Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1877 — Page 11

SUP PL EMEHT

and the report of the committee, recommending that it lie upon the table, and also submitting a substitute, was concurred in. The substituted bill . was read the first time and placed on the calendar. S. B. 59, to authorize county coram ssioners to purchase books, etc.. for county officers, was read the second time and ordered to be engrossed. Mr. Reeve offered a substitute for th bill providing that separate schools for colored children shall be provided only on a petition of a majority of the inhabitants of the district, the extra expense to be provided byspecial tax; and when no separate schools are provided the children to be educated in separate rooms Rejected yeas, 8; ,nays, 26. Mr. Taylor moved to amend by providing that separate schools "may" be organized the' original provision reading "shall." Agreed to yeas, 28;. nays, H. The bill was then ordered to be engrossed. It provides that where there are no separate schools provided for colored children, the public schools shall be open to them, and also that they shall have free access to the high schools. Mr.. Bell asked leave to introduce a resolution on the state house question. Objection was made, and on the motion to suspend the order of business the yeas and nays were demanded. The vote resulted yeas, 2'5 ; nays, 9. Mr. Hell introduced a concurrent resolution declaring it the sense of the senate, the house concurring, that the general assembly should provide for building a state house, and providing for a joint committee to provide a bill on the subject, to be reported on the 27th. Mr. Givan moved to postpone consideration till Tuesday. Agreed to. iiorsE. II. B. 4-11, amending the provoke law, by limiting it to abusive and insulting language, was ordered engrossed. H. B. 209, amending the act in relation to the appointment of decedents' estates, was ordered engrossed. H. B. 35, to amend the act for the election of justices, was ordered engrossed with amendments. It increases the jurisdiction of justices to $300. H. B. 381, amending the divorce law, was ordered engrossed. H. B. 307, to exempt $5O0 worth of property from sale on execution, was indefinitely postponed. II. B. 4i6, in relation to gymnastic associations and providing for their organization, was ordered engrossed. The resolution in relation to the compensation of the reporter of the supreme court was returned by the committee on judiciary, with a recommendation that a bill be passed filing the price of reports at $3.50 per volume. The claim of Thomas Wren, for damages against the city of Indianapolis, was reported adversely to and disallowed. II. B.'s 107, 209, 386. 387, 3G6, 344, 384, 283, 433, 287, 401, 375, 330 and 414 were laid on the table. 8. B. 106, requiring an enumeration of all colored male inhabitants over 21 years of age, was passed to a third reading. S. B. 71, giving consent to the general government to acquire certain lands for the improvement of the Ohio and Wabaslr rivers, was passed to a third readins. II. B. 416, in relation to the agents of foreign insurance companies. It makes all contracts with companies legal, even where the agent has not complied with the law reSuiring him to file certain statements with ie auditor of state. The bill was ordered engrossed S. B. 11, abolishing the criminal court of Floyd county, was passed to a third reading. H. B 343, preventing any person who has been convicted of perjury from holding public office of trust, was ordered engrossed. H. B. 360, providing that judges of courts may appoint receivers in vacation, was ordered engrossed. , H. B. 47, requiring railroads to construct partition fences along their lines, on petition of those owning property along the line, was ordered engrossed. H. B. 30, authorizing county commissioners to regulate the number of justices,, was ordered to be engrossed. H. B. 383, authorizing the formation of sew Counties, was recommitted to the judiciary committee. H. B. 449, to validate defective sheriff sales, was ordered engrossed. H. B. 364, which provides for the appointment of attorneys to defend poor persons, and limiting the pay for these services to $10 per day, was reported back by the judiciary committee, with a recommendation that it do lie on the table. Mr. Viehe introduced H. B. 4S5. to Jocate the boundary line of Green River island. Mr. Langdon introduced H. J. R. 24, requiring the auditor of state to furnish the next general assembly a list of all persons in the emplov of the state on November 1, 1876. Mr. Swayzee introduced H. B. 486. instructing the treasurer to invest all unemployed funds in non-negotiable bonds for the" benefit of the school fund. H. B. 442, fixing the time of holding court in the tenth judicial circuit, was ordered engrossed. H. B. 191. providing that the reporter of the supreme court shall receive $3.50 per copy for the reports, was ordered engrossed. II. B. 157, in relation to the continuance of causes, was ordered engrossed with certain amendments. H. B. 450, amending the justices' act, was ordered engrossed. H. B. 3, limiting the number of jurors to six, except in cases of felony, was reported back by the committee on organizations of courts, with a recommendation that it do lie on the table. Mr. Freeman moved to lay the report on the table. Agreed to. II. B. 418, on the same subject, was then read. It provides that in civil cases no jury shall exceed six nor be less than three. Both bills were then ordered engrossed.

