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DAILY EXPRESS.

GEO. M. ALLEN,

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INDIANA REPUBLICAN EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION. The regular summer meeting ot the Republican editorial association will occur at Warsaw, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September ad. 4th and 5th, when the following programme will be rendered:

AT TUK GROUNDS ON AHItJVAL.

1. Address of Welcome llayor L. W. Itoyse, Warsaw 2. Response S. Vater, Editor Call, Lafajette

TUESDAY KVENIN'ti.

Address—"Mound Builders of Indiana'' ,.W. H. Smith,Cincinnati Commercial iazette WKDNKSIJAY MORNING.

The time till noon will be devoted to pleasure seeking, riding, boating and sight seeing.

WKDNKSIJAY AFTERNOON.

Banquet, tendered by Byer Bros., to the association, followed by toasts and responses.

WKDNKSDAY KVKNING.

Address—"Benefits of Commercial Relations with South America" The Hon. W. D. Owen, Logansport

THURSDAY MORNING.

Farewells. The Bet line and C„ W. & M. railroads have tendered courtesies.

Communicate with the secretary for transportation lor yourself and lady over these lines. Train leaves Indianapolis at 11:55 a. in., on Tuesday, September 3d, and arrives at Warsaw at 1:33 p. 111.

RKUD WILLIAMS, President, Warsaw. J. A. KAUTZ, Secretary, Kokomo.

We predict that "Gravel Pit Jake" will rise to make a few remarks to-day.

The baby-act, the "want-to-trade-back" resolution ot the city council is a plea of guilty to the charge of incompetency.

How does the council expect to take the gravel pit away from Mr. Kolseni unless fraud has vitiated the title which he holds?

On Friday when all business will be suspended in the afternoon we expect to see the most beautiful fair grounds in the West crowded with Terre Haute people.

What Messrs. Jlollinger and Erney say in another column was said before the meeting of the council last night. Perhaps they will have something more to say to-day.

We may be pardoned for suggesting at this time that every month the city of Terre Haute is deprived of three times as much money as it lost in the sale of the gravel pit, and our contemporary, the Gazette, is apparently unmoved by the fact, all of which goes to confirm the report that his ex-honor has a head which our contempory has been wanting to hit ever since an eventful election of a school trustee and a newspaper boycott.

The council last night declared the appraisement to have been "notoriously raise." It is the same council thut a week before failed to see the falseness of the appraisement, although it was "notorious." In fact no one Beemed to pay much attention to it until The fcixrrkss said:

The -gravel pit" was sold lor less than S1,0(X) A year or more ago the council refused $1,500 for It 011 the irroimd that the price was too low, and then* has been no depreciation of values In city property since then.

Then our esteemed contemporary discovered an opportunity to get even with a Democrat who had in several ways opposed its plans, and who had become interested in a rival newspaper,

THE SCHOOL BOOKS.

The Evansville Journal remarks: II is a matter lor congratulation that the power of the old monopoly Is so ellectually broken aiul that prices or school books are to be reduced to reasonable rates. In every way those unconscionable publishers have speculated oil the patrons of the public schools, even corrupting legislators, state oillivrs and other public etliclals In their efforts to monopolize the sale of school books. A brighter day Is dawning, thanks to the Indiana School Bonk company.

This is the fact. There is much else being said now that avoids the main t|uestion—cheaper prices for school books. Indeed, it is even charged that some dealer

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the northern part of the

state is selling the Indiaua school book company's booka at less thau the low price contracted for by the state and in all seriousuess this is used as a point against the new books! It is intended as evidence of their poor quality and in this connection Tiik Extuf.ss would reterate that it is willing to abide by the almost unanimous vote of the state board of education. The Express is fully aware that the biard was given a standard by the law on which bids were to be accepted. The question is raised that this is not a standard the members of the board would tix if they wsre to determine the quality in size, make and contents of the books but as the members of the board can not be expected in their otlicial capacity to denounce or praise the law, being obligated to perform an executive duty only, it is safe to challenge them for their individual opinions. If expressed they would merely subject them to a controversy with the hired advocates of the old trust, whose linger marks are plainly seen in such displays as that of the book-seller in the northern part of the stale. The* Express has not advocated the hearty enforcement

o* the law because it is the law, although that is a sufficient reason, but it has satisfied itself by inquiring of those who are best able to give opinion, and who. by the way, are Republicans not led astray by the effort to make a political issue out of educational interests, and the assurance is ample that the new books will not result in the demoralization of the public schools. On the contrary, we understand that some of them are better than those which have been in use.

