Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — Page 3

The Republican. RENSSELAER: INDIANA. er. E. MARSTTATT., - - PUBLtBHDt

> • ' Tom Alexander, a younj, man of Atlanta, and the possessor of a fortune, killed himself because the parents of a thirteen-year-old girl whom he loved denied him the privilege of calling on her. j The Paris Figaro recently manufactured a tale concerning Count Moltke, in which it was stated that the great General was so weak that a servant had to feed him with a spoon. To which the German papers reply that Moltke is quite strong enough to whip France once more. General William Mahone, the Virginia politician, looks like Kip Van Winkle with his long gray beard and tangled locks. He wears a long broadcloth coat, which almost sweeps the ground; a' ruffled shirt, with Bmall turned-down collar, and egg-shell shaped cuffs, from which his tiny hands protrude like the calix from a lily. His feet, “like mice, peep in and out” of his baloon-shaped trousers. He has a soft, low, eountry burr in his speech. The quilt patch from Calcasieu parish, Louisiana, to form a quilt map of Louisiana for the exposition, is now completed. The design is beautiful, and ihe workmansnip ingenious. On one side a grove of pine trees is handsomely embossed; on the other side stands a deer in the midst of a field of golden rice. In the center are the words “Calcasieu parish,” worked in red and blue. The groundwork is dark brown. The design and work are from the conception and hands of Mrs. E. J. Meyer, of Lake Charles.

Mr; William Bigelow, of Detroit, who was a soldier, then a private, in the Michigan battery during the war of the rebellion, is now traveling in Europe. At the battle of Stone River Mr. Bigelow was carrying ammunition from the caisson to the cannon, when a bullet came whizzing along and carried away nearly all of his front teeth. He spit out the loose pieces and murmured: “Uncle Sam’s got to buy me a set of store teeth or I’ll join therebs.” And then he returned for another flam nel sackful of gunpowder. Joseph M. Alsop, who died near Spottsylvania Court House, on the southern border of the Virginia Wilderness, a few days ago, had his home at a historic spot. The veterans who could tell one of “Alsop’s farm” run up into the tens of thousands, for 200,000 men were roundabout the place during the second week in May, 1864. The honored Sedgwick was the target for a sharpshooter’s bit of leed right at Alsop’s, and down he fell fight no metre except as memory and spirit that strengthened the Sixth Corps ever after: Some hitherto unpublished letters of Prof. S. F. B. Morse are made public by Judge W. W. Broadman, of Hew Haven, to whom they were addressed forty-two years ago, while the latter gentleman was in Congress. A feature of the correspondence, interesting because of the advances in other departments of electrical science than telegraphy, is a quotation from a letter of Prof. Joseph Henry to the great inventor. He says: “In the minds of many the electric-magnetic telegraph is associated -with the various chimerical projects constantly presented to the public and' particularly with the schemes so popular a year or two ago for the application of electricity as a movin" in the arts.”

Mr. Gladstone has, of course, long ago lowered all legitimate records achieved in the field of exuberrant verbosity. Few are aware, however, of the fearful and wonderful rate at which he continues to add to the pages of Hansard. It is nearly twelve months since an enthusiastic statistician, who is also a devoted Gladstoneite, spent six hours each day during over fifty days in the library of the House of Commons and sixty days overhauling the newspaper files in the British Museum in the task of tracing the Prime Minister back to the first recorded sylible of liis political voice. This victin of hero worship found that Mr. Gladstone had talked, up to July, 1883, fourteen miles and a half of print. He has added 700 yards in the interval. He can hardly hope to put a girdle round the earth, but he has far excelled all other windmills of his age in articulation. In an address delivered by Sir Richard Temple on “Economic Science and Statistics," before the British Association at Montreal, it was stated that the population of the British Empire consists of 39,000,000 Anglo-Saxons, 188,000,000 Hindus, and 88,000,000 Mohamedans, etc., —a total of 315,000,000. The area of the Empire and its dependencies is 10,000,000 square miles. The annual revenue is: United Kingdoni, £89,000,000; India, £74,000,000; colonies and dependencies, £40,000,000; total, £203,000,000. local taxation, the total revenue is £264,000,000. The number of trained soldiers is 850,000, of whom about 700,000 are of the dominant race. In addition, there are . ■■ ■ - 560,000 policemen in the Empire. The

