Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1879 — Page 2

THE imiAEAPOUS FEW8: BONDAT. BftVEMBER S. 1ST9.

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THE DAILY NE^TS.

MOM DAT, MlVEMBSR 3, 187*.

The Indianapolis News has a bona fide circulation more thaa •lie-half larger than that of any •ther daily paper in Indiana. ‘

ArTElt tbu week there will be political reel until congress zneeta. ^ — To-morrow tjie New York election w’il take place, and Butler’a destiny be decided in Maaaacbueetta.

Tsb decrease in the public debt last month was $10,552,916. Leas than $5,000 waa paid during July, August and September, the pension arrearages absorbing all the surplus revenue.

Some Englishman has been studying Germany in anagricultural way, and gives a very pretty picture of “Fatherland.” In Pruiwia there arc about a million land owners whose farms run about fifty acres apiece. They aro cultivated by the immediate family, or where help ia needed all lire in the same social footing. The land ia kept much clearer than in England, and there are no hedges to harbor destructive animals or plants, while the constant superviaion of the master keeps out all that is injurious. Having no rent to pay, the farmer ia not embarrased in the times of short crops. A much greater variety of articles are produced than in England. Fruit trees line the roads for mile., and unguarded paths in every direction speak well for the moral condition of the people. Emoi.ish railways are in pretty good" •hape amid the commercial disaster there ia in the tight little isle. Ilk spite of thtf panic of 1873 the reads, most of them, by economical and judicious management paid dividends. Between 18XA and 1^879 1,260 Iniles were added to the roads in the united kingdom, and $51,000,000 were added to the authorized capital of which $45,000,000 was paid up. The entire length of the roads at the beginning of this year wa* 7,333 miles, and they repreeent a capital of $3,890,000,000. Last ‘year the number of passengers carried was 110,000,000 more than in 1873. During last year, which was the worst of any aince this depression, the average dividend waa 4} per cent., and this in England where interest on money is lower than in this country, is considered a fair profit. The cost of steel rfUls is now bnt little more than half the cost of iron a few years ago. Coal and coke cost only a little more thaa half they cost in 1873, while wages are likewise less. And thus the English railways manage to “rub along.” He who votea for Lucius Robinson for goveruor, casta much more than one vote for Samuel J. Tildsn for president.—[Sew York Tribune. This is sheer Jesuitism. It is an attempt to make men vote otherwise than they think they should, in order to avert a future disaster. It is doing evil that good may come. Good rarely does come in such cases. The result frequently is as bad as the morality. But no mau has the moral right to act as the Tribune wishes him to do. If his conscience says do a thing, he ought to do it, . regardless of the consequence*. What may happen is aone of his business. It is his duly to-dace the present and do what his conscience tells him he should do. If itssya vote for Robinson, let Kim vote for Robinson though the heavens should rain , Tildens in the next year. He must look out for the present, and look out for the future when it comes to him. He may die or Tilden may die, a thousand things may happen and are likely to happen, which will make any such ipse dixit amertions as the Tribune’s, utter nonsense before six months have elapsed. The influence of trees upon climate las been so much talked of thal hardly any one can claim to be ignorant of it. In a coHntry deprived of it* forests the wiutera become colder, the summers hotter, and every season changed. By recent experiment at the school of forestry, Nancy, France, it is proven that it raina more copiously over wooded than over open ground. The dose cover formed by the tree-tops materially retards and diminishes evaporation, and so tends to keep up the supply of springs and the sou roe of streams, and the temperature in forests is much more even, good results that have come from

