Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 September 1888 — Page 2

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THE MILLS BILL-FREE TRADE.

It Is evident. from the events ol the past rew

weeks

ttint the progress towards free trade In the United States lias been innclt greater than was generally expected. However much the manufacturing Interests may deny It, the lact Is patent that great progress lias been made on the road toward absolute free trade, and particularly lias this been the case since the date of the delivery of the president's message. Our Iron and steel mami I act liters look with very much Interest on the movement which Is now going on "on the otli»r side." for trade there so ultimately Inllnences our own.—| London iron and Coal Trades Itevlew. July 27, liWH.

The tariir bill In the United States has passed the house of representatives by Ml to 14!) Ivotes. The bulk or the people are beginning to set their backs up at paying thro' the nose for their Iron and steel ami other commodities. As It stands

now

the states are decidedly going lor free trade, ami tills will be the Democratic cry at the next election. London Iron Trade Circular, July 2S, INKS.

The president feels compelled to characterize the attempt to brand him as a free trader as deception, but for all that the electoral eontllct now progress Is a conlllct between free trade and protection and nothing else.-1 London News. July

(i, 1SKS.

It Is certain that the arguments which President Cleveland urges are those which Cobden used to employ forty-live years ago. and which any English free trader would employ now.—| London Times, July li. 1SSH.

The .Alllls bill puts on the Tree list articles which last year paid duties amounting to nearly $20,000,mm. it Is theretorelplaln that It declares for: 1. Kree trade In lumber, which we produce to the

value

of $:stXt,0(X),00i) annually. Kree trade In wool, of which we produce over HUMWiUHKl pounds annually.

Kree trade In salt, of which we produce nearly •lIUKKUmo bushels annually. Kree trade in Max, hemp, jute and other liliers.

Kree trade In potash, lime and brick. Kree trade in meats, game and poultry. Kree trade in vegetables, peas and beans. Kree trade In marble and stone. I'ree trade In at least one hundred other articles" produced In tills country, most of which would be produced lu suttlelent iiuantlties for home consumption if properly protected.

I believe In free trade as I believe In the Protestant religion.—(Jrover Cleveland. All trade should lie as free as possible.—Speaker Carlisle.

I desire free trade, and 1 will not help to perfect any law that stands In the way of free trade.— Itoger Q. Mills.

The Democratic party Is a free trade party or It Is nothing. The IVniocrat who Is not a freetrader should go elsewhere. --Heur) Patterson.

Add to the Iree list as manv articles as possible, lteduce duties upon every dutiable article to the lowest point possible.--Secretary Kalrchlld.

It would lie a glorious consummation or this de­

bate

could we only have gentlemen 01 the other sl.le Join in this Invocation to paper and to type, and to the hearts of honest men. to clear the way for British Cobden tree trade. S. S. Cox.

Mr. Cleveland stands before the country a champion of free trade. Mr. Mills' speech Is a manly, vigorous, and most effective free trade siieech.— Henry Ceorge.

It

we

did not require money to defray the expenses of government 1 would be an absolute and uncompromising free tender.-Congressman Hare.

WHAT HARRISON THINKS.

"I think our worklngtnen will wake up to the fact that reduction In their wages, which every candid advocate of free trade or revenue reform admits must come with the adoption of his theories a reduction variously estimated at from 10 to per cent. —Is poorly compensated by the cheap coat he Is promised. This bull-lu-the-Chlna-

shop sort of work that our Democratic friends want to make of the tariff will not do."

In an address made in Chicago in March of this year he said: "I am one of those unlnBtructed political economists that have an Impression that some things

may

be too cheap that lean not find myself In full sympathy with this demand for cheaper coats, which seem to me necessarily to involve a cheaper man and woman under the coat I believe It Is true to day that we have many things In this country that are too cheap, because whenever It Is proved that the man or woman who produces any article cannot get a decent living out of It, then It Is too cheap." "I would rather be William O'Brien In Tullaniorejall, a martyr of free speech, than the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In Dublin Castle."rtieneral Harrison, In 1877, at the Esmonde and O'Connor reception, Indianapolis.

