Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1885 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA BTATE BEIITINEL WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER IB, 1835.

WASHINGTON LETTER. ' Oar Dlutntel Wwilj Letter From tiie üiioail Capital

The Cab System of tha City Its Completene Talk With a Manager The Hnom' and the HerUr. Washington, Not. 12. One of the features of "Washington that strikes the visitor here as especially interesting and peculiar to this city is the cab system. Of course, there are cabs in other cities, but they are jiot nearly so numerous in proportion to the tire, nor are they so marked a feature of the daily life of a city. The ab system Lere is a more complete one than in any other city of the country. .The streets of "Washington are especially fitted for cabs and cab service, and, although they were introduced here only a couple or three years ago, they have become very popular. Walk up and down Pennsylvania aveuue at anv hour of the day or night, and J'ou will see dozens and scores and, perhaps, lundreds of them patrolling up and down the avenue watching for customers. There are a few that are assigned to "hack stands" in various parts of the city, but the larger proportion of them move slowly up and lown the avenue watching fur customers. Like "Hungry Joe," they are always obliged to "movf on.'" for there is a city ordinance which will not allow them to stand upon the street3 except at the designated hack stands, so there is always a line of them moving slowly ut and down the avenue near the sidewalk, and if you want to go quickly to any J art of the city, you have only to hail a river, and for ä quarter you go Hying to any point inside the citv limits. The number and variety of cabs in "Washington is something remarkable. In a few hours' walk you THE "HEKDIC. Ivill see perhaps a dozen different sorts of vehicles ot this class for hire. They may le divided, however, into two classes, the "hansom" cab and the "herdic" cab. These two classeB refer to the two-wheeied vehicles. Of course there are a large numler of vehicles on four wheels, but the designation "cab" seems to apply altogether to those on two wheels. There lias been a great effort in the past few years." said the manager of one of these .cab systems here, talking to your correspondent, "to make vehicles on two wheels which should meet all the requirements of ordinary vehicles, and yet be cheap and easily handled. The remit has been a great variety of these twowheeled affairs. We have a half dozen modifications of the 'herdic' cab and nearly as many styles of the 'hansom,' which, as you know, is the old London street cab." "Are these cabs used a much in other cities as in Washington?" "'o, not nearly so muc h. The streets of Washington are especially fitted for them. These two-wheeled vehicles are very bad on the horses, except on very smooth streets. The vehicle which has two wheels of. course is more affected by rough roads, and when one of the wheels strikes an obstacle the effect is feit by the horse. The result is that cabs are horse killers. Take the first lot of tan so m cabs that came to this town. The owner put good horses into them horses that cost S'JOO or but it was not six months until the horses were worn out and broken down. Experience has taught us that with the best cab we can get a horse does not last more than a year. The vehicle having but two wheels, a iart of its load necessarily comes on the horse's back, and this, with the difficulty that I ske of in rough street., makes them very bad for Lorse." "Are they popular with the public?" 'Vt; very. They are driving out the Lack and four-wheeled vehicles of that class very rapidly. It is only a couple of years or THE "HANSOM. Uj that thev came into use here, but the number is still increasing, and their popularity increases also. It will only be a short time when nearly or quite all theold four-wheeled vehicles will disappear from the hack stands." "Which class of cabs do you believe more popular, the hansoni or the herdics?" "That is according to the weather. In pleasant weather the hansom cab is more impular. In wet weather the herdic does the best business. The entrance to the herdic is, you know, at the rear, and the driver backs his cab to the sidewalk, opens his door, and you step from your door into it with only the width of the sidewalk. To get into the hansom, however, jou have to walk around to the side. So on a rainy day the herdic cab is more jopular. Its seats, however, run lengthwise, while those of the hansome are rosswise; so that you ride in the hansom facing toward the front, while in the herdic you face toward the side of the vehicle. The consequence is that in ordinary weather the hansom cab is more popular." "Are the hansom cabs used much in other citiesr ""o; not much. They seem to be better litted for the broad and quiet streets of Washington and the smooth pavements here than for any other cities of this country. They are difficult to handle on rough pavements or in crowded streets. They have bfen introduced in nearly all the large cities, especially those of the Kast, but are not much used anywhere except here and a few in New York or lioston " "Is there any truth in the published stateii. cut that they are to be adopted in some tiiJs for private use'.'" "Very little, if any. There are a few doc.t' t hi New York who have them for their j 'a.i: t:-e. but that is about all. ()ccaion-siir-yme r.e may have a special cab hand-jnj!.-rm'sbed and fitted for private use, "In.: tlleyare very few. They are better fitted for tie i;i Washington than in any other city of the counrT-" The variouskimbi of cab and two-wheeled '. vehicles broughito the surface in the efforts to improve 11 port Ahese two general classes .rV.i.oc a very Innrest ing lot of vehicles. ' Tlcre .ve ?onie of tlfc-hcrdic cabs, with a sort of bay window attachment to the rear,