• UII VI r** sohOol attendance is: United Kingdom* 5,250,000; Canada, 860,000; Australia, 611,OCtO; India, 2,200,00 d; a total, in, the Empire, of 8,921,000 pupils. Charles Reade’s kindness was proverbial. One of many instances is related as follows by a friend: “At a critical period in my life I had lost niy whole fortune in a disastrous enterprise, which left me high and dry without a shilling. I had dined at Albert Gate the night before. Next morning Reade burst into my room and planked a bag of sovereigns on the table quite sufficient to enable me to tide over my immediate necessities, exclaiming abruptly : ‘I saw you seemed rather gene last night; there, that’s something to buy postage stamps with, and if you want any more there’s plenty left where that came from.’ And he was gone before I had time to reply.”

As to the silver dollar, the picture of the United States Government getting in line before the New York Clearing House and receiving the treatment accorded by a cross teller to a newlyemployed messenger-boy, is, says the Chicago Current, very tiresome to the whole people of the country. The idea of a banking association compelling a National Treasury; in time of peace, to discriminate against its own legal tender—to except a toterie of financiers from the “laws which are good enough for the people at large—that idea is monstrous. What right has Wall Street to dominate the Secretary of the Treasury? Has Wall Street done anything this year, for instance, which has entitled it to either our gratiftide or respect? Not anything. Then give them silver or call the account square after the tender and refusal of silver. The way the silver law is defined in New York is criminal. Mr. John Sherman first consented to the arrangement, and no Secretary since has had the rectitude to abolish the practice and execute the will of the people.

The “Memoirs of Lord Malmesbury” are creating a considerable sensation, and all the papers are quoting some of the choice bits. There are very funny glimpses in the private life of Gladstone' and Disraeli; for instance, Gladstone’s appearance is described as disappointing, because so like that of a Catholic priest, and one of his crazes in the course of his musical education was an enthusiastic love of negro melody, which he used to sing with the greatest spirit and enjoyment, never leaving out a verse. “Camptown Races” was for a time his favorite ditty. Disraeli appears as much less cold and apetketic in private than his sphinxlike immobility in public would suggest. Ho confesses himself on one occasion, when there was a prospect of getting office, that lie felt as delighted as a young girl going to her first ball, and, according to Lord Malmesbury, was, when outside of the house, always in the highest state of elation or the lowest depth of despair, according to the fortunes of the day. A fine piece of unconscious humor is this: “Disraeli was at the breakfast, and seemed rather low. He told me the Queen had sent him her last book."

The railroads, says the Current, would all be making money if interest were not being paid on misspent money. As it is, even, many corporations, after watering their stock two or three times, aro compelled to greatly expand the meaning of the term “operating account” in order to hide from the public the true earning-power of their enterprises. The Northern Pacific earned over $12,000,000 last year. Even with all the possible peculiarities of railroading likely to be concealed in $7,000,000 of “operating expenses,” $5,425,820 left as a tribute —not to the men who advanced the money to build the road, but to the men who, buying the stock after the real builders had lost their all, now gather a tithe from the people of the far northwest which is surely worth the collecting. So, too, the Wabash, out of nearly $7,000.000 received, paid only two-sevenths of that sum for labor. Now, why should any railroad, operated in the way a man builds a house or drives a team, take in $7,000,000, pay only $2,000,000 for labor, and still bo bankrupt and ir. the receiver's hands?. One of the surest reasons for these industrial absurdities lies in the colossal fortunes piled up so rapidly and so recently in Wall street. When Jay Gould shewed the doubting Thomases of the Stock Exchange $70,000,000 of “property,” he did more to establish the truth of Proudhon’s position that property is robbery than all the writings of Karl Marx or the orations of Ferdinand Lassalle-

Advertising a College. College President— is a list of names which I think suitable for honorary degrees this year.” College Director—“My gracious! Looks like a Congressional petition. Why, you must have a couple of thousand names on that list.” “Perhapa so. I did not count them.” “Where did you get the names, anyhow?” “Found them in the directory.” “So I thought. You’ve taken every Tom, Dick, and Harrr just a 3 they came along. But what under the sun is your object?” “To advertise the institution.” “Do you think it will do any good ?” “O, jyes; tho college will become known*—by degrees.” PnHadelphia Call V

PHENOMENAL CITIES.

