Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — Page 7

FAILURE FIGURES.

Analysis of Commercial Disasters for Die Third Quarter of 1883. Failures of the Fast Nine Months— Interesting Comparisons.

[New York Telegram.] The mercantile failures in the United States for the third quarter of 1883, as reported to Bradstrcet's, number 2,063 against 1,688 for the corresponding quarter of 1882. The disasters reported for the first and second quarters of 1883 were respectively 3,189 and 2,107. DISASTERS THE LAST NINE MONTHS. The following table shows the total failures for each of the ' throe quarters of 1883, with assets and liabilities, compared with the corresponding quarters of 1882: J. „ . . < ■ - - Hi s i f- y$ —=s if t — % u : o S | p 4*" f i la M> rr*- : S Jf? First qnar. 1883.. 13, 189.123,763,000 $ Firstquar. 1882.. 2,146 15,323,000 29,010,000 49 .Second qnar, 1883 2.107 16,120,000 31,560,000 48 Second quar, 1882 1,503 12,000,000 23,372,000 52 Third quar. 1883 . 2,062 23,375,000 49,460,000 48 Third quar. 1882. 1,658 9,122,000 18,779,000 50 Total 9 months 1883 7,358 < 63,26-1,000 $123,255,000 52 Total 9 months 1882. 5,307 36,451,000 J 11.161,050 51 " GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. The following table shows the geographical distribution of failures In the UHited States for the last quarter of 1883, compared With the corresponding period of 1882: 1882. 1883. Divisions. 3dqr. 3dqr. 1882. 1883. Eastern States. 258 355 $ 2,513,665 $21,294,754 Middle States.. i 365 443 9,049,488 14,465,139 :South'n states. 239 290 2,477,275 2,719,097 Western States. 632 - 615 3,572,659 8,683,007 Pacific States.. 239 272 1,036,555 1,403,994 Territories..... 25 87 128,540 - 894,160 Total U. 5..1,658 2,062 $18,779,460 $49,866,151 -COMPARISONS WITH LAST TEAR. The table below gives the failures for the nine months of 1883, compared with the same period of 1832: .—No. failures.^/—General liabilities.-^ Divisions. 1882. 1883. 1882. 1883. Eastern States. 885 1,122 $12,680,710 $29,369,077 Middle states..l,2lo 1,658 24,545,889 42,996,231 •South’n states. 1,058 1,451 . 13,084,431 13,395,274 West’rn states.l,6os 2,237 16,633,809 30,169,581 Pacific states.. 477 099 3,623,427 4,984,706 'Territories 71 191 694,483 2,139,467 Total 5,307 7,368 $71,162,749 $123,054,336 SUMMING UP. At the last quarter the average liabilities of each failing trade were $23,986, and- the percentage of assots to liabilities, 48. For the first quarter of 1883 the average liabilities of each trader was $13,240, and for the second quarter there were $14,979. The failures for the third quarter of this year were 1,127 less than for the first quarter, and 45 less than for the second quarter. In the first, second and third quarters of 1882 the average of liabilities to each failure in trade was respectively $13,244, $10,232 and $11,311. The distinctive feature of the quarter’s return is the, surprising increase of liabilities in Eastern and Middle States, caused largely by the disasters in the leather trade at Boston, and in the »clothing trade in New York. These disasters, and those directly dependent thereupon, went far to bring up the weekly average of failures for the third quarter of the year. The immediate cause of this Increase In mercantile failures exists in the overtrading made possible by the apparent ease with which the traffic in commercial paper is carried on. Its abuse is serious. To check it two things are.needed to be done: 1. The organization of ft-ade should in some way be carried further to the ond that the sale and purchase of mercantile paper may be carried on more openly than now. 2. A general bankrupt law should be enacted speedily with severe penalties for such abuses as have been ■shown to exist.

LABOR CONGRESS.

