The Corner Stone, Volume 5, Number 14, College Corner, Union County, 5 April 1876 — Page 1

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jra:; THE CORNER STONE. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY will ix .a. isi i l t o n . THE CORNER STONE. NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS. 1 I ? jJ I If I I J i AK eomasn&icatiocta, to i8tor lewJioo, mv Im TN i I i , Y If I f""N , cr-iM by e. fa ua. d tie utitr, sad t SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year. -fl.60 "W 2ST T 33 "Q . mmv from aa i-arlj of ti sorrc-anding Special Contracts Made -with Advertisers On liberal terms. Bate made known on application. Legal advertising 60 cents per square each lo sertion. eouafcrr, VOL. V. COLLEGE CORNER, IND.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1S76. NO. 11. 5f. O. iDSUM-COLUK C o&xu, Ohio.

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Back of Fredericksburg, Va., i.-5 an elcviition called Mary's Heights. Ilcre stands an unfinished monument, eleven feet squar? at the base and sixteen feet high, begun in honor of Mary, the mother of Washington, by a wealthy merchant of New York. The corner-stone was laid in 1844 by Andrew Jackson, then President. The merchant was a suitor for the hand of Miss Custis, and thought to win her favor by respectiug the bones of her ancestors. Being refused by the lady, he abruptly quitted the enterprise. Ex-President Roberts, of Liberia, who died at Monrovia on the 24th of February, was the first President of that country, and waselectedin 1S48, serving for four years. He was asain made President in 1871, at the time of the popular uprising against President Roye, whose administration was said to be corrupt, and re elected in 1873. Before the establishment of the Republic, Mr. Roberts served as Lieutenant Governor and as Governor of the colony. He was a man of upright character and acknowledged ability, and was widely known and respected. Two new and distinct breeds of sheep have lately been introduced into England from the west coast of South America. The first are two fine white wookd sheep, each having four long, massive horns, two of which have a forward curve over the head, while the other two curve downward under the eyes, giving the head a singular appearance. Of the second, which are said to be a species between a Llama and Alpaca, there are three, one male and two females, which are thickly covered with long, dark brown, but exceedingly fine hair or wool, which is highly prized by the native Indians for the manufacture of their more delicate fabrics. The male stands about three feet high at the shoulder. Since Judge Kciley complained of the poisonous atmosphere of the hall of the House of Representatives at Washington, the other day, Surgeon-General Barnes has been investigating the arrangements for ventilation, and has discovered that the machinery in use for supplying fresh air has only a capacity for 15,0(10 yards per minute, while the actual amount required is 150,000 yards. Inconsequence of this deficiency of the vitalizing fluid a number of Congressmen are seriously ill. Judge Keltey said the other day that the air was befouled by the throng of i people in the galleries. The door-keeper 1 as had orders to close the galleries to ail parties but privileged characters. This action is considered necessary to avoid the alternative of twenty or thirty first-class Congressional funerals. One evening two years ago a party of prominent citizens of Idaho gave a reception at Boise City. Their names were H. B. Lane, Thos. E. Bail, Wm. A. Yates, Eugene Howard, Ed. Harr, Ed. Raynor, Judge Gillespie, Wm. Whitehurst, C. D. Vajen, and Burt Griffin. Now not one of them is living, all having met with violent deaths. Lane was killed by au insane man; Bail preferred laudanum to iolitical disgrace; Yates blew his brains out with a pistol ball ; Howard was murdered and his body concealed among the rocks ; Harr fell down a mine shaft six hundred feet, and was dashed to pieces; Raynor was assassinated while walking along the street; Gillespie fell out of a wagon and received fatal injuries about the head ; Vajen was killed in Washington Territory, and Griffin was scalped by Indians in Eastern Idaho. Most of the fashionable weddings in London at the present day are swlemdized at St. George's, Htinover Square ; St. James', Piccadilly; or St. Peter's and St. Paul's, Belgravia. The modus operandi is much the same in all cases. The bride arrives at the church with her father, is followed to the altar by eight to twelve bridesmaids, dressed alike, her mother bringing up the rear of the procession. The bridegroom is accompanied by his best men, but groomsmen are ignored in polite society. Their existence originated, no doubt, in the so-called " bride -knights," who, wearing the bride's color, their silken sleeves tied with rosemary, in ancient times conducted the bride to church. The ad

