Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 October 1889 — Page 2

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The New York state league of Dem ocratic clubs cheered Cleveland and Hill at the same meeting. Cleveland wrote letter against "the widespread corrup tion of the suffrage." Hill has vetoed every measure sent to him by the legis lature intended to prevent corruption of the Butfrage. The New York Democrats may cheer Cleveland for appearance Bike, but the acts of Hid brirg him closer to them, and so it will ba made manifestin 1802 when the party in the state chooses delegates to the national con vention.

The Indianapolis Sentinel speaking of the proposed removal of the fire chief in that city, says the department question was one of the issues at the city election. Tnerefore, the Sentinel holds that as the people voted the chief's party out of power that the chief should resign. For the life of ua we can't make this position consist with the Sentinel's indignation because General Manson was requested to resign after hie party was voted out of power. Perhaps it may be said that the chief did not fill his position as well as General Manson, but that would be merely an assertion as to a fact open to discussion.

The navy costs $22,000,000 in round figures for the current fiscal year and Secretary Tracey's estimate for Dext year will be §25,000,000. In both years a very large proportion of this money is for the new vessels whose construction was absolutely necessary to provide the country with a navy worth mentioning. The money could not have been put to better use, nor could the new ships be put to better use than by sending them to South America as is now suggested at Washington. The appearance of the squadron in South American waters at this time would help create the impression we hope to make by the meeting of the International Congress.

General Butler says that he will write his reminiscences for the benefit of posterity. He 6ays he believes it is due to himself and his children to give a full account of his action in the forum, the lield and in politics. That much of the general's statement would lead one to believe that he at last has quit fighting, and that in his old age he can be counted upon to avoid the bitter personal resentments which have actuated him in nearly all of his public appearances, but when he proceeds as follows he dispels any 6uch belief: 1 also confess that I have a personal desire that the true Inwardness of the actions of somesoldleant saints, martyrs, heroes, and generals shall beset right by an impartial statement of tlie true facts and incidents of their careers.

Toe Democratic free traders pretend to see Mr. Blaine taking a back track on the tariff question because he says the wisest stroke of policy for the Republicans in both houses is to unite, as soon as congress convenee, upon a bill designed to meet the popular demand for tariff revision without disturbing the welfare of any established American industry." The most extreme of high protectionists do not claim that any tariff law can stand forever without revision. Indeed, by revision more of the fruits of protection can be obtained, that is if the revision is done by those who are not more intent on warfare on protected indu£tries .than in reducing the revenue whereby an equitable and diversified protection to home industries can be secured.

The formal announcement by President Eliot, of Harvard college, that he 1ms joliml the Democratic party. Is a slgnltlcant thing. It is a sign of something that no socall or political student can pnss without pondering. A thing like this can happen in Europe, notably England, and be reckoned at Its full value, exercising a good lulluence upon the public spirit. When Mr. Gladstone joins the Irish party on the home rule question, or the martinis of Hartington secedes from the Liberals on the same ground, or John Bright becomes a Tory for the same reason—three able men taking different courses because of the same thing when we see such things there we appreciate them .'Indianapolis News.

And so we do here when men experienced in public affairs take different courses. If Mr. Bayard, Air. Thurman, or Mr. Sherman should join another party we would appreciate it highly, but there is not any significance in the action of President Eliot. He is not skilled in government as Mr. Gladstone, the marquis of Hartington, or John Bright, however much he may have studied the subject. The Xews will admit that the history of our public affairB is replete with instances of the failure of the student in public life, and we do not mean the scramble of politics in the vulgar 6ense. Many men as eminent

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President Eliot

tried their hands at government and failed completely.

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She Wits MlftHken.

She stood at the mirror and arranged her hair In the style that she thought most becoming. Aud smiled as she thought of her "fellow" there

In the parlor alone In the gloaming.

She was taktng creat comfort In making him wait. But the fact Is. he never had nilssed her, He was flirting awaj at a quite rapid rate

With her pretty eighteen-year-old sister.

