Ligonier Banner., Volume 13, Number 48, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 March 1879 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banner, _ 3. B. STOLL, Editor and Propietors v LIGONIER, : : : JINDIANA.

- THE OLD WORLD, ~ ON the Ilth,-the. Pall Mall Gazette published a letter from a high official in India, in which it was stated that the people of Cashmere were dying like flies of famine, and that, at the présent rate of mortality, the Province would be nearly depopulated by the end of the year. ' IN the British House of Commons, on the 11th, a motion for the adoption of a resolution favoring local option in respect to the license question was defeated by & vote of 164 ayes to 252 noes. : Two FATAL cases of Siberian plague are reported at St. Petersburg. \ SULINA, at one of the mouths of the Danube, has been gazetted a free port. THE catastrophe anticipated for some days at the City of Szegedin, in Hungary, occurred on the morning of the 12th. The Thiess broke. its banks and swept in bread volume through the center of the city. The devastation, terror, suffering and death which followed is said to be almost indescribable. The largest buildings were undermined and the inmates borne away on the tide to destruction. Over 80,000 people are reported to be homeless, and thousands of lives have been lost. Up to miduight of the 12th, two-thirds of the city was under water, and 100 square miles in the immediate neighhood were also flooded. '

Tar Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria was married at Windsor Castle, on thie 13th, to Princess Louisa M rgaret, daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia. : : : : The French Chambers of Deputies, on the 18th, after an animated débate, rejected the clause of the committee’s report recommending the impeachment of the Ministers of the 16th of May, by a vote of 817 to 159. DAx REDDEN, one of the lately released Fenian prisoners, died, at Kingstown, Ireland, on the 13th, of paralysis. T ‘A SzeGEDIN dispatch of the 14th says the River Naros was rising rapidly and threatened New Bzegedin. Anarchy and confusion reigned. Omn the nixht of that day, the dykes protecting Csongrad gave way, and the town, containing 16,000 inhabitants, was partially inundated. Szentes, a town of 26,000 inhabitants, was engaged in a similar struggle with the waterzn()vcr 400 corpses were recovered in BSzege on the preceding day. | i [ : Denneny & Co., distillers, of Dublin, failed, on the 14th, tor 750,000. ; ACCORDING to accounts from Sofia, received on the 14th, preparations for another insurrection in Macedonia were in active progress. The leaders arestated to be the Bishops of Sofia and Ochrida. . SEVERAL of the French cotton mills in the department of the Nord, have stopped on account of trade Jdepression. GEN. KAUFMAN, the Russian commander in Central Asia, has resigned in consequence of the failare of his Afghan policy. ViENNA dispatches of the 16th say that, of the 9,700 houses in Szegedin, all except 261 have been destroyed. 1t was thought that 6,000 persons had. been drowned. The bodies of 400 had already been recovered. Over 16,000 horses and cattie and 90,000 sheep had perished.

A LonNpON telegram of ‘the 16th states that. the Portuguese explorer Pinto had arrived at Pretorio, Bouth Africa, with eight followers, all that remaiffed of 400 with whom he set out on his expedition. .

It was .reported in -Berlin, on the 17th, that the Government contemplated declaring a state of siege there in consequence of the Socialistic agitation and the violent debates in the Reichstag. Count von Eulenburg stated in the Reichstag that Bismarck and the Emperor had lately received many letters threatening assassination, and infernal machines had been discovered in Berlin. - THE Village of Vernet, near Vichy, France, containingloo houses, was totally destroyed by fire, on the 17th. ! THE reported defeat of the Zulus at Ekowe, in South Africa, was denied in a London dispatch of the 17th. The Orange Free State Government had refused to aid or to permit its citizens to aid the British against the Zulue. : ‘ ; A BERLIN telegram of the 17th declares positively that 20,000 Russians were being conveyed across the Caspian Sea, destined, it was believed, for Merv.

