Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1879 — Page 1

ÜBUEB EVERY YHFMDAY MOBEIIG, MAJOR BITTERS & SON, J Publishers and Proprietors. Office—ln Makecvcr** ,Building, north side Publie Square. TERJffi OF ftVBfiCKIFTIOX t ahcay* tn admnce sl 50 Six months. “ 75 Throe months " “ 50 The Official Paper of Jasper County. . AU hinds of Plain and Ornamental JOB ‘ ' PRINTING promDtlv executed.

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Current Paragraphs. The failure of the well-known Chicago music fl rm of A. Reed A Sons was announced on the 18th. During the last year the Agents of the Post-Office Department arrested 562 persons for offenses against the Postal laws. At Vienna on the 17th the Archduchess Marie Christine, the future Queen of B|«in, officially renounced her right to the Austrian succession. General Grant has accepted an invitation of the Grand Army of the Republic Post of Harrisburg, Pa, to visit that city on the 15<h of December. At Andover, Mass., on the 18th two young eons of Mrs. H. P. Beard were burned to death by a fire which aq incendiary started in a room they occupied. ‘ The steamer Algeria, from Liverpool, arrived at New York oh the 19th, with £330.735 in specie on board. On the same day the steamer Gallcrt brought SBOO,OOO in French j gold coin. The Merchants' Association at Boston has recently appointed a committee to co-operate with/>thcr organisations in an effort to secure the enactment of a National Bankrupt law. Rev. J. V. McNamara, formerly a priest of the Order known as “The Congregation of the Mission.” was recently installed, at New York, Bishop of the “ludel«ndent Catholic Church.” Tlie will of Rev. Dr. Joseph P. Thompson, who died in Berlin, contains a clause bequeathing to Mrs. Sara De Land, of Grand Rapids, Mich., the sum of 3,000 marks and certain pictures ami books. Mrs. Adelaide Robert, on trial in Chicago for the murder of Theodore Weber, at Chicago, some months ago, has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. She was committed to the Insane Asylum. .The agent sent by our Government to see if the leading Powers would take the initiative In calling an International Mone- I tgry Conference has returned to Washington. Ills mission proved unsuccessful. It is said the Directors of the Bremen Steamship line have decided to refuse trans- I portation on their vessels to a class of heavy ' French silks which are so weighted with I chemicals and oils as to cause danger of • spontaneous combustion. The visit of the Princess Louise to London is said to have for its object the I colonization of Manitolia and Northwestern. I Canada. A company has been formed under I the title of the Lake .Winnipeg Land and Cbionization Association, to give aid and information to emigrants. ' P

General and Mrs. Grant arrived at their home in Galena on the evening of the 19th, having left Chicago in a special car on the morning of that day. They will remain at their home until their departure, in December, for Washington, via Indianapolis, Ciucipuatf, Louisville, etc. Judge *F. C. Beanian has declined, on account of the state of his health, the appointment tendered him by Governor Cros well to till the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Mr. Chandler. The Governor, on the 17th, appointed exGovernor Baldwin,of Detroit, to the position. Recently ten young boys of London, < >utarip, Were discovered in a plot to buy a -schooner and turn pirates on the lakes. They had purchased revolvers, and were concerting as to weapons of warfare. The money for the outfit ($180) one of the boys stole from a relative. The oldest boy is twelve years of age. The boys said they gnt their idea of the plot from reading “Jack Harkaway” and kindred stories. ' * - —— Calls were issued on the 18th for a meeting in Washington, on the Sth of January next,'of the Union Greenback National Committee, Chairman and members of the various State Committees, representatives of Greenback and Labor organizations, and editors of newspapers throughout the country friendly to the principles of the Greenback and Labor organizations, to decide upon the time and place for holding a National Convention. A recent Washington dispatch states that the Secretary of the Interior would soon issue a circular for the information of parties desiring to register their trade-marks, to the effect that the Federal statute upon the subject, by recent decision of the Supreme Court, is declared unconstitutional, and the Patent-Office registration is consequently Ineffectual as a means of protection; but that the Department will, however, continue to register trade marks for persons so desiring. The United States Supreme Court has rendered a decision declaring the provisions of the Trade-mark act unconstitutional. The ground upon which the decision was based appears to have been that the clause of the Constitution giving Congress the power to enact a Copyright law is designed exclusively for tha protection of property in literary productions. The decision will not operate io destroy any valid trade-mark right It merely leaves the law upon that subject as it was before the passage of the act in question, which was intended to afford additional security to the owners of trade-marks.

J. A. Bentley, Commissioner of Pento pension claimants and their attorneys, which reads, as follows : « - “To enable this office to dispatch with better facility the rapidly-increasing current business, a change in the system of arranging the records and tiles has been made which wifl render it necessary that all inquiries Tor the condition of pension claims on account of service rendered after March 4, 1861. should contain the name of the soldier who peaformed military service, with bis State, company and regiment, aa well as the number of claim or pension certificate, as the case may be. Inquiries which do not contain the above information will not be answered, except in special cases where tho failure to furnish ft is explained.” At the session in Washington on the doth of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland the following officers were chonen for the ensuing year: President—General Phil. H. Sheridan. Vice-Presidents—General Massachusetts; General Barnum, New York: General Cramer, New Jersey; General Negley, Pennsylvania; General Duffield, Michigan; Colonel Hobson, Kentucky; Captain E. E. Rhum, Tennessee; General Morgan. Illinois; General Streight, Indiana: General Meyer, Ohio; Colonel Johnston, Wisconsin; Colonel Conover, Missouri; General Martin, Kansas; Captain Wood,' Minnesota ;"and Captain Selleck, lowa. Recording Secretary—Captain Steel. Corresponding Secretary—General Cist. Treasur-er-General Fullerton. Toledo was selected as the place for the next meeting of the Society.. J

General.

In Russia diphtheria has attained such proportions that in some sections the percentage of mortality far exceeds the births. On the 17th a Paris correspondent telegraphed that two French explorers had discovered the source of the River Niger. .

Rensselaer Republican.

VOLUME XII.

