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The Whittaker case seems to be ruoiitag opposition to “grandfather’s clock 1 ' an to longevity. A Pinafore company has started for Japan. It is no wonder the efforts ul Christian missionaries are unavailing in that benighted country. Riots and ructions are just now almost universal throughout suffering Ireland, the tenants generally coming out flrat best, but being afterwards arrested by armed soldiers and imprisoned. Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, has eome to the conclusion that Sunday begins at midnight on the hilltops as well as in the Tower part of the eity, and has ordered the saloons and other establishments on the bights closed promptly at that hour. • Griscom, the Chicago idiot, has now fasted for ten days, with a loss in weight of about twenty pounds. He is evidently thinking of getting a position as a newspaper editor in Ohio, and is training himself that he may be able to live on his sa.ary. And now comes the intelligence that the pair of fine coach horses presented by Congressman Updegraff were , really paid for by the President. Dr. Updegraff being a fine Judge of horseflesh, accepted the responsibility of purchasing the horses for the President. ' '

• The treasury officials are of the opinion that the reduction of the public debt for the fiscal year ending June 80th, will be fully 1100,000,000, and it has not been such a very good year - for reducing public debts either. The colt Iroquois, which is owned by one of the New York Lorillards, and which was reared in this country besides winning the English Derby Wednesday, won for its owner $2,000,000 in bets. The stake itself was worth >34,000. Iroquois is the first American horse to win this race. Seargent Bates ■he flag carrier, who was recently reported dying in poverty, is in reality living-and lecturing at that. That he had not the good taste to die, and thus make the items concerning him true, is now more T than ever, seriously against him. This country could have allowed’ him to live, but that he should mourn the great American lecture platform istoohorri- ' ( bly bad.

Owners of ocean ship lines are happy; the season of travel is at its height. Eevery ship that comes to ourishores «is laden with emigrants who are flocking to America to seek their fortunes. Ou their return trips these ships take thousands of rich emigrants to Europe to spend the fortunes they have made in this country. From this one would naturally come to the conclusion that America is a good place to make a fortune and Europe a good place to spend the same. x Immigration for the month just passed exceeds the figures for the same month last year by 21,000, and the number is larger than for any one month in the history of Castle Garden. The arrivals each month since the Ist of January are' as follows: January’, 8,082; February, 9,758; March, 27,708; April, 59,748; May, 76,812. Total for five months, 182408. For the corresponding period of last year the figures were: January, 6,677; February, 7,904; Mirch, 21,094: April, 45,578; May, 55,063. Total for five .months, 135,336.

One oft he most peculiar changes in the revised New Testament is given below. The new reading has the weight of authority bn its side, and we are glad to know that the American bird is recognized even in the Bible: j Old version; And I beheld and heard an angel flying through the midst of Heaven,' saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe; to the inhabitants of the earth, etc., etc. ' ‘ New version: And I saw, and 1 heard flying in mid Heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe. woe, for them that .dwell on earth, ete., etc..

Mb. Edward Atkinson, an eminent authority,has compiled some very interesting statistics concerning the cotton crop of the south, from which statistics we learn that during the five years preceding the war the crop was 18,M0,278 bales, while for the-five years ending with the season 1879-80, the current season, the crop is estimated at 6,260,000 bales, or about 33 per cent mors than the crop of twenty years ago. Mr. Atkinson also calculates the excess of the crop since the war over the fifteen years of slave labor to be worth in gold $650,000,000. It will take but A few years at this rate **f increase for the sooth to >nrfrelv recover trom the shocks and _><*eee nl inc lel ellion, .

Seven hundred Americans left New York for Europe one day last week. They will return when sunaner is over, satisfied that America, after all, is the grandest country on s#rth. It may not have the biggest mountains, but it has a senate that is at all times a thing of beauty and a joy forever. It has no eternal snows, but it has Charles Francis Adams and Roscoe Conkling. In has no vales of Cashmere, but it has Chicago, with a then wand smells the vales of Cashmere know nothing of. This old Hnd al the free and home of the brave has no rained monasteries or castles, but it has^—thank the Lord—it has Samuel J. Tilden. Is it any wonder the BUrvcfianw of Europe can keep an American citizen away from home hut a few months at any time?

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Br. Paul, June 13.—A Blue Earth City •rectal says the most violent storm that ever visited . this section commenced about 4 o’clock last evening. Five inehes of water fell in one hour. Trees were uprooted and buildings demolished, but no great damage to crops by hail Is reported. Mr. and Mrs. Chaffee, living in the town of Sura, were killed by their house being blown down upon them. The barn of L. J. Peters,in the same town, was unroofed, burying his daughter in the rains. She was taken out in an unconscious condition, and her injuries may prove fatal. The storm last night extended nearly all over .the state and was accomCied with much lightning and vy wind. Railroads were more or less affected, and the telegraph communication was interrupted on all lines. Communication is not yet restored, and the amount of damage not learned. A Shakope special to the Pioneer Press says, a very heavy storm passed over this city at 7 o’clock p. m. The smoke stack of George Strait’s mill was blown down, and the roof of the school house in district forty-one demolished. The lightning struck the steeple of the M. E. church and injured it slightly. Shade trees were injured. A Northfield special says: “A most furious wind storm, accompanied by a perfect sheet of water, with thunder and lightning, struck this place at 6 o’clock. The streets in many places are impassible with fallen trees, many being fourteen inches in diameter. The steeple of the Congregational church, 119 feet high. Was blown down and the whole building was knocked six inches out of plumb. The wind carried buildings and sidewalks fifty feet. It blew the wind mill belonging to the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul railmad into a hundred pieces and threw the tank house about two feet out of plumb, and carried one empty car standing on the side track a distance of twentyflve feet. The less cannot yet be accurately estimated, but will reach thousands of dollars. It is believed that the wheat crop is not dow rar enough advanced to suffer seriously from the storm. Gral n is doubtless prostrated la many fields, but it is thought it will rise again. Probably a heavy rain will be injurious to the wheat on the low lards.