C. 0. D.

Misplaced Confidence.

He stepped up ta the bar with a smile of content, And remarked as he ordered a drink, •'My shirts to the laundry six times I have sent,

And not the least bit did they shrink." There was anolher "verse" to be added to the foregoing, but the machine, or the crack, or something got out of order.and hence it Is explained In cold prose that he had fallen off fifteen pounds himself, which may account for the phenomenon alluded to above.

A White Klepliant.

Wickwlre—I thought I understood you to say that you had a very strong dislike for Thompklns. Yabsley—So 1 have.

Wickwlre—And yet you presented him with a new silk hat. Yabsley—Don't?you worry about that. He only gets $10 a week salary, and It will keep him broke for six months to get a suit of clothes to match the hat.

A11 Impossibility.

••I suppose your ollice has a poet's corner," asked the pale young man. ••No, sir," replied.the business manager, "there Is no poet's corner, and never will lie. It Is lmpos slble to cornerj an article the natural supply of which Is so much In excess of the demand."

Knew What Was Coming.

Briggs—Hello, Braggs! I've just got back from the lakes, you know Braggs—I'm very sorry, my boy, but I haven't got a cent.

O. H.

We wish to state ofllcially that a busted dam has nothing to do with a broken oath.

From

an obituary notice In the Jayvllle Bugle: "He was a young man who always bore a spotless reputation. He never even had the measles."

Considering from whom Uncle Sam purchased Alaska, it

highly appropriate that that the two

revenue cutters just now In Behrlng sea should be named the Rush and Bear. Maud has linallyrcome into the garden. His name was Thomas Maud, however, and It was a Brooklyn beer garden, and after he refused to pay for the drinks he had ordered It took four policemen tolrun him I11.

A Chattanooga man the other day tried to pawn his false teeth to get something to drink. Of course. Why not? No man would be fool enough to pawn his teeth if he wanted to eat. And then again—how could he take a drink without soaking Ills teeth?

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Hartford Courant: We haven't much of a navy as yet, and only a skeleton of an army, but we notice that Malletoa Is back in Samoa.

Philadelphia Press: President Harrison's speech at the dedication of Indiana's war monument was a singularly appropriate and patriotic utterance. It is worthy of the time, the occasion, and the man.

Chicago Inter Ocean: It Is perhaps not very strange that when an editor begins to denounce the press and people of Chicago lor their efforts to find and punish the assassins of Dr. Cronln he Immediately forgets to denounce the assassination Itself. Mr.- Dana appears to be no exception to the rule, and we soon expect to see lilm, like Mr. Ford and Mr. Flnerty, advance the theory that the murderers were British spies. It is the logical sequence of his present position for he can hardly afford to say even to his New York readers that nobody committed the murder, and if the theory that the prosecution Is acting 011 Is Incorrect the British spy theory Is as plausible as any. The only trouble about the matter Is that to substantiate the spy theory there is not a scintilla of evidence, while Judge Longenecker Is positive that he has evidence enough to hang several ot his suspects. Mr. Dana Is evidently incorrectly Informed and badly advised.

TUliF NOTES.

Old Sodine, 2:10,^ is now

one

fastest road horses in New Haven, Conn. Another 3-years old by Guy Wilkes trotted a mile at Napa, Cal., last week in 12:18. It was the filly Lillian Wilkes.

Patron is now in training at the Cleveland track, and Trainer duller thinks he may be trotted in some races this fall.

Knap McCarthy's pacing stallion Sir Archy, '2:16, who broke one of his hind ankles at Rochester, had to bo killed a few days ago.

