Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 July 1889 — Page 2
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There was an increase of $1,000 in the expense of jurors and court bailiff in the circuit court last year over the previous year and the increase this year so far has been even greater. Yet there was less business done last year than in the previous year, and still less so far this year. And yet we wonder at the tax rate.
The Indiana militia goes into camp to-day at Indianapolis. Under the new law there is an opportunity to establish a first class militia force in this state, something that Hoosierdom has not had in many years, and the enthusiasm with which the new regiments have entered into the service gives hope that the State will no longer be behind sister states in this respect.
The war department's recommendation for appropriation for the Wabash river is "Wabash river below Vincennes, $150,000 above Vincennes, $10,000," which means that very little money is to be expended on this part of the river. None at all will be used above the Main street bridge as the engineers several years ago decided not to spend any money on the upper river until anew draw was placed in the bridge, which they ordered done at once. The county commissioners are now preparing to let the contract for the draw, and it is to be hoped that Congressman Brookshire will see to it this winter that the upper Wabash gets some of the river and harbor money.
The Dayton Journal made some remarks upon the salutatory of the new editor of the Toledo Commercial. Mr. Boyle, the new editor, replies, but he does so In a flippant and boyish way, and Ignores the point made by the Dayton Journal by telling a chestnut. The new Commercial has already |put£lts Republicanism under question, and the Dayton Journal was right In questioning it. Is the Commercial under coal oil Influence or Is It not? In general opinion It Is. It can perhaps dispel that Idea by a frank statement.—rcinclnnatl Commercial-Gazette.
The Standard has not only a political object in view but a big financial purpose in reaching public sentiment so far as may be through the medium of Toledo newspapers. It is fighting a legislative act that gave Toledo the authority to issue bonds for the purpose of piping gas to the city. After this come the political ambitions of Whitney and Cal Brice, one to be president and the other United States senator. Both are directly connected with the great monopoly and the election of Payne is sufficient evidence that the monopoly takes care of its friends in a political way.
The EXi'uess has received along communication advocating a novel scheme for paying the city debt. The writer says there are six men in the city who will bind themselves to pay the entire debt in a reasonable time if they are given the exclusive privilege of keeping open five public gambling rooms. The writer further says that it would close a great many places but would therefore be a blessing. The Express is asked to "mention" the plan "and see what the public generally will think of it. We do not think it is right," says our correspondent, "but it is going on all the name and the city derives no revenue." The Express suspects that this is sarcasm but why not look at the proposition seriously? Do not the police authorities and the city council, by their utterneg lect of duty and failure to enforce the law or take measures to par the debt, bring us squarely to the serious consideration of almost any proposition,
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of highway robbery, that will bring relief?
THE SCHOOL 1 RUST STANDING FROM UNDER.
The new policy of the school book trust by which all those insinuating agents are withdrawn is said, by the members of the trust, to have been adopted because of the heavy expense entailed by the agents. We do not choose to believe this any more than we believe much else that comes from the same source. The expense was paid by the consumer the agent's little account was added to the price of the books.
The truth, no doubt, is that the trust has come to a realization of the fact that public sentiment was setting in against it and its ways of doing business, and the upheaval here in Indiana was the one strong indication of that fact The people have come to understand that the work of these agents has been to demoralize, not to say corrupt, public officials whose duty it is to make the selection of sohool books which the people must buy, and buy at a high price. The withdrawal of these agents, whose expense bill, swelled in many instances, no doubt by the free use of moEey where it would do the most good,
plainly telle the people that they have been footing these bilL However, there is greater cause for rejoicing in this, that temptation is removed from the official pathway of many weak public servants.
THE EVIL OF IT-
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are closing our business here because this Is a bad point for merchant tailoring," said a member of the firm of Cohen A Co., the other day. "I understood that It was a lively town, a sort of wlde open town, and the general belief is that such places are good for business. I have found out It is a mistake. Business men would do better If the gambling houses were all closed. The sporting men dress weU but the young clerks and merchants do not. Many of them haven't the money. They blow It all in."—[Mall.
