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saying: “Mr. Bruce, I have a bill here I want you to vote for. It is one in which I have a "reat personal interest. It has nothing political in it. Look at it an J tell me what you think." Brncolauched as he said: "Senator Bogy, I hope we shall arrange this more satisfactorily than our last business transaction.” "Our last business transaction? What do you mean?” "Don't you remember meeting me before my coming to the Senate?" "Most decidedly, no.” “I think I can refresh your memory. Senator. Some twenty years ago you were one day running down Olive street in a hurry to catch a steamer. You were carrying a very heavy valise. The day was very hot Don’t you remember the colored boy who came up and offered to carry the valise down to the levee for a quarter? You ran along with the boy. Soon the wharf boat dock was reached. The boat was iust swinging out You ran and jumped on board. You called for the valise. The colored boy put the valise behind his buck and called for his quarter. You hunted, fished out a quarter and tossed it ashore, but the gap was too wide to toss the valise. The captain hod to stop the boat and back up before you could get your valise. Do you remember that?” “Well, I should say I do.” “I was that colored boy." General and Person at Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WasHiN'OTos, March 22.—Mr. Clarke, recently appointed assistant Secretary of the Interior, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia, is much better to-niglit, and, his physicians think, out of danger. President Cleveland bus rented a pew in the First Presbyterian Church, of this city, of which Rev. Dr. Sunderland, formerly chaplain of the United States Senate, is pastor. The officers of the last House are actively engaged in electioneering for tfie coming campaign. The appointment of ex-Congrcssman Atkins, of Tennessee, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs lemoves one of the most formidable rivals for the clerkship from the field, and will insure the re election of General Clark, it is thought The other officers will have to fight for their places. The fact that ex Governor John Schuyler Crosby, who was First Assistant Postmastergeneral under Hatton, has been requested to act in the same capacity while Hay goes to Florida in search of health, is not pleasing to the hungry postoffici* seekers. The Postal Bulletin, which was oxpoeted to announce hundreds of new commissions tlus week, has not had a change for ten days, \j _ TUB COUNTRY'S BUSINESS. Statement of the Clearances Last Week and for the Corresponding Week One Year Ago. Boston, March 22.—-The following table, comded from special dispatches to the Boston Post : rom managers of leading clearing-houses in the United States gives the clearances for the week ending March 21, 1385, with percentages of increase or decrease, in comparison with the corresponding week last year: Nwr York $428,775,000 Decrease.. 27.7 Boston 56,630.672 Decrease.. 12.1 Chicaeo 35.218,000 Decrease.. 8.7 . £>fc. Louis 13,650.896 Decrease.. 7.3 Baltimore 13.150,178 Increase .. 10.3 San Francisco 8,740.412 Decrease.. 2.6 Piwinuati ........ 0.100.000 Increase.. 2.8 Pittsburg 6,448.084 Decroase.. 39.2 Providence 3,(39,100 Decrease.. 56.5 Louisville. 4,089.982 Decrease.. 4.8 Milwaukee. 3,026.000 Increase.. 5.2 Kansas City......... 3,252.887 Increase.. 