A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. Four 31 en Blown to Pieces and Other Hon or Lm Hart. Petersburg (Ind.) Special Dispatch to Evansviiie journal. This morning at 8 o'clock the portable saw on the Jasper road, exploded the boiler just as tney were going to start the engine, killing four men and wounding as many more. All the injured will recover. The engineer was blown through the top of a large oak, and - striking a ' large limb of the tree his clothes catching and the body swineinr over the limb till the clothing tore away and the body fell to the ground a great distance from the place where it was blown from. A boy was blown in two, the top of his head blown off and the brains scattered in ; every ' direction. One man was struck with some flat . article and smashed. The " largest piece- of boiler ' was ' found probably- i ' 200 yards from the mil). Another piece the firebox was found as far away In an op posite direction. ' flues, or rather pieces of them, pieces of boiler, screws, nuts, parts of the engine, etc., may be picked up almost anywhere inside of three or four hundred yards of where the mill stood. As usual. the cause of the disaster is unknown. What is fownd of the dead will be buried to-morrow. One of the four men killed breathed a few minutes; the other were killed outright.

THE MONEYLESS MAX.

Is there no place on the face of the earth, Uhere charity dwelleth, where virtue has hi rtli Where bosoms In kindness and mercy will neave. And the poor and the wretched shall ask and . receive? Is there no place on earth where a knock from the roor :'. Will brum a kind angel to open the door? u Ab! search tlie wide world wherever you can. There Is no open door for the moneyless man. Oo look In the hall where the chandelier light Drives off with its splendor the darkness or night; Where the rich . hanging velvet in shadowy fo (1. Sweeps gracefully down with Its trimming of KOll, . . And mirrors of silver take up and Tenew : In Iouk light! vistastne 'wilderlna view: Go there 111 patches and find if you cau A welcoming smue lor me moneyless man. Go look In your church of tlie cloud reaching spire - Which gl ve back to the sun his same Lvk of nre. Where the arches and columns are gorgeous within. And the walls seem as pure as a soul without sin: Go down the long aisle see the rich and the great, In the pomp and the pride of their worldly estate; Walk down in your patches, and find if you can. Who ciens a pew for the moneyless man. Go look to your Judges, in dark flowing gown, Willi tlie wiiles wnureln law weijrnetn equity down. Where he frowns on the weak and smiles on the strons. ' And punishes right while he justifies wrong; Where jurors tneir lips on ine Jtiioie nave, lal.l. To render a verdict they've already made. Go there In the court room, and find if you can. Any law for the case of a moneyless man. Go look In the banks where mammon has sold Ills hundreds and thousands of silver and eokl : Whre safe from the hands of the starving and roor. Ltes pile upon pile of the glittering ore; walk, up to the counter ani mere you may stav. Till your limbs have grown old and your hair has turned gray. And you'll find at the bank not one of the clan With money to lend to a moneyless man. Then go to your hovel no raven has fed The wife who has suffered so long for her brend: Kneel down by her pallet and kiss the death frost From the Uns of the angel your poverty lostThen turn in your Hgony upward to OchI, Aiiu bless, while it smites you, the chastening rod: And youll find at the end of your life's little span. There's a welcome above for the moneyless man. ALI. SORTS. March. Month which the warring ancients strangely styled The month of war, as if in their fierce ways Were any month or peace! in thy rough lays. I find no war In nature, thounh the wild w inds clash and clang, and broaen boughs are tiled At feet of writhing trees. The violets raise llielr heads without affright, or look of msze. And sleep through all ihe din, as sleej a child. And he who watches will, wi'l well discern Sweet expectation in each living thints Like pregnant mother, tlie sweet earth doth yearn ; In secret Joy makes ready for the spring: And hidden, sacred, In her breu-st doth bear Annunciation lilies for the year. Scribner. Lactic acid is known to possess the power of removing or destroying the incrustations which form on the arteries, cartilages and valves of the heart, and as buttermilk abounds in such acid and is an acceptable kind ot lood, its habitual use, it is urged by Mr. Robneg, a t rench chemist, wm free the system from these affections and permit everybody to become a centenarian. M. Amaux, a Parisian artist of some emi nence, who twice carried off a medal at the Salon, and was well known as a painter on porcelain, has been convicted of stealing engravings from the National Library to the value of SbOO. a step to which he was driven by poverty, and to obtain money to bury bia two children, notwithstanding the pitious circumstance, he was sentenced to imprison ment xor two years. Richard Wagner announces to his "devoted admirers" his return