Something to the same effect appeared in the Gazette a few days ago. It is true as holy writ. The clothing men who lose the trade 'of clerks suffer a loss of busineee, it is true, but the worst sufferers are the women and children of poor men whoee weekly wages go into the pockets of the "sporting men who drees well." A groceryman whose trade comes largely from wage-earners in one of the city's big industries says he can count the victims by the dozen. The resulVf that the grocery supplj^v^^ Jwife and little ones are cu^f**-Vo and the innocent women and children are deprived, often of the necesearies of life. Any one regrets that temptation confronts the Main street clerk or the young man about town, but it is a feeling of indignation that comes upon one when the story is told of privation and misery brought upon those whose life is away from the heart of the city and whose comforts are too few at the beet. '-fths
C. O. D.
She Hade it Personal.
"There's no use trying to argue with a woman on general principles," said Mr. Wlckwlre, as he held his glass so that he could observe the electric light through It. "Now, the other evening my wife and I were hating a little discussion on the subject of dress—" "That's very strange," said Mudge. "Oh, yes. I used to be funny like you before I was married. But to resume. I was trying to convince her that the average woman Is overdressed, and all that sort of thing you know, and told her that as a rule a man admired a wowan more the simpler and neater her clothes were. And says she, 'I think I understand you.' Says I, 'I'm glad you do.' Says she, 'I suppose that Tommy'e nurse just about fills the bill, If I can Judge anything ,from your actions and the talk you hftve Just been making.' Now the nurse Is a deuced pretty little thing, and I will admit that I have admired her, but only as a man admires a picture, or
Chorus "Oh, rats!"
A Serious Drawback
She's as pretty as a picture, and sweeter than a peach, But somehow not a young man will come within her reack, With a mouth Just right for kissing, still the kisses don't come, And all because she (silly girl!) chews peppermint gum.
Though It has ascent that brings to mind the days of childhood's frolics— —The days when we took peppermint to care little colicsIt's an odor that will ne'er arouse affection from our its slumbers, For what man's going to fall In love whose mind's on green cucumbers?
One Safe Subject.
"Lemme see," mused the editor of the Jayvllle Bugle, "what the dickens I am going to make my leader on this week If I take up the Cronln affair Metrarrlty will wlthd raw his ad. old Deacon Boggs has a brother in the Mormon Church, and If I write on the evils of tale-bearing ray wire will give me particular fits." Here he rested h!s weary brow on his massive hands a moment, then suddenly aroused himself and wrote as one Inspired.
And the next day's Issue of the Bugle contained a two-column article to the effect that "The English Sparrow Must Go."
Well Qualified.
Simpson—Well, my boy Is through college now and I guess I will start him In one ef the professions.
Sampson—I think he will make a very successful physician. Simpson—Why?
Sampson—In the next two years that boy Is going to have as line a set of side whiskers as you ever saw. _=__
Deceived the Dog.
Laura—How did you get to the door'/I'm sure papa turned the dog loose at sundown. Cholly—I Just sprinkled a little whisky on my clothes and the dog thought I was the old man himself.
O. H.
A temperance measure—A picnic beer glass. "More old landmarks gone," said the tramp after his compulsory bath. ___
It Is rather hard to bear the snubs of a man who Is going to make a lot of money, but what sweet satisfaction we have when he falls to get there.
EXCHANGE ECHOES.
Dubuque (la.) Times: Prize-fighting will stop when the Intellectual and moral nature ot man predominates over that of the brutal, but when that time will come no prophecy can be made.
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph: A subscriber wants to know what a commercial "trust" Is. It Is a lot of men who get together to take care of your property for you and to prevent you from wasting It or getting it back.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: The assumption that the Republican press or the Republican party Is under any obligations to Mr. Sullivan Is a part of the scheme of the conspirators. The Republican party owes Mr. Sullivan nothing, and to the Republican press of Chicago he Is Indebted for much forbearance.
Globe-Democrat: The free trade reformers who assert that the farmer Is forced by the tariff to sell his products In the home market when he might do better by sending them abroad can be answered by the simple statement that there Is no tariff on exports, and goods may be shipped from this country to any other without the least hindrance.
Minneapolis Tribune: While it is hardly possible to draw amoral from the career of John L. Sullivan, It Is not out of place to call attention to the fact that he typifies the successful man In every walk of life. The bold, plucky, energetic and aggressive men always succeed, no matter what their business may be, while the halting, hesitating and tricky ones always fall In the end.
