Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1884 — Page 10

UO'CEEPOT. Written for the Indiuuapolis Journal. In 1087 Niagara was spelled Oniagarah. New Orleans is wailing for a good public library. It is again fashionable for brides to weep at the altar. The first grasshopper of this year is reported n Waitsfield, Vt. A colored cook was imported from Baltimore o stew the terrapin for the Astor ball. The “curl paper editor" is the irreverent title bestowed on the man who selects the peetry. The Louisville Courier-Journal edits a kindhearted column called “Waste-basket Rhymes ” The low-necked dresses so prevalent at parties have been styled by some reckless scamp “the boneyard.” A club of Vassar graduates is said to be trying to determine whether it was the Pope who wrote Iliad or the Iliad who wrote Pone. The latest folly in table decoration was exhibited at the recent cardinals' dinner, where the bread was served cut in tiny shapes of the cross. An Italian paper says the American girl is like champagne—a gratifying admission that, among the girls of all nations, the American girl goes to the head. The London journal, which called Gail Hamilton “Mr.,” paid her the most subtle compliment she ever received —a pure and sincere testimonial to her powers of “writing like a man.” Kate Sanborn lectured recently in Cincinnati, on the “Frivolities of Literature," illustrating her theme by quotations of flat pirns and silly rhymes perpetrated by poets and prose writers of past ages. It is concentrated absurdity to assert that Fred. Douglass's marriage is simply his own concern. It is everybody's business. There can be no such thing as perfect independence in a world where a man’s bread and butter depend on what his neighbors think of him. A Detroit thief, discovered by a lady in her bed-room, tried to persuade her that he was a plumber, but she kept on screaming just the same, for she knew that no plumber ever got poor enough to have to investigate strange bureau-drawers for a living. Ip there is anything lacking to complete the prevailing opinion as to Robert Grant'sassininity, it may be found in the “Average Man,” in his application of Scripture to New York social customs, of which he is self-elected expounder. "Six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou hast to do, and on the seventh day thou shalt make calls.” This is an exhibition of bad taste and irreverence in which Mr. Grant's vaulting ambition to be funny hath sadly o’erleaped itself. Apropos of decollette dresses, an incident is related which occurred twenty years ago. At a dinner-party a gentleman was seated opposite a young lady who was very nude as to her shoulders and very unreserved as to her speech. She kept up a running fire of pert and flippant remarks, which annoyed the gentleman considerably; but fate had ordained for him an appropriate revenge. When the dessert was brought on the table, the young lady seized, from a fruitdish, a fig, and tossed it to the gentleman, with the remark, “A fig for you, sir!" He removed from another fig a leaf, which had fortunately clung to it, and presented it to her with with the pithy and suggestive text, “And a fig-leaf for you, madam!” The enemy withdrew in confusion. The volatile Clara Belle, in a recent letter, offers some interesting items relative to the fine ait of keeping a husband. The situation impresses the average maiden as being very gloomy. If she has to struggle to get a husband and then struggle to keep him, whatever his merits, she wisely concludes not to enter the struggle at all. A matron of experience says that the best way to keep a husbaud is to convince him that woman is a variable and fiekle thing, and he must struggle to retain her affections. If a husband finds that his wife does not mourn when he is absent, you couldn't drive him away from home witli a club. Man is a creature that develops into a tyrant with too tender cherishing, and a little uncertainty as to his own position will counteract that disposition like a charm. The Literary World is. in some opinions, unnecessarily severe on the “Bread-winners." The disgusting features of the story, existent in Sam Offitt. Sheeny, and Maud, are no more so, perliajis not so much so. as the story of Bill Sykes and Nancy, for which Dickens has never been condemned, so far as is known. The daily records of crime in our newspapers prove the existence of the low and brutal element among working-classes and non-working classes, but it is not expected that the respectable representatives of either class will resent these records as reflections upon their individual integrity and virtue. The strong hand of the artist of the “Bread- winners” is most perceptible in his delineation of Offitt. It requires talent of no mean degree to so depict a character that pages which hold his portrsiit are redolent of hair-oil and cheap cologne. We read Offitt's adventures, and Maud's disappointments as a part of the story; not particularly pleasant, perhaps, hut necessary as sombre shade to the brighter, lighter parts. Critics all, “Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart,” may hark themselves hoarse, but there will still exist, in various obscure nooks and cornel’s, sundry readers who will always be glad to have known Alice Belding—her pure, maidenly soul and gentle manners; and Arthur Farnham will linger in the memory as a man who knew how to love “with reverence for the thing beloved"—a rare type of man, in books or out of hooks. Hail and farewell, O, “Breadwinners. "

