Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1885 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1885

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THE WHISPERING GALLERT.

(New York Mail-Express. It to not often that we rome across o derer a fcperinieti of satiric Terse as the following, the jeruliarity of which we will let onr readers find out for themselv. We hardly need to hint that the verse L of English origin: Kow that wc have the money safe M e fret no more; our hopes are higher. The Torie;all may ftrou I and chafe. And t all our Oraml Old Man a politician. TU tme we had to trust the tnith. How else rould we have grot the dibs? And Randolph C, that forward youth. Quite rightly say we told some official answers. That in the Grand Old Chieftain's war. No wonder that we chant his praises; He pulls us through from day to day. By Hinifin? truth and right to the waste-paper basket. "Havoc!" cried he, "the dog of war In Kiis-.;ti blood shall freely revel!" He routed his warriors near and far. He vowed that he would play the mischief. Ve followed him like gentle lambs. Northcote consented, g-ently sitfhine;. And thus was worked that chief of shams, IJy blatant, brazen, callous oratory. The British Lion ceased to roar. lie fawned, and bent the knee to Bruin, Gla tlstone has done the trick once more. He buy's his place by England's embarrassment. An-'l Maxier Granville kept up well The ball that Master William led off; Pity that history will not tell IIow Britons rose and cut bis oratory short. Merrily down the steep of shame -We're sliding now. The road grows rougher. Lost is our strength, bullied our name. And all througu this rrecious old patriot. EASTERN MAGICIANS. Philadelphia Time 'It's rathera curious fact," said u gentleman and iinprofesioual prcstidigitateur, 'that none of the shows and circuses that use so many adjectives in describing what they Lave got do not bring to thi country a really fine trouieof magicians. It may be possible that they will not come, but it certainly Trould be a paying investment, as the ieocf the United States have no adequate idea of the tricks that are executed by some of j the jugglers of the East. We are occasionly : closed with the talking head and the accompanying looking-glas;c3, or the automaxnatic chess player that anybody with any sense at all knows must contain a dwarf, but beyond these we have not seen the masterIieceof the black artist. Where have you the magician who will step out upon the stage naked, with the except ion of a strip of cloth cbout the loins, and allow himself to he lerfectly examined, and then produce all the j trick with fishes, etc., that are their stocken liatul. It can't be done, or. rather, they can't do it. You would find in side pockets j the glass covered with rubber that held the Iih, and in other pockets here and there the j various objects of Iiis trade, so that the sole wonderful iart of the ierforniance would consist in taking these things out without leing seen. Now, with the best magicians ! that I have seen in the Kast, all this is done away with, and they even court scrutiny, close at that. "As an example," said the speaker, "direct your eyes upon my thumb," and this member was held up in the air within a foot of t he listener's far. 'You see nothing? No? Don't remove your eyes from the nail." continued the owner of the thumb. "Now, what do you see?-' The observer, who had not changed Iii fflance, read an Arabic word. An instant j later it was gone. "You saw it?"' asked the gentleman. "Well. I didn't paint it there or slip it from my sleeve. It was done before your eves, and that is the way it should be if it is called maiie.'" "The finest exhibition I ever witnessed," resumed the speaker, "was in Anam. I was traveling through the country with a party of German officials, when we stopped one night at at an inn where it chanced that a number of magicians were resting. There were six of them, four men and two women, all very small except one, Who was a fleshy giant, resembling the topical wrestlers, 1 soon made their acquaintance, a I was then sreatly interested in lcererdemain. and soon won their good will. They were very anxious for me to give them an exhibition of my skill. I did so, but in everv cafe they caught me anil laughed at my efforts, excepting once. At that lime, though it b not known of course to the public. I was the equal of any prestidigitateur in the country, and had tried point with them all. I mention this to show you Imw skillful these natives were, as I tried some of our lw--t tricks upon tham, and curiously enough the most stupid one of all fooled them. "It was this. You remember the old Pharoa serpents that were much in vogue some years ago. They look like peas, but when touched with a match begin to grow and squirm out into snakes six or ten inches Jong. 1 had a lot of these made of a large size, so that when they developed they were of the exact size of my fingers and of the same color, w hich was" then a dark brown. I had little cups on the end of each finger to conceal them, and when I tried the trick, which was in the. evening, in the public room, I stepped over to the candle that stood on the floor and deliberately put my fingers itUo the liame. This canx-d a tir among all assembled, as they exjx'Cled to see them .burn: but I said cs heat made the plants .prow, so it would my lingers. Then each linger began to lengthen, slowly squirming out inch by inch, crossing eacli other and twisting in the mysterious way these objects lo until finally they were" all fully ten inches loner, presenting such a horrible airearance that the entire party started back, and a number of natives left the room. .Seeing that I was going too fast to last, by a quick movement I knocked off the ashes and made my lingers assume their natural appearance. To say the natives were astonished hardly expressed it. They begged for the secret, and before I left I exchanged it for the trick I showed you on the thumb ' iail. 