Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 15, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 July 1873 — Page 7

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Y., comes forward with a woman who, at the age of one hundred and one, Jumps rope and plays at " leap frog. .Next I Ella Woodland her father, of Dover K. 11., were shot by Henry Jcwett, recently, ix-eause the lady wouldn't be wooed by him. A uprightly girl In Fort Edward, X J who engaged herself to a young man " In fun," f. tin ted on hearing that Tie had published the fact In the local paper. Henry Greer, a New York photo grapher, played a llttlo trick on the man who roomed beneath hirn by pouring acid In his eyes, entirely destroying one of them. llobt. East, an Englishman, lately from Llyria, 111., while intoxicate!, lal down on tho railroad track, near Colliervllle, 1 epn., and wan run over by the train and Instantly killed. An old womsn In MMnf crod over a bridge that wan marked 44 dangerous" without seeing the sign. Un being In formed of the fact on the other side she turned about in groat alarm and recrosaed 1L Hie Ladies' Sewing Soelety, of Whltefield. .N. II., has bouglit nve acres ot land for a cemetery, bo that when any poor girl break her Dick over a sewing machine at fifty cents a day, she may be sure or burial at corresponding rates. Owing to the careless changing of two labels hy a 1 eorla clerk, an old lady In that city has been swallowing a rheum a tistn liniment three times a day, and an old gentleman has rubbed himself with blue pills until he can slide up and down the side of a house when tho weather changes like a thermometer. In Indians lately a lady gave a bril liant party on tne occasion ot tne success . or her application tor a divorce. I h guests wi o crowded her brilliant parlors were enthusiastic In thcircongratulatlons. and on leaving at a late hour each wishr the fair hostess many returns of the happy occasion. A young lady, at St. Louis, Mo., the other day, just before being led to the hymeneal altar, begged the officiating minister to omit the word 44oTy ' Irom the marriage ceremony, He refused, and rather than break off the match, she al loweci me word to he uttered, and re sponded to It, with a mental nervation A reportci for a Western paper, f ps ak in? of a certain fair creature, remarked that "the profusion and color of her hair would lead one to look upon it as though It was spun by the nimble fingers of tne easy Hours, as they glided through the ongrit June days, whose many sunny rays or light had leen caught In the mesh es, and were contented to go no further.' This Is tatter than saying the girl's hair was red. At Greencastlo, Ind., recently, a loy was ejected Irom a ha'l where an enter tainnient was being given, lie sought revenge by seizing a coal oil lamp which ttrvxl In the lobby and triionlnjlt inti the body of the hull, where it exploded. A stampede ensued, and in leaping from the second story windows, tnanv persons were seriously inlured. 1 he otucers had not succeeded in Arresting the young scounorei at la.t accounts. Kphralm Johnson, of Chilton. Iowa, attempted to kick a eeilinir seven and onehalf Wt high, the other day, and. neglecting toproperly adjust his supporting leg, he earue down with considerable ve hemence upon th seat of his pantaloons, allocating his bin. The apartment In which he carried (lis revolver was located not fur from the point of contact, and, oeing. rudely Jarred by tho concussion, the touchy weapon spitefully ejected a hnllet, which broke the leg of a bystsnder. The practice of kicking at ceilings has received a temporary check from these casualties, but when Ephraim recovcrs. It will tie resumed, In a lower room, however, and without pistols. The following elegant extract Is vouched for as a genuine document presented to a horse owner in St. Louis : Snt Lewis Ganewcrry the 11 liw.l. Mr. to James Ilank'ox Vetturerinary phydcklan and Surgeant Dr. To ruedikle advice twict, 3 dollars; Konsultashun over ajled mare sed too hev bed the epp75 cents ; Goin to see two sick bosses in the nite (very cold), 2 dollars ; to treatment of a kreain kolored boss two lays with medisuns, 4 dollars and 50 rents; 1 o making an obstetrikul examinashun ot a lmsscs throat, 1 dollar 50 cent ; To settin up nil rite In a barn with a sick hoss, 2 dollars 50 cents ; To wrlten a preoskrip'iiiin for botts, and also one for spavlng, 1 dollar; To holding a postmortim examinashun on a boss who afterwards recovered, 1 dollar 50 cents ; To giviu my op'.nJun one day on the street regarding the kmiseof the zoot, 4 dollars. Totil, 20 dollars 75 cents. N. '. Sun. School and Chnrch. -Bishop Marvin, of the M. E. Church South, will preside over tho next Annual Conference In Alabama. Thedioiose of Virginia, through Its ;0uncII, has vot"d not to set off West Irglnia as a separate diocese. About one-third of the territory of Alabama is mow, by legislative enactments, temperance ground. The American Bible Society distribuJed gratuitously $;w,000 worth of Bibles hi Alabama last year. "Ik'V. . $itC9 and family, missionaries y China, have returned on a visit to their J nacr home and friends in Mohawk Val'T, Ohio. District conferences, now being Introduced into American Methodism, were Lv iwUr 1 wW,..In n,,iS' ,,ht yVT R0' "J Key. h. W. l'arker.

