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Oxe of the most wanton and brutal cases of torture to a live animal ever recorded, has occurred in Shrewsbury, England. A farmer was convicted of having cut out a hen's " crop " while she was alive. She was found living next jnorning, with her chest cut open. When interrogated about his motive, he said he had lo:st a bag of wheat, and, suspecting a neighbor, had cut out the crop of one of his fowls to obtain proof of the theft. He was fined five shillings.

The opposition of some French physicians to vaccinate has led to disastrous results in Montreal. According to the Daily Witness 7S4 persons died from small-pox in that city last year, 653 being French Canadians. Although Montreal has no miasma, but a plentiful supply of pure water, there were 6,763 deaths from all causes registered in 1875, or more than 40 per 1,000, so Montreal now figures as the least healthy city in America. The German Government is about to repeal the law prohibiting the exportation of horses. This law was passed a year ago when Bismarck got a littie nervous lest the French might go again on the war path, because he discovered that they were buying horses in Germany, and a French paper was silly enough, to boast that " in 1876 we should have a stock of 360,000 stand of improved chassepots and 100,000,000 cartridges." The National Museum of Bucharest has been robbed of its principal treasure, the famous golden hen and her chickens. The group which was of pure gold, profusely adorned with precious stones, and weighed thirty-four pounds was of ancient workmanship, and was dug up some years ago at Petrosa. The robbers also carried away the massive golden amphora and pedestal which came from Petrosa. A portion of the broken head of t'jte golden hen was found in the snow outside the museum building:. Oxe of the New York Herald's correspondents has taken that journal to task for speaking of Mrs. Lowery, the female preacher, as a "converted actress," which the correspondent thinks implies a reproach to the theatrical profession. The Herald insists, however, that there is no implication of reproach in the word " converted," and clinches its argument with the following unanswerable illustration : " Corn is often converted into whisky, yet no one thinks the change implies any condemnation to the grain." A mass of ninety million tons of pure, solid, compact rock-salt, located on an inland one hundred and eighty-live feet high, which rises from a miserable seamarsh on the route from Brashear to New Iberia, up the River Teche, in Louisiana, is one of the wonders of the world. How this island, containing over three hundred acres of excellent land ever came into existence in such a locality is a matter ot conjecture. vegetation is prolific, and the scenery is beautiful and varied. Here is an immense bed of pure rock-salt whose extent is as yet only estimated, and scientific men are puzzled to know what produced it. Akd now comes Mr. James C. Wingard with a new arrangement for blow ing up ships. Says Mr. Wingard : " By the aid of a powerful agent, which is nameless, I am enabled to destroy vessels made of iron, or otherwise, so as to leave no trace of them in their former shape, and that, too, without approaching nearer than five miles, unless it may be desirable to operate at a shorter distance." He proposes to make a practical test of his invention, which is a secret with him, at New Orleans, and he wants $200 to buy an old schooner and $600 more for other expenses. If he is successful the parties furnishing the means for the experiments must give him $100,000, they to receive a certain interest in his patent. Among the subjects which will come up in the English Parliament during the pession just begun, will be that of wo man sufiraee. Last winter, when a vote was taken in the House of Commons on the bill to enable unmarried women to vote for members of Parliament, the measure was defeated by a vote of 152 in favor to 187 against, a majority of only 35, which was very encouraging to the advocates of the bill. Disraeli himself voted in favor of the bill. Among the prominent Liberals who favor the measure are Professor Henry Fawcett, Jacob Bright, and Dr. Lyon Playfair. The English Society for the Attainment of Woman Suffrage has been earnestly at work for nine years, and has besieged Parliament with petitions at every session. The English women seem likely to obtain suffrage before their sisters in thiscountry do.

