Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 March 1889 — Page 2

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Terre Haute is ripe for a genuine boom.

Main street should be cleaned before the dust becomes intolerable.

General Greely is talking about *,he weather that has been. At last he finds a suitable occupation.

Mr. Cleveland didn't take Mrs. Cleve land to Havana. The people in Havana don't vote in our elections.

There is a tide in the affairs of Terre Haute at this time that may be taken advantage of with great success.

A local ice dealer says we are not to know how much we are to pay for ice this summer for a month or more yet. This is reassuring and egain it may not be. However, the best policy is not to "get in a sweat" about it because you can't help yourself.

Out at Waterloo, la., Jerry Hoot was elected mayor, and the Omaha Herald says that "there is a similarity of name but no blood relationship between Mayor Jerry Hoot, of Waterloo, and Terre Haute, of Indiana." Once more we would remark that we dote on the name of Tare-hote.

It is reported from Washington that the president wants not only a practical printer, but a practical business man for public printer, an office which he say ranks second to a cabinet office. The president is right as usual. The public printer employs more men and women and has more unrestricted discretion in the expenditure of public money than any official of the government except a cabinet officer.

It seems that Mayor Kolsem's procla mation for dog-muzzling is to be treated as was his proclamation against the cows. It will be remembered that his honor was determined that the cows should get off the streets, but a day or two's consideration of the political effect of the enforcement of the proclamation caused him to relent and his declaration that "the cows must go to bed at 9 o'clock" became a by-word. The incident is being repeated as to the dogs.

Some wild persons at Chicago are advocating blood and revolution. They are permitted to do this, in public, under the decision of a theorist who happens to hold a judicial position in that city. If these speakers were the only ones the public need fear there would be no objection to this preaching of blood and thunder, because these speakers are the cowards of all such occasions, but they do mislead the ignorant who, in the fanaticism easily aroused among the ignorant, may throw the bombs and cause the bloodshed.

It is reported that John C. New will take Mr. Romeo Johnson of the Indianapolis News to London to serve in a responsible capacity in the office of the consul general. Mr. New is aware that though he has not accepted an office with which there is associated much of the diplomacy of making every one your friend yet he understands that some thing of this kind will be involved, and he wisely selects Mr. Johnson as the one above all others, who, in a very short time, will be on good terms with all London and the suburbs.

The readers of THE EXPRESS are aware that this newspaper has not been very clamorous for "a clean sweep" in Federal positions, preferring that General Harrison exercise his own good judgement, but we want to say that in a little while this meek and lowly attitude will be abandoned. We are becoming more and more convinced that there is need of radical changes in the mail service. Last night we received Saturday's Cincinnati newspapers and missed others that should have been here yesterday. Our esteemed contemporary, the St. Louis Republic, did not reach us for several days and we had about arrived at the conclusion that it had stricken THE EXPRESS from its exchange list when yesterday's bulky copy came to hand. We bought yesterday's Tndianapolis papers because they failed to get here by mail. In truth this service is such that no dependence can be placed in it.

C. O. D.

Scratch Shots.

There Is no rose without a thorn, A Spluvllle, Ala., man's life was saved by the bullet Intended for him striking a bottle of whisky In his coat pocket. But he lost the whisky.

Why are Germans' wives like oil and water? Because they are bound not to Micks. We all have our mission, but It does not always pay us $17,500 a year like the English ose.

"Another Good Man," Ktc.

Visitor—How would you like to be a minister, Tommy? Tommy—Not much, Marry Ann. Think I want the newspapers wriUn' me up every time I have the least bit of tun?

AT TKE LIME KILN CLUB.

The opening of the meeting was delayed about a quarter of an hour by the eccentric conduct of Judge Keho, who took a drink of water on entering the hall without having first inspected the dipper, says the Detroit Free Press. In cleaning up the room during the afternoon the janitor had found an overcoat button, a bradawl, a pocket comb, a knife blade and six shirt buttons, and had carelessly tossed them into the dipper and forgotten the circumstance.

