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DAILY EXPRESS?

GEO ALLEN,

•i Proprietor

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be published nmless the full name and ylsca of residence of the writer is furnished, not necessarily for public*tlon, but as a guarantee of good faith.

Graveyard insurance companies may, after all, be of some good this side of the grave in burying politicians who en gage in Buch schemes.

The clique in charge of Democratic politics in Terre Haute seems to be determined to snub Mr. George Davis, but it is making a mistake.

The Gazette is trying to dictate the renomination of Mr. James Fitzpatrick for treasurer. It treats it as a matter of course, merely alluding to the fact that the German element in the party has put forward Mr. John Reiss and wholly ignoring the candidacy of Mr. George Davis.

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While Judge Mack was referring to the expensiveness of the prosecution of Evans he did not include the expense of Evans' high-flyer sporting friend from Chicago while here in behalf of the crook. This Chicago man, who excited the admiration of local sports because he pays 13,500 a year rent for a saloon, while here was lavish with his money.

TERRE HAUTE'S GROWTH,

THK EXPRESS has always insisted that one of the strongest claims of Terre Haute was its conservatism. It neither sails a balloon nor falls in despair because of temporary depression. It recognizes the true opportunity for booming and when the opportunity comes booms judiciously. When Wichita, Kansas, was enjoying its greatest period of exaltation the Wichita Eagle called a halt, said there was a time to cease the kite-flying which had attracted attention in all parts of the United States. Recently Harper's Weekly, in a review of the history of that remarkable city, emphasized the fact that this daring exploit of the Eagle saved the city from everlasting ruin. Terre Haute has not reached the ballooning era of prosperity. However, there is no sense in trying to do so.

What is the use of saying that 7,226 votes multiplied tby a quotient of 4.55 gives 42,878? That is what our esteemed contemporary, the Gazette, Baid yesterday. It was trying to prove that the latter figures represented our population. It had found that 4.55 was the quotient of the voters by comparison of the presidential vote in 1880, with the census returns of that year, and was trying to prove that the vote of 7,226 in 1888 multiplied by 4.55 made 42,878, when it makes only 32,878. To prove that this is the number of our population It shows by the school enumeration of 1880 as compared with 1888 that we have 43,431 people.

This miserable blunder will, of course, be seized upon by Ft. Wayne, Evansville and other rival cities as proof conclusive that our school enumeration is an error made purposely to secure school funds. Were it not for the laudable object of thwarting the purposes of these rivals THE EXPRESS would not give additional publicity to the discrepancy. THE EXPRESS figured out all there was in the election returns last fall when Evansville and Ft. Wayne were joyous over the results, but realizing the futility of explaining matters withheld all comment. Now, our contemporary, rejecting plate matter to make a display of this remarkable local feature shows its assinity to the world.

There is but one explanation of the discrepancy between the school enumeration and the vote. Terre Haute voters have more children than the voters in Ft. Wavne and Evansville.

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An Artistic Failure.

Klrst Artist—What have you done with your etching? The one representing a scene In Normandy. you know?

Second Artl«t—Burned It up. It was tc flat rullure. The second day 1 put it on exhibition a common fellow came .In and recognized It as a landscape at first glance.

Nothings.

The man who Is up to *nufT waits until the sun lias taken the chill from the air before he gets up to snuft the balmy breath or spring these days.

Tls now the funny man sits down, And writes sarcastic sonnets, I'pon the woes of married men

Who eke must buy spring bonnets.

A man who has to make a retraction liuds that sort words are much more easily swallowed than hard ones.

Uncle Sam makes a prolit of four cents oa every nickel put Into circulation—almost as much as the man who receives it for a glass of picnic beer.

The difference (there Is a difference) between a gas well and the spring fisherman Is that one Is a bore for gas and the other Is a goer for bass.

Owing to war between the "trust and anti-trust" fucUons, Jelly has gone down to one cent a pound and Is decidedly shaky even at that price.