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which adds something to the capacity and comfort of the vehicle. Thea there are the hansom cabswith brougham fronts. In some of the hansoms you nii-t open and close-the doors yourseif. In others, the driver, who sits at the top of the vehicle, opens and shuts them himself by the biraple use of an ingenious lever. In the herdic you lind a little box similar to the ticket-box in a bobtailed car, and in this you drop your fare. In the hansom you pass up your fare and your orders to the driver at the'same time through a hole in the root. If the weather is cold the driver not ouly closes the door of he hansom, but drops a slidin glass down in front of you. and you are shut in completely as in a coupe. At the depots when the trains come in aud at the theaters every evening there are long lines of thesccabs drawn ud waiting for customers. The drivers hit quietly on their seats. You walk up and down the line, select your vehicle, give your order, drop your quarter in the box or into the driver's hand, and in a nioment you are Hying over the smooth pavement at a breakneck pace, and you involuntarily lind yonrself wondering how the people of Washington got along before the introduction of the cab system. THE STAGE DRIVER'S STORY,

Tragical Meeting With Dike's Gang ou the ICoad to Helena. Xew York Sim. As the stage from Helena, Mont., to one of the mining camps was making its trip last fall, the driver told this tragical story of an encounter with road agents: "It wus in 'i:7," said he, "an' I wus clrivin' between Salt I.ake an' Helena. Road agents wus pretty thick then, an' there wus one gang run by Hill Dike thet used ter make things pretty lively for us. It got to be quite the regular thing at a certain point in the road ter hear the yell, 'Hands up!' Yer can't ever get used ter it. Every time it would make me jump just the same as tae first time. We used ter caution the passengers not to fire if they was attacked, but just to let the agents have some small sum to pay toll like. "Wall, one morning I started outer Salt I .ale with half adoen inside passengers, all men and one of the purtiest young women I ever see as a deck passenger. She was going to meet her husband, who was stationed in Montana at some army post, She had the cutest little girl with her. The lady wasn't more'n twenty, and the little gal was about two. She hadn't seen her husband for more'n a year, and was wild to get to him. Just before we pulled out o' the hotel Jim Lane (he druv the down coach and had just got in) came over and savs: " Say, Tom. Hike and his outfit held me up 'bout sixty mile up the road.' "Little Mrs. I laird heard what Jim had said, and. 'stead of gettin' scared, she jest clapped her hands and said, 'Oh, how 1 should like to see the stage thieves. It jest seemed to me that it was temptin' Providence to make a remark like that, an' I sioke up pretty sharp that she might see more stage thieves than she wanted to. "Wall, we pulled out of the city, and went along as slick as could be. The little lady never complained of nothing; she never seemed to get tired, but she'd set there and sing the sweetest little song to her little gal. Then she'd talk to me about what the West was like. She was jest from New York City, and had the greatest lot of news ter talk about. Wall, about "." o'clock ot the second evenin' we were going along slowly, with urates on, down a hill. Suddenly a couple of men jumped out ef the bushes and yelled: "Hands up!' "Half a dozen others was alongside the coach in a jifl'y with their six-shooters pinted at us. It is pleasant havin' a six-shooter lookin' you square in the face when thar's a m;in behind it that has his finger on the trigger and means shoot every time, and so I up with my hands a nd jest yelled out to the men inside, 'Don't shoot, gents.' Then they stood out in a row and went through us. My little lady ac ted jest as piucky as could be. Jest grabbed her little gal and then gave up her money. I will say it forlike and his gang that thev were very civil to her. "After they had gone through the passengers they töld 'em to get back into the coach. Ks they wus gettin' back one ot the passengers dropied a jocket-book that he had hidden from them. This got them mad and they hit him a couple of licks over the head with the butt of a six-shooter. The passenger grabbed the six-shooter from the road agent, fired at him, and he fell. "I knew what was coming then. I jest gave'a yell, an' let the horses have the whip, off we started down the hill at a twelve-an-hourgait, but before we got far them devils jest turned loose on us and gave us u volley. I felt a sharp pain in my left arm. I heard a yell from the coach, "and. worse than all. saw that purty little lady give one look atme au I'll never forget "that look as long as I live and she jest fell over torwards. Wall, we was out of danger then, but I had my six horses, all of 'em mad (with fright, ter stop on a down grade, and ray left arm nearly useless. "Wall, I drove up to the next station that night with two dead people and