Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 37, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 January 1880 — Page 2

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK. THE OLD WORLD. THE steamer Borussia, from Liverpool November 20, for New Orleans, founder ed in mid-ocean on the 2d of December. Of the 185 passengers and fifty-four sailors on board the only persons known to be saved are the Chief Engineer, the doctor, the boatswain and six secamen, who were picked up in an open boat on the sth, and reached Queenstown, Ireland; on the 23d. : - THREE of the political offenders recently convicted at Odéssa, Russia, have been hanged, and four others condemned to imprisonment for terms ranging from ten to fifteen years. At Kieff on the 23d the authorities surprised and surrounded a body of Nihilists while in secret session, and secured ninety-eight persons. A Maprip dispatch of the 24th announces that one branch of the Spanish Cortes had passed the bill for the abolition of slavery in Cuba, by a vote of 134 ayes to 14 noes. : AN Alexandria (Egypt) dispatch of the 24th says dispatches had been received from General Gordon, containing such preposterous propositions that the only conclusion on the part of the Khedive and his advisers was that he had suddenly become deranged. - S SECOCOENT, the South African savage who has resisted the British since the fall of Cetewayo, has been captured and is on his way to Cape Town a prisoner. IN a colliery -explosion mear Bolton, Eng., on the 25th, eleven men were badly, and some of them fatally, injured. : THE British Ambassador-at Constantinople has demanded the release; of the Mussulman under sentence of deat{h‘ in that city for the crime of translating the Bible into the Turkish langhage. : A STEAM TUG which arrived at Liverpool on the 24th reports speaking an outward .bound bark having on beard: five more of the survivors of the steamer Borussia.

THE NEW WORLD. GREAT excitement continued to pre--vail throughout Maine on the 23d over the situation of political affairs in that State. Up to that date several indignation ,meetings of those opposed to the course of the: Governor and Council had been held, and strong denunciatory resolutions had ;been in several cases adopted. A meeting of the Republican tate Committee and prominent Republicans ;%m various parts of the State, held in Senator Blaine’s residence at Augusta on the 23d, resulted in the appointment of a committee to advise and co-operate with the Republican members of the Legislature. Senator Blaine has made a speech against: the action of the State authorities, in which he: said “a great popular uprising will avert these evils (described by him) and restore honest government to Maine—and the people are already moving.” The Fusionists held a public meeting at Augusta on the evening of the 23d, at which speeches were made indorsing the ac- ‘ tion of the Governor as being thoroughly in accordance with the law and the Constitution of the State. Resolutions expressive of these . views were adopted. Governor Garcelon - made a speech asking that himself and colléagues be sustained in the action they had taken. At an indignation meeting in Portland on the same-evening ex-Governor Washburne presided. The assemblage criticised severely the action of the :Governar and + Council, and appealed to ‘‘honest Democrats to denounce their proceedings.” THE bufchers of Chicago—those employed at the various packing-houses—struck - afew days ago, ostensibly because in some of the establishments men were employed who did not belong to the Butchers’ and Packers’ Union. On the 23d none of the packinghouses were buying stock, and only running to work up she hogs on hand. The results of the strike up to date were the idleness - of from 5,000 to 10,000 men, a sharp decline fn the price of live hogs and an appreciation in the price of the manufactured product. ' o e AN agitation has been begun in Can--ada having for its object the secession from the British Empire and annexation to the United States. - ! . - ANOTHER defeat of the allied torces of Peru and Bolivia by the Chilians was announced on the 25th. e BaNGor (Me.) dispatches of the 25th say that city was the scene of great excitement growing out- of an, attempt being made to remove the arms and ammunition from the State Arsenal to the railroad: depot. The Mayor of the city, a number of exMayors and other promirent citizens signed a communication to the Governor stating that, on seeing the movement of the arms and ammunition along the principal streets of the city, ‘““there was an immediate uprising of the citizens, so filling the streets as to prevent the passing’ of the teams. The Mayor, who had been sent for, having no knowledge of- the authority under which the arms were being moved, first demanded who - assumed the responsibility of the movement. He was answered by a Mr. French, representing himself to be a clerk in the Adjutant General’s office, that he was acting under verbal instructions from Governor Garcelon to remove the arms and ammunition by railroad to Augusta. Mr. French, seeing the . difficuliies in the way, and being informed , by the Mayor that he might be unable to ' restrain the people with the force at his command, decided to return the arms to the arsenal, and the citizens quietly dispersed.” At a meeting of prominent. citizens, held in the evening, the situation was fully discussed, and it was unanimously determined to use every effort to prevent any disturbance and allay public excitement. : ; IN unloading what purported to be a - cargo of oranges at New York a few days ago it was discovered that the boxes were, filled with sand, small portions of the fruit being used at knot-holes and cracks to deceive the ~ eyes of inspectors. Baring Bros., of London, advanced monéy on the stuff, and will Be the principal losers. - - o AN old man named D. A. Sikes conimitted suicide on the 24th by jumping from the new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls. 'GaSs stocks were publicly sold at New York on the 24th for the first time since the announcement of Edison’s new discoveries. The prices obtained were much lower .than those prevailing beforo the late renewal of speculative interest in the electric light. ~ Bossg, the book-keeper of the Fire & ~ Marine Insurance Company’s Bank at Mil- ~ waukee, who lately d«:%ud and absconded, ~ has pleaded guilty to embezzlement and been

sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the House of Correction. AN attempt was made on the 25th to steal General Grant’s Arabian stallions from General Beale’s farm near Washington, by some men who had been employed by Beale to look after them. ' ‘ A TELEGRAM from Washington on the 25th says the conferences with New York bankers and others had convinced the Secretary of the Treasury that a vast amount of s’s and 6’s, which will accrue during the next year or two, cannot be funded at less than four percent. = Lan

PrESIDENT HAYEs left Washington on the 26th for New Jersey. He dined in the evening in Philadelphia, at the residence of Mr. John Welch, meeting General Grant, who was also a guest there. o RECORDER HACKETT, of New York City, died on the 26th. . Tue National Socialistic Convention met in Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 26th, forty delegates being present. A. R. Parsons, of Chicago, was elected temporary President. In his address the President said the party owned twelve newspapers, was out of debt and had money in the treasury, and was generally flourishing, financially and otherwise. It was thought at Augusta, Me., on the 26th that Governor Garcelon would agree to refer the pending political troubles to the courts, in accordance with a suggestion to that effect from ex-Governor Morrill. He had been petitioned to do so by a large number of citizens of both parties. _ A spECIAL dispatch of the 25th from Pataskala, Ohio, says that George Lynn, who was personating Santa Claus at a Christmas festival in the Methodist Church, was probably fatally burned by his costume taking fire. : A NEw YORK telegram of the 26th reports the gas men of that city as saying that they were unterrified by the reports of the successful operation of the electric light. They had investigated the subject thoroughly, some months ago, and were of the opinion that ‘“ there is nothing in it.” : O~ the morning of the 26th an express train on the Chicago & Alton Railway was thrown from the track near Berdan, 111., &y a broken rail. In the chair-car the stove upset and, the woed-work taking fire, the coach was soon in flames. The passengers were all rescued except Colonel Bond, of Auburn, 111.,, who was fatally burned. The porter of the sleeper, was killed and about twenty-five passengers were slightly injured. DiIspATCHES received at Denver on the 26th say that Ouray presented himself at Los Pinos on the 24th with the chiefs selected to accompany him to Washington, but, as he had brought in only a part of the murderers of Thornburgh and Meeker,General Hatch refused to start until the demands of the Commission had been ‘complied with. Ouray demanded more time, avd the General, giving him five days, promised to await his coming at Cline’s ranch, thirty miles away. IN an interview -at St. Louis on the 26th ¥r. Moody, the evangelist, stated, in regard to the alleged conversion of Dan Rice and the anhquncement that hie would speak at Moody’s meetings, that there was no foundation for these reports. So far as he knew, Rice had not been converted. He had had ‘but one conversation with Rice, and in that he gave no evidence of conversion whatsoever. Rice had not been announced to speak at his meetings, nor would he be. Mr. Moody added: ‘‘ln such cases it is not my habit to put new men forward at once, nor to call upon them immediately to preach, exhort, or lecture. It is well to try them awhile, and when their life and acts show the genuineness of the change, it is time _enofigh to put them f@rward on the platform.”

