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DAILY EXPRESS.

GEO. M. ALLEN, Proprietor.

Publication Office 16 south Fifth street, Printing *1. House Square.

[Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoflice of Terre Haute, Ind.]

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THE WEEKLY EXPRESS.

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5Ii.

Boulanger a few weeks ago apparently ^If lhad a)l France at- his back. So he has now—but he is running away.

Vigo county wasted some hard-eariied money of taxpayers in preparing the crook, Evans, for the penitentiary.

What's the reason the Gazette and the clique insist that Treasurer Fitzpatrick be kept in the treasurer's office two years more, willy nilly ri

We are very much in the humor to backslide in our adherence to Lige Halford. The idea of a man who knows news when he sees and hears it failing day after day to give the public even a hint of it. The new position may be the making of a No. 1 private secretary, but it is the ruin of an all-fired good newspaper man and that is a calamity com*pared with which "the failure of a national administration is as an alarm for a small fire in a city where a championship ball game is a tie on the ninth inning.

A SENSATIONAL PREACHER.

Some years ago, when De Witt Talitiage was making a reputation that now brings him a big revenue from the newspapers for what he says in the pulpit by the peddling of his sermons to the press of the country, he went slumming in New York. He visited the most de-. praved places of amusement. This he did, as he then claimed, to obtain information of service to him in saving souls. Indeed, he set an example for would-be sensational preachers everywhere, including one or two in this city.

De Witt Talmage, now sells to the press an article over his own signature «in which he inveighs against the theater. Yet this visitor of the resorts of the vilest of the vile in the great metropolis sanctimoniously declares that he has not seen a theatrical performance since he was 19 years of age! He passes judgment on the theater from the billboards (as deceitful as they are big) and intimates that the secular press gets most of its revenue from theaters.

It is strange that one who can earn as much money as a Clara Belle by the use of a pea should be so lacking in information or scruples. Talmage ought to know that he can not continue to market his wares at fair prices if he persists in this sort of misrepresentation, lor which he can offer no excuse save an inordinate desire for pelf. He could obtain more accurate information without a tenth of the risk to his sanctimony involved in the disgustingly sensational slumming expeditions. The theatrical advertising is but a small part of the revenues of a newspaper, and the theater is not as bad as the bill-boards would cause an unsophisticated person to believe.

C. 0. D.

The Best Day.

Alias Ann Teak—Which day tlo you consider the luckiest to be married on, Mr. Olebach Mr. Olebttch—The thirty-tlrst of April ought to be about the luckiest, I should think.

Miss Teak—Why there Isn't any such day. Mr. Olebacli- Just so.

Had Him Tliere.

Mrs. Potts- -1 wonder why you men like to eo to those horrid female mln9trel shows? Mr. Potts I guess It's because there are no woinen.in the audience to get In front of a fellow with their high hats on. In other words, they go because there Is a chance to see something.

Mrs. Potts (dryly)—Just what I thought.

By Comparison.

Editor How does It come, Mr. Qullby, that you have given only four lines to the tire on street? Are you not aware that there were tlfteen lives lost?

Reporter—I did not think It a matter of much -moment. Editor! am afraid you are getting a little blase, Mr. Qullby. Now what would you consider a ^matter of moment?

Keporter—Well, I hardly know. My wife had •-twins last night. -.f

By the Way.

There Is only one hereditary oftlee In the I'nlted States. Sometimes the policeman runs In a fam.iiy. .. Of course the women don't dress to please the -men, for men as a rule are no Judges or feminine beauty, anyhow. If you do not believe this statement Just ask some young maiden of about thlrtytlve or forty summers.

A llrm stand—two peanut venders in partnership. A new Denver literary paper Is called "The (treat Divide." Several office seekers have bought roples under a mistaken Idea as to the nature of Its contents.

Now are the days when the stove which has refused all winter to get warm begins to see the error of Its ways and make up for lost time.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Cincinnati Commercial: The strong point with Boulanger is that he Is ready at any and all times to submit his fortunes to the decision of the bal-lot-box.

Milwaukee Sentinel: In a few years there will be no more destructive prairie tires in Dakota and the erection of better building*, the growth of timber and the discovery of new coal beds wlU prevent suffering from blizzards. Then this great reelon, with Its dry atmosphere and Its rich «oll, will become a land of health, comfort and wealth.

Philadelphia North American: The cltlzens'of Philadelphia know Mr. Wanamaker. They have confidence In his judgment. They are not protesting against the selection he Is said to have made. If the people here are not mistaken, they can depend upon the solnal column of Mr. Wanamaker. They do depend on him to see that the postoffice is organized on the basis of public accommodatlon.