A Declaration of Principles. ■ . - toThe Trade and Labor Federation, in session at St. Louis last week, issued a Declaration •of Principles, the salient points of which are: 1. That those who labor and create wealth are tho most important in society, and hence should enjoy the full benefit of their toil; that a just and equitable distribution of the fruits of labor is not possible under the present system of society; that the present tendency toward corporations is dangerous to the people’s liberty; and that the emancipation of the working people in list be achieved by themselves. 2. A demand that railroad land-grants forfeited shall be reclaimed by the Government. 3. That election-dsys shall be legal holidays, and all wage-workers should have half of Saturday as a holiday. 4. Equal pay for equal work to both sexes, and the abolition of the convict eontraet'labor system. ■ 5. Compulsory education, and the State to furnish books and other school material free. 8. Eight hours to constitute a legal day's work, and penalties for its violation. 7. Prohibiting child labor in factories and mines under 14 years of age. 8. The Commissioners of Labor of this State to belong to some labor organization. 9. Railroads and telegraphs to become the property of the State. 10. The repeal of all acts known as conspiracy acts, as applied to labor organizations. 11. A partly national circulating medium Issued directly to the people. 12. An Employers’ Liability act, holding corporations liable for injury received by persons who aro in their employ. 13. That all trade and labor unions be incorporated by the Legislature, the same as •other incorporated bodies.

MORE OR LESS STRANGE.

A mammoth sea monster, supposed to be a turtle, weighing some 2,500 pounds, was captured off the coast of Nova Scotia by the schooner J. H. Higgins. George H. WILLETT, in jail in Caldwell, N. Y., made a miniature church and sent it to the Warren county fair for exhibition. But the managers would not exhibit it, as ■they feared it might create sympathy for him. He is supposed to be a murderer. Dr. Niles, of Jacksonville, Fla., does not understand his well. It is 300 feet above the high-water mark of the Florida coast, is but sixteen feet deep, yields a full supply of pure, -cold, fresh water, and yet it rises and falls with the ocean tides. He wants It explained. A Sam FAancisco old woman, who had failed in an attempt to write on a postal card hs long a letter as she had intended to, presented the spoiled card at the postoffice to be exchanged for a clean one, and when the clerk refused she scratched his face and bit his finger. Im Kingston, Ontario, some gypsies drove to a minister’s house and requested him to marry a young couple. When the young lady was asked whether she would accept the man. She stuttered and stammered, and finally ran out of the building. On being eaught, she was horsewhipped by her father. John SBanks, an aged Indian, is repairing the old Council House in Portage, N. Y, From the woods near by he gathers a peculiar dry moss and packs the interior space between the logs, and with a queer wooden trowl he plasters the outside cracks with tough clay, making the walls impervious to wind and cold. IxrSHWATOBOoMKLiNo can repeat the whole of Soott’s ‘•Lady of the Lake.