. THE NEW WORLD. AT a meeting of the Baptist ministers of San Francisco, on the 10th, a resolution was adopted striking the name of Rev. H. W. Reed from the roll of the Baptist Ministers’ Meeting of Ban Francisco and vicinity, for misrepresenting, before the Baptist Ministers’ Conference, in New York, the sentimentsof the Baptist and Christian people on the Pacific Coast touching the Chinese question. i : , THE burden of the later letters from Leadville, ColL, is advice to intending emigrants to keep away. Business is stated to be greatly overdone, and thousands are out of employment and suffering ‘for the lack of food. = ; - . THE new Constititution of California, which is to be submitted to the judgment of the people in May next, contains articles empowering the Legislature to enact regulations protecting the‘'SBtate from the evils and burdens arising from the presence of aliens (Chinese) detrimental to the peace and wellbeing of the State; forbidding the employment of Chinese by corporations, or on any public work, and directing the Legislatures, by the enforcement of appropriate penalties, to legislate for the removal of those now in the State, and prohibit their introduction after the adoption of the Constitution. 4 A WASHINGTON telegram of the 11th announces that the Treasury Department will be prepared to issue, April 1, in addition| to the ten dollar certificates, receivable from bearer, and convertible invo 4-per-cent. bonds, like certificates tobe registered in the name of the owner, and receivable only by orde or trausfer properly attested. e Ar the election in Sacramento City, Cal., on the 11th, the Republicans elected their ticket for municipal officers. A large Republican mass meeting was held in San ~ Francisco, on theévening of the same day, at ing the Chinese bill, his action did not repre~#¢nb the views of the Republican party

in California, and the party declined all responsibility therefor. . - SEC’Y SHERMAN, on the 12th, issued another call. for 5-20 bonds to the aggregate amount of $10,000,000—57,000,000 coup n and $3,000,000 registered. ‘The principal and interest will be paid on and after June 12.

THE Board of Inquiry (consisting of Gens. Schofield, Terry and Getty) in the FitzJohn Porter case held their final session in New York City, on the 12th. Their report would be made up and sent to the President in a few days, and the result of the investigation, so far as the board is concerned, will be known from Washington. Loy

During the progress of the great pedestrian contest in New York, on the 12th, between O’Leary (the champion), Rowell of England, Harriman of Boston, and Ennis of Chicago, O’Leary utterly collapsed and broke down and was ordered. from the track by his physicians, and was immediately removed. So completely was he used up thatit was thought very doubtful whether he would ever walk again in a pedestrian match. The score stood asfollows a short time before O’Leary’s withdrawal: Rowell, 246 miles; Harriman, 234; Ennis, 221; O’Leary, 214.. Rumors that O’Leary had been drinking, that he had been poisoned, etc., were denied by his physicians, who say that his failure to keep the track was simply because he was used up. Some accounts say his withdrawal was evidently the result of drinking and a general disregard of training rules. On the night of the 12th, a portion of the gallery in the building in which the contest was going on gave way and suddenly sank with a mass of struggling persons who had crowded into it. A panic ensued, and the scene that followed ‘was a frightful one. Many persons were injured, some seriously. The pedestrians continued their walking as soon as the debris was cleared from the track. '

1N a personal encounter at A.%anta, Ga., on the 11th, between Col. R. A. Alston, a member of the Legislature and prominent politician, and E. D. Cox, one of the largest planters in the State, both were mortally wounded. The affray took place in the State Treasurer’s office. - ‘ - THE Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet felt the full force of the gale of the 20th of February last. A Boston dispatch of the 11th says it had been ascertained that of the fifty vessels exposed to.the storm fourteen have foundered, with all on board. The loss of life is said to be 146, and the loss of property to aggregate $75,000. The drowned men left forty—oneiwl‘dows and over 100 orphans. THE Manhattan Savings Bank, of New,_ York, which was robbed, some months ago, of $3,000,000 of its securities, resumed business, on the morning of the 12th. THE Postal Appropriation, bill which passed the Forty-fifth Congress, authorized the Postmaster-General to introduce and furnish for public use double letter-sheet envelopes and postal cards, on which shall be placed postal stamps of the denominations at present used, so constructed as to allow an answer to a letter or,card to be returned in the same envelope or on the same card—the envelopes to bear two three-cent stamps and the cards two one-cent stamps. v

