Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 September 1888 — Page 4

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(JHAltliKS K. (JBIKFIN, of Lake. AUDITOR OF STATK HBUCK CAHIt. of Orange.

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I'ltANK TIITTLK. COKONKH, DB. JOHN 11YDK.

"(ieneral Harrison has nothing in his record that should prevent any Republican worklngman from voting for him- I regard the nomination as a strong one, and know his friendly attitude tow,iiiI organized labor." Ciller Arthur, of the Brotherhood or Locomotive Engineers.

The honest confession of Henry Wnttorson in the Forum is ^ood for his soul if not for hia party: ••I should he entitled to no respect or credit IT I pretended that there Is either a fair vote or count ol the vast overflow ol black voters In states where I here Is a negro majority, or that, In the nature or things at present, there can-be. There was not when the ballot-box was guarded by federal bayonets. There Is not now."

Poor old .Judge Thurmiui is still mumbling about his past elTorts.

If Judge Thurnum dies between now the election man named Cleveland will morally be a murderer.

The mail service grows worse and worse. It is no longer a public service but it is a partisan and dishonest organized ion.

The "Ciod's Whole Truth About the Matter" is that you can't talk soldier loyalty without oll'ending a rebel sympathizer.

Colonel I lallowell, of Kansas, will speak at the Republican wigwam on Monday evening. There should and will be an immense attendance. He is a lloosier soldier and a lloosier-bred llepublican.

TRYING 70 CRAWFISH.

The following is an Associated press dinpatch received yesterday: The act I ng secretary of war has Issued the following circular: It Is hereby directed that, hereafter, chiefs ot bureaus of the war department shall cause to be stated In all advertisements for proposals tor furnishing supplies needed by or under the war department, that preterence will be given to articles ol domestic production or manufacture, conditions ot quality ami price (including In the price of foreign productions or manuHotures the duty therconl being equal, and further that no contracts shall be awarded for the furnishing of articles of foreign prductlon or manufacturers when the article, or suitable quality, of domestic production or manufacture can be obtained.

The president and all his crowd are at their best when crawfishing. There is nothing courageous or honest in their act*. Professing great admiration far reform methods the administration has been notorious for the failure to fulfill its promises. The order from the secretary of war given above is intended for campaign ell'ect as an apology for the act of the same official in buying English blankets. That transaction so convincinglv exploded the assertion that the amount of the duty is added to the cost of the article that it is now a good time to retell the story.

In March. 1SS7. the government advertised for bids for '2,000 four pound blankets for the medical department of

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the army. There were foreign bids and American bids. The lowest foreign bid was §2.2/3, and the lowest American bid 32.50, a difference of 30^£ cents. The duty on that kind of woolen is IS cents a pound and 35 percent, ad valorem. The duty on the foreign blanket would have been 83,01

G. The price of the

home blankets, according to President Cleveland, should have been the price of the foreign blankets, S-1,50-1, with the duty added, or $7,520. But what was the price at whicJi the home-made blankets were offered? It was $5,120,or $2,100 less than President Cleveland and his free trade claquers say it must be!

The foreign bid was $4,504, the American bid $1,120, a difference of 8G1G, or just al)out 30 cents on each blanket. Did the government enforce the tariff provisions, thereby shutting out the foreign bidders, and buy the blankets at home? It did not. It took advantage of an act intended for timee of war, accepted the foreign bid, and brought in the goods duty free, merely to save 30 cents a blanket! The American money that should have gone to pay for American wool and American labor was used to pay for foreign wool and foreign labor. The money that Bhould now be circulating in this country is circulating in rope.

C. 0. I).

••Alas: We are all pork reaeliers," as the fellow said who stole a hog.

"Tom, can you lend me $5?" "I can, with the greatest of V's."

The grain gambler like Ills humble colored brother, depends largely on "craps" for Ills winnings.

Landlord—"Which is right, Mr. Samples, I keep a hotel, or I keep an hotel?" Drummer—"Neither. You don't."

When the small boy ties a piece of tinware to a dog's tall, would you call the ensuing scene nishlng the canOr would It be rushing the growler?

