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GEOGRAPHY OF CRIME. Murder a Product of Lack of Civilization.

Scott’s Emulsion

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The R*»*trninin" Influence of KHigiou* SentiiiH'Ot—Counttve* Where the Mont Murders Are Committed.

Oil for healthy flesh and hyand soda for bone material.

There is Cod-liver pophosphites of lime

Physicians, the world over, endorse it.

Thin Children

are not known among those who take SCOTT’S EMULSION. Babies grow fat and chubby on it, and are good natured because they are well. Prepared by Scott & Bowne, N. Y, Druggists sell it

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mm TO SIGHT Is a pair of Gold Spectacles, and the only ttlace to have them correctly fitted is at io- r y Kast Washington street. No one every sohr 1 glasses so cheaply in Greencastle. Don’t trust your eyes to spectacle peddlers and jewelers. G. W. BENCE, M, D.

It A IL HA Y TIME- TABLE' BIG FOUR.

BAST.

|No. 2, Local 8:45 a.m.

, 1:52 p. m. 5:15 p. in. 2:33 a. in

18, S. W. Limited. 8, Mail

’ , “ 10, Night Express.

WEST.

17 H. W’. Limited

3,. Mattoon Local

“ 7, Night Express Daily. tDaily except Sunday.

No. 2 connects through to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton and Benton Harbor. No. 18, coaches to Buffalo and sleepers to New York and Washington. D. C. No. 8 connects through to Wabasn and Cincinnati. No. 10, coaches for Cleveland and Cincinnati and

sleepers to Cincinnati and New York.

F. P. HUESTIS, Agt. MONON ROUTE.

Going North—1:27 a. in., 12:06 p. m.; local,

12:05 p. m.

Going South—2:47 a. m., 2:38 p. m.; local,

1:45 p. m.

VANDALIA LINE. In effect Nov. 5, 1893. Trains leave Greencas-

tle, Ind.,

FOR THE WEST. No. 21, Daily 1:52 p. in., for St. Louis. 44 1, Daily 12:53 p.m., 44 44 44 7, Daily 12:25 a.m., 4 4 4 4 44 5, Ex. Sun 8:56 a.m., 4 4 44 44 8, Ex. Sun . .. 5:28 p.m., 44 Terre Haute. Trains leave Terre Haute. No. 75, Ex. Sun 7:05 a. in., 44 Peoria. 44 77, Ex. Sun 3:25 p.m.. 44 Decatur. FOR THE EAST. No. 20, Daily 1:52 p.m., for Indianapolis. 44 8, Daily 3:35 p m., 44 6, Daily 3:52 a. m., “ “ 12, Daily 2:23 a.m., “ “ 2, Ex. Sun 6:20 p. m., 4 4 44 4, Ex. Sun 8:34 a.m., 44 44 For complete Time Card, giving all trains and stations, and for full information as to rates, through cars, etc., address J. S. DOWLING, Agent, Greencastle, Ind. Or J. M. Chesbrough, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Louis, Mo.

THE BEST GROCERIES and Provisions, It re a cl, I* lew. Cleans, Tuba coo, ETC.. ETC.. A T LOWEST PUKES, At Finest Lunch Counter in the ('itif. Come ami See. Kiefer’s.

AMERICAN BUSINESS LIFE. One of the Things Which an English Gentleman Cannot Understand. This business life of American pentlemen is one of the hardest problems for an Englishman to understand correctly, says the Nineteenth Century. Till comparatively lately in England commercial business, except banking, has not been thought highly of for gentlemen. Politics, the church, the army and navy, the bar. etc., have been the outlets for English younger sons. In America it is quite different. Among the many reasons for this 1 will mention but the one important one, that the pursuits above mentioned afford but few openings, com-

paratively speaking.

The church is a poorly-paid profession for the sons of the wealthy merchants, and the array and navy are so small in number that they do not af-

8:45 a. m. ford a field for more than a few. The l'2:4l p. m. < 4 )iir , Si 0 f course, open, mid is crowded

12:40 a. America as in England. Politics,

for some inscrutable reason, does not seem to attract many of the higher grades of youth. Consequently, the young American seeks the commercial

field, and in every American city,

especially in the west, one finds at the I ing quoted for every fifty thousand.

