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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Pete McCoy says he will box any man in America at 140 pounds at $2,000 a side. James Wakely offers to match an unknown pugilistagainst any man in the world, barring Sullivan, for from $2,500 to $5,000 a side. Gus. Glidden, of Rushville, has his trotter, Wilson, in the free-for-all class, through the Ohio circuit, but the fact that Edwin Thorne is isl the same class rather keeps Gus from winning a ra6o. Dominick McCaffrey, of Pittsburg, who beat Jimmy Ryan, of Philadelphia, a few days ago, at John H. Clark’s Olympic Theater, writes that he is prepared to box or fight any man in America, barring Sullivan, for SI,OOO a side. On the last day at Cleveland, between heats, Clingstone trotted a last quarter in .32; Frank Palmer and Arkansas trotted a mile double in 2.36*4; Jay-eye-see trotted a last quarter in 3314; Little Brown Jug paced a mile in 2.15% the first quarter in .33; Pilgrim trotted a half iu 1:07. Al. Smith, on the part of John L. Sullivan, and Charles Davis, for Paddy Ryan, have completed arrangements for a meeting between the two pugilists with soft gloves, the contest to come off in Chicago on July 4. Ryan is to get 40 percent, of the receipts of the house and Sullivan 60 per cent. W. Muldoon and Jules Rigl tried conclusions at Gneco-Roman wrestling at Union Hall, San Francisco, Cal., June 4. The match, which was presumedly for SSOO a side and gate money, was won by Muldoon, who secured the first fall in 21 min. 58)4 see., and tire second in 32 min. 58)4 sec. Rigl is a Frenchman, who came to this country in 1875. This was his first defeat since his arrival, he having defeated Louis Carteron, Andrea Christol, Emil Renier and Lucien Marc. Boston Special: Mitchell, the English pugilist, was asked to-night about his coming fight with Slade. He said that if there was any backing out it would be on Slade’s part. As far as he was concerned there would be an honest meeting. The next deposit of $1,500 a side would be forwarded to Harry Hill in a few days, although the time is not up until July 31. Mitchell said he would begin training in Kansas City in about a fortnight. The fight is to come off in that vicinity on Sept. 11. Mitchell and Madden are to give sparring exhibitions in the West. They wish it understood that they will pay no attention to challenges until after the fight with Slade.” ‘‘What do you think of Slade?” asked the reporter. “I have come to the conclusiou that he is a speculator, or is being used as the tool of speculators. He comes with a great flourish of trumpets, but the whole tone of the crowd about him shows that he is a humbug. There are a dozen men ready to fight him. lam confident that 1 can knock him out.” The following races and purses have been won Dy Edward Hanlan, the champion sculler: Centennial regatta, 3 miles, 1876 SBOO Bnver Luke, Maes., 1877,3 miles 150 Rbs, at Toronto, On:.. 5 miles 1,000 Plaisted, at Toronto, Ont., 2 miles 1,000 Brochville, Out , regatta, 1878. 4 rnilee.. 500 Cape Viuoenr, N. Y., 1878, 3 inil*- 200 Hiiwdou, of England, Tyne course 1,000 Elliott, of England, Thames course 1,000 Triekett, of Australia, Thames course, 1880 1,000 Triekett, of Australia, Thames course, 1881 •. 2,500 Layrock, of Australia, Thames course, 1882 2.500 Bojd, of England, Tyne course, 1882.... 2,500 Courtney, Lacbine, 5 rni'es 8,000 Courtney, Washington, 5 miles 5,000 Riley, Washington, 5 miles 2,000 Barri**,Ont . rMnuffH. 3 tulles. 500 Morris, Pittsburg, 5 miles 1,000 Boss, St. John, 5 miles 1,000 Prizes won in smaller races and regattas 500 Sportsman's cup, valued at 1,000 Bportsmau’s medal, valued at 300 Total $33,450 In his races with Laycock and Triekett in England his winnings were $10,000; in the Elliott and Hawdon races, $5,000; in the Morris race, $1,500; with Plaisted, $1,500; with Ross, $1,500; Triekett and Boyd races, $2,000. Rase Ball. The St. Louis, Athletic and Cincinnati are even up for the American championship. Cincinnati Enquirer: ‘‘Nolan should be left where he belongs—in a saloon show window.” Johnny Peters, immediately upon his release from the Allegheny club, was engaged by the Eclipse. Enquirer: ‘‘Williamson, of the Chicago nine, appears to be on his last legs. He has made more errors than put-outs during the present season.” Douglas Allison, the famous catcher of the old Cincinnati club, appeared in three games last week with the Nationals, of Washington, and showed up in fine form. It is said that the Athletics paid SSOO to Cleveland to secure Bradley’s release. Third basemen come high, but the Athletic managers were determined to have one. Enquirer: “Cleveland has lost both Bradley and Bhaffer, but the great double-jointed, high-heeled kicker, Pete Hotaling—like the star-spangled banner—is still there.” The Grand Forks (Dakota) club had a great game on Decoration Day, defeating the Larimores 54 to 0, and making 110 base hits. One man broke seven bats. Bill Nye, of the Boomerang, probably scored the game. St. Louis has abandoned all but base ball. The Post-Dispatch (afternoon paper), beginning this week, will issue a 7-o’clock edition, containing telegraphic reports of all the American games played in the country each day. Weidman is not with the Detroits. He is not well, and was left at his home in Rochester, N. Y., by Manager Chapman. There be stays for a week. In the meantime Shaw, the new man, who is a left-handed pitcher, will alternate with Burns. Umpire Magner, who chartered a special train, at a cost to himself ot $125, in order to get to Louisville in time to umpire Sunday’s game, had a benefit there yesterday, the Eclipse and Baltimores playing, and netted a good round sum from it. Booth and Southers, the Yale team battery of this .season, are just now subjects of worship in the East. The Athletics, Baltimores and Philadelphia club are all bidding for their services. Someone who can pitch with a Greek curve is what Bob Ferguson wants. Cleveland Herald: “The flag will go to one of three clubs—Cleveland, New York or Providence. Now it is anybody’s, and the indications point toward a close, hard light for the right to be champions of 1884. Chicago does not appear dangerous. The club is weak in pitchers, and one-third of a season’s play has not brought the playing down to ‘hardpan.’ Chicago may round to and win, but it is doubtful. Last year at this time it was more doubtful.” Hornung, of the Bostons, is doing remarkable work in the outfield and at the bat. Saturday he made four runs, two of them being home runs. Monday be made another home run. Tuesday he followed a two base hit by a three base hit. He played without an error, harvested a number of flies, and has assists to his credit. Hornung fully earns the large salary he receives. A savings bank in Utica holds several thousand dollars of Hornung*s wealth, and every dollar was earned by good work on the ball field. “The Indianapolis club, after beating a large number of country clubs, are crowing very loud. But they are afraid to come to Cincinnati to play the Bhamrocks, though the Shamrock . management have promised to guarantee them $250 for one game.”— Cincinnati Enquirer. Manager O’Leary says

no such offer has been received, and that he will play the Shamrocks whenever they want to, if the time is not taken. If the Shamrocks can beat the Indianapolis club, they can break a great many good people here. Manager Mutrie, of New York, speaking of base-ball players to a reporter, said: “Do you see that young fellow in the Chicago nine who just caught that ball so beautifully in the center field? He was getting $lO a week working in a paper-mill not long ago. This season he refused an engagement at $2,500, and must be getting more.” CINCINNATI. The Early History of the Queen City of the West—Olive Logan Corrected. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The July number of Harper’s Monthly contains a very interesting sketch of the “Queen City of the West,” from the pen of Olive Logan. Os course, the writer had to depend on floating tradition for many of the early incidents and dates of that narrative, as these almost invariably belong to the chapter of unwritten history. Strict accuracy cannot, therefore, be expected in such details, but it is well that these matters should find their way into print while those yet live who can correct the errors from their own memory, or from direct information from the rotors in t>cce early events. Fort Washington was located on Lie high point of land at the mouth of Deer creek, in the spring of 1789, for the protection of the prospective colony which was to settle the land which Congress had granted to John Cleves Symmes, of New Jersey, so that the town grew up under the protection of that garrison. I venture, therefore, to suggest that possibly the danger from Indians is overdrawn in this sketch. The red man, then as now, had a wholesome dread of United States forts, and generally gave them a wide berth. Moreover, there is a slight mistake iu the statement that ihe Indian trail to Kentucky crossed the Ohio river at Cincinnati. North Bend was the point where that trail crossed, and the little pocket-like cove where the town of Cleves now stands was the depot where the Indians concealed their stolen horses and other property till the thieving gang could reassemble. The Indians never made an attack on the town or garrison, and but one man was ever killed by them within the present city limits. His name was Yan Cleve. He was a noted Indian hunter, and was killed a little south of where the Commercial Hospital now stands. Another slight mistake I detect in the orthography and etymology of the original