Tho Episcopal Diocesan Convention of Temrt, which met In Wm m'ntly, insured the life of Hhihop Gngg for $10,000 in favor of his wile. A col lego has lxen oM-ncd near Gruvesend, England, for the education of tho (laughters of poor Congregational

miiji.-u rs. it begun with 100 upus. According to a rejort made to the UniUd 1'resliyU'rian (icncrul Assembly one-ninth of the rrobyterian congregations are without houses of worship. llev. ThomaH Beverldge, I). D., for many years professor In the Theological Seminary of thn Associate (Jhurch.lnCunonsbur, Pa., died lately, aged KevcntyKix yeurs. At the Quadrennial Conference of the United ltrethren,held n-cently in Dayton, Ohio, the President, Bishop Ulossbrenner, stated that during tho past four years the mcuthcrphip has increased 17,.'H7. Key. Mr. Waite, of the American ChaM-l, In llouic, has not only succeeded Ith others in starting an Italian Young Men's Christian Association, but has also organized a small church of Koman soldiers. The Kaptist business men of Iowa have held a State convention In the Interests of missions, when they resolved to give time Riid money and experience to the furtherance of Baptist missions In Iowa. The degree of I). D. has been con ferred upon Key. Charles E. Lord, of Bos ton, hy tuu ucsieyan university of r,HSt Genence. Dr. Lord Is the author of 44 Natural and llcvealed Theology," and li an t-bio man. llcv. J. S. Ezclha Haptist minister of Spartansburg, S. C, who has been serving out a five j-ears' sentrnoe in Aluany as a Ku Kluxer, has just been pardoned by the President at the instance of his Northern brethren. Hev. M. O. Mann, member of the Presbytery of Newark, and lately from the Universities of Berlin ami Tubengin, has been commissioned by the Home Board to take charge of the Eugene City (Oregon) Presbyterian church. llcv. FnHlorick Knighton. Ph. I.. patorof the First Presbyterian church. Oxford, N. J., (the scene of the labors of David Brainerd among the Indians), has accepted the charge of the Brainerd Institute at Cranberry, N. J. The receipts of the American Board for April were $.'l5,;r.J0, and thus farduring the present financial year f :2W.4JO 50.- an advance of a little more than five thousand dollars over the receipts of last year dur ing the same jhtKxI. Profes-or Loenzo I). Williams, of MeHilville, Pa., long and widely known as formerly and for many years connected with Allegheny College, loot his life sudleidy a fehort time ego, by w hig thrown ut f a carriage. Pi.'v. G. C. Well, formerly of the Troy Conference and lately pastor of the Centenary Mcthodut Episcopal Church, MinneajMilis, Minn., and member of the National Camp Meeting Association, died lately at bis home, mourned and beloved by all. The Presbyterian Church of Ix)wer Canndanumlers 1S,;!1 communlcaUs and tt.tiM adherents. Ihis dhows a small general increase, thoujrh some of the Presbyteries have declined. 1 he benevo lent contributions reached last year $145,HJ. Of the 1,500 O00 children In New York ess than one-half attend Sabbath schools. Among these 1H.000 conversions were reorted last vear. 1 he numtxT of volumes n the libraries is about 1.000,000 while over $500,000 were raised by the scholars for religious wses. -The United Brethren rropose to fol low In the wake of the Methodists, and admit laymen as delegates in their Church Conferences. By a vote of IK) to 12, the recent General ltiiferenoe agreMl to subnilt tb question to the churches In November next, and abide their decision. Scientific and Indnstrlal. Dr. Mackenzie Bacon discredits the diagnois of softening of the brain. He lias received Into Ms asylum many patients, judged by their physicians to be affected In this manner, but has never, on post-mortem examination of the brain, found any peculiar signs of softening in such cast s. Thirty-nine degrees Fahr. I com monly given as the temperature at which water attains its greatest density ; but experiments conducted by Despnts and thcrs show that this holds got hi for fresh water only. Salt water grow steadily leaser as the mercury descends, until the freezing point is reached. In the New York State Lunatic Asyum experiment have leii made with eon in in (hemlock) in the fn atment of in sanity. It is found to have a soothing fleet on the motor renters. Its action on the motor tract being analogous to