Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — Page 2

MOTHER SBIPTOJS’S RIVAL. M.s., JR, Tin world c«fl& to an end-'Us true. In 1882. itseir shall oo longer be. The world itself shall be no more. In 1881. The world itself shell not survive. In INSS. The world shell vanish into nix. i In 1586. , The world shall burn in fires from heaven, - - In ISS7. The world shall end as sure as fate, In 1888. . The world sha&l e'nd.if rhyme is a sica. In 1889. J The world canfpoaslbly come to an end in IS9O, for there is no rhyme to let it die on— ’' ‘ .<» ,js ? .. . Bnt certainly to ah «kid *twill run,* In 189 i. —[S. V, Sun.

STORY OF A PREACHER.

BY REV. A. D. KAYO.

At the age of 16, before we had our “roundabouts,” we contracted to"keep school” in District No 1 5, for sl2 per month aud "boarding round.” We knew very well the little red schoolhouse, standing at the exact center of the district, on the borders of a mighty swamp, the farm houses scattered about the hills, and we also knew the nuisance of that particular school, a squad of half a dozen rough fellows who had emerged Into “tail coats,’’and who would hardly relish the discipline of a boy pedagogue in a roundabout. After the first flush of elation at our election, the reflection came back, like a return wave of ice-water, that, in all human probability, ere our seventeenth birthday should dawn, we should be seen vanishing, head foremost, out of the school house window in o h bier snow-drift, propelled by class No. 1 of big boys. In our anxiety we applied to Aunt Anna, the general oracle of the household. Aunt Anna was a stalwart maiden of 60 summers, gigantic in proportions, but every inch a lady in her dear old heart. She bad nursed half the children in town through the meas les, mumps, and chicken-pox, aud was the mainstay in all family emergencies. There were sly rumors that tne occasional attack of “fidgets” which overcame the good old lady at night had some relation to a mysterious black bottle which she always carried in her work-bag; but Aunt Anna, plus the fidgets, was worth a regmeu of ordinary feminines for the home-made use of country life. “Well, now you are really going to keep school in District No. 5,” said Aunt Anna, smoothing down her big checked apron, and raising her spectacles for a good long look at the incipient pedagogue seated at the opposite corner of the fireplace. “Yes, Aunt Anns, I have promised to keep that school, but, between you and me, I am dreadfully afraid to tackle that crowd of do.vs. You know what -a rough set-they are, and one of them has already given out Ahat there will be no board wanted ;in District No. 5 after the first week.” “That’s a serious matter. Now let’s see if we can’t think of something to help you. Now you see that I don’t know anything about book lamin'. No doubt you can ciDhgr that back seat of boys into the middle df next week. But they can fling you over the roof of the school-house ih a jiffy, if they had a mind to. I know every family in the district. I’ve nussed iu every house, and taken the measure of every youngster that will come to that school. There’s one thing in your favor; there’ll be ten great gals in school and most of ’em are good gals, too. They can twist that crowd of great bashful boys ’round their little fingers if they want to- Now mind what I tell you; do you go right to work and gaiu the Affections of them ten great gals, and they’ll manage the boys while you keep the’school.” That sounded well; and armed with this panaca against rebellion, we opened school the Monday after Thanksgiving. It was a rough-looking set up on the high seats—that row of villanious-looking fellows, any of them big enough to throw me over into the big swamp with one hand. Happily our first boarding-place was the home of two of the “great gals.” Never did we "lay ourselves out” to gain the good graces of the lovely sex as during that first week of boarding round. We rode on the front of the sled with the tallest girl, we played checkers with the second, got all snarled up i» a “cat’s cralle” with the pretty visiting cousin, and put [in a word of explanation for the hard sums of all, in the long evenings at home. Th 6 first crisis came at the beginning of the second week, when a big lout “sauced” the new school-master. Somehow, it crushed us, and fora minute the school-room swam round, and the idea of seizing our fur cap and making for home flitted across our vision. Just then the patter of a light footstep was heard down the long slope of the narrow aisle leading up to the seat of the "ten great gals.” The tallest glided down, ostensible to ask the explanation of a hard sum, but, as we leaned over the slate, with a dimness in the eyes, we heard a whisper iu our ears. “Don’t be cast down; we girls will shame that set of boys into good manners before another week goes by.” A light broke in; we were gaining the affections of the “ten great gals.” tio things drifted for six weeks, when dawned the judgment day. We had gone to board with a good, motherly woman, who loved us as her own son. A big fire in the parlor greeted our arrival, and a supper fit for the parsou himself. After tea our hostess appeared in her best black silk, in her hand a mighty broad “ruler,” and sat down before us with the air of a Minerva, saying: "Now matters have come to a point in your school; you have been trying to govern that crowd of rascally boys by love, but that has come to an end. Tx»-morrow they’ll try to put you out. Take this ruler, and don’t come home to-morrow night Unless you have used over the head and shoulders of There was no appeal from that. A greeter than the whole class of “great I gal?’'had spoken, and we (elt iu our j