Dorsey, tlie New Democratic Saint. There has been a complete revolution in Democratic Sentiment within three years in reference to the starrouter Dorsey. When he was appointed Secretary of the Republican Campaign Committee in 1880 on account of his special knowledge of the politics of some of the Southern States, which the committee at the time determined to make an effort to carry for Gen. Garfield, the Democratic organs bitterly assailed him. He had been what they called a ‘•carpet-bag” Senator from Arkansas, and this circumstance alone furnished the Bourbon editors* and stump-speakers with texts for many a slashing editorial and many a withering speech against Stephen W. Dorsey. The Democrats have now changed their opinion of Dorsey. They have forgotten apparently that he wasa ‘’carpet-bagger. ” They have welcomed him as a prodigal. He is the best saint in their calendar. His statements are implicitly believed by them. The man whom they denounced as a liar and a falsifier in 1880 is now the embodiment of truth. His slanders of dead men whose reputations have stood among the highest in the nation-are accepted as infallible Democratic tiuths; his cOarges against the living, though contradicted and proven false, are repeated by Democratic journalists and speakers as if Dorsey’s character for veracity had never been assailed. The incarnate Republican fiend of three years ago is now a Democratic evangelist and proplidt. What has caused the change ? Since the close of the campaign of 1880. Mr. Dorsey lias been charged with being a member of a star-route ring which swindled the Government out of a large sum of money. Strong circumstantial evidence lias been given that he was a member of that ring. The evidence was enough to justify the President whose electian lie aided to direct a prosecution to be /instituted against him. That President was, not diverted from his duty in this matter, though Dorsey threatened to make public the circumstances of the campaign, and to circulate stories, if the prosecution was persisted in, which might create a bad impression. President Garfield, moved only by a sense of duty, and being convinced that there was sufficient evidence on which to proceed against Dorsey, undeterred by threats of any kind aud conscious of his own rectitude, directed that the prosecution should be persisted in. President Arthur, though his political association with Dorsey was closer, when he became the Chief Executive urged tlie prosecution also, and Dorsey and his confederates were indicted and brought to trial. The prosecution was vigorously pushed; the evidence was strong, but Dorsey was saved on a quibble by a jury consisting of eight Democrats and four negroes, on whose sympathies Mr. Ingersoll deftly played. Notwithstanding the action of the jury, the Government yet propose if possible, to make Dorsey disgorge tlie money lio may have stolen. He lias been acquitted of “conspiracy;” he has not been acquitted of theft, j Two Republican administrations prosecuted Dorsey, because they believed him to be a rascal and dishonest. In revenge for this just prosecution Dorsey lias, since the trial ended, devoted himself/as was to be expected, to the task of blackening tlie character of his prosecutors and slandering those, living or dead, who were instrumental in bringing him to trial. Straightway the Democrats have discovered that there can be vir ue in a carpet-bagger. They have taken this political blackmailer and prosecuted star-router, with his damaged reputation and his faithless character,to their hearts. The columns of their journals are open t® him to assail the memories of the dead, the character of the living. They who denounced him when his only known sin was that he differed from them in polities proclaim him a man worthy of credit, whose word has to be taken as against tlie words of men distinguished for their patriotism-—and probity. They have induced him to publish letters which were not his; and now they set him up as a political saint. This is nothing new with the Democrats. The Democratic par ty is the refuge of Republican rascals. Ch icago Tribwne.

“The Prohibition Party.”

The Democratic papers seem to'delight in applying to the Republican party tlie name which heads this article. Well, in view of the splendid line of prohibition measures which the Republican party has adopted and enforced in this country, the name is not so bad after all. See what the Republican ya&ssSg; VsaiwMi: / [ * 1. It has prohibited slavery. 2. It has prohibited discrimination in the civil and political rights of citizens. 3. It has prohibited treason and rebellion from disrupting the republic. 4. It prohibited the Southern Democracy from repudiating the will of the majority of the people of this country as expressed in the Presidential election of 1860. 5. It prohibited the arrogant and -.aristocratic slaveholders of. the South. from owning the husbands and wives, the workingmen and women of the South, the parents and children of the lowly and oppressed slaves, and from appropriating the earnings of the labor of the workers to fflie use of the oppressor who would not work. 6. It prohibited the suppression of the freedom of speech and press in this country. 7. It prohibited the suppression of moral force which pushed forward the anti-slavery discussion until it drove the slavery from the republic. 8. It prohibited the extension of slavery into the Territories of the United States. 9. It prohibited the Blave drivers of Missoi#i and other Southern States from making a slave State of Kansas. 10. It prohibited the Democratic party from continuing the administration of the Government in the interest of the most godless oppression that ever disgraced a republic. jll. Ttprohibited the application of the old doctrine of kings and despots from applying to our naturalized citizens that “Once a subject, always a

