Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1891 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1891.

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Biggs House, and Ebbltt Houae ' Some of the half-and-half newspapers are Independent Democrats and the rest are Democratic Independents. They insist that there is a distinction between these terms. Would it not be well for the Legislature to investigate the management of the Eastern hospital? The murder of a patient by attendants seems to warrant an investigation, if its excessive expenditures do not. People who elect members to the Legislature who pledge their caucus votes to a candidate for Speaker who will give them places on committees which will enable them to visit the State prisons free of cost to them must not expect a very high grade of legislation. An admiring Democratic editor Bays there is nothing flittering aboutCleveland'a Philadelphia speech, but that it is a calm, convincing statement of facts, or words to that effect. With a glittering generality staring at him in every line, it is surprising how blind some men can be. . The new People's party in Kansas demand in their platform that the office must seek the man, but reports from Topeka declare that there were at least a dozen eager aspirants for every legislative oflico at the capital clamoring for positions days before the Legislature assembled. ' . . TnE Boston Herald was the one antiadministration paper which scouted the Democratic claim of a deficiency in the treasury last summer. It now calls attention to its prediction and says that a surplus of $20,918,779 during the first half of the fiscal year fully verifies its prediction. But the Herald is one of the few Democratic papers that is not giving out from time to time that there is a deficit. The Chicago Herald, Democratic, takes occasion' to condemn the attempts which have been made to make it appear that the President is indifferent regarding the world's fair, and declares that "the .conservative, and delicate course on the President's part, instead of being an injury to the fair, must bo properly considered a benefit to it," and adds that ''criticism of him is unwarranted and, therefore, unjust." If it is essential to the success of the Democratic party to give forty or fifty Democrats sinecures, at the State-houso during the session, is it not possible to make an arrangement whereby they could be paid half the price paid the last session, and with the understanding that they return to their homes? By so doing they would net as much money, the State would save something and they would not be in the way about the legislative halls. A London cablegram says that Lord Salisbury has stated publicly that the recent attempted war scare between England and the United States was gotten up for stock-jobbing purposes. Referring to the rumor of strained relations between himself and Secretary Blaine, he stated that "Mr. Blaine's treatment of correspondence had always been courteous, and at no timejustified the statements made by speculators and petty politicians." TnE country will hear. with genuine pleasure that Colonel. Forsythe will bo completely exonerated by the report of the commission appointed to examine into his conduct at the battle of Wounded Knee. As it turns out, it is far better for him that the inquiry should have been made, resulting in his vindication, than that he should have rested under false charges or suspicions. It is probable that .as soon as the report of the commission ia made public Colonel Forsythe will be restored to his command and to active service. Of all the champions of silver in this country none is more scientifically informed or better qualified to present the cause of the white metal than ex-Senator Hill, of Colorado; nevertheless, it is stated that the Senators from that State will attempt to defeat his confirmation as one of tho international commissioners because he has been hostile to their election, being himself a candidate. That is, tho President should not have selected one of the men best fitted for the position simply because ho is a resident of Colorado and is not liked by the Senators from that State. One of tho first things done by the seceding States in lfctil was to confiscate debts duo by men in New Orleaus to creditors in the North. The money was collected by decree of court and deposited in the Citizens' bank in New Or leans. When General Butler occupied New Orleaus ho ordered the bank to pay

over to him all the money in tho hands of the bank to the credit of the Confederacy, and under this order the bank paid over $215,700 and tho money was turned over to the United States treasury. On Friday a bill came up in tho Houso and was vigorously pressed for passage, authorizing a nuit to be brought in the Couitof Claims for a refunding of the above 6um to the bank. Tho next few years will see many such claims presented and probably paid.

