Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1890 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNxVL, SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1890.

there is a prospect of ft prolonged tow orer the conflicting, demands of the two com

panies. Major v lssmran comes about Juno itf. and Dr. Ptcrs early in July, each loaded with facts and reasons in support of tho German claims. ENGLAXD AT THE VATICAN. YThy a XVot.tnt Country Has Appointed an EmbMMdor to the Papal Court, Coprnrht, 1S30, bj the United Press. Loniox, May 31. The appointment of Judge Andriano Dingli, Chief-justice of Malta, as the English embassador to the Vatican is the outcome of the mission of Sir Linton Simmons to the Vatican, and Las reference to Malta, Thero is nothing in the appointment which need alarm those earnest Englishmen who are inclined to take tire at the opening of diplomatic relations with tho papacy. It is forgotten by many well-meaning people that the British Hag floats over a very considerable Koman Catholic population in various parts of the world, and that the crown has taken over territories- in which, by solemn treaty, all ' religious rights of Catholics are guaranteed. tiach is the position in lower Canada, in sections of India, in tho West Indies and in Malta; and if ever it seems to call for modification, the British government of the day must either trample arbitrarily upon imperial pledges or upon negotiations with the papal Authorities. The Maltese owe spiritual allegiance to Home, and, in some matters, according to original agreement, the canon law is the civil law of the island. Her Majesty's government desires certain concessions regarding tho validation of mar-, riages, the use of English by tho clergy and the appointment of bishops, and all that it required has practically been obtained. BISMARCK'S UTTERANCES. They Contain No Trace of Bitterness Ills Speech on the Value of German Unity. Berlix, May 31. Prince Bismarck's speech to the delegates of the polytechnic academies, who presented him with an address, had no trace of the bitterness or feeling regarding Disposition which has been attributed to him in doubtful interviews. He reminded them or the value of the idea of unity permeating Germany. The people who ascribed to him the phrase that unity could only be established by blood and iron misunderstood his saying. What he xnent was that the king at that time ought to have as much.power as possible, in order that in case of need he might throw all the blood andiron into the scale. Fortunately, Germany had got pa6t that now. and the greatest fortune for the country was peace, iio did not believe that a German emperor would ever look upon the map with the Napoleonic lust of conquest in his heart. He proceeded to expatiate npou tho progress of technical occupations during periods of poace. Eight hi.ndred and fifty-six teachers, representing every grammar school and scientific school in Berlin, sent to the l'rince an effusive address, to which ho made a cordial response. Subscriptions lor the Bismarck memorial continue to pour in, coming chiefly from the wealthy middle class. The fund has now reached the sum of 11X5,000 marks. Prince Bismarck has an invitation from Queen Victoria to visit Balmoral. The Marquis of Salisbury snd Earl Kosebery also ask to lentcrtain ILL. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Local Forecasts. For Indianapolis and Vicinity For the twenty-four hours ending 8 p. M., Jane L Slightly cooler; fair weather. GENERAL INDICATIONS. Washington, May 31, 8 r. m. Forecast till S r. M., Sunday: For IndianaFair weather; stationary temperature; variable winds. For Ohio Stationary temperature; northerly winds; showers. For Lower Michigan Fair weather; nnrtTlorlvr wi T rl ct'itinnaiTT TAmnai4itiia For Wisconsin Slightly warmer; variable windH; fair weather. For Illinoi.1 Slightly cooler, except in vicinity of Chicago slightly warmer; northerly winds: ffclr weather. For touth Dakota Continued warm and fair weather; southerly winds. For North Dakota Stationary temperature, except warmer in extreme northwestern portion fair weather; southeasterly grinds. ' . For Minnesota Fair; stationary temper ature; variable winds. Observations at Indianapolis. Indianapolis. May fcl.

Time. Lar. Thtr. li. II. Wiwt. Weather. Pre. 7a.h. 29.92 7-1 64 West Cloudless. 7 p.m. 20.1)5 70 56 North Cloudless.

Maximum thermometer. 8 (J: minimum ther- . mometer, G0u The following is a comparative statement of the condition of temperature and precipitation on May 31, 1890: Tern. Tree KonnaL.... 70 0.13 -lean 70 0.00 Departure from mean.. . 6 0.13 Excess or deficiency since May 1.. f.3 0.62 Xxcefs ordellciency since Jan. 1... 273 "10.13 -Plus. General "Weather Conditions. Saturday, May 31, 7 r. si. Pressure. The small, low area central last night over Kansas moved southward: it.was central this morning over Arkansas, and- to-nifcht in Louisiana; another low area west of tho mountains is central in Utah; a high area, central near Lake Winnipeg, extends southward to Nebraska and Iowa. Tr.MrERATURrr.-cO and above is reported from Texas, and from Missouri and Kentucky southward; 70 and above from eastern Montana, Sonth Dakota, central Minnesota. Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania southward; CO and below from Michigan, northern Wisconsin and North Dakota northward: CO and below from western Montana and British Columbia northward. - Precipitation. Rains fell in western Montana. Wyoming, western North Dakota. British Columbia, eastern Nebraska, eouthern Kansas, and from southern Missouri southward to tho gulf. . Farmers Alliance lleaten In Politics. Montgomery, Ala., May 31. The Alabama Democratic State convention closed its labors this evening after a four days' session, which, for interest and excitement, .is unparalleled in the political history of . the totate. The State ticket complete is as follows: Governor, Thomas G. Jones; Secretary a? State, J. D. Baron, of Clay; Auditor, Cyrus D. Fogne, of Perry; Treasurer, John X. Cobbs, of Montgomery; Attornoy-general W. It. Martin, of Jackson; Superintendent of l Education. J. D. Harris, of Sumter. . Jones's nomination was secured by all tho anti-Kolb men combining Jnh him. Kolb was the avowed candidate of the Farmers' Alliance. Paroled Convicts Can Be Extradited. Elmira. N. Y.. May SL The decision of Governor lull to the effect that paroled men from tho reformatory can be extra dited iron other Mates is ot considerable moment, because the penal code specifies that the escano of a paroled man is not a crime, as in tho case when a convict escapes from a btate prison. 1 here area number of escaped raroied reforra- . atory prisoners in various parts of tho United States, and application will at once he made for requisition for their return to the Keiorcnatory. Violating: the Cherokee Strip Proclamation. Arkansas City. Kan.. May 31. CoL G. W. Parker, special agent of the Interior Department, has jnst returned from making a partial investigation into the report that the cattlemen are violating the order of the President, relative to the grazing of cattle upon the Cherokee btrip. Colonel Parker says the Strip is covered with cattle, which are being driven there daily from the reserves where cattle are allowed. Colonel Parker will resume his investiga tion on Monday. Johnstown's Anniversary Day of Mourning. .TnnSTOVV. Pa.. Mav 31 ' The nnnivpr. ssry of the flood was observed to-day by a general draping of business houses in somber black. The first twelve months after tit 1?ifr finds the citv well-to-uln In . min nr.a manufacturing WAV. as thn Cambria Iron Company, and steel And railmills havo almost doubled in capaoity. As d ceaclai rebuilding thero is a woeful