A Wells dispatch says a heavy wind and rain storm prevailed in that section Saturday afternoon. The storm came from the east and west both, and met between Easton and Delavan, then went in a north westerly direction with the fury of a hurricane, carrying death and destruction in its path. Reports continue to arrive, which show that the storm was very disastrous.

Winfield, Kas., June 13.—A cyclone visited Sumuer and Sedgwick counties Sunday night, causing the destruction of a vast amount of property, and killing some'and wounding many’ persons. The storm passed one mile north of Mulvane, and picking up a one-story frame house, turned it over twice and mashed it into smithereens. One lady and child w’ere seriously injured, and the chanceaare they will die. Another house, twenty’ by twenty-five, was demolished. This was done by another branch of the cyclone. A water-spout and another did much damage at Belle Plain. The two united near Mulvane, and it was thte two combined that did the work. Hailstones fell in immense quantities •find a hot wind prevailed, making it difficult to breathe, and turning the leaves of corn as black as dirt. The Mulvane cyclone went in a southerly direction and struck Floral. In the town one person was killed and two wounded. The crops are much injured. Des Moines. lowa. June 13.—The most destructive storm that ever visited central lowa swept through Sunday afternoon and evening. A heavy bail storm at Peoria, in the northwestern part of Polk county, broke much window glass and in some instances the hail stones crushed through weather boards and plastering. The stones, which were the sire of goose eggs, also killed a number of tittle and poultry as well as rabbits and birds. Cincinnati, June 13. —A hall and rain storm of great severity came down upon the city from the north this afternoon. The hail stones were unusually large and solid and. broke nearly all windows having northern exposure and fragile glass. Church and school house windows especially suffered. -

Galveston, June 13.—A News Montague special says a cyclone passed over the neighborhood of Queens Peak in the northwestern part of the county, carrying away houses, fences, etc. Among the houses destroyed were those of Lee R. Elliott, Mr. (.arson and Mr. Bessum.- The crops are badly damaged. Harrisburg, June 13.—The supreme court has given an opinion in ,he case of the Commonwealth vs. the Texas Pacific railroad, confirming the decision of the Dauphin county court. The Commonwealth brought suit for taxes, claiming as the Texas Pacific has an office in the state, the corporation was subject to taxation. The railroad wins. New York, June 14.—A dispatch from Cork says: A Mrs. Henry O’Mahonev, of Baity De Hab, applied to consul Brooks for his intervention

on behalf of her busband, arrested last week, and who claims to be an American citizen. She supplied consul Brooks with a certificate from the courts of Erie county, New York, to the effect that O’Mahoney had served for some time in the United States navy, and was admitted to citizenship in February of last year. The consul thus far has refused his official cognizance, because a formal application has not been made by the president. The consul, however, has prepared a careful statement of the case to be transmitted to the government as soon as the case comes before him officially.

' London, June 14.— : Xt Ascot, Lorillaird's Iroquois won the Prince of Wales stakes; Geologist, second, and Great Carle (hird. The race for the g<>ld vase, two miles, was won by Ambassadress; Monarch, second, and Peter third. The other runners were Neaseliff, Masklyne, Culloden and Voluptuary. Iroquois started in the pools in betting at five to seven against him. A royal party comprising the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, Prince and Princess Christian, Prince and Princess Tec k, Prince Leopold, and the Duke of Cambridge drove to the course. Sr. Louis, June 14.—Additional accounts of the cyclone in northern Missouri, Sunday evening, are that a very large amount of property was destroyed, a considerable number of lives lost, and a great many persons injured. The destruction took place at or near King City and Flag Springs. Later In the evening another cyclone passed north of Savannah, north-east into Nodaway coun-