The trotting stallion Royale, by Sultan, dam by George Wilkes, for whom McCarthy refused $10,000 in the spring, has won nothing this season.

John Splan, the well-known knight of the sulky, has accepted a position with the Bailey-Barnum circus, and he will go to England with the show. While Splan will go in the main to show Englishmen how they train trotters in America, he will also handle ten runners in the quarter-mile ting under the big tent.

The Sires have proposed to Mr. C. J. Ilamlin a second match between their trotters, Harry Wilkes and Belle Hamlin, to be decided at Fleetwood park. They say that as they accepted Hamlin's proposition for a race, best two heats in three, and to gratify trotted the match at Buffalo, that he should, in fairness, meet them at Fleetwood for a match, best three in five.

C. F. Emery, Clevelandj Ohio, has sent about a dozen of the Forest City farm horses to the Glenville track for training. Among them are Patron, 2:1114, by Pancoast Monte Carlo, 2:2S, by Monaco \V interset, by Brown Wilkes Brandoline, 2-years-old record 2:303a, by Brown Wilkes Saboya, 2 years-old public trial 2:32'4, by Nugget, and Nettie Leaf, 2:23 '4, by Nugget.

The Great Futurity, for 2-years olds, worth $70,000, will be run on Wednesday, September 4. Protection is in, but carries nine pounds penalty. El Rio Ray is not engaged. The best of the others appear to be Her Highness (half sister to Prince Royal), Magnate, Bellerophon, Penn P., King Thomas, Abdiel, Eberlee (second to El Rio Ray in the great Eclipse stakes), Honduras, ChaoB, Banquet, OnwBy, Estelle, Helter Skelter, etc.

Columbus, Ind., August 27.—Special: The prospects are highly encouraging for a successful fall meeting here of the Bartholomew county trotting association, through whose efforts the Central Indiana circuit was organized. The races begin September 10, and continue three days. The horsemen have nearly all written that they will give the meeting their support, and a large number of entries are expected for- the various classes. The track at the driving park is being improved.

A Chicago Lawyer Drowned. Boston, August 27.—Mr. E. H. Bowmen, of Chicago, who was drowned while bathing at Scituate beach this morning, was 30 years of age, a member of the law firm of Washburn & Bowman, of Chicago, a graduate of the Harvard law school and of the University of Michigan. He had asked a lady acquaintance to accompany him, but she had declined. He jokingly remarked upon her refusal that if she came down later she would find a drowned corpse upon the beach. The body has not been found.

A TOWER TO THE CLOUDS.

If New York wants the tallest tower in the world it will be necessary to enlarge such plans as have been discussed, as London is pretty certain to have a tower 2,000 feet high, says a London special cablegram to the New York Herald. The projected London tower is assuming definite shape and form in the minds of its promoters. Mr. Perks, solicitor to the company, sees it an accomplished fact. So enthusiastic and confident is he over the enterprise that he will not be overcome, and as a financial speculation he thinks it would be a successful venture. "Sir Edward Watkins." he said, "must have the credit of the conception of the idea of constructing a tower of 2,000 feet high that shall eclipse every other tower. As a guarantee of the soundness of any project of Sir Edward's you have only to look at the brilliant enterprise he has originated this year. His project for coupling the great Manchester & Sheffield systems of the north with the metropolitan railway systems he has brought to the verge of completion. He has carried through parliament a project for piecing together into one united concern about thicty disjointed and brokenup railways into one great Welsh railway. He has bridged the Dae at Chester and brought north Wales for the first time into direct communication with the Lancashire district. While the scheme has been received, registered, and completed in less than ten days Sir Edward suggests the necessity of it being a shareholders' tower. His right hand man on the Metropolitan railway, H. D. Pochin, is associated with him in the scheme.