Murder, geographically considered, is the product of lack of civilization, writes Prof. Oettinger in his “Moral | Statistics.” Whenever a state of gov- | eminent is in a state of disorganization ! the people become demoralized, educa- ( tional and religious progress is at a standstill, and murder is bound to increase. It is essential to lay great stress on the religious feeling of a community, because comparatively few murders occur in Turkey, a country | deranged and unsettled in its affairs, wherein a largo proportion of the people are lacking in civilization and culture. I5ut the Islam faitli is productive of a certain religious sentiment in these uneducated masses which prevents murder, the greatest crime against human and divine laws. Compared with Turkey, Greece, once the seat of civilization, but now demoralized anti degraded by Turkish influence, without the prohibitive power of the Mohammedan religion.manifests the truth of this assertion by rolling up, in a population of loss than ‘2,000,000 people, 316 murders, and 473 felonions assaults, an average of one killed or maimed for every 2,800 souls. This number overshadows demoralized Ireland, where for a number of years the most terrible agrarian crimes, murders, arson, etc., have been committed, the outcome of the atrocious feeling between landowners and the peas-

antry.

Another country with a large percentage is Spain, and an increase in bloodshed goes hand in hand with its gradual decline. A glance at the criminal statistics of the United States demonstrates that murder reaches its highest percentage among the uneducated class, who can neither write nor read. In the state of Texas, for example. one murder occurs to every eight thousand five hundred inhabitants. In Illinois this percentage is considerably lowered, one murder be-

SHE RUNS THE ELEVATOR. I And One >lsn Want* to Knoi* Whitt Ulrl* W 111 Do Next. “Weill well! What will the girls do

next?”

A business man asked this question the other day of a New York World reporter as he stopped aboard the ele- i valor in a building <>n West Fourteenth street. The door of the ear was shut with a bang by a vigorous, rosycheeked and muscular-looking young woman of about twenty years a busi-ness-like young woman she was, too. “What floor, sir? Architect? Right to tiie left, second door." she said, as the car stopped at the third floor. It quickly shot higher as the elevator girl gave the cable a steady pull. Everyone wondered at her dexterity. And she was the pink of propriety, polite and full of information ns to the tenants of the buil ding. To say that she was an improvement on a great many surly elevator kings in down-town ofiice buildings would lx* putting it mildly. A gentleman who had to call at the office of a tenant in the building asked tiie elevator girl the number of his room, and here is what she said:

KING OF THE GULF.

Unsound Objections.

New York Evening Wolrd: The fight Th„ Resident -nd III. Horn. Among th. ^ the ^ ifj Qn mainl Motley < row (In of llunhlr*. ^ Hush ire is the capital of the English on tho I’ leas that 5t ** inquisitorprotectorate in the Persian gulf. Here * a i> Uiat it is class legislation and our resident lives, who may be styled that it encourages perjury, king of the gulf, and l>efore whom all An income tax is no more inquisithe petty potentates along its shores, torialthen other taxes must be ifhonbe they on the Arabian or Persian side, I e>tl nforced It i9 les8 so than bow down, lie lias his steam yacht , and his steam launch provided for him, man >' other8 ‘ The person to be asa British man-of-war is appointed to sessed receives a blank form with be always in readiness to do his bid- proper intruction as to the filling ding, and the British residency, with up andexemptions. On this he writes its flagstaff ami extensive compounds, ( j own (| ie sources and amount of his I s b : vf ;‘ r V le conspieuous bmld- income if the total is Within the exmg’in the town, saws the rortniffutly . . Review * j empt limit ho signs a statement to Bushire is a truly horrible place, that effect. It above the limit he built at the edge of a split of sand run- makes the deductions allowed and

ning out into the gulf. Its population is very mongrel—Arabs, Persians, Hindoos. are all hopelessly mixed up therein. It lias an English bank. What with its English residency, English

returns the surplus as the sum on which he is liable to pay. No one but the local surveyor or assessor sees his return and the official is

bank, English telegraph, English j sworn to secrecy. Ifthe amonnt resteamers' agents and English men-of-1 turned by the citizen as that on which

English as could lie is liable to taxation is accepted as

correct by the assessor, the tax is

end of the

war, Bushire is as

well be wished. Lawn tennis may be

“Oh! ves. sir; Mr. is on the’fourth I seen upon the quays, ladies may play I coUeebed and there is an floor. No. .right near the stair- i matter.

way. lie went out an hour ago. Bis assistant is out, too, hut 1 am sure they will be back soon. What time did you

If you want a fine

Roast orSteak

Or boiling piece call at ^\owev Sc ^>\ov\ev

MEAT MARKET. J Fresh beef, veal, pork, mutton always on iiand. Also a full line of cured meats, at lowest prices. 3m27 4. D. ME, (MiLLA, IE,

BREKDER OF

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Poland China Swhio.

head of cultivation and progress men whose rise lu^s been due to successful commercial tmterprise. It is well for the individual that success should be so rewarded, and it is well for the community, also, that the man of business, w*ho has gained his success on legitimate lines, should be it> leader. In a new and partly unsettled country like America, so fortunately situated as to need practically no foreign policy, and to fear no foreign enemies, the creator or the distributor of wealth is a far more valuable man than tho

politician or the soldier.