14.7 Ir(iianapoii.s 1,071,165 Decrease.. 22.1 Omaha' 1,765.475 Cleveland 1,811.591 Increase.. 2.7 Detroit 2.121,110 Decrease.. 24.8 Hartford 1,276.012 Decrease.. 22.6 Memphis 1,371.037 Decrease.. 2.0 New itavon. 060.660 Decrease.. 9.1 Columbus 1,205.162 Peoria. 757.387 Decrease.. 14.4 Portland 012.027 Increase.. 0.0 “Worcester 650.817 Decrease.. 13.1 Lowell 426.754 Decrease.. 1.0 Syracuse 400,108 Decrease.. 4.2 Total $640,951,076 Decrease.. 23.1 Outside New York.. 212,176,076 Decrease.. 11.1 *Omahn not included in total. THE WEATHER BULLETIN, lml i cations. Waii Dkp-ahtmkmt, ) Office of thk Chief Spinal Officer, V Washington, March 23, 1885. . )

For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Fair, warmer weather, northerly winds, becoming variable. For the Lower Lake Region—Fair, warmer weather, northwesterly winds, becoming variable. For the Upper Lake Region—Fair, warmer weather, varia bie winds, shifting to southerly, falling barometer. For the Upper Mississippi Valleys—Fair, generally warmer weather, variable winds, gen*aTly shifting to southerly. For the Missouri Valley—Fair weather, expt in the central portions, light local snows, triable winds, shifting to east and south, fallig barometer, generally warmer. Local Observations. Indianapolis, March 22, Time, j Bar, | Tbar. Hum. Wind. .Weather Rain. 6A. M '30.221 10.6 83 NE .near. 10 *. M. !30 26- 17.4 58 W iciear 2r. li. .130.21 ( 23.5 40 N Fair. 6r m.. 30.26? 21.2 46 N Clew. 10*. m..|30.34[ iai 70 N Clear, Maximum temperature, 24.2; irunimufh temperalure, 10.1. General Observations. War Department, \ WASHIMOTOy. Mareli 22 10:00 P. M. f Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. W H < W 53 K ST i? CD 2. a 2 a O' S'" g; B B • o v> of STATIONS. £ | j S ~ ? *% © • re* • • • e* • New Orleans, La... 30.24 44 N Cloudy. Vioksburar, Miss 30.33 38 NE Clear. Fort Smith. Ark 30.39 34 N Clear. Dalveston. Tex 30.29 48 NE near. iJttie Rock. Ark ... 30.37 38 N Clear. Shreveport. La 30.34 40,Calm ..... Clear. Cincinnati 0 30.33 19; N Clear. Indianapolis. Itul.. 30.35 18 N Clear. Louisville. Ky 30.32 82! NW Clear. Memphis. Tenn .... 30.39 31 N Clear. Nashville, Teun.... 30.83 22 NW dear. PiUdiurii. Pa 30.20: 14 N L..... Clear. Chicago. 11l SO 36 21 NE Clear. Cairo, 111 [30.41 25 NW dear. Davenport, la [30.42 26 NW dear. Des Moines, la 30.45 24 N dear. Keokuk. la 30.40 23 N Clear. LaCrusse. Wi*. 30.37 19 W Clear. Moorehead. Minn... 30.36 16 W Clear. St. Louis, Mo ..30.41 27 NW Clear. St. Paul, Minn 30.34 22 W Clear. Springfield, IIL 30.37 27 NW Clear. Leavenworth. Ran.. 30.45 32 N Clear. Omaha. Neb, 30.48 28 N Clear. Yankton. Dak 30.48 20 NW Clear. Bismarck. Dak 30.29 18 SW Clear. Vort Buford Dak .{30.19 25 S .... Clear. -H. Aasiniboine. Mta 30. 17 37 SW ..... Clear. lead wood. Dak 30.32 15 NE .04 Clear. *’ort Custer, Mont. 30.27 27 8W Clear. >enver. Col 30.32 18 N Clear. 'odge City. Kaa... 30.33 33 E Cloudy. ' >rt KUiott, Tex orth Platte, Neb.. 30.43 24 BE 04 Ltnnow. Anirnas, CoL... 30.06 54 NE Cloudy. Fert c iil, Ind. T * Fort Stockton, Tex. 30.17 45 15 Clear. El Paso, Tex 30.01 56 £JB Fair. Key West. Fla. BrowiunrUle, Tor Malt Lake dty, U.T. 30.21 39 N Clear. Duluth. Min 30 41 17 NW Clear. Kscu..}*, W. Ter. 30.31 7 N Olaar. Mi'quette. Mieh... 30.30 -7 N Clear. MJwauko*.. Wu.„.. 30.32 13 SW Claar. Oewego. H. y 30.32 I‘4 N Clear. Toledo, 0 30 18 4NW Pair. Washington, D. C.. 30.04 18 N Cloudy. New York City.....fc;0.09 22 MV dowdy.