When Brother Keho had gurgled down a pint of water he paused in astonishment. Then he began to kick and claw and cough and dance, and it was not until he had run over Pickles Smith and trampled upon Giveadam Jones that any one suspected the cause of his hilarity. He was then seized and held against the wall while the pocket comb and bradawl were extracted from bis teeth, and with the aid of a number of thumps on the back from various sources he managed to cough up most of the other missing articles, although in so doing he broke down a bench and upset Elder Toots. As soon as the meeting opened he was fined $27,000 for disturbing the peace, and was ordered to make ail re pairs at his own cost.

On the opening of the meeting the secretary announced a communication from Eufaula, Ala., making charges against Major Drawbar Jones, an honorary member of the club. He was charged with: 1. Going on a rabbit hunt while his wife lay at the point of death. 2. Putting burs under the saddle of his old mule to get up an artificial en thusiasm.

Brother Gardner said that it was a question for debate, and Giveadam Jones arose and observed that he could never vote to convict a brother on the first charge. While there might be no ques tion that Major Jones went out to hunt rabbits while his wife lay dying, what was his object? Was it for amusement, or was it to provide her with rabbit soup? The accused should be given the benefit of the doubt. As to charge No. 2, that was a different matter. A man who put burs under his saddle, whether that saddle was on a horse or a mule, deserved the severest condemnation.

Waydown Bebee couldn't excuse the major for going on that rabbit hunt. A dying wife does not care for soup of any sort. As to the burs under the saddle, they might have got thereby accident, Even if they were put there by design there was no evidence that the mule objected. He owned a mule whose demeanor could not be changed one iota by all the bars in the state of Michigan

Shindig Watkins, Elder TootB, Sam uel Shin and others argued pro and con and the question of whether the major should be bounced was put to a vote. The vote stood 43 for and 44 against, and he thus escaped by the

Bkin

of his

teeth. A communication from Lexington, Ky., signed "Professor De Mill Jackson, philosopher and scientist," inquired if the club would set a date when he could appear and deliver his great essay on "What Science Has Failed to Accomplish." His terms would be §20 in cash and such second hand clothing as the members could spare. His usual figure had been $50 a night, but owing to the fact that the lecture field was overcrowded just now, he was willing to make a reduction.

Colonel Jerusalem Smith desired to enter a protest. He said he met Professor Jackson at Toledo last summer, and the $3 he lent him had never been repaid.

Judge Cadaver also desired to pro test. The professor stopped at his house some three years ago, while he was living in Kentucky, and when he departed he stole two pitchforks and a currycomb from the mule shed.

Professor Windfall Davis offered a third protest. He met Professor ackson in Canada last fall, and the meeting resulted in the loss of his sachel. "It ar' settled dat de purfessor won't come," Baid Brother Gardner as he arose to close the discussion. "One of de things dat science has failed to acaccomplish is to git dis pusson behind de ba's en' keep him dar, an' we doan' want to heah no mo' about it."

Judge Cantelope Jenkins secured the floor after a violent fit of coughing, in which he threw up a carpet tack he had swallowed the day before, and stated that he had long cherished the idea of writing a history of the colored race in America. He had already mapped 'out his work, and could promise a book of GOO pages and illustrations. He wanted the approval and backing of the Lime Kiln club. He thought the club Bhould give him an order for at least two hundred books, and it would greatly encourage him if they were paid for in advance. The price would be $10 per volume, and at the rate he was working the history would be ready inside of seven years.

The proposition was cried down from all parts of the hall, and Brother Gardner arose and said: "Brudder Jenkins, I hev a few words of fatherly advice to offer you. I hev had my eye on you fur some months past, an' I war' caikerlatin to hev a talk wid you when de sign cum right. De cullud race in America hain't hollerin' to be writ up in a book of 600 pages. We know all about what has happened widout readin' it. We hain't gwine crazy fur no 500 illustrashuns, an' we hain't tradin' off no $10 bills fur histories. Dar's a fam'ly named Jenkins up on Calhoun street who is in want of shoes, clothes an' fodder. Dat fam'ly belongs to you. You hev bin loafin' aroun fur de last three months, gwine in debt an' beatm' your way. Now, sah, you jist drap dis history bizness. Drap it tonight. Drap it dis minute. When you git up in the mawnin' you look fur a job, an' you keep lookin' till ye find one. If you doan' do it you will hear sunthin' fall at our next meetin'. De cull'd race in America is all right. You jist let it alone an' attend to yo'self an' fam'ly. We will now go home."

