Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 March 1889 — Page 4

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The lower California gold mine boom went the way of other booms sooner than most booms go but the afflatus WBB nearer the "busting" expansion at the start

Mr. Vest, the gentleman from Missouri, who stands in the senate euspenderless is the only Democrat who objects toW hi tela Reid as minister to Prance. Mr. Vest is a great fighter when no carnage is imminent. He once ha^ a fight with a woman while he was pretending to be a senator from Missouri in the confederate senate although Missouri had not seceded.

When Prince Bismarck tells us that Consul Knappe is a tried member of his discreet force of consular representatives, and that his acts in Samoa were a "wilful misconception of his orders, or mistakes, difficult to explain," he virtually tells the world that Knappe did nothing more than was expected of him, and that the difficulty in explaining his acts is really with his superiors. This rebuke of Knappe has little or no effect now because what was done in Samoa and made known to the world Bismarck announced in the reichstag was in conformity with the allied policy of Germany and England. This later statement in which Knappe is made a scapegoat WBB given to the public after England had repudiated the alleged alliance.

TERRE HAUTE'S OPPORTUNITY

The outlook for a substantial improvement in the condition of all things in Terre Haute, was never so encouraging as at present. TIIK EXPRKSS would be the last to join in false pretenses toward a modern bpom, but the hard facts of the past few weeks furnish unmistakable proof of a revival such as the city haa not lately experienced.

Puring tKo paat few

aisoovery ot R(s is dying

The facts presented in another place in this issue to-day showing the prospects for the year's business in real estate are nothing but facts. THE

IOXI'RESS

carefully examined all tbese

statements and consulted the most conservative interests before giving them this prominence. Certainly nothing else can be done now but take advantage of ttie fair wind and sail on to greater prosperity. c.

0. D.

ClilcHgoed.

Mr. Luke Front—My dear, there Is a warmth mid tenderness In your kisses this evening which recalls our happy courting days.

Mrs. Lake Front I'm glad you think so. Tor 1 stopped 'n

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our lawyer's, this afternoon, and got

a divorce. It must be nearly eleven o'clock, too. You had better go down to the hotel, now, and we'll divide the property In the morning.

Tli«t Settled It.

Manager—My dear Miss Klnshlelght, It will never do at all [or you to wear that diamond necklace In the role or a beggar girl.

Miss Klashlelght, the star—Very well. If that's tlie case, the piece will have to be changed. Why dldu't you tell me of this before 1 had gone to the trouble of studying the part?

Dossert.

An observant old bachelor detlnes matrimony as an alternation of sharp disputes and dull silence. It Is a wise child that goes out of the room to laugh when the old man mashes his thumb.

This Is the season o' year wlien suddenly checked perspiration so often leads to pneumonia. Remember the pore ye have wltli you always and hang on to your llannels.

Paying a Deserved Compliment. To the Kditor of the Erprew: SIR: May 19th in making a trip with the Vandalla pay car, 1 stopped over night at Lake Maxlnkuckee as Is customary with Paymaster Crawford, and seeing several copies of TUK Exrnsss In that neighborhood, 1 would like to call your attention to K. K. Huntslnger, the genial and whole-souled Hgent at that point. He Is a young man of unusual ability and a great favorite with the traveling public. The depot Is always neat and clean. To the excellent work done by the company Mr. Huntslnger has added many adornments, giving It a ctv.y and home-like appearance. Captain Lord and his estimable lady and their elegant home, are a success In catering to the taste of pleasureseekers at this great pleasure resort. A. B.

TKKRK HAITK, March 23.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Richmond State: The people err In nothing so as in paying Insufficient salaries for laoorlces. The laborer Is worthy of his hire, urler The more Bismarck feels of nerlcans the more he will Bud they vuntry which has given them

a. all eno

Jens of Blsmarckian govern-

feel sure that we are ^sst when we say in Its *epresentaUves can •inter the coats of -H1 in the fine who vote up

g?W:

away

and Terre Haute is naturally finding its level in the steady growth of general prosperity. It has unfailing and exceptionable advantages in all its natural resources and surroundings. It makes no balloon effort to soar above other cities on this account, but in the long run its welfare does not suffer by comparison. It had no wild excitement in IST.'i but it was the exception of cities then that no bank closed its doors in that great panic.

