The Corner Stone, Volume 5, Number 10, College Corner, Union County, 8 March 1876 — Page 1

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TOPICS OF Tlli-: TIME.

The English Government finds that ts tariff of one shilling for twenty words sent over the telegraph wires does not pay, and the British public groans in spirit to leara that it will hereafter be compelled to include the addresses of the sender and the " sendee" in the twenty words thus charged. On the whole, the taking over by the government Gf lae British telegraph system has hardly proved a brilliant success. It is stated that the postoflice department has selected the design for a three cer.t stamped envelope to be used during Oie Centennial exhibition. The stamp "will be in the form of a shield, having &t the top and bottom the dates 1T76 and 1876. Beneath the upper figures will be the words, " U. S. Postage," and at the bottom of the shield will be the words, ' Three Cents." Upon the face of the fihield will be a post boy and a net work of telegraph poles and wires, and beneath an engine and postal car. While Iowa proposes to reinstate capital punishment for capital crimes, Maine at the other end of the line has determined to abolish it within her borders, substituting therefor imprisonment at nard labor for life. The latter plan is on I trial in several States, but the general impression is that the removal of the death penalty has not had the effect to decrease the number of murders, and that imprisonment upon life sentences usually ends with the pardon of the convict within a few years. The first postage act in the United States was passed in 1792. Every separate sheet of paper, large or small, without reference to weight, was considered a letter, and two or three small pieces in one envelope paid double or triple postage. The lowest rate was six cents to places within thirty miles, eight cents to places within sixty miles, ten cents to places within one hundred miles, and so on up to places within four hundred and fifty miles, the postage then being twenty-live cents. In 1799 a new law was passed changing the rates. In San Francisco the temperature of January is but six or eight degrees colder than in July. From 9 a.m. to 3 or 1 p. m. the day is usually clear and comfortably warm, when cold winds set in from the Pacific, frequently driving before them the densest of fogs, and one is penetrated to the bone by the cold and humidity of the atmosphere. The winds prevail until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, when it again turns warm, and the night, especially if it be clear and moonlight, until twelve o'clock, is as baimy as can be desired. Then comes another change; the temperature is lower, and the city is enveloped in fog until Lite in the mominsr. Th e annual consumption of chocolate in France is put down at 60,000,000 pounds, of which one-eighth is used in the city of Paris. In discussing the fabrication of chocolate it is pointed out that the cocoa requires different qualities according to the degree to which the almond of cocoa, meaning, we presume, the bean, is parched. Thus, the Italians carry roasting to excess, causing their chocolate to be more bitter and aromatic t han the French ; and the Spaniards do not roast the cocoa-nibs enough, thus causing the chocolate to be less bitter and more oily. The division of the manufactured chocolate into small tablets is necessary to its preservation. Careful enveloping is also necessary to the preservation of the perfume of the chocolate, as it absorbs foreign flavors and the mere action of the air on it is deleterious. The area in the Temperate Zone for a part of Australia is within the tropica exceeds that occupied in Middle and Western Europe by the Teutonic and Latin nations, and much of the land is blessed with an excellent soil and most propitious climate. There are now seven separate colonial governments in Australia, kept apart politically by rival interests and petty local jealousies, but connected by strong sympathies that will at some day bring them into a confederation or union. They have now a population of nearly 2,500.000; they ex port about $200,000,000, or about eighty dollars to the person on an average ; im H)rt as much, and have a total public debt of $200,000,000 ; pay an average annual tax to the person of thirteen dollars ; have 2,000 miles of railway, 25,000 miles of telegraph, 5,000,000 acres under cultivation, 60,000,000 sheep and 7,000, 000 neat cattle. A watch, with the inscription, in al most invisible letters, " Presented to General Knox by De Lafayette, 177C, is in the possession of William Larue, of Wallingford, Connecticut. The margin of the dial is set with jewels.

JtOX'T ERET.