waste of upturned and useless lands, and the Johnstown of to-day is a rude and rough town as compared with tho handsome city of over one year ago. In all churches and charitable institutions memorial services were held to-day, and an immense throng attended the solemn services over the hundreds Of unknown dead in Grandview Cemetery, and tho hundreds of dead not yet found. A startling feature of of the day was the finding of two unknown bodies in an abandoned cellar even while the memorial narade was passing. m PUNCH'S FAMOUS ARTIST.

Da Manrler Lives a Life of Elegant Leisure, and Do Pretty Much m lie Pleaaea. Edward V. Bolr, la Boston Journal A man who has lived so long among literary, people that ho may almost be called an author himself, although he is an artist, is Du Manner, the famous Punch artist. He knows all the literary men and women of London, writes an Kngliih literary friend of mine, and he probably declines more invitations to dine out than even your own Chauncey M. Depew, for he is socially much in demand, and is one of the most agreeable and charming gentlemen that you could wishtomeet. He likesto go to theaters, and is usually accompanied by one of his charming daughters, who serve also as models for the graceful girls he draws in his famous Punch pictures. He lives away up iu delightful Hampstead, above the "smoke and stir of the dim spot that men call Loudon." He goes into the city every day, when he feels like it, and when he does not he goes in when ho pleases. He is independent in his position on Punch, and is well paid for his work there. Ho is also asked to illnstrate more books than ho could possibly do if he had a dozen sets of hands. His bank ac count is large. Like ail other Englishmen he belongs to a few clubs, and he entertains as behooves a gentleman of refinement and wealth. Ho travels around through Great Britain considerable obtain ing character sketches, and he used to en joy going to tho salons of famous Londoners until his pictures in Punch attracted so much attention that this Miss or that Madam was constantly asking him if he referred to them, or if his latest witticism was beard at Mrs. So-and-so's tea. or if it waaoriginal, or would he kindly explain the point, so that now he pays little or no attention to society gatherings, although he is greatly in demand. lie lives a life of elecrant leisure at Hamnstead. He has a big house there with macnificent grounds surrounding, and in summer there is a delicious aroma of honey suckles and roses, and an air that tells that its occupant has found the philosopher's stone contentment. The big dog that was once so frequently a figure in his sketches died some years aero. The artist was deeply attached to it and felt its loss keenly, and if you should so into his studio you will find the skin of this ani mal hanging on the wall, a sort of grim memento of the faithful friend. Du Manner's home life-is pleasant. He has a wonderful collection of old engravings and pictures and a few pain tines of consider able value; He is the possessor of a wellstocked library and a few books that would bring a high price if placed on the market. He has hosts of friends and is constantly adding to them. His strong right arm is ever held out to assist beginners, and no young man was ever turned from his studio door without a word of encouragement. He has helped no end of men to succeed and has done much to assist literary workers as well as artists. STANLEY'S TEMTEIL To Say That It Is Caaatlo Does Not Ade quately Describe Its Character. Xew York ftun. 'To say that Stanley' temper is caustic." a gentleman in a big publishing-house on Broadway said yesterday, "is putting it very mildly. I went across the ocean to see Stanley in the interest of our house, hoping to get something from him for publication. and my experience leads me to believe that caustic, as applied to the African explorer, is an exceedingly feeble and unimpressive word. I went to him with an otier that ought to have made any man feel proud. My proposition was not covered witn Dine and yellow ribbons ornamented with little bells, nor did I attempt in any way to be dramatic or impressive. As a businessman of long experience I went to Mr. Stanley and laid before him a plain business proposition. It involved the payment to him at once ox a very large sum of money, and the subsequent payment, during three years, of a great many thousand dollars in quarterly installments. It meant a very large fortune to the explorer, and though I knew that evervbodv had been after him. I felt rather glad to have the opportunity oi ouering mm so gooa a tiling.- i iouna a man with white hair, a colorless face, a mouth the expression of which cannot be described by any other word than bitter, and eyes that were absolutely lustreless. Ho listened to me with an air of Jo reed politeness, then he said it was a curious thine that people did not know that ho had already made arrange ments for everything he could write for the next five years, and after that ho' made a few comments on the manner in which people borea him with . propositions to write and lectnre. He finished after a few sarcastic remarks, rose and said that he hoped that I would consider our interview satisfactory, made a short bow and drifted out of the room. He seemed to re gard my visit as a piece of impertmenco and his manner was so magnificent that I had actually put on my hat and walked for a mile before I had discovered that I had forgotten to lay before him the many points which 1 had thought of on my way across the water. I returned the following morning for this purpose but the explorer could not be seen. In England there is but one opinion about Stanley. He is believed to be a tritie short-tempered and somewhat assertive, but there is no question but that he knows exactly what be wants and means what he says when ho cares to speak. Socially he is almost as 'silent' a man as was General Grant. He has been known to sit through an entire dinner without uttering more than half a dozen words, though he listens with the utmost courtesy to the talk of his neighbors." , Nas myth's Steam Hammer. New York Tribune. Did you ever read Nasmvth's autobiog raphy? You may do so safely now, you know, since be is dead. Thou do. 'Tis ono of the very few genuine autobiographies tho world has, though not of course ranking with Franklin's, or Goldoni's, or even withthe"full-confes9ion.in-his-right-boot," as Mr. Jingle hath it. of that superb rascal with the rank of sculptor, the Signore lienvenuto Cellini. Nasmyth's great invention of tho steam hammer was made to order, as it were, and thought out at a white heat. Heforo setting pencil to paner. he saw his object clearly before him. 1 must make a machine' he said to himself, "that can think in blows." Iben ho sketched it roughly; from that rough sketch tho great I i - t il . ;i Jfji Hummer wan maue; iruin iue nrsi aid us work perfectly, and no essential improve ment has ever been needed. So perfectly does it "think in blows'' that with one turn of tho controlling lever you may crack a walnut without crushing it, while on the next you may make it stop on a white-hot bloom with the weight of ever so many tons, and see it come out a crank or a shaft so big you must have a derrick to lift it. Sounded Familiar. Boston AdrcrtUcr. I heard a small-bov storv to-dav which has the true essence of fun in it. "He was the son of Kev. H. X. Allen, son of the rec tor of tho Church of the Messiah, and grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and ho was swiuging on a neighbor's gato. not wholly to the benefit of tho gate. A friend remonstrated with him. "I don't care about mv neio:hborH irate " was thereolv. t'o," ho went on, the words evidently callins up something in his memory, "I don't care auout his ox, or his ass. or his man servant, or anything that is my neighbor's." The remonstrant was a bit startled. "Do von know who said those words!" said he. The boy was puzzled, only a moment. "Xo," said ho, 1 tiunuo; hut it sounds like Grandma Stowe." Ate Too Much Pie and Died. Kansas City. Mo., May 31. Charles Gray, a coiorea nostier at a uvery stable in :sedalia. Mo., who had not eaten anything for two days, went to a lnnchroom two nights ago.and ate r0 cents' worth of pie of all kinds. Yesterday morning he was found dead in tho stable. The coroner's jury decided that the pie had caused apoplexy. ' m . Superfluity of Goodness. Buffalo Commercial. m In these days, with so much for the churches to do for man's profit and moral growth, it does soem like a waste of time and strength for denominational gather ings to eeriously debato tho question

