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THK WEEKLY EXPKESS.

Next year we will have .50,000 people on the grounds on "Big Thursday," and on Terre Ilaute's Friday we will do nearly as well. That is the logical conclusion if the policy that made this year's fair a big success is extended and carried out

If Superintendent Lafollette were half so desirous of making the best of a bad law whose execution happens to be in the line of his duty, as he apparently is to circumvent it, all the people in the state would sooner learn that the law is I,ad, if bad it be, and it would be repealed that much sooner.

MichBel Posse, the Democratic county treasurer of Shelby county, frankly informed his bondsmen and the public that he is a defaulter, and as frankly gave the reason for his shortage, lie says that he took the county's money to pay debts standing against him long before he went into olllce, and thus we are reminded of Mr. Cleveland's plagiarism that "public office is a public trust."

"Think of (Jrover Cleveland or Dave Hill talking to a throng of old soldiers and addressing them as comrades!" remarks the Detroit Tribune. The Democratic leaders never have been able to do so. The men who control the party's policy are incapable of using that fraternal term of "comrade." Here and there are a few Democrats of prominence, like Black and Manson, who are used by the active leuders of the party for dress parade occasions.

Our esteemed contemporary, the Gazette, which insisted that the gravel pit property be restored to the city, has not seen its demand complied with. Nor will it, unless it or some one else proves fraud in the transaction. Under the advice of the Democratic organ, the city council has adopted a resolution calling for the restoration of the property, by persuasion if possible, and by legal proceedure if necessary. Ex-Mayor Kolsem, the purchaser, declines to be persuaded. tia on with the legal proceedings. Let's see the end of the miserable farce. In the meantime, why not improve the city's linancial condition to the amount of 8'?,000 or 61,000 a month by reducing the expenses and collecting a saloon license.

The Flack divorce case in New York, wherein the Tammany sherilT secured for his wife a divorce from himself without her knowledge, promises to make much trouble for all the court officials responsible for the outrageous perversion of justice. Flack is all-powerful politically and officially and nothing but the newspaper publicity has made it possible to right the wrong. Had it not happened that a newspaper published the decree of divorce the wicked scheme would have prevailed and this furnishes another illustration of the point TUB KXPUKSS made a few days ago—that all records of public business must be free to public inspection. And in this connection we are glad to be able to state that Judge Mack has called upon some oT the gentlemen interested in probate mutters to come forward.

The South American nations are coming up to confer with us on commercial matters. Last year they sold to us $11'J.HOO,ITO more than they bought of us. so that It Is more our Interest than theirs to know why. We paid the Sliy.lXKMXX) In gold, which nearly all went to Kngland to buy things which we have for sale. We must hold out some Inducements to trade with us, or there will be no change In the state of our commerce with our southern neighbors.- [San Kranclsco Alta.

Knglaud held out the inducement of millions of dollars for subsidized ship lines and so diil Germany. As to corruption in subsidies, there never was so much corruption in official life as in the subsidies—but England has the trade. It does not follow that we shall invite corruption but it does follow that we are capable of proliting by the experience of others and CBH secure the great benefits without the corruption. However. we WHnt the trade of South America without Eugland acting as a middleman.

The deputy postmaster at Boonville, Indiana, who stole $7,000 of the government's money, and has been brought to account for his crime, has made a full confession of his guilt, and explains that he lost the money at the card table with Evansville. gentlemen who are classed among "the best citizens." The United States district attorney has been inquiring into the facte, and it is said he has secured evidence that will make some of these best citizens liable to criminal prosecution for taking money, even though fairly won at cards, when they knew it belonged to the government. If there is law for such prosecution all honorable men will rejoice, because it is

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Dun's weekly report shows that the country's general prosperity continues to increase as never before so early in the fall season.

often the case that the misled public servant falls into the clutches of ''best citizens" who know full well that by winning the money they are taking what does not belong to him, and yet consider themselves far above the criminal who was their gambling companion.

POKING FUN AT CRANKS.