dresses to the newly-married which, as at Miss Edith Wynne's recent wedding, and on other occasions of late, have followed the service, are a revival of the wedding sermons, which in Elizabeth's and subsequent reigns were an' indispensable part of marriage. A white satin dress trimmed with lace, a tulle veil and a wreath of orange blossoms, form now the most fashionable attire for brides. Wedding breakfasts each year lose some tern of splendor, the subsequent speeches diminish in number, and in fashionable life the guests rarely sit, but stand to partake of the feast.

A-;i' x Kits nitons.

BY EMZ1BKTH STUART PHKLPS. Within the window's scant recess, Behind a pink geranium flower, She tits ami sews, and sews and sits, From patient hour to patient hour. As woman-like as marble is, As woman-like as death might be A marble death condemned to make A feint at life perpetually. Wondering, I watch to pity her ; Wandering, I go my restless ways ; Content, I think the untamed thoughts Of free and solitary days. Until the mournful dusk begins T drop upon the quiet street, Until ujmju the pavement far There falls the sound of coming feet The sound of happy, hastening feet, Tender as kisses on the air ; Quick as if touched by unseen lips, Blushes the little statue there ; And woman-like as young life is. And woiran-like as joy may be, Tender with color, lithe with love, She starts, transfigured gloriously. Superb in one transcendent glance, Her eys, I see, are burning black ; My little neighbor, smiling, turns And throws my uumasktii pity back. I wonder is it worth the while To sit and sew from hour to hour ; To sit and sew with eyes of black Behind a pink geranium flower ? Harper. OXL, Y JX JFVX. BY KARL DKUKY. ask me whose portrait that is You hanging over the mantel just where the warm fire-flashes can so changef ully tinge it? Was there ever a sweeter face? And yet it hardly does justice to the original. I think her eyes were of an even wistfullerand tenderer blue than the artist has there rendered them, and her hair of a softer, warmer gold. She was my only sister, Pamelia, three years older than I. Ah, you see, don't you, that I have grown pale during these few moments? Even since you came here, Miss Harris, as governess to my littie Bessie, I am sure that you have felt convinced of our complete happiness as i a loving and united family, j Well, you are right at least, nearly j right. Sure I ought to be the happiest ! of them all, with a husband who wor ships me and with, four charming children whose rosy arms wreath my neck so often. Perhaps my bliss would be perfect, Miss Harris, but for one miserable, childish memory. It is a haunting ghost that will never, never leave me. Take my hand and hold it in yours while I tell the old sad story here amid the gathering twilight. My father was what people call a hard man. Pamela and I were his only two children ; mother had died when I was born. About twice a year father would inspect the doings of a chief overseer on our great farm ; nearly all his time was taken up in reading and scholarly pursuits. He was imperious and dictatorial to Pamela and myself; I think that we both .tried hard to love him, but gave up the task in silent despair long before either of us became any age. He was an aristocrat in tastes and theories, used to be proud of his old Knickerbocker name, Van Horn, and would sometimes say to Pamela, after she had grown up to be a young lady : "Before long, my daughter, you must go to New York and see a little of metropolitan society. I myself will take you (with a dignified stiffening of his tall, emaciated figure). All my relations and there are quite a number of these among the best people in New York would at once pay their respects to us." Again and again father would speak this way to. my sister; and at first Pamela's face flushed with expectant pleasure; but after a while she treated these majestic promises as the mere empty air that they merited being considered. Perhaps, too, after she met George Conroy, her desire to get a glimpse of New York society underwent a marked change. He was a charming young artist, who had come to spend the summer in the neighboring village and fill his portfolio with sketches of our charming surround ing scenery. Famela met him at the house of a certain friend in the village, whom she often visited. I suppose that these two young people had become attached before I even found out the fact of their acquaintance. When I did make my discovery, it was only to pelt poor Pamela with a perfect storm of raillery, for I must now record that I was, at fifteen years old, perhaps one of the most mischievous young hoydens and vixens that it would be easy to find. Pamela did not dare tell father how cruelly I treated her, and so complete was the awe in which she stood of him, and her fear lest merely to mention the word " lover" in his hearing might make him overwhelm her with wrath, that though many weeks after her engagement to George Conroy they two held clandestine meetings together. I say "engagement," for surely when two youDg hearts offer a pure, sincere love to each other, the betrothal contract ought not to need other ratification.