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near the Laealey chapel, about eight miles north-west of Savannah, and moved south-east, tearing ap fences, timber and houses. Fully two-thirds of the bouses blown away were unoccupied, the families being away from home either at church or visiting. Otherwise the lose of life would have been frightful. r ty. From information received it appears the cloud formed in a field St. Louis, June 14.—Toniay closed the spring races. The first race, for maiden year olds, %of a mile, Boatman, ;rst; Lady Alice, second; Jack of Spades, third. Time, 1:20. The handicap for all ages, one mile and one furlong. King Nero won; Matagorda, second; General Rowett, third. Time, 1:56. The race for beaten horses, mile beats, Boulevard, 1,1; Billy Ward, 2, 2; Oak Grove Rose, 3, 3. Time, 1;46%. • The race for all ages, dash, one mile, Bagdale won easily : Brooklyn, second; Minnie, Lewis, third Time, 1:43%. East Saginaw, June 14.—Opening day of the East Saginaw driving park club. Attendance fair, weather fine, and a good track. The 2:50 class was won handily in three straight heats by Sue Grundy; Forest Patcher, formerly William D, second; Rachel, third; Rockton, fourth. Time: 2:26, 2:25%, 2:26%. In the 2:27 class Helen won in three straight heats; J. W. Thomas, second; Eliza Graff, third; Clover, fourth; Newbern, distanced. Time: 2:26%, 2:27%, 2:26%. Springfield, 111., June 14.—The reports made to the agricultural department on June I, are uot favorable for the present Illinois corn crop. This is due to the cold backward spring, protracted drouth in many localities uuring the planting season and poor seed. The central grand division only shows increased acreages compared with the acreage of last year, while in the northern and southern divisions the area of this year’s crop is slightly below 1880. The corn acreage of the southern grand division constitutes about one-third of the corn of the state. The acreage for the present year varies a little from last J ear. The condition of the crop on une 1 in the northern part of the state promised 86 pe% cent, on the average yield per acre. The central division represents more than half the corn area of the state. There is a large increase in acreage in this division as compared with last year, and the condition of the crops gives promise of nearly an average yield per acre. Ln some of the large corn counties the condition on June 1 has seldom been more promising. In the southern grand division the report shows a slight decrease of two per cent, in the average.

Louisville Ky., June state commissioner of agriculture, in the Monthly Bulletin, Just issued, says: Wd have delayed issuing the monthly report in the hope that something would occur to put a brighter look on the crop prospects. At the time of writing the last report the responses oi correspondents covering the entire state were in a high degree cheerful as touching the grain crop.. Six weeks ago everything was. being pressed forward by unusually seasonable weather, and the hopes of the farmers kept pace with the growth of the crops. A dry June for a good crop is a saying we have heard all our lire. Certainly small grain crops could not be Subjected to a severer ordeal than a dry spell. On the 9th of May the dry spell commenced and lasted up to the first of June. The damage done by the cry weather was of too fixed a character to be recovered by the recent rains. Of course wheat received some benefit from the recent rains, but it is quite certain that the acreage will fall below what we hoped for a month ago, certainly not more than a two-thirds crop. Within the memory of the oldest inhabitant never was there so much difficulty in getting a good stand of corn. This is the case

throughout the state. Many had to } flant as often as three times with detective seed and a dry May. The farmers have been thrown so late in the season in getting started that the crop cannot be otherwise than late in maturing. , New York, June 14.—The cheese receivers of the produce exchange have approved the report recommending that agents’ commissions be fixed at one-fourth cent per pound on sales for export and one-halt cent for home trade, outside the usual price for packing, etc.; also, that It would be well to suggest to boards of trade at country’ markets the m-cessity of compelling sellers to offer goods tor sale at a named price, or at public auction, to the highest bidder.

Bourbon, • Ind., June 14.—As freight train No. 9 was passing this station last night, a man was discovered lying between the main track and the station platform. Upon examination it was found that he had been run over by the train and both feet cut off. He was also badly bruised up otherwise. The township trustee was notified and took charge of him. His name is Deskin Staley, and lives two miles south of Etna Green. He was subpoenaed by Mr. W. H. Carey last evening to attend a law suit at Plymouth to-day in regard to some saw-logs of Carey near Etna Green, and had jumped on the train at that place to meet Mr. Carey here, and go on with him to Plymouth this morning. He has a wife and two children. His recovery is very doubtful. Quebec, June 14.—The farmers complain of a great drought which threatens to destroy the whole hay crop. Every day brings fresh applicants for assistance to the fire relief committee. ,

London, Ont., Juue 15.—An explosion of gas in the office of the English loan company severely burned the secretary, Mr. Elliott, and hlrled him through a window. The building was badly shattered.

East Saginaw, June 15.—1 n the 2:34 class Jerome Eddy took the first and Big John the second, third and fourth beats; Jerome Eddy, second; Mattie Graham, third; Grand Sentinel, fourth. Tlnre, 2:27#, 2:28#, 2:28,2:25“. In the 2:19 clsss, Bonesetter took the first two beats; Wedgewood, third, fourth, fifth, And the race; Voltaire, third; Wilt Cady, distanced. Time, 2:23#, 2:22/2:21#, 2:21#, 2:22. In the free pacing class, Mattie Hunter won three straight heats; Bay Billy, second; Lucy, third; Ben Hamilton, distanced in the second heat. Time, 2:17#, 2:17#, 2:18. Boston, June 15.—The Advertiser to-morrow will announce the suspension of the old firm of E. P. Cutter & Co., iron dealers, said to be owing to the continued depression in pig iron. Liabilities between $600,000 and $700.000. It is believed no other firm will be embarrassed by the failure, and the opinion is expressed that the firm might be able to pay seventy-five cents on the dollar.

INDIANA.