There are only 5.000 elephants in the world-e.\ eluding, of course, the mince pie species. In the weekly distribution of rations at the In dlan agencies, a baby Is enUtled to and draws the same amount as an adult. To try to convince the buck who is the happy father of twins, that marriage is a failure, would be a weary waste of words.

Strange natural phenomenon—when a minnow Is swallowed by a tlshhawk It at once becomes a crawfish.

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A STORY ABOUT LINCOLN.

Service penBibus had been the subject uppermost at the veterans' campfire that night, and together with the hardtack, boiled beans, and other "refresh ments," it had been pretty thoroughly discussed, says the New York Tribune. Many of the soldiers were getting disconsolate, and thought the chances of getting a through congress, which would keep the survivors of the Union army out of the poor house before the majority of them were dead, were not hopeful, and the tendency of many in high official position to underrate the services and sacri ficesof the men whose valor had preserved the flag and the government was referred to with some feeling. "Comrades,"

spoke

out General Schuy

ler Hamilton in a voioe that attracted everybody's attention, "if we had a president who took as much interest our pensions as old 'Abe' Lincoln onoe did getting a pension for a poor Irish woman whose husband fell in the Seminole war the thing would be done much sooner than it appears likely as matters look at present." "How was that, general?" a dozen gray-beards asked, "tiet us know how old Abe managed it." "If you'll keep still, and ask no ques tions until I get through, I will," answered General Hamilton.

A story of Abraham Lincoln never wants for listeners in an audience of old soldiers, and with the exception of the occasional scratching of a match when a fresh, cigar or another pipeful of tobacco was lighted the order preserved must have wholly satisfied the narrator. The soldiers gathered around him and the general began: "It was a roasting hot day in the early part of July, 1861, at the national capital, a fortnight, probably, before the first battle of Bull Run was fought. Pennsylvania avenue was ankle deep with red dust, which arose in great clouds in the wake of arriving regiments and batteries hurried forward by the loyal governors for the expected fight. Twowheelbarrow ambulances were making trips between the city and the neighboring camps, and lumbering army wagons were jammed in among the omnibuses which ran between Georgetown and the capital, for it was before the days of street-cars and herdics in Washington. All seemed to have one object that sweltering day, and that was to kick up the dust, suffocating pedestrians and making life unbearable. The humidity must have ranked high on that day. And everybody felt sweaty and sticky and out of temper. At least, that was about the way those at the headquarters of the army seemed to feel, from General Scott down to the body servants. I was then holding the position of military secretary to General Scott, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. "It was*nearly three o'clock in the afternoon, I think, when the tall,'gaunt form of the president of the United States entered the office of the general in chief. He looked tired and jaded o.ut —the picture ot exhausted energy and disgust. His long linen duster, evidently no recent acquaintance of the wash-tub, was wet with stains of perspiration under the arms, reaching almost to the pockets his dingy looking vest was unbuttoned, and his russet pantaloons of pioneer cut dangled at least a couple of inches above an expanse of dust-covered shoe leather. Before General Scott had time to arise and welcome his visitor Mr. Lincoln threw his limp fiigure into the nearest chair, and removing his dilapidated old slouch hat, he began mopping his perspiring brow. General Scott was so astonished by the president's sudden and peculiar appearance that, although the old hero had managed to get upon his feet and bow to the chief magistrate, he was unable to express anything except surprise, and that not in words, but by looks. He afterward explained his perturbation by saying that ae feared some dire misfortune had befallen the Union cause to bringithe president to army headquarters in such a state. 'Sit down, general,' said Mr. Lincoln, in his considerate way, still wiping the accumulations of