Pochin is one of the greatest iron and coal proprietors in England, and the man whom Sir Edward has just appointed as director of his Manchester & Sheffield railway. Then there is William Newburn, who is the largest holder of Southeastern railway stocks. The fourth name is Thomas Andrew Walker, the greatest contractor in the world, and at the present moment carrying out some of the greatest enterprises of the age. The Manchester ship canal iB one and Buenos Ay res harbor works for the Argentine government is another. Walker was the man whom the Great Western railway selected to construct the Severn tunnel, and he made the underground railways through London. The fifth is E. R. Carbutt. He was a member of parliament for Newport. He is a well known mechanical engineer and has been presi«tent of the mechanical engineers. At present he iB one of the representatives of the British section at the Paris exhibition. Next is Francis Pavey, well known in financial circles in this city, and especially in connection with American railway stocks. Then I am solicitor, I am partner of the Rt. Hon. H. H. Fowler, M. P. I am Sir Edward Watkin's private solicitor and law adviser for the underground railways in London, for the channel tunnel, and many other enterprises with which Sir Edward is identified. "We contemplate, first of all, putting up a tower with all the public accessories Jyou find in connection with the Eiffel tower, and improvements which have been suggested in its construction. The tower will be made by English or Scotch contractors and of English or Scotch steel. No firm has yet been selected, though the number who can accept a contract of such magnitude is limited to three or four of the leading English contractors. The tower will not be far from the Metropolitan railway, which carries over it upwards of 90,000,000 of people per annum. It is no doubt the best site the promoters could obtain. "Nothing could add more to the popularity of the Impsrial institute and the various scientific institutions centered in South Kensington than a tower such as it is proposed to erect in their proximity, and probably this would be the most convenient center for Londoners. It would be almost possible to calculate approximately how many perrons would ascend the tower per day. There are 5,000,000 of people in London. We have a fixed population five times the sjze of Paris to work upon. We have 1,135,000,000 traveling on the underground railways which unite at Kensington. This would give our tower an immeasurably superior chance over the Eiffel tower. Passengers would be taken up by one lift from the bottom to the top with no change, as in the Eeffel tower, though passengers could alight at different stages. We have no designs or plans yet, nor have we decided upon anything with regard to the style or architecture. "We should require an area of six acres for the base. The capital is .£200,000 pounds in .£1 shares. That will, we estimate, be amply sufficient to build a tower of the size we contemplate, and of course we shall build for cash. There will be no such thing as promotion money and no wateringof the company's stocks and no founder's shares, nor any of the modern financial devices for putting the risk on one man's shoulders and the profits in somebody else's pockets. Each of the subscribers has taken 1,000 shares at present, and we already have inquiries for shares which would swallow up every one we have to albt. One never knowB what view parliament may take or the public authorities may take, but one cannot conceive it possible that a building of this sort would receive any opposition from either the municipal authorities or from parliament. No such scheme has been attempted in London before, nor so far as I aiA_aware in England." "Are you acquainted with Mr. Edison's scheme for a tower in New York?" "Mr. Edison's proposals were not known until after this company was registered the loth of this month, and the interview with Mr. Edison did not appear until later. Mr. Edison discreetly kept his ideas to himself."

Played the "Dead Gig."

Joe Atkinson, the hangman, is not the only person whose wealth has been increased by the execution of the four murderers at the Tombs last FridayOn that day the policy dealers in New lork City were hit heavily and frequently, and they say that their misfortune is due to the hanging. It appears that the superstitious policy players, and they are in the majority, on that day played the "dead gig," the numbers of which are 9,19 and 29, which was suggested by the hanging. Wonderful to relate these numbers came out, and mBny of the players have been made some hundred dollars richer. ..

Cases For the Grand Jury,

Ed Burns, accused of stealing 83 from John Gray an Monday, was given a preliminary trial in the mayor's court, and was committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury in default of $200 bond Burns pleaded not guilty to the charge, Baying that he received $2 30 from Gray, but that Gray had given him the money..

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1889.

Burns is one ot three prisoners who await the grand jury next week. Grant Doll and Charles Owens, the former tor criminal assault and the latter for larceny. are the other two.

THK GRAND AKXY.

