Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1892 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1891.

marched on the beach, they describe a larce circlo ami tho leader, Captain Lyne, gives out a hymn, which is sane with comparative freedom from interruption. Instructions aro then given to the band to play, but a police inspector interpose, and informs trie army olllcers that the instrumental musio will not bj allowed. He also warns the bandsmen, individually, acainst using their instruments. Amid increasing uproar, and a crado.il closing of the crowd, a lively verbal altercation generallv follows between the inspector and Captain Lyn whereupon the latter rtreata his orders to the band to proceed. The bandtmen raise their instrument to their months, and are on the point of playing, but they are then prevented from ho doing by the police, who knock the Instruments down and break up the meeting. Thin leads to an exciting scrimmage, the crowd, the Salvationists and the rolice becoming inextricably railed up. The Salvationists are violently hustled, and by some of the rougher members of the crowd number of people are knocked down and trampled upon. Tim Salvationists are ultimately enabled to return to their barracks under protection of the police, with or without the loss of their instruments. This is about the usual Sunday programme at Ilnstbourne. -varied occasionally by more exciting incidents. WARM WORDS FOR HARRISON.

Hsrmcnfoiu and Enthusiastic Convention In the Opera-Ilons at Marion Yesterday. f pec!al to the Indianapolis Journal. Marion, lnd., Jan. SO. A mass-meeting of Republicans was held here this aftercoca to determine the time and manner of choosing candidates for county offices for the coming campaign. Sweetser's Opera-house was crowded, and the meeting was one of the most enthusiastic eyer held In this city. It was decided by an overwhelming majority to nominate by delegate convention, and Saturday, Feb. 12. is tho time fixed. The basis of representation is to le one delegate for every ten votes cast for Trusler at tho last election. Speeches were insde by Governor Steele, ii. J. Panlus, Hon. Hiram Urownlee. Dr. Francis, L. H. Uanks. (ieorge A. Osborne and others, livery mention of President Harrison's nam was received with enthusiasm. The sentiment of the convention was unmistakably and emphatically for Harrison. The following resolutions were adopted "wirh shouts of approval: The Republicans of Grant county, in mwsconventlon assembled, believe this occasion Is one that would be incomplete without some lormal words of approval of the administration of our honored national chief executive, UenjaKnln HarrlMiu: therefore be It Hesolved, That wo heartily indorse the administration of President Benjamin Harrison, and Riucereljr believe that hit conduct of public atralrs has resulted in the greatest possible good to the whole people. Resolved. That In our chief executive the people have a .President In whose Intejjriiy. achievements and patriotic Americanism they can tako a Just r?idc; and Jiesoived, That la his wisdom to deal successlullywith questions of public policy within our domain, as affecting our relation with other countries. In so far as lies within his power, we hare full and absolute confidence. Resolved. That the Republicans of Grant county, tho banner county in point of Republican gaina In the election of 1PD0, send greeting through this assembly to their former distinguished fellow-citizen, and assure him. as Indlaolans, of their continued regard and increasing admiration for hit eorfplouou uexviccs as chief executive of the Nation. A reference to Major George W. Steele as a prospective candidate for the governorship elicited from him the statement that ho was not at presont an aspirant for that offlcu. FATES THIRD YICTI2I. Three Oat of Five Children in & Knox County Family Mest Violent Deaths. Cpe clal to tie Infllscspotis Journal. Vincekj.es, IntL. Jan. SO. James Little, living near Oaktown, in this county, was killed to-lay by the accidental discharge of his gun. llo'attempted to catch tho gun as it was falling from its leaning position against a tree, and it was discharged, the contents entering his body above the right hip and coming out near the left shoulder. He was about tbirtylivo years old. and unmarried, lie is the third in a family of five boys to meet an untimely death. His brother Henry had his brains accidently shot out while hunting and his brother John, while intoxicated, sat down on the xailroad track and a fast train ground him to pieces. Recommendations Concerning Patents. Washington; Jan. ZX Commissioner of Patents Simonds made his annual report to Congress to-day. lie recommends several fmendments to the patent law; among hem the following are of the most importance: Providing that a patent shall pot expire with the expiration of a prior foreign patent; compelling applicants to take action every six months, and no patent