duBt

and moisture

from his face 'this is too hot a day for ceremony. I dropped in to tell you that have learned something to-day.' 'What is that, Mr. President?" asked the general, somewhat reassured. 'The dignity of being an officeholder, general. Since 9 o'clock this morning I have been trying to get a hearing from some clerk in the pension bureau. I believe I have tried them all, but in vain. They have sent me up and down those stairs from the ground floor to the attic and back again until I am about tired out.' There were no elevators in the government building then, and the president's exuding frame gave evidence of their absence. 'Excuse me, Mr. President,' General Scott replied, with a courteous gesture, 'but it is hardly becoming in the president of the United States to be a solicitor of pensions. If you have any matters of that kind to attend to, send them to me, and Colonel Hamilton of my staff will be pleased to look after them without delay.' 'I haven't a doubt that the claim is a just one,' went on Mr. Lincoln, taking no apparent notice of the general's criticism, 'for I have examined it carefully,' and he took a package of papers from the pocket of his duster, and, having adjusted hie steel-rimmed spectacles, went over them on& by one. 'You see, general, the poop woman who makes this application for a pension lost her husband, who was a corporal in the infantry, at the hands of some bloody Indian twenty-five years ago. Nobody seems to have taken any friendly interest in the case, and she has been hunting the White house for weeks, until, between ourselves [and there was a merry twinkle in the president's eye], I'm afraid Mrs. Linooln is getting a little jealous. I thought 1 had better end the matter up in some way or other to-day, and I have promised the poor woman an answer at 4 o'clock—she's waiting over there now. Between the two of them I don't know that I dare go home without having the job finished and Mr. Lincoln's eyes twinkled again. "I was not far away, an interested spectator of the scene, and when General

Scott cleared his throat and called 'Colonel Hamilton,' I came promptly to the front. 'How long do you think it would take you, colonel, to get this case through the pension office?" asked the president after a brief explanation of the facte. 'In from twenty to thirty minutes, I think, Mr. President.' I glanced over

the papers and saw that they were proper form. 'If you will await my turn I will come back to you in half an hour or,' I added, 'if you prefer I will take the certificate to you at the White house and save you that much time.' k" 'No, no, young man,' Mr. Lincoln responded, oheerily, 'bring them back here. I'll wait for them here.' "The pension office was then located in Winder's building in Seventeenth street, only a few doors from the war department. I was not long in reaching the office of the commissioner, and I was not a moment too soon, either, for it was 3 o'clock by that time and the officers and clerks were putting away their papers and making ready to depert for the day. 'Did you see a tall, dark-oomplex-ioned gentleman here to-day, wearing a linen duster, and interested in a pension for a woman who lost her husband in the Seminole war?' I asked of the com missioner. "'Yes,'was the answer,'and the man has nearly bothered our lives out all day. He said he was a lawyer from somewhere out West—the most persistent pension beggar you ever saw. Guess he got the worst of it, though.' 'You are sure you remember him?' '"O, yes, perfectly—tall- dark—slim clothes didn't fit him—anxious^-kept on saying he was sure it was all right—and

'That will do, sir. All I have to say to you is that you have made a nice mess of it. That,man is President Abraham Lincoln. I've promised him an answer from you in thirty minutes. He is down in General Scott's offioe now, waiting for that answer.' "If you ever saw a change of front, boys, and a sudden movement from slow music to double-quick, it was all in that office. Bells were rung, and the heads of the divisions summoned, desks were unlocked, papers flew out again, clerks and messengers ran up and down and in and out at the peril of life and limb. At intervals between the orders to clerks and officers the commissioner sought to cover over the matter with apologies. He hoped that I would explain to the president that it was all a mistake—if he had only made himself known—if some one had only recognized him—how anxious they would have been to accommodate him. This was repeated over and over in a dozen ways. "It didn't take them a dozen minutes to verify all the statements and affidavits and certify the case fgr payment. In lees than the thirty minutes asked for I had everything properly signed and executed, and had placed the final papers in the president's hands. "He looked at them quizzically, turned them over, and having examined them carefully, as if to make sure that they were really all right, he said to me with that quaint expression so often seen on