from Italy in an epistle which is likely to become somewhat celebrated. He commences by declaring that there is but one real description of music his own; but, foreseeing that he may find refractory spirits in this worW, he proposes to chastise them; and for that purpose he has invented a means as cruel as it is ingenius; namely, to exclude from his future representations at Bayreuth all those who do not bear a badge with the inscription, "Wagnerian enthusiast." He will not. at any price, allow his enemies, whom he terms his "calumniators, to be present on those great occasions. "Too muchee sraartee," was what the moon-eyed child of the Orient said to the ticket-seller at the wharf, when goll was demanded for three tickets to Stockton, at $3.50 each, making $10 50. "Too muchee smartee; you no cashee gold alle time." 1 es, John, I must have gold for these tick ets ten dollars and a half. Co we out." "How muchee one ticket?" "Three dollars and a half." "Allee light, me takee one," and he paid his three dollars and a half in silver; then bought another one and paid three dollars and a half in silver, and bought a third in the same way, having paid out ten dollars and a halt in silver without showing anv gold. With a look of triumph, the mild-eyed son of Confucius gathered in his last ticket, and said, "Too muchee smartee." An eminent physician, writing to the London Times, says he is so Impressed with the benefit of pictures, bronzes, art decorations, sculpture, etc., in a medical point of view, that he is ready to give 100 toward a fund to cover the naked walls of the London hospitals, as he is confident that the contemplation of works of art is beneficial to the recovery of all classes of patients. Tlie news comes from California of the discovery of a mine of mineral soap, which can be used for all purposes to which manufactured soaps are applicable. The discoverer found it when prospecting for coal, and used it in his family a year before announcing it. It is now. however, taken up by a company, and will be brought into commerce. The mine, which is situated in a somewhat inaccessible part of the coast, is in the close vicinity of a stream, and it was from the fact that pieces of stone which fell into the stream was observed to melt away that the properties of it became known. The soap is described aa marbled or parti-colored, like Castile soap, and the extent of the mine ia said to be very great The soap is in the neighborhood or siatestone and sandstone, and near it is & mountain of gypsum, which appears to have been .turned ud on its edge. The whole country round bears evidence of volcanic action, and the mountains near appear to have been once under the sea, as shells and other marine products abound on tne highest points. . It is the correct thing in this country for the lady giving a reception, on being intro duced to a newly arrived guest, to snake

hands with her and then dart off like a skyrocket with the remark, "Excuse me." and return no more, leaving the stranger, still a stranger, in a strange . assemblage. I am aware that at these gatherings introductions are . not considered indispensable; that the

fact of the presence of a lady or gentleman in the drawing room justifies meeting and speaking to every one without formality. Still a hostess under these circumstances can do much to add to the pleasure of her visitors by bringing congenial people together. Custom makes the duties of the hostessonerous. . She should await her fill of. recreation and gakip at other people's receptions, and not feit m her comfortable corner chatting for hours 'with old. acquaintances while other guests are wandering about lonely and forsaken. Keception giving is an art one that demands great tact and study on the part of those who give them. The task is not an easy one. and involves far more than opening one's door and a gup of tea. Mile. Titiens sang recently at Guildhall, Plymouth, and in response to an encore gave the well-known song "Kathleen Mavourneen." in noticing this the western Morning News tells the following story : The author of "Kathleen Mavourneen" was Mr. Crouch, a Plymouth music master, who received for the copyright a 5 not. He left the town a quarter of a century ago. Exactly a year ago Mile. Titiens, being in New York, gave "Kathleen" an encore, the only time she did so while in the states. It excited a furore of applause, and when it had subsided she was told that some man, presumed to be a lunatic, was fighting his way over the bar riers from the pit to the flies (it was in the opera house), saying that he was determined to speak to litiens. The prinia-donna told them to let him come in. On entering he burst into tears, sobbing out, "Oh, Mile. Titiens, I never before heard my song sung as you have just sung it!" "Your song," was the reply, "why, you are not Crouch, surely?" "I am, indeed," rejoined the poor old composer, "and I felt I must thank you myself." Crouch had scraped together'the two dollars for a pit seat, little thinking to hear his now fatuous song made the most telling niorceau of the night. Celia Logan says that her