a knowledge of these facta, for they have been well known, for years, is (hat in various parts of the country the people are taking care of the old trees and planting new ones. In many sections of New England the forests largely exceed in area the cleared portion!. In this stafe, as The News had occasion to •how a few weeks ago, there are, or were by the eenau* report of 1870, 7,189,334 acres of wood land out of a total acreage of about 18,000,000. Under such a condition there need be little fear of a change of climate. But the cultivation of forest trees in towns and villages, which has already begun, and the discrimination there ia in cutting timber, is progress in the right direction. Indian Summer. We shall here stick to business; No raphsodies, rant, or rnminationa shall be added to the oceans of babble abont that delicious and phenomenal time—Indian summer. It is due in this latitude about November 1. By the provincial observatory at Toronto, Canada, it has been Recorded as early as October 6, while the average date of its well defined appearance there from fourteen years of observation, is October 27. The Philadelphia Ledger, which has a long review of this subject' says it may be displaced from this year by the hot weather of October, as the August storms carried away the September - equinoctials. The area of Indian summer’s geographical extension is the northern parts of the United States and Canada, and the far northwest. It is characteristic of those high American latitudes, as it is also of those of Central Europe, though ia a less marked degree. It is thought it exerts a tempering influence upon the Arctic zone and breaks the force of the first cold waves that come down upon Northern America. It sometimes is prolonged into December. Then come The qalTtrlng Tapors •( dim aoonMJe, Which like a sea o'er the warm earth glide, In which every aoand and odor and beam Move aa reeds ia a single stream. —But this U, lapsing into one of the ihree “RV' mentioned above snd foresworn; this is a business article. There has been a good deal of scientific investigation of this phenomenon of Indian summer. To quote from the Philadelphia

Ledger;

The pole of the earth is turned toward the ■uif after the vernal equinox, the solar effect increases in tkfe.direction of that pole until a thaw of the winter's accumulated ice sets ia, when an interval of cold occurs, caused’by

the rapid abserpment of the solar heat, and he frequent ‘‘cold spell*” of th# later

thus tfi

spring months have been accounted for. When, on the coatrary, either pole is turned away from the sun after the anturnnal equinox, the converse process takes place; the higher parts of the continent are chilled, and the ensuing condensation of the vapor in the air liberating its heat raises the temperature, and thus aa interval of fine and comparatively warm weather or “second Eummer” follow. This simole explanation of Indian summer first advanced by Admiral Fitaroy, ia corroborated by the fact that the increase of temoerature attending it is greatest in the higher latitudes of America, where it ia described as sometimes “oppressive”—just where, of course, the earth's crust is undergoing the moat rapid nfrigeration, where ice is forming, and consequently the beat of condensation is most freely liberated from the lower atmospheric Strata. Were it not for the comparative dryoees of the air in the interior of the continent or, rather, if it were moist enough at this season, the cooling of the soil would produce cloud snd rain, instead of the dry fog, ai In-

dian[eummer is technically called.

We approve the notion of the Ledger that this question is worthy the careful investigation at the hands of the meteorological department of this country, which baa already attracted the world’s attention for its efficiency. If the theory above advanced be correct, that ladjan summer is simply the expression of the cold-producing forces of radiation from the earth of which is taking place within the arctic circle at the beginning of winter,it is not impossible that careful observation would enable an ac-. curate forecast to be made of the following season,and another valuable clue obtained which wonld lead toward the solution of

all our climactic problems.

CIKKKNT COMMKNT. The Louisiana election takes place ia De-

cember.

The average political paper can not understand the independent journal that gives the news and tries to tell the truth about it. Here is the VTarmw Union calling The News a republican paper for expressing an opinion that makes some of the republicans call it

democrat:

The Indlanapaila Mew* la the most Impartial republican pa pet in the itats. It not only seen tiro aide* to questions ot a debatable character, but when it finds the repnhllcan party in error bas no bealtancy !b declsiin* so. In abort, that paper does net believe that the leaders of th# republican party are either iiamaculate nor InfalUlile, and it does not look with favor upon the part the Hayes acminls'mion is taking in the election of Coraell. the radical candidate for governor, and who waa dismissed a few years ago from the public service on account of dishonorable conduct. The German democratic press, which is a power not to be disregarded in political contests ia this esuntry, evidently wants honest money men, like Bayard and English, on the next presidential ticket. Of the latter, the Washington City Sentinel, a leading paper of

this class, says;

Mr Ergliah, when nearly all the democrat* and

>e balk of the republican pai - - for tt'ttaiiou and Pred<-tm<bl«

the bulk of tbe republican party ia Indiana w< re

for ti naiioti aud hredtimibiv »ud

rency, stood like a rock In favor of honest money

depreciated cui>f honest money

►I'd me old democratic principle#. Many ol Ms friends are low propoelng his name for the vice presidency. In oar opinion the democratic candidate for vice president will either be Mr. English, Colonel Mon Ison, or Governor Palmer, of Illinois.