: Later News. THE President of Peru reached Panama on the 28th, en route to the United States and Europe. THE steamer Arragon left New York for Bristol, England, on the 26th of November. Since that time nothing has been heard of her, and it is feared that she has been lost and that all on board have perished. » : A PORTION of the railroad bridge spanning the Frith of Tay, in Scotland, was blown down on the night of the 28th while -a train from Edinburgh to Dundee was crossing, and all the passengers, estimated at from 150 to 200 in number, were drowned. The wind blew so furiously that the wreck could not be reached by steam.ers. o THE death of William Hepworth Dixon, the English historian and traveler, was announced on the 27th. He was fifty-nine years old, and the cause of his death was apoplexy. : 4 GENERAL AND MRS. GRANT arrived at Washington on the afternoon of the 27th, but, in accordance with his own request, no formal public demonstrations of welcome were made. He was cordially received by many of his old friends. A Washington special of the 27th says the ex-President was to start from ' Philadelphia on the 30th for Havana, by way. of Richmond, Charleston, Savannah and Cedar Keys. After spending a few weeks in Cuba he will revisit the scenes of his earliest military achievements in Mexieo, and then travel through Texas, ascend the Mississippi and visit Colorado, returning to Galéna in May. A RECENT Washington telegram says Senator Edmunds was reported to have written a letter to a personal friend in Vermont, saying that, in view of the very great pressure brought to bear upon him by his political friends, he had decided nqt to resign his place in the Senate until the expiration of his term, even to accept a vacancy upon the United States Supreme Bench. . Ex-SENATOR MORRILL has written another letter to Governor Garcelon, of Maine, urging him to submit the questions involved in the political controversy there to the Supreme Court, and showing that it might be done and a decision obtained before the day appointed by law for the meeting of the Legislature.. The ex-Senator appended :i'ilong, list of questions which he considered proper for judicial settlement. A FIRE in Boston on the night of the ?Bth destroyed the extensive publishing house of Houghton, Osgood & Co., ‘the paper warehouse of Rice, Kendall & Co., and numerous other large and valuable buildings. The loss was roughly estimated at from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000. : TWO MURDERERS, one a half-breed and the other a white man, were lynched on the morning of the 28th, at Golden, Col. - Me. M. B. GouLp, a prominent business man of Chicago, and General Waite, on the 27th, played a practical joke on a colored janitor who had charge of the latter gentleman’s rooms, by leading him to think there were burglars concealed in the bath-room. The janitor tried to get into the room but was not able to, and threatened to shoot if the supposed burglars did not come out. Mr. Gould was holding the door, when the janitor, having procured a revolver, fired, the ball passing through the door and into Mr. Gould’s head, inflicting a wound which was almost instantly fatal.

DispaTcHES from the Ute country, received on the 28th, state that General Hatch, of the Peace Commission, would start: for Alamosa on the 30th, having given up all: hope of securing the Indians whom Ouray agreed to surrender for trial for their participation in the Thornburgh and Meeker murders. The General’s withdrawal was considered tantamount to a declaration of war. There were several hundred savages in the vicinity of Los Pinos, the whites at the agency numbering only twenty-five, and it was feared that the latter and General Hateh and his escort would be massacred. It was reported that troops had been ordered to the rescue of the General and the people at Los Pinos, but as the snow was: very deep they were not expected to make much' progyess.