soul that fate was standing at the school-house door. Were we endowed with the epic rage of a Homer or a Pope,we might “possibly depict the scenee of the following day. How the ugliest loafer, in a frock coat, kicked in the door at recess; how, when the trembling young master asked, “Who did that?” the big boor lifttd his thumb to his nose, and executed that significant gyration with the little finger which would make a savage of St. John hithself; how, fired with the courage of dispair, and a viaiop of our farm-house Minerva, we seized the big oak ruler, rushed up the inclined plane, upsetting several small children on the way. plunged at the throat of the insolent scoundrel, tore of the Jcollar of his frock-coat, draged him down thearea before the fire-place, aud beat him over the head aiid shoulders till he roared for mercy; how, at intervals, he cast a glance up at his accomplices, aud took in the situation —the “ten great gals” had spiked the guns of all but this wretch, who sluuk and begged under our hands; how we wound up with an eloquent address, and gave the whipped ruffion his hat, with instructions to go home; hew bis sensible father took off what remained of his dilapidated frock-coat, and trounced him till he yelled again, and sent him to school the following day with a compliment to the plucy young master—all this might btrstmg in heroic verse. But, if the truth were known, we, but the “ten great gals,” thawlid the business. They had so demf®aiized the attacking columns by the magic of their charms, that only one dared lift his hand when the day of battle came. And from that day we crowned dear old Aunt Anna prophetess of love. Gain the affections of the “ten great gals” in your school-room, and “all things shall work together for^ood.”

IN “WAVERLY.”

New Y'ork Weekly. If you will sit down and wait, young man, at least one hall ov the good things ov life will at sum time eddy around near yu, while the more yu chase them the more they wiil break into a run. All ov uatur’s works are a part ov a perfekshun ov a plan. She makes no mistakes, creates no vacancies, aud guesses at nothing. Ideas are what wins, but if a man hain’t got but one, he is very apt to run that one into the ground, aud take himself along with it. hiaffter proves nothing. Wize men lass, and ideate grin all the time. Cunning is a weak imitashun of wisdum, and is liable at enhy time- to merge into fraud. Happiness has no abiding place, biit often is very near at baud, like the old woman’s spectacles. After hunting for them hi ami lb, she found*them at last safe on her noze. Gravity is bekuming to a phool at all times, but only to a wize man on state ockashuns. Very menny seek knowledge, not So much for the truth az for the speckulashuu there iz in it. Heroizm iz simple, and yet is rare. Every one who duz the .best they ken iz a heroButy is a dangerous gift. The vanity it inspires, and the base flattery it attraks, to its possessors are not tu be • ivied. Charity makes no mistakes that she kan be charged with. Good breeding iz the only thing that kan make a phool endurable. Servitude iz so uuuatural that an honest servant iz the rarest ov all things. There iz great art in knowing how to give without creating an obligation. As selfish and ill-bred as the mass of mankind are, I prefer to live with them rather than go into the Bolitude and try to live with myself. Gratitude is a word that you will find iu the dictionarys, but you will not find much of it anywhere else. If a man has got the right kind of religion he kan pick up a kreed euny where that will fit it. A true friend iz one whom yu kau chide for his faults, without giving offense, aud who, without giving offense, can chide yu. Nature haz never made anything perfect, aud she luvs variety so well that she never haz made enuy two things just alike. Indolence iz a quiet malady, but it haz eat up more foundashuus aud tipt over more superstruktures than wild ambishun ever haz. Abstinence should be the excepshuu, and temperance the rule.