AU three are good and strong men.

It costs about a quarter of a million of dollars to build a first-class 3,500 ton freight tte*mer, which will be good for twenty y ears. Such a steamer will average about •even round trips a year from this country to Europe. The average value of the cargoes she will take out from this country is $100,000. So that in twenty years she will carry $14,000,000 worth of our produce and will earn in freight $1,224,000 gross. These figures, taken from the Philadelphia Record, show what an immense number of people and what an enormous amount of capital, are interested and represented in a pinsd* freight steamer. Over against them are set the intereets of one or two ship builders in this country to protect whom the country is throttled and made to buy ships of them at a higher price than they could be bought abroad, or to not buy at all, but ship in English bottoms and pour freight money into

English pockets. **

How things are going down in Georgia may be seen by a review of the work done by the recent legislature, which was in session a hundred days, at a cost of $140,090.

It investigated a lot of rascally state officials, as readers of Th# News will remember. It declared that more than eight per cent for money was usury. The bankers of the state get ten per cent, add they are somewhat worried about the situation. Opposition to railroad monopolies tookshspe In a bill nedsr which three commissioners hare been appointed to regulate freight and passenger rates which are to be accepted by the courts as just before being enforced. The state militia was reorganized and a bill was passed to supply legless snd armless rebel soldiers with artiflcial limbs, which will cost tfie state perhaps $100 000. The state funds are to be distributed throughout the different banks of of the state, so as to prevent the treasurer from loaning them, as the recently investigated treasurer and his predecessors did. This by the way, we suspect is a custom not confined to Georgia. There waa a good deal of demand for a local option liquor law, and the esuse of prohibition is growing, especially in the northern part of the state. The normal school now located at Nashville, Tennessee, will be transferred to some Georgia town on account of an appropriation of $0,000 a year for it. It draws anothei $6,000 a year from the Peabody fund, snd is to be located in the

city making the highest bid.

We accept Mr. Cornell as the representative of a great cause, and emphatically urge all our readers- to give him the support to which, ia that character, he is entitled, and to which, oa the ground of personal worth and politisjp association, he -would not be entitled. IT there are a good many republicans who decline to take that advice, Mr. Cornell and his friends, and particularly the senior United States senator, have themselves to blame.—[New York Times. The political party that first declares for the withdrawal and cancellation of the greenbacks will bare gained an important vantage ground for the future. A nation which has progressed so far as to bring a depreciated paper currency to par is equal to the task of taking the national treasury out of the banking business altogether.—[Phila-

delphia Record.

But they see what Harper’s Weekly, as a republican journal, has always maintained, that the u-ue way is to hold the party machine or management responsible for party victory or defeat by the resolute refusal of the individual voter to support improper nominations. The time for doing this is not last year or a. d. 1802; it is now. It can never be done without a general cry that it involves the ruin of the country, and if that seems to anybody to be true, he ought to pause. But that can not be true, certainly, when our republican brethren da clare that protest can not prevent an overwhelming victory. According to their statements, therefore, this is the very time that the protest may be safely made, because it can not possibly imperil the result or harm the party—[Harper’s Weekly. The planter from the hills sells his cotton for cath, buys bis goods for cash at the very lowest rates, and goes home with a balance in his pocket, owing no man a cent. This is the kind of population the south wants, whatever may be its complexion, and nothing that legislation can do should be left undone to encourage the thrift of the small farmer. The worse impediments to the prosperity of

tbe south are the large landlords, who own more than they can improve and who will give nobody else a chance. They may not

know it, but it is an undeniable fact that their power is steadily oa the wane.—[New

Orleans Times.

Hard Up for an Kinase,

[Detroit Free Prees.l

A Woodward avenue grocer had just got through with a rush yesterday when bis eye fell upon a basket of parcels yet undelivered,

and he called to his delivery man ;

“My eotil! John, but here’s an order which ought to have been delivered on Cass street two hours ago! Take it right away, and if the woman finds any fault tell her that you run a wheel off and had to go to th*

shop.”

