Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1879 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1879.

SEPTEMBER.

1TB.E. Tbe golden-rod Is y ellow The corn is turr jnR brown Te.VJJl aPP'i orchards With fruit ar4 bending down. The gentian' t bluest fringes Are corlJ ln uie sun ; In dusty tne milkweed Its nign mfe. gp0n. T5e sedges flaunt their harvest, . ' ja every meadow nook; 'nd asters by the brook-side . Make asters in the brook. ' "roni dewey lanes at moraine The grapes' sweet odors rise; At noon the roads all flutter ' With yellow butterflies. By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather, And autumn's best of cheer. But none ef all this beauty Which floods the earth and air, Is unto me the secret Which makes September fair. Tis a thing which I remember; To name it thrills me yet; One day of one September I never can forget. Scribner for September. CURRENCY. Belubbed fellow-trabelers: In holdln forth today, I doesnt quota no special verse for what I has to say. ue sermon will be very snort, an- ais nere am de tez: Dat half-way dolns alnt no 'count for dls wort' or de nex'. Dls wort' dat we's a Ubbln' in is like a cotton row. Where ebery cullud gentleman has got his line to hoe ; And ebery time a lazy nigger stops to take his nan, De grass keeps on a growln' for to smudder up his crap. U a man eats too much he is dam-full Is h. Bonapsxtism in France is threadbare. It has lost its Nap. Love canezcose everything except missing shirt button. The blind should go to the Holy Land Where even the Dead Sea. The proverb "fair exchange is no robbery," didn't refer to church fairs. Boston Post. Always "put your best foot forward" when a ruffian insults you. Ex-Senator Spragne. When Don Cameron read Secretary Sherman's speech he exclaimed: "Oh, my prophetic soul, my wife's uncle!" A Cleveland man who has had several wives says a bald-headed eagle is one that has been married. Cleveland Voice. It is strange that it wearies a man's legs so much less to stand in frontof a bar than it does to stand by a work-bench. Publio Opinion. Bob Ingersoll says the black man most go North where there is fresh air. That is about what he will have to live on if he comes. Boston Poet. A facetious old lady, describing the rambling sermons of her minister, said: "If his text had the small-pox his sermon would never catch it." The Yonkers Gazetts says that intellectual men are rarely handsome. Now we know why we are so often mistaken for Ralph Walde Emerson. There is one consolation in tbe coming visit of Sara Bernhardt; she can not be advertised as a "great moral show." Springfield Republican. The poet says: "How sweet the music of . the Sabbath bell," and yet there are men who prefer to listen to it a mile or so away in tbe vicinity of a berry patch. The reason there are so few college students acting as waiters at summer resorts this year is because they have gone as coach men, being a better field to work in. "What is the name of your cat, sir?" inquired a visitor. "Hi a name was William," said the host, "until he had fits, and since then we have called him it z-William." "What are yoa trying to read" asked a visitor of an old gentleman who was noddine over the evening journal. "On?" re plied his wife, "that's his snooze paper." An exchange says that Pennsylania Dutch girls makes good preserves. But it doesn't oacr hnw n aK on twt w Trrn tob-A rx at nrtrinjl rt ouj uv rv luuvu o ugai jwu uao av a j-rvsui-iiA ui Dutch girl, nor bow long yoa let 'em bou. "Well. Pat, yoa didn't come to the o'clock train to get me as I told yoa," "0. indade I did, sor; but I got there too late for thot train, ana so l waited lor the next one. "I never argy agin a success. When I see a rattlesnaik's head stickin' oat of a hole, I bear off to the left, and say to myself that hole belongs to that snatk." Josh Billings. "James, did vou divide your paper of chocolate with your brother?" "Yes. certainly, mamma; I ate the chocolate and gave him the motto he is so fond of reading, yoa know." Diagneois. Bos driver ( to rival conductor with inflamed visage, in the course of recrimination): "I b'lieve yer mother must 'a nn'ssed yer lor a month upside down!" Punch. When a Chinaman makes love to his girl he doesn't rave about his heart panting for . her, etc. No he simply tells her that he loves her better than he does rats, and she believes him. ; There was very little human nature about the voune Enelish lieutenant who ran awav when the prince imperial was speared. All the rest of as would have stayed and got killed. Boston Post. Smytekins was oat late on a lark with "the boys." Next morning when he com- ' plained of a headache, his wife remarked that tbe night tare didn't seem to agree with him. Salem Sunbeam. When the first rays of the rising sun steal through the latticed window and make a checker-board of the sleeper's face, the atrocious fly has no chance but to "gambol OD the square." That was a pretty compliment paid by a member of the Chinese embassy the other night to a young lady. Gaging down at her really pretty shoes, the Oriental remarked: "I love your English large feeta," The three proudest moments of a man's life, between the cradle and the grave, are, when he sets his first pair of red top boots, . when the girls first call him "Mister," and when the doctor tells him it's a boy. T Q. ' TMnta .1,.,. V. -.lvlii. mania is so bad, if a young man takes his girl to the opera and it begins to rain just as r it lets oat, in order to save hack hire he offers to walk her home, go-as-you-please, for the champion; belt and what they can . take at the gate, and she always accepts. . . -' When some years ago an "eminent Australian was inspecting in that country a Lunatic Asylum, miserably defective in construction and appointment, he asked what was the - special feature in the lunacy of a certain patient. "He thinks he is in hell, sir," was the reply. "If that's all bis delusion," was the rejoinder, "I think he has a very tab4 Stan tiki basis for it." Borne Sentinel. J ASH' L JU30. VJI IB, IL JTUU IflUI W courage yonng men, get an album. It is the first thing a bashtttl young man grabs for j when he enters a strange hse where there . are . giria, no iun seei.- wem iuok. tbroneh one until they knew ?very pic! are fepy iMM irvitt Ou w Lreavixi Cuaul 10.

the back part. It is wonderful what interest a bashful young man will take in a yonng girl's grandmother and pug-nosed ancle at the first visit, bat it always occurs. A certain professor took up a normal young lady's note book the other day to examine its entries. The first note that met his astonished gaze was this: ''That is a nice-looking fellow over yonder by the win

dow. A rood article of ein. disguised as a tonio bitter, with a paper label, is a well-spring of continual pleasure on the sideboard of an old gentleman who does not allow himself to drink liquor as a beverage. New Orleans Picayune. "Miss," said a gentleman, proffering his arm and umbrella to a lady in a shower, permit me to be your beau." "Thank yoa for yoar politeness," was the reply: '"and as I have plenty of fair weather beaux I will call you my rainbeau." There is scarcely any trouble without a woman being at the bottom of it; so when you pass a house and hear a youngster yell ing like blue blazes, yoa can make np yoar mind that the foregoing fact accounts for the noise. Whitehall Times. Class in the Agricultural college: Professor "Is there any way to obtain good fruit without grafting or budding?" Student "Yes, sir." Professor "Please explain the process." Student "Watch your chance. and when the farmer goes to dinner crawl over in the orchard and steal it. Cincin nati Enquirer. A contemporary asks: "How shall women carry their purses to frustrate the thieves?" Why, carry them empty, .nothing frustrates a thief more than to snatch a woman's purse, after following her a half mile, and then find that it contains nothing but a recipe for spiced peaches and a faded photograph of her grandmother. .Morris town Herald. Master Lncien has been taught the fable of "Tbe Wolf and the Lamb," for the edifica tion of his grandmother upon her birtbdty, Having recited about half of this interesting apologue, the dear child stops short. "What is the matter, my love?" asks his mother; "don't you know the rest of it?" "Oh, yes, ma, but the rest is quite too awful. Frenchy, very. A gentleman who had been dining out the night before went into a barber's shop one morning to be shaved. He saw that the barber had been taking more than was good for him, for his hand shook very much, and. naturally indignant, ne began to give him a little moral advice by saying: "Bad thing. drink!" "Yes," said the barber, "it makes the skin awful tender." A young man writes to know if it is pro per to take hold of a young lady's arm in promenading. Certainly it is Nothing looks so nice as to see a tall youth walking with a little lady who comes not up to nis shoulder, with bis arm booked in hers, lift ing her half off her feet every tame he steps. Tbe nearer you can reach the appearance of taking a lady into custody like a policeman, the more genteel it is, you know. Cincinnati Saturday Night. ' Judge V., of this 8tate, has