Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 20, Number 34, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 September 1878 — Page 7

WEEKLY COURIER.

JASl'KK,

C. BOAXK, FuMiihw. - - - INDIANA.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. frHa! mhiI Lltwrarjr. Ilrai and Trtlk are among the jtrango iiKHMJS for London newspapers. Neither of them pay. The Lancet docs bettor. Mi.) Knima Abbott will mttke her

first npiiearanco in America in the ehar-

a bottle containing ether for killinv cu

rious insects. HchxHl hmiI Chkroh. Mr. W W. Corcoran, of Washington, 1)H8 added to hi many generous h.

qimtu to the University of Virginia one of $o0,000 to endow new chair of Natural History. The World' Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association at Geneva, Switzerland, is reported to be successful, Htid more than well attended by delegates fnjin America and the Christian nations of Ktirope.

nioHLshopof Miuiohesler,Eugland,

actor of M(tyuerUc, in Faust, with the rebukes the clergymen who marry whun Hess Opera Company, at tho Park The- they have not "livings" that give thotn

ator, Ilrookiyn, September 17.

The writings of " Saxo Holm," are thought by the Editor's Table, in the September Sunday Afternoon, to be by two people ; the stories by Mrs, Lucia (i. Kunkle, and the poems by Mrs Helen Hunt Jackson. According to the Leipeio catalogues sixteen thousand four hundred und seventy-three works were published in Germany during tho year 1877. This is two thousand more than tlai average of the last eight years. Mr. it. 1$. Drowning, the son of the two pouts, is a not unskillful painter of ideal subjects. He lias in the Royal Academy a picture of a Brass Worker an old man hammering on a metal plaque whioh has much merit. Churle Barnard, who edits "The World's Work " in Scribncri Monthly, has just returned from the Paris Exposition. He reports that in novelties of material progress the Exposition is far inferior to tho exhibit of 1870 in Philadelphia. A London paper says : Bayard Taylor has found a place in tho aiiectionsot the Germans already. He pati the girls on the head, "talks Dutch " to tho old

women, and sits in eventide with tho men, and hoarsely calls out "Waiter! s'luore lager." Ralph Waldo Emerson has been seen in the streets of Boston in a shocking bad hat. He delights in old book-shops In them he is perfectly at home; but, when he wants to buy any ordinary article, ho lias a young friend in tho city who does his errands.for he is not good it trading. Thackeray, when speaking about fame, would frequently tell thu following anecdote: " When at dinner in St. Louis one day, he iteard one wiiter sav to another, 4 Do you know who that is?' 'No,' was the answer. 'That is tho cel

ebrated Mr. Thackeray.' 4 What's he

ply."

'Blessed if I know,' was the re-

Selence anil Inctuittry.

water absorbs its own volume of

carbonic acid gas.

A strong glue is produced by adding powdered chalk to common glue. There is in the Paris Exhibition an apparatus for cooking by means of the

uti oi i no sun.

The '.'5,000 llouring-mills of the Inited States turn out aniiuallvoO.OOO.-

000 barrels of Hour, 1,000,000 barrels of

which are exported. The annual

wage paid to employees amount to $20, 000,000. Last vear 27.000.000 nninula nt in.

bacco and nearly 2,000,000,000 of cigars UV'r.l dixit. ut .! l I ...

..V..V. uiuvntiii, .-milium, AIIU UI1UWUU HI

this country, an increase of about 8.OO0

wu pounds of tobacco and 50,000,1.00

vigarsss compared with the year pre vious.

