Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — Page 7

;The Republican. BENSSELAER, INDIANA. ml. E. MATtfIHALL. - - Ptmumm

S HoBT-3ioaTEDNESB, according to a recent paper by Mr. R. B. Carter, F. R. C. S-f has come into existence within historic time, and into prevalence almost within living memory, while it now affects at least ten per cent of England’s population. It is essentially a defect—bordering on 'disease—of civilisation. A Paris company is making white bricks of a very handsome appearance from the pure silica used in the manufacture of plate glass. They are lighter in weight than clay bricks, but are not porus, being subject to hydraulic pressure before the final baking process to which they aire subjected. Changes of climate have no effect on them. It was a chance remark that lead Henry Bessemer to his method of improving gun metal. After many experiments, and being sneered at as an enthusiast, iron that cost $35 a ton was turned into steel worth from $250 to S3OO. In fourteen years his experimental works, having returned fiftyseven fold, was sold for twenty-four times the subscribed capital, and his manufacture is estimated to be worth SIOO,OO©jQOO yearly. In spite of the annual Expenditure of over $730,000 tor.repairs and the building of new jails, Russia is much exercised how to find room for the evergrowing number of prisoners, who amounted in 1882 to 95,509, and in 1883 to 97,339. In Siberia great suffering is caused by ithe want of accommodation for 12,000 convicts distributed over the minino districts, especially as the enormous number of exiles crowd the houses «f correction. A New York critic says Miss Edith M. Thofaaas’ “song is a mesh of sweet growths, an arbor over which vines are luxuriously trailing, a little hill upon which her genius is standing tip-toe, and fluttering its wings.” Now, says the Norristovm Herald, if it were also a garden in which roses were blooming, and potatoes and turnips and cabbages and onions and other marketable vegetables were growing, her “song” would be in general demand at so much per bushel. Prof. E. C. Marshall : I have had occasion lately to read up in French everything that I could find on the subject of bridges. I discover that the French have more suspension bridges than any nation on the globe. Their engineers are putting up suspension bridges everywhero, and at least one of the structures approximates to the size of the Broklyn bridge. So numerous are such bridges in France that it is impossible to secure an accurate list of them on this side of tho water. Proff.shor Felix Adler: Man is brave, that is, he can overcome obstacles, woman is fair. “None but the brave deserve the fair,” and none but the fair deserve the brave. The woman who possesses, neither beauty of form and feature, nor beauty of character, is unsexed. We judge man by what he does, and woman by what she is. Only of late has it been admitted that woman has intellect, and is not merely a creature of sentiment. Man’s intellect is fitted for generalization, woman’s specialization. Before George Eliot’s real name was disclosed to tho public, Thackeray thought that her books were not written by a woman. Mrs. Oliphant was sure they were not written by a woman: Mrs. Carlyle conceived this writer to be a “man of middle age, with a wife, from w hom he got those beautiful feminine touches in his book, a good many children, and a dog that he has ns much fondness for as I have for my little Nero." Bat Dickens said: “If thoy originated with no woman, I believe that no man ever before had the fixfc of making himself mentally so like a woman since the world began.” Prof. Simon Newcomb, in reviewing the performances of tho “Georgia Won-' der Girl,” Miss Lula Hurst, in the current number of Science, says her success affords a striking example of the unreliability of human testimony respecting the phenomena of force and action. He points out that her manifestations were purely physical, and the resut es force being exerted under favorable conditions. Though ordinary observers were mystified, the 'character of the performance, according to Prof. Newcomb, was absurdly simple, and illustrates the credulity of believers in the movements of chairs, tables, and pianos without human agency. Of the gifts received by the University of Virginia since its establishment in 1819, amounting to $719,700, $653,600 has been contributed since the war. This total of $719,700 is exclusive of the gifts constituting part of the fixed endowment of the University yielding revenne which amounts to $282,600, all of which, except $2,600, has been also given since the war. Since the organization of the University, Virginia has become the dispenser of liberal education to the South and West. It has to-day more of its’ alumni in the Senate of the United States than hsa

