Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 33, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 December 1880 — Page 2

, , e AP . Che Ligonicer Bamuer, ' ’,J. B-.TSTOI;, lédllor and Ifrop’l;; LIGONIER; S o : INDIANA.

NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, - Domestic. It was reported on the 24th that the Erie Canal was obstructed by five inches of ice between Buffalo and Lockport. ¥ Brick Pomeroy’s former partner in the publication "of the La Crosse Deinocrat has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiaty for forgery. = o Two MEN were! killed and three others seriously injured on the 26th by the falling of a_scaflémzat,the Harlem Railroad Bridge, near New York City. | : Tue Chicago & Pacific branch of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad has been completed to Lanark, about fifteen miles from the Mississippi Riyver. - L MicHAEL KURtz, of Detroit, bet he could drink a pint of cheap whisky. IHe won; but an i,nquest was soon after held on his remains. : . ; . Tue annual report of the Register of the Treasury states that the total tonnage®of the country exhibits a decrease of 101,566 tons, the enrolled tonnage having increased 37,751 tons, while the registéred .tonnage decreased 133,723 tons. ‘Re:ierring to ship-building, the Register shows' that in the past . year the amount-of building has heen less by 35,620 tons than that of the preceding year. WiiLe James Johnson, a wealthy gentleman of Lakewopd, N. J., with his daughter-in-law and her infant child, was. driving across a railroad at that point on the 26th, a train came along, broke the carriage in pieces, killed the horses and threw the occupantssome twenty feet forward, fatally iujuring.Mr. Johmson and his, daughter-in-law. The baby escaped uphurt. - Or the £528,100,950 worth of United States registered four-per-cent. bonds, $271,435,000 worth are held by citizens of ‘our own coun-_ try, and $6,831,450 worth by foreigners and foreign banking establishments. The National Banks bold $136,526,700, and other banks and trust companies hold $113,3006,900. Of the $170,280,000 registered 4lg-per-cent. bonds, our citizens Hold $72,010,900, and foreigners hold only $5,157,550. The National Banks own $39,461,950, and other bank and trust companies $563,620,400. Of the bonds heldyin our own country, 19 9-10 per cent. are held in the Eastern States, 64 4-10. in the Middle States, 14 2-10 in the Western States, and 3 5-10 per cent. in the Southern States. About 30 per cent. of the bonds leld in the Eastern States are owned by women, 19 per cént. by the women in the Middle and Western States, 22 per cent. in the Southern States. - IT was stated on the 26th that 1,000 men had been thrown out of work at Albany, N. Y., on apcount of low water. \

A New Yorxk dispatch of +the 26th says 900 canal boatls, 600 of which ure grain-laden, ‘were frozen in on the Erie Canal. In the Champlairfli Canal 125 boats, loaded chiefly with potatees, were ice-locked. On'the other New York canals some twenty-five boats were fast in the ice. On the Delaware & Hudson ‘Canal the jce was six inches thick. - Frrry saicks of mail matter were: recently burned on the Texas Pacific Railroad. ~ Ox the 28th Miss Carrie Haines, of Fair~mount, IL, being dés'pnndent over a love affair, thrdw herself in front of a passenger train and was crushed to death. ! " Tmr Chipago T'ribune .of the 28th says: ‘““Never in the history of the country has there been such | difiiculty experienced in shipping Western jroducts to the Eastern markets and to the seaboard. The railroad companigs are unable ta handle one-filth of the ftreight which is offered to them, and they have notified shippers that they will reeeive only per‘ishable gqods.” L "THERE gre 137 coal mines in Indiana, which give employment to 3,259 men. A Mgs., Mary DinLoN, who was born in Limeriék,_lrela‘nd, in 1769, died at Logansport, Ind., a fewdays ago. She was 111 years oldi ' : : A MAN named Baasham has for some months lain in jail at Kansas City, Mo., on suspicion of being one of the robbers of atrain at Giendale, Moj; in 1870, At his trial on the £7th De pleaded guilty, and gave the details of the crime and the names of the participants. On ‘his cohfession two men, named Tally and Rose, were arrested at Independence, Mo., for a sharein the enterptise. = : ' Tug public sentiinent of New York would not permit- the presentation in that city of the ‘‘ Passion Play,”’ and the manager of the ‘echeme announced its withdrawal on the 27th. v . : . SoME ¢ighteen months ago an alliance was formed li’octw@eu the six Methodist Churches of Detrait for the purpose of paying ofl their indebtedness, which ranged from $l,lOO to SI2,QDO on each church, aggrecating $35, - 500. - This amount. has been fully. paid, and on Thanksgiving Day-a jubilee was held at the Central Church. Moere than 3,000 men, wonien and children Irom the different churches and their Sunday-schools were present. | The effort was ‘a unique one, the stronger cheerfully helping the weaker, the complete enfranchisement of all being thus effected. i g Israen M. FARrRr & SON, one of the heaviest grain firms in Baltimore, suspended payment on the 27th. - : A ¥EW days ago an azed citizen%f Laurinburg, N..C., tied two little grandchildren ose to the fireplace and went out te pick cotton. The clothing of -the infants teok fire, and they pcrish_b‘?‘almo st before his eyes. Tur population of Vermont is 332,286, a gain of 1,735 over 1870. There are in the State 991 females to 1,000 males. . The native population has incereased 8,000, while the foreign has decreased to the extent of 6,000. There are in the State 1,032 negroes and 11 Indiats.| - = " e A BOILER exploded in “Moore’s foundry ‘at .Charlotte; Mich., on the 27th, and caused the death of three persons and the severe scalding and bruising of four others. = L. C. B. YorGEY, Dr. ¥. 8. Herman and Wellington and Samuel "Shirey, of Pottstown, Pa., were arrested on the 27thon a charge dof having. defrauded the Prudential Mutual Aid Sotiety of Harrisburg by obtaining fraudulent. life-insurance on the life of a dying woman. : o