BITS OF WISDOM. FROM “JOTIN' WOOLMAN'S JOURNAL.’ Collated for tlie Indianapolis Journal. •■(Jet the writings of John Wooiman by heart." —Charles Lamb. Deep humility is a strong bulwark. Wealth desired for its own sake obstructs the increase of virtue. In the bloom of youth no ornament is so lovely as that of virtue. It is good for those who live iu fullness to cultivate tenderness of hearL Wlioe -<-r rightly advocates the cause of some thereby promotes the good of the whole. The gift of improving in things useful is a good gift, and comes from the Father of light. O. how safe, how quiet, is that state where the soul stands in pure obedience to the voice of Christ. From an inward purifying and steadfast abiding under it, springs a lively operative desire for the good of others. The true felicity of man iu this life and in that which is to come is in being inwardly united to the fountain of universal love and bliss. | i So great is the hurry in the spirit of this world 'that in aiming to do business quickly and to gain wealth the creation at this day doth loudly groan. There is a principle which is pure placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names; it is, however, pure, and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, jpmfined to no forms of religion, nor excluded

from any, when the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows they become brethren. Real cleanliness becometh a holy people; but hiding that which is not eloan by coloring our garments seems contrary to the sweetness of sincerity. It is a lovely sight to behold innocent children; and to labor for their help against that which would mar the beauty of their miuds is a debt we owe them. In a world of dangers and difficulties, like a desolate, thorny wilderness, how precious, how comfortable, how safe are the leadings of Christ, the Good Shepherd. Dear young people, choose God for your portion; love His truth and be not ashamed of it; choose for your company such as serve Him in uprightness, and shun as most dangerous the conversation of those whose lives are of an ill savor. Thus oppression in the extreme appears terrible; but oppression in more refined apjiearances remains to be oppression, and when the smallest degree of it is cherished it grows stronger and more extensive. To labor for a perfect redemption from this spirit of oppression is the great business of the whole family of Christ Jesus iu this world. I have been informed that Thomas a-Kempis lived and died in the profession of the Roman Catholic religion; and, in reading liis writings. I have believed him to he a man of a true Christian spirit, as fully so as many who died martyrs because they could not join with some superstitions in that church. All true Christians are of the same spirit, but their gifts are diverse. If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then He who is perfect goodness, in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use. Are the righteous removed by it# their change is happy. Are the wicked taken away in their wickedness? the Almighty is clear. Do we pass through with anguish and great bitterness and yet recover? He intends that we should be purged from dross and our ear opened to discipline. THE FASHION'S. Feather fans still maintain their hold on public favor. Heavy armure brocades are used for outside jackets. The first importations of spring millinery are of colored straws in small bonnets slightly larger than the capotes worn during the winter, and in round hats of most varied shapes. Velvets or velveteens are the choice for dressy suits for boys from two to nine years of age. Dark blue, brown, green and black are the colors principally used. The velvet jacket with the kilt is cutaway, and shows the vest beneath. Quadrille lace with large square meshes of ecru thread is one of the novelties, and is enriched by having the meshes near its edges filled in with silver or with gold threads. Tinsel threads of red and bluish gold are also used for making blocks or chesks in these square meshes of ecru lace. The latest style of plaided fabrics are worn this season by ladies who never ventured to adopt them before, for the reason that the new patterns, unlike most plaids, are very tasteful, and blend, with plain materials, with good effect, having solid grounds simply crossed witli hairlines of white, gray, blue, or ruby. Ladies who have a liking for hats worn over the forehead, will be glad to learn that the old favorite, the English walking hat, is likely to be revived this spring. The brim is about the same as of old, rolling high and close on each side,' but the crowns to most of the new shapes are in the sloping Laugtry style, or else are high and square. A pretty evci..ng dress for a young girl is made of pale pink nun’s veiling. The skirt is adorned with narrow pink foulard flowers, wrought in a delicate floral embroidery in Pompadour patterns. Two of these narrow flounces go all the way around the skirt, and those on the front breadths reach nearly to the belt. The full Watteau tunic, enhanced by a similar embroider}-, is caught up at each side with varicolored satin ribbons exactly matching the shades in tho embroidery. Pink foulard bretelles, worked to match, descend to the turn of the bodice, which is deeply pointed and laces up the back.