two wounded men in the coach. An' the saddest sight I e er seen was when that young Leftenant as had come down ter meet his wife was led up to where she lav. Fur, you see, one buckshot had gone through her heart and the head of the little girl as she held her to her breast to shelter her. That young man iest took one look, an' then turned away. In a minnit the crack of a revolver was heard, and the husban' and father had joined his wife and daughter. That was Ihe last thing that Dike's outiit ever done. We had the Yigilants onto 'em in less than a day, and never let up on 'em till they was all hanged or shot." TALMAGE AND SAM JONES. The 1 1 rook 1 j 11 Man ; a Hundred Miles to Hear the Ilevivallst. JChicajo Tribune.) II the laborer is worthy of his hire, why should there be any suppression of the amount in case he is a minister of the Gospel? Rev. Sam Jones began the conspicuous part of his career as an evangelist by a revival in Brooklj-n. His discoverer was the famous Talmage, in whose Tabernacle, the largest churc h in America, Sam eulivened a series of meetings in his own peculiar manner. "It was during, a tour in the West," said Talmage to me, "that a friend sjKike to me about Sam Jones, who was then unknown to fame, though he had already done wonderfully effective work. I went a hundred miles to witness his methods and their results, foi I was anxious to secure a first-rate evangelist for the ensuing winter. It was a tabernacle custom, you know, to try to have an arousal annually. We believe in revivals, and we endeavor to lose as little as possible of what we gain by them. Well, I was captivated at once by Sam, and we managed to engage hiru." "(n what terms?" I asked. "That i3 not an cs-ential particular," was the reply. "Sam labored earnestly, sincerely, very effectively, and that is all the public need know." Talmage is a polite, genial gentleman, and he was not angry at my iersistence, but he positively would not tell me how much Sam Jones was paid. Several of the Tabernacle trustees were just as reticent as their pastor on that ioint. and it was only by a whole day of inquiry that I learned, with fair certainty, that the revivalist came to Drooklyn under no definite agreement as to remuneration. He was lodged and fed at the homes of wealthy members of the church, of course, and during his stay Talmage frequently handed to him small sums to defray his insignificant personal expenditures. At the close of his visit a trustee gave to him $1,000, which he at first said was too much, but took it on being urged. It i understood thsit lie used some of it in buying books for a religious library, which he had. long desired, and the remainder supported him through the summer.

AUTUMNAL FANCIES.

ÄV HKf J'P M. DA VTA. I walk aioog through rustling leaves. The richest carpet nature weaves; Their tntuic sings this sweet refrain. That bul and leaf will come again. The ted bird' load and cheery note Conies gaily from his scarlet throat; n yoadee bush a thrush, at rest. Sits ucar her now deserted nest. The deep blue skr, the purple baze Bring out the maple's scarlet blare. While o'er you mountain's towering crest The eucbauteo. veil of autumn rests. The river, a calm, unruffled stream, Flows onward like a fairy's dream ; 'o ru le winds through sighing pines As yet have touched the graceful vines. The softened breere and mtllowed tone Of tower, steeple and church dome, All give u. peace and blissful rest Het'ore oid Koreas' wintry blast. SENTINELS. Kotes and Item Captured on the- Skirmish Line. A nine-year-old girl took the first prize for oil paintings at the recent Los Angeles. Cal., fair. The English lead mines are giving out. Within a few years 103 mines have been closed and .0.000 men thrown out of employment. Women are sextons in the English Church, Berlin. It is said to break their hearts to have anybody leave before the collection is taken up. Bathers in San Francisco Bay are much troubled over the frequent visits of maneating sharks. The last caught was over ten feet long and weighed COO pounds. Captain Hauna brought up from San Tedro. Cal., ou his last trip, a potato weighing about seventeen pounds and measuring thirty-three and three-eighths inches around the largest part. An Ohio farmer named Hayes has, by a proces of selection, obtained a hen that will lay two esgs a day. The hen. however, is not allowed to work on Sunday. Rutherford is a good man. Multitudes of Chinamen are now on their way home to celebrate their New Year holidays, and if they are not careful about their certificates they" will have some difficulty about getting back. Philadelphia contains more dwelling houses owned by their occupants than any other city in the country, beating New York by more than 2,0X. Philadelphia is growing at the rate of 0,000 houses per year. Toronto has a club of forty tobogganists. A floating bar-room now plies up and down the Savannah River, in Georgia, supplying such of the thirsty as care to journey to the craft in small boats which the proprietors will send ashore for them. A Newry, Me., farmer was attacked by a bear while in the mountains with a yoke of oxen. It was a stern chase between the cattle and the bear. The farmer juraed for the plug in the j oke, and dangled there until the oxen had carried him out of reach. The bear tore the osen fearfully, but could not reach the farmer. A colony of lepers is located at Tracadie, New Brunswick, in Gloucester County, on the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. There