Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 May 1889 — Page 2
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The oil excursion bound toward Terre Haute ia bound to be a great success. The people want to come and we are going to make it convenient for them to do so. Furthermore we will make it pleasant for them after they get here.
THE TKRKK HACTK EXI-RKSS was chock foil of oil news on Sunday last. THE EXPRESS IS a good paper, and has shown a vast amount of commendable enterprise since the oil excitement broke out It has been Instrumental In giving Terre Haute not less than $100,000 woitti of free adrertlsing.-
Newport Hooster State.
That's what we are here for.
The cow ought to be kept off the grass and we are glad to see that some citizens are filing information against other citizens, who let their cows go unrestricted in the Btreete, as was done yesterday. Of course the police should attend to this but they haven't time,
If the citizens of Terre Haute, Kokomo and other musically benighted towns outside of the festival belt will lend us their ears, we will return them tilled with a delightful musical melange that will last them until the next festival.—I Indianapolis Journal.
If the supercillious villagers of Indianapolis will lend Kokomo and Terre Haute their ears and noses we will fill one with the roar of natural gas and the other with the odor of oil.
TEK EXPRESS
is much pleased to give
the Indianapolis News honorable mention for saying a good word for our oil field, as it did in last evening's issue. The article is reproduced elsewhere. Indianapolis ought to be big enough not to be little and we knew that the News, having secured a big circulation by not being little and narrow, would time deal fairly by an event that is destined to result in great benefit to the whole stale as well as to Terre Haute.
The Illinois legislature which adjourned on Tuesday passed a great many measures but none of them will attract more interested attention from the outBide during the experimental stages of its enforcement than the Crawford bill to regulate primary elections. It requires the central committeemen to select their judges and clerks from those who serve at regular elections and allow challengers representing every party in interest to be within the polls while the election is going on.
MEMORIAL DAY.
To-day again brings the annual observance of the most praiseworthy ceremony in commemoration of the soldier dead. It is one that will grow in its observance,
seven
after the last comrade is no more among the living to take part in the beautiful memorial event. The children are being taught to reverence the May day when flowers are strewn on the graves of those who went to battle for the Union. The appreciation of the day is heightened with eaoh passing year. The Grand Army of the Republic organization in its inception was thought by many to be doomed to failure, but the farther we get from the war itself the longer is the roster of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The truth is that we do not yet give full vmeasure of credit to the men who fought for the Union nothing makes that fact so plain as the increasing respect shown for Memorial day, which, in time, is to bacome of equal importance in the minds and hearts of the people to the anniveraary of the declartion, of independence.
1% STUPIDITY OF DETECTIVES. By newspaper publicity the police have obtained all their valuable information regarding the Cronin mystery.
The finding of his clothing was wholly owing to that best of all means of uncovering hidden orime, and yet when a reporter went to the police to ask about the olothing the police refused to talk! The plain truth is that if the police would give to the newspapers all they learn from day to day the publication of the information would quiokly
Bupply
missing links and bring light
where there is darkness and the detectives would not be putting innocent men into the "sweat-box" one day and releasing them the next. The chain of circumstances against Sullivan and the rest was forged by the contradictory.statements they made in newspaper interviews.
Indeed, all that has been accomplished is due to newspaper publicity, which, here and there, has reminded this or that person of some likely incident that might be a link and he has come forward with the information. If the crime is one in which many men are implicated free and full exposure of what is known if made public to-day would bring traitor confessions before night The trouble with the detectives is that they are imbued with the old-time idea of "sleuth-hound" work and keep their noeee too close to the faint scent on the ground.
A VENTUIESOME INQUIIY.
The Gazette ventures to inquire bow it is and why it that Vigo county, having a salaried attorney, is forced to invest in special counsel to try her law salts? This was not the case when Judge McNutt was county attorney. And the county wasn't losing any cases In those days, either.—{Gazette.
The Gazette has ventured into deep water, indeed, when it makes this inquiry that suggests many others.