The sanguineness of the American is another feature especially striking to an outsider. 'I'he whole temper of the people is one of hope. No young man enters life in any line without the fullest belief that he is going to succeed, and going to make a great deal rtf money, and do it all very quickly. This may be true of young men everywhere, but it is especially so in the states. And men are justified in their

youthful hopes.

Practically any young man of reasonable brains and industry is sure to succeed. Openings are numerous, and the sharp-witted American is quick to take advantage of them. It is a curious fact, but one that I have often heard employers of unskilled labor comment upon, that none of their workmen were American born, unless, possibly, some of the foremen. As an Englishman, I am glad to add that rarely are Englishmen either found as unskilled laborers in American work-

shops.

THE ART OF EATING. A Branch of Eilucatlnn In Which Americana Arc Woefully Deficient, "When my children get to the proper ngo.” said the man who was smoking a briar pipe, “I intend to have them taken in hand by some competent person and given a thorough instruction in the art of eating, and, further, in the science of finding out what to eat and ordering.” “What do you mean?” inquired tho man who sut next to him. “I mean this: The average American citizen is woefully defleieut in knowledge of wtmt he can get to eat. He falls down when it comes to ordering a dinner. The great majority of people in this country are brought up frugally at home and do not know anything but the commonest dishes. T'lie consequence is tiiat when a man goes into a restaurant for dinner or to a hotel he gazes helplessly at the bill of fare and sees many things of which he does not know the component parts. He daj-es not order anything that lie is not sure of, for fear of ridicule, and he falls back on roast beef and mashed potatoes. The fact is. he doesn’t know anything but roast beef. Same way in a restaurant. When a waiter shoves a bill of faro under a man s nose nine times out of ten he will look it over and then say: ‘Gimme n steak and sie'io fried potatoes.’ Now. the man who does this day a fter day doesn’t want roast beef. He is sick unto death of steaks and fried potatoes. lie loathes ham and eggs, and yet he keeps on ordering them in dreary and dyspeptic succession, because he doesn't know any better and he is too prouad to confess his ignorance. It’s that way with me, and I 11 bet it’s that way with

Germany of late years shows an increase of murder cases and assaults, born out of socialistic tendencies. The murder percentage of Great Britain is comparatively small, with the exception of London and Ireland, and personal safety in England and Scotland is commended on all sides. Even few thefts are committed in the level portions. France, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland record murder statistics similar to those oft lermany. No substantial data can be obtained about Russia, but the striking increase in political murders, signalized by the nihilistic and socialistic era, needs no comment. No state in the world rolls up more revolutionary attacks and crimes at the present time than Russia. During the year 1880-87, the last authentic report that could be obtained, three thousand persons were deported to Siberia for life. As with suicide and murder, it is with theft.geographieally speaking. Lack of culture and civilization is synonymous with increased theft and dishonesty, not so much on account of the immoral and depraved condition of the people as because of lack of protection. Theft in Sweden and Norway, in Denmark and the extreme north is exceedingly rare The oriental and southeastern states show an alarming amount of theft, and next to America Turkey, Russia, the Balkan states and Hungary contain

the most crooks.

Fraud’in all its-various denominations, ranging from high-grade swindle in its manifold phases down to small shady transactions which hover between dishonest practices and technical evasions of the law, has its home principally in the large cities of the world. London is a perfect mecea for swindlers, while throughout England, with the exception of London, business dealings are characterized by sound principles <if honesty. Comparatively little fraud is practiced in the northern and western states, as Sweden. Norway, Denmark and Finland. Holland, Belgium, France and Switzerland rank favorably in this respect. In Germany a striking decline is noticeable in fraudulent transactions. The same conditions—lack of civilization and education—which prevail with other crimes pertain to fraud. Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, ami, above all,

Russia lead the line.