is another small settlement of lepers in the British lrovinccs which is almost entirely unknown. It is situated in the western part of Cae Breton, near Lake Ainslie, the members being natives of the highlands of Scotland. Horse car conductor (refusing a Canadian ten cent piece with an air of offended dignity): "I can't take that." Passenger: "Why?" Conductor: "Because thev won't take them from us at the orhee." Passenger (with feigned surprise): "dood gracious! you don't mean to say that it you take that from me in payment for my fare they'll ever see it at the office, do you?" A touching scene was witnessed at Davenport, Iowa. Saturday. After a separation of live years an honest German and his two children were happily united. The father, named Mueller, left his two little children in Germany four years ago on the death of tlieir mother, himself coming to America. He lately bought tickets for the children and they made the jouracv of 4,000 miles alone. Ihey were ticketed and had tags attacked to them, with full directions for reaching their destination. Bismarck, Dak., has a sensation. At 12 o'clock, in the dead silence of. the night, a phantom appears upon the waters of the Missouri. The figure of a woman, deathly white, clad in a floating garb of snowy purity, stands in an imploring attitude in a small, shadowy boat. The little vessel can distinctly be seen, even beneath the muddy waters of the river, glowing with a phosphorescent light. In spite of the rapid current the I)oat with the beseeching ligure in it never moves, but rocks up and down mystenousiv on tue gentle ripples that glow with a laint white light. The whole appari tion is enveloped in a halo of light, the mysterious figure waves its hand three times, the silence is broken by a trembling sigh, and the unhealthy embodiment fades away into darkness. Yarious theories are out to account for this strange appearance. One says it is the ghost of an Indian maiden that long ago was here sacrificed by the native tribes to apjease the auger of the Great Spirit. Another asserts it to le the spirit of the State of Dakota, riding in the ship of State, and that its sigh is evoked by the weary waiting of a Democratic Congress. Still a third declares that it is the spirit of an aged spinster, who was allured to Dakota by Colonel Pat Donan's delusive eloquence. But be that as it may, the apparition still appears, and Bismarck is wrapped in wonder. SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS. Wheat thieves abound again. The Attica Democrat says: Mr. Ed. Hughes, a farmer residing alout three miles east of this place, discovered certain signs which indicated that his graiary had been "touched" by some one and a considerable portion of its contents removed. Suspicious looking wagon tracks were there, which went in a southerly direction, and Mr. Hughes concluded that some of his wheat had sought Yeedersburg and a market. At the above named village it was learned that one John Davis had arrived in the place about 7 o'clock that morning and bad sold to Mr. Marsh Nixon fortyseven bushels and ten pounds of wheat, for which he received $37.75. Davis was arrested and brought before Mayor Macoughtry for trial; but waiving an examination he was held to bail in the sum of $s00, failing to furnish which he was sent to the jail in Covington to await the action of the Grand Jury." We think the Yeedersburg Courier is too severe on the Indians. It says: The President will recommend to Congress a new ? ystem of dealing with the Indians, preferring the military rather than the civil plan. It is hoped that he will follow the K'ew Mexico plan and offer a reward for every fresh scalp taken from the bead of a red-skin. It will not down, in spite of facts accomplished. Says the. Lafayette Courier: , It is evident that the great money question, is about to break out again. The mouo-

metalists, the bi-metalLsta, the gold-bugs, the daddy-dollarites and the metalom&aiaca generally, are each preparing brief arguments to show in a few volumes that every other opinion is that of a crank and an idiot, and the coming session of Congress promises to be murky with the smoke of the battle of debate over the great currency question. We don't know how much truth there is in the specific assertions of the'Winamac

Journal, but there is truth in them in a general rule: Dr. De La Matyr, one of the brightest lights of Greenbackism, was also boycotted by bis large Methodist congregation at Indianapolis, and solely because be did not preach the gospel according to St. Republicanism. No Democrat or Greenbacker can get licence to preach from a Methodist conference, a cold truth that is driving thousands of Methodists into skepticism or to other more tolerant churches. The following, from the Yalparaiso Messenger, will apply anywhere: Wonder why property holders don't keep their sidewalks in good repair. It don't cost much; all it wants is a little energy to get at it. It would add greatly to the beauty of the town and the convenienceof the public. Ikm't wait for your-neighbor to make the start. Forgot it probably. The Brazil Democrat says: General Logan's forthcoming book is to be called "Treason's Pathway to the Rebellion." In the advance sheets no mention is made of Black Jack, the recruiter of the first Rebel regiment that ever disgraced the soil of Illinois. The Starke County Jedger says: Now that General McClellan is dead and unable to defend himself, the usual host of cowardly vampires will arise and attack his