, A Paris dispatch of the 16th denies the truth of the recent report of the death of Abdel Kader, the Algerine chieftain. The British authorities are constructing a railway to Candahar. tn Afghanistan. A severe snow storm prevailed in Vienna on the 16th. Albert Gilbert, Assistant Appraiser in the New York Custom-House, was suspended from duty on the 17th, by an order from Washington. Frederick Snyder, an Examiner in the same department, was suspended several days before. The Appraiser said they were not charged with the same offense, but declined making public the charges pending an investigation. A Pesth (Hungary) dispatch of the 17th says one-sixth of the inhabitants of Montenegro were starving. There had been severe fighting on the Turkish frontier, near Bresovitza. The latter place had been plundered by a body of MO Arnauts. A Glasgow dispatch of the 17th says thirteen persons, returning from a fair, were that day drowned while crossing the Lochindaal of the island of Islay. On the 17th General Grant received the public school children of Chicago in the Exposition building. There were 50,000 of them. In the evening he was banqueted and received by the Calumet Club. There was considerable excitement in Augusta, Maine, on the 17th over a report that the-Governor and Council had decided to throw out certain election returns, the effect of which would be the seating of Democratic candidates for Senators and members of the House of Representatives, and the securing of the State to the combined Democrats and Greenbackers for the coming year. a lt was reported that the town of Kettery was to be thrown out because, as alleged, two notices of election instead of three were posted. The throwing out of these would change the result in York County, by unseating three Republican and electing three Democratic Senators. A similar result would be reached In the city of Auburn, where, it is alleged, the notice of election was posted six days only, instead of seven. If this is thrown out it will change the vote in Androscoggin County. Similar changes on alleged technical grounds will change the figures in the State Senate, and give the Democrats and Greenbackers nineteen Senators and the Republicans twelve. The vote as originally canvassed gave the Ke publicans nineteen Senators, and all the others twelve.

A suit has been begun in the Supreme Court of New York against Postmaster James, of New York City, for the alleged illegal detention of a lottery-agent’s letters. These letters were detained under orders from the Postmaster-General. Counsel claim that the law authorizing such orders is unconstitutional. A colored people’s industrial exposition was opened at Raleigh, N. C-, on the 17th. - Recent Canton (Miss.) dispatches announce the arrest of Eliza Pinkston, of Returning Board notoriety, upon the charge of murdering her second husband. The Captain of the schooner C. G. Breed, which recently foundered during a gale on Lake Erie, has been picked up and brought |o Buffalo. The United States Senate Sub-Com-mittee appointed to investigate the SpoffordKellogg contested election case in Louisiana began its labors at New Orleans on the 17th. Several witnesses were examined on the 18th. The Porte officially announced on the 18th that the Sultan had finally sanctioned the projected statutes for the administrative reorganization of Turkey in Europe and Asia, It also announced that the efficacy of these reforms would be speedily and publicly proved by certain and brilliant results. Baker Pasha had been appointed to superintend their introduction throughout Asia Minor. The London Telegraph of the morning of the 18th says that United States bonds were being shipped back to pay for grain instead of gold. The tug Seymour left Cape Vincent, on Lake Ontario, on the afternoon of the 17th, in company with four smaller tugs, with three dredges, seven dump scows and three derricks in tow, bound for Oswego. When within five miles of that port they encountered a gale, and the fleet broke loose. It was reported on the 18th that all the vessels were lost except the Seymour, and that of the thirty-seven sailors on board nineteen had ptrished.’ • It was reported at Berlin on the 18th that 'Russia had advised Turkey to ask all the signatories to the treaty of 1856 to dispatch squadrons to the Dardanelles in case the English fleet entered the Straits. The whole of the St. Petersburg press was violent in its tone on the question. , It was officially denied in London on the 18th that England’s ultimatum had been sent to the Porte;, that the Channel fleet had been ordered to be in readiness to proceed from Malta to the Turkish waters in four days; that England bad demanded from Turkey the cession of a port in the Black Sea, and that a league of Balkan provinces had been formed.

A fearful explosion occurred in Tunnel No. 3 on the Narrow Gauge Railroad from San Jose to Santa Cruz early on the morning of the ISth. It appears that a blast was let off about 2,700 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, which caused an explosion of gas generated by the filtering of coal oil through the roof and sides of the tunnel. Twenty-one Chinamen and two white men were at work tn the tunnel at the time. Immediately about twenty more Chinamen rushed into the tunnel with torches to aid their comrades. When they had penetrated about 1,500 feet their torches caused a second explosion more violent than the first, shaking the mountain to its center. Two white men, Linkle and Johnson, were brought out terribly burned, and about ten Chinamen, all seriously Injured. As near as could be learned some thirty Chinamen were killed. The second explosion wrecked the engines and works. - ,• A London telegram of the 19th says the Government had resolved to squelch sedition in Ireland and, while doing everything it pqssibly could to diminish and relieve distr e ss, would not permit agitators to carry ou their treasonable programme. Several persons had already been arrested for the use of language tending to a breach of the peace, and there was considerable excitement throughout Ireland in consequence. Among those arrested was James Daly, editor of the Connaught Telegraph. Charles G. Bosse, the book-keeper of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company’s dank at Milwaukee, has been arrested upon the charge of embezzling the funds of the bank. It is stated that the peculations have been continued during a period of ten years, and that the moneys abstracted will aggregate F 200.000. Experts are engaged upon the books, striving to fathom the mystery of his balances and understand his methods of abstraction. The ceremony of unveiling the statue of General George H. Thomas, erected in Washington and presented to the Nation, through the President, by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, was duly and impressively performed at the National Capital on the 19th. The gathering in the city was very large, and many distinguished personages. civic and military, participated in the proceedings. The oration was delivered by Judge Stanley Matthews, and at its conclusion he formally presented the statue to the people of the United States, through the President, and President Hayes accepted the same in a few brief and appropriate remarks The public buildings were illuminated with

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1879.