Kngllsh Interest in the Result. The electioneering campaign In America ought to be most Interesting to the Kngllsh people for historical, political, philosophical and economic reasons. The main question at issue is English free trade against the continental system of protection. The Republic Is on trial. Wood, conservative government, under Cleveland, Is opposed by the rule and ruin party of Blaine, whose friends nominated Harrison, and who would certainly be the secretary of state under a Harrison administration. Thus the American people are directly Involved In the contest through their pockets, which will be affected by the tariff, and their future, which would be seriously Influenced by the restoration to power of such a fire-brand as Blaine, with his home-rule sympathies and antlCanadlan policy. The American electlou Is Infinitely more Important to Englishmen than their own Internal politics Just at this Juncture, and they should observe every phase of the campaign closely and understanding^. It is from this point of view that the copious dispatches to the Sunday Times are cabled. The result of the American election will help to decide many Important issues in Great Britain.—[London Sunday Times, July 15,1888.

Welcome to the soldiers.

What's the matter with the reunion? Oh, it's all right.

A cranky Can uck wants to fight the United States. The only head that will be cut off will probably be hie own by his discharge from the army.

At last accounts Dan Lamont was still tussling with President Cleveland letter of acceptance. It will not be surprising if Dan is downed in the contest.

The Democratic railroad club is to be addressed by a new convert to Democracy. Why hasn't the list of names of members of the club been published bj the Gazette?

Senator Voorhees will persist in making himself conspicuous. Thus far his campaign speeches have been devoted to defamation of Republican candidates and leaders, and in this particular leads even the bitterest Democratic partisan.

With the "old Roman" telling us about his teeth, and the press reports recording the attentive efforts of Chairman Brice to have the "old Roman's" food properly cooked for him we feel that we are in the midst of a national campaign in which the issues are of great importance to the rest of us Ivomans.

There were l,r$00 railroad men in line at Indianapolis last night at the Harrison demonstration. There are -17 members of the Harrison railroad club in this city, all of which is undisputable evidence that the railroadmen of the country are solid for the Republican ticket, notwithstanding Democratic misrepresentation.

Dennis Berkshire has been in the county several days, and the most noticeable feature of his canvass has been the lack of interest shown by the old party leuders. Dennis has been surrounded by a coterie of younger and inexperienced politicians. The wheel-horses of the Democracy shake their heads at the mention of Berkshire's name and abandon him to his fate. It were better for Dennis that he had remained outBide of Vigo.

The city of Terre Haute opens wide her portals to-day to welcome the survivors of those gallant Indiana regiments whose achivements have gone into the history of the state and the nation. In every loyal heart there dwells a respect, a reverence for the "boys in blue" whose ranks are growing thinner year by year, and the citizens of Terre Haute but rellect this feeling in giving them a hearty welcome to our midst. In the language of the day, "there is nothing too rich for them," and the freedom of the city is theirs, with nl 1 which that implies. Their carriage may not be so jaunty, their manner BO buoyant, with the weight of a quarter of a century on their shoulders, but the spirit and the bravery which carried t^em to the front in those dark days are still present. As they group around the camp fire, recounting the deeds of daring—to which the days of chivalry and romance furnish no parallel—let us join in the united prayer that their days in the land may be long and filled with honor and credit.

C. 0. D.

Don't ridicule the poor man who supports ten or a dozen dogs. Perhaps that's the only way he has to keep pup.

Mr. S. Bull writes us: "In answer to yours of the 2tth. would say that In order to give a scalp dance It Is reuulslte that you Ml ret catch your hair.'

-After all." said Hlgson "money don't make so much difference.

When

1 worked at the glazier's

trade 1 used diamonds and cut glass, and now that I'm rich I use cut glass and diamonds."

"Constant Reader"—No, we don't know of an actual wise where a man blew ins brains out by blowing Into the muzzle of a gun to see If it was loaded. But we can point out several wises where the victim blew the top of his head off.

Bum (to bartender)—Say. kin I get a gooI drink or Ice-water from you?" (Bartender promptly Invites him lo an Incandescent hereafter^.

Bum (wonderlngly)—They don't keep lee-water there, do they? Mr. lllcarde—"Well. 1 went to church this morning."

Mr. Jack

Potts—"Bet Jo you can't tell what the

text was." "Klvegoes!

This

was It 'Wine ain't a marker

when strong drink Is raging.' And 1 should say It ain't."

THE LAST LESSON.