- Personal and Political. TuEe remains of the late Governor of Indiana (Williams) were buried in the cemetery on his homestead at Wheatland on the 25th. - : _ THE official canvass of the vote of Indiana shows the following result: Garfield, 282,164; Hancock, 225,522, Weaver, 12,986. Garfield’s plurality 6,642. The result shows that, after all, the Republican candidate for Elector in the Eizlith District has been elected, and the total Blectoral voté of Indiana will therefore be cast for Garfield, =~ - {o

. Jupce HiLy, of the United States Court at Jackson, Miss., has disgisséd the charges of fraud preferred against;r the Democratic Committee of the Rixth Congressional District. “Tue vote of Maine, cTflicially announced, is a§ follows: Garfield, (74,039; Hancock, 65,171; Weaver, 4,480; --)g)ow, 92; scattering, 127. Total vote, 143,929. Garfield’s majority over all, 4,169; over H ‘ncoc‘.\', 8,865, PRESIDENT HAYES 0} ‘the 26th appeinted Ellis L..Bierbower United States Marshal for the District of Nlebraska, and Almont Barnes, of Vermont, U'uited States Consul to Curacoa. o s

‘Howrace ,\WaitE and| F. W. Whitridge, a delegation- of the Independent Republican Association of New York, called on General Garfie!d at his »reside:}:e in Washbington on the 26th, and presented a paper on the subject'of Civil-Service Reform; signed by the Executive Committee ¢f the Independent Republican Association 43} the County of New York. The Committek express the belief. ‘‘that publi¢ ojinion i.si in advance of any reform of the Civil Rervi¢e hitherto attempted, and that you may safely establish rules for entrance to all suborjiuate positions which shall = make ascerfained merit the sole test of appointment, discarding both parz tisan service and party afliliation from the list of qualificat?ons.}’ General Garfield, having received the paper, entered upon the discussion of the Civil Service, in the course of which he said he hoped to have the co-. operation of Congressjin establishing a legal basis for all routine 'appointments, so that it should ndt be in the power of anybody, even | the President, to rempve any capable an faithful appointee during his term of oflice, whether the term be lopg or short. - - Tue Presidential _voftev in Wisconsin has been oflicially declared as follows: Total vote, 2G7,196. Garfield, 144,400: Hancock, 114,649;] - Weaver, 7,986; anti-Masonic, 913 Prohibition, 69; seattering, 1. Garfield-over Hauncock, 29,751; over all, 21,604. 1 {