subject,” is a higher law than the one which, confers on persona of foreign birth the dignity and rights of American citizens. 12. It prohibited the Democratic party from destroying the pnblic credit of the United States. 13. It prohibited the Democratic party from repealiog the resumption of specie payment act which lias given to this country such unprecedented financial stability, prosperity and success. 14. It prohibited the Democratic party from continuing the rotten State and local banking system, and established the best paper currency ever possessed by a people. 15. It prohibited the Democratic party from crushing out onr own industries for the benefit of foreign capital and labor. 16. It prohibited the Democratic policy of requiring the pioneer to pay for his ; farm on the public lands, and enacted the Homestead law which gave every man a home who would settle on the public domain. 17. It prohibited 1 the Democratic policy of excluding colored children from the benefits of education, and made ample provision for all. And now it proposes to prohibit the legalization of saloons in lofra, and to provide for the proteetioH of home. It proposes to prohibit the legalization of the temptations which the dramshops—once denounced by the lowa Democracy as “public nuisances”—place before the young men of the State. It proposes to prohibit the abandonments! that doctrine of the National Democratic platform which declares: “Absolute acquiescence in the will of the majority—the vital principle of Republics. So yon can go on, gentlemen of the Democratic press, and call the Republican party “The Prohibition Party.” Yon used to call us “Black Republicans,” because we were fighting against slavery and for the rights ol men. We accepted the name, put it on our flags and banners, and, under it, drove you from power, and made this country in very fact “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Tlie moral forces and convictions were against you then, and they are against you now, arid no cry of the “Prohibition Party,” nor all the aid that all the saloons and saloon-keepers of lowa can give you, will save you from a repeti- j tion of the disaster that overwhelmed j you when for slavery yon fought as you now fight for tlie saloons.— Fairfield (lovea) Ledger.

Political Notes.

The Spiingfield Republican treats the conduct of Southern leaders and newspapers in their sudden change from hostility to a caressing of Ben Butler ! under the general head of “Burying the ! Spoon. ” It would be worth millions to the ' Democracy if they had no Speaker to I elect this winter, and no committees to ' frame. That majority in the House ol Representatives is .the weight which j will drag them down in several ways in | 1884.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat j ■ I The Democratic State Committee of lowa has determined to test the efficacy | of money in the lively political contest i in progress in that State. A large cor- ! ruption fund has been raised, and is being distributed in sums of SSO and SSOO “for use on election day.” There : is little danger that the canvass can be 1 influenced in any such disgraceful manner.— <'hiriigo Tribune. The Republican party cannot help the negro over the obstacles of preju-; dice and ignorance at one bound. No party can. That problem lies above the possibilities of a party. It will be solved when the negro is fused into the citizenship of this country by means of education and the accumulation of wealth, intelligence and power. In this, as with the white race, the mani-: festation of success must be through j individuals. The ignorant negro can- j not advanqe with the educated and refined of his race. The poor cannot be j as independent as the rich.— Louisville Commercial. Every Republican State. Convention held this year has cordially approved of the administration of President Arthur. Both factions of the party unite; in honoring him. Probably he is not - liked by the leaders of either faction, but they are all conscious that his course has the approval and confidence of the people at large, and they dare not, in the face of dangers pressing on the party, leave out that expression of prai-e which the rank and file of the party demands, and which Mr. Ari tbwX’s. wise, eousevy o patriotic and honest course as President eminently deserves. — Xew York Herald. The Des Moines Register says: “As j thrilling a scene as ever occurred in the old Opera House, where so many thrill- ■ ing things have occurred, was the reply of Gen. Harrison to the Democral in the audience who interrupted him with the cry of ‘the bloody shirt again.* The reply of the General was so mag- * nifieent in manner and so electrieal in effect that the reporters all stopped ta listen to it and to look at the General, and never took down the splendifl j burst of a little speech at the time. W$ ! give this as neatly it: He was speaking of the war and its issues, and was going i along quietly but strongly, when a j voice rang out from the dress-circle, j ‘The bloody-shirt again. ” The (> Gen- j eral’s eyes flashed fire at the’ words, ! and, springing ■ forward to the foot* J lights, and holding his right hand! toward the person interrupting him, h« ' said,with a wonderful, electrifying powei ; which swept through the audience like a storm, ‘Yes, the bloody-shirt again! I j have seen thousands of them on the field of battle, wet with the blood oj loyal men —and I would a thousand times rather inarch under the bloody- i shirt, stained by the life-blood of 8 Union soldier, than to march under tbs t black flag of treason or the white flag of cowardly compromise.’ The effect was tremendous, and the audienct cheered the inspired little speech again and, again for over % minute’s time. The Democrat knows now what a cyclone is. He knows, too, what • j roused lion ia.* . " ‘ ~T~" C ' '