to live more than twenty years after the date of the original application; requiring licenses to make or UR4 an invention to be recorded; allowing; aliens to file caveate?; relegating interference contests to the courts; providing that no damages for in fringement shall be recovered except such as occur within six years next prior to bringing snit; and allowing the registry of trade-marks, which are used in commerce hetween the States. The "Uoss" Sailing Vessel. New York, Jan. SO. Themagnitlcontship Fhenandoah arrived this afternoon, after a passage of thirty-six days, from Havre. She came in the Narrows iiyng a commodore's Dennant one hundred feet long, presented by tho merchants of San Francisco, jnst on the eve of her departure for Havre. She is Iustly entitled to the same, beating five of ;er competitors for a passage of 105 days, and carrying a oargo of 5.100 tons of wheat, cne of the largest cargoes, if not the largest, ever .carried by a sailing vessel from that port. She experienced heavy southwest gales in the channel lasting eight days. Her actual passage was made in seventeen days, and on Jan. 3 and 5. with a moderate northeast breeze, she ran 270 knots each day. Robbed of 87,000 Worth of Diamonds. San Antonio. Tex., Jan. SO. The particulars of a bold and successful robbery became pnblio here to-day. Two weeks fgo Charles Ladner, the city salesman of larris Beckman's jewelry establishment here, left the store with about $7,C0Q worth (f diamonds, watches and other articles of ewelry for tbe ostensible purpose of showng them toa wealthy prospective customer, lie did not return to the store within a reasouable time and Mr. Beckman began an investigation. He soon ascertained that he had been robbed. Detectives have traced Ladner to Mexico. Electricity Drew Out the Ilroken Needle. Xenia. O., Jan. 30. While operating a steam sewing-machine at the Xenia shoe factory, yesterday. Miss Ann Canning ran a Ceedle through one of her fingers, the needle reaking od and part of it lodging in the bone so that tho doctor could not get it out. The young lady went to the electric-light works, and. after subjecting her linger to the maguetio current two hours, the needle vas drawn out by the electricity without pain or injury. Tracking Apaches with Dlood-IIounds. Yt'MA, A. T.. Jan. SO, The authorities of Cochise connty have imported a pack of blood-hounds from Huntersville, Tex., to aid in the chase of the renegade Apaches, Masse and Kid. cow in the Chiricahua mountains witn a small following. These methods have been adopted owing to tho Inability of the army to reach the renegades. Illinois Powder factory Illown Up. St. Louis, Jan. CO. The powder-mills of Camille Droit, immediately opposite ISt. Xouis across the nvr in Illinois, were blown up along with 5.000 pounls of dynamite early this morning. Much excitement was caused among the residents until the real cause was known." The pecuniary loss Is small. Trainmen Mangled In a Collision. Ml rPLEfinovE, III, Jan. CO. Two freight trains on the Iowa Central railroad crashed together at this place this morning. Engineer James Edgar, of Marshalltown, la., was instantly killed. Half a dozen other trainmen were injured, two of whom may sot recover. Tho cause of the collision is EAl know9-

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Rcccnt Happenings in Colombia, Sicaraua, Guatemala anil Honduras. George H. Fallman Said to Have Pat Money in the Nicaragua Canal Court cf Arlitration Established Bloody Riot. CENTRAL AMERICAN NEWS. George M. Pullman Interested in the Nicaragua Canal Moody Election Riot. Sfecll Correspondence to ihe Unitd rres. Panama, Jan. 23. It is stated at Managua that Mr. George M. Pullman, of sleepingcar fame, has become a large stockholder in the Nicaragua can ah A Guatemala dispatch announces that Don Alfred Quinonez, editor of LI Kayo, has been expelled from the republio on account of editorial articles severely criticising General Uarillas's administration. A Central American Diet is in session at Tegucigalpa, tho capital of Honduras, ratifying the treaties of peace which were, through the good work of Dr. Joso Maria Castro, tbo Costa Kica plenipotentiary, effected between the states of Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, proTiding a permanent court of arbitration to settle differences that may arise between them. The Panama Star and nerald says: "According to late advices from San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua canal ailairs are looking up. Both European and American capitalists are becoming interested, and holders of Pacific coast woodlands begin to realize that it is the best way to get their lumber to Eastern markets." It is stated in several West Indian papers that Prince George of Wales has expressed to the Queen a desire to retire from the British navy and enter tho colonial service ns Governor of Canada, Jamaica or Trinidad. The progress of tho surveys of the international