Growth of the Principal .Towns of the .'United States During the Nineteenth Century. At the beginning of the nineteenth cxntury there was not a city in America north of Mexfico that contained as many as 75,000 inhabitants. Philadelphia led with 70,262, New York coming in for the second place, with a little over CO,000; Baltimore third, with 26,000, and Boston fourth, with 24,000. When the century was ten years old, Philadelphia was still the leading city, having 96,664, or 271 more than New York, Baltimore running close toward 50,000, and Boston having 15,000 less than Baltimore. In 1820 there were but two cities in the United States with a population of 100,000 and over, and New York was first, with 123,000, Philadelphia having dropped back to the Second place, with 108,000. West of the Alleghany mountains there was no place dignified by the name of city. Cincinnati had less than 10,000, St. Louis less than 5,000, Pittsburgh less than 8,000. Tliere was no such place as Chicago till after 1840. New Orleans had more than trebled her inhabitants from the opening of the century to the end of the second decade, ancl ranked as the fifth city, and next after Boston. In 1830 New York showed above 203,000, and Philadelphia but 167,000, Baltimore still ahead of Boston, but ntft half equal to Philadelphia, and New Orleans stiil holding the fifth place. There were still but two cities with 100,000 and over. In 1840 New York had 312,000, Philadelphia 258,000, Baltimore 134,000, New t Orleans, 102,000, and Boston bnt 93,000, having exchanged rank with New Orleans, Cincinnati coming next to Boston with only half as many inhabitants. In 1840 the population of St. Louis was but 16,469, and there were eighteen cities ahead of her, Washington, with 23,000, being one of them. The mid-century decade census returned six cities with 100,000 and over; two with more than 300,000, and one, New York, with 515,547. Boston, with 136,000, had slipped past New Orleans, which has not yet regained her rank of 1840. In the middie of the century there were six cities west of the Alleghanies, including New Orleans and San Francisco, rated above 30,000, and Chicago was not one of them. St Louis had risen to 77,000, Louisville to 43,000, and San Francisco from 500 in 1840 to 34,776 in 1850. The population of Chicago in that year was but 29,963, She has added over 600,000 to it in the last thirty-four years,according to her latest local census. Tlie whole urban population of the Mississippi valley, including Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and counting in San Francisco, was in 1850 but 434,242 of cities above 30,000. New York alone had 81,000 more than all the cities west oZ the Alleghenies over 30,000 each. So far there., had been nothing of that phenomenal growth which has since mdtje some of the western cities the wonder of the world. In-1860 the cities of the Union ranked in this order: New York first, Philadelpliia second, Brooklyn third, with 260,000, Baltimore fourth, Boston fifth, New Orleans sixth, Cincinnati seventh, St. Louis eighth, and but 200 behind Cincinnati, and Chicago ninth, with 109,050 —an increase of 80,000, or nearly 280 per cent, in ten years. The increase of New York in the same years was but 290,000, or about 56 per cent. The seventh decade of the century was ushered in with the accompaniament of the most appalling civil war of the historic era of the human race. For four years it was a check upon urban growth as well as the general increase of population throughout the country. Hitherto the ratio of increase had exceeded 33 per cent, per decade. But in the decade from 1860 to 1870 it fell to bnt a little over 224 per cent, for the whole country. In this decade New Yoik increased but 136,000, or less than 18 per cent., but Chicago’s addition to her population from 1860 to 1870 was 189,000, or 144 per cent,, and she took rank as the fifth city of the nation, having parsed Cincinnati, Baltimore, Boston, and New Orleans. Ban Francisco had advanced from 56,000 to 149,000 —an increase of 93,000, or nearly 198 per cent., in the decade, and had caught up with and passed Washington, Albany, and Louisville, all of which outranked her in 1860, and had Jieaten every city but Chicago in the per cent, of her growth. The four cities ahead of Chicago in 1870 were New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and St. Louis, though the right of the latter to the fourth place was questioned by Chicago and doubted by tho public. In 1870 there were fourteen cities having over 100,000 each, eight over 200,000, four over 300,000, and two over 600,000. New York had but 58,000 less than 1,000,000. From the beginning of the century her increase to 1870 was nearly 900,000. The census of 1880 returned twenty cities having over 100,000, ten over 200,000, seven over 300,000, four over 500,000, two over 800,000, and one (New York) with 1, 206,299. The rank of the cities having over 500,000 each was New York first, Philadelphia secodd, Brooklyn third, Chicago fourth, with 503,000, her increase being 205,000, or nearly 80 per cent. - The rank of San Francisco was tenth, and next to Cincinnati, and its increase from 1870 was 84,000, or a little over 56 per cent. It had passed New Orleans and was rapidly closing on Cincinnati, having distanced Washington, Louisville, and Buffalo. •