[From the French of Alphonso DaudetJ [NOTE.—From time immemorial the fertile provinces of Alsace and Lorraine have been the subject of strife between France and Germany. As early as the third century the Alemanni invaded Alsace, and, after a long war, subjugated the Celtic inhabitants and filled up the region with German settlers, who were called 111 Sassen, or dwellers on the River 111. From this on the provinces have changed masters frequently. In 1G81, Alsace then in the hands of the Germans, Louis XIV. seized Strasburg. its principal city, and sixteen years later the whole province came under French authority by the treaty of Ryswick. A small part of the province was ceded to Prussia in 1814, but the majority of the Alsatians remained Frenchmen until, as a result of the Franco-Prussian war, Alsace was given up in 1871 to the German empire, of which it now forms a part.

Robert Louis Stevenson, in his "Inland Voyage," speaking of this same patriotism of the French country folk, which Daudet so happily illustrates in this little story says: "In what other country will you find a patriotic ditty bring all the world into the street?" and adds: "I have watched a forester from Alsace while some one was singing 'Les Malheurside la France' at a baptismal party in the neighborhood of Fontainebleau. He arofie from the table and took his 6on aside, close by where I was standing. 'Listen, listen,' he said, bearing on the boy's shoulder, 'and remember this, my son.' A little after he went out into the garden suddenly, and I could hear him sobbing in the darkness."]

I was very late in going to school that morning, and I was afraid I should get a good scolding, because M. Hamel had told us that he was going to question us in the participles, and I didn't know the first word of them. For a minute the idea came to me to run away from school and enjoy myself in the fields.

The day was so warm and clear. You could hear the blackbird whistling in the edge of the wood, and in the meadow behind the sawmill the Prussians were at their drill. All this was a great deal more attractive to me than the rule for participles but I had the strength to resist, and I hurried along toward the school.

As I passed the town hall I saw a crowd of people gathered around the little bulletin board. For two years it had been from this little board that all our bad news had come news of battles lost, of requisitions, of orders from the government, and I thought, without stopping: "What is going to happen now?"

Then, as I was running across the square, Wachter, the blacksmith, who was there, with his apprentice at his heels, reading the poster, called after me: "Don't be in such a hurry, little one! you'll get to your school soon enough!"

I thought he was making fun of me, and when I entered M. Hamel's little court yard I was all out of breath.

Usually, when school began, there was such a hubbub that you could hear it in the street the opening and shutting of desks, everybody studying their lessons out loud, stopping their ears with their fingers so that they might learn the better, and then the master's great ruler that rapped on the desk: "A little less noise!"

I was counting,on all this confusion to get to my bench without being noticed but on this particular day everything was as still as if it had been a Sunday morning. Through the open windows I could see my companions all in their places, and M. Hamel walking up and down with the terrible iron-edge ruler under his arm. I had to open the door and go in in the midst of the profound stillness. You may imagine if I blushed, and was afraid!

Well, then, no. M. Hamel looked at me without any anger at all, and Baid gently: "Go to your place quickly, my little Frantz we were going to begin without you."

I straddled the beach and settled myself at my desk as quick as I could. Then, a little recovered from my fright, I noticed for the lirst time that our master had on his beautiful green frock coat and his plaited shirt frill, and his embroidered skull cap of black silk that he wore only on exhibition days or when he gave out the prizes. And the others, too every one of them seemed to have something unusual or solemn about him. But what surprised me most of all was to see at the back of the room, on the benches that were usually empty, the men of the village, sitting as silent as we were old Ilauser, with his threecornered hat, the white haired mayor, the old notary, and many others. Everybody, was sad, and Hauser had brought an old primer, with the corners all chewed, which he held wide open on his knees, with his big spectacles lying across the pages.

While I was wondering at all this M. Hamel had taken his place in his chair, and, in the same gentle, grave voice with which he had spoken to me, he said to us: "My children, it is the last time that I shall teach you. The order has come from Berlin that only German shall be taught in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. The new master comes tomorrow. To-day will be your last lesson in French. I beg you to be very attentive."

The words set my heart to thumping. Ah, the wretches! this was what they had posted at the town hall.

My last lesson in French! And I who hardly know how to write! I should never learn now! I must break off where I was. How I longed for the time I had lost, for the days I had played truant to hunt for bird's nests, or to slide on the river Saar. My books that just now I had found so dull, so heavy to carry, my grammar, my Biblehistory, seemed to me old friends whom I should be very sorry to part with. It was the same with Mr. Hamel. The thought that he was going away, that I should never see him any more, made me forget the punishments and slaps of the ruler. Poor man.