Gov. Prescorr has appointed Charles H. Bell, of Exeter, Benator from New Hampshire, for the extra session to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term of Senator Wsdleigh. - Mr. Bell has accepted. o - THE Treasury Department at Washington has, by an amended circular, issued on the 13th, invited all Collectors of Customs, Surveyors of Customs acting also as Céllectors, Receivers of Public Moneys, Postmasters of money order offices and all other public officers of whatever character, to become agents for the [sale of the ten-dollar certificates authorized to be issued by the act of February last, cormmission to be allowed and bond required. ; THE trustees appointed to ascertain the indebtedness of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, report that he owes an ageregate of $8,877,871.57. : PN By an explosion in the Mahoning Powder. Works, near Danyille, Pa., on the 18th, the building was completely destroyed, and Willis Lloyd, one of the proprietors, J. J. Evans and J. C. Mowrer were instantly killed, their mangled remains being ‘scattered in every direction. : : A BrLL has been introduced in the lower House of the Illinois General Assem~bly to prohibit ¢ treating.” - : Dr. JoN M. WOOGDWORTH, Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service, died at Washington on the 14th. ‘He was formerly a medical practitioner in Chicago. _ ¢ : : RoeERT W. HAYDEN and M. W, Barber, brothers-in-law, renewed a quarrel at Charlotte, N. C., on the 13th,and the former was killed.

SEVEN hangings for murder occurred in the United States, on the 14th. John Q. Pinkham was execnted at Concord, N. H., for the murder of Mrs. Berry, in January, 1877; Wm. H. Devlin, at Lowell, Mass., for the murder of his wife and infant child, /in January, 1877; Henry Gravelin, at ‘Windsor, Vt., for the murder of Herbert O. White, in 1876; a Chinaman at Marysville, Cal., for a murder committed last November; a Mexican at Pueblo, Col., for murder also committed last fall, and two men named Eugene Avery and Archie Brown, at Portland, Ore., for the murder of Louis Johns last August. HuNDREDS of negroes from Mississippi and Louisiana have recently come to BSt. Lotis under the promise that when they &r--rived there they would be furnished with subsistence and transportation to Kansas. These representations proved to be untrue, and there is great destitution and much suffering in consequence. : THE firm of Smith, Nichols & Rog¢érs, of Providence, - R. 1., failed op the 15th. Liabilities, $700,000. THE pedestrian match in Gilmore’s Garden, New York, closed on the evening of the 15th, resulting in the victory of Rowell, the Englishman, who takes with him the champion belt. Rowell covered 500 miles, Ennis 475 miles, and Harriman 450 miles. The total receipts of the match were-$51,000. . THE remains of Bayard Taylor were consigned to their last resting place in Longwood Cemetery, Kennett Bquare, Pa., on the 15th. The funeral was attended by the Governor and a joint committee of both houses of the Legislature. ; : Mas.-GEN. THOMAS W. SHERMAN died at Newport, R. I, on the aftérnoon of ‘the 16th, four days after the death of his wife. He was a native of Rhode Island, served during the Mexican and late Civil Wars, and was put on the retired list some time ago, after having been appointed Brevet Major-General for brave and gallant service. =~ PeTER KLEIN, 8 man charged with the perpetration of a horrible outrage near Newport, Ky., a few days ago, was arrested in Cincinnati, on the night of the Isth, and

taken across the river into Newport. On the evening of the 16th, a larze crowd of indignant citizens took possession of the prisoner by force, and hung him to a tree until he was dead. i & E

AFTER a long rain storm at Reading, Pa., on the night of the 16th and morning of the 17th, these was observed all through the city a strange, yellowish deposit, resembling sulphur, which was supposed to have come down with the rain. A similar phenomenon was observed at Allentown, in the same State, where, instead of rain, snow fell, beneath which, on the ground, was a substance, in some places half an inch deep, strongly resembling and having the color and smell of sulphur. A quantity of it scraped together and set on fire burned as readily and em the same fumes as sulphur. SRRt

THE case of the widow Mary S. Oliver against ex-Senat;pr Simon Cameron for $5,000 damage for breach of promise of marriage came up in the Circuit Cour’ in Washington, on the 17th. The plaintiff testified that, in 1875, Mr. 'Cameron proposed marriage to her, and she accepted. Three letters from him were submitied, one of them closing with the sentence: *You will be my wife.” Defendant did not come to the house where she lived, as he said the people there did not. like it. She saw him quite often in Washington. \