Pay During The Revolution.

The scale of compensation was at the extreme of moderation. In no degree, however, in the absence of value to the currency in which it was rated, could pay have been invested with the attraction of reward. Yet it is submitted as not devoid of interest To the office of dire tor of the military hospitals was attached the pay of $l5O per month, two ration®, one for servant and two of so age; to that of the chief physician and surgeon of the army, sllO per month, two horses and wagon, and two rations of forage; to each of the three chief physicians anfj surgeons of the hospitals, $l4O per month and two rations; to the purveyor, $l3O, and his assistant $75 per month; to the apothecary, $l3O per month, and his two assistants, SSO per month each; to the fifteen hospital physicians and surgeons $l2O per

month each, and and to each of the twenty-six mates SSO per month. The stewards received eaoh $35 per month; the clerks and storekeepers $2 per day; the seven matrons 50 cents each, and a ration per day; the thirty nurses each 2 shilling and a ration per dav, and the orderlies, if soldiers, 1 shilling and a ration, and if citizens, 2 shillings and a ration a dij.—Magazine of American History.

Prince Krapotkin’s Cat.

Does a cat see its reflection in a glass? Such is the question which has been raised in the columns of the Revue Scientifique. Among others Frincb Krapotkin has sent his experience from his prison. The Prince lias, it seems, daring his captivity made a humble friend of a cat. “I see,” says the Prince, “by reading the interesting notes in the last two numbers of the Fevue that there yet exists a doubt as to whether a cat can see its reflection in a glass. I have a cat about fourteen months old, which I have brought up in prison, and as regards it, at least, there can be no doubt upon this subject. When it was little, it amused us much by seeking a cat behind the glass, even when I showed it a very small one. I have just repeated the experiment by showing it a small oval mirror twenty centimeter* long. When it saw its own reflected image it immediately assumed a serious air. It endeavored to touch it with its paw, but finding that there was a glass interposed, it peeped behind the mirror. If I drew- the mirror backward it pursued it until, being quicker than I was in its movements, it discovered that tliere was no cat behind, and then it went away and did not concern itself about the reflection any more. I should add that my little pupil, as a general thing, is very intelligent. For instance when it wants the door opened it does not mew, it stretches itself to its full length, and shakes the latch with its paw. If the door had another kind of fastening, it would certainly open it by raising the latch. It knows perfectly well the meaning of all the bells which ring in the prison—that to bid the inmates rise in the morning, that which sounds before soup is served. Its dictionary is very limited, but it understands perfectly the meaning of the words it knows. Thus, in the evening, when I wMk in my room, it performs all sorts of gambols, and, by making certain special sounds, endeavors to make me play with it at hide and seek (it plays this game exactly as do children, and insists that each party should hide in his turn), or to draw a string along for it to run after. If, in reply to its invitations to play, I say to it: “What do yon want? Food! drink!” it is displeased, goes with a sulky air to sit behind my little stove, but when I say, ‘the string?’ it replies immediately by two sounds, concerning the affirmative tone of which there can be no doubt. I could relate other instances of sagacity, but I do not wish to impose upon the credulity of your readers. There is, however, an interesting point which it would be well to have cleared up. Are cats susceptible to music? Without being able to affirm positively, I believe that they are. When my cat was little, it several times seemed to us that it found real pleasure in listening to some air of a pleasing cadence—for example, the waltz from ‘Faust’—provided that it was sung by a very high and pure voice. We even thought that music caused it to assume almost a sentimental air. It is unnecessary to say my cat, like all others, is very susceptble to caresses, and—for I must confess its faults—to flattery. In general, cats are less intelligent than dogs, but by care and attention their intelligence can be highly developed. I am sorry that I have not sufficent time, or I should undertake the education of my cat by a system of cards, as proposed by Lubbock.”— Pall Mall Gazette.