“Ths

“That won’t do,” replied the manj'Tve made that excuse to her three or four times.” ‘ Well, tell her one of our clerks was taken suddenly ill.” “I told her that twice last week, and she wanted to know their names, what doctor bad been called, and all about ’em.” “We couldn’t say we had a slight fire here?” mused tbe grocer. “We could, sir, but she’d look in the Free Press to-morrow to find the item. ’ “I suppose you have played the sick horse “Half a dozen times, sir. She’s a very prompt and knowing woman, sir, and she’ll be as mad as can be.' “Well, if you can’t get out of it any other way,” said the grocer as he saw the basket into the wagon, "you may state that I was waited upon by a committee of first-class citizens, tendered the Domination for aiderman of this ward, declined it, and in the confusion forgot her order. Go' ahead now and drire like blazes and give her to understand that we care nothing for political honors and that this bouse can not be undertold !” Fires Saturday Night and Sunday. The works of the Metropolitan button company and Wbite manufacturing company, at Biidgeport, Conn , burned Satmdaj evening. Tbe loss of the latter company is $35,000; insurance. $25,000. The button comI^ny’s insurance is in excess of its loss. A tire at Mound City, 111.. Sunday afternoon destroyed one-third of the town. From sixty or eighty houses were burned, among which was ths coart bouse, with ail the

records.

A. Carr Sc Co’s, planing mill, sash and door factory and warehouse, with a large amount of seasoned lumber, the old elevator of Richard A Jackson, and ihe old Illinois Central freight depot at Dubuque, burned on Sunday. Loss about $T5,000; insured for $48,000. Over 100 men are thrown out of employment. Tbe large brick store house at 1,731 and 1,733 Market street, Philadelphia, burned Saturday evening. Loaded freight cars had been hauled into the buildiogonly a few moments before the fire. The total loss was $100,000; insurance $140,000. The Chineselu the Sandwich Islands. Tbe Chinese continue to pour into the Hawaiian hlands in such numbers that the question of how to stop them is growing to be of serious importance. They constitute already over a fifth of the entire population, and are almost ail males. They are useful on the sugar plantations, but they do not assimilate with the native population, whose extinction they tbrea’en at an early day, and whom they will hardly replace satisfactorily as loyal subjects and citizens. The government is trying to get the needed labor sup plies from th* South sea islands, but tbe owners of tbe Hawaiian sugar estates, who are only for their own business interests, are perfectly willing to take the cheaper Chinese. Over 2,000 Chinamen arrived at Honolulu ia the second half of last year, which, considering the scanty population of the islands, is pretty heavy immigration. More Heading forth* People, [Uroe*castle Banner.) The evening daily papers of Indiana have taken the preliminary steps to form an association for mutnal benefit. This is the right thing to do. A number of the leading ounty papers of the state hare also formed a union for the same purpose. It means more and better reading for the people, without an increase of expense. The Banner has joined this union. A Qaeer Law. Under the laws of Wisconsin express cornpan is and railroads ara prohibited from receiving any venison or game to poiats outside of tbe state. Tbe American express company has decided to pay no attention to tbe law, believing it to be unconstitutionaL New J*ira«-jr Facta. New Jersey, at present, contains a population of a little over a million. Fifty iaoor ated town* contain over six hundred thousand inhabitant* About one-third of the inhabitants of the state are collected within an area of seventy miles.

IBM ACAD1AM.

A Story of Rngii.h Fotfidy Rotoid.-Ths People on Whose Sorrows “KvangBiiao''

Is Fossil (led.

(W.L.T. la Detroit Mews.)

The nossetsioD of Acadia, now Novifi Scotia, had long been a matter of dispute between France and England. For a century aud a half the province had been the scete of con-

flict.