More buildings are being erected in Bedford this season than have been during the past ten years. Rosa Jack, a young lady living one mile north of Ridgeville, was ran over by a cow and her collar bone broken. The Indiana graduates of the Michigan state university at Ann Arbor, will hold a grand reunion at Rome City, on the Bth of July. Over one hundred new buildings are under contract in Seymour, and more are talked of. Seymour has doubled in size and population in ten years. Dolly Thornburg, a ten-year-old boy, living with John Dolly, of Hagerstown, was severely and perhaps fatally kicked by a horse. His injuries are internal. A young daughter of A. Fetters, of Ridgeville, while engaged in play, jumped on to an iron rake and ran one of the prongs through her foot. It is feared lock-jaw will result A stone-cutter by the name of Peter Buffel, while crossing the railroad bridge near Heath wood creek, south of Bedford, fell off the rocks below, a distance of nearly thirty-five feet. He was seriously Injurerd. Wm. Marland, a Terre Haute hack driver, made an infamous attempt up- * n Agues Glynn, a girl of fourteen, while driving her about town on pretence of finding employment for her. He has been arrested and jailed. James K. Chamberlain, a citizen of Sharpsville, Tipton county, while walking ou the I. P. and C. railroad Thursday evening, at that place, in a state of intoxication, was run over and killed by the evening express train. The body dt James Bedson was found in an old well in Hart township, Warrick county. He Jiad been mysteriously mi-sing for several days. The girl he loved jilted him, and he leaped into the well to end the heartache. The fruit crop in Pike county is a failure. What few peaches and apples there were are falling from the trees. (Rferries were all killed. Wheat looks badly. Many farmers plowed up their wheat and planted the ground in corn. John White, a resident of Luce township, Spencer county, was struck by lightning and killed. He was caught in the storm and sought refuge and a change of clothes at the house of Jas. Parker, near Richland. While changing his clothes, the lightning struck the house and killed him. Woodford Baker, while hunting near Alfordsville. Daviess county, accidentally shot himself. The ball from a squirrel rifleentered the left side and ranged upward to the right shoulder from where -it was extracted. He died next morning. He was about twenty-four years old, and unmarried. The bitter contest between temperance and anti-temperanae people that has been in progress in the commissioner’s court, at Vernon for the past ten days in thematter of granting licenses was brought to a close by the commissioners grantipg license to three parties, and refusing two The difficulty between the ironworkers at the Ohio Falls Don Works, New Albany, and the proprietors, caused by the strike at Cincinnati!, has been adjusted, and the card'rates for the ensuing year have been fixed at 10 per cent, above the Pittsburg card rates. The mill resumed operations yesterday moaning. Two months ago, at a log rolling in Pike county, James Stevens got into a fight with his father-in-law, James Nance, concerning their respective strength, in which Nance was the aggressor, attacking Stephens with an ax. Stephens defended himself with a handspike, infleting a blow on the head which proved fatal in a few hours. Stephens was acquitted Saturday on the ground of self-defense.

For the past few weeks stockraiders in Ripley county have sustained heavy losses by having their sheep killed in large numbers. It was the work of dogs, that would kill and wound a whole flock in a single night. Friday night John Cravens heard the murderous dogs at work on his flock, and, hastening to the field, sudbeedec in killing three large ones that had already killed thirty of his sheep. A curious bird was killed the other day in Morgan coupty. Its beak measures four inches, and from the point of the beak to the back of the head seven inches, and has no sign of a tongue. The head and neck is a beautiful green color, with wings and tail of the same, and the body is as white as snow. It mensrued nearly five feet from point of beak to tip of toes when stretched out, and had a neck eighteen inches long, including head and bill. Its head without the bill resembles that of a dog, with fine feathers representing the ears of a good looking cur. The hunters cutoff the head and neck, foolishly leaving the body in the woods.

While the workmen were engaged in tearing down the roof of the old court house at Lafayette, the timbers upon which the men were standing suddenly gave way, precipitating the men to the floor below, where they were instantly covered with the massive timbers of the roof. Daniel O’Connel, the foreman of the gang was found to be but slightly injured; William Huey, Peter Cook ana Samuel Bringham all being terribly mashed about the head. Cook died in about an hour. Huey lingered until 7 o’clock in the evening, when he breathed his last. Samuel Bringham had a severe gash cut in h»s head,* and was crushed about the breast, two heavy timbers having fallen on him. It is extremely doubtful if he recovers.

Aaron Burr’s Death.

A few moons ago I took the ferryboat to the north, or rather the northwest, shore of Staten Island, and landed at the village immediately opposite Bergen Point, called Port Richmond, sonamed because it is the water-land-ing to old Richmond court house, at the center of the island. There is not a more animated spot Id the water scenery of New York bay than this. It shows both the bay of New. York and Newark bay, the latter receiving the commerce of Newark City and oi r the Hackensack marshes, and of the Jersey inlets as far down as the Raritan river. They all pass out between Port Richmond ana Bergen Point, through the Kill Von Kull, ‘which is only half a mile wide. A sick man could sit all day long at his window

by this water, watching tugs, propellers, pleasure steamers, sloops and schooners, oyster craft, rafts and barge tows, garbage fleets, yachts and excursion arks filled with music and dancing, go past like processions in a mirror. It was to Port Richmond that Colonel Burr, ex-senator and Vice-Presi-dent of the United States, ex-attorney general of New York, ex-candidate