Don't fret if the man in the forward pew Is snoozing all the sermon through ; He isn't expected to hear for you ; Perhaps he's slim, Or the preaching isn't the thing for him ; Or he knows the Kev. Dr. Jim So well he isn't afraid to show it By shutting his eyes and letting him go it ! Some way there's a reason plain to be met, So, don't fret ! Don't fret if your neighbor has nothing to do, And takes life light as a dream, while you Struggle along with the toil of two ; Nobody can ride To worth, or learning, or truth, or pride, Or the money somebody left when he died ; By and by ween his tarn is down You'll be up on top and the crown Tother of folly is somewhere set So, don't fret ! Don't fret because your neighbor has wealth, While you have nothing but hope and health ; Perhaps he got his mouey by stealth. Or his father did ; Though somewhere under a coffin-lid Its curses may for a time be hid 1 Be sure what fortune is yours you earn, A nd honest dollars can never burn ; And if you are free from disgrace and debt Why, don't fret ! Don't fret if a fellow of shallow stuff Is always getting his post and puff, While a path that is humble, hard and rough Is made for you. There is one that sees him through and through, And will show him up for the world to view ; And then the sneekingest man to be found Will be he that was courted, pulled and crowned, And hadn't the brains a cast-off petl So, don't- fret! Don't fret if things oa the whole go hai l Out of the riches of glory barred Out in the battle tired and scarred ; For it isn't much That one can win by a sign or touch ; Tis pain, and struggle and toil, and such, Upraised by the voices of ease and pride, That finds its joy on the other side, No matter what others may give or get. So, don't fretl THE XMCK OF TIJTIE. Of all arrant flirts, Alice Truesdell bore the palm ; and of all desperate lovers, Dr. Fowle. Of course there were other lovers at the young lady's command, or she could not have flirted ; but all her flirtation seemed to be directed solely to the end of vexing this single lover, whose grave, quiet, repre-sed demeanor never lot her exactly know whether he were a lover or not, and drove her first to some action that almost betrayed her own feelings, and then to one that should give the lie to that betrayal, and set everything at loose ends again. You could hardly say why Miss Truesdell had so many suitors. She was not so very good that is, she was as good as most people, but not a jot better ; she was not pretty at least not till she laughed and showed her white teeth, and a dimple deep as love ever nestled iu, or till she lifted her great gray eyes and let you see how lustrous they were under that trick of dropping lids. No, it could not have been her beauty that was the charm; it was voice, smile, face, figure, all together ; her personality, gay spirits, teasing modes, sweet ways ; her infinite variety that attracted everybody coming within its sphere. She sang a little, she danced a little ; whatever she did she did well, and so, of course, she flirted to perfection, and played off one lover against another as prettily, the lookers on might think, as a juggler tosses his golden balls. But what did the lovers think of it? One of them thought very poorly of it, and was determined to bring Miss Alice to close quarters in a short time, not in the least aware that all the others had made exactly the same determina tion, and had found that to determine was one thing and to do was another. Man might propose, but Miss Alice must dispose ; and Miss Alice as, indeed, they each and all fondly hoped was a match for any one of them. If she danced with Gregory, just as Gregory felt encouraged and began ts whisper the burning words, she dropped her fan with a glance at Mallory, who darted to restore it, and was detained with thanks and gay words and replies just long eaough to make it impossible for Gregory to take up the thread where she had broken it. If she walked with Dr. Fowle, it was only after she had alallowed Mr. Boiles to know that she would be strolling in that direction. where she was always so pleased to meet him when he came up breathlessly, and found the doctor muttering anathemas between his teeth invocations to iEsculapius, she called them. But Dr. Fowle was not a man you could put off forever when he once made up his mind to a thing, and so Miss Alice began to learn. And when one night, as he bade her good-bye, Mallory and the rest being there, he told her, in a grave but authoritative undertone, quite unlike that of the usual lover, that he wished to see her next morning at eleven o'clock, if she wanted to deny him she could not. But, to tell the truth, she did not exactly want to. The young men had seemed so inconsequent and stupid that evening; Nettie Armitage had seemed so frivolous ; they had, each in turn, come in and interrupted the Doctor when he was telling her such fairy-like tales of re