a rich vein of humor running through his ordinarily dig' mhed demeanor. Counselor H. was arguing before him, recently, a case of domestic infelicity. Said the attorney: "Separating the apartments of my client and this lady was a curtain from ceiling to floor; certainly there was nothing out of the way in that." "No, replied his honor, .."and not much in the way, either." Biddeford Miniature. POPULAR SCIENCE. One bushel of real Graham flour is said to have more nutriment in it than a barrel of superfine flour and 50 pounds of beefsteak. A moth proof paper is made from a mix tare of woolen, cotton, and hempen waste; it is then saturated with a mixture of crude carbolic acid, heated thin coal tar, and the residual oil from the rectification of naptba. The paper is then pressed and dried, and serves to wrap up articles liable to be dam aged by moths. Dr. Winnecke, of Strasburg, has discovered a record of observations made in 15S0, or at least 30 years before the invention of the telescope, in which the places of 11 stars of the Pleiades are given. On comparing these with modern observations it appears that the places were determined with a probable error of only 2' ; hence there can be little doubt that all these stars were seen by the naked eye. Mr. W. Mattieu Williams, who for more than 30 years has closely studied the subject of the electric light ana noted every new deyelopement, does not hesitate to affirm that, "although as a scientific achievement the electric light is a splendid Buccess, its practical application to all purposes where cost is a matter of serious consideration is a complete and hopeless failure, and must of necessity continue to be so! Large numbers of trichina spiralis have been detected in cured meats imported into Alsace from America, in Switzerland too, the discovery has been made that American hams are full of the trichina, and a Government commission has been appoint ed to decide upon the precautionary meas ures to be taken. The cantonal authorities are recommended to warn the people against tbe use of American hams, especially in the half raw state, and to arm the police with discretionary powers over the sale of tbe article. " A new method of excavating for the erec tion of telegraph poles has been devised and pot to the test at Htusville, Pa. A man drives a crowbar into the ground to the depth of four or five feet, and into the hole so made drops a four-ounce cartridge of the so-called "electric powder." ine fuse Hav ing been lighted, the man proceeds to the site of the next pole. In the meantime a dull sound is heard, and a hole about the diameter of a flour barrel, and four or five feet deep, has been made by the exploding cartridge. M. Companys, a military physician, who served in Algeria, and was engaged in the sanitary arrangements of the 8ues canal works, is about to be sent to the Isthmus of Panama, there to ascertain what measures will have to be taken for the preservation of the health of the laborers. As regards the latter, agents are to be appointed to recruit them from among the inhabitants of South America beat fitted for the suDDOrtinsrfatieue in a tropical climate. M. De Leesepe has written to the emperor of Brazil to ask for his co-operation in procuring bands. The amount of labor performed by bees in collecting honey may be seen from certain calculations mads by Mr. Andrew Wilson. He finds that 125 heads of clover yield approximately one gramme of sugar (about 15 grains), and that lzs.uuo head yield one kilo gramme (2.2 pounds). Now. as each head of clover contains about 60 florets, it follows that the bees must suck 7,500,00C distinct florets in order to obtain 2 15 pounds of sugar. And as honey roughly may be said to contain 75 per cent, of sugar, we have one kilogramme, equivalent to 5,600,000 flowers in round numbers, or say z.&uu.ouu visits ior one pound of honey. Bending hard wood, especially beech, by means of hot water or steam, is known to be somewhat costly as regards fuel, and, mireover, requires a long time. But an invention has recently been brought from Ger many, it appears, for making sieve hoops and similar objects by a dry process, more cheaply and in lets time, from simple cat wood. Two rollers are employed in the operation, one above the other, and having lesi velocity, so that the npner acts by hold' ing back, while the lower extends the wood fibres. When the board, thus bent leaves the mllRi-n it la fastened in the month Of the sieve: the UDner roller is fluted, the under one smooth. If two smooth rollers were ned. a very much greater pressure would W course, be required.