Infants* Outfits. Brooklyn Eagle. There is very little change in the style of making infants’ outfits. Formerly a mother dressed her babe in pure white, and that of the finest and sheerest quality, until it was at least four or fire years of age. Now a child of two years has dresses of a warmer texture, such as cashmere, merino, etc., and iuto these a touch of color is often introduced, which makes the little one look more comfortable, while older ones wear flannels, cashmeres, and merino in all colors. Infants’ dresses are made of nainsook and linen lawn, with tucks, and trimmed with luce and embroidery, and have sleeves. The robe style of making infants’ dresses is not so popular as formerly. They are now inoro often trimmed above the hem at the lower edge with embroidery, insertion, tucks, puffs, or lace. The skirts, which are gathered to the vokes, are long and very full. The newest cloaks for infants are of the white surah, in Mother llubhard style, with yokes of the finest embroidery and cuffs to match. The long, loose cloaks are usually made of white or light-colored cashmere and are trimmed with embroidery. There are other handsome cloaks made of ottoman and brocaded silk. For summer they are usually of pique, either plain or embroidered. Some of these are shaped like a long, double cape, but the newest and those most liked arc of the Mother Hubbard style, with the straight breadths shirred into the yoke, and the long sleeves shirred at the wrist. The prettiest caps for babies are those of the closely-fitting cottage shape, which are made of embroidery that is done in an open pattern, representing wheels or stars that resemble the designs in open braid laces. Bows of satin ribbon are added at the top and at the back. The pretty French caps are as popular as ever and are worn by both girls and boys. There are comfortable-looking crocheted jackets of white, pale blue or pink zephyr in pretty designs, with a border in sliell pattern. Dainty little hoods of worsted with silk netting over them are also provided for their comfort, and little soft socks of zephyr or silk are in colors to match their sacques or hoods. Lace Dresses. New York Evening Post. Information comes from a celebrated modiste that lace dresses of every description will be more than ever the vogue the coming summer. For those who fancy the style will be Mother Hubbard dresses, all of black lace over surah either of black, or in gay-colored foundations. These dresses, in white or black lace, it is said, are not to be made of piece lace, but of that about eight or ten inches deep, laid row' upon row. kilted or slightly gathered, as is preferred. Besides the Hubbard dresses will be those with lace ruffled skirts and pointed bodices of silk veiled with net of a pattern matching the design of the lace ruffles; and Oriental net and lace will lead in popularity. Hound waists will also bo in high favor here, and belts and long ends of satin ribbon will add their always graceful and pretty finish to these. Foundation silks ajid satins of light quality, plainly figured, and in every conceivable shade of color, can now be bought for from 50 to 85 cents a yard, thus making the ideal lace dress, once such a rare luxury, an easy possibility to young ladies who aspire to this exquisite toilet. Water Cress. Cerinautown Telegraph. The water cress is one of the best of salads, but it is difficult to make our people think so. In England it is estimated, we may be safe in saying, above all others. It is sold there in the markets by tons, and there is no reason why it should not hero, as we have the same facilities of producing it with the English. Some say that the heavy, moist British atmosphere makes it more tender than ours. But why should it not be the case with the lettuce, celery, etc.? There is nothing easier to raise. Stick some pieces of the plant along the low places of a running stream, like the ordinary open springs upon our farms, and it will grow rapidly, and, unless it is extirpated by wholesale gathering it will go on producing for generations, and will always supply early crops for the market, and will Sell fast enough. “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” Are widely known as an admirable remedy for bronchitis, hoarseness, coughs, and throat troubles. Sold only in boxes.

TH*E INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1884.