'After I had finished, the doors were closed and only those admitted who paid a regular admittance fee a small sum and xxm, the apartment being filled, the magicians l-gan their performance. The audience sat on the Moor about the fakirs, so that they had no way of concealing themselves or of hiding anything. At their reimest 1 examined them and satisfied niA-s"lf that they had nothing about them. Then one of the women stoped into the enclosure, the rest remaining behind the spectators, who formed a close ring aliout them. The light was now turned down a little, and In a moment the woman's face be;an to be illuminated by , a ghotly lisht that extended quickly over her entire fKKiy. Mie then moved round and round, littering a low murmnring sound the while. gradually quickening the pace until she wa w hirling about like a top. A moment of this, and the light that had clung about her teemed to be whirled of by centrifugal force - and assumed a pillar-like form beside her. As soon as this was accomplished she stojvtled. turned, and began to mould the light with her hand, and though I could distinct Jy see her band. move through the light, as it it were a cloud, it began to assume human form. We saw the arms, hands and legs all moulded, and finally a face and head gear. Jshe next called for a light, and, the candles relighted, there stood an utter strgnger, a native, seemingly evolved out of cloud-land. 3 le stepped forward and grasped me by the hand; his hands were moist, as if with perfpirauon. ana uewas a very ncaitny spirit. After he had talked and drank a glass of rack he took his place beside the woman aain and legnn to whirl about. "The lights were dimmed, but not so that we rould not see, and in a few moments the l.gure began to lade, soou assuming the a;

pearance of a pillar or form of light; and then attaching itself to th? woman, anl seemingly being absorbed by her. All this was done in a very abort spaceof time, before the eyes of at least fifty peopie. and not tea feet from myself. The girl apjeared greatly exhausted afterward. Now this would be explained by the Spiritualists as a materialization, and by the Fyschological Society as some new sense of power, etc., but betweea vou and me, who know that all things can be explained by cold facts, it was merely a clever trick, so'skillfully done that I did not discover it in any way or shape. 'Tne man next took his place in the ring, and, handing me a large, highly ornamented saber, he said: 'In five minutes by the clock I wish vou to behead me.' I objected, of course, but he insisted and said it had been done a dozen times, .so I finally agreed. He was searched, and in the dim light began to contort himself in strange positions until he seemed t grow perceptibly smaller, and finally stood before u.s so gauzy that I thought I could see right through him. It was now five minutes, so I took the sabre and struck a light blow, only sufficient to knock tne man over, when to my horror the blood spurted into my face and the head dropped with a thud upon the floor. As soon as it fell the body stooped and picked it up, held it in the air, and then placed it upon the shoulders. The full light being turned on, there stool the giant grinning and warm. "The blood? That had faded away by the" time the light was tnrned up, and, you must rememberthat in all this, though'the light was dim. it was sufficient to prevent our seeing everything, and seemed to be used only that we" might observe the figures of light that were evolved so curiously from the mediums, as our spiritualists would call them. "The next trick was equally mystical. All the party now stepped into the ring and be

gan to chant and move about. In a few minutes they ceased and we observed that one was missing, though no one saw him go. A moment after the whirling was repeated, and another was found to have disapjeared, and so on, until in fifteen minutes onlv the giant was seen. More light being given us, a noise was heard at the door, and, upon some one going to it, there stood the mystic five clamoring for admission. That ended the performance for the night, and i sat up the rest of it, or well into the morning, trying to figure out how it was all done. The natives accepted it as magic without debate, and I legan to think that was about the easiest wav out of it. "The following dav another performance was given at midday that was even more wonderful. The giant, as I called him, caused the audience to sit on a grass plat, leaving a circle of about twenty-live feet across, and in this the Higglers took their places, the giant openinjr the entertainment by taking a roll of ribbon and by a dextrous toss sending it up hftv feet or so, where we distinctly saw a small hawk dart at it and eajry it up higher, until we nearly lost sijrht of it. It then seemed to enter a cloud that, I assumed, was caused bv something burning on the ribbon; but from the cloud came sdulinsj down, first a dog, then a snake a good big one, too that wiggled on the moment it touched the trround. and was captured by one of the men. Then a larsrer object was seen sliding along. and one .i :he women, leaping forward, received and held it out of the crowd, a laughing native baby. Thegianthad all this time held thi end of the ribbon, ami, releasing it. it seemed to disappear in the air; at any rate, wc- saw it no more. A few moments later they all joined hands and began 1 9 move alxmt rapidly. "When they moved to the right I distinctly counted twelve persons m the circle; when they changed the movement we saw only eight, and some one appeared to be standing in the center. "These are only samples of the marvels, as I might say, that thev went through; but the last one puzzled me as much as ever. The C arty left except the giaa, and he, taking a arge native parasol, asked if I would carry it back to the inn for him.' I assented, and he then politely requested me to take it in live minutes by mv watch, and, mind vou. he was surrounded by a dense throng. Proceeding to the center of the plot, he squatted upon the ground and urew the umbrella down over him like a cone over dice, thus hiding himself completely. In five minutes I lifted the covering, and to my amazement he was gone. "Yes, wa emptr and the soil was solid