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face 'I would like to know, Colonel Hamilton, how it is that I was so long and failed, and you were so short and sueeddddd?' •"•Well, Mr. President,' I replied, 'I did not conceal the fact from the pension bureau that it was the president who championed this poor woman's cause. You couldn't do that, of course, and they didn't know you there, sir.' '•Mr. Lincoln smiled, placed the papers in his pocket, and turning to General Scott said: 'I understand, general, that it is one of your standing rules that' when the president or a member of the cabinet comes to see you a member of your staff shall accompany him on his return home. With your permission I would be glad to have Colonel Hamilton go back home with me to-day.' ''When we reached the White "house, sure enough, there on

the

Religion

pprtico stood

the old Irish woman waiting for Mr. Linooln. He walked

up to

her and,

handing her the papers, Baid: "'There you are, my good woman. Your pension is all right, and all you have to do now is to go to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock and get your money. But, from my experience to-day, I would advise you not to go before 10 o'clock if you do you won't find the officers there.' "The poor old woman caught MB hand and covered it with kisses, and with the volubility of her race and sex, and from the overflowing of a grateful heart, she began to call on all the saints in the calendar to shower blessings on her benefactor's head. 'Don't thank me,' he answered kindly, gently* freeing himself from her grasp. 'This young man is the one who did the business for you and who deserves all the thanks and Mr. Lincoln stepped aside and seemingly enjoyed the fervency with which the old creature turned her reservoir of benedictions upon me. And with the remark that 'he must go and tell Mrs. Lincoln that it was all right,' he bade me good day and hurried out of sight."

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Charity Booming.

Stranger—Kissing sociables! What are thay? Rural Belle—They are never held except to raise money for some great religious or charitable object. The young men are blindfolded, and on the payment of a fixed sum some girl, whom he doesn't know, of course, is brought up to him and he is allowed to kiss her. He never finds out whom he kisses, but by paying enough he can finally kiss every girl in the room. So, you see, he gets the one he wants, but he never can tell which one it was. "I see. Is therfe much activity in religious and benevolent circles in a town like this?" "Yes, indeed. It just keeps every one of us busy hunting up objects to hold sociables for."—[Philadelphia Record.

He Hit Her in the Jaw.

A Lawrenceville doctor was escorting a young lady from the opera. She yawned considerably as the train neared ber suburban home. He warned her to be careful. Again she yawned, there was a click, and the jaw was dislocated. At once he gave her a ringing blow on the chin, which drove the jaw in place, but several passengers sprang to their feet, thinking it a case of wife-beating. He could not explain without making the lady ridiculous, but a newspaper item has set him right.—[Philadelphia Record

Buncombe Legislation.

What's the use of passing an ordinance which will never be enforced? The city attorney presented such an act and it was approved by a vote of 9 to 2. It provides that owners of unmuzzled dogs shall be fined from one dollar to ten dollars for permitting their canines to run about loose. Owners were ordered to muzzle the dogs Bome time 6ince, but it was not enforced, and the new ordinance isadead letter before it is spread,on record.—[Mail.

A Better Christian Than Bismarck.

King Mataafa, of Samoa, is a magnanimous sort of a monarch. The assistance he caused to be rendered to the men of the German warship which had been sent to suppress him was a notable instance of returning good for evil. Long live Mataafa!—[Boston Globe.