- IN the Democratic caucus of members of the National House of Representatives, on the evening of the 17th, Bamuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, was renominated for Speaker, receiving seventy-five votes to fifty-seven for J. C. 8. Blackburn, of Kentucky; three for J. A. McMahon, of Ohio; four for 8. 8. Cox, of New York, and two for W. R. Morrison, of Illinois. The vote for Clerk of the House resulted: Adams, seventy-six; Caldwell (Ala.), sixty-four. Thompson and Field were renominated for Sergeant-at-Arms ‘' and Doorkeeper, respectively, by acclamation, and Dr. Harrison was renominated for Chaplain. On motion of Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Randall’s nomination was made unanimous. The Greenbackers decided to cast their votes for Hendrick B. ‘Wright, of Pennsylvania, for Speaker. * ¢« ExX-SENATOR 808 HART,”” whose real name is James M. Sutherland, a wellknown professional minstrel, was baptized in the Berean (New York) Baptist Church, on the 16th. He has renounced the stage and proposes to devote himself to the Gospel ministry. ‘ ;

. AT a Baptist Church, in Baitimore, Md., on the night of the 16th, Miss Lduisa Donaldson, while assisting to baptize a lady, dropped dead, it was supposed of heart disease.

P5O Intelligent Monkeys. ¢ Monkeys,'” says an Arabic proverb, ““can talk perfectly well if they choose so to do; but they are far too clever to let us into their secret. Well they know that, were they to speak, they would be made to work; so they wisely hold their tongues.” If certain strange stories that have recently reached our hemisphere from the distant realm of Siam be founded upon fact, the ‘‘incomplete man,’’ as some German physiologists describe our respected ancestor, whose fondness for apples is considered to have exercised considerable influence upon the destinies of humanity, is made to work in many several ways, despite his affected ignorance of articulate language. Hisprudent.silence avails him naught in the domain of the White Elephant; and there are—at least so we are assured by an old Austrian resident at the Siamese Court—few professions which he may not be taught to practice with amazing skill and admirable precision. He is trained to fish for crabs with his tail,: as comical a pursuit as can well be imagined, except, perhaps, for the worthy and intelligent ape engaged in it, who sometimes gets a ‘¢ bite’’ from a monster crab that he is totally unable to land, and falls a victim to the superior weight of his Cancer Ferox, who drags him into the water, drowns, ‘and finally devours him. The Siamese ape 1s also stated to be in great request among native merchants as a ‘cashier in their counting-houses. Vast ‘quantities of base coin obtain circulation in Siam, and the faculty of discrimination between good money and bad would appear to be possessed by these gifted monkeys in such an extraordinary degree of development that no mere human being, however carefully trained, can -compete with them. The cashier ape meditatively puts into his mouth each coin presented to him in business payments, and tests it with grave deliberation. If it be genuine, he hands it over to his master. If it be counterfeit, he sets it down on the counter before him with a solemn grimace of displeasure. His method of testing is reFarded. in commercial circles as infallible; and, as a matter of fact, his decision is uniformly accepted by all garties interested in the transaction. But, though a true and invaluable servant to his own particular master, it seems that his moral character is.not, altoFether irreproachable. His deplorable passion for fruit renders him the terror of Siamese market gardeners, who find brute force inadequate to restrain him from visiting their orchards, and therefore have recourse to divers and sundry stratagems, one of which is reported to be as successful as it is certainly ingenious. A specially active a.ndy enterprising ape is captured and carefully sewed up in the skin of a tiger cat. He is then turned loose in the orchard of his predilection, and straightway clambers, as well as he iay, incumbered by an unfamiliar garment, into the branches of a fruit tree among the unclothed fellows. Scarcely do %hese_ latter set eyes upon him, wizh- all his feline tegrors thick upon him, when a dreadful panic strikes them, and they scramble away with Piercinfi screeches and agonized chatterings. Never more do they return to an orchard which they believe to be infested by the deadliest enemy of their race. The startling intelligence is rapidly disseminated throughout the monkey society of the neighborhood, and the wily gardener e:%ys an absolute immunity from depredation forever afterward. for the very thought of a *figereoptyafipals. the simian soul, and doubtless the rule of ‘‘the awful apKantmn in Ting-tse's orchard” g a:u}:g down in &uad:;xma.non's t]:)amilies from generation to generation.—