under it. The crowd looked up in the air and yelled. I shouldered the umbrella, and. going directly to the inn, found my friend, the giant, smoking a cigarette on the verandah, lie greeted me with a smile, thanked me for the umbrella, opened it with a quick motion, and, pulling down a seeming inner lining, motioned me to look in. lKing so I saw hanging on a hook my watch and chain, that I had not missed. "We parted the next daT, much to my re gret, ami I learned only a single trick, as you see, and the speaker neld up his thumb, where the Arabic figure stood out in bold relief on the nail and slowly faded away before the eyes of the astonished witness. A CANNON FILLED WITH GOLD. Discovery of llurgoyne's Treasure Chest at the Bottom of a Creek. (Troy (X. Y.) Special. There are any number of nieu iK-reabouts who iosses3 charts and maps of locations aid to contain millions of buried treasure. lown the river there are caves and bays wherein Captain Kidd's vessels are Inlicved to have anchored, and of these the exact conformation is given in charts held by jwrsons who are only waiting the iieccssary capital before finding fabulous wealth. The opportunities of fortune-hunters on the lower Hudson are not greater than those from the Canadian line south of the scene of Uurgoyne's surrender. It is known that when the King's troops started South, intent on defeating (ieneral ('at. and by capturing Albany, shutting otl' (Ieneral Washington from the flower of the Continental troops, their officers were well suplied with money, and tradition has it that in 1775, when the Kntrlish soldiers were passing through Comstock. Washington County, some of the leaders became alarmed over the prospect of a surprise by the enemy, so they tilled a large brass "cannon with gold, plugged it up and shot it into the creek, forty rods south of Comstock. and from that time to the present there have 1m.ch many different parties at Comstock in search of tins treasure. One is a man named Chapin, from New Jersey, with a partner from llrandon, Yt. Chapin spei a month at Comstock a year ago last winter, making observations, and last week he reached the village again, with a professional diver from lxston and other men. To-day it is announced that they have found the cannon. but the water at the jxint is thirteen feet deep, with a strong current, and there is about three fee t of sand, old logs and other debris over and alout the treasure. These accumulations will le removed and the can non, which is bottom-Mdc up, will be hoisted ashore. - A Very Good Dog About n Railroad. Chicago HeraM-l "What breed is yonr dox?' "Don't know exactly, but call him coaly.'' "( ollie, you mean? ' "No, I mean ju.st what I say coaly. Money wouldn't buy that dog. He's a cur. but wc couldn't keep house without him. You we, several years ago I trained him to bark at the railway trains as they passed our notice, j hat s his sole ousine---rarking at trains. He docs just whoop her up, e-aeci ally at coal trams. Well, he annoys the railroad men "so that every fireman and brakeman on the road ha sworn to kill him. Oh. he is a valuable log." "I can't see where the value comes in." "You can't? Welt, you could if you was in my place and had all the coal you could burn, and some to sell, thrown riht olF at your back door, free of cost.' Mixed Ills Metaphors. Harrisbur? Telegraph's Convtn'.iua Xcv.'. One iqieakcr referred to "a iittle spirk that rolled and roiled until it became a great wave.

THE HOME.

It in not doubted that men have a home la that place where each one baa established hi hearth and the sum of his possession ant fortuues, whence he will uot depart if nothing calls him away: whence if he has departed he seems to ba a wauderer, and if be returns he ceases to wander. Couditioa from Civil Law. "Then stay at home, my heart, and rest, T bird is safest iu the nest; if ;r all that flutter their wins and fly, J kawk ia hovering la the sky." Longfellow. YOUNG FOLKS. The Play-Hoti. Coder a fir in the garden ground, A strange habitation to-day I fouaJ. Huilt oi bushes, and bark, and bosrds. Aud holding hiddeu the queerest hoards. There were bits of crockery, sticks, and stones, Shreds of pink calico, strings of roues, Crumbs oi candy, a picture book. And straugot of all, in a cosy nook Was an idol made in the ima?e of msn. With charcoal eyes, and stutled with brau. 'Were they heathen who dwelt there!' U, no indeed. "Weretueyaulnialf' Yes, of the kiad that can read And laugh aud cry, and be wicked or pray. And whvu they are old their hair grow gray. . Their names are Margery, Ned and Sue: Their curls are brown, and their eyes are blue; And they builded there iu the Summer heat. As glad as the birds, and sang as sweet. Anna Uoyutou Averill.ia Wide Awake. "My Dog Tom.' By his Master. Mv dog Tom is what I am eoinz to write about. He and I were babies at the same time. Mother says so. He has got four legs and I haven't got but two: so he can run faster than I do. But if he has the leg ache as much as I do, I should think he would wish he hadn't but two. Mother says it is growing pain?, so I don't care. I want to grow big. Father .savs he is a bull-dog but he has not got any horns. He is black and his tail is long, only it got mowed off one day. He went in the tall grass once when they were mowing and they did not see him, and he was standing around looking for things. woodchucks, I guess, and they mowed it off. I got some of mother s sticking plaster, but father said it would not do any gd. It Micks my cuts up first rate. My lorn is an honest dog, and I like him just as well with a short tail. He watches me when I whistle, and then we have u siort together. Table Manners. Good IIrmsekeeping-1 Good manners at the table arc almost an infallible evidence of refinement and careful breeding. A safe Rencral rule to le followed there, as well ax ebewhere, is that of consid eration for the feelings of those about you a desire to avoid giving oftense by uncouth or coarse actions, it is well, however, to re member the following timely perceptions: Kat and drink Ieosurlv and without noise it is not appetizing to have the hog