Its Vitality and Growth—Its Strength in Missouri. While there is a vague impression that the Grand Army is now a large organization, it will surprise many to learn that at no time in its history did the membership reach 100,000 until 1882, when it jumped "to 106,000 from 70,700 in 1881. The following iB the membership reported each year for eighteen years: 1872,28,227 1873,25,689 1874, 26,409 1875, 26,660 1876, 27,849 1877, 22,617 1878, 28,279 1879, 35,961 1880, 55,260 1881,70.726 1882, 106,096 1883,178,881 1884, 256,858 1885, 276,623 1886, 299,891 1SS7,336,562 1888. 361,799 18S9,413,228.

At first thought one would have said that the membership would have been largest soon after the war, but the truth is that the soldier who had been three or four years in the field returned home, having had quite enough of army life, army discipline, battles and campaigns. Besides, his mind was taken up with a new life, with new duties and avocations. His army service close at hand was a reality, about which there was no romance. But as time passed the realities became less real, the work he did impressed itself upon him in the growth and prosperity of the country, and the recollections of comrades found place in his heart, and comradeship once more became dear to him. As these sentiments revived he found the Grand Army poet and the Grand Army assemblage the place of all others that was most attractive. Hence the growth of the organization in late years. Will it continue to increase? Probably it will for five years, in spite of the severe criticisms of such papers as the New York Times, which recently referred to the organization as "the army of mendicancy."

The growth of the Grand Army in Missouri is phenomenal. In 1881 the membership waB 160. The report of June 30,1889, Bhows that the membership in full standing is 18,289 and that 21,500 names are on its rolls. Until the organization of Frank P. Blair post in January, 1880, there had not been a post in good standing in Missouri for several years, though the order was strong soon after the war. It was not until April, 1882, that there were the nine posts in existence which are required to insure a state organization now the number is nearly four hundred. The following figures show the growth in membership: 1881, 160 1S82, 593 1883, 2,594 1S84, G.631 1885, 7,642 1886, 9,231 1887, 10,S01 1888, 15,695 1889, 18,289. In number the Grand Army in Missouri exceeds Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and comes well up to Massachusetts. In no state is the organization more vigorous or growing more rapidly.

During the year 1888 the organization relieved from want 23,810 veterans and widows of veterans, and during the last few years expended $1,600,000 in money in its work to charity, to say nothing of the aid extended "in lending a helping hand," whioh is beyond mongy value. This is a very good record for an "afrmy of mendicancy."

I REVIVAL OF SPIRITUALISM.

Oi'gimi/.'ttion Perfected With Library and Lyceum Attachmotits. Spiritualism is regaining a substantial foothold in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis association of spiritualists haB been organized with the following board of managers: D. A. Ralston, M. D. Dewey, J. R. Richey, Edward Hofer, M. J. Vierra, Mary A. Potts, Mary Taylor, Annie Fertig, Mattie Echols and Miry C. Jacob. The oflbers elected are D. A. Ralston, president Mary A. Potte, vice president J. R. Richey, secretary M. 1). Dewey, treasurer, and M. J. Vierra, librarian.

Seventy persons have been enrolled as members. A library and a lyceum are to be established, and services are to be held at Mansur hall every Sunday morning. It is also announced that on each Sunday there will be "lectures by inspirational speakers, and ALBO platform tests by mediums."

All services in the hall will be free to the public, except when special seances are given by materializing mediums, along with slate writing, trumpet speaking, etc.

The Spider Web Writers.

Stenographers from various parts of Indiana began arriving at the New-Den-ison this morning, and this afternoon a meeting was held to take measures for forming a state organization of shorthand writers, says the News of Indianapolis.

J. D. Strachan, of Terre Haute, is the leading spirit in this movement. A goodly per cent, of the stenographers (men and women) of the state will join, although owing to the stay-at-home requirements of the profession, only a comparatively small number are able to attend the convention. It is expected to secure as members the greater part of the official stenographers of the various counties. Among those who will read papers during that time are B. H. Holmes, Mrs. A. D. Leach, Frank D. Blue, Terre Haute. T. W. Osborne, the champion caligraph expert, from Rochester, N. Y., ia present at the convention.

Another Stale Loan.

As soon as Governor Hovey returns from the Milwaukee encampment, he, with the auditor and treasurer of state, wiH take steps to make a second temporary loan of $700,000 for the state, as authorized by the last legislature. The bonds to be issued will be of the same character as those issued three months ago, over which there was so much controversy before the paper was accepted by the German sayings bank of New York.