name of the city. That name originated with Colonel Ludlow, who surveyed the first city plat, after the model of Philadelphia. He was an accomplished scholar, but was a little pedantic. His name—Losantiville (i instead of e in the third syllable)—is a literary curiosity. Lis an abbreviation of Licking (Saxon); os, a mouth (Greek); anti, opposite (Latin); ville, a town, or group of houses (French). Translation: The village opposite the mouth of Licking. But this name, with all its classical prestige, did not take readily with the backwoodsmen, and as the fort had been named Washington, there was a disposition to transfer the name to the town. In 1790, Gen. St. Clair was made Governor of the Northwestern Territory and com-mander-in-chief of the military forces therein, with headquarters at Fort Washington. He was a prominent member of the “Society of the Cincinnati,” composed of officers of the Revolutionary army, who. on retiring to domestic pursuits, in 1783, organized this society and named it in honor of the Roman Cincinnatus. At the suggestion of Gen. St. Clair, and in honor of his society, Losantiville accepted the name of Cincinnati. But, until after Wayne’s victory, in 1794, and the subsequent withdrawal of the military post, the town was generally known as Fort Washington. The writer of the magazine article says that the tide of immigration from New England reached Cincinnati some time between 1825 and 1830. Now, I distinctly remember the arrival of a colony of about thirty families, from the Penobscot, in Maine, early in the spring of 1815, They had wintered at Olean, in Pennsylvania, and came down the river on a raft of pine lumber. After selling their lumber they bought a district of white-oak flats, a few miles above the mouth of the Little Miami, where they established the first free school in the West—taxing themselves and paying a teacher by the month. This colony was followed by others each year for some time, and finally by a general private immigration from the Eastern States. The paper speaks of the large steamboat commerce enjoyed by Cincinnati, but fails to give its genesis. Fulton built a sternwheel boat in Pittsburg which descended the river in February, 1812. She was named “The Experiment,” and’was afterwards called the Orleans. But this was not the first boat on the Ohio, as is generally claimed. At this time the largest shipyard on the Ohio was at Marietta. An enterprising company of boat-builders here brought a steam-engine from Philadelphia, and fitted up a first-class keelboat with a stern wheel driven by their engine. This boat, bearing the name of “The Enterprise,” descended the Ohio in the early days of November, 1811. After reaching Cincinnati, she returned to Maysville to demonstrate her ability to run against the current. Returning, she pursued her course for New Orleans, but was caught in the terrible earthquake on the 18th of November, 1811, a few miles below the mouth of the Ohio. She was thrown entirely out of water on the beach, but the return wave carried her back into the element again, and, continuing her voyage, she reached New Orleans the first of December, 1811. This steamboat is the earliest inscription on the memory of thf present writer. r. t. b. Mackey's Ducat Palace. London Cable Dispatch. Mr. Mackey is a man who most deeply exasperates the art dealers of both New York and Paris. After they had sold him some real bargains to encourage him, they learn he has just paid half a million for Sir Philip Miles’ fine collection at Leigh court, and that he has been for some time in negotiation with Lord Lansdowne, for a series of Italian masters of the highest renown. Unfortunately, Mackey’s purchases are not likely to go to America, at least for some time. There is danger that, dazzled by the brilliancy of the courts of Europe and the social splendor of its nobility, he may forget the more remote but not less agreeable attractions of the Hoffman House. He is even now credited with being in treaty for a ducal mansion in Belgravia. Biamarck on Lard. OH Citv Blizzard. Wilhelm—Veil, Pismarck. how ish de news by the morning babers? Bismarck—Oh, dey has dreemjus exitement by Shicago. Dey bust a lard gorner, an’ efery one by de Unided Bdade9 gograzy. You see vat droubles I safe Yermany by keeping dot sduff oud, A religious exchange tells a story of a cornet-player employed in a Baptist church who lost his position by playing the wellknown melody “Pull for the Shore,” at the baptism of a number of converts. When the bloon moves sluggishly in the veins because it 1h loaded with impurities, an alterative ts needed, as this condition of the vita) fluid cannot last long without serious results. There is nothing better tbair Ayei’s Sarsaparilla to purify the blood ami Impart energy to the system.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1883.