THE UNGHAM HOTEL FIRE. The First Reports of Loss of Life Prove To Be Far Short of the Truth. Excavation of the Rains Reveals that at Least Five Persons Were Killed and Four Injured—Fires Elsewhere. THE CHICAGO FIRE. Seawh In the Ruins Results in the Discovery of Five Bodies. Chioaoo, March 22.— The fire which destroyed the Langham Hotel, last night, proved much more dreadful in loss of iife and physical injuries entailed than was supposed until a late hour this morning. It is now known that at least five persons were killed and four injured. Just before the south wall of the hotel fell upon theFaxion Building, a number of persons besides those of the fire insurance patrol were iuside the latter building assisting to save goods, and no immediate danger was apprehended. There are no means of knowing just how many of these volunteer helpers were in the structure at the time, but excavations have proceeded to an extent which justifies the hope that all the dead have been found. So far as known, those at work in the Faxion Building when it was crushed by the falling hotel walls were the following: Captain Edward Shepard, James Boyd, Knute Thime, Patrick Mullins, John Walsh and Frederick Jones, all of the fire insurance patrol, William Beam, piano-tuner, and John Hennessy, clerk, both employed in the building. Mullins and Thime, being near the rear of the building, wore forced out through one of the windows by the rush of air, as the building fell, and were not dangerously hurt Captain Shepard and Boyd were pinned down by the fallen timbers, and were rescued alive about midnight Both aro seriously hurt, but it is believed they will recover. Walsh and Jones were taken out about 1 o'clock this morning, both crushed to death. Beam was alive when when found, and was taken to the County Hospital, where he died at 5 o’olock this morning. The body of Hennessy was recovered at 6 o’clock to-night Soon after the walls fell the wreck took fire, and the firemen turned several streams on the blazing ..nase to save their comrades from being roasted to death, though at imminent risk of drowning them. The water was ice cold, and drenched the poor, imprisoned fellows, chilling them to the marrow. Mrs. CL V. Belknap, who was killed by jumping from an upper story window, was the widow of Colonel Belknap, who died some years ago at New Orleans. £he has many friends in Cincinnati. Her remains are still at the city morgue. OTHER FIRES. Burning of the Grand Central Hotel at Fort Smith, Ark. Foiit Smith, Ark., March 22. —The Grand Central Hotel burned this morning. The loss is bout $20,000. Most of the furniture was saved. A woman was badly injured by jumping from the third floor onto a 6hed ot an adjoining building, the stairway being cut off by smoke and flames. The building was owned by Win. Fishback, who was yesterday defeated for United States senator by Governor Berry. A Village Almost Destroyed. Baltimore, Md., March 22.—A special to the American from Lonaconing, Md., says firo destroyed almost the entire business portion of the village this morning, entailing a loss of $50,000; , insurance $25,000. "Lonaconing was nearly destroyed by fire in 1881. Mills Burned. Pbtkbsb'JßG, Va., March 22.—Jones & Cos. a sumac mill and tho City Mills Company’s flour mill burned to -day. Jones & Cos. f s loss is $20,000. The City Mills Company’s loss is $50,000; insured for $20,000. Fir* at Newark, NT J. Newark, N. J., March 22.—Fire at No. 120 Market street, to-night, caused a loss of $30,000, distributed among several occupants. Fully insured. Spoke Factory Burned.' Henderson, Ky., March 22.—The Southern spoke and handle factory burned yesterday. Loss $30,009, insurance $20,000. Residence Destroyed by Fire. Batavia, 0., March 22.—The Stephens mansion, on Kyle's farm, burned yesterday. Loss, sll, 000; insurance light TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. United States Senator RiddTeberger hea accepted an invitation to address a meeting of Irish revolutionists in New York on the 29th. At Fortress Monroe a snow-storm set in at 3 o'clock yesterday morning, and lasted all day. The fait ie the heaviest known there in ten year*. Dynamite was placed under a skating rink at Girardville, Pa., Saturday night, by unknown persons, and exploded, tearing out the end of the building. A large crowd was iu the building, but no one was hurt There is a strike among the laborers of slope No. I, of the Susquehanna Coal Company, at Nanticocke, which may extend to all tho mines operated by that company. The strike is due to an order to dock laborers for rock mixed in the oars of coal Tho police of Canton, 0., yesterday arrested John Clark, of Cleveland, and Frank Cline, of St Louis. In their possession were found articles stolen from places recently burglarized in Canton and surrounding towns. They had a good assortment of burglars* tools. The prisoners were held on the charge of burglary. Conch’s Oklahoma Boomers. Arkansas City, Kan., March 22.