cent discoveries in science; she had shrugged her shoulders at them till the situation struck her ridiculously, and then she had laughed with the merriest of them and pouted at the Doctor. But now, as he was going, she slipped her hand in his arm and sauntered down the lawn with him. The night was a night in June, when, if ever, nights are perfect ; the air was laden with the breath of honeysuckle and mock-orange ; the winds that curled around them seemed to come from distant lands of everlasting bloom, so sweet they were ; and the stars hung their lamps through the clear dark close above the thick tree tops. She fancied that night that life was too delicious a thing to be indulged in freely, and she murmured something of the fancy with half a laugh. "There are times when we all feel that life is more than we deserve," he answered. " To-morrow it may be. Shall I feel the same myself to-morrow, or will fate " She laughed uneasily. " You mustn't ask me riddles," she cried. " At eleven o'clock to-morrow, then," he said, lifting his hat. " At eleven to-morrow." And she went back to the house, wishing it were eleven to-morrow now; and then, in a gay freak,

as she heard the hall clock strike, she j ran down the hall and set the hands forward an hour. " Bring him the j quicker," she whispered "bring him j the quicker," and went back to the ' others. They were talking of the flags and bulrushes that grew by Lender's Lake, a sheet of water in the neighboring woods ; and she was eager to hear the details of the direction there, for she shared the popular frenzy raging just then for bulrushes, and thought of all things she .should like some great bunches of the soft brown velvety things in the vases tomorrow. " I believe, if I rose early," she said, " I could be there and back before eleven o'clock." " Why eleveu?" said Mallory, lazily. "Oh, I have an engagement at that hour," she replied, bending her head a little, that he might not see the color creeping up. " 1 am at your seivice," he said, " Will you come along, Nettie?" sho asked. " At five o'clock in the morning, and on foot? Not a step. That hour in the afternoon, behind a pair of bays, would suit me very well." Vary Young thought it would suit him too. "Very well, Mr. Mallory. If you will come at eight o'clock to-morrow, 1 shall have my bulrushes and be back in good season." " We'll not fail," said Mallory. Ami to thatend, I assure this company that it is the witching hour of night, when the sweetest sound the ear can hear is the slamming of the big house door ;" and with that they all departed. As eight o'clock in the morning came, J11SS Alice, WHU tier sliears Hanging at , her side, and her hat tied on, was look- I : '.j j .i i :. ' .i:.ii.. Miss Alice, with her shears hanging at ing up and down the road impatiently She quite forgot her freak with the old clock the night before. " It is a very indecorous way to serve me," she cried. " Ten minutes past eight ! And I shall not wait another moment. I will have my bulrushes, Mallory or no Mallory. And if I am a little late, I don't care ; it will seem as though a body were not so very anxious; and I don't know I'm afraid I'm really afraid I was gushing last night, and I do so despise a gusher! And he may only want may only want to engage me to scatch with old Miss Steeres the night she takes ether for that operation !" And thereat the little body was of! for Lender's Lake, with precious small idea of the exact whereabouts of that pretty sheet of water. " I've a tongue in my head, I suppose," said she. As Miss Alice continued, her ideas grew still less. She feared she would lose her way, and not be back at all ; she wished she had waited for Mallory ; but she plodded on after her best senses of locality, tore her gown with briers, lost her veil and broke her parasol, came near breaking her ankle, and at eleven o'clock by her watch sat down and cried hot, bitten by flies, tired out, and lost. When she had finished crying, she looked up, and there, glistening double through her tears, lay Lender's Lake, blue as a sapphire, in the hollow of the hills. Her courage came back at once. If she could not keep her appointment, she could show by the bulrushes that she had intended to. She forgot fatigue, and was off for the edge of the lake, not so easily reached, after all, and with a triumphant handful of the brown velvet wands and of great blue flags, was presently homeward bound, having found the highway, and staying only to ask at the door of a little hut for a cup of water. Nobody answered her rap; the door was open she pushed it wider and peeped in, but started back at the Bound INDIANA

of a groan, and a quick sharp sob, a perfect storm of sobs. A moment Miss Alice hesitated ; but she was no coward where pain was concerned; she took heart of grace and walked in, and found the brown old berry woman with her little boy, her grandchild, bleeding to death in her arms. "Oh," she exclaimed, "I never knew you lived here. What is the matter? How did he do it?" "With the axe! with the axe! just now !" cried the woman. " And I can't stop it, and I'm alone, and I can't leave him, and he'll die oh, he'll die!" "Oh, no, no!" said Alice. "What have you done ? Only cold water? Let me see. Lay him down. Get a towel' for she remembered still her school lessons in physiology. And, before the woman knew what had happened, Alice had rigged a tourniquet with the handle of a hair brush, and was checking, in some degree, the flow of blood with which the boy's vitality was ebbing. "Now