Editor—"Has that cut ol Lester Wallack come yet?" Koreman—"No." "Well. Just take that cut of Chief Justice Fuller anil run that in. Nobody will know the difference."

'Tis said that the gas from the gusher at Canonsburg, Pa., looks like a solid piece of blue steel as It leaves the pipe. When those Canonsburgers have to pay about four prices for It. they will think It Is blew steal.

"Hello, Jimmy, how did you get that black eye?" "Canvassing lianis." "Canvassing hams?"' "Yes, Tried to take a straw vote in a theatrical party."

Mr. Hacede (In sporting goods store)—"What's them hoss-muzzles worth?" Dealer—"Those are not horse muzzles. They are renclng masks." "Kencing masks? By tied, that's a good scheme. II old I'ncle Johnny Brown had a had one of them on last week when he was imttin' tip wire fence he wouldn't have got his eye put out. Guess I'll take one." "Jane," said Mr. Bogler, "I really do believe that you loosen about a yard of plaster every step. It does beat me that as soon as a woman gets her shoes off she can't walk across the room without trying to ram iter heels clear through the tloor." "Do you remember those versese you sent me before me were married?" asked Mrs. Bogler. "Nawl"

She dived Into her writing desk and brought out a sheet of gilt-edged note paper, which still retained a faint perfume. Then she read this to him:

TO JKNNIK.

"The growing grasses, As Jennie passes, Scarce deign to bow their head.

Her fairy heel They scarcely feel.

So airy Is her tread."

Mr. Bogler absently took off Ills glasses, wiped them, put them on and shoved them to the top of Ills head, and sighed. "Ah, those happy days! But what an ass I must have been:" said he, softly.

A l.ITTLK MISUSllKltSTANIHNIi.

Among the passengers on the east-bound mall train yesterday was a young man. or at least the mutilated fragments of one whose tout ensemble, ami other portions of his frame bore evidence of having under gone a cataclysm.

To a sympathizing stranger, who asked the reason of Ills appearance, he unfolded the following tale ot woe: "My friend you behold belore you the result of a futile endeavor to engraft a little Eastern culture among a lot of denied heathens, ho, while tliey may comprehend the ordinary language of the lower walks of life, when they meet with the most simple examples of the Gallic tongue are confronted with a problem the Incomprehensibility of which Is only equaled by their total unlamlltarIty." "Eh-How?" "That is. while they can understand common very imon—English pretty well, a little Krench knocks .,,etu out." ••oh! I see! Well?" "Well, you see. I was fool enough to try to run a newspaper out there In Arizona. I never Intended going Into Journalism when I landed out West, but I struck the town Just after the late editor, proprietor, pressman, etc., of the Cliirlon had been shot through the liver with a double-action •1 l-callbre Colt by I'eg-leg Johnson lor saying that Mr. Johnson's wooiien limb was the only portion of his vile carcass lit to run at large or be out or the soap-factory. The Clarion was sale cheap and I bought it and sailed In. 1 got along smoothly enough for about six weeks, until the wife of big Jake Carter, proprietor of the howling Cayote saloon, presented him with a son. So In the next issue of the Clarion I Inserted this Item." and he handed his listener a clipping which read thus: 'Big Jake Carter unay his shadow never grow less) our genial and whole-