Cincinnati Commercial. Miss Annie Louise Cary, who was to leave here via the Pan Handle road the morning after the "Messiah,” applied to the Sleeping-Car Company for a state-room. The railroad officials, always gallant, were anxious to oblige the great contralto, and finding that the car at the depot had uo state-room, "switched around” uutil one was in position containing the desired apartment. Ten minutes before the traiD pulled out of the depot, and when every birth was engaged, a big fellow stepped up to the Pailman ticket office and said: "Give me the state-room,” and threw down the price, sl4. “It is engaged to Miss Cary,” said the ticketseller. “I am her agent,” said the big fellow, freshly, and received the three tickets demanded. A moment later and "the velvet-voiced” appeared and asked for the state-room. "Your agent has the tickets,” she was told, and replied. "I have no agent.” ("I am only an American contralto, not a French soprano,” perhaps she added mentally.) An examination into the state of affairs showed three "drummers,” "commercial tourists” they would hall themselves, in possession of the stateroom, and what is more, they refused to vacate, showing their tickets for state room and passage, and defying the conductor to oust them. The train went out of the depot with Miss Cary standing in the aisle, but it is to be safely presumed that she soon received her lights, for Superintendent Walker telegraphed to the conductor (at the first station) on the car to use sufficient force to establish Miss Cary is possession of the state-room obtained from the road by others under false pretenses. "Rebecca, a drummer, Is the most innocent man in the ver-rold.”

Ii The color line has extended into Canada. Two citizens of Toronto were refused admittance to the skating rink because of their color.

Josh Billing’s Philosophy.

Three Smart Alecs.

A DIPLOMATIC SCANDAL.

The Precious Pair Sent Here to Represent Russia. *•' •• • . • " Washington Post. A little over a year ago, when the new Russian Minister and wife arrived at Washington, Mr. Bartholemei was admired for his magnificent proportions aDd dark, handsome face. His English wife did not make so agreeable an impression, as from the first she was voted “queer.” She is a fat, redfaced woman, with sore eyes aud red hair. It was not, however, personal appearance so much as her obstrusive aud innate vulgarities which gave rise to the gossip, which was at first only whispered, out which has been openlydiscussed since the return of the family to this city, after a sojourn at Newport during the summer. While househunting a year ago there was much talk about*the Minister and his wife trying to beat down agents in regard to rent, and no one appeared anxious to have them as tenants. For many weeks after they rented a house ou Connecticut avehue they lived there witfiout furniture orservants. Visitors were never admitted to the domain, and the servants whom they hired . always left in a few days, and carried away some of the awful secrets of the quite mysterious household. ~Not until last March, when the Czar was assassinated and funeral ceremonies were performed in • the mansion, had outsiders an opportunity to see the inside of the house. The answer was always given to callers that Madame was ill, or not at home. One diplomatic dinner was given by the Minister aud his wife, andsoou afterwards fashionable society was convulsed with laughter and disgusted at the details of that dinner leaked out. It is reported that the guests arrived and were shown into the dining room where a table was set, but no dishes were seen. After all were seated Madame came in from the kitchen, her naturally red face considerably incarnadined by her exertions, and brought iu a toureen of soup, which she ladled out aud recommended to her guests in the following manner : “You must eat this soup. I know it is good, tor I make it myself, and watched the cook to see that she did not spit ih it. It is a Russian custom for tiled cook to spit in the soup.” Other articles for the dinner were brought in by the porters of the tradespeople from whom they had beeu ordered,aud thelhostess.iu a general,manner, asked her guests to make themselves at home and assist her in tearing of the brown paper and putting the •articles in the dishes. It was a real pic-nic dinner. The conversation was refined as the banquet, for Madame, with the utmost frankness, announced that it was quite the thing to be illegitimate, she was illegitimate, aud, she added, "Our children are illegitimate.” Since that awful dinner the history of the Bartholomew has been no secret. The diplomatic ciicle felt scandalized, and the diplomacy of Secretary of State Blaine was taxed to the utmost how to obtain an indefinite leave of absence for Russia’s representative. It is averred that Mr. Willamov, the First Secretary of the Legation, has remained in New York and refused to come to Washington until the Bartholemeis left. Mr. Willamov ia now Charge d’Affairs of the Legation. It is also said that Mr. Bartholomei was a favorite of the late Czar, who was .not such a paragon of virtue as to be shocked at the immoralities of others, so that the liason which existed between bis favorite and the person who was not then his wife, was no bar to diplomatic promotion. However, a husband who had for years been an obstacle to marriage, died just as obligingly as did the unhappy wife of the late Emperor, and the sunject, like his late master, went through the forms of marriage. Mr. Bartholomei was then appointed Minister to Greece, but Queen Olga signified her disapproval in such strong terms that the Russian Minister of Forsign Affairs had to withdraw the appointment and kindly sent the Bartholomeis to the United States. Last summer Newport was alive with scandal concerning the minister and his wife. The coarseness and vulgarity of the Madame so shocked the sense of propriety aud modesty of the guests at the hotel where they boarded, that the ladies made complaint to the landlord, and he had to request Madame Bartholomei not to appear at dinner in such extremely decollet dresses. • Madame one day told a young lady she intended giving her a dinner at the Casino, and actually issued invitations. When the day arrived Madame wrote that she could not obtain the room aDd servants she wanted, and consequently recalled the invitations. About the first of December Mr. Bartholomei sold out his nousehold effects in this city, and the family said that they were to leave Washington immediately. Although there was no lurniture in the nouse, the family continued to occupy the empty mansion, and not until the last evening of the year did Mr. Bartholomei call upon the President to Did farewell. Officially they have departed, but bodily they may still be here as they were a week ago. An ou dit of the day is that the late Russian Minister can’ outboast all other husbands While some may with pride point to their progeny aud say: “I have only beeu married "three years and have four children,” he' can say. “I have only been married one year aud have had sevep children.” It is suggested that when Russia sends us a Minister it will be wel) to send the marriage certificate along with the other credentials. A man aud his wife found a stranger ill under their woodshed, at Irondale, 111., aud kindly put him to bed. Ou learning that his disease was smallpox, they would not turn him out. but nursed him through it, at the cost of considerable time, labor, and money, neither of which they could afford to give away. When be had recovered he stole sl7 from them and fled.