Fo_rtgn. ' Ox the 24tht the ngrks, after an encacement lasting eight Lours, captured and occupied Dulcigno, and| notified the Montenegrips that they wouldt surrender it to them on demand. - - i Tie recent gale off{the coast of Newfoundland was the most destruetive in the history of the colony. Over twenty vessels were lost. . NEGOTIATIONS fOor peace between Chili and Peru have come to ajdead stop because the former power demangled a large slice of Peruvian territory as indemnity for the past adcll security for the future. , SIXTY persous have been arrested at Westport, Ireland,, for threatening resistance to an eviction.. On thef 25th an attempt was made to shoot Captain John Mitchell, ‘who had rented a -fai'my in Roscommon, and a Protestant clergyman in Tipperary was fired upon. ! _ A TengrAN dispatich of the 24th says three hundred of .the Kuidish prisoners had been beheaded by the Persians and their heads exposed on the wallis of Tabreez. ~ Tae Montenegring occupied the chief positions in Dulcigno on the 26th without serious opposition. “1& o ‘ L Tup natives of e Samoan Islands have revolted .against. King Malitoa, who was placed on the throng by the foreign consuls. Ix the battle which preceded the taking of Duleigno the Turks lost 300 killed and wounded and the Albanians 400. JonN Brieum, the distinguished Liberal member of the British ' Cabinet, states that there is no reason T appreliend serious trouble in Ireland. He says the Government will introduce Land-reform bills at the coming session of Paleit}ment, which, in his opinion, will afford a, complete remedy for the evils 80 long complained of. ; Tye German Government hasdeclared Berlin and the neighboring towns in a state of siege for dnother ygar. i MiLitarY and political circles in London were intensely ex¢ited on the 28th overan order issued by thg British War Department directing the sending of a detachment of the Coldstream (Juard'E to Ircland. There is a tradition in England that the Guards never leave the country unless they go for blood. - Axo'nmnthip—l ad of Socialists left Hamburg for New York on the 28th. o

- LATER NEWS, AcCCORDING to the official and semi-official announcements’ 'ofl the vote in all the States the total vote for-l{’x'esidcnt at the late election was as follows: For -Garfield, 4,439,719; Hancock, 4;436,060; Weaver, 305729; Dow, 9,644, Scattering, 3,793.- Total, 9,192,945. The total vote in 1876 was 8,414,107, of which Tilden ' received 4,3;‘1,2&3; flu)'es, 4,033,295, Cooper; 81,7375 '8 )ith, 9,529, . -Alrits session in Washington on the 27th uft. 'the National Grange determined to maintain an oflice in tliut city, to be kept open for the transaction of business connected with the Grange and |to be.in charge of Mr. Ireland, Secretary of the National Grange. It was decided to hold the next National Convention also in | Washington on -the third Wednesday of N({vembe_r, 1881. At Jersey City, N. J., a few days ago a lad twelve years of aF:,e plunged into the Morris Canal to rescue two girls, iespéctively -three and five years of ige, who had.broken through: the ice. ;The plucky little fellow got both ashore, but not until the younger of 'the children was deai}f i | . Hox. Groree; B. RosinsoN, Lieutenant-‘Governor-elect: o} Colorado, who was mistaken by a guard near Leadville for a ‘claimjumper and fireci upon, died of the injuries received on the morning of the 20th ult. Mr. Robinson was formerly engazed in banking at Kalamazoo, I\[ich. o

- PRESIDENT HAYES issued a proclamation on the 29th ult), stating that it had been satisfactorily shown by China that no discriminating duties were imposed against the: United States, and declaring that. in conse‘quence all diseriminating tonnage and import duties against| Chinese vessels, manufactures and merchandise are discontinued, pursuant to treaty, v S : - THE aunnouncement is' made that a party of New York capitalists have purchased over half a million acres of land’in New Mexico, and propose to colonize it with negroes carefully selected in the South. The colored people are to be charged the Government rate for farms, be given ample time to pay for them, and aided in developing themselves and their children to their fullest capacity. : ! . ' S . B. Rusu RoBERTS, a leader among the Quakers, and the oldest member of the Indian Commiss“.on,_.'died a few nights ago at his home in Maryland. i i _ DurixG the past season the New York State canals earned $1,155,000 in tolls. - It was thought on the morning of the 30th ult, that there was very little likelthood that the ice-locked boats could be moved this season. Ix consideration of his discharge on his own 'recognizancé, Brockway, the famous counterfeiter, has, it is alleged, surrendered to the Secret Service Bureau twenty-five plates from which spurious bonds have been printed. e or THEe Chief of the Naval Construction Bureau reports a total of 139 vessels in the United States Navy, | i