When the Democrats had full control of the board of county commissioners and after an election that gave the Republican's a majority, but before the new majority took their seats, Judge McNutt resigned, that the old board might enter into a contract with the present county attorney. This contract was for four or five years and stipulated that he should draw one-half the salary, turning into the county the remaining one-half in payment of an obligation to the county. __ It was a plain trick to benefit a Democratic attorney who was in debt to the county.
The Gazette eulogizes the value of Judge McNutt's legal advice as county attorney. It is not inappropriate therefore to call attention to the fact that it was Judge McNutt's advice to the county commissioners that they could not be matte to pay the sheriff for such services as those for which he has since brought suit and for whose payment the Gazette has stoutly insisted.
C. 0. D.
He Usually Drops It.
Wlbble—What Is the most remarkable example of indecision you ever heard of, Wabble? Wabble—I guess the Jackass between the two hayttacks is about the most notable.
Wlbble—Yes, that's a pretty good one, but a street laborer who has a shovelful of dirt half way into the cart just as the noon whistle blows almost equals hlm. ,. A ...
Cast Thjr Bread on the Waters. The editor's friend—Don't be so down-hearted, old man. She's not the only woman in the world. "There's Just as good lish In the sea," you know.
The Editor—It is not so much the simple fact that she rejected me that hurts so much as the way In which she did It. She returned my letters along with a "declined with thanks" card that I once sent her on receipt of a poem she had sent to the ofllce before we were acquainted.
Great Snakes.
Jaggley—There is a large long red hair swimming In my soup, Mrs. Hashcroft, or else my eyes are deceiving me sadly.
Mrs. Hashcroft—It Is quite possible that you are mistaken, Mr. Jaggley. Perhaps another of your —attacks—Is coming on.
And the poor man fished the hair out of his soup and went on with his meal without another word.
EXCHANGE ECHOES.
St Paul Globe: If It wernt for its newspapers Chicago would be without a detective system. Philadelphia Inquirer: What Chicago needs is a Solomon to decide which Is the criminal and which the detective.
St. Paul Pioneer Press: Montana Democrats are along way from being out of the woods, notwithstanding their lusty yells. At the election for constitutional delegates, in which they secured one majority In the convention, only forty per cent, of the territory was brought out.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: It Is quite evident that the Arkansas officers are hunting for the murderers of Amerlcus Neely In the same way that the search for the assassins of Colonel Clayton has been conducted. That is to say, the only clews they follow are those which can not possibly lead In the right direction.
Philadelphia Inquirer: The civil service commission has made a.very sensible amendment to its rules by requiring that the list of ellglbles to appointment in the government's service shall be made public, together with their respective standings. Take it all In aU. the new move is likely to
Eas
rove one of the most Important the commission ever made. Philadelphia Telegraph: The American people have a concern that their soli shall not be made the base of such kinds of attacks on Brlttsh rule in Ireland as the Phoenix park assassinations and the attempts to blow up the Westminster parliament houses and the tower of London with dynamite exemplify and especially are they concerned to prohibit, or at least to punish with unrelenting severity, the kind of criminality that Is exemplified by the Cronin murder.
A Dining Car Waiter Assaults a Lady. MINNEAPOLIS, May 29.—Journal's Chippewa Falls, Wis, special says yesterday as the Wisconsin train for Minneapolis was about one mile from this city, John Ayotta, a waiter on the dining car, assaulted a young lady passenger in a sleeping car. Conductor Clark went to the rescue when Ayotta threw a large stone, which struck another ladyjin the head, inflicting serious injuries. Ayotta was arrested and to-day was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. The passengers on the train were with difficulty restrained from lynching Ayotta.
Some Haven't Even the Stakes. Going to Oklahoma 1" asked a KanBan of a ragged boomer walking beside a limping team and a rickety wagon.
Boomer—"Yep. Goin' to found a town." Kansan—" But, my goodness, you look too poor to found anything. Why, I don't believe you have money enough to
Boomer—" Mebby not but I've got a load of the finest stakes you ever Kansan—"That is all that iB necessary."— [Puck.
