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You've got to have Band to get the oil Band. Any trust that is enabled to raise the price of any commodity by reason of the tariff duty must not be protected. Any trust that has reduced the price of any commodity by reason of the encouragement in the production of the commodity need not have its tail trimmed behind its ears. There is a happy medium in dealing with this question which is to be based on the theory of the greatest good to the greatest number.

The failure of a half dozen wells bunched together in a stone's throw of one another cannot disprove the presence of an oil field here, especially when there is a well flowing in quantity and duration as few, if any, wells in the most favored districts ever flowed. An field is not measured by even the horizon in our level country and a half dozen failures among the bunched wells east of the Diall, while depressing in its feet on those who were desirous to reach some of the good field of the Diall) should not be accepted as more than temporary set back in the search for the fluid.

Mr. Parnell says he will not disclose what he knows about the land league funds to frinnd or foe. Mr. Parnell has made many friends in this country because he has conducted his fight for poor Ireland in an open, honorable man ner, but Mr. Parnell even can not expect to retain this friendship if he joins the conspirators who played shuttlecock with the funds raised by the people in this country. The people placed great confidence in Parnell, Davitt, Sullivan and others, and gave money freely to be used as they deemed best, having im "pllciV confidence in their integrity and in their honorable use of the money, but it is known that much of this money was gambled away and expended in other directions than relief for the old country. When Mr. Parnell tells his friends that he will not join in the movement to un cover the rascality he goes perilously near destroying the tie that binds to him the great majority of the true friends of Ireland in this country.

Colonel John S. Williams, third auditor of the treasury, and the last of six of his class to "go" under the new administration, went into oflice under Mr. Cleveland and immediately announced to Republicans under him that they must "go," and volunteered the comment that they ought to have anticipated the announcement. It is now gravely stated that this holdover Democratic ollicial would not now be removed were it not that it has been discovered that last year he violated the law by the mis use of his office as an auxiliary of the Democratic committee that but for this his brother, George B. Williams, formerly of Lafayette, and a Republican, would have used powerful influence to keep the Third auditor in oflice. Queer, isn't it? and most Republicans will ask why the R9publican brother did not use powerful influence to keep R9publicans in office under his brother four years ago.

C. O. D.

A Memorable Year.

Teaclier—For what WHS the year 1876 remarkable, Tommy'( Tommy—Why, that's the year 1 was born.

No Kono Without a Thorn.

Brlggs— A bald head Is a great advantage to a married man, eh, Peck? Mr. N. Peck—No. I don't think It Is. It shows scratches too plainly.

Phrenological Item.

Wlbble—Do you believe that fullness under the eyes denotes language, as the phrenologists clltiuV

Wabble—Yes, I think It does. Generally, the fuller a man gets the more he talks.

A Cold, Cold, Creature.

(Jus—How do you manage to keep cool these hot days, me boy? Cliolly—Oh, 1 pwopose marwlage to Miss ChllUngworth about every other day, don't you know?

His Little Scheme.

Mr. Jason—How did your wife come to buy such a cheap hat, Wlckwlre? Wlckwlre—I told her that It was too young for her face.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Detroit Tribune: Chicago papers are bidding for the world's fair In 1832. It seems almost too bad to bother New York with It while she Is just as busy as she can be putting up monuments and such things.

Commercial Gazette: An Ohio and Indiana natural gas trust Is spoken of It would be a no greater monopoly.than the Standard oil company, which Is said to already own a majority of the stock of the natural gas companies.

Troy Press: The English syndicate Is buying up, In newspaper columns, so many American lnstlJtlons has as yet made no offer tor the presses on which the national bank notes are printed. These presses are making money every day.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat: That eloquent and successful apostle of temperance, Francis Murphy, condemns the policy of prohibition, on the ground tlmt it proposes to legislate virtue Into human nature—a thing which has been often tried and has always failed. "Men must be led and not driven," he contends, so far as the matter of moral progress Is concerned and most people will be disposed to concede that Mr. Murphy knows what he Is talking about.

STARRING WITH BEN HUR.