It was in honor of this last lesson that he had put on his Sunday clothes, and now I understand why the old men of the village had come to sit at the back of the room. It seemed to say that they were sorry they had not come oftener to school. It was, too, a way of thanking our master for his forty years of faithful service and of showing their love for the fatherland which was slipping away from us.

I was deep in my thoughts when suddenly I heard my name"vcalled. It was my turn to recite. What wouldn't I have given to be able to say, clear to the

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7,1888.

end, that famous rule of participles, very loud, very clear, without a single fault! But I Btumbled at the firet words, and stood there beside my bench, swaying back and forth, my heart swelling, without daring to raise my head. I heard M. Hamel speeking to me: "I will not scold you, my little Frantz," he said "this should be punishment enough. It is always like this. Each day we say to ourselves: 'Pshaw! I have plenty of time. I will learn_ to-morrow.' And now you see what has" come. Ah! that has been the great misfortune of our Alsace—always putting off her education until to-morrow. Now these men have the right to say to us: 'How is this? You pretend to be French, and you can neither speak nor write your language!' You are not the most to blame, my poor Frantz. We all have much to reproach ourselves for. "Your fathers and mothers haven't given enough attention to your education. They like better to send you to work in the fields or to help the spinners, because it brings in a few sous more. And I, have I no fault to find with m3'self? How often I have Bent you to water my garden instead of making you study! And when I wanted to go trout fishing how impatient I have been to get rid of you all!"

Then, running on from one thing to another, M. Hamel began to talk to us about our language, saying that it was the most beautiful in all the world, the clearest and the strongest and that we must guard it among us and never forget it, for when a people fell into slavery so long as they hel3 fast to their language it was as if they kept the key to their prison. Then he took up a grammar and read us our lesson. I was astonished to see how well I understood it. All that he said seemed so easy to me. I think, also, that I had never listened so attentively before, and perhaps, too, that he had never before had so much patience in explaining to us. One would have said that before going away from us the poor man wanted to give us all his knowledge, to force it into our head at a single stroke.

When the lesson was finished we had our writing next. For this day M. Hamell had made new copies for us, on which were written in a clear round hand: "France, Alsace. France, Alsace." They looked like so many little fluttering Hags hunting from the rail at the front of each desk. You should have seen how we applied ourselves and what a silence there was! One heard only the scratching of the pens on the paper. Once some beetles Hew in at the window, but no one paid any attention to them, not even the littlest ones, who were tracing their up strokes and downstrokes as energetically and as conscientiously as if there was something French in that, too. On the roof of the school house the pigeons were cooing softly, and I said to myself while I listened: "And the pigeons, too, will they have to sing in German?"

From time to time, when I raised my eyes to the top of the page, I could see M. Hamel sitting motionless in his chair, fixing his eyes on the things around him, as if he wanted to carry away in his mind the whole of his little Bchool. Just think of it! For forty years he had sat there in the same place, looking into his little court-yard through the window in front of him, and with his class always the same. Only the desks and benches had become worn and polished by usage the walnut trees in the court yard had grown bigger, and the hop vine that he had planted with his own hand now encircled the windows and climbed up to the roof. How it must have made his heart ache to think of leaving all these things to hear hissiBter going and coming in the chamber above while she fastened their boxes for they were going the next dny—going away from their country forever!

But for all that he had the courage to teach us to the end. After our writing came our history lesson, then the little ones chanted their Ba-be-bi-bo-bu. There at the back of the room old Hauser had put on his spectacles, and, holding his primer in both hands, was spelling out the letters with him. You could see how earnest he was his voice trembled with emotion, and it was so droll to hear him that we could hardly keep from laughing and crying, too. Ah! I shall always remember that last day.

All at once the clock in the church tower sounded for noon, then chimed the Angelue. At the same moment the trumpets of the Prussians who were returning from their drill rang_ out under our windows. M. Hamel raised himself from his chair he was very pale, lie had never looked so tall to me as he did then. "My friends," he said, "my friends, 1— I

But something choked him. He couldn't finish what he was going to say.

He turned to the blackboard, took up a piece of chalk, and bearing on it with all his strength, he wrote as large as he could: "Vive la France!"

Then he btood there leaning his head against the wall, and, without speaking, made a gesture with his hand. "It is all—go."—[New York Evening Sun.

A Oueen's Popularity.