The Doctors Got Him.
Stranger (in Hoffman house, New York)—Is there a man stopping here by the name of
Clerk—No,
Bir.
Stranger—But I see his name here on the register. ClerK—Yee, but he overslept himself this morning and the dodtors out his head off.—[St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
Finishing Touches.
Husband (to wife in full evening dress) —My stars! Is that all .you are going to wear?
Wife (oalmly)—All, except the flowers. Which of these clusters would you select?
Husband (reeignedly)—The biggest— [New York Weekly.
Comparisons Are Odious.
"You must stop this smoking during business hours," said the head clerk. "What's the matter?" inquired one of the boys. "The bose says he oan't appreciate his five oent cigar when you clerks are puffing your Henry Clays."—[Epoch.
Divorced from Her Seventh Husband.
Mollie Corwin, at Shelbyville, Ind., secured her second divorce from Joseph Corwin, who is her seventh husband. She was divorced from him last winter, and soon after they were re-married.
A Jockey Killed.
CHICAGO, May 30.—JockeyTurner, who was injured yesterday by being-thrown from a horse at the West Side track, died this morning while being taken to the hospital.
Mot a Cash Transaction
Who pays for the bayonets when the soldiers charge them [New York World.
9
THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS,
THE PEOPLE OF TRUJILLO.
It is but a tew hours' sail from the island of Raotan to Cape Honduras, where Columbus first set foot on the American continent, and situated on a beautiful harbor, aheltered by the long sand spit of the cape, ia the old city of Trujillo. There is no other point on the north coast that, in commerce, can compete with this city, which Cortez founded and built up at the end of his long overland march from Tehuantepee. From here, in olden timoa, the gold and silver bullion were shipped to Spain, and when the country's power sod influence in the new world was on the decline it was in front of Trujillo that the buccaneers laid in wait to pick up the Spanish treasure ships.
One small schooner was able to paes the bar with which every river flowing north in Central America seems to be damned, Bays a correspondent of the New York Times, and a German merchant and I, the only passengers, were landed at the small wharf the dory. The city contains about five thousand inhabitants, four-fifths of whom are* as dark-skinned natives as one meets on the mountain trails of Guatemala, though a yellowish tinge of color runs through them all, betraying their Carib origin. The arrival of the monthly schooner is an event in the life of a Trujillian, as important as that of Christmas to the small boy of the United States, and' a hundred men, women and children, offering fruit for sale, greeted us as we stepped ashore. The only hotel was a one-story adobe,whoee rooms opened on an interior "patio," which served as stable, pig-sty, cow-yard and general dumping ground for the whole house, but as dirty as we found the court-yard the rooms and beds were scrupulously clean.
Nothing but the sea-shore immediately under the equator could be more tropical. Palms and banana trees lined every street, and through every door'opening into the houses one sees the most luxuriant vegetation and flowers that bloom the year round. A remembrance of former prosperity induces nearly every class of its inhabitants to dress better than people do at other coast towns and here, as elsewhere, I found a decided and growing preference for American goods. The" pure Carib wears little but the caurae, common cottons of native weaving the women of a higher grade affect ginghams and gaudy colicoes but the dress of the "lady" par excellence is a different affair, and those whom I had the pleasure of seeing were quite up to the foreigner's idea of the "dark, languid eyed" senorita. To be dressed ae they are in Havana is all that the belle of Trujillo desires, and as the climates differ but little, texture, weight, and fashion may be accurately copied. Light, gauzy materials seem to be the rule the year round, and among the wealthy every fold necessarily held together is pinned with a diamond clasp.
Fortunately I was invited to the new year's ball, and had some illusions dispelled which I had formed of Central American beauty. With very ftw exceptions the young ladies were tall, graceful, and of beautiful figure, though their dress rather detracted from their appearance and I could not help thinking how much more to advantage they would have Bhown themselves if they could only have passed through the hands of aNew York modiste.' The delicate paleness associated with Spanish tropical beauty and raven hair type predominated.