that of oniura on the brain. Hence it tends to quiet and renovate the whole muscular system. A-writer In Seirniific Qop give a remarkable instance of the tenacity of life Mtsscssed by bats. He states that having CAught one of these animals, it was first kept Immersed in spirits ofcwmc for about two hours, and then laid away In a drawer, wrapped up in a handkerchief. Three weeks afterward,' on unfolding the handkerchief, he was amazed to sco the bat take wing and escape. A company has been formed In Ire land for tne purpose of producing from the peat bog of that country a dente fuel for domestic and manufacturing uses. fox's patent process Is to be adopted, by means of which the raw peat can be macerated and pulped at a low cost. According to Iron the commercial and economic value of this fuel, while not equal to coal, very nearly approaches It. Stimulated, doubtlcsa. by fho Inch prices which now rule In England, explorations In search of coal are being very generally prosecuted on the continent, thus farwitn very good success, ine genuine article has lately been found In Italy for the first time, and Is now lcing turned for use on locomotives. Additional deposits have also been discovered in Den mark, and In the province of Scania, in Sweden. The statistics of disease and mortality the manufacturing establishments of the Kuslon Empire are absolutely startling. The number of such establishments n Kussia Is estimated at 00,000, and the number of work-jeople employed in them

at 1,000,000. They are subject to numerous diseases of a seriunchira"er, among whlclt the fkctoT-y.typhus holds the first place. The sick -rate Is from O) to 70 per cent., and the mean duration of life Is only ao years. Pickets prevail to a d. plorable extent among the youth of the workinjr-clusM. and the ell'ect.s of a factory

life upon children are described as disastrous. A government commission is to Investigate tne matter. Cotton waste, soaked In boiled linseed oil and wrung out, will oxidi.o so rapidly when exposed to a teiniMrature of 170 deg. Fahr., that actual combustion com lnenccs within one hundred and five min utes, and oftentimes much sooner. With unboiled oil Ignition docs not occur so readily, requiring four or live hours. Experiments with various other oils give tho following results: IUe oil and Gallipoll olive oil, five hours or more (temperature 170 deg.) At i:!0 dcg. castor oil takes over one d iy before Ignition ; lard oil four hours; salad oil one hour and forty minute. These facts will doubtless sati-fuctorily account for the origin of many fires Ir. mills, manuf.icturies, and other places where oiled cotton waste accumulates. The idea of inaklngcach of tho several parts of many different machines Interchangeable, says the HulUtin of WW ManufaeturfAa unquestionably of American origin. Its author, a mechanic named Thomas Warner, employed in tho Springfield Armory, offered tiie suggestion to tho Ordnance Hurean, Washington, but the idea was scouted as impracticable. Mr. Warner persevered, however, and obtained a trial for his system in the Springfield (6tablirdimei.t. It Is now followed in all armories throughout the country, as well as in manufactories of sewing-ma chines, watches, t-tc. Our coritemK)rary says: ''it Is this system which enables us to supply all Europe with arms, and to export sewing-machines t all the European nations, notwithstanding the vastly higher cost of our labor." Personal and Literary. Lucca has been divorced. High olllelals Mounted ioicc. A warm General Burnslde. Discarded material Tweed. A very tlnn- diplomat Fish. One who trusts In Piovidence Sprague. A family Jewell I about to be presented to thi Czar of Kussia. Brigham Young has pcnt $100,000 to promote polygamic legislation. Mr. Moncurc D. Jon way I preparing a bibliographical works tn religious literature. Governor Walker, of Virginia, I to as'iime an editorial chair as soon as tds term of oilier ex pins. White Feather, an Indian Chief and a graduate i-t medicine and divinity is lecturing in Kentucky. Stephen I'hilbrick, of Tarn worth, N. II., diet! recently at the remarkable age of 102 years, one month and twenty days. Miss Linda Gilbert has become a liner of the cloud of crime with silver, by founding libraries fur the prisons. BUhop Kip, of California, has held his oflice for twenty years, and