trough and it accompaniments brought vividly to mum at a meal : uo not scrape your olate, tilt it up to get the last drop, or wipe it dry with a piece of bread stinginess on the part of host or hostess might be implied: if you mix messes on your plate, it looks as if your desire for hash had not been gratified; carrying vour mouth to the food, instead of the food to your mouth, indicates an acquaintance with chop sticks or .something worse; taking chicken or other Inmes in j-onr fin gers is uncouth, and might imply ignorance of the use of knives or forks; loud talking or mysterious whimpered conversation are both in bad taste for obvious reasons; discussion of distempers, medical treatment, etc , is trenching on dangerous ground; avoid sneezing by placing your finger against your up per lip. under the nose; keep vour elbows at vour sides and your hands in your lap w hen yon are not eating, and do not laugh in any wav or tip back your chair. Many other points of etiquette must be learned by observation. Casting m Statue. A Paris corresriondent of the New York Home Journal describes the casting of Mr. llartholdi's original statue of "Liberty Knlightening the World," This statue, measuring thirty feet from the feet to the end of the torch, is a reduction of the gigantic pharos which is to ornament the bay of Xew York. The oieration takes place in a spacious workshop or atelier. In one corner is the metal being melted down in a brick oven of goodly proportions; through a small side door the workmen stir the mass and see to the fire; the iron bars with which they oper ate show as they leave the furnace, incandescent and dazzling, that the medal is ready for the mould, the mould is partially hid den in a subterraneanchamberlror the facilir . i .'Ii , ty oi tue operation, out mere is sun enougn of it left alovc ground to require scaffolding all around to facilitate the men's movements from above. Iu the middle of the shop is another subterranean chamber, less deep than the lir.-i, irom which issues the "core of tbe statue. It will be remembered that large bronze pieces are never cast solid on account of the great weight, which would render them dilhcult to handle, and of the considerable amount of metal, which would call for a great outlay. Iok around the atelier, the strange and shapeless masses which cover the floor, encircled as they are with strong iron girdles, are the various parts of the mould; once drought together, and clasped tight, they form within a statute, but its outside ajpcarance is grotesque and meaningless. The size of a statute covered with a moul is singularly increased. Here is the trunk of an inverted horse; in this case the mould is being prepared for a bronze casting. Kverythinsahotit it is uncxitected anil novel for the profane. A strong wooden derrick stands by the mould to aid in handling the metal in fusion. The furnace full of melted bronze is provided with a sjxut or conduit, over which the metal will run ami fall intoan immense iron cauldron lined with clay, susjK'uded by means of strong chains from the derrick. Presently the doors are closed, for the metal is to" pass from the furnace to the cauldron, and all draughts must le avoided in order not to chill the metal. The casting is going to U-gin, the guests all take their !laccs and all eyes turn to the workmen who al or at the furnace, with a iowcrful crowbar, at a place where the mason rv ha? been Itreplaccd bv ( lav; an issue will soon , be oflr i i t . : . i... . . 1. leirti 10 i lie iiiciui. 11 is niieiy uuj; iu uscrve the eager, expectant faces of the visitors; this is a psychological moment. A hole is at last pierced and the mass effects its esrapc over the conduit into the cauldron, whUVi has beforehand been heated by a means of a brazier let down into it. The bronze runs for a few moments in a little stream the color of light blood; by degrees its color changes and becomes more and more incandescent and brilliant, while the vein grows larger, the heat stronger anil the interest more intense. The workman who stands by the furnace to keej the opening free a real type of one of Tomer's figures has his hands and arms protected from the heat by final I bags, which they wear as mittens: tut the heat is such that these improvised gloves catch fire continually. The metal now runs in a vein tight inches wide, i:s liquid ma is as dazzling as the sun; thick white vajors rise as steam from an engine, and the building is plunged in a mist. All the metal having run from the furnace, the cauldron is raised by means of a derrick and idaced in t nisi t ion over the mould, ready for casting. This is the second phase of the operation.. The opening in the mould is funnel-shaped to receive its contents by its upper extremity; the metal will run down litwcen the core and the outside mould through four orifices which are now dosed by means of a contrivance consisting of four vertical rods a yard long. The vacuum has been effected within the mould. The cauldron which stands' ready over the mould to .lionr out its precious contents is worked by means of cng-wheels. which give to it a steady and gradual incli nation, so as to avoid accidents. Jn spite oi this contrivance several tons of molten metal must be handled with great cücumsjKH tiou aad .skill. We are approaching the critical

moment. "What would become of the workmen were the ropes which hold the cauldron to snap? But let us be reassured ; every precaution has been taken. A slight inclination being giyen to the cauldron we see the top of the steaming mass which a workman skims; an inclination of a few degrees more causes the bronze to run very slowly. Thus far the metal has not entered the mould, but nt)w, the four vertical iron bars which close iU orifices and are interjoined, are moved upwards by means of a pulley, and a rambling noise of thunder clo.v by tells that ths bronze has reached the farthest recesses of the mould. A greater inclination causes the metal to flow in with greater and more alarming noise, while the scaffolding upon which a dozen workmen stand U enveloped in blue flames of oxide of carbon and white vaior.