Pretty hands and feet are common, though a decent
Bhoe
never seen one who showed as much "tajeoeive a
a
Young women know no more than to sit in the saddle, and their "rosinanie," or mule, follows the trail, and those of middle age (their time of great avoirdupois) ride their animals in such a clumsy way as to resemble bags of flour, as they go bumping along. Very few know wh|it a riding habit is, and when taking sbert rides their ordinary dress is not changed, which makes the passing equestrienne an object of much interest to the "Caballeros." The place to see the Central American belle is not on horseback. But with none of the advantages offered by more enlightened countries she never fails to interest the traveler by a peculiar gentleness and sweetness of manner which places her far above the pert, forward "miss" of San Francisco, and on a level with the best bred girls of New York.
A considerable portion of the trade of Trujillo is in medicinal plants, more of which grow in the department of Olancho than in any other portion of Central America. The saraaparilla^vine grows wild, and one has only to walk a few steps beyond the town limits to run against its thorns. It is a climbing vine, and clings as close to buBhes, trees and rocks as the common ivy. Natives make trips into the woods at regular intervals, gathering its reddish-brown roots in Bftiyll quantities, which always command a ready sale to the seaport merchants, who separate it into two qualities, governed by the diameter of the root and, its color and richness of juice. The pieces are cut in one foot lengths and shipped a l-Jan in
There is
a
plant
called the osyamuela,
which ha, the peculiar property of sabvation. It ia about four feet high, with
flexible stalk like our milkweed, having at its top a yellow lily. The pungent odor of the stalk when inhaled swells the faoe like poison ivy, and the leaves, if eaten, looeen the teeth. Cattle instinctively avoid it as the animals of the soul west of ou^pountry avoid "needle which piercee and out* their entr
The thick forests immediately the town are inhabited by families of monkeys, and has a sense of fellow
some solitary aad secluded an old and wrieltled high up in soote tree, appearaooe with that ridiculous solas* nity which only a Banker can tfsot I have heard tales at
nrnhogany
one-half
is very rare. The
hair is usually "banged" and worn plaited behind, though, the beauty .of the coil is always lessened by running a bright-colored ribbon in with the hair. I do not remember eeeing a hat worn by any lady along the coast. They are never worn while making calls, and in the street the "mantilla" is always used. The soft climate does not cause neuralgia, and I thoroughly enjoy the absence of females with their faces tied up' in handkerchiefs, which one sees so much of in the streets of Guatemala. There is general lack of education among women to play the piano a little and to waltz is about all that is required outside of mere reading and writing. Many writers and travelers mention the women of Honduras as graceful and fearless horsewomen. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have Been very many in the saddle, and I have never seen one who showed as much
travelers aad survey
ors in which monkeys in coooa valine make themselves disagreeable by throwing cocoanuta at onrfe head with maltcious intention, bat it ban' never been my experience to find tbe monkey any more dangerous than tbe prairie doft of our Western plains. I secured some very fine black, long-haired monkey
and ladies' capse, for 50 cente apieoe in silver. In the many email Indian villages through which tbe mahogany roads passed I experienced nothing but kindness and hospitality for a very small price, 25 cents being one night's bill for tbe outfit, including four animals, two Indian servants and myself. Many of the men were away from home,
in
KA1LBOAD
General and Personal and lioeal 1
Coach No. 3 was bro
the
cuttings, and most of the
women, while keeping their vegetable gardens and corn fields in good condition, found time to manufacture ropes, hammocks, saddlebags, hone gear and hats from the "pita," or fiber of a variety of cactus which coven the low lands in the greatest profusion.
The cactus leaf ia cut and rolled and pressed between flat stones, to squeeze out all pulpy matter. The mass of fiber is then dried in the sun and separated into threads, to be twisted and fashioned as desired. I saw some very nioe hammocks of a flexibility never seen among those sent to foreign countries, which sell on the spot for 125. They are nearly as fine as laoework, and so skillfully are the different colon braided in that they look like embroidery a few feet distant.