THE BAD BOY.

I . ■■■. '..j ' . . “Well, I see yon have got another black eye,” said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in with a kerosene can, and sat down by a peach basket while the groceryman drew the kerosene. “How did you get it? Have a fight, or did your pa knock yon down with a chair!’” “Got it trying to be an angel,” said the boy, as he fumbled around the mosquito bar over the basket of peaches, to see if there wasn’t a place where a peach might fall out. “You know tliat blind woman that grinds the hand-organ down on the corner. Well, a person would think that a poor, blind woman, who. has to support herself aud five children grinding out the awfulest music ever was, woidd be the last person in the world to have tricks . played on her, but this morning I found a couple of dudes dropping lozenges in the cigar-box that is on the organ for pennies. The first time they dropped in one the old lady smiled and took it out and eat it, and I wasn’t very mad, ’cause I thought the dudes would surprise her by dropping in a $5 gold piece for a nickel, and make her feel good. But the next time they dropped in a cay-enne-pepper lozenger, and they got behind a peanut stand to see how it worked. She bit it, and then she opened her mouth and bio wed .cold wind on her parched tongue, and I almost laffed at first, she made such a face, but when I see the tears begin to pour out of her poor old blind eyes, and roll down her withered cheeks, and she took the comer of her .apron and wiped the tears away, as she stopped right in the middle of “Annie Daurie” and the organ drew a long breath, and when I looked at those two dudes laffing at her, I got crazy. Somehow I felt as though the poor old woman was my ma, and before I knew it, I jumped right in amongst those dudes, and knocked one of them through the peanut stand on the hot chestnut roaster, and I kicked the other where it hurt, and he ran, and the other one said, “What you got to do about the old woman, don’t yon know— ’ and I said she wah a friend of mine, ’cause she was blind, and then the Italian hit me in the eye with a hard peach, and a policeman came along and the dude j told him I was a terrier, and the policeI man jerked my coat-collar off, but | when I told him what it was all about, he gave me back my coat-collar and chased the dude, and the old woman thanked me with her trembling lips, that were smarting from the lozenger, and I went home to