A GHOST FROM GRETNA GREEN.

Everybody knows that Gretna Green as a matrimonial institution is dead, but its ghost still haunts the lower courts, and on Saturday it appeared before Mr. Justice Butt, says the London Telegraph. Forty-three years ago a young girl, not yet 10, was living with her parents at Tower house, Woodchester, in Gloucestershire. She met Mr. Charlee Gardiner, and—it is needless to say—they loved. "They made up their minds to get married, and without the leave of their parents," so they secured the aid and company of a Mr. and Mrs. Smith—names that rather spoil the romance—and arranged for an elopement to Gretna Green. At that time these marriages were legal, even if the parties contracting had only just arrived on Scottish soil—their steeds still smoking with the hot haste made to escape capture by an angry father. The young girl of 1846 is now a lady not far from GO, and she deposed before the divorce division on Saturday to the fact of the marriage. She remembered the •'ceremony." which seemed short and simple. Her husband put a ring on her finger a few words

were

spoken Thomas

Little, who officiated on the occasion, joined their hands and said, "Now you are man and wife," after which she signed a paper. She did not know anything about Little, except that he was "a short, stout man, and wore breeches and gaiters." There were "no prayers," but he charged five guineas. He had also evidently a Caledonian and fatherly eye for a further gratuity, for "he wanted his son to play the bagpipes." The young lady thenceforth lived with her husband as his wife, but her father was "fidgetty," and in little more than two years she went through a second ceremony of marriage in England, and in the usual way. In the interval between the two rites—if the Gretna Green affair can be called a rite—a son was born, and the question that came before the court on Saturday was as to the legitimacy of that son. He, therefore, applied to the court to declare his mother's first marriage valid, and his lordship issued a decree accordingly. So after forty-three years the "married rites'' performed by "a short, stout man, in breeches and gaiters," the absence of prayers and the silence of the bagpipes are supplemented by the formal decree of an English judge, and the ghost of old Gretna Green returned by the Scotch express to his "remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow" little village, no longer enlivened by postboys' horns or conjugating blacksmiths.

The romance that surrounded Gretna Green at one time was partly based on something like superstition. It was believed to be the legalized place for runaway marriages, and in the eyes of flurried "brides the "blacksmith" was a kind of authorized oflicial. The fact simply was that Gretna Green was the first village in Scotland by the Great North road the blacksmith's house was "handy," and, like all village forges, offered an op£n and warm welcome. It was not really needed, for the young couple, after crossing the border, could have taken the postboy to witness that they were man and wife, and it would have been as good a Scotch marriage as the M^mphfor bystanders who beard \z expreboeu, oy letter, by a few words in a book given "to my wife," by habit and repute, or by other means. The backsmith was simply a well-known person who could be found when wanted, who kept a register of the marriages he witnessed, and before whom the marriage could be more or less publicly performed. On the other hand, it must be noted that the mere utterance of a declaration of marriage by both parties will not, according to Scotch law, make a marriage, unless the parties mean it to be a contract. For instance,Jit is sometimes said that if two young people of opposite sexes, stand up in Scotland and, for fun, go through a mock marriage, they will find themselves really united. This is not the fact. It has also been held by the Scotch courts that two persons forced to shelter themselves in a remote hotel, and calling themselves husband and wife merely to obtain a room for the night, are not married by Scotch law, unless they showed by their subsequent conduct that they meant to be married. This principle of the Scotch law was adopted by an English court a few years ago. A young heiress got somehow under the influence of a young man in society, who made love to her, borrowed money from her, and involved her in the toils of the money-lenders. He then brought such pressure to bear on her that he forced her mentally, if not physically, to meet him at a registry office, and go through the bare form of the necessary words. She left him immediately after this "unadvised and sudden" contract, and refused to consider herself his wife. Finally, by the advice of her mother, she sought the dissolution of the contract. She admitted that Bhe said the words and signed the book, but declared that she did so because she believed that she would thus clear him and herself of debts she did not mean to be his wife. Fortunately for the foolish girl the court mercifully released her, taking the Scotch view that in marriage intention is everything, and forms of no importance. The case on Saturday had one weak point, but, as there was no eager opposition to the declaration of validity, it was not pressed. Mrs. Gardiner's first marriage was perfectly valid, according to the laws of Scotland and of England at the time but the subsequent ceremony, though intended to make assurance doubly sure, really threw a doubt upon it. This is what upset Mrs. Yelverton's celebrated case. She was married to Major Yelverton in Scotland, and was legally his wife but she was a Roman Catholic, and when she went to Ireland she begged him to marry her again before a priest: so they were married in a country chapel. Here, then, was a lady married first and validly according to British law, and secondly, by a priest of her own church on Irish soil. Vet she was not secure. For the counsel of Major Yelverton contended that the Scotch coupling was not considered or intended by them as a real marriage, else they would never have got married On Irish soil so that legally they must be considered as persons who had lived together as man and wife in Scotland and then got married in Ireland. That was so decided by the house of lords. But. then, was not the Irish marriage good? No for Major Yelverton's lawyers discovered an old Irish act of parliament making invalid any marriage performed by a priest alone between a Protestant and a Catholic, and Major Yelverton was nominally a Protestant. Thus this unlucky twice "married" lady