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I know not what may befall nie, God hangs a mist o'er my eves, And before each step of my onward way, He makes new scenes to rise ; And every joy he sends me comes As a sweet and glad surprise. I see not step before me, As I trace the day of the year ; But the past is still in God's keeping, The future His mercy shall cheer, And what looks dark in the distance, May brighten as I draw near. For perhaps the dreadful future Has less bitter than I think ; The Lord may sweeten the water Before I stoop to drink ; Or, if Marah must be Marah, He will stand beside the brink. It may lie He has waiting For the coming of my feet, Some gift of such rare blessednef s, Some joy so strangly sweet, That my life can only tremble With the thanks I cannot speak. ITy heart shrinks back from trials AVbich the future may disclose, Yet I never had a sorrow But what the dear Lord chose ; And I sent the coming tears back With the whispered words, " He knows." So I go on, not knowing ; I would not if I might : I would rather walk with God in the dark Than go a!one in the light. I would rather walk with Him by faith Than walk alone by fight. Tin: aoon oijD ti.jies. Old Peter Piper lived in an old-fash ioned house, which had seen ever so many generations of Pipers. His principal business was to talk of those " good old times." He detested everything new all new notions, all reforms, all improvements, all inventions. He treasured up every instance of crime, every record of villianv which he could find in the newspapers, as another proof of the de generacy of the age which he was always reviling. One day some neighbor said to him : It is a pitv", Mr. Piper, that you had not lived in the good old times of which you are so fond." I wish with all my heart I could move back into them," answered Piper. I would exchange all your discoveries and inventions, your equal rights, and your new f'&ngled government for the simplicity and quiet of those times in which people were content to be as wise as their fathers."' Now there are certain moments in every life in which, if you wish strongly enough, you will get your wish. Piper must have spoken as above on one of these critical moments, for he woke on the following morning in the good old times. Piper's attention was first attracted by the singular look of his apartment. He had gone to bed in a room luxuri ously carpeted, and furnished with all the modern conveniences. The first thing that attracted his attention was the stone floor covered with rushes ; the next, the fact that drops of water, it happened to be raining without, were trickling down on his nose. He sot up and looked around for his bath-room door. Not only was that gone, but he could find no washing conveniences ; and looking out of a window, he saw various members of his family shivering about a spring, in which they seemed to be performing their ablutions. His attention was next attracted by his clothes. Where he had left his gray wig, coat, vest and pantaloons, and the other articles of his wearing apparel, hung a barbarous-looking tunic of green, faced with fur, a sort of scarlet tight-fitting vest, scarlet leggins, which did not reach to his knee, tind sandals fastened with golden clasps. Fancy old Peter Piper in such a rig as this ; but what else could he do but wear them ? Search as he might, his other clothes had vanished, and were not to be found. Old Piper might be ever so conscious that he looked a Guy, and that he was uncomfortably cold about the legs, but there was nothing to do but to wear them. By . the time he had fairly resigned himself to wear these disagreeable garments it was late in the morning, and old Piper was hungry ; so he made up his mind to descend, though feeling ridiculous enough, to the lower part of the house. Here, however, he found no preparations for breakfast ; instead, hi servants stood whispering together in the hall. "How now, knaves!" exclaimed old Piper, or rather something exclaimed for him. "No breakfast! Why are ye loitering here? And ye stir not the quicker, I will make my riding whip ac quainted with your ears !" Please observe that old Tiper was not at all responsible for his style of lan guage ; he was obliged to accept his sen tences as he was his clothes. "Alarry your worship," answered one of the servants, "here have been oilier things besides eating and drinking. The wild Squire of Hamilton has leen down this morning and driven away ail your cows. He vows that you alighted him the other day by not speaking when ye met ; and Jack Muggins h out with a

band of fifty, demanding tribute, and made the doors shake again ; and he swears he will come back with one hundred men and burn your house over your head, unless you pay him. all the sooner, a thousand gold pieces, with a promise to pay as much more in three months from this time." "Good heavens!" cried old Piper, shaking in his sandals, " I will have him bound over to keep the peace." " You had best compromise the matter with him," suggested another servant. " He is cousin to Jim Muggins, called the Long Lance, who never rides with less than five hundred spears at his back ; and they would make no more bones of pouncing on us here, and driving us out with fire and sword, than I would of eating a chicken for breakfast, by the same token that I am fasting from all but sin." Old Piper began to feel overpowered. The strange dresses and the stranger lingo were almost too much for him. especially since he received it all on an empty stomach. " We must get out of this' he said, feebly. "I will take the first train for any place where Jack and Jim Muggins are not riding about with spears at their back." "Where would you go?" returned the domestic, with a melancholy shake of the head. ", You could not ride through the forest with less than five hundred men ; for they say Robin Hood is up with his men, and there i3 a green tunic and a long bow behind every bush and under every leaf ; and there are the Knight Templars who would offer you protection, and serve you worse than Jack Muggins ; and there is the Baron Pound-of-Beef, who would pounce upon you as a hawk on a chicken, and never release you from his wettest, greenest, nastiest, darkest dungeon, till you had handed over all the money you have; and, granting you escape all these perils, to whom would you appeal for help? King John won't help you against the Muggins'; for if Richard comes to his own strain there