- INDIANA STATE NEWS. SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Brapy, has offered John C. New & Son $1.0,0.0 for the Indianapolis Journal. » : A FARMER’S boy in Gibson County led the horse to water and thoughtlessly put his own head in a noose at the other end of the halter. The horse becoming scared, dragged the boy headforemost, and dashed his brains out against a log. . , THE new building for the use of the colored schools in Lafayette is to be completed on or before January 1. : ‘- : ON the afternoon of the 20th, Hon. Walter March, of Muncie, while sitting in his law oftice in that city, was stricken with paralysis and fell unconscious, in which condition he remained up to the evening of the following day, with small prospect of recovery. ' JAMES FINNEGAN, of Lozansport, once one of the most prosperous business men of that cily, has been declared insaneand danZerous, and ordered to be removed to the Indianapolis. Asylum. Strong drink ruined him. GENEraL HAavYES’ barn at Gosport was totally destroyed by fire the other morning, supposed to be the work of an incendiary. It contained four thousand Lushels of corn and three tons of hay. : LEMUEL BLAKE, of Lake Station, left home on the 19th at 3 p. m. to go hunting, and was found by friends at 11 p. m. forty rods from home, the top of his head blown entirely off. He was unmarried, and aged thirty years..

Ox the afternoon of the 19th the westbound train on the Wabash struck an open switch at Burrows Station, about twentyeight miles east of Lafayette, throwing locomotive No. 3353 -on its side and piling up eight freight-cars. = The engineer, Charles Babeock, was after scveral hours’ work taken out unconscious, and died in two minutes. Fireman Rodman was seriously injured internally. Brakeman Jack Reardon had a leg mashed off, and died. - . Tne Atforney-ireueral has given the following opinion touching interest on delinquent taxes: : ; s b ; As I construe the second section of the amendment of 1879 to.scetion 172 of the tax law, the November installiment stands for one year with the simple addition of a penalty. After that it draws six per c¢ent. interest. The April .installmgnt draws interest after the third Mouday i April, which interest is to be added and carried out on the dilinguent list annually afier each November settlement of the taxes due and unpaid the prfviou% April, ',l‘b(; practical result of this is that the April delinquency draws interest while the November delinguency does not until a year afterthe dclinqémn(-y. Why this is solam unable to suy. Up to what time, you ask, is this interest to be added? Evidently the Auditor adds interest up to the time when by law he makes out hig delinquent list, and the Treasurer colleets interest from that time up the time of payment. IfSmith orJones comes in in January and pays delinquent taxes, 1 should say the Treasurer should charge ten per cent. penalty, and no interest, until after a year, upon the November instaliment. It the land goes to sale the interest is to be computed up to the second Monday in February, the day of the sule.” In making computation be guided by the above rule, viz: Add interest upon the Aprit delinqueney from its date, and upon the November delinquency: one year after -the dlinquency. D P, BAUDWING “Attorney-General. A MAXN registering his name as J. H. Meek; at the Harmon House. in Fort Wayne, was found dead in his bed on the morniig of the 25th. A bottle of morphine was found on his person and the jury conciuded that he committed suicide. ! e WHEN Judge Francis Wilson opened a'term of court in' Bloomington, Monroe County, the other day, one of his first acts was to set azide, the entire jurv panel, becauses it was composed wholly of Democrats. The Judge is himself a Democrat, but he said that a jury consisting of the followers of but one political faith should be discountenanced.