A LONG WAT ON HORSEBACK

Bey. Mr. Wyooff Spends His Bummer Vacation in the Saddle. - - Riding From New Orleans to New Jersey On a Kentucky Mara, For Health and Recreation Finding, He Says, Plenty of Both. fNew York Ban. There passed through the State of New Jersey last week a solitary horseman, who attracted much attention. He was a young man with sun-browned face and a luxuriant beard,' clad in a dark riding suit, woolen shirt, high riding boots, and wearing on his bead a large white cork helmet. He rode a bay mare that to horsemen show good points. His saddle was a "McClellan," with big, leather -covered wooden stirrups, and slung behind him were saddlebags. Man and horse showed indications of much travel. New Jersey people stared at the horseman as he rode, and children followed him. A Sun reporter found this horseman sit ting with friends in a pleasant farm house near the Lesser crossroads, in Somerset county. If you had not ridden so far to find me," said Kev. a. n. wycon, "l should refuse to have any account of my journeying printed. I don' t want to he classed with the wheelbarrow and flag carrying characters that roam through the country seeking fame. My trip was made in seach of health and recreation simply. Last spring I received a call to the Canal Street Presbyterian church in New Orleans. I had been preaching in the Centennial Mission chapel in Wyckoff street. Brooklyn. I went to New Orleans, when it came time for me to take my two months' vacation, I decided that a horseback ride to the North would give me as much recreation, health, and information as any. thing else. I had taken such trips before, once riding on horseback through Syria, from Jerusalem to Damascus. I bought a Kentuky mare, an improved Mc Clellan saddle, and a pair of saddlebags, into which 1 put a change of woollens; and on Jane 3 I began my trip at 5 o'clock in the morning. 1 rode 45 miles that day, and for 20 miles 1 neither saw a home nor human being. I had nothing to eat until 7 o'clock that night. That was rather a disagreeable experience for tbe first day. I kept up along the Jackson railroad for luo miles, two thirds of the way being throuith , the great pine woods, a lonesome ride. Leaving the railroad, I went northeast, to (iainsville, Alabama, and thence to Tuscaloosa, where I rested two days. From Tuscaloosa to jd sen my route lay through tbe great cotton region of Alabama. At Gadsen I put my horse on a boat and went up the Coosa river to Rome, Georgia. The distance was about 150 miles, and the trip lasted two days. It saved me 50 mileB, the distance across from Gadsen to Rome, and gave both the mare and myself needed rest. With that exception the whole trip was made on horseback. '-From Rome my route was nearly due east, through a most interesting and pictur esque country. I passed through the gold mining region of Georgia, and at Dahlonega I saw a mine where $5,000 worth of ore was taken oat the week before. I visited the noted Tokoa falls, crossed tbe Tugaloo river. and rode into the northwestern corner of South Carolina, in Pickens county. I made an excursion up to 'Cesar's Head,' a peak of the Blue Ridge, on the line between Worth and South Carolina. I came down on the Fourth of July, and at the base of 'Oesar's Head' I saw the Stars and Stripes in front of a farm house. I rode up and told them I was glad to see the flag. They proved to be a Northern family, and were evidently glad to talk with a Northerner. "Thence I went into Buncombe county in North Carolina. In Ashville, on the French Broad river, I stopped five days, making ex cursions into tbe surrounding country and mountains. I climbed the Craggy mountain. tbe hignes peak eastortbe Rocky mountains. 6,500 feet above the sea level. Passing through the Hickory Nut Gap Pass, in the Blue Badge, I rode due north through Marion and Turkey Cove, up the Lindville river, stop ping at the Lindville Falls; thence througn Wautauga county into Virginia by the Bent mountain. At Fincastle I halted for several days, and made excursions to the Peaks of Otter and tbe Natural Bridge. X rode tbe whole length of the Shenandoah Valley, vis iting Weyer's cave and the Luray caye, in Page county. Luray cave contains the most remarkable stalactites I have seen. At Harper's Ferry I crossed the Potomac and rode through Maryland. 