A SOUL WITH A HUMP.

ou may have seen him a dozen times in the last two years, and yet taken no more notice of him than you do of thousands of others whom you daily encoun ter in this great human bee-hive. It was two years ago when I came across him first. It was late at night, and I stood at the corner of the Bowery and Grand streets. I was gnawing away at an apple which I had bought on a stand further up the Bowery, and I had the mate to it in my hand. The old man with the fur cap came out of Grand street, and approached me so cautiously that I was startled. "Fine night," he observed, as he lingered near by. "Yes. Have an apple?" "Thanks I'd be glad to do the same by you. Curious world, ain't it?" "In some things—yes." "All push and bustle and hustle and drive, and nobody cares for anybody else. We ought to be more sociable. Why can't we be?" '•That's it! I'm willing to do ray part." "And I mine. I'll meet you right here to-morrow night for social interchange of thought." "I'll be here."

He was more than queer. While he was well educated and had no doubt held a high standing at one time, he was hard up for means and clothing, and much of his talk would lead you to believe that he was out of bis mind. The second night was very sultry. He wore the same fur cap as on the first. He probably saw that I noticed this fact, and he said: "Best I can do, you know. And I sometimes think it holds my wits in. Come up to my sanctum."

I followed without question. He led me to a tenement house on Rose street, and he went up four flights of dark, steep staire, and entered an 8x10 room. There was an old straw bed on the floor, a cheap table, a chair or two, and an old ragged coat hanging on a nail. It was a wretched-looking plBce, but he observed "There are worse ones right in this same building, and I fee'. that I ought to be thankful. Now, then, let's talk."

I was prepared to find a man who had gone daft about an airship or perpetual motion, but was disappointed. His hobby

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transmigration, aud he had

several books and a dozen pamphlets relating to the theory. He had evidently been dwelling on the matter for years. He not only accepted the belief of a first transmigration, but he further accepted the Southern Buddhistic belief of successive transmigration. "The idea is all right and as sound as a dollar," he said, after explaining it, "but I have ag yet failed to settle one vital point. When .1 die what new shape will I take. Will my soul pass into that of the lion, tiger, hyena, ox, buffalo, buzzard, or what? Let me settle that one point and I wouldn't trade places with a king." "But as you had no choice of your sex, color of hair and eyes, why not leave this to Providence?" I asked. "Because the one is inscrutable and the other is not," he answered. It was intended that man should find this out, and some day I shall solve the matter. Wouldn't it make a difference to you now if you were certain whether you were to be a rabbit or an elephant in the succeeding stage?''

After that night I always saw him once a week, and sometimes oftener. He never came out in the day time, and he never changed his clothes. Aa I saw him the first night so he always was. One night we would walk on the Bowery for three or four hours, and again we would go down to the battery or sit on the bridge. He never spoke to another person while with me, nor did he ever seem to realize that we two were not alone in the world. I could never get him into a street car, carriage or upon a boat, and he explained his refusal by saying: "I must prepare for the future state, you see. Perhaps I shall take the form of an elephant, and elephants don't go riding about."

I visited him at his room when the weather was inclement. He never asked my name nor gave me his. No other sub ject but transmigration was ever introduced. The furniture of his room remained exactly the same, and I never Baw him have a penny of money. He was known to me and all others as "the old man with the fur cap." Beyond that no one could go.

One night I found him more than usually jubilant, and as I sat down he rubbed his bauds together and whispered "1 am very near the solution of the problem. I am almost certain of the shape I nm to take In the next stage." "Well?" "It is to go according to weight and stBture, I think. That aud your com plexion. I am tall, weigh 130 pounds and have a sallow complexion. 1 fesl certain that 1 shall become a one-humped camel." "And how does the idea suit?" "Fairly well. It's rather better than I could expect."

We talked over the ma'ter until a late hour, and when we separated he said he would go up to the park next day aud 6eek to verify his figures on the camel. I had never seen him so pleased and enthusiastic. 1 was to call the next evening but one to ascertain his success or failure, and I was there on time. "Is it tbe old man with the fur cap you want?" asked a woman as I reached his 11 jor. "Yes." "Well, he's dead Bnd gone!" "It can't be!" "But it is. He hung himself night before last, and was taken away and buried yesterday. Here is a note he left for some one, and I guess it was meant for you."