memory. These scoundrels are unworthy of a moment's notice. The Craw ford County Iemocrat makes a good point: The South is in the saddle indeed, as John Sherman would say, but the saddle is on the near wheel mule of a six mule team hauling cotton to market, and she's in there to stay, and that's what hurts the New Engiaud States. The following from the Auburn Courier shows bow ready abuses come. They will never be avoided by changing one system for another. It has been discovered by Assistant Secretary Fairchild, of the Trearury, that the civil service commission has allowed the same sets of questions to be used for several years in examining applicants in that de?artment. And the clerks have become so amiliar with them that they pass with very high percentages. One woman was marked ninety-eight, having already corrected for others the same questions asked her. Mr. Fairchild's private secretary is now getting up new questions. The outrage mill is run down. The Noble County Democrat asks: Why do not the Republican papers denounce the shooting of John Hebrew, a colored voter of Baltirrore, last Tuesday? It was a plain case of outrage, such as John Sherman howled about, except that it gives the lie to his pretence that they are all committed by Democrats. In this case the victim was a lemoerat; and his only offense was soliciting another colored citi.en to vote the Ik-mocratic ticket. The Frankfort Crescent wants the matter looked into a little: It is said an effort will be made to place all honorably discharged Union soldiers on the pension rolls. This will eventually be done; but whether the time has come for the measure is a question. Before any steps are taken in that direction it might be well to look into the matter and see what the annual outlay would .be. It might banksupt Vncle Samuel. The Terre Haute Gazette makes a fitting answer: Washington s(ecials to radical Republican papers represent President Cleveland as interpreting the Democratic victories in the important State elections this year as an intimation to him to make greater haste in the appointments of Democrats to office. The statements ot the President's purpose in all probability, however, are to be understood as indicating what the papers which publish them want him to do rather than what he will do. President Cleveland has taken time to learn as far as possible the character of his apjtointces and has made, consequently, few mistakes. The Democratic victories of this j'car are an indorsement of that honest and conservative course. The Shelby Times says: From the beginning there have been, and to the end there will be, two diverse types of thought which have controlled the diverse political factions. The one distrusts the people and adores the executive. It is afraid that nopular assemblies may become mobs, and liberty may degenerate into license. It believes in a government which influences, directs, or even controls the expression of popular opinion. That party used to be called Federal and is now called Republican. An Old Kuirrel Story, wly Dressed. Greensboro tGa.) Herald. It wasn't many Saturdays ago that a number of gentlemen standing ujon the streets at Greensboro discussed fox hunting, bird hunting and kindred s;orts. Fach one had told a story, remarkable in a high degree, when the climax was reached by one of the gentlemen, who told the following story: "Coons!" said he with a sneer. "You don't know anything about coons in this country. Why," you ought to go to Southwest Georgia. I lived there once, and my ! favorite pastime was coon-hunting. Early one morning 1 starieuout witn my uogs ior a hunt. The morning was damp and heavy, and we hadn't gone far before the dogs struck a trail, and away they went. How lcautifulit was! Through the underbrush they rushed, crashing, barking, the sounds coming to us like low music on the morning air. It wasn't many minutes lefore the long howl of the leading clog told us that he bad treed. "We put out after them, going through the swamps and down into a canebrake. There we came upon the dogs all clustered about a cypress log. They smelled it, and then all started back as if" they didn't know what was to pay. We drew near and endeavored to urge them on. But they wouldn't urge. We went up to the log, and it seemed to le moving. I didn't know w hat to make of it. The sides of it rose and fell as regular as the beat of a clock. We finally cut into it, and there it was packed with coons. We killed 140, and I don't know how many got away." "What made the log move?" innocently asked a bystander. " )h, plain as day. The coons were packed so close that every time they breathed the log would expand." There was a ghastly silence and the crowd moved away. "It wasn't a good day for coons, either!" he yelled after them, 'and putting a fresh chew of tobacco in his mouth he walked rapidly in the direction of the "Cotton Bourse" on Wall street, and in a moment more was buying the fleecy staple with a serene and unmoved countenance. The Christian Advocate says: "A general complaint that shares neither class nor condition of person, js seated in the liver. It may be truly said this is our national disease, and it gives us great pleasure to hear or read the testimony of persons of well known veracity and intelligence to prove the value of Sim.uons Liver Regulator as a remedy. The printed and verbal testimony of so many friends and acquaintances satisfies us that this is ene of the exceptions to the general iiumbuggery of medical specialties."