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On discoverinrr that Pamela met George Conroy secretly, I was filled with an overmastering amazement. In my eyes, at that period, there was nothing on earth quite, so humiliating as to be " in love." Doubtless the witticisms of which I made my "oor, meek sister the object were very silly. At that time I thought them excessively good, and was never tired of multiplying them. With what patience Pamela lore all the rude giggled things that I said to her ! Once I made the important discovery that they used to meet in the summer eveings, some time after sunset, at a certain great willow tree a sort of immemorial landmark about that portion of the country and walked together. ' " Gracious, Pam," I jeeringly questioned, "how do you ever manage to pass the haunted orchard after nightfall?"' My sister gave a little shiver. " Well, Gertrude," she answered, hesitatingly, " it is hard. Sometimes I turn cold from head to foot while I'm hurrying by. Of course, my reason tells me that the story about that murdertd woman's ghost haunting it is perfectly ridiculous ; and yet, for the life of me 1 can't control my nervousness." I laughed as I heard this, and while I walked away, an ugly, mischievous thought was taking shape in my brain. That night, a little before the hour at which Pamela usually slipped out of the house, I myself left it with a largo bundle under my arm. The "haunted orchard," as certain stupid country people called it, lay but a short distance off. I soon reached it, and, under the shadow of a large apple-tree, undid my bundle, which consisted of a voluminous white sheet. Draping myself with this, I crouched behind a certain obscuring tree-trunk, and patiently waited. Presently steps sounded. As they drew nearer, I could recognize my sister's quick, nervous tread. I rose, and came forward. The stone fence directly, in front of me was broken away, and through this convenient aperture I now flitted forth upon the road, after the most ghostly fashion that 1 could assume. My sister stopied short when she saw me. It was now quite dark, and of course nothing but my pale, glimmering figure was visible to her. I could ill control the shriek of laughter that rushed to my lips. At length, however, my inn seemed to me rather monotonous, for there stood Pamela, about three yards distant, still, and utterly immovable. I could not see her face, but the rigid outlines of her figure were very apparent to me. A sudden fear possessed my heart. I sprang forward, and, in a moment afterward, had caught her hand. It was cold as ice. " Pamela !" I cried, " it's I. And I was only in fun, you know. Tray forgive me if I've frightened you so very much! I thought you'd only screech, and that would be the end of it. Pamela, why don't you speak?" I was very close to her now, and was searching her face with alarmed eyes. She was smiling, but there ssemed something horribly vacant in the smile. At last her lips opened, and in a strange, absent way, she murmured : " Only in fun ! Only in fun !" Oh, the anguish of remorse that I felt as those slow, queerly spoken, idiotic words fell upon my ear! I put my trembling arm about her waist and we walked home together. She was docile as a child. She seemed wholly to have forgotten her purposed meeting with George Codroy. All the way home she kept murmuring in that terrible, altered voice, with that meaningless, empty smile, " Only in fun ! Only in fun !" Her reason was gone forever. She lived three years, a perpetual reproach to me, and ever-present misery! I think it was the agony which George Conroy saw me suffer that made him, two years after Pamela's death, aik me to become his wife. He was the wealthy and pros perous artist, then, as you see him now, and not the poor painter who had wooed my sister. He painted that portrait himself, from memory. And he painted it at my request. The Congressmen who are slowly stewing in their own justice in the Hall of Representatives are told by a resident of Washington that " there are people in this city who never wash themselves, who put on new or second-hand linen, and wear it without cleansing, till it drops from them spontaneously people who live, in fact, like some of the lower quadrupeds. What, then, cau bo ex iected but that hundreds of such people, crowded into the galleries. should cause members of Congress and all others who tarry sicken and die." there long to On the 21st of March, the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives received a letter from the Superintendent of Education, Cordozo, offering to resign. The impeachment proceedings