I went into her room to read it. It was a cramped, old-fashioned hand, written in pencil on a bit of straw paper, and it read: "I am terribly disappointed. Instead of verifying my figures on, the one-hump camel, I discovered that they exactly fitted the big kangaroo. The problem is solved and my mission ended. I had my heart set on being a camel, but Fate is inexorable. I go to be a kangaroo. Farewell!"

And he had fastened a rope to a book in the ceiling, stood on a chair to adjust the noose, and then launched himself into eternity.—[New York Sun.

A Nice Set All Around.

Shelbyvill, Ind., October 23.—MrS. MollieCorwin, the much married woman, was the cause of what may yet turn out to be murder. Lite last night two of her ex-husbands, John H. Little, her sixth, and Joseph Gorwin, her eighth, met near her house and got into a quarrel over a drees Little had bought her. Finally Corwin struck Little 'with

a

stone, cutting a terrible gaah in his head and fracturing his skull. While this

was going on Little's second wife, unknown to him, was speeding on her way to Covington, Ky., with Junes Neal ana with all of Little's Barings, some 9100.

8ILVKBY NOTCD CMXA.

Queen of the Lyric Stag* and Cautatrloe Extraordinary. The chestnuts are coming, hal hatha! ha! Emma Abbott, dear little Emma with her own face Bnd cracked hominy voice, will Boon delight ue, says the Bloomington Eye, and the anxious public is tearing its clothes and its hair in a mad rush to secure front seats, where it can drink in the melody and be thrilled first hand. Emma, you are something of a shelf-worn daisy and back number flower, but you area triller from way back. When you warble, oh how worrible the candelabra rattles a rat-tat-tattle, and our toe nails squeak against the recesses of our cavernous boots. You are a hollyhock. You ought to be the national flower, emblem of all that is way up to concert pitch. You are a cantatrice of the old school and when you turn loose one of your Eiffel tower notes, the melody goes chasing up to the silver liniDg of the clouds and mingles with the gorgeous strains of the celestial bands—if the oeiling don't fall.

When we were younger than we now are we sat at your feet enthralled, entranced, enraptured and entertained. You are indeed the silvery-noted and lilythroated thrush.

Turn back, turn back, oh time in thy flight, and let me live again in the memory of Emma's Utopian smile, and be swooned by an aria from her lips—lips that are like a half-blown rose. Again, I feel as though my hair was a harp of a thousand strings swept by angeL hands.

You may talk of the music of the spheres, but the high-priced note of Emma nears the cupola of transcendal perfection, and blears our gaping eyes of idiot wonder.

Oft have we wondered if tbe seraphic choristers who people the balconies of the New Jerusalem ever lean over the railing to catch the inspiration that falls from your shell-like lips. Oh, my pro phetic soul, my oyster.

Oft—the second—have we harkenAd to the demi-semi quavering whoop la and with herculean effort restrained our risibilities from saying "Whoa! Emma!"

FOOLING WITH NITRO-GLYCKRIXE.

Two Oil-Well Men Flay Kail Willi a Can of It. There were two of the men in our gang of Pennsylvania oil-well drillers and blasters who were constantly fooling with tbe nitre-glycerine, say a writer in the New York Sun. They would take chances to make your hair stand on end, and the trouble was they imperiled the safety of lots of others. One of their favorite pastimes was to get out after noon-day lunch and toss a two-pound can of the stuff as far aa they could heave it. I more than once Baw them stand fifty feet apart, and on three or four occasions saw the can miss their clutch and fall to the earth. Our foreman and all the other men did a great deal of swearing over this foolishness, and once the men were discharged for it, but they were taken back after a time, and aa we grew more used to the Btuff we took more chances.

One day the men got out with their can, and as the fun was about to begin our foreman said: "Boyp, that nonsense will be the death of you yet."

Bet you ten to five it won't replied one of them. "Yes, and I'll bet ten to one it won't," bluffed the other as he shook bis wallet at the foreman.