Mise Mary H. Krout writes as follows for the Chicag^Inter Ocean: "BenHur"is a series of brillant pictures. Characters, costumes, and localities have been delineated with the historical wv curacy and genuine artistic feeling possible only to a man in whom the genius of a painter is combined with that of the writer. This quality has been observed by nearly every reader, and it is not surprising that there are persons who, realizing its possibilities, have made efforts to present it to the public in some dramatic form.

Last winter General Wallace went over the book, selected the most striking tableaux, and obtained permission from the publishers to copyright the selections. The right of presentation was subsequently transferred to several of his personal friends in Crawfordsville. Magnificent scenery was painted by a well known Chicago scenic artist, which was inspected and approved by the author. Forty sets of costumes were designed and partially made by Mies Nell Brown, of Crawfordsville, a young woman with a decided genius in this direction. She was given carte blanohe. She selected all the materials used, and studied carefully all the authorities she could obtain, so that each dress, when completed, was correct in the minutest detail. The costumes, in Cincinnati especially, attracted much attention, and must have attracted still more had it been known that, from Herod and the high priest to the gorgeous garments of the Egyptian Iras, they were the work of an inexperienced girl, who had no knowledge of costuming, except what she obtained from books, and who had been guided solely by her own artistic instinct.

The pictures given included "The Wise Men in the Desert," "Mary and Joseph and Rabbi Samuel at the Joppa Gate," "Ben Hur with His Mother and Sister on the Roof," "The Misplaced Tile Palling on Grattus," "Ben Hur Asleep at the Door," "The Garden of Daphne," and "The Orchard of Palms," the closing scene being the famous chariot race.

Engagements were made with churches and societies, to whom a printed form was sent stating the number of people wanted, thirty or forty in all, and from these the characters to be posed were chosen.

The reader was Lida Hood Talbott, of Evansville, a brilliant, vivacious little woman, who possessed not only a high degree of dramatic talent, but the intellectual ability to comprehend and make her audience feel the power and beauty of what she read.

The entertainment was given for a week in Cincinnati at the Odeon. It attracted immense audiences and received the highest commendation from the press. Mrs. Talbott received an oration, especially from the directors of the College of Music, and was asked to repeat her readings OIK the Sunday evening following the close of the engagement in the Trinity Methodist Church, of which Dr. Henderson is pastor. She read in costume, which heightened the favorable impression produced by a naturally striking stage presence. She had equally marked success at Hamilton, Dayton, Piqua, and other Ohio towns. Mre. Talbott was asked by a reporter of The Inter Ocean how she happened to adopt the profession, having once been a leader in Indianapolis social circles. "It is the old story," she said. "I be gan in asocial way first for the enter tainment of my friends and for charitable objects. When reverses came I reverted to it for a livelihood. "By the way," she interposed, "I protest against being considered an elocutionist. I am a student of the meanings of things, and my readings are careful studies." "How did you secure your engagement to read from "Ben Hur?" "I knew the people and they sent for me. It

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given in Crawfordsville just

for two evenings, and I had General Wallace in my audience. "The undertaking ought to have sue ceeded with all the material—the seen ery, costumes, and yourself—why did it not?" she was asked. "Because he made the mistake of taking it into the small towns instead of to the cities, where the people in general are quicker to perceive and appreciate artistic excellence. This is proved by the fact that an entertainment similar to ours was given in New York, St. Louis, and elsewhere with great success until it was stopped by an injunction from the people who control the copy right." "Where did you go first?" "Through the smaller towes in western Ohio and eastern Indiana. You will hardly believe that we found a good many people in his own state who had never heard of the book or or the author. At one place a woman was told that "Ben Hur" was coming. 'Is that so?' she asked. 'And who is he?' When we were told of it we were struck dumb. There was one odd thing —and you must not attribute it to prejudice—but we always found the places where this ignorance prevailed pronounced Democratic strongholds. There were always more saloons than churches. The people did not read, and only a very few knew anything about the book. "Another difficulty we had to contend with was that our scenery was too large for the halls where we appeared. On several occasions we had to take it up through back windows or let it down through the roof, and once we brought it in bodily over the heads of the audience. Fortunately they thought it was apart of the performance and took it all in good part. "At South Bend we could only get the little theater as there was a disagreement between the powers that be. The manager was a lively man and did all he could, but he could not work miracles. I looked around and just said, 'Barnstorming has reached a climax we're such a set of adjustable lunatics that we could play from a barn windowl'" 'Ben Hur' seems to have been written for all people," she said, dropping the fruitful theme of professional tribulations. "Wherever we went Jews, Catholics, and protestants united on common ground in their admiration and patronage where feuds did not prevail. "The Catholics were among our best patrons, the priests, especially. Many of them came to me and personally expressed their appreciation. I am