A scHOOL-TEACHER at’ Mount Sterling, Switzerland County, named . Isaac Richards, was seriously cut.in thearm by a refractory pupil named George McMakin, whom he attempted to chastise. The boy escaped into Kentucky, and Richards is in a critical condition. : ' ‘ - THE cold earth now covers Jumes D. Willfams, late Governor of Indiana.’ At one o’clock on the afternoon of the 25th the last sad rites were performed. The body' remained at the old homestead the previous night. The funeral sermon over the grave was delivered by Rev..J. M. Harbin, pastor of the Methodist Church at Wheatland. The grief of the relatives as they witnessed the earth shoveled upon the coffin was heartrendng, - o AT a late meeting of the State Bar Association Asa Iglehurt, of Evansville, was chosen President, John Morris, of Fort Wayne, VicePresident, Charles: W. Smith and Napoleon B. Taylor, ‘of Indianabolis, Secrei'ary and Treasurer, respectively. : : A FEW days ago while Mrs. J. N. Doolittle, of Logansport, was serubbirg, a two-year-old child accidentally fell into a tub of boiling water and was horribly burned about the limbs and body. , It expired in great agony on the following day. - - THE prisoners confined in the Porter County jail at Valparaiso made an abortive effort, for liberty on the evening of the 25th. . Thcyi were Brainard Taft, for the murder of John Dutton; Frank Howard, alleged horse thief; Mike -Hogan, clothing thidf, and Thomas Mitchell, burglar. The sewer-holes in the. cells, about six inches in diameter, had been cemented up. One of them they dug out, and forming a basket of iron straps, built a fire in it, and intended, when the stone was thoroughly heated, to throw cold water upon it, crack it, let it drop in the cellar, and walk out. Sheriff Dickson noticed they were unusually active, and, expecting some scheme, crawled under the cells and discovered the fire. The prisoners were very much chagrined. ' Inthebedding of Howard the Sheritt discovered a knife, transformed into a saw, which had been introduced from the outsidae in some way. In Mitchell’s tick was a murderous bar of iron taken from the iron bedstead, the intended use of which is obvious.

Tue death rate at the Insane Asylum is startling. In 1878 there were 1,084 inmates, and the rate was 5 3-10; in 1880 there were 1,543 inmates, and the per cent. is alleged to be 9 3-10. ; . ' HoG cHOLERA of a violent type has been reported by breeders in several sections of the State. e < Tue Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 4214 @423{c; Oats, '32%@35¢c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, sl.lo@ 1.10}g;. Corn, 47} 4@slc; Oats, 37@38c; Rye, [email protected]%4; Barley, 98c@$1.00. |

- —Here’s another chance for farmers’ boys. The cat’s tail that grows so plenteously in our swamps is becoming quite an article of commerce. It is used extensively with grasses and other lants in decorating the interior of Eouses. A Providence (R. L.) firm has laid in a stock this season of 3,000, A

—A snow-goose, the first one shot in thirty-eight years in that vicinity, has just been killed at St. John, N. B, In appearance it very much resembles a huge sea-gull, but hasall the distinctive features of a common goose, the only difference being that it is not quite so heavy. o :