was declared not married at alL Mi*. Gardiner, on Saturday, was more fortunate.

Gretna Green was said to be "killed' by the act of 1856, and as a place where elopements were legalized no doubt ita glories have departed. The legality of Scotch marriages, however, still survives. Any person residing in Scotland three weeks can get married after the informal Scotch manner, and the marriage will hold good. In fact, elopements might still be conducted in a circuitous fashion. The gentleman could go first, reside at Gretna Green for three weeks, then be joined by his bride, and marry her on the spot. Other things, however, have put an end to this form or romantic marriage. In the days of poeting the eloping lovers had every advantage. The young gentleman could arrange beforehand for relays of horses the pursuing sire could not do so, not knowing the date of the preparations for flight. Then it was said that the innkeepers and postboys, always favored the fugitives. If the fathers generally overtook the runaways it would have been bad for_trade therefore, the old gentleman did not always secure the freshest or best steed, and it was surprising how often his postboys found a linch-pin loose. Again and again was the rattle of the pursuer's coach heard when the knot was securely tied—but not until then. Nowadays there are no coaches, but express trains and the telegraph wires could anticipate the lovers, and possibly secure delay, if not detention. Also marriages in England have been made so easy that there are Gretna Greens at our very doors. Three weeks' notice to a registrar and a quarter of an hour's absence from home will bring about a marriage without any one being the wiser—above all, not the man and woman who are wed. In London and large cities also the calling of the banns at a parish church is very insufficient publicity when so many families attend favorite preachers elsewhere, and many never hear that their Mary or Ethel or Constance is about to marry in three weeks "that" impecunious young Brown. Thus Gretna Green still virtually lingers with us. Magnetic attraction or something else forces young girls, otherwise intelligent, attractive, and even intellectual, to fix all the love of their young hearts on the wrong man. Fathers threaten, mothers weep, brothers call him, or prove him to be, everything that is unsuitable, or even bad she will not listen, or refuses to believe. One day the street door is open, and she leaves her father's house to fix her own destiny—perhaps to love him always in spite of all his faults or even vices, or to repent once—and that for life. So Gretna Green, or what it once signified, lives forever in human hearts.

Chambers' Appointment a Surprise to Him.

While congratulating Colonel John C. New upon his nomination for consul gen eral to London yesterday Smiley N. Chambers, the new district attorney, told how he was surprised by his appointment. His relations with General Harrison was very friendly, and he had some reason to believe that he might, if he desired it, obtain some appointment, but that he had asked nothing. He was not aware that the president had ever thought of appointing him district attorney, and he did not even know for what position he were received tne nexi^[Wr~TBf^T!8BP mission was the first signed by the new attorney general, and he wrote under his signature: 'This is the first commission I have signed as attorney general.' —[Indianapolis Mews.

IN THE LEGISLATURES.

May 10th is the day set for the Illinois house to vote a resolution to submit a prohibition amendment.

The bill reducing the salaries of state officers in Illinois has been reported on unfavorably by the committee.

In the Illinois house the Grand Army badge bill, making it a misdemeanor for any one not a member of the order to wear an imitation of the button, encountered a good deal of opposition from the Democrats, who endeavored to amend it to death. It was passed to a third reading.

The Ohio house Friday passed the Braham bill, which provides for the inspection of live stock on foot in that state before being slaughtered. There were few votes against the bill.