The Swallow-Tail Will Stay. Regarding the mooted abolition of the swallow-tail suit, a fashionable New York tailor said: "Such talk is all bosh. The claw-hammer coat is the only correct style for gentlemen. It is the grand result of ages of experiment in men's attire, and to abolish it would be a step backward and not astride in the direction of a higher civilization, as it is thoughtlessly claimed. Simplicity and harmony are the crowning virtues of the present fashions in evening dress. Garish colors are essentially vulgar. Imagine a practical New Yorker in knee breeches, velvet coat and satin waistcoat. Fudge." —[New York World.

Two Women of Basiness.

Two Texas women are the largest individual sheep and stock owners in the world. One of these, the widow Callahan, owns 50,000 sheep, and when a long

train of wagons starts out each spring and fall for market, loaded down with the wool of her sheep, it is a sight worth seeing. The other is Mrs. Rogers, the great herd owner of southwestern Texa3, who is worth about a million dollars. Mm. Rogers owns no carriage, preferring to ride on horseback in the free and easy style of the cowboy.—[New York Tribune.

BAD NEWS FROM THE GAS FIELDS.

Artificial Fuel Gas to be Manufactured in the Gas Fields. The following is from the Ohio Valley Manufacturer:

It is reported, says a cotemporary that is ^careful what it publishes, that the glass manufacturers, in the natural gas regions of Ohio, are on the verge of a general shut down, which will throw 5,000 workmen out of employment. This state of affairs has been brought about to a great extent by overproduction through the many new factories started in the natural gas territory, and partially, it may be parenthetically asserted, by the unsatisfactory conditions of the natural gas suppliee.

A number of factories have already taken this step, notably the glass house at Maumee, Ohio, on6 at Dunkirk, Ind., another at North Marion, Ind. and the four window glass companies at Findlay. Ohio, will do likewise as soon as stock enough to fill outstanding orders is made. The flint glass and bottle factor ies are in about as bad a condition. In the Western district ,of (he Window Glass association there fare 1,200 pots, 250 of which are already idle, and before the 15th of April not less than 800 pots will be cold, and the hands tramping the streets.

In the same connection it may be remarked that for some weeks it was reported that arrangements were in prog ress for conveying natural gas to Chicago from the Indiana fields, a distance of abopt one hundred and fifty miles, but of late these reports, while still appearing in a desultory sort of way, seem to lacK grit and fervor. It is now said a syndicate has been formed for the pur pose of conveying natural gas to Detroit, the source of supply being the famous well recently discovered at Kingsville, Ont. These reports are interesting in the face of a report recently submitted to the city council of Dayton, Ohio, on the subject of gas supply there. The committee said that the supply of natural gas to Toledo is so unsatisfactory that it is probable the city will soon undertake the construction of a plant for the manufacture of artificial fuel gas. To the majority of consumers the present cost is not less than that of coal under the old arrangement, and the pressure is often so much reduced that the flow is in sufficient to meet the wants of the users, while some times the supply is cut off entirely, Some of the manufacturers are preparing to return to the use of other fuel in case the city does not soon undertake to furnish a remedy, as they say they can not and will not submit much longer to the annoyance and extortion to which they are now subjected.

And on last Monday evening in a talk Andrew Carnegie gave at the Franklin institute hall, in Philadelphia, he remarked, that he "was sorry he could not take a sanguine view of gas produc tion, but the pressure was largely on the decrease."