don't let it slip, and I'll run and find the doctor, if I drop, Perhaps some team t i a lu e. JJOn t despair, the j will overtake me child i,hall not die!" and she kissed the i

brown old woman, and plunged out, I "SS.OuO, and to protect railroad passengers , , . . ' , . ' against eauiblers. eager as though it were her own little! - brother. "I know just where the doctor j The Ohio State Grange of Tatrons of liasis," she called back bandrv wet in Cleveland in secret session . . . 4 . .... i.'.'k-.. ..... IX .; j

She knew nothing of the kind; she) only knew where he had been. "She's j COIie to Lender's Lake with -Mr. Mai- ! lory, Aunt Huldah had saul, looking up and down the road, with a vague j idea that her looking would excuse the ! culprit "for bulrushes, I heard them say." The i , A , t ... ! doctors ejaculation would have 1., 4 IT..1i-l-!i 1. - I 1 1 . 1 uoinueu -Yum jLiuuan h see uau iicaru it ; but bidding her good-morning, he j had turned about determined to have j nothing more to do with Miss Alice ! Truesdell. And then a sort of rasre had j flashed up and swept over him, and he 1 vowed to himself that he would reduce ) ., i , i 1 the little rebel, and sprang into his chaise j , , , . , aud urged Inshore to a run. And that j was the wav it chanced that, hss than j inn ..ItitilAu aAn. A I!... IaI'i !.,. I.i.I .1...! its uiiiiuu.i.mu n u i.n.- uui, nic j saw something rolling up the highway ', enveloped in as thick a cloud as ever an . 1 . 1 1 - 1 1 i ancicui gou iravt'ieuiii; ana lie saw a j little object Hying down to meet ium, J J ? ' curls and ribbons strcaiuiii ' behind, di-: shevcied to the last ile-rree, and wnh-onlv I . . . . . ' . . . i breath enough left to say as he leaped : - - , from dying the chaise, " l);n't .-top! He's; ! Back there the hut!" Dr. Fowle did stop, long enough to take the little body aud lift her into the chaise, and spring up bc.-ide her. " Who's dying?" said he, sternly " Mallory ?" "Mallory!" gasped Alice, iu amazement, "and if it was," she said, the old spirit uppermost, as soon as she could speak again for her scalded lungs and throat, " what would you do?" " Let him die !" exclaimed the doctor. " It would be nothing to me if vou did' she said, touching the horse with j " --'" ' '" - , W'P herself. "But you would be j indictable at common law." lnaiciaoie ai common law. ; it . , . . , ,i " Jsothing to you ! W hat do vou mean, r a J . y - ' then? Who's dying?" " Not Mr. Mallory to my knowledge; child here in the woods." The doctor urged the horse himself, bending forward, his gaze hxed before him, and not Uttering another syllable. "Aren't VOU ever going tO Stieak tO - - measra n?" said Alice at last. 1 meant .... to be back at eleven o clock. He turned and saw the tears ready to gush, and as they gazed perhaps they extinguished the flame of his wrath, borne - how he never knew how any more than A1tU l. nml,nt tl, ml n were under his feet, his arms were about j her, and the tears were being crowded back by kisses, "Area t you giau x put, tue ciock lorward? Aren't vou clad 1 came out. - w . hereior ouirusues; wnisierea Alice, as , they suddenly drew up at the little hut. " Oh, God bless you doctor, and God bless her!" cried the voice of the old woman from within. "lie's alive yet, and you've come in the very nick of time?" Some curious relics were found in the old elm of Boston Common. A flattened bullet was discovered imbedded in the trunk eighteen rings from the center, and beneath the tree was a medal which is described as follows: It is of large size, of copper or bronze, and has a me dallion head on one side, and on the other figures of Justice with scales and sword, and of Religion with a cross, and a circular temple in the background, with a date which seems to be 1604 or MDCIV. The obverse side of the medal bears the following inscription: "Franc I. Par. et Plac. Dux.." which in English would read, "Francis I, Duke of Parma and Piacenza." There is also a head of Francis I. On the reverse are the words, " Juguntur ut iraperent," which mean, "They are joined that they may rule." STATE LIBRARY