Governor Fifer's first veto was of the Farmer bill changing the time of taking judgments on delinquent lands from the May to the June term of court.

Alas for the Rarity or Christian Charity.

A gentleman of rare virtue, named G. D. Mackay, has been found who objects to lending aid to the proposed move ment in behalf of the Texas home for crippled ex-Confederates because Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll is taking an active part. The objection to Colonel Ingersoll is not that he fought in the Union army but that "he is the greatest enemy of Jesus Christ this country has ever seen." When a man makes up his mind to withhold his hand from charity he is never at a loss for an excuse. Sometimes he objects to the color of the eyebrows of the solicitor.—[New York World.

A Sense of Safety.

I asked my own olass of boys and girls if they always said their prayers night and morning. Most replied that they did, but one small child said she only said her prayers in the morning. "Indeed, and how is that?" I inquired. "I should think you would need God's care more at 'night than in the daytime. Why don't you 6ay your prayers at night?" 'Cause I always sleep in the middle," was the quick reply.—[Pittsburg Press.

The Real Dangerous Classes.

Mr. Sherman Hoar struck out right and left in his excellent address at Exeter, N. H., on JThursday. Here is one of his hits which it will not be difficult to apply: "Those who go into politics for what they can get out of it, whether in the way of notoriety or private gain, are really 'the dangerous classes,' and scholars in politics with such purposes form the most dangerous class of all."— [Boston Herald.

Black Spots oil a Girl's Conscience.

No one in this world causes more wretchedness for herself and other people than the conscientious girl who flirts. —{Somerville ournal.

Those Stolen Chickens.

Elijah W. Halford is quoted ae saying that perhaps Mr. Cleveland's lost chickens are "in the soup. —[New ^ork World.

THE TERRE HAtJTE EXPRESS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1889.

WH1T1LAW GAIN'S APPOINTMENT.

It Was Made In Deference to Mr. Blaine's Wishes.

To persons familiar with the facta concerning the nomination of Whitelaw Reid to be minister4o France that nomination comee as proof positive of cordial relations existing between the president and his secretary of state, aayB a Washington special. The pree'dent has not, it must be confessed, viewed with great enthusiasm the suggestion of Mr. Reid's name for one of the important foreign missions. He has no doubt of Mr. Reid's ability creditably to represent this government at London or Paris, but there has been lingering in his mind a shadow of resentment on account of the editorial policy |of the New. York Tribune during the last campaign. The Tribune gave the party its cordial and earnest support, and in its news columns reported General Harrison's speeches and movements with the utmost friendliness. But in its editorial page the candidate of the party was rarely mentioned between the day after the nomination at Chicago and a week or two previous to the election. General Harrison's friends noted this unusual omission, criticised it, and called the candidate's attention to it Just now it is the fashion to ascribe to the president a tendency to display small resentments and to engage in personal punishments, but these charges surely do not lie in the case of Mr. Reid. It has been Secretary Blaine's wish te make Reid the minister to England, but he has not pressed the matter, having early discovered the president's prejudice. Indeed, a member of the cabinet, not Secretary Blaine, is authority for the statement that the secretary of state has not pressed Mr. Raid's name for my position, having been content to leave the matter in the president's hands, and though the president, for reasons above given, was not at first favorably inclined toward Reid, he suggested the French mission out of respect to the secretary's friendship for the editor, and because he wished to avoid even the semblance of cross purposes. Reid's appointment, therefore, is due to the influence of Mr. Blaine, but that influence has not been in the least urgent, and not a word has been uttered to mar the cordial relations existing between the president and the secretary of state. This appointment is more than evidence of good feeling in that quarter —it is indicative of the purpose on the part of both men to yield to eaoh other, to find that way out of the differences of opinion naturally rising which will be most satisfactory to them both, and thus avoid those collisions of will which opposition gossipers have so freely predicted and gloated over.