The queen recent of Spain has just given another proof that she knows the way to win the hearts of her people. On Thursday last, as she was being driven about 7 p. m. down the Pueria del Sol with her two little girls, a priest bearing the host chanced to come out of a house close to the Cafe du Levant, a restaurant which visitors to Madrid cannot fail to remember. No Booner did the queen regent see the sacred procession, than stopping her carriage, she alighted and signed to the priest to take her place in the vehicle. Her daughters had also been lifted down from their Beats, and, taking one by either hand, she followed with them on foot, walking behind the carriage. An immense crowd collected forthwith as the news Bpread, and touched by the queen regent's pious humility, followed after her and her children to the Carmen Church. It was to this church that the priest and the host belonged, and her majesty, entering the sacred edifice with her little ones, prayed for some minutes before one of the altars. On again regaining the street and her carriage the queen regent was applauded most vociferously by the enormous crowd that il trathered, and which was so dense aro ind the royal carriage that it was only with great difficulty that a start could at length be made. No wonder theSpanii-h republicans are begin ning to despair. Such a queen as Donna Christina is worth moro to the monarchy in Spain than a whole army corps of soldiers.—[London Figaro.

"Taking tlie Cushion."

"Taking the cushion" is a quaint old Spanish court custom still practiced at Madrid. The ceremony creates noble ladies "grandees of Spain," with the right to sit in the royal presence by permission of the king and queen, and recently Queen Christina solemnly fol­

lowed the prescribed form in order to admit several young ladies about the court to the highest rank. All the lady grandees of the court Assembled in one of the state apartments, each holding a large cushion. In the center of the room were a large arm chair and a low stool. Queen Christina entered with her suite, took the arm chair, and requested the ladies to sit down on their cushions. Then the candidates for grandeeship were introduced one by one each wa^ attended by a sponsor, and made low reverence to the queen and to every grandee in turn. The queen next invited the candidates to sit on the stool at her feet—arranged as more convenient than a cushion—spoke a few words, and allowed the lady to kiss her hand before rising to give place to the next new comer The new grandee then retired and sat down upon a cushion within the charmed circle of the ladies.—[London Graphic.

STRAY INFORMATION.

The police photograph the prisoners who are sent to the penitentiary and a rogue's galiery is being formed in place of that which was depleted when the old regime was overthrown. Already there area number of pictures in the case. Each is numbered and by turning to a record the history of his case can be found. Thus far but little difficulty has been experienced in getting likenesses of prisoners, but yesterday a tough customer was encountered. He was Myers, the housebreaker, who, in police parlance, would be considered as having a "tough mug." At any rate he did not propose to have it photographed. He was taken into the council chamber and George Cox, the photographic artist, arranged his camera. Myers would not look up. An attempt was then made to hold him, but it was not successful. His head could not be held up long and steadily enough to take the picture. Myers complained that he had not been treated right, and he acted mean in consequence. The janitor, Uncle Jerry, stepped in with his duster. "Come now," said he, "smile and look pretty, mister." Myers looked up and with an oath, resumed his previous position. After a long time Myers consented to have his photo taken, and he sat facing the camera, scowling, into it. Two negatives were made of him.

Assistant Fire Chief Reglien has com] pleted the work of making an examination of the basements of stores on Main street from First to Tenth. There were three squads of men who were at work, and the task was accomplished rapidly. Yesterday afternoon at headquarters those engaged in the work met for the purpose of formulating a report. The condition of each cellar was examined and these that were found to contain rubbish of a combustible nature will be ordered cleaned out at once. A list of such places will be given to the city marshal and he will serve the notices. Mr. Reglein said that there were not very many basements that were in bad condition but when one was found it was invariably very bad. He expressed himself as having been surprised that the baseinentB are in asgood condition as they were found. The entrances to the basements, apartments, etc., were examined and a record will be made and furnished to the department. The location of oil tanks, powder and other combustibles and explosives were marked. Should a fire now occur in any of the basements the men would not be at a I03S to know how to handle it.

A gentleman yesterday called the attention of an Express reporter while driving out in the residence portion of the city to the fact that very many houses are not numbered. In many instances the numbers have come off or been taken down in repainting and never replaced. Many new houses have been built, and have not been numbered. Very often a number is given to a residence and when one wishes to find it it is not to be seen in the block. The only way is then to ask some one or single out some residence as the place. Nearly every time it is learned that the house sought had borne that number at one time but it was missing now from some cause or other. It is very annoying to many whose time is valuable to spend many moments in searching out a residence which has no number upon it. The city authorities should see that house-numbering should be more general, and that regularity should prevail in selecting numbers.