—The report that an organized party of boomers from Coffeyville has entered Oklahoma and begun making improvements, is untrue, and was probably started to create uneasiness among the boomers here. Major Bentenn,commanding the troops at Chiloeco. says he has scouts patrolling the country from Ponia to Camp Bussell, and a large party could not pass unnoticed. He says there are a few boomers in Oklahoma, but they will soon be removed. Captain Couch and his followers are still awaiting news from Washington. Many of the boomers attended church to-day, and quiet reigns. A Wealthy Widow’s Gill. Sacramknto. March 22.—Mrs. E. B. Crocker, sister-in-law of Charles Crocker, president of the Southern Pacific railway, has informed the Art Association that she will deed an art gallery and her splendid collection of paintings to the city, provided the people raise a fund of SIOO,OOO, in four months, for maintenance of .the gallery. The required amount will be quick! v subscribed. Mra Crocker's gift is valued at $500,000. Steamship News. London, March 22.—Arrived: City of Richmond, Bohemia, from New York. New York. March 22. Arrived: Adriatic, from Liverpool; Grecian Monarch, from London, Frisia, from Hamburg. Bark from the Brink of the Grave. PannpOßT, 0., March 22.—Benjamin For•yth, aged sixteen, died, apparently, last Thursday, and was prepared for burial. He preserved a life like appearance, and at tbs grave, yesterday, to satisfy his mother, the

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coffin was opened. A slight moisture attracted attention, and the body was removed to a house near by, where, after several hours’ incessant labor, the boy was restored to consciousness, and will now, it is believed, recover. iWW RIEL’S NEW REBELLION. The Rising Among the Half-Breeds Growing Serious—The Government Stores Seized. Winnipeg, Man., March 22.—Advices from Prince Albert and Carlton, today, show that the rising among the Saskatchewan half-breeds is somewhat serious. They have been joined by a large number of Indians, and have taken possession of the government stores at Carlton, made prisoners of the officials, and threaten tho fort there. The telegraph lino has been cut west of Humboldt, and dispatches have to be brought to that point by messengers. Lewis Riel, who Is at the he'.u of this movement, has been for years a turbulent character in the Canadian Northwest, and was the principal figure of the darkest- chapter in her history. When, in 1809, the Hudson Bay Company transferred its rights in Manitoba to the Dominioo, the half breeds, who resented the intrusion of new and strange rulers, armed themselves under Beil's leadership to prevent the entrance of the Dominion authorities until some guaranty was received that their rights would be recognized. Aug. 20, 1809 to Aug. 24, 1870, they held possession of the country. A provisional government was formed, with Riel as president, ant’ a council of twenty-four members (twelve English and twelve French), and a bill of rights was adopted which demanded representation in the Dominion Parliament and a local legislature, elected by the people. These were conceded by the Manitoba net, which passed tho Dominion Parliament May 20. 1870. The rule of ltiel was marked by several outbursts of violence and bloodshed, and was but a step removed from anarchy. His government was finally overthrown and he was exiled. Last year it was falsely reported that he had been killed during a riot at Prince Albert, in the Northwest Territory. —— - .. .... . INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. Callings from Correspondence and Gleanings from Exchanges. Indiana Notes. Harriet J. Moss, wife of Daulel Moss, for many years the proprietor of the leading hotel at Greensburg, died on Saturday morning, of pneumonia. From present appearances it is believed the government will be ready to let the bids for the building of tho levee at Jeffersonville within the nex 1 two weeks. Oliver Dicks, at Busby & Son’s mills, at Lebanon, was caught by a belt and whirled rapidly round a revolving shaft, his life being saved as by a miracle. He was badly bruised, nnd. with the exception of a blue necktie and a pair of cowhide boots, was entirely stripped of his clothes. C. B. Thompson, who travols for a New York boot and shoe house, is in a critical and peculiar condition at the Commercial House, at Richmond. He was advised to inhale fumes from the oil of tar for a lung trouble, whereupon his extremities began to