Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 28 September 1889 — Page 5

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It is Moid that Mi*» Campbell, who played the part of Kate Mannery in "The Kanc ii King" on Saturday night was before her entrance upon a theatri-1 oil lift- a most painstaking student. Whileclerking iu Espenbain A Albreeht's store she always had a volume of some pl*y-writw n. att. thr- counter and in

iino«tip«l nwureiiU. «he vreaM draw it

forth and completely low? ncweii in it.

When interrupted f.«y a customer nbe imdhw-d cotton

would lav the book aside and resume it 1

and a future is predicted for her.

A barefooted urchin with an ambition to do something that no one else had ever attempted, elimlx-d from the top of the joreh of the court hotine out onto the ledge running about the second story. The ledge is about a foot wide and along this the litttle dare-devil crawled from the south porch around to the west one. Jim Allen seeing a head pass the window at that elevation went to investigate the phenomena and as he raised the window the kid started backward. Jim caught him by a but!on on his coat with

street with an I-am-never-go»ig-to-stop K«it Who can explain the irresistible fascination which the newspaper business exerts over thom« who have had some exjterienee in it? To a man of sense it would seem that an initiation were all that anyone could desire but that initiation generally serves to win the experimenter to the cares and hardships of a journalist's life. In the columns of the country press we are constantly coming in contact with the wails of suffering editors. What reader has not seen such laments, in which the writers bike occasion to enumerate the divers duties they an called upon to nerform -sweeping out, carrying coal arm water, oiling and kicking the press, setting type, washing the rollers, writing editorials, penciling locals, mailing pajtfrs, making up forms, hustling for ads., soliciting job work. Uilking to customers, washing windows, standing off creditors, dunning detiniptent subscribers, and so on to the exhaustion of patience? ,,

We lmve seen a little old mftft with'H pinched /fl

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time* htw mate mi lif1 tfuiif WH dozen journalisti \t attires and no less than that man wteful failures yet, to-day we see him entering that illstarred profession again. Indeed, who can satisfactorily explain the attraction which type and presses and the sanctumsanctorum have for the initiates into tbejr "mystic circle?"

Them is something exceedingly soothing in the sight of (lowing water, especially if the current be smooth and deep. To look upon it conduces to quiet, dream-like meditation, A reporter conversed with an intellectual man upon this subject, lie said: "If 1 am wearied and my mind is tired «ut, seek rest bv burying myself, so to speak, in the depths of smooth-flowing waters. For on hour or more, reclining languidly on the green Imnksbt the nearest stream, I rest mv aching eyes on the moving current and listen to its lulling music. Kre I am scarcely aware of it all mental and bodily fatigue has passed unconsciously away and I am (resit again," Lord Lytton must have exjjerieneed some such finding for water, Through his entire book of Keuehn Chillingly runs a rippling stream, fringed with fragrant verdure, and on it* shady banks how often reposes the dark-fnetHi philosopher!

The court house is of course a magnificent structure. The people of Terre Ilaute and the $eople of V5go county aw proud of it. Hut la, nevertheless, an incontestable truth that the imposing structure might haw cated to better advantage. A ptw.^ citizen re* ruarked to a

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man that if the court

house had been situate! in such a manner that it Would haw chwed up two or more slnnds, its sufpttxsjng sUtellnejts of architect oral effect would haw been greatly heightemMl, That is, if the buildmg mm up in th« middle of Third street the superb spectacle with It# grandeur of etlect would delight the eje «f incoming people for milcss and miles. Oil-, if oc^upieo the corner of the public square no as to stand up to view from a jHiint of sight east on Ohic much would nddt^l to tho effect whicli thjs buihlittg letuls to Terre Haute. As it is now located -and this article will harxlly sei units rv-loeation--it looms up to eminently the W«t advantage when viewed

WuiATTKNO YHC COMOIAVC.

Among the Knight* IVmplars of this city who will attend the triennial conclave at Washington. 1. commencing Oetolser ttth, are the following: Isaac ilall, Mr. ami Mm, l. C. twiner, Mrs,

Briggs and daughter, 1\ J. Griffith wifeT r. and I.nckvy and Mr. and JT. If.

