Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 July 1889 — Page 4

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The presence of armed private police in great number at any place is repulsive to the best idea of ourtormof government. It Btnacks too much of the old idea of feudalism. If the Carnegie works can not be protected by the regu-. lar officers of the law all the more's the shame of it, but the quick calling in of armed private police is not to be tolerated, if for no better reason than that they serve to aggregate the lawbreakers to further deeds of lawlessness.

Mr. Postmaster General Wanamaker makes a telling point when he says he has fixed the government telegraph tolls at no less rate than the companies have fixed for corporations. To tell the truth at first blush it looked as if the postmaster general had gone too far, but let him substantiate his assertion that the companies have granted as low rates for corporations, and there will be loud acclaim for the summary action of the ideal business man of President Harrison's cabinet.

The Hon. Roswell G. Horr, a peculiar and in some sense a witty and bright Michigander who broke into congress a few years ago and who, since his retirement by the voice of the people at the polls, has been raising his voice on the lecture platform, declines the appointment as consul to Valparaiso, Chili, as far beneath his deserts. Indeed he is insulted. We are sorry that he has done so. Otherwise the public would not have known that the president had made a mistake in appointing him to any sort of an office.

"GO SL0WI"

Under the above head the Evanaville Journal says: The Republican newspapers that are still attacking the Indiana schpol book company had 13tter hold their peace. That company is amply responsible and able to comp'v ftith Its engasements.

It Is pretty hard for a man like William Hellman, who did as much as any other man In Indiana to elect Harrison president, to be charged with belonging to a swindling comblna ton. AndD. JMackay, although not a politician, always does his duty to his party. He has given It probably ten thousand dollars In twenty-live years. Yet forsooth, because he connects himself witli an enterprise designed to reduce the cost of school books to the children of Indiana CO percent., he is a monopolist and member of a corrupt trust, according to Republican newspapers high up In the confidence of the party.

To all this THE EXPRESS gives its beet endorsement. We believe the school book law to be faulty to a great extent but there can be no doubt that the net result in the end will be a saving to the people, whether that result comes this year or in five years. Cartain it is that under the old ring inlluence no relief was in sight.

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Conducive to Touiperaucc.

Brlggs—I am worried about that boy o" mine. He has lately taken to rushing the growler. Braggs—Better make a messenger boy of himThat will take all the rush out of him.

They lo Change.

"How men do change as they get older," said the little blue-eyed woman to the tall bruenette "When Iclwbod and I were first married he was content with a half interest In one chair. Nowadays he gets a paper and distributes himself across never less than three."

Many Gaits.

Wibble—This is especially the me of year when true love falls to run smooth. Wabble—How so?

Wibble—It is tried on so many d'lerent gates.

Willing.

First Tramp—Say, Jerry, do you know good whisky? Second Tramp—Can't say as I do, Bill, but you can bet 1 dead ready to get acquainted at any minute.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

Guttering on Alain Street.

To the Editor of the Ex wens: SIR: Of course, no person knowing the present finances of this cllj, can ba In favor of going still deeper In debt for the purpose of building a sewer and Axing up our principal sticet, so we need not blush for Its appearance. The sewer, when the -sewer fund Is sufficient, w.ll be built, and It Is reasonable to believe that at that time the engineer will place it In the center of the street. But It Is unreasonable to suppose that that official will see the necessity of going outside of all precedents In regard to the guttsring on this street.

The late Hoods show that when the water runs under crossings, accumulations there stop or retard the free How of the water. The height of the center of the street, of course, in a ilood, causes the water to llow into cellars along the street The correct way to build a street after you get the sewer In, Is to have cateh-baslns be.ween the two railroad tracks, every 100 feet grade to the center of the street, say three' feet In a Tall ef forty feet This Is simple, and saves the expense of keeping up crossings, both street and alleys, stops the Infernal nuisance causedby water standing In the gutters, to be splashed on iKiestrians by horses standing or hitched along the sidewalks. It saves to the city an army of mud silngers or scrapers, for a Ave minutes' rain would wash all the filth Into the sewer from the houses to the center of the street. The whole street could then be used, there being no gutters to dodge in and out as the street would be nearly level. No expensive manholes and catch-basins from the corners of streets to the sewer In the center of the street, no actual necessity for curb stones along the sidewalks, though those wishing to have them could do so. In the absence of rain, a small boy with a broom can, by turning the water on through the hose, wash of the street in front of a twenty-live root store-room from building to sewer, in fifteen minutes. This plan would save in construction a large amount in cleaning the streets. Look on the city books fcfr the amouut paid out by the street commissioner, one-half ot which is for Main street Look at this, Mr. Editor. Let^our readers study this plan.