Stopping the Proceedings. Boomerang. "I come in this morn frig to tell you that you might «~s i\> »- them proceedings in ihaixe/y foe s bill of divorce,” said a so/t-eyed thing about 27 years old, as she came into a Laramie lawyer’s office yesterday. “Decided to live together as man and wife again, hay?”

“No, not that. Not that. You see Obadiah strolled away to Leadville two years ago, and kind of gave me and the kids the grand shake. Since then I’ve been rustling in my gentle unobtrusive manner to make a stake. I’ve wrote to him occasionally whenever I had leisure and kind of rounded him up for not chipping in with his assessment, but be never represented. “That kind of irritated me, and I asked you last week to get me a divorce. Ii I paid all the assessments myself I thought it would ba no more than square to get all the dividends. But this morning I got news from Leadville that has chan are*« my notion a little about tne divorce.”

“Sent you some money, did he?” "No, not that. He didn’t even write to me, but I got a paper with a big blue mark around a piece in it, which conveys the intelligence that Obadiah was hung there on the 10th by request. "It seems that he got to jumping lots and stealing horses between meals, and people got down on him. Then he salted a claim over on Buckskin, and sold it for SIO,OOO to a tender foot from away down East. "He made several flowery breaks like that, and the popular feeling seemed more or less turned against him. Sttterai weeks ago he stole a pair of big mules from a man who belonged to Kokomo, and the next night went back to get a neckyoke and monkeywrench that belonged to the wagon, and happened to run right intoapassle of vigiiants lookin’ for a iob. They took Obadiah over to a tall, limber tree, and let him stand on a- bronco pony plug under the lowest limb while they tied a clothesline around his wind pipe. "Obadiah told them that he wasn’t much of a bareback rider,and he didn’t know whether he could do the trick or not. They slid the clothes line over the limb apd hit the bronco a lick with a quirt. “The bronco was a high-life plug, aud had been raised in luxury, so he got mad when they hit him and he lit out some. That left Obidiah in a good deal of suspense. He wiggled around a little and got embarrassed,and didn’t seem to know what to do with his hands for a while. Then he became more calm and composed in his manner, and the crowd made a present of him to the coroner. I wrote to the authorities to send me his cheek book and a statement of Obadiah’s bank account, and whatever you’re out on this divorce liooraw will be all right understand. I had rather let the A 1 mighty and the vigilantes fix up my law business tl an to flie of old age waiting for chancery anyhow. That’s the kind of a grief-stricken relic I am.”

A Romantic Story.