The Acadian* led wretched existences, half tbe time ignorant of what flag they were bound to recogni£b. Ravaged in turn by French and English, the colonists remained faithful to the fleurs de lys, getting very little thanks for their fidelity, however, and findingthemselvea handed over by tbe treaty of Utrecht, to England. This was a decision they were qnwilhng to accept, and they kept up a war on their own account whenever they had an opportunity of harassing the British garrisons. Tbe capture of Fort Pstn Sejonr finally put an end to active resistance to the establishment of British adthoritj. The population was worn out with continual warfare, and could only seek consolations for the evils which bad befallen the colony by application to agriculture. Farms were taken in hand again, fields were sown, pastures were crowded with cattle, fishing vessels were busily engaged and reaping rich harvests. Tranquility seemed to nave dawned at last, though there were many who were known to be actively aiding and encouraging the French in the long war which ended in the conquest of Canada. The English seemed -to have laid aside every morsel of the rancor of hatred of the past. In fact they were as friendly as possible, when suddenly, on September 5, 1755, every Acadian village was startled by the rolling of drums snmmoning the populace to meet at the parish church to receive the orders of the king of England. They then learned that they were prisoners of war; that all their property, movable and immovable, bad been seized in the name of the king, with the exception of their personal effects, and that on the tenth day of the same month they would be embarked upon British ships for transport to the English colonies. ■What were they to do, those nnhappy people? Lightning could not have stricken them more bhghtinglr than this infamous proclamation of Lawrence. And they had no arms t Five days later the people of Acadia were driven down to the water’s edge to await the hour of embarkation. Six officers and eighty soldiery were detailed to each ship, while a Strong force of troops formed a cordon around the unfortunates. Two hundred and sixty

young men received orders to enter the boats first, but they firmly refused to b* separated from their families. A bayonet charge upon them was ordered, and they were driven into tbe very sea before they were subdued, when tbe wounded were throws pell-mell into the bottom of tbe boats. Then followed a scene in which British honor played the hangman’s part. The troops were divided into squads, ia order to separate husbands from their wives, and children from their parents, and to make them board different vessels. As familus were thus broken up, some of them forever, the bands of th* old went up in parting blessings, husbands and wives strained in farewell embraces, women and children shrieked and wailed, while tbe soldiery went on with their implacable work. Then, when all was over and the ships had pnt out for the high seas, the torch was applied to the once happy homesteads, and the evidences of Preach civilization reduced to ashes. What became of those unhappy conscripts? History tells a fad and imperfectly known tale of how they were scatteied about—the mother here, the father there, the children everywhere, while in their aative land everything charged its name. Fifteen hundred of them, dispatched to Virginia, wete reshipped to England, where they were confined at Liverpool, Southampton, Penryn and Bristol; 1,200 landed in Maryland and obtained work. The cpnvoy destined for Philadelphia was wrecked in a ga’e, and tbe 450 survivors on arriving in th# Quaker city were sold like elavea. One thoufand went to Boston where they seem to have been rather decently treated; f or they were, after a while, permitted return to Nora Scotia and settle iu Clar# county, just opposite their former possessions Two thousand sent to the Carolinas were refused permission to land, and Virginia likewise turned a cold shoulder upon them, so they l*oke away from bondage and returned to Acadia, w here they obtained arm®, and having fitted out ships aa corsairs, commence! a mercilefs warfare upon British commerce. The pirates fattened upon the war of revenge and profit they bad undertaken. They scoured the north Atlantic and committed dire havoc for years along the New England coast. They were daring, reckless and unscrupulous; they gave np quarter, for they received none and ex-

pected none. «

The deportations were not confined to 1775 hyany means. In 1771, 252 inhabitants of Port Royal were carried off to Rochelle,while in 1774 tne whole population of Louisberg, Cape Breton, were carried away in transports and cast upon the French coast near Brest. In 1761. when a French fleet appeared off Newfoundland, 130 Acadians were transported to Massachusetts, where they were not received, however. ’ “Evangeline” gives but the very faintest outline of the terrible truth of the history. 1 wonder bow many of those who weep over Mr. Longfellow’s wonderfully pathetic poem are defcetRied from those Philadelphians who refused a morsel of bread to the unhappy notary, Le Blanc, who had spent his whole time iu searching for his twelve children,aud who died of famine and chagrin at last?

About Gtn- Hooku*.

[New York special*

The general always maintained that volnnteer troops were superior to regulars, “You tee they are composed of bette^ material,” he would say; “their morale is better, aud they think for themselves.” The writer heard General McDowell, who waa a clasemate of Hooker at the academy, say that tbe latter was considered at that time as of a quiet, retiring disposition. It was a matter of great surprise to his classmates when Hooker turned out to be such a daring and aggressive commander as to get the soubriquet of “Fighting Joe.” An officer who served under General Hooker, said this evening that the general was always a conspicuous figure on the field in an engagement. He rode a large gray horse, and he was always near the front. Frequently be directed cot only the movementsof the corps but those of brigades and regiments in person ; and at the battle of 'Lookout mountain he stopped and gave his orders to a battery that waa engaged in active fighting. This officer speaks of him as one of the coolest men he ever saw under fire.