From this same member of the ministry comes an interesting glimpse of the cabinet-room. "The most of us," he says, "feel ourselves amateurs at public business of this nature. We are content to wait and learn. Of course we all join in the discussions which go on about the cabinet table, but the two men we look up to and expect the most of are the president and secretary of state. I have been struck by the marked deference which either of these men pays to the other. Their relations in the cabinet are certaiBly of the most pleasant character. I have been impressed, too, by Secretary Blaine's modesty and his consideration for all the newer men in if A he in ler ot the'art df'dAjllll'g mucn in lltttle, of driving straight to the kernel of the question. To-day, and every day that we have met, he has in a few of those brilliant sentences of his cleared up questions which had been bothering us all. We all recognize his wonderful familiarity with public business, and look up to him on that account. His knowledge of details and his Jmemory are phe nomenal. Secretary Blaine would be the biggest man in our cabinet, stand ing next to the president himself, if he were secretary of agriculture. The president admires him as much and puts as much confidence in him as any of us.'

This is certainly a very pleasing picture of President Harrison's council chamber, coming as it does from a member of the cabinet not heretofore noted for friendliness to Mr. Blaine. It is no prettier a picture than a senator gives of his call at the office of the secretary of state with one of his constituents. "Mr. Blaine and I have never been good friends," says the senator, "and it was with some reluctance I promised my constituent I would take him over and introduce him to the secretary, but I am glad I yielded to his request. The secretary received us warmly, held our hands in his while his head was turned to speak to a departing caller, and as we stood discussing the mission which brought us there the secretary put one hand on my shoulder and the other on the shoulder of my friend. There was no affectation about this either. To him it came as naturally as breathing, for he has the manners of the hearty, friendly West, with the polish of a diplomat. What pleased me most was the secretary's prompt response to our request. He didn't say he would see about it, or that we might file our papers and they would be attended to in good time, but he heard us through, and then exclaimed: 'That is a good thing to do. It Bhall be done.' And that was the conclusion of one of the most satisfactory interviews I have ever had with a cabinet officer."

"One of the Tallest."

London society correspondents improve on the police phrase, "one of the finest" on the force. It is a matter of common remark that English girls, at the present, fully bear, out the description of "quite divinely tall." In fact, Du Maurier and other artists represent the debutantes as very much taller than either their mammas or the men of their set. It is now telegraphed that the duke of Portland is engaged to "one of the tallest," as well as one of the loveliest of these very tall girls.—[Philadelphia Ledger.

A Simple Remedy.

"Darling," she said, weeping., "when we were married, five years ago, I never expected to see you coming home at 1 o'clock in the morning." "Well, you wouldn't now, m' dear," he replied, "if you'd only go

to

sleep earlier."

-[Life. s.

Without a Doubt.

A youthful Chicago story teller offered the following unique prize story: "The minister's wife had nine small children, each of which was one ear younger than the other. Though poor she was a diligent woman."—[Treasure Trove.

A Long, Weary Day.

Little Dick (on a rainy day}—Did it rain forty days and forty nights when

the ark was made, and did it rain so hard that people had to atay in their houses until the flood came up and drowned them?

Mamma—T-yes, I believe so. Little Dick (gloomily gazing out of the window)—Well, I guess they were glad of anything for a change.—[Time.

A DANCING DOMiNllE."

The BeT. Herbert Wheeler Was Retiring. Bnt Oh! How He Could Walts, Special to the New York World.

BOSTON, March 23.—In that famous Stronghold of the Mugwumps, fashionable Newton, there is a handsome Unitarian preacher, who lovee the terpsichorean and indulges in its pleasures unrestrained by any consideration of ministerial or spiritual propriety. His name is the Rev. Horace L. Wheeler. The one mistake of his Harvard life was that he paid too much attention to study and too little to society. Soon after he entered upon his pastorate, three years ago, his natural modesty and retiring disposition were at once apparent. He didn't'seem to care for society, much to the disappointment especially of the many amiable, old and middle-aged ladies.

The Rev. Mr. Wheeler was unmarried, too, and that was only an additional reason why he shouldn't shut himself up so constantly in his study. But when he did apDear in society, it «ws very noticeable that the Rev. Mr. Wheeler was passionately fond of dancing and that, notwithstanding bis backwardness otherwise, he was very much at home amid the waltz's delightful mazes. And how he did waltz! Furthermore, he was once heard to remark that he hoped people would call dancing dancing, a play a play, and not something else. When this weakness of the young man became apparent, Mrs. Grundy began to complain that she hoped the Rev. Mr. Wheeler would give up dancing with the young ladies and devote himself more to the older ladies, who didn't dance, as it was his duty to do.