Various pavements are being considered for Main street and there ha6 been considerable investigation into the cost of the different ones suggested. Nearly all would answer the purpose but the question of cost is the one which is the most closely considered. The city engineer is in receipt of a block of granite from a Georgia comp iny. The paving blocks could be obtained here at about $30 per thousand, with freight added. It would require about twenty-five blocks to the square yard. The work of putting down pavement will be extensive as the street will have to be cut down. As it has been wearing out for years it has been replaced with gravel, and in consequence the center of the street has been raised above the level of the sidewalks. With stone pavement the grade of the street would be very troublesome to wagons and vehicles if it remained as at present.

The I'liragraplier.

Texas Sittings: Music at a wedding, as on the field of battle, is often preliminary to a fight.

Texas Sittings: When a modest, retiring man dies and is buried, that's a sensitive plant, isn't it?

Texas Sittings: Did you ever hear of the president of a railroad striking because there was back pay due him?

Washington Critic: Henry George favors Mayor Hewitt for govornor of New York. This is in the nature of a boom for Hill.

Peoria Transcript: Gum-chewing is said to be on the increase with the ladies. But beefsteaks are so tough nowadays that anything tending to develop strength in the jaw is excusable.

Philadelphia Item: Mr. Gladstone has presented to a church in Finchshire the money he received for his reply to Robert G. Ingersoll. The reply was a failure, but the church took the money.

Lincoln Journal: Gabriel will probably not come for 1,000 years yet, but whenever the date of his arrival may be, he will find among the living multitudes numerous colored gentlemen who were servants to George Washington.

Norristown Herald: Ex-Secretary Lincoln says that the only protection he found in Europe was his umbrella, as it rained five days in every week. If there is anything that needs protection it is the umbrella, but there is more free trade in the article in this ceuntry than in any other one thing.

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At sea. on his yacht, with a fair lady by him, He asked for a kiss, but she chose to deny him. "Not here." cried the lady, in tones full of mirth, "Though I have not the slightest objections 011 earth." —[Harper's Bazar.

Prison life is very tough, dungeon know. Professional cracksmen are getting scarce says Inspector Byrnes, of New York.

Without the risk of being caught, burglarizing is said to lose halt its charm.

There are something like 3,000 of the 110,000 people in Omaha who have their abode in "flats."

Mr. Parnell is shooting grouse in Ireland, and is said to be rapidly improving in health and hope.

A fat man is more likely to fume and fret with impatience than a lean one. He thinks it may reduce his wait.

The duchess of Marlborough (formerly Mrs. Hammersley) will visit her old home in New York in the latter part of October.

The prince of Wales has discarded his brown flannels this year for a gray suit. This information is important to dudes and Anglomaniacs.

A San Francisco couple who desired to get married chartered a tug and had the ceremony performed while the boat was in the open sea.

King Oscar has arranged for a grand hunt in the most northern portions of Sweden, and the courts of Europe will be invited to join him in the chase. The principal game sought will be elk.

Mrs. Gladstone appeared on a special day at the Irish exhibition in London with a white Irish lace shawl thrown over her black dress, and a couple of little grandsons clothed in fancy Irish costumes.

Bernard and Joseph Molloy, at Consett, England, sucked the ends of fresh hemlock twigs a few days ago, and died in a Bhort time. The doctors decided that hemlock waB a virulent poison at this season.

Great men are grown in the West. Ralph Ring, of Kansas, aged 10, is in jail for stealing some fifty horses in the course of the past year. The small number is apologized for by the thief's extreme youth.

A little girl in Lewiston, Me., who was ill the other evening called her mother to her bedside and said, piteously: "Mamma, I am awful sick. I just swallowed upward," and her mother sympathized with her deeply.

There is an encampment of gypsies at Say brook Point, Conn., presided over by Typhena, the thirty-fourth queen of the Zut family. It is said that she will go to Bristol, England, in November to attend a great convocation of the gypsies of the world.

An electric girl in Iowa can hold a 300pound man on a chair with all ease. Almost any pretty girl can hold a man of any size in a chair, or even on a piano stool, whether she's electric or not, and she needn't even so much as put her hands on him.

The state of Wisconsin some time ago ordered a statue of Father Marquette, to be placed in the capitol at Washington, as one of the two representatives of thai state in Statuary hall. It ia now found that under the law the statue is not eligble to a place there.