CAN MEN LIVE FOREVER?

Dr. Brown-Sequard, the great French specialist in nervous diseases, declared before the Biological society of PariB, of which he is the president, a few days ago, that after twenty years of experimenting he had discovered a true elixir of life, a substance that would rejuvenate the old and make strong the feeble, says a writer in the St. Louis Republic. He contended that

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young and vigorous being could be injected into another where the vital spark was low, his organism must vibrate in unison with the fresh life. Many years ago the doctor advanced views of the same character in a lecture before the medical faculty of Paris, and has since been engaged in experimenting on the subject by treating old and worn out animals. Finally, as he states, he reached such perfection that he tried his elixir upon himself with striking results. The doctor is now seventy-two years old and, presumably, is subject to the weaknesses and infirmities of age. His reviving substance, he explained, was derived from certain organs or glands taken, still quivering, from live animals, and reduced at once to a pulp in a mortar with distilled water. From this compound he extracts an essence which he uses as a hypodermic injection. The doctor administered to himself a cubic centimetre with a hypodermic syringe, just as morphine is injected. He declares that the day following this experiment, after two injections of this vital essence, he|felt himself transformed. Before that time half an hour's work standing up in his laboratory exhausted him. Now he declares he can study three hours uninterruptedly without the least repose. His appetite has increased, his sleep is sweet and refreshing, his stomach performs its functions admirably, and his intellectual labor is performed with wonderful ease and clearness. His feelings also have been youthful. Dr. Brown-Sequard declares that the dose he took was equivalent to ten years' rejuvenation.

The statement by so eminent a doctor as Dr. Brown-Sequard that he has discovered a means of renewing life is well calculated to cause the flurry it has in scientific circles. Dr. Brown-Sequard used to be well known in Washington, and in fact, throughout America. Ten years ago he was probably the leading authority on nervous diseases. He had a great many personal and professional friends and is a widely read medical author.

Surgeon General Hamilton was asked by the Republic correspondent what he thought of the announcement that had come from Paris: "I saw it," said Dr. Hamilton, "and I am very much surtrised. If it is true that Dr. BrownJequard made such a statement as he has been reported to have made to the biological society, I should ascribe it to the wandering fancies of an old man in his dotBge. Dr. Brown-Sequard is some 80 years old, and naturally his mind is not so clear and vigorous as it used to be. I used to know him well up to eight or ten years ago, and I know that he had never made any experiments in the direction indicated by this story. So the statement that he has experimented twenty years must be exaggerated. This effort to find some drug that will extend life or rejuvenate people is, as every sensible person, as well as every physician, must admit, chimerical. Experimentation to this end in the line indicated by this story of Dr. Brown-Sequard, is especially absurd. So absurd that I am satisfied that Dr, Brown-Sequard would never contemplate it seriously unless he is, as I fear in this case, getting into his dotage: Why, if he did kill any animal and from apart of its body made a distillation to inject into a living person's blood, instead of prolonging the subject's life it would poison him. By the decomposition, which sets in after death, the portion of the body taken for the elixir would become poisonous and dangerous instead of life-giving. Every physician is anxious to prolong the lives of his patients. Desire for long life is universal, but no physician in

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would think of injecting decoctions of defunct animals into a patient in the hope of extending his life. The way to strengthen life is to conserve it- -not to try to renew it—I think that it is impossible to prolong life indefinitely, but the way to do is not the way indicated by this story about Dr. Brown-Sequard.