for governor of New York and for minister to France and once. almost president of the United States, was brought one day in early June, at about this present time of the year upon a Utter, to die. The hotel, now called the Continental, stands nearly as It did at that moment, right in your face as you turn from the water at Port Richmond, and only a few hundred feet distant—a yellowishbrown hotel, with a gambrel roof and six tall, spare, thick, wooden columns rising to the eavesand inclosing, in their piazza three stories. Ascending the steps to this piazza a broad door and hall are right opposite the middle of it, and a broad flight of naked steps rise in the second floor and a similar hall there, and the room to the left, as you look up from the ground, is the room where Aaron Burr died. Under it is the bar-room now. The chamber is a square room, with little carved bits of carpentering about the chimney side, and it is di respectable size, quite a bedroom parlor. Mr. Burr was borne to it ou a litter from the stean>-_ boat, an old, helpless Invalid, persecuted by bodily decay and creditors, >and the fear of dying in the street. He had lost the confidence of man, woman and chil« ■. Politics had spewed him out 30 years before. Family circles had tried him tea often. Women had found that he would not only kiss, but tell. Clients found that he would seU their confidence to the other side. And yet forsaken, friendless and unpitied, such was the mystery of this miserable little man that half the world said the president of the United States, then running for the office before the people, was the son of Aaron Burr. The religious world remembered that the greatest logician and theologian since Paul had been this outcast’s grandfather. The educated class knew that the founder of Princeton college had been Aaron Burr’s father. Lawyers knew that his sister’s husband had founded the first law school in the new world. Once his daughter had led the fashion and beauty of Washington society and married one of the richest planters of the south. He was about to die in sight of his birthplace at Newark and of his orphan home at Elizabeth where his father and grandfather had ministered, and whence he had entered the RevoluWnary army. These two towns of New Jersey are in plain sight and Elizabeth is only about a mile distant. Fifty years before being brought to Staten Island to die, young Burr, while on Washington’s staff, had proposed to the general to head an expedition against Staten Island, every lane find corner of which he knew, having made its hills his rambling ground from -the flat, mosquitoridden plains of Elizabeth. It was perhaps his playmate’s son, Judge Edwards, a resident of Staten Island, who was almost his only visitor at the inn. That island of tories was now about to receive the Fast mould and living shadow of Aaron Burr.

A Typical New Mexican.

Globa Demoorat. Western towns are most often dethe striking characteristics one ejects, but in the matter of a typical frontiersman Santa Fe possesses a citizen who might have sat for the pictures of Bret Harte’s and Joaquin Miller’s dashing heroes. He came strolling into the postoffice the other morning, both hands into his pockets and nis elbows swe ping a clear space through the gathered idlers. As a town celebrity everyone knew him and the least question will bring out more and more piquant bits of history. With unusuul interest I looked at the small man and slowly took in the details of hts costume. Top boots, trousers, a blue flannel shirt and a loose coat were ordinary enough, but his head was surmoun’ea with a gray sombrero that in width of brim has never been equaled save by the pretty chorus singers of “Pinafore” and the “Pirates.” The hat sat back on his head until the broad brim covered his shoulders and the cord and ornaments of the crown, being of solid gold wire and spangles, brings the value of this extravagant head gear, up to $l5O. Neither Aimee and Georgette, Vlrot or the other concoctors of French bonnets ever sent but a spring bonnet that equaled this sombrero in price. He wore a careless knotted necktie and row of big gold nuggets for shirtstuds and below them swung a watch chain composed of gold coins ranging from the largest slugs and S2O pieces down to an insignificant $2.50 coin. The watch at the end of the chain is heavy enough to use for a weapon, with its massive cases of gold. This walking gold mine carries off all his’ magnificence' with the most indifferent and half contemptuous air. On occasion he is said to be capable of even more gorgeousness; and when this show figure of Santa Fe is mounted on a little black horse, rattling with all the silver and blazing with all the wrought colors of Mexican trappings, it is enough to dazzle one. With huge silver spurs, an embroidered buckskin suit, a bel full of silver-mounted weapons and a fringed and embroidered blanket strapped to the saddle, he slattern through these narrow streets quite as the wild western heroes do in novels. By profession he is a gentleman and amuses himself, as the less literary “gilded youth” of Paris and London do, by chasing the flying hours and dull cares over green tables.

“Cheek.”

Burdette, the sage of Burlington, discourses as followeth: “No, my son, it is not better than wisdom; it :s not better than modesty; it is not letter than anything. Don’t listen x> the siren who tells you to blow pour own horn or it will never be mooted 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, my son. It appears to do so to the cheeky man, but he is the one who is deceived. Do you know one cheeky man in all your acquaintance who ?s not reviled by his cheek the moment his back is turned ? Is the world not continually drawing distinctions between cheek and merit? Almost everybody hates a cheeky man, my son. Society tires es the ?;lare of the brassy face, the hollow inkling of his cymbaline 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 to him. But so they give way, my boy. for a man with a paint pot in each hand. Not because they respect the man with the paint pot particularly, but because they want to take care of their clothes.”

One of the last bills enacted by the German reichstag previous to the close of the session was one which provides for the insurande by employers of the laborers and clerks who may die while in their service. Two-thirds of the premium is to be paid by the employer and one-third by the employe. It will only effect workmen earning lees than SSOO a year.

Give Me Back My Husband.

Not many years since, a young married couple, from the “fast-anchored isles.” sought our shores with the most sanguine anticipations of prosperity and happiness. They had begun to realize much they had seen in the visions of hope, when, in an evil hour, the husband was tempted “to look upon the wine when it to red,” and to taste of it, “when it gives color in the cup.” The charmer fastened round its victim all the serpent spells of its sorcery, and he fell; and at every step of his degradation from the man to the brute, and downward, a heartstring broke in the bosom oi his companion.