Brigjw and wife, 4. G. Williams an^ wife, K. YmiValKah, Mr. and Mrs. tleo, Fsrrington, Jske Karlv» Alex Crawford, R., V, Davtsand Mr.etid Mrs. C. Shewmaker and wife.

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Joe Kun*, of Ute Fiftii *wl» who vm appointed a mail ng^nt early in the CK»wlaml administration and wh$ fa on I tfci* SouCh ntn, has bee® tellev«d and Rowland,, of K\nnsville. ftwto iy of the K, T,

from a .distance through one of the alleys push it farther away. By this time he abutting on the public square,

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lie per line in the Nw* want column. B*^fiter.

AS OLD DARSXZG XBBDIZ though Dunwd Sto«kl»I* Arena Lottirvr Popular. "The darning needle may ahnost be called a thing of the past now," sighed an old lady, as she sat before a genuine log fire in the parlor of a very old fashioned house in Yonkers, Looking for holes that she* was not particularly anxious to find in a great pile of stockings that filled a basket beside her. "Beyond myself and half a dozen others who meet twice a week and call ourselves The Old La-

,«ri dies* Darning Society.'I don't know of

any one in Westchester county who uses the needle, or even knows how to use it. Darned stockings are looked upon as relics of barbarism to-day, 1 believe, and people object to what -hey call' patches/ which, they say, hurt their feet. Are the feet, then, more tender than they were sixty years ago when I was a girl, and knowledge of darning was an important part of a young lady's education? Idont think so. But 1 suppose the clumsy way in which a hole in a stocking is mended

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immediately after they had been waited the jagged hole and direct contact beupon. She" carried her lxok» back and tween the foot and the sheets preferable, forth from the ntore to her home where "But tills awkward mending must not she studied far into the night. Her be confused with darniug. The wool career as an actress hag but just txirun MWBj jn the old-fashioned repairing If

his thumb and linger and gaining a bet- much softer and liner material than they ter hold on him drawl him in. It was are made of now, and the wool with a hair breadth escaje for the youngster which a hole was darned was. as nearly and when released he went down Third possible, of the .same consistency, so ..... ....

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generally much softer than the materia1 of which the average stocking is made. As you see, I still darn the holes iu all the family stockings, and my husband and boys say that the spot where my needle has been working are the only really comfortable parts of their hosiery. 1 don't know whether this is a very desirable state of affairs, but at least it shows that skilful darning and care 1 eta patching are different things. "In days of old when no lady consid dred darning an undignified occupation stockings were manufactured of very

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that the wearer, no matter how sensitive his feet might be. could not detect the presence of a foreign body at his heel oi under his sole. A good old wool stock ing is far more comfortable than a new one. and on elderly gentleman my father, for example—believed that hosiery was never quite, beyond the reach of the darning needle. I have darned a stocking so often that not a shred of the old material remained. The whole piece was my own make, and composed entire ly of darning wool. "At that time, too. new stoekiugs were very expensive, and that might have been an additional reason why people clung so persistently to their old ones but now blockings, though of a very in ferior grade, are so cheap that it is eon sidered hardly worth while to wash an old pair, and when I ank for a darning needle at a millinery store 1 am frequently told. We don't keep them."'

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iilfob» It«fuic« fur Too Rapid Soiuuit of Xubliltr* There is oae of the strangest farms in the wprld up hei|jn Manitoba, says the Inimeapolis Douniair principal crop is an annual growth of young Englishmen, sons of wealthy parents who have interrupted the boys in their diligent work of sowing a thick and early crop of wild habits, and have sent, them out to the colony to have their mom! and physical health built up, and a little industry and useful knowledge instilled into them at the same time. The owners of the farm, two brothers, charge the boys for their board and instruct them in farming for not lung,but the work they manage to get out of the young fellows worth a good deal more than the time spent in teaching them, though occasionally a horse Is fouuderedor apiece of farm machinery broken.