father, like most actors of the olden time, had a mania for management, and usually it took an itiner ant form. In a wagon, with the company and scenery packed inside, he would travel through state after state. The fastest walker was sent ahead to "bill" the town a day or two previous to a performance, the bills being as often written as printed. One win ter had been very severe, and the heavy snow storms had greatly impeded the actors. After several weeks of bad business, the old wagon was unloaded at Auburn. There had been a snow storm during the day, but still the coin an v hoped that the powerful attraction offered "The Merchant of Venice" (cut to suit the small company), and a "roaring larce, would tempt the citizens from their firesides. The hall was lighted by half a dozen tallow candles, and their light disclosed, when the curtain was rung up, one man in the room. Mr. Logan informed him that it would be impossible for the performance to take place; whereupon the audience arose and replied: "Sir, I live ll) miles back in the country, which 10 riiles I have this day walked in the snow storm to witness this fterformatu'e. I have honestly paid 50 cents to come in, on your representation that the entertainment was worth seeing, and I think the show ought to ;o on just the same as if the house was ull." "It shall, sir." was the rejoinder. and it did. Mr. Edwin Adams had a picturesque sort of a reception by San Franciscans at his benefit at the California theater last week. After the performance Mr. Sothern made a hearty little speech at his brother actor, who touchingly and gracefully responded. He said in concluding: "There is one whom I miss, one for whom I look in vain to-night in all this vast assemblage, one whose genial face I would be glad to see, one whose manly heart and. generous qualities you all recognize I mean John McCullougb." Then, with another burst of cheers and not a few tears, both in the audience and on the stage, "Auld Lang 8yne" was sung, the cominy joining tremulously in the chorus, unng the singing Mr. Adams exchanged glances with Mrs. Judah, the oldest member of the company, who was standing with some signs of feebleness with the rest. Mr. Hill left his place and led the tottering old lady toward the chair in which Mr. Adams was sitting, lie rose and embraced her, offering the seat, but she declining to take it, he reseated himself, and she stood with her hand upon the back of it weeping while the curtain fell. The audience was so much impressed that it demanded another view of tlie scene after the fall of the curtain. The services of all participating were generously contributed, and the beneficiary realizes from the performance not less than $2,000. It is authoritatively asserted that Mr. Moody and Mr. San key have friends in Chicago who thouroughly believe in their work, and being men of means and influence, pay their necessary expenses. These Chicagoans sent the evangelists to England and Scotland and paid their expenses there, and have continued to do so since. Their expenses are not as large as would be supposed, owing to the liberality of friends in the various cities visited. In Boston, for instance, Mr. Henry F. Durant, a lawyer of ample means, residing at the Highlands, invited Mr. Moody and family to live at his house during their stay. The invitation was accepted, and thus Mr. Moody is provided for so far as his temporal wants are concerned. The proprietors of the Hotel Brunswick in a like manner invited Mr. Sankey and his family to reside at that hotel free of charge, during their stay in Boston. Excepting the Chicago friends, these men have no source of revenue, and it is stated repeatedly that they refuse gifts of money from any and all sources. Formerly Mr. Moody, Mr. Sankey and th J late Mr. Bliss received a royalty of a few rents a copy upon the hymn books which were soldi but some time previous to the sud Jen death of Mr. Bliss at Ashtabula the thrje parties in interest consulted regarding the matter and agreed that all the money derived from this source should be devoted to charitable purposes. The question of finances, so far as Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey were concerned, never came before the Boston committee in any form, it being understood that the workers came without money. An elderly lady, who lives on Hospital Elace, off Lockwood street, Providence, has een afflicted with a sciatic difficulty for 11 years, and has not been entirely free fiom Sain a single day during that time. The isease was confined to the left limb, and the knee, ankle and foot would be swollen to twice their natural size. Her health was generally affected, and, being confined con' stantly to the house, she aged rapidly, and, although only 69 years of age. her appear ance indicated 70. A week ago three panes of blue glass were inserted in a west win dow, and the first bath was applied to the anlrla tra ' vvain nV1 atrATUNfl VAPA then located: in two or three hours a large lump on the ankle the size of a hen's egg and of a purplish color entirely disappeared, as did also the pain ana soreness, uuring tne ioiiowing night the pain reappeard in the foot, and the light being poor during the follow inr two or three days this point of settle ment was not so easily relieved, but under a