What causes death? The wearing out of the organs of the body. If we can prevent or retard the wearing out of these organs we can prevent or delay death. Now, suppose it is possible to find accurately by experiment the amount and kind of food necessary to the performance of a certain amount and kind of labor. Then you sit down with a pencil and a piece of paper and make a schedule of your day's work. Suppose you say you are going to read one hour, that you will write three hours, that you will talk two hours, that you will drive two hours and Bleep eight hours. Then when you have your programme for the day's exertions all made out, you find out how much brain food, how many ounces of muscle food, how much nitrogenious food, how much of each kind of food is required to do the work you have to do. Find out what food will best do the work find out first how much of it you ne9d to do the work you are going to do and then act accordingly. Then eat nothing but what is necessary to do the work. In cold weather you must eat food to keep you warm, too. Drink only what is necessary. In this way you reduce the wear on the organs of your body to just what is replaced by the food and there is no surplus nourishment to 'get rid of. Of course it is not possible to find out just how much of it is necessary to do your work. If it was, you might prolong your life indefinitely if yoa liked, according to this plan. But even if you could find out all this, don't you see there would be other difficulties? Suppose you had taken your daily supply of food to do a day's work according to the programme we have laid out. You start for your mile walk and a bull dog chases you two miles out of your way you see your plan is all upset. You have eaten only enough muscle food to walk a mile, then a bull dog chasing you might be fatal. There might be a hundred circumstances during the day that would destroy your longevity plans. "But if just the amount and kind of food necessary to a certain amount and kind of work could be found and measured, and it a person°could eat just enough and the right kind of food to do the work he does, I do not think there is any doubt that he could prolong his life indefinitely. Some day medical science will be far enough advanced to make this possible, and then people who are not exposed to unexpected exertion can prolong their lives far beyond the age reached by old people now, if not indefinitely. "But this tale of an elixir of life is all bosh. There can not be any such a thing. I do not think Dr. Brown-Se-quard would descend to anything like charlatanism, but this sort of thing is nothing else. I should rather think that if the Btory were true, which I doubt, it is the result of the wandering

speculations of an old man in his dotage. Dr. Brown-Sequard is a man of too great knowledge and experience and too thorough a student to take np such an idea as that indicated in -newspaper stories—an idea that the variest tyro would recognize at once as chimerical." "Probably ever since the study ot medicine began people have been pretending to find an elixir of life). The philosopher's stone and the elixir ot life used to go hand in hand. Medical history is full ot accounts of operations of charlatans who pretended to have discovered an elixir of life. One very succsssful one was a Dr. Graham. He graduated in Edinburgh and opened a magnificent house in Liondon he called the palace of health. He delivered lectures on longevity and preservation at a guinea apiece and sold a preparation that he claimed would enable any one to live forever for £1,000. Many noblemen were his patrons. But Dr. Graham died when he was 52 years old. "In all ages and all countries there have been impoeters with elixirs of life. This idea of making the elixir of parts of human or animal bodies is going away back into the dark ages, when medicine made of human skeletons was supposed to be of especial effioacy. If there is any part of the human body or of an animal's body that has any medicinal virtue it has not been discovered yet." "Would the infusion of blood frem the body of a strong, healthy person into the veins of a weak or ill person prolong the life of the latter?" "Not a bit. No permanent good could be done by any such an operation. This irolonging life by medicines is all bosh. Jut the ideas these old fellows have about it are amusing sometimes. Here is an old English book of 'Cures for Old Age.' Lord Francis Bacon wrote a large part of it. In his cure he enumerates gold, pearls, emeralds and other precious stones as efficacious for the cure of old age. But he says 'the bezoar stone and unicorn's horn have lost credit with UB' as of value in prolenging life. A laige part of this book is by Friar Bacon, who died in 1292. During his life he was imprisoned for magic and witchcraft. He says the following ingredients form a sure cure for old age: gold, coral, rosemary, the bone of a stag's breast, aloes wood and part of a snake. In 'The Code of Health,'by Sir John Sinclair, printed in 1807, is a recipe for an elixir of life, used extensively by a Swedish doctor. By its use the doctor lived to be 104 years old, and other members of his family to be over 1C0. The elixir is made as follows: One ounce and one dram of sugar of aloes, one dram of zedoria, one dram of gentiana, one dram of saffron from the Levant, one dram of fine rhubarb, and one dram of theriaqua of Venice. The elixir was said to have wonderful efficiency in prolonging life. Really it has very slight medicinal properties, if any. Hoffman, a celebrated French doctor, was also the discoverer of an elixir of life that was famous. 'Hoffman's Mixture,' a prescription of some old doctors, is a medicine still in use by doctors and is often prescribed. There have been lots of these elixirs made of all Borts of odd thingB. They were rife when alchemy and magic were rife, and when the doctors were astrologists and theosophists. Even in more modern years there have been socalled elixirs of life, and quacks have become rich on their sale."