CANADIAN SILHOUETTES, Some Indian Items—The St. Regis Tribe — A Live Moose —The Canadian Boy. Written for the Indianapolis Journal by B. S. Parker. Indians and Indian Statistics. One of the features of the winter carnival, which is to occur this week at Montreal, will be an Indian concert, in which the performers and singers are all to be Indians selected from the various tribes in eastern Canada, and clothed in the fantastic Indian garb of a former day. There again may be heard the Iroquois, or language of the Six Nations, those valiant foes of the French “voyageurs" and colonists in the days of New France, and perhaps, also, that of the Algonquins, their sturdy friends, with whom they intermarried, and whose blood is flowing to-day in the veins of many habitans. Apropos of this, the report of the Department of Indian Affairs for the year 1883 shows that the whole number of Indians in the Dominion of Canada is 131,137, of whom 36,483 are in British Columbia, 34,520 in the Northwest, 18,121 in Ontario, 11,930 in Quebec, and 15,000 in the Atliabaska and Mc-lenzie districts. Out of this number only 4,394 are iu schools, and it is probable that the attendance of many of theso is merely nominal. These schools are principally under the control of the various orders of priests, the Jesuits being, as of old, the most earnest and energetic in the work of educating and proselytising the Indians. There is one feature of the Indian policy of the Dominion Government which is deserving of special praise. A certain portion of the proceeds of their lands are held in trust for them, so that they may not be reduced to suffering and want by their own improvidence or lack of knowledge in financial affairs. The amount now held in this way to the credit of the various tribes in the Dominion is $3.150,528. showing an increase of $3,257 during the last year. And the amount used for the benefit of the Indians during the year was $275,571, being $21,293 more than for the preceding twelve months, which shows that the fund must gain at about the rate of $25,000 per annum. Unfortunately this humane policy did not prevail in the early settlement of the country, and the aboriginal tribes of Quebec, the Bas Provinces and parts of Ontario are not nearly so well provided for as those of the west and northwestern portions of British America, A vigorous effort is now being made for the suppression of the liquor traffic among the Indians. The love’of strong drink is the worst stumbling block in the path of the red men to civilization and a decent self-support after the manner of civilized aud enlighted people; and if this can he removed the future of the aboriginal survivors iu Canada will be much more hopeful. One of the oldest aud best known of these Indian tribes is that known as the St Regis tribe, whose reservation and village is on the St. Lawrence, opposite the city of Cornwall. For two hundred or more years these Indians have been the special charge of the Catholic Church. The band numbers now 1.119. owning 141 dwellings and 2,282 acres of cultivated land. Last year they had in their possession 757 head of live stock, and produced 1G,957 bushels of produce and 529 tons of hay, and realized $4Ol from furs and $3,400 from other industries. Not very much, certainly, for over a thousand people, but there are, doubtless, sections where an equal number of habitans do not produce more. Y’ou remember the story of the bell which was taken, I forget in what year of tho old French war, from a Catholic church on the St. Lawreneo, by an English sea captain, who earned it to New England and sold it to the Puritans, who put it upon their meeting house at Deerfield, Mass., to call tho righteous to prayer and praise and the solemn observance of the severe religious ceremonies and obligations of those gloomy days. You also remember the sequel, how the .zealous French monks fired their Indian allies with their own zeal and superstitious enthusiasm, until they were enabled to gather them together in a formidable band and march them hundreds of miles through the unbroken forests, across tho mountains, aud over rapid streaius to Massachusetts. And how, one night when the inhabitants of Di ‘erfield were wrapped in peaceful slumbers, unbroken by the slightest premonition of danger, they were awakened by tho war-whoop of the Indians and the scarcely less-savage battlecries of their French allies and directors —awakened only to meet the descending blade of the tomahawk or perish in the flames of their burning homes. And how the French and their Indian cohorts, after their murderous night's work, bore back the. old bell in triumph to the banks of the St. Lawrence, as though the possession of so trifling a piece of property could iu any measure atone for the blood-guiltiness which its recapture had cost them. That same old bell is to-day hanging in the tower of the little Catholic church at St. Regis, and rings out its calls to the dusky children of the church who worship in that aboriginal village, as cheerily as though ir had been but yesterday brought from the founder's work shop and had never been stained by the blood of the iuuocent aud defenseless.