The New York Sun ie "having lots of fun," as we say out here in "the wild and woolly west," because of the ridiculous attitude of the Democratic party on the tariff, trusts, and like terrible impositions on the people. The Sun finds light enough to see the truth, and refuses to join in the ravings of those who are ready to legislate to remove all evils of mundane existence. Nor will the Sun be actuated by demagogic purposes to lay blame on one thing for untoward effects, which have no relation to it, simply to gratify a mob cry of reform. Were it not that the Sun's judgment had been vindicated so often its present attitude toward the free traders would be of less importance. The Sun is not scared by the cry of trusts, any more than is anyone who has faith in the ultimate good sense of the people. Trusts are bad things, to be sure, but there are trusts and trusts. The Sun calls attention to the many farmers' trusts in "the Southland," the land of free trade 'and free labor strength in the Democratic party, and reviews the proceedings of various conventions in the last year whose avowed purpose was to form combines. The Georgia Farmers' Alliance will "let cotton rot" before it sells at less than a named price. Here is a quotation:

Colonel L. K. Pope, of Raleigh, president of the Southern lntcr-state farmers' association, declared llatly that as a result of the consolidation, "the organization covering the entire cotton states can and will have the control of the great commercial crop of tlia world." The colonel spoke eloquently and Imaginatively of "a mighty fortress planned In Wall street, over whose frowning battlements floats defiantly the flag of monopoly."

The Sun remarks that "if the great consolidated farmers' trust succeeds the Hag of monopoly will float defiantly over the cotton states."

Recently George William Curtis, the apostle of the Cleveland free trade doctrine, bemoaned the fact that the state legislatures in legislating against trusts did not legislate against the trusts of labor organizations. Everywhere the selfish man is opposed to the trust of his neighbor and the free trade orators and writers are playing upon this trait of human nature by trying to make it appear that trusts are the legitimate result of the protective tariff. We are firmly convinced that this general charge is being speedily disproved. The people are not fools they reason about things, and, as Mr. Lincoln said, can be depended upon to arrive at the correct solution of all difficult problems.

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The Spirit of the Age.

"Johnnie," said the little boy's sister, "if you ever pinch the cat's tall again, when Mr. Tennervoys and 1 are performing a duet, like you did last night, I will have mamma give you a whlpplHg that you won't forget for many a day, do you hear?" "I guess me and the cat's got as much right to make a noise is you and that there dood," replied the small boy, In a deeply Injured tone "but, cj course, you want to be a darned monopolist, like everybody else nowadays, and git up a howlin trust all to yourself."

Self-inflicted

Wlckwire—Why, Yabsley, your face looks perfectly awful. Who shaves you? Yabsley—A blankety-blank Idiot named Yabsley.

Tlio Desperate Democracy.

The Cincinnati Enquirer yesterday contained a dispatch which intimated that Jeff Davis once carried a razor. Of course It Is nothing but a campaign lie, Intended to win the colored vote over to the Democracy.

Animal Intelligence.

•My (laughter Sally was a readln' to-day about crockydlle tears," said Uncle Hezektah, as he set his molasses jug on the counter, "an' she was askln' me ef them critters really did shed tears. lied to give it up, rer I ain't as well posted on crockydlals as some people Is, not never having had very much to do with 'em. But 1 hev seed snakes shed tears',and I've seed 'em laugh, too."

As none were rash enough to dispute this assertion, though the old man waited for them to do so, he went on with Ills story.