When the loan is made it will be the last one the state is authorized to make before the meeting of the next legislature. The first §700,000 borrowed has already, been paid out.—[Indianapolis NewB.

A Fly Invention.

Clerk (in 10-cent lodging house)—That fellow in bunk forty mus' be a regular prohibitionist.

Proprietor (amazed)—Ye don't say BO! Clerk—No doubt of it. He says there's bugs in the bed. None of our other guests ever seen anything but snakes.— [New York Weekly.

A Royal Palace For a Slain Mission. WASHINGTON, August 27.—The department of state has been informed of the recent very generous gift by his majesty, the king of Siam, for the use of the American Presbyterian Toission of one of the royal palaces, to,iher with extensive grounds and buildings.

A WINDFALL INDEED.

A Young Laboring Man Fall® Heir to a Fortune of 1*3,000,000. NEW YOKK, August 27.—A World's St. Paul special says: Charles„T. Watrous, a young man who has resided in Sf. Paul for the past six months, during which time he has been employed as a common laborer, has suddenly changed his mind as to the necessity for working. By the death of

hiB

father in Australia he

inherits property estimated to be worth .£3,000,000 sterling, and departed to-night over the Northern Pacific to the antipodes to c^aim his vast estate. Watrous was in financial straits until to-day, when, glancing over the published list of unclaimed letters, he saw his name. The epistle, when secured, proved, to be an announcement of the death of his father, J. B. Wartroue, known the world over as the Australian bonanza king, at Svdney, New South Wales, \oung Watrous became estranged from his family seven years ago through an unfortunate liaison with a ballet girl known asHobart Town Polly. Watrous married her in Melbourne, and the couple came to San Francisco, where Mrs. Watrous died while filling an engagement at the Bella Union theater^

Watrous has been doing odd jobs all around the country, now a hotel clerk and then a tramp looking for work. During his residence in America he has carefully refrained from allowing a suspicion of his poverty to reach his parents and has not, until receiving the draft accompanying the announcement of his father's death, received one cent from the store of Australian millions. The estate consist® of a controlling interest in the Golden Fleece and Kentish claimB, the famous Bendigo mine and large blocus of business property in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland, New Zealand. The widow of the bonanza king resides at Sandhurst, in the White hills of Australia, and the prodigal son expects to reach home and enter upon his inheritance within the next six weeks.

BOSTON, August 27.—W. H. Mathewson, of Cambridge, a driver of an electric street car for the West End railway company, is one of the eight relatives in line of heirship of the late Hiram PearEons, son of the late Colonel Hiram Pearsons, of Chicago. Young Hixam was 29 years old, and was drowned in Mackinaw straits, Lake Michigan, last uly. Mathewson's share of the eBtate, it is said, will be about three hundred thousand dollars.

CONSOLIDATED OAS TRUST.

Store Territory Absorbed by the Standard Oil Company. Special to the Chicago Inter-Ocean.

LIMA, O., August 25.—The consolidated gas trust, or, in other words, the Standard oil combination, seems determined to secure control, not only of all the natural oil and gas territory in the country, but to absorb or exterminate every artificial gas manufacturing plant in every city in the United States. J. P. Simpson, an English mechanical engineer, who has a residence in New York, has bean here for several days, and in company with George II. Meily, secretary of the natural gas companies in which Calvin Price has an interest, haB been investigating the plant here and at different points in Ohio and Indiana. It was given out to the press that Mr. Simpson was engaged in a work of obtaining options on breweries, but it iB known here that he has engaged in altogether different work and the brewery business was merely a blinj}. Of course Doth Melly and Simpson deny that any consolidation is to take place, and that Mr. Simpson merely stopped off here to look at the operation of the Standard company in oil and take a fiBhing jaunt to the St. Mary's reservoir. It is also thought that Messrs. Townsend and Reynolds,who preceded Mr.Simpson several days on a visit to this field, were sent out by the consolidated trust to kiok over the field and report in New York reults of their observation, although they registered from Indiana.