Borry

to say that there was not equal generosity manifested on the part of the protestant churches. Frequently, if we gave the entertainment for the benefit of the Methodist Church the Presbyterians would not come, and the Methodists or Baptists staid away when the case was reversed. They seemed to be always in a broil with each other. We had to have a letter from General Wallace to keep the peace and to show that we were really authorized by him. The Catholics were always liberal, regardless of sectarian feeling. In three entertainents Ben Hur was a Catholic, and we,

once had a Jewish rabbi for the part Rabbi Samuel. "And this reminds me," she remarked, "of the perfect delight the people manifested who were to impersonate the characters. Then were always more asked than were needed, and we made our selection. The disappointment of those whose services had to be declined was poignant and those were still more disappointed who had to be recast for up he he ad in judiciously given leading roles. This is natural in young people, of course, but I am referring to the older ones—the elderly men, especially." Mm. Talbott seemed to have discovered that there is, in the masculine soul, a deep though repressed love of finery, finery which only wants an opportunity to indulge itself. "The old men," she continued, "were the most delighted of all to put on the costumes. They would strut about like children in their Sunday best We had one who was cast for the part of Herod. He was to appear the second evening— not the first. He insisted, however, on wearing the clothes behind the soenss all the tint evening.

The crown had been made for a man with a well developed head, but ha was a little, skinny creature, and it slipped down and rested on the napeof his neck, the points sticking out in a dangerous sort of way. He looked as funny as possible. I went up to him and said: 'You do not appear until to-morrow evening.' "He replied, 'Is that so?'Sand his face fell, and he looked quite sad for a little while. But he consoled himself with the clothes—and they were very splendid—gown and mantle of velvet lined with satiB. "At another place there was a little weazened woman with no chin, whom some stupid person liad made the blunder of selecting for Esther, the beautiful mother of Ben Hur. She was about 55, and her figure was as hopeless as her face. Mrs. Hur, I called her. When she was told what Jshe had to do she said: "Does anybody think I'm going on the stage with bare arms? What will the minister say?' "I knew that whatever he might say it would not be what he thought. However, when the night came, Mrs. Hur came on with a more lavish display of shoulders than any of the priestesses in the garden of Daphne. •"We learned a great deal of the frailty and vanity of human nature, I can assure you, and we thought we were sufficiently enlightened before."

THAT DOTY LOVE STORY.

The Gentleman Interested Says There Is Nothing In It.

NEW YORK, July 23.—Jacob L. Doty, the United States consul at Tahiti, arrived in town last night from Saratoga. Mr. Doty is a fair-haired, light complexioned, handsome boy of 23 years. He began his public life as a page to the house of representatives, and later was a page in the senate. J. Hyatt Smith and Senator Lapham befriended him, and he was made assistant librarian in the agricultural department. Shortly after this he was sent to Bermuda as American consul, and in February, 1888, he was appointed consul to Tahiti. The California and Washington papers have been indulging in a good deal of romantic literature concerning Mr. Doty, They started in as having him severely smitten by a native princess and wound up the series by saying that he married her. "There is not a word of truth in the storiss," said Mr. Doty yesterday. "They started from idle gossip, apparently, for Papeete, where I live, is a small place of only about 5,000 inhabitants. The lady referred to is Miss Palona Brander, the 17-years-old daughter a wealthy English lady. Miss Brandon's father is dead, and her mother is now the wife of Mr. Darsie, an Englishman. "The family are very good friends of mine. Miss Brander is a princesss by right and heredity. Her grandmother was a full-blooded native, a princess, and a remarkably beautiful woman. Mr. Salmon, an Englishman who said he was aconverted Jew and a relative of Disraeli, fell in love with her and married her. Miss Brander, on her father's side, iB connected with the Aberdeen family of Scotland. "In December last, shortly after a big flood, Miss Brander, her brother and I were riding to their home. A bridge gave way while I was upon it and if my foot had not caught in the Btirrup there, enabling my friend to drag me out, I should probably have drowned. I was badly hurt and was tenderly cared for by the Brander family. Perhaps this set the gossips talking."