intercontinental railway through Central and South America shows that the country to be traversed is less difficult than was supnoed. The route through southern Colombia and Ecuador is believed to be tbe worst part of the line, and most of that has already been traversed. The people along the route are reported to be enthusiastic in favor of tbe enterprise. The Lima El Commercio, of Dec. 27, gives an account of extensivo forgeries recently committed by an assistant casbierof tho Hnanchaca Mining Company, of Bolivia, assisted by three other employes of the house. Strange to say, none of the bills have been protested, though tho forgery is believed to amount to 20.000. in fact thosa Bold in Lima.according to cable advices, had already been presented and paid in London when the mining company's cable to "stop" was received. Minor C. Keitz. the noted American builder of Central and South American railways, has been conceded X)0.000 in gold and a valuablo land grant to construct a new interoceanic line to Costa Kica with a branch to connect San Jose, the capital of the repnblio. with 6teainboat navigation on Lake Nicaragua. Notwithstanding official statements to the contrary, private advices from Guayaquil, received by steamer arriving in Panama on the 22d inst.. recount great excitement and' several bloody riota as having occurred during tbe late elections. The followers of Cordero, the government candidate, were armed with ritiee; those of Ponce with clubs and pistols. Only twenty of the active combatants were seriously wounded during tho tirst day's riot, several of whom afterwards died. Stray bullets', however, Killed a number of innocent women and children, and this greatly increased the excitement, and further clashes, even more serious, afterwards occurred, in which many more were killed or wounded, among them several politicians of note. True to his promise. President Flores did not permit either military or police interference at the polls. Each policeman was left in his private capacity to wield a shillalah for his own candidate, however, and no end of broken heads resulted. A revolntion is believed to be imminent in Costa Kica, where the Conservative administration with a depleted treasury staring them in the faoo are making desperate efforts to raise a new loan in London. But the National party and the old Liberals are opposed to any foreign loan and opeuiy threaten to raise a revolution against the government in case one is effected. At Augot, Pern, a woman, convinced of her husband's infidelity, killed her six children and then drowned herself in a barrel of molasses. . GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Manifesto from Russian Land-Owners That Scores the Government's Policy. London, Jan, SO. The Daily Graphic today publishes a manifesto which it says has been issued by the Russian Zemstvo (local administrative bodies), which are composed ot country gentlemen and landowners, on the famine in Russia and the inadequacy of the government measures to afford relief. The manifesto says: "The government, armed with the weapons of a state of siege, is filling Siberia and the jails with suspected persons, fearing a revolutionary propoganda. This government, which has robbed us of all the reforms inaugurated by Alexander II, and which hasdenrivedsoclety from takingany part in public life, has brought to Russia starvation. Such a government cannot solve tbe present problem with its own forces. The calamity is only in its initial stage, the spring, will disclose its actual proportions. How xill it end if the government does not change its attitude. Society is in a state of bankruptcy, political enfeeblement and dismemberment. Russia in a popular rising would be deluged with her people's blood. No one can foresee tho end." . . The Tecks in Great Lnck. London, Jan. SOL A report is published to-day that Lord Tollemanche, who died recently, bequeathed to tho Dnko and Duchess of Teck, the parents of Princess Victoria M&ry of Teck. the fiancee of the late Duke of Clarence and Avondale, tbe greater part of his fortune,' amounting to nearly 70,000 a year. Lord Tollemanche was a neighbor of the Duke and Duchess. If this report is true, tho fortune will be a godsend to the Duke and Duchess of Teck. They are not blessed with a superabundance of this world's goods. In fact, some years ago they were "sold up" by their creditors. At this time they occupied apartments in St, James palace, bnt tbe Queen was so annoyed by tho fact that the creditors of the l)nke and Duchess had invaded the palace tbut the latter had to seeka residence elsewhere. Since then they have lived quietly at Tuhite Lodge, in Richmond Park, ou the Surrey side of the Thames, close to the historio town of Richmond. More Trouble on Yangtse Klan;. Shanghai. Jan. SO. Dispatches of a disquieting nature have been received here from Ichang, on the Yangtse Kiang, C50 miles from its mouth, and from Chung King, on tho same river. 