LADIES AND NARCOTICS.

The ladies of Paris to-day apparently poasees what Macbeth desired for his wife, says the London Telegraph. He demanded from her bewildered physician "some sweet oblivious antidote" to cleanse away "the perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart." At that period opium in all its forms had not been discovered a&a poison to be used by murderers, or in minute doses to deaden pain and sooth agitated nerves. Our Paris correspondent recently stated that morphine injected under the skin is the fashionable drug of the day. This is one of the most highly concentrated forms in which opium can be given, and is, of course, a deadly poison. It is communicated to the system by a little syringe, which at the point is about the size of a large needle, and the operation is almost as trivial and painless as the process-of vaccination. After having seen it done by a surgeon, sometimes without any teaching, a lady can do it for herself, and thus this most dangerous, because most seductive, of all forma of narcotization may become a secret and deadly hsbit. All classes of Parisiennes take it—"the fashionable lady, wearied by the vigils of the ball-room the actress, overpowered by the excitement of the footlights, and others overwhelmed by drinking too deeply of pleasure's cup." One writer in the French press implores the doctors to interfere morphine, he says, is "daily murdering dozens of Parisiennes, and the drug is about to reappear next season under the name 'exalgine.'" For. while in comparatively large doses this powerful poison is narcotic, it can be used, it seems, as a kind of stimulant. If the patient resists sleep then the drug exalts and excites the whole nervous system. The person who has taken it feels able to say, with Romeo: "My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne. And all this day an accustomed

Bpirit

lifts me above the

ground with cheerful thoughts." In fact, an exhilarating form of intoxication is induced, and the same result was recorded some years ago, when the people of a village in the North of Ireland adopted methylated ether as their customary drink. They could laugh and boast and swagger after it as if each had received that day some jovial news. The exalting effects of morphine also make it popular, while some of its votaries enjoy it because it steeps their senses in momentary forgetfulness. The same variety of sensations accompanies opium eating in India and China. Used in small quantities it is a kind of stimulant, and does as little harm as an occasional glass of wine, ale or spirits, especially if the drinker is strong and takes plenty of outdoor exercise. Like alcohol here, however, it is most dangerous with persons of sedentary habits, and in all cases when consumed to excess.

The dangerous habit is peculiarly pernicious to such persons as the ladies of Paris. They are not robust they inherit from their progenitors a capacity for feverish excitement they are not fond of exercise. They are pleasure seekers almost Jtrom birth,for a French child shares much mere of her mother's life than any English boy or girl. The power of stimulants or narcotics is-- much greater in such cases. It will be said, however, by the fair slave to the bad custom that they require it most because they are physically weak and nervously excitable if they were calmer, they could go to sleep without it if stronger, brace themselves for the coming fete without any such artificial stimulant. Why, then, should they not use what they above all people most want? Now, no doubt, there are cases where opiates have been prescribed by the physician when it is necessary to secure absolute quiet for restless nerves, when the mind is wearing out the body, or when pain banishes sleep. Yet, even when a doctor is thus compelled to inject a poison in order to gain time for something that will really cure, there is considerable danger. The first effect of morphine is either a delicious forgetfulness of existence, doubly welcome after houre of pain, or an uplifting of the spirit after days of deadly depression but these effects are and must be temporary. Then follows reaction, and the dose is repeated, but after the doctor, seeing the danger of continuance, cuts off the supply, the suffering of the patient is redoubled, and there comes on him or her a fierce craving for the old relief. If this is secretly indulged, all hope of happiness must be abandoned, unless the man or woman, which is rare, has a strong will and can stop on the downward slope. Everybody knows how difficult it is to cure an habitual female tippler but the charm of alcohol is nothing to the charm of morphine and here is the danger to the unfortunate women in Paris who have begun to use this fascinating and fatal drug. It is a Bweet poison, that sooner or later saps the body, the mind and the will, and reduces what wasonce a vigorous, virtuous, intellectual 1111 of restless nerves, to be compcwra at intervals iato lethargy or sleep. We doubt whether the mania for opiates, once thoroughly established, has ever been eradicated. Alcoholism can be more aasily detected in various ways, and, though the means of intoxication are easily procured, they are not easily concealed. It is different the case of morphine. In a small ial a lady may carry about with her locked up in her dressing cases doses enough for a year, and it is only doctors who can recognize the outward signs of the dangerous and degrading habit. The more secretly any nice can be indulged the more perilous it is to the community. Card playing for high stakes is objectionable, but it must be done in the sight of men. Betting on race courses is foolish enougli when carried to a great extent, but it is "b public practice. So is staking money at Monte Carlo.