Yu see, It was 'long In 'Gli that I was out a-plck-ln' berries with Jim Hawkins. Jim Hawkins he was a feller that had had both legs cut oir with a sawmill In Ills younger days, an' had got a pair o' wooden ones that he walked around on as natural as life. understand, by the way, he's goln' to try and git a pension, and I think I'll help him gll It fer lie owes me $18 G5. and I n't &ee no other way of ever "gtttln' It. Well, as I was a sayln', we WHS out a-berryln,' and all of a sudden we runs onto a lot of rattlesnakes, and Jim he walks up amongst 'em and amuses hlsseelf by lettln' one of 'em take a few licks at his wooden leg. Well, after Mr. Snake got tired Jim he pulls up his pants and lets him see what he has been hlttln' at. Jlst about then I heard a sort of funny nols*, an' I looked around, and ding my cats If all them other snakes wasn't holdln' their sides and a laughln' tit to bust. An' then this here reptile which had Ijeen a-wastin' his substance on them wooden legst after he see what a mistake he had made, he begun to shed tears as big as beans, and finally go1 so mad that he bit hlsself In two places an' rolled over an' died." ••By the way, Uncle 'Klali, would you mind telling me how how those snakes held their sides while they were laughing?" asked the schoolmaster. "Yes, I would mind. If you ain't got manners enough to listen to a true story without askln'a lot of fool questions you had better be a goln' to school lnstld ot pertendln' to teach one. Is all I've got to say to you, young man." answered the old man, as he walked out with a line show or Indignation.

Decided by the Chair. I 1

A citizen of this place was presiding some years ago over the deliberations of a Democratic meeting, and things were not going to suit him. He finally delivered the following opinion: "According to parliamentary law it requires a twothirds vote to carry that motion, and the chair decides that there are not that many here." The meeting at once adjourned. That settled it.—[Atchison (Kas.) Champion.

Klectric Railroad at Decitur. There was a great demonstration in Decatur. 111., Wednesday over the opening of the first electric street railway in Decatur. The Thomson-Houston system is used, with two generators of eightyhorse power each. There are eight motor cars, and these were used with entire success to give the city and county officials a free ride. There are six miles of track, and the equipment is first-class.

ri^THE DRESS ALBUM.

A "Dreee Album" is the latest suggestion of feminine ingenuity, ie an absolute novelty, and one that can scarcely fail to exercise a subtle and enduring fascination upon the ornate sex. Says a writer in the London Telegraph: It is to take the form of a book, upon the leaves of which samples of every drees worn by its owner will be gummed, after the manner of the specimen trouser or waistcoat stuffs displayed on a tailor's pattern card. Chronological order will be strictly observed in the arrangement of these cuttings. Under each shred of silk or scrap of stuff will be inscribed the date of which the dress-from which it has been shorn was first sent home to, or worn by, the compiler of the collection. Leaders of fashion will doubtless have need of a separate volume for each successive season, whereas a single tome will probably suffice to contain the "chronique d'echtfntillons" of a whole lifetime in the case of a "Dress Album" owner belonging to the humbler walks of existence. Collectionizing, as it may be called, is an almost exclusively human passion or fancy, facilitated and even stimulated of late years, as far as its practical expression is concerned, by the multifarious developments imparted to the album. We say "almost exclusively human" advisedly, because certain families of monkeys, and at least two varities of the corvine species of bird, are inveterate "snappers-up of unconsidered trifles." All lovers of Italian opera are familiar with the unprincipled magpie, whose irrepressible tendency to annex small but valuable articles of jewelry and plate led to a grave misprision of justice, and all but caused the premature decease of an innocent village maiden. Ravens have ere now earned infelicitous distinction as persistent collectors of silver spoons and "Grip," beloved of and immortalized by Charles Dickens, took a keen and inexhaustible delight in burying stolen halfpence and metal buttons in symmetrical rows within the precincts of the great novelist's stableyard. Some dogs, too, are unalterably addicted to the interment of bones preferentially at the roots of rare shrubs or in beds of costly flowers—not, however, for the purpose of handing them down to posterity as choice illustrations of comparative anatomy, but with a view to digging them up now and anon, at uncanonical hours, in order to indulge in spell after spell of leisurely and luxuriously knawing. Still, neither the "Gazza Ladra" nor "©Id Dog Pray" himself can rival man as a systematic, assiduous and indefatigable collector of "curiosa," or even of commonplace things and it cannot be-denied that albums are nowadays instrumental to no inconsiderable extent in fostering this particular human proclivity. The word album orginallv denoted a white or "blank" surface, convenient for the setting down of drawings, verses, apophthegms, improvised moral sentiments, "elegant extracts," and other waifs and strays of art and literature deemed worth remembering or keeping. Albums were near akin to scrap books to fill them with original or memorized rubbish the friends and acquaintances of their young lady proprietors were mercilessly laid under contribution. Now, for the most part, they are become reBpositors of photographs, autographs, postage stamp?, crests, mottoes, Christmas cards and decorative menus. In filling volumes upou volnmes with "ana" of this class the harmless collecting mania has found vent for some years past, and will doubtless welcome with enthusiasm the discovery of a fresh outlet for its superabundant energies in the shape of a "dress album."