New York Commercial Advertiser. A curious case has just come to light in the Surrogate’s Court that has quite a tinge of romance and fiction, but, in fact, there is none attached to it. The story is best told oy Mr. William H V. Gardiner, a lawyer of Broadway, who acted as counsel for the young lady on whom the whole cass hinges. Some twenty-three years ago a Mr. John Baker, a lawyer of this city, died, leav ing, among other bequests, a legacy of some SIO,OOO to an orphan fchild named Margaret Kirby, the only child of John Kirby, who, in his lifetime, was a great friend of Mr. Baker. Under the will, Mr. John Roach, the shipbuilder, was appointed excutor. When the will was probated, Mr. Selim Marks, a real estate broker, was appointed guardian of the young child, then between 3 4 and 4 years old, by the Surrogate. After remaining with him a short time the child was placed iD the Catholic Orphan Asylum in Mottt street. Shortly after her admisison a lady called there to see the child, representing herself to be a relative, and under the pretense ol buying some clothing for it, was allowed by one of the Sisters to take it away for that purpose. Neither the child nor lady ever returned. Efforts were made to trace the child, but without success. The child came of age about four years go, and Mr. Roach renewed his efforts to ascertain her whereabouts if living. For a long time he was unsuccessful, and it was not until last July he discovered her to be living with a family named McMahon, a contractor and builder, between Eighty-tbird and Eighty-fourth streets on Second avenue. She had been living with them for the pa9t twenty-one years, and they having no children of their own, in a sense, adopted the child and gave her a good education at their own expense. She always bore her proper name, however, of Margaret Kelly. As soon as the lost child was found proofs of identity were sought for, and but little difficulty was experienced on this point. The parties recently appeared before Surrogate Calvin, and the identity being made satisfactory to him, made an order for the payment of legacy due and interest thereon. Mr. Roach drew the check for the amount due to the young lady, and was pleased to see the right party had been found to whom the money belonged.

British Gold Won in Horse Racing A New York special of the 20th says: F. Theodore Walton, whose betting exploits in England have gained him fame as the “American Plunger,” arrived to-day from England. “Mr. WaJton. what is a plunger?’, was the first question a Sun interviewer put to him. " ‘Plunger,’ said he, “is an Eualish expression applied to a man who lays down large sums of money in sporting affairs. People don’t bet in England as they do here. They bet small sums. I suppose the average bets of wealthy Euglish peop e are of £SO and £IOO. There are only two or three persons there who bet as large as £I,OOO, aud I bet many thousands of poundaon a single event.” "How much Euglish money did you Win?" "I won about £93 000 or about $405 - 000.' I won £75,000 on Foxhall alone in three races—-the Grand Duke Michael, the Cesarewitch, and the Cambridgeshire. I won £9,000 <m Iroquis in the St. Leger, but lost £45,000 on him in the championship for all age race, by Bend Or. I lost and won at a great many races, which squared one another outside of my principal winnings. Avon £10,400 on Rothschild’s mare Nellie at Newmarket, and I won on two of Sir John Astley’s horses, £5,000 on Leghorn and £4,700 on his Medicus after the ‘diff he had with me.” “Did you go over there expecting to be tbd ‘plunger’ that you became?” ,

"Not at all. I was over there in the spring and I came home and stayed here about two months. I bet while I was there aud won about $85,000. I went back because I was subjected to hay fever, and incidentally while I was there I put down some money on the races ih England. I was alone in whatever I did, and I acted on my best judgment. It. is not true that I always bet onlAmerican horses, as you have seen in the instances I have mentioned I put my money on the American horses only when I thought they could win. I tried to keep thoroughly posted about the horses and I bet accordingly. My giving money to jockeys has been the subject of talk. They did not like it over theie. The bookmakers did not like it, and some of the newpaper men and the sporting men seemed to think, it was not right. I have more than once given as high as £SOO to a jockey, but always on con-t. dition that he won. It would have been different if I paid him to loose, but I never did. Why shouldn’t Ido so? Suppose you had £20,000 ou a horse, couldn’t you afford to give £IOO or even £SOO to protect yourself, especially if you thought it might be an object to the jockey to lose it if you didn’t do so? I did my betting entirely with the bookmakers. Over there the bookmakes are very rich. They are the hawks and the public are the chickens. They don’t like me because I was not a chicken. I was a hawk among them, and that upset their calculations. Then again, they could not understand how anybody could lay down such large sums of money. They were not used to it.” "Did you not bet with private persons?” "Not at all. I would not have got my money if I had, but the bookmakers were good if ? won a million.” “How did the public take your oper ations?” “They went wild about it. They made a regular curiosity of me. As I passed among these people I could hear them talking about “The Plunger,’ and pointing me out to one another. They could not understand how a man could lay such large sums at a time on races.”