the diocese owes him $21, 000 arrears of salary. There is no danger that Parcpa-Kosa will ever be shipwrecked on the ocean, lor she Is always sale on the high C's. Mrs. I'erlah Hunt, of Randolph, Mass., died, aged one hundred and four years. She retained her memory to the last. Mr. Hiram Powers Is compelled to abandon bis artUtic labor by a chronic, and, It is feared. Incurable bronchial auction. Mr. K. W. Emerson denies any consanguinity with his lady namesake who claims the authorship of "Betsey an J I are out." Eugene Schuyler, .Secretary of lega tion at tt. Petersburg, will acta Minister until the arrival of Governor Jewell la August. Henry Ward Beecher lias be?n ftdvNcd by hie physician to spend the summer at Coloi ado. He U a victim of annual hay f-ver. The charge that Horace Gr(dey u-d to hlcep in church is unfounded. He merely assumed that appearance to feel-loss-of-cyes 1 On a St. Louis garroter recently arrested were found manuscript argti'iieut to show that the Bible made con tradl tory statements. Captain Jack, In nn interregnum of his melancholy fit, has confessed to Hooka Jim that he Is" the nal author of "Betsey and I are out." Ani.a Dickinson will visit Fl irenoe soon, and it Is hinted that when she returns she will bring with her an Annamated bust. Mrs. Mary Wardsworth. M. D., a female physican who emigrated from New Hampshire to Turkey, wa recently married to a Kussian rgeon named Hassin. Thomas Jefferson's family carriage, Imiwrtcd from Europe by him. lias been sent to a i-hop in Staunton from Charlottesville, where it is owned, to Ihj repaired. William Cullen Bryant' health, which has been so robust, ) failing somewhat. He feels that he Is no longer young, which Is not singular, as he Is within a year of eighty. A Boston letter-writer says that Gen. N. P. Banks Is making arrangements to go to South America to engage In certain railway enterprises, which promise to be very profitable. Lord Brougham, In his old age, wAs much ridiculed and lampooned in the columns of lnnrk ; whereupon he remarked, "those l unch iM-ople never get my fa and are obliged to put up with my plaid rllsr.r, trousers. The editor of the San Francisco Chronifle, after Btatlng that he has "no desire to engage in a personal controversy," proceeds to characterize the editor df a rival newspaper as "a drunken ami cowardly Idiot, who disgraces ournalism." General 11. E. Colstonc, formerly In tho Confederate army, has arrived at Cairo, Egypt, to assume the duties of a rrofessor In the polytechnic school there. Ie will also hold the rank of colonel in tho Egyptian army. General Colstonc was for two years with Stonewall Jackson In the faculty of the Virginia Military Institute.

Eastern papers are In an ecstatic state of punniugover the cast. of the lor;er Coo. One says 44 Ce"-partnershlps will not lie So popular as heretofore ; another regards as strange 4t Cot "-incidents the fori; lies on StaU street, and all agno that crime is "Coo"-eval with the sad latwe of morality

and probity at the t4IIub." A gossiping correspondent shies that the late Thomafl Starr King was tn first person who ever encouraged Bnt Harie to write, assuring him he could develop genius If he would only go resolutely to Aorkaicl dig It out of hi brain. The sain- letter-writer announces that Mrs. Harte 1 one of eight daughters of Judge Griswold, (leceaHed, all of whom have married men of more or less distinction. Some of tho newspapers seem to oc cupy themselves In marrying Miss Anna L. Dickinson nrst to uno man, j and then to another. Her friends know that she has no intention or wish to chance her condition ; and such paragraphs are not only impertinent, but malignant. It is not one of the least disadvantares of a sin gle woman In public life that she should in 'icrpeiuaiiy consigned to matrimony. wiuiout ner win, knowledge or consent. Foreign Items. Don Carlos is described as a tall, slim bearded man, with a feminine smile. If Cuba should throw out a bait for annexation, would Secretary Fish bite at It? Baron von Kubeck, the well-known Austro-Hungarian diplomatist, has died In Styria. The German troops are preparing to evacuate rencn territory, having secured tncir Kiitno. From his cavalrv experience MacMahon is relied on for a stable govern ment In France. Bass, the English brewer, pays yearly .uu,uw io tne