THE HOUSEHOLD. teaspoons are equal to one
Four
tablespoon Horseradish, as a poultice, mended for rheumatism.
is reoom-
Leather chair seats may be revived by rubbing with egg-white well beaten. Rhubarb pie.—Bake, in two oruats, one cupful of skinned rhubarb cut in one-inch pieces, one cupful of sugar mixed with one-half of a cupful of water,
of a teaepoonful of grated nut
meg, bits of butter the size of a walnut Beet Tops.—The tops of young beets, if treated in the same way as spinach, but boiled for half an hour, instead of .ten minutes, will be found very similar to spinach, and quite as good. This dish should be garnished with sluses cut from/he roots of large red and white beets, and seasoned plentifully with pepper.
Orange cake, with vanilla sauce, is one of the cheapest, quickest made desserts known, ana is just the thing when a friend drops in to dine and the housekeeper is unprepared—an every-day occurrence. Take small, stale sponge cakes (lady fihgere), dip them in orange juice, place them in a glass dish, and pour over the vanilla sauce. Serve at once.
A Good Cure for Pimples Is: Bicarbonate of soda, thirty-six grains glycerine, one drachm spermaceti ointment, one ounce. Rub on the affected part of the face let it remain a quarter of an hour, then with a soft cloth wipe off all but a Blight film. Be careful of your diet, and avoid greasy food or any that you have discovered will interfere with your digestion
Warm Gingerbread.—One cup eaoh of sugar, molasses, butter and "loppered milk or cream, four and one-half dupe of j. mful of soda, sifted ir, one tableepoonful mixed bertt* spices milk, vigin a and
o£~ginger. ma Jace and citinamdQ* & gether molasses, suf until they aiejery l: beaten eggs and 4b orously for five min "card.." Break ini eat with iced milk
Mutton Cutlet*half a can of ton most solid part, and minutes with a little pepper and salt. Pn butter in a olean sa and whenit^reaches add a JgrSfe teaspqo this roifiothly, and cooked add the to fint have been stir the sauce Well, a hot fire half a mutton cutlets, ter end pour the to: them. The disfarshoi ing hot to bege^d
August Fredericks the boiler shop Monday. A. Andrews, travelinjf'paseengei for the Santa Fe, wssipithe oity day.
Thomas Casey, of th was absent yesterday nees.
The long trestle over which the C. & repaired.
Colin MacLean re the machine shop yi days'Bickness.
Link SolomoH,y* ww* moved into his new h&aWpl Chase between FifteeijSh street. t,
Clinton Argus The*. been let for a new iijpn at this place. It wt summer.
Charles E. HarfittS^ti agent for the Western'* the Central, of Geoigjk yeeterday.
iwiiii
Joseph Udeing, oi was quietly married ing and went1 morning on a quite a surprise.
A portion of I strsom east D. & E. was out by a tram before conaic done.
are out uuo xhe Illinois unfQU. to foreign countoes in twenty-five pound
The Illinois
made the Burw(ar
bales. The medicinal properties of the house anj extensive »sch
vine are not recognized in Honduras, and when the native thinks his bloods needs purifying he physics himself with bluemass pills until he salivates himself. Th« ft ru 1 hava fraifail a
fct atfHg
house and exWwive machine shoplsfc Mound City, joil kbav* Cairo, where the new bridge aotoB the Ohio ranches the Illinois shore.
crosses tbe state large gilt nois Stat*
Twtc Hants, tad.
tained
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MAT 30,
DHMAHA «IAT£tH*W8.
Fraaeis Muphy goes to Columbus anrtwesk. ct Pharos: Preparations are being made for the annual encampment of tbe Sons of Veterans to beheld in this oity on tbe 10th, 11th and 12th of June. The order here expects to have at least 800 visitors hsre.
Itis probable that six new mail carriers end four substitutes wQl be appointed in the Indianapolis postofflce July 1st This constitutes one
civil service examination immediately. The governor and his military staff will go to Lafayette on the 5th of June to attend the oomaMnoement exercises of Pardue university, and in the evening they will attend the wedding of John XJ.