The scene now appears in ail tlie horrors of an autodafe. lue heat is extreme, the workmen's ciothes catch lire, still the ereatest or der prevails. The metal in the meantime continues to run down and the statue will soon be cast. The white fumes ha3 become as intense as a London fog; one hardly distinguishes his near neighbor. A third and last inclination of the cauldron makes the last drops of metal fall into the mould. The casting is terminated. JIM AND MARY. How a Tennessee Wife Revenged 1 Blow From Her Husband. Detroit Free Press. We were winding down one of the mount ain roads of Tennessee in a cart drawn by a mule. The land was barren, the cabins no better than hovels, and it was a query how people made a bare living or were content to stay, lty and by we came to a turn in the road where there was a trough to water horses, and the cabin of a settler. This cabin was the poorest of all, and nothing around it indicated that the owner made any attempt to cultivate the soil. We reached the place just in time to witness a tableau. A women, poorley dressed, and her face bearing the look of one who had seen much worry and suffering, stoo l near the trough, and a satchel tilled with clothing sat on the ground beside her. Five feet away stood her husband, a burly, tough-faced mountaineer, ana he iieia a switch in his hand. Neither minded us as we drove uo. and it was a full minute before the husband said: "Mary 1 11 wollop ye!" "Jim, ye dasn't!" sha replied. "Mary, ye can't leave me nohow." "Jim! Im cwine ter do it! I've starved an' suffered till I ra clear gone! I'm going home." "Mary, if ye don't take ui that satchel and march in I'll wollop ye good and stout!"' There were two of us besides the driver. The woman looked up and scanned our face, as if to judge how far she might count on our help, and the driver said: " lain t rulahle fur strangers to mix in, Mary, and Jim.s got a knife and would kill somebody. Jlctf or go in." "Never!" she bis.sed. "If vou don't," said the husband as he came a step nearer, "I'll make the fur fly. Take that!'' With a swish he brought the switch down across her shoulders and raised it again. Site stood stock still for a minute and looked him in the eye, and then walked into the hovel. "Ravther peart, but the gad will cure her!" grinned the husband as le drew the switch through his fingers. His triumph was short-lived. In sixty seconds Mary reappeared. She had the mountaineer's heavv ritle in her hands, and as she came out she raised it on a line with the man's heart." "Jim. I want ve to git!" "X-o!" "Sartin!" "Shoo! Can't do it!" "Click! click!" "Mary, what ye gwine ter do?" "Külve like a wolf iu ver tracks if ye don't walkawav." "Whar to?" "Nobody keers! Go sumwhar' keep goin' on t never come back! liurrv up, fur I'm going down on the stage!'' He looked into her eves and saw the change. Poverty and brutality had come to an end. Love had turned to disgust, and in place of fear was such bravery as he would not have looked for in a man on the road. He saw "shoot" in her eye?, but he still hesitated. "Mary, drop that rifle," he whispered. "Jim, git! If you are here when I've finished counting twenty I'll kill vou as sure as there is a Cod in heaven!"' He began backing away. When he had gone twenty teet lie turned ami walked. hen he had gone a hundred he halted, wheeled about, and after a long look muttered : "Wall, by gosh! Mary, let's make up!" "Keep a-gittin'. Jim," she replied, as she Still covered him with the rifle. In live minutes he was out of sight up the road. The -woman placed the gun and satchel in the cart, walked into the hovel to be gone two minutes, and when she came back to the cart and took a seat with us flames were seen creeping through a hun dred crevices between the dry logs. Without a word she climbed in, and only once during the rive-mile ride did she utter a word. At a bend in the road she looked back at the pyramid of smoke and flame? wrought by her hands, and said, as if to herself: "Jim didn't know Mary, Jim didn't.'' Jay Ciould't WaUtc oat. Brooklyn Eagle. A votinc friend of (Iconic Could was dinii'c with tlio f.'onilv- ( 'on versa tii 11 turned on tricks, and the vounar friend" said he could take offa man's vest without removing his coat. Jle explained that teat, wincn consists of working the vest down the arms by gradually coaxing the shoulders through the armhoies. iiien tne vest can ne removeti by slipping it off under the coat sleeves, liexterity and patience are required. The young man was positive he was the only one present who could do it. Mr. Could listened to the explanation ami said that any man could do it, and that he ' could do it on the spot. The caller wa zealously anxious to bet his modest pile against an equal sum to be put up by the millionaire; but the latter advised him not to let any more than a big apple, as he would he sure to lose it. ..Mr. Could thereupon proceeded to perform the elusive act. lie first took off his coat. "Hold on, sir," said the young man, "that is not permitted; it is barred." "I understand that," replied the banker; "I'll put on the coat again. I'm only gettiy ready." ". Then lie tcok off his... vest: and at once put on his coat, and succeeded it with putting on his vest outside of his coat. "I'm at your service now," he quietly said. The young man lost an apple, but gained a verification of the important truth that there is more than one way of doing a thing. In his own style there is no greater lover of quiet fun than Jay tiould. A Healthy Change. Boston Post. 1 The advent of a Democratic administration has improved the public health in various ways. A Washington dispatch says there is less "sickness" among certain clerks in the departments than ever before. Clerks who in the past ten years have lost on an average five days in each month on account of "sickness" are now in remarkably good health, and seem likely to remain so. This is highly creditable to the new administration. The Saving Clause. llto.