A Live Moose. Early last week two Indians, or half-breeds, came to the city bringing with them a tame moose. They captured it when it was but four months old, somewhere in the wide forests that lay north and east of lake Chegantic and stretch away to Moosehead lake on the east and to the region traversed by the Intercolonial railroad on the north. It is now sixteen months old and full fifteen hands in height at the shoulders. It looks to be as large ;is an ordinary milch cow, and would weigh probably 800 to 900 pounds. The moose sheds its horns in the fall and has no antlers at this season of the year. It is a very finelyformed animal. The shoulders stand up so high that they give it much the appearance of the zebra and sacred bull so often'seen in the shows, and which Mr. Fort, of Knightstown, Ind., so successfully introduced upon his farm, near that city. Hyatt Frost, the proprietor for many years of the Van Amburg show, did the same on a farm owned by him near the little village of Harrisburg, in Fayette county, Ind. But to return to the moose; the height of his shoulders, or properly, the fatty cushion on top of the shoulders, the large ears and the broad face, extended upper lip and wide, flattened nostrils, give the animal a peculiarity of expression that distinguishes it very strongly from any other member of the deer family. The Indians who own this specimen were dressed in the full Indian costume, but all was wrought out of warm and good material, ■woolen goods and deer skin, thus preserving savage dress with the comforts of civilization. They took in many a dime at Sherbrooke, and then left for Montreal, where they are soon to reap a rich harvest from the thousands of visitors who throng that city during the carnival. The moose subsists on the buds and tender twigs of the trees and bushes. An arm-load of green brush furnishes him a good repast. When the great snows fall the moose begin to run in circles, passing by and through little thickets of the peculiar kinds of bushes which they like best, thus keeping their food within reach, no matter how deep the snow r falls or how hard the. crust may freeze on top of it. The Indians and half-breeds force them out of their paths when the snow is crusted over. The poor moose break through the crust and am unable to get away, and tall easy victims to the murderous attacks of their hungry pursuers. The Canadian Boy. Have yon seen him? the brave Canadian boy— With his chubby cheeks aglow’, And form alert with life and joy. And the mercury a score below? His tolxtgan is gliding down the slide. And his Shout is on the wind, For the winter is his delight and uride, And pleasure and peace of minu. Oh. ho! 8o ho! and away he’ll go In the face of the northern blast, And roll and tumble into the snow As the blinding storm goes past. Then up. with a shake of his shaggy coat, And a shuffle of moccasined feet, II e'll glide down hill as glides a mote Through sunshine calm and sweet.

Your questions of morals and points of law Are not for such chaps as he; He’ll laughingly tell you *‘Je ne sais pas,” Or answer them all with ‘Oui.” But story of wood, awl lake, and stream, Ho conneth it line by line. And he knoweth the haunts of trout and bream, And the otter's faintest sign. He chatters away in his Norman tongue, 8o fast you can never guess What words are hid in the gutturals fluU From his lips in a wild excess. Then lmrrah! for the bold Canadian la With liis rosy and cheerful face! Ho is wiry and tough and warmly clad And belongs to a hardy race. And true to old mother church is ho; Each holiday, fast and feast He keeps devoutly, and hopes to be, Some day, a black-robed priest. A hlack-rol>ed priest, with raiment fine And ponderous girth of waist; With choicest of meats and best of wiuo To please his saintly taste. Yet a black-robed friar will scarcely be This rollicking, boyish clown, But a habitan of the old degree, Or a carter in the town. Sherbrooke, Feb. 4, 1884. THREE OF A KINO, Men Who Remained Friends Tlirougli Life —Superstition and Crime. Townsend (Pa.) Letter. In the days of stage coaching this village was on the old State road, and was an important coach station, known as “The Comers.” In 1840 Cyrus Miller came here and put up a large tavern, which made ite owner rich. Miller was one of three men who came to this place together, the other two being John A. Merritt, a sawer, and Lewis Dorr, a carpenter. Miller also erected a saw-mill near the village, and made Merritt his sawyer. The three men were singularly intimate, and for over forty years they spent every evening, except . Sunday, together. Doit is a widower, his wife* and two children having been lost by the sinking of' a propeller on Lake Erie in 1839. With the decay of stage coaching, owing to the building of railroads, tho business of the Miller tavern only consisted of a limited local trade. The mill also ceased to be profitable years ago, but the owner kept it running, and it never knew a day of rest. Merritt had grown gray, as the sawer, and no other person had ever sawed a foot of lumber in the mill. Two years ago old Mr. Miller retired from business, owing to failing health, and deeded his tavern and mill to his only son, William. The small amount of business the Cornel's brought did not satisfy the younger Miller, and he decided to sell the property and go elsewhere. This was strongly opposed by his father, who said that he had but one wish, to die in the old tavern, which he had never changed in any respect, and which is one of the few typical stage-coach taverns remaining in the country. On Monday of last