There is something decidedly attractive and interesting in the notion of a continuous, unbroken record of female attire from the cradle to the grave. Such a collection of specimen stuffs would necessarily constitute a complete series of infallible reminders of all the chief events in a woman's career of her christening, her emancipation from the weighty restraints of long clothes to the toddling freedom of short frocks, her confirmation, betrothal and marriage of her presentation at court, her social triumphs in ball-room and banqueting hall, perhaps, even, of her widowhood. Turning over the leaves of her "Dress Album," she would find in its every page some silent but sure prompter to her memory here a scrap of the spotted cotton frock in which, when a prim little girl, she used to "do" her translations and practice her scales under the strict supervision of Miss Mac Something, the daily governess a little further on, a snipping, striped and shiny of her first silk dress,, only to be worn at church or when accompanying mamma, by special favor, on around of afternoon visits, or for a drive in the park. Not far from this memento of girlhood's earliest dignities and responsibilities, a shred of dark cloth reminds her of the pretty riding habit which she had to be measured for by a fashionable tailor when papa bought her the long-promised pony, reward of patient assiduity in the school-room, and object of her fond worship for many a happy month. This morsel of muslin, yellow with age, was cut from the very piece that furnished her with a gown, worn in all its rustling freshness on "breaking-up day," and arrayed in which, with a blue or pink silk sash—she cannot remember which—she took first prizes for French, singing and elocution, to the pride and delight of her loving parents, long since dead. She had a serge dress on, duly represented in the album by a tatter, when— while holiday-making at the seaside—she met her first love, a brighteyed, curly-wigged schoolboy of 12, with whom, ere she had known him a week, she exchanged sweet and sticky pledges of an affection that ought to have been eternal—such, at the time, was the settled redolve of both participants in it— somehow or other failed to outlast that particular summer. A page or two farther on are fragments of a traveling dress, made up on the occasion of her first trip to the continent, the year before she had regularly "come out," of a virginal ball dreaspin all the white glory of which she made her debut as a "grownup" young lady in the shabby old assembly room of the county town, and danced four waltzes and a galop with a soul, subduing CBptain of huzzars, whos name she has totally forgotten. And so on, through the patchwork rows and columns recalling memories of picnics and garden parties, races and cricket matches, flower shows and regattas, each with its incidental or episodical flirtation of tender courtships and broken-off engagements of the final "coup de foudre" and its happy or miserable issue in short, as we have already said, of all the joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, fulfillments and disappointments that make up the "strange, eventful story" of a woman's life.