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n wffinire. j In the Senate, February 23, the bill for f the reorganization of the Ohio Penitentiary no .. iimu Litxic. .-in auitn!i-.it-i,v civthe consent of the Senate, was debated and t. 'vttiui'i iii'iiuiuiiiiL pr;. Willi rejected. A motion to amend by abolishing the office of Chaplain was discussed, hut no action taken In the House, a bill making an appropriation for an additional workshop iu the penitentiary was vassed: also, the lull abohshiug the office of State j Comptroller, and trans! errinsr its duties t ! the Adjutaut-ueneral. Ibe Southern Railroad six million bill was taken up, and, after a long discussion, an ante, thnent providing that the question of the appropriation he submitted to a vote of the people was passed. In the Senate, February 24, a biil to provide for the impounding in any inclosure of cattle ruuning at larire, was passed. A i i- , i . . r;i ci error iroiu j X'ohce Court decisions in certain case. ! The Cincinnati police bill dlsJ cussed, but no action was taken. l :n .. - . . ii .f . ! lhe House amendments to the Southern railroad bill were concurred in in the House, the Southern Itaiiroad bill was passed, and some unimportant amendments. A bill to make gambling punishable by tine and imprisonment was passed. Bill were introduced to create a bureau of inclustrial ftaiistics; to amend the school law so as to apportion the seven-mill lew amnii; lhe building and other funds; to fix the salary of members of the General Assembly ' Vh-r r i -.17 w.tr;,, I Granges in the State, with L membership of OTer W.UW' ; ,,litd for at C!t,vtIaiui reeent!v. bv Jose-! paine 1. Pereira, against D. M. I'ereira. The petitioner states, among other curious things, that her husband, for five years, has s l o -" - - i of-hantl performances, spiritual raaaifes-ta-A i i.i t!,r, ' .u), ,, " ker: that he and his airents iteared at the i wiudow. and windows of the bed-room, and ! ther parts of the house in which the par- t ties resided, with false-faces, sheets thrown j er tbeir heads, and dressed up in various j ays to represent creatures and spirits from j tfce "I'irit-Uud, as they claimed; that IV- ; reira would have ietlera and messages con- j , - . , " . ! vcved into the house, purportiog to have t t.puus frma ,r;ritS) slu.h utters' and mcs- j . ,;.,., :.., i- ,,. ,.r.-v. i " . - " 'V . 1 .- , . . ., .. , . - 1 - . t d perty inio me lU'ii'ii'ian. nanus ami give him the whole of iu He was rUo in the I habit of g dog at night into the store-i I .. . I . 1 .i.t;..H.i,s.r r w i U . ! .;.-.(( ..l .! , .,, ...,,. -- "c v" .,,1 .i. 'J ........... i . Lir.,,... .,,,.1 i V. ' . . - eouu table i;tits to at-near iu me wtnauiv , . , ... , ., .... t, , - 1 :itmi H I ih ill i n I iiiu.-iiuu..r. i i I which the petitioner resitted." It the ourt doe.-n"t grant Mrs ouirht to be kicked IVrcira a divorce, it ! The following are the officers-elect of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. l of Ohio, at C dam- j bus: Grand .Master, "Nathan Jones, Cre.