get my collar sewed on, and pa was going to take it out pf my bide. I guess if I hadn’t told him about the blind wouaan, he would have been kicking me yet. Sometimes I think it don’t pay to be too darned good. For instance, now in this row, all the friend I have got is this blind woman, and she will not know me when she sees me. The two dudes and tlie Italian will lay for me, and the policeman, will, very likely, be told by the dude that it was me who fired the lozenger in there, and I have got to wear tLis black eye for two weeks, just for having a heart in me. Do you think it pays to be good, or didn’t you ever try it ?” “You bet it pays, ’ said the grocery man, as he stuck the nozzle of the kerosene can into a potato,,, and ripped off the mosquito-bar aud told the boy to help himself to peaches. “You have got a friend in me, and you can call on me for a certificate of character at any time. A boy that protects the poor and unfortunate is a thoroughbred, if he does get a black eye occasionally. But I don’t see how it is that the minister is down on you so. He was in here this morning to get trusted for a number three mackerel, and he said he would walk around a block any time rather than meet yon, because you asked so many questions that he couldn’t answer. What have you been asking him lately?” “Oh, I only wanted to get a little light on yachting. He is paid a salary to enlighten his congregation, and he always wants ns to ask questions, but lately he has turned me away with a soft answer. I asked him if he didn’t think Mount Ararat would have been a boss place to hunt, just after Capt. Noah had turned all the game loose, and the water was high so you could sneak right up on to the elephants, and tigers, and chipmunYs,-aml" rels, and the minister, who had been telling pa what a boss time he had last winter hunting deer up in Michigah, got offended and told pa he had better dismiss me with a boot. I don’t know as it would be any more harm to hunt deer on Mount Ararat along about 2,349 years B. C., than it would now, though they might have had a game law that would protect the game, on account of there being only a limited supply. But I suppose the game would have been very poor, cause it had been shut up in the ark a long time without any food, and the Captain of the ark full of bug juice.” “Hold on now, boy, don’t be bearing false witness against thy neighbor,” said the grocery man, horrified at the remarks of the boy. “There is no record that Noah had anything to drink on the ark. Give Koah hi.3_dae, whatever you do.” “Well, maybe you are right, but as I Understand it lie had a terrible appetite for intoxicating fluid on shore, and one would suppose if he didn’t have a bar on the yacht he would have strapped a couple of jugs on the mules when they went aboard, and he must liave known it was going to be a long and tedious cruise, and very lonesome, and if he had anything stimulating on board he took a nip occasionally. And yon couldn’t blame him. Everybody’s appetite is better when sailing, and Noah had to run the boat night and day, and ft wouldn’t be strange if he spliced the main brace. By Jingo, I should think that Noah would have got sick of a menagerie, and been mighty glad when lie struck the top of the monntain and turned them loose, and when the water | went down, and the animals went slid- i ihg down .hill, falljpg over each other to find a good place to nibble grass, it must have been a picnic to Noah, But what do you suppose the lions found to cat? They live on meat, and as there were only two animals of a kind, they had to waft until some more small

animals could bo, raised before they could eat, ’cause if they eat any animal, that settled it, and there wouldn’t never be any of those animals on earth. Say, don’t you think those lions had pretty good control over their appetites not to make mince meat of the otheT animals ? How do you account for the fact that all those animals lived without anything to eat ?” “Oh, I don’t know. You make me tired. I don’t wonder the minister can’t get along with you. Mayl>eNoah took along fresh meat enough to last the lions a year, and baled hay for the elephants and giraffes and cattle. Fix it any way you want to. Darned if I know: anything about it,” said the grocer}' man as he took a piece of sandpaper and began rubbing the rust off the cheese knife. .“That’s thei wav with all of you,” said the boy, as he took the kerosene can and started for the door. “I think that flood was only a spring freshet, and that the world couldn’t have been drowned. How did they know that America was overflowed when America was not discovered till 1492, 4,000 years afterward? lam going home and ask the hired girl about it. She is a Catholic, but she knows more about history than all of you, and she don’t get mad when I ask her questions. By gosh! I would have liked to take a breecliloading shotgun and paddled along in a skiff np to Mount Ararat, just after Noah had run out the gang-plank and let the animals off. I could have got elephants and behemoths and rhinoceroses enopgliior a mess, I bet you,” and the boy went out with his kerosene and a mind well stored with knowledge as well as a pistol-pocket well stored with peaches.— Perk's Sun. •

The Upper Berth.