say it was? One o'clock. Well, sir. if you don’t mind, just take this chair. Sit right down. Mr. will be back in ten minutes, dust out for lunch, you know. A very pleasant man, isn't he? All aboard!” And up shot the car. The reporter couldn't ascertain whether the rosy-cheeked elevator girl was a fixture or not, us she refused pointblnnk to answer any questions about herself. ‘Just cal! me Mary Jane,” said she, when asked her name. “I am here to work, not to talk about myself.” One of the tenants in tho building says she can run an elevator car better than any man in town. It looked that way somewhat. STRANGE LAW Or BUDDHISM. Hick l.asrar* from fmliii 1‘refer Drain to Food I'rrpnrcMl by ( liriHtmn*. The British ship Lanark arrived in port recently, says the I'hiladelphia Dress. The physician from the British consulate went aboard to examine the crew. Three-fourths were Lascars, shipped in Bombay. The doctor found six suffering from heart affection and two from other diseases. The last two were in a serious condition. The doctor, through an interpreter, told one he must be removed to a hospital. The crew gathered around the physician and uttered the most furious protests. The sick man said he would rather die than leave the ship and his country-

men.

A Lascar eats nothing but food prepared by a countryman; a Christian touching it would cause contamination, and anyone partaking of it after this defilement loses caste. This was why the sick man preferred death to leaving tiie vessel. He consented to go only after the doctor had solemnly promised that he should have food prepared by one of the cnew, and be permitted to leave, whether sick or well, when his ship cleared this port. Then he and the other sick man, who is an Egyptian, were taken to the MedicoChirurgienl hospital. Not another Lascar could be induced to leave the ship. They have their own cook, who mixes the food on a square stone, mashes and boils it. Rice, tea, currie and water form the main part of their diet. Fnder an agreement between the Indian Steamship association and the British government better care 'is taken of the Indian than of English sailors. The Lascars ship under special and separate articles, which provide the kind of food they arc to have, permit to worship as they please, and stipulate warmer clothing and plenty if it in cold climates. Little meat is eaten, for only those of a certain caste are allowed to indulge. The Lascars on the Banark are Buddhists and Mussulmans. THORN OF GLASTONBURY.

more than an ordinary amount of star-

ing from the Moslems. ! If the Iocal assessor or surveyor has It is confidently a -.serted that, if the good reason to belive that the income Karoun route is opened out into the of the citizen is understated he “surheart of Dersia, Bushire will cease to j charges” him a certain sum; that is be the seat of our resident, and the cap- . to s . ho j ncrca8e9 t i ie total of the ital of onr Persian gulf protectorate I Qa

will be removed to Fan or some other

spot which has not yet got a name. If that time ever comes, and Bushire ceases to be the chief outlet for the Persian caravan trade, the place will not long survive, for it has no pretensions whatsoever to call itself a harbor. Big stvamers have to anchor at least two miles off land outside a sandbar. and,if the sen is very rough.landing is next to impossible. Bushire chances to be the outlet for the roads across the Kotals, and if itceases to be that its reason for existence will cease also.

IMPROVING THE EYES.

tin mi of yon. I mn going to relieve iuj

UjIlciU iaraliwa, iiarrou l iyiuoutii , <*hildrpn of nil these things, i hey re

Kook, Black Mitiorcn, Mammoth Brown Turkeys. Touloose Geese, ]Vkin Ducks nnd and Guinn

Fowls.

3m 10

For sale, 20 extra choice Barred Plymouth ock Cockerels. $1.00each; 2 yearling Barred [Plymouth Bock Cocks, $2.00 each; 5 8. C. (White Leghorn Cockerels, extra flue, ft.00 leh; 2 Silver Spangled Hamburg Cockerels, .ix> e.n h, if taken at onci'. Cull on or sdKfg%es» Forrest Ellis Bainbridgc, Ind. 26tf

going to know what's what when it comes to eating. ‘No roast-beef domination!’shall be my household slogan.” And the rest of tho party, says the Buffalo Express, thought it over and concluded that he was pretty nearly right. The peanut as an article of food is rich in

albumen.

An English woman has emyloyed 35 poor Irish women since 1885 in making a coyy of an old piece of Bayeux tapestry.