electric lights in the evening, and the neighboring streets were thronged with people. Short speeches were made by Generals Sherman, Garfield, President Hayes, and others. The Irish Home-Rule Executive Committee adopted resolutions on the 19th denouncing the British Government for causing the arrest of Davitt, Daly and Killen for defending the rights of the Irish tenantry. The California Republican State Central Committee recently telegraphed to the President and Secretary of the National Republican Committee, asking that the place of George G. Gorham on the National Committee, as representative of California, be declared vacant on account of his action during the recent State campaign. An unusually heavy fall of snow occurred at Augusta, Ga, on the 19th. It snowed steadily for over three hours. A London telegram of the 20th says the iron steamer Pallas, from Copenhagen for Amsterdam, had foundered off Heimskirk. and that thirty persons perished. Parkhall, near Evesham, England, the seat of the Earl of Yarmouth, burned on the 20th. Loss, SBOO,OOO. About two o’clock on the morning of the 20th the Leadville (Col.)' Vigilantes took a foot-pad named Patrick Stuart, and Ed Frokishaw, a notorious desperado and lot-jump-er, from the jail, and hung them until they were dead. An Augusta (Me.) dispatch of the 20th says that proceedings had been instituted before the Supreme Court by two of the Republican Senators-elect to restrain the Governor and Council from interference with the returns of the late election. The King of Abyssinia demanded on the 20th that bis right to. Soudan and Nubia be acknowledged, and also that he be paid two million pounds sterling. He Refused to make any other treaty. The inquiry into the conduct of the ex-Ameer Yakoob Khan and his Ministers in connection with the massacre of the British Embassy terminated on the 20th, and the report of the Commission of Inquiry was forwarded to the Viceroy of India. Nothing had transpired to alter the unfavorable opinions current regarding the Ameer’s course. Thomas Flaherty, a farmer residing at Moiiasterredan, near Ballaghderen, Count}’ Sligo, Ireland, was dragged out of bed on the night of the 20th, by a party of twenty men with their faces disguised. Having blindfolded their victim, they took him about fifty yards from the bouse, cut off a piece of his right ear, beat him unmercifully with a piece of bush, took away his gun, and there left him. He alleges the cause of the outrage to be that he bad paid his rent before it was due. ** Denis Kearney was arrested in San Francisco on the evening of the 20th upon charge of attempting to break up a public meeting, and held to bail in; the sum of S2OO. Chief Ouray, in a speech before the White River Ute Commission, an account of which was received on the 20th, explained the tergiversation of the Indian witnesses. He said it was because they belived that a plot had been set for their capture. They had since learned that it was not so, and he believed they would hereafter testify truthfully. In response to the request that the further investigation in relation to the White River affair be prosecuted at Washington, Secretary Schurz telegraphed, on the 20th, acceding to the request, provided that the guilty parties in the inassacre be first pointed out and surrendered, and stated that, if this were not done, the whole tribe would be considered guilty of the crime and treated accordingly. The following was the vote cast in Wisconsin at the recent election for Governor: Smith, Rep., 100,533; Jenkins, De tn., 75,039; May, Greenback, 12,995; Bloomfield, Temperance, 387; scattering, 57. Total vote, 189,011. Smith’s plurality, 25,494. ' London dispatches of the 21st represent the agitation in Ireland as rapidly increasing. -The Government had directed a regiment of dragoons stationed at Manchester to prepare for immediate departure, and the troops scattered throughout Ireland had been ordered to concentrate at Sligo, where the parties lately arrested for seditious utterances are confined, and where there are ominous threats of an attempted rescue. On the evening of the 21st an immense meeting was held in Dublin, at which resolutions were adopted denouncing the Government for the arrest of Daly, Kilien and Davitt The arrest of Parnell, the Home-Rule member of Parliament, was threatened. There was great excitement on Wall street, in New York, on the 21st, caused by a rapid decline in stock quotations, ranging all the way from one to twenty per cent Various rumors of railroad combinations, etc., produced the depreciation, which rumors were subsequently denied or proved false, and a partial recovery in values occurred. •

Postmaster-General Key’s Annual Report.

Washington, November 18. The annual report of Postmaster-General Key is made public to-day. Large portions of it are devoted to the presentation or statistical information already published in the abstracts of reports of his subordinate officers. RAILWAY SERVICE. Tne Postmaster-General renews the recommendation contained in his last report for the enactment of a law readjusting the compensation of railroads for carrying mail upon a basis of space, speed and frequency, supplemented by the weight of the mails carried. The railroad companies have as a general thing neglected to furnish statistics of receipts, expenditures, etc., as requested. The recommendation is made that the appropriat ion to enable the Postmaster-General to obtain the proper facilities for the prompt transmission of mails by railroad be increased this year to $400,000. The cost of railway service on the 30th of June, 1879, was at the rate of $9,692,500 per annum, an increase over the cost of the service during the preceding year of $125,995. This increase does not, however, represent the actual rate of increase in the service, as account must be taken of a reduction of five per cent, in the rate of compensation from July 1,1878, made under the act of June 17, 1878. The amount of this deduction is, in round numbers, $400,000, making, wltn. the $125,995, an increase of $525,996 for 1879 over 1878, being little less than 5.5 per cent. The general increase of business all over the country, and the reasonable certaintv that the present prosperity will continue for some years, will require the appropriation for the railway service for the next fiscal year to be increased to at least $10,000,000, and the estimate is accordingly placed at that sum. The estimate for the railway post-office car service for 1881 is placed at $1,360,000. The General earnestly renews the recommendation of last rear for a reclassification of the employes of the. Railway Mail Service by the General Superintendent of that service. THK “ STAR" HOLTES. General Key reports that the operation of the present laws regulating the increase of compensation for increased speed and incresed frequency of service upon “ star routes” (i. e.. all those whereon the mails are transported by horses and ordinary vehicles,) results in great loss to the Government, and recommends legislation to enable him to retrench in this direction. The estimates for ■ star "service the next fiscal year contemplate the continuance of the present efficient service In other States, and largely increased mail facilities In the States of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Alabama. The total amount asked for “ star" sendee the next fiscal year is $7,375,000. The estimates for inland mail sen'ice by steamboats is $900,000. FART MAIL SERVICE. The report continues: “The efforts of the Department to establish a fast mail service with Havana via Cedar Keys and Key West, in order to meet the demands of commerce, have failed for several years on account of the insufficiency of the compensation allowed by law for such sendee. If the Postmaster-Gen-eral were authorized to contract for sendee between Havana and the United States ports mentioned at a sufficient rate of pay to secure the necessary speed and frequency, the commerce of the country would be greatly benefited. I believe that a general law should be passed authorizing contracts for carrying mails between the United States and the West Indian and South American ports in American-built steamers carrying American flags, at a fixed minimum and maximum price, the amount to be expended regulated by an-