bath of strong light soon drove the peacedestroyer away. But the most remarkable effect of blue-glass sun-baths on this patient was witnessed Sunday. The disease attacked her knee Saturday night and she suffered the most excruciating agony. Sunday morning her knee was very much swollen and the least weight upon the affected parts nearly threw her into spams. As soon as possible the blue-glass bath was taken, and in less than three-quarters of an hour the pain had left, the swelling and soreness had disappeared and the limb was to all appearances as healthy as it ever was. Yesterday she walked ainiut the house as lively as a girl of sixteen. Another remarkable feature in this case is that for tiver a vear rhe toes of the left fixt have been entirely useless, being benumbed; but the blue-glasd sun-baths have restored to her tlie full use of those members. THE MARRIAGE Of GREAT MEX. Byron married Miss Millhank to get money to pay his debts. It turned out a bad shift. Robert Burns married a farm-girl with whom he fell in love while they worked together in a plowed field. He was irregular in his life, and committed the most serious mistakes in conducting his domestic affairs, but at heart he was one of tlie noblest of men. Milton married the daughter of a country squire, and lived with her but a short time. He was an austere literary red use, while she was i rosy, romping country lass that could not end'ire the restraint irujKised upon her; so they .separated. Subsequently, however, she returned, and they lived tolerably happy together. iueen Victoria and Prince Albert were cousins, and about the only example in the long line of English monarcbs wherein the marital vows were sacredly observed and sincere affection existed. Shakespeare loved and wedded a farmer's daughter, a good deal older than himself. She was faithful to her vows, but we could hardly say the same of the bard himself. Like most of the great poets, he Showed too little discrimination iu bestowing his affections on the other sex. Washington married a woman with two children. It is enough to say that she was worthy of him. and they lived together as married people should live in perfect harmony with each other, but having no children born to them. John Adams married the daughter of a Presbyterian clergjman. Her father objected on account of John being a lawyer.

He had a bad opinion of the morals of the profession. John Howard, the great philanthropist. married his nurse. She was altogether beneath him in social life and intellectual ca pacity, and, besides this, 52 while be was but 25 years of age. He would not take "No" for an answer, and they were marned and lived happily until she died, which occurred two years afterward Peter the Great, of Russia, marned a peas ant. She made an excellent wife and a sagacious empress. Humboldt married a poor girl because he loved her. Of course they were very happy. It is not generally known that Andrew Jackson married a lady whose husband was still living. -She was an uneducated but amiable woman, and was most devoteoly at tached to the old warrior and statesman. John C. Calhoun married his cousin. Their cbiUren do not evince the talent of the great state's rights advocate. THE W AI LING-PLACE AT JERUSALEM. A correspondent of the Sau Francisco Chronicle writes as follows from Jerusalem: Let us get hence under the deep wall of the temple and witness the one solitary specta cle in all the city that is really and truly affecting. It is Friday at the Je its' wailinglace. Narrow, crooked and filthy streets ead down under the hill of the temple. As you approach the open space against the huge blocks of stone that are imbedded in the foundations of the wall, your ear is startled by a chorus of agonizing cries. Such a wail might have ascended from the streets after that night of the death of the firstt. . m f . . it i ? 3 111 norn. lurningoutoi me Biippery ana nismelling passage into the place of wailing, I beheld a multitude of men, women and children apparently stricken with a common sorrow that could onlv find expression or relief in tears and piercing cries. There might have been 200 mourners, a very small company of strangers stood apart and looked on in amazement. Old men- with snowy beards, old women withered and weather beaten, sat against the wall opposite the sacred stones of the temple, reading their prayer books and nodding their heads quickly and violently backward and forward as if i hey would thus impress upon the very air the earnestness of their muttered prayers. Toung lads stood against the temple wäll and read their litanies, kissing the stones from time to time with affectionate reverence. The women were more demonstrative, and as they threw their arms above their heads, wrung their hands and wept bitterly. I heir cries and sobs were echoed by the chorus of mourners, and a hysterical wave of emotion passed through the entire assembly, that swayed to and fro like