Globe-Democrat: Minneapolis furnishes a timely and striking temperance sermon in the form of a report showing that In the spring of 1884, under a $100 license, It had 600 saloons, paylag into the city treasury $60,000 a year, whereas at present, under a $1,000 license, the saloons number only 230, and the city receives $230,000 a year. The advantage of the high license system Is thus plainly demonstrated, Doth as a means of lessening the traffic and as a source of revenue.
South Bend Times (Dem.): The editor who deliberately proclaims that "day by day the condition of the working world grows more and more hard" simply advertises himself an Ignorant demagogue who neither knows anything about the history of the past nor of what Is going on In the living present. The exact truth as to this country Is that for the industrious, frugal, thinking and calculating world, the chances of getting along were never better than they are now.
St Paul Pioneer Press: The great mass of Irish-Americans are not disposed to run the risk of such a venture as is proposed. The American republic known as the United States of America is as good a republic as they want They are perfectly saUsfled with it. An advantageous thing for the Irish cause of homo rule, however. It would be If the whole horde ot dynamiters and miscellaneous assassins and thugs who dare to call themselves "Irish patriots" would go to the far away Islands of the sea and found a community of their own under any name they may choose to call It The Irish question would be settled much sooner In that case. The proposed "Irish republic" will probably repose for an Indefinite length of time on paper.
THE WAY WE GOT OUR HAMESr "i
Shakspere's^old question, "What's in a nam6?" when asked in regard to surnames may have anew answer—a story, always a story. Sometimes, says a writer in Harper's Young People, a simple one, as that of a man burdened by a sense of guilt leaving home and country and all his wealth to make a weary pilgrimage to the tomb of the, Savior, hoping to find forgiveness. Then, clad in his coarae gray cloth, with shell and script hanging from his belt, and on his head a large hat covered with scallop shells, coming gladly homeward, waving his. palm branch triumphantly, henceforth to be called the Palmer, and to hand down that name to his children's children, and hidden in it the story of his sin and of his journey in search of peace.
Sometimes the story does not openly appear, as in the name Lockhart, in which, after a little search, we find the story of a brave, loving, faithful man, following his king across the water into a foreign land, even into the midst of the enemy and then, when all hope of seeing the holy land has died from the heart of the wounded king, bending tenderly above him, our hero catches as it comes more and more ..j'ciy from his dying lips, and solemnly 'gives the required promise that the heart from which the life is so rapidly ebbing shall be enshrined in a silver urn and taken to Palestine. Henoeforth, guarding that heart as the treasure of his life, he is called Lookhart, and with the name he hands down to all ages the story of his fidelity. As in these two, so in all our names, there lies hidden some information of the grandfather, with so many greats before his name, who first bore it. Sometimes we learn the color of his hair, sometimes the strength of his arm again, the unpleasant fact that he was bowlegged, if we happen to bear the name of Cruikshanks sometimes we learned where he lived, or who his father was, or what was his occupation sometimes we learn his favorite animal. From all we learn something, and we may reet assured that our names are no meaningless groups of letters, as they may seem to some of us they were applied first as distinguishing words, and were appropriate we doubt not, to our ancestors. But before considering how these surnames were acquired, let us pause for a minute to ask:
Why were they needed? In reading the Bible we have all been struck by the fact that men had .one name only. Why have all of us two, three, four, or even more? Suppose we were to follow the example of the ancient Jews, calling ourselves simply John, James, William, Henry, how much confusion there would be? These Bible names caused no such confusion, because each parent tried to give to his ohild an original 'name that is, a name never before given any one. You will seldom find two alike even in the long lists of kings and priests and patriarchs given in the old testament. In later timee, when the new testament was written, this custom was pot so general, and we read bf two Johns, two James, etc. then it was found necessary to distinguish these men by such terms as the beloved, the baptist, the less.
What was true of the Jews was true of our ancestors several hundred years ago—they had one name only but, unlike the Jews, they had not an almost infinite variety from which to choose it. There were in all only about four hundred for both men and women of this four hundred about thirty for each sex were in common use, half of the men bearing one of these seven—John, James, William, Henry, Thomas, Richard, George. But then they did not need another name as you in your familyjare readily recognized when called by your christian name, so they, scattered over the country, and but seldom leaving home, found one sufficient. After awhile travel became less difficult and men began to settle in villages and citiee then was felt the need of surnames, the more sparsely settled regions acquiring them latest be cause needing them least.