Cork Gathering.

The cork tree belongs to the class ol oaks; and there are two trees, Quercus suber and Quercus pccidentalis, that from time to time shed their bark or outer coating. This coating is the cork of the trade; but the bark shed by nature is not marketable, because it does not contain any sap, which is necessary to retain the elasticity. Cork for industrial purposes is gained by peeling. After a tree is three years old, the peeling may commence; but cork of that age is of inferior quality, and the peeling would kill the tree. Trees of twenty years give cork of a fair quality, increasing until the tree has gained the respectable age of 100 or 150 years, when the bark becomes hard and unwieldy. The circular incisions are made around the trunk of the tree and connected by perpendicular cuts, allowing the two half circles to be re- v moved. Care must be taken not to disturb the fibre, or inner bark, which keeps the thee alive. The peeling process can be repeated on the same tree at intervals of from eight to ten years, yielding cork plates from one to four inches in thickness. The half-round cork pieces are pressed into plates while still moist from the tree. Then the rough coatings are removed, and plates are immersed in boiling water for several minutes and pressed again. After that, they are piled into bundles, fastened by iron hoops, and are ready for the market. The raw material will sell from four to seventy cents per pound, according to the quality and thickness, and is not subject to any import duty, .-a The fullgrown cork tree reaches a height of seventy feet and a diameter of five feet. It growa in the almost impenetrable forests of Spain, the southeastern part of France and Algiers, and Senegambia in Africa. The quality of the cork depends very much upon the lay of the land, that exposed to the greatest heat being the finest. Each tree yields cork of two dimensions, the bark on the northern side of the tree being the thinnest. Experiments have been made to cultivate the oak in Florida and California; but, so fir; they have not resulted in success. There is a good prospect, however, that cork of a marketable quality may be obtained in the former State as the oak plantations advance in ag e.—Anon. “Why are they called almighty dollars, papa?” he asked of his father. And the old man replied promptly: “Because thev are almighty hard to

Mexico.

In shape a deflected trapezoid; in area 741,596 square miles; stretching through almost eighteen degrees of latitude and banded by twenty-fi/ve full meridians; traversed by the .great mountain range that reaches from Behring’s Straits on the north to the Straits of Magellan on the south (her 4 called Sierra Madre); breasting the £rulf with 1,600 miles of roast, lapped by the gentle Pacific alon*? 4,000 miles of shore; holding within its limits 146 cities, 371 towns, 5,743 villages, 5,869 landed estates, and 16,326 farms; possessing urban property to the value of $168,743,582, and suburban property to the value of $213,620,832; the homes of upwards of ten millions of people; this is the Mexico of to-day—once the land of the Chichimecas and the Kingdom of Neguameth, the home of the Aztecs and the empire of Montezuma, the conquest of the Spaniards and the inglorious dominion of Cortez. Mexico is a Federative Republic of twenty-seven free and independent States, one Federal District, and one Territory. The supreme power of the Federation is divided into three branches —Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The Executive power is vested in a President, elected by a vote of the people every four years, his term of office beginning December 1. He is assisted by six ministers —for Foreign Affairs, Interior, Justice and Public Instruction, Public Works, Finance and Public Credit, War and Navy. The Legislative power is vested in a National Congress, composed of a Senate and Chamber of Deputies. The Senate is composed of two members from each State and thp Federal District, one-half the number being elected every two years. The Chamber of Deputies is elected as a body every two years, one deputy being allowed to every 40,000 inhabitants, and to every fraction thereof in excess of 20,000. The Federal Judicial power is vested in a Supreme Court of Justice, with subordinate District and Circuit Courts. The judges of the Supreme Court are elected lor a term of years by av. te of the people; District and Circuit judges are appointed by the President. The State governments are alnfost identical with those in our country. On a war footing the army is composed of 131,523 infantry; 25,700 cavalry; 3,650 artillery. Total, 160,963 men. The navy consists of seven war vessels and four or five coast guards. Of the people of Mexico, 1,882,522 belong to the Caucasian race; 3,765,044 to the native Mexican race; 4,354,318 to the mixed races. According to the Constitution, all persons born in the Republic are free, and slaves receive their liberty on entering upon Mexican soil. All who are born of Mexican fathers within or without the territory of the Republic; foreigners who may become naturalized according to law; and those per ons who acquire real estate in the country, or who have children born to them therein, are, according to the Constitution, citizens; and all citizens are obligated to aid in the defense of the country and to contribute to the public revenue. Many false notions regarding the Mexican people are current in this country. They are, with the exception of those of one mountainous State, peaceable and well disposed towards foreigners. No people respect law and officials more than they; and paradoxical as it may apper, this is why revolutions are so easy, for when a high official rebels, so great is the respect of the people for him, that they follow him at the risk of property and life. Unfortunately our conception of Mexi cans have been moulded in conformity with the ruffians who congregate along the border, that region being their favorite resort, as they can escapo arrest by crossing the division line.— South and West.