against him were withdrawn.

I of tit tlif. on tlic Jlotion to Jicirl the Jtt'!nnntion Act.

YEAS. Turner, Fort, Franklin, 1- uller, lioode, (ioodin, tiunter, Hamilton, Harris, tia., Han itxiu, Hartridge, Hurt sell, Hav mond, Hays, Hereford. Ainsworth, Anderson, Ashe, Atkins, Baker, Ind., Blllllii lt-S Blackburn, Wand, Blount, I Won, Bradford, Brignt, Brown, Kf., Burchard, Wis. Cabeli, laid writ. Ala., Oliver, 1'helps, I.'hilhpJ, Ma, I'hillips, Kau., I'nppletou, Rea, Reilly, John, Kellly, Jas. B., Kice, Kiddie, Kol.bms, N. C, Kohinsou, Savage, Nayler, tSheakley, fuiith, Cta. , Soul hard, Sparks, Springer, bteveusou, .Stone, Terry, Tuckf-r, Van Yorhes, Vance, n - Waodell, Walker, Va., Wallace, l'a., Wells, Mo., W hitthorne, Williams, Jnd., Williams, Ala., Yeau-s, Young 109. Reagan, Kobuuis, Ia.J Nuniwoii, ck'tiliccher, Hchumaker, Sleeve, Singleton, fr- mails, Smith, Ta., .Strait, Steuger, Stowell. Tar box, Thompson, Thornburgh, Throckmorton, Townsend, Fa., Turfts, Walker, N. Y., Wallace, S. C, Ward, Warren. Wheeler, Whitetiouse, Whiting, Wike, Willard. Hewitt, Ala,, Cxldwe.!. leuu., Hotmail, Caiiii.ldl, Hopkins, Cannou, House, HuMer, Huntou, Hurd, Hyman, Je'mkes, .touts, Ky., K el ley, Knott, Landers, Iud.. Lewis, Lynde. MeFarland, McMahon, Millikiu, Morgan, Neat, New, NAYS. Hendre. Hinkle, Hewitt, N. Y., Hoar, Hoge, Hooker, Hubtieil, Hurl but, Joyce, Lander, Conn., Laphaiu, Leavenworth, Luttrell, Lynch, Marsh, McCrary, McDill, Metcalfe, Miller, Morey, Monroe, Morrison, Nash, Norton, O'Brien, l'age, l'ayne, fierce, Piper, 1'laisted, Cate, Caul field Clarke, Ivy., Clark, Mo, tljmer, Cochrane, Cook, ' Cowan, DeBoll, Didrell, Douglas;-:, : Durham, Eden, Egbert, Ellis, Evans, Faulkner," Bagby, Bagley, ieo. A. Bag ley, J. 11., Baker, N. 1'., Ballon, Banks, Baruuiu, Bass, Beebe, j . Blaine, Blair, Biis3, Bradley, Brown, Kansas, Burchard, Hi., Caswell, Chittenden, Conger, Cox, Crane, Cutler, Deuison, , Duunell, Duraud, Fames, Ely. r arwell, Foster, Freeman, Frost, t rye, Carlield, Williams N. Y., Williams, A. t., Mich., Williams, Wis,, Williams, Del., Hale, 1 'otter, Williams, Mich., Hamilton, N. J., 1'owell, Hancock, Tratt, Hardeutiurgh, liandull, Hathorn, W litis, Wilson, la., Wood, l'a. 103. A Jtlnlern Hittuver. History tells of showers of blood which was red sand and water, and showers oi frogs from neighboring onds, and in ISo'J an English officer residing near Calcutta saw a quantity of live fish, each about three inches long and all of ne kind, descend in a smart shower of rain. Idju.l&iy Maior Eorbes . Mackenzie, of Fodderty, in Ross-shire, ioumlhia