the corn in the wind. Some of these mourners knelt apart, and with their fore heads pressed against the wall, worn smooth with kisses, their eyes pouring rivers of tears all the while, they talked to those huge blocks passionately, as if they meant the very stones should hear them and reply. Small wicks floating in oil were lit from time to time by those who had just come to wail. An attendant kept a supply on hand, ana those who gave him a trifling fee were at once served with a light, which was, however, left burning in his charge. A few of the mourners knelt in meditation; a few gave way to violent grief a erief that seemed to verge upon despair. All were evidently thoroughly in earnest as they repeated over and over this litany: For the place that 11 es desolate ; We sit in solitude aud mourn. For the place that Is destroyed ; We sit In solitude and mourn. For the walls that are overthrown For our majesty that Is departed ; For our great men who lie dead ; For the precious stones that are burned; Fo the priests who have stumbled ; For the Kings who have despised Him ; We sit in solitude and mourn. Cr. every lip I seemed to hear the name, Jeriialem, said over and over. It was this antipuon chanted by each in turn, accompanied by a nervous swaying of the body, and a total disregard of the surroundings: We pray Thee have mercy on Zlon ! Gather the children of Jerusalem. Haste, hastet Redeemer of Zion I Speak to the heart of Jerusalem. May beauty and majesty surround Zlon I Ah, turn Thyself mercifuUy to Jerusalem. May the kingdom soon return to Zion I Comfort those who mourn our Jerusalem. '. May peace and Joy abide with Zion, And the branch (of Jesse) spring up at Jerusalem. Until sunset these men and women cry out to the stone, beat their breasts and weep their tears, some of them, no doubt, believing that the kingdom of David is at hand. Of all the shrines that are prayed over and fought over within the city of the Great King, I have found none that so touched me or that filled me with so sincere emotion as that narrow court under the ancient wall of 'the holy and . beautiful . house," with the sun sinking upon the despair of anloutcast people and the air burdened with their unceasing lamentations.

JIETKOK-WISII A ROMANCE ASM REALITY. BY MAURICE DA VI ES. I-ÄKt eve I warte! a prayer on high To the sound of ocean's plash. As I marked across the starry tky A flaming meteor flash. For If, before that brilliancy To darkness again descend, One fervent wish shall uttered be, That wisli sh 11 gain Its end. Dearest, I hold that lesend trite To be plain, prosaic fact ; Lite's ruling pasion comes to light In such Impulsive act. And when one master passion sways Man's bosom, we may not guess How firmly tuen hi part he plays With what 1b bo red success, -t. And canst thou doubt the instinctive thought That into my memory came: How largely my fleeting prayer was fraught With tlie mention of thy name? At least that wa&my thought my word Was less romantic, fear; It wished ;md, oil. may that wish be hear.l For a thousani per annum clear! BRIEF ME.VTIOX. Toledo has the small-pox. Lady barbers will soon oien a shop in Rochester. All the Pittsburg glass factories are making blue glass. A new open board of stock brokers is the latest thing in New York. Avery is working hard for a pardon for Joyce, and hopes for success. Railroad bridges are going up all over Ohio since the Ashtabula affair. In the Bloomsburg Mollie Maguire trials the case is about to go to the j ury. Nearly every alderman in Brooklyn favors a reduction in the gas expenses'of that city. It is said that Ben Butler's latest idea is to head an independent party and hold the balance of power in the house. A negro named Gus Anderson was shot in the eye in a fight in a Chicago saloon Friday. He was living at the last account. David Hahn, Jr., in jail for "drunkenness at Zanesville, Ohio, hung himself with his handkerchief to the bars of his cell. Pat Donan, who once edited the Iexington (Mo.) Caucasian in a blaze of sulphurous glory, has written a letter of aüvice to Hayes. f The women confined in the Toledo jail set it on fire Friday, in the hope of escaping in the consequent confusion. They are all to be tried for arson. Mr. William II. Vanderbilt invited a reporter to bet his life that he (William) would carry out the provisions of the commodore's will, in spite of contest. A New York minister, Rev. Charles M. Stoddard, chased a thief who had stolen his wife's pocket-bonk some distance through the streets. and finally overtook him, making him disgorge. "Cheap John" McCarthy, who lived to be 111 years old, died at the Oneida county, N. Y., poor house, a few days since. For many years he traveled on foot through the country selling small notions. The superintendent of a Pennsylvania hospital for the insane proposes to have the windows of one of the rooms glazed with blue glass in order to give the glass a test. It will be tried upon some of the insane patients, who will enjoy a sun bath through the glass. Toy Land. Wood carving is the chief occupation of many a mountain village both in Tyrol and in