In a perfectly dry atmosphere the

uumuimy oi woou is almost unlimited. lUfters of roofs are known to have exited 1,000 years, and piles submerged in fresh water have lieon found nnrfitlv

sound 800 years from the period of their

wog uuren. A number of unemployed young men in San Francisco ltavo combined to establish a laundry in opposition to the Chinese, who make laundry keeping one of theirchief industries. Some unoccupied public buildings have been offered them by the Common Council without charge for their experiment. New openings for American products turn up every day. The Pennsylvania coal companies send coal to Italy and sell it with profit at several dollars jes per ton than is paid by the Italian ron founder for English coke, 200,000 bushels of which are sent each year to Mediterranean porta. Watermelons are looming up in the near future as an important American Product. It is said that experiments In California have shown that sugar can be extracted from tho melons at a cost of two cent.-) per pound less than sugar cno. Besides this, oil is made from the seed and alcohol from tho rind. One of tho most valuable and encouraging triumphs of our exhibitors at he Pans Exposition, is that achieved oy the paper manufacturers. There are - American exhibitors in this lino, 25

"i niiom novo received awards, and they

' Vi

a lair support. Ho savs that tuiinv

clergymen do not have meat as often as farm-hands, and are glad to get cast-off clothing. The oldest minister in the world is believed to lie the Rev. Dr. Ingram, of Unst Free Church, Shetland. He is over 100 years old lie has always been a tetal-abstineneo man, and is said never to have tasted intoxicating drink. He lias a son who has been 40 years in the ministry. The Rev. Dr. Lyman Coleman, of Lafayette College, at Eastnn, Pa , is belioved to bo the oldest college professor in active sen-ice in America. Ho was graduated at Yale in 1817, and is nyw in

his eighty-third ) ear. With the exception of seven years employed in preaching, he ha spent all his active life in teaching. He lias traveled at intervals and written several books. The Established Church of Scotland in England is declining, and will soon cease to have any existence. Its communicants in London number only about 200, while those of tho English Presbyterian Church number l'0,0ti0 Dr. Cumming had oiih between DO and 100

persons hearing bun on a late Sunday j morning, and yet he preachoi with much t

of his wonted eloquence and vigor. The translation .f the Bible into the language of Urn Dakota has been com-1 pleted. Dr. Rigga, tho venerable trans-1 lator, writes from Constantinople tli.it tho preparation of the Turkish Bible for

tho press is at last finished. Tho Old Testament is printed both in tho Armenian and the Arabic characters as far as Isaiah ; the New Testament is already printed, and it is expected that tho whole Bible, in both characters, will be published in September.

temporary insanity, as is supposed, cut ' her infant's throat with a iHiteuer-kaim j and then attempt! to take her own life ! in the same maimer. There were slight hopes of iter recovery. : . Odd HMl Km! Ih KIlJIHC. i To tunny a schoolboy' load dMht, Now come tlM (itftivo apple w-m-n i llur early pHtw some out ol nlitht 1 The pain begins at ; fl. -Oil CUn Ittrrtck, 1 ThiidoctwcHHinr.rliHlf-fiartt Mine, And u!Htlv ilCKlthim CRvtor-iill:

Tim put tent suhl li uuiotdeHiHV, For fear H t Iht the npplos hjm)I1, VMctiffo Tribune. TIhi liuclilflborry (Jayn tiavs come. The IdiM'kot of ilio year, Hhi-n oviiry (acnUiiMi k with iM-hIhs And hincHrou froia ear to ar; Wht-ii falrMnllndiHiUHHi the frtdt And ttion, with timdiH.'MS rati, 1'opi lior Aiiiiitu.f on tlio iiHiuth And hoUh his pink mustaelnt. St, hmtU Jourrmt,

POLITICAL NOTES. Thi; TMIK!) Tkrm Movkmkxt.--U k rather wrkilif Jokfoii tk third'ivrw ivewcat t kmw that it erhrittattMi in Mi mhiH

.1 ijtate that can net by any uofbUUr l j earrtj-jl for tk JfcpubHi' ticket at theufxt Preddontlat cleetioM. The aucatioa of tlw tetj IiOuIh G.-J). Ik retpwafully koikiU'4 liiU fnct.wtea plUiufHif itMdf Ummi tt credit that it feeU Ik due it for kaviwjr noislntiK d j Grant the timarxt." Cklmyo Tritium (lhp.) Takixo ,X I.vtkkkt IX LOflAX'ii WOKK. -Gnmt was alwa l's favorite caadi- . dalf, andthin wm More Gen. Loan Jo-Ih-i ed the church by teKgraph and sent om hit ,

jwtmtto miv that the ex-President wouW !