There were whisperings also that this young Harvard fledgeling was too liberal in his religious opinions for such a straight-laced congregation. When the gossips' chatter reached his ears the young man's mind was very quickly made up. He would resign if he wasn't popular, and resign he did, and now the old ladies'of his church and the young ladies, too, are having it out between them, and the church has lost a promising young pastor, all on account of a narrow-minded prejudice .against an innocent amusement. "rr

THE CHURCHES.

UNIVEKSAIJST CHURCH.—Services at 10:30 and 7:30. Evening subject: "Marriage.." All cordially invited.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. —Sunday school at 9:30. a. m. Preaching by the pastor both morning and evening, at 11 a. m., and 7:30 p. m.

CENT ENARY METHODIST .—Preaching at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. Sabbath school at 2:30 p. m. Young people's meeting at 6:45 p. m.

CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Divine services, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Young people's meeting at 6:30.

GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH.—Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., by the Rev. J. G. Schaal, P. E. At the close of the morning services holy communion m. 2:30 p.

ST. STEPHEN'S munion, S a. and sermon, ing service

CHURCH.—Holy comm., morning service 10:45 a. m. even and sermon, 7:30

p. m. Sunday school 9:15 a. m. Sunday school at St. Luke's 3 p. m. sevices during the week: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4:30 p. m. Monday at 10:45 a. m. and" 4:30 p. m., Wednesday at 10:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., Friday at 10 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. Meeting of the confirmation class at 4:30 p. m., on Wednesday, in the chapel.

The Rev. Mr. Cram.

The Rev. Mr. Crum, of Winona, has promised to give a final answer to the call from the Congregational Church the latter part of this week. It is very probable that he will accept. His own church and congregation held a meeting a few days ago to protest against his resignation and there is a strong pressure upon him at Winona to remain. If he decides to come to Terre Haute he will be here about May 1st.

Unique Religious Education.

Something unique in religious educa tion is the convention to be conducted for two months in Chicago by D. L. Moody, the noted evangelist. The session opens April 4, and, in addition to Mr. Moody's lectures, others distinguished in theological study will assist, and a number of other evangelists will be present.

An Engagement Off.

They were sitting near the river's edge watching the dimpled waves break on the beach. Suddenly she said in a soft, dreamy voice: "I love to listen to the river, Henry, dear, don't you? It is always babbling, babbling, yet it never has anything to say." "Yes," was the absent response "it reminds me so forcibly of you."—[Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Temperance Meeting.

To-day at 4 o'clock, at Dowling hall, another gospel temperance meeting will be held. The interest is increasing, and good work is being accomplished. The Davis family are expected to be present and furnish some of their choice music. The Page family were prevented from singing by sickness, last Sunday.

Hour It Happened.

Blinks—How in the world did you happen to get such an ill-fitting suit of clothes?

Jinks (sadly)—My credit had run out at the ready-made clothing Btoree, and I was oblieed to get a suit made to order. —[New York Weekly.

Ob, Nonsense: He Does.

Why is it that a man new gives tne minister so big a fee for marrying him to his second

wife?—[SomervilleJournal.

Cork Car Springs.

In France experiments are being made with cork car. springs.

A Good Year for Bone*.

The Hudson river fishermen expect a big season in shad.

A Great Chan if® In a Generation.

Rome has twenty-two Protestant churches..

KXPRESS PACKAGES.

THB UQITKX 3KA90S. Some recreation*. All dissipations.

And giddj pleasures are put aside. And jouth and beautj In pious duty Will bu» itself tUl the Eastertide.

Though self-denial Imposes trial.

To practice it we are quite content When Fashion shares It. Kay more, declares it The proper thing in the days of Lent,

In prayer and fasting The pleasure's lasting it ephemeral, like wordlj bt

Which—when 'Us orer—

bliss.

We oft discover

Leaves the dregs behind It of bitterness. If mortifying The flesh—denjlng Our worldly cravings our time Is spent

Throughout this season We'll have good reason

To bless the wisdom that gave us Lent.

t. One man quits smoking, Another Joking. Another social glass eschews:

One gives op swearing, Another airing

With pride, in public, his cherished views. All cranks, fanatics And wild erratics Are turned aside from their natural bent.

All rancor ceases And man at peace Is

With his brother man In the days of Lent.

The maid represses Her love for dresses,

And gives her mind to Improving books When calls she's making. Or walks she's taking. She ne'er Into milliners' windows looks.