The most dangerous form of gambling, however, at the present day is speculation on the stock exchange. A man may lead apparently a life of respectability and routine, going home to dinner and never stirring from home at night, and yet he may be all the time a reckless gambler, practically betting wildly on the rise or fall of some stock, sometimes his wife knowing nothing until there comes one day a terrible crash. The same remake apply in some degree to a comparison between the use of morphine and the use of alcohol. The latter can not be conducted with the same privacy and therefore is not so dangerous. The opinion of the world has condemned excess in wine, spirits, or beer as vulgar and disgusting while a kind of oriental, literary, fashionable and scien

tific halo still lingers about opiates of all kinds, linked as they are with the East, with Bohemians of every land, with worldly dissipation and with medical experiments.

That fair Parisians Bhould have moments of weariness, languor and depression is natural enough. They, above all people, can understand the saying of Sir George Cornewall Lawis that life would be very tolerable if it were not for its amusements. They ever Beek pleasure, and, therefore, constantly miss it Parisians of both sexes seek new sensations every day, in every form of vice, sometimes even in fashionable virtues. Yet through their light literature,~as through their lives, runs a wearisome monotony of sin—a perpetual round of the same kind of slimy jests on the same kind of dishonor and infidelity. That a man or a woman should be faithful to a promise, a vow, or an oath, would break the charm of French life. There are in their dramas and stories two characters that recur always in the same relation— the person who violates a duty or breaks a pledge and the avenger on his or her track. This central situation is the kernel of every Parisian fiction and every Parisian play. Society is madei up of persons engaged in concealing such faults committed by themselves, or detecting them when committed by others. When this has gone on fof generations it becomes rather monotonous, and Paris plunges for change in any direction. It takes up any few fad, political or otherwise, to relieve the ennui of existence, and, when tired of General Boulanger ever coming and not yet arrived, it doses itself with morphine to get over the time between this and the general election. The drug, however, has not yet been applied to politics. It was thought the other day that the Tirard cabinet would be a kind of sleeping administration,giving France repose until the exhibition was fulfilled —an injection of morphine into the body politic—but the old restlessness has revived. The Due d'Aumale has been recalled and the Patriotic league dissolved and prosecuted. So that, whatever may be within the power of fair Parisians, La Belle France herself can apparently never be narcotized. Where is the physician to minister to that "mind diseased, Pluck from the inemory a rooted sorrow, Gaze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff That weighs upon the heart." We fear there is no such political mophine, else Ireland would have long ceased to trouble us, and France would have Bunk to rest.

THE HOUSEHOLD.

Zephyrs.—Heat two cupfuls of boiled hominy, adding sufficient water to make it thin enough to pour. Add a pieGe of butter the size of an English walnut, and a little salt. Have ready iron gem pans, heated very hot, and well buttered. Fill these with the hominy, and bake half an hour in a hot oven.

Dressing for Sponge Cake Roll.—Take the pulp and juice of three lemons, extra cting the seeds use the yellow rind of one, grated. Two tableapoonfuls of butter, six eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, sugar to taste, And a scant half teacup of cold water. Put all together on the fire, and stir until it thickens, but do not let it boil. When it is cold, spread on the roll in place of jelly.

Beef Sausage.—Chop a tough or coarse "steak piece" fine, or get your butcher to do it for you season with a little powdered thyme, salt, pepper, a very little mustard, a teaspoonful of lemon juice and a pinch of grated lemon peel make into round, flat cakes, roll in flour and fry in a little hot dripping of butter, turning as they brown. Drain and serve hot.

Tomato Soup.—Take one pint of canned tomatoes. After cooking thoroughly add half a saltspoonful of baking soda. Stir well and then rub through a strainer fine enough to keep back seeds. Boil half a pint of milk mix one teaspoonful of flour with very little milk till smooth then stir it into the boiiing milk, and cook a few minutes. Add a dessertspoonful of butter to the milk, then the tomato, and serve immediately. Season with salt and pepper.

A Pretty Pudding in Cups.—Stir smoothly two ounces of semlina or rice flour into a scant pint of new milk and let both boil in a farina boiler for five minutes, then add to the hot paste a quarter pound of butter, two ounces of loaf sugar, the yolks of five eggs and the whites of three the grated rind of a lemon, a little orange-flower water, and some shreds of citron.— Put the yolks of eggs, well beaten, in the pudding, as soon as it becomes cold, and stir in the beaten white after the flavoring and fruit. Drop into small cups, bake in the oven as custards, or over the fire in a pan of water, and serve with preserves.