-toil (Jlobe.l I.egan thinks ex-Postmaster Palmer, of Chicago, was in no sense of the word an offensive partisan. "He was simply doing all he could for John A: Logan in a quiet; dis-. erect way." Perhaj he ought to be called a "discreet ollcnsive part KJin. A curiosity at Hock ford. 111., is a younsj regress w ith" a luxuriant growth - of auburn ringlet.

KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Our readers are lavited to furnish ongiatl eaijfanas. charade, riddles, refuses aud other '"knotty problem." addre.ssin all communication relative to this department to E. B. Chaiboum, Lewiston, Maine. No. 1237. A Numerical Enigma. The 4. 5. X 8 united make 'Anxiety." "vexation," "care;" Its use in common daily talk Is doubtless rather rare. The 7. fi, 1. 2 I nay to you CJuite often means to measure; Transpose the same and you will hare A very triaing treasure. The whole compose-1 of letters eight, Has been the cause of grief; And many still are living ia This 4-error of belief." Rex. "So. 1258. Anagrams. 1. In "rsfXEss fiction " we may fiu l Happiness of suprcmest kiud. 2. A true statement I pronounce it. And very clearly "I annovxce it." 2. 'Tis pious ardor that I show Wheu I asserted "I voted no.' 4. A pitiful rhymer he must be YVaese nourishment is "toper 8IEÄ." 5. Ia one "bare word'' we may express A room and article of dress. KZLSOKIAS'. No 185. Phonetics. You'll find one two upon the field of battle; you'll find ose two things in a housewife's basket: you'll find one two things in a cobbler's oltice. Oxe two are xo o.e; yet when oxe are two they can t be oxe-two oxe two can't be oxe-two. t. Beb?. No. I860. Decapitations. Pear riddlers, I've wondrous frame. And many limbs compose it; There's just five letters in ray name You'll doubtless soou disclose it. Through cities, villages and towns I move ia curious tether; Or through the woodlands, plains aud downs, Ne'er minding wind nor weather. Take the first letter from my name. And then I prow more common ; A place I'm always known to claim Vi:li every man aud woman. The pranks aud oddities I show Would make yon burst with laughter; For where the gents and ladies go There I eomo dancing after. Another letter dropped, ye fir. Will Rive me new proportion ; A creation o1d you'll find appear, Possessed of lite and motion. But then a welcome sruest I am At almost every table: So, rhldiers. please now tell my name 1 really hope you're able. L. A. Hoc AX. No. 1861. A I'aliiidrome. My first three letters will spell for you A number neither one nor two. My last three letters will name a snare. And ofttimes deck the ladies hair. Mv whole's oleyed by every creed Hpelivd back or' forth, the same 'twill read. I. J. McCoy. 3'e. 11G2. A Cros rroblem. A lady had a cross of precious stone?, an i, wishing it repaired, sent it to a jeweler. She counted the stones before sending. There were eleven, counting upward from the bottom; and, from the bottom to the center and righ. or left, she also counted eleven. . The jeweler, knowing the manner in which the ladv had counted, took two stoma and left the lady's count as before, so that his theft escaped detection. IIow did he do it? F. P. No. 1263. A Metagram. The staff of life I am. complete. AVhich priuce and peasant often eat; Trausposed, by KiiRlishraeu I'm shorn, 15y many foreigners though worn. Curtail me next and find at least A rough, a surly, savage benst ; Hehead nie then to view I brinir What oft is honored with a rin?. L. A. Hoi ax, For July Siolntions. Irving's "Sketch IViok." finely printed and bound in cloth, will le presented the reader furnishing the lest lot of answers to the "Knotty Problems' of July. The solutions for each week should be forwarded wit bin six days after the date of the Sentinel containing the puzzles answered. June' Award. The liest lot of answers to the "Knotty Problems" of June came from I). A. Cloud, Indianapolis. Nearly as good a list came from Cert rude Mahoney, Irvington; and the list of C. II. Flint, ..lndianaioi:s, ranked third. . . Answers. IlML'. Tip-top. 1243. 1. Inevitableness. 2. Patrimony. 3. relationship. 1244. 'Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Prcnsts the keen air, aud carols as he goes." ' l.v4". Kcho. . 1245. Cards. 1247. Cares, caress. 11:4s. The letter G. ' POSTAL SACKS BY EXPRESS. A Matter of Investigation for the Railway Mall Service. The following sr-ecial dispatch wa received bv the Globe-Democrat from. Pine Mutt", Ark.: "The postal railway clerk on the Texas and St. Ix.iuis llailway has unearthed an outrageous fraud attempted to be ierpetrated on the mail service Several tons of bogus mail matter in Government mail sacks were expressed from St. Ixmis to Tyler, Tex., and was being sent back from Tyler as mail matter. This month the service weighs die mail matter, and the weightthus taken will rtand as an average for twelve mouths. The packages are addressed to parties in the "Western States.