nual appropriations; or the service might be thrown open to competition, the same as the ‘star ’ service. The adoption of such service by Congress would enable this country to control the profitable commerce with South America and the West Indies, which is now almost monopolized by Great Britain.” LOTTERIES. In regard to the use of mails by lottery companies, the Postmaster-General suggests that sections 3JS9 and 4,041. Revised Statutes, be amended by striking out the word “ fraudulent” preceding the word “ lottery” in each section, which will make the legislation more harmonious and effective. It would aid the Department in the execution of the intent of the law if the provision of Section 2,95® requiring the return to the writers of registered letters addressed to such schemes were in terms extended to include all letters so addressed. The circulars recently issued upon this Subject are given, and reference is made to a case now pending in the United States Circuit Court at Louisville, which, when decided, says General Key, “ I will avail myself of the decision to communicate further the views of this Department upon the question. Whether an individual may forfeit his right to use the mails for legitimate purposes by voluntarily mingling such correspondence with prohibited matter so that the Department must carry both or neither is a Question upon which additional legislation might render the purpose of the statute altogether unquestionable. The carriage by mail of newspapers containing lottery advertisements soliciting violations of the Postal laws renders the successful enforcement of the statute now in force still more difficult.” THE NEW POSTAGE RATES, i General Key reports that the law provdinig for a new classification of mail matter, ana adjusting the rates of postage thereon, passed at the last session of the Forty-fifth Congress, has given universal satisfaction. PROTECTION TO POSTMASTERS. Under the heading of “Protection to Postmasters in person and property,” the report says: “ I desire respectfully to call your attention to the fact that there is no United States statute imposing a penalty on any one for assaulting or molesting a postmaster in the discharge of his official duties, as in the case of revenue officers, and I earnestly request that Congress be urged to pass such a statute.” In connection with a suit recently decided against Postmaster James, of New York, for alleged infringement of letters-patent in the use of canceling stamps. Genera) Key says an accounting irnthe case is now being taken; but as other postmasters are liable to be subjected to expense in the same manner, because these stamps have been in use at all the principal post-offices of the country for .the last ten years, he desires to call attention to the fact that there is no provision of Federal law' to secure “ certificates of probable cause” to United States officials other than officials in cases of adverse judgments foracts done in their official capacity. “In the present instance Mr. James, as postmaster, uses the canceling stamps furnished by the Department. The Court adjudges him to have infringed a patent by such use. The judgment for damages is against him personally. In like cases the property of the Treasury officials Is protected by law from levy. I submit that similar protection is due to all Government employes when acting in the line of their duty.” dutiable matter, stc. The report recommends that the provision of Seation 17 of the act of March 3,1879, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury and Post-master-General to adopt regulations for delivery to addresses in the llnited States of dutiable books, with the collection of customs duties thereon, be extended to embrace all articles of dutiable matter received in the mails from foreign countries. - The Postmaster-General recommends legislation to enable the Department to adopt a general regulation of the Postal Union relative to the payment of limited indemnity for registered articles lost or destroyed In the postal service. PAY OF CLERKS. The report goes on to say that “ the increasing demands of the postal service call for a large increase in the appropriation for the payment of clerks in the post-offices. The estimate, $8,650,000, for this item is greatly below the actutN need for thescrvice. 1 have so estimated, however, because I did not desire to Increase the growing’ disparity between the revenues and the expenditures of the Department. To provide a less sum for the employment of clerks than I have estimated for will cripple the work of the post-offices, and in many instances delay the transmission of mails.” THE FREE DELIVERY SERVICE. i The free-delivery service is mentioned as having obtained great success, but the Post-mastei’-Gcneral remarks that with larger appropriations more frequent deliveries could, be secured, and such improvement he believes would meet with universal commendation in the larger cities. A deficiency of about $24,000 is reported in the funds available.to pay the letter-carriers’ increased salaries "authorized by the act of last February, and Congress is requested to supply it. THE OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS of interest made are, in brief, that Congress should provide at the next session for superseding at the earliest possible date the maillocks now in use by others of new and injprovcd patterns (for which purpose an estimate of $150,000 Is submitted); that the Public Printer tie authorized to print a new edition of the codified Postal laws and regulations, to be sold to the public at cost; that authority be given to the Department to contract for the publication of a monthly Postal Guide for a term of tlve years.

Pension Report.

Washington, November 21. J. A. Bentley, Commissioner of Pensions, has completed his annual report to’ the Secretary of the Interior. It shows that on the 30th of June last there were 212,755. persons in the United States receiving pensions from the i Government. The pension-list is now larger than at any previous time. The present list is' composed of 11’5,150 army invalid pensioners, 81,174 anny widows, children and dependent relatives, 1,844 navy invalids, 1,772 navy .widows, etc., 11,621 surviving soldiers of the war of 1872, and 21,194 widows of deceased soldiers of that war. During the year 31,346 new .dames were added to the list, and 908 names which had previouslybeen dropped from the rolls, mainly from failure for three years to claim their pensions, were restored, and 13,497 were,'for various reasons, dropped. The aggregate amount of one year’s pension to all pensioners on the rolls is $25,491,742.15, but the actual annual payment exceeds that sum by several million dollars. This arises from the fact that nearly all the newly-admit-ted army and navy cages have several years’ accrued pension due at the time of admission, which is paid at, the first payment. During the year the first payment to new pensioners amounted to $5,763,758, of which $4,375,147 was paid to army and navy invalid widows, etc., and $7,388,611 to survivors and widows of the war of 1812. The first payment of pensioners of the war of 1812 will rapidly fall off, while a material increase may be expected in the army and navy cases for several years, owing to the removal of the limitation upon the commencement of pensions by tho acts of Jan. 25 and March 3, 1879. The above-named acts were passed after the estimates for the pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30,1880, were submitted, and were not, therefore, taken into account when the appropriation was made, and there will be a deficiency in the pension appropriation for the current year, as nearly as can now be estimated, as follows: $5,000,000 army pensions and $:»,000 navy pensions, which should be provided for, in order that the pensions for the June quarter may be promptlypaid. There were on the 30th of June 136,645 unsettled claims for arrears, an increase over last year of 16,258. To them areto be added about 40,000 old claims which were revived by the Arrears act of January 25, 1879, or called up from the rejected flies since that date, for further consideration, and these, with the new claims filed since the close of the year in excess of the number settled, added to the number shown by the record, will aggregate fully 200.000. Since the passage of the Arrears act new Invalid, widows, minor children and dependent relatives' claims have been filed at an unprecedented rate, the invalid claims being more than double the rate of the receipts at any previous period except in 1866, and the widows’ class exceeds any year since 1867, and twice as numerous as any year since 1871. It is estimated that at the close of the year there will be not less than 250,000 unsettled cases before the office. An examination into the papers in the cases of 500 pensioners whose names have been dropped from the rolls within the last three years and four months, because the pensions have been obtained by fraud, shows the following: 229 invalids established their cases by producing 1,581 affidavits and certificates, of which 1,233 were false. Of the latter, 391 were made by officers, 179 by comrades, and 763 by other persons. Two hundred and seventy-one pensions of widows, minor children and dependent relatives were established and allowed upon 2,816 certificates and affidavits, of which 1,850 were false. Ninetyfive of the latter were made by officers, 6# by comrades and 1.667 by other persons. It is also ascertained that at least 96 forgeries were committed in the 500 cases. There hud been paid to these pensioners before the discovery of their frauds $547,225. —lrish wit is certainly inimitable. It is like a flash of brilliancy which lights up the surrounding gloom and leaves a pleasant remembrance of itself behind. A son of the Green Isle stood on the highway looking on a comrade who was lying helpless through drink. The day was hot, and, as the Irishman wiped his forehead, he said sadly, “ Ah, my boy, I wish I had’just half of your disease.”— N. Y. Herald. —There is no drug which equals the soporific power of a sermon that is too long.— N.. Y. Herald,