THE ABANDONED TRUSTS. During tho past week the failure of three efforts to form combinations, or trusts, was announced, namely: that of the manufacturers of window-glass, that of tho powder-producers and that of the manufacturers of harvesting machinery. Theleading reason alleged for the abandonment of the attempt to form a combination of the manufacturers of harvesters is that the decisions of the courts of New York, and Illinois make the formation of trusts hazardous. These courts have held, in effect, that a corporation under the laws of the State cannot legally hold stock in another corporation , for the purpose of controlling it, and that it is contrary to public policy to permit corporations to combine to regulate tho supply and price of any staple. With such decisions against the combination of producers, no matter how commendable their object, it is not only not safe for them to proceed, but almost impossible, since no banking institutions would advauce the large sums of money necessary to carry on businese upon the name and property of a corporation whose existence could be ended by the courts. What stood in the way of the harvesters' combination will stand in the way of tho formation of other trusts. In the sense that the sugar combination is a trust it is the object . of popular hostility, and, being contrary to the public welfare, the decisions of the courts must be hostile to it and all like it. 'This. being the case, conservative men will not risk their property in such combinations. But if there were no laws hostile to such combinations, they could not be made to succeed in controlling an article of general use if it was attempted to so enhance the price as to afford large profits, for the moment this is done new and eager competitors will appear in the field who would either break prices or compel a purchase of their 1 plants at exorbitant figures. Three years or more ago the linseed oil producers formed a trust to control production and prices. The competition had been so sharp that none of them were able to make money. They combined, production was lessened, and a price so high was fixed that general opposition was excited. The result was that substitutes were used for linseed oil, which materially curtailed their trade, and they were compelled to reduce the price to a figure which will not encourage new competitors to enter the field. Practically the linseed oil trust is a thing of the past. It failed because it pursued a pplicy which was sure to stimulate competition, and outside competition on any considerable scale will destroy trusts and combinations. AUSTRALASIAN TRADE. The United States consul at Auckland, New Zealand, in a recent report to the State Department, expresses the opinion that if an earnest effort were made towards extending our trade with those colonies our present trade would more than double annually. He adds: "This, however, 1 can only be accomplished by more frequent communication." The Australasian colonies are growing in wealth and population, and there is every reason to believe that by the exer cise of such methods as are used by other nations the United States might greatly enlarge its trade in that quarter of tho globe. At present we have a fair trade with them. From 1680 to 1880 we im ported from there goods amounting to $10,839,000, and sold them $17,G80,225 worth, thus leaving a balance in our, favor, on nearly ten years' trade, of $1,&U,395. Considering that there has been no special effort on our part to increase the trade in fact, none at all by Congress or the government this is a fair showing, but it might be greatly improved. New Zealanders havo a very friendly feeling towards tho United States, and would like to establish closer trade relations with us if we would meet them half way. For years they have borne the principal part of tho expenso of maintaining direct ocean communication with this country. In 1875 a postal contract was entered into between the colonial governments of New Zealand and New South Wales and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, whereby the former agreed to pay the steamship company $400,000 a year for a monthly service of four ships to bo maintained between San Francisco and the colonies. This was to pay for the transportation of the colonial mails to America and the British overland mails from San Francisco to tho colonics With this subsidy the lino was just about self-sustaining. Without it it could not have existed. While the colonies were paying $100,000 a year for the ocean transportation of their mails for the purpose of having regular communica tion with San Francisco, the United States government was paying less than $12,000 a year. It is such transactions as this that demonstrate our imbecility in regard to foreign commerce and make us the laughing stock of the world. Australia is growing very fast and will be a republic inside of twenty years. All the Australasian colonies are growing and their trade is developing rapidly. They are populated by Englishspeaking people, who are quite as much disposed to trade with the United States as they are with England. With a little encouragement they would be more so, but they get no encouragement. A semi-monthly line of steamers between San Francisco and New South Wales would bring thousands of passengers and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of trade to this country that now go by other, lines to England. Recently thb New Zealand government has given notice of its intention to stop paying for mail service via San Francisco, iutimatiug that it was tired of bearing, singlehanded and . alone, almost the entire