YE TWO WISHES.

An angel went awalkingoutonedav, I've heard said. And. coming to a faggotmaker, begged a crust of bread. The fagotmaker gave a crust and something ramer queer To wash it down withai.from out a bottie tnat Ktood near. The angel finished eating, but before he left said he: 5 "Thor shaH have two wishes gTanted. for that mou uast given me; One for that good drinkable, another for the bread." Then be left the taggotmaker all amazed at what he said. "I wonder." says the fairjotmaker, aücr he had gone. "I wouder If there's auy truth in that same Utile song!" So turning this thing over in his mind, he cast iniund, 'Till he saw the empty bottle where it lay upon the ground. "I wish." said he. jut as a test, "it what he said Is so. Into that empty bottle, now, that I may straishtvaygrt." Nosooner Mudthan done; whisk! intotlie flask he fell. Where he lound himself at tightly packed as a chic lieu in the shell. In vain be kicked and twisted, and la vain he howled with pain: For In spite of all his ciforts. he could uot get out again. Ko, seeing liow the matter stood, he had to wish out e more. When, out he slipped, as easily as he'd gone in before. If we had two wishes. Rrauted hv an au gel thus. We would not throw away the good so kindly given us. For first we d ask for wisdom, which, when we hud in store. Tai very duubtitd if we'd care to ask for any more. Howard I'yle's 1'epjier and Salt. WIT AND PLEASANTRY. A duck of a man generally makes a goose of a husband. Atlanta Constitution. No river is wide enough to keep lovers apart when the oid folks oppose. Chicago Ledger. Lady Blessington once askad: "Is there on earth a bigger fool than a mere woman of fashion?" and a graceless wit in the company answered, "Yes; the man who admires her." Before they are married she will carefully turn down Iiis coat collar when it gets awry, but afterward she'll jerk it down into position as if she was throwing a door-mat out of the window. Dear brother, who rehearse so unctuously your early escapades, do not blame the youthful sinners on the back seaf.s if they persist in tlieir waywardness. Haply they are only in training, and hope one day, when they shall have been converted, they may have something to brag of as you do now. Boston Transcript. When Judge Kelley, "the father of the House," was" last re-elected. "Sunset" Cox said to Jiim; "Well, Judge. yti will probably be kept in Congress all your life." "I told my people," answered Kell)-, "I was a candidate for life barring lunacy or paralysis." "You made your exception too broad," replied Cox; "lunacy does not disqualify a man for a seat in Congress." A gentleman in a closely thronged dry goods store on state Street the other evening had the misfortune to tread on a lady's skirt. The lady instantly turned around, her face flushed with vexation and lire flashing from her eyes. But, noticing the stranger, she quietly said: "Beg pardon, sir; I thought it was my husband, and I was going to be dreadfuliy angry."-! Chicago Telegram. "What is life and no loving;" she tenderly MUlied. As her head on his shoulder she laid; " hat is love ami no living "' he sadly replied, As he thought of his board bill, unpaid. A loy will eat ami a boy will drink, And a boy will play all day: But a boy won't work and a boy won't think, Because he ain't lui!t that way. Chicago Ledger. A correspondent who has spent much time among the Indians says that only once did he ever see the deference to women which civilized man considers to be due to her. A young buck led a daintily attired squaw into the house and exclaimed, "See 'em, my squaw, my squaw !" When refreshments were offered he placed a chair for her, declining one for himself, fixed his admiring gaze uion her while she ate her food, and refused any share until her appetite was satisfied. When they departed, his last words were: "See'em, my squaw, heap fine