1.250 miles from its mouth. Doth these cities are comparatively near the province of Honan, men from which province were the prime organizers of the recent disturbance. Ichang was the scene of n riot and massacre of Christians during tbe late troubles. The dispatches also state that great hostility is being shown toward foreigners and it is feared that further trouble ill follow. Tl.e British gun-boat Etk, three guns, is stationed at Ichang and the natives have shown a menacing attitude toward that vessel. Strikers Led by Armed Women. Madrid, Jan. SO. The continuance of the strike at Hilbao is chiefly due to women in inciting the strikers not to yield. A band of forty women, headed by working girls', waving knives and shouting, "Hurrah for the strikers," marched through the streets a! iho vilUge of Ardonslia, jester-

day, threatening tbe property of mineowners ns they went along. Tho gendarmes around the mines and iron-works were openly threatened with death. The mine-owners refuse to mako concessions, being confident that they will win. but they anticipate serious conllicts. The local Socialist papers aro making violent attacks on the bourgeoisie. O'Hrlen Insnlted by rarnellltes. Duiilin, Jan. SO. William O'Brien arrived atThurles, Connty Tipperary, to-day. Whilo on his way from tbe railway station to tho Episcopal palace, the residence of Archbishop Croke, he was recognized by a nnmberof Parnellites, who followed him. They were joined by others until finally Mr. O'Hrien was snrronnded by a menacing crowd, who kept him company to the very sates uf tho palace. He was booted and jeered and all inanuer of epithets were hurled at him. Some of the mildest terms of reproach addressed to him wero 'renegade" and "murderer." Serious Iliots In llanjrarr. Bud a Pf.sth, Jan. SO. Election riots aro reported from many places in Hungary. In a disturbance of this kind at Tiszalock one person was killed and many wounded. In a riot at Czisco three persons were killed and fifteen severely wounded, while Ban fly e Hunyad was also the ecene of a serious conllict. In tho last-named town all the members of an election committee and many other persons were wonnded, two of them so seriously that they have since died. Another Uprising In Tlrazil. London, Jan. 31. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says that another attempt has been made to depose the Governor of the province of Sao Paulo, in Brazil, but that tho uprising was again a failure. Cable Notes. The man-of-war Victoria, flag-ship of the British Mediterranean squadron is ashore at Platen island. She is leaking. Since the recent sudden rise in tbe temperature there has been an alarming increase at Vienna in tbe number of influenza cases, which aro now aggravated by symptoms of dysentery. The German military authorities are testing a new style of tent, which, it is claimed, is capable of being properly heated. If the claim is sustained tbe entirearmy will be equipped with the new housing. King Humbert, of Italy, on Friday received the world's fair commissioners. Messrs. Bryan. Higginbotham and Ives. Tbe King informed the commissioners that he took a lively interest in the Chicago exposition. Tbo Baltimore &. Ohio Ballroad ComEany has purchased the Grafton &. Greenriar railroad, forty-two miles lone, with franchises and equipments, for $250,000 cash. The sale was made under a decree of the United States Court. The marriage of Miss Jane Cobden and Air. T. Fisher Unwin will take place on Tuesday nest at the parish church at Hysbott. Sussex. England, the place where Richard Cobden was born, and near where his remains were buried. Mr. T. B. Potter, M. P., will give the bride away. Severe floods prevail in tho Scottish highlands, owing to a thaw which has molted enormous quantities of enow and ice in the mountains. A part of the city of Perth, which lies on the righ't bank of the river Tay. is inundated, and in many portions of the conntry the railways have been flooded. The final interment of tbe remains of Grand Duke Constantine, uncle of the Czar, whicn were, on Friday, deposited in the cathedral, in tho fortress of tit. Peter and St, Paul, took place at St. Petersburg yesterday. The services were marked with all the pomp and circumstance which attends an imperial funeral. The House committee on manufactures to-day adopted the report drawn up by a snb-committee, of which Representative Warner of New York is chairman, recommending an investigation into the so-called sweating system of tenement-bouse labor. Chairman Page will report the resolution to the lionse at an eary day. King Charles of Portugal, to show an example of tbe sacrifices necessary to be made in order to retrieve the national financial situation, will forego receiving one-fifth of bis civil list. The King has a civil list of SG5.C00 milreis. The Queen has a grant of G0.000 milreis. The total of the grants to the royal family amounts to 571,000 milreis.