It may be added that a large manufacturing firm at East Liverpool, Ohio, Knowles, Taylor & Knowles, who have been using natural gas for some time past, have closed a contract for the erec tion of a plant which will make about twice as much fuel gas per day as does the one in successful operation at the Disston saw works in Tacony. It is evi dent from all this that practical men have made immense progress in the last few years in the investigation of processes for manufacturing fuel gas cheaply enough to compete with the natural product, and that they have satisfied many consumers of the fact.

In view of all these reports and remarks, may it not be well for some one who are said to be hunting for better advantages, in the way of fuel, to pause and wait yet a little while longer, for it is much more than probable that some new fuel-producing process, or improve' ments on some already in use, will be developed that will equalize conditions and will set at naught many now existing advantages of location, which are very rapidly proving ephemeral. And the new material will have this great advantage—that while the supply of natural gas cannot be depended upon as more than evanescent, that of the artificial product will go on for many years in the future, if not forever.

The Heart in the Stomach.

The ill-nature of many men will van ish in the presence of their favorite dishes on the dinner table, a fact that has given rise to the old sayiDg that the way to man's heart is through his stomach.

The writer once boarded with an irritable, elderly man, who gave laughable illustrations of the truth of this adage. When thingp had gone wrong with the choleric old gentleman, his wife would slyly say to her daughter, who assisted in the cooking: "We'd better have apple dumplin's today, Sarah, your pa is so out of speerits. I intended to have a pot-pie, but he don't care much for that, and you know how fond he is of dumplin's."

When the "dumplin's" appeared the old gentleman's wrath would speedily vanish.

Sometimes the wise old lady would scatter an impending storm and keep it for breakfast by appearing with a plate of doughnuts or pie, saying: "Here, pa, you'd better eat this nobody else wants it, and it's just sitting around in the way."—[Youth's Companion.

The Strain on the Eyes.

A St. Louis oculist says that the gen eral belief that the eyes of persons who read a good deal are the first to give out, is erroneous. "I have found," he adds, "that the greatest sufferers with eye troubles are those who are compelled to use that valuable member in an unnatural position. For example, take the dentist. In examining a patient's teeth he cannot look straight ahead, but does the most of his work under a great strain, with the head in an unnatural position, and the eyes twisted so greatly that there is a constant strain upon them. In reading we are taught that when the eye aches it is time to stop. That the dentist cannot do. During my practice I have treated more dentists than members of any other single profession."

Coffee and the Digestion.

I am an advocate of coffee," said a well-known physician to a New York Star reporter "that is, of black coffee, drank after dinner, for physiological reasons. You see, the digestive organs are overstimulated by highly seasoned viands, and the strong coffee retards their action. It should, however, be drank without sugar or cream.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, 1889.

eiKFOLD A5D JUST KI»K.

Reminiscences

of their Towpath

aad Stage-

Coach Days.

Jerry Rusk's stage-driving days covered a period of some yean, says the Milwaukee- SentineL He was one of ten children, and when his father died was but 14 years of. age. A gnat responsibility devolved upon him as the eldest of the children remaining upon the Ohio farm, and he secured the job of driving stage between Zaneeville and Newark, O. Th

'he coach was of the old .ttern and was drawn by four

Concord pattern and was drawn uy mur horses. He didn't put on the style considered essential to a modern four-in-hand, but he got there just the same. He used but a single rein, and instead of being high up on a box remote from his team, he sat down among them within easy reach of aiL

During the period that Jerry Rusk sat behind a team of four horses driving a stage he made the acquaintance of a boy about his own age whose occupation consisted in driving a slow, solitary mule along the towpath. The tow-boy waa Jamse A. Garfield, and it was in these lowly walks of life that ther firot formed a friendship which later was cemented even more closely, though after the one left the towpath and the other abandoned the stage-coach they did not meet again until the civil war broke out. In later years when they were in congress together they often jocosely referred to their former occupations. Garfield would Bay to Rusk: "Jerry, you are of no acmnt "Well,1

count you were only a stage-driven" "Well," the latter would reepoi "what were you? What did you drive? I handled four horses on a stage, and you—you steered one little insignificant mule."