will be hot work, and John will press every spear into his service. And there is talk, too, of a war with France, in which case the country will be so burned, and ravaged, and torn, that you will jump from the frying-pan into the fire." " I will write to the the government about it," cried old Piper. " It is shameful and scandalous." "And who will bear your message?" asked the servant. " Men are pot made of steel, nor do they bear charmed lives, to run safe through such perils as we talk of ; and in the months before we could get the answer, Jack Muggins and Long Jim may hang us twice over, if they so choose." " But what right has the murdering rascal to come here and demand my money ?" cried old riper. " He ought to be sent to jail. I will write to the papers about it." Just then a tall, stern-looking warrior, dressed in complete armor, rode up to the gate, followed by a dozen rascallylooking men. "Dog!" thundered the men at old Piper. "Off with your cap!" And then, as old Piper stood still "Take that, and learn another time to unbonnet before the Lord of Mortier." That was a tremendous bljw, which ought to have killed riper, and which felled him flat to the earth. He was on his feet again in a moment. " What was that for?" said old Piper, trying to wipe the blood from his eyes. "Be silent, churl !" answered the amiable Lord of Mortier. "Know that I saw yesterday in thy stables such a horse as no churl should ride. If dogs like you were to be kept under the foot, as in the good old times, we should hear less of the evil times ; but whenbaseborn churls ride horses fit for nobles, and live in houses like this, they grow proud, and rebel against the authorities." "What have I done?" quavered Piper. " Dost thou parley with me, villain?" roared the Lord of Mortier. " I say thou hast a horse that no churl should ride. Send him to my stables, or abide the consequences." " But the horse is mine," argued Piper; "I bought and paid for him." " Slave, nothing is thine. Thou and thy fellows live only because we have need for thee. But a truce to this insolence. Seize this fellow, and throw him into the dungeon where I had the Jew ; and hark ye, pull out one of his teeth every day till he yields. If he is re fractory, after he has lost them, try. the brazier." Two men sprang from their horses, and approached the unhappy riper, who threw himself on his knees. "My lord," he exclaimed, " show mercy as you desire to receive it. The horse is thine, and whatever else thou may'stalso desire." " I thought that we should find you tractable," answered the Lord of Mortier, with a villainous smile, M See that the

horse is in jny stables to-day ; and hark ye, send with him a bag containing four