squaw!" They were evidently upon their bridal tour. Kflective HI at rim on in I Agency. From Tid 15it. Edgerly : Yes, the West is a great country In many respects. Why, only to-day I heard of the marriage of a Colorado couple after a forty-minutes engagement. Buncombe: The climate, I presume. They say people live very fast out there. Kdgerly: Yes, espec ially when the girl's father and several brothers are in pursuit. Only a Girl. In her old age. Mme. Jerome Bonaparte, or Baltimore, the American beauty who married a brother of the great N'aioleon, and was repudiated by him, demanded a great deal more admiration than she got. At an entertainment she considered herself neglected by the gentlemen, who paid the most of their attention to a couple of newly married young ladies. She endured it for some time, and then remarked to the first one who found a little time to spare with her: "Io you know, Mr. X., that I consider it the most foolish thing in the world tor a gentleman to pay attentions to a young married lady?" "Indeed, madam!" responded the gallant, "and why ?" "Because a young married woman is only a girl who belongs to somebody else." What She Thought They Were. I Pittsburg Ohrouicle-Telegrapn. 'I see by the Chronicle-Telegraph that automatic couplers are to be generally introduced," remarked Amy to the high school girl last night. "Yes, 1 noticed that myself," replied Mildred. "What are automatic couplers, Mildred?" was Amy's next question. "I am not positive," was the reply, "but 1 infer that they are a sort of attachment to the new marriage license law, but I'll ask Augustus when he calls to-night." How it Is Done. Sau Francisco Chrouiclel Did you ever listen to a ywung couple working up to that point of atl'ectionate intimacy at which they call one another by their Christian names? "It has been a lovelv party, hasn't it, Miss Jackson?" "Ixwely. Mr. Wilkins." "I have known you for a long time, Miss Jackson.'' "And I have known you quite a while." "I've often heard my sister speak of you." "And my brother is always talking about you." "Is he? I hear so much about you that I feel quite at home with you." "It's a lovely night, isn't it, Mr. Wilkins?" "Beautiful. I think Kdith's such a pretty name." "Do you? I don't like it." "lUlith." "What did you say?" "Oh, nothing; I was merely relating the name." "I don't like all men's names. I like some. 1 like Philip and Ferdinand, and" "What do you think of George ?'. "Thai's your name. George." "1 beg your pardon." "Oh, nothing; I was only repeating the name." "What a lovely night it is, ita't it, Mist ' Edith?

: "Oh, there! Oeorge WiiLins. what did you let me Blip on that cobble for" " Ton my word, I lidn't do it, Miss Edith." "Well, we are home, or I am, Mr. George." "I am very sorry." "So am I. I'm so much obliged for your escort; I've bad such a lorelr time." "And so have I." . "Good, night Mr. Wilkins." "Good night Mi. Jack!i.' . "Goodnight." "Good night." "Good night. Kditb." "Good night. George." How 3Ien and Womn l)!flr. Itrooiiirn Maaiuc When a woman becomes flurried she feels for a fan; when a man becomes flurried he feels for a cigar. Women jump at c-onclusionsand generallv bit; men reason things out logicatlv and generally miss it. Some women can't pass a millinery store without lookin? in; some men can't pas a saloon without going in. A woman never sees a baby without wanting to run to it; a man never sees a baby without wanting toru:i away from it. Women love admiratiou. approbation, self-immolation ou the part of others; and are often weak, vain and frivolous. Ditto men. A woman always carries her pure in her hand so that other women will see it; a man carries his in his inside pocket so that hit wife won't see it. A woman can sit in a theatre for three hours without getting ail cramped up. catching the toothache or becoming faint for want of l'ieh air; a man can't.