INDIAXAPOLIS BAMD TftASSlT-

The Problem Likely to

in IndUuupslit' Moaleipal Fight. An interesting fight Is in progress between the citizens on the one hand, and the Chicago capitalists who an operating the street car lines of this city, says an IN dianapoiia special, on the otter, and the feeling is gradually becoming hotter and hotter as the demands of neither side are complied with. Since purchasing the franchise and street car equipment, the Holmes syndicate has made a number of improvements in the service, extending the lines to remote parte of the city, putting on new and better cars and in many instances using good horses instead of sleepy moles, but still the demands of the charter regarding the employment of conductors have never been met. Recently the company began to talk of electric can, and a strong feeling in ^favor of this service and rapid transit was engendered. Then a proposition came from Manager Sohafferthat the company would put electric cars on certain streets, provided the charter of privileges should be extended to fifty years. The sentiment in favor of the new motor had been created. but when it was traced back it was found to have emanated from a few friendB of the company, some of them members of the council, and it is now believed that the latter were actuated by a desire to have behind them a sentiment that would justify giving all that the company asked. The business men of the «ity have. taken a firm stand against the extension of the charter, and as it expiree in twelve years, they claim that the privileges are worth thousands of dollars to tbe city, and should not be given in exchange for a few lines of electric railway. Still, several of the council are in favor of granting the extension of the charter, and the question is already assuming a prominence that will make it the leading issue in the city campaign. Pressure is being brought to bear to compel the council to demand the employment of conductors, but this the company positively declines to do.

ERNIhT SCHILLING A PAINTER.

Victoria Morlsiul's Husband Concealing His Identi ty—He Denies Certain Reports. NEW YORK, April 6.—Ernest Schilling,

husband of Victoria Morisini, has been discovered in Astoria. He has concealed his identity from his neighbors, who know him only as John Wilson. Altogether, Mr. Schilling seems to be much better off than when Mrs. MorisiniSchilling was making him notorious. He earns good wages as a house painter, he says, and is a member of several yachting, hunting and fishing clubs. He owns a house and a catboat, whereas he owned nothing at all when his wife was with him. He thinks Mrs. Schilling loves him still, though he ia rather anxious to know who has supported her since she abandoned him three years ago. Mr. Schilling is sure he can whip the man who says that he relinquished Mrs. Schilling for 93,000 of Banker Morisini's money.

ILLINOIS NEWS NOTJCS.

Monahan's bill to repeal the Merritt conspiracy law was defeated Friday in the Illinois senate.

Luther Dearborn, an attorney of the C. & A. road, who looked after its legislative interest, died at Springfield, Friday^

The sentence of "Farmer" McClaughry, one of .the- Cook cauUiy.- bood jers,. has been comnauted bv Governor Fifer, and the prisoner will be released next Wednesday.

The supreme court of Illinois filed an opinion Friday in the case of Dupee et al. vs. Swiggert, auditor of state, which declares the banking law constitutional and general.in effect and operation, except section 6, declaring the liability of stockholders, which is declared void.

The $100,000 Jeff Davis Reward.

It appears that the'last of the $100,000 appropriated by congress in 1868 for distribution among the captors of Jeff Davis was not paid out until within the year 1888, or twenty years after the act was passed. The number of claimants was about two hundred and fifty, exclusive of the four officers in command of the several detachments engaged in the enterprise. Each of said officers were paid $3,000, and the remaining $88,000 was divided pro rata on the basis of the pay proper to which the claimants were respectively entitled at the time of the capture.—[Globe-Democrat.

v-S''"-:'5^v The School Board.

The city school board met on Friday evening. Routine business only was transacted. Bills to the amount of {324.37 were allowed from the special fund, and to the amount of $21.95 from the library fund. Henry Asohermann was appointed janitor at the Third district, vice Thomas H. Blake, deceased. Dr. Richardson was present at the meeting for the first time since taken sick several months ago. Short meetings of'the board were held at his residence several times during his illness.

The Gas Well.

No accidents happened at the gas well last week, and very fair progress was made. The drills went about 100 feet in the six days, working both day and night. The hard sand stone Btratum has not been penetrated through, although the drills have gone beyond the depth at the old well where the next stratum was reached. This unuBual thickness will overcome the advantage of a much thinner stratum at a shallow depth. At the present rate of progress the depth at which oil was struck in th« Rose well, about 1,800 feet, will be reached in six or seven weeks.