One of the most difficult things in the world, /next to swimming the whirlpool of Niagara, is to get into the upper berth of a sleeping-car. It is a moving and effecting spectacle to see the fat and habitually-dignified head of a family laboriously acquire possession of an upper berth. The trouble usually begins by the old gentleman expostulating with the conductor for putting him so high up, and he begs that gilt-edged official to try and make a trade with some small-sized man who I can easily climb up the side of the car and crawl inside with little or no difficulty. The comman’ding officer of the quarter-deck says he will see what he can do about it, and wanders off into the blue regions of the smoking-car and shakes dice with the train-boy for a cigar. Meanwhile the fat man waits and perspires and eurses all the officials of the road, from the President down to the section bosses. When the conductor saunters leisurely back he tells the fat man that nothing can be done ; no one, he says, will exchange a lower berth for an upper—no, not even if the fat man wUI give something to boot. Then the dignified fat man glares at the other pas- ! sengers, and waits until they have all | retired before lie tries to get into the upper berth. There are several different ways oF forcing an into an upper berth. You can hire the porter for two bits to give you a leg up, but this method is liable to attract attention and excite ungenerous and sarcastic remarks. The dignified fat man has a regular circus. First swinging himself up by the cur tain-bar he tries to go in feet first, but he can’t let go the rail without tumbling back again into the aisle._ The porter helps him out of this fix and the fat man tries a new deaL This time lie steps on the ear of a sleeping beauty in the lower berth, and the sleeping beauty knocks the pins out from under him and the fat man retires to the wash-room to bathe his nose and abuse monopolies. Then he gets the porter to bring a camp-stool, he gets on it, catches hold of the brass rod above, and is about to spring for the berth, when the campstool doubles up, and, in his efforts to save himself from coming down with a “dead thud” on the floor, he wildly grasps the hell-cord, and that stops the train, and the conductor comes in and uses language to him, and the passengers all wake up and use more language, and the dignified fat passenger even wishes he were dead or that he bad mone clothes on. • Finally he man- , "he boils over with malicious thoughts and sinister desires for the bankruptcy of the railroad company. It is a full hour before he relapses into slumber, and then the conductor comes along and punches him and” his ticket; and then a horrible suspicion flashes across him that the berth may become loosened in some way from its catch, and spring up against the ceiiisg oJ the can and smother him. He sleeps no more until daylight, and then he has to jump out and dress hurriedly, for the train is running into the oitv. A good stretch on the longitudinal cushioned seats in the caboose of a freight train is many points ahead ol the best upper berth ever invented foi a palace sleeping-car, and we don’t care who knows it. ? Texas Siftings. Disciplined for Not Attending Church. He lived m a country town neai Providence, B. L, and had not attended church for many months. At length, i having a friend visiting him, he accom- | panied him, one Sunday, to meeting, j Arriving in front of the edifice, one ol ; deacons beckoned him to one side, and I he expected a “talking” to for his delinquency. He was much relieved, however, by the denouement. all around, to assure himself that h< would not be overheard, the deacor said to him, “I heard you had a very fine calf you wanted to sell.” —Elmiro Advertiser. Thebe have been a great number o earthquakes in Great Britain from time to-time. The last of note was tha' of 1816. It extended over a vast ares | of country, and in some localities its j effects were scarcely felt. The lakes o ! Cumberland and Durham, and * those a Scotland were visibly agitated, and ths progressive motion of the shock was also felt in Ireland. Gov. BeK BcH-er’s stables are tlq finest in LowelL He keeps nine thor otHghbred horses. .

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE.