Griffiths and MisB Henderson.in that city. Bin. George Merz, of Fort Wayne, was caught in tbe act of furniabing a loaded revolver to her husband, who is in jail for murderous assault upon a girl who refused his advances, and ah examination of his cell developed that Merz had been provided with sawa and other agencies of escape, and that there was a plot among tbe pnsonen for a general jail delivery. Mrs. Merz is twenty yean the asnior of Merz, and ahe'married him within a few months after her firat husband had been killed in a saloon.
Tuesday evening at Evansville, Albert Wilson went to the residence of Willism Stout, where his wife, who waa separated from him, was stopping, and tried to induce her to return to his shelter, and on her refusal fired three shots, mortally wounding her, after which he blew out hia brains. The maiden name of Mrs. Wilson was Mattie Combe, and her parents reside in Seymour. During the forenoon the husband and wife were drinking together. They had been married but a few years, and their domestic life was stormy.
America Abroad, Then and Now. 1888—BI8MABCK A8 HE WAS. Mind your own business, Cleveland and Bayard!
This S&moan king Is my friend. By pigmies like you lie will never get nred Tour strange interference makes me teel tired,
I'll keep film In power to the end!
And thus 'twill be for many a day! A bully In a place of power Will bluff a coward and have his way. But should the bully chance to meet
i-".
1889—BISMARCK AS HE IS.
Let us reason together, dear Har'lson and Blaine, sbout this poor flamoan king! Nay. brothers, don't stand with a look of disdain— You've my warmest affections so long as you reign—
So come let us settle this thing! MORAL. 'Twasever thus since childhood's hour,
A man who's made of sterner stuff The blatant bluffer (If discreet) Will deem It bestto cease his bluff. —[New York Press,
The "Pentecost Band."
TUSCOLA, 111.,
May
29.—A
peculiar re
ligious sect has stirred up a commotion in this county. They call themselves the "Penticoet Band," and it is believed they are seeking to make converts to Mormonism. They have broken up several families at Camargo and induced several wives and young women to travel with them. Two of the preachers were mobbed there Monday night and the Rev. Sibert was nearly killed. An attack was also made on the Rev. Nelson, leader of the band here. His assailants were armed, masked men. He escaped from them and at once left this oity.
Interesting Amateur Photography. On Sunday Mn. T. Howard witnessed the balloon ascension, and a few days later presented Mr. Howard with a nice little boy, who bears a singular birthmark, which is nothing more nor less than a perfect representation of Prof. Le Roy's balloon. The photograph, as it might be called, is located just above the eyes, on the forehead, and every outline of the balloon is boldly portrayed in purple lines in the skin of tbe infant even the patch oh the air ship can be seen, being reproduced by a patch of white skin.—[El Paso Times.
Making Bread by Electricity. The latest reported invention in the domain of the alimentary artB is one for making bread by electricity. The new process is said to be indorsed by one of the largest baking firms in Great Britain, and to have been iu use in its establishments in London and Glasgow for nearly a year with the most satisfactory results. It is claimed to produce bread equal in quality to the best that can be made out of a given material, and to doit with a large saving of time and money. The secret, however, iB guarded jealously.
Th* American Congregational Association. BOSTON, May
29.
DUI8VIL.L.E,
The American
Congregational association held its thirtysixth annual meeting yesterday. The report of the directon was a review of the principal work of the association during the last thirty-five years. The original debt of 1250,000 has been reduced $181,000. The receipts of the year rere $23,050, and the expenditures
$22,-
110. All reports were accepted. Rufus Poet was made president.
A New Distillery Trust.
May
29.—Mr.
E. Hoff-
_bimer, who says he represents the New fork agents of the English syndicate, 'there Jbgotiating with distillers with view of purchasing all the distilleries in the state. His principals will be hire next week. A number of distillers have had talks with Mr. Hoffheimer, but Ittls thought very unlikely that such a M*1 can be made.
i. A Majority Reduced. understand," said the stranger in Arkansas, "that this congressional disfetot would show a .Republican majority tf full vote were polled." ••You have been misinformed, sir," re~ptied the native, "or else you do not keep WWted on current events. The RepubO^sn majority which you spsak of was buried two weeks ago with its boots on." —{Chicago News.