whether those who use tobacco in any form shall, or not, bo permitted to become members of the church. Some of the grandest, most useful men in the Christian arena are fond of a good cigar, and the souls of the men who criticise them for it could be measured with a half-inch tape. AFRAID OF PROGRESS.

Troubles to Which an American Was Pntby Incautious Action in Germany. San Diego Son. "Did I ever tell you," said John D. Hanbury to a gentleman who had advised him to read "Looking Backward," "how 1 got into tronble once over a book of similar characterf It was in Germany, where I was doing husiness. I had a volume perhaps it was Carnegie's book dealing with political problems, and lent it to an old German professor. In a few days he came back all excitement. 'Vonderful book he said. Vonderfnl! It turn things upside down in Shermany. I like to translate it into the Sherman language!' " Han bury was good-natured enough, he said, to give the eld fellow a desk at which to do the work, and in a few weeks the translation was finished. Tho next thing was to rind a publisher. The old man lacked 1.000 marks of the required amount, which Mr. Hanbqry loaned him. A small edition of the work was printed, and the books were stored in the ilanbnry office. A few evenings thereafter thero was a sudden commotion outside, and Hanbury found the building surrounded by troops and police, a big force coming in and seizing himself and his private papers. The books were found, of course, and these turned out to be tho cause of the trouble. Guarded by a squadron of cavalry, our townsman was hurried to the Kaiserhof, a sort of court, he thought, and after entering the building he was marched through a long hallway. He kept on his hat, and soon met a big German official, clad in uniform and wearing a sword, who thundered an incomprehensible lot of aspirates at him, to which Mr. Hanbury replied in choice American. Tho ofilcial danced and yelled. Hanbury stood still and asked him if his mother knew he was out Then ensued a wild carnival, in which the German thundered and tripped the - ponderous fantastic toe, all without impression upon our amazed townsman, who thought the man might be insane or in need of help. Pretty soon the German drew back, and with one swing of his huge hand slapped Hanbury's hat oh' his irreverent head, and sent it spinning down the hall. Then our townsman took the hint tumbled, as it were and at once put himself in a proper attitude of respect to the Kaiser.'of whose hof" he was such an unwilling guest. "To make a long story short," said Mr. Hanbury, "I was let off on police surveillance, and at once began to free my mind abont the government, the police, the array and the royal family to every one who came along, including seventy-five or a hundred government spies, as 1 afterward learned. Presently I got an intimation from the American minister that. tho authorities were getting out a few score of indictments against me. and the best thing I could do was to skip by the light of the moon. How I dodged the police and got out of the country I don't know, but here I am. Under the circumstances you will have to excuso me from reading 'Looking Backward.' Whenever I look backward I can see that other dangerous book as well as the German officer in the hallway and tho shadow of the Kaiser's gibbet. It gives me a chilh" ' The Florist Was Shocked. Pittsburg Chronicle. "You have all varieties of pansies, I suppose," he remarked, as he entered a lionet's store. Tea. sir." 1 "Let me have some chimpanzees, please." - The clerk said nothing, but soon produced some flowers which were distinctly marked with eyes, nose and mouth, like a monkey's face, and said: 'This is the variety you want!" ' "Yes; make a buttonhole boqnet." "How much?" asked the customer, when the boquet was ready. "Nothing." "What! I've never got anything here under a dollar before." "It's all right," protested tho clerk, with a weary look; "the shock is worth the flowers." A Cheerful Giver. Racket. Caller-Beg pardon for intruding, sir, but knowing your reputation for benevolence, I have taken the liberty of stopping to ask you to snbscribo to the fund to buy a bell for our church. We hopo to collect enough to purchase one of the largest and handeomest bells now manufactured. Benevolent Individual Where is your church located! Caller Corner of Restful avenue. and Peace street. Benevolent Individual I will subscribe gladly. A man I hate lives near thero. August Justices In Trouble. Kansas City Journal. The Supreme Court is now catching it from the ladies of the W. C. T. U. because of the original-package decision. "Our amazement is stupendous," says Mrs. Mary A. Livermore. and she refers to a venerable judge as "an old granny whom it is an in sult to grannies to call such.' Ihe Supreme Court must hedge in some way, or life will not bo worth living. Cigar Etiquette. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. ' Make a note of this "the habit of stopEing a pedestrian in the street and asking im for a light from his cigar. The man who asks for alight will usually insist upon taking your cigar in his fingers to light his. This can beoverlookei when it is a friend who asks for it, but 'en in his case, it is an unpardonable breac. . of etiquette." The Fish Editor's Mistake, Albany Express. "Xo doubt a thorough religious training has its advantages, even to a newspaper man, Mr. Nyce," said the city editor to tho fish reporter, who was also tho superintend ent of a Suuday-school, "but when a man gots so dash-blanked linnicky that ho has to write it h 1-gramite,' it is time for him to seek another field for his acl; vity." Sent to Jail to Recover His Sight. Albany Express. A Troy man who was arrested for beg ging under covor of an "I-am-blind" sign, when it was evident that his eyesight was unimpaired, pleaded in his defense that he was in love. "Lovo is blind, you know. your honor." he said to the magistrate, and tno court sent mm 10 lau lor ninety uays that he might recover his sight. Bynnm's Queer Notion. Philadelphia Tress. It is odd. this idea of Bynum's. that ho should bo recognized as the Democratic leader of the House, merely because he has been censured by that body, it is much as if a man who had been ripped up tho back by a buzz-saw should urge that fact as a reason why he shonld be appointed manager of the whole plauing-mill. Bynum takes himself too seriously by half. Call for a Clan-na-Gael Convention. Vriir VrrTT MftTT SI TIia tr!nn:?1a tion of the Clan-na-Gaol, or that element which has backed up Alexander Sullivan, In iaeiipd n. rn.ll for n. rnnvntirm nf ita own, as icn iui&i uu xuusuuy evening, Juno 3. a ' ' 1, ,T' A J A Confession. The Epoch. What has become of that uglv. ill-tcm-pered Bramble girll" "What man was idiot enough to marry her!" "This one." A Mistake to Be Avoided. Soraervill Journal. It is altogether wrong and improper, be sides being impolite, for any one to speak of tho doctor's servant as the valet of the shadow of death. A Dad Lot. Puck. Evangelist Friend, are your lines cast in pleasant placesi Poet (sadly) No; in tho waste basket mostly. , The twelfth annual congress of the Amer ican Larvngological Association closed its session at Baltimore ysterdayt after choosing Washington for th meeting-place of the thirteenth conaress. and electing the following officers: Dr. W. C. Glasgow. St. Louis, president; Dr. V. P. Joker, Roches ter, N. Y., vice-president; ur. J. H. Hart-