souled

dealer In the ardent. Is again the happy father or a ten-pound son. We would remark, by the way. that It is well worth the while ol our citizens to stop In and take a look at Jake's new cafe." ••Well. I don't see nothing wrong with that," said his auditor. -Neither did 1, but on the evening the paper came out. that benighted gin sllnger walked Into my ofliee. lie just stood and looked at me and kinder opened his mouth once ot1 twice and then he sewwed to Just swell up all over and then he camentme. Well, as the feller says, 'the subsequent i.riveedlngs Interested me no more." When I recovered one of the boys was pouring Ice water down my back with the sprinkler and Jake was remarking that 'they all knowed he stood kiddln" as well as anybody in the town, but when a little 7x"J Johnnj-come-lately undertook to guy his family it was time to lie the hearse. No man. let alone a denied Inundation of a man. could call his son a calf and live.' 'Head that out loud to the boys.' says he. "and then 1'in going to make you eat It.' "Well, when 1 saw the Item which had caused the trouble, ami had tixed me so that if I desired to follow my nose I would have to get Into a circus ring to do so conveniently, 1 explained the mistake under which Mr. Carter was laboring. I must say that h^, was Very sorry, imd when Shorty Briggs sugirested that 1 be hanged on general principles, as being a little too hlgh-'.otied for that locality, he promptly kicked Sir. Briggs into a comatose condition, and swore he was my friend. This was comforting to some extent, but I sold out the next week and started for the Kast. where people are not quite so impulsive."

STRAY INFORMATION.

Dr. Henry W. Taylor has been in the city for several days. He is still located at Sullivan. To an Express reporter the doctor said that he was still doing literary work. Of late he has been engaged on a work of fiction which will shortly make its appearance. The manuscript has been completed and arrangements made with a publisher. The novel deals with lloosier life in fact it is a lloosier story. The Bcenes are laid in this vicinity and in Chicago. The doctor said his dialect dictionary has not yet been published. He had completed a revision and the MSS. was in the hands of the Appletons to be published. The doctor made a discovery that many of the words could be traced back to different languages. This discovery led him to withdraw the manuscript, and since that time he has been at work on that lead. He finds upon investigation that it is more important than he at first supposed. A thorough investigation, however, requires a great amount of study of the ancient languages, and the revision will, in consequence, require considerable time. Thus far the doctor thinks the finding of the same word in so many different tongues carrifs out the biblical statement that there was at first but one language. The other languages which have sprung up are corruptions of the original. The dictionary will not -be ready for publication in two or three years. The doctor said Noah Webster spent twenty years on his dictionary after he. had completed it, making a trip to Europe, and searching the languages. The doctor does not propose to spend so much time on his dialect dictionary, but when it is completed it will represent a number of years of work.

During the reunion flags have Hoated from nil the public buildings with the. exception of the postoRice, where the Hag was hung on the front of the building. The last time it was run up on the Hag staff, the starry field was underneath the flag, standing "on its head," as it were. One Hag which attracted as much attention and comment as any was on the top of the Vandalia railroad building at Sixth and Main streets. On the top of the cupola at the corner stands a bronze statue of Mercury, about six feet in height, lie is represented in the act of passing through the air, and has his left hand extended. In this hand yesterday was a Hag. It was placed there ay Mr. Sam Shewmaker, assisted by Sam Early. Since the building has been up it is said a Hag has been put there but four times. It is a difficult and dangerous undertaking and upon one other occasion Shewmaker slipped and fell a distance of about six feet before he secured a hold. He stood on the wings attached to Mercury while fastening the Hag. Many watched the operation from the street.

There is a great deal of checker playing in the city. At the Boston house there is a circle of crack checker players and they claim they can produce the champion of the city. The St. Charles is another haunt and at the Union depot there are a number who engage in the the game whenever they have spare time. Now and then the politicians at llepublican headquarters rest from political discussion by pondering over the board and guarding their men as assiduously as if they could cast a' vote at the November election. There have never been any championship games in the city, but many can lay just claims to the standing in the front rank. A tournament has been suggested, but it has not been definitely determined upon. Among the best players in town can be mentioned the following: Thos. Hite, Richard Mendenhall, Frank Feidler, Bob Stunkard, Joseph Madison, Joseph Fuqua, Abe Shewmaker, Nicholas Filbeck, James Talbert, James Boston, 'Squire Gray, Dr. Spencer, Dr. Musick, Henry Schonefeldt, Joseph Nott, Henry Albrecht, D. \V. Titus, Robert Thomas, Jerry Hedden, Mr. Bradley, Mr. Merrill and John Hard wick.