larm covered with herring-fry, fresh and entire, and, as the easiest explanation of how they came there, he naturally coneluded that they had fallen from the sky. In 1801 Professor Pontus, of Cahors, communicated to the French Academy the particulars of a shower of frogs near Toulouse, and in proof that the lively batrachians had dropped out of the upper air, confidently pointed to two ol them that he had seen on the cloat ot a gentleman caught in the rain. He said but it is not known that the academi cians believed him that in the road the frogs had fallen four deep. Such phe nomena, when the accounts of men are believed, are commonly accounted for on the.supposition that a whirlwind catches up the fish into the air and blows them landward, or scoops up a whole pond ful of frogs and distributes them about the country. But the Bath county (Ky.) Xews has a finer story than any of these, in which it tells of how a shower of meat, eachj piece about two inches square, fell near Olympian Springs and covered about five thousand yards of earth. Two gentlemen who tasted the meat say that it was either mutton or venison. Jb rom this it appears that a whirlwind must have struck some boardiDg-house or restaurant where five thousand yards of hash were in preparation, but as mere were no signs of pie or fish balls in the hower, this theory does not seem to be much better than a hypothesis. It is indeed onered merely as a provisional explanation until more accurate informatiou as to the tacts shall te lortncom ing. SiearroH Dehcribe MltmtteTf. "I have lived to thirty ; if 1 reach forty I shall only add many miseries to those which I have endured these last eight or nine vears. My person was well made, though short; my disorder has shortened it still more by a foot; my head is a lit tle broad for my shape ; my face is full enousih for my body to appear very meacre ; I have hair enough to render a wig unnecessary; I have many white hairs in spite of the proverb : my teeth, formerly square pearls, are now the color of wood and will soon be of slate ; my legs and thighs first formed an obtuse anTle, afterward an equilateral angle, and at length an acute one. My thighs md body ferm another, and my head always drooping on my breast makes me not ill-represent a Z. I have got my arms shortened as well as my legs,' and my fingers as well as my arms. In a word, I am an abridgment of human miseries.1 Therk is one man who takes no inter est iu the Kentucky meat shower. He lives in Detroit, is a clerk in a wholesale store, and has never in hia life eaten a