. In making any sauce put the butter ‘and flour in tolgether, and your sauce will never be lumpy. - : :

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Four prisoners, named Whalen, Phelps, Sufler and Goff,escaped from the Porter County Jail, the other night, by sawing thebars o a window with a file, supposed to have been handed them by friends outside. : ! DANIEL GUNYON was arrested at Noblesville, the other day, and placed under $5OO bounds, on a charge of having furnished tools to two prisoners who made their escape from the Jail at that place on the night of the 4th inst. Jacobs, a prisoner, turned State’s evidence against him. Gunyon failed to give the bond and was placed in Jail. o THE latest reports from Indianapolis give the following as current prices for leadifig staples: Flour, Family and Fancy, $4.00@ 6.00; Wheat, No. 2 Red, £[email protected]; Corn, 331/ @34c; Oats, 2524@27c; Rye, 474@4824c; Pork, [email protected]; Lard—Steam, 6@ 634 c; Hogs, [email protected].

THE LEGISLATURE. SENATE.—On the 10th, the House resolution allowing the Reading Clerk of each House one dollar a day extra was adopted. Some other attempts to increase the ’pag of employes were postponed until the end of the special session. The House Homestead and ’Exem(gtion bills were tabled and ordered printed. The Governor's proclamation calling a gpecial session was read. At five o’clock the Senate adjourned sine die. HouseE.—The Speaker was unanimougly .thanked for the impartial manner in which he had discharged his duties. Concurrent resolutions were adogted for the pay and mileage of witnesges in attendance upon the State-House investigation, and $lO cach to the members of the Prison Committee. New bills were introduced —fixing the method of collecting the tax from fastfreightglines; compelling the Auditor of State to pay all insurance fees_into the Treasury; abolishing the technical motion for a vénire de novo. The Speaker delivered his farewell address, after which he declared the House adjourned sine die.

' SPECIAL SESSION. ! : SENATE.—On the 11th the General Aggembly convened in special session, pursuant to the Governor’s proclamation. The LieutenantGovernor called the Senate to order. A resolution was adopted continuing the ofticers of the regular session in their respective Xositions. and the rules of the regular, were adopted as the rules of the special session. The House amendments to the State-House bill, reducing the levy .to two cents and approprialing 320&000‘ for the current year, was concurred in, but the amendment appmpriating $lOO,OOO for next year was not concurred in; and a Committee of Conference was demanded.: The bill concerning settlements between *county boards and officers_was passed to a third reading. The Governor's Message was read to both houses in joint session. House.—TheSecretary of State called the roll, and Judge Niblock of the Supreme Court swore in the members. A bill was introduced requiring the Auditor of State to pay 75 per cent. of all feer received from the Insurance Department into the State Treasury. The Senate bills amending the Divorce law and making it a misdemeanor to conceal mortgaged property, and the House bills authorizing towns to levy a tax for the pux})ose of lighting -the streets, amending the Code and amending the Road law were passed.

SENATE. —On the 12th, the LieutenantGovernor announced that the standing committees of the regular session would be reappoined. A {)int resolution : was offered asking the IHinois egislature to remove the dam over the Kankakee River at Momencg. A bill was introduced' and passed under a suspension of the rules, refealing and re-enacting the act establishing an Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children—by adding an emergency clause. The report of the Conference Committes on the State:House Aé)propriation bill was concurred in. Bills passe —%ranting towns power to issue liquor licenses; prohibiting officials from being interested in any manner in public contracts; amending the Justice act. The bills makin% a 8 _etmkho]@er liable for twice the amount of his stock, and ; regulatirég the practice of medicine, failed for want of a Constitutional majority. The Pi})ll e&bolishing the oflfice of State Geologist was a g .

House.—Bills passed—permitting felonies to be prosecuted on information when the Grand Jury is not in session; compelling railroad companies to destroy Canada thistle on the line of their roads; amending the act creating HorseThief Asrociations; permitting foreign cor{)om-. tione to redeem property sold for taxes; makinga jury in civil cases consist of six members; giving laborers’ claims a.precedence in cases of vofiunta—ri assi%nments; giving defendants in libel cases the right to prove facts, but forbiddinzg the proving of rumors; amending the Ditch law ; for the protection of sheep, and Senate bills permitting townships tolevy tax to keep up a library donated fo the township; permitting husband and wife to testify for and against each other, etc. A member rose to a question of privlle%e and presentied a set of resolutions censuring the Governor for the lanf:ua%e used in his message, characterizing it as an insult not only to the representatives of the pedple, but to the people themselves, and up}{lolnting a committee to take such action as they may deem necessary for the vindication of an equal and independent co-ordinate branch of the State Government. The resolutions were laid on the table.