The deal between the Thermogen company and the Kansas City syndicate for the sale of the territory has not been consummated although negotiations are still pending. Several of the Kansas City capitalists were here to see the operation of the thermogens and they express themselves as very highly pleased with the work they performed. However, the taking out of the machines was misconstrued. It was not because of any trouble or failure to perform their work, but because steam coal is only 40 or 50 cents per ton in this city. The thermogen would be a great saving to the Kansas City manufacturer, who pays more than $2 per ton for his steam coal. In some places crude oil alone is being burned under boilers. The thermogen is much cheaper, although the machine is more expensive. All the naptha, paralline and similar waxy substances in the crude oil is consumed by the thermogen, but in the burning of the oil in the air under boilers ihe Hues stop up and great dilliculty is experienced on this account.

Superintendent M. N. Dial, of the gas well, said yesterday that the well was not so "well" as it had been. In fact great difficulty had been experienced this week. An effort was made to put down the casing to the bottom of the well but it proved a failure. The casing was lowered to a considerable depth when the tools used gut caught in the well and could not be removed. Considerable time was expended in an effort to take them out and it was finally concluded to take out both the casing and the tools. As soon as this is accomplished another attempt will bo made to case the well.

Allie Baker has a dog in the p-jstollice lobby that is a great favorite. The little fellow was thrown into the river, but was Hshed out, and afterwards given to the present owner. It weight was then two pounds and two ounces, but by the placing of a collar around its neck and a liberal bestowal of caresses by those who go into the postottice its weight has increased seven ounces. It is one of the smallest canines in the city.

The city clerk yesterday commenced work on a new tax duplicate for the year. It will require six or eight weeks to complete the work, and then the delinquents will not be on the duplicate. Those who do not pay their taxes before .lanuary 1st become delinquent, and the 3 per cent, is then added and placed on the duplicate.

Died of a Mysterious Disease.

Three deaths have occurred in the family of Isaac Woolley, a wealthy citi

THE TERRE SAtJTE EXPRESS, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9,1888.

zen of Shelburn, Ind. Wednesday he died suddenly, the mysterious disease taking him off almost before his friends knew he was ill. His wife, apparently in good health, died of the same disease this morning. While both bodies were still in the house one of the children was taken sick and died of the same disease. The physicians are unable to explain the case.

WAGES AND THE TARIFF.

How Women and Children are Forced to Work tn Great ltritain.

The following is from the New York Tribune: The wide difference between the proportion of women and children employed in this country and in Great Britain renders any comparison of wages only, without allowance for the number of workers of each kind employed, apt to be most deceiving. But the British parliamentary papers state from time to time the number of workers of each sex and age employed in establishments under the factories act, and the report for 188.") gives the number in the textile industries as follows:

3 ST cc 3

Males over 18 132,209 52,000 9,081 193,950 Males 13 to 18 40,205 12.402 2.18G 54,853 Keniales over 13 281,003 09.022 27,933 379,158 I'nderl3, boys 23,!K)4 2.918 1,243 28,005 Under 13, girls 2G.088 2.310 1.952 30,350

Total males 190,378 07,378 13,110 270,8GG Total females 307,G91 71.93S 29.8S5 409,514

From parliamentary papers it appears that in the three industries above mentioned 282 out of 1,000 workers were males above 18 years of age, 552 out of every 1,000 were women above 13 *years of age, 121 were boys and 44 were girls. In the same industries, according to the last census, the proportion in this country was of men 400 in 1,000, of womi 45-1, and of boys and girls 147 in 1,000 The British oHicial papers show also, that the proportion of women and children employed has been steadily increating since 1871 the number of men employed had increased 20,000, but the number of women had increased 40,000, in the cotton and woollen industries alone. Returns for the same year in other industries are not at hand, but using the latest accessible for each branch, the number reported in twelve of the sixteen industries compared contrasts with the United States census returns for the same industries thus:

(ireat Britain. United Suites.

Number.

1,000.

Men Women Boys (ilrls

Number.

585,359 427,450 101,992 31,807

1,000.