Finally, with the last spark of hope flickering on the alter or her heart, she threaded her way into one oi those shambles where man is made such a thing as the beasts of the field would bellow at. She passed her way through the baccha alian crowd who were revelling there in their own ruin. With her bosom still of “that perilous stuff that preys upon the heart,” she stood before the plunderer of her husband’s destiny, and exclaimed in tones of startling anguish. “Give me back my husband!” '‘There’s your husband.” said the man, as he pointed toward the prostrate wretch. “That my husband! What have you done to him? That my husband! What have you done to that noble form that once, like the giant oak, held its protecting shade over the fragile vine that clung to it for support and shelter? That my husband! With what torpedo chill have you touched the sinews of that manly arm? That my husband! What have you done to that once noble brow, which he wore high among his fellows, as 4f it bore the superscription of the Godhead ? That my husband! What have you done to that eye, with it he was wont to “look erect on heaven,” and see in His mirror the image o? his God. What Egyptian drug have you poured into his veins, dnd turned the amber fountains of the' heart into black and burning pitch ? Undo your basillisk spells, and give me back the man that stood with me by the altar!” The ears of the rumseller, ever since the first demijohn of that burning liquid was opened upon our shores, have been saluted, at every stage of the traffic, with just such appeals as this. Such wives, such widows, and mothers, such fatherless children, au never mourned in Israel at the massacre of Bethlehem; or at the burning of the Temple, have cried in his ears, morning, night, and evening, “Give me back my husband! Give me back my boyi Give me back my brother.

A Human Pendulum.

OlnclnnaU Commercial. Bernard Koehler and Fritz Hisgen, two house-painters, yesterday began painting the large house at Betts street and Central avenue. Three o’clock in the afternoon found them close up under the eaves of the house and sixtyfive feet from the ground. They had just finished the surface within reach and had started to lower the scaffold a few feet. When the required distance had been reached Hisgen called to his partner to hang on to the rope until he (Hisgen) tied his own, when be would come over and perform a like service for him. Hisgen had just completed his own knot when Koehler cried out: “Come over quick, I can’t hold it.” Hisgen, as quickly as possible, sta' ted across the aerial bridge, but had not gone two steps when he saw the man let go his hold and felt the ladder give way beneath his feet. As he began the fall, in the energy of desperation he, with both hands, grasped the almost smooth top of the fourth-story window cornice and there hung in the air, a distance of sixty feet from the pavement. He then gave an exhibition of nerve that terrified every one who saw it., Placing the toe of one boot against the window frame he gave his body a slight pendulum motion away from the house. A second push gave him a better impetus and as he swung on the return toward the window he released his hold and went crashing through the glass safely to the floor of the fourth.story room, from whence he immediately looked out through the aperture he had made to see what had become of his companion. Koehler had not been quite so fortunate. As he went shooting through the air he caught the hanging rope with both hands and lessened his speed all the way down at the expense of all the cuticle of his palms, which was burned off by the friction. He landed in a sitting posture on the sidewalk and was taken to the hospital with a pair of very sore hips.

How Prohibition Works in Kansas.

Topeka Letter to the Boston Herald. In many places there is no pretense at observing the law. Among these are Dodge City, a great center of the cattle trade. About all the councilmen and policemen run saloons; their enforcement of the law may be imagined. Indeed, it would not be safe for them, even were they so inclined. Dodge City is the roughest town in the state, and should a cow boy enter a saloon and be offered lemonade when he calls for whisky, his reply would be apt to be a fdstol shot. The law is not regarded n the Missouri river towns, and in Leavenworth there is talk of a com-

promise between the prohibitionists and the liberals, so as to allow the sale of beer and light wines. lowa has a prohibitory constitutional amendment, like Kansas, but' the law interpreting it allows the sale of beer ana native wines. [Note: This is an error. lowa has no prohib tory clause in its constitution. Such an amendment is pending. We have a prohibitory law.—Ed. ’ Hawkeye.} Among rhe curiosities of liquor legislation Is the Oregon law, which, for s6.licenses men to drink. The amendment to the constitution wa only adopted by a majority of seven thousand. It was voted upon at the November election, and there were about thirty-live thousand who voted for candidates, but did not vote upon the amendment. The ballots were prepared in a manner legal in Kansas, but of questionable propriety so that many votes, especially those who could not read, were not clear as to how they were voting. It was claimed by able lawyers that under these circumstances the amendment was not legally adopted, but the supreme court decided otherwise. *

The legislature of this last winter, therefore, passed the prohibitory law to carry the amendment into effect. Many were averse to the law; but, being politicians, were dragooned into compliance. When the opposition found the prohibitionists were bound to go to extremes, many ostensibly became converted and bent their energies to fasten the strictest provisions upon the bill in order to make it thoroughly ridiculous, lhe radicals were not bright enough to see the game until it was too late. The chief diversion among the legislators during the winter was to spend their evenings inthe bar-room or over their toddies in

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their rooms at the hotels, “fixing up the temperance bill.’* “We’ve got ’em now,” gleefully said one irreverent legislator, at the dose of one evening’s work; “we’ve busted the whole d—d communion service!” The ex remists saw their error at the very eloee of the session, and tried to pass a supplementary bill, allowing tne use of wine at the communion, out the others resisted all attempt at modifying its severity. A provision of the bill has now been discovered that caps the climax. That is, that one of the fortifying sections provides for whoever uses intoxicating liquors a penalty as great as for its sale. The strict encouragement of this might supply the deficiency in revenue to the treasuries caused by the loss of the income from licenses, a loss which is already loudly lamented. The brewers and distillers will test in the United States courts the constitutionality of a measure which destroys their property, the citizens of every state being guaranteed the enjoyment of life, liberty and property. Should their business in this way be destroyed, why, it is asked, would not a more ascetic legislature conceiving that coflee, tea and tobacco were poisonous, also have the right to prohibit traffic in the same and destroy all business therein invested and concerned ? »

A Modern Eyil.