-t-line; Deputy Grand Master, W. dppelar, '. Cincinnati; Grand Warden, Amos, Moore,'. Cincinnati; Grand Secretary, William C. Earl, Toledo; Grand Treasurer, George D. ' Wiuehell, Cincinnati Grand K presenttive, A. C. Deuel, Urbaca. The next Grand . Lodge meets at Cleveland, M y Sih. ' I The Ohio rroiiibuioiiistis rfcentiT hell a - i.i j..,. ti, f,o i : . . ... Tedin2 o( alrehcUx i. xbat the making and vending ol aicohol-.c liquor as a iTcra;e,is fraught with evil topropenv, peace, health and life. r-,iiia1,ii 12. Government was er2;ivued to shicUl man : OTt r,"eui . 1 I apumst wrung ana criminal aits o: men. j 3. Those who fail to secure this protection rotate i the design of government. f.-...r..l n,,n- tlrt ni!T cnvrninnt- ftnl by tii?e who give venacrs 01 n-iaor ie-si una xe ,. , ; litic-.ii encouragement. j ..':,;,.",,, ,,uu -tL,t,o nii..i i-i.L. rj vt-r.t- i lit- I'lii t.-f ; Whoarecop.n.-cu'd"wirhtheliquortraffie,oraddkti ; to the dangerous vice of drinking. '. . i;:.:,. ,,,.1.1 r.Vk.T, D; i'.-'-" ! failed to i:ive or ivoraw prohibition laws. -. The women are toe greatest offerers. They re i taxed for its support, nd governed without tHir ; the mean, to r,,eet ; g Favors aweu maintained system of common j schools, under the exclusive control of 5 ma niicuicn t a nd nione v , and t h w jdest Ai Sum the teaching o the Bible. Mrs. Byrne, living at 140 Linn street, Cincinnati, a few clays since, sent the nurse out with her three children. Then she went up i ... ,,.., ,,..,, , ! Btaii 3 iu tifZi uru-u'uiu, na aru uciacii i , . went tu wcu, iuu ueaweraitriy tci urc in iiinr ling, making her own funeral pyre. The poor woman, ia all her agony, made na ontj cry or attempt to escape, but lay in hererHiy despair and suffered the horrible sensation of being burned alive. Some of the neighbors saw smoke issuing from the window?, and raised the alarm. O racer Gallagher of that beat broke open the door, and found her lying on the charred remains of the bed with every thread of her clothing burned from her body, and her flesh charred to a crisp, irotn ner utau iu urr im. assistance was called, but the physician said she was past help, and her death occurred next dav. The poor buly was oementea ny ! the loss of a child a few months previous, Two little girls one aged thirteen, uie other nine have been arrested in Cincinnati for passing couuterfeit nickels. It is said that they have been engaged for some time in passing this bogus stuff in the market, and at various shops in the West End. They sra bright, good looking girls, and well dressed. The prisoners were arraigned be fore Commissioner Hooper, aad their stories heard. They admitted having disposed of the counterfeits, and sail they had, from time to time, taken them from the pocketbook of their mother, Mrs. Henrietta ITercklerath, who lives on Richmond street. The young culprits were admitted to bail in the sum of one thousand dollars each. The piospect in the Miami Valley is re