RAILROAD NEWS NOTES.

General and Personal Mention of General and Local Interest.

Mr. E. E. South is visiting at Shelbyville to-day.' Bejgage No. 20 is being touched up in the paint shop.

Master Mechanic Cleaver will spend the day at the lake. Trainmaster Raidy, of the Van, went to St. Louis yesterday morning.

A baby girl arrived at the home of Joe YeBley, of the machine shop, yesterday. Engine 26 broke down at Cloverland yesterday morning, her cylinders giving out.

Traveling Passenger Agent Tuttle, of the Union Pacific, was in the city yesterday.

Anew station to be called Hemp is to be located on the Terre Haute & Peoria between Hillsboro and Filson, 111.

The Monon route is trying to secure control of the Indiana A Kentucky bridge across the Ohio river at New Albany.

The new Evansville & Richmond road hes reached Odon, Daviess county, in the progress of track laying, and the people are wild over their good fortune.

South Bend Times: The right of way for the Vandalia is being rapidly secured between this city and Galien. By the end of this we 9k work will probably be begun on the road bed out from this city.

Crawfordsville Journal: The Vandalia is talking of running an excursion from Crawfordsville to Maxinkuokee the latter part of next week, when Talmage will be there, if run at all it will be run as a Sunday school excursion, and children will be taken from all the schools in the city. Some of the Sunday school workers are now confering with the road to see on what terms the children will be taken,

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That Trust Story.

NEW YORK, July 13.—Railroad officials, bankers and railroad lawyers sgree that there was no likelihood of even an attempt being made to form a railway trust, as set forth in the McCook circular. The attorney for one of the largest railway companies having offices in this city said: 'The injunction obtained against the Oregon Transcontinental company preventing it from voting ita controlling stock at the Oregon navigation election a month ago, following the decision refusing to allow the East Tennessee company to vote its Memphis A Charleston stock, killed all hopes of a railroad trust ever being formed." Railway officials generally regard the ciroular as a confession of Pierrepont Morgan's private council that he does not expect the inter-Btate railway association to exist over the present year, and the circular was issued in order to call out new plans, using the old territorial truBt scheme simply as a feeler. It is intimated that some steps are necessary to remove the Chicago & Alton and Burlington & Northern roads from the positions now occupied, and that a proposition has been made to purchase the stock of both companies, and then operate them by union committees.

An Ita1 an Bon Mot.

At a cafe a group of gentlemen discussed politidst-A young student entered and joined in the ©Stagnation his arguments did not pleasera|kfl|hers, and one of them said to him: your age I was an ass myseifl^^HtaP *re wonderfully well preserved, sir^^^Hh&h0 reply.

The lovejof certain women is jdeadyL but most men become accustomed to it, as they do to slow poison.

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THE TERRE ^TJTE EXPRiSii^StJNBM ltfORKIl^ JUtY Il?i889i

PUGILISM FROM A CHICAGO PULPIT.

A Presbyterian DItIm Flads the Recent MMUBC rail of Talmabl* 8nn«attoas. "If Mr. Brobst has never been a professional trainer his sermon is a great compliment to his imagination," said a gentleman from Clark street, Chicago, who wss attracted to the Westminster Presbyterian Church by the announcement that the minister would preach on "Prize Fights."

Mr. Brobst turned the thoughts of his audience into pugilistic channels at the outset by reading about "God's strong right arm" in the ninth verse of the ninety-eighth pealm, says the Chicago Tribune. He quickly followed this by a lesson from Paul's passage: "I have fought a good fight." Then he prayed that the audience might enter the arena of christain faith, finally he selected for the choir the most combative hymn in the song book. "Brightly Gleams Oar Banner!"