The National fuel company of this city, which was organized in the BriceBaxter interest, and which controlled patents on the process of making artificial gas from crude oil, has Bold out to the Standard company. The process will be used in the different cities of the country in making artificial gas for fuel and lighting. The Standard company has about absorbed the Ohio oil field, and are supplying crude oil for fuel to "nearly all the manufacturing centers of the country, and it is fast superceding coal as fuel on the lake vessels and everywhere that coal is used. The cons]lidated trust is an immense affair, and there is millions in it.

Grovor's anil Dan's First Senatorial l'arty. Washington etiquette is a book by itself. No other city or capital furnishes us with a code. It is sui generis, and must be learned by heart. When the last administration waa yet young, and long before the president had sought his charming and beautiful bride, Mr. Cleveland determined to give a senatorial reception. Announcing the date to his faithful secretary, he left the details entirely to Dan. Dan Bimply sent a notice of the reception to the papers, and dispensed with the formality of cards and embossed stationery.

A large majority of the upper house attended without further ceremony, overlooking the breach of etiquette. Among those conspicuous for their absence was Senator Stanford, of California. He was asked the reason of hie failure to attend by a bold questioner. "Ah!" said he, rising slightly on his heels, "I didn't get a marked copy of the paper."—[Washington Post.

Remembered All HI» Friends. NEW YORK, August 27.—The Sun's Baltimore special says: The will of John W. McCoy, a partner of William J. Walters, waa admitted to probate yesterday. The estate is worth about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Johns HopkinB university is the residuary legatee, and will receive something likeone hundred thousand dollars. There are fourteen bequests of $3,000 each to charitable institutions, and a large number of personal remembrances to literary friends. Other friendB receive handsome sums. A magnificent collection of paintings goes to the Peabody institute, and a library to the Johns Hopkins university.

Temperance in Poverty.

Some one has made the discovery, or rather makes the assertion, that a fly always walks upward. Put a fly on a window, and np he goes toward the top he can't be made to walk downward. So an inventor has made a screen divided in half. The upper part laps over the lower, with an inch spat^ between. Well, as soon as the fly lights on the screen, he proceeds to travel upward, and

thuB

walks straight out doors. By

this means a room can be quickly cleared of flies.—[Scientific American.

EXPRESS PACKAGES

SO.NNKT—TO HEK KTKBROW8.

Two little arches 'neath her brows appear. Ot graceful curve and downy texture fine, Nor tault nor blemish In their outlines clear,

And gently tap'rlng to the farthest line. Two little beauteous mounds placed Just apart Beneath a brow so smooth, so fair and cnaste. As far exceeds the sculptor's utmost art.

For ne'er In marble were such features traced. Like velvet canopies the eyes to shield— Those diamond-lighted windows of the soul In whose bright glances there Is oft revealed

A tale that even the heart dare not unroll. Such are my lady's brows! Beyond compare! And ne'er did brows adorn a face more fair. —[Anonymous.

A supposed cat, killed with a stone by William Dennis in his yard at Drakeaville, N. J., turned out to be a small red fox.

A Steubenville, Ohio, man suggests that a day like Arbor day be set aside annually for the destruction of the English sparrow.

A Canton, Ohio, man undertook to eat twelve boiled eggs in fifteen minutes, and it tookjtwo doctors to bring him around again.

A one-legged sparrow—the other having been probably lost in a trap—hops regularly for its meals every day to the house of John L. Fulton in West Chester, Pa.

A number of Brooklyn capitalists have decided to open a hotel on the New ork plan in Paris. They believe it will attract American customers as well as the trade of English persons who have visited the United States.

Thomas W. Sweeney, of Reading, Pa., has the pistols with which Judge Terry and Senator Broderick fought a duel. They are French, 34-calibre, with hair triggers.

A man named William J. Haines, 102 years old, has just been converted, and has joined a Methodist Church in St. Louis. He says he was never sick a day in his life. He was an orderly on General Jackson's staff in the war of 1812.