It is remarkable, though, how these young sprigs of nobility, many of them, take to the hard work of the farm. They have the true British grit about them, and the managers I wive sense enough to have the drudgery and dirty work done by hired men. The boys ride the horse rakes, drive the mowing machines, learn to rtm a thrasher, plough, etc.. and all of them take kindly to the care of livestock, the hor*ess especially,though a propensity to race the latter at every opportunity has to lie guarded against. The "instincts of gentlemenH do not seem to desert them either, for they will never sit down to eat in the clothes they have worked in anil they refuse to eat with the farm hands who bring the smell of stables to the table. Bathing, shaving and dressing for the evening take up ft good dealt of their time*, indeed, "waste it*" real farmers would say, but the boys insist On it. They »bo cling to their cigsurett«s. Many of them get to like the life, so that they stay longer than their parents insist on. but nearly all return gladly when the term of their banishment is over. The farm owners make a good thing out of iU

The HorttcSwKw Ktght Mil**. A horse belonging to a ferryman wai on the boat yesterday at Irvine, and waa in Ute act of drinking when he plunged forward from some cause and fell into the water up to his nose. With remark* able instinct be turned round and swam to the boat, and m»de several efforts to oniwl back into it, but it only aerved to

had drifted below the ferry, and he the® made effort* to get on u}Kn either bank. In this he also failed, as the banks were too steep.

He tlien tun»ed aside and swam down tlie middle of the river. The ferryman, Mr. Whit®, made tain efforts to n»»cu« his horn, and, watching him mi til he was out Of sight, gave up all hopes of ever seeing him again. Next morning the paasesigtJr* on the Irvine stage wer® amused at the manner in which the ferryman was fondly caressing a hewt which iutd just arrived, and later tatroad that the steamboat from Ford had picked up the is framing aninml eight miles below. When dragged upon the boat he sank down, too completely exhausted to stand. When this became known the

sympathivng paa*mgers joined with Mr.

tit ,• jLju, I White in his exhuberanoe over the remute. will sutx'cvhtm, covtsry of hi* noUe steed. —(^bchnK»4

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W:^ TERRE HAUTE DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 1889-SUPPLEMENT

Improved Roller*.

We Uhxstrate two novel forms of roller, shown at the Royal Agricultural Exhibition, Windsor, by Mr. Edward Pratt, of the Alber Iron works. Uxbridge. Figure 1 shows a roller designed for manua. power, and figure 2 one worked by a home, the peculiar feature of which it

fTG. 1.—BOI.LXR WOBKKO »Y MAXUAI. POWXR that the animal is carried by the machine instead of drawing it. Hie construction is sufficiently clear from the illustrations. In the horsepower roller thehor estands upon a moving platform, which he continually treads round.

It need hardly be said that the inventor does not intend these machines to supercede steam rollers, but they are applicable in districts where the formei would be too expensive, or otherwise unsuitable.

Ordinary rollers drawn by men are of little use, as they cannot be made sufficiently heavy, while those drawn by horses have been found unsatisfactory for reason that the speed is too great, it being essential to efficient action that the motion should be slow. By the use of gear

no. 2.—ROLLER WORKED BV HORSB POWER. ing this end can be attained, while at thf same time a heavy roller can be propelled with very little power, and taken up steep hills. The speed may be varied to suit the weight carried and the work be done. The manual power roller can be weighted to five tons that for horsepower up to eight tons, while, exclusive of loose weights, its weight is 4 1-2 tons This type of roller has the advantag» that no foot marks or displacements art caused by the animal's feet, a feature particular value for lawns and grave paths. —[Industries. fJ

Hint* About Horse*. j.

It costs moi-e to keep a poor horse thai it does to keep a good one, Change the feed of your horses ofter enough to make them relish it.

Improper feeding is the cause Of nine out of ten cases of sickness among horses Every time you worry your horse yoi shorten their lives and days of useful

,^Sweut and _iUiat„cr«V«e, shoulders to gall. So do poor, iH-i collars. _• "w-t&f

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The temperature of water is not so much of an object as,the ptir?t$ of it. While it is best to have the watev cool, it is more important to have it ftrfc» from all impurities.j

Affection cannot lie pounded into ani' nials. Kind treat ent insures the affeo tion of an animal, vchile rough treaJtmea^5 is sure to cause its hatred.

bites of Hies or stings of other insects sponge-the parts that cannot be protectee by nets with, water in which insect powder has been mixed-—a tablespoonfu to two gallon/) of water.

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Of two colts similar in disposition and sense, one may develope into a steady and valuable family horse, while th« other may be every tiling that is vicious treacherous and unsafe—all because o* .a, difference in the men handlin^j them plenty of white wash should be used not only for the brighter apptarance but also as a disinfectant. Hot. white wash on the inside of barns, 8tables poultry-houses and pig quarters, ^illak* in preventing vermin and insect a.