Having thus prepared his audience, Mr. Brobst rolled up his sleeves a little from the cuffs, and attacked the subject of the discourse. His text was the sentence it Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth: "So fight i, not as one beating the air." "The gaze of this nation and foreign countries," he said, "is now centered on two men. The telegraph is throbbing with their movements. The daily press is given up to accounts of their condition. The pictorial press is filled with cuts of their every muscle. The world has followed them south to New Orleans. Three governors have issued proclamations to prevent their meeting. But they will meet, and they will meet to* morrow!

Who are these two men? They are two trained pugilists—two men of brawn. One is John L. Sullivan, who has amassed a fortune of over three hundred thousand dollars through his prowess in the prize ring. The other is Jake Kilrain, who thinkB he can knock the Boston champion out. "See them as they face each other for the fight!"

Mr. Brobst squared himself behind the pulpit. He threw his fists before his breast in a defensive, yet ready attitude. He slugged from the shoulder, he sparred, he countered, he even closed with the pulpit, and could easily have thrown it over the ropes—from the rostrum. People almost rose in their seats in the intensity of their interest. "Has the world advanced since the days of the coliBeum?" asked Mr. Brobst, after a pause in which he rubbed himself down with his handkerchief. "Has the world advanced. See the money poured out like water to witness this modern encounter. It used to be poured out in Rome in the same way. But Caesar then poured it out. The nobility

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yured it out. Maidens poured it out. the president of the United States is not on hia way to New Orleans. And the three governors who have issued their proclamations will not act as referees. No ladies will be preeent. In view of this difference in the class of attendants then and now, I say the world has advanced. "Look at the preparation these two men have gone through," he said. "A short time ago they were drinkers, sensual, beastly. But for weeks and months they have been temperate—they have denied themselves. They have passed through the severest training. Talk about taking up your cross, christians! You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Take a lesson in hardship and denial from these pugilists! Think how they have worked to be ready for a fight which may last only a half hour. "What a lesson this is to us!" went on Mr. Brobst. "Many of us are letting the time for preparation slip by when we have Heaven's battle to fight. "See the force they exert 4n the ring," said Mr. Brobst, "the will power, the determination. They hurl themselves against each other. They struggle for hour after hour, round after round, until one falls. "They bend their every muBCle and every thought to the fight," continued Mr. Brobst. "They are willing to kill themselves to achieve victory. Take another leeson, christians! "Then look at their skill. They have spent years learning the art of parrying, and striking, and grappling. Their training has aroused the faculties of their brainB

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their work. They know what they are doing in the thickest of the fray. Ministers hear it said that if they want to preach good sermons they should go into the pulpit and leave it to God to tell them what to say. But it takes Bkill to preach a good sermon. Ministers, take a lesson from the prize fighters! Christians, take another lesson! "Look, next, at the courage of these two men. We hear of Sullivan's boasting and Kilrain's self-confidence. If we could get near enough to them to-night, just on the eve of the battle to-morrow morning, I expect we could hear their hearts beat with anxiety. Reports get started that this one, and then that one is going to back down. You hear it said that their trainers have Jo spur them up to make them come to the scratch. Well it takes courage to walk into a prize ring and stand up before a human catapult, and take the chance of having your jawbone knocked out of recognition. But did you ever hear of prize fighters failing to come to time? These men will come to time in the morning just as the Brooklyn champion a few weeks ago showed up fresh after losing one side of his face. "The eyes of the world are on these men," said Mr. Brobst, "and they will face each other. Take another leeson. from their courage, christians! "Look at the toughness of these two men. They are no delicate fellowB. They are not to be paralyzed by a scratch. They stand up as that man in Bro oklyn did and take ox-feeling blows. What contempt these men in their toughness have for suffering! Take another lesson, christians! We are called en to suffer. Loam how to do it from the?e pugilists!"

Mr. Brobst made a rush at the pulpit, grappled with it in an eloquent peroration, and pronounced the benediction over an audience which would have backed him on the spot against any feather weight in the ministry.

Moody's Good Sense.