There are in existence about forty thousand English surnames, but that allows only one name to 500 persons. Of course some names have less and some many more. If I were to ask which two have most, I think every one would say at once Jones and Smith. These illustrate two of the most common ways of acquisition, and are examples each of a class. Take «Jones first, illustrating the first class—that of relationship. We all know what a common name John is and has been always. When the John of long ago gave his son his own name people confused the two, so John junior comes to be. called John John's son, or John John's, with the son omitted. This John's son is soon run into one word, Johnson, the John's changed to a word rather easier to say, Jones. You can /ind among the names of your friends many ending in son that were acquired in this way. There is Jackson, Robertson, Dixon, Anderson. (Andrew's son) Wilson, Tompson, Richardson, Harrison, and many others. Often the son is omitted, and we find our christian names used as surnames, with the addition of an s, originally possessive, as in the case of Adams, Rogers, Williams, Walters, Edwards, Harris, Phillips. Frequently we find surnames which are christian names, as Thomas, James, Moses, Henry, Arthur, David, Daniel, George, Lewis. This relationship of father and son was ex pressed also by the prefixes Fitz, from filiue, a son Mac in Scotland and Ireland, and Ap in Wales. The Irish O' denotes a grandson.
Now for the name of Smith, belonging to the second class. This word comes from the Anglo-Saxon smitan, to unite, and could be applied to any one who dealt blows in a lawful craft. It is seen in blacksmith, locksmith, goldsmith, silversmith. The second class, of which Smith is an example, is a class of names which are names of occupations, offices, or professions. It is as natural to say John the Shepherd as to say John Steven's son, and you will probably find more surnames derived in this than in any other way. I can mention only a few: Hunter, Fisher, Brewer, Farmer, Cooke, Butler, Baker, Mason, King, Page, Marshal, Bishop, Dean. In this case we find the names which carry us back to long-ago times, and bring before our minds almost forgotten customs. There is Archer, reminding us of the manner of ancient warfare, and of a time when there was no gunpowder or dynamite, no guns, pistols, or cannon Clark, from the word clerk, carrying us back to Chaucer's stories, and reminding us that the word meant orginally a clergyman, afterward a scholar. Words ending in ster, belonging to this class, were origionally feminine, as Webster, a female weaver Baxter, a woman baker: Brewster, a woman who brewB.
The third class of which I wish to speak includes those names which were derived from the location, position, or natural features of the country, or from the name of the country itself, as in the names English, French, Scott, German or Gorman, Fleming. To this class belong those names that end in ford, bam, lea, field, and ton, and when we see such
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we naturally suppose that their first possessor dwelt near such a ford, or in such a field, ham, lea, or town. Besides these we find in this class Nqrth East, West, Sterling (a corruption of Easterling. a man from the east), Hill, Field, Brooke, Clay, Stone, Lake, Woods, Sands. John living near a marsh was spoken of as John at the marsh, to distinguish him from other Johns then in course of time as John Mush. Sometimes the position is retained in such names as Underbill, Atwood, Atwell, Nash (atten ash.)
The next class includes those names which are cioknames, or adjectives indicating some moral quality or some peculiarity of mind or Dody. It is rather amusing to notice how complimentary most of these are: -Goode, Christian, Bright, Wise, Strong, Manly, Fleet, Goodman, Truhart, Young, Old, Armstrong. Among those describing personal appearance are the colors White, Black, Gray, Green, Red, Brown, derived from the color of eyee, hair, beard, or complexion Little, Long, Lqngfellow, Small, Stout, Whitehead.
The fifth and last class I wish to mention includes the names of many animals. Did you ever think it strange that men should have such names as Lamb, Lyon, Hart, Drake, Jay, Fox, Martin, Wren, Roe? These were taken from signB, and not these onhr, but such as Bell, Locke, Key, Ball, Moon, Starr. In olden times not only shops and taverns, but private residences, had signs, not such signs as those we see plainly painted over shop doors, but representations of beasts and birds and figures painted in the brightest colors.
ANOTHER OIL DEAL.