Kasy to Answer,

Managing editor—Mr. Oidsport, here is a letter from a correspondent who wishes to know which whipped in the prize-fight between Jake Bigjaw and Tony Allmouth in 1884.

Sporting "Editor—Never heard of 'em. Where did the fight come off? Managing editor—He says it took place in northern Indiana.

Sporting editor—It was a draw.—[Chicago Tribune.

It Was a Different Kind of Sorrow.

"Why do you look so sad, Miss Ethel?" "Sister Helen is going to marry Tom Barry." "The worthless young reprobate! no wonder you are sad." "Oh, it is not that. I wanted to marry him myself."—[Life.

The Cause of Ballott Reform

Twenty-two states are endeavoring to purify their election laws by introducing the Australian system of voting.—[Nashville American.

Stoeckler'a Head la Level.

Dr. Stoeckler, the court pastor at Ber

lin, baa no faith in Count Herbart Bismarck, who has, he says, "never shown that he ia a man of his father's eminence."—^Chicago HeralcL

THE CHVBCHK*.

PSAIJI XXIV. -S-

Behold the earth. It the Lord's, And ao are ther who dwell tbeM»n But who of these aacenda HU 1 ill

And stands Hli holy place upon All thoee not vain, bat troe of soal. Whose eand* are hleen. aa pure their hearts. On them descends His righteousness,

From them His blessing ne'er departs. Lift ap yoar heads, eternal gates, The King of 6loryshall come In. Who la the king? He is the Lord.

The Lord of Might who battles win. The Lord of Hosts, the King of all. Llftup, legatee. He conquers sin, Lift up. ye everlasting doors.

The King of Glory cometh In. —[Janet Cossar In Chicago News.

GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH.—Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Young people's meeting at 6:30 p. m. Supday school at 9 a." m.

UNIVERSALLST CHURCH.—Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Evening subject: "The Unknown Woman of the Street." All cordially invited. Seats free. .ri^

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.—Sunday school at 9:30. a. m. Communion will be celebrated at the morning services. Preaching by thepastor at 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at the north and east missions at"3 p. in.

CHRISTIAN CHTJKCH.—The Eev. C. Strawh will preach both morning and evening at the Christian Church. Morning theme, "The Kingdom of Christ." Evening subject, "What Constitutes a Christian?''. .The public is cordially invited.

CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching by the pastor at 11 a. m. and evening at 7:30. A lecture by the Rev. G. W. Leitch, of Ceylon, with illustrations of "Life Habits and Religion of the Ceylonese."

CENTENARY M. E. CHURCH.—Northeast corner of Seventh and Eagle streets, the Rev. S. B. Town, pastor. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.. Class meeting at 11:45 a. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. Young people's meeting at 6:45 p. m. Strangers in the city and visitors are always welcome.

Tlie Andover Case.

Chief Justice Morton, of Massachusetts, has sent down an order in the Andover controversy in the case of Egbert G. Smith, appellant, vs. the visitors of the theological institution in Phillips' academy la Andover pending in the sujreme court. He orders that Julius H. Seelye be required to answer the question put to him in the hearing before the commissioners as to how Wm. T. Eustis voted in the case of Egbert Smyth, following are the grounds given for the decision: The visitors are a private eleemosynary corporation. The privilege which exempts judges, jurors and other public officers from testifying as to the matters which take place in their deliberations does not apply to Buch visitors. A visitor is required to testify as to mattere which took place at the meeting if the matter iB pertinent and material to the issues under investigation. If it is found that one of the visitors acted corruptly, it would be ground for setting aside the whole proceedings.

Catholic Training Schools.

Bishop Chatard said to an Indianapolis Sun reporter: "It is our purpose to provide a training school for girls and boys where they may be taught to work after leaving the orphan asylums. They come away, say at the age of 13, and some of them need a refuge little while longer until they can be taught, the girls housework and the boys the rudiments of a trade. At present the main attention will be given to the training of girls, for boys are more able to help themselves. The Sisters of Providence will have charge of the school. There are at present about three hundred orphans in my diocese, the boys on the farm at Vincennes and the girls at Terre Haute." ,v

The American Bible Society.