burden of a service which inured -so

largely to the benefit of others. ,It,is idle for us to expect to get foreign trade unless we adopt modern methods and do something to attract it. PEETINENT CRITICISM. In an article in which the last com munication of the administration to the British government upon the Behring sea dispute is warmly commended for its ability and scope, the Brooklyn Eagle, one of the ablest Democratic pa pers in the country, criticises the Anglomaniac journals as follows: Bitterness toward Blaine scarcely ex cuses the attitude of some men ana news papers toward the Bebringsea controversy. , The Secretary of State, whether personally he is ever to bo forgiven or not, officially represents the United States. Our own country ought to have a fair showing. This would be true even if its case were in incompetent hands, and it is by no means certain that it now is. Careful readers of the recently published correspondence must admit that Mr. Blaine sets the better of Lord Salisbury in showing that exclusive claims were set up by Russia to the sea early in this century and that if these ciauns were not actually conceded ny tne union ana Dy meat Britain tnere was an acquiescence of silence. No one who is familiar with the ultra Anglomanjac and free-trade papers has expected anything else than has oc curred. From the first they have advocated tho British side of the case and have tried to make it appear that the administration cannot sustain its claims. They are as much on the British side. as aro tho London Times and other English papers. If the United States should get into a war with England they might be expected to assumo tho attitude of the Tories during the Revolution. They :ire devoted to , the theory of free trade, and as "Great Brit ain is tho only professed free-trade nation in the world, the ultra American free-trader is an Angloraaniac, and con sequently is afflicted with an intense admiration for British customs and ways. For the same reason ho dislikes all that savors of the virile Americanism which distinguishes the present administration. He is built that way. He cannot conceive that Lord Salisbury can be wrong and the American administration right. If he should be con sulted in regard to the Behring sea con troversy he would advise the concession , of all that the British- government desires. If the controversy were with France or Germany, the ultra '"freetrader would be able, as an impartial spectator, to judge fairly between the . government which has a right .to his allegiance and one of those mentioned;, but when it comes to Great Britain, alh his sympathies are with it and its claims. ' This is one of the reasons 'why it is i unfortunate to be a free-trader from the real American point of view. Governor Boies, of Iowa, has sjirred3 up a hornet's nest by his attack 6b the,, farming interests of his State, Irr a recent speech at New York he attempted'. to tickle the ears of the groundlings by : declaring that farming in Iowa'was of; losing business, that, the farmers were, all growing poor under Republican tariff laws, etc. It seems tho Governor him'-o self owns two farms in Iowa, one. of a section and a half and the other ot,t lire e thousand acres. A paper published b tho county-seat of the county Where Hie UiOb 1U11U J1CD OUJO. . Governor Boies paid about S3 an aerator. the section and lor tne balance a- Httto higher price. He has the land surrounded with a wire fence all in one body we bel lieve, and each year it pastures somewherebetween SOOand 400 head of cattle sby oiie, animal to each two and a half acres.1- J art, take these figures, allowing a fair price fort the cattle at the time they are turned oin the crass, and be fair in figuring their ln,l creased value in the fall, and you will' find that the Governor, with very little,1o"ort,v: is clearing the hrst cost of his land 'each: year. , if, The other farm is all arable land.Thef. u uovernor acquired it oy iorcciosing a mortgages, and it cost him about $tj peir acie. To-day it is rated at $3o -to 40 The Dubuque Times says: ,rD; a . - l t T"l The Governor never has nut anvibuilov ings on it, save a few shanties, and haskepf his tenants living in the lowest shape of any Iowa tenants we ever knew, lie has? exactod from them heavy rents. They start1 out with great hope of prosperity, but- soon1 lind that under the Boies iron-clad. leaso they cannot succeed, aud they only stay with him two or three years at the longest. On this farm he raises tens of thousands of bushels of corn, which he feeds to his ; cattle brought from his pasture lands north. He also raises largo numbers j of. hoes. In this way Governor Boies has, in the past fifteen years, become wealthy. He