The Standard Takes In the Lima National Oil and Gas Company.
It was rumored on the streets yesterday that the National fuel oil campany, with headquartera in this city, had sold its interests to the Standard oil company, says the Lima Gazette of July 19. Dr. S. A. Baxter and Mr. George :S. Fowler are among the principal stockholders of the company. They own their own tank line cars, have loading racks, tankage and the other necessary ad uncts to carry on the fuel oil trade. The company are the owners of about 1,500 acres of land, all good territory, all of which went into the deal. Dr. Baxter is now in the East on busineee regarding the sale. The National company has had a large trade in supplying consumers with oil for fuel besides, they were the owners of the patent for manufacturing illuminating gas from oil, the system now being used in the manufacture of gas in this city. The amount of consideration in the deal was not learned. A representative of the Standard was engaged yesterday in inspecting the tank cars, pipe line, tankage and loading racks, and upon his report the sale will be closed up and the transfer made. The National was one of the strongest independent companies against the Standard in the Ohio field, which accounts for the determination on the part of the Standard to control it. 0
OIL FUEL.
It Is Wanted by the Mew England Manufacturers.
A reputation and a fortune awaits the genius who Bhall invent an economically successful appliance for burning crude petroleum as steam-producing fuel, says the Boston Advertiser. This is a matter which interests all our New England manufacturers and they are awake to the great and good results which such an appliance would work. This is afield of endeavor already engaging the attention of inventors. Several methods of burning fuel oil are in experimental use, but so far as we can learn, none of them are entirely satisfactory.
New England manufacturers take kindly to fuel oil wherever it has been introduced with even moderate success, and they will consume an immense quantity of it, in the inland towns particularly, if it can show any economy over coal. The expectation that fuel oil can be burned in competion with coal is entirely reasonable. It is not by any meanB a matter of first cost of the two products. Petroleum as a fuel is more conveniently stored, is shipped at more frequent and convenient periods, requires somewhat less labor in the boiler-room, reduces the smoke nuisance, and in its perfection^ the UBe of oil will entirely obviate the smoke nuisance. The two main problems to be wrought out are entire safety in storage and application of the oil and perfect combustion. -V*
The Lima Oil Market.
The Lima market opened yesterday at 15 cents. Towards noon, responding to bullish news from the Elida district, it was inclined to take a spurt. But Wm. Fleming and his agents refused to take all the production offered, and by skillful manipulations succeeded' in preventing any advance and the close was at the opening figure, 15 cents. Private specu lation on the outside advanced the price a little, and, in some instances, as high as 50 cents was bid. While the Lima market has been dull the last week, the indications are bullish, and it is believed by many that an advance must come in course of the next five years—[Lima Gazette.
A FLANNEL SHIRT EXCHANGE.
A Plan to Circumvent Shrinking So That All Shall Have Shirts to Fit.
"You cannot imagine how the flannel shirt business of our store has grown in the past few years," said a trusted clerk of one of Boston's largest firms. "Two years ago three clerks were enough to handle all the trade in flannel shirts we had. Now I have six good men under me, and the work is all they can do. Everybody is wearing flannel shirts now, and our sales amount to more than sev-enty-five thousand shirts a year. "You know how a flannel shirt will shrink? 1 have a plan which will not only make a man's flannel shirt fit him all the time, but will enable him to come out with a new style shirt every two days. My flannel shirt exchange will take a shirt that is too small for a man from washing and give him one a size longer of the same quality for the small sum of 25 oents, provided the shirt he brings in is clean. Thus a man with a 30 inch torso can get the shirt of the 32 inch man, and give his out to the 23-inch man, while the 32-inch man will take that which belonged to him of 37 inches, and so on up to the largest.
Worse Than That.
Briggs—What makes Hardup look so troubled of late, Boggs? Is his wife spending his money at some popular summer reeort?
Boggs—-Why, no. She's trying to economize by keeping summer boarders.— [New York Sun.
The Paris Kxpositlon.
The admissions to the Paris exposition from May 5th to June 30th number 5,9!M 000, as compared with 3.343,000 in 1878. The price of tickets bus fallen to 45 centimes.
HOW THEY STRUCK LAST CHAXCE 8ULCH.