The American Bible society has granted funds to the amount of $52,554.84, including appropriations to the American board for work in Spain and in Ceylon, to the M. E. Church for work in Germany, and to the La Platta, the Brazil, the Venezuela, the Cuban and the China agencies of the society. Two auxiliaries have been recognized in Dakota, two in Iowa, in one in each of the states of Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana. The cases receipts in March were $74,247.82. The total issueB from the bible bouse for the year ending March 31, not including those issued in foreign lands, was 1,005,744 volumes.

Is Victoria to Tnrn Catholic?

The story printed in the Figaro that the queen is about to become a Roman Catholic, and spend some time upon the Continent every year toward spring in order to avoid Easter devotions at home, has penetrated to Biarritz. It has been said there that ber majesty, after receiving the bishop of Bayonne, will make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, that she is expected shortly to abdicate in favor of the prince of Wales, and that the Empress Frederic, the disciple of of Strauss and of Herbert Spencer, is to follow the example of ber gracious mother. What next?—[London World.

The Rev. J. H. Cram.

Among the inducements held out to Mr. Crum by the Winona people to persuade him to remain there, a half dozen of the leading members of his church agreed to pay $250 per annum in addition to his salary towards his house rent. A movement was also on foot to build a parsonage for him at an early day. Pecuniarily be loses, at least, $250 per annum by coming here. This fact has not been mentioned by Mr. Crum in his correspondence with the trustees, but from a geentleman who lives in another city.

An Illustrated Missionary Address.

An illustrated address on "The Life, Habits and Religion of the Hindoos" will be given in the Central Presbyterian Church, this evening, by G. W. Leitch, a missionary from Qeylon. About one hundred photographs taken in the country will be brought out sixteen ffeet square by the stereopticBh. The admission is free, with an offering for missions at the close.

The Growth of the English Tongue.

It is an interesting fact that the English language is expanding more rapidly than any of the several thousand tongues now in use.—[Baltimore American.

Pigskin.

Pigskin is now used for gloves and children's shoes.

EXPKK9B PACKAfiia.

W THX AITXRJiOOX. The avenue! A maiden who Is meet and pretty, blew her!

I primp myself TonMMtheelf

In hopes I may Impress her. I note her face. Her charming grace, Without uncouthly staring

She looks at me! I think I see .. She likes my courtly bearing.

A sudden gnat.' A grain of dust—

Confounded mote of matter' It make* me blink, And makes her think I'm rudely winking at her. —[Washington Post.

Uncle Sam makes a profit of 4 cents on every nickel put in circulation. The fashion of carrying a muff dates 300 years back. Courtiers wore them in the time of George I.

Iowa farmers last year raised enough corn to pay off ail the farm mortgages in the state and leave a balance of 100 000,008 bushels.

Dr. Terby, of Louvain, an astronomer, announces the appearance of a "white region on Saturn's ring, opposite

Bhadow

globe." ANew Orleans minister says it is a fact that most sermons are dry and sleepy, but the juicy ones are always so sharply criticised that the clergy avoid them.

Simon Cohen, a Brooklyn boy, while playing tag, was pushed againBt a staircase by a playmate, and sustained injuries which have developed into congestion ofithe brain.

An Ihdiana girl flared up and fired a pistol at her young man because he was tialf an hour late on Sunday evening, and he didn't want to explain that he had been washing his feet.

In London last week 2,699 births and 1,639 deaths were registered, the annual death rate being 19.7 per 1,000. The death rate in twenty-eight large towns averaged 21.3 per 1,000. "A superior house parlor maid who can teach elementary music" and "a plain cook under 25, who knows shorthand," were advertised for in a recent iBsue of an English paper.

One-thirtieth of the whole population of Iceland emigrated last year, moved, itis said, by the unpopularity of the Danish government and the blandishments of Canadian emigration agents.