485 354 135 20

534,807 182,299

085

II 233

64.212

283 women at 5 50 82 youths at 4 09

Total

Thus it appears that the tables given in the census volume state the wages of more than 1.200,000 workers in only twelve of the sixteen indu tries included for Great Britain, while the census shows in the same twelve industries the wages of about 800,000 workers in this country. So large a body of information regarding wages has nowhere else been presented. In these twelve industries, those hitherto compared, excepting gas and car manufacture and iron and coal mining, the number of classes and the average of wages given in the census reports compare as follows:

(ireat Britain. United States.

Classes.

Wages.

Men Women Boys Girls

Classes.

257 48 120 35

Wage

$6 50 2 91 2 45 1 83

247 41

*12 24 5 5U 4 09

^35

Using these averages of 1,000 workers in each country, divided according to the official returns above cited, we have a complete comparison of wages in these industries as follows:

GREAT U11ITAIN.

Weekly Wages. Total.

324 women at 2 91 135 boys at 2 55 20 girls at 183

Total

*3,181 00 1,030 14 330 75 47 58

$4,590 07

UNITKD STATUS.

Weekly Wtiges. Total.

.$8,383 40 1.29G 48 335 38

Total .$10,015 20

The wages for 1,000 workers, divided as they actually were divided at the date of the latest official information accessible, and paid as they actually were paid according to the census volume on wages, averaged in the United States 610.011X weekly, and in Great Britain 84.5!) weekly,so that the actual compensation of the workers employed was 11S.2 per cent, higher in this country than in Great Britain. These averages correspond closely with those of the classes for all the industties compared, so that the true difference in the actual compensation of workers in these mechanical and manufacturing industries, employing 1,200,000 people in Great Braitain and eight years ago about 800,000 in this country, cannot vary widely from the result thus obtained.

ltesol lit ions.

Special to the Kxpress.

SIIKM'.I KN, Ind, September 5.—At a special meeting of the Federation of Miners and Mine Laborers, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted, and a committe appointed to draft resolutions to be sent to the following papers: Sullivan Times, Sullivan Democrat, Sullivan Union and Terre Haute Express also the bereaved family:

Whereas, It has been the will of our all wise (iod to remove from our midst our esteemed friends .Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Woolley who departed this lite the 4th and 5th Inst, leaving in the short period of time of a very few hours between the death of husband and wife, which was more than a surprise to the irlends and community, and who mourn the loss of not only friends but Christians and neighbors whose faces were always a pleasure to behold, and voices that could le heard tn their resjiectlve positions in the church to whli'li they belonged trying to educate all to meet them In the better world where they will be received and crowned with the glories awaiting them be it

Resolved. That we the miners of Shelburn and Currysvllle mines chronicle with deep regret the suiJd-n death of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Woollen, and to the trtends and relatives we join in extending our most sincere sympathy In their hour of bereavement of the loss of a beloved father and mother. Be It further

Resolved. As a mark of our respect for the deceased, we. the Federation of Miners and Mine Laborers, wear crape for the space of thirty days.

AKTlU'R l.A.VPSON, CIIAS. Wm.cn, .Tons I.OWKV. J. W. MAKTIS.

Committee.

Miners Meeting at Fontanel.

On Friday night the miners of Fontanet and vicinity were addressed by several men who are prominent among them, being known throughout the entire country. They were returning from the convention at Indianapolis, and Btopped off at Brazil. In the afternoon

they spoke to the miners of Clay county, and" at night were at Fontanet. Fully 1,000 gathered to hear the Hon. Daniel McLaughlin, president of the Illinois State Miners' Federation, and Mr. T. H. Donley, secretary and treasurer of the same association. It was one of the largest meetings ever held in Fontanet. Mr. McLaughlin discussed the tariff in a very strong

Bpeech,

and one which, no doubt,

will have great weight. He argued for protection, and showed conclusively that a reduction of the tariff, as proposed by the Democrats, meant the reduction of the wages of the miners. He advocated very strongly that Harrison should be supported on the protection platform. Mr. Donley's speech was also mainly devoted to the tariff, and was an admirable effort.

FARMERS MUST PAY.