Improvement in Human Health.

Dr. G. M. Granville in Spectator. In the result of a somewhat large acquaintance With the facts held to indicate the state and progress of "human health,” I fear my testimony must be given to show that the improvement effected by science consists in a prolongation of the passive endurance of life, rather than an extension ol the period of true vitality, or any increase of the oppot tunity for good work and real intellectual enjoyment. We may "live” longer, but our lives are not either happier or more useful for the excessive energy recently devoted to the conservati vtion of health, or the inordinate and laborious means taken to avoid disease and death. It may, doubtless, be possible to raise humanity to the level of one of those scientific toys which approximate perpetual motion, but expend their whole force in moving themselves. Whether longevity purchased at the price of passing a "lifetime in running away from death would be worth having, I must leave to be determined by the judgment of those who set a value on our so-called sanitary progress, which I, for one, fail to recognize. I think men Were happier and better and lived nobler lives, before the pursuit of health and the yearnings of longevity became a craze, almost amounting to madness. What to eat, drink, and avoid, what to wear and how to live, by what means to avoid infection, to keep off ; disease, and to escape from death for a few weary and worried years, are questions which so engross the thoughts, if they do not embitter the lives, of the multitude, that the proposition, "Is a sanitary life worth living?” has become to be a subject of serious contemplation, and one which the taxed and harrassed community will sooner or later be - compelled to entertain.

Mated, Not Married.

Nashville (Tenn.) Banner. A very interesting and romantic affair occurred not a tbousand years ago and not a thousand miles from the town of Shelby ville, in Bedford county. The facts were related to a Banner reporter not long since, and as he knows they are facts be prints them. The names of the parties are also known, but they will be omitted here, because the facts will be recognized by those who are familiar with the circumstances.

A young gentleman and lady were engaged to marry, but found an almost insurmountable object in the path to the consummation of that happy event in the persons of her irate and stern father and obstinate and unsympathizing mother. She tried in vain to soften the obdurate parents. She endeavored to frighten them into giving their consent by threatening sel t destruction, and after finding that would be of no avail, she announced her determination .to elope with the man of her choice. A close watch was kept over her for some time, and she became silent about the matter, and her parents thought she had concluded to take their advice « nd forget the object of her affections. Soon after, however, "when the leaves began to turn,” she, with her parent’s consent,went to visit a friend in an adjoining county, and upon arriving,there notified her affianced. He came promptly, with the necessary legal purchased in Bedford couuty, aud they were married. Several months of happiness passed by and not a shadow fell across their pathway to mar the scene o( bliss which they then believed wouldVbe eternal. But suddenly a thunderbollNgHin/flie household, which turned joy nlTo sorrow, and sunshine into darkness. They were informed tnat they were not married at all, only mated, as the marriage was illegal and void, it having occurred in one county and the license issued in another. The distressed and terrified young lady was still more terrified when she was informed that her father and mother, having heard the facts, were both en route to her once happy home to tear her away from the man she had so long called husband, but who really had no title to that name. Everything ended happily, however, as another license was procured and they were united before her parents arrived. The affair created quite a sensation and for a time was the talk of the whole couu try. It served as a warning to other young people matrimonially inclined, however, aud a mishap of that nature has not occurred since.

TABLE TALK.

A Philadelphia girl of 14 has died of delirium tremens. There are more German bakers in London than in Berlin. - Pat McGinnis drew his . fortune of $3,000 from a Bridgeport bank, and spent it all in a week’s spree. Suicide was accomplished at Andover, Mass., by gnawing the phosphorus from matches and drinking a pint of ink. Hereafter any teacher who accepts a present from pupils in the public schools of Hamilton, Ont., will be immediately dismissed. Nearly $10,000,000 was taken from the mines of Utah last year, and a bullion product 0f513,000,000 is predicted for the present year. Under a new State law, which went into force on Jan. 1, all railroad conductors in Georgia are clothed with the power of policeman. The quartet who sang "Remember now thy Creator” at the Cleveland funeral services of Garfield, are now singing it with a travelling company. • A religious revival is so attractive at Madison, Ohio, that all the stores and factories are closed during the afternoon, while the employees go to the meeting. There is a scandal in the Philadelphia bar. "Some of the lawyers have lapsed into the careless and disrespectful habit of addressing the Court while wearing their overcoats.”