Mr. Doty said that Americans in Tahiti are important people and that he has been honored by the title of "Tutaha arii," which means a prince. He is a great friend of King Pomare V, who sold his birthright to the French for a pension. "The match between Sullivan and Kilrain caused a lot of talk in the

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ands," said Mr. Doty, "and much betting oh the result was indulged in. Sullivan was a big favorite." Mr. Doty

Baid

the

natives are all good athletes. Mr. Doty expects to remain here for several weeks.

MR. EDISON ON THE STAND

He Testifies iu the Investigation of the Electric Executions.

NEW YORK, July 23.—In the hearing before referee of the Kemmler electrical execution case to-day, Thomas A. Edison was put on the stand as a witness, and if his testimony were to decide the fate of Kemmler, the murderer would surely meet his death in the electrical chair. The witness had no doubt whatever of the power of an alternating current to kill a man instantaneously and painlessly, and was sure it could be done without burning.

The case of Mr. Smith was spoken of, who was said to have received a shock of 1,500 volts without serious injury. Mr. Edison said he would pay Mr. Smith $100 if he would come over to his laboratory and successfully withstand a shock of 100 volts.

On cross-examination the witness said the resistance of all men was very olose between a six hundred and one thousand eight hundred ohms. The obtaining of the resistance of the human body by the Wheats tone bridge was not simply a matter of late experiment. Witness measured human resistance by it before the question of electrical execution was brought up. He considered the bridge an accurate means of measurement.

A man could be completely carbonized by an electric current, but it would take 1,500 horse power to do it. If you took the Westinghouae current of 1,050 volts and kept it applied to a human body five or six minutes it would not be carbonized, but mummified. This was because the water in the system would be gradually absorbed.

Dr. McDow's Unpleasant Position.

CHARLESTON, S. C., July 23.—Governor Richardson has accepted Dr. McDow's resignation as surgeon of the First battalion of infantry.

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THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1889

ENTIRELY TOO MILITARY.

This la What Same of the B»w Troop* Think of the Encampment.

Big, clanking, military horses, straddled by blueooats, lumbered along the roads north of the city to-day, and many vehicles wound through the oommons of North Indianapolis toward the soldier city which has sprung up at Armstrong's on the canal, says the Indianapolis News. They soon came into sight of a thiok beech wood where camp smoke rose among the trees and thick clusters of tents made picturesque the hill sides. Along the broad, stubble covered road leading to the camp, soldier boys toiled' with variou' (burdens.

It is rather a large city pitched on the undulating grassy ground which extends among the beech trees. Nearly eveiything complete to-day. Besides cooks and other camp followers, 142 officers and 1,461 privates were reported in camp. A very soldierly camp it iB, more soldierly than many of those in it desire. A' youth down town to-day was heard describing in pretty strong language the numerous restraints. The artillery is discontented with its black ooffee and hard-tack, and the troops' appetite has been so stimulated that they can't get enough meat.

The First regiment iB somewhat raw. The two Brazil companies are not yet uniformed, and many are unused to military movements. The regiment was kept hustling about a big hay field for an hour and a half this morning. But topping it all, the first day was made eventful by the sitting of a court-martial. A sergeant was charged with deserting his guard. He didn't know if was wrong to leave it in chargei ft a corporal, but the stern court recognizes no Buch pleas. It had not decided his fate up to 1 o'clock, but he will probably not be hanged.