It is recorded by Garfield's b!ographers that he was something of an athlete when a boy on the towpath. Rusk was an athlete, too, and both enjoyed a great reputation as wrestlers. It was their skill in this athletic sport that caused their first meeting. Garfield was a hearty, rugged young fellow and ruled favorite, but Rusk's friends were not to be bluffed. The canal boy and stage driver met at a country fair. Each found that he had meta worthy foeman. For a time it was nip and tuck, but finally, by a tremendous effort, the stage-driver threw the canal boy completely over his head, Garfield's shoulder was broken, and he lay senseless on the ground. The visitor was greatly frightened, believing at first that he had killed his opponent, and never again engaged in a wrestling match.

When Garfield became president he did not forget the friend of his boyhood. Without consulting the latter, he nominated him to the United States senate as minister to Paraguay and Uraguay. In one corner of the commission, which Uncle Jerry has preserved to this day, Garfield wrote: ipi "Jekry—J. A. G."'-': 'f

It was a reminder from a man called upon mechanically to sign perhaps hundreds of state documents daily, that he had not affixed his signature in this instance without bestowing a thought upon the friend of his boyhood. ,'

Sanitary Condition of the White House. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. WASHINGTON, March 23.—An odor of peppermint pervaded the White house to-day, and made it seem homelike to a number of rural visitors who called on the president. But the pleasant aroma was created by a plumber, who is making an examination of the sanitary equipment of the 'executive mansion, and is subjecting the sewer pipes to what is known as the "peppermint test" with a view to detecting leaks if any exist. This was determined upon a few days ago as a precautionary measure, because of the danger said to be lurking in the vicinity of the White house because of malaria. The test, however, showed that no uneasiness need be felt by the inmates of the mansion, as the sewerage facilities, ventilation and other sanitary arrangements at the White house would be rated A1 by a commercial agency

Honey For the State Treasury. The state officers were successful Sat urday in securing money which will re lieve the treasury for the time being. Bids were opened for placing a loan of $1,070,000, and the entire amount was taken by the German Savings bank, of New York, through Winslow, Lanier fc Co. A $700,000 loan, running ten years, with a privilege of redemption in five, was taken at $1.62 premium on each $100, and the $370,000 loan, running five years, with privilege of redemption in two years, was taken at 77 cents premium on each $100. Total premium netted to state, $14,189 the bonds drawing 3 per cent, interest, ten of them in denominations of $100,000 each, and one $70,000. Blake Bros. & Co. and Moller & Co., New York, were the unsuccessful bidders.

•tC: No Offense Intended. s.* De Caneau—I have to mention an unpleasant matter, Miss Humane. I heard you called me a brute when you Baw me whipping my horses the other day.

Miss Humane—That must have been a mistake. De Caneau—Then you didn't Bay it?

Miss Humane—No, indeed. I think too much of the brute creation to do it such an injustice.—[Judge.

Where They Surpass Us.

Madame Bovine—Now confess professorv that your American misses are not equal to our English girls in point of—of—

Professor (supplying)—Weight. Yes'm, in point of weight. Also in point of muscle. If there is anything for which the English girl is remarkable, it is her muscle.

But he spoke to thin air.—[Judge.

amendment in New Hampshire ladies triad to influence voters, not only with bewitching glanoes bnt with doughnuts and coffee. Is this the way women are to purify politics when they get votes?

topi —[T( 'oronto Globe.

AN INTENSE PERSONALTY.

What Life Insurance Officers Learn About Their Patrons. "Dr. Talmage says that Joseph was president of the first life insurance company," said a San Francisco agent to a Call reporter, as he whirled around in hia office chair. "Did it ever occur to you that an application for a life insurance policy is an interesting bit of personal history? For instance, this application is from a well educated, well born young widow. Her name is Helen B., of Galveeton, Tex. She was born in Richmond, Va., August 19,1859, and is, therefore, 29 years old. She has been a widow ten years and has had two children, one of whom atill lives and is named as the beneficiary for her $3,000 policy. "She has

not

paid the first premium

and never made application for insurance in any company before. Her father's name waa Charles Canale Smith, and he was born in Booneville, Tenn., and died at the age of 69 of typhoid fever. The mother's name was Susan Kelly Morris, who is still alive and well. The grandparents on both sides are dead, except the mother's mother, and she ia totally deaf. This poor little widow never had a brother, and her only Bister died when she was 18

monthB

But the reporter had fled.