week, however, the son concluded a sale of the tavern and mill to George Hendershot, and when old Mr. Miller was told that the tavern must bo vacated by March 1, he was prostrated witli a nervous shock, and died on Thurday, aged seventy-five. His old friend, Lewis Derr, who was five years his senior, had occupied one room in the tavern lie had built since 1840, and had never slept in any other. On Friday morning his dead body was discovered lying under the turnpike bridge across Truman's creek with his face buried in the water. The bridge was undergoing repairs, and a narrow walk of planks was tho only means by which foot-passengers could cross it. It was supposed that Door, while brooding over the death of his friend, had forgotten the condition of the bridge and fallen through, although many believed that he suicided. On Saturday night last the cry of fire was raised in this place for the first time in its history, ar.d it was found that the old Miller saw-mill was in flames. It was soon consumed with its contents. On Sunday morning Sawer Merritt called on the new owner of the mill and handed him a paper which contained a statement that the mill had been run at a loss for more than ten years, and that the amount of loss by the fire was ,s<>2s, with no insurance. The old sawer then asked the ow*ier if it was true that he paid young Miller S7OO for the property, and was answered iu the affirmative. “Then here is S7OO to make good your loss,” said Merritt, handing over that amount. Upon being asked for an explanation the sawer said he had helped build tiro mill for-ty-four years ago and had never missed a day’s V’ork in it from the time its wheel started. The sale of the property had resulted in the death of his two life long friends, and he knew that Hendershot intended putting one of his own men iu the mill. “1 knew,” said Merritt, “that if I saw another man in that mill I would not live a week, and so I set fire to it, and want to pay you for it. Miller and Dorr were buried on Sunday afternoon, side by side, in the village graveyard. On Monday Merritt left the Corners, and will spend the remainder of his days with his married daughter near Buffalo. From the day he came here, in 1840, he had never been out of tho village. Before he ns ent away young Miller refunded to him the S7OO he had paid for the privilege of burning the old mill.

LINCOLN’S CALL FOB AID. The Government Once In a Tight Place for Lack of £15,000. Front Tlmrlow Weed’s Biography. An incident which occurred shortly after Mr. Weed left Albany, possesses interest in connection with the history of this period. On the date given the following dispatch was received: Washington, Feb. 18, 1863. To Thurlow Weed, Esq., Astor House: Can you be here to morrow morning? Answer. Nicola y. To this question Mr. Weed sent an affirmative reply, and before 8 o’clock the next morning was in Washington, where he breakfasted, as usual, with the Secretary of State. “The President will tell you,” remarked Mr. Seward, “why you were summoned.” An hour afterward Mr Weed w’ent to the White House, and Mr. Lincoln, taking him by the hand in his cordial way, said; “Mr. Weed, we are in a tight place. Money for legitimate purposes is needed immediately; but there is no appropriation from which it can be lawfully taken. I did not know how to raise it, and so I sent for you.” “How much is required?” asked Mr. Weed.” “Fifteen thousand dollars,” said the President. “Can you get it?” “If you must have it at once, give me two lines to that effect.” Mr. Lincoln turned to his desk and wrote a few w'ords on a slip of paper. Handing it to Mr. Weed, he said: “Will that do?” “It will,” said Mr. Weed; “the money will be at your disposition to-morrow morning.” On the next train Mr. Weed left Washington, and before 5 o’clock that afternoon the slip of paper he carried in his pocket presented this appearance: Washington. Feb. 19, 1863. Mr. Weed—The matters I spoke to you about are important. I hope j’ou will not neglect them. Truly yours, A. Lincoln. Charles Knap SI,OOO Novelty Iron works, Marshall O. Roberts. 1,000 Horace Allen,pres.sl.ooo Alex. T. Stewart 1.000 las. T. Sandford.. 1.000 Isaac Bell \ 1,000 Spofford & TilesW r m. H. Aspinwafi. 1,000 ton 1.000 C. Vanderbilt 1,000 *l. F. Winslow 1.000 James Mitchell.. .. l.OOOjSecor &Cos 1,000 H. B. Cromwell 1.000 Russell Sturges, 1 P. S. Forbca 1.000 H. W. Ilubbell, 5 1 uuu That evening the $15,000 were sent to Washington. Thin, Wiry Men tlie Bravest. New York Commercial Advertiser. History, no doubt, gives color to the idea that fat men are not, as a rule, brave. Falstaff was a fat man; he was a conspicuous coward. Major Monsoon was likewise corpulent; his gallantry lay in the direction of chickens. There have been brave fat men, of course; witness Pickwick —as courageous a gentleman as ever faced a widow. The heroes of the world have, however, undoubtedly been w\ry men, not necessarily scarecrows, but men without an unusual or unwieldy proportion of adipose tissue. Had the living skeletou, now being sued by his recentlymade bride, been a fat man, he would undoubtedly have wilted, and permitted himself, perhaps. to be carried off in a clothes basket. Being a skeleton, he is a man of valor, and no bride of a day shall trifle with his emaciated affections. Anatomically speaking, the skeleton man is all grit. He proposes to fight it out to the bitter end, if he has to pawn his boues to pay counsel fees. | Mothers should remember, in the absence of their physician, that Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral promptly relievos tie croup.