- The Postmaster UUU charge -of the sacks, awaiting order? from the Sujerintendent of the mail service at St. Louis." Suierintcndent K. A. Warfield, of the railway mail service, was seen last night. He said there was, as far as he understood the case, no fraud, or attempted fraud, on the part of the Texas and St. Louis Koad in the matter. The facts were that Meyer Brothers V. Co., of this city, sent out for distribution in Texas ten sacks of printed matter by express and used mail-sacks to contain the circulars. It is usual for concerns having large second and third-class mails to send to the Postoflice for mail-sacks in which to transfer the matter to the oßice from their establishments. M ever P.rot hers tt Co. were provided, and, owing to ignorance on the part of the shipping clerk of the statute making it criminal to use-'-mail-sacks for any other purpose than the transmission of mail matter,; ihe' circular were placed in thenv and snt bv express down the - Texas and ftt, LoiiLs Kaüroad, Jfc happened

that below Pine Bluff there had been a washout or some other accident, and a transfer was necessary. While the sacks containing Meyer Bros.' circulars were being taken to ihe express ear on the other hide of the break Postal Clerk Harleston saw them aud demanded that they be taken to the postal car. The express messenger demurred, but insisting that anything contained in a small sack belonged to the PostofSce Department, Harleston aeized the sacks and turned them over to the Postmaster at Pine Bluff, where they are now held for orders. The rate of compensation for roads carrying mails is fixed by the amount of mail they carry, and that is ascertained by weighing the mails on that road for thirty days if the runs are every day in the week. In the latter case the average is reached by dividing the total weights by "30, as in the former, as it is held that if the Sunday trips were not made, the amount of matter carried Sunday would have to bo transported Monday. The Texas and St. Louis has only been weighed in part, owing to the unsettled condition of the road since it was opened, and the indisposition of the road manager? to have the weights taken at times when they were not receiving a full share of the business on account of its being d'rected to other roads while they were crippled by washouts, tc. About June 23 an order for weighing was issued to extend over thirty-five days, upon which the rate of compensation will'be based for the time elapsing before next summer, when the regular quadrennial weighing will take place on all the roads. The weights taken every four years stand until the elapse of that period, unless an extraordinary increase or decrease is shown; ''While I don't think there has been an' fraud," said Mr. Warfield, "yet I will give orders to throw out all the weights already taken, and continue the work for so many additional days. This course will be necev sary in order to silence any criticism of the computation and the rate of compensation allowed on the weights taken. The sacks were never weighed, however. They" have n?ver been considered in the mail, and, although we hold them, do not weigh them as mail matter. Someljody takes my iocket-book and puts something in it; I retain possession of the book and its contents, and hold both. I have ordered the Postmaster at Pine Bluff to send me samples of the matter, and will investigate the case. As far as I can see now the only thing that is wrong about it is the misuse of the sacks. What we will do about that is an open question." Temperance in Vermont. Correspondence New York World. 1 During a recent visit.to Vermont I made some .studies of ' the workings of the temperance laws of that State. There are no more rigid laws in any State against the sale or manufacture of liquor than in Vermont. The sale of a single glass of liquor is punishable by a fine of $io. A second offense calls for a reprimand and an increase of the fine. The third offense must be punL-hed with a year's imprisonment if the law is rigidly enforced, yet the law is practically a dead letter. It is enforced spasmodically, and is more used as the engine of petty spite and small blackmail than anything else. Liquor is openly sold every where, save in the smallest of the town. In the latter a stranger might find a little difficulty in getting all he would want, but none of the natives would. During the last year I have been in all of the principal towns of New England, where temperance legislation has longest prevailed, and I have alway3 found as much intemperance as in communities where there are no restrictions. The evil effect of the temperance laws in New England lies in the fact that they drive the liquor dealing in the hands of the lowest and " least resjionsible class. The average alcoholic drink sold in that section is a horrible poison. Any one who has seen much of New England will betasily convinced that high license is the true solntionof the tenierance question. These temperance laws are great stimulants to hyioorisy. A false community sentiment has been built up, so that many of those who drfnk and who are at heart opjKised to the laws would vote against their repeal. The Opinion of at Sufferer. Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. Beecher has evidently borrowed a chew from the wrong man; he says there is no charity broad enough to carry'the sins of a man who uses bad tobacco.