hundred gold pieces. I have need of j money." ' Piper stood mute, too overwhelmed to speak, till the Lord of Mortier and his followers were out of sight ; then turning i to his frightened domestics, he exclaimed "Oh, hang such good old times!" and awoke, glad enough to find himself in j 1876. O 111 o. T7ie l.fi(r(ifrire. In the Senate, February S, bills w ere introduced to provide for taxation of dogs, and to establish county boards for examination jn pharmacy of persons proposing to engage in the business of selling drugs In the House, bills were introduced to abolish the office of State Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, and to transfer his duties to tlie Secretary of State : to require ira-s companies to accompany their monthly oills for gas, with affidavits from the party examining the meter, that the amount of gas charged has actually passed the meter, that the meter is iu good condition and accurate, and that tl.e gas is ut leflst of twelve-candle power. In the Senate, February 9, the Southern Railroad six million bill passed, but six members voting in the negative. Hills were introduced to provide for taxing dogs, to cede the National road to the counties through which it passes, to provide for the examination of druargists, and to provide that anaesthetics be only administered in presence of witnesses In the House, bills were passed making the taking by Auditors of live per cent, ou corporation valuations not returned by May 1st a inisdemeauor, and removing disabilities of regular jurors who may have served as talesmen during the preceding year. Bills were introduced to establish a Hoard of Public Works iu Cincinnati, to provide for the election at large of fifteen Aldermen for Cincinnati, to authorize transcribing old or defaced records, and to abolish the Railroad Commissioner, and transfer his duties to the Secretary of State. In the Senate, February 10, bills were introduced to abolish the ollice of Infirmary Director, aud transfer its duties to County ( t ommissiouers ; to authorize hotel companies to increase their capital stock ; to au- ! thorire County Commissioners to join in constructing bridges along the county liues, and to provide that laws passed by Councils shall have a majority of the votes of members elec ted, and that no contract or payment of money, except by ordinance, shall be delegated to committees, and if made contrary to the strict letter ol the law the corporation shall not be liable In the House, the appropriation bill was taken up aud discussed, ;. effort being made to show that it wan not jet belorc toe House. Bills were iutrodnced to authorize one-tenth of the stockholders of a corporation to make application for a dissolution, to require only annual reports from County Commissioners, to provide for the publication of advertisements iu German newspapers, to provide for the punishment of municipal officers guilty of malfeasance, to amend the ditch law, and to legalize ten per cent, interest on contracts. In the Senate, February 11, a communication was received from the Cincinnati Council asking authority to advertise for proposals for improving the streets. Mr. Kessler's bill to authorize Harmony Lodge No. 'I of Cincinnati to issue bonds and borrow money for the redemption of outstanding bond was passed. Mr. Warnock's bill to provide heavy penalties for interfering with buoys or othtr aids to navigation was passed. Mr. Knox introduced a bill to provide for a change of gauge of railway lines. Mr. Kessler introduced a bill to authorize Cincinnati to issue $75,000 iu bonds to pay laborers aud contractors for work done in that city In the House, a large number of petitions were presented for a repeal or modification of the county salary law, and for the abolition of capital punishment, aud both for aud against the bill forbidding hunting on inclosed grounds. A resolution adopted by the Cincinnati Council, requesting the Hamilton delegation to make no further grant to the Southern railroad until the citizens have a fell opportunity of expressing their opinion on the subject, was presented. A petition was received from John Shillito, Robert Mitchell, Lane A Bodley, Olhaber & Co., Wm. Resor A Co., and fifteen hundred others, iu favor of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad six-million bill. Mr. Kntrekiu introduced a bill to make persons ineligible to seats in a Municipal Council who have coutracts existing with the municipality at the time of their election, or within one year preceding; also, those who are interested in gas or water-works companies. Mr. Cogwill moved to amend so as to except persons who had contracts a year previous to their election, but not at the time thereof. IiOst. Ayes, 4t); navs, 27 not a constitutional majority. Mr. Light's bill to aiake it punishable by fine to send a challenge to fight with fisticuff or cudgels, or otherwise provoke a breach of the peace, was paused. In the Senate, February 12, bills were introduced to regulate the fees of Probate Judges, clerks of the court, Sheriffs, County Auditors, County Treasurers, aud witnesses' and jurors' fees iff partition cases ; to preserve the purity of elections...... In the House, Mr. Bold ottered a resolution requesting the Superintendent of Insurance to examine into the finaucial condition of the ' American Insurance Company," of Chicago, as said company has been charged with gross irregularities. Adopted. Mr. Richards offered a resolution inquiring into the feasibility of making the allowance for work done ou the roads and deducting the same from the June rather than the December taxes. Adopted. Mr. Brunner oilered a resolution inquiring into certain defects in the printing of the rules of the House, etc., and of the competency of some of the assistant clerks of the House. Adopted. A number of new bills were read. In the Senate, February 14, bills were passed to prevent the poisoning of domestic animals; to amend the township ditch-law, and to provide for an additional Clerk of th Supreme Court. A bill was introduced for the appointment of five Tax Commissioners lor each county .In the House, the afternoon was spent in discussing the bill to authorize the insurance of public property belouging to counties, townships, school districts, etc. The bill was finally lost, A bill was introduced to inerca.se the number of County Infirmary Directors from three to five. Edward Everett, living near New Lisbon, grew tired of life, and committed buicide by hanging himself from a rafter in his barn.

The plaiting mill of P. C. Curry A Co., at Wooster, was destroyed by fire recently. The loss is estimated at $10,000 to I 15,000, without insurance. The recent case of collision with a wellknown dentist of Columbus, occasioned by alleged familiarties with a lady patient, after administrating laughing ga.s, has stirred up the medical profession. At a meeting of the