■ ■ ■■■■ ■ ■»*■■ any other eollege in the Ution. About two hnndred of its almuni occupy professorial chairs, while many {others are conducting first-class accademies. s A Mormon Bishop told a friends of the writer of this, a few days ago, that he had suffered with the blue£ all day because of something one of his daughters had said to him. When asked to explain, he said: “You know my daughter Mary, the eldest child of my second wife. She is about the age of Lizzie, who is the daughter of my first wife. Well, this morning I was going with Mary over to Lizzie’s mother’s when she suddenly said: ‘Father, I wish I was Lizzie.’ I asked her why and reminded her that she was quite as bright find pretty as Lizzie. ‘lt is not that,* she said; ‘Lizzie's mother is yonr first wife.’ We did not speak again all the ways and I have had the bines ever since.” This is a true story all but the names.— Salt Lake City Tribune. Detroit Christian Advocate: The lates craze and nuisance, following in the wake ol the roller rink, is “progressive euchre,” which is defined as a card party at a private house, at which the ordinary game of euchre is played for prizes furnished by the hostess of the evening. “Progressive,” indeed—in the direction of the pit, whence it was inspired. It is gambling pure and simple-playing cards for a stake—introduced into the social circle with the attempt to make it respectable. It is astonishing that anyone who pretends to be a Christian should indulge in it or countenance it Besides being unchristian and thoroughly demoralizing in its effects, it is in plain violation of the statute laws of Michigan, which forbid playing with cards for money or any valuable, article whatsoever, under penalty of fine and imprisonment. Among the many monuments to Washington is one which every visitor to the Cape Verd Isles will remember as one of the most colossal and marvelous freaks of natural sculpture in existence. Along the further side of the harbor of San Vicente (the principal town) rises a bold ridge of dark-gray volcanic rock, the crest of which forms an esact likeness of Washington, lying face upward as if in sleep or death. The lfero’s large, bold features, the backward wave of the hair, the sweep of liis massive shoulders, and the very frill of his shirt are all produced on a gigantic Scale with a fidelity worthy of the stalactite formations of the Adelsberg Grotto of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. This strange monument, sharply outlined against the deep, rich blue of the tropical sky, is one of tha first objects that meet one’s eye on approaching the island, and presents, with the boundless Ocean for its appropriate background, a tableau of such overpowering magnificence as might well drive any sculpture to despair. Rev, Dr. Irenasus Prime, of New York, has given woman’s suffrage a slap in the face, his objection ibo it beTng that held by so many/that it must serve to weaken the home circle. Says Dr. Prime, the subject under discussion being the marked increase in the number of divorces: “Woman’srights and the destruction of the old idea that the family had a head are doing much to uproot and sever the old marriage relations. It is impossible for a family to be run by a committee of two. If you are going to have committee rule, one must have the casting vote; and if not, there is endless dispute, and separation isinevitable. The only end of the struggle between the man and the wife is to get a divorce. These heresies of legislation in regard to woman’s suffrage and women's rights to property, independent of their husbands, are striking at the root of the divine revelation established in Eden. They destroy the family relation.” Dr, Prime undoubtedly has the Scriptures on his side, which favor the supremacy of the tyrant man in the family kingdom.l

A Late Discovery.

I met him on Canal street, New Orleans, or, rather, he came up to me as I was leaning against a door-post, and asked: “Be yen from Illanoy?” “N o —Michigan." “That’s too bad. I wanted to find somebody from Illanoy.” “Broke? 1 ' “No, not yet. See here, I’m pizenly bothered." ‘.‘Well?” “Well, I’ve bin a hired man in Illanoy for the list thirteen years, gettin’ about sl6 a. month and board. I’ve alias looked xipbn board as wuth about a dollar a week, but ” " .■. „ “Well?” “I just kinder filled up back here at the restaurant-—just about half a square meal—just ’nuff to pitch hay or hoe corn on for an hour, and what dye ’spose the figger was?” Oh, about 70 cents. “Seventy pumpkins 1 It was $1.30 or Fm a sinner- Say 1” “Yes.” “That’s $3.90 a day for fodder, or about SIOO a month, A hundred a month is SI2OO a year. Thirteen times that is about $15,000. “Yes." “Say, 111 be gosh-baiked and forever stepped on if I haven't been one o' these darned aristocrats—a bloated bondholder—a gosh-fired monopolist all these thirteen years without knowing itl Tucked away $15,000 worth of fodder! Woosh! but I want to meet somebody from Illanoy and pint the finger of financial , independence at him.”— Quad. s _ _ Rios with the spoils of titte —the sword of Bunker Hill. 1 *

REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN.

BY BEN: PERLKY POORE.

Mr. Lincoln’s religious opinions have been the sbbject of much discussion since his death. Eminent, daring a long and eventful life, for bis kindness of heart and generous sympathy for the opinions of all men of whatever station in life, lie listened to the discussions upon religions subjects that were forced upou him, even by zealots, with patient politeness; and because he did not combat them, however extravagant, each one so honored came clamoring before the public to be reoognized as the representative of the President’s personal views on this subject. Hence the contradictory assertions that he was an atheist, an infidel, orthodox, or disbeliever, according to each one’s own peculiar faith. History will little reckon what were President Lincoln’s religions views. The nation, to whom his name and memory are dear, care nothing for what he may have said to presumptions religious zealots, or what such religious zealots may have said to him. The people of this great land of ours, who fondly cherish the recollection of the acts of kindness of him who, “with malice toward none and charity for all,” devoted his life to the interests of mankind, will care little for his sectarian views of religion. His great heart of sympathy for all mankind has won the love of the millions, who have no anxietv as to whether his opinions were heretical’ or orthodox, measured by the standard of religious bigots. That he had faith in the great principles of Christianity, that he exemplified them in his life, that he taught them in his family, that he impressed them on his children, are facts established beyond cavil or question. The appointment of Mr. Waite, a Toledo lawyer, who was only known at Washington as one of the counsel in the Geneva conference, to be Chief Justice, naturally created some surprise at Washington. It became known, however, that it was the result of the inner workings of Ohio politics. When the Whig party in that State was abandoned, its old leaders naturally drifted into the Republican party. Ewing and Corwin were such devoted Whigs that they never fairly and fully became installed in the new organization, but Delano, Galloway, Ben Stan ton, Sclienck, Goddard, Waite, .Horton, and many others less prominent, very heartily entered the new organization, though they did not seek prominence, and, as Chase was Governor of the State, he very naturally became the prominent Republican figure in Ohio. The ambition of Governor Chase to become President led him into the error of calling about him as his confidential advisers chiefly such men as had formerly acted with the Democratic party, while at the s me time he spared no pains to cripple every prominent Republican who had been a leading Whig in the State. A bitter warfare was the result, and Chase found himself powerless to crush out all those men. In their local districts they were popular, and Delano made a strong contest for the United States senatorship against Chase, before the Legislature, in the winter of 1859-60. In the summer of 1860 several of those old Whigs turned up in the Chicago convention, greatly against the wishes of Mr. Chase, and it will be remembered that Mr. Delano seconded the nomination of Mr. Lincoln in a brief speech, which at once blasted the prospects of Chase and gave great encouragement to Mr. Lincoln’s friends. Practically, that closed out Mr. Chase in Ohio, and he was never again before the peop eof this State as a candidate for any position. Schenck became minister to England, and Delano became Secretary of the Interior. The latter, although not intimately acquainted with Mr. Waite, knew him to be a man of eminent legal abilities, conscientious and worthy of any trust and position within the gift of the Government. When the President was looking about for suitable men to serve as counsellors for the Government at Geneva, Secretary Delano at once thought of tho man who had sympathized with him in the fight against the Chase dynasty, and named Mr. Waite to the President., who, having great confidence in the judgment of Mr. Delano, appointed Mr. Waite. All know the highly creditable manner in which Mr. Waite acquitted himself at Geneva. When the President had twice failed to appoint an acceptable person to the position of chief justice, he consulted with his Cabinet-officers upon the subject, and Secretary Delano again recommended, his friend Waite, and the President adopted the suggestion. The burning of the transport steamer Cataline, in June, 1861, at Fortress Monroe, disclosed the fact that although her fiist cost was only SIB,OOO, and the expense of running her for ten weeks SIO,OOO more, making $28,000, she had been chartered for SIO,OOO a month, making $25,000 for the first ten weeks. A provision in her charter secured to her owners $50,000 in case she was lost, and she was also insured for $25,000. The result was that the net profit to the owners was $72,000 for ten weeks.