She has no leisure For worldly pleasure.

She cares not her person to ornament In short, she's pious, ,„ And has no bias tyi&A. t* For vanities In the days of Lent.

The money maker, Vt The usury taker,

The false weight giver In every trade. The adulterater, The price inflater. Aside all their little tricks have laid.

In meditation,' In abnegation.,: '.

-And self-aecusal their time is spent Oh! blessed season. We get our knees on

To offer thanks for the time of Lent. —[Boston Courier.

A "bitter pill" to swallow—Quinine. Boston wants to erect a monument to Ericsson.

Benjamin H. Day, who started the New York Sun in 1833, is yet living. The trip of the New York Seventh regiment to Washington and back cost the organization $40,000.

Chief Justice Fuller is said to be seriously troubled over a request from his associates to shave off his mustache.

Thomas Nast. the artist, has accepted a place on the San Francisco Examiner as cartoonist extraordinary. The Pacific coast is very proud of him.

The month of March is usually severe on old people. Thirty-three deaths were reported in New York papers on Saturday, all of them 70 or more years of age.

Senator Stanford, ot California, has sent his check for $5,000 to the committee in Boston engaged in raising a fund of $100,000 for Mrs. Philip H. Sheridan, widow of the late general.

Ex Secretary Vilas and ex-Postmaster General Don M. Dickinson have been on a still-hunt among New York capitalists for money with which to undertake some enormous enterprise in the West.

A ragged street gamin, holding up at arm's length an old rubber boot from which pours a stream of water, is the design of a work of art for the Common, which the Boston aldermen have just

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man sculptor, is to construct the sarcophagus of Emperor William I. for the Charlottenburg mausoleum. It will probably represent the emperor lying on his bed, the figure being in white marble.

Miss Miriam Samuel has been made a Bacheloa of Arts by the Bombay university. She is the daughter of a Persian merchant settled in Bombay, and has obtained her position at the universty solely through private instruction.

A resident of Washington, who is notable as the possessor of an extraordinary large head, is said to have sold it to a certain number of physicians for $3,000, the delivery of the head to take place on the death of its present owner.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes advises young men not to] smoke. "'It is liable to injure the sight," he says, "to render the nerves unsteady, to enfeeble the will and to enslave the nature to an imperious habit likely to stand in the way of a duty to be performed.

The will of William W.' Merriam, son of the late Charles Merriam, of Springfield, Mass., who left $SL,000 to the United States government, provided Blaine was made secretary of state, will be contested by his sister on the ground of mental unsoundness.

In the cargo of the steamer Holland, which arrived in New York on Wednesday, there was a breeding-pen of prize Langshan fowls, pedigreed from the winners at the Crystal palace exhibition in London.. This famous breed of chickens is as old as Confucius.

Minister Palmer expects to sail, in about three weeks for his post at Madrid. He makes no secret, however, of his purpose to remain in Spain no more than two years. He is ambitious to be governor of Michigan, and if his friends can next year secure the nomination for him he will come home and make the race.

American society in London suffered a loss by the sudden death of Lady Arnold on Saturday. She was the wife of Sir Edward Arnold, the author of "The Light of Asia," and was the daughter of the Rev. W. H. Channing, of Boston, whose son sits in the house of commons for the eastern division of Northamptonshire.

Henry Irving's son, Henry, is not going to look to the stage for a career, notwithstanding his success at Oxford. His ambition would lead him to the feet of Theepie, but his father has marked out the bar for him. His brother, _Lawrence, a fine young fellow, with a distinct gift for languages, is in Russia, studying for the diplomatic service.

The Empress Frederick was, it is said, much impressed with the political situation in England. Not only this, but she communicated her impressions to the queen, and told her majesty, it is said, in pretty plain terms, that Balfourism was not the sort of thing which British sentiment would stand. The queen is said to have taken the empress criticism in fairly good part.

Whitelaw Reid having been appointed minister to France, numerous suggestions have been made as to bis possible successor on the New York Tribune. Among those who have been named are Murat Halstead, Colonel John Hay, and Mr. George W. Smalley. It is understood, however, that Mr. Donald Nicholson, the real managing editor, will remain in his present fpoeition, and that Mr. Reid will act as editorial adviser at long range.

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