niH ik-einn tivii with a tin-kettle tied to I

niaiaii." wotaKo

X Ka.hfnl Ymihp Nan. Thfa morning a Btrni, ImHhr-kk-g yotmg mm entered the Cotwty Clerk's olfiee and gazed WMeifllr aatnd. Harrv Thornton. tW Wujr

ikMtty, stepped up and btamily inquired of the stranger if ke wialied any beet. new transacted. The yon man when seoken to start, ed bacK as titough dreading an niumult. but he poon recovered kinwelf ami sM in a wnisper: " Yes, ir I oallel to fee I want to have a little talk mow meek k k, any how?" J

lie hat! a soft cloth hat in bis band.

The iiikii who takes a bittw pill, A wry fanu clearly hImiwm; lint lie who IttiKcrs at tlio ntlll, Will mooii whow a wry nos. And If lioi!Hl4 wiitle He imblhes, And knowliUK IHls 1i1h1i1, lllnielf and no.' liku lurtiMl scribes. 111 both (ioon 1)0 well-rend. X.J. itmbllCHH. " Of all tho poets, (iMtiltig one, Who've i liapHouixeU of love, Whluli onti ovokii your ardent pralce, All other ImnlH above V" .ml at lie toolr hur In IiIh anna And killed litiro'nr aodo'or, J3iHtjtM.k4 In tout") of eedtacy, "O.Toiinny, tftva me Atooro'c" Yimters llazMte. Upon tho KoeenHward wltlt my most adored, ,.' aul wo wblMjiKrud ourlove, hllo the sweet Jlttlo birds repeated our words

In thu groat drooping willow above. Airiodu.il hut prlie lummisd out of boroyost A I Prwnu hor dtmr form to.my broaHt hen dnippud from the wilier a big cater-pllh-r IXtwnher neck I Just Imagine the rcstl -Puck. " What la tho dttferunco," said nhe, " ll(!twen tho moon and you?" " I can not tell, my trensured one," Said lie, witb f ntitrcht now. He gave it up and queried what;

i-im HiisAi-ifu, j-purKiing oriKUt, " 'Him moon gut ft lull but onco a month, but you do every nigtit." flo4ti Trattlttr . Who ovor read u swallow tale, Or wore u cout nt urnn? Who ov-r tnw t lie water palo Or jjavo great I ulw alarm? Who? Mho tvor rodo a wild naw horse? Or over hi'ard taiul' tono? Who evor mw tho sun'H rjiyx course, Or huitrd a unm lull cruwn? l'buwl Jlackenmck Hemllka. Tluiro U no picnic ant, however lowly,

. mi triiiiuuu iiiiii-i tun niiu Urg.

Hut lifbttbo largest man up, grandly, hlowly, When it bo! browsing up bis trowsers lag.

univ out of fivo of

rail . .

uio world's nrixo

Tbciv Is not a little beo, however bumble, That gathers summer's nweeta for winter's ftore. Hut ltHf.by proildliijf with his tiny bumblr, Made great unm writhe and bowl and gionn and swore.

Korwlicn NtH. Lady Carrington, one of tho richest brides of tho day, started on her wedding-tour in a simple print gown. In the coining autumn several pilgrimages are expeeted at tho Vatican lrom France, Spain, Aiibtria, and Heltfium. From Spain the Alfonsists and Carlists will go in two separate bodies.