The Old Wnhasli & Erie Canal Claims Again Troublesome.

The old Wabash &. Erie canal, which has a history in the court records of the state as a monstrous fraud, says the Indianapolis News, again comes to notice as an unabatable nuisance and a source of exasperating annoyance to people who own property along its course. The advantages afforded by the canal in the days of limited means of transportation have been enormously expensive to the people of the state, pecuniarily and otherwise. After prolonged and complicated litigation the use of the canal was abandoned many years ago, and it has since become simply a miasmatic channel, spreading disease along its course from Fort Wayne down to Evansville, and yet, by the sufferance or neglect of the state board of health, it is tolerated without a murmnr.

When the sale of the canal bed, with a path of filty feet on each side, was ordered by Judge Drummond, on the suit of Jonathan K. Gapen, it was held by the court that the purchasers acquired a fee simple, although in the opinions given by the Supreme court judges it was maintained by Judge Biddle that there had been no fee simple given, but simply an easment. The canal was purchased for a nominal sum by a few speculators. For atime after its abandonment in 1875 the privilege of using it as a water supply to mills and for the ice that it yielded in winter was the only revenue thftt it afforded, but as its condition grew worse the tolls were not sufficient to properly maintain it, and it rapidly fell into that deplorable state that it is now-a-days described as innocuous desuetude. For two or three years it has been of no proctical benefit, but has really become a great nuisance, and now the farmers who own land' along its course are given special cause for complaint by the receipt of letters reading something like the following.

DEAU STU—The Wabash A Krle canal, as you are aware, runs through your farm. On behalf of the owners, I beg leave to say that some arrangements regarding Its further use must be entered into, for the following retisons: We do not desire the statute of limitations to run against us, and if you will pay a nominal sum for a lease, simply to recognize our ownership of It, we will send you the necessary papery for that purpose. Otherwise' we shall be compelled to ask you to remove the fences inclosing the same and throw it out. Very respectfully.

These letters bear the name of a man named Smith, who is acting as an attorney for the owners of the canal. It is claimed that it is the intention to use the canal land as the right of way for a railroad parallel with the Wabash line, but it is generally believed that a6 a itter of fact it is being held as a speculation, and it is necessary to retain the ownership, that it should be put to some use, in which the legal rights to the control of it are recognized, before the expiration of twenty years. The amounts that are asked for leases vary from SI to $25, according to the willingness of the farmers to pay rather than to be caused annoyance and expense by having their farms thrown open by the removal of fences. The notices that have been sent out have aroused much feeling among the farmers, and some of them have sought legal advice with a view to resisting the demands upon them. It is only along the course of the canal, from Terre llaute to Foit Wayne, that the lease propositions are being made, as below Terre Haute the land is now owned and used by the Evansville fc Indianapolis Railway company as a right of way for their line.

THE CHURCHES.

UNITKO BRF.TIIUKN CIIcum.—Regular services. Preaching by the pastor morning and evening.

FIBSTBAPTIST.—-Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching by the pastor both morning and evening.

CIIKISTIAN CHURCH.—Regularservices both morning and evening by the pastor. Sunday school at !):30 a. m.

GKKMAN MF.T HO HIST.—Sunday school at a. m. Preaching by the paetor at 10::?0 a. m. and and 7 :!50 p. m.

FIRST CONCKKCIATIONAI.CiifKrii.—The Rev. M. Angelo Dougherty, pastot, will preoch to-day at 11 a. m. and 7:150 p. m.

CENTRAL PKESHVTRRIAN CHIUCII.— Divine service at 11 a. m. and 7:IJ0 p. ni. Sunday school at 11:45 a. m. Theliev. (J. R. Pierce, pastor.

UNIVF.RSAMKT CHURCH.—Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject, "The Succoring Rock in the evening, "Christian Duty." Sunday school at 0:45 a. m.

CHRISTIAN MISSIONS.—Sunday school at the East Walnut street and south Third

Btreet

missions at 2:30 p. m.