s o Domoeratie Vitality, < - We observe that some Republican | papers—mainly, however, of the rural gersuasion-a‘re predicting the early issolution and final wiping out of the Democratic party. As this prediction has been put forth at various times and ‘with various degrees of emphasis and assurance for the past twenty years, it may be regarded as somewhat stale; and therefore it is, we presume, that none of the more intluential Republican organs indulge in a repetition of what has been so repeatedly falsified by the facts. ¢ Oft doomed to. death, ‘yet. fated not to die,”’ can be said more iruly of the Democratic party than of | any other political organization: the country has ever scen, or is likely to see. A vitality- which has “survived such internal disruption as that of 1860, such elements of demoralization as those that prevailed during the war, six successive Presidentis fefeats, including the Presidential fraud, which was worse than defeat—may be considered practically mvulnerable. If we add to all these external trials the severer one of the knaves and fools who have used and abused the party for their own purposes—the false friends { infinitely more dangerous than the most powerful and vindictive enemies —Demoecratic life becomes little short of a miracle, and it is difiicult to imagine any combination of circumstances which will suspend the miracle. | To those who study politics from what may be termed the philosophical standpoint, the secret of this unconquerable vitality is easily discovered. The bed-rock upon which the Democratic party rests existed long before the Federal Constitution was framed, or even National independence achieved. It was in the mind of Thomas-Jefferson and other apostles of human liberty in Europe as well as America, while England and her colonies were still united in apparently indissoluble bonds, and when popular government was yet only a bright and seemingly unrealizable dream. This bed-rock is simply the rights, power and wisdom of the people in their broadest and best sense. Linf coln, though he went—unwillingly, we believe—widely astray = in practice, enunciated the Democratic theory with absolute correctness in ‘the famous sentence, ‘‘a Government of the people, by the people, and Tor the people.” This is Jeffersonian Demoeracy of the straightest and purest sort. The Hamil- - tonian Federalism—which Mr. Garfield so much admires and his party has virtually adopted—is a Government of radically difterent character. 1t is a “strong Government;’ the strength coming from those centralizing tendencies = which invariably = and inevitabty .diminish ‘and at last absorb the rights and power of the people. It is a ‘‘splendid Government;"’ the splendor' being at the expense of the people’'s pocket. and intended to blind their eyes tothegradual loss of their liberties—a loss for which there’ is no remedy save revolution. In a Republi¢, therefore, there must always be a Demoeratic party; that is, a party which represents the Jeflersonian theory of government as opposed to the Hamiltonian. When the Democratic party dies, the Republic will have ceased to exist. The name ‘“Democratic’’ is nothing, and another might be substituted whenever desirable. The Democratic party of Jeiferson’s day was called ‘Republican.” But the principles are everything, and when these are abandoned popular ,government will be in its coflin. If the present Democratic party were to “disband, as did its gallant rival the Whig, within six months it would: have a successor embodying, no matter how much disguised, the same essential and fundamental ideas. And while Democrati policy may be this, that, or the oth¢r thing—and is occasionally. something thereverse of Democratic—the principle is immutable and immortal; *‘the same yesterday, to-day and forever.”” } It is easy, therefore, for the dullest. of our Republican friends to see that ! though they have beaten the Democratic candidate for the Presidency for the ~sixth successive time (including the fraud) they are no nearer destroying the Democratic party than when Fre“mont was nominated. They have merely thrown down the India-rubber ball ‘again, and may now watch it bdunce once more—as it has bounced nine times in the last eighty <years. This ‘“bouncingness,” if we may coin.a word, is illustrated in the invincible good-nature . with which Democrats have borne their latest defeat. They are not sour and sullen as were Republicans after the Maine suiprise. They show none of that Republican spirit which Grantmanifested (before Indiana) when he said, in substance, that in ‘event of Democratic victory the North would watch Congress and the new Administration jealously, and if they went wrong (that is, not to suit Republicans) “¢ would rise up and put a stop to'it.” The Democracy, sadly disappointed indeed, but not in the least disheartened, contemplate the future with perfect complacency; able to stand anything the rest of the people can stand, and knowing that the people will as ‘surely sooner or later come to them on their ‘bed-rock principle as the Mississippi flows to the sea. ' Republicans are compelled to be always looking round for ‘an issue.” Democrats have theirs always at hand; an issue as old as the first dawn of popular government, and destined to last as long as & vestige of popular government lingers upon the earth.—S¢. Louis Republican. _

——d Jewell ought to be happy, but it isn’t at all likely that he'js. The recollections of-his letter to Garfield, and his guileless innocence in letting 77ruth get Rold of it, will embitter his existence for many a long day. 2

——Which is to be cheated? Grant, Conkling, Cameron & Co., or Schurz, Curtis, McVeigh & Co.? It cannot be ““good Lord, good Devil” with you much longer, Mr. Garfield.—Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot. e

——Garfield’s election is simply dn invitation for everybody to steal from the Government as much as possible, and then to commit perjury in order to sereen himself. : i

——The Republican ‘“business men’’ are safe now. Gartield and free trade will cause a great boom in merchandise of all kinds, including imported C 00... iubor. e

: ‘ . MISCELLANEOUS. —There are 400,000 Scotch people in London. ; ; 7 —A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, man has just ended a lawsuit of fortytW‘fl’ years’ standing and recovered six cents damages. ( ; +A gentleman writes to the London Stc@ndurd that cats can be trained to retrieve game as dogs do. When he takes his gun in his hand his three eats are in ecstacies in anticipation of sport. . —That gigantic floating palace, the Liiadia, made, in passing from Cork to Gibraltar, upward of seventeen miles an hour, while there was a total absence of any disagreeable ‘motion, her ¢ pitch” beirng but one degree. This may lead to a great change in ship building. —A " piece of snobbery which would (1i;-;;race the smallest potato court in Europe has just been perpetrated at Ax‘iington. N. J: Tt consisted in the ousting of two respectable young girls from a literary and musical society with a big name because they worked for a living and did domestic drudgery. ~—Mr. Riley Kittridge, of Belfast, Me., hals’a postal card upon one side of which he has written clearly 4,008 words, comprising the entire books ;of Jonah and Malachi and the fifth, sixth and a part of the seventh Psalm. Mr. Kittridge recently sent a postat card to each candidate for President and Vice-President, the six cards containing almost 15,000 words. . . —So many tenants. on the Duke of Murlborough's Oxfordshire property ‘have given up their farms that he has over 5,000 acres unoccupied and thrown on his own hands. Many other large landlords in the country are in a similar predicament and in Warwickshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire thingsare even worse. In fact, the number of acres now unoccupied in England is almost ineredible. : i i