Switzerland; but in no place has it been carried to greater perfection or been entered into more thoroughly by the inhabitants than at St. Ulrich. One branch of it indeed, the manufacture of wooden toys, particularly dolls, may be considered almost a specialty of the district; for the little town of St Ulrich is the great storehouse from which the chief toy traders of Europe, we might almost say of the world, draw those rich and inexhaustible supplies which brighten so many nurseries and gladden the hearts of so many little ones. The art is said to have been introduced into the valley about the beginning of the last century, since which time it has been the principal employment of the inhabitants, male and female, young and old alike; for ancient grandfathers and grandmothers may be seen steadily pursuing the vocation that has been theirs from their earliest years; and as soon as the little boys or girls can be safely trusted with knives, they begin their rude endeavors to carve the form of some animal or toy which is the peculiar line of their family. This is one of the odd things in connection with the trade, that, as a general rule, each family or group of families has Its own Bpecial department, from which they do not deviate. Some carve, some paint some gild, the painters often working only in one particular color, while the carvers constantly stick to the manufacture of one or two, or at the most of half a dozen ani mals, of certain toys or certain portions of toys and dolls, and so on through all the endless ramifications of their lilliputian industry. It is a most curious eight to watch them at work. They use no models, and work entirely by rule of thumb; long practice having made them fco perfect that they turn out the tiny articles without the slightmf KdoifattAn mvarv nna n a ttropioalv nlilro aft if they had been cast in a mold. In this way are manufactured the varied collection of animals found in Noah's ark. Some fam ilies Will cut out lions, tigers, camels, and elephants; others sheep, oxen and deer; others chiefly birds; while another group will produce the wonderfully dressed mue men and women popularly supposed to represent Noah and his seven human companions. The coloring of these prod ucl ions is quite another branch of the trade; and while the carving goes on at all times with unabated regularity, the painting of the various articles is only added as they are required; that is, when orders come from the toy dealers; and this frequently varies according to circumstances; so that the coloring and gilding business is not on the whole so steady and profitable as the carving. There are several shops and warehouses where the articles thus manufactured are sold, but there are two leading merchants who act as wholesale exporters, Duying the carved work either from the people themselves . or from minor agents, who realize a small profit by acting as middle men. Permission can readily be obtained to visit those establishments, and it is a curious and amusing sight to walk through their vast repositories and inspect the extraordinary collection oi aoiis ana toys gathered together under one roof. The dolls are in themselves a very wonderful -exhibitio, There are rooms urion rooms Quite filled with them, of every size and style, small and large,- painted and nnnainted. their size varying from tiny atoms scarcely an Inch long, to huge figures of nearlv a vard in length, most oi tnem ioinfed. and the rreater part nncolored, and just as they came from the han,ds of the car

THE

ver. They are carefully sorted according to their various sizes, and great shelves and cases in every direction are crammed with them. Some sizes are more popular than others, a very favorite length being about two inches; of this size one of the great doll merchants of S Ulrich buys 30,0u0 every week during the whole year. The makers of this kind can turn out about 20 dozen a . day, each skillful worker, the painting bein quite au after cunctm, with which the carvers have nothing to do. Here also are bins filled with wooden auiiuals, also of different sizes and different degrees of excellence; for while some are merely roughly shaped, and the production often of very young children, others are carved with very great care and dexterity, and are faithful representations of the crea- : tures they are intended to imitate. All the numerous toys with which we are familiar in the shops, or which we have ptayed with in childhood, here firt spring into being. Noah's arks, empty and full; armies of wooden soldiers on horseback and on foot; farm yanls of various dimensions, stored with every article needful for the juvenile agriculturist; dolls' furniture of every shape and pattern; sets of tea-cups and saucers, and all kimls of domestic utensils; little wooden horses, little wooden carts. In short it is toys, toys everywhere; and even with all our experience öf the capacity of children for acquiring such possessions, it is really difficult to credit the fact that this enormous manufacture and unceasing distribution go on. like the poet's brook, "forever."' Cli a miners' 8 Journal.