The horse which can plow an #cr» while another horse is plowing, half ar acre, or one which can carry a load passengers ten uiiles while another going five, independent of all consider at ions of amusement, taste or what i* called fancy, is absolutely vrorth twic* as much to the owner as tho other.^

Agricultural Science In 0«rmMtr There are fifty-tw experiment station? and other like institutions for agricttlttt ral research in Germany, the land of fh* ettrlieet and greatest developementr el scientific farming, and ihese employ!21'i scientific experts. From the best a^bee sible accoimts it appeers, according Professor W, O. Atwater, that 89 ®er man stations exerciao control Of commercial fertilizers, 29 of feed ing stuffs, ftfrd 30 of tn^eds, by examination wares in the interest of th* purchaser this, liowever. in most dNA being part of the work done. Some St» tions fallow number of lines of inquiry others oonftne themselves to one or two There are 15 devoted mainly to in veetigations in vegetable physiology, toeluding nutritkm of plants 7 to animal phy*ioiogy. including feeding experiment* to dairy industry 4 to sugai beet and 8 to fruit and wine culture, there are with buildings for vegetation experiments with spieial structures fee feeding experiments with animals, and 2 with experimental gardens. The result* of the work don* are of the greatest value to the German farmer, who has teamed to make daily use of the infermation furni&bed.

Many a vigorous, fruitful tree owes it* exfcteooe to a mulch during a hot season when it wns young.

To hare hetdthy swine give eiUowiag Jwh«» charcoal and «alt, aiad

plenty at exercise in timber pastum yielding ahade. roota. note, acoctM. ete.,1 lut no doubl? soured tfcps.

rAKM JrOTKS.

A farmer at Anaheim, Gal., sent East ast year for some Wonderfield beans to experiment with. He received as many is would fill a small teacup and planted ihem. He has just gathered a crop of 100 sacks.

A correspondent of the Live Stock Indicator says: I can invest $1,000 in *heep and bum every pound of wool produced for five years a make more clear m£key than can be made on cattle, horses or ho .s in the same length of time."

The effect of damp ground and stagnant water on fowls, especially on young turkeys, is well known. Fatal diseases follow as inevitably in those cases as with human exposure to miasmatic exhalations. A. dry, gravelly spot is absolutely necessary to healthful conditions,-

Canada doesn't produce enough pork a year, the Ottawa Free Press says, to Tupply one ordinary gang of lumbermen, md thousands of barrels are annually imported from Chicago for the lumbermen, which accounts for the fact that the Canadians have decided not to raise the duty on mess pork.

The editor of the American Bee Jourlal says: A good queen lays the eggs in regular order, and one in a cell. The presence of four or five eggs in a cell suggest* that either the queen is a poor one (or drone-layer, as she is sometimes called), or that the liive contains laying workers. {'l\ X,"

A calf born in fall or winter is worth TWO born in the spring for profit. A spring calf is so young that it gets little ?ood from pasture the first season, for jy the tame it can fight flies successfully «id crop grass enough to really aid in nourishing it, winter is at baud, and it is placed on dry food.

So far as possible the farm ought to to supply all the feed necessary to keep the stock and to fatten for market, and the number of stock that can be kept ill iepend largely upon the way the food is mpplied, and' the value of the manure will also largely depend upon the same conditions.—LFarm, Field and Stockman.

A fruit-grower reports that, having an orchard of young trees badly infested with hark lice, he made a solution of sal soda—half a pound to a gallon of water— and applied it with a whitewash brush. In a week's time they were all dead and washed off. The trees grew two feet a year afterward, and remained very healthy*

In Taoga county, N. Y., Hungarian grass is largely grown as a summer food for cow» and a supplementary hay crop. It is considered more succulent than millet, nnd cows eat it better. It is thought better for producing milk than timothy hay, as cows will increase in milk on going from timothy to Hungarian hay.