The latter failed to cover, aud aa he sauntered off dawn the hill I followed him. We had walked about two hundred feet when we were suddenly lifted up and thrown flat to the earth, and then followed a crash which Beemed to have rocked the continent. As soon as we could get up we ran back to the derrick, or where the derrick was. It had disappeared, as well as our shanty, and on the site was a hole into whioh you could have dumped a cottage. Not the slightest scrap of the two can toesers could be found, and the foreman and I stood for several minutes staring into the cavity. Then he suddenly slapped his leg, waved his hand in disgust, and growled: "What a two-story fool I was not to take those bets!"

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THEY WKttK MARRIED.

An Illinois CoDKresaiaan Successfully Klnde* a Father-ln-Law. Chicago, October 23 —A morning paper says: The friends generally of Con gressman Abner Taylor, of the First dis irict, may be surprised somewhat at the intelligence now made public for the first time, that the statesman had taken unto himself a wife, and furthermore that there is an interesting story thereunto belonging.

Tne lady in the case is the daughter of Col. A. C. Babcock.well known politically, and at present a prominent candidate for United States marshalship for tbe district of northern Illinois.

Mr. Taylor has for a long time been assiduous in bis suit for the hand of Miss Babcock,but his attentions were unhappily frowned down by the colonel. But Cupid's arrows were never known to shiver on paternal anger, and they went through the armor this time, too. Colonol Babcock one fine morning awoke to receive tbe undeniable, if not too welcome, tidings that the congressman and his daughter were wedded in a little town in Michigan on the 7tb of September last, and that now it was all too late. The bride and groom enjoyed the honeymoon in obscure felicity, until quite recently, when they returned to Chicago, where they spent a few days. Yesterday they left Chicago, to reside at Washington.

'/.I'' George W. randerbllt'* Home George W. Vanderbilt has found a way to spend his money. He owns 5,000 aores near Asheville, N. C. Work has been begun under direction of a landscape artist in laying out the immense ground into a park, which is intended to be one of the most beautiful pieces of landscape in the world. At the same time an Brcbiteot is prepaiing to construct in the heart of the domain one of the most elegant residences that art, skill and money can devise and create.

An Insane Woman Barned to Death. St. Louis, October 23.—A special to the Post-Dispatch says the residence of ex-Mayor Ballard, of Lexington, Mo., was burned last night, and that Mrs. Ballard, who was of unsound mind, perished in the flames. She was alone in the house, and it is supposed that she set fire to it and went back to bed, as her obarred remains were found in the debris of her room this morning.

Sick headache is readily cured by Hood's Sarsaparilln, which tones and regulates the digestion, and creates an appetite.

THE TERRft llAUTE EXPRESS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1889.

DRAWING TO A CLOSE.

Tbt Protectant Episcopal Convention Will Adjonrm Thunday. New Yokk, October 23.—There was a good attendance at the ProteBtant Episcopal convention. The morning services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Franklin, of New Jersey, and Bishop Whittaker. of Pennsylvania. Dr. Goodwin, on behalf of tbe committee on canons, nreeented a lengthy report, which was referred to the next convention. The committee on state of the church gave a detailed account of the work done since the last convention. It

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forth that

the ministry should not look for recruits from the indigent only, but from the rich as well. They reported in favor of something being done for aged clergy, and dwelt at length on the unsatisfactory condition of tbe Sunday school work. On motion, the report was transmitted to the house of bishops.

The R9v. Dr. Bliss, of Vermont, read a report from the ommittee on Christian education. It. stated that the board of regents was now in working order. The committee appointed to select a place for tbe next convention reported in favor of Baltimore. The report was adopted, and the convention will be held there in 1892.

The entire set of versicles as amended, was adopted, and the house then proceeded to discuss the revision of the lit urgy. On motion of the Rev. Dr. Hart it was decided that the gloria patria be printed at the end of psalm xxiv. A message from the house of bishops recommending that the prayer of humble acoess be removed to a place immediately before the administration of the communion was received, but the house of deputies refuted to concur in it. Messages from the house of bishops were also received, announcing concurrence in the resolution that tbe next general convention shall be held in Baltimore, and that the present one shall adjourn next Thursday evening.

The first business at the morning session to day was tbe report of the committee on canons in relation to the organization of missionary dioceBes, deciding that consideration of the subject wae impracticable at this late stage of the proceedings.