Prisoners’ Views as to the Forms of Capital Punishment, : NEW YORK, December 23. A reporter for a morning paper visited the Tombs to-day, and discussed, with men imprisoned on the charge of murder, the forms of capital punishment. One regarded hanging as *‘too ignominious and uncertain,” and added: ‘I do not think a death of agony is any deterrent to crime, and good moral effects of executions are mere delusions.”” Anether preferred drowning in water or whisky. A third quoted the couplet, - No rogue e'er felt, ete., and said: ¢ Stand me against the wall and send a bullet through my heart.” A fourth would prefer chloroform, remarking that. ¢‘ the contemplation of death by hanging was enoulgh to drive a criminal insane.”” One Italian, who was unable to speak English, indicated a preference to be stabbed to death, while another Italian poured water on his head, which was interpreted to mean drowning. A man under a lifesentence answered the usual question thus: ¢lf I had tochoose my way of death, I should prefer suffocating by gas. Itis the only merciful and respectable means of cxecution. Hanging is a disgrace, which is covered by the name of justice.”” An accomplice of crime with a preceding prisoner, who declared himself no murderer, not only favored hanging every murderer, but exclaimed: ‘I am in favor of quartering the fiends.”” Balbo, under sentence of death for killing his wife, was found on his knees in prayer; but his prayers: were not powerful cnough to save him from the cruel .questioner, to enable him to preserve a calmness of spirit as: he answered the heartless question, “*Do you believe murderers ought to be put to death?’ ¢¢Me no want to die; me want to live; me only twenty-four years old—too young. Me pray all the time. Me believe in-Jesus Christ—He makee me save; keepee me in jail long time; makee me good. Me want be good. Oh, save me! save me!” The Warden was moved to tears by the heartbroken appeal, and the chronicler withdrew to chat with that interesting criminal, Chastine Cox, who announced his belief in hanging all men over fifty years of age, but young fellows, like himself an& the reporter, would be likely to repent and reform, the two not being hardened old rascals, but beings with feelings and hopes. The soldier’s death, however, was announced as Cox’s individual preference. Two . printers refused to converse, one saying he was afraid of exciting himself and injuring his reason. :

: An Awful Fate. . At Mount Holly, N. J., near this city, to-day, the dwelling of Matthew Gleason, a laboring-man?iving on the tenantfarm of James W. Allen, near Erystown, was totally destroyed by fire, his three little children perishing in the flames. Gleason, who with %us wife slept in an upper story, was awakened by a crackling noise and a strong smell of smoke. He hurried down stairs to find the shed in the rear of the kitchen in a blaze. On opening the door the flames rushed in with such fierceness that he was compelled to retreat for his life. He awakened his wife, and the two jumped from a window, hardly reaching the ground before the entire building was a sheet of fire. Three children—two boys aged ten and two years, respectively, and a little girl aged seven—appeared at the upper window, making frantic efforts to escape, and shrieking piteously for help. Their agonized screams were too much for the heart-broken mother, and, unable to bear the strain, she fainted. The distracted father tried, by means of a pole, to raise the window, but without avail, and the children perished in his sight. The locality is sparsely settled, the nearest house being a quarter of a mile distant, and, before aid could arrive, all that remained were a few charred beams and a heap of smoking embers: The Gleasons were taken care of by sympathizing neighbors, and parties went to work at once to recover the bodies of the children. When found they were burned to a crisp. Of one there remained but the skull and spine, the two others being without head, arms, or legs. 'The bones were carefully gathered, and will be interred to-morrow in one cof-, fin.—Philadelphia (Dec. 22) Special to Chicago Tribune. :