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This is Traveling.

Dr. Saward Webb, one of the Vanderbilt sons-in-law, who has started with his family for an 18,000-mile pleasure trip, will travel wite every luxury and convenience in his train of four saloon cars. The nursery car is not yet stocked with toys for the children, but has swings, rocking-horses and other juvenile joys, and the bath-room tank holds 500 gallons of hot and cold water.

A Wonderful Dress.

Worth once made a dress, in the days of big hoops, in whose construction 100 yards of silk were employed. It was in light glace taffetas in three shades of purple, from delicate lilac to deep violet the whole skirt was covered with close full ruchings in the three shades, and when completed the dress looked like a huge boquet of violets.

Increasing and Decreasing Insects. All the vegetable-eating insects, which are the more noxious tribes, are increaaing rapidly. The reason given is that insects which live on animal food find their pabulum scarcer.

Purifying Politics.

ing the polling on the prohibitory

old of

cholera infantum. "Our applicant was vaccinated last year and does not have a regular physician. She is abstemious in her habits does not use wine or liquors, tobacco, opium, chloral, or morphine. She has never lived in the tropics, and has never had asthma, angina pectoris, aneurism, alcoholism, apoplexy, bronchitis, colic, chronic dysentery, catarrh, convulsions or fits, cancer or tumor, diseases of the brain or the bladder, ears, heart, kidneys, lungs, liver, spine, skin or spleen, dyspepsia, dropsy, epilepsy, erysipelas, gout, general debility, gravel, habitual constipation, headaches, hernis, insanity, impaired vision, jaundice, neuralgia, palpitation, pneumonia, pleurisy, paralysis, fistula, rheumatism, smallpox, scrofula, sunstroke, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, varicose veins, vertigo, yellow fever, open sores, or enlarged glands. "The examining physioian says she weighs 140 pounds, that she is 5 feet 6 inches in height, has a bust? measure of 36 inches, which expands three inches when she takes a full breadth, and has a dainty little waist only twenty-two inches around. The doctor further states that she is an American, with blue eyes and light hair that she does not luok her age, and that he does not think she drinks. There is no heart trouble, and her pulse is steady. She is in the full possession of her five senses. He does not think there is any fraud about her place of residence, and on the whole recommends us to take the risk." "And you think you will do it?" "Well, not until this additional list of questions has been answered." ^.

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•kkt The Beer Syndicate. ROCHESTER, N. Y., March 22.—It was given out to-night that the sale of the Bartholomay, Rochester and Genesee brewing companies plants to the great English syndicate was completed early this evening. The three companies will consolidate, and be known as the "Bartholomay brewing company lim ited." The capital stock will be £620,000 and there will be £350,000 in debenture bonds.

The Usual Way.

Rob—It's about time to call in these heavy ulsters, I'm thinking. I'm surprised that you're not wearing your spring overcoat.

Bob—To tell the truth, Rob, I've lost it. You see I hung it up as usual— Rob—O! You can't trust those pawnbrokers.— [Time.

The Right Number.

"In the accounts of the marriage of the emperor of China," said Mrs. McCrackle, "1 see that his household com prises seven cooks and thirty physi cians." "That's about the right proportion," replied McCrackle.—[Time.

A Great Loss to the State.

President Smart, of Purdue university, has figured it out that Indiana is growing $25,000,000 poorer each year because of neglect to husband resources of fertility. "'It is," he Bays, "time for every farmer to turn attention to saving what

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Horrible Fate.

Applicant—You say a terrible trial awaits me. Don't be afraid to tell me what it is.

Astrologer—Brace yourself, young man the stars say you will wed a young lady who has a passion for grand opera. —[Time.