Pttriftinn Journal lain. M. D.O. to Cincinnati Commercial. The great hero in Paris just now, however, is not Sardou, but Strauss the veritable Johann Strauss, author of the "Blauen Donau." It is satisfactory to know that just now, amid the acrimonies of French and German journals, anybody bearing a German name, even though haiiing from Vienna, can be a lion in Paris. The "World," which does good service in ke ping the most accomplished of Jenkinses in the fashionable world at Paris (lie drives a rhenut), informs us this week that the music at the -president's ball (4.500 present) was conducted by Sstrauss. The correspondent's description of Strauss is such as to make an American reporter howl with anguish. Though I have already borrowed largely from the same paper in this letter, I really must quote it in full: "When Strauss stood np he looked like a high priest about to offer sacrifice. He flung his head behind him somewhere; . he shook his massive hair, bis eyes grew vast, his brochdte of decorations trembled. He raised his arms. He twisted his mustache and filled it up with inspiration, and then the sound began. At first he was a sweet, loving child, all grace and softness, and caressing tenderness, and then he grew to stronger life, the life of thought, of work, and of sensation, the life that swells and grows and chafes against control; and then, with crashing, echoing, fantastic shouts of melody, he tluug away constraints and burst out wildly into all the passions, fierce, leading, and insensate. And then again he dropped into a sudden simulated calm a cului of straining eyes and parted lips and eager fingers, the calm of a brigand with a blunderbuss, who is spying out a coming foe from behind a rock. And forth he sprang upon his victim with a wild, gurgling rush, a whirl, a torrent, a cataclysm of tearing, crashing, maddening waltz. It really was an auiazing poem; it was a Greek tragedy, an idyll, an heroic epic, all mixed together. Strauss resumed in his own one person the Lisbon earthquake, a maiden's song, the storming of St. Sebastian, fair summer's morning and the destruction of the Spanish Armada; and all that for the Parisians who had no room to waltz." If any American journalist can beat that let him call at 1 York street, Coven t Garden, and no doubt he will hear something to his advantage. - An Eloquent Comment. f Philadelphia Times. That the nation will be shocked at this decision is but the truth that must more and more terribly impress itself upon par ties and upon administrations, as the full measure of its assault upon the very life of free institutions becomes irrevocable history. That the judgment was reached with out intentional perfidy to law or justice by the Judicial members oi the tribunal we do not question; but who can es timate the depth or breadth of the wound that a government of law receives hv the appalling lesson that it has no tribunal into which the political spoiler can not drag his pollntion? A state that voted by thousands for Mr. TiloVn; whose electoral vote was flaunted for barter on .l e ktreets like the charms of her whose m , led unto death: whose laws were violattd by revolution and actual fraud in open day ; whose lesser usurpations in past contests have leen spurned from the senate and from the house and pronounced a bhame upon civilization; whose officials from whom the accepted returns have come, must be strar.gers at the door of the power to be created by their crimes, and henceforth wanderers from the asso-. ciations of men this state has been made to decide a presidential contest by a return that no judge dared even to look upon, and by a declared computation of the vote that even the return board conceals from the country at the cost of imprisonment. Morton's Jackal Mat I'pon. Washington Dispatch. The Tilden two hours being exhausted with Jenks's remarkably lucid address, Hippie-Mitchell, the much married Oregoniac, started to his feet, having striven repeatedly to break in upon Jenks and Kelly. His appearance was the signal for a dispersion of the audience, and his dull platitudes were irksome repetitions of the bolder declarations of Matthews and Evarts in the two Erevious cases, Florida and Louisiana. He ad gone on swimmingly until, making bold to say that the Cronin vote was the result of a fraud devijed at the fireside of one of the candidates for the presidency, at Gramercy Park, New York, Justice Strong rose, and with an emphatic gesture interrupted him, saying: "There, that will do; I do not care to hear any more of that sort of talk." Mitchell was thunderstruck. Morton, turning in his chair, looked up anxiously at his compatriot as if doubting the evidence of his senses. Lawrence, following Mitchell, seemed a good deal depressed by his colleague's mishap. Radicalism In the Pocket Evansville Courier.! This city has lost $24 000 during the past five years, from the defalcations of republican officials. No, the city has not lost thia amount, but the bondsmen of the republicans have. The republican party policy in Evansville seems to be that it is perfectly proper for a city official to appropriate as much of the people's money as he chooses, and it's "nobody's business" if his bondsmen are good. , It is the republican custom, and nobody is' surprised but the effect of such debauchery in official life as has disgraced the office of city collector and treasurer under republican rule, is not of the most wholesome kind on the minds of the youth of the city. If it is not summarily stopped, there will soon be need for a precious season of religious revival.