The Original PtM^Myst Gold at Helena, Moataaa. The circumstances attending the birth of Helena are interesting, says a Helena letter. Four young miners, whose names are not associated with- the city's later history, In May* 1864. were wandering along the main range prospecting. They had been unable to obtain claims in Alder gulch, and their objective point, in case they should fail to strike a rich field of their own, was Kootsuai, in British Columbia, where oommon report located valuable diggings. They camped one night in the gulch where Helena stands to-day, but though they found "color" they were not particularly pleased. They doubted if gold was therein anything like paying quantities. They pushed ahead, therefore, crossed the range, and had gone as many as thirty miles northward when they encountered a man who dispelled their dreams of Kootsuai. He said the good claims were all gone, and the best of them were poor, anyhow. This news was a great discouragement to the party. They held a rather dismal council, and concluded that the gulch they had lately left was their only hope. Accordingly, the next morning they turned around and came back to the spot updn which they had previously encamped. They grimly named the valley "Last Chance Gulch," and Last Chance gulch tit is today. They sank two holes to bedrock, and their hearts leaped with joy when they coutt $360 in du9t in their first pan. Each of these four adventurers made a fortune from his claim, and soon a big camp was drawn together. One of the miners who had been impressed with the fascinations of Homer's heroine gallantly urged the name of Helena as most appropriate for the name of the new city, and Helena it became.
It stands to-day in the bottom where the Last Chance pilgrims made their first discoveries. A more absurd and yet a more picturesque situation would be difficut to fancy. Its chief business thoroughfare lies directly in the bottom of the Last Chance gulcb, at the further end of which the patient Chinaman is still washing his pan of dirt and realiz ing a fortune larger than in his own country he had dreamed of achieving. Thirty millions were taken from Last Chance gulch before it was abandoned to merchants and shopkeepers, and even now the builder of anew house can find laborers willing to dig his cellar for the dirt they can take from it.
BKE LINE. BIO FOUR OFFICERS.
A Few Assistant General Freight Agents Appointed.
The employes of the freight, and passenger departments of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railroad company have been anxiously awaiting the announcement of the appointments to be made in those departments by General Freight Agent Hill and General Passenger Agent Martin, says the Enquirer of yesterday.
Some time during this week it is very likely that all the appointments and changes to be made in the freight and passenger departments will be announced. As a starter, however, the following appointments were decided upon yesterday:
A. S. White, assistant general freight agent, St. Louis. A. B. Hough, assistant general freight agent, Cleveland.
L. R. Brockenbrough, assistant general freight agent, Cincinnati. Messrs. White and Hough have held similar positions with the Bee line, and Mr. Brockenbrough has been assistant general freight agent of the Big Four road.
J. F. Ewing, who has been the division freight agent of the Bee line, with headquarters in this city, is to be made general agent of the new company, in charge of Cincinnati territory.
A HUN'S RAILROAD TRIP.
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He Walks Seventy-Four Miles with a Ticket In His Pocket.
The Lehigh Valley agent last night noticed a Hun walking on the track'and accosted him, says an Eoston, Penn., dispatch. When asked where he was going and what his business was he produced a card which stated his destination to be Scranton. He also showed a ticket good from New York to Scranton, issued on Friday. The man managed to explain that he was under the impression that the ticket entitled him to walk on the tracks between the two cities.
The agent detained him until the night express came along, put him on it and sent him to Scranton. The Hun had walked seventy-four miles with the ticket in his pocket.
Scene in the th Congress.
Member from Massachusetts (rising to address the chair)—Mr. Speaker, I 'bject to this yere motion to 'djourn, for the reason that—
The Speaker The gentleman from Massachusetts is out of order. A motion to adjourn is not debateable.
Member from Massachusetts (fiercely) recken the rules kin be suspended, can't they?
The Speaker—By unanimous consent, of course. Member from Massachusetts (taking off his coat)—I don't reckon nobody's goin' to 'bject.
The Speaker (in some haste)—The chair hears no objections. [Extract from Congressional Record of next morning: The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Sullivan) then proceeded to argue at some length against adjournment, etc.]—[Chicago Tribune.
Much the Same. -si
''Did you ever stop to inquire of yourself where all the pins go to?" "Yes, but I never arrived at any conclusion. I've noted one fact, however, that has escaped general attention." "What is that?" "That it's pretty much the same way with umbrellas."—[Merchant Traveler.