Out in a backwoods town in Indians, last week, the sheriff left the court room for dinner, forgetting all about his prisoner, who afterward leisurely walkea off, and has not Bince been captured.

Services for the deaf are held in the church institute at Sheffield. The preaoher speaks into a bell-shaped receptacle, from which tubes convey the sound of his voice to the ear of each person present.

No Massachusetts railroad will hire a man unless he signs a contract not to bein suit for damages in case he is injured. The company then presents him with from twenty-five dollars to seventy-five dollars per month.

A Kentucky woman has been twentytwo years saving up $35 for her burial in old age, when, a day or two ago, a thief walked off with the cash, and left her son, who is worth $300,000, to put up for the funeral expenses.

A portable house has just been completed down in Orlando, Fla. It has on three floors six comfortable rooms, and being constructed in sections twenty inches wide, it can be taken down and transported like ordinary lumber.

In place of the yellow button, which usually surmounts the top of the cap of a mandarian of high rank, the Chinese minister at Washington wears a magnificent opal as large as a pullet'a egg, surrounded by a circle of two-carat diamonds.

A scientist has promulgated the theory that natural gas will gradually turn blonde hair dark. He says the gas generates an ammonical vapor, which combines with the sulphur in the hair chemically and produces sulphuret of amonia.

Prince Luitpold, regent of'Bavaria, who is a devout Catholic, will only allow the performance of the "Passion Play" at Ober-Ammergau next year, upon condition that the text be previously revised by the senior court chaplain at Munich.

Moths of some kind are said to change color to match the food that the happen to eat. A goat moth enclosed in a box lined with pink tissue paper turned from gray-green to pink, and when a white lining was put in the box the moth became white.

The manufacturers of pate de foie gras by tbe Parisians, and its sale as a genuine Strasburg article, has evoked :'rom the citizens of the latter city a petition to the emperor in Berlin asking him to protect them, and also a prosecution in Paris against their rivals.

English public opinion is scandalized by the proposal to build a "dead house" to receive the overflow from Westminster Abbey. It is urged that there is still room enough in the abbey for monuments to all the really great men that are likely to die for some time.

Pat Feeaey, a popular Irish comedian, who not long ago gave $10,000 to the duchess of Marlborough's fund for the relief of misery in Ireland, is now so reduced in circumstances owing to illneee, that he is depending upon the proceeds of a benefit at Dublin to keep him from starvation.

Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer. the newly elected president of Soroeis, is a charming woman with the graceful manners and versatile adaptability gained by the experiences of stage life. She is said to be the fairest, youngest, and ablest presiding officer Soroeis has had in the course of its twenty-one years' existence.

Miss Bjornson, tbe daughter of the novelist, has just made her debut in opera at Paris and that excitable city is wildly raving over her beauty and ber voice. She is very fair, tall and slender, with a powerful soprano voice and great dramatic talent. She is not quite 20, and will devote two moreyeara to study before becoming a fixed star.

Rhoda Broughton, the well known English novelist, is 48 and a highly intelligent looking woman, although her features are hard and rather masculine. She is a good talker and has a rich fund of humor of a very racy and piquant kind. Most of her literary work ia done early in the morning. It is her custom to allow at least two years to elapse between the publication of her stories. She is fond of pug dogs and has any number of them.

Correspondents predict that one of the most popular members of the administration circle of ladies at Washington will be Miss Minnie Wanamaker, daughter of the postmaster-general. She is about 19, and pretty and charming, according to the verdict of those who are acquainted with her. At present she in Europe with her mother. She has not yet made her debut in society, but will undoubtedly do so as soon as the family settles down at Washington.

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No. 9 Western Express (84V) 1.42 a. in. No. 6 Mall Train IU.JO a. m.i No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) ....._ 2.16 p. m.1 No. 7 Fast Mall 9.04 p. m.

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