Medical Association, Dr. Wagonhals brought up the subject of hallucination incident to administering anesthetics, urging with great emphasis that the profession owed it to itself to declare against any administration of either laughing gas or other similar agent under circumstances where, for want of witnesses of the transaction, a practitioner was liable to be ruined by the reports of a patieut. It was agreed that the subject should receive full consideration at the next meeting of the society. The body of an unknown white woman very much decomposed was found a short lime since, entangled in a honey-locust bush, and half buried iu debris, on the shore of the Miami river, near Gravelotte, Columbia Township, Hamilton county. It was first discovered by John Moran, a young fa mer of the neighborhood, who was led by his dog to the place. The body was then hanging by one of the legs, bead downward. The deceased appeared to be a woman aboat forty years of age. When found she had on a calico dress marked with dotted stripes, gray woolen hose, and good calf-skin shoes. She had black hair. A couple of teeth were missing in the upper jaw. The verdict was death by drowning from causes unknown to the jury. She was buried iu what is known as Biggs' Grave-yard, near Uravelotte. Anton Hoeppel.the " cellar-boss" at Kaufman's brewery, Cincinnati, was instantly killed by falling thirty feet through the hatchway of the malt-house. From the testimony elicited at the Coroner's inquest it appears that the entrances to the malt-house hatchway are closed during working hours to guard against possible accidents, but opened at night to ventilate the building. The de ceased, it seems, had some svtecial reason for entering the malt-house after dark, contrary to usual custom, and without a light. lie probably missed his way iu the dark, or tripped, aud was shortly after picked up dead in the cellar, his skull being horribly fractured. A military company numbering sixty men has been organized at Urbaua. Officers have been elected, and application for commissions forwarded to Adjutant-General Wikoil'. 'A tragedy unprecedented iu the annals of Cincinnati occurred in that city recently during aa afternoon exhibition of the "Allegory of the GreatP.epuhlie,' at Robinson's Opera House. The bouse was jaunue with woman and children, and while the people were still pouring into the already overcrowded building some reckless person raised the cry of "fire I" A panic ensued, aud a rush for the doors and stairways, and nine women and children were crushed to death in the stampede. Many were injured the number is unknown. There is n fair reason why, when hus bands aud wives disagree aud separate, that the nublieatiou "not to trust on my accouut," should be all on one side. At least Mrs. PeRie M. Prentice, of Toledo, is of that opinion. Her husband having warned the public, she responds in a card which will make Asa wish he hadn't done it, for she says he ran in debt aa long as his credit held out, and then she starved herself to re main with him, until there was but one al ternative left, and she left accordingly. She suspects he will be running tip bills and have them charged to her; wherefore she admonishes ail grocers, merchants, tailors, landlords and boarding-house keepers that if they trust Asa, they do it at their own risk. Dissatisfied husbands are not to have things all their own way in the Centennial year and atuid the bla? of the Nineteenth Century. Herman Geiger, aged nine years, and re siding in the rear of Banmer's grocery, at No. 5129 Vine street, Cincinnati, was drowned in the rear of Inwood Park, recently. There is theie situated a pond, formed by the recent rains, in a portion of the ravine running from Mount Auburn westwardly. The lad was playing about the water with a comrade, with whom he was returning from school, when both fell in. Oae was rescued by a brave bystander, but when, half an hour later, young Geiger was taken out life was hopelessly extinct. James Ilarpe, ho killed Herman Weber, at New town, Hamilton county, last November, has been convicted of manslaughter. A Cincinnati German, named Fred Held, departed from his home- recently wth the avowed attention of co'.-uiuitting suicide. A man's coat aud hat were found lte at night ou a Central avenue ferryboat, and the supposition was that a suicide had been committed. Ileld's daughter, a young woman, identified the coat and hat as those worn by her father, and among other marks of identification was heroin needle-work in mending the garment. The girl is left with the care of five small children, with the earnings of the father and the savings of the mother all squandered in drink. A young man named I sham, w hile attempting to board a freight train near Ada, had his right foot crushed so as to necessi tate amputation. He was at one time under the train, but by almost superhuman effort and presence of mind drew himself out, but had not strength enough to throw himself entirely clear of the train. A bold attempt was made the other night to cut out il the couiily jrtil at Toledo by Mortimer liic roiiinr ol lite Auditors othoe, assisted by outside confederates. The plot was discovered by Sheriff Moore, who succeeded in capturing a fine outfit of tools, furnished by outside parties. The police had intimations of the plot. The cocfeder