1 crossed the ousquehanna at Wrightsville, and the Delaware at Frenchtown, and on Saturday last I rode up to a friend's farm in Flemineton, N. J., rid ing 45 miles that day in order to get there. l had ridden 1,493 miles in 10 weeks, resting 22 days and riding 48 days. In all that trip no unkind word was spoken to me. "I shunned large large towns. Those I could visit at any time by rail, bat I could not see the life of the people in any better way than going by horse back. There were no hotels most of the way. I used to ride up to a house and ask for a glass of milk, and my request was never refused. Starting at 5 in the morning I rode till 11, then turned my horse loose to graze. She always kept near me. She endured the journey bravely. Her back got a little sore at first, but I cured it with a decoction of 'Jamestown weed,' as they call it. She is a Kentucky mare, with all the traits of those celebrated riding horses, and is as intelligent as a dog. She now has her shoes off, and is resting on a faraa three miles from here." ' "Did you ever preach on the route?" "Yes, every Sunday excepting two A I had letters to clergymen in many towns that I passed through. I rode thirty-seven miles in tne rain one day to keep an appointment to preaci. I didn't feel much like preaching, though. I had a pair of black trousers in my bag, and on Sundays,! pulled them over my high boots, put on a paper collar and a scarf that covered my woollen shirt, buttoned np my coat, and thus looked as clerical as possible. One evening, when in the mountains of Georgia, as I rode up to a little building, a man came forward as though expecting me. Then be said he was mistaken; that he thought it was the Methodist minister, wbo was expected to preach there that evening. I told him that! wasn't a Methodist, but was a preacher, and would preach for them if the other preacher didn't come. Soon a boy rode up, and said that the preacher had turned his horse oat to graze, where he had stopped, five miles away, and that the horse had gone into the brush, and tbe preacher couldn't find him. So I preached. The church was a little log building, with an opening in each end, and no window. The only light was a little spirit lamp, set on a beam as hlge as I could reach ; it gave as much light as a candle. In order to see to read my Bible I took the lamp down. After reading and giving out the text I set the lamp back on the beam, when down came the lamp and we were left in darkness. Fortunately I had matches, and, lighting the lamp, I preached to the little congregation. This occurred between the villages of 'Possum Trot and Jerusalem." "In what condition did yoa find the peo- . ... r, ... nit pie oi tne oouiu r "They are poor, but Improving. The war left them badly off, but it has put them on their metal, I think." "Did youiear of yellow feverT" "Yes: tbe people were all talkine about It bat I was nowhere near it. though I passed through several towns in Mississippi where it ' was last year. ' New Orleans Is in a particularly awa sanitary ouuJ.uou, o sug vu u

Volunteer Citizens' association, which has

had entire charge of the sanitary affairs of the city. Tbe atmospheric condition thus far -has been vastly better that tbey were last yoar cooler, frequent thunder storms, and less muggy weather. -1 don't apprehend an epidemic there. I shall lengthen my two moniD vacation ro uctooer. "Did yoa not find it very warm riding horseback?".-'. "On the contrary, I have experienced no hot weather. When yoa were visited by the hot wave 1 was in the mountains ei .aortn Carolina, and I experienced only two Jr three davs of wet weather. ' The whole rdle we Jelightful, the only drawback being its lonlines. A companion wouia nave been welcome. I lost, several pounds of flesh, bat have gained much in general health. I may get my mare and ride into Aew xork some day." JOHN ELIOT'9 INDIAN POUCTs ' A Letter Written Two Hundred Tears Ago by the Translator of the Indian Bible. From the Boston Advertiser. The pending discussion about the Ponca Indians, and ths efforts to have justics done them in regard to their lamis, and to have their uom pleaded before some competent tribunal, recalls