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

Paddy's worst Bull—John.— Buff ale Express. A falls report: The roar of Niagara. —St. Louis Spirit. A sole-stirring incident—Treading on the point of a tack. To the wood-sawer, life is full of saw-rows.—WAifeAali Times. Advice to oyster-eaters, candidates and American mothers in Europe— Watch the oount. “Pay as you go” is a good motto, but the theaters make you pay as you come in.— Boston Post. Man can subdue the elephant, the lion and the rhinoceros, but the tiger generally gets the best of him. Cacsar’s motto was to always be first, but when it comes to fighting a duel we prefer to be second.— Boston Post. Says the Republique Francoises “It is now difficult to tell an Irishman from an Englishman unless by his vivacity.” The happiest point in a maiden's life. That is higher prized than wealth or fame. Is when the happy day arrives That necessitates a change of name. —Danieltonville Sentinel. John Bright declares that if he was a teacher in a school he would make it “ a very important part Of his business” to impress every boy and girl with the duty of being kind to all animals. That girl is clutching time right by the bangs who, when her “gentleman friend” drops in to spend an evening, gives him a gentle hint as to what she would like to have about Christmas. The following is an exact copy of a prescription presented to a Fair Haven (Conn.) drug store a few days ago: “Gum reabic 3 Opin 3 Ex Struct of lickers 3.” The figures indicate that three cents’ worth of each article was required. An abundance of guests and limited lodging-room caused Jimmy to be “ slept out” at a neighbor's. On arising in the morning he was invited toremain at breakfast. (“Well, Iguessnot,” he replied; “we have mighty good breakfasts at our house when we have company."— New Haven Register. A poem entitled “To My Mule,” in the Louisville Courier-Journal, closes with these lines: “8o now, my mule, your matin dubbins munch, An-1 I will trim your tail the while you ” The sudden conclusion of the poem is -very ominous of the fate of the author. This country is full of suffering caused by unpaid labor. An industrious man in Chicago, last week, pried off the lids of six desks, broke the locks of four money-drawers and blew up threp safes, and netted less than one dollar. Yet we are told that times are improving.— Andrews' American Queen. “ That passage in your novel doesn’t seem particularly new, you know.” “ Well, maybe it isn’t, but then what does Solomon say? Nothing new under the sun, you know. Take up any book you like, and I defy you to find in it a single word, a single syllabic, a single letter even, that hasn't been used over and over and over again.”

A young Irishman, whose remittances from home had been stopped, wrote very urgent letters, telling of his distress, and promising to reform if the remittances were continued. When he failed to get what he wanted he resorted to stratagem, and wrote a sad letter to his father, telling him that he was dead and wanted money for the funeral expenses. It is related that a Yankee who had just lost his wife was found by a neighbor emptying a bowl of soup as large as a hand-basin. “Why, my goodness, Elan thus!” said the gossip, “ is that all you care for your wile?” “Wai,” said the Yankee, “I’ve been cryin’ all the momin!, and after I finish my soup I’ll cry another spell. That’s fair, anyhow.” —Syracuse Herald. Waggs went to the station of one of our railroads the other evening, and finding the seats all occupied, said, in aloud tone, “Whythis car isn’t going!” Of course these words caused a general stampede, and Waggs took the best seat. The train soon moved off. In the midst of the indignation the wag was questioned. “You said this car wasn’t going?” “Well, it wasn’t then,” replied Waggs, “but it is now.” A young man writes to know if it is proper to take hold of a young lady’s arm in promenading. Certainly it is. Nothing looks so nice as to see a tall youth walking 'with a little lady who comes not up to his shoulder, with his arm hooked into hers, lifting her half off her feet every time he steps. The nearer you can reach the appearance of taking a lady into custody, like a policeman, the more genteel it is, you know. —Cincinnati Saturday Night. Ever since that little trifle of over $5,000,000, accidentally forgotten in the Hopkins estate, turned up, we have been examining-our old vests and things under the firm conviction that we have absent-mindedly at odd times left a few hundred thousand coupons, bonds and such trifles in the pockets. There has nothing turned up so far except a ticket, bearing interest at four per cent., for'the family watch, redeemable in—well, you know how it is yourself. Exchange. Juries sometimes give very curious verdicts. One of the most remarkable was that found by a Washoe jury in a case of milk-stealing. The prisoner was tried on a charge of stealing milk from another man’s cow. It was proved that he hail frequently milked the animal at night, thereby causing his neighbor great vexation and annoyance. The jury desired to express in their verdict their sense of the aggravated nature of the offense. They therefore found the prisoner “ guilty of milking the now in the first degree.”

FACTS AND FIGURES.