Variety Cake.—Beat together two eggs and one cup of sugar, add three tablespoons melted butter and one tea cup of sweet milk. Into this stir two cups of flour in which has been well mixed two teaspoons of baking powder. Flavor with lemon, bake in a deep buttered basin that will hold two quarts, that it may have room to rise. To make a pudding of it, cut in slices and cover with some nice sauce. Or take the recipe minus the lemon, add one teaspoonful each of ground spices and a spice cake is the result. Or take half of the mixture, and one-half of the spices, place in the pan in alternate layera light and dark, the result is a marble cake a handful of raisins well rubbed in flour is a nice addition also frostinjr if de^. sired.

•. On Behalf of Philip H. Welch.

An effort is making to collect a memorial fund to be applied to the education of the four little children of the late Phillip H. Welch, the humorist and hero, who continued in his sphere as the most voluminous and most exquisite writer of humor for years after he had been assailed by the dread disease which carried him off a few weeks ago. The effort to insure the deceased writer's children against possible distress during their minority was begun by and among his personal friends and professional associates, but it was soon discovered that the charitably disposed among the public, and particularly among the many wealthy newspaper readers who enjoyed Mr. Welch's writings, desired to be included in the field from which the fund was to be raised. It was then decided to extend the scope of the movement, and the decision was promptly and heartily responded to. The treasurer of the fund is Edward T. Clark, whose address is the Evening Post, New York, and to whom all remittances may be sent. R. W. Gilder of the Century, L. S. Metcalf of the Forum, and the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott of the Christian Union, take a lively interest in the movement, and agree to audit the accounts of the treasurer.

Standing: on Etiquette.

Mrs. Smilk—Are you going to your friend, Mrs. Blank's, funeral to-morrew?" Mrs. Nubbs—Certainly not. She owed, me a call.—{Chicago Herald.

THE TERRE HAtJfE EXPRESS, THUHSDAY MORNING, APRIL li, 1(889.

ALMOST FkRPETUiL MOTION.

A St. Lonaian InveaUan Aliased Woaderfnl 8t«am Etoctrie Maehin*.

Daniel W. Smith, of St. Louis, mechanic and engineer, has patented an invention whioh competent judges say will revolutionize motive power and modern methods of transit. The patent was obtained March 2. The machine is called an electric steam generator, and as nearly accomplishes perpetual motion as anything the mind of man will probably ever invent. By means of electric heat, steam, is generated and superheated. The. steam passes into the engine to be operated, from whence it is carried into an electrio dynamo, which supplies the electricity for heating the water. Thence the exhaust is delivered back into the generator,

that there is no waste. In

starting the machine some extraneous heatis neoeeeary to pat the dynamo in motion. After that the machine runa itself. The machine is entirely automatic in its action, .and after bsing once started absolutely and completely controls all its own functions until the machinery wears out. -The dynamo ia similar to all other dynamos. It is in the construction of the steam generator and its connections that the ingenuity- of the invention has displayed itself. This consists oi a aeries of comparatively amall cylindrical generators hung onJeed pipes in the form of a parallelogram. After serving the engine the steam passes into the dynamo, which it also operates, and the exhaust is then, by means of a very iqgenioua and original'mechanical device, forced back into the generator. Thus there is no smoke, no exhauat and no noise. The machine is self-oper-ating, self-acting and self-regulating. It consumes no fuel, and after once being started in operation runs itself until its parts wear out. There seems no end to its uses, and if it proves practical it is destined to replaoe every other known motive power. There is no limit to its steam-making capacity, and it can be cons',ructed to run the lightest vehicle or the most ponderous engine. By means of his generator Smith claims to be able to run the largest ocean steamer on the longest tripa without consuming a pound of coal, and the fact that it produces no smoke or other noxious vapors, makes it invaluable as1 a rapid transit motor for cities and for railroad work. One of Smith's generators can be constructed, he claims, at much less cost than an ordinary steam boiler producing the same horse power, and he claims also that it is safe and reliable, and that a man with the most ordinary mechanical knowledge can operate it. The apparatus is now running in the basement of the custom house, and is attracting the attention of all the mechanics in the city.

7 NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING.

Its Development and tlie Benefit It Bring* to Dealer and Buyer.

The development of the modern newspaper has had no more remarkable effect than the change it has produced in the prevailing ideas with regard to advertising. Twenty years ago the tradesman who made known what wares he had to sell, except in the modest and general way, was looked upon with some degree of suspicion, and the professional man who offered his services by public advertisement was condemned outright as necessarily a quack. The' change from that day -to this has been almost complete, and yet it has come about very gradually! and there aresome trades and professions in whioh traces of the old traditions still remain.