The fact that it is woman's recognized privilege—not shared, oddly enough, or

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rarely so, by females of the lower orders of animate creatures—to be far more attractive, outwardly considered, than man, in virtue of ornamental raiment, as well as of physical beauty, imparts a charm to the chronicle of her apparel that would be vainly sought by either sex in a similar record of male attire. Very few men even in the springtide of their existence* when, as the poet laureate has as-, sured us, "a young man's fancy lightly turnB to thoughts of love"—take that intense and absorbing interest in their garments which is perhaps the most universal of feminine characteristics. The clothes, too, worn now-a-days by the sterner sex, in this country at least, are for the most part subdued in color and unassuming in design, presenting few, if any, specialties of hue or pattern sufficiently distinctive to jog the memory of their wearers after along lapse of years. One pair of trousers is well-nigh as like unto another as the two little niggers— Ciesar and Pompey—of whom their sable sire complacently remarked that they were "berry much alike, 'specially Pompey." In the evening, when ladies dazzle us with the glitter of their jewels and the polychromatic splendor of their costumes, men are clad in sober suits of funereal black, the dismalness of which is only relieved, as a rule, by a snowy "plastron" and necktie, here and there by the stiffly Btarched surface of a white waistcoat. Samples of old dress coats pasted in a book would carry but little significance, even if accurately dated, to the mind of an average Eaglish gentleman. Old army and navy men, courtiers and diplomatists might be pleasantly reminded of their salad days by the contemplation of a scrap or two of old scarlet or blue cloth, remnants of their first uniforms or official costumes. It is conceivable that a venerable judge should gaze with fond retrospection upon a tatter of the stuff gown, robed in which he made his first appearance in court as a briefless but robust and hopeful barrister or upon a textile reminder of the day upon which he "took silk" and passed within the bar at the invitation of the bench. A bishop, too, might like to look upon a shred of the surplice he wore when a poor curate, or a mere holder of "deacon's orders," eagerly awaiting employment and a salary. On the whole, however, men of middle age take but little stock in their "vestariee" of the past whereas a woman, be she as old as Methusaleh's grandmother, rarely loses that lively interest in her dress, retrospective, present, and prospective, that prompts her throughout life to set off her natural charms to the best advantage by tasteful toilets, to a great extent for her own gratification, truly—but a thousand times more so for that of her male friends.

VALUABLE KEFKRENCE BOOKS

Children Stay Up Nights and Cry For Them —Will the State Pay? The remarkable circular to school superintendents issued by Professor LaFollette, superintendent of public instruction, calling upon patrons not to exchange their old books for the new, is calling out a great deal of comment, says the IndianapoliB News. Professor LaFollette is out of the city, and has, therefore, not had an opportunity of giving his reason for sending out such a remarkable communication.

The circular was printed in the name of the state, by the state printer, and those who have watched Mr. LiaFollette's course are anxious to see if be will ask the state to pay for the printing of Buch a communication—one which advises that a law be evaded. The bill will have to come before the state printing board, and it is doubtful if the board will allow it.

By the way old arithmetics and battered out of date geographies, make excellent "books of reference." Then, you know, 8-years-old boys etay up nights and cry for "reference books."

GAMBLED WITH BKfcT CITIZENS.

How Deputy Denny Lost His Money—The Boudsineu May Recover. District United States Attorney Cockrum has returned to Indianapolis from Evansville, where he has been to see if something could not be done to bring about the restitution of money lost in gambling by Deputy Postmaster Denny, of Boonville.

Denny has made a confession, in which he says the 87,000 of the government money (made good by bondsmen of Postmaster Swint) was lost in gambling with prominent men of Evansville. Some of the Pocket's "best citizens" are implicated. The government may have one hold on these men. If they knew the money Denny was gambling on was the government's, they are parties to his embezzlement and are liable under a federal law.

Mr. Cockrum thinks the government will be able to make a case against some of the men. There is some prospect that the stolen money will be in part recovered. At any rate the bondsmen expect to get something back.

A PARROT WITH DIPHTHERIA.

It Dies of Disease Contracted From Children—The Children Live. chael Hare, the Indianapolis street car driver who was drowned Monday, was once the owner of a parrot that was very companionable and a splendid talker. Four of Mr. Hare's children were taken down with diphtheria, and the Jparrot was their companion during their illness. He would frequently take bits of bread from the mouths of the sick children, a sport that he appeared to enjoy very much.

The bird was taken sick, and Dr. Earp, who was the family physician, out of curiosity examined his throat. There, to his surprise, he found the white patches and other indications that the bird was suffering from diphtheria that had been contracted from the children.

The parrot died from the disease, but the children recovered.

An Oil-CarrylnB Ship.