man, Baltimore, secretary.

GUARDS IN IRESS SUITS.

How "Cranks" and Crooks" Are Prevented from Slaking Trouble at the White House. "Washington Specl&L The people of this country have looked with much horror and some amazement at the spectacle of the trembling Czar fearing death at any moment by the hands of the Nihilists of Knssia. The chosen executive of us Americans knows no such fear. But with the lesson of the martyred Gariield before us the question has been asked, why should not any person who happened to be so disposed attempt to assasinate the President at one of his receptions? I put this question(jto one of the White House ushers the other day, and he replied: "Simply for the reason that it would be very difficult for any individual so inclined to reach the presence of Mr. Harrison. You don't see why. but that is because you never looked about you closely when you have attended a reception at the executive mansion. How many pairs of eyes do you suppose scan you closely while you are passing from the front door to tho cloakroom? Six in all, for at every entertainment of any magnitude whatever six men are on duty for no other purpose than to guard and protect tho chief executive from harm. Every one of these men has had years of experience in detective work. They can tell at a glance the character of each guest who enters. Yon never saw these men, you say? You don't suppose, do you, that they are dressed in uniform with brass buttons and a big silver badge on tho lapel of their coat? On the contrary, they are dressed just lvs you would dress, in a spike-tail and e. white tie. And they don't look out' of place in them, cither. That would never do. They must feel at homo and look at home in fuil dress like a gentleman. That is one of the first requisites for a man who desires to do detective work among the people who form the 'court circle' at Washington." "But how can you tell when a man enters the front door whether his mission be one of peace or not?" "That is not difficult to the menrwho make a business of looking after the queer characters of the world. Two classes of people are chiefly to be looked for cranks and crooks. The crooks are readily discernable to the educated eye; their manner invariably betrays them. As for cranks, we can tell them with equal readines. Our task of making them out is made easier, to begin with, when we remember that threefourths of them are mild lunatics on tho question of religion. Every now aud then a visitor not entirely sane 6lips by us; that is unavoidable, as we are ny no means lniainoie. nut it is an exceptional occurrence. Do we make mistakes? Sometimes; but we never act rashly. When a man enters about whom thero is the sligutest doubt one of us is detailed to follow him. and vou can rest assured that ho is never out of our sight uutil he has put on his topcoat and left the mansion. V hen he enters the line to pass tho Presi dent we always take our placo immediately behind him, and it would be impossible for him to make one threatening gesture before we would be upon him and disarm him." And can you tell the dangerous crank every time?" "The bad crank can never bo mistaken. His eyo will always betray him. Ho is always of a nervous temperament, and you may well imagine that a man coming here, or a woman for that matter, to do the President harm, would be laboring under a good deal of excitement, and that would betray them to us at a glance. For this violent class of customers brawn is needed more than brains, and most of us aro fellows of great muscular development. I say. Jinv. come hero." . J He called one of his comrades over and bade him double up his arm. It was hard and firm and as large as an ordinary man's leer. "Jim. you know, stands at the head of the reception line," continued my informant. "We have had two martyred Presidents, neither of whom was assassinated in the executive mansion. Lincoln, was struck down at the theater and Garfield at the railway station. Believe me, tho Presi dent ism no danger in his own dwelling. Uur last experience was only yesterday. A man came in and asked to see the President. Under his arm he carried a small, innocent-looking box. We haven't much use for men with boxes or small satchels, and we always make it our business to find out what is in them bofore letting them got beyond the front door. Well, I asked this man what he wanted to see the President for. and ho replied quite rationally that he only desired to pay his respects. I talked with! him for some ten minutes on various , subjects, and upon all he was quite rational. Finally 1 asked him, in an off-hand way, what he had in the box. . 'Oh.' he replied, I havo a new kind of religion in there.' That settled him; I showed him the door.'1 EXCITED OVEIt CLAY'S DEFEAT. A Pious Old Colonel Who Would Have Shot the Great Statesman's Enemies. Blue-Grass (Ky.) Journal. A young gentleman of this town has a grandfather (Colonel King) living some twenty miles tho other side of the river, and thought : he would give the old gentle man a pleasant surprise last Sunday. The Colonel was a wild admirer of Henry Ulay, in the medieval age of Kentucky, cast his first vote for "Harry of tho West'' in 1&44, bet himself poor on the election, and took Clay's defeat so much to heart he has not voted since, but has passed his life in po-.j litical mourning, so to speak. Uur young fellow-citizen, happening to get hold of Oliver Dyer's "Great Senators of the United States Forty Years Ago," thought that the sketch of Henry Clay would be just what his grandfather would like, soon Sunday he rode over to his residenco and showed him the book. The old Colonel read the vivid sketch of Henry Clay with watery eyes, but, chanc ing to turn to tho first chapter, where the way in which Clay was euchred in tho Whig convention in 1848 is so graphically described, his countenance began to lower. Blacker and blacker grew his brow as he read, and when he finished the narrative he stepped to the iireplaco and taking down his riflo which hung above the man telpiece, he turned to his grandson and sternly asked, "Are any of thescscoundrels alive?" The young man. alarmed lest his grandfather should start off in nu est of the pirates who defeated Clay, hastily answered. "No, grandfather, there isn't any of them left" "The Lord's will he done:77 piously ejaculated tne orthodox old Colonel, as he replaced the rilie on its hooks. ' A CLOCK THAT FORETELLS DEATH. A Boston Family Warned of the Departure of Relatives by a Timepiece. Boston Special. "We have not exactly a banshee in our family who foretells by her wailing an ap proaching death,77 said a Boston lady to the writer, "but we have had mysterious warnings of such given us time and time again by an old clock which has been in our family for the last 120 years. The works were ruined by a shot tired by a British soldier durinetho Revolutionary-war at my great-grandfather, which shot, pass ing entirely through his body, killed him instantly and then broke the glae.i door, penetrating the works and stopping them forever, for though innumerable attempts have been made to repair them, it seemed that some unknown power kept the clock silent except when death flapped his black wings over the household, so it was banishrd to the garret. "Ihe hrst instance ox its. warning was when my grandfather died. He had been very ill. but the physicians had at last pro nounced him out of danger, and tho family were just congratulatiug themselves on this news when tho loud tones of a clock striking 12, slowly and solemnly, like the tolling of a bell, was heard, 'why. what is that?' said my grandmother. There was but ono other clock in tho houso.which was in full view, so it was evident that it was not that cne. 'It is my father's clock,' said her husband. It has struck the clcso of my day.' and before they could reach him ho was dead, just as tho last stroke died quivering away. "This occurrence was repeated when mv grandmother herself lay dying. Tho old clock struck 12 just as she drew her last breath, aud my father at last, believing that thero was something supernatural in the affair, had the works removed, leaving only the hollow case, but a few years after. when my brother was brought home dan gerously wounded alter the battle of Chan cellorsville, tho long, slow, solemn tones of tho old clock wore heard as before, and poor Leon's life w;nt out as they died on tho air. They struck for my father and for my little child, whodied last year. Ihe clock warned me. too, when my sister died in Japan. I had just gotten a letter from her. in which she had spoken of feeling very well, when I heard tho old clock, which was in a remote store room, strike so rapidly that tat notes al most mingled, and then began slowly to