has made it principally from these farms.. It would be an easy matter for him to-day to sell his farms in Iowa, for which ho paid less than 20,000, for at least 8150,000. ( This seems to be a case of a demagogue going out shearing- and coming back shorn. The Governor is hoist by biB own petard. ' ; Two coming events in Ohio cast their shadows before. On the 12th of Febru ary the anniversary of Abraham Lin coln's birthday, the Ohio Republican League will hold its sixth annual convention an d banquet at Toledo. A large attendance is assured, and some of the best speakers in the country will do the talking. April 21 the Republican League of the United States will hold its fourth annual convention in Cincinnati, when representatives from all portions of the country will take counsel together as to the present condition and future welfare of the party. The Republican clubs of this State should make arrangements to be represented at the latter meeting. Full returns of the cotton crop place it at 7,773,000 bales, against 7,313,000 bales last year. Tennessee, North Carolina and Texas show tho largest gains, and these States alone have an increase of two-thirds of the total increase over last year. Of the entire crop over 0,000,000 bales have been marketed. Foreign exports thus far this season have been 3,275,025 bales, against 3,199,456 last year, an increase of 75,509. The total tak ings of American mills, North and South, thus far for the season have been 1,533,3G5 bales, against 1,479.351 last year. These figures seem to indicate that the great Southern industry is in a healthy condition. The following matter-of-fact dispatch furnished by tho Associated Press a few days ago seems not to have attracted the attention of tho free-trade organs: Baltimore, Jan. 8. The Manufacturers' Record publishes this week letters from manufacturers in Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburg. 'and Deniniler. Pa., and Brooklyn, N. Y.( who are either making tinplate or preparing to do so. When all are iu full operation theirweekly output will be l.'AOOO boxes. All believe that, if no change is made- ia the duties on tin aud

tin-plate imposed by the McKinley bill this country will soon make all the tin-plate it consumes from American iron and tin at a price lower than has been paid for imported plates. The Manufacturers' Record is not a protectionist, much less a Republican publication, but a trade iournal. Its information is such that it makes the prediction that if the tin-plate provision of the tariff 6hall bo let alone the price of the article will be lower here than ever before. This paragraph, it may bo added, did not appear in many of the free-trade newspapers. It would nullify their organic efforts on the editorial page to make their readers believe that the new tariff law is an outrage.

Cah as a Panacea for Wounds. The pious refrain which gives assurance that 'There is a balm for every wound, a cure for every woe," must be accepted as a truthful statement, but in these degenerate days the interpretation is very different from that intended by the writer. It is no spiritual balm that suggests itself to the modern man as a cure for all his ills. The only thing that will serve to heal his wounds of soul and body is of a more material character. It is, in short, cash. Cash is alike accepted as a recompense by the man who has collided with a railroad train and by the girl with a broken heart. The man whose feelings have been injured by the derogatory remarks of a fellow-citizen or a newspaper is made right again by the payment of cash, and the women who have sought to salve their wounded affections with a pecuniary plaster furnished by the perpetrator of the damage are innumerable. Instances are not unknown in which men have also brought breach-of-promise suits for the purpose of securing monetary compensation from the scornful objects of their regard, and it may be suspected that these cases are infrequent only because of the fact that the young -woman of the period is usually not possessed of a personal bank account. The latest development in seeking this particular variety of "balm" is the 'case of the Henry country man who de mands cash damages'of his mother-in-law for the anguish she has indicted upon him. This opens a new and wide opportunity for complaining man in literature it is always the husband's mother-in-law who is a tycoon and an "aggerawater." For a long time the nnhappy son-in-law has had no refuge or means of retaliation save in writing at his wife's parent in the funny papers and in gibing and jeering at her behind her back. Now with the prospect of securing cash in payment for the injuries she has in flicted on him there is a chance for the op pressed married man to even up on old scores and reduce his mother-in-law to subjection at .the same time. To be sure it is vet uncertain but that the courts will hold that this peculiar form of application is precisely the tonic that man's moral nature needs, but at all 'events it is well to have the matter settled. It is interesting to note, also, that this effort at emancipation, like other great reform movements, originates with an Indiana man. A few days ago a family'in New Albany, lnd., was poisoned by eating canned peas. None of the family died, but some of them were .very sick. 