railroads lor transportation. Kichard Wagner is said to have visited London lately, but nfused to appear In public. An Eiglish juy assessed the value of a mouthful taken out of a man's Ivg by adogat$2."0. Marshal McMahon Is said to be very fond of children and cigars. His heart is all right. No man with such aiTection is dangerous. English papers tell v that tho rivet headers in a boiler shop at Yarrow lately struck. That's natural. Wonder they lidn't think of it before! John Francis Kcarns, sentenced to Wteon yeurs' conilnemnt fur treason-felony, in connection with Fenianism in Ireland, ha jut ditd in an insane asylum at Cork. There Is a young lady In Yorkshire, Errglar.d, who is six feet five Inches high and live f-et mx inches round. Could there be more leautif jI proportions? M. Podriqiiea, a well-known Paris t k-broker, lell down dead on hearing ot the si.iiide of his valet. There was affection for you ! The Empress of Japan has set the ahion of wearing unco'lored teeth and eyebrows. It Is generally regarded as a shocking Innovation. The Khedive Is said to have remarked that the Sultan's firman granting him independent power Is merely alllrmln' what has practically existed for a long time past. Four S.-otch fishermen named Walker were recently drowned together near Aberdeen. Itwoull have been more serviceable in their occupation haJ they been swimmers. No art treasons nf any value have vet Wn obtained by dredging the Tiber. Like the whole ground on which modern Home stands, the bed of the river U at a gr:it elevation over Its ancient level. They arc layln? rail in Flon'ncr In order to convey In safety Michael Angelo's statue of Davi I from Its unprot,cted site in lront of the Palazzo Vechio, wht." it has stood for .l"0 years, to the Imperial gallery. The reason of the Khedive of Egypt's colng to Vichy for his health is his recent snrhring from th pout, whlc'i his physicians said could be cured only by eareul diet and u few months at the French watering-place. The death is announced of Carlo Arientl, oni ( f the best known paint rs of the modern Italian school, lie was director of the Academic des Beaux-Arts at IJt.logna. The Ijondon correspondent of the Scoiitmtn hears from atrustworthy source that at the unveiling of the statue of Lord Derby In Parliament square, early In July, the tlgt will be delivered by Mr. Disraeli. The exportation of Arab horses from the provinces of Bagdad and Syria lias hern prohibited for tho next seven years, with a view to preserving the breed, which has been h riou.-ly diminishing In those pr,rts of the empire. Prof. Plantamour. who prophesied th..t the world was to te burnt up a few months ago, is now in Paris. He desires to read a paper Ix fore tho academy to Erove the sun's heat, and that wc shall all t frozen to death about 2011. A recent calculation relative to the principal Eunpean languages showi that English is spoken by ninety millions of er.son, German by fifty-five millions, Spanish by fiftv-flve'millions, and French by forty-live millions. One-fourth of a share In a London water company was lately sold for Z4(J,OU0. The face value of an entire share is only ll It Is one of the wealthiest corporation In the world, but its projector lost his fortune and died In the workhouse. Its name Is the New Jlivcr Company. King Isolds of Bavaria, who subscribed 1,000 ilorins for a monument to Baron Liebig, was, In spite of the diflTcneo in their years, an Intimate friend and enthusiastic admirer of the Ifciron. The young monarch often spent entire evenings with the distinguished scientist, listening to his conversation like u most docile pupil. In France there are In ue half a million donkeys, and In Italy 400,000. These hardy little beasts do all the hardest drudgery, and it Is not uncommon to see a huge load of baskets of garden produce or bundles of hay, going to market seem Ingly moving on tour small lgs of their own, that being the only portion of the diminutive beat that Can be seen beneath the load. There are2S.i newspspers published In London. Of these, 17 ar dailies, and 221

weeklies; others arc published twice in three times a week. In England there are kvj (tapers. Of these, 270 prof s Liberal principles, 1C.1 Conservative. 'JO LiberalConservative, 172 IndciKMidcnt, H iudepen.leiiULlberal, 1 Tory, 1 Protestant, 2 Iladical.