There are in Alabama 2,250,000 aens of Government land subject to entry under the Homestead and Pre-empt ii n laws, and the entering of land" was never brisker than at present. New South Wales, with a revenue of over $30,000,000, has a surplus of sl,000,000 for last year, and the Treasurer announces that no further foreign loans will be needed for many years. An amateur journalist at Elkhart, Ind., announces that the purpose of his paper is "to restore to the public its wonted grandeur and prosperity.” Incidentally, he will receive subscriptions at 50 cents a year. lIAn actress of McVicker’s theatre, in Chicago, so bewitched a susceptible young man in the front row of the balcony that he threw kisses at her continuously, and, as he would uot stop, they put him out. Mike McDonald is a Chicago gam bier and politician. The Tribune says: "Let any man start a gaming house, aud, unless he pays tribute to McDonald, within three days the police will be upon him, and his place will be broken up.” Four negroes attended the ultrafashionable Tiger’s ball in Boston. They were officers of a Rhode Island military company, and were invited bva committee who did not know their color; but no objections were made to their admission.

Hens scratched up a woman’s garden at Pawtucket, and she poisoned them. To her horror, she saw the owner plucking them next day for the market, and her conscience gave her no peace till she had bought the lot at a price far above the hutcher’s offer. During the year 1879-80 there were exporteu from New Orleans 6,000,000 gallons of “pure olive oil,” extracted from cotton seed, of which eightyeight per cent, was sent to Mediterranean ports. Half of this amount went to Italy, the home of the genuina olive.

There is oue clergyman in Philadelphia who is not content with merely denouncing spiritualism as a fraud. He demonstrated that at least one medium was a trickster. Going to a public hall were apparitions were advertised to appear, he leaped on the stage, jerked down a curtain, and exposed the medium in the act of arranging himself in the garb of a ghost. There is an incorrigible little darkey down iu Washington, Ga. He i 3 nine years old, aud is known as a horse thief, as well as being willing to steal anything else. His mother has tried to reform him by whipping him for the first half of the day, and hanging him up in a bag and smoking him the other half, but the inhabitants of Washington despair of his being a trustworthy citizen. Since 1865 Tennessee has acquired nearly 400,000 additional population, aud has made crops every year of an average annual net profit of $27 500,000. Since 1870 Memphis, In spite of the war and thiee epidemics, has grown from 23,000 to 4 7 ,000, while Nashville has crept up from 17,000 population to 75 000. The growth of Chattanooga, Knoxville, and other iowns has beeu at proportionate rates. v Pearl Read cropped her hair, put on male attire, and "went across the line into Canada last Fourth as July to celebrate our national holiday iu the foreign city of Kingston. She got noisily drunk, broke some windows, aud was sent to prison for two years. She bore the punishment without complaint or discovery until a few days ago, when she confessed her sex, and sent a petition to the Governor-General for pardon.

The question of consolidating he two cities of New York and Brooklyn it rapidly coming to the front. Brooklyn has finished her autonmy, has completed her system of parks and aqueductq and will iu about a year have permanent bridge connection with the city of New York. The selfish interests of house owners in New York is opposed to this change, believing it will be followed by the erection or a series of bridges to Brooklyn, and a consequent decline of metropolitan real estate. There is no ground lor this, as the superior social advantages of New York island will always make it preferable to Brooklyn or any surrounding city. The natural premium on a house in New York is fully ojper cent. Good houses are .rented in Brooklyn for SI,OOO and less, and such a tiling is almost unknown in New York, where it is commonly said that every body pays from one-third to one half of their income for mere rent. The extravagant cost of living in the city threatens to become an injury to it, aud it is, therefore, to the interest of the general mercantile population here to see the facilities increase of connection witli the neighboring shores. The Brush Electrict Light Company is going to lighttaost of the docks around the cilv of New York. They are taking orders in various parts of the city to put up electric lights in the stores at the price of $1 a day.