head. The smallest bird is a species of humming bird common in Mexico and Central America. It is not quite sq largo uh a blue bottle fly, and weighs twenty grains. The woodpecker is an excellent carpenter; the hole he boros in a tree is exactly round as though lined out with a pair of compasses. An owl cannot move his eyes, as they arc fixed in their sockets. The deficiency is atoned for by great freedom of motion in the muscles of the head and neck. The wings of the owls arc lined with a soft down that enablei the bird to fly without making the slightest sound, a very Important matter to a nocturnal bird of proy. The wild goose and some other aquatic birds are able to admit air between the skin and tho body, and are thus protected against cola by an almost impervious tur cushion. The shrike, or butcher bird, hangs out a bait for his prey. After killing a large insect or small bird ho Impales its remains on a thorn or twig and waits for other Insects or birds to be attracted. The method of locomotion of the condor in air is a mystery. This bird has boon soon to circle to and fro in the sky tor for many hours at a time, ascending and descending, without once flapping its wings. Tho bustard has a pouch under its chin so capacious as to contain six or seven marts of water. When suddenly attacked, and with no time for escape, he will turn on his enemies a violent stream from this natural reservoir.

Railroad Colonizing in the South.

The Illinois Central Railroad is lo eating a number of colonies along its line south of Memphis, A party of Belgians are now forming a colony in Bolivar County, Mississippi. They expect soon to be joined by many Belgians of the Nortn and West, who have tired of the unfavorable conditions confronting them there throughout the year. In addition to these, seven-ty-five families are coming direct from Europe A Polish colony is also to be established in B -llvar County. This colony jn Its establishment is following somewhat different lines from the Belgians. The organizers have purchased 12,310 acres from the Illinois Central outright and will dispose of the land, direct to Polish buyers. They, too, have a representative working up immigrants in Europe. The colonizers expect many others to come from the North this fall when the harvest excursions are run South. These colonies are located about 115 miles south of Memphis.—Baltimore Sun.

Fate Has Pursued This Family.

Fate has, indeed, pursued the Bartlett family, of Marshall county, Ala. Within a week three of them were murdered and one drowned. George Bartlett, the father, was killed in a quarrel with a nephew on Monday. A week before, Bartlett’s eldest son, John, while going home, was shot and Killed from ambush and robbed of a large sum of money by unknown men. Two days later, another son, Alexander, became Involved in a difficulty with a negro farm laborer, who stabbed him to death near the spot where the father was murdered. Last Saturday, Bartlett’s youngest son, Tom, aged 15, was crossing the Tennesse River, when his skiff was upset and he was drowned.

A Famous Set of Dishes.

The most famous set of dishes in the world is in the White House. It was begun by Martha Washington and completed by Mrs. Harrison, who decorated with her own hands enough pieces to finish out the missing numbers. The largest addition to the set was made by President Arthur, and was paid for out of his private purse; and Mrs. Cleveland, during her first term as first lady in the land, presented to the White House a few very large pieces, which had been given to her as wedding gifts, evidently with the idea that they would remain in the President’s house, as they were far toe large to be used upon an ordinary private table.

A Dreadful Slaughter of Cats.

A hundred tons of cats tails were recently sold in one lot in London for the purpose of ornamenting ladies’ wearing apparel. Assuming that an average cat’s tail would weigh a couple of ounces, this would mean that no fewer than 1,792,000 pussies had been killed just to supply thia one deal alone. ,