MR. SillTH IN TROUBLE. One of the Woold-Be Cronin Jury Bribers Charged with Embezzling $30,000. S r? clal to the Indianapolis Journal. Chicago. Jan. SO. F W. Smith, one of the bailiffs in the Cronin murder case who was indicted for attempting to bribe jurors, was arrested yesterday On a charge of embezzlement The amount involved is over $30,000, scattered among twohundred creditors from Maine ' to California. In October last Mr. George Ritzier opened ft wholesale hardware and crockery goods bouse at No. 725 Milwaukee avenue, andcmployed Smith to conduct the establishment. Eight hundred dollars had been placed at Ritzler's credit, with tbe Chicago Trust and Savings Bank. With this amount back of them, they managed to purchase over $30,000 worth of goods. In the majority of cases the bills with each firm did not amount to over $100, although some of the consignments exceeded Sl.OoO. Deo. 3 Smith hired an auctioneer to sell off the stock. When au assignment was made a few days later tbe amount of stock on hand did not exceed $10,000. Ritzier is also under arrest. Smith had gone to New Haven, Conn., but by a ruse tho detectives induced him to return to Chicago. Farmers Talk About Things, fpcclal to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Winchester, lnd., Jan. SO. The attendance at the Farmers' Institute, which began here yesterday, is very, gratifying. Tho first subject on the morning programme was "The Present, Past and Fnture of Agriculture in Indiana." given by Hon. J. A. Mount. Next. 'The Comparative Value of Pasturing and Soiling Live Stock,1' was given by 1. 1. Smith. In the afternoon Dr. L. N. Davis lectured upon "How Best to Maintain the Fertility of the Soil," while 'Home Improvement" came in for its share of attention at tbe hands of J. G. Kings bury. In tbe evening Levi Hill talked of "Small rruits, while lion. J. A. .Mount talked of "Mutual Interdependence of Agriculture and Other Callings." TTorrjlng Gamblers at Guttenberg. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. New York, Jan. 0. A raid on the betting-ring at GuttenbeTg every alternate day was the programme originally adopted by the Law and Order Society of Hudson county when it first began its crusade azainst tbe Hudson County Jockey Club. This programme has been strictly adhered to lor the past two weeks. At be raid this afternoon ten or more book-makers were arrested. The warrants were served in the usual way. Tne men were admitted to bail in 300 each and returned to the betting ring and chalked up odds ou tbe next race. An Indiana Robber Caught Carlisle, Pa., Jan. SO. H. Bigler Russell, of this county, is charged witn haying recently committed a robbery in Indiana, and in pursuance to instructions received from that State, he was ar rested at . his home, near Leesburg, this county, last nisbt. and is now in jail here subject to a requisition from Indiana. He has been traveling through the West, having been as far West as California. Life hentvuees tor Train liobbery. Denver. Col.. Jan. 80. -"Peg Leg" Eldridae and Bert Curtis, the Rio Grande train robbers, were sentenced for life to the United States prison at Detroit to-day, the motion for a new trial being overruled. Florida and the Southeast, Dixie Flyer Sleepers Nashville to Jacksonville. Fla.. without change, over Nashville, Chattanooga &, at. Louis railway, via Chattanoog. Atlanta, Macon. Berths euEaged through from Louisville over tbe ookont Mountain Route. Apply to or address B. F. Nr. villk. Passenger Agent, 194 Clark stiest, Chicago, . .