The State Printing Contract.
The state printing board, at its meeting yesterday morning, adopted a form of advertisement and specifications which will form the basis for the bids for state printing. The specifications are the same as heretofore, save that they include election tickets and rubberstamps, ss provided for in the election law.—[Indianapolis Journal.
She Coald...
"Can you manage a typewriter?" asked one married lady of another. "Can I manage a typewriter? I should so I can. I made three leave my husband's office within the laBt two months and the last is so homely that John is almost afraid of her. The management of a typewriter is an art, but I've got it down fine."—[Merchant Traveler.
EXPRESS PACKAGES.
jjjflB FLIRTING SZA90N. 'Mow the gay young men And maidens fair To ocean's shores
In erowda repair. And on the sands ... And hillsides green
By day and night In pain an seen. -h?
Or at the hopa— 'Tta wry plain That flirting-time
Is ben again.
—[Boston Courier.
A Washington county, Ohio, farmer 90 years old assists the hands in the harvest field.
Farmers in the Schuylkill valley, Pennsylvania, have been doing their work by moonlight to escape the midday heat.
A Kanawha river fisherman caught a jack-salmon that had swallowed one bats and had another. half way down its throat.
The American raven, which naturalists thought extinct, is still found in Columbia and Sullivan counties, Pennsylvania. .A-.--'--.
A gentleman of Pomona, Cal., says that only fi ve days have passed since March, 1888, that he has not had fresh strawberries on his table.
It is said that the life of rose plants greatly varies. Some of the hardiest kind will bloom for thirty years, while othere die off after several seasons.
Frank Staab, of Louisville, was attacked by a 350-pound black bear in that city and nearly torn to pieces. The animal was a pet and belonged to his neighbor.
Odd appeal to a Wheeling druggist: "Say, gimme a patent medicine almanac. I've got a sort of stiffness in the small of my back, and I want to see if it's a disease."
The lady clerkB in the Philadelphia postoffice have a lunch room on the second floor. They entertain two or three cats sent from Virginia. They were sent north in mail bags.
A Huntington paper says: There are villages in this county ot two hundred or three hundred inhabitants where it would be impossible to find a soul astir on Sunday afternoon. It is a universal custom to "nap."
It is estimated that the money used in a single year to foot the salary and expense bill of the traveling salesmen of the United states would pay off the entire national debt and leave a few dollars over.
An offensive trunk raised an~° excitement in the depot at New Oxford, Adams county, Pa., a few days ago. On being opened it was found to hold ladies' wearing apparel well
Blocked
with naphtha
line to keep off moths. Griffith Williams and a family of eight have left for Wales. They were
Bur-
vivors of the Johnstown flood. One of the children who was born in the attic of a house that was floating along the stream has been christened Moses.
A sea turtle ten feet long, five feet wide and weighing 1,000 pounds, was caught recently in a trap off South Har wich, Cape Cod. This monster is estimated to be fully 200 years old. As it stands the distance between its fore flippers is over ton feet.
Lightning struck the house of Colonel L. N. Edwards, of Oxford, Me., knocking a kerosene lamp into a thousand pieces and taking a metal clock from the wall of the room and hurling it under the colonel's bed. Nothing else in the house was disturbed.
South Easton boys have been caught stealing chickens from farmers in a new way, having fished for them with a grain of corn on a small hook. Some chickens that tore loose from the hooks were so badly injured that they died. A hook in one chicken's throat revealed the rascality.
It costs, at a liberal estimate, £100 to give a farewell dinner to Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, London theatrical people, before they^depart for an American tour. The cable is worked, the Associated Press describes the banquet and the Thespians gam advertising to the value of 2,000 good American dollars.
ANew Yorker went into a Broadway store and asked to see some trousers. One of them went into a dressing-room, and when he emerged the salesman noticed that he had suddenly become humpbacked. Running his hand up the man's back, the clerk pulled out four pairs of trousers and the deformity disappeared. fe ii
A mother and daughter living near Weston, Pa., were resting in a woods one day recently when the daughter exclaimed that she heard the rattle of a snake close by. The mother, giving a quick glance around, was horrified to find she was sitting on the reptile. She jumped away with a yell that seemad to scare, it as it wriggled out of sight immediately.