The quantity of coal raised in Germany in 1878 was 39,429,308 tons, and in 1877 it was 30,433,774 tons. In 1878 the quantity of lignites raised was 10,-’ 971,117 tons, as compared with 427 tons in 1877. The Titusville Heralds report of the oil trade for October shows that there were 268 wells completed, 63 in the lower country and 205 above, giving a production of 5,108 barrels, with an average of 19 barrels to each well. In September there were 246 wells finished, producing 4,606 barrels, with an average of 18} each. Up to the present time the advances to Ireland by the Imperial Government of Great Britain, in the way of loans for public works, have amounted to £20,000,000 in round numbers, of which nearly £6,000,000 has been remitted, over £4,000,000 lent for the relief of the laboring poor, and above £1,000,000 more for river-drainage and navigation. The total repayments to the Treasury have been £10,&5,000. In 1816, the population of all the territory which now forms the German

Empire amounted to 24,831,396 souls. According to the last census, there were 42,727,360 inhabitants in the same districts; so that the population has increased at an average annual rate of 0.9 per cent. From 1816 to 1834, the average yearly increase was 1.16 per cent; from 1834 to 1852,0.88; from 1852 to 1867, 0.75; and from 1867 to 1875, 0.85 per cent. The Augusta (Ga.) CftromcZe and Constitutionalist says it is an encouraging fact that the cotton sold in that city the previous week, as compared with the corresponding week of last year, owing to the advance in prices,? makes a difference in favor of the f ' planter of about SIOO,OOO. The amount of cotton sold in October, this year, int. the Southern States, will net producers from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 more than the sales for October last year. This is not from the larger sales, but from the increased price of jeotton. ‘ v Five and a half millions of dollars are spent every year by the Russian Government upon the military schools. There are twenty sergeants’ schools, twenty-two military gymnasiums, two military teachers’ seminaries, seven officers’ schools, the institute of the Imperial pages, the military topographical school, the naval school, the naval academy, the naval artillery school, the naval engineer school, the military general academy, the military artillery academy, the military engineer academy, four military veterinary schools, the military medical academy, the military law school and academy—in short, there is only wanting a military theological academy.

The Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Washington, November 20. The annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs has been submitted. Itahows that during the past year there has. been among the Indians in general a steady-advance in civilization, which has had no parallel in any previous year. In this the Ogaialla and Brule Sioux have taken the lead, and their progress during the last eighteen months has been_ simply marvelous. It ‘itaOf longer a question whether the Indiana' will work those who are anxious to do so are now largely in )he majority. From all, except the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory, there Is a ealLfor lands in severalty. There Is a largely-increMMSdi defeire for houses and agricultural implements, wagons, etc.,-and also for citizens’ clothings p'. The following table shows the substantial results of Indian labor during the year. Thef are much larger thanever before, and but for the severe drought in the Indian Territory and among the NataJoes, the increase ’ini crops would have been much greater, especially in the corn crop,ft which is less than that of last year: By Indians, exclusive of the five civilized tribes of Indian Territory, in 1679: Number of acres broken... 27,131 Number of acres cultivated... .157,056 Bushels of wheat raised. ..32t’,tK17 Corn, bu.. .;t-41.286 Oats and barley, bd....189.064 Vegctables, bui. >390,098 Hay cut, t0n5i48,333 By the tlve civilized tribes: Acres cultivated.£....} 273,000 Bushels of wheat raised 565.400 Corn, bu 2,015.010 Oats and barley, bu;.L.«....7.SCOjOflfti Vegetables, bu.......'X6.000Hay cut, tons... .> 176,500 The only sure way to make the Indians advance in civilization under the best ebhdition to promote their welfare Is to give each hend of a family 160 acres of and to each ‘unmarried adult eighty acres, and ttplssiraf patents for the same. a THE L’TE OUTBREAK! -'J The history of the Utcoutbririk js given in detail without disclosing any new facts. In reference to the removal of the Utes to some other location, the ComriiisSfoner suggests that a commission be appointed to vipit the tribe and obtain its consent to remove from the State upon payment of the full value of lands now occupied. The advantages to be obtained by removing them to the liMian Territory are: 1. An abundant supply of- arable land and cultivation. 2. Impiunity-frCtr. white encroachment; and, 3. Better security for keeping Indians peaceful, ns the country is not adapted to Indian-fighting, and. everywhere oilers open fields for use of aft i fiery and all the appliances of civilized warfare, so that whatever fee the disposition qf the Indians, if resort to force should bo necessary it could be made effective in the interests of P The Commissioner considers the enactment of the bill extending the criminal.-laws of respective States or Territories OVeei’-Indlan reservations of vital importance. The Indian policemen have shown the .utmost fidelity to the Government, and have when necessary arrested even friends and relatives with absolute impartiality. Several instances are cited in proof of their fidelity. There is but one drawback which should be removed by Congress, and that is inadequacy of pay, which by law is fixed at $5 per inonth. The Commissioner recommends that it be increased to sls pet month. a V’-. NOVEL RECOMMENDATION. The following novel recommendation is made: “A penal settlement-for the confinement and reformation of the more turbulent and troublesome individuals among the various Indian tribes is a pressing want. For murderers and the worst class of refractory Indians, one settlement should be in Florida, which is far enough from the Indian reservations to make any attempt at escape hopeless. Another settlement should be at some point in the Northwest where considerable land dan be found upon which imprisonedjndians may be taught to work for their own support. The settlements should be guarded by sufficient force to exercise perfect discipline,and trades, as well as agriculture, should be taught, and when the time arrived for them to be returned home the captives would have reached an advanced stage of civilization.” I THE SALE OF FIRE-ARMS. Outside the Indian reservations .men are everywhere found driving a thrifty business in selling the latest and best patterns of arms and fixed ammunition to non-eivilized Indians. The sales thus made are limited in amount only by the ability of the Indians to purchase. Previous to the late outbreak Indians were amply supplied with Winchester and Spencer rifles and fixed ammunition, obtained from traders outside their reservations. There is no statute against this crime, and the Commissioner recommends that legislation be specially directed against such sales by Congress. Prohibiting, under severe penalty, the sale of both fire-arms and fixed ammunition, and further legislation requiring non-civillzcd Indians to be disarmed, are the only common-sense and practical Tnethoda of putting an end to this dangerous traffic. THE PONCAS. The Poncas are reported as doing well on their new reservation, and rapidly advancing in ways of civilization. The progress of the youths trained in the Indian schools is of the most hopeful character. Exclusive of the five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory there are now over 7,100 Indian children taught at the agency schools. The five civilized tribes have 6,2sochildren at school. INDIAN MARRIAGES. Among the other recommendations of the report is one for the enactment of a law to prevent polygamy, and provide for legal marriages among the Indians. For this purpose it is proposed to make civil magistrates of Indian agents.

Estimated Government Expenses.