Because of His Politics.
Jacob Nigle, of the Fint ward, Allenfewn, has in his yard a tomato plant 5 high. Mr. Nagle voted for William
Harrison in 1810 and for his ia»4888, and regards his success
SB a rsiser of big tomato vines as due to his biSving been such a good Harrison man.—(Philadelphia Inquirer. 'tS -jpf
A
Tough Cat.
Old lorn, alSomeetic cat belonging to the R«i. E. If. Pafford, lived thirteen dsya tied up in scorn sack without* drop of water or a particle of food. It Ml ouVfrf a osrt when he was moving from Ojpee t» Clinch county, and was loat.—[9ivanns(£News.
-at-Home.
we do
lb, dear, what ahall Why, all society
much the batter for ilphis Inquirer.
IOAXULI.
Osuds! 1. Tkoasaant. nave,nwkr GatUns fun On loon! Man latSHTembodHedlightnlng streak, Alltudl? (Be careful, Muses, of his beds.) Thy drooping ears and languid eyes. Most subtle beast, might well Veed confidence, But tbou Shalt Dot obliquely launch thy heels At me,aMU«lly rogue! Great Scott: Bowl Have sometimes ten th' unwary youth Of African deeeent hoist Heavenward. Contorted, writhing, by the merciless hoof! Then thoawouldst tarn thy lurking, blinking eye To gaze upon tbe melancholy work, Or lore with basilisk glance some victim new.
0 mule! Star maker! Dealer In pyrotechnic novelties! Thou rally art loaded, cocked, and primed,, From early morning tlll the steps Of dewy dusk Imprint the sky with stars, 1 would net draw within The magic circle of thy cognizant heels For all the yellow gold that Shasta yields. Or silken freights that hither swim from Ind. —[Detroit Free Press.
Moses Day, a Connecticut seventh son, says that next year will be a great year for floods.
An Orlando, Fla., policeman shot and wounded a dog, when the canine's companion pitched into the officer and drove him tp flight.
A dozen boys, rendered inBane by excessive cigarette smoking, have been admitted to the Napa, (Cal), hospital for the insane within a short time.
The only excuse a Tennessee lawyer could urge in defense of a horse-thief was that he waa quick-tempered, and he put it so well that the jury oi jsgreed.
What is the nature of the hyena was asked of a Philadelphia schoolma'am. It walks on four legs and growls," w&s the prompt and comprehensive reply.
The New Tork hotels made little or no profit out of the centennial. The street railwaya, restaurants and saloons reaped most of the harvest and the pickpockets and gamblers the rest.
An effort is to be made in Iowa to strip the law of its nonsense. Lawyers declare that deeds, warrants and all other legal papers can be cut down onehalf in the amount of whereases and wherefores.
Philadelphia had a noted doctor whose name was- physic. The names of Keen the surgeon Gruel, Friend, Hartshorne, Musser, Pepper the Provost, Seltzer and Trotter are also found in her medical directory.
Benjamin Hulick had to get a detective to help him to find what became of a peach and apple orchard he set out lately near Farmingdale, N. Y. Every tree had been transported to a farm some miles away.
A grocer at Canton, Ohio, purchased only twenty-four sheets of wrapping paper and a half-ball of twine when he opened business the other day. He said he might fail, and he didn't want any extra stock on hand.
A French fisherman who was reported loet, and whoee property was divided up, returned all right after an absence of two years, but the French courts holds that he is dead, and he has got to take a new name and be somebody else.
It was a Connecticut boy who surprised his teacher in reading the other day by his interpretation of the sentence: "There is a worm do not tread on him." He read Blowly and hesitatingly: "There is a warm doughnut tread on him!"
A Chester, Pa, doctor who advised mother to give her child sage tea for its ailment has been suspended from the county medical association for unprofessional conduct. He should have made out a regular prescription &nd charged for it.