Don’t Know When They Ar# Well Off, (South Bend Herald.] Northern Indiana and Southern Michigtn we thick, cannot be equalled for tarming purposes, taking everything into consideration, in the United States. There has not been a total failure in this belt of country sine* it was first settled, which we do not believe can be said of any other section of country embracing the same extent of territory. And yet we have witnessed the s<ime restle-e spirit among farmers, after daring up and bringing under cultivation good farms in this section, as in oidet seHiona of our widespread country and a desire to move faitber Wen. Almost invaribly these changes have been for the worst instead of the better. The Kenan ce of Bravery. [Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.] It takes a brave man to walk up to the esnnob’s mouth, bnt it takes a far braver one to walk along ■ crowded throoghfare shouldering his first baby’s cradle. Put ar Brick In Ik [Chicago Times] There are plenty of persons who can fill Mr. Thurman s shoes, but the trouble is to get somebody to fill his hat. Did He Write BeautUal Snew? (ValparaisoMessenger ] General Reuben Williams, of the Warsaw Indianian, is an heir of the Annek Jenkes's eatate. A First Ctasa Idea. [Marion Chronicle 1 Let us have nothing bnt a taxable currency—coia and national bank notes.

Indian Set at m &Te la swaying robes of gorgeous dye* The groves are deched ( for ssortkee. AmM the mountain's atemVroui hats I etc the frosted maptee blaie. Tbe crimson snmae bongh III times The yellow groves with Aery plumes. The shrieking jay and cat-btrd shrill Make merry upon yonder hill. The snd. low winds give forth a sigh. As watchers bieatbs o’er those who die. The rhrnnkeo, languid, silent stream With mirrored colon now doth gleam. A rtcel-bias sky sncompeaselh This royal car Jvai of death. The sylvan gods have reared an are h For Winter’s sad triumphal march. His ebspiet Autnmn deftly weavee, Atd strews his path with fallen leaves. Thus mores he onward silently, With kisses smiting flower snd tree. O time of dreams, O wondrous dsy. Thy beetle blooms preasage decay. But such decay sa rose* smite. Who*# petals noiseless fiul at night. * Thy death, 0 Year, reeau sweeter far Than all ths jays of hummer are. As wasted watchers And new rrnoe And beauty in some dead, cold fsee. — [A.T. Worden, SCRAPS' Moody and S*nkey will finish their work in Cleveland November 12th. Lydia Thompeon announce* thru she will never net again. She is wealthy. Mrs. Langtry’s husband has a red mon*. teche, slight side whiskers, aud dresses very plainly. A lad in Vermont threw himielf down a well because his father wouldn’t let him saw tbe leg off a chair. Miss Stevens, a young American lady, has taken the highest diploma tor porcelain painting iu London. Madame’ Christine Nilsson, for singing twelve limes during tho wedding festivities of King Alphoso, is to receive $19,000. Affairs at tbe Oneida community are now managed by a council of ten men and ten women. Its members are said to be living up to the resolution not to practice complex marriages. A large box shipped on a railroad at Cleveland waa found to contain a live man, a flask of whisky, some sandwiches, and a kit of burglar’s tools. It is supposed that’ he intended to rob the express car. R. Worthington announces a new-volume of poems by Theodore Tilton, entitled, “Thou and I.” It will make a book of about three hundred pages, and will contain a fine portrait of the author engraved on steel by Ritchie. Old Mr. Hazlett, of Oregon, thought he was going to die, and in order that his heirs hbould have nothing to quarrel over hs burned tip $22,000 in greenbacks. He didn t die, after all, and now wbea tbe heirs see him sawing-wood to earn his bread they naturally feel that they are ahead of him.