BALTIMORE, August 30.—The British tank steamship Russian Prince arrived yesterday, to load refined petroleum in bulk for a continental port of Europe. The Russian Prince is a monster steel vessel of 2,102 tons register, 310 feet long, 40 feet beam, and 28 feet depth of hold. She has three masts and her hull is divided into four tanks, the total capacity of which is 20.000 barrel?, or 1,300,000 gallons of oil- The vessel was built at Newcastle, England, in 1888, by fcsir William G. Armstrong. When the Russian Prince returns to Europe she will enter upon a thiee years' barter with the Rothschilds to carry oil from Batoum, Turkey, to continental ports.

Western Opiulon on Neir Jersey Costume. No modest Western girl ever put on a New Jersey coast bathing suit fo the first time without a perceptible addition to the hight of her complexion. It takes a highly civilized young lady to go in bathing clad in fashionable undergarments without blushing.—[Kansas City Times.

ARNOLD AND STANLEY.

The "Light of Asia" a Friend to the African Bxplorer. NEW YORK, August 30.—The World's copyright cable dated London says: It is perhaps only juBt to Sir Edwin Arnold, the author of "The Light of Asia," to Bend in advance of his arrival in the United States a few particulars of the poet's life that deserve to be better known. Sir Edwin Arnold is not only the great authority on India and India's religions he has always been deeply devoted to geographical science, and it was really owing to his Bupport and efforts that Stanley was enabled to make his great journey across the Dark Continent and to discover the course of the Congo.

After Stanley returned from his first newspaper expedition in Africa, where he had succeeded in discovering Livingstone, he was for a time a kind of white elephant on the newspaper proprietor's hands, and it seemed for a time as if he would have to be sent to the city department for duty. While writing his book in London, however, he made the acquaintance of Edwin Arnold, then the leading editorial writer of the Daily Telegraph. To him Stanley mentioned his poor prospects on the New York papers, for which he had made his first journey, and expressed the hope of being able to pursue his explorations to Africa. The two men then discussed African problems earnestly together, and the result was that Edwin Arnold spoke to Mr. Lsvi Lawson, the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, urging him to take up Stanley and support him on another journey to African exploration, the aim of which was to follow the course of the Lualaba across the continent from the Indian ocean to the Atlantic.

Mr. Lavi Lawson was willing to enter into Mr. Arnold's plans for Stanley, but feared the expense would be too great. He therefore caused a telegram to be sent to New Yotk asking a newspaper proprietor there if he would share the expense of such a journey of exploration. The answer was in the affirmative, and Stanley was enabled to make the great* est geographical discovery of the century. But it should be placed on record here that, only for the initiative and earnest support of Edwin Arnold, Stanley would never have had the opportunity of tracing the Congo, and the interior of Africa would in all probability to-day be a blank space on our maps.

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CONFEDERATE PENSION'S.

Governor Gordon Favors the Pensioning of Widows and Orphans. NEW YORK, August 30.—The World's Atlanta, Ga^special says: Georgia is about to pension the widows of her confederate soldiers. Ten years ago the state adopted the policy of pensioning the confederate soldiers living within her borders. At the opening of the present session of the legislature Governor Gordon in a meseage urged that widowB and orphans of confederates that fell in battle should be pensioned. This recommendation was referred to a special committee of thirty, which has agreed upon a unanimous report, which will be adopted. The bill to be thus reported takes in the widows only that is the widows of confederate soldiers that died in battle from wounds received in the service or the hardships incident thereto, and who have remained unmarried. They must also have been married at the time of the service.

A constitutional amendment will be necessary to legalize these pensions, so the amount is not fixed in the bill thus completed. It is not believed that there are over one thousand widows in the state eligible for this pension. The orphans will not be provided for yet, the sentiment of the legislature being that they will be able to provide for themselves without state aid. In the language of a member of the committee: "We are not afraid to open the gap, for the state has got the money."

Died Far From Home.