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Many Dollar and Twenty-Five-Cent Silver Fifces in Circulation in Northern OMo. Frfclsl to the Incisnapollii Journal. Lima, O., Jan. CO. Northern Ohio is being flooded with counterfeit money of 25ccnt and $1 denominations. Tbe discovery was made to-day. Banks throughout the Stato communicated with one another and to their amazement found that there is scarcely an institution between Cleveland, Toledo and other points which have not been made victims of the rascals. The counterfeits are dated 1ST7, and are pronounced by experts as the best ever put out. They are exact counterparts . of tbe real articles in weight, size and design and the banks have been made easy victims. The government has detailed its best men on the case, and they are now putting forth their eiTorts to locate the mint, which it is thousht is located south of Toledo, in the oil district. DetecUves say the gang is working toward the West No War on the Texas II order. Galvestox, Tex.. Jan. SO. A special from a reliable correspondent at Sau Diego to-day says: "About all we see heie of the Garza aflair is the troop of Captain ChaseTroop D. Third United States Cavalry who come every day for mail and forage. Garza's home is in Neuces county. Soldiers and rangers are camped in Nences county. We see a war correspondent of New York, Chicago, or Washington occasionally, but no fighting, nor do we hear of any. About all there is in the reports about Garzas is 'something will happen soon." Sav Antonio, Tex.. Jan. SO. Captain Bourke, who while in pursuit of Garza was himself captured and detained by Mexican authorities, is here, and says he will try to capture Garza, but does not anticipate sncceeding in this until the grass rises sufficiently to nourish tbe horses of Garza's men, who are scattered into small squads of five or six, and will not come together again nntil the grass is good. Madison Opera-House Sacrificed. fpeclal to the Iri-iinspolls Journal. Madison, l?d., Jan. 0. The new Grand Opera-house, which cost $20,000, was sold at public auetion this afternoon to Captain William C. Watts for S5.400. FAMILY CHITICISM. Frank Comments That Are Accepted Because the Speakers Are Privileged. TTsrper's Bazar. If a man's foes are those of his own household, certainly a woman's severest critics are to bo found there also. Few of ns realize how surely our wordsand actions are beine weighed and measured by the observers, large and small, who surround ns. We are unconscious of the judgments passed, because they are usually silent ones. When thy happen to he spoken out instead of only thought, we are taken aback, and sometimes appalled, at the arraignment and sentence of which we have been entirely unaware. It is tho privilege of the family critio to be rnthlessly frank. Politeness is unnecessary, and consideration for the feelings of the condemned one ridiculously inappropriate. Tho strictures are given carelessly and freely, and ofiense at the plain-speaking is a contingency never imagined. it is only Jennie; she always says what she thinks.7' "No one minds Will: be always speaks out." "One's family, of course, may say anything," And why, prayfl Cmldren are the most terrible of family critics. They see so Btraight. Your "no" to them means "no," and your "yes," 'yes." You cannot deceive them with half troths, or by a juggle of words. They cut through your subterfuge and convict yon at once. Their straightforward simplicity makes you ashamed of your falsehood. And of all critics, a boy is tbe cruelest. He is no respecter of vanities or shams. His cool questions and downright remarks make you writhe while you laugh, and laugh while you burn. One of this sort.aged fifteen, asked Iatelr "Have yon cot a sinewv neck, mammal'. "Gracious!" with a start. "What do you mean!" "Why" an inquiring and observing expression in his eyes 'I read the other day that all literary women have got sinewy necks.' It said one -could always tell 'em that way.' It was a never-failing test. Did you ever notice itl" "Neverl" hastily. "You will havo to judge for yonrself. I'm sure I don't know.' "Well," meditatively. "I think, perhaps, it is true." What answer can be given to such refreshing candor? The same unhappy writer was casting an appreciative eye at one of her recent stories. "Ah," she remarked, musingly, "it isn't so bad. 1 really think that story is pretty good, after all." Alas! the cold and heartless critio was within hearing. "Mamma, is there anything you overwrite you don't think is pretty good?" Bnt the victim has become hardened. She only murmured. -'Now, may heaven deliver me from family criticism!" Discussing; the Grip. Plttsbnrg Chr. nicle-Telearlu "The prevailing malady, has attacked a great many Pittsburgers this time," remarked a man on tbe cable car, "just as it did on its previous visitation; but still I don't tbitik it is quite so virulent." "You mean lay grip, I suppose!" asked a fellow passenger. "I mean lah grip," replied the first speaker. "Well." Interrupted a third. VI havo found that lay grippy is just as bad this year as ever before." "My experience is that lay greep is even worse this year," added another man. "At least I was laid up four weoks with it" VWell." interpolated a fifth man, "the lah greep is baa enough at its best." "True enough." ejaculated a little redheaded man in the corner, "but