-A leading Uristol paper contains this Eight years ago, in a mall city on the week the following advertisement by nwr Vabash, one of the present Corn-

nn nuwwu iiHuuru.vtur iiitru: me coml used by the Prince of Wales last

X Ilusy, Urief Life.

fcriday is fur sale. Apply to

The lierlin police have been obliged to interfere to save the lime tree in On-ter-den-Mndcn, pierced by some of Xobling's tihots, from being torn to pieces by relic hunters. It is now enclosed by an iron grating. Princess Louise, now Vice Queen of Canada, is described aa a woman ot strong character and decided will. She has an intelligent and determined face, whieli suggests her mother's. Sho is very cultivated in literature and art, and pleasant in her manners. Mile. Dodu, a young telegraph ot-

erator, who distinguished herself during

tho Iraneo-ueruian War by an act of courage and devotion, has been decorat

ed with tho Cross of the Legion of Honor, Shut up in a chamber through which tho telegraph wires convoying dispatches to the German army passed, sho destroyed the connection at the risk of her life. There are some people who grow more proud and uxacting when fortune shows a disposition to frown. Patti is

one of them. Overtures have just been made to her to sing during the next opera season at St. Petersburg. The salary olTered is $2,6U0 a night, with liberty

to sing as many nights as she please during tho courso of the season. To this oiler the prima donna has sent her an

swer, hlio will not let tho St. Peters

burg public hear her voice under $1,000

a night. Neither side has given way.so Patti hm taken a house in Wales.

llHtS HHtl MlaliHp. At Kokomo, Ind.. Mrs. John ,Tohn-

sdn, colored, was fatally burned while

endeavoring to kindle a fire with kerosene, i

Near Marion, Ind a child of John ...I ..II !.. 'l .. t , i . I

monwtaitft stall was accostomed to gee daily, passing to and from his employment, a section repairer of the railway telegraph line. Ho was a young man, twenty-four years of ago, of quiet habits and unobtrusive manner, and apparently with a plodding and uneventful career before him. And yet, within this brief period, his pen supplied the English ruading world with the completestand most graphic news Of all the great events making the current history of tho civilized globe, and won him aa enviable reputation on two continents. During this eight years lie crossed tho desert ol Khiva, chronicle the bloody deeds of tho French Commune, endured

tho hardships of a Polar expedition, posted the world on tho Carlfst campaign, braved the terrors of tho Asiatic desert, followed the victorious liussians from

battle to battle, poriravod the unspeakable horrors of the Utilgarian massacres, crossed tho Dalkatis with Ghouiko, was in tlits front at Shipka Pass, wrote the well remembered account of the struggle over tho Oniviteha redoubts, saw the fall of l'lerna, accompanied the Russians to Canstautiuople and there surrendered his young life, a victim to disease. His experience in Khiva he preserved to the world, in a volume under the titlo of 'Campaigning in the Oxus," whilo his adventures with the North Polar expedition are embodied in a book entitled "Under th3 Northern Lights." The hero of this busy, brief life was Mr. .Tolm A. Mpfiahari, newspaper correspondent, and at his death, was correspondent of tho New York Ikrald and Lontton Daily News. Tptka Commonwealth, A I$HRlness-likc Epitaph.

tn onootino ctiurcnos ot London is

mm latere! In Mr. ho. am W i.u. .i 1 t. 1 :

gan'H worx. In 18T7 h aueceeded iw ekct- i. us'V 7lT

State Senate "Za I'Vi t ' V , " . .

'"i ws ul"lm ot pentpinutoH were standing oa hk brow. " What is it you want?" asked the Clerk. The man looked at him pleadiBglr, but struggled in vain for utterance, life eyes bulged out, his face grew redder, and the veins in his neck and on hk forehead swelled till they looked like great knotted cords. He twisted the hat convulsively, and then straightened it out again, and then be pulled in new lining out of it, and dropped it on the iloor. Then he picked it ur all dustv

from the floor and wiped his steaming face, leaving a dirty streak after eaol wipe. Finally, it seemed as though the

poor young man bad quite recovered himself, for he looked cheerfully around the room, and then turainir to Mr.

Thompson, remarked in a pleasant and

confidential tone:

" Well, it is real warm for this sec

tion, isn't it?"

"Verv warm, indeed," replied Mr.