I ported good for fruit. With ;svorab!e weather, an abunCact crop is promised. Chicken-fights ate fashionable ia Ch;UI-

cothe. Some sports tttm MaysvilJe, Ken tuckr, latelv scooped the CbiUicotht beys out o'f nil their spare chance ia a cock rsain. fuxht bet ween chickens of that place and Chillicothe birds. The Chilli cothe chickens tr t one fight in six. Secretary Delano has lost his splendid thoroughbred horse, Marnbrino Chief. It died a few evenings sgo, at Chillicothe, of acute gastritis. Mrs. Wright, the wife of John 11. Wright, a prominent banker and capitalist f Cincinnati, was shot in a very singular manner a board the Ocklaw&ba steamer Tu'kawilla, ia Florida, a few days ago. A party of gentlemen were on the upper deck amusing themselves by shooting at birds and alliga tors. Among this number was a voung man o had a breech-loading rifle. This he , , - , , , , - - , had just loaded, and n ramng the muzzle f the gnu from the deck, where it had been in the act of loadintr, the cartrttt ze exploded. Mrs. Wright at the moment was in her stateroom immediately beneath. The bullet penetrated the sine covering and deck boards, an inch it. thickness, grazed a timber, sad then struck the lady at a point five inches below the neck and immediately at the right of the spinal column. Nt a minnte before Mrs. Wright had been gazing out of the window, in which position had she remained the ball must have passed through her body, and undoubtedly proved fatal. But she had just drawn back from the easement and turned t speak to a friend, when the shot struck her. A physician attended her immediately upon the arrival of the boat at tae port ot ia.a.Ka; taa ne prouvunves e wound not dancerous. A Cincinnati policeman, Ofilcc-r Kemper, was brutal'. v killed the ether nizht under i the fallowing clrvuras tancts: In the disc,are f j!isl!Itv 1k, arr.-!ed a well known j young ruiTum who was very drunk and crej atitig a disturbance. Being told that he s- must ga home, the fellow consented and walked along with the ofilcer. Arrived at ' his b-dgings they a-ceaded a Sight of frieps, j and as the tf.ier was iu the act of ring'icg ! the d-r-W!l, the yonng rufl'.an des.lt him a j powerful M.w in the face with his fist, I knorkins clear over the railing to tl.e ' pavement htdojr, breaking In sku.l and inrlictinir otlu r wounds from which he died in a few hours. Saoh a brutal and cowardly aet is only eipli. a"b on the ground of tot-si eoravitv. A youug man tiaweJ lllt.i, living at Seb.io Mar-ls, Hardin c-umty, Ohio, went BI a a recent Sunday tt Mioot a squirrel for sdek pers n, and didn't make his sp tearanee aj.nti. scare a was mate ana fcjs i-. v a iVun.l t! :'. !'!. i;. Thursday. ,,d his gun was accs- :. wn-.se crossing a p . . ll-.Ii.-iit 111 -. . . I 1. " . i..v . . hc f-iuwuxs kdj;Eg in i the hh. him so .g e-. uld not help rowned. i himself and he I'lttirlutte Cifxiintiit. New York Ci,:r,mrr?lil Arrrfifer T! ays that the death man is a treat l.Cuarloite CushA iiH-ricin 1 ra.ina.iie art, b-r ttjcre is no one t . rii'Iac? her. There are several young actrr--rfs of whom great promises wv re rasde &t times; but or.: at'ur one have failed in public expectation, anl Miss Charlotte 1 tubman Xool quite &Kr.e at tue time I .-on! !,' i 1 T r 1 f 1 P. -. : of her death. IL r " Qae-ea Kaiherine and ' L-idy Macbeth !' will be ercea s. aaa i-ki .-utwu " as c.ne of her thousands cf admirers t ? .;n ... .1 .n-n In l.iit.ri- as ,ir,,i ,v n , ,Wn in lastorv -, , . 1 nior the rnrvel of '.3e art. Mi j .-..i" me - t - j CuSiman's art was dd lashloned. viewj ;n t-.e 1: .5 , of the realistic rules never came to pass i Ot Uvdav, but it ..1 . 1- 11 .W'l , tn;it trie creai iracecieniie couia not iaii i n ilriw ?')- fllHef riflDS.fS tt'l.M T!t?"l t r.irainst the most fascinating and upz and etnotional of the latter day artists. M:e was I the last t.f the old fashioned, kardj working, ru!e-oberving, patient, perkinfT ru!e,i ! ii..c-.v siter.t actors, who did not depend on a ; Sllue1j for a p,r s-dirv nor the rolling o forelhe fav;r f, lbe publk: j In her inctLods she was peculiarly ia-

ntl ' ten?e io depicting the strongest pa.i -ions was powerfi:!. VLo will ever fur-

1 get thai " the dagger: infirm of psrpc rive me or the tern jle s.Mp-waji-ing scene, in mant- more terrors than the epcke. Iter ' death leaves the field clear to the new and more vehement class, who walk on the st..ge through a milliner's shop and think that art "cx-ns;s3 ia whoops and unearthly cries. This class can only be popular with the few. Miss Cushman's Cotd us was universal.. Yourg and old, profound aud superficial, were alike stirred by her mighty art, and she goes down to her grave with a world mourning over her. Many lancers overdo the matter, keeping too many hens. It is far better to keep thirty than sixty. The hens will be healthier in small numbers than in large ones. They will get more animal food proportionally for there is only a certain quantity aiiorded from the table, and just about so many worms and bugs on the premises for the hens to feed upon. j If thi is divided among sixty there is not enough for each to keep them m good laying condition, but if there are only twenty-five or thirty, they will keep thriftly and healthy, and will supply eggs, constantly, if they have warm quarters. If farmers have a Urge cumber of hens and pat no egg, they sliould reduce the number and they will get egg, if thev feel and treat the hens properly.