particle of flesh.

INDIANA.

Marion Cunningham, of Martinsville, has sold his fast horse, " Daniel Boone," to J. C. Horton, of Denver, Colorado. The price paid is $4,000. Simon Lacer was killed by an accident at a saw mill near Warsaw. He was a young man, unmarried. William Mitchell, one of the oldest residents of Logansport, and the first white male child born in Chillicothe, Ohio, died in the former place recently. The New Albany water works will be completed about May 15. At the Indianapolis Exposition grounds, in April, Captain Bogardus, the famous pigeon shooter, will give an exhibition of his prowess, under the ausnices of the Indiadapolis shooting Club. One o' feats will be to shoot dPy birds on the wlg in eight minutes, he to load his own gun, a.I'J during the afternoon one hundred and nftv birds will run the risk of being brought to the earth by his gun. The Cass county commissioners are engaged in ditching about 16,000 acres of land in Boone township. The main water course, seven miles long, will lie at some places thirty feet wide, and sixteen feet deep. The average width will be twelve feet, and the depth six feet. The ditch will have five tributaries, each j several miles lonjr, and almost as large as the mam ditch. lhe average ol these tributaries will be ten feet wide and five feet deep. The total length of thens j ditches will be about thirty-two miles, and the cost of digging them is esti mated at $26,000. United States Marshal John Robinm, of New York, arrived in Indiauapolis a few days ago, having in his custody Henry A. Flammond, whom he arrested near Rockville, for the alleged murder of j Peter Remy, at Juuet, Belgium, in the winter ot l&o. Hie prisoner Leu me country after committing the murder, ' and for the past fix months has been located at the place where the arrest w as. made. A man named, Michael Taj lor, supposeu to oe a resiueni oi run uavur, while hunting at New Haven, took a boat on the Maumce river, accompanied by his dogs, one of which upset the boat, ami Taj lor was drowned. James Crowell, a brakeman on the jocai freight, on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, in attemptinctocouide the cars at Kendallville station, recently, fell, the train passing over j him, injuring him so severely that he died next nirht. His brother was con ductor of the train. A special to the Evansville Journal from Xew Harmony says: George Islcr, of your city, was on his way to his ! i it v. t . . . , .1 1 . rnn.of , f ! utoiuei Jiouse to aiituti tuc inwiai vi the hitter's wife, in company with a brother-in-law, and driving into Black river, five miles from here, some time Monday evening, and was drowned. His body was recovered yesterday evening, Can not find anv trace of his companion, who, it is reasonably supposed, was drowned at the same time. TVio rar-cnt fiorco winr" wViirTi nrpvailed in the State did much material damage, and caused at least one fatal aecident of a rather singular nature. As the Bee Line train due at Indianapolis was crossing the level country, near Marion, Ohio, the peanut vender stepped out of a car intendinc to enter the next following one. Just as he closed the door behind him a gust of wind carried his hat off. and he threw up his arms to catch it jn jg position a heavier blow caught him threw him off the pHtlorm. I When found he had a leg, arm and Moulder broken, and it was pronounced impossible for him to live more than a rw bours. He was leu at ttie next statjon for treatment Scotch JTuvrrO. Ye're maister o yerain words; but, anee spoken, yer words may mai.-ter you. God never sen s mouths but He sen s meat for them. He that teaches himself has a fule for a master. Raise nae mair deils than ye're able to lav. Nae thing should be done in a hurry but catchin' fleas. Sharp stomachs mak' short graces. There was ne'er eneuch wharnaething was left Bend the back to the burden. Be a frien' to yoursel' and sae will ithers. Better be alane than in ill company. Do the likeliest, an God will do the est Every mau kens best whar bisaiu shoe binds him. Fear God an' keep outo debL Fules make feasts, an' wise men eat thes. " An' wise men mak' proverbs, and fulea repeat them." Fair words ne'er brake a bane, foul words may. At an Elmira, New York, funeral, eight ladies officiated as pall bearers.