The Paris academy of science is reported excited over a plant called colocasia. "This plant often exhibits a trembling or vibrating motion without any apparent cause, and as many as one hundred or one hundred and twenty vibrations have been observed in a single minute."
Charles Bonner, a negro of Douglasville, Ga., does not possess .the discrim mating taste of an epicure. Recently castor oil. with coffee grounds sprinkled in it, was given him for beef gravy. He ate it with relish, smacked his lipe and asked for more.
An English club man wagered $25 that he could stand for thirty minutes without moving a muscle outside of those required for respiration. At the end of twenty-two minutes be fell over in a fit, and he hasn't moved much to speak of for the last month.
Dr. J. F. Moorehead,of Arkansas City, Kan., has a pet coyote. He got it when it was young and raised it on the bottle. It is quite tame, resembles a bulldog in disposition, and is a good hunter, showing much skill in catching rabbits and prairie chickens.
The other night a burglar got into the house of a Bay City man named Jackson, and made such a noise that he awoke Mrs. Jackson. She got out of bed, picked up a bed slat and banged the burglar over the head. Then she fainted, and the midnight visitor escaped, while Jackson etill slept.
A boy named Burtt, living on Wylie avenue, Pittsburg, was a victim of a queer accident during Friday's Btorm. He was struck by a flash of lightning and his head twisted around on his neck to one side. The muscles have stiffened, and up to last night the physicians have been unable to straighten his neck.
The newest device for killing time invented by the Briton is to make the men at a dinner party write out some account of the ladies' gowns after the dear creatures have left them (o themselves, and later, when the efforts are read aloud in the drawing-room, to give prizes for the best and worst descriptions.
The new law which has just gone into effect in New Jersey forbidding any person from marrying minors except in the presence of guardians or parents, or unlesB a properly authenticated certificate of their consent is presented, will seriously affect the marriage business of Camden and all the other Jersey towns across the Delaware from Pennsylvania.
More than two hundred years ago a satirical journal in Europe foreshadowed the phonograph by stating that a sponge had been discovered which you spoke to, and then, if sent to a friend and gently squeezed, it would give out the exact words that it had reoeived. The idea was slightly, in advance of the times, but some future Edison will no doubt bring to a practical result some of tbe chimeras of to-day.
A Bridgeport, Montgomery county, family hoving gone to the circus, leaving the house in care of a son aged 12, the youth left the front door open, scattered clothing on the floor, hid a gold watch that was in a bureau and devised other indications of a robbery. Then he hid himself until the family returned.^ When the excitement
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came forth demurely and explained the joke. In the joy at the return of the loet treasures he escaped castigation.
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TIME TABLE.
Trains marked thuB (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bullet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.
VANDALIA LINE.
T. H. 41. DIVISION. LJSAVX TOR THK WK3T.
No. 9 Western Express (34V) No. 5 Mall Train No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) No. 7 Fart Mall
1.42 a. m. 10.18 a. in. 2.IB p. iu. 9.01 p. m.
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No. 12 Cincinnati Express (3) No. 6 New York Express (84V) No. 4 Mail and Accommodation .... No. 20 Atlantic Sxpresa (P4V) No. 8fast Line*.
1.90 a. m. 1.S1 a. iii. 7.16 a. in. 12.42 p.m. 2.00 p.
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No. 9 Western Express (84V) No. 5 Mail Train No. 1 Fast Line »(P4V) No. 3 Mall and Accommodation. No. 7 Vast Mall
1.30 a. in. 10.12 a. Iu. 2J)0p. m. 6.46p.m. 9.00 p. m.
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No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) No. 6 New Yerk Express •(84V).... No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V) No. 8 Fast Line*..
1.20 a.m. 1.42 a.m. 12.37 p.m. 1.40 p. m.
T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.
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No. G2 South Bend Mall 8.00 a. A. No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 p.m. ABBIVB FROM TH* WOM* No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. SB South Bend Mall 7.30 p. m.
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