But otherwise the camping is pleasant. The camp lights made the woods beautiful last night, until all went out promptly at 10 o'clock. Mosquitoes,everybody was glad to relate, were not nearly as numerous as expected. To-day's dreary rain and wet grass were taken philosophically. The boys are getting uBed to their duties, which are not so strenuous as they are novel. But it is a military camp of instruction and not a picnic ground.

Yet, it filled many with wonderment last night to see large numbers of blue coats down town, even to a late hour. They seemed to have come from camp.

Indiana Gas Well Hews.

The output of the Bluff ton gas well is estimated at 3,000,000 cubic feet per day. The gas escapes with a roar that can be heard three miles away.

The Delphi natural gas wells not supplying the demand, it is proposed to pipe from the Kempton fields, connection being made with the mains of the Lafayette company at Mulberry

James Duncan, of Fairfield, while engaged in tearing down a gas well derrick, made a misstep and fell to the ground, a distance of forty feet. One arm was so badly injured that it had to be amputated at the Bhoulder.

A syndicate headed by John Fairbanks has offered to take the Shelbyville natural gas plant at a fair valuation, and pipe gas from the Hancock county field, the supply from the wells owned by the Shelbyville company being insufficient.

Farmer Makes an Assignment. 'J Special to the Indianapolis News.

GREENCASTLE, July 23.—Allen Darnell, a leading farmer, near Bainbridge, has made an assignment for benefit of creditors. H. C. Darnall is assignee. The indebtedness is heavy, reaching probably twenty-five thousand doliars.

A Lake and a Race Track.

It is probable a mile race-track with a lake in the center of it will be constructed northwest of the city near Brighton Beach, soon. The men interests in the project promise street car communication with the resort when completed.—[Indianapolis News.

Indiana News Notes*

Prof. J. C. Black, ol Loganuport, has been chosen superintendent of the Michigan city schools, vice S. E. Miller.

There are twenty beneflclary lodges and mutual aid associations In Jeffersonvllle, and the aggregate membership is nearly three thousand.

During a trial in one of the Evansville courts August Thlele, member of a wholesale Arm, called Major J. G. Winfrey, an attorney in the case, a liar, and Winfrey knocked him down with a chair.

Henry Ruschmeyer, of Evansville, went home yesterday in an intoxicated condition, and his family fled in terror. Upon returning to the house BuBchmeyer was found dead upon the floor, having swallowed poison.

Horman Weller, of Evansville, has been arrest ed at Pleasant Valley Junction, Utah, as Tascott, the Chicago murderer, and he has telegraphed to his Evansville friends to come to bis rescue. Mr. Weller bears a strong resemblance to Tascott.

A corps of engineers, employed In the United States geodetic survey, has been sent to secure the topography of Brown county, and are now encamped on the summit of Weed Patch Hill, where a tafl signal tower was erected by the government a few months ago.

The annual M. E. conference of the New Albany district convened at Corpdon Monday, and was opened with a sermon by Bev. W. McK. Hester. The ministers of the district are well represented, and the c- nference Is fairly attended. Efforts are being made to hold the camp-meeting there this year.

No Fools Equal Old Fools.

PONTIAC, Mich., July 23.—Some timeago Mrs. Haggeman, a well-known lady of this town, of advanced years and more or less eccentric of character, left the city in company with a Mr. Brannock, a rich Californian, who was himself no spring chicken. They were to have been married at the hotel where the lady had lived for along time, but they finally concluded to slip out of town and have the knob tied somewhere else. A few days ago the lady returned alone. She says she was married at Niagara Falls, and that their silver-gray bridal tour extended to London, England. There, she says, she learned that Mr. Brannock was not a widower, as she supposed, but had a wife living at Santa Crnz, Cali. She thought the matter over and decided to return, Mr. Brannock kindly gbing to Liverpool to see her off on her return trip.

He WaB Only a Grand Army "Bobber."