Preaching at the Walnut street mission on Thursday evening. CF.NT I.NAKY M. E. CNUKFH.—There will be no service at Centenary Church to-day owing to the absence of Dr. Train at conference. The Sunday school will be held at the usual hour, 2:30 o'clock p. m. A short song service will be held a little before the regular opening hour of the school. A cordial in-, vitation is given to every one to visit the school and if not attendants elsewhere to unite with it.

NOT K.S.

A union meeting of all the young people's societies of the city is called at the Christian Church this evening at 1 o'clock sharp, to arrange to send representatives to the coming state conventions of those societies at Indianapolis. All interested are invited to attend without further notice.

Ko Time lo Sleep.

Country minister (to deacon(—I was sorry to see you drop off to sleep this morning in church, deacon.

Deacon (apologetically)—Well-sir, the heat was so oppressive, Mr. Country minister (gently)—My dear brother, if there is anything which should keep you alert to the word of God, as expounded from the pulpit, it is oppressive heat.—[New York Sun.

An Kxciting Time.

Stranger (in the Catskills)—"What are all the people rushing about so for— bears, or earthquakes, or what?"

Summer Tourist (out of breath)—No —no the mail's

juBt

come."—[Epoch.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

THK BUSTLE IS POLITICS.

Since Belva Lock wood got Into The presidential tu-wle. The paralyzing fact i» learned

She doesn't wear a bustle.

This ought not to hurt her cause The simple truth Is. neither Of the oilier candidates

Wears a bustle either. —Philadelphia Press.

A marine auction—A sail nt sea. The tariff tax on bicycle lamps is 35 per cent.

Tolu parties are all the chew in I'hillipsburg, Pa., society. Bogus cider vinegar is being warred upon, officially, in Cincinnati.

A man at Tatuat), Ga., has twentyseven brothers and sisters living. Bicyclists are allowed the privilege of pedaling without license.

At least thirty theatrical combinations left New York in one day recently. A girl of 4 years in Boyertown, Pa., has erysipelas from a mosquito bite.

The corn crop in Adams county, Nebraska, is estimated at 0,000,000 bushels. One day's newspaper and magazine mail in the New York postoflice was 131 tons, 207,508 pounds.

Another Chicago syndicate declares ils intention to purchase Libby prison and remove it to that city.

Some people are inquiring why M. Pasteur does not devoto his attention to studying yellow fever germs.

Bishop Newman's recent post in Washington is to be filled by the liev. George II. Carey, of Brewster, N. Y.

St. Louis is to have a new Union railroad station, at a cost of $500,000. Work will be begun within sixty days.

Barnes, the jockey, who rode Proctor Knott to victory in the Futurity stakes, did so without wearing spurs.

Near Silver Lake, Miss., the other day John Ramus, while out hunting, shot at a deer, and killed Peter French, a deacon.

Of the seventeen patients admitted to Bellevue hospital, New York, last Monday, nine were found suffering from alcoholism.

A boiler which exploded out West a few weeks ago was snid to be as thin as paper. It was attached to a stationary engine, of course. il is stated upon medical authority that readers should refrain from dampening their fingers in turning over the leavos of library books, as this is a sure way to attract any stray bacilli that may be lurking around.

John Tod, a Scotchman who has just published in Edinburgh a book entitled "Bits About America," says that American women have great power of expressing what tljey mean. They are few married men in this country who will thoroughly agree with Mr. Tod.

The peanut yields from 40 to 50 per cent, of nearly colorless oil of quality not far below olive oil, for which it is largely sold. Last year 10,000,000 bushels of peanuts were imported into Marseilles, France, to be pressed for oil, very little of which was sold under its proper name. The residual pomace is employed in adulterating chocolate.

An anonymous correspondent of the London Times, in endeavoring to show that property is no longer safe in these Democratic days, says that the late Charles Crocker, of California, told him that he had trained his sons to earn their own living, adding that he would not give twenty years' purchase for any piece of property in the civilized world.

One of the peculiarities of the Farmers' club of Philadelphia, a dining and social organization as well as a promoter of husbandry, is that when a member becomes a father a silver cup shall bo presented to the boy or girl as the case may be. The Clover club, another Philadelphia dining organization, always presents the happy father with a silver spoon.