What Constitutes a@ Insurance Company. The Circuit Court of St Louis has recentll)lr rendered a decision of interest throughout the country. An express employe was insured for the benefit of his wife in three Mutual Aid and Insurance Societies. His wife died a couple of years ago, and he died some time afterwards. There being no children, his wife’s relatives claimed the insurance money as her heirs, while his relatives disputed the claim. The Court decided that these Insurance Societies are not Insurance Companies within the meaning of the law. If the insurance had been in a company, the wife's heirs would be entitled to t{e policy on her death, as the policy is a contract, and reads in favor of the beneficiary or his heirs and assigns. In case of the society, however, there is no such contract, and, after the wife dies, the husband can designate a new beneficiary if he chooses, and, if he fails to declare in favor of the wife’s relatives or heirs, they can have no claim to the insurance money. Hence the claim of the husband’s heirs was sustained.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. THE entire roof of the main building of Earlham College, at Richmond, was burned on the afternoon of the 20th. I.oss ahout $20,000. : : JUDGE Wanp rendered an important decision on the 20th, in the case of McComas ve. Krug, Sheriff of Montgomery County. The defendant was charged with drunkenness, and his removalaasked for under a re-cent-act of the Legislature. The Judge decided that the statute was unconstitutional, and dismissed the case. The plaintiff filed notice that he would appeal the case to the Supreme Court. SALLIE THOMPSON, an Indianapolis colored woman, was fatally burned on the 20th by her dress catching fire from a grate. : Covrrax, Clinton County, is ambitious to be the shire town of a proposed new County of Colfax, to be carved out of Clinton, Tippecanoe, Boone and Montgomery; but the Lafayette Journal says when the proposition is presented to slice old Tippecanoe there will be a disturbance on the front seats. In short, the elders will not have it.

THE controversy between Father Fitzpatrick, of Indianapolis, and Bishop Chatard, of the Catholic diocese, has resulted in a suit at law in which the father claims $35,000, viz.: $17,000 for money invested in the erection of Bt. Patrick’s Church and parsonage, and $lB,OOO for nine year’s services as priest in charge at $2,000 a year. DuriNg the week ending December 21 thirty-nine persons died in Indianapolis. Of these one was ninety-seven, one mninety and one eighty-two. . O~ the morning of the 23d a Lake Shore passenger-train struck an unknown man walking on the track at Miller’s Station. He lived seven hours after being hurt. . THE largest of the Morgan. raid claims was sent from Indianapolis on the 23d. It is by the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad, which claims $24,000 for damages to bridges, tracks and depots done by John Morgan in 1863. ON the 23d at Indianapolis Jonathan Davis, the most notorious counterfeiter in the West, was sentenced to eight years in the State Prison, on plea of guilty. Davis is sixty years old and has given the Government a great deal of trouble. THE Attorney General had rendered a decision on questions submitted by the authorities of the Northern Penitentiary, that convicts cannot be employed by contractors outside of the prison. The question has been a disputed one for many years. ‘TrOMAS M. WHITE, of Greensburg, was recently arrested by order of the United States Court for writing scurrilous and libelous matter on postal-cards. o YosT MILLER, living in Middlebury township, was thrown from a horse the other night, the animal tramping on his head and mangling him horribly. He will probably die. J. J. NoEL, who shot and killed Abraham Paulus, a well-known druggist, at Elkhart last August, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to imprisonment for life. ‘