The colored question was reopened by the committee on conference appointed by the house of biBhops, who recommended that the deputies accede to the desire of the upper house and pass the resolution defining the attitude of the episcopate toward the negro race. The deputies declined to reconsider their ac tion. The chairman notified the house that the bishops bad again failed to concur in adoption of Dr. Huntington short office of prayer as reccm mended by the conference committee. Another burning question was disposed of by the house, to-wit: The resolution of S. Corning Judd, of Chicago, to substitute for the words "Protestant Episcopal" the words "American Church," amounting to a change in the title of the church. This was, on motion of Mr. Judd, referred to the next convention. Two resolutions reported back from the joint liturgical committee were next in order. The most important was that rubric following the prayer for the president of the United States be transposed so as to follow the collect for grace in the morning prayer. This implies the omission of the prayer and excited a number of speeches ngainst euch omission. Dr. Newton, of Virginia, called attention to the fact that there was no man in the land who was so burdened with responsibility or needed the prayer of the people more. The resolution was lost by a vote of yeae, 7 nays, 78.

At the afternoon session the house of deputies sat with closed doors to consider one of the most momentous sections of the canonical law, that of marriage and divorce. Dr. Benjamin Fra .klin, of New Jersey, chairman of the com mittee, opened the proceedings by reading tbe appended canon, comprising the ground work of the existing canon with the proposed amendments.

Section 1. If any persons be joined together otherwise than as God's word doth allow, their marriage Is not lawful.

Sec. Marriage Is prohibited by the word of God and by his church within the degrees of consanguinity and alllnlty specified In Leviticusxvlli.. 6, 18.

Sec 3. It shall be the duty of ministers to admonish tbe people, from time to tline, (hat the church forbids clandestlue marriage, and that its public solemnization oiuht not to be dispensed with except for good cause and under special circumstances. No minister shall solomnlztj the marriage of any person under the age of 18 years except the parent having legal charge of Such person, or the guardian, be present or have given written consent to the marriage. No minister shall solemnize a marriage except In the presence of at least two witnesses, himself or tlie witnesses being personally acquainted with both parties. Every minister of the church should keep an ofllctiil register of marriages, In which he shall record the name, birthplace, age, residence and condition of each party, and the said recoid duly transcribed In the said register shall b- hlgneq by both parties to the marriage, by at least two witnesses, by the minister wno performs the ceremony.

Sec. 1. The law of the church concerning divorce Is contained in St. Matthew. V. 32, xlx. 1) etc. Marriage, when duly solemnized, may not be dissolved except for adultery and fornication. The guilty party In a dlv rce for adultery Is prohibited rrom marrying again during the lifetime ol the other party. Persons divorced may not be married again to each other If the woman meanwhile shall have married again.

Sec. 5. Il any minister of this church shall perform a ceremony of marriage In violation or this canon he shall be subject to trial and liable to admonition for the firsL oflanse, and to suspension or deposition for a repetition of the same.

Sec. 0. Persons who shall marry, In violation of the provisions of this cauon shall iVot be permitted to receive the communion except upon penitence and avowed tlual separation: Provided, however, that no minister shall In anycase refuse the sacraments to a penitent person In Imminent danger or death.

Sec. 7. Questions touching the facts In any case arising under the provisions of this canon may be decided by the ordinary after such Inquiry as he may deem necessary.

Sec. 8. This canon, so far as It fixes penalties, has no retrospective ettect See. 9. All previous canons on the subject are hereby annulled.

In prestnting the foregoing Dr. Franklin stated that the principle of canonioal law is peculiar as compared with civic and criminal law. The spirit, of the devil cometh like a flood, and the question is whether the church should meet and grapple with that spirit and take her position against the flood.

D.'. Burgwein, of Pittsburg, answered the arguments of Mr. Packard, of Maryland, that it was out of order to vote upon the first section on the ground that it was already in the constitution by offering an amendment by adding the words "And such marriage is hereby prohibited," and annulling section This brought the housa into a long debate on the propriety of a man marrying his deceased wife's sister. Dr. Burgwein's amendment was carried by a vote of 134 to 90. Another debate occurred on sub-Bection 1 of section 3, stating that the church forbade clandestine marriages. On the motion of Dr. Brown, of Massachusetts, it was stricken out and a recess until eight o'clock was taken.