David Swing: Wine is not half so dangerous as lace or furniture. When a taste or fondness of display comes in then the love of the beautiful has gone mad; and the fashionable lady is no longer a student of God’s guts and man’s art; she has become an unstrung harp. Taste has become a passion, and instead of lighting the eye it consumes the soul’s integrity. Whiles taste flows within lawful banks it can afford to wait for honorable means for its gratification to come. The true, lofty heart is longsuffering, but when taste becomes a madness then money will come, even if it must be boughr bv the sale of morality. Great as are the evils which result from the use of strong drink, yet, could we see already the fountains of human ills, we should discover that in the power to injure society, the thirst for ardent spirits has been surpassed of late by the longing for elegant homes and elegant furniture, ana what are called the “appointments” in the fashionable tongu°. It is quite probable that the “appointments” of former times, a decanter and glass, injured the world less profoundly;' for intemperance has often left the conscience and all the moral sentiments noble, but the love of display seems always to drag the mind ana soul into ruin, leaving no sentiment in full vigor except vanity. At least this is true, that intemperance is a known, confessed evil, and men have learned to be on guard, whereas this passion for display is a half concealed enemy, hiding behind such saints as taste and beauty. Gs the hundreds of bases of fraud that a year or a month reveals, not a tenth of them spring from the old passions that once were wont to devastate society, but from a new madness the frauds spring—a hunger for home magnificence. The Romen Republic was comp died once to pass a law f >rbidding the Consuls from going into procession with white horses to their cars. The empire had done enough of that. The people had seen the taxlists and the wars and the bribes, thct came from splendor, -and they ordained by law that their republic should make an experiment in simplicity. But the law was vain. The barbarian love of display was all through and through the people. To gratifv their taste they would sack any city, and strip the rings from the dying women or gold from the altars of the gods. When Rome died it was full of tapestry and furniture and marbles, but empty of soul. No man or woman of mind and virtue had trodden its elegant parlors for a hundred years. When nigh style comes in at the door, reason flys out of the window.

The Comic Side of Polygamy.

There is a comic as well as a pathetic I side to Mormon polygamy. Among the mormon women in Utah was one I who accepted, in full faith, the polygamic revelation. She had found in I polygamy an ample compensation in I he supposed right of the first wife to chose her husband’s succeeding wives. This was her argument: “If the first wife selects the other wives, it has the effect of showing them that the husband thinks much of her judgment, and is willing to abide by it, and that I they will have to do the same. This I is, of course, as it should be. But if I she lets her husband choose bis own I wife, he is almost certain to take a I fancy to some one his first wife does I not like at all, and, consequently, her authority is undermined. The first wife ought to have all the power in her own hands.” The sequel of this lady’s story is extremely ludicrous. After she had chosen two other wives for her husband, he was so perverse as to choose a fourth for himself, the fourth being not at all of her liking, as she herself admitted. This is her own account of the matter: “‘I teU you,’ said I, ‘l’m quite disgusted with you; a man with three wives—and me one of them—to go talking twaddle to a clattering hussy like that with her cat’s eyes and red hair I ‘Golden hair, my dear,’ he said 'Charlotte’s hair is golden.’ *1 say red!—its straight, staring red—red as red can be,’ I told him; and then we had a regular fight over it. I don’t mean that we came to blows, but we had some hot words, and he went out j and left us two alone. Then that young hussy was impudent, and I don’t know how it was, but somehow when we left off our conversation I found some of Charlotte’s red hair between my fingers, and there,” she said innocently, holding out quite a good-sized tuft of aubarn hair, “there, I put it to you, Bister Btenhouse, is that red, or is it not?”

Bktll th the Workshop.—To <’o good wt rk lhe mechanic must have good health. If long hours of confinement in close rooms have enfeebled his hand or dimmed his sight, let him at once, and bef* re some organic »>ubh* appears, lake plenty of Hop Ehlers.' His system will be rejuve- > nale«i, his neivcs strengthened, bis s «ht become ciear, and the whole cotssiitution be built up to a higher Working condition.

The London telegraph operators em-1 ployed by the government have de-1 elded to cease working over-time on the 27th Inst., as a preliminary step to obtain a reduction of hours of service. The Leeds operators approve the action of the London committee, and resolved upon a given date to dis- 1 continue all over-time working. A special congregation of cardinals has been summoned by H. H. Pope Leo to “pronounce” upon Father Curd’s new book, which frankly advocates the union of church and state.

Of course it will “pronounce” against it, and the book will be placed on the I “Index Expungatorius,” or papal list of forbidden books.

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Sign Lore.