tbe plain grip without any lingual frills is severe enough for me." That ended tho discussion. Reporters Studying the Bible. CLlcatro Letter in the Journalist. A short time since conversation one day in ton Press Clnb turned upon the Bible as a literary work. To such a decree was opinion harmonious that it was suggested that a systematic study of the Bible from a purely literary point of view be entered upon. The plan "caught on," and this week the class will be organized and tbe work begun. The project is to devote the time to informal discussions of particular chapters and passages desisnated before each session. The idea, while no novelty, may be considered something new for clubs, but the interest awakened by the scheme is earnest. - Says one of the members: "The Bible contains tbe best English and tbe best Saxon of any work known. In my opinion, it every reporter made a study of the Bible for tho purpose of bettering his literary style, he would be repaid many fold, both mentally and financially." Fashion's Idiotic Freaks. New Tort Press. The two latest freaks of fashion are appalling. One is for red ink, of the most sanguinary hue imaginable, and giving one's most innocent correspondence tbe air of a contract with his satanio majesty, and tbe other, oh. horror! is for white stockings, with a white satin slipper and a frock of ' o same. Of course, the white stocking is very much in place, but if there is anything worse than a bit of white stocking seen over tho boot top at a muddy crossing or going up stairs eome one would like to know what it is. The Red Cross and Russia. Boton Trsnscrirt. Tbe red cross is the sign of heroio effort in so many fields that its victories may not easily be counted. Miss Clara Barton's appeal in the name of the Bed Cross Society for aid for the twenty millions of starving Russians puts new emphasis upon the untiring devotion of these soldiers of a cross whose victories are higher than those of war. A Sutpect Arrested. Constable Sorters arrested John Yinroy, alias Wilson, alias Boss, last night for loitering. Vinroy says he is a telegraph operator and that he lives in Cleveland. Constable Sorters thinks he is the man for whom $500 reward is offered in Cleveland for forgery, and be telegraphed to the chief of police at that place last night, but np to midnight had received nrt renlv. The char ire of lniterinir was placed against his name at the station-nous .

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S3 and 1VOKTH, THE DRESS-MAKER. His Rival Come and Go but lie Remain Supreme. Lacy ITooptr, in Harper' Dazar. Despite his long career, Mr. Worth ia now but little past middle age. lie' is a stout, genial, pleasant-looking gentleman, witn a peculiarly low-toned voice, and very ouiet manners. He has never been known to lose his patience with even the most exacting and unreasonable of customers; but if pressed too bard by the caprices of any one of them, he will glide quietly away and leave her to find out what she wants before trying to satisfy her. He is not only tbe head of that vast establishment, but its soul and brain and sinews as well. He creates the pattern dresses, orders materials and trimmings to be manufactured, very often from his own desigus, and superintends in person all the delicate finishing details of a toilet, such as the shaping and trimming ot a corsage, the tying of scarfs or of ribbons, and the placing of artificial flowers on tbe skirt. He excels in combining colors, sweepingasido pieco after piece of silk till tho exact union of hues that is at once the most effective and the most artistic has been reached. He studies the portraits of beauties and celebrated feniaio personages of by-gone ages to glean ideas for new styles, as he observes the blending of the colors in the plamage of birds or the petals of flowers or tbe accidental combination of tbe pale green of young grass in the spring with the warm red of the earth in a freshly ploughed field. This last-named union of tints furnished him with an ideafor a strikingly elective toilet. He comes to his establishment from his home at 9 o'clock in the morning, and. remains there always until 6, seldom leaving before 7 in the heightof tbe season. He is ably seconded by bis younger son. Mr. John Worth, who has inherited much of his father's talent. The eldest son, Mr. Gaston Worth, it the business manager of the house. Of Worth it may be said, as Louis XIII remarks of tbe great cardinal minister in liulwer's play of Richelieu: "Round him thrones totter dynasties dissolve. The soil he guards alone escapes the earthquake' The fairy realm of fashion outlasts hundreds of more durable thrones. Since the house of Worth was founded, its chief has seen pass away tbe empire that first brought him renown, the Emperor that was its head, tbe youth destined to be the heir to the imperial greatness. The lovely Empress whose charms found their highest enhancement at his hands is an aged widow. Half tbe beauties that first brought his toilets into vogne have become faded old ladies, and the rest are no longer living. He has seen one rival dress-maker alter another arise in Paris, win a fleeting renown, and then disappear, and still the name of Worth remains a spell , to conjure with amid the enchantments of fashion. He has never advertised, and has never sought publicity.. But no similar establishment in all tbe