A Millionaire’s Beginning.

Warwick Martin, the author of several books on political economy, told mo he lent ltabtun, the California million aire f wlio committed suicide a year or two ago, the money to pay his passage to California. Said he: “Ralston was born in Virginia, on the other side of the river, very near the Ohio line. He worked for my brother for some time as a young man, and I acquired perfect confidence in him. I was for years a banker in New Orleans, and I once lent young Ralston $7,000 without any security other than his own honor. This was in 1845. Ralston hod. some interest at the time in a steamboat on the Mississippi river, and I think he used the money in connection with it When the California gold fever broke out he came to my bank and took up his note, paying cash in full. He then said: 'I am now free from debt, but I have no money. I want to go to Panama, and perhaps to California. I think there is a chance for ipeto make something in the embloyment of Fritz & Garrison, at Panama. If I do not snoceed there, I wish to go to California. Will you lend me money to go to the isthmus, and credit, no that if I

—f— — ! —* T fail there I can go to San Francisco?* I replied: ‘Certainly,’ and gave him enough to take him to Panama, and a letter of credit sufficient for the remainder of the trip, if it was necessary. A few months after this I received a letter from him, remitting from Panama my letter of credit and the money I had advanoed him. It was twenty years after this before I again heard from him personally. He had then become the great San Francisco-Million-aire, and he was one of the wealthy men of the Nation. I was in New York in 1869, and needed money very badly. I wrote to Mr. Ralston and told him that I was about to engage in an enterprise which might take $5,000, ! and might require SIO,OOO. If he could let me have either sum I would be glad to avail myself of his asißstance. On the day this letter must have reached San Francisco I received a telegram from Mr. Ralston, telling me to draw on Lees & Waller for SIO,OOO. With the telegram in my hand I went to this banking house, and, on the presentation of it, the hanker informed me that this sum bad been placed there to my credit by Mr. Ralston on that very day. It is said that Mr. Ralston committed suicide, but the fact has been disputed, and I doubt it very much.”— Letter in Cleveland Leader.

The Last Gladitorial Fight.

In 404 Honorius was emperor. At that time, in the remote deserts pi Libya, there dwelt an obscure monk named Telemachus. He had hemrd of these awful scenes in the far-on Coliseum at Rome. Depend upon it, they lost nothing by their transit across the Mediterranean in the hamjs of Greek and Roman sailors. In the bath and market places of Alexandria, in the Jewries of Cyrene, in the month of every . eastern storyteller, the festive massacres of the Coliseum ' would doubtless be clothed in colors truly very appalling, yet scarcely more appalling than the truth. Telemachus brooded over these horrors until his mission dawned upon him. He was ordained by heaven to put an end to the slaughter of human beings in the Coliseum. He made his way To Rome, He entered the Coliseum with the throng, at the time the gladiators were parading in front of the emperor with uplifted swords and the wild mockery of homage —“ As oritur i te Habitant.” Elbowing his way to the barrier, he leaped over at the moment when the combatants rushed at each other, threw himself between them, bidding them, in the name of Christ, to desist. To blank astonishment succeeded imperial contempt and popular fury. Telemachus fell, slain by the swords of the g’adiators. Legend may adorn the tale and fancy fiil out the picture, but the solid tact remains—there never was another gladitorial fight in the Coliseum. One heroic soul had caught the flow of popular feeling that had already begun to set in the. direction of humanity, and turned it. He had embodied by his act and consecrated by his death the sentiments that already lay timidly in the hearts of thousands in that great city of Rome.— Leslie's Magazine.