THE SEASON’S FASHIONS. Flowers are extravagantly used on dressy bonnets and hats of every description. “Boots and gloves that fit, and a pretty handkerchief,” answered a Frenchwoman when challenged to name three essentials of an elegant costume. Woolen muslins are to be had in all possible shades of color—old copper, terracotta, crushed strawberry and all the new colors, as well as all the classical ones, A suggestion of silver throughout an entire black costume gives a beautiful and uncommon effect to this somber dress. This combination is charming in “half” mourning. Fringes are quite discarded as trimmings; embroideries and lace have taken their place. Embroideries in color matching the material are very much liked for dresses of medium quality. Slippers are worn without the slightest ornament, not even a bow or tie. They are of the finest black kid, and are made so closefitting and plain as to leave a doubt as to when the slipper leaves off and the stocking begins. We would warn our readers against the prevailing habit of drawing their suede or gauntlet gloves over the sleeves of their dresses. It is not the fashion except among ignorant persons, and is regarded as a mark of extreme bad form. Gold, silver and bronze silver thistles are novel, and they are arranged for bonnet as well as for dress decorations; some have mauve floss silk I Hoc rted, resembling the natural thistle-down. On black bonnets and dresses they look remarkably well. An effort is being made to bring into use again the bordered lace veils worn ten or twelve years ago. These are seen in both white and black lace, shaped somewhat like a fichu, with tab ends that tie behind the crown, while the center part is deeply curved, and is passed over the front of the bonnet, and allowed to drop below the chin. The pretty shoulder cape for summer use, to be made of goods matching the dress, just covers the shoulders, comes down in irontto the belt, and from thence the sash ends are carried to the back and tied or simply crossed and fastened with a knot of ribbons or a pin. Both cape and sash ends are edged with a ruffle of Oriental lace, which launders the best of all the fancy laces except Torchon. Fancy plaids in strange combinations of colors are fashionable in all materials, woolen, silk or cotton, but more particularly so in soft twilled surah for skirts, flounced in front and fully draped at the back with a flowing bow of narrow ribbon of the prevailing colors of the plaid over the left hip. Young ladies wear such skirts with bodices of plain cloth or velvet, with a very short basque cut out in narrow tongue-shaped tabs. They are also worn with tunics of selfcolored vailing, or other fine woolen fabric, draped high over the plaid skirt. Among the many novelties in the way of wraps for watering-place use are Louis XVI pelisses of Chinese silk, which, in common with other novelties, will have its votaries and detractors. The garment is most becoming and appropriate to tall, slender figures, and is generally chosen in pale nun’s gray or ecru shades. The light washing silk of which these pelisses are made has one great advantage—the dust does not adhere to it; so that, if desired, brighter shades may be selected (of which there are many, deep red among the rest) without fear of the color being dimmed by a long dusty ride. Sleeveless jackets and bodices open, square, or heart shape, and made of embroidered velvet, brocade, or of gros grain silk in pale blue mauve, or shrimp pink, liand-painted, and edged with lace, will be very fashionably worn over evening dresses of white lace, embroidered muslin, veiling, batiste, and other light fabrics. A number of these little sleeveless affairs, which can each be made of a yard and a half of material or less, are pretty and inexpensive, supplying a decided change in the appearance of the same white dress. With plenty of ribbons matchingeach jacket, to fasten upon the skirts, the effect is quite magical. Individuality In Dresses. Harper’s Bazar. Independent young women select some simple style that is becoming to them, and have all their dresses of both rich and plain fabrics made of one pattern. Thus a young lady with slender, graceful figure has a preference for the round basaue with deep apron overskirt, and narrow short skirt with flounces, and this, with slight variations in the trimming of the lower skirt and the upper drapery, is the design used for all the dresses of her suuimer wardrobe. One of these pretty dresses is entirely of India foulard of dark-blue ground, with India-red circles in it. This has two or three gathered flounces on the lower skirt, a hem on the round apron overskirt, and the basque has a shirred front. With this is a parasol of the same foulard, and for morning walks her hat is an English rough straw walking hat trimmed with blue velvet and two white pigeons. A second dress is often of ecru pongee with the deep apron overskirt covered with Persian embroidery of red, blue, and olive, in very small designs. And a third dress has a skirt of gay figured foulard with scalloped flounces, while the shirred basque and overskirt are of plain lemon-colored foulard with frills of Oriental lace. Another young lady finds the Jersey waist becoming to her, and seven of these waists complete the dresses of her summer outfit. There is a jetted silk Jersey to wear with black skirts; one of pale blue wool for a striped wool dress that shows blue, olive, rose, and cream-color in the stripes; a beaded scarlet Jersey for white, red, and black dresses; a brown wool Jersey that forms the waist to her traveling dress that has checked wool skirts; an ecru Jersey for pongee skirts; another of white wool to wear with blue and white flannel skirts in the country; and still another of white silk with crystal headings to wear with evening dresses. Since the Jersey has been deprived of its scant look and improved in shape by American modistes, who have added a collar, cuffs, pleating at the back, and sometimes a narrow vest, it has become both a popular and a fashionable