world can compete with his own, not only in the taste and elegance of its productions, but in tbe conscientious care shown in the quality of materials that are used, and in the thoughtfulness evinced for tbe health and wellbeing of its countless workwomen. IIASII-LIOCSE NOVELTIES. Some Useful Adjunct Introduced to Cheap Restaurant. PLliadelt hla Times. Some of tbe cheap restaurants down town which have a miscellaneous and not always strictly reliable trade have introduoed some very useful adjuncts to their establishments. One of the best known of these places on Locust street has opened in the basement a "beating-room." The impecunious customer who eats a hearty meal and then coolly informs the cashier that he hasn't a cent, is sorry, bnt has to live somehow, etc., is conducted by tbe stalwart waiters down into this beating-room and there given as hard a walloping aa it is possible to give a man without encountering tho charge of homicide. The beating-room has been in operation only a few days, but has already considerably reduced tbe appetites of the non-paying customers, who are now willing to go without eating for two or three days, or nntil such time as desperation forces them to brave the ordeal once more. A rival restaurant has adopted a diSerent plan of treatment, but one quite at severe. The cashier is provided with a big wooden mallet, and when the penniless eater approaches, lays down his check and esplaina that ha hat &9 money, bat will

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12 East pay some other time, the man at the desk bangs him on tbe head with tbe mallet, Some of tbe regulars now approach the cashier, put down their checks, remove their hats and stick their brads forward for the inevitable mallet, making a request that it be laid on as lightly as possible. This ingenious devicowas discovered by a Nineteenth-district policeman, who observed that at times during the day men came reeling out of the restaurant as though intoxicated. Thinking hesnielled a speak-eany ne made an investigation and the proprietor enlightened him as to the mallet practice.' The policeman watched the next victim csrefuliy and fonnd that although reeling about in a dizzy manner for a minute or two he recovered, and, after passing his hand over his bead like a man isiuing from a nightmare or deliriumtremenx, be walked quietly and steadily along, apparently happy in tbe possession of his dinner. All were atiected similarly, but the etteets of the mallet wore oil on sorno more quickly than on others. Profitable and Unprofitable Advertising. J. t. Grey, in rrinte r ' Ink. The briefer your circular is the more chance it has of being perused; the prottier it looks tbe greater chance it has of being saved from tbe anh-barrel. but, both brovity ana beauty considered, it ia pretty safe to say that not 15 per rent, of them will be eren noticed. Tbe world is Hooded with that kind of stnti nowadays, aud tho) who try to convince you that circularizing, nnassisted by jndicious newspaper advertising, hss any valne at all, ar considerably out in their calculations. Some years ago 1 was connected ith a large patent-xnedicine-house which tried this system of house-to-hnu.te distribntion of pamphlets advertising its preparations. Out of curiosity to note tbe eflect of tbe scheme, 1 followed three of tbo distributors down a populous thoroughfare and noticed that wherever the little books were given to people on the street, in nine cases out of ten they were either dropped on the sidewalk or thrown into the street. Tho

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A. Specialty. "WasliinGrtoii St. next day I went over the . same ground early and found scores of the pretty little books which cost us half a cent each either thrown into tbe areas or showing themselves on the top of ash-barrels! Tho only respectable advertising for which anybody has any regard, is legitimate newspaper advertising, and it is also the best pay ing and most etlective in the end. My Lady's Sclstora, New York Ptcm. The average feminino mind folds itself as tenderly around her scisborsasthat of man. about his fountain pen. be has them under her eye at all tim, and no matter how much be loves her husband, never quite forgives him for cutting paper with tbenu Shaving his culls with her button-hole scissors will break up a household's peace in short order. There is a scissors lover up town who has a stunning pair, brassmounted and in an elaborate brass sheath. These she calls her "Sunday scissors." and keeps them done up in tissue paper, and not one of her dearly beloved family is allowed tonsethem. This goes to show tbat tte man who boxes Ins child's earn and slams the door when the youthful artist use tbe paternal stylo to fresco tho nur&ery wall is not a whit lower in the moral plane than the mother wno catches up the ill-treated offspring and solaces him with jam. A Woman's Letter. New York Pre. "Mary." called the hnsband upstairs, "why don't yon come down? Haven't joa finished your letter yet?" I finished the letter long ago.n "What keeps you. then!" 'I am writing the postscript." "Gracious me! Havrt I got to mind tail baby two hours longerT" A UfU Buffalo Express. ' Fly I've sworn off gambling for a yer. Kye iJet y ou ten dollars you brek your resolution. Fly Done Pat up your money.

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