'The matter was brought to the attention of Professor Howe, of the Louisville Polytechnio School, who, in reply to questions, gave the following information:. ' " There are three ways In which canned goods may be poisoned. The nrst and most common way is In the solder used, particularly in cases where the poods have been put up earelesly. Then drops of solder get into the can. bolder 'contains lead, and lead is poison. Goods which contain vegetable acide, such as tomatoes, will dissolve some of the solder. Cases of this kind are not so common now as they once were, as the manufacturers are very careful to use but email quantities of solder, while some use pure tin. This has been the result of the great amount of talk about such things. The second way is from the tin-plate of which the can Id made. This may possibly hare been a case of poisoning where the can had been opened, and acid goods, like tomatoes, allowed to stand in the vessel for some days. To make sure that no case of poisoning shall occur in this way, all canned goods should be taken out and not allowed to stand In the cans. A third case is where some injurious substance has been intentionally added by the -manufacturer for the rurpose of improving the appearance of their goods. To this class belong particularly French peas. In the report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, published in 1889, it is stated that out of eight suspected sairples examined, five contained copper. Two of these samples were French peas and two string beans, while one was Brussels sprouts, all imported. My own opinion is that canned goods are rarely injurious. It is extremely des triable, however, that when canned goods are opened they should be at once removed from the can. In not doing this is where many people make a mistake. There is a great improvement In canning goods over the old method, and I don't think there Is as much danger now as when a great deal of solder was used. In French peas the copper is put in to give them color. If the precaution is taken to empty all canned poods, there is no danger, except as to the imported French vegetables, which bave shown up badly. The Constitution which the convention in Kentucky is preparing ties up the Legislature in a manner which shows that its members have no faith in the integrity and intelligence of Democratic legislative bodies in that State. One prohibition forbids the passage of a law to take effect within less than three months, unless by a threefourths vote. The restrictions upon membership are very severe not only are railroad officers and attorneys excluded, but clergymen, priests and teachers of sects. In view of the limitation upon membership, a delegate has offered the following section to the proposed article: No person shall be eligible to a seat in either bouse of the lieneial Assembly who shall not have at the time of his election a certificate of honesty, fitness and reliability from a member or the descendant of a member of this convention. Mr. H. Rider Haggard, the novelist, has arrived in New York on his 'way to Mexico, whove,he -will remain for some time studying the traditions and legends of the country preparatory to writing a story of the Aztec empire. He says: It it absolutely impossible to write a story of the kind unless one has been in the country. I wrote my African stories after a long residence in that country, where. I was a government official. I believe that all the more important of the Spanish "conquestadors" have been translated Into French, none bo far as I know into English. 1 have purposely refrained from reading General Wallace's novel of "The Fair God' for the reason that I make it a rule never to read a novel on the same subject as that on which I myself am about to write. We give Mr. Haggard the benefit of the la it statement as an estoppel against any chirge of plagiarism. Id us. Stanley, it is said, has not once been ill during her stay in America, and thinks it is because she is fond of fresh air and keeps the temperature of her room at siyty-two degrees. This must make life comfortable for Mr. Stanley, who has been spending the past few years in the tropics. Nc thing is said about his health. In view of a recent utterance of one of the brightest lights in the histrionic galaxy. the Journal would suggest the following combined ticket and platform for 1892: For President David B. Hill, of New York. I am a Democrat." For Vice-president John L. Sullivan, of Boston. "De McKinley bill's no good." An agricultural exchange remarks discouragingly that "a man who plants an apple tree may not know that more thanCX) species of fungi are lying in wait to destroy the fruit," Though this information is depressing it is hardly, worth while to give up the cultivation of apples. The varieties of bacillus that are waitiug abound every cor

ner ready to pounce upon the human fami