THE next anitual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic for the Department of Indiana will be held at Greencastle on the 29th of January, at which time the election of officers will take place. : . THE jury in the case of Simpson, editor of the Madison Star, for the killing of ex-City Treasurer Howard, after deliberating for an hour, returned a verdict of not guilty. A STAGGERING sensation was created in Evansville business circles a few days ago by the announcement that Chas. E. Baker, who had been lessee and operator of the Evansville grain elevator, under the name of C. E. Baker & Co., had absconded, léaving between $60,000 and $BO,OOO of liabilities. Baker had run the elevator for two years, and enjoyed the confidence of all business men. He is said to have turned into cash the wheat stored in his elevator and for which warehouse receipts were outstanding. Under a special State law he is liable to prosecution for felony, and may be fined $5,000 and imprisoned for five years. : : A MURDER occurred near a country schoolhouse between Antwerp and Williamsburg, in Wayne County, about two weeks since, which in the past few days has come to light. A young girl named Kates, about fifteen years old, was the victim of the tragedy, and two young girls, schoolmates about the same age, were the perpetrators of the crime. Miss Kates was the daughter of a very poor widow, and was very good natured. On account of her poverty the girls above mentioned, daughters of wealthy parents, were continually playing little tricks upon her. Miss Kates being poor, the dinnér which she carried to school each day.was /ot of the Dbest quality. The schoolmaj€s in question, at every chance, threw out iQinuations which abashed Miss Kates so much that she would at noon each day retire to a fence corner in the vicinity to eat her dinner. About two weeks ago one of the two girls ‘spoken of secretly went to Miss Kates’ dinner basket, and taking a buscuit therefrom, opened it and spit tn it. Miss Kates discovered her in the act, and feeling that she could bear such treatment nolonger, reported to the teacher how her mates had used her. In consequence of this the two girls were expelled from school. This occurred in the afternoon, and the -expeiled parties, enraged by the treatment, laid in waiting along the road for the author of their trouble. When school was out and Miss Kates was passing by them on her homeward journey, they assaulted her, one of them gtriking her in the head with a base-ball bat, ind‘ the other, after she was down, jumping upon her and breaking four of her ribs. By some means Miss Kates got to her home, but lived only long enough to' communicate to her mother what had taken place. As the story is told, the parents of the girl went to the mother of the murdered child and offered her $3,000 to do all she could to keep the affair from gaining publicity. The widow, it ie said, accepted the proposition, but in the last day or two the affair has been exploded by school children who witnessed the assault, and in consequence the neighborhood is all excitement. THE following are the Indianapolis grain quotations: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 40@40%4c; Oats, 3714@40c. The Cincin: nati quotations are: Wheat, #[email protected]; Corn, 41@43c; Oats, 39@40c; Rye, 92@93c.

A Mississippi Prodigy. LitTLE Bossig, the infant son of Mr. R. H. and Lou E. Harris, of Coldwater, is the most remarkably intellectual and brilliant child that it has ever been our fortune to know. He is now but little over five years of age, and has never exhibited any abnormal conditions of health or pgysical growth; and, with the exception of his remarkable mental activity, shows no feculiarities different from other children. He learned his letters when only eighteen months old, by inquiring of his mother the names of the initial letters of chapters

in the Bible as they were presented to him while she read from that sacred book. Without even the use of a primer or an alphabet he was able, before he was two years old, to master the First Reader. Igefore he had reached his third year he had read the Second and Thirg Readers, and had made some advancement in arithmetic, showing a remarkable aptitude during the time in spelling and other branches of knowledge. While in his fourth year he read the Fourth and Fifth Readers, learned a good part of the multiplication table, and spelled from Webster's Common School Dictionary = almost any word given him. He is now five years old, and reads newspapers, and has considerable knowledge in general information and current events. He is a modest, unassuming little boy, very courteous in manner, and speaks with remarkable precision and grammatical accuracy for one so young.—Senatobia (Miss.) Express. _