SENATE.—On the 13th bills, passed—to prevent foreign corporations from removing causes against them to Federal Courts; defining libel ; amending the act for clections for Supervisors of Highways; authorizing cities of less than 7,000 inhabitants to surrender their charters; exemptin& wages of laborers - from sarnishment for a perio of one month; making laws governing October elections Mapplicable to November elections in case the Constitution is amended; regulating the uge of human bodies for purposes of dissection and Rjreventinz grave-robbing; abolishing one of the arion Superior Courts; prohibiting the admisgion of children under gseven years to the House of Refuge. The General Appropriation bill was taken up, and its consideration occupied the remainder of the day. oy House.—Majority and minority reports were presented from the Committee to Investigate the State Auditors. The minority report, whicl recommends that the Attorney-General ascertain what amount of fees have been collected by the Auditor and not gaid into the Treasury, and commence & suit on the ofticial bond of the Auditor to recover. the same, was adopted. Bills passed—authorizing the City of Evansville to change its name to Lamasco; for the incorporation of cemeteries; requiring School Trustees in towns to have the authorig of Town Trustees before iesuing bonds for the erection of. schoolhouses, and geveral relief and legalizing bills. The Senate bills which passed the Senate in the morning were taken ug and passed by the House under a suspensgion of the rules. ¢ . SENATE.—The General Appropriation bill was under consideration during the entire day on the 14th. : - HousE.—A. motion to reconsider the vote by which the Militia bill was defeated was lost. The committee to investigate the affairs of the Auditor’s office were instructed to report on the affairs of Henderson's predecessors. A resolution providing for final Bd})oumment on the 22d was voted down. The bill e%‘alizing the acts of the State-House Commission failed for want of a Constitutional majority, Bills passed—amending the act for laying out and making »highwa{ys; amending the Ditch law; re?ulrlnf the Auditor of State to pay 75 per cent. of his Insurance fees into the State Treasury; allowing barbers to shave on Sunday. ’ : : e SENATE.—On the 15th, a motion to adjourn. sine die on the 22d was debated and ‘voted down. Sundry legalizing bills were reported from the House, and the rules were at once suspended and the bills passed. The General Approgriation bill was amended and ordered engrossed. he bill repealing the Bavings Bank law was debated, but the Senate adjourned before action. Housk.—Bills were introduced—appropriating $15,000 for the expenses of thespecial session ; establishing a Board of Pardons; to inflict additional punishment for rape. The bill requlfln%:n passenger trains to stop at all Incozl?» raied towns failed to sast, Several legalizing bills were introduced and passed under a suspen'sion of the rules.’ . : ‘

A Railway Episode with a Moral. As A family composed of three persons, father, mother and a little son, a bright little fellow, were takini a tri on one of the railroads that run ¢ rougg Williamsport, Pa, a little incident occurred which is worth relating. The day was a balmy one and the window was raised to admit the fresh air. Little Fred, like all children, insisted on putting his head out of the open window z«: agee what was going on outside of the L \ - The father, somewhatalarmed at the conduect of his son, trgpd various plans,

without resorting to force, to keep him within bounds, but without success, until a bright idea came up in hismind ‘‘Fred, Fred,” esaid the father, ‘‘keep your head in or the wind will take your hat,” and in order to frighten his hoi)le- ‘ ful, he slyly slipped the hat off the little one’s head and concealed it. As soon as this had been done the child began crying, and could not be appeased. Finally paterfamilias told him to look in an opposite direction and he would whistle the hat back again, all of which was very neatly done, and the happy garents settled back in their seats and began to converse very pleasantly, thinkm% that they had cured little Freddie; but not so, for in a very short time he seemed to brighten up suddenly, and away he sent%fis little hat through the car window, shouting as itdisappesred then: ¢¢Papa, whistle again.?' Moral—Never deceive your children.