NEW YORK, July 23.—Hugh Callam, a veteran of the war, and until recently an employe in the department of public works, hanged himself at his home early this morning. When the department of ublic works passed into the hands of ammany. Callam got a place as a day laborer. On his firat pay day he was assessed 50 cents, hut he refused to pay. He yielded up the money the next time he drew his salary, but after that refused to be blackmailed, so on July 15 he was discharged. He failed to get work, and becoming despondent killed himself. He was a member of Varnum Poet, G. A. R. There is likely to be an investigation.

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A Pretty Wedding In Old Trinity.

NEW YOBK, July 23.—Old Trinity Church was the scene of a quiet wedding which took place at ten o'clock this morning. The contracting parties were Mrs. Harriet Atwood Aymar, of Jersey City, and Bishop Ge orgs Franklin Sey

mour, of Springfield, IU. Right Ew. Bishop Potter, assisted by Dr. Diz, tied the nuptial knot. Before the altar the bride stood beside her white-haired spouse attired in traveling costume, with hat and gloves on. The wedding was strictly private

LORDS OF THE CIVIL 8KKVICB.

They Propose to Sit la Judgment on Secretary Wisdom. Special to the Commercial Gazette.

WASHINGTON, D. (A, July 22.—While the government de jure is out of town for the summer vacation, the civil service commission

Beems

to be assuming the

functions of a government de facto. The acts of the executive departments in the matter of removals are daily overhauled by these commissioners, as if they were the executive instead of the president. A few days Bince the Democratic chief of division was removed in the sixth auditor's office, with the approval of the secretary of the treasury. This clerk has appealed to the civil service commission, and the gentleman who compose it gravely announced in interviews that they are getting ready to ascend their thrones for the purpose of sitting in judgment on the secretary of the treasury.

Commissioner Lyman, when interviewed about the question last night, said: "I know nothing of this particular cose except what I have read in the newspapers, aud I do not care to exprees an opinion as to its merits on partial knowledge. .Besides, if the case is to come before the civil service commission, any expression from me would be improper, as if indicating or -forestalling the decision of the board." "Does the commission care to have cases of removal brought before it?" "It favors them if there are good and sufficient grounds for bringing them, but the civil service commission has rather to do with appointments than dismissals, and its duty is to see that in appointments intelligent and efficient men are given the offices without regard to political affiliation. With removals it has nothing to do, except in those cave for which specific reasons are enume rated prohibiting, them."

AMONG OIMTLIMKN OF HONORS

Court Martial of an Army Officer for Un becoming Conduct.

CHICAGO, July 23.—A special dispatch from Omaha, Neb., Bays: A court martial convened at Fort Omaha yesterday for the trial of Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher, of the Second infantry, for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentle man. Last June while Colonel Fletcher was acting commandant at Fort Omaha his wife left him, and it was announced that

Bhe

would sue for a divorce on the

ground of cruelty. Shortly afterward a story was circu lated, said to have been set ailoat by the colonel, touching his wife's honor and implicating Assistant Surgeon Henderson and Captain Charles A. Dempsey. The latter, upon hearing the report, called on Colonel Fletcher and gave him a severe drubbing. Later, Dr. Henderson called in company with Lieutenant Wright, and, in spite of the fact chat an orderly was patroling in front of the colonel's door, gave that gentleman a chastising that he will not soon forget.

Henderson was arrested, but was immediately released. The affair is causing great excitement in army circles and leads to the present court martial proceedings. Owing to the absence of an important witness for the defense the hearing of the case has been pDstpone until Thursday.

FOHN SL WILLIAMS.

How He Used Hi* Oflice in the Interest of the Grand Old Democratic Party. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON, July 22.—It appears that the acceptance of the resignation of Colonel John S. Williams, of Indiana, recently third auditor of the treasury, was due to some discoveries made by a secret investigation into the conduct of his office. It was generally supposed that Colonel Williams would be allowed to remain, because of the influence of his brother, General George B. Williams, and this might have been so had not the discoveries referred to been made. It appears that during the recent campaign Auditor Williams had made, for the use of the Democratic national committee, copies of the names of all the pensioners in New York and Indiana whose drafts and vouchers passed through his office. By this means the committees in those states were enabled to know what pensioners were about to receive money from the government, and they doubtless made use of this knowl edge in a very effective way to secure votes.