Mrs. Ben Harrison is a woman who will be mistress of herself though china fall. The tramp of campaign visitors through her house has made a well-worn path across her carpets, but she looks at it with a serene and philosophic eye, and loses her temper not at all.

Montgolfier being a dutiful husband was airing his wife's dresses preparatory to going to a ball. He observed that the hot air from the fire inflated the light materials, which rose in a sort of spheroidal form. This gave him the idea of the balloon, which he soon after invented.

Vienna Scientific societies have been investigating the wonderful "weather plant" discovered some months ago, and it is ia said that its weather foretelling propensities have been thoroughly verified. The Marine department of the Austrian war department is to give the plant a trial on Bhipboard.

The Rev. J. F. Orwick, of Centervil !e, Mich., baptized one day last week a husband, wife and seventeen children. The husband had to refer to the family record for date. In looking for it he remarked that the record was not yet filled out, to which the wife innocently responded that "we have time enough yet."

The lute Richard S. Spofford in his will showed great consideration in remembering faithful servants and hotel waiters, as well as thoughtfulness by which mementoes of his attachment were bequeathed to friends. Even his oflice boy came in for a liberal bequest, which was no doubt a merited recognition of his services.

Cats as a general thing do not like water, even though they are good swimmers] A man in Clayton, N. J., has a large Maltese that is an exception. This animal takes to water even more kindly than a spaniel. He will go into the water on his own account and seem to enjoy itjjhugely. Like a dog, he will bring back a stick thrown into the water.

The "champion frog-eater" of Basle, France, recently wagered five francs and a quart of brandy that he could swallow three dozen live frogs at a sitting. He won, but was immediately seized with horrible internal pains, and nearly died before he could swallow chemicals enough to get the frogs out of him. When they were ejected fifteen of them were dead, but the rest were still alive.

Mrs. Kate Chase, as brilliant as ever and nearly as beautiful, is living quietly on her estate at Edgewood, near Washington. There is a prospect that the lady, whose life since her father's death has been full of care and anxiety, may enjoy great prosperity again, as her properly, owing to the improvements iu its vicinity, is rapidly rising in value. Her book of reminiscences will shortly appear.

General Sheridan's grave at Arlington is now marked only by a large, Hat stone, which covers it entirely, and projects above the surface about one inch. The stone is an immense cubic block which was the base of a column of the old war department building, and it weighs about three tons. It is sunk into the earth, and rests upon a brick vault about the coffin. The guard has been withdrawn.

Hay Fever.

I have been a great sufferer from hay fever for 15 years. I read of the many wondrous cures of Ely's Cream Balm and thought I would try it. In fifteen minutes after one application I was wonderfully helped. Two weeks ago I commenced using it and now I feel entirely cured. It is the greatest medical discovery ever known or heard of.— Duhamel Clark, Lynn, Mass.

TIME TABLE

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus ran dally. All other trains run dally Sunday* excepted

VANDALIA LINE. T. H. 41. DIVISION. LKAVS IOH THX WKST.

No. flWestern Kxpress (S) LU a. m. No. 6 Mall Train* 1U1S a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) p. tu. No. 7 Kast Mall 1UIH p. ui. 1JCAYK FOB TKK *A3T. No. 12 Cincinnati Kxpress *(S) 1.80 a. m. No. 6 New York Kxpress (S) 1.61 a. 111. vo. 4 Mall and Accommodation "7.15 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Kxpress »(PfcV) l'i.6'2 p. 111. No. 8 Kast Line* 'AW* P-

ARRIV* FROM TUK KAST.

No. 9 Western Kxpress (S) 1-80 a. in. No. 6 Mail Train* a. m. No. 1 Kast Llne*(PAV) '2.(« p. iu. No. SMall aid Accommodation B.46 P- m. No. 1 Kast Mall laiW p. m.

ARRIVTC FROM TUK WKST.

No. Cincinnati Kxpress*(S) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New York Kxpress*(S 1.42 a. 111. No. 20 Atlantic Kxpress*(PAV) 12.it' p. in. No. 8 Kast Line* 1.48 p. in.

T.H.AL. DIVISION. LXAVX FOR THK BOKTH.

No. EJ South Bend Mall 6.1X1 a. 111. No. 61 South Bend Kxpress 4.110 p. m. ARRIVE FROM NORTH. No. fil Terro Hante Express l'ito noon No. 63 South Bend Mall ISO p. 111.

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