Washington, November 18. The printing of detailed estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30,1881, has been completed. The estimates of the amounts required for expenditure under the War Department aggregate *29,321,794 for the military establishment, and *7,557,834 for public works of various kinds, including about *5,000,000 for river and harbor improvements, *1,000.000 for sea-coast fortifications, *774,000 for buildings in and around Washington, and *657,000 for arsenal. ; , The cost of tbe naval establishment is estimated at *14,509,148. The estimates for the Indian service foot up *4,992,846; for foreign intercourse, *1,185,135; for salaries and expenses of Collectors of Internal Revenue, *4,075,000; for expenses of the mints and assay offices, *1,20.1,810; for salaries and expenses of the Treasury Department proper, *2,661,672; for the Interior Department proper, *2,146,774; for deficit in paatal revenues, *7,712,0 JO; for construction ofnew lighthouses, beacons and Hag signals, *674.000; for new Government buildings throughout the country, *2,247,001; for Judicial salaries and expenses of courts, *3,250,000; for pensions, *32,044,000: for salaries and expenses of the two Houses of Congress (about), *2,800,000; for the salaries of President and VicePresident and expenses of the Executive office, *97.464; for expenses of the tenth census, *2,750.000. The grand aggregate of estimates is *136,347,129. The total amount appropriated by Congress for the current fiscal year was *162,404,648, which included *25 0 0 000 for arrears of pensions and about *3JX)O,OOO for the District of Columbia. No estimates for either of these purposes are submitted in the book of estimates this year. . —Everything has recently advanced in prices except liberty, which remains at eternal vigilance, with liberal reductions to the trade.

NUMBER 41.

Youths’ Department. ’ ‘"UMh ' * *•/ INSIDE AND OUT. Charlie Mt in his easy-chair; fuming and fretting away, Though why he was sad, or why he should cry. , I’m sure 1 never could say. The curtains were drawn, the table spread, in a room both warm and bright: Inside *twas pleasant as pleasant could be, ; • Outside a wild, dark niiitit. He said he was tired Of rain all day, and never a thing to do. Just then came a sound from the steps outside, . to 1 and away to the window he flew; Sitting alone in the biting cold, where the rain came thick and fast, Was a ’poor little waif, who shivered and ;■ ..Moaned, as people went hurrying past. The door was flung on its hinges wide; “ Come iti,” our Charlie cried; . • And heted the poor liftle weary one right up bis mother’s sfile. Two little fellows stood dose by the fire, one La WWpm and rosy and fa,r ’ The other all pinched With hunger and cold, cfflmuid weak and pate withoare. “ Oxttdn the rain this long, long day, wanderabout in the street ?” And Charlie drew up for tired Ned his own ’ AJ 'toft-cushioned seat. ■“ Oh, mother. I’ll never be naughty and bad ; Tx>ut the rain or cold again, If only you’ll give him supper and clothes, ‘W'l a bed to sleep in then.” And the mother drew close the favoredgone, her eyes agieam with a tear; While thoangels smiled, for they led the child through.the clouds and storm right here. And Ned wasmever friendless again, and Char- ' lietesrned to bear. With a his own little part of this lifiavp worry and care. -W. JT. Buiherford. in N. Y. Observer.

THE KITE THAT FLEW A BOY.

“ KiTE«rat« almost over, little Ning It was thejrat fan-maker who was speaking* Pongee Wongee; and he looked window while Ning was making hisehopsticks fly in and out of a bowl of nee. “ Almost; jmclb,” he said, sorrowfully. ’ - '?:■ It was in China land. The trees werddbQvered with gold, purple and scarlet raaves, that looked like tiny kites. Sd%Jj|gpeat wind would set them to flyinmjjw as little mandarins spinning the air in their bright robes of Wk, and then would come winter. Wio could fly kites in .winter? Little Ning Tingfeat in a high chair, for his legs were and the table before him was tall. Tft '•“Look out, Ning Ting,” said his mother. “ You will tumble out of that chair. Why, you almost went over then! You are sleepy, and you gave a tremendous nod.”;’ /“Did I? Oh! I won’t go over, mother.” “Yes, you will; and fat boys, you know, when they begin to go, go with a rush.*’ ‘tOtit Iwon’t tumble. lam only thinkI to say he was thinking of something wrong. He did want to have one more good time kite-flying, and there was a kite in the next house belonging to his little neighbor Foo Choo, a big blue and red and white kite, and the covering was soft, bright silk. Little Ning Ting had been an honest bey, but a big temptation came to him that day. How would it do to get Foo Choo’s kite and fly it a day, a week, all the time—yes, keep it? Here the sleepy Ning Ting gave a fearful bob with his head. If he had not been put together strong, he would certainly have bobbed his head off. What was he thinking about? That kite? He had a great mind to go and get it. “ No, no, that won’t do!” He heard a voice. Uncle Pongee Wongee seemed to be speaking. “Don’t you remember, little Ning Ting, what I told you one day when making a fan for the Emperor of China himself? It is wrong to do sin, and it is wrong also to think sin. That is the way temptation grows. It comes as a thought, and, if we don’t turn it out of doors, by-and-by it will turn us out. Don’t have anything to do with a wrong thought. Don’t play in your mind with temptation. It will get the better of you, hurry you off a captive and hold you in its power. Don’t think sin. Stop at the beginning.” “Ob, nonsense!” said Ning Ting to himself. “Uncle Pongee Wongee has got very strict since going to the chapel of the missionary man.” Little Ning Ting now gave another tremendous nod, and the tired boy bobbed so that his mother almost exE acted to see his head with its yellow air go right off and roll like a ripe, round pumpkin across the table. “ Ning Ting, you will be over. Look out!”

“Oh! I won’t mother. I am only thinking.” At last Ning Ting had a horrid thought, and began *to act in accordance with it. He stole softly, when no one was looking, to Foo Choo’s shed, where he kept the bright silk kite. “ Was anybody looking?” No. He stole around the corner of the shed (anybody looking?), stole through the door, stole up a little ladder. There on the floor of a little room where Foo Choo’s father kept hay in winter and hay-seed in summer was the kite. Anybody looking now? Yes, he was about taking the kite Whish-sh-sh! Ning Ting almost dropped the kite in his fear. A big black cat with big yellow eyes ran from behind the kite, and went tearing down the ladder. “What a fright you gave me, old puss! But what a pretty Kite! How I wish it could be mine! But there, I won’t steal it. I will only take it out and fly it. How I wish it could be mine!” Ning Ting went out softly. Was Foo Choo’s granny looking? He hoped not. She had a disagreeable voice if boys were naughty, and he hated disagreeable voices. “ Take that kite back!” Was it Foo Choo’s granny? No, .it must have been Uncle Pongee Wongee speaking inside of him. “ Ning Ting, look out! Danger, danger!” “Nonsense, nonsense! 1 haven’t stolen the kite, I am only going to play with it,” exclaimed Ning Ting. In the big lonely field back of his house, with the help of a beggar-boy who came along, he began to fly the kite. How easily it went up! And what a big one it was! How it pulled on the stnng—yes, pulled on the string —lifting him up two or three feet! Wasn’t it exciting? But th? kite let him down again, and he was on the ground in a moment. Ning Ting thought he would try that once more, and let the kite pull him up, it was such exciting fun! “Danger, danger!” called the Pongee Won gee inside of him. “ But I haven’t stolen the kite, I am only playing with it,” was Ning Ting’s answer. At last Ning Ting ventured to let the kite draw him up again. This time, he went higher than he intended. He rose above the second story of his house, but his foot catching in the