A STORY OF TWO PUMPS. The Time and Trouble Required to Start One and Stop the Other. Portsmouth (N. II.) Gazetto. The other day the pump which forces water into the tanks of the custom-house building in this city broke, and the consequence was that the closets and conveniences at the public building were, for the time being, deprived of water. The ordinary way to repair the evil in such cases would be to send to the machine-shop and have the pump mended. But not so with Uncle Sam. He does things differently; perhaps not better, but with more deliberate caution and less precipitancy. When an incident like this occurs, it is the order to at once telegraph to the Treasury Department as to the trouble, and await instructions. So the Treasury Department was duly notified by wire that a pump had broken in the Ports mouth custom-house. The message was laid upon the desk of the Secretary of the Treasury, who, at the time, was abroad, but having shortly returned, the Cabinet Minister took the dispatch, turned it over in his mind, and wrote on the back: “Respectfully referred to Assistant Secretary French for his action herein.” Received by that active and accomplished son of New Hampshire, it was at once referred to the chief of the customs division, who, in turn, referred it to the supervising architect of the Treasury, Tinder whose supervision the subjects of construction and repairs always are brought. The chief clerk in this office was without a precedent, and the sub-ject-matter was referred to the First Comptroller of the. Treasury to see if a warrant for the payment of these repairs would be signed if issued by the Secretary of tho Treasury. Now, here the status of the pump for a while is stationary, and in the meantime great inconvenience is felt at the public building. Collector Howard, who is custodian of the building, seeing no immediate prospect of relief, determined to go to Washington, and, if possible, have the thing fixed. He called to his aid as witnesses the postmaster, tho surgeon of the Marine Hospital, and another former occupant of the building, and, hastily packing his gripsack and telegraphing to Rollins, started for the seat of operations. Arrived at tho Treasury Department, he found that his application had been received, read and placed on file. Tracing through its gradations in the Treasury building, he further ascertained it was among the archives of the First Comptroller. In fact, after a day's search, Mr. Auld. of the judicial accounts division, whs able to discover it amoug the cases awaiting decision. This was encouraging to the Collector, still he was anxious to have the repairs completed, and, on the following day, he aetermined to attack the First Comptroller with an organized band, and see if he could pull his case through. Accordingly, the next morning, at the Hamilton House, there was much commotion and running to and fro. A delegation was to visit the Treasury. Colonel J. I. Christie, of the Senate, had risen prematurely, before noon, and was to act as chief marshal of the procession, and he had secured carriages to convey the detachment to the rooms of the Comptroller. The procession, at an early hour, moved in this order: Col. Christie, in a coupe. Carriage containing Senators Blair and Pike, the collect or and postmaster at Portsmouth. Carriage containing Congressmen Haynes and Ray, Dr. Wentworth, and A. Young (on the box Secretary Chandler and exSenator Roflitis). Carriage containing Col. Batehehler, Ichabod Cole, Cliarles H. Roberts, and the correspondent of the Boston Journal.