swell, and now his whole body is swollen, while he suffers from head to foot as though poisoned by woods ivy. The doctors pronounco it blood poisoning. The funeral of the late Dr. James G. Caldwell, at Jeffersonville, was attended by all the Masonic bodies. The mayor, city officers and City Counsel assisted in the obsequies. The Knights Templars from New Albany, headed by a silver cornet band, and the same order in this city, together with hundreds of citizens who have known the deceased from a quarter to a half century, ulso attended the funeral. Illinois Items. Wm. Griggs, a United States prisoner from Texas, has escaped from the State prison at Chester. J. B. R. Sherriek, formerly county collector and assessor, died at DecatW, aged sixty-two years. At Decatur, James Mullen, whose home is at Bloomington, shot himself in the breast, the ball striking a rib and passing part way round the body. He fired another shot, but it did not take effect. He is dangerously wounded. Mullen had been on a tig spree, aud said he wanted to kill himself. Rev. A. J. McGlurophy, president of Lincoln University, at Lincoln, and three other members of the faculty hare tendered their resignations to the board of trustees. The school has run down, and its patrons demand a change. The resignations of the professors will be accepted, ana an entire new faculty chosen, except Prof. McCord, against whom there seems to be no complaint. The college is under the auspices of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was established bv the Synod of Indiana. Illinois, lowa and Missouri, and the patronage is largely from the Southern States. A CHAT WITH HENRY JAMES, JR. A Man Who Does Not Care to Look Like the Prince of Wales. Charles G. Lelsnd's London Letter. I had a long talk with Mr. Henry James in the club, the day before yesterday. He had just come from the funeral of Mrs, J. R. Lowell, which was. in accordance with the request of the deceased, very private, there being only five invited guests. Mr. James, since l saw him five years ago, ha3 grown to a striking likeness to the Prince of Wales. lam not by any means sure that he cares to resemble hia Royal Highness —at least, he does not make up in the least to follow or “favor” the likeness. Mr. James. I take it, is a man of sufficient manliness and independence to prefer to look like himself and be himself. It is an infallible sign of a snob that he can always inform you that he has been taken for somebody who is greater than himself. There is a story of three Yankees abroad, who compared notes. One said. “I was mistaken for the Emperor of Russia.” Qnoth the second, “And I am continually if I am not Louis Napoleon.” Up spoke Ylie third: ‘‘l kin beat that. Yesterday I was goin’ along the Champs Elysees, and a fellow slapped mo on tho back and hollered, ‘Satan!—is that you?”' I do not believe that there exists a more modest man than Henry James. I could illustrate this by an anecdote of an incident in which he most unconsciously displayed this admirable and rather rare quality to perfection. I mean modesty as to his own literary nnd intellectual abilities. I mention this because 1 have ooeassionally seen in the newspapers remarks and comments on him as if he thought that he and Mr. Howells were the great men of the age, and so on. The eritics may say what they like of the quality of his work, but of that of the man himself I have had but one opinion, and that was very favorable. As for his being Europeanized and a voluntary exile, truly I think it not amiss that a few men like Lowell and James, in whom America may take a just pride, are over here to give people a little better idea of us than they derive from the sad communications to the Pail Mall Gazette and others. Accounts at the Bauk of England* London Truth. It is a popular superstition that to hare an account at the Bank of England is rather a sign of distinction or of wealth. This is one of the mistakes which ere corrected in Mr. May's interesting article on the bank in the new number of the Fortnightly Review. An introduction, such as any other bank requires, is all that is necessary to enable any one to open an account at the Bauk of England. The only peculiarities about the institution as a private banking concern are that it does not allow its customers interest on money left “on deposit,”and that any customer whose balance is not “remunerative,” is charged a commission proportionate to the amount of trouble and expense involved. A “remunerative'' balance. Mr. May explains, is an average balance throughout the year of 20 shillings for each chock drawn. Robopula diseases manifest themselves In the spring. Hood's Sarsaparilla cleanses tho blood, and removes every taint of scrofula.