Palovzean Funeral Customs.

In graveyards of the Palovzes, in the counties of Borsod and Heve3, may be seen hero and there pyramidal monuments of stone, with niches in their sides for images of the saints. . They are a survival from the ancient heathen altars of these people, the Kumanians of old, which wore erected in honor of the sun-god; and to this day also may lie seen on many of the houses of the Palovzes the symbol of the pyramid with Baal's eye, the use of which has come down from generation to generation, without the peasants knowing what it means. Children who die stillborn, or without having received bap tism, are buried as near as possible to the pyramidal monuments. It is a part of the folk-lore of the Palovzes that the little ones who are laid to rest hear these Baal pillars will at the end of seven years come out from their graves, when, if some good soul will come near them and utter the baptismal formula, they will immediately become little angels and go to heaven; but if the baptism is not given they will have to wait seven years longer for another opportunity to be released. Many other reminiscences of Baal worship survive among these people. The mother who hag, lost a young child wraps her head as a Bign of mourning, in a fiery red cloth. The former prvealence of cremation. is indicated in the custom of burning the clothes which the deceased wore last. The tear-jugs of the ancients may still be found in the houses, of exactly the old form and size, bat destined to a quite different purpose. Another peculiar custom at the funeral feast is to lay a plate with salt and bread upon the table, for the use of the soul of the departed one, if it should appear in the circle of friends.—Popular Science Monthly.

Public Parks.

Paris has 172,000 acres in parks, or 1 acre to every 13 inhabitants; in Vienna the proportion is 1 acre to 100 persons; in Chicago, 1 to 200; in Philadelphia, Ito 300; in Brooklyn, 1 to 639; in New York, 1 to 1,353; but New York proposes to bny 3,808 acres for additional parks, at at estimated -cost o $2,000 per acre, or in the aggregate at the cost of $7,616,000. Life is girt all around with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their pomt light to our sky. ,

SUGGESTIONS OF BVALUE.