Says the Boston jcord: "When Phillips Brooks wes lecturing to theological students at New Haven, he appointed a day on which be would answer questions. One'theologue' inquired: 'What do you think of Dwight L. Moody?' Quick as a flash the answer came: 'What impresses me most about Mr. Moody is the astonishing good sense of the man.' That was several years ago, but time has only confirmed the verdict pronounced by the great rector upon the great revivalist. An instance of Moody's good Bense is afforded now at Northfield, where 300 college students are encamped for a fortnight, to be taught religion in ie mornings an evenings and athletics the aftsrnoona."

A Finger-Poet.

Iv. Dr. Barbae, superintendent

of the Methodist Book Concern, says that men who live in clubs and masonline women "are on the road to helL" If any gentleman does not know the route, let him keep his eye on the lady that wears a manls hat.—[San Francisco Alts.

STRAY INFORMATION.

One of the oldest and most proficient gamblers in the city was noently the vietim of a confidence game on a small scale. -Upon entering a saloon he was addressed by a man who appeared to be about half drunk, and who wanted to play a game of pool tor a dollar. The gambler had bnt 15 cents, but was a good ptiol player, and was willing to risk nis small change on the game. A stranger standing near by urged the local sport to play, saying that he had seen the banterer play, and that he could not play a good game. Their money, thirty cents, was put up in the stranger's hands, and the game begun. The at ranger found an opportunity to quarrel over the first shot and atruch the pool balls with his cue, soottering them over the table. While the dispute that followed was going, on the stakeholder left the soloon by the back door, and was not seen again. While the gambler was looking for him the other stranger gave him the alip, and although the money was but 15 cents, he gracefully acknowledges that he was made the victim of a confidence game.

The street car conductors on the open cars are sorely tempted. The open cars are run during the summer season and the ladies patronize the cars considerably. On the open cars are bells that register the number of faree as the conductor pulls the bell cord. This cord extends from the register on the front of the car along either side to the rear and within convenient reach of the passengers. The cord for the signal^ bell is in the center of the car. It is availing of the ladies to pull the rope that is most convenient, the one on the side of the car, when they wish to signal the driver to stop, and every mistake of this kind leaves the conductor liable for one fare. "A lady caught the register-rope to-day and pulled it three times before I could stop her." said a conductor the other day. "She charged me with fifteen eents that I had not received."

Special Policemen Lints and Cook do not always find smooth sailing in arresting cows. On Thursday they found a herd in the commons of Bagdad, and started to drive the cows to the pound. A crowd of women equaling in number the cows flourished brooms, shovels, hoes, etc., and demanded the immediate release of their cows, at the same time threatening the policemen with prosecution for larceny. The policeman continued to drive the cows toward the pound, whereupon the women charged upon the herd and drove back all of the cows excepting two, which were safely landed in the pound. While the police^ men urged the cows in one direction, the women drove them in the opposite direction, and the missies fell thick and fast where the battle was warmest.

The first Bale of lots in the new Hebrew cemetery, located immediately beyond Highland Lawn cemetery, occurred on Wednesday. The lots sold well. The average price was about twenty-five cents per foot. The plat has been almost completed, and presents a beautiful appearance. The drives and walks through the grounds are prettily curved, and the arrangement very convenient. For the present, vehicles will pass in and out through the same gateway, but in the near future another^ gate and drive will be provided, by which vehicles will pass out. For the present, it is necessary to pass through Highland Lawn'cemetery to reach the grounds.

Extensive improvements are to be made in the interior of the Naylor opera house, in addition to the exterior painting. A new drop to be painted by either Piggott or WilBon, of the Star theater, New York, will be put in and an entire new set of scenery. The house will be papered throughout with Lincrustra Walton and embossed paper. Messrs. Robert Hayman and Charles Traquair will go to Indianapolis to select samples of decorations in the Opera houses there. The lobby will be laid with padding. New tapestry curtains will be hung, and in short the house will be thoroughly refitted from top to bottom.

While the base ball season lasts, the rising generations seem not only to appreciate the pleasure, but to take advantage of the opportunities offered for posing as sports. A few evenings since three bare-foot boys, apparently about 13-years-old, entering a saloon inquiring for the result of a game of ball in which the home club was interested. When asked why they seemed to be so much interested in the game one of them answered "Got stuff up on the game." When asked how much he said: "Got $4 up bettin' two to one. Knowed Terry Hut would win."