a letter of the celebrated John Eliot to Governor Winthrop, of Con necticut, during the period of King Philip's war. in 1675. The second paragraph of ths letter is as applicable to-day as it was 200 years ago. For Hon. atr. Winthrop, Governor of Connect icut, these: Honorable 8rn I have thankfully re ceived your very loving and prudent lines, which breathe the very spirit of a Christian governor, striving for peace, making war tbe last and unavoidable remedy. What the causes oi the war were I suppose Plymouth will declare. I know them not, bnt, betwixt tiod and us. I think our sins have ripeued us for so severe a scourge as the war aath and is like to prove. Wo were too ready to think that we could easily suppress that Ilea: but now we find that all the cralt is ln catching of them, and that in tbe mean while they give us many a sore nip. We praise Uod for the peace with Narraganset, untajwhich yeur forcer, nnder Major Win throp's command, did very much contribute; and the Juncture of that overruling Provi dence, ln ilmlDg of tbe coming of your letters. wnica remanaea your forces one-quarter oi an hour befoie the consummation, of the peace, does much encourage our hearts to adore the overruling hand of God appearing in these motions. Sir, 1 humbly request that one effect of this trouble may be to numble the Knglish to do the iudlans Justice and no wrong about their lands, and I make bold to request thai Captain Deunbtoa may have free leave, without ollense to the Knglish, to plead the Iadlanb' cause. Our doing them justice about tbeir lands may, by the blesalug of iiod, open their hearts to Uie word of Uod, to bring them to religion, which 1 do earnestly desire may be another ellect of this great Nation. The Indians have very sinfully refused praying to God, but they do much lUHttfy themselves by tbe example of the Knglish. For when I have exhorted them to keep tbe Sabbath and pray to God, vney nave answerea me; " w ny uo you speak so to uuT Why do you not speak to your own countrymen? We do but as they do." I greatly desire that one effect of these wars ioar be to reform these great sins among the kuglish. We had need be serious in this mat ter, leit God should chastise at seven times more by his next visitat ion. But I shall give you no further trouble at present, only commend ing you to the Lord desiring prayers, I rest your Honor s to serve you in our ixra jesus, John Eliot, Roxbury, this 21th of the firth month, 1675, What Is a Stable Government. St, Louis Postr-Dlspatch.l One of the general cries of the stalwarts and Granules is for a more "stable ' Govern ment. Here is, for instance, Mr. Conger, a leading Republican member of Congress, who. in an interview published by our Ks publican contemporary, connects the idea of Grant's nomination with this idea of a stable gov ernment in this interesting tasmon: Bis nomination may become a necessity; sunn an emergency, in snort, as may oe taken to be torsbadowed in a letter of Grant's which I have seen. In this letter he seems to lnti mate that, while personally averse to lurtber public honors, 11 such contingency should ever arise mat tne ttepuoucan party lelt it to be a necessity to nominate him, then he is at the, service of the party. That letter. I believe. honestly expresses his Inclination and his reelings that personally be is not a candidate. There isade-nand for a Btable government, and Grant is the best representative of that idea. By stable government I mean firmly fixed, with the fruits of the war fully preserved to our use. ' Our use'Wjf coarse means the use of the Government for and by tbe Republican party. The "fruits of the war," from the Repub lican standpoint, means only tne possession of power and plunder. "A stable Government firmly fixed" from this standpoint, no doubt, means one where the executive power and patronage are not liable to change. "Grant is the best representative of that idea," says Mr. Conger. No doubt of it. Grant would represent a stable Govornment uninterrupted by such trifles as elections every four years, or publio opinion, or the win ot the people. A stable Government means the abolition of the limitation of any one man's power to ec at years. A stable Government means tbe election of Grant to a third