garment. Those Jerseys made with sewed seams, forming a French back with some pleats in the middle seam, are preferred for slender figures, while those woven in the plain Jersey shape are liked for larger women. They are made without darts, and the single-breasted fronts have an English collar notched like the collar of a gentleman’s morning coat, and above this is a high standing collar. Small cuffs are turned back on the sleeves and hemmed, and there are curved sli ts for pockets on each side. Modistes make a waist like this as a part of a suit, and attach it permanently to the lower skirt, or else there is a sash like that of the lower skirt sewed on to the edge of the Jersey; this style is liked for young ladies and school girls, Older ladies have the Jersey represent an outside basque simply hemmed on the edees. and finished in the back with a ribbon bow and loops over the pleating, or to make the back bouffant when there is no pleating. When the webbing is not thick it will show the white corset cover if tightly drawn over it, hence a cover of silesia, or of thin silk the color of the Jersey cloth, should be worn beneath it. A Frog Swallows a Duckling. Samllake Sun. Last Friday, while a brood of young ducks were swimming in Kane’s pond, the property of J. H. Gaoler, one of the brood became missing. Thinking that a mink was the thief, Mr. Gabler and Charles H. Cole set out with their guns to hunt down the desperado. During the search a large frog attracted their attention. Mr. Gabler carelessly picked up a stick and smote the frog on the head, kiP

ing it instantly. Upon dressing it for eating purposes, the duck was found in the frog’s stomach, which had swallowed it whole, to their great astonishment. The ducks were of a choice setting which the owner had taken great pains to raise. A WONDERFUL CLOCK. The Apparatus Constructed by a Swiss Watchmaker of Newcastle, Pa. Newcastle Correspondence Philadelphia Press. Theodore Rohrer, a Swiss watchmaker of this city, has just completed an automatic clock, which for intricate mechanism sur- ? asses the celebrated time-piece at Strasburg. t is built in imitation of an ancient castle, and is about five feet in width and elven feet high. On the top is perched an eagle holding in its beak a pendulum. Beneath the bird is a globe encircled by a dial plate of twentyfour hours, which, in its revolution of once a day, gives the time at any meridian. At 4 o’clock, dials placed on each side of the stand on which the national bird rests, register the time at Washington, San Francisco, London and St. Petersburg. The machinery is so adjusted that at the hour of 1, two figures, representing Roman soldiers with shield and sword, annonnee the dawn of time, and man’s entrance upon the stage of life. Five minutes later a small door near the top of the clock flies open and an almost life-like bird appears, and in exceedingly doleful notes chants the “Flight of Time.” Another five minutes glide by, when the doors of another apartment open and reveal a little babe, which remains five minutes. At different periods until the next hour there come and go figures which represent the child, youth, man in his strength, in his decline, helpless age, and in his last long sleep. During the entire day and night a sentinel walks to and fro along a gallery prepared for him. and halts and turus as natural as life. At each hour there appears a figure representing the different nations of the earth—at 1 o’clock the Russian, at 2 the Prussian, at 3, an invisible orchestra mystifies the hearer with most excellent renditions of choicest selections; at 4 the Austrian appears; at 5, au Italian; at 6 two doors in the chapel open and a sexton sounds the chimes, which are set to form perfect harmony, and several beautiful selections are rendered; at 7 a representative of France bows to the lookeron, and then marches on to make room at 8 for the Spaniard. At 9 the orchestra is again heard. At 10, red-coated Johnny Bull steps forth, and is followed at 11 by Uncle Sara, who appears from the rear of the clock, flag in hand, and performs the remarkable feat of climbing a pole on the top of the clock. He fastens the stars and stripes to the top, descends and disappears. W bile this scene is going on drums on the interior are beating merrily. At 12 o’clock large folding doors are opened and a sacred scene is presented, which is still more wonderful than those already mentioned. It shows.the Savior in the presence of the apostles, evidently giving them their instructions, as it is his last night on earth. He moves about and addresses each one of his faithful followers in turn, making life-like gestures. After thus having delivered himself, he lies down, surrendering himself to his enemies. The apostles then withdraw from the scene, followed by the traitor Judas, who, with the bag containing thirty pieces of silver, strikes five bells as he leaves the scene. The cock on top of the clock then flaps his wings and crows three times. During the time Christ is instructing his apostles Satan appears upon the scene twice, as if in doubt as to his actions. This scene closes, when two trumpeters appear, and raising their bugles to their lips, proclaim the close of night. During the twelve hours the clock plays three musical selections, and 2,022 automatic movements are made. Os course, the machinery is so arranged as to permit the entire peformance of the automatons taking place every fifteen or twenty minutes. The inventor of this wonderful time-piece was born in Baden, Germany, in 1846, and after serving an apprenticeship to a watchmaker in his native place, went to London, where he remained six years. In 1871 he came to this city and secured a situation with Mr. J. C. Hanna, where he has since remained. His wonderful clock he constructed in his spare moments, in the mornings and evenings, having commenced work on it seven years ago. He has always shown remarkable ingenuity, having several years ago made a miniature clock which he wears for a shirtstud, and which keeps correct time. This