Never wliip a horse wlien lie la frightened or nervous, or try to force it up to the object that has caused the alarm draw i» 6n the reins, suddenly speak out with assurance that you ar not afraid, then turn the animal a little way from the, tin pleasant sight and bid it go. A ^, a~whlp upon a frightened horse .gives it double cause for violent action, tMany of the dairy authorities," says the Rural New Yorker, "advise the growing of parsnips as a food for butter cows. |fany claim that this root is better than carrot as a butter-producing food, is frequently said that large quantities -parsnips are grown on the Island of y. Have any of our American dairyen ever grown the root on a /arge jale?"

When horses Are suffering from tl#( KlThe sterility of many soils is due more

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their mechanical condition, their tex tfre and relations to heat and moisture, an to lack of plant food. Such soils want amendment first and manure afterward. Some soils will give good returns far manuring others, without irrigation amendment by draining, tillage, the of lime, marl or muck, etc., will not. flagstone floor with cemented joints best for the dairy. Wooden floors $re &pt to rot out, and brick floors abJo^b the spilled milk, soon becoming very 'offensive. If bricks are used the floor be kept painted all the time, and eve* with this extra trouble it is not so go4ftI as flagstone and cement. The flagstone underground is always easily kept co&j as, a dairy floor should be. i. Farmer's Societies. v'

The farmers' alliance organizations are pi,t%res8ing satisfactorily, judging from the new societies being organized in various portions of the West. Every neighborhood should have a well-organized, properly conducted farmers' society of some kind. Call it farmers' alliance, farmers' club, or what you please, so it answeri the purpose of bringing the farmers dtyt^r locality together once or twice eachlnonth for the general discussion of topicf pertaining to farmers' interests* It is Auich the best plan to have some one atwigned a subject to introduce at the next meeting. Two or three subjects may be taken up at each meeting. Short discussions are the most profitable, and iqpefehfff should be limited, in order to give ail a chance and encourage those who have not been accustomed to talk iip before an audience.

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•Ttoast some moderately thick slices of stale biwad—which must be fine, light and sweet cut each in foar strips, pour on boiling water to cover, and pour it off again as quickly as possible then cover 4hetofeit with sweet cream, and set in the ovt& until this is absorbed. Meanwhile n|ake a sauce with a piece of bat* tor as'ti^rge as an egg and a good tableepoonfil of flour rob them smoothly b^ethci, and let the mixture bubble tyver thi fire for a minute or two, with constant stirring then add the liquor dnuned frum a quart of oysters. Stir until perfectly, and season with salt and Jiepfter, and a Sitile curry powder or mm* hoi aaooe, if this fe liked. Drop in ti» oysters and let it boil up until the cerl. Butter the tomst, pour the and setve

A good mulch is a layer of fine aofl, aach as frequent, shallow cultivation

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The Brilliant Career of a BeautUTul Iri»h

Glr! in English Society.

The late Lady Combermere, who died some two weeks ago in London, was one of the dozen Irish gentlewomen who had ao much weight in English society thirty or forty years ago, says the Irish Weekly Times. She was the beautiful Miss Gibbings, daughter of an Irish physician of great wealth residing in Dublin, and it was doubtless the dazzling military record of Field Marshal Viscount Combermere which touched the heart of the winsome beauty. She became his third wife when he was well on to 80. and so well did she succeed thatt he lived to his 94th year. "I kept my lord alive with old sherry!" was. Lady Oombermere's own concise description of her system.

Lady Combermere could never lie induced to make a second •nuirriag's. Wtien her mourning was over sh«s began to entertain largely and her house in London was one of the most notable for many years. She detested the country with all its works and ways. Her house was gaily aud rather fantastic tlly furnished with abundance of gilding, look-ing-glass, artificial flowers, aud colored lamps. Sne was very fond of assembling her friends at elaborate luncheon par ides, when the blinds were always drawn down and the candles covered with rosecolored shades, "because it is so much more becoming to all our complexions. Smartness, splender, show, and fashion were her delight, but she admired talent and accomplishments scarcely less. "Will you come and meet a few elevet people?" was her favorite form of invitation, and however clever the guests might be, it was pretty certain that they would not outshine their hostess. She had a truly Irish wit, excelled in repartee, loved a good story, ahd was expert in all the thrusts and passes of social sword-play.

One of her ladyship's detestations wa? a railway train. She always traveled herself in her own carriage whenever the distance was under 100 miles, riding in a family coach of ancient type, driven at a remarkably deliberate jog-trot. "John, you know how a hearse is driven?" "\es, my lady." Well, drive me at that pace," was her graphic code of instruction to anew coachman. If ever it was necessary for her to travel she always chose Sunday for the journey, because there was less chance of being run into by an excursion train.