The Kentucky Maid’s Plaint. Oh father, dear father, come home with me now, The club in the White House is up; You aaid you were earning right home from tho feast, As soon as you could get a sup. The light has gone out, the weather is cold. The Goddess is roosting up high, With long bite of feathers stuck in her back hair, And an oyster tied on her star-eye. Ob, father, dear father, come quick as you can, I fear that all things are not well, For Steaiey's persistence that everything’s snug Causes rets that it’s all gone to hades. They say civil service is being upheld. While the solid hard workers are snubbed, And the old Democrat from Away back Beyond Has turned up the toes that he stubbed. Come home, come home, please, father, dev father. While there’s time to get off with your life. —Louisville Commercial, QUEER JUDGE MACKEY. How He Turned the Tables on Certain South Carolina Lawyers. Washington Letter in Philadelphia Record. Judge Thomas J. Mackey, of South Carolina, who has been acting as counsel for Gen. Hazen before the court-martial, is a very queer fellow. He is an elderly man, but his hair and mustache are still jet black, aud his eyes are as piercing as ever. He is a man of excellent ability and good education, with a most remarkable flow of words. He can talk for three hours without stopping for breath. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is the only other man in Washington who can do this. Mackey is a man of excellent family, too, aud very proud of it. One of his near relatives was the late Dr. Marion Sims, of New York, whose memoirs Judge Mackey is compiling. Unlike most of the Southern “judges,” the old gentleman has a right to his title. They make judges out of all sorts of material South, as well as North. Mackey was a very good judge, by the way. When he was appointed he applied for aud obtained admission to the bar, out of deference to the general opinion that a judge ought to be a lawyer. But he didn’t know enough law to hurt him. The lawyers of his circuit ((it was down in South Carolina) laughed when his appointment was made, and laughed when he was admitted to the bar. But Ido not know that they laughed again—at least at him. The first day that he held court in his circuit the lawyers regarded him as an object of curiosity, who would soon beau object of pity. Court met that morning, as usual, at 10 o’clock. At half-past 12 Judge Mackey said: “The court will now take a recess until I o’clock for dinner.” The surpi-ised lawyers protested that they had never heard of such a thing: it was always customary to adjourn tho court at 1 or 2 o’clock for the day. Judge Mackey responded that it was such practices as these which had thrown the cases on the docket of the circuit court so far in arrears, and announced hia intention of bringing them right up. So the court took an hour's reees3. At 1 o’clock Judge Mackey returned and court promptly opened. Some of the lawyers, used to the easy ways of former judges, were still at dinner. As their cases were reached they were called, and, no response being made, were put at the foot of the docket. When they came sauntering in an hour or so afterwards these delinquent lawyers found that their protests against the judge's action were of no avail. At 5 o’clock, after disposing of many cases, Judge Mackey astonished them all by announcing: “The court will take a recess until 7 o’clock this evening, when business will be resumed.” “But, your Honor,” protested the lawyers, “wo have been w orking hard all day ” “So have 1,” broke in Mackey; “working harder than any of you. Court meets at 7 o'clock.” And it did. The cases of those lawyers who were not present were placed at the foot of the docket Court sat that night until 11 o’clock. Then Judge Mackey said: “This court stands adjourned until to-inoi-rowmorning at 8 o'clock.” The lawyers were too sleepy to protest. Besides, they knew it would be of no use. The next day Judge Mackey heard arguments from 8 until half past 12, from 1 to 5 and from 7 to 11 o’clock. T-he next day the same, and so on for several weeks, until he had caught up with the arrears. He decided the cases as he went along, always determining in favor of the side which seemed to his sensible mind most worthy. The brief of counsel for that side formed the basis of the Judge’s opinion. At the end of tho term the docket was clear, the people were delighted, but the lawyers were furious. The lawyers said that the decisions of Judge Mackey would be reversed by the Court of Appeals as a matter of course. But they were not. He had fewer reversals than any other circuit judge. His career on the bench was most creditable. It goes to show what a sensible business like layman can do. TARTAR SWORDSMANSHIP. A Scrap of History as Told by a Smoky City Ananias. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The remarkable swordsmanship of the Tartars is proverbial. Their favorite weapon is i long, curved cimetar, quite different from that of the Turns It is made of the finest of steel, richly alloj’ed with silver, and a sword becomes an heirloom in a family, and descends to the firstborn so long as the family exists. When the last representative of a race dies his sword, which may have come down to him from a hundred generations, is broken and buried with him. The blades of the weapons, which are beaten out on an onyx stone anvil, in the ancient Mogul cify of Taztchintzy (the Holy Place), are very thin, and the wonderful feats performed with them are astonishing. Once when Robo, the cousin of the great Mogul, was caught in a rebellion, his execution was ordered. The most skillful swordsfnan of the empire was provided for the beheading, and the Great Mogul and his court assembled to gee it. For a second the keen Tartar blade flashed in the sunlight and then descended upon the bare neck of Robo, who stood upright to receive the stroke. The sharp steel passed through the vertebrm, muscles and organs of the neck, but so swift was the blow and so keen the blade that the head did not fall, but kept its exact position and not a vital organ was disturbed. In surprise the Great Mogul exclaimed: “What, Robo, art thou not beheaded?” “My lord, I ana,” replied Robo, but so long as I keep my balance right my head will not fall off. The Great Mogul was so pleased with the deftness of the executioner that he ordered a bandage to be tied on. and Robo speedily recovered. He afterward became a loyal subject, and was made cashier of tho empire, because, as the Great Mogul remarded, “He knows that if he keeps his balances right his head will hot come off.” It is one of those curious scraps of history that are often overlooked. A WESTERN IDYL. Why the Sun Ducked His Head Behind a Cloud Over Canyon City. Cabvon City Mercury A rather sad affair took place on Maine street tho other day, A young lady with her arms full of bundles emerged from a dry goods store, when one of them fell on tho sidewalk without her noticing it Just behind her was a young man —a Too-Too Club young man—who, if not polite, is not anything—and he quickly stepped forward to pick it upi. Now, a bundle done up in a piece of paper with a dry goods advertisement on it, is apparently as harmless as a maiden’s prayer or a mother’s spanking, and there it lay as guileless as a blue-eyed bulldog asleep in the sun. Just as ho * stooped to pick it up, there was a rustling of the paper, the twist began to come out of the c-nds, and in another instant an indescribable something—a sort of cross between a balloon and a devil-sish —flew into the air before his eyes, and a number ten^Thirty-six inch-double-jointed-duplex elliptio-steel bowed-bustle-inflator-doUar-ana-a-half-bald-headed-hoop-skirt with two rooms in it waltzed around, and gyrated, and opened, and shut up, and fell on the sidewalk as fiat and tbifi as a boarding house pie, aud the young man straightened himself up, looking as if he wished a zephyr would come down from the canyon and sweep him over into the next county, and the young lady came back with a face that resembled an Italian sunset produced by throwing a ripe tomato against a board fence, and she picked up that wire contrivance, and then she went toward the east aud he went toward the west. The gun ducked his head behind a cloud to hide a smile, and three or four of the bov* who took in the show laid down and laughed, and doubled themselves up in a manner that would have made a summer dose of greeaappie colic hide itself in shame. Boston’s Modest Maidens. Ufalc.iso Herald. “They do have some qneer girls down in Boston. that's a fact,** observed a traveler from New England; “the bust time I was in Boston, at the

house of a friend, I met a young lady there who struck me as a type of her kind. We were to have chicken for dinner, and my friend’s wife asked the young l*.dy to step into the kitchen to see what a nice fat fowl she had. Would you believe it? That Boston girl inquired: ‘ls it dressed?’ and on being told that it was not, she modestly refused to go into the kitchen. That very night that girl, who is a medical student, went to the dissectingroom and helped in the work. These Boston girls break me all up.” MACKAY’S DINNER. He Feeds His Friends on Indigestible Deli* caeies, bnt Sticks to Plaiu Things HimselL Sirs. Ayre, in Chicago Tribune. At the table next to ours half a dozen waiters seemed to be in great agitation and anxiety, and all the preparations were of such an unusual nature we became ourselves not a little curious to know for whom there was such a flutter and excitement. Covers were laid for three, a curious sort of bread, radishes, with groen leaves intact, making a pretty flower-like effect. The crisp, white hearts of lettuce, a curious small pickled fish and seversl other hors d’oeuvres were arranged and rearranged on the table Our waiter, seeing our glances that way, volunteer us this information: “That table is for Mr. Mackay, tho great millionaire. He dines here every night The reason we have the radishes and lettuce arranged that way is because he is French, and can’t eat like Americans do.” “Is he French, really?" I inquired. “I thought he was an American.” “Oh. no,” the man gravely answered; “he’s genu wine French, and very rich. Here he comes.” And, sure enough, enter Mr. Mackay, the Frenchman, with two companions, also French, I suppose, but bearing the telltale feature on their countenance which stamps every child of Israel. Mr. Mackay may be French—he looks Irish. He is not tall, neither stout nor thin, has hair and mustache of gray, almost white, a pallid face, and a weary and disappointed manner. I was curious to see how ho would manage the radishes with the long, green trains, and admired the excellent judgment when I saw him press these monsters of indigestion on his huugry friends and devote himself to bread meauwhile. I was quite ready to acknowledge his good sense when I also saw him insist on shar ing his portion of the greenery-y all cry salad between his guests, and made up my mind ho was a great, truly great man