invention caused considerable talk in scientific circles, as Mr. Rohrer was the first person who succeeded in demonstrating the fact that a pendulum could be made to swing while the time-piece lay on its back. The dial of his “shirt front” clock is held in the pin-hole nearest the collar, while the lower part of the miniature concern appears a jout one inch below, where the nenaulum is seen swinging to and fro. Mr. Rohrer intends putting his latest product on exhibition throughout the country. Edmund C. Stedmau. Troy (N. Y.) Times. Another Yankee worthy of notice is Edmund C. Stedman, who has just entered his fiftieth year. He is a native of Hartford, and was educated at Yale. He was rather fast, and became both a husband and an editor of the Winsted Herald before reaching twenty-one. New York then attracted him, and lie came hither and attracted attention by the “Diamond Wedding,” which was one of the cleverest stories of the day. Stedman became an attache of the press, and also showed great familiarity with Greek literature, but as his family increased he saw the necessity of more profitable employment, and in 1864 became a Wall-street broker. Strange it is that a poet should be a business man, and yet Stedman proved a success in his new field, and has made money in an honorable manner. Any one who looks closely at a Wall street crowd will notice the tall form and piercing eye of the poet-broker. He has not utterly lost the student look, but the cares of business tell upon him, and his hair is becoming silvered. He moves, however, with rapid step, and is evidently full of vital power. His love of literature is still cherished, and he no doubt hopes to retire from the madding crowd and seek again the society of the muses, but this will never take place. At fifty a naan’s habits become fixed, and Stedman will remain in Wall street till the last. He has made enough to become the owner of a house, and he has evidently mastered the lesson which Euripides puts into the mouth of the Cyclops, making the latter thus address Ulysses: “Wealth, my little fellow, is the deity of the wise; the rest is mere brag and fine words.” Dr. W. P. Mackay, preaching one day to some British soldiers, put the question: “If Queen Victoria were to issue a proclamation, and placing it in the hands of her army and navy, should say, ‘Go into all the world, and proclaim it to every creature,’ how long do you think it would take to do it?” One of the men accustomed to obeying orders without questioning or delay, and at the peril of their lives, replied (he was a grave and intelligent officer): “I think we could manage it in about eighteen months.” And who can doubt it? Or what shall hinder the church, in this day of almost miraculous facilities from taking its King’s proclamation to every creature iu very nearly, if not quite, the name time? A reverend sportsman was once boasting of his infallible skill in finding a hare. “Isl were a , hare,” said a Quaker who was present, ‘I would take ray seat in a place where I should be sure of not being disturbed by thee from the Ist of January to the last day of December.” “Why, where would you go?” asked the sportsman. “Into thy study!” replied the Quaker.

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I THE BIRDS OF INDIANA. i Written for the Journal by Dr. A. W. Bray ton. The Swallows. Os all birds, swallows are best known and most welcome. They are recognized in every literature; they are the “cherished witnesses of peace and plenty in the homestead, and the dazzling ornaments of the busy thoroughfare.” Swallows form a natural family of about one hundred species, universally distributed. NorthJAmerica has seven species—lndiana six. Beat known is the purple martin (Progne subis), a common summer resident with us, coming in early April and going in early September. No American bird is better known. It is found all over North America, breeding to the arctic circle, and is accidental in Europe. It ne9ts in boxes, gourds, and in the holes made by woodpeckers. It drives the bluebird and English sparrow from its boxes in short order. The same pair returns to the same nest j'ear after year, finding its old home with unerring precision after migrations of thousands of miles. “Like all swallows, the present species is a great insect eater, destroying incalculable numbers, including many injurious species. They should be preserved, in the interests of farmers and fruit-growers, not wantonly destroyed, though a tempting target to the marksman. ‘Needless taking of any life is a crime against nature. We may well pause at this, even if no spark of sentiment should kindle indignation at the thought of cutting short such useful, bright and joyous life. Things both useful ana beautiful are not so common that we can afford to sacrifice them in vain. The rowdy boys and all the crew of tramps and potters of the gun who shoot swallows for 6port may be seriously admonished that these birds are worth more to society than their idle, vicious selves.’ Dr. Coues. The story of Procne, whose sister Philomela was violated by Procne’s husband, the King of Thrace, is variously told by mythological authorities. At any rate, they agree that Procne, in revenge, slew her son Itys, and in revenge served up his flesh in a nice stew to his father. The sisters, pursued by the King, were changed into birds, Philomela becoming the nightingale and Procne the swallow. This legend is, doubtless, like many others, invented to account mythically for the habits of the bird to which it is applied. The twitter of the swallow sounds like itys, itys, and the note of the nightingale was regarded as sufficiently lugubrious to represent the disgraced and tongueless Philomela. Next is the barn swallow (Kirundo erythrogoster, literally the red-bellied swallow). This swallow has a deeply-forked, “scissors” tail; it i9 lustrous steelblue above and chestnut below, with chestnut throat and forehead. The name of the barn swallow is a household word. Said Wilson: “The light of heaven itself, the sky or trees are not better known. It breeds in colonies under the barn eaves, making its adobe nest of mud and hay with a feather coating inside. By the side of the nest there is often built a platform for the parents of the growing brood to roost upon. This swallow is the ‘typical granger himself,’ dealing in the raw earth, with the odor of the barn about him, and ‘hayseed in his hair.’ This species can fly a mile a minute for ten hours a day. What shall we say of his matchless wings, that bring him every summer? Before his pinions distance vanishes. The swallow breakfasts in South America, and takes his noon lunch in Indiana. If one of them cannot make a summer, there can be, nevertheless, no summer without them. Man’s utmost dream of freedom clothes him with wings with which he may bask upon the summer clouds? O, that we had the wings of a dove, or even of a swallow, that we might look down upon the rolling world and get a birdseye view of our sluggish life.” The white-bellieds wallow (Tachycieneta Bicolor), is lustrous green above, with pure white below; the female, as with the purple martin, is duller in color. The tail is not deeply forked, it is only notched. This species is common about water; it nests in holes in trees and stumps, rarely in boxes. It does not build with mud. Os this swallow Dr. Coues says: “The pretty white-bellied swallow', in dress of snowy vest and literal ‘swal-low-tail,’ has been known to accomplish a transatlantic voyage successfully and reach the shores of the old world, only to be captured and made a paragraph of.” The cliff swallow, or eave-swallow (Petrachelidon lunifrous), is lustrous steelblue, with forehead, sides of head, throat and rump of various shades of chestnut. The sexes are similar in color. This is an abundant migrant and resident, formerly nesting in cliffs, but now under eaves of barns and dwellings. The adobe nest is cup or even retort shape, with an elongated neck. These swallows take to the eaves for protection; it is the natural instinct to come in out of the wet. Their bottle-nosed nests, unless the enfant terrible or the man with the long pole appears, usually decant a full brood of swollows, and, continues Dr. Couses, “I wish nothing more harmful ever came ont of the bottle.” The rough-winged swallow is a quakergray bird that is found about our river hanks, nesting in holes in the banks and skimming the surface of the water in search of insects. Like al! except the bank swallow, which still retains the primitive habits of the family, this species makes use of holes in masonry for its nests, thus paying its compliment to human civilization. It takes its formidable scientific name, (Stelgidapteryx serri pennis), as also its common name from the saw-like wings formed by a series of minute recurved hocks on the outer web of the first wing-feather. This is a curious swallow and not a well known one to many except collectors and naturalists. Last, but not least, is our bank swallow (Cotyle riparia), a dark gray swallow, not irridescent; it is white below, and with a brown shade across the breast. It is a cosmopolite, found in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. It is an abundant summer resident, nesting in holes in sand banks. so-called chimnfey “swallow” resembles the swallow's proper in its form and mode of flight, its insect food and twittering notes; like the swallows, it has forsaken the ways of its ancestors, and instead of the hollow trees, builds its open-work nest, or rather shelf for its eggs—for it Is little more—of bits of twig snatched off in rapid flieht, and glued together inside disused chimneys. To secrete this glue, the salivary glands are highly developed. In some oases, the entire nest is made of this inspissated saliva, and forms the edible birds’ nests o? Eastern countries. But the common sootv-brown chimney-swift is allied to the night-hawks and hummingbirds, rather than to the true swallows. Its baptismal name (Cheetura pelogica), the first or generic part designating the spinous tail feathers. A Needlework Souvenir. Correspondence of Farm and Fireside. I have recently seen a most fantastic piece of needlework, styled a “friendship” or “souvenir” sofa-cushion, which raav afford an acceptable model for someone fond of fancy work. On a square canvas sufficiently large for the top of a full-sized sofa-pillow was wrought in worsted or cros9-stitch embroidery a variety of devices, scattered all over the surface in bap-hazard fashion, just as suited the caprice of the worker. Os course each design was to be chosen and executed by a different person or friend. In the center of the canvas was an ancient-looking house, with the simple legend of an ancient date beneath, the meaning whereof was a mystery to the ordinary beholder, nlthough, doubtless, there was a bond of intelligence between

the worker and the owner. Sprinkled abouf, here, there anywhere, were swans, butter* flies, bees, birds, harps, flowers, fans, mottoes, a bar of music with a tender word in French, words of remembrance, of wisdom or of nonsense—the whole forming an interesting and unique medley, though with decided harlequin effect. Near one of the upper corners. two little darkies gleefully gamboled, accompanied by a comic sentence, which at once arrested the eye and excited the risibles. When the canvas is sufficiently “powdered” to admit of no more designs, it is then filled in by the owner with the groundwork of some dark, solid color, ana is ready for mounting on its cushion. SIMPLE FAITH. A Poor Man’s Theory of the Plan of Human Salvation. Bill Nye in Texas Siftings. Up in Polk county, Wisconsin, not long ago, a man who had lost eight children by diphtheria, while the ninth hovered between life and death with the same disease, went to the health officer of the town and asked aid* to prevent the spread of the terrible scourge. The health officer was cool and collected. He did not get excited over the anguish of thd father whose last child was at that moment/ hovering upon the outskirts of immortality. He calmly investigated the