ly are only beginning to be counted, but aro already as numerous as the apple-tree enemies, but, after all, enough human beings to conduct the affairs of the earth have managed to dodge them, snd it is not worth while for the agriculturists to get scared at the vegetable fungi. An exchange comments wonderingly on the circumstance that Stanley and his wife have been comparative social failures in the cities where he has lectured. When a man arrives in town at 4 p.St.. dines and sleeps in his car and leaves immediately after the lecture closes he really has little opportunity to shine in a social capacity. BUBBLES IX TUB AIR. The Usual Way. "What does a man'' want to keep a diary fori I'm sure I wouldn't. ,S'ow, my idea is " "That it is less trouble when you want to talk about yourself to find a living victim." But He Didn't. Mrs. Fitts Egbert, what is the meaning of "festinalente!" ' Mr. Fitts "Make haste slowly." They were the last words of the man that fell out of the balloon. A Small Boy's Elysium. "My little man, come tell to me If you could by some magic be To the unknown fairyland transplanted, Where boys may have their wishes granted, What would your wishes bel" "I'd wish " he side wise cocked his head. Pondered and paused, and then he said: "I'd wish I had two brothers; One great big one, and one I could lick; That nothln nevcd make me sick. And eight or nine grandmothers." Modern Advantages. In earlier days it used to be A man might coin a repartee Too late for use then woe was hel But times aren't as they used to be; Ue puts his late-horn repartee In shape to print then straightway he Can sen it for some 50c Unconsidered Trifles. Salvation Is something like a bonnet it's the trimmings that make the expense. Ice-water baths are a fad in Boston. That is, it is ice-water when thje Bostonian comes out. - It remains for the red brother to choose be tween being received with open arms or loaded ones. A striking countenance is not always an evi dence of brains. Consider the Wm. goat, for instance. " A woman never forgets her first proposal, though the man that made' it sometimes does when a prettier girl comes along. Some men can be coaxed, some must be driven, and once in a long, long while we meet a man amenable to plain, cold reasoning. ABOUT PEOPLE ASP THINGS. Vice-president Morton has sold his handsome estate on Bellevue avenue, Newport, R. I., to L Townsend Burden, of New York. Tho place is known as Fairland, and includes about four acres of land. Mrs. Amelia Barr, the jioveiist, has a larger income from her literary work than the Chief-justice of the United States receives for his legal services. She appeals to the glad, sunny side of Bfe, and that's the reason why. Orion Frazee, of Atlanta, is at work on the statue of Jefferson Davis, ordered at the time the ex-President of the Confederacy died. He has a death-mask, taken with his own hands, to aid him in obtaining a good likeness. Since then Mr. Frazee has completed a bust of the late Henry W. Grady. General Beale says that General Grant was wont to pronunce Li Hung Chang, the Prime Minister of China, the wisest man whom he met in his journey around the world. The Chinese statesman paid the exBresident the delicate compliment of hav- , ing their photograph taken while sitting together. Prof. Robert Koch has given a Hamburg firm permission to call one of their vessels by his name. A bronze medal has been struck off, also, in his honor in Berlin. It contains on one 6ide an excellent likeness, of the Doctor, with the inscription: "Professor Dr. Robert Koch." On the other side are the words: "Ut Sementem Feceris, ita Metes." "Pseudopatiiy" fand "pseudotherapy'' havo been added to the medical vocabulary by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The first of these words signifies the quack science of disease, and the other means the quack method of healing. It is to be hoped that the ordinary profane characterizations of hocus medical methods has rfow found acceptable synonyms. Queen Victoria spends much rof her time every day at her writing desk. Not a day passes in which she does not carefully edit and correct with her own hand the Court Circular, and the amount of correspondence she disposes of is simply enormous. The greater part ot her correspondence and official business is attended to in the morning after a walk or drive. Mrs. Stanley has not once been ill during her stay in America. She is very fond of fresh air and keeps the temperature of her room at 62. Every day she takes along walk. She thinks that American women are more hospitable than the women of London and the cities of the British isles, but the English girl is better when you get acquainted with her1. She is a little stiff aud distant at first, but improves after she has thawed out." The Prince de Joinville has the reption of being, with the exception of Comte de Paris, the most parsimonious l ble in Europe. He will not have extra fires lighted in bis vast and chilly Paris mansion when he comes from the country to spend a day or two there, and he sends around the corner to a cook-shop for a bowl of soup and a plate of meat rather than waste coals in tho kitchen , range. Both these royal economists have enormous fortunes. Mrs. Stanley's mother, Mrs. Tennant. is in some respects a more interesting woman than her talented daughter. "'She