-~ A Useful Garden Pet. A WRITER in Land and Water gives an interesting description of a tame heron. “I took a heron,” he says, ‘‘from a nest last summer, and have had him about the backyard ever since. There were three in all in the nest, which one of my boatmen took and kept for a time in the boat-house, feeding them on fish, which they took to at once, and it was surprising what large-sized perch they ‘could swallow whole—. scales, spines and all. When they became a couple of months old, they were brought up to the stable-yard, where th? stalked about most independently, and soon began to fly. They generally took their stand on the totf) of a house or gate, and soon began flying off to a lake close by; but one met an untimely fate, and another remained on the lake and refused to return to slavery, so the remaining one had his win clipped, and has had to remain a wal%i ing gentleman ever since. I consider him a most useful pet. As soon as it gets dusk of an evening, he is to be seen creeping round all the quiet corners with outstretched neck and bent legs, on the lookout for rats and mice,which he pounces on and devours greedily. His great delight is in a small pond of water in the corner of the yard, where he spends all his spare time in chasing imaginary fish, and itis most amusing to .watch him play with a small .branch or leaf, as a cat with a reel of cotton; he throws it on the water and dashes at it as if at a fish or eel. He is not at all particular about his diet, and eats all kinds of offal. When he is given anything which he is unable .to swallow, he walks right off to the pond, where he dips it, and straightway it disappears down his throat, no matter what the size may be. He was once §iven a mutton-chop which had been usted with pepper and salt, preparatory to frying it. This he swallowed without knowing what he was eatin§; but soon finding it not very agreeable in his crop, he at once brought it up again (which he has a facility for doing), and coolly walked to his pond, where he wasbed the chop, and swallowed it to his satisfaction—a most sagacious performance on his part. He frequently catches sparrows and other small birds which come within his reach; these he swallows at once. 1 had no idea they were such omnivorous birds.”?

The Great Pedestrian Contest. - i New Yorxk, March 15. The last ni%ht of the §reat(pedestrian contest equaled, indeed exceeded, the opening night in point of both numbers and enthusiasm. At seven o’clock fully 7,000 people were present. The pedestrians were encouraged by the most hearty applause. Ladies waved their handkerchiefs, and threw several bouquets at the contestants as they Eassed along, and men threw their ats in the air, and yelled themselves hoarse. The excitement was something tremendous. Early in the afternoon it was conceded that Rowell would take ' the belt.: Interest was then centered upon Harriman making the 450 miles necessary to secure a share of the gate money, Harriman walked very lame, and appeared to suffer great pain, but he struggled along, gza.mely and steadilfy, nearer his goal. Ennis was in fine form durin the evening, and made some very q‘uicfi miles. He was quite fresh, and ‘entirely free from lameness. He made spurt after spurt, both running and walking, and the applause that greeted him was immense. About 6:30 this afternoon Rowell, Harriman and Ennis were all on the track together, and Rowell, overtaking Harriman, linked his arm and walked around, talking with him. The cheering wasloud, but when Ennis came along and linked with Harriman on the other side, applause burst forth in a deafening roar. They marched around arm in arm, and dozens of bouquets were hurled at them. The judges announced that two laps were taken from the score of each man for having received support while going twice around the track. Ennis completed his 455th mile at 4:23:26, his 460th mile at 5:38:45, and his 466th at 7:32:15. He left the track at 5:39:20 and returned at 6:23:55, and left again at 7:33 for a short rest. Harriman finished his 435th mile at 38:32:40, and his 440th mile at 4:47:55, and his 445th mile at 7:31:22. It then became certain that he would turn his 450 miles and earn his share of the gate money. He left the track at 4:48:30, and took a good rest until 6:14, when he again appeared. He had evidently more friends in the buildi(n%n than the ‘other two. Rowell ished his 481st mile at 4:13:17, and kept on walking and runnix;F alternately, finishin %fla‘ 485th mile at 5:18:44. Remnin?ng on the track, at 7:29:30 he ‘had completed his 494th miile. . As Harriman neared his 450th mile, and Rowell was closing up to his 500th, the spectators became perfectly wild with excitement, and, as Harriman turned his 450th mile, and great white figures on the blackboard announced the result, a storm of ‘afplausei aél‘do}nex.hoard burst forth, and lasted iuilgo u, minutes. He completed his 450 l:i;'\sl:t 8:42, and a man had to“"{o ’ d ‘before hi(inble{::al’ immense b fiquetts', rioduam&% Amfl flag over his shoulder, and this incident increased, i it were possible, the enthusiasm. -