WASHINGTON, August 30.—A letter received yesterday by the state department from the United States consul at Valpariso announced the death in that city on June 30, last, of Dr. Nathaniel Emmons, from Daleware, O., who had practiced dentistry there for twenty years. He had wjn the reputation in Valparaiso as a good citizen and a skillful practitioner, and his death brought highly eulogistic notices from the press. He was a Mason and also a member of the Grand Army of the Rapublic. The consul sent the G. A. R. badge of the deceased with a request that a headstone, such as is customary to be raised over the graves of members of the organization dying in foreign countries, be sent to Valpariso.

The Bent Thing He Could Do. CHICAGO, August 30.—Yesterday the body of John O. Wise, a dissipated man, was found not fur from his home. A revolver lay near the body, and there was a bullet hole near the heart and the pockets of the clothing were turned inside out. It was at first supposed to be a case of murder for robbery. The jury returned a verdict of suicide. The motive developed subsequently when it was discovered that he bad been acting in nn indecent and unnatural way toward hie own daughter that the facts had been reported to the Woman's protective association by a physician to whom the girl applied for relief, and that the association was preparing to take action in the matter.

Catholic Young: Men to Meet. NEW YORK, August 30.—The New York Catholie American publishes the following account of the arrangements for the coming national convention of Catholic young men's societies. The convention will take place September 3, i, and 5, at the Brownson lyceum ball, Providence, R. I. The exercises will include, among other features of interest, a monster public meeting, to be addressed by the Hon. John Boyle O'Railly and John P. Leahy of Boston, the Hon. William J. Onahan of Chicago, and Father Stafford of Cleveland.

Views From Pike'* Peak.

The signal service officer on Pike's peak said to a correspondent the other day: "Sometimes I stand at the window with my telescope. I can see the houses of Colorado Springs, twenty miles away, the men sitting in their shirtsleeves, sipping iced drinks to keep cool, the ladies walking about in white summer robes. I lower the glass. The summer scene is gone. Green trees, animal life, men r«ud women fade away like creatures in a dream, and I am the only living thing in a world of eternal snow and ice and silence."

Honors Waiting: Near Hone. Now that Edison has been made an Italian count, he ought to come to Georgia and be made a major.—[ Atlanta Constitution.

KXPBB3S PACKAGES.

'She loved me not, and ret she wed me For I was rich, bad wealth untold Her heart and hand she gladly gave me—

A fair exchange for allmy gold. Fair and sweet, at first I loved her. But found her heartless, cruel, cold And yet our bargain's fairly equal.

For she was bought and I was sold. —[Atlanta Constitution. The one cent coffee stands in New York area success.

A Frenchman claims to be able to make silk without worms. A Port Huron real estate firm gives a suit of clothes with each city lot sold.

There will be fifty per cent more winter wheat sowed in Kansas this fall than in 1888.

Attached to a tiny cut glass inkstand a huge nickel key with a barometer set in the Bhank.

One of the latest stationer's novelties is an owl in punched steel, which hides in its neck an ink well Upl

A West Virginia congregation"* has bought a distiller's old warehouse and will convert it into a church.

The oldest public house in England is "The Seven Stars," at Manchester. It dates back to the time of Edward III.

A beautiful, slender hound, Bitting on its haunches, holds in its mouth an envelope, the loose flap of which forms a novel card receiver.

The Bennington battle monument, that is to be 301 feet high, has reached a height of 191 feet. The rainy summer has retarded the work.

A Mohammedan mosque has been built in Woking, England, and a Buddhist temple has been opened in Paris. There are about three hundred Buddhists in Paris.

Henry Gruver, of Bethlehem. Pa., is the owner of an elephant plant which has leaves measuring forty-two inches in length and of corresponding width.

Special reports to the New Eogland Homestead from all the seed-leaf tobac-co-growing sections of the United States indicate a fair yield of average quality.

A quaint table ornament is an old, worm-eaten, cross-roads, sign-post, to which is aflixed a thermometer, which is ho'd erect by a grinning brown bear.