The night session of the house of deputies was unproductive of results. The question of marrioge and divorce again came up for consideration, and after debate of an hour was referred to the convention of 1892 for action. The question of admission of the foreign churches was also brought up and action postponed until to-morrow. The convention then adjourned.

Rival to Joief Hofmann

Master Otto Hegner, thirteen years old, the latest musical prodigy to reach

this country, arrived on the Fulda Tuesday, and a few hours afterward gave an exhibition of his wonderful powers at the Victoria hotel. He played a Chopin waltz and a minuet by Padevewsky in a remarkably brilliant and expressive manner.

NEW APARTMKN'T BUILDING.

Quarter of a Million to te Invested at Wood's Point, Indianapolti. A handsome, seven-story apartment house, built in Chicago style, is to be erected at "Wood's Point," at the corner of Massachusetts avenue and Pensylvania street, says the Indianapolis News. Work will begin next month, long delayed arrangements having at last been perfected. It is desired to begin work on the building this fall, so that it may be completed a year from January.

The plane for the building are in the bands of J. F. Gookins, of this city and Chicago. They were drawn by Burnham Root, Chicago architects. The structure is to be of pressed brick with stone front, marble work in the interior? elevators, steam heat, etc. It is to stand a short distance back from tbe point which will be faced by bay windows.

The building will extend 196 feet on the avenue and 185 feet on Pennsylvania street. The cost will be $250,000. A number of gentlemen of various cities, among them P. E. Stanley and R. b, Chase, are interested in the project

Officer* of Jtoyal and Select Muster*.

The newly elected officers of the Grand Council Royal and Select Masters are: Oliver B. Sargent, of Logansport, illustrious grand master Charles W. Slick, of Mishawaka, d-puty illus trious grand master Theodore D. Brown of Cra-vfordsville, grand illustrious master O. H. Doming, of Goshen, grand principal conductor of the work Martin H. Rice, of Indianapolis, grand treasurer W. H. Smytbe, of Indianapolis, grand recorder Simon S. Johnson, of Jefferson ville, grand captain of the guard.

Tlie lliIs for State Printing:.

The following were the bids for the state printing for the next two years: Baker it Randolph, S30,G76.25 W. B, Burford, 326,978 81 Carlon & Hollenbeck, 529,227 30 Journal Printing Co, $31,126 09 Sentinel Printing Co., 328, 124 35.

(.OAL GAS 15KING ABANDONED.

A Strong Probability That It* I'lnee Will Soon He Taken By Water Gas.

A week ago to day the Chicago gaB light and coke company wholly ceased the manufacture of coal gas nt its north side plant on Crosby street, says tbe Chicago News. The ga3 now furnished by the company is that commonly known as water ga?, and is made from petroleum For about three years the company has been experimenting with the new method of manufacture, and the abandonment of the old method is due to the fact that tbe oompany has found it can manufacture water gass with less expense and trouble than it can furnish coal gas. Extensive alterations are also being made in the south side planf,and the announcement has been made that it will not be long before petroleum will supplant coal as the basis of the manufacture there also.

Mr. Cunningham, the foreman of the Croaby-street plant, said yesterday that for a long time a good share of the gas used on the north side has been watergas. One set of apparatus for the generation of gas from petroleum was erected there about three years ago, It proved

eo

efficient that another

set was soon put ir, and finally third set, which was completed only a few dayB before the company discontinued making coul gas. Tbe benches used for making coal gas are still kept warm, so that the old form of manufacture can be resumed at auy moment, but the foreman thought that this was only a precautionary measure, and that ultimately the company would furnish nothing but watsr gas.

On Saturday thirty-six men were laid off from the force which attends the generators. The company is now manufacturing at the north side plant about two and a half million feet of gas a day, employing only eighteen men to attend the generators. The foreman said that the production of the same amount of gas by the old method would rtijuire twicethenumber of men. Further than this he could give no data as to relative exspense, ex cept that he had been told that the use of petroleum was much cheaper. The petroleum is mixed with steam on its way to the furnace,where it is consumed. Tbe product of CLinbustiou is then conducted to a superheated oyan, and from that point on the manufacture of water gas is identical wi'vh that of coal gae. Mr. Cunningham said that the refuse product of the water gas manufacture is so minimized as scarcely to need mention.