A remnant of the Seneca tribe of Indians still lingers in Warren county, Pennsylvania, spearing fish, etc., for a Uling. The tribe, all told, barely numbers one thousand members, and has so dwindled that marriage among blood relations has become almost a necessity.

Farmer O'Brien, of Venango county, Pennsylvania, heard his pigs making a great racket, and looked into the pen to see what was the matter. He discovered a five-foot black snake. He gave it a blow on the head, and the pigs then pitched in and assisted him in killing it.

A very rare specimen of animal life was discovered in Pennsylvania recently on the farm of Henry 11. Davenport, father of George F. Davenport, of Mendville. Mr. Davenport set a trap for what he supposed to be a white skunk, and caught what turns out to be a genuine white woodchuck.

A local brass band plays all day long in a room at the Edison laboratory, in West Orange, N. J., for a phonograph, and large numbers of duplicate cylinders containing the melody are made and shipped to the Paris exhibition. The manufacture and shipment of the cylinders will continue so long as the exhibition remains open.

Two weeks ago Eftie Robbins, a goodlooking girl aged 18 years, was arrested and lodged in jail at Winfield, W. V., on a charge of having stolen a horse from a man named Lassie. Monday night she succeeded in escaping from the jail and, in order to facilitate her flight, took with her another fine horse belonging to Dr. T. P. Carpenter.

Throughout Italy the principal towns are, one after another, providing buildings for the treatment of hydrophobia according to Pasteur's system, and the municipal council of Rome has lately decided to devote the necessary sum of money to furnishing a Pasteur institute there. This is a strong proof of the increasing confidence felt in the treatment.

The Shenendoah News has interviewed Fred Clarke, who raises Bkunks as a business, at Roaring creek, on the borders of Schuylkill county, Pa. He began it last fall for the skins. He has 150 pets now and, this month being their breeding time, he will shortly have 1,000. He handles them with impunity from stench, and they are as docile as kittens.

Her Majesty's theater, one of the homes of Italian opera in London, has been turned into a spectacular resort. The immense auditorium is transformed into an open market place of (^ueen Elizabeth's time, the upper stories being converted into old English houses, with latticed windows. Grent throngs are expected to visit this new attraction.

At Delaware City, Md., three firms with large capital are engaged in the work of sturgeon catching, and the preparation of "Russian caviare." Last spring 4,700 sturgeons were caught, valued at 622,560. Of the total catch 2,820 were roe fish, which netted 720 kegs of caviare of 140 pounds each, valued at $19,410. Most of this carare was shiped to Germany, but some of it will return to this country as "best imported," direct from Russia.

A big Chinese colony located near Lake Pontchartrain is making considerable money catching fish and shrimps. The shrimps are boiled, when the shells are removed, after which they are allowed to dry and smoke over a slow hickory fire, and are then packed and shipped to New York, San Francisco and other cities with large Chinese populations. The industry is said to be a very growing one.

In Brownsville, Schuylkill county, Pa., the other day some.senseless young man, in want of a lark, soaked a lot of corn in some whisky and flung it to a flock of geese. An hour later the woman who owned them found them comatose, and, believing them dead, picked their feathers off and flung the carcasses down a mine breach. During the night the birds slept off their debauch, and next morning were found huddled nt the gate in a naked and "prodigal condition.

A curious scene was witnessed in Pann Yard, Westminster, England. A sparrow was picking up the corn which had fallen from the horses' nosebags, when a mouse appeared and proceeded to dispute with the sparrow his rights to the dainty morsels. A light ensued, which lasted for some minutes, and then the sparrow beat a retreat. The sparrow had evidently been injured in thetuBsle, and for a time he was unable to fly. At last the eparrow flew up, and a cabman finished the incident by killing the mouse with a whip.

The old saying, "He took the bull by the horns," was verified at Portsmouth, Ohio, by George Eaves, who owns a beautiful tract of land just east of the city proper. He was crossing the field wherein his bull is pastured, when the bovine became infuriated and rushed at him. Seizing the bull by the horns as it came within reach, and throwing his legs about its neck, Eaves was carried in this position across the field with the speed of the wind and into the fence, against which he was badly jammed. Hia injuries ars regarded as fatal.

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