A Canadian has attempted to bribe Senator George Frisbie Hoar. Charles Arpin, of St. John's, Quebec, has certain claims against the United States, involving, he says, $1,000,000. Mr. A rpin wants Senator Hoar to push these claims for a percentage of the profits. Senator Hoar says he is not that kind of a 'arpin himself. He is much angered at the Canadian's presumption.

Ward McAllister gave a subscription picnic recently at his Newport farm, which was attended by 150 of his dear 400 friends. Each gentleman contributed to the entertainment by sending or himself cooking some special dish. There was a dancing platform and a band of music for those who wished to dance, while the more agile of the guests amused themselves by playing "PitSs in the Corner" and "Jerusalem" under the trees.

A woman who has done much honor to her sex is Cora Benneson, of '^uincy, III., who at present holds a fellowship in Bryn Mawr college in Pennsylvania. She was graduated at the university of Michigan with high honors, and afterward received the degree of LL. 15 cum laude from the same institution. Several years ago she went around the world, going the greater part of the way alone, and then spent some time "roughing it" in the Rocky mountains and in California.

Solomon Asher, a Philadelphia dancing master, has just returned from an extended tour through Europe. He says that Americans are everywhere considered the best dancers in the world. Whenever an American begin to dance in a European ball room everybody stops to look at hi in. "They can't complete with us in anything but ruined castles, picture galleries and cathedrals" says Mr. Asher. "They are trying to become Americanized over there. saw American drinks and all sorts of American things everywhere."

The wonderful little pianist, Josef Hofman, has grown stout and sturdy since he left New York. His return next year will be eagerly looked forward to by lovers of the phenomenalin music. It turns out now thai a great many stories about wealthy people who wero anxious to devote a hundred thousand dollars to the boy's musical education, philanthropists who were bound to prevent the playing at any cost, etc., were pure invention. Young Hofman will be starred in a fashion hitherto unknown among pianists, and the orchestra of 100 musicians which he led at the Metropolitan opera house last year will travel with him through the country.

New York Sun: Here are two young men who are practical Christians, and apparently worthy of their high calling. One is Perry S. Grant, rector of an Episcopal church at Fall River. lie has many mill people in his parish, and is so much interested in his work among them that, he has declined flattering offers from thiB city and Boston and Providence. The other is Rector Perkins, of a little Episcopal parish near Salem, N, J. He gives his services without pay, and recently when his people made up a nice purse for him he refused it, saying that he had all the money that he needed, and that it should be used for the improvement of the church.

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Trains marked thus (F) denote I'nrlor Car steadied. Trains marked tlius (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached daily. Trains marked thus (B) de note Bnttet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted

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No. UWestern Kxpress (S) So. 6 Mall Train* No. 1 Kast L'ne (I'AV) iNo. 7 Kast Mall

No. 1*2 Cincinnati Kxpress *(S) No. New York Kxpress (S) No. Mail and Accommodation No. 20 Atlantic Kxpress '(I'IVV) No. 8 Fast Line*

No. 9 Western Kxpress (S) No. 6 Mall Train* No. 1 Kast Llne*(PitV) \o. S Mall and Accommodation No. 1 Kast Mall

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7.1fi a. in. 12.62 p. m. 2.1)8 p. ui.

AKRIVK FROM THK KAST.

1.30 a.

111.

10.12 a. 111. 2.03 p. in. fi.45 p. m. 1(MX1 p. ui.

ARKIVK FROM THK WLCST.

No. 11 Cincinnati Kxpress*(S) No. 6 New York Kxpress*(S) No. 20 Atlantic Kxpress*(l\fcV) \"o. 8 Kast Line*

1.20 a. 111. 1.42 a. m. 12.H7 p. in. 1.48 p. m.

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No. 52 South Bend Mall No. 54 Sonth Bend Express ARR1VK FROM NORTH. No. 51 Terre Hante Kxpress No. 58 South Bend Mall

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