term. A stable Government means that this third term shall signify a radical revolution: that. once re-elected, Grant is to remain in the White House firmly fixed for life. We are opposed to Btable Governments of this kind. We want a Government of the people, by the people, for tbe people. A Govern ment created by elections, firm bat flexible. subject to change whenever the people aemana it. Great and dangerous powers to the liberty of the people no political party should enjoy too long. A term of fonr, and not more than eight years in the White House has given us sufficiently stable Government so far. Tbe country got along very well noon the old plan, we see no need for an innovation, The most "stable" governments that tbe Republicans have in eye are empires like Germany and Russia, where the executive power is subject to no change, save death subject to no control of the people. ' , Our old Government is good enough for us. We don't wish a new one. ' Fatal Kisses. : Chicago Times. Mr. Jake Kohlberg, a Howard visitor, tonight related to the Times correspondent an incident connected with Mrs. Minnie Wilkie's death, which occurred this afternoon at 5 o'clock. . Just previous to dissolution she bad several attacks of black vomit, and during the intervals called upon her husband to kiss her. Regardless of the danger attending her request, her husband time and again . imprinted his kisses upon her. He was warnsd of the risk he ran, but he was faithful to her in death as he had been in life. She died with her arms around his neck. One hoar afterward Mr.Wilkie him self was stricken with a most malignant case. Although he had a severe attack last year, his kiss may yet prove tbe kiss of death. , On Their Legs Again. (Philadelphia Transcript. "What news to-day?" said one of our city merchants to his friend. "What news?" responded the other; "nothing, only things grow better. Oar people are getting on their legs again." On their legs," said the first; "I don't see how yoa make that out." "Vf hy, yes," replied the other; "folks that used to ride are obliged to walk now. Is not that getting on their legs again?" A Mighty Army. By an official statement of the war department the whole number of troops who voluntred to flgM the battles of th Republic a.a t-fiatuMMk a as ,iltJ7. Xlim

great bulk of this colossal force was in active service. These troops were drawn from 32 States and eight Territories. New York fur

nished the largest number. 407.947; Penn sylvania tbe next highest, 367,107; Ohio next, with 319.660; Illinois next, with 250,137, and Massachusetts next, with 152,048. Te, Tie Her Up and Keep Her at It. New Haven Register. . A woman who can balance and swine on a trapeze for half an hour, fairly making your nerves crawl lor fear that she will exemplify the laws of gravitation in a hurry, is competent to wield the ballot, and ought to be kept voting all the time. A Losing Joke. A prominent physician of Pittsburg said jokingly to a lady patient who was complain-. ing of her continued ill health and of his inability to cure her. "Trv Hon Bitters." The lady took it in earnest and used tbe Bit ters, from which she obtained permanent health. She now laughs at the doctor for his joke, bat he is not so well pleased with it, as It cost him a good patient. Good Management in Life Insurance. The official returns for 1878 show that many of the life Insurance companies are remarkably well managed. The Mutual Life Insurance company, of New York, ranks first, as regards amount pKl tor expenses. losses and taxes to each $100 of premium receipts being oniy$333. I he Union Central Life Insurance com pany, of Cincinnati, ranks second, they havlDg paid $39 98 to each $100 of premium re ceipts. The small amount of lofs sustained by the late failures is remarkable when the total amount invested in the companies is considered. Meacrs. II. B. Palmer & Co., 78 East Market street, Indianapolis, Ind., ret sent tnis company. SPECIAL NOTICES. Yv hat Is Compound Oxygen? It is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen, the two elements which make np common or atmospheric air, in such proportions as to ren der it richer in the vital or life-giving element. 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