strike another twelve strokes. My sister is dead I said to my husband, 'and has died very suddenly, but who the other strokes aro for I cannot imagine.' My husband tried to reason and then to ridicule the idea, but I mourned for my sister as earnestly as though I had seen her die, and when and I knew I should I heard tho news of her sudden dsath, I found it had taken placo on tho same day and at the samo hour as that on which the clock struck, allowing for the difference of time between Japan and Boston. Her baby, a few hours old, died a few minutes after the mother." x m m FRENCH ARMY DISCIPLINE.

Brutal Punishment Accorded Soldiers for Bad Behavior. Vanity Fair. The punishments in vogue in tho French army are of a very severe nature, more especially when it is considered that the men thus punished are not by any means criminals, but only soldiers, who have not behaved so well as they might. These aro deported to Algiers under the name of "Camisards," where they are enrolled in the "compagnies de discipline." Before embarking the man has his boots taken from him, which are replaced by sabots, and on arriving at his destination he receives a uniform of gray wool and a cap with a large brim. The men are farmed out to do work, and are all the time under the supervision of non-commissioned officers, who treat their inferiors with the greatest brutality. It is, however, the punishments to which the men are subjected for the most trifling offenses which must excite indignation. t A common punishment is to keep them night and day in a hole in the ground with perpendicular walls, so that escape is impossible. Scorching heat by day and cold ' by night, with rations reduced to one quarter of their proper quantity, make the very common punishment of the gargoule ex tremely trying. The imprisoning of men in the tombeaux, or regulation tents, which are only fifty centimeters broad and sixty high, is no rarity, and during their incarceration the prisoners receive no water, nor win. nor coffee. A little meat and soma bouillon is their whole nourishment during the day. But those who are punished with cells are incomparably worse oil. They are never allowed, under any circumstances, to leave the hole thev are kept in either by day or by night. rhey have no duties or work to pass the time and only get some warm soup every second day, with a very limited quantity of water daily. This punishment is made still more sovere by putting the man into irons on certain occasions. The delinquent has two iron rings around his ankles, which are connected by an iron bar rather more than a foot in length, so that his legs form an isosceles triangle with it. He is forced to lie down on his iace ana then his arms are chained on his back, whereupon he is put into his tombeau. He can only eat his soup like a dog. and if he wants to drink he must seize his bottle with his teeth, and should he let the bottle fall his ration of water is lost for that day. Any complaints aro at once stopped by a gag. Only quite recently a punishment was in use called the crapaudme. The prisoner's hands and feet were chained together, and in this posture he was strung up on to an iron bar. The camisard is also in use. The soldier is firet put into a straight-jacket, his hands are tied on his back, and round his neck an iron collar is fastened, which is attached to an iron bar in the wall. The man has to stand in this position as long as eight days, unable to lie down or to do anything for himself. RECOLLECTIONS OF INFANCY. A Famous Woman Tells of the Time When She Was a Toddling Youngster. Jean Injjelow. In Longman's Magazine. . I had a lace can. and I perfectly remem ber that I freonentlv wore this when taken down stairs to see company; and there is not much in this recollection, for I have often been told that my mother let me wear it much later than most children, for I had not much hair, and she thought it becoming. There were little bows of satin ribbon in it. and I wore it till about two years oiu. After this my recollections grow more distinct. 1 began to understand a good deal of what people said that is, of what they said especially to me and nearly the last of the remembrances, which I have called visions, belongs to the summer when I was about two years and four months old. I waain'a honeysuckle arbor in the gar den, sitting on my mother's knee. She had a white gown on and her pearl necgiace. I saw two stars planets, probably and 1 suppose I pointed at them and asked her to give one of them to me. i tninic tuat is what I said, but do not in the least remember any words, and how the knowledge was conveyed I have not the least idea; but 1 was let to know by my mother that the stars were not hers that there was some one up there to whom they belonged, aud who had made them. He was very good, and if we were good He would be pleased with us. ... I did not like this at all. Something like awe, I suppose, made me hide my face in her bosom, lest He shonld see me; and for some time after this, when we went out walking, and there were great white clouds in the skv. I used to look out. in case He might be seen sitting on one of them. The total want of any knowledge of right and wrong was not altogether willful then. Certain things were only found out to be delinquencies when punishment followed the doing of them. ' I remember seeing the dear mamma and a young friend of hers ornamenting some saucers and little vases with tiny flowers made of various-colored rice paper. The flowers were cut out leaf by leaf, fastened together witn gum, ana then stuck on to the vases, which were made of what was called biscuit china. I used to watch the making of theso. They were finished and nut on a table in the drawing-room. I saw them it was a loug sofa table of rosewood. 