Thompson

"it is a good deal hotter than we have it djwn in the vallev. and

somehow I've alwajs had jat the other notion about it that the high r up yoa got the cooler " "Yes," said Mr. Thompson, "but

about that business of yours?" Another fiery blush that looked a if it would scorch the collar off hk nook

followed this remark, but the stiaeger

held up bravely. He leaned on the desk

in an easy careless sort of war. and be

gan to toy with a mucilage brush.

" I he fact of tbe matter is that I wanted to" Here be paused again and meditatively jammed the mucilage brush into the ink-stand. " What the devil are you doing with that brush?" asked the clerk somewhat impatiently. " Oh, bT George excuse me!" stam- , mered the man as he withdrew the brush, spattering the ink all over the clerk's shirt bosom, and, as if it had beea molasses dripping from hk fingers, thrust the brush into hk mouth, daubing himself with ink and mucilage, and thea bolted from the office.

" That's about the worst case I have

HgaDoraocrattotbe United

n piace or Himself, ami we have

fiojnin uiai no win provide a Democratic

Miccewjor to Mr. Ogksbv. Aew York

worm. Uhlikvjc thi: Ixdustkiksoi-thk rotrv

Tftv.The whole Wt'Mand .South, with tb

jcn-ai nnmiiK state or ivnHsyivanla.and -- tdbly New York, will join in the xraad movemeat Tor the relief of the Uklm-trU- of the

cUHiry,atiu the db-enthrallraeiit of Government and peoplo for all time from the heart

ies anu remorseless tyranny of the MoneyPower. All men now see that thU U tho

realiciiue: Wheiher the Syndicates andtbir

i at:iaies mihii retain iKf.seionor meiiov- , eratnent run It in their own iaterects

' plunder Government and neonle: or wbeth-

; er the neonlo fihxll retrain oot.M.lon of their

uoTernment, anu tiiereoy promote the hap

piiiemaud prosperity, not of one sela.b, jfreedyand unproductive clas, but of the

whole population. Illchmond Wht'JA Fit Ukpkkskxtativk. The nomination of Godlove S. Orth for :ongre by the Hepublieans of the Ninth Indiana DUtriot -howH that the party in that State, a elsewhere, has got tired of pretending to be in favor of honesty and reform. Two years ao Orth wa nominated by the Ropultlicans ef Indiana as their candidate for Governor, but bis corrupt connection witb the Venezuela claims created gucu a ateneh in the public nostrils and the opposition wa so decided that the party leader were compelled to withdraw bl name In nplte of the peril thereby incurred. Nothing has occurred ninco that time to relieve Mr. Orth f roia the

odium he so Justly incurred, butthe Iteptibf ltcans of tho Ninth District evidently feel 'that a man with a spotted reputation is a j litter representative of their RepublicanUm than otic with a clean record would be. Detroit Fnc Press, Tub LorisiAX.i Ckimi:. Major Burke' tCMtiiHony before the Potter Committee is a

plain, solid and ininreKimble statement of

tno uepumican Meal. lie Mates that "the

opinion of every honeM mm in Louisiana

wat thtt Uaycs and Packard were defeated, and Tilden andNIcholls elected." The returns furnished the ample proof, and these

returns were Ktueti or ainpiisetl as tbe Itcpublican iwnspiraters found it necessary in perpetrating their crime. Even John Sher

man, with tbe consciousness of hi own part

in ie uehiruction or lawtui vote, was compelled to say in Ids letter to Hayex (Novem

ber 2.1, 1870) that "it seem more like the

history of hel than of civilized and Chris

tian communities." That bistorv of tterlurv

i . . . . ... . . - . .

aim lorgeryjonn suerman neipfiU to write, and, as a maker of that histor', he can truly

say quorum mayna pars int. Lonrier-Jour ml.

Pakso.v Nbwmax Ralliks for Grant.

The cat is out of the bair. Itev. Dr. New

man, Grant's ex-Inspector of Consulates,

iiim expiainectjusi. now urant stands in resect to a Presidential nomination in 1880.