CURIOUS. USEFUL. AND SCIENTIFIC. In a recent report by Lancaster, on the famous storms of 1S7S in Belgium, the conclusions previously announded there are conlirme.l. namely, that thunder-storms occur ouly in the southeast quadrant of the barometric depressions, or great cyclonic storms that frequently sweep across temperate latitudes. Mr. Ellis Lever, of Bowdou, Cheshire. England, has onered a prize of 5.-o f..r the invention or discovery of anew method or comiositkm for treating canvass or ofher material used as bratt ice cloth and airtubing in mines, which shall sc a moderate cost, render sucli material. al damp and lire-proof, and superior to thM. at present in use. The demand for pure oxygen gas for medical 1 nd other puro.sc. ha- recently led to the coustruction of machinery for separating the gas from air by the agency of caustic baryta, which has the property of absorbing a certain iortion of oxygen in addition to what il already contains, and of yielding up again -jlns alsoriod oxygen when heated and placed in a vacuum. A remnant of the great fore-ts which once covered the south ot Sweden was recently dug out at a bog at Kiuneved. consisting of a boat six feet in diameter hollowed out 01 a log. The tree from which it was obtained must have been twenty feet in circumference. The wood, which was blue in color, was very hard, and the boat so heavy that two bullocks could not move it. At the Melbourne Kxhihition there was a complete dwelling-house made entirely of paper and furnished with the same-material. There were payer walls, roofs, ceilings, Hoorinps, joists and stairways. There were paper carpets, bedding, chairs, sofas and lamps. There were paper frying-pans, and even the stoves, in winch bright tires were constantly burning daily, were of japer-niache. When the builder 0 this mansion gave a banquet the table-cloths, napkins, plates, cups, saucers, tumblers, cruets, and even the knives and fork5, were likewise made of pajier. A New Yerk man has devised a plan by which the Atlantic Ocean can be illuminated at night. He proposes to employ light ships. Iearing electric candles of enormous ower and connected with each other, and with a sub-marine cable by suitably adjusted wires. The practicability of this is based on what are styled two undisputed possibilities namely, that a light ship will iie at anchor in a heavy sea without protection, and that electrical communication may readily be maintained from such a ship with the two continents. A few days ago, while some workmen were pulling down an old building in the town of Svenborg, on tVe island of Funen, they came ujon a valuable treasure, which included ten bars of very fine silver and 774 silver and gold cains, all dating from the reign of the Iauish King Kric, of l'onierania (A. D. lö:G-H12). The whole lay together, buried in the basement eloe to the foundation. It is singular that a tradition of centuries pointed to this house as a place where treasure had been buried, and the owner, when selling it a short time since, expressly reserved the ownership of any treasure that might be found on the premises. t A new drug fround by Dr. Buckland is creating much comment in the medical I world. It is called evenesca, and is produced from Scotch Cats. 1 ur nearly half a century chemists have been attempting to extract and tsolate this peculiar alkaloid, btll to Dr. Buckland, who has achieved quite a reputation as a neurologist and insanity expert in New England, belongs the credit of success. It is claimed that its curative actions are remarkable in brain and nerve disorders, and its use is being generally adopted by the medical profession for nervousness, paralysis, sleeplessness, sciatica, neuralgia and like disorders with great success. It is said to Im? perfectly harmless, yet a most powerful nerve tonic. Professor H. L. Colin describes a long series of determinations of the relative values of various forms of lamp shades. The method pursued was to measure the brightness of white pajer lying on a table over which the source of artificial light wai suspended at a given distance by means of a Weber photometer. As one would anticipate, the general ellect of a shade is to increase very greatly the illumination immediately under the light, and not modify it notably at an angular distance greater than forty-five degrees from this region. The exjeriiuents. which dealt with the illumination requisite for easiest use for the eyes, of the most general interest. Taking as a measure of the value of the illumination in this sense the number of lines which can be read from a newspaper in a minute, and as the unit of illumination that of a normal candle at a perpendicular distance of a metre from the paper, he finds that the best illumination is not less than fifty such units. Since even a fifth of this illumination is very rarely secured, except immediately under a lamp provided with a good shade, the author emphasizes the conclusion that few schoolchildren work in a satisfactory light. The Yale law school is all torn up over the admission of a female student. President Porter is mad, and the whole class is in paroxvsnis. The law faculty claim any iersoii who can pass the examination must be admitted, and. as the lady passed letter than anv of the voting men, she had to be admitted. The matter was finally compromised by letting the young woman stay and striking her name oil' the Catalogue. What Iw.thers them now is whether to give her the old degree "bachelor of law' or invent a new oue-'spinster at law." The interesting fact has just leaked out that Georgia chartered, built and conducted the first female college in the world. I r. Tierce's "Favorite Prescription" is a most iwerful restorative tonic, and combines the most valuable nerve properties; especially adapted to the wants of debilitated ladies suffering from weak back, inunnl fpv-pr roriLTPstion. inflammation, or ul ceration, or from nervousness or ueuralc pains. Uy urn; i rvivf cr a

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