Long after the dealers in many kinds of merchandise had learned the value of advertising and had profited by it, there were almost as many more still governed by the ancient prejudice who preferred to perish in respectable seclusion rather than invite the public to come to them. This was not only the case with lawyers and doctore, but with jewelers, tailors, dressmakers, and many other trades that for some reason were supposed to flourish only in the dark. The fashionable tailors long clung to the idea that advertising was not respectable, and there area few old-timers yet who can not bring themselves to anything more undignified than private invitations to their customers, and look on aghast while younger rivals fill the columns of the newspapers with attractive descriptions of their goods and gather in the custom that used to go to them.

The thing to be particulary noticed is how completely newspaper advertising has been separated from its association with an inferior class of trade. The great advertisers now are the leading houses, not alone in the extent of their business, but in its recognized character. The finest goods of every sort, the most fashionable clothing for men and women, the most costly furniture, carpets and ornaments, whatever a purchaser can possibly want that is rich and fine as well as what is useful and cheap, he expects to find described for him in the daily paper.

And the result of this is beneficial both for the dealers and for the pnblic. The largest and best advertisers are everywhere those that do the largest and best trade, while the facilities for shopping have wonderfully increased and the people buy more and better goods than they ever did before. They are better dressed, their homes are better furnished, they enjoy more of the comforts and luxuries of life than any pceweua period, and one^yup cause of this is the general quicked^ag of-trade that naturally results from intelligent advertising.—[Philadelphia Times.

Undertaker, Reporter and Actor.

The lowest means of making money I ever descended to in Australia was when the membegan to die aboutour mining settlement. There was noplace to put them, so I bought a bit of Und and agreed to bury anybody for so much. The burial ground was not a prosperous venture, however. One day, penniless, but strong in hope and ambition, I started back through the

tator* gavehim the credit of being a very sagacious animal.—{Concord (N. H.) Monitor.

LATEST FAD AMONG GIRLS.

The "Memory Hoop" Will Serve to Recall KMf Bright Days.

The latest fad evolved by feminine ingenuity i* the "memory hoop," which is from eight to ten inches in diameter, and holds thirty to forty bows of ribbon, contributed by gentlemen who desire to be remembered, says the Philadelphia Record. The fad originated in no particular city, but sprang into existence simultaneously all over the country. The young man who aspires to have his image constantly recalled by means of a portion of a parlor ornament is now endeavoring to acquire an education in ribbons, in the wild hope that the bow he shall give his present adored one will not offend all the laws of taste and color combinations.

Between delicate pink, lavender, olive green, cardinal, light red, peacock blue, deep red. cream, -orange, Prussian blue, and various yellows a general masculine insanity may be regarded as probable in the near future. The poor fellow who is color bind may escape distraction now, but

hiB

future reputation depends

on such small things as miracles. The fad

honeBt.

bushy

got to

the water and steamed away on board a vessel to Melbourne. The night I got there I meta friend. "What are you going to do?" he asked. "I don't see anything to do but starve," I answered. 'How would you like to work on a paper?"- "Anything for me."- And so that night I was assigned to a moonlight picnic.—[Kyrle Bellew in Truth.

Good Horse Sense.

In Whitefield the otherday a drunken man passed through the street leading a horse by the bridle. The man walked with difficulty, but each time was steadied by the horse, the animal keeping a firm grip with its teeth on the- man's collar. Finally, the horse and man met another intoxicated individual. In the course of their confab the men bumped together and both fell. The horse stood his owner on his feet and then deliberately turned and let fly his hind feet viciously at the prostrate form of the other man. Both hoofs missed their mark, but some spec

a dear one to

thousands of young ladies, and in obtaining exquisite pieces of bric-a -brac in forms of properly built memory hoops masculine incompetence will be as utterly disregarded as are other obetacles to what sweet girls make up their minds to have.

The records which such a completed hoop of memory will show in after years when the young lady whose friends it recalls shall have become a matron, will be interesting and astonishing. Taking from the chandelier or mantel the b&ribboned hoop she may explain the significance of each bit of bright silk or satin somewhat after this fashion: "This bow was given to me by so and so he married a cook, you know, and not long afterward committed suicide. This green and yellow one was presented "by Smith, who took to drink and now boards at the alma house. Glad I didn't have him. So-and-so gave me this—that heavy theologian we hear of sometimes as crusading against ear-rings and other ornaments. This other one—see what perfect tints and tasteful combination— was the gift of him who now considers me his better half, and meekly accepts my advice and guidance. So-and-so, who married Dolly Jones, you know, and is the father of eight children, gave me this nice fellow, but glad I wouldn't listen to him. This black and pink one Dick So-and-so gave me missionary, now in Africa. Won't mind it much, I guess, as he's color blind." And

on through

the list of gentlemen "remembered."