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Sn X.lus fr !-Sra Irf-rru r-dy t si Kindins tbcta fragrant an-i targe a&a Wlijiil-i you tliintc 1 ltj!iin:..j u.y iH-cp in thf piwn biii- 1 Four brown (mit, tb? uuoir tan.g Feather-! on back and trrat and win,:', I'roud with th tticity j-Him? brings t.i:-i.ag tbt it four mouths w i 1c. stcic-tcps; lower to wiica toy ize, Watt-bit!; their laouths with rj;-r rte, 1'roppir.g my berries with lIk! -Tjrise, A p!aimive wucl I bf sri And lookin: up at the mourttfu! ca'l. I epie-l on a branch, r.er the oil fiote wail. The r"T !:'.! mother Url. With grit f ana ;.-rnr her b-in was rt.g. And wtiKe to the 'ei. !e tr, .:; fhe husg, Sh felt that the live ct fcer tti!ittt hung On a still ninrv ?nder thread. " Ah, t-;r I m. !. " if rr.u o:..y knt-w That toy hexrt w.is t-n-ii-r sn-1 warm and tru : Bat the thought that I iovel h?r bir Uics tx Never etr.ci-.l her smili brown An ! so through this world .f our we go. Rearing our t u; !! of t.,-f '. wn, M.tny a heart i-e.ut)g nctarjr ad .k,w Under st b 1 of care ; But oh ! if we only, only knew That trl w... tender and wjnr:o and true. And that He lurl us i :.!... i and through, Our heart wosi!d l Pr'sirr than air. rxxciL, A A I fit IS Sit ICS. A man can borrow UouMe without giving security. " HuW to make a home happy :" Some men do it by staying at Louie, and some by '-ing away. We think in flashes and t.-lk like light ning, and from such thinking no safe BV.it.,i!, .r ,.r,-,., . , -,n ,-v.-r rt-uli. sn-I ty lhu.e ,vLo Ui; j iucetotlv, wht Ume i there for .-dow, deliberate thou-ht, ask Mr. Mairy. M o, i:sTK'.N" I ' P. LLt E I'EOPLE. There lu&ur trojb'e WouM irxtk like a bubble. And iu! the wiiers of Lvilje depart, I'll not we rehearse it. And tenderly nurne it. And give it j-rzusiuput place i'i the Li-art. In Bordeaux, France, a young man was recently sentence 1 t six d.iy- iiu-tiri.-onment and twenlv- five lr.-.r;cs f.ne "'l,1"s. r-- " r r.ifv absence. usiirmi nis tu.ue m tue i confessional and li.-tened ; the cnic eions of several young women. Onk ot thes:o!del and most touching eight-- in life is Ui.it ot a young man who has spent six mouth iii coaxing and waxing a tnustuche into re'Ctable size and shape, and iht n, in the act of lighting a cigar with a sop vf pajt-r, burns and scorches the whole institution into an unrecoixuiz.ible ma -s of singc-dness. A Kixut'LAK ox'P.iemic rew-nu'iinj uie ,l.!"r..r fb.foot and mouth disease in cattie, has broken out amoi l lie inhabitants of a village near Bolton, England, and in some cases whole families have been prostrated by it. The most probable explanation of the matter is that the village milk supply was derived from diseased animals. A daskey who was st 1 1 n.z to wa-.i Lis hands in a creek did not notice the peculiar actions of a goat just behind him, and so when he scrambled out of the water and wasa.-ked Low it happened he answere 'peared as c red. " Duuuo zacuy ; but u ; shore kinder h'isted and I rowed me. j Iris proposed to maie aumgton s ' V.irt "r.fl-jv a national holldaV. 1 h is is j right. George, besides being unable to ! tell a lie, never belonged to a base tail ' club, never read a dime novel, did not indulge in pocket handiercaiel mr na tion, and was never seen going out Detween the acts for In e r. New York Com mortal Advertiser: A stiiring incident in Philadelphia's p recentennial existence was the sudden apiearance of a sacred buu on f-igtitu street the other day, bellowing ana pitching along, with a large thror.g st his heels. The brule finally dabbed into a photographer's establishment, and was of coure taken at once. SOLOMON'S F.OSES. In Sharon's Yale some roes grew Three thousand year aa; And bloomed their little ean through, And. abc4 their leaves when wUatrlw Like fiaiies of fragiitt mow. A royal hand did gather theia And set thetii ia bis iktiig You can not find his diadem. ..... i But brviderd on Lis liu rtw beta The rosea grow a'.oiig. The stately Age tread aside Where'er those rosea are. Though real ma have vanished, diamonds :ci, Old Sharon's children yet abide As deathless as a f ir ! if. .F. Jbj-'iv. The Austin (Nev.) i.Vfi7c tells of a man who had played too much edro for the drinks, and who, to sober ofl, followed the sound of the church bells to church. During the sermon the minister gave a glowing description of Heaven and its delights, describing it as a city paved with g.oi d, its ways covered with beautiful foliage, and the air redolent with the perfume of orange blossoms; but in the midst of the description the congregation were startled by the rancher, who, nudging his next neighbor and winking knowingly, whispered in a whisper that was heard throughout the church: "I ve been there that's CaliforDift.' THE true workintmen are those who love work and love to see it rightly done 1 who finish their Usk for its own sake.

Us DIANA STMi: i Y