A Major Col bom" backs himself for XbH) to wtdk fifteen miles In three hours on tin Maidstone road. In England. II U to carry a brick weighing six and a half pounds in each hand, so as not to touch his sides. The bricks are likely to (Ufbat the Major. One of them in an ordinaryman's hat will usually Induce him to perform marvelous pedestrian fvats. Mr. Smith, chief of the London Telgntph't Assyrian exiH'ditlon, sends to his) paper the translation of two memorial stories found near Bagdad, which for maifdiction arc unsurpassed by any Psalm of David, or the inscription on Shakespeare'. Tomb. Thev bf lonz to the era i about B. C. 1 100. "The object of thdr malediction is the wretch who should dare elf ice the Inscription meaning, of course, anybody but Father Time. The Beautiful Blue Danube The banks of th Danube for many miles af.er leaving Vienna are flat and uninteresting. Here and there a rough wail of loose stones has been thrown up to resist the encroachment of the water; hut the general character of the l.ind-cape betokens the Impossibility of cultivation, and the fields ecm scarcely yet to have nwovered from the devastation of tho wintry floods. Stunted, shock-headod, misled willows, with an occassional popar, are the only trees; the grass is long and rank, and flags and bulrushes thickly fringe the stream. No attempt it division of the land ueeuis to liuvn tweri Hindu til is common property; though here ind there, where the herbage is ot better quality and more fitted for grazing purposes, one comes upon a vat herd of dun-colored, long-horned cattle, or a drove of small, wiry, shaggy horses, some browsing, some galloping wildly about In terror at the snorting steamer. At Intervals of every two or three miles we glhle past a long row of barges, some of which have been formed Into water-mill , while the others are converted IntJ residences for thoso who look alter th grinding of the meal. According to thetiaditionof song, millers are a joyoui, lively race, but It would bo difH.Milf to msgine a more solitary, cheerless life han the lot of these men, "one side water all around" them, and such land as they can see, barren, desolate and forbidding. Of active life on the river there is scarcely any sign. The stream Is split into so many branches, and winds Its way through so many devious channels, between Inlands teeming with rank vegetation and high sand banks, tlut anything like a distant prospect is imiosiible. Occasionally we come upon a steamer tugging a fleet of heavily laden barges against the stream, and then there is an Interchange of courtesy between the two rn'ws which Is perfectly Eastern in Its profuseness. Each captain on the barge raises hi gold-lace cap ami lays bis hand on his heart; each mate half way down the companion ladder (Iks ditto; even tin helmsmen are so Intent upon bowing and saluting that they let fro their hold on the wiietlfor a moment, iced less of the dangerous navigation. Russian Diplomacy. When it comes to diplomacy the Rus sian is at home in dealing with the Oriental. To begin with, he is about hall Asiatic by nnturp, and long experience has made lum perfect enough for all practical pur pose, not to speak of nisny unpractical ones. Patience and jK-rseverance are eminently neevssary in dealing with an Asiatic, and where a delicate matter is to be negotiated you can not Ik too cautious in selecting a negotlitor. Set an American or an Englishman to work on a thin of this sort w ith a Chinese, and he would be in danger of spoiling the whole business by hi bluntuess. But confide to a KusMan, and you can feel pretty certain that he will come out of it with flying colors. The Russians are so accustomed to the roundabout way of doing business that they carry It Into nearly everything, and if an American wishes to deal with them successfully he must UitUe up his Impatience, and never under any circumstances seem to be In a hurry. When two llussian merchants are about to conduct a purchase or sal", they begin by swallowing half a dozen cups of tea, smoking a score or so of cigarettes, talking about the weather, the crop, their families, their neighbors, and in this wy they edge up to the subject which is uppermost in their minds. If you want to buy a dog, you must bv.iil by pretending that j-ou want to sell a cat with a litter of kittens; the other party does not want any feline property, Dordoes he know any body who would accept It. At this skigo of the conversation you may venture to hint your desires In the dog line, and after more tea, or something stronger, and more cigarettes, you can conclude thii negotiations. llarprr f ir July. Ideal Hnshands. A writer In the Saturday RevUur says: Of course one would not like to see women give themselves to any one, no matter who he be, for the sake of getting married; but the solid things of life should be taught thrtn as well as Its joet!c beauties and false hopes, false ideals, unsubstantial loves, should be rigorously excluded. A bud marriage or a loveless life is not a pleasant toda to that never-acted romance; nor is the disenchantment which conies with such cruel certainty on the heels of the lovesick and unsuitable marriage a blessing to be desired. Beau' y fades, passion co)Is, the blindness of romance rets couched wh n swing is too late; poetry docs not pay the butcher; and gallantry of ocanng oi me "long sword, saddle. bridle" kind Is apt to lose itself in doniestlc bad language when the pot Is empty of pudding, and half a dozen chlldreQ swarm about the musty lodgings or dingy Quarters to which love and folly have reuccd the gay lieutenant and his hride. On the whole, Prince Pretf yman is a dangerous fellow either to get or to wait far, having the trick of unsubstantially throughout. Komantlc girls would do well to reflect that. If tiiev are to have only oho gown In a life-time, thryhad better buy one that will wash and wear creditably to the end, rather than a flimy bit of finery that looks well only in the beginning, and goes to pieces belore the first ycaris out.