Frames of white lace over tufted bright-colored satin are the newest for the family photographs in the parlor. Old-fashioned palm-leaf fans painted and decorated with ribbons are now the most fashionable «dor fire hand screens. Chamois makes a soft and pretty material for embroidery. Pink, bine and yellow look well upon it It may also be used for hand-painting. To wipe the dnstjfrom papered walls take a clean, soft piece of flannel. Oi course, it must not be damp, but the dry flannel will remove the dnst. Tar may he removed from the hands by rubbing with the outside of fresh orange or lemon peel and drying immediately. The volatile oil in the skin dissolves the tar so it can be wiped Off. Small plaques that may have become obsolete in the design or too feiLetically glaring in color, may be covered with velvet or plush, upon which is embroidered or painted a spray of flowers or , one or two peacock feathers. A robe for a child’s sleigh, or for a man’s either, is made by knitting a stripe of bright-colored yarns, using for this the odds and ends in the house, then have a plain stripe of dark-colored yarn; finish with a scalloped edge. Pretty table-covers and cbvers for shelves and lambrequins, also, are made of the new shades of flannel, which come in doable widths. For some uses it i 3 even preferable to felt, and is found to be very serviceable. A nice present for a housekeeper is a set of half a dozen doylies or small fruit napkins. The latest fashion is to turn down one corner of the linen squares and work upon it an orange, banana or other fruit, varying the design on each. Freckles, according to Dr. Shoemaker, can be removed by a careful application of a little ointment of the oleate of copper at bedtime. He makes the ointment by dissolving the oleate of copper in sufficient oleopalmetic acid to make amass. Pretty splashers to put behind tho washstands in common rooms may be made of parts of old curtains; wash and starch them, line them with bright-colored cambric and tack them up. If you have old torchon, or any suitable lace, trim the edges with that. Embroidered aprons are now very fashionable for borne wear, and may be made of satin, linen, pongee, or muslin, and decorated with silk, wools, or crewels, as the material suggests. A very tasteful apron for a young lady is one of pure white pongee worked with dainty knots of violets, the waistband strings being of delicate lavender ribbon.

The Western Prairies.

I was just thinking I would like to bo sent out West just about now on some commission for an able and enterprising journal, at a large saiury, railroad passes, nothing to do and two or three of the boys to help me do it. I just feel a little bit prairie hungry. A Western man never loses his lpve for the prarios. They call them “prurries” in Indiana, “peraries” in Illinois, “praris” in Nebraska, “perars” in Kentucky and “pararies” in Boston, but whatever you call them they are all the same. I would like to hear the wind blowing across the great plains in Kansas, over the beautiful treeless bluff at Manhattan, or along the great reaches out at Lamed. You know the wind never blows anywhere else as it does across the prairies. And there it blows all the time, 355 days a year. It roars in your ears now and then like the rush of many waters; it sighs and sings and whispers through the tall, swaying grasses; its song is never monotonous; it varies all day long; and as it sings and whistles it breathes into your soul a sense of perfect freedom, such as you can experience nowhere else. A mountain is a prison compared with the prairie. The mountain threatens you; it is not loving and "tender, it frowns upon you with great gray rocks; it never smiles; it scowls with dark, ravines and treacherous precipice.*; it terrifies you with blinding fogs and drifting mists; it swathes its stony, gorgon head in black clouds and speaks to you in muttering syllables of thunder. Yon cannot breathe in the narrow passes, you cannot run on the steep, rough winding paths, you bend your head back until your neck aches, to see a little strip of blue sky. But the prairie—boundless, immense, a billowy sea of emerald, dotted with the rank, bright-colored flowers that play with the singing, whispering, whistling winds; the prairie that seems bounded only by the bending sky and the stars; the resin weed gives you the compass and the compass gives you the path; go where yon will and as you please, at a foot pace or a headlong gallop, free as the free winds that make the prairie their only home. There is no room for them any where else. I don’t suppose I will get the commission I am hinting at, but I would like to go out to the prairies and cool off for about ten minutes. True, the walking is good, but—yes, oh yes, I can walk. I cax walk. I can walk. Oh, yes, I can walk. I don’t say I won’t But will say I hate to. I want to see the prairies. Yes; but under the peculiar circumstances attending this campaign, believe I will wait until the prairies come to Ardmore. That’s the way the mountain did with William H. Mahomet —Bob Burdette.

A Round Sum Lost in Wall Street.

“You may not believe me, gentlemen,” said a weather-beaten tramp, approaching a crowd of brokers near the Stock Exchange, “but I lost a round Bum of money on Wall street not so many years ago.” The hat was passed around, and the tramp put away $1.75 in quarters. “How much was this ronnd sum of money that you lost ?” was asked. “It was a penny. I droppedin down a coal-hole. —Hew York Sun. Life’s harmony must have its discords ; but, as in music, pathos is tempered into pleasure by the prevading spirit of beauty, so, are all life’s sounds tempered by love.— George Henry Lewes. " V* -\ When a man has no desire kak to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow space.— Steele. *