from the moment I watched him force the nauseous little pickled fish down the unwilling throats of the unhappy creatures whom he evidently takes with him to do the great French act, while he, with Spartan simplicity, confines himself to chopped beefsteaks and weak tea, which lie drinks by the quart all during dinner, alternated occasionally by mineral water. While his friends, like human anacondas, consumed everything within reach, the great bonanza prince modestly finished dinner with a baked apple. Tho Champion Fool Legislature. Shelbyvillo Democrat. The House of Representatives yesterday refused to consider the appropriation bills. This they do whenever the subject is brought up. The House forced the Governor to call an extra session, with positive assurances that they would tako up the appropriation bills, pass them, and adjourn within two weeks. The members have lied and refused to make good their promises. Instead of showing a willingness to hasten legislation, they have schemed and entered into collusion to retard it. The mucli-talked-of two weeks has corao and gone, and nothing has been done, and every effort that lias been made to pass the appropriation bills has been defeated. Speaker Jewett was called upon to denounce the body savagely, because they persisted in making asses of themselves and frittering away their time, at a cost to tho tax-payers of $1,500 a day; but his remarks did no good. Indiaua has had many fool Legislatures, but the one now in extra session takes the cake. The regular session was not ns bad, and needed no defense at the hands of tho Democratic party; bu. the party can never defend the bad and suicidal conduct of the extra session. The appropriation and the Soldiers’ Home bills should have been passed at once, as promised, and the Democratic party would havo been spared the humiliating spectacle of attempting to defend something which is absolutely indefensible. In Re Patten. Chicago Nows Editorial. Mr. John C. New, editor of the Indianapolis Journal, was quite right in his denunciation of Representative Patten for an uncalled for and cowardly attack on the dead Garfield and the dyinsr Grant, and if Patten fulfills his promise to hold Mr. New personally responsible, we hope Mr. New will accept the responsibility and send Patten home on a shutter. Eugene Field, in Chicago News. John C. New, editor of the Indianapolis Journal, has nothing to fear from that fellow Patten, who, in his capacity of an aggrieved legislator, threatens personal violence. A creature who would publicly vilify the dead and dying is harmless in every particular, except as a ghoul, and he should be treated as a ghoal deserves. If Patten evinces symptoms of intruding upon New’s presence, New should resort to the use of insect powder and Paris green for self protection —that is all. When Patten outraged every sense of decency bv vilifying the dead Garfield and the dying Grant, no voluntarily forfeited every pretense he might have made to manhood. One of Governor Gray’s Appointments. Lafayette Journal. The appointment of a man wher served in the confederate service during the war to the importantposition of State Geologist is not calculated to advance Governor Gray very much in the estimation of the loyal citizens of the State. Mr. Thompson, the new State Geologist, is credited with being a man of fine literary ability but little technical scientific knowledge. Professor John Collett, whom he replaces, is a man of marked scientific knowledge, and under whose direction the State geology reports were acquiring a wide celebrity. A Rival of Beecher. Sparta, (GaJ Ishmaelite. Amanda A. Dickson, “the $400,000 heiress from Hancock,” went to Augusta last Friday. Everybody on the train was anxious to see the richest colored woman in the United States. She created about as much of a sensation as did Henry Ward Beecher when he traveled through tho South. She was dressed in deep mourning, and had her mother and youngest boy with her. Uncle Joseph’s Wants. Philadelphia Preas. President Cleveland is quoted as anxious to know what McDonald wants. While disclaiming any authority to speak for McDonald id this matter, we are inclined to the opinion that what he wants, and is fully resolved to have, is a large and variegated outpouring of unadulterated gore. q Awful Possibility. Pittsburg Dispateb. After the Indiana Democrats have waged their war as to who shall be the Indianapolis postmaster to the bitter end, the President may follow out the precedent he has established in other cases, and break them all up by appointing some man of whom none of them have said a word. Diversities in Cat-Skinning. Log&nsport Journal. It is easy to cut down tho force in the departments now—it is Republican mainly, but it will also bo easy by and by to swell the quotas — with Democrats. There are other ways of skinning the cat then by dragging the skin over the ears. He May Get Both. Chicago Inter Ocean. Hendricks may not be able to get his postmaster at Indianapolis, but he has the keeper of the restaurant for the Senate dead sure. That is some comfort. A Silly Move. Indianapolis Independent. The removal of Prof. Collett was simply a very silly move, on the part of the Democracy, which they will learn by and by. Two Eclipses. St. f.on Olobe-Domocrat There have been two eclipses this year A partial eclipse of the sun and a total eclipse of Tom Hendricks. A pERgKOT specific—Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.

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