—*“Wiener wurst” lis a common street cry in Cincinnati, being used by venders of Viennasausage. These men have little stands at the street corners, provided with a ‘vessel for keeping the sausage hot by means of steam, a box for German rye bread and a jar for horseradish. For five cents they. sell a steaming link of sausage, _l'est.ing on a slice of bread, with horseradish sprinkled over it. The sausage is made of thiree parts of beef to one of pork. : —Few 'persons outside of England, where coursing is one of the national sports, have any idea of the' value of greyhounds. . At a recent sale ten dpgs + brought - 711 , guineas, the highest being sold for 400 guineas and tlhie lowest for ten guineas. This\is not in‘excess of former sales, Bedlamite: anpd Peasant Boy, two well-known hpunds each having brought 500 guineas and for Master McGrath, probably the njost famous dog ever bred in England h},s owne>, Lord Lurgon, was offered the sum of £4,000. —ln the city of Dublin there are 24,000 families, averaging five members, who are each living in a single room. ‘lhe-death rate of the city is forty per 1,000, which is equivalent to sixty per 1,000 in the tenement-house districts. I?}h_ese' two facts, the enormous- number of families living in a single room and the high death rate, prove that the horrors and dangers of Irish distress have mnot been exaggerated. These families of five shut up each in a single room depend for support on waces of from ten to seventeen English shillings a week. , 5 ’ |—A Washington letter writer says: How some of the poor Governmernt clerks are overworked is illustrated in an order just issued by -Commissioner Bentley, prohibiting clerks whose windows open on the north from shooting rubber bands at the chickens in' a yard adjacent to the Pension Office. The clerks have been in the habit of amusing themselves by making targets of the chickens. They got up quite a rivalry s to who was the best marksman. The g’ihickens didn’t complain; on .the contrary, they took the bands for worms and ate them. Several of them died. E‘i‘he owner could not aceount for their demise. In a spirit of investigation he cut them open and found them stuffed with rubber bands. He soon learned where the rubber came from, and made complaint to Commissioner Bentley.

~ Curiosities of the Voice. 1 Dr. Delauney in a paper read recentlv before the French Academy Medi--¢ine, gives some details on the histery and limits of the human voice, which he obtained after much patientresearch. According to the doctor, the primitive inhabitants of Europe were all tenors; their descendants of the present day ‘baratones and their grandsons will have semi-bass voices. Looking at different races, he calls attention to the fact that inferior races, such as the negroes, etc., have higher voices than “white men. The voice has also a tendency to deepen with age—the tenor of sixteen becoming the baritone at twen-ty-five, and bass at thirty-five. Faircomplexioned . people have higher voices than/the dark skinned; the former being nsually sopranos ov tenors the latter contraltos or basses.

| ““Tenors,”” says the doctor, ¢ are slenderly built and thin; basses are stoutly made and corpulent.” This may be the rule, but one is inclined to think there are more exceptions to it than are necessary to prove the rule.’ The same remark that applies to the assertion that thoughtful, intelligent . men have always a deep-toned voice; whereas triflers and frivolous persons have soft, weak voices. The tones of the voice are perceptibly higher, he | points out, before than after a meal, which is the reason why,tenors dine early in order that their voices may not sufier. Prudent singers eschew strong drinks and spirituous liquors, egpecially tenors, but the basses can eat and drink generally with impunity. #<The South,”’ says the doctor, **furhishes the tenors, the North the basses;”’ in proof of which he adds that the ma'?sority of French tenors come from the South of France, whilst the basses belong to the Northern Department.

' —The scientists say that shutting the eyes improves the hearing. This is probably the reason, says the Buffalo Ezpress, why some men always wink at you when you talk politics to them.