1 managed to stand on a little stool to admire more closely, and then by slow degrees I picked every one of the llowers olt with the greatest care ana fains, and collected them in a littlo cup. had nearly finished this task, so happy I was, so industrious, when my mother and her friend came in. GTeat were the exclamations! "I was a very very naughty, mischievous child!" I was scolded and pun ished, and then found out that I had done wrong. About this time and for some months perhaps for more than a year after I had a habit of attributing intelligence to not only all living creatures the same amount and kind of intelligence that I bad myself but even to stones and manufactured arti cles. I used to feel how dull it must be for tho pebbles in the causeway to be obliged to lie still and only see what was round about. When I walked out with a little basket for putting flowers in I used sometimes to pick up a pebble or two and carry them on to have a change; then at the furthest point of the walk turn them out, not doubting that they would bo pleased to have a new view. This difficulty in attaining to a clear distinction in the understanding between dead matter I will call it the world and the youthful spirit observing it is very much increased by grown-up people. They suggest and foster it. 1 hey teach tne children to kiss and fondle dolls and to pat the pictures in a book, or to slap the "oatighty floor" when they tumbled down, and it has struck them. The Effect of Salt and Lime on Hay. C. W. Mostf eldt, in St. Louis P.epubUc. t Some years ago the Rev. Mr. Willis, a friend, found it almost impossible to cure a small quantity of clover because of frequent showers. Ho would have it nearly ready for housing, and rain would come again. Some one suggested that he put it into tho barn anyway, and sprinkle it liberally with unslacked lime. The result was entirely satisfactory. The hay was not only preserved, but horses and cows ate it with relish. But, says the objector, did not the stock choko on the lime and did not the lime injure themf I answer, that the human system requires the ingredients of limo for the formation of bone, so do horses, cattle, sheep aud swmo. They must have it. I saw the hay and the stock all in lino order. The hay was well shaken up and all the lime left readily parted from it. If now the lime bad been omitted and salt used instead the result would have been an increased qnantity of water (because salt attracts humidity) without any mode of expelling it, and consequently rotten hay. This matter was set forth in the newspapers at that time, and a correspondence with one of the Messrs. Chouteau, of St. Louis, followed, which was interesting and largely printed. His Modest Answer. Puck. ' ' Keeder Is it true that it takes a genius to live with a genius? De Rujtcr I'll ask my wif o when I go homo.

CHAMPAGNE. It Was Invented by a Monk 200 Years Ago How the Wine Is Made. New York Tribune. Champagne, as everybody knows, was inventedthat is the word . to use, for the wine certainly was not a discovery by Doni Perignou, a Benedictine iuouk. in 1688. Being appointed to the post of cellarman at the Abbey of St. l'eter, in the village of Hautvillers, on the Marne. some five miles from Epernay and fifteen from Reims, he conceived the idea of "marrying" various wines. The product of ono vineyard was , noted for its fragrance, another for its generosity, a third for its color, a fourth for its preservative qualities, and so on. By judicious "blending" Dom Perignon produced a grand wine, a sparkling wine that burst from the bottle and overflowed the glass. Moreover, it was white, though made from black grapes. It so far excelled all other wines that it quickly won the first place, and took the name of the province Champagne. Vast improvements have been made in the manufacture of champagnes since the death of the monk in 1715. but the principles he introduced have uover been abandoned. The newly expressed juice of the crape, after the iirst fomentation in casks, is conveyed to tho cellar or "caves" in the chalk rock, and after a brief period it is racked and ready for making the "cuvee," which consists in "blending" or mixing the wines of various vineyards together in such proportions as to produce a perfect wine. As the result depends on the skill, art. experience and judgment of the "taster," the champagnes of the several manufacturers differ accordingly. In order to insure the greatest uniformity tho mixing is done in gigantic-vats containing from C0.000 to 75,000 botties. The wine is then returned into casks, and at the proper time, in May or June, bottled, securely corked and laid away for at least two years and a half in the cellars. Soon after bottling the second fermentation takes place, which produces the effervescence and forms a sediment. When the wine is ripe for use it is shaken sharply several times a day for from three to eight weeks by-skilled workmen called "remneurs," in order to detach the sediment from the bottle and get it to rest on the cork, tho bottles being racked neck downward. Then comes the work of the "degorgeur," who carefully loosens the cork, which flies out, carrying the sediment with it, and a small quantity of tho wine. This makes room for the "dosage." which is prepared according to the market for which the wine, is intended. This "dosage" is a liquor, compounded by each manufacturer altera recipe of his own, consisting mainly of old wiue of the best quality, a dash of the best cognac and some pure sugar candy. It determines to a great extent tho charaoter of the wine, whether it shall be dry or sweet, light or strong. After the "dosage" is added the bottle is recorked and the wine is then ready for market. Only new bottles are used, and the greatest care is exercised to secure sound ones. Because of the pressure which the gasses of the wine bring to bear npon it, the champagne bottle is ono of the strongest and heaviest made, weighing nearly two pounds. Its sides must be of uniform thickness, the bottom sound, the neck perfectly round with an even and