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spout, that held him. He sat down on the spout and breathed more freely. Was not that a narrow escape? But what fun it was also! “ I guess now I will go for the top of' the apple-tree in the yard. I can easily hit the top of that. Nice kite this is! I have a great mind to keep it,” Off through the air he went sailing, and sat down in the top of the appletree. Who were those under the tree? They were Foo Choo and his brother Dundee. Horrors! “ What if Foo Choo should see me!” thought Ning Ting. But Foo Choo did not see that lump of fat up among the red apples. “ Dundee/’ called out Foo Choo. “ Have you seen my kite?” * “No; is it gone?” u “ I guess so, for I can’t find it anywhere.” The voice of Pongee Wongce was again heard: “Little Ning, you had better carry that kite back. Better still,, own right up to Foo Choo now. When we are in a wrong course, we ought to stop right where we are and own our wrong-doing.” Ning Ting, though* kept still, and Foo Choo and Dumfee went away. “Bail old Pongee Wongee, don’t trouble me any more,” said Ning Ting. Then a blacker thought than ever came into Ning Ting’s soul. “I will not carry back this kite at all. I will keep it. It is nice fun sailing about so. Ho for another apple-tree! Get up, horsee!” Away went Ning Ting. “Splendid, is it not?” he said. “ I will stop in that apple-tree.” To his surprise, though, he went over the apple-tree. He was traveling faster now. “ However, I will stop in that mapletree,” he said. But he went over it! “ What if I shouldn’t stop at all?” he said to himself. “Not at all, not at all, not at all”—the idea going rotmd and round in his little head like a wheel. “ It would be dreadful.”, “ But there is a tall elm-tree, and it is in Pongee Wongee’s yard. I will go for that. And there is dear Pongee Wongee down in the yard.” • .... Yes, the fat fan-maker was down in the yard, looking up toward the sky, his specs shining like two small suns directed toward another and bigger sun in the heavens. I » Oh, dear! Ning Ting missed the elmtree, shooting rapidly above it. “ Pongee Wongee, good Pongee Wongee, help!” shouted Ning. “ What is that up in the air -a boy, or a goose flying toward a warmer home? It can’t be a boy. It must be a goose.” Yes. it was a foolish little goose. “ And there’s a kite; amFis the goose flying the kite, or the kite flying the goose?” . It was a kite flying a goose? Up higher and higher Ning Ting went, through a cloud,’ through a rainstohn, through a snow-storm, out of the temperate zone into the frigid zone, higher and higher, higher and higher, through more snow, sleet, hail, ice, till Ning Ting was stiff with the cold. And what was the kite doing—the horrid kite? It was lowering its bob toward Ning Ting. Was it fishing for him ? The bob came- nearer and nearer, as if it were not a fishing-line, but a living thing, twisting down the air! And it seized Ning by that sensitive place, the pigtail, and all the slips of paper changed to legs that began to Crawl up the pigtail! Fright upon fright! ? ■ Apa now what is this?--the white moon; and is the man in the moon looking out? Yes; and he growls, “ Who is this? Did he run off .with the kite? Didn’t he know the kite would run off with him? Didn’t he know that sin, if we yield to it, masters us at last? Didn’t he know? didn’t he know? Let me put a stop to his foolishness. I will cut the string with this sharp knife—just now!” “ There! Down he drops!*’ Bump! “ Oh-h-h!” “ Why, Ning Ting! what is the matter? You have tumbled from your chair. 1 told you that you would fall.” “ Oh-h-h-h! What made me want to steal, mother?” “You steal? I hope you haven’t stolen.” “ But I never will steal again.” ' > “ You, Ning Ting? J trust you won’t.” “But the man in the moon, he cut the string!” “ Tut, tut! you have been dreaming!” —E. A t - Rand, in S. 8. Times.

“Cheek.”

No, my son, cheek is not better than wisdom; it is not better than honest modesty, it is not better than anything. Don’t listen to’the siren who tells you to blow your own horn or it will never be tooted upon. The world is not to be deceived by cheek, and it does search for merit, and when it finds it merit is rewarded. Cheek never deceives the world, son. It appears to do so, to the cheeky man, but he is the one who isdeceived. Do you know one cheeky man in all your acquaintance who is not reviled for his cheek the moment his back is turned? Is not the world continually drawing distinctions between cheek and merit? Almost everybody hates the cheeky man, my son. Society tires of the brassy glare of his face, the hollow tinkling of his cymballine tongue, the noisy assumption of his forwardness. The triumphs of cheek are only apparent. He bores his way along through the world, and frequently better people give way for him. But so they give way, my boy, for a man with . a in each hand. Not because they respect the man with the paint pots, particularly, but because they want to take care of their clothes. Avoid cheek, my son. You can sell goods without it; and your customers won’t run and hide in the cellar when they see you coming. Burlington Hawk-Eye. In Baikal (Siberia') soundings have been obtained which, for a lake, are truly astonishing. In the upper part the depth is 3,027 metres (about the height of mount Etna), but downward the bottom constantly descends, and near the opposite end, a distance of some 350 miles, the depth amounts to 3,766 metres. The measurement far exceeds anything to be found in the Mediterranean Sea, which, in its deepest part, has only 2,197 metres of water. How such an extraordinary depression as that of Baikal could have occurred in the midst of a continent is a problem which greatly puzzles geologists, but the generally accepted idea is that it was the result of some volcanic eruption in past ages, and a consequent subsidence of the crust of the earth to avast extent. The lakes in the centre of New Zealand are equally remarkable in point of depth. The extreme depths of the Taupo and Waikari lakes in the north, and Lake Wakatpu in the south, have never b6en fathomed. They are known to be very far below the sea-level,