OUTWITTED THE "BRASS MONKKY."

George F. re wolf, Treasurer for Ho.vt Thomas, Embezzles .Over £5,000.

George F. Krewolf, treasurer of Hoyt's "Brass Monkey" company, now playing in Boston, has skipped with about five thousand dollars belonging to his employers, Hoyt & Thomas, and no trace of money or him can be found. The company has been playing for two weeks to big houses at the Park theater, and Mr.5" Hoyt, author of the piece, has been here-looking after things while his partner was in New York managing other companies. Monday night Mr. Hoyt received a dispatch from his partner asking as to $1,495 due the Strobridge photograph company. Mr. Hoyt looked at his bootee and found the amount credited as paid. Then he looked for Krewolf, remembering also that he had not yet received the proceeds of a check for $2,177 given the treasurer to cash. Krewolf was^ not to be found, and the last trfcarof him was at the Adams house Monday afternoon. Further investigation showed that he had interrupted several telegrams from Thomas, and, and had finally left so suddenly as to take not even a hand-bag with him. "Krewolf has been with us about two years," said Mr. Hoyt, who has put the police on the track of the fugitive, "and we considered him strictly

Our profits for the two

weeks here have been 15,020, and that is about the sum he has got away with." Krewolf is about 29 years of age and hails from New York.

CONSISTENCY 18 A JEWEL.

One of the Puzzling Features of Human Character Illustrated.

"The inconsistencies of human nature are often a great puzzle to me," remarked a friend of a Chicago Journal reporter, as they walked down the street the other day. "Do you see that woman crossing the street? Well, she waxes eloquent on the subject of cruelty to animals, raises a great hue and cry against the teamster who whips his horse or the boy who beats his dog, and yet she seems to be entirely lacking in sympathy for the two-legged animals who serve ~her. She rules her servants with a rod of iron, and ia exacting and unreasonable in her demands of hotel employes, and quick to comjilain of the least inattention, fancied or real, on their part. "At the stores where she is well known the clerks vie with each other in their readiness to let somebody else have her check, and they give a sigh of relief when shf (finally collars one to wait on her." "Speaking of inconsistencies,"

I replied, ^reminds me of a young lady I know, intelligent, educated and interesting, who in moet things is considered rather strong minded, reads Carlyle, Emerson, George Eliot, and

forth,

but in little things is so narrow and whimsical that she make? herself ridiculous. She discarded a splendid voung man not long since because he wore mittens instead of gloves one evening when he escorted her to the theater. All her philosophy counted for nothing against such an offense as that."

Did the Young Han Kiss Her?

"Beaeie, do those pigs in the clover

"Squeal, papa?" "Yes. I beard some squealing in the parlor last night, and I thought it might be the pigs in the clover."—[Chicago Herald.

Nil Desparandum.

How many of those gloomy-eyed gentlemen called pessimists will be disappointed if Stanley and Emin should suddenly arrive at Zanzibar, bringing their whole train safely with them, men, women, babies, ivory and all!—[New York Mail and Express.

An Ejre to Businees.

Mrs. Taylor, an El Paso lady, fell thirty feet from a Memphis, Tenn., elevator, on her bustle, and escaped unhurt. Old newspapers for sale at this office.—[Tombstone Epitaph.

A ship wrecked sailor waiting for a sail is like a business man sitting at home and nuroing a cough or coldL Get Dr Bull's Cough Syrup and be cured. Z*,:

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

Tbey bid me bmcb and with mlrthsome wtles Apd the Imighim ]«ms of the free and gay. Ther seek to call to mj tnce the smiles.

They moek

the

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that

la flu amy.

They bid «e sing with the merry crowd, Bill the moeklnc chorus goes on and on-^-How can I laugh when the heart is bowed.

And the back suspender button fane? -[Burdette.

London is to have an exhibition of "antique and historical shoes." Mra. Langtry will Bail for Europe in May. She will likely vi8it Wales before she returns.

The Indiana woman who only a short time ago was married for the seventh time is now seeking a divorce.

Josephine Marie BedarcH a French girl living in Tingwick, Mass., haa eaten nothing for seven years, and is atill alive.

A flock of about one thousand wild geese, bound north, alighted on Long island sound, near Bridgeport, the other afternoon.