— [Free Pi ess. It is noted that the letter “y” occurs in th# surname of every member of the French president’s cabinet. Th* minister of finance is M. Say; of justice, M. Royer; of war, M. Gresley j of marine, M. Jaureguilberry; of public instruction, M. Ferry; of public works, M. Freycinet, of the postal and telegraph service, M. Cochey. In Grevy, too, there is a “y.” Mas. Margaret Robertson, of Cooper Angus, Scotland, died recently, aged 107. She lived under three British kings and one queen. She talked with scorn of poor creatures who could not live over 80 or 90, which sue declared was “nae age at a’.” The clay pipe was always in her mouth. “Uvs smoked a’ my days,” she said. “It’s had plenty of lime to dae me ill, and its never socht.” Modern investigation is reinstating the blind old bard Homer. Dr. Schiiemana has proved that be sang of a real Troy and an actual war. Recent critics concede him to have been a true poet, and cot a myth, or a mere collector, as Wolfe taught And now another Wolfe, this time a surgeon, and of Glasgow, baa published a pamphlet, in which he is pretty successful in showing that the singer of the Iliad certainly had an ocular defect, not color blindness, as Mr. Gladstone thinks, but amblyopia. This evidence is gathered from the treatment of colors iu the poem. The editor of the Fort Plain Register has his office and residence connected by telephone. Yesterday Mr. Skidd, of Little Falls, an old friend, called oa the editor, and expected to remain for dinner. The editor hurried to the telephone and shouted to hia wife: “Mr. Skidd will be up with me to dinner; lay an extra plate.” “Now,” said tha editor, “Mr. Skidd, you may converse with her.” As the gentleman was about to approach the instrument these words were plainly heard: “You tell Mf. Skidd we don’t keep a hotel on washday.” Mr. Skidd excused himself for a few moments, and was next seen earing fried clams in tbs Rainbow saloon on the corner.—[Amsterdam Recorder. Tbe author of “Grandfather's Clock,” Mr. Henry C. Work, is not so insane since his daughter’s elopement that he has not been able to compose another humorous song entitled “Come, Take Your Medicine.” which has just been issued by Mr. JD. M. Cady, the New York music publisher. Mr. Work, by the way, used to live in Chicago, and during tbe war wrote many songs which were published by the music house of Root A Cady. In this way Mr. Work was enabled to taka with him to Brooklyn, where he now resides, a self-made fortune of between $30,000 and $40 000. He is a man of very sensitive nature, and lias suffered severely from a series of family troubles, death of children, insanity of bis wife, etc.—[Chicago Journal. Miss Corsen’a lecture on cooking had a singular effect upon the wife of a gentleman redding in Washington. Tbe gentleman was awakened from a sound sleep aboul^ 2 o’clock in the mornrng by a flood of gM light in the chamber coming from the jets in the chandelier burning at full head. Standing aver him, evidently in a somnambulistic state, and in a pose closely resembling that of the late Charlotte Cushman in the celebrated sleep walking scene of Lady Macbetb, stood bis wife, wbil* in either hand and ominously flashing in the gas iigbt she grasped the mammoth carving knife and fork. Curious to kiow just what was going to be the denouement of this singular scene, he kept quiet while the lady s diioquized; “Holu the carver in aa easy position in the right hand, thus.” And she’ dipped the point of tbe huge knife as gracefully as a fencing master in tbe broad sword exercise. “Then,” continued the culinary student, “bend slightly tbe left wrist and insert the fork in the. breaat of the turkey, one prong on either side of the breast bone.” And suiting the acti< n to tbe word she was about to plung the fork into her husband's anatomy, about where the riba join rhe sternum, when he caught and dLamed her. She drew back and glared at him for a moment and then, pushing hick the sleeves of her robe de nuit, pointed her Anger toward him and exclaimed in a loud, ihiatrical manner: “The only way to reach your hue band'a heart is through hia stomach I” Since that night | this gentleman ha* slept in another apartment with the door bolted and a stack of trunks piled up against it. You’ll Know More Some Day, John. [SbelbyvHle Democrat.] Advice is the cheapest commodity in the world, and the less we have of it from republican sources the better. We propose to lick your [arty in our own way. Faithful Among ihe Faithless, Found. [Louisville Post sad Neva] Secretary Schorr is the only member in the president's cabinet who adheres strictly '• the cieil service reform platform of the Cincinnati convention.

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