The name of Siam's postmaster general is Somdetch Phra Chow Nong Ya Thor Chow Fa Bhaumangsi Swauguvusga Kooma Phra Bhaunbhaddaroongsee Vavadey.

Vassar opens a thoroughly equipped gymnasium this fall, and it is intended that the Bweet girl graduate shall hereafter be a well developed specimen of anatomy.

Mrs. W. A. Cochran, of Shelbyville, III., has sold the right to her recently patented dish-washer machine to a Decatur firm for several thousand dollars cash and the promise of a royalty on all machines sold.

A Wellington (Kan.) man who escaped from the Osawatomie asylum has been picked up in Missouri where he was trying to secure the right of way for a double track railway from Wellington to Chicago.

The seals that frequent the Maine coast are easily tamed. The mate of a coasting schooner has one that follows him like a dog, and is allowed to take a bath in the sea whenever he likes, with no fear of his escaping.

Bees stung a pair of horses to death at Ballston Spa, N. Y. In attempting to rescue the horses Harry Howlett, their driver, was Btung into insensibility, and several men who came to his assistance were also attacked by the bees.

A bank abounding in codfish of excellent size and quality has been discovered about eight miles off the Oregon const and sixty-five miles south of the Columbia river. Heretofore the true cod has not been found in the Pacific south of Alaskan shores.

An old bachelor, who has just died at Earishofen, England, left to his servant two shillings a day, to bis dog one shilling, to his cat sixpence, and to some of his nearest relatives five shillings, ten shillings, or XI, as legacies. The rest of his fortune becomes the property of the parish.

The decision of the supreme court of Iowa that liquors sent to that state can not be confiscated in their original packages has had a great effect upon the liquor traffic. Traveling agents of enterprising Chicago liquor houses ply up and down the state in all directions taking orders for their merchandise.

At Pleasonton, Atascosa county, Tex., they banged a man last week. To express their great joy the citizens got up a barbecue, which was largely attended. In the adjoining county a white man, who was on trial for killing a Chinaman, was set at liberty because the presiding judge could find no laws providing for nis punishment.

Clinton A. Snowden, of Tacomo, saw bees going and coming from a hollow tree. He built a fire, smoked out the bees, and cut down the tree to get the honey. He found a great lot of it but, better still, a large quantity of gold was in the hollow trunk. It had evidently been deposited there by nature, and the wise men out there think that it was "gradually washed up every year by the flow of sap, and in course of time accumulated into a solid mass." Mr. Snowden got $7,000 for the gold.

A few days ago Amos Carpenter, who resides near the line between Clay and Clinton counties, Missouri, was out in the woods two miles from home when he was bitten by a timber rattlesnake on the leg near the ankle. He at once wiped the blood off with a leaf and took a big chew of tobacco from his mouth and bound it on the bitten place with a strip of bark. After reaching home he bathed it in hartshorn, and has suffered no ill effects other than a slight rising at the bitten place. The snake was killed and was nearly four feet long, with eleven rattles.

Francis J. Setton, a Brooklyn manufacturer, was surprised and delighted man the other morning. He was surprised when, on entering his office, he found that a burglar had been at work on his safe, and had, after much labor, forced open the doors. He was delighted because, on the preceding night, instead of leaving a large amount of money in the safe he took it home. He left only 11 cents in the cash drawer, saying to his clerk: "If £he enterprising burglar comes he will get enough, if he works for it, to pay his car fare." The 11 cents were found in the drawer.

A glacial remnant is said to have been discovered in Pine creek canon, between Big Bear and Texas ridges, in Latah county, Idaho, 2,000 feet above sea level. Attention was attracted by a current of cold air rushing from the earth's surface from beneath a moss bed several inohee in thickness. The adjacent surface was covered with verdure. The moss was pushed aside, a few bowlders removed, disclosing an ice vein several inches in thickness. Alternate layers of grass and gravel were found to a depth of several feet, the cold current of air still rising therefrom.

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