At New Haven recently Thomaa J. Osborn wrote 103 words of memorized matter on the type-writer in half a minute—breaking the record.

Despite the talk about Smith being such a common name, those of Green, White, Brown and Davis beat it in the United States by 15 per oent. Even "John" is not as common as "Joe."

Mrs. Becky Stevens keeps a saloon in Cincinnati, and during the past year she has broken heads, arms and legs for seven different men who wouldn't walk out like gentlemen. A wagon spoke is her favorite weapon.

The report that Senator Vance was growing totally blind has greatly aurprised that gentleman, who is now resting quietly at his home, and improving in health rapidly. His remaining eye is stronger than it has been for years.

A vast army of very large horriblelooking, though harmless beetles made a descent on Atlant, Ga., the other night. Many of them were singed by the electric lights, and the streets were covered with their dead bodies the next morning.

In one corner of a church at Rock Springs, Ga., a flying squirrel has his nest, and on Sundays, every time the congregation begins to sing, the squirrel comes out to the edge of his nest and listens, returning when the

Binging

ceases. Professor Huxley's daughter, Ethel, is engaged to the widower of her late sister, but owing to the illegality of euch a marriage in Eagland the whole Huxley family has to go to Christiana for the wedding, which is allowable under Norwegian law.

A woman 61 jears old died a few days ago in Paris, and her 70-year-old husband askei to be allowed to remain alone by the coffin for awhile before it was taken away. When friends re-entered he waa found lying across it dead, with a half empty vial of poison in his hand.

The highest price on record for a postage stamp was realized last week, when an unused 4-cent British Guiana stamp of 1856 was knocked down at auction to Mr. Buhl, the dealer, for $250. The same gentleman also bought a similar stamp, which bad, however, been through the poet, for 1190.

Reports from Buenoa Ayres show that the Argentine republic is filling up faster in proportion'than the United States. With not over four million population she receives 140,000 immigrants yearly. It is the effeot of a stable, liberal government and cheap, accessible lands. Gold is at 50 per cent.

A prominent club man of Philadelphia frequently imbibes too freely, and on Buch occasions his friends tie a handkerchief to his St. Bernard's collar, and by -the man holding on the dog leads him safely home, and actually successfully resists his own efforts to stop in saloons on the way.

An old saddle which has been kicking around ift a Nashville harness shop for several years was ripped up the other day and found to oontain $1,800 in confederate money. If the owner of the shop could otfly have found the prize in March, 1865, he could have bought a breakfast and three cigars.

Dublin has had a remarkable-dog case in one of its courts. Two men claimed the same deg. One, to prove his ownership, told the animal to fetch his cane. The dog obeyed. The other said that he had owned the dog in Asia, where he had heard only Hindostanee spoken. So in that language he told the dog to fetch his hat. The dog obeyed. No report of the decision of the judge has yet been received in this country.

On bis famous Bechuanaland expedition, Sir Charles Warren was far from popular among the officers and men under his command, and his brUEqueness frequently amounted to more than rudeness. Oa a certain occasion he censured one of his staff for seme trifling neglect or other, with more than usual severity, and after he had finished speaking a dead silence prevailed the staff officer had actually nothing to say. "Why do you not Speak, sir?" exclaimed Warren, imperatively. "Because, sir, I am in such a devil of a rage I dare not trust myself to reply," promptly answered the subordinate.

Billy Birch, the minstrel, tries to be very festive over the announcement of his death, but as years are sweeping over him, he sadly says: "Not true this time, but deferred—only deferred." Of the original four comprising the famous San Francisco minstrels, Backus, the heartiest and most robust, died the first, while the" invalid, Wambold, who was compelled to retire in consequence of his frequent indisposition, has partially regained his health. Wambold lives on his investments, and

does the model

middleman, Bernard but Birch, the funniest of them all, has lost his fortune by unfortunate speculations, and continues in the business.

Ot the late Rev. Bartholomew Edwards, who, before his death was the oldest Church of Eagland clergyman, it is told that when nearly ninety years of age he rode, unattended, on horseback to make a call on a neighboring squire. His horse was taken round to the stable during his visit. When it was brought back for him to mount, the butler said, "Would you like a chair, sir, to mount your horse?" He looked at him with a withering glance, saying, "A chair to mount my horse? If I wanted a chair it would be time to give up riding," and he put his foot into the stirrup, and threw his leg over the saddle as if he had been five-and twenty. The height ^f horse wps about sixteen hands.