A Wash for the Kitchen Sink. Be very particular, says an exchange, about disinfecting the kitchen sink. Washing soda, two tablespoonfuls to a gallon of boiling water, makes an excellent wash to pour hot into the sink at night, after the work of the day is over.

A Market for Ashes.

In the improved agriculture which is in late years renewing the wornout New England farms, potash takes an important part, and carloads of ashes are brought over from the timber regions of Canada for use by New England farmers,

De Lesseps Looking Up.

Fangle—Have you heard of De Lssseps' new scheme to put enough water into the Panama canal?

Cumso—No what is it? "He is going to take Jay Gould into partnership."—[Time.

Lent.

A Lent, lent, lent. Where, eh, where Is that The Over I lent

Is long ago spent, r' o, And will never come back to me. —[Time.

*The Old Four-Post Bedstead. Fashion is returning to the old fourpoet bed with rich canopies. In some of these a shelf runs across between the »ad poets for bottles, hand-glass, brush ooofcs.

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A Chance for tbe Farmers.

The American Agriculturist offers a $500 premium for the best yield of one acre of corn in the United States.

This Will Raise Prices Everywhere. Maine's ice crop will be 250,000 tons short this season.

runifufnuun, ljlie IS not WOrTQ living II One a HI We regret to have to admit that dur- chronic rheumatism and can't get Salva I tion Oil. nanta.

Life is not worth living if one has

Price 25 cents.

EXPRESS PACKAGES*

vO" a caxFosm ivnmuT. No, I do net, ril confess— I do not love charming Bess. », But if I the gill could find

Who has all the charms combined Of Bess and Belle, And Maud and Nell,

Of Fannie, Winnie, Stella, Minnie, Of Flossie Josle. tiraee and Koele. Alexandra, And Cassaadra, iwm. .. Christiana, ,-u And Susanna, And a lot of others, too, (Awful hard to salt, saj you?)— "S' If. I

Bay. that

I could Sod

One with all tbe charms combined Of thosel've named above, Then wiUnker I'd happy live. My whole heart to her I'd give—

My composite love.

Two Virginia youths recently fought a duel and fired forty-two shots at each other without either being wounded.

It is estimated that there are 365 colleges in the United States, 4,856 institutions of learning and 65,718 students in them.

A beautiful bronze statute of P. T. Baraum, the word of Soulpter Ball and a gift from Messrs. Bailey and Hutchinson, has arrived in New York from Munich.

Californians are beginning to think the dandelion a nuisance. A few years ago it was introduced from the East, and now it threatens to crowd out everything else.

A Western agricultural {taper has propoeed a national potato contest for women. If the aim is to induce women to cultivate potato patches instead of their flower gardens the contest will probably fail.

An Alabama man had a hog to fall into an old well and remain there six weeks before he found it out. When taken out it was alive and all right and ready to eat. Mr. Smith sold it shortly after for $1.

Johnson City, in east Tennessee, is thinking seriously of changing its name to Carnegie, in honor of Andrew Carnegie. If the town accepts him as a namesake he proposes to give it a public library and reading room worth not less than $100,000.

As affording some idea of th* amount of light gold now in circulation in London, it is stated that recently a financier of the city accepted £1,000, largely made up of half sovereigns, and that, on the amount being weighed at the bankers, it was found to be short by £19.

ANew York burglar got into a genuine pickle the other day. Officers discovered that some one was feloniously at work in a butcher shop, but after they had entered could not find the man until they looked in a pork barrel, when they discovered him up to his neck in brine.

J. B. Ferguson, a miner, celebrated St. Patrick's day at Moberly, Mo., and on his return to Sedalia placed a bottlef ul of powder in his hip pocket. The conductor objected to his smoking in the ladies' car, and he placed the lighted cigar alongside of the bottle of powder. Everybody left the car when the cork burned out, and three doctors are still picking pieces of glass out of what is left of Mr. Ferguson's anatomy.

Several practical jokers in Bridgeport, Conn., finding a friend had gone off and left his store door unlocked, went inside and began "turning the place upside down." When they had fun enough they started out, only to find a policeman at the door, who, with a loaded revolver, ordered them back. They could not convince him that they were not burglars until a messenger had brought the storekeeper to identify them and authorize their release.