. —Sealskin sacques are worn short. A man is also short after he buvs one..

U 7 The Heart of a'Fish.” THE heart of a fish is a simple chain of chambers, instead of the complex quadrilocular organ which cireulates the blood of a quadruped; yet it performs the same . office, and performs it sufficiently. well. ‘for the fish's needs. In the same way, the organ of hearing of a fish is simple, but it.contains all that is absolutely essential for hearing, viz., an auditory saccuius, full of fluid, and containing’ small bones; or *‘oboliths’’ (usually two in . number; and comparatively large), and three large semi-cir-cular canals. ~All vertebrates above fishes have oboliths and three ‘semi-cir-cular canals, but higher animals add thereto a spiral® cochlea, a tympanum with its chain of bones to communicate vibrations; and ‘an external ear. Any argument against the ability of a‘fish to hear, based on the simplicity of the organ of hearing, might equally well be used to prove that a fish cannot breathe, swim nor digest, because the organs it possesses for these purposes are simpler than ours, or are built on a. slightly different plan. Sure of the presence of an organ of ‘hearing, sure also of certain special - adaptations of that organ in- some groups’ of fishes, we may be certain that such conclusions as those commented on are not due to the fish’s want of - hearing -so much as man’s inabllity to reason correctly from insufficient preniises. The. microphone has gone far tosard proving what philosophers had previously become convinced of by deductive reasoning, that there is no motion without sound; and therefore that'sound is presentin numberless instances ‘not evident to our senses. Lor our pereeption of sound we are dependent upon our semse of hearing, which is.adapted only toa certain range. of sounds; and this . range differs in human individuals; for we all kuow that some other. persons hear sounds that are. impereeptible "to us. Still more is-this true of other animals; they may hear.what we cannot, yet be deaf to sounds audible to us. Strict experiments upon the hearing of ‘fishes have yet to be made. Most of the observations yet -made are faulty, either because, first, the observer has supposed that the fish ought, if it can hear, to notice the sound he makes for the purpose; or, second, he | has- argued, from the standpoint of his ewn' senses, that-if a fish hears, the range of.its hearing must he .nearly the same as his own. e ' . -

Weak Woman vs. Tyrant Man., HERE is an illustration of what canl be done by a defenseless, weak and unproteeted -woman - when 'left alone to deal with the tyranny of heartless men. It was in Booth’s Theater last Saturday aftermoon. A woman’ - entered. with seven companions, and took possession of eight orchestra -chaiis. Presently eight other claimants of the same seats came along. There was a comparison of tickets, "and ,it was found that the party in possession held tickets for the matinee of the preceding Wednesday. Explanation was folio'wefi' by expostulation, and this in tnrn “by denunciation. All in vain. ‘The manager was sent for. ‘*Madam,’’ said he, ‘you must relinquish these seats. Your tickets are valueless.” *“That iz no fault/of mine.. I paid for them, and mean to keep them." . ¢«“Madam, I “insist.)’ = The enemy said nothing, but sat still.. The manager argued, appealed; implored, offered other seats, offered a stage-box, offered compromise onany terms, while the rightful owners of the seats looked and thought unspeakable things. - Said the g:u'risor}':; f‘T ell you '_v.vha_t I’'ll.do; cr-i\’r.eT me two season tickets for Rernhardt in a good part of the house, and I willsarrender.” The manager -gasped, uttered a blessing beneath his breath, bowed and declined to continue the conversatign. Then he retired in exceedingly bad order. -He did not get the seats, but did issue another set of free admissions to pacify the original proprietors. ~N. Y. Bveming Post.: . |

CHARLES DUDLEY 'WARNER, having . much newspaper work to do, devotes only "his Saturdays to' magazine and ¢ book-writing. - He was.born in Magssachusetts, and is fifty-oneyears-old. He practiced law in Philadelphia and in Chicazo, meanwhile ‘doing considerable literary work, uatil-aboutthe beginning of the war, when he became an editor in Hurtford. His thick hair and beard are gray, but he appears young. Heis of medium height, and grave, thoughtful and refined. - o o

“WHAT does a woman want to put on gloves in hot weather for?”’ asks a male . subscriber. © Why té kecp her hand in, stunid. —Baston Post. - .

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