An invention has been made which promises to revolutionize completely the industry of china decoration. By a process discovered by J. B. Bonnaud it is possible to obtain in a few minutes the same artistic effects which cost the hand-painter on china days of labor. Landscapes, groups of figures, and portraits are produced by this means on vases, plates, and plaques in their natural colors, even to the most delicate shades#,
Mrs. Baker, of Richford, Vt., went into her dining-room the other day and discovered a Bgake coiled Bnugly under the table. Sh^naturally objected to a boarder of that tort, and, Becuring a kettle of boiling ^mter, proceeded to persuade the snakd-s to leave. When she approached, wis snakeehip rebelled against fbe hot water treatment, and made ready to spring upon her. ButxMrs. Baker, noting the snake's open mVuth, gave him a generous dose of the nettle's contents and scalded him to death,
A month has passed sino» John Pickett, the Alabama murderer! expiated his crime on the scaffold. Npw a report comes from Sumter county mat Pickett is still alive and living in thm portion of the state, that after the hanguag his bedy was taken in charge by friends, who worked sucosssfully at resuscitation. The story has created a good .deal of interest, for, if Piokett is still alive and is apprehended, the question fie whether he cafe be further punished. He has been declared legally dead, land the case will prove one unparalelled in the history of the state.
An interesting table exhibited at the Paris sxposition shows the relative civilizations of the several countries from the postoffice standpoint, by showing the number of letters per capita passing through them. Great Britain lejads with forty per head. Australia is next with thirtv-five, and Switzerland with thirty. The United States, Germany and Holland have twenty and Belgiuim leads them at twenty-five. The other^ countries of Europe gradually deecencf. in the scale till the zero mark is almost Reached in Russia, which veporta only twg) letters a year per head.
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This powder never vanes, A marvel of pom? strength and wholesomeness. More economies than the Mdlnary kinds, and cannot he sold in competition with the multitude of low teat, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only In sans BOTAL BAXIHS POWDKB Co. I lie Wall tS., v.v.
ONCE A YEAR!
It begins this year on Monday. July 22.
ANNUAL CLOSING OUT SALE
35c Black 811k Mitts for 28c. 45c and 60c black silk mitts for-85c. 60c and G6c black silk mitts for 50c. Ladles' fancy regular made hose ror 12%c. Ladles' boot pattern hose at 16c. Ladles' fancy hose, several different lines, at 19c. Fifteen different lines of ladles' fancy hose at 23c, all worth double.
Fancy half hose, six different lines, all regular made. 16c, were 25c. Fancy Lisle half hose 33Vfrc, worth 50c.
Ladles' long sleeve Balbrlggan vests. 23c. Ladles' Jersey ribbed vests, fancy trimmed, 16c. Ladles' lace trimmed bodies 25c, were 60c. Ladles' pink, blue, white and cream Lisle vests, 25c.
Gentlemen's ribbed shirts and drawers, 39c, cheap at 60c. r. Gentlemen's gauze shirts, 19c. ...
Extra bargains in fancy parasols.
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JSP*"Agents for Butterick's patterns.'
TIME TABLE.
Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (3) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains run dally aundaya excepted.
No. 9 Western Express (84 V) 1.42 a.m. No. SMall Train *. 10.18 a. m. No. I Fast Line (PAV) 2.16 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall #.04 p. m.
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No. 12 Cincinnati Express (31 1.90 a.m. No. 6 New York Express (S4V) 1.61 a. m. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.16 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V) 12.42 p.m. No. 8 Fast Line 2.00 p. -ja
ARRIVK FROM THK BAST.
No. 9 Western Express (SftV) 1.80 a.m. No. 6 Mall Train 10.12 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) 2.00 p. m. No. 3 Mall and Accommodation 6.45 p. m. s* No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p. m.
ARRIVK FROM THK WJCST.
No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (34V) 1.42 a. m. No. Atlantic Express (P4V) 12.37 p. m. No. 8Fast Line* 1.40p.m.
T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.
IJEAVK FOR THK NORTH.
No. 62 South Bend Mall 6.00 a. m. No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 p. u. ARRIVK FROM THK NORTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 63 South Bend Mall 7.30 p. m.
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