HOW OLD OAK IS MADE. Tho X'rorenH by Which Green Material Is Madu to Look Aged. You will have to go a long way before you find a body of men more— well, clever — than those cabinetmakers who produce goods to satisfy the desire of the public for furniture made of old and fancy woods. They can, says Wuverly Magazine, transform white wood into all kinds of exotic woods by means of chemicals, and a chemist would bo surprised if he were to have the run of one of those factories for a day. yie manufacture of "old oak is one of their easiest processes. The boards, moldings, panels or whatever pieces are required are made of oak which has just had time to dry sufficiently to prevent excessive warping. They are then placed in a darkroom, on the floor of which, and quite close to the furniture to be “aged,” are placed several bowls, plates, and so forth, of liquid ammonia; the room is then hermetically closed up and the wood is left for a month or two, according to the ngo which is required. 'The coloration will extend to a depth of nearly a quarter of an inch if tl e room is kept closed for a few months. That is why there is so much old oak furniture about. Of course, a little reflection would show that it could not be genuine—the forests of the middle ages would not have furnished onehalf of it; but people do not always reflect.

A1 irarulou* hlorie* Told ot the 1 re« Which IHoomih on UhrUtmaa. At Glastonbury Abbey, in .Somersetshire, England, once stood a thorn tree which, it is said, bloomed every Christmas morning. The first ae.Vientie account of it ever written was in 1772 by a visitor who tells of it in the account

of his visit to the abbey.

The keeper assured him that st. Joseph of Arimathea landed not far from the town, at a place where there was formerly an oak that had been planted to ins memory; that he and his companions marched to a hill and rested themselves, and that Joseph stuck his staff on the ground. Now this staff was a common dry hawthorn stick, but it grew and first came into full flower on Christmas day. Afterward the tree, which had thus grown and budded like Aaron’s rod, always bloomed on the clay of our Lord's nativity and upon no other day. the flower, like those of the night-bloom-ing cereus, lasting hut a few hours. Many queer stories have been told of the “Miraculous Thorn of Glastonbury.” It was said that if the chips from it were planted they would sprout and grow like potatoes; that the leaves cured all inflammations, swellings, etc., nnd that “rods” cut from it would never leave marks on the children cor-

rected by their use.

Country Llf© In the Best Antidote for Near sighted nr a*. It is satisfactory to bo told by Mr. Ellis that blindness in England is “slowly decreasing.” says the Spectator, though Great Britain still stands in this respect behind two other European countries, and three more come before Ireland. Shortsightedness, however, appears to be increasing everywhere, Germany having a signal and sinister preeminence in this re-

spect.

A French doctor has noted the remarkable fact that wild beasts caught quite young or born in captivity become shortsighted, the conclusion being that the eye adapts itself to its habitual sphere of vision, and unless “educated,” to use Mr. Ellis’ term, to see objects at a distance, loses the capacity of so doing. Even in after life the eye may be, to some extent, so educated, though probably only when the myopia is not considerable. It is thus within the experience of the present writer that his sight greatly improved in days gone by, when he became a volunteer, by practicif at the butts, so that while at first he could not see the target to shoot at without spectacles at the three-hundred-yard range, after a twelvemonth or so he only needed to put on spectacles at four hundred yards. But beyond that range he was never able to dispense

with them.

Country excursions are therefore extremely valuable as means of strengthening the sight of town-bred children; and the conductors of such excursions should take pains to direct the eyes of the children to distant objects—to the furthest hill, church tower or other landmark, noting, ?f possible, any incapacity to discern the selected object, nnd then selecting some nearer one for the weaker-sighted. KILLIES AND THEIR FOES. Not Only Fifth, Fowl ami Man Devour, But Even Chlekens I’lllage Thera. “He doesn't mind a little thing like that,” said the deacon, kindly, us ho passed his hook tlirough the skin hi' hind the hack tin of tiie killie and cusl minnow, hook and sinker the length ol his line to try the effect of a fresh bait. “If the snappers don’t bite any better than they’ve been doing he’ll be swimming as lively as ever when we pull up anchor to go home. Look at those killies in the bait box. Nothing damper about them than some seaweed since morning, and they’ll all lie ready to swim awa3‘ if they stay till tomorrow. "They are tough and hardy little fellows and no mistake,” he continued, lifting the seaweed to look admirfngly ut the wriggling little stumptailed tisli packed like sardines in the box. "They seem to have been created for the good of others. Everything preys on killies, from men who bait their hooks with them or eat the minnows as white bait, down to the gulls and herons and bass and blaekfish and weakfish and fluke and snappers that follow them among the grass every full tide. And with all this keeping after them they don't thin Ihtui out that anyone can see. Why, the very chickens along shore will run from a dough trough for the sake of eating killies' eggs. "Hold on a minute, deacon,” said tiie reporter, who was the pious mariner’s fishing companion that day. "I grant all the rest you say, but please explain how chickens manage to get at the killies’ eggs. If you’d said ducks oi geese. I could understand it ”

return by such amount as he considers just and notifies the citizen of the fact. If the citizen chooses to pay tax on the increased amount he makes no opposition to the raise and no inquisition takes place at all. If he resists the surcharge he is required to show before the proper board what his income actually is and whence it

is derived.