is neither so tall nor so robnst as Mrs. Stanley, but in figure and in manner she is most attractive. Her black eyes sparkle with vivacity, and though there is a silver thread herp and there in her black hair, time has dealt very gently with her. Her speech is concise, but melodious. In talking with her daughter she almost invariably uses French. - The nncomplimentary terms applied to journalists recently by Emperor William recall, by contrast, the words used by King Humbert of Italy in speaking of themembers of that profession. Atoneof the court balls in the palace at Rome the King summoned a number of editors to his side. After referring with expressions of admiration to the important work done by the press and to the difficult and powerful work of the editors, he added: "Gentlemen, 1 have often said that I should wish to be a journalist were I not a king." George Meredith, the English poet and novelist, is of very delicate constitution, so far as outward signrcan be depended upon, but be has a magnetic personality, although he speaks with a rather unpleasant drawl. He writes in a small house separated from bis residence and usually spends several hours each day in this retreat. Then he stops and takes his daughter bis manuscript to oopy. He has been twice married and has two beautiful children upon whom he lavishes the warmest atlectinn Ha in Sv rbarmintr rnnvAraatinnikliif. ) and his manners are beyond criticism. When Laura Bridgiuan's death occurred at the Perkins Institution for the Blind on May 24, 1SC9, an autopsy was conducted by Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark University of Worcester, and tne brain was given in charge of JL H. Donaldson, Ph. D., assistant professor of necrology in the university. The result of his experiments have been made public. The weight of the brain was found to be 1.-04 grams, which is only slightly less than the weight of the average female brain. The nerves associated with tho senses of tu&Le and

hearing and' with the external inusolr s were somewhat reduced in size, although all the cranium nerves were small. The left hemisphere of the brain was not so well developed as the right. So far as measurements aro concerned, the brain of Laura Bridgman was found to differ in no remarkable degree from other brains. A jeweler says: "I was onco asked by a lady if there ' ire many precious stones found in the United States. She meant minerals. She was of the same opinion of many others in this country, that everything precious in that lino was found only in the old world. There is, I believe, little mining here for precious gems, bnt it is Dot because we do not have them. Hock crystal, which admits of such a high polish, and which is much used in jewelry now. is found in largo quantities in North Carolina, Virginia. Georgia and Arkansas. There is a' jet in Colorado that is equal to any I ever saw. and I believe there is some in Texus. In Maine there is a mountain called Mount Mica, out of which tourmalines to the valne of S100.000 a year are taken. Moonstone is found in Virginia, and the soil of New Mexico is enriched with sapphires, rubies and garnets. I wish I could come back to the United States one hnndred years from now. We think this is a glorious country now. In another century the cities of this country will surpass the descriptions wo have of the New Jerusalem, and millionaires will be as common as poor relations. You and I are living too soon, believe me."

INDIANA 31BM AND AFFAIRS. Ex-Chairman Michener Talks on Topics of Interest to Llooslers. "Gatb," in Cincinnati Enquirer. I was talking one evening recently with Mr. Michener, of Indiana, and some others, noon Indiana matters. Said this gentleman: "The time which has elapsed since the war is shown by the almost complete disappearance from this sphere of any aged Republican leaders in Indiana. The Democrats have two of their old leaders leftMcDonald and Voorhees. Judge Niblack still lives, but he is not in active politics any more. There is a high respect entertained tor him in both political parties, and he is rather the favorite of the State. I should make an exception as to Richard Thompson, who is eighty-two vears old. aud whom we almost always called upon to preside over our Republican State convention. The last convention he presided over met in the morning, and was in session till evening, and 'lhompson did not leave the chair at aDy time that was appreciable. On account of his age suggestions were made to him that he have a recess or call some one el so to the chair, but he said no. It was thought that he ought to have something to eat, or even some stimulant. He replied: "No; I can get through very well. All I would like to do would be to smoke this cigar 1 have got in my hand. If I could get a smoke for a little while I should bo all right." "How old is Governor Hovevt" "He is about seventy. He has led a re markable career, lie comes from the extreme southwestern portion of the State, and has held oilicial positions for probably forty years, having had almost every sort of place the people could give to him, and it is said that he never solicited a nomination, never took any steps to be