matter, and never for a moment lost sight of the fact that ho was a town officer and a professed Christian. “You ask aid, I understand.” said he, “to prevent the spread of the disease, and also that the town shall assist you in procuring new and necessary clothing to replace that which you have been compelled to burn in order to stop the further inroads of diphtheria. Am I right?” The poor man answered affirmatively. “May I ask it your boys who died were Christian boys, and whether they improved their gospel opportunities and attended the Sabbath-school, or whether they were profane and given over to Sabbath-breaking?” The bereft father said that his boys had never made a profession of Christianity; that they were hardly old enough to do so, and that they might have missed some gospel opportunities, owing to the fact that they were poor and hadn’t clothes fit to wear tq Sabbath-school. Possibly, too, they had met with wicked companion* and had been taught to swear; he could not say but they might have sworn, although he thought that they would have turned out to be good boyg had they lived. “I am sorry that the case is so bad,” said the health officer. “I am led to believe that God has seen fit to visit you with affliction in order to express His divine disapproval of profanity, and I cannot help you. It ill becomes us poor, weak worms of the dust to meddle with the just judgments of God* Whether as an individual or as a quasi-cor-poration, it is well to allow the Almighty to work out His great plan of salvation and to avoid all carnal interference with the works of God.” The old man went went back to his desolated home and to the bedside of his only living child. I met him yesterday and lie told me about it all. “I am not a professor of religion,” said he. “but I tell you, Mr Nye, I can’t believe thal this board of health has used me right. Somehow I ain’t worried about my little fellows that’s gone. They was little fellers anyway, and they wasn’t posted on the plan of salvation, but they was always kind an<J always minded me and their mother. If God is using diphtheria agin perfanity this sea* son they didn’t know' about it. They was tco young to know about it and I was too poo* to take the papers, so I didn’t know itnuther. I just thought that Christ was partial to little kids like mine, just the same as He used to be 2,000 years ago, when the country waS new. I admit that my little shavers neve* went to Sabbath-school much, and I wasn’t scholar enough to throw much light onto God’s system of retribution, but I told ’em td behave themselves, and they did, and wd had a good deal of fun together—me and the boys—and they was so bright, and square, and cute that I didn’t see how they could fall under divine wrath, and I don’t believe they did. I could tell you lots of smart little tricks that they used to do, Mr. N3*e, bufc they wa’n’t mean nor cussed. They was jusfc frolicky and gay sometimes because they felt good. “Mind you, I don’t kick because lam left here alone in tiie woods, and the sun don’t seem to the birds seem a little backward about singin’this spring, and the house is so quiet, and she is still ail the same and cries in the night when she thinks I am asleep. All that is tough, Mr. Nye—tough as the old Harry, too —but it’s so. and I ain’t murmurin’, but when the board of health says to me that the Ruler of the Universe is makin’ a tower of northern Wisconsin, mowin’ down little boys with sore throats because they say ‘gosh,’ I can’t believe it. “I know that people who ain’t familiar with the facts will shake their heads and say I’m a child of wrath, but I can’t help it. AU I can do is to go up there under the trees where them little graves is, and think ho\y all-fired pleasant to me them little, short lives was. and how every one of them little fellers was welcome when he come, poor as| was, and how 1 rastled with poor crops and pine stumps to buy cloze for ’em, and didn’t care a cent for style as long as they was well. That’s the kind of a heretic I am, and if Goa is like a father that settles it. He wouldn’t wipe out my family just to establish disci* pline, I don’t believe. The plan of creation must be on a bigger scale than that, it seema to me, or else its more or less of a fizzle. “That board of health is better read than I am. It takes the papers, and can add u$ Aggers, and do lots of things that I can’t do; but when them fellers tells me that they represent the town of Balsam Lake and the Kingdom of Heaven, my morbid curiosity is aroused, and I want to see their stiffykits of election.” Mrs. Langtry’s Successor, 1 , London Letter. London has anew stage beauty just nova in the person of Mrs. Alfred Maddick, i% society lady (she is the widow of a solicitor) and an ex-amateur of some note, who re* cently took to the stage as a profession, play-, ing “Lady Clancarty” at a matinee at the Gaiety Theater. She was even ludicrously bad in that difficult part, her cry of “Help! help!” at one thrilling point of the play being uttered with such lamentable lack of expression that the audience fairly shrieked with laughter. She has been engaged at Drury Lane, and now plays “Alice Wenlock” in Youth. She has not the slightest idea-of acting, her one method of expressing emotioiV being to squeeze the forefinger of her left hand very hard in her right, and to wriggle her body in a manner that suggests colic instead of anguish. But she is a most beautiful creature, with large dark eyes, an exquisite profile, full and splendly-moulded arms and neck, and a most exchanting smile. She is graceful, too. as a fawn, and altogethe* she is a very delightful object to look upon; that is, when she has nothing to do on the stage and very little to say. People see in her a resemblance to the late Adelaide Neilson, hut her eyes are not so fine, though she is more regularly beautiful than was that ill* fated lady. A Methodist in a class-meeting said that he “had been a Christian off and on for thirty years.”—Central Presbyterian. 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