An aged lady of this city called to an attorney, who was passing her residence one day recently, and asked him when a suit in which she was interested would be tried. The attorney named the day, and she answered, "My eon told me that it would be tried on that day, but I can't believe him, you know." This remark caused the attorney to laugh Jcnowingly. and the mother then modi"•fied her first statement by saying that sometimes she could believe him, but not very often. Since the remark was made by one who should know her son beet, and since he is a business man of the city, the reflection was doubly forcible.

THE CHURCHES*

CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH.—Mulberry street between Sixth and Seventh streets. Morning service 11 a. m. subject: "If the Righteous Scarcely be Saved, When Shall the ngodly Appear." Evening, 8 p. m., subject: "The Fast Young Man." A cordial invitation to all young men and women, especially to the evening service. John L. Brandt, pastor.

UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH.—Corner Fourteenth and Chestnut streets. Regular service Sunday. Preaching at 10:45 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Class meeting at 9:45 a. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. Thursday, prayer meeting at 7:30 p. m. You are cordially invited to attend these services. J. B. Connett, pastor.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.—Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching by the pastor in the morning and evening, at 11 a. m. and 8:00 p. m.

CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Young peopeoples meeting, 6:45 p. m. Preaching by the pastor, 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.

GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH.--Sun-day school, 9 a. m. Preaching by the pastor, the Rev. Lich, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.

ASBURY.—There will be no preaching at Asbury Church Sunday,- the 14th.

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a glance, rebuff—

Cone dancing down the stairs, and call Bocae trite remark that sounds divine Be saucy at your mother's care About your wraps my aid decline About yoor glove. I know not why a foolUh'glrl Should seem so wise—to be so sweet

Not why, without a glimpse of soul, Ton area creature quite complete, And somewhat rare. Let me but gaze upon your cheeks, And catch the fervor ot your eye. And note the dimple at your lip When I drclare that I shall die Without four love! —ntoM Hawthorne Latbrop. Prinoe Bismarck and Count von Moltke have become honorary members of the committee tor the institution ot a Beethoven house at Bonn. Herr Joachim is on a re id to

Meissonier will marry again fit the age of 78. His ooming bride is not particularly young, and she is Mile. Besanoon, sister of his lawyer, and for the past, twenty years his devoted companion.

John Tenniel, Punch's famous cartoon artist, will be 70 next year. He joined the staff in 1851, succeeding Richard Doyle, who resigned on a question of conscience, and since that year few issues of the paper have appeared without contributions from his pencil

There is something intensely amusing about the shah's private undertakings at Berlin. At ceremonies, where he was "officially attended," he did very well, and the western polish was not once seriously rubbed off. But when he was wandering about the famous aquarium he was occasion ly seen to produce from his trousers pocket a bottle of cold tea, with which the king of kingB retired into a corner to refresh himself.

A scientist has discovered the advantage of a dark skin as a veil against the heat in hot climates. The carbon layer in the skin of the negro being opaque, like other forme of carbon, must form an effectual veil, and thus protect that most important organ below the true Bkin a bodily envelope or tirsue presenting a vast surface of circulating blood, which is certainly subject to brilliant illumination when only protected from sunlight by the thin translucent cuticle.

The Boston Poet says that a certain claim agent has a contract to place the names of a New York woman and her daughters on all the fashionable hotel registers at the most famous resorts in Europe, care being taken to register at only one place at a time. The namee will then be cabled to a New York paper as among the lateet arrivals at London, Paris, Rome or Venice, as the case may be, while the owners ot the names will be at some cheap country boarding house.

The prince of Montenegro does not lead the regular life of a European ruler he is a sort of chief of clan and sharss the rude, independent existence of his people. Upon his daily promenade through the streets of hie capital the prince allows all his subjects to approach him and make known their demands these petitions are usually presented at the public well the prince, sitting on the brink and surrounded by his guards, listens kindly to the complainte or requests of those who desire to speak to him.