nominated, but was taken up by a sort of general consent. He has almost always been elected when nominated. Judge Niblack beat him once for Congress, lie went into the war, having been a soldier by instinct, and performed his' part in many important battles, like Champion Hills, and Corinth, and Vicksburg. He came home and raised a brigade oi several regiments, which took a fanciful name, and he again got a full meal of the war." i.Yiaf: Via npnnl o withnnt rntnTilsinf nils you to build such a large State Capitol building and such a lofty and expensive soldiers' monument!" f'We shall have perhaps the greatest nxonument in this country to the Indiana soldiery As to the State Capitol, the man who drew the bill to build it was very, sagacious and far-seeing. An assessment was made of 2 cents on the $100 and the. Commissioners were put under bonds and made to take oath besides. They were restnetea to c-.wo,ooo and they built that immense building within' the limit ana turned some of the money back to tho State," . "I do not see how that could be done by laymen, for architects themselves can seldom complete a large building like that within the estimates, even when they aro conscientious." "In our State Capitol some of the contractors were pressed by the commissioners, and they had to fall back on their bondsmen, and the bondsmen had to carry. Jout the contracts at a loss. The people have not objected to these works, for the reason, among others, that they saw there was a scrupulous supervision on the part of the State." "Is it not possible that ex-Governor Gray v will come forward for a part of the next presidential nomination!" "Gray is an agile man. He is a politician and a good schemer, bnt he almost always alights upon his feet. The Republicans spoiled his chances to be Vice-president by running up his record as a Know-uothing. It seems that he was in the Know-nothing order, and assisted to install members. This was why the Democratic leaders thought 16 unsafe to take him up in 1868." An Impending Crisis. Shelbyville Republican. This government has a duty toperformto the colored voter in the South, and if it is not discharged now it must be in the future. It will not do to leave that country and the voters at the mercy of assassins, and murderers, and ballot-box corrupters, aud trust to the future to solve the problem.' The future will not olvethe problem as long as it is possible to keep the secession States solid for Democracy. That much is certain. The army of the United States is now engaged in killing the wild Indians on the frontier, yet they are not one-third as dangerous to the government as the men who are engaged in destroying "the freedom, and purity, and sacredness of the ballot. With one-half of the country free and the other half controlled aud ma nipnlated by fraud and a reign of terror, it is only a question of time how long the Nation will stand. It will fall as certain as this attack upon popular government is - continued. m s' Conscience in Politics. Fern Republican. Whenever the Republican party Jones its conscience it will go put of power. Itcaute into existence as a protest against barbarism practiced by the same section that now openly defies the Constitution and threatens war if Republicans are protected in the right to vote, guaranteed them by the federal Constitution. The Democratic party had no qualms of conscience on the slavery question, and never has had on any other. Its only purpose has been to succeed, and it has never allowed conscience to stand in its way, whether it be on the question of buying an 4 selling human beings, disfranchising those who voto the Republican ticket, or shooting down postmasters in Southern towns who do not bow the knee to the oligarchy. t A Convincing Proof. Philadelphia Press. If the Republican Senators who voted last Monday to lay aside the federal elections bill have any doubt as to the right or wrong of their action, let them listen to the shout of triumph which is going up from the Democratic newspapers. They could not have been true to Republican principles and at the same time have caused so much jpy among their political opponents. If these Republican Senators ara wise they will learn from the enemjr, and hasten to place themselves again in accord with their party associates. i A SUlted 8tjlw Terre nsute Express. There is much Cleveland matter coing over the wires which would be improved by being boiled down. The ex-President is verbote. The concrete statement that men "buy votes to secure fat offices" like the Ohio Senatorhhip for instance) reads in Cleveland's style, "money is invested in the purchase ot votes with the deliberate calculation that it will yield a profitable return in results advantageous to the investor." He could not get a job as' reporter on a good paper, like the Sun, for instance. Tin-Plat Prediction. Albany JournaL Within live years the howling dervishes of , free trade who are even yet screaming against the establishment of this nqw in. dustry aud the investment of capital and the employment of labor because it is contrary to their peculiar doctrine will be at hiletit as thev are to-dav retard mo th& I hteol-rail industry.