gradual convergence, the inside smooth aud polished and the elements of tho glass such as will not mix with or act upon the wine. It costs at . wholesale about C cents. The aim in bottling champagne is to fix the pressure at about five atmospheres. When it has five and three-quarter atmospheres it is known as "grand mousseur," and if above that there is extreme danger of its bursting the bottle. Notwithstanding tho utmost care there is considerable break a go by the imprisoned gases. The average loss ranges from S to a per cent. If it be above 4 per cent, it shows that the fault lies in the bottles, and not in the "cuvee," While if below three the manufacturer knows there is something wrong with the wine. In ono case 120,000 out of 200.000 bottles burst during fermentation, and it is a tradition in Reims that a manufacturer in tho last century saved only 120 out of a total of G,OOObottles. , The manufacturers of champagnes are usually people of great wealth and high social standing in France. AN EMPRESS, BUT A NUN. Elizabeth of Austria and Her Secluded Life at Wiesbaden. Correspondence of the Philadelphia Times. Ever since the unfortunate death of her only son. Prince Rudolph, the Empress of Austria has been in declining health. She has been a comparative recluse, and society at Vienna and elsewhere 6ees very little of the once famous and beautiful woman. Lately she has aged rapidly, and although she still retains traces of her former loveliness, few would recognize in the sad and faded woman of fifty-three the once graceful and agile equestrienne whose beauty and prowess delighted tho courts of Europe and were the especial prido of the Viennese. Wiesbaden, always gay, has experienced something of a flutter over the arrival of this distinguished invalid, who comes to be treated for rheumatism and gout by the most famous of European masseurs. Dr. Metzger, of Amsterdam. Dr. Mctzgerhas had under his care at different times the Prince of Wales, who visited him here; tho Emperor of Russia, whom he treated at St. Petersburg, and almost every crowned head in Europe, with the exception of tho young Emperor of Germany. . His latest royal patient has. with her honsehold. taken possession of tho lovely villa Langenbeck. in the suburbs. The villa is situated on a romantic-looking height which overlooks the town, and affords a superb view of tho surrounding country for many miles. Here the life of the empress is very simple and secluded. She ride a great deal, but, as at Vienna, she is rarely to be seen, aud is denied to visitors. Her coustant companions aro the Fraulein von Fcrenczi and another lady of honor, her youngest daughter, the Archduchess Valerie, and the Countess Korniss. She rises very early and, with Valerie, strolls in the great rose-gardens attached to tho villa lor an hour or more, till the time for mass, which sbo attends in the private chapel' attached to the villa. Then she takes her massage for an hour, after which comes a mineral bath for the gout, the whole treatment ocenpyiug the time until 1 o'clock, when dinner is served in absolute privacy. Sho eats very lightly, and, in the evening, a littlo tea with sandwiches is all the ladies of this modest court take before retiring. Indeed, the daily routine at tho villa is more liko tho life of a convent than anything else. But, despite rheumatic pains and the feebleness of age. the Empress yet retains her old love of adventure. Frequently during the afternoon she takes loug excursions in the mountains, and climbs to heights that would bo fatiguing even to a younger Eerson. On these trips her companions, esides such of tho ladies of tho courts as have the endurance needed for the task, are the Oberiiofmeistorein Grafin Goer-sand Oberhofmeister Baron Nopsea. Her ailment has compelled her to abandon forever her horse-back rides, as that form of exercise was largely the cause of her illness. It was not an uncommon thing for the Empress to be in the saddle six or eight hours a day for a week at a time, either following the hunt or for the mere love of the exercise. Now Dr. Metzger has forbidden it absolutely, and although she looks with longing eyes at her stables and pats the glossy necks of her favorites, she is an obedient patient, now to Slake and Cook a Cake.". Sweet milk should always be used with baking powder, and makes firm white cake; sour milk used with soda, makes iight, spongy cake. If fruit is to be used, it should be prepared the day before; currants should be washed through several waters and dried on a coarse towel, and raisins should be picked from tho stems, washed. dried and seeded, citron sliced and floured, almonds blanched and chopped. The materials all having been prepared, the butter and sugar should be creamed together, the milk added, the yelks of the eggs, with tho llour and bakingpowder; lastly, the whites of the eggs and flavoring should be mixed in. There is great art in beating cake; it should not be stirred, but beaten; bring tho batter from the bottom of the bowl al every stroke, thus driving the air into the cells ot the batter instead of out of them. A wooden spoon should be used, and the mixing done in stoneware; the cake-pan should be greasod and lined with thin brown paper well greased. Too much care cannot be given to the oven, as therein lies tho secret of good cake. The oven may be tested by holding the hand inside for twenty or twenty-five seconds: if the heat can be borno that length of time the oven is iu proper order. Care should be taken not to remove the cake from tho oven till doue; test with a clean broom straw or a knitting needle; if the dough docs not adhere it is doue. When removed set the cake, while in the pan, on. an inverted sifter to cooL It