When an income is derived from the|dividend ofcorporations in a lump and is deducted from each owner’s share by tiie corporations when it pays the dividends. If the entire income of the receiver of the dividends falls within the amount exempted from taxation altogether, he sets forth that fact in a form supplied by by the government and obtains a return of tiie amount deducted from him. There is nothing “inquisitorial”

about that.

The objection that an income tax “encourages perjury” is equally unsound and absurd. The tariff is a much more prolific source of perjury, and it is notorious that the tax laws of this state, at least, are so framed as to make it an easy matter to falsely swear off personal taxation. If an income tax is open to sound and valid objections it is proper that they should be Urged against the enactment of the law. But it is neither wise statesmanship nor good citizenship to seek to kill so important a measure by appeals to prejudice or by the use of arguments as unsound and unsubstantial as they redicnlous. In autumn, winter anti spring, colds ar Ft rule rather than the exception. Hence it is the part of every w ise and prudent mother to keep on hand a supply of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup the great demestic favorite and infallible cure for all affections of the throat

and chest.

1

AFRICAN COIFFURES.

Somewhat Severe.

An exchange prints a story which may be commended to the attention of all public speakers who have tiie dangerous gift of fluency. A young lawyer talked for several hours to a jury

.lava’s Fire Island.

One of the greatest natural wonders in Java, "the fire island.” a large lake of boiling mud, is situated almost in the center of the plains cf Grobogunu, fifty ’’paals" to the northeast of Solo. It is almost two miles in circumference,

and in the center immense columns of ! in Indiana, to the weariness of nil soft, hot mud may bo seen continually vvho were obliged to listen. At last rising and falling like great black tim- he S at down and the opposing counsel, hors thrust fortli and then suddenly a white-haired veteran, rose to reply, withdrawn by a giant's hands. Be- j “Your honor,” said he, “I will follow sides the phenomena of the columns the example of my young friend vvho there are two gigantic bubbles near has just finished, and submit the case the western edge which till up like ' without argument.” With that lie took huge balloons and explode on an avc- j his seat and the silence was oppri;s-

age of three times per minute. sive.

Styles That Would Hardly Find Favor In

This Country.

A recent visitor to Samoa tells of a famous village beauty in that remote region whose headdress is thus described: “Round her forehead was a band of small pieces of nautilus shell; above towered a mass of human hair that had been bleached for months in a marsh, with scraps of looking-glass arranged in front, the whole surmounted with a trail of red hummingbirds’ feathers.” Dr. Drummond, in his book of African travel, makes mention of the chieftain's daughter, whose hair, heavily, greased with ground-nut oil, was made up into small-sized balls, like black currants, and then divided into pat terns—diamonds, circles, and parterres designed with tho skill of a land scape gardener. Both these '’aii.iUge-' ments” would, in the eyes of civilized artists and connoisseurs, be probably regarded as savage monstrosities, but it is to be doubted whether they are not utterly surpassed by the goldfinch and canary arrangement, by a kingfisher's wing crowned with red shivering glass ami sham jewels, both in tawdry insolence nnd depravity of taste. What is called “barbarous" if found among savages may, after all, be the very height of fashion in Mayfair, though the cheap finery of the tin moan or African belle is marked neither by cruelty to the victim nor by gain to the artist. The World's Prosldsnts. The president of the Argentine Republic is chosen for six years and receives an annual salary of 830,000. The French president receives a salary of $120,000, a house to live in, and allowances amounting to $120,000 more; his teru>'if office is seven years, and he may be reelected. The president of the Swiss republic is elected from the seven federal councillors (vvho serve three years), and serves ns president for one year, receiving a salary of $2,700. He may be reelected after an interval of one year. The president of Mexico is paid (MO.'.*77 each year, and serves four years: he may be reelected now, Gen. Diaz, the present president, l.uviug had the constitution altered te permit him to serve.

The “noly Ohovt” Want. In Mexico, v entral and South America, and in some parts of Cuba and Jamaica, a rare ami beautiful plant called the “Holy Ghost plant" grows in great profusion. This plant, also known as “the botanical dove,” is culled the “Holy Ghost plant” on account of the shape of the flower, which has the appearance of a dove with expanded wings hovering over the stalk. The entire flower,'which is pure white, opens from the end of a long green stem and is very fragrant.