Sir Julian Pauncefote and Poker.

Sir Julian Pauncefote, though he has a great dislike for games of chance, and has never staked money at a table or bet on a horse race, has taken a scientific in tereet in the American game of poker Bince he came to this country. On the steamer in which he crossed from England he first saw the game played. Since then he has been looking into it in a scholarly way, and

Bays

that it is the

crowning triumph of cards. "There is more chances for diplomacy, mental acuteness and nervous force in the game than in anything in the line of gambling."

When the Sun Hides.

The navy department is now fitting ont the expedition to Angola, West Africa, to observe the total eclipse of the sun which will be visible there on the afternoon of December 22 next and give the astronomers another coveted opportunity to see the solar corona and get photographs of it, as well as make other observations on the intensity and character of its light.

A Convenient Compromise.

He—My darling Lenora! She—Hold, Gustavua. I was married this morning. You can no longer call me Lenora. My husband would object.

He (after recovery)—Well, for God's sake! What can I call you? She—Your darling Mrs. Lenora Smith.

He calls her, and she responds.—[Today. fr

No Indigent Hickmen.

Tbe eccentric Ohio man who died the other day after bequeathing $50,000 to found a home for indigent hackmen, misapplied his philanthropy. A little inquiry on his part would have convinced him that there were no indigent hackmen.—[Philadelphia Press.

Well Advised.

"My wife is bound to Bet up housekeeping, and has started me out househunting. I don't know whether to buy or rent—either is bad enough." "Well, of two evils one should always choose ths leased."—[Harper's Bazar.

KIPRM8 PACKAGES.

AT DAWS.

I lova thellrst tender thrill Of light that tints the East, and makes A silvery ribbon of the rill,

Unwound amoncthe tangled brakes.

I love tbe robin's mating note That, stirring In his sleep, he sings Half on the air, half in his throat.

Or muffled half beneath his wings.

I love the violet's waking ere, The wayside daisy's star-like face, Tbe sweet Mar blushing at the sky,

Tbe dew-drenched clover's generous grace.

1 revel most at this strange hour in Nature's charm mysterious, deep This Is the time 1 feel ber power,

Because, thank goodness, I'm asleep! —[Madeline a Bridges. The fuel supply of the Sierras is exhausted -along the line of the Central Pacific railroad.

A Willows (CM.) farmer on the 22d of June planted his second crop of corn from seed grown this year.

A wooden doll, with jointed arms and legs, was found in a sarcophagus containing the skeleton of a young girl lately unearthed in Rome.

Heavy rains fell throughout the state of Kansas last week, coming just in time to forward the corn crop, which is now sure without any more rain.

At Lexington, Ky., a "lawsuit that was begun in 1811 has just been settled. It related to a land claim, and the sum in dispute was originally about five thousand dollars.

There is said to be a schoolboy at Kingston, N. C., who studiss hard and commits his lessons to memory well, but if he goes to sleep foifeets all that he has learned.

A Decatur, Mich., shoemaker evaded the fire limits ordinance by constructing a shop on wheels, and it now reposes serenely within the prescribed territory.

Two ranchmen named Wilson recent'y captured Bix bison out of a herd of fifty or more on Red Desert, Wy. T. They were offered $500 each for the animals, but demanded more.

The English "Nitrate King," Colonel North, says the New York reporters have greatly exaggerated his private fortune in placing it at £10,000,000. "It is vastly smaller than that," he says.

A French coin of the time of Louis XIV. was found in a cornfield at Marengo, Ind., a few days ago. It is supposed to have been there since the days when the French traded with the In dians.

The safe of a trader at CoshoctoD, Va., has been locked up for three years, he having lost the combination. It contains $125 and the owner is patiently awaiting the arrival of an agent of the safe company.

A tower Bimilar in design to the Eiffel tower at Paris is to be built at Eagle Rock, N. J. It will be but 400 feet high, but will be on a lofty summit. The electric light on its top will be visible far out at sea.