Florseford's Acid Pliosphnte for Overworked Females. Dr. J. P. Cowan, Ashland. O., says: "It proves satisfactory as a nerve tonic; also in dyspeptic conditions of the stomach, with general debility, such as we lind in overworked females" with nervous headache and its aecomtaninients." Allen's Brain Food arrests all involuntary discharges, removes mental despondency, and restores wonderful, power, to the generative organ's. $l;six for $3. Druggists, or hvinailfromJ.il. Alien, 315 First avenue, N. Y. f What's a Miracle to some people la really only the result of the use of knowledge and common-senaa. N"y persons suHermg from, RHEUMATISM and NEURALGIA hesitate about taking a remedy fearing1 it wul not help theo, and they doufct whether K reaUy did do as much for others as 13 claimed. This ia not the way Mr. C. B. Bruner of Urbana, Ohio, did. . IIa writes : " Atbxophoio Is thft best T ever tried. I vu l-wn in bed so td that I had to b? turned . on a shet, end o I trot a bottle of Atelopho. bos and b"rmn t-ikiiirf it atPo'clo-V, and I wes iniflVrinff everytlririrf a man conld suSV-r. I took four doss of It, and I pot outot bed tcyfcrlf ard ate my arir, cd the nit moniinif I walled out to break! ist without canes. IT IS WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD. Is not a mlraenlous thing, bat It it the only sure cure for RJacumatUm anl Neuralgia, and It will cure just as easQy and certaldjr, aa It has thousands or others. If you cannot ret Athlophoros of your drnjfgiht, w will send it express paid, on receipt of regular price one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy it from your druggist, but it he hasn't It, do not ba persuaded to try something else, but order at once from us. 4 directed. ATlILOPHOnOS GO. 112 WALL ST. NEW YORK : 1 j A !rto prexsrlptlo o? a tolil .umUiI (mum reurx-i-j rDIUWÄDCO., LOnIA.V. 0 rrniTP LREscRiPTionsvr,;0"00 irLiULä "SCiENt'K f I1KA1TII," for thupeedy cureof Nervous Pehllity.lt Manhood. lepondencjr,ete. A copy f this Ihh.Ic wt!l Bl fr; ,.lsl, Addrt-v SCIKX'K of 11 K A l.T II, 130 West SUlh Street. Ctaciuaaii. Ohio.

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A DANGEROUS CASE.

Rochester, June 1. lS2.-Tra Years ago I was attacked with the most Intense and deathly pain in my bark aal Kiiueys, 'Extending to the eud of my te aa l to tar brain! 'Which made me delerious! 'From agony. "It took three men to hold me on my b4 at times! "The doctors tried ia nin to relieve me, bat to no purpose! "Morphine and other opiates! 'Had no effect "After two souths I was riven up to diM "When my wife heard a neighbor tell what Hop Bitters hat bn for her. She at once pot and gavefne some. The first dose eased my brain, and seemed to go hunting through taj system for the rain. "Thi second dose eased me to much that I slept two hours, something I bad not done for tw months. Before I had used fire bottles I vu we'd and at work as hard as any man could for over three weeks, but I worked too bard for my strength, and taking a hard cold I was taken with the most acute and painful rheumatism all through my system that ever was known. "I called the doctors a?raln, and after several weeks they left me a cripple oa crutches for life, as they said. I met a friend and told him m case, and he said Hop Hitters iad cured him aa would cure me. l poohed at mm. nut ne ws to earnest I wa induced to use them aaiu. "In les than four weeks I threw away my crutches and went to work lightly, and kept oa usinr the bitters for five weeks, until I became as well as auy man liviug, and tauve been bo for sic years since. "It haaLso cured my wife, who had been sik for years, and has kept her and my children well and healthy with from two to three butt los per year. There is no need to be sick at all if tlie bitters are used." J. J. hVrk, cx-Supcrwsor. "That poor, invalid wife! "Sister'. "Mother! Or daughter! "t an lie made the picture of beult li! "With a few bottles of Hop Bitters! "Will you let them suffer?" WNone frenuine without a hunc-H erf free Hops on the white label. 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