J. R. Werner, who used to be an officer of the Congo Free State, says that when he visited Tippoo Tip that African magnate was always very polite. "But," aays Mr. Werner,- "from the firat moment of seeing him I felt a certain distrust of him, which I have never got over. One thing which I noticed in particular—nothing escaped hie quick, restless eyes, and I was very much amused when, a few days later at Yambuya camp, he sent an interpreter to me with a request that I would come and see him. 1 found that all he wanted to know was the meaning of the nmnbera and designs on the brass buttons of two Belgian officers who were in uniform."

Mr. Gladstone has been telling the story of his escape from the hansom which ran him down. The shaft Btruck him on the chest and stretched him flot on hiB back but, to continue the account in his own words: "I knew that no harm had been done, and I was not a bit hurt. What I thought of first was that I must keep hold of my umbrella, and not let my hat fly off and then it struck me, in the interest of the public, that the cabman Bhould be secured, and so I scrambled to my feet as quickly as I could." He tells the story with the most perfect simplicity, and seems to think it quite in the order of things that an old man ot eighty should be laid prostrate one moment by a cab and the next moment be chasing the offending driver.

Some curious incidents of the'floods in Pennsylvania are reported. A man called at the

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headquarters in Pitts­

burg and asked for a suit of clothes. After he had been fitted he remarked that he had plenty of money, but clothes was what he needed. A resident of Williamsport put two pigs in his parlor for safety, but soon missed them and supposed they were drowned. At bedtime, on going up-stairs to his room, he found the youthful porcines in his bed fast asleep. A clergyman, who said he had lost a wife and three children at Johnstown, refused a suit of clothes at the Pittsburg relief depot because they were second-hand. He then asked for a summer hat. He was offered anew black one, but he would not take any but one of a summer color, and went away dissatisfied.

John Eglingtoh Bailey, of Stretford, Manchester, who died last year, accumulated the best shorthand collection in Egland, and it has been bought and presented to the Manchester Free Reference library as the "Bailey Shorthand Collection." Wherever a book or MS. on, in, or about shorthand in any language was to be had Mr. Bailey would secure it if he couid. In several instances every edition of the same work was bought, the entire list finally amounting to 1,000 volumes. He was himBelf an expert stenographer. He possessed a singular insight into the most crabbed of ehorthands. He succeeded with ease in deciphering some of the meet apparently bewildering, including that used in Samuel Pepy's diary. His collection began with "Bright's Characteric" of the time of Elizabeth.

The Fair Sex.

When two women are boeom friends or deadly enemiee, you may always ask, "Where is the man?"

Women live snd die by their passions. Men kill their passions, but not themselves.

Some men take women as they take champagne others indulge in them as they do in absinthe.

The lives of women can be divided into three epochs: They dream ot love they experience it, and they regret it.

Woman's virtue is like her beauty. One ean not define ita beginning nor ita end.—{To-day.

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TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thns (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 run dally Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE.

T. H. ft I. DIVISION. LKAVK FOR TH* WIST.

No. No. No. No.

9 Western Express (34 V) 6 Mall Train «. 1 Fast Line (PAV) 7 Fast Hall*

1.42 a. m. 10.18 a. m. 2.16 p. m. 9.01 p. in.

LKAVB FOR TH* BAST.

No. No. No. No. Na

12 Cincinnati Express (3) 6 New York Express (S«V) 4 Hall and Accommodation •A) Atlantic Express (PAV) 8Fast Line*.

1.30 a. m. 1.61 a. in. 7.16 a. m. 12.42 p. m. 2.00 p.

AHKIVK FROM THK KA3T.

No. No. NO. No. NO.

9 Western Express (SftV) 5 Mall Train 1 Fast Line (PAV) 8 Mall and Accommodation 7 Fast Mall

NO. No. No. No.

1.30 a. m. 111.12 H. ni. 2.00 p. m. 6.46 p. m. 9.00 p. m.

ARR1VK FRO* THK WK8T.

12 Cincinnati Express (S)... 6 New York Express (SAV).... 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) 8 Fast Line

1.20 a. m. 1.42 it in. 12.37 p. in. 1.40 p. ni.

T. H. AL. DIVISION.

LBAVB FOR THK NORTH.

No. 62 South Bend Mall 6.00 a. m. No. 64Sooth Bend Express 4.00 p. in. ARRIVE FROM THK NORTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. Gil South Bend Mall 7.80 p. m.

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