ti from 'l rrts r tix rarroendiug T. O. Aisr. Ccujui Cauu, Cskx atee are said to be professionals from Rochester, Indiana, and Brooklyn. Mcrtiraer, alias Ros-lle,is believed to belong t skillful gang." The rumor that Charley Ross was diseoertd at Tiffin, Ohio, though not warranted by fi'cts, appears to have been of some benefit. His name was discovered to be Charley Scheisck, aud it was a'uo found that he had lived in Cincinnati. The publication td ibb fact led the real mother of the little waif to a knowledge of his whereabouts. 5Lwe three years ag jher knsbaud deserted her and afterward managed to get the chili out of her charge by writing that he could take care of him, and would send hint to school. Since she sent the child awav she hadhear.A nothing more of Lim until she wa aitmcte J by the story of the bcy at Tiffin. Sbe wrote to the Mayor of that city. Having been siired that the boy was no doubt her child, she applied to Mayor Johnston, tf Cincinnati, for a pass aud received it. She has by this time identified the long-lost boy, or ua discovered the fallibility of ruraors. Henry Shirkey, seed thirteen years, soi of John Shirkey, of Vinton Furnace, in attempting to jump from a freigit train going west on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, the other evening, was thrown backward npon the track and bis left leg horrify crushed below the knee. He died at ni o'clock the next morning. He was stealing" a ride ou the train from Taleski to Vinton Station, having entered the fourth or fth box-car from the rear of the train unobserved by the traia men, and was r.n seen by any of the train men when he j-ir.ped c. The claims of the Agricultural College v a portion of certain fiurus in Pickaway county, w est of Circleville, has created a stir among the farmers where the Virginia Mili

tary District was located. Louisa Mills, a little girl living about lhr? miles east of Lancaster, was drowned iu stream called FIeaaat Run. She was cross ing on a log, and, falling off, was drowned in two feet of water. Amanda MoEIroy, a young la Jy aed about eighteen, was watching with a sick relative, at Ada, a few night since, when she fell asleep, and a spark from the fire place set her clothing on Sre. Her clothes were ail iu flames when she awoke, and before assistance could be rendered she w&sso badly burued as to cause her death in a short time. Miss McF.lrov was to have been mar ried ia a few days. A young man named William Co. tier had his right baud caught ia a planing machine in Headman, Ilar'aa A Co.'s factory in ZuursviHe, while he was at work. The hand and one-half the arm were chopped lu pieeesbefore he could be rescued. Henry Hale, a farmer living three miles southeast of RiJgeville, hanged hiiaelf in his house recently. Life had been extinct some time when found. Grief for the lob of his wile, who died a short time since, is supposed to be the cause. He leaves three small children. .1 I'ttlnf .Harm. In danger's Amphitheater, New York city, lately, an alarm of fire was raised, and a general panic imminent. Mr. George danger went upon the stage ami restored order by the fUlIowing seech, which we quote in the hope that its excellent common sense will have its proper elTect upon the thoughtless and the timid in all similar ca : Ladies as; Gentlemen There is no danger; it is a false alarm. And now let me say a few words. No one, ia all ray experience, was ever burned, ia a theater, but thousands have been trampled to death or fatally injured through insensate panic. Even suppose that there was a fire ; if ll rush to the doors at once, is that the w ay to get out safely and ia aa orderly tnsnner? Now, what is the cause of all this panic? A ballet girl gets trodden upon behind the scenes by an elephant and she screams out. Some tl oughtless person ia the gallery hears her and shouts " fire '." and thereupon a w elleducated body of spectators echo, w ithout a moment's consideration, this most panicstriking of all cries, and present a melan choly spectacle a melancholy epectacie, I say o want ol common sense ana presence of mind. I wish it to be generally known that, in case t actual fire, this vast building can be cleared with ease in two minutes and a half. Let me hope yon are now reassured, and will permit the performance to proceed. A ringing cheer from the audience was the reply to this speech, and thus a frightful catastrophe w.5 averted by a few well-thcscit words delivered in a resolute and happy manner. The terrible calamity in Cincinnati recently gives a painful interest to Mr. Sanger's advice. A gextlemax who roomed with Senator iNinlsbury said one day : " .Senator, I often meet a servant in the morning taking two cocktails into your room. Do you always drink in duplicate T' " Sir," replied Salisbury, "I order two cocktails every morning, and when I have drank one it makes me feel like a new man. Then, sir, I am bound in courtesy to treat the other man, so I drink the second." Newh has been received that the dwelling of George I Ieindle, near llomowajville, in Bureau county, III, was burned, and Mr. Heindle, wife and two children, Ierished iu the thimes. A daughter nineteen years old, narrow ly escaped by jumping from a second su-ry window. Bethany Church, of Montpelier Vt, unanimously declines to fend dele gates to the Advisory V mouth Church... icll of riy-

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