"Grant," he nays, " ij supremely hoHet,en tirely conscientious, and should an emergen

cy arise where the American people demand

nis service ai.''0! i Know lie won 10 not re

fuse. He would regard it an a call of Providence." The Doctor, possibly with fresh visions of a second tour around the world at Government expense before his eves, waxes enthusiastic and declares that he "should not lie surprised If tbe day would come when the people will demand him to take thenlaee

at the head of the nation once more. They could not do a wiser thing." Ilnyes has apparently omitted to notice what a valuable counselor Newman is and what an excellent

inspectorof Consulates he would make, for

Newman, amone other things, says that "we never had a weaker AdmlniMration since the foundation of the Government than at this time." Detroit Free Press.

ebster fell against a board and stuck snld to im n mUu,ti ni.w.. a ,;it,a..r.

iijiib ujtj, ununui imxi uijurios.

.Tacob

tho gold

for lino

Two boys and two girls, children of b Stiellle and Fred. Sohwark. while

bathing in Lake iMichigan,. six miles west I is even more bnsinoss liko in his grief, of Michigan City, lud., were drowned, iunuounclng to the world ids loss in tho

as that famous oni in n Paris cemetery

which states that tho widow of tho lato .Monsieur X. " will curry on tho business at tho old stand." The Londoner

medals.

y.,"1"'!? paper was awarded to Byron "eston of Massachusetts. Tho result will doubtless open up to our paper aahufncturew throughout tho country a large and valuable foreign trade. fc""VCMr8' J3l)orstein, of Dresden, Saxony, have invented a walking-stick for "r?nm and tourists. Tim handle T,118 compass, microscope and iiistie. Iieneath is a thermometer on one side and hrihI glass on the other, f, ut '"fure ar the end is a knife ado, which, when opened, will serve reach by mxi. At the extreme end is SiSfb M(vr botan'sts) hammer (for geologists), or a hatchet (for glacier timbers). A hollow in the Oofifor

Tho house of Kichard Tomer, a

farmer living near Waseca, Minn., burned to tho ground. Mr. Tomer, and a neighbor's child 10 years of age, staying in tho house, were sullbcated in tlte Humes. Seventeen threshers at work upon the farm of John Miller, west of Urbana, O., were poisoned by eating of pork supposed to have licen allected with cholera. It was thought all would recover. At Laporte, Intl., the wife of Albert Hudson attempted to commit suicide. Her husband married her because he thought sho was rich, and a week afterward, finding that sho had no property, he began to maltreat her, whioh drovo her to deeporatioii, Near McCoiinellsville, O., the wife of Samuel Thompson, dutimj period of

following words: "Here lies Sarah

bmithers, the loved wifo of Thomas Smithers, marble cutter. This monument was erected by her husband as a tribute to hor memory ami a specimen of his art. Monuments of the same stylo i'25 each." For tho lirst time since the FrancoGerman war a number of German oflicers will be present at thu autumn maneuvers of tho French army on tho invitation of tho French "Government. French ollieers have been attending German army mattouvers for several years. Dr. Annie E. Fishor, lately returned from medical study in Kurope, has been appointed lecturer of diseases of children at the Boston University Medical School,

Tun Sci'Kkmk Desire of tuk AmericanPKoru:. The controlling, absorbing and supreme def Ire of the American people Is to get their hands free from the ligature