Novelties in Winter Fashions. To FRANCE is universally conceded the prize in the race of fashion. This season she has been unwearied in her exertions to add novelties; and, not content with going back two or three ‘ hundred years in her own history for. unique models, she has gleaned styles from almost every country. An instance of the wide range represented by the toilets of fashionable women of to-day may be found in the palm leaf and cashmere effects in trimmings from Oriental countries; the Venetian colorings and patterns discernible in rich brocaded satins and embossed velvets; Chinese and Japanese effects shown in jewelry; passementeries glittering with iridescent beads, and borrowing their patterns from the Indians; the tartan plaids of Scotland, and the unprecedented use of furs after the approved fashion of the Esquimaux. The love of splendor is expressed in the display of satin, a material largely used in all elaborate costumes, of cloths of gold and silver, of galloons sprinkled with gold, and of bonnets of gold surrounded by bands of feathers, as perhaps it has not been shown before since the celebrated display on the Field of Gold. in the time of Francis 1. In illustration of the extent to which colors are'introduced in woman’s dress may be cited Worth’s latest fancy for violent eontrasts—as a seal brown dress trimmed with green; garnet coats cut low in the neck for evenini wear, and designed to be worn with skirts of opposing color; blue cloaks finished with bands of Indienne embroidered with gold thread: and ruby, wine, and gar-net-hued gloves. ~ Conspicuous among accessories of French origin lately imported here, and in high favor in Paris, is point Languedoc, which somewhat resembles Breton lace. . Into its meshes—which are either square like those of Valenciennes or round like those of thread lace—large figures are darned in cord shaded with fine thread. Its delicate tints of white, cream, ivory, or ecru imitate the soft, yellow appearance of old lace. Jabots of Languedoc, in shell shape on net foundation, copy not only in. form but in material those worn by the gallants and ladies of the court of Louis XVI. Fichus made of shirred point d’esprit net, upon which'is laid. several rows of lace in full box pleats, give a light and fluffy appearance. Capes of Languedoc are fashioned with large lace centers finished by a gathered edge of the ‘same; they are arranged toform asort of jabot at the front of the corsage, and may be fastened with flowers, ribbons, or jewels, as fancy dictates. A favorite style in breakfast caps is the square close shape finished with pleated lace garniture and two full rosettes of creamcolored satin fastened at the front by clusters of brilliants, For older ladies the Marie Antoinette coiffure composed of lace and ribbons is preferred. Imitations of point d’Alencon, and Valenciennes, with appliques outlined in gold, are attractive novelties. The Sara Bernhardt collarette of point d’esprit is noticeable chiefly for its profuse garni.ture of white satin ribbon. Bands composed of blocks of lace or embroidery, alternating with tucks, and edged with lace, are another attractive form of collarette. -

Sashes exhibit novel patterns, as for example those of white satin having broche edges and clusters of daisies dotted at intervals on the surface. A brilliant effect is presented by a satin sash composed of wide side stripes of blne and a central stripe of pink separated by an Ottoman cord of ecru color in Persian designs. A wine-colored ground, with broche pattern in deep cardinal, gives a peculiarly rich appearance. Broche Japanese designs of red, gold and blue on black or white grounds are novel and striking. Unique and graceful is the use of a soft sash and a scarf. It is passed around the neck and over in the corsage in front to the side, where it is tied below the waist in a huge bow. For little boys and girls white lace collars embroidered with pearls, and showing pendants at the front, are designed for house-wear; while deep, round-cornered collars of pleating and hemstitching are furnished to be worn over the outside of wraps. ' Roman sashes in bri(giht colors are the latest favorites for children. The usual dainty blue and pinks for babies’ wear come not only in plain colors but combined with narrow Roman stripes or overlaid with Persian patterns in soft colors. A very popular article in jewelry is the oblong scarf or lace pin, which is shown in %anciful designs and need not correspond with the other ornaments worn. All gold jewelry has for its base enamel or Roman gold wrought with leaves, flowers and other designs in gold of various hues. Amonég precious stones there is the usual demand for diamonds. Colored stones are rapidly fiaining the favor in which they are eld in Europe. The sapphire, turquoise and opal are much worn, and cameos and sardonyx are a%jxin popular. Beaten gold of rich' ye ow-‘cogor and showing indentations of the hammer, in which are set precious stones, is among the newest fashions in scarfins, bracelets and sleeve-buttons.—N. gf.,Evening\m&a, P bt

—lt takes great ability to run a rajlroad—in fact, great Vandability.