6hould be allowed to remain in the tan fifteen minutes after taken from the oven, when it can be carefully removed and set right bidenp. A tin cake-box or a largo stone jar is best to keep cake iu. A Few HcJps. Strawberry Dumplings. Put ono pint cf sifted flour into a bowl, and rub into the llour two ounces of butter; add a teaspoonf ul of salt, a heaping teaspoonf ul of baking powder, and sutlicient milk to moisten: mix quickb', tako out on a board, and roll one into a sheet a quarter of an inch thick; cut into cakes with a biscuit-cutter, put about three strawberries in each cake, fold them, over neatjy, and steam about twenty minutes. Strawberry Sauce. Beat two ounces of butter to a cream, adding gradually four ounces or a half-cupful of powdered sugar; then add twelve large strawberries, mash, and beat till light. This sauce is for tho dumplings, but can be used with any batter pudding. Old-fashioned Jonny Cake. Two cupful of butter-milk (or sour milk, if "solid." beaten briskly with an egg-beater), ono cupful of sifted flour, two cupfuls of sifted Indian meal, a small teaspoonful of salt, ay rounded teaspoonful of soda (dissolved in & tablespoonfnlof warm water), a tablespoonful of brown sugar (or tw6 if liked sweeter), a well-beaten egg, and three tablespoonfulsof melted butter or nice sweet lard. Put the milk, sugar and salt into a bowl, add soda, next flour andmeal; aftormixing, add first the butter, then the egg. pour into square baking-pans and bake in ft quick oven for half an honi. Sun-cooked Strawberries. Pick over tho ) strawberries and weigh them; then put-, them in the preserving kettle. Add Xo them as many pounds of granulated sugar . as there are strawberries. Stir aud place on the tire, and continue stirring occasionally until the mixture begins to boil. Cook for ten minutes, counting from the time it? begins to -boiL Pour the preserve into larger platters, having it about two inches deep and place iu the sun for tec hours cr more. The preserve is now ready to bo pot into pars and placed in the preserve closet. It will keep without sealing. Remember that these preserves are put into the jars cold; that no water is used in cooking them, nothing but the strawberries ana sugar, and that they will be very rich, so, that only a small quantity need be served to a person. The flavor of this fruit is perfect. Only fine ripe strawberries ahould be used. Coffee Bread. (To eat in the morning with coffee, used much by the Germans, who dip it in their coflec). One-half cupful of sugar, one egg. one cupful of milk, one-half cupful of yeast, enough flour for a sponge. When it is risen, add one-half, cupful of butter, worked in with tho hand (not kneaded), and flour enough to make itt soft, so that it can be patted down into a., greased pan to be baked. When it is risen. put little specks of butter over the top., press them down in, and sprinkle sugar audi cinnamon over it. Bake in a quick oven' twenty minutes when tho oven is rizht-

Serve cold. Cut in 6trips about aninch4 wide; for breakfast or lunch. 1 i Strawberry Cream. For two quarts of? strawberry cream use one quart of straw-i berries, half a pint of granulated sugarJ one gill of cold water, one gill of boiling) water, two quarts of whipped and drained cream, and half a package of gelatine Pick over the strawberries, put tb em in a bowl with the sugar, aud crush welLy' Let them stand two hours. Soak the gelaj tine in one gill of cold water for two hoursJ Next whin the cream. Rub the strawberries and 6iigar through a strainer into jv large bowl. Pour the boiling water on the gelatine, and when this is dissolved, add it to tho strained straw berry. Placo the bowl in a pan of ice-water and let it stand, stirring all tho time, nntil it begins to thicken. Immediately add the whipped cream, stirring it in gently. Four the cream into a mold and set away to harden. At serving time dip the mold in tepid water, turn the cream on a large flat dish, and hear whipped" cream around it.- One quart or cream will give enough whipped cream to make the dish and to servo with it, The rian of a Farm, ' T. n. Terry, in Practical Parmer. Underdraining and raising our crops on fewer acres were important and fundamen tal points in diminishing the cost of pro duction on our farm, but they wero only the beginning of the good work. The next step, perhaps, was changing our fields around i' j 6uch shape that we could do from 25 JO per cent, more in a day. when plowinarrowing. cultivating, planting, mowing, etc. Our fields had been fenced off, or laid off, in any shape, just as it happened, when the land was cleared, or as it was cleared, and just that way they had remained for fifty years. No one had put a moment's thought on the subject as to whether they could be improved. If they had, nothing was done. The' old rail fences, built when the land was cleared before 1 was born, had never once been moved a single rod. They must have been surprised soon after we came here. W drew a plan of the farm on paper, laying out all tillage fields as long and rectangular as the lay of the land would permit. We stopped ior nothing that a little work could overcome. For example, some eight acres of woodland stood in our way; instead of two little patches of land, wo wanted one big one with rows nearly a quarter of a mile long. It was put down that that piece of timber must go. It was eieht or ten years before we saw our plan fully realized; but it was laid out on sound business principles, and worked for until wo "got there." If there was a swale in the way, that caused others to plow a piece on each eide at great loss of time, we tiledrained it and went right through from end to encL Curing Clover-Hay, The Independent. Musty clover makes bad hay, and one reason for tho mustiness is that the clover was not properly cured. No one should cut clover in the morning and expect to haul it into tho barn the same day, lor, if he does, ho will have musty clover-bay beyond doubt. Clover contains a great deal ot sap, and the thick stems of this plant part with it very slowly. Kvery farmer will tell you that many times when clover looks dry enough to haul to the barn, if you twist the stems into a rope you can wring out water from them. Clover, as a rule, should be mown in tho afternoon and be left iu the swath over night. The dew will not hurt it, only possibly blacken it a little. As soon as the dew is oil" in tho morning shako out the heavier portions, and. when tho surface is dry, rake into bin all windrows; shake these out a littlo if necessary, and soon after dinner the hay will do to go in. By cutting the clover and allowing it to lie on the ground over night gives the sap in tho stems an opportunity to go into the leaves, and the process of evaporation soon rids thn hay of this moisture. Clover should be cut about the time the blossoms fade, as af that time it contains the most nutriment. It should be well cured, and the danger ir in curing it too little, while in curing tim othy the danger lies in curing it too much. Right at this point there is an unconscious loss in the feeding value of the hay croy which our farmers will do well to Temedyk Why They Try to Discredit the Census. NoTrBka JonmaL What a Democrat wants is an unlimited play of his imagination to paint the horrors of the situation. If ho can -make peoplo believe that poverty and wretchedness Abound, that half the population is starving, that everything is going to the devil, the majority would vote the Democratio ticket just to spite Providence. If the Democrats ever get possession of all branches of the government again, the best thing they can do for the party is to abolish, by a constitutional amendment, the census nonsenee altogether, and thus give free scope for unlimited campaign lying to tho Democratic politicians. Why Prefix the "ExH? CMcao JocrnaL The ex-rebels are wild with enthusiasm at Richmond, to-day, and the town will havo much the appearance that it used to have after a rebel victory in the war. But no danger will ensue. The occasions for exhibitmg rebel enthusiasm are like the safety valves of a steam-engine, which permit the surplus of steam to escape without danger to the boiler. Tempest In a Teapot. Iowa Itesisttr. Tho courageous, not to say defiant attitude of the Newfoundland Legislature toward England recalls the attitude of the American colonies in the days of George III. It begius to look as if England might have another case of revolution on its hands. One way to save transportation is tc raise everything needed that can bo grown on the farm. There are many kinds of fruit and vegetables that arc seldoti grown by fanner, .