When the figures 500 went up opposite Rowell’s name on ‘the blackboard the excitement can secarcely be imagined. This was three minutes to nine o'clock. Then he put on hisulster and ca.rryingl the American flag over his right shoulder and animmense bouquet in his left hand, e marched around the track twice, a Captain of policé on one side and his trainer on the other. The band played ¢ God Save the Queen.”” The enthusiasm ran high. Rowell then left the track for good with a score of 500 miles. He went at once to the Ashland House, ‘was bathed and rubbed down, and went to bed for four hours, when he is to be waked up. He was received at the hotel by some twenty ladies and congratulated. He seemed to be a pretty well used-up man. =~ _ Harriman completed 450 miles and 3 laps at 8:45:40, and then he retired from the track for good. He was sur--rounded by a host of - friends, whobrought him out of the garden b{ the: Fourth avenue entrance and placed him in a carriage, and he was driven to *he St. James Hotel. He was accom;l)anied by his doctor. Various. floral gifts given to Rowell and Harriman were taken to their hotels after them. Ennis alone remaineéd on the: track, and he was walking‘ to win a. bet of $1,600. He had backed himself to make 475 miles and was determined to win it. He was cheered lustily, the crowd remaining notwithstanding it was generally known that both Rowell ‘and Harriman had left the garden. - Ennis continued at a good pace and turned his 470th mile at 8:53:25 and completed 475 miles at 10:57.. The applause was tremendous, Ennis run- - ning his 475th mile in 6 ;minutes_ and 55 seconds, the fastest of the contest.

This concluded the great walking match, and the vast crowd slowly disperse?. The official 50(591 for- ithe match' at ten. o’clock, wheff it closed, was: Rowell, 500 miles and 180 yards; Ennis, 475 miles; Harriman, 450 miles 3 laps and 140 yards. The men were. off the track durinfi the whole six days as follows: Rowell, 388 hours 42 minutes and 50 seconds; Ennis, 86 hours 21 minutes and 33 seconds; Harriman, 38 hours 1 minute ‘and 21 seconds. The totul receipts du.i”‘ing the contest were $51,000. At the beginning of the match it wag decided that $l,OOO should be set apart out of the receipts for the man or men who failed to cover 450 miles. O'Leary ‘thus will receive $l,OOO. At half-past ten the lights in themain building of the garden wgre turned out, and the great international pedesirian contest for the: championship of the world was settled for the present. - “The total number of miles made by each man on each day of the match was as follows: % o : o . Harri- . ; Rolwgu. : E’_f;gis. mti'&.) e g e Third day. ~.cecsssecesss 86 78 - 84 nfifntittaadvay..;. e Sey e ) Total....cceioueranssesdD - TG L 450

; Japanese Chivalry. : , It is worthy of note that Japanese : chivalry does not require any exaggerated deference on the part of men toward women, and that a Samurai treats a lady with a courtesy very similar to that which hedisplays toward a brother Samurai. On the other hand, the sayinfiof the conventional British sailor, * He who lays his hand upon a woman, save in the way of kindness, is a villain,”” has compplete acceptance among the Japanese.. When an ill-bred retainer of- Moronawo annoys Okaru, He is at once called to order by two strangers, who upbraid him as a scoundrel and a villain for ill-treating a - woman. Upon another occasion a lady is seized amf her hair is cut off by two masked assailants ; their real intention j in thus acting is friendly, but they are | sgoken of as brutal ruffians because ' they attack a woman. It must be admitted that Japanese husbands possess very arbitrary powers, being able at - any time to give their wives a writing of divorcement, and to put them away withoat' assigning any reason, after which ‘both parties are at liberty to marry again, but legal polygamg is unknown. Among the causes which justify divorce are enumerated—disobedience to parents-in-law, g'iilea.lousy. and too much talking ; but the objections apply only to the wife, and a husband caunot be so easily disposed of.— Fortnightly Review. o el e —Neither the Indians nor the whites of Alaska have ever been numbered.

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