Pan- \inurican.

Answering a correspondent as to the meaning of the compound word Pan American, the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says: ••Pan'- Is from an old Saxon verb, meaning to unite. "Pan-Anglican." for Instance, is applied to an as embly ol representatives holding Episcopalian tenet-j and principles from all parts of the world.

We shall not undertake to dispute tbe existence of the "old Saxon verb but the prefix "pan," as used in English, is the translation of a Greek word meaning "all" Pan-American means ail-Amer-ican Panteon means a temple to all the gods Pan-Anglican, as applied to a church assembly, means a convocation of all. tbe Anglican branches of that church.—[Globe-Democrat.

••The F1 ip oil Every School Housn."

Detroit Free Press: Mrs. E. S. Moffat, of Port Huron, who originated tbe idea of making "the flag on every school house" a national movement, has received the following letter of encouragement from General Schofield:

Headquarters or the Aiimt Washinkto.m, October 15.

Mr». E. S Mnfful, PortHuron, Mich. Dear Madam: I take pleasure In saying I re­

gard tha movement to provide "a (lag for every school house" an excellent one, and would add a little "military discipline" for all tbe boys. Very respectfully, J. M. Schofiki.ti.

At Work by the Iay.

She—Oh, see that scarecrow out there in the field! He—That isn't a scarecrow. ,, "It must be see how motionless it is." "That's tbe hired man at work."—

Yankee Blade.

Returning Good For Evil.

Rooster (to hen on nes')—I heard the boss say he was going to cut your head off nretty soon.

Hen—la that eo? Well, I'm laying for him, too.—[New York Sun.

Attention! If you desire a fine head of hair of a natural hue and free from dandruff, Hall's Hair Ranewer is the best and eafest preparation to accomplish it1

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

THE 90CIKTT KII9.

O. every one knows what bliss in a kiss I*. That's given Ad taken with plenty of love, It's one thing at least that never amiss Is

That no one's below, and no one's above.

But save us, good Jupiter, save us from kisses Society ladles exchange when they meet For clammiest, coldest ot courtesies that Is—

SOns sympathy, sugar, and seived without heat

Motion one—Purse the lips just ever so little Motion two—SUck your head out, jour model a snakeThen dab your opponent—as If Hps were brittle.

And using them roughly would cause them to break.

Retire In good order, composing your features To look like a statue or death mask of w*x— There! you have all the rules by which the dear creatures

Reduce to a science their kissing attacks.

Buffalo Bill is going to see the czar. The czar has bad an iron-clad train constructed for himself.

Oregon has 212 saw mills, 31 shingle mills and 182 plaining mills. Massachusetts machines make a pair of shoes in twenty minutes.

The Boston Herald remarks that what is most needed is a "good statue against bad statutes."

King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich islands, is writing an epic poem on Hawaiian legends.

Buggy wheels of steel on the principle of a bicycle wheel will be made by a Pittsburg concern.

Umbrellas are being imported into India in great numbers. Last year 270,000 arrived in Calcutta alone.

Pot toes in Genesse county, Mich., have been frozen in the ground, and the price is advancing in consequence.

C.irdite is a new powder which dampness does not effect, which causes no smoke, and which greatly increases the explosive power.

Over §7,000,000 are annually spent in New York for champagne, the four Delmonico restaurants averaging over SI,0C0,000 alone.

Railway freights in Great Britain are 17 per cent, over the average on the continent, and more thnn double those of the United States.

The sultan of Japan, who iB shortly to revisit Eagland, would readily pass for an ordinary, well-developed European gentleman of middle age.

A western Ohio editor apologizes for the latenesB of his paper by saying: "We were unable to give proper attention to work owing to our wives' illness.

Senator IngallB denies that he ever wrote a letter claiming that bis attacks upon men and measure in the senate had given Kansas a proud prominence in the galaxy of states.