Copal varnish applied to the soles of shoes, and repeated as it dries, until the pores sre filled and the surface shines like jwdished mahogany, will make the Boles waterproof, and last as long as the uppers. To remove fixed glass stoppers, tap and then unscrew with this sort of a wrench in&de of a piece of strong wood: Have the wood 3.5 inches long and 1 inch in breadth and depth, with a piece mortised out large enough to admit the flat • part of the glass stopper. A good present for an old lady is a light woolen wrapper, made double, W(ith a thin thickness of woolen between, and quilted in rather large diamonds. Take a simple sack pattern, and cut it large and ample, so that she can slip it on over Kef night-dress. - When putting np curtains which are to be draped, in a low room put the cornice to which the curtain is to be fastened close to the ceiling, even if the window is put in lower down, as it gives the effect of greater height to the room. The curtain meeting at the top will conceal the wall. For washing hands that have become cracked or blackened, there is nothing better than Indian meal rubbed on with soap. It not only removes the dirt but softens and whitens the < hands as well. For men and boys doing farm or sl>op work it is excellent, and should be kept always at hand. Ammonia water or a damp cloth dipped in whiting, cleans paint nicely.Sapolio is also good. Cold tea is the best thing to clean varnished wood with, the tea and tea leaves saved from the table for several days and steeped will usually be sufficient. It removes spots, and gives a fresher, newer appearance than when soap and water are used. Lined lunch-cloths one yard square, with a vine and some odd mirth-pro-voking design in the corners, are the fancy of the hour. These are,very pretty to cover the small tables used at lunch or small tea-parties. Have as much variety in coloring and in the design as possible and yet be in harmony. A correspondent of the Tropical Agriculturalist says regarding the destruction of ants: “Take a white china plate and spread a thin covering of common lard over it. Place it on the shelf or other place infested by the troublesome insects. Yon will be pleased with the result. Stirring up the next morning is all that is needed to set the trap again.” The more freely a plant is growing the more water it will require, and the more it grows the more light and sun will it need. In all cases those plants which grow the fasted shonld be placed nearest the light. The best aspect for room plants is in the southeast. They seem like animals in their affection for the morning sun. The first morning ray is worth a dozen in the evening. If there is any reason to suspect that moths have made inroads in upholstered furniture, it should be sprinkled with benzine. The benzine is put in a small watering-pot, such as is used for sprinkling honse-plants, and the uphol- ~ stered parts of the furniture thoroughly saturated with the fluid. It does not spot the most delicate silk, the unpleasant odor passes off after an hour or two in the air, and it will completely exterminate the moths.

Intelligent Dogs.

Among dog* the poodle and the colley have always been conspicuous for general intelligence. Other species develop particular faculties in extraordinary degrees, like the St. Bernards, which can find men buried in the sno# where reasoning beings fail to do so, the Newfoundlands that can be trained, as on the Seine, to act together and without human supervision in saving drowning persons, the pointer, the setter, and so forth. Preeminent, however, for a sagacity that approaches human reason more nearly than any other is that of the colly or shepherd dog; for it is a fact too well established to be challenged that these animals are not oUly capable of being trained to do their master’s usual duties with unvarying efficiency and punctuality, but that when unforeseen circumstances arise to make deviation from the regular rounds necesact \ipon their own discretion with amazing judgment. Fable, it is true, tells of demoralized shepherd dogs that have wickedly connived with wolves against their master’s interests. But these are fables, and merely point to the moral that even tho wise may not be uniformly sagacious and that a Homer may on occasion nod. —London Stan- ■■ £ar<2.

Friendship.

Jones meets me on the pave and says: “Wish you had got Mrs Jones instead of me?”* “What’s the matter, ’Squire?” “Friends,” says Jones. “I can’t bring a man home to dinner but I find in two weeks he’s on Mrs. Jone’s list of deathless friends. She won’t hear a word against him. Next thing she lectures me on the weakness I have for not being true to my friends. •Friendship,* she says, ‘is all there is in life.* ‘Great bread-and-butter!’ says I, ‘there are too many children with mouths ope* here for me to be the deep, intimate, continuous friend of every passing acquaintance. Be moderate, Mrs. Jones.’ ‘My friends,’ replies the Madame, ‘I never will relinquish. I am true to my friends!’ ‘So am I, Mrs. Jones, in reason, but perhaps they can get along with me a few days at a time.’ ‘Ha, spider!’ says Mrs. Jones, ‘mocking at friendship, the only safe thing in life.’ ” Said I: “Jones, what is your medicine for the patient?" “I am going to make an Odd-Fellow of her,” says Jones, “for the motto of that order exactly fills her case; it is Friendship, Love with a little L, and Terruth.”— Gath.

The Bee NO Respecter of Persons.

The Frairu! Farmer says: Prof. A, J. Cook, a close observer who, each * summer during several years, has worked in the Michigan Agricultural College apiary, with a class of from 20 to 40 students, all entirely unused to bees, says he has found no proof of the statement that been know their master aad - are more likely to sting strangers.