She died of extreme old age, but. pos sessed of all her faculties.

A .Voted Female Pirate Dead.

The notorious character known as "Spanish Belle," who has flourished on the Pacific coast since 1849, has just died in Idaho. There is scarcely a mining camp on the Pacific coast that she has not visited. Her history, if correctly told, would fill a large volume and it would be a volume of bad deeds only, for no good deeds have ever been attributed to her in the knowledge of those few who have known her history for the past forty years. It seems that she gloried in the crimes she committed, and during hei convivial moments would relate some incidents of her past life. From this source it is gathered that an early ago in her native land she became the mistress of noted sea pirate named Valzaj, whose vessel was a terror to the merchant ships plying the waters of ihe Pacific ocean. She boasted that her duty was. when the ship anchored at-a port of prominence, to decoy rich men aboard the vessel, where they would surely be robbed and murdered. £he followed this criminal career until the discovery of gold in Cali fornia, when she left her pirate paramour. aud landed in San Francisco in the summer of 1849. At the time of liei death she was 83 years old. although shf could pays for a w(man 25 years younger,

An Old Device.

1 ,*ie man who starteil the "drop-a-nickol in -the-slot" business, simoly resur rec.ted' a very ancient arrangement. Thoma 8 Ewbank, iu his Hydraulics and Mechanics, published in New York, 1851

describe,*

a device referred to by Heron

or Hiero, in his Spiritalia. The Spiritalia was publi wed by Baldus in the seven teehth cen.'-ury, and contained an exposure of roan of the frauds of the Egyp tian hieraeh V- In

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a uescription ^f a device for automatic dispensing of the purifying water by the worshipers on their entrance to the tem pie. By a ktrange coincidence five drachmae were required to ojierate the apparatus, which bore this inscription "A coin of five Irachmse being cast into the vase the vrater will run out foi sprinkling."

Old Wriu|ht Iron.

The oldest pieces of wrought iron now known are probably the sickl© bladf found by Belzoni under the base of thf ftyhinx in Karnac, nmr Thebes the blade found by Colonel Vyse, embedded in the masonry of the great pyramid the portion of a crosscut saw exhumed at Nimrod by Mr. La yard—all of whicl are now in the British museum. A wnmgh I bar of Damascus steel waa pra^ aented l»y King Porus to Alexander the Great the razor steel of China for many centuritB surpassed all Euiopean steel ir temper and durability oi edge. The Hindoos appear to have made wrought iroi directly from the ore, wiUwmt passing it through the furnace, from time immemorial, and elaborately wrought massesare still found in India which d»ie fro« the earcenturies of the Christian era,

A. Diary Written With Blood. The diary of the famous Baron Friedrich von der Trenck, cousin o# the no tortus Franz von der Trenck, which purport* to be written with his own blood while a prisoner at Madge burg, it now ofifcred for sale at Leipzig. Th# diarv, inscribed on 800 pages of an inter haired 1 Uhle presented to Trenck in 178C by the Prineew Amalie, sister of Frederick th t* Great, includes, besides a num ber of poems and letters, various social political and philosophical treatises, an* ahistorr of the prisoner's adventoron* life, wh kh ended in VM on the guillo tme. I le was condemned to death by Robespi erre aa a secret ageaot of foreigi govern! aetila.

jFMAXttiiX's ro.VDfrro.vjfi GIFT

He Left ti'l.eoo to Philadelphia in 1790 t« be invested In 18&0. There is every indication that a big public bath will shortly be erected iu this city, says the Philadelphia Inquirer from money donated manv years* ago by Benjamin Franklin and John Scott. On* hundred thousand dollars will probably be expeuded ou it. The "Father oi Electricity** left by his will, dated Apri 23, 1790, £1.000 to be used by the city ir the best manner deemed passible, and in 1816 John Scott left 14.000, which wa? _to be devoted to the same purpose desired by Franklin.