In compliance with a request of the Hawaiin government, tbe local government of Kanagawa, Japan, will soon dispatch 2,000 emigrants to the Sandwich islands.

The minimum height of the Russian and the French conscript is five feet in most other European countries the minimum stature ranges from five feet one inch to five feet three inches.

A Greensburgh (Pa.) man who made application for a marriage license stated on oath that "hunting for money was his occupation, and that of his prospective wife was "home adornment."

In Great Britain the quantity of ooal dust remaining unemployed annually is estimated at 28,000,000 tons. Various methods have been attempted to convert it into cakes, but the operation is not sufficiently remunerative.

Chinese titles for California railway stations are many of them striking, if not intelligible. Lamanda park is for them Lemon pahk, Azusa is transformed into Swisha, San Bernardino in the Mongolian pidgin vernacular becomes Sa' Bedino, and so on.

Edward W. Emerson, the son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose gruve was recently disturbed, has had his father's remains placed in a new box, and will have the whole enclosed in a heavy stone tomb under ground. The slabs are to be hermetically sealed.

It is proposed to substitute wooden clappars for the iron ones now in use on locomotives running into New York, and which are so often complained of as nuisances. Tbe sound would still make noise enough to be heard where it should be, while the neighborhood would get rest.

Getting married at the Eaglish Church in Russia is an expensive thing. The clergyman's fee is $50, the choir demands $10, the organist a similar sum, while $10 is required for lighting the fires and gas. In the Russian Church, however, a priest will marry you for just what yon can afford.

Twenty years ago there roamed over the plains and mountains of the West nearly eight million buffaloes. To-day there Bre less than five hundred head of the animals in existence. There are but eighty-five head of wild buffaloes, three hundred and four alive in captivity and about two hundred under the protection of the government in Yellowstone park.

The idea of fcJiffel tower is acknowledged by Mr. Eiffel to have originated in this country at the time of the Philadelphia centennial, in 187G. The circular tower then proposed was to have been 1,000 feet high, 150 feet in diameter at the base, and 30 feet at the top. It was designed by Clark, Reeves & Co., ot Phojnixville, Pa., and was expected to cost £4,000,000.

InasmBll town in Baden a minister closed his sermon the other day with these woids: "We would be pleased, moreover, to have the young man who is now standing outside the door come in and make certain whether ho is here or not. That would be a great deal better than opening the door half an inch and exposing tbe people in the last row of seats to a draught."

Woodford (Ky.)Argus: In Woodford county Mr. John D. Burns ruised a large drove of turkeys this year and by placing a bell upon the old mother that led them he nccustomed them to follow the Bound. When the time came to work his tobacco fields he removed the bell, placing it on his own waist, and while working hiB crop with the hoe the hungry turkeys followed the familiar tinkle of the bell, picking the stalks clean of the worms as they followed him up one row and down tbe other. The turkeys Lave done the work of five men and saved the crop.

A Moscow hunter lost a quail the other day, even after he had shot and killed it. The bird fell on the opposite side of the rivulet, in plain sight of the shooter, and he leaped across the brook after it, having no dog with him. He had his eye on the dead bird, but just then a mink darted out of its hole in the bank, seized the quail in its mouth, and skipped back into its burrow before tbe sportsman bad time to file his objections He poked in tbe hole with a stick, but the mink was beyond hiB reach.

I jumped from a car and sprained my ankle. Salvation Oil, tbe great pain extinguisher, cured it in three days. It is now as well as ev«r.

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But we deal not in trivialities here. The essential things of

HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, GLOVKS,

Are our them«. In underwear we have Jersey fitting iu cotton and wool. Basket braid, natural wool, scarlet, camel's hajr,' fine whito cashmere and merino for ladies, gentlemen and children.

IN HOSIERY—Silks, lisle, cashmere, natural wools, fleece lined and fast black goods in every variety, and a particularly large line of silk aud lisle novelties for ladies, in fall styles.

Our glove department is larger than ever. Kid gloves in the new fall shadi-t:, dressed and undresFed. Moeijnetaireu and -driving gloves in tr^ry variety. Cashmere gloves, wool aud mik mittens, aud a large stock of gentlemen's lined and unlined dress gloves.

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