The ratepayers of tbe cities of St John and Portland, New Burnswick, voted upon tbe question of uniting the two cities under one government, according to a scheme prepared by a commission appointed by the legislature of New Brunswick, with the following result: Majority in the city of St. John in favor of the union, 969 majority in the city of Portland against the union, 141. As it required a majority in each city to carry it, it is, of course, defeated.

Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise: In this city the ffiteen-hundred-horse-power of three Pelton water-wheels is transmitted by steel wire cable from the bottom of a shaft 1,500 feet in depth to the surface of the earth it is then taken from the pulleys at the top of the shaft and carried by means of wire ropes 1,500 feet eastward—crossing a deep depression on pulleys placed on tall wooden towers—and is there made to drive the big amalgamating mill of the Consolidated California and Virginia.

The population of Germany is increasing, while that of France is decreasing. The birth rate of the latter is lower than it was ever before known to be. This fact is causing great concern to French thinkers. The special studies of M. Lagneau, of the French Academy of Medicine, have led to the conclusion that, at the present rate of retrogression, 100 French families, each with three children, will in the second generation have among them a total of eighty-three descendants, and in the fifth generation half of these families will have no male representatives, and in the fifteenth the family name in nine cases out of ten will have perished altogether.

St. Paul Pioneer Pressr'"St. Paul grain men have been vexing their souls over a problem touching a grain bin and its contents. It is this: Given- a bin, dump into it, separately, five distinct qualities of wheat open the spout at the bottom, and the query is, which layer of wheat cemes out first? The uninitiated say at once, with a few exceptions: "The first layer at the bottom, of course." W. A. Van Styka was determined to get at the facts and watched the bin with his eagle eye very closely the other day, after having caused a layer of barley to be placed on top of several layers of different kinds of wheat. The spout was opened and the barley came rushing out first.

The Black River Falls correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press is responsible for this story: Mrs. William Galloway, who lives in Trempealeau county, some years ago was attacked with a cancer. It increased in size and the physicians said there was nothing could be done to help her. But some one made the discovery that it was a "beefsteak" cancer, and prescribed beefsteak as a remedy. Over a year ago it was thought she would not live from one day till the next. The beefsteak-was applied, and it was found that every twenty-four honrs the cancer would eat seven pounds of beefsteak. When taken from the cancer there is nothing left of the beef but the tissuo and tough parts of it, and every particle of moisture will be drawn out, the remainder being as porous as a sponge. Mrs. Galloway is no worse than she was a year ago, the canoer living on the beef instead of on her.

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TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thui (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) de note Buffet CaM attached. Trains marked thus(*) run dally. All other trains ran dally Sundafi exeeoted.

VAN PALI A LINE. T. H.&L DIVISION. LIAVI TOB TKB

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No. BWestern Kxpress (SAY) 1.42 a. m. No. Mall Train* 10.18 a. m. No. 1

Fast Line* (PAY) 2.15 p. m. No. 7 Jfast Mali 9.04 p. m. LKAVS FOB TBS BAST. No. 12 Cincinnati Bxpress *(S) 1.30 a. No. 6 New Tork Express (SAY) 1.51 a. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.15 a. No. 20 Atlantic Express *(P&V) 12.4'i p. No. 8 fast Line* 2.00 p.

ABBIVA NOM ID BAST.

No. 9 Western Express (SJfcV) 1.90 a. m. No. 6Mall Train* lU.12a.rn. No-1 Fast Line (PAV) ZOO p. m. No. SMall and Accommodation 6.46 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mail *. 9.00 p.m.

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No. 12 Cincinnati Bxpress*(S). 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New York Express*(SAY) 1.42 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Bxpress*(PAY) 12.37 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line* 1.40 p. m.

T.H.4L DIVISION.

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No. South Bend Mail 8.00 a. m. No. 14 South Bend Express 100 p. m. ABHIVB FBOM BOKTH. No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. GS Sooth Bend Mall 7.86 p. m.

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