These trusts are both in cliarge of the board of directors of city trusts, of whoir the active members are ProthOnotary Mann and Director of Public Works Wagner. These two officials have lately been giving the legacies considerable thought and discussion. In his will th« great philosopher left £2.000 sterling one-half to" Boston and the other to Phil adelphia. He had great ideas as to what tlie money would amount to with the lapse of a century. For instance, he desired the money to be loaned to married artificers under the age of 25 years ac 5 percent per annum in sums not exceeding £60 sterling.

The document went on to state that "i this plan is executed aud succeeds a» projected w.thout. interruption lor 100 yeats, the sum will then be £131,000."

Continuing, the great ph lanthropist writes: 1 would have the managers of the donation lay out, at their discretion, £100, 000 in public Works which may be judget of most general utility to the inhabitants snch as fortifications, bridges, aqueducts public buildings, batlis, pavements, oi whatever may make living in the towi more convenient- to its people and thos* resorting hither for health or temporary residence. The remaining £81,0001 wouU continue to be let out at iterest for an other 100 years."

These provisions applied to the sum left to Boston as well as to Philadelphia. But in the case of our city he al-o empowered the managers of the fund te to spend at the end of the first century a part of the £100,000 in bringing by pipes the water of the Wissahickon creek intc the town.

Philadelphia artificers, however, did not come forward to borrow the money, and it oappens that the expected 181,(KHi pounds Stirling," have not been realized at the dose of this tlie appointed century. Instead, tlie principal amounts to about $80,000, yielding an income of $5,000 year. Tlie Scott fund amounts to about $80,000, making in all $110,000.

Messrs. Mann and Wagner have concluded. to ask the solicitors of the city trusts how they can go about securing $100,000 of this sum for the purpose of building the big bath proposed. The other $10,000 they propose to put aside f.r another century at compound inter est. Coloitel Mann thought that but little general good could be accompli lied with $110,000, but tlie public bath sug gested its If, and it may be built before the close of the year 1890. ,i ,. -»-The Lan4 of Way Off,"

Waa there ever a boy who didn't im agine at some time that he wasn't useo well at home, and gloomily revolve plan? for escaping from his thraldom? H« would g*o "way off" and never see thosr cruel parents and teasing brothers ano sisters any more. Happily for him th* boy does vo£ generally make the contem plated flight, though there be exceptions, To go way off sometimes means to rue away and go to sea to seek foreign lands in search of strange adventure. Bu since the introduction of iron steamshipr there isn't so much romance about the sea and sailor life a# there used to be. Tlie times so thrillingly described by Capt Marry at and Ned Buntline are passed away. "Where can the boy who. longs to "go way off" turn his thought# to now?

We learned from a small boy witli whom we conversed the other day, that the land of "Way Off" is iu the bound less West, where a lad has a choice between becoming a cowboy or a stage robber, with odds in favor of the latter. During a lull in business he could pro# pect for gold mines or accept an engagement a0 mountain evangelist among tlie Indian.!, killing and scalping those whom he faihKl to convert. Tiring of this he might write a play of which he was the hero, get together a company of Indian? and grjidually develop into another Buffalo Bill.

Happy youth that can live and revel in tlie land of "Way Off,* whether it be reached by stormy seas or tlirough border perils. Dream of it while you can with dried tears on fluslied cheeks, wrung by home wrongs, real or mag in ary, for the time will come all too soon when you will realize that there is no retreat in this world from life's actual trials. There is no land of Way Off such as you imagine.—[Texas Siftings. ]P»et 1« Stranger Than Fiction.'

City Man to hunter-—Lije,you've beard a great many tough hunting stories. Which do yea* think is the toughest yarn you ever heard?

Lije—I don't remember of hear in' no such darn tough yarn as you speak of. Tell you what really did happen down here, though, 'bout a year ago. A man shot a bear in the bead. Jest the minute the bear felt the ball he turned right .: around. He turned so darn quick that the ball hit the man and killed him after passing through the bear.

On* Thou*and.

Wheti General Burtiside was commanding in East Tennessee, he wa* in vited to dinner by an elderly farmer. The invitation was accepted. At the tableaat the mother of the host, a lively old lady, but hi appearance extremely old.

Mother," said the general, may 1 ask your age? Yon appear to be quite old for a person who can get around as lively as you do." She replied: "Yes. my sonf I am very old. I have lived here all my life. I draft know adcackly how old I am, but I know I am a little over a thousand years old."

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