The London county council nas appointed a commission to investigate the causes of the dense fogs which prevail in that city during the winter months, and the best manner of dealing with them as regards the public health.

How are the mighty fallen! Martin Irons, who at the time of the strike on the Gould lines five years ago, was too arrogant to grant General Manager Hoxie an interview, now earns a scanty living from a little fruit stand in St. Louis.

A farmer near Parkersburg, W. Va., claims that one of his mules was scared to death by lightning. The lighting knocked down a shed under which the mule was standing, and the animal started to run and kept it up until it dropped down dead.

Mrs. Ole Olsen, of Detroit, a Swedieh woman, iB the proud mother of a bouncing boy only 1 year old, who weighs 150 pounds. A dime museum manager offered $100 per week for the privilege of exhibiting the child, but the mother refused to listen to him.

Bolivia has one of the most interesting exhibits of Paris. It is a practical and natural size model of a lead mine—a famous one—out of which many large fortunes have been made. The entrance to it is through a special pavilion erected by the Bolivian government.

It came out that most of the exhibits of Tunis, Algers, and Morocco in the PariB exposition were not African products at all, but manufactured in Paris. They were at once thrust out, and with them vanished the major part of the department of the Barbary states.

The salmon fishery of Alaska is extending rapidly. In 1883 the number of cases packed was 36,000 last year, 439,293, and this year it will be over 1,000,000. The fish is much smaller than the Columbia river salmon, ranging from five to forty pounds, but of excellent flavor and color.

Not long sinoe Fred Barfield, of Unadilla, in Dooly county, Ga., heard a chicken squalling in his yard, and went out to see what was the matter. He found a large toad-frog attached to the wing of the chicken, trying to swallow an object twice as large as himself. He had to kill the frog to get him loose.

It is Baid that the Cherokee cattle association, the present lessees of the Cherokee strip, will make a proposition to the next Cherokee council to extend its lease for ten years. The present lease has five more years to run. The company offers to pay 15,000,000 for the use of the strip for ten yers. "L6, the poor Indian" should join the Cherokees.

A young couple in Jefferson county, Ohio, had been engaged for a year and all went happily. The young man went away to work last month and wrote a letter to his sweetheart, the first she had ever received from him. When she discovered that his grammar was poor and his spelling worse, she decided not to marry him, and now another fellow is courting her.

The authorities of William and Mary college, at Williamsburg, Va., have just received a letter from R. W. Gilder, the editor of the Century, and his sister, in which they

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Colonel North's railway from Iquique to Pisanqua, in the Chili niter district, is one of the most wonderful in the world. It zigzags up and down the Cordilleras in the solid rock for fortyeight miles. The engines drawing cars on the road are double-endere, exactly alike at both ends, with two smokestacks and one cab.

One of the prettiest features of the procession held in New York to commemorate the fall of the Bastile was a tableau of thirty little girls, the daughters of the Alsace-Lorraine societies, attired in fancy costumss of red, white and blue. The tableau was intended as a protest by the Alsace-Lorraine societies against the annexation of the two provinces of Germany.

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Fancy half hose, six different lines, all regular made, 15c, were 25c. Fancy Lisle half hose 33Mtc. worth 50c.

Ladles' long sleeve Balbrlggan vests, 23c. Ladles' Jersey ribbed vests, fancy trimmed, 15c. Ladles' lace trimmed bodies 26c. were 60c. Ladles' pink, blue, white and cream Lisle vests, 25c.

Gentlemen's ribbed shirts and drawers, 3fc, cheap at 50c. Gentlemen's gauze shirts, 19c.

Extra bargains in fancy parasols.

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

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No. 9 Western Express (SAT) 1.42 a. m. No. 6 Mall Train *. 10.18 a in. No. I Fast Line (PAY) 216 p. m. No. 7 Fart Mall 9.04 p.m.

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No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) 1.90 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (SAV) 1.61 a. m. No. 4 Mail and Accommodation 7.16 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) 12.42 p. m. No. 6 Vast Line*. 2.00 p.

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