Arrived at the Treasury', Judge Lawrence, who iiad evidently anticipated the visit, welcomed tills distinguished representation from New Hampshire, and begged them to he seated. He then drew forth a long paper which was labeled “Decision No. 26,479: Pump at Custom-house, Portsmouth, N. H.,” aud proceeded to read it for the edification of his hearers. The opinion sustained the enactment of section 1763 of the Revised Statutes relating to holding two offices by one person. He held that the collector of tho port might also he custodian of the public buildings at Portsmouth, or at least in the vision of the learned Ohio judge there was no valid objection. But it was suggested that the collector was also de facto commodore of the navy-yard, an office the emoluments of which were above the sum mentioned in section 1763 of tho statutes. It this was the case, he could not at the same timo hold the office of collector and custodian, and a telegraph dispatch coming from such an officer was clearly a violation of the law, and of course void. At this juncture Mr. Chandler wiped his eye-glasses and Mr. Rollins coughed audibly. Quick to the rescue the Secretary of the Navy spoke up: “I will cut that knot,” and, making a sign as if feeling for his sheath-knife in true sailor style, added, “I will remove Mr. Howard from his navy-yard position,” Pardon me, Mr. Secretary,” said the bland author of upward of twen-ty-five thousand decisions and various opinions in addition, “you must remember the rules of the eivit service!’' “Civil service ho blanked,” said Mr. Rollins, “if we have such a fuss as this to get a pump fixed at the Portsmouth customhouse what should we do if we had another rebellion to put down?” The Judge was not prepared to decide that question without time to consider it, and the party with drew. Shortly afterward, Mr Chandler, armed with ’ a letter of introduction from President Arthur, called on Judge Folger and Stated that the repairs were very' simple, and that if the Secretary of the Treasury would not authorize the work he (the Navy Secretary) would send to the navy-yard and have it done. As Judge Folger has "a great horror of having the navy usurp, in any respect, the functions of the Treasury, he consented to order the work, and on Thursday the required permission to have the repairs effected was received in this city. A few hours work at the Portsmouth machine shop set everything aright again, and we hope the job was done under such legal authority as will permit our new machine-shop to he repaid for the outlay. A Gotham Conservatory. New York Post. The private conservatories of Mrs. John Green, on Staten Island, contain a collection of rare and interesting foliage plants. These have been tended with care and skill by English gardeners for many y'ears, and have attained a size and elegauc-e in growth that delights ail who are privileged to see them. A forcroyea giganta, an immense Mexican plant that grows like the yucca, is the largest plant of its kind in this country. Palm and tree-ferns of the choicest varieties show what condition excellent cultivation will bring them to. A house of ferns and orchids is a curious place. Ferns are grown in baskets suspended from the glass roof: orchids throw out long, quivering stems laden with tremulous blossoms. The air is full of delicate green, waxen bloom, and rich perfume, and is tangled with the fronds of adiantums aud spikes of air flowers. Those old hut favorite roses, Duchess de Brabant and Amy Vihert, bloom iu great numbers in one of the conservatories. La Reine is also out. English poppies, blue and pink larkrpurs,[sweet-peas, and moss roses are in this greenhouse. . The collection of camellia trees is majestic. The old “A. J. Downing" is blossoming, aud “Abby Wilder,” pale and placid, and the fiery imbricata makes an imposing show. Gesneria, zebrina is now in blossom, its crimson hells make a superb cluster for a vase. Mrs. Green’s conservatories are famous for the old garden plants forced there. Many of these have passed from tho memories of one generation, and are unknown to the younger. Now to Preserve the Voice. Emma Abbott in San Francisco Chronicle. “There is only one way to preserve the voice that I know of and that is so simple that it should jiever he forgotten. The secret is, don’t force it. Don’t force it at any time, but especially do not force it in practice. 1 know it used to ho the custom to teach a singer to bellow everything, hut to bellow is not to sing, and I am not an urtist because I rush at everything with all the wind of a blacksmith's forge. I used to imagine that it was necessary to howl iu order to show that I could sing, hut I know better now. And who have taught me so, you would ask? My answer is only three otherwomen, hut those three are Jennie Lind, Alboni and Adelina Patti.” And Ho Relief Came To Mr. Burrill James, Darlington, S. C , till he tried Athlophoros, the champion remedy for rheumatism. He writes: “Have suffered from rheumatism for years. As you may suppose, have tried everything for relief, and no relief came till I got a bottle of Athlophoros. It has done me more good than any medicine X took. Send me another bottle by mail. Do send it by return mail.”

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