A Drnminer in

Iowa.

drinkiDg

Mr. Whitegoods—It's don't hear from Jenkins, in an order for more than is he now, do you think? "Somewhere in Iowa." "That accounts for it. drunk in a prohibition have to give him a'route lees

queer that we He hasn't sent a week. Where

He always gets state. I shall where there is temptations."—

and fewer

[Chicago Herald.

Mr. Robert Sutcliffe, late of Birmingham, England, now a resident of Baltimore, claims:—"For neuralgia Salvation Oil is worth its weight in gold."

JC&"S

Ask For Ayer's

.Sarsaparilla. and be sure you get it, when you want the best blood-purifier. With its forty years of unexampled suecess in the cure ot

Blood Diseases, you can make no mistake in preferring Ayer's .. .'v-

Sarsaparilla

to any other. The fore-runner of mod* ern blood medicines, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is still the most popular, lieing in great- ier demand than all others combined.

Ayer's Sarsaparilla is selling faster than ever before. I never besitate to recommend it."—George W. Whitman, Druggist, Albany, Ind.

I am safe in saying that my sales of Ayer's Sarsaparilla far excel those of any other, ana it gives thorough satisfaction."— L. H. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa.

Ayer's Sarsaparilla and Ayer's Pills are the best selling medicines in my store. I can recommend them conscientiously."— C. Bickliaus, Pharmacist, Boseland, 111. "We have sold Ayer's Sarsaparilla here for over thirty years and always recommend it when asked to name the best blood-purifier."— W. T. McLean, Druggist, Augusta, Olii

I have sold your medicines for the last seventeen years, and always keep them in stock, as they are staples.

There is nothing so good for the youthful blood' as Ayer's Sarsaparilla."— R. L. Parker, Fox Lake, Wis. "Ayer's Sarsaparilla gives the best satisfaction of any medicine I have in stock. I recommend it, or, as the Doctors say. I prescribe it over tlie counter.' 'it never fails to meet the cases for which I recommend it, even where the doctors' prescriptions have been of no avail." —C. F. Calhoun, Monmouth, Kansas.

Ayer's Sarsaparilla,

TWO SALES AT ONCE.

Monday, April Sth, we begin the sale of

Children's Lace Caps.

The disslay will that day be complete, giving you the whole Btock to select from.

These goods are all on the Becond floor. Take tlie Elevator.

PREPARED BY Vj..?

Dr. J. C. Ayer St Co., Lowell, Mass. Price $1 »ix bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bottle.

LACE

0 ft

At the same time our lace curtain Bale, at which will be offered one of the largest and best selections ever shown here. It will include all. styles, and the prices will be less than any house in the state makes.

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GO UP

L. S. AYERSI CM!:'•n

2 -INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

AMUSEMENTS/NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE

Friday and Saturday Evenings, April 12th. and 13th. Deninan Thompson's New Play,

THE WO SISTERS.

A Companion Picture to "The Old Homestead."

Acted By a Company of Twenty two

Appropriate Scenery and (Jood Music!

A Strictly Klrst-class Entertainment! Sale opens Wednesday.

NAYLOR'S EXTRA,

Monday, April 15

ONE WEEK

COMMKNOING

Matinees Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 2:'M.

PROF. D. M. BRISTOL'S

QH Wonderfully Educated Qfl Hones, Ponies and Mules.

Superb Mounted Military Band and Complete Orchestra. Our Prices—25c, 35c and 60c.

NoTif8—Children under 12 years will be admitted to reserved seats at the Matinee tor 25c. Advance sale opens Friday, April 12.

TIME TABLE.

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

VANDALIA LINE.

T-

H- & I* DIVISION. I.KAVK FOR THK WEST.

No. 9 Western Express (S4V) 1.42 a.m. No. 5?Mail Train 10.18 a m. No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) 2.16 p.m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.01p.m.

I.EAVE FOB THK It AST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.30 a. in. No. 6 New Tork Express (S«V) 1 51 a. in. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.1S a. ni. No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAY) 12 42 p. in. No. 8 Fast Line *. 2M p. in.

ARRIVE FROM THK XAST.

No. 9 Western Express (34V) 1.30 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train* 10.12a. in. No. 1 Fast Line (P&V) 2.00 p. ni. No. 3 Mall and Accommodation 6.45 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p. in.

ABHIVK FROM THK WEST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (9) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New York Express *(84V) 1.42 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Express* (PAY) 12.87 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line* 1.40 p.m.

T. H. A L. DIVISION.

LKAV* FOB THK KOHTH.

No. 52 South Bend Mail 6.00 a. ra. No. 54 South Bend .Express 4.00 p. m. ABBIVJK FBOM THK KOBTH No. 51 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon Ho. 63 South Bend Mail 7.80 p. m.

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