The Terins ¢¢ Badger” and ¢¢ Sucker.”” ITis popul_arly supposed that the term ‘‘Badger’’ was applied to our people and State because of the abundance of these animals within our borders, but! such is not the fact. Previous to 1835, there were, except at the military forts and missionary and trading stations, and in the lead mines of the southwest, very few white people located within the Territory. The characteristic term of ¢ Badger’’ arose in the lead region. The miners were of two grades—those who stayed all the year round at the ‘“diggings,” and those who came ip from Illinois only to operate during the summer season. ' The permanent residents, having but little time or material to construct regular huts, were acetistomed to burrow into the hill-sides semi-subterranean cells large enough for bunking and cookin% purposes. This peculiar mode of life, being similar to that of 'the badger—an animal then plentiful in the lead regions —suggested the term of ‘‘badger-holes,” as applied both to the'cavefiike’ homes and the sunken shafts of the resident miners, while the latter themselves were termed ‘‘Badgers.” On the other hand, the Illinois itinerants would come up in the: spring and - return in the fall, in the same manner as the ¢ sucker’’ fishes; being in the diggings but a short season, they did not sink regular shafts and burrow under the eart%palong the mineral veins, like the *‘Badger’ miners, but opened large quarry pits, seeking for “float-lead "and that ore which could be easily obtained near the surface. The itinerants were called ‘“ Suckers,”’ because of the similarity of their migratory hkabits to those of the catastomus, and to distinguish them from the resident ‘¢ Badgers;?’ while the open pits scooped out by the former were designated ¢ sucker-holes.”” The lead-mine region in Southwestern Wisconsin is still plentifully sprinkled with these ‘‘sucker-holes,”” exhausted and abandoned by the early visitors from the Illinois border. The distinguishing appellations, ¢ Badger”’ and ‘‘ Sucker’ became, as an obvious sequence, char‘acteristic terms applied to the entire ‘people of the States of Wisconsin and [lllinois, respectively, and' to ‘the State themselves. -It was, therefore, because of this time-honored and accepted designation of Wisconsin and its inhabitants that the badger was chosen as our jarmorial crest—and we became, officially as well as popularly, ¢ The Badger State.’— Wisconsin State Journal. ;

What Edison Claims to Have Accom- _ plished. e ' . NEW YORK, December 21. The Herald devotes a page to Edison’s ¢ Triumph in Electric Illumination,” giving a full and accurate account of his work from its inception to its completion, with illustrative diagrams. The Herald says: *¢The new light, incredible as it may appear, is produced from a little piece of paper—a tiny strip of paper that a breath would blow away. Through this little strip of paper is passed an electric current, and the result is a bright, beautiful, mellow light. ¢But the paper instantly burns, even under: the triflini heat of a tallow candle,’ exclaims the skeptie, ‘and how, then, can it withstand ‘the fierce heat of an : electric current?’ Very true; but Edison makes the little piece of paper more infusible than platinum—more durable than granite—and this involves no complicated process. The paper - is merely baked! in ‘an oven until * all its elements have pass- " ed away except its carbon framework. The latter is then placed in a glass globe connected with wires leading to the electricity-producing machine,; and the air exhausted from the globe. Then the apparatus is ready to give out a light that produces no deleterious gases, no smoke, no offensive odors—a light without flame, without danger, requiring no matches to ignite, giving out but little heat, vitiating no air, and free from all flickering—a light' that is a little globe of sunshine. And this light, the inventor claims, can be - produced cheaper than that from the cheapest oil. The inventor finds that the -electricity can be regulated with entire reliability at the central station, just as the pressure of gas is now regulated. The entire cost of constructing the lamp is not more ‘than twenty-five eents.’t . . ol i —Another American girl is to marry a nobleman. Whyis it that our girls refuse to support their own countrymen? There is a lack of patriotism somewhere.—Atlanta Constitution.

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