There is a perversity in language sometimes that, like the Irishman’s bulls, has a value of its own, and enriches a too careful mode of expression by some comical blunder. This is particularly noticeable in isolated figures of speech signs, which are seldom either lucid or grammatical; or newspaper announcements, when grammar and punctuation are often sacrafloed to space. Some of these mistakes are very absurd; notably that in which “a piano <■ is wanted by A lady with carved legs.” In the notice of‘‘Lost—a black lady’s fan,” and “a small, gold-faced lady’s watch” were advertised. - “Sewing done here” is the announcement upon many a door, and it took a small boy to discover the syllogism in it. He said: “Ma, that woman has got her sewing done, ’cos she says so on her sign.” A genteman advertised, last week, in one of our daily papers, for an ioechest to hold so many pounds of Ice, and a new harness. The wonder was why he wanted to keep his new barness in an ice-chest until, it was noticed to be an error in punctuation. Morse’s old geography announced to a horrorified public that Albany had 400 bouses and 4,000 inhabitants, ail standing with their gable end to the street.

A barber’s sign once read: ‘■Wkat do you think, I'll for uothlng and give you a When his customers asked for the drink, and refused to pay, he took them outside and read to them: '*Wh*t! do you think I’ll for nothing and give you a

This reading gave it a different meaning.. . - Detached sentences often present a quaint expression: “Job printing!” said an old lady, reading the laminar sign; “poor man, he must be awful tired of it, for he’s been at ever since I can remember!” In a duggest’s window in Chicago, there was for many years a sign r “Artificial Eyes,” and immediately under it, “Open all night,” which of course, referred to the store, and not the eyes. A merchant once went to the signpainter and told him he wanted a neat sign with a couplet «dn rhyme painted in gold letters; when the man brought the sign the inscription read: “Sugar and tea, 8-o-l-d.” “Shirts reinforced” is the legend in a Detroit dry goods store. It means that they are provided with double yokes. “Mr. Jones’ Shirt StormU read an old lady, cautiously. “Well, why doesn’t he get it mended?” “This house for sail” was the way a landlord spelled the announcement. A smart fellow came along, and asked, “When will the house sail?” “As soon as some one Comes along whocanraise the wind,” was the cool answer.

“Pocket books reduced to fifteen cents,” was the notice in a store window, and a wag passing, said he was reduced to nothing. “Sweet-heart factory,” isa sign in this city; beneath one discovers that it refers to pop-corn. Doubtless the firm have numerous calls which result in disappointment. “Teeth extracted without payin,” read the Irishman. “Then that’s the place for me,” and he had lost nearly every tooth in his head before he discovered his mistake.

Latest From the Moon.

. Professor Proctor’s last lecture before sailing for Europe was upon the moon, and it was very interesting. The moon does not revolve around the earth, he said, but the two circle about each other, and the real centre of the revolution of each is the sun. If there were a railway sufficiently , “elevated” to reach the moon, which is 238,818 miles distant from us, we should be fifteen months making the journey at ordinary railroad speed. Upon arriving, we should observe several interesting phenomena. First it is a very respectable luminary of a diameter of 2,081 miles, with a surface of 14,000,000 square miles, avolume one forty-ninth of that of the earth, and a mass one-eighty-first of it. Then, the force of gravity being onesixth that of tbe earth, we could be thjrty-slx feet high, ana still quite as active as we are here. But our longer bodies would have a longer day in which to disport themselves, for there is a lapse of 29X of our days between I the lunar sunrise and sunset. Our extremities, however, would certainly suffer after sunset, for the surface of the moon is 250 degrees below zero at I midnight, and the reaction toward I noon would try even our prolonged proportions, for at noon the surface would be 88 degrees above the boiling point. We should be very lonely, probably, for there is no living creature there now.

Still, as Professor Proctor had said that all the planets pass through five stages, the last of which is death—a stage which tbe moon has reached—the apprehensive mind naturally inquires now soon the earth will probably reach it. The professor answers, reassuringly, that the earth is now about 500,000,000 years old, and that it took tbe moon 800,000,000 to reach its present state. He therefore concludes that it will take the earth 500,000,000 years more to reach the same condition. There is thus no immediate cause for apprehension.—Harper’s Weekly.

A Walnut Story.

The smartest Texan, and, in fact, the smartest farmer I have ever met, is old Sim Grave, who lives on a 1,900 acre farm west of Waxahatchie in Central Texas. After Mr. Graveshad shownjne his cattle and cotton, he took me over to see his woods. “Well, what of-it?” I said, as he pointed to a ten acre forest. I “What of it? Why, them’s black' i walnuts, sir. Ten aeresof’em. Plant- I ed ’em myself, ten yean ago. Bee, they’re nine inches through. Good trees, eh?” . And sure enough there were ten I acres of hand planted black walnut I trees. They stood about 12 feet apart, 1200 to the acre—in all 2,000 trees. I “Well, how do you get your money back?” tasked.

•‘Black walnuts are worth $2 50 a bushel, ain’t they? I’ll get 400 bushels this year. That’s SI,OOO. A hundred dollars an afire is good rent for I land worth sls an acre, ain’t it?” “Well, what else?” I enquired, growing interested. . „ “The trees,” continued Mi. Graves, “are growing an inch a year. When I they are 20 years old they will be 19 inches through. A black walnut tree 119 inches through is worth $25. My 12,000 trees ten years from now will be I worth $50,000. If I don’t want to cut I them a*! I can cut half of them, and I then raise a bushel of walnuts to the I tree—that is, get $2,500 a year for the I crop. Two hundred and fifty dollars an acre is a fair.rent for sls land, ain’t ' it ?”—CAioapo TWbune.