oi an exuausting system oi taxation. unless the Democratic party and its principles prevail, wo plainly are not to be relieved of any of the burdens laid oa us at every point by a monopoly tariff, nor U any thing apparently to be done but to pile on subsidies or one kind and another, grab what is left of the wealth of the public domain, and continue plotting for the continuance of the present Republican party by bringing back the Southern States under the dominion of the ltayonct to yield party elecioral votes. The time h at hand when the policy of the Republican party, as demonstrated by its acts, Is to 1m; opened to a sweeping condemnation ; and so surely as the people demand abated taxation will they return a Democratic Congress that will respond promptly and fully to their requirements. Boston Post. Tub Graxt Talk All Oxb Way. It Is Interesting to observe the unanimity with which the advocates of the election of Gen. Grant for a third term bae their arguments In bis favor upon the necessity of a strong Government. It is his military character which, In their opinion, recommendhim. His superiority over other candidates is thus niade to rest solely on tbe ground that, if elected, he will bo more despotic. Socialism, we arc told, Is to be dealt wish, and an iron hand is needed to cni-b It. We diner widely from this view. We think all follies come to an end quickest If loft free to run their own course. Prince IMmarek deems It expedient to curtail the already restricted freedom of the prcn in Germany, and to prohibit meetings, in order to prevent the spread of socitllsni. Do we want any thing of thatklnd berer Do we want the liberty of the press diminished Do we Want the right freely to meet and to express lKihtlcnl views, no matter of what complexIon, Interfered with? Dennis Kearney is Just tt this time furnishing an example of the superiority of our system to that of Prince HUmarck. Persecute Kearney and he would at once become a hero and a martyr. Left to himself his power is short-lived, and the people soon turn in disgust from his vapid ttlk. The great majority of sensible, self-posm--ed American neither want Grant again nor such an Administration as his friends my he would make. The kind of strength in an Administration which is really desirable is the strength that eomes from the confidence of the people, and from the greater affection they fel far the Government which Interferes with them the least. All the talk for Grant shows that the kind of strong government which Is expected of him is Blsmaruk' and the late Louis Napoleon's kind of wklsa the 1m we have ia the United 8tte the better. JVew Yerk A'kh.

seen," remarked Mr. Thompson, as he wiped a big ink-spot from the starboard side of his ltoman nose. " Craxy as a bed beg," said Aldermaa Orndorf, who had beea an interested

spectator of the whole scene. "Yon ought to send a policeman after that

man." " No, lie's not exactly craz v." re i died

Thompson ; " I knew from the start that

lie wanted a niarriaee license, and I

thought IM have a little quiet fun, bat he's broke the line now ami rone ot

with the hook." Srotm (NevA

Chronicle.

X Big.IIea4el Bey.

George Albert Paire is the name of a

remarkable boy. who lives with hie

mother in a small frame house a short

distance south of Lakeport, N. 1., a little hamlet near Oneida Lake. lie will be fourteen years old on the fifteenth dav

of January, 1879, and is perfectly formed, with tbe exception of h'w head, whioh is of enormous siae. It measures twentyeight inches in circumference, elevea inches from the front to the back, nine inches across, eighteen and a half inches

frem ear to ear, over. The forehead hi four and one-half inches high and the face ten and one-half inches long. The head, which is twice as large ae that ol

the average person, is covered with

black hair. Another "injrularitv is tbe

eyes; they are inverted, and be can on

ly iook up. lie can not see any thing below the level of his eves. The lid that

closes over the eye, instead of being the upper one, as is generally the case, is the lower one. The face otherwise presents no unusual appearance. The boy is live feet one inch in height.and weighs about eighty pounds. He is ia a jmrfectly healthy condition, and eats regularly and in large quantities. After each meal lie smokes, and wonld practice tha habit continually were lie allowed to do so. He was three years old before he could raise his bead, and five years old lief ore he could stand on his feet. From, his infancy until nearly six years old he was almost a skeleton in form, but now he is nearly as well developed as an ordinary boy of his age. In consequence of the strange position of his eyes, he has never been able to acquire any learning, and does not know tho letters of the alphabet. He ts, however, quite apt, and is quick to catch the meaning of any thing spoken within his lie ring, but can not express himself, and, invariably asks his mother what to say. His bead, which is very heavy, increases in dimensions as he advances in age; and when he reaches maturity will probablv be onehalf larger than at present. Here is an opportunity for an" enterprising showman. AubUrninn.

Serviceable skirts of red flannel are made of serge or Quaker flannel, and have side plaiting edged with aarrow torohoa lace. This plaiting is set up about an iach froai the bo&m of the skirt.