The Near-Sighted Ones.

As to how one becomes near-sighted, M. pjtfoej observes, first, that “Antiquity does not seem to have known what this defect was. You know,” he says, “of wh t enormous dimensions the Greek and Boman theaters and circusses were. Thirty thousand spectators could sit with ease in them. None of them ever had or felt the want of opera glasses. I imagine that it was with the ancients as it was with the sailors of the presentday. Accustomed, from father to son, to look at objects at a distance, never reading, and letting sleep repose their eyes as soon as tho sun sets, they acquire that sort of piercing sight that Fenimore Cooper likes to endow his savage Indians with.” In the present day, M. Sarcey continues, men w; ar their eye-sight out in the day-time by excessive reading and writing, and in the nighttime by gas-light and over heated atmo3 phere. The proportion of shortsighted people, according to the celebrated occulist, M. Perrin, whom M. Sarcey cites, has increased in the large government schools from 30 to 50 per cent, in fifteen years. And in Germany, it appears, matters are still worse, because the Germans read more than we do, and their Gothic type is still more fatiguing for the eyes than ara Boman characters. M. Sarcey warns his readers against believing in two popular errors in respect to short sight. The first, that such sight re«j mains stronger than the normal as one advances in years; and in the second, that it is wrong to wear glasses for this defect. Both of these assertions he declares to be absolutely false.

The Tying of a Cravat.

"When Carlyle wrote his “Clothes Philosophy” he lamented that nothing had been previously written on so important a subject. But a little book bearing imprint of 1829 has come to light, devoted entirely to the importance of a properly tied cravat. After, doubtless, profound investigation of So weighty a question, the author records it as his opinion that “when a man of rank makes an entree into a circle distinguished for taste and eleganee, and the usual compliments have passed on both sides, he will preceive that his coat will attract only a slight degree of attention, but that the most critical and scrutinizing examination will be made on the set of his cravat.” Entirely or comparatively oblivions of all the rest of his person, “the delighted eyes” of all present “will be fixed on that part of his person which separates the ohonlder from the chin,” and upon the feld and finish of the several inches of white.linen (here visible will depend the favorable or unfavorable nature of his reception.

Greece’s Public Schools.

In the public schools of Greece the four Gospels of the New Testament are used as a reader by the children of the most advanced clases of the primary department, and the new minister of education proposes to extend their use into the higher schools. —Foreign Let l* ter. . Wisdom is to the spul what health is to the body.

WAR WILL FOLLOW.

Gen.; Komaroff’s Action in Afghanistan Sanctioned by m the Czar. Story of the Recant Battle as Told bf the Russian Commander. England’s Allies Said to Have Provoked the Attack by Their Belligerent Attitude. It Looks Like War. rCable dispatch from London.] The fact that Gen. KomzrotT has been appointed Coinmander-in-Chiel over Turkestan, and that Russia is rending loices rapidly to Afghanistan, is universally regarded as meaning immediate war. There must be' added to this another (set of two Russian men-ot-war in tho Snez Canal being ordered to Vladivostock, with directions to avoid British ports. A dispatch from Berlin states that Russia refuses to yield an inch of the territory she has occupied on the Afghan frontier. Gen. KomaroS's attack on the Afghans is regarded in every capital of Europe as an act of war. In no well-intormed quarter here or abroad is there any bat the fainest hope of peace. , Gen. Komaroff** Report. The Official Messenger, of St Petersburg, publishes the following telegram from Gen. Komaroff, dated April I: “On the . sth of March ottr deta hment approached Dashkapri When near the bridge we saw an Intrenchment occupied by Afghans. In order to avoid a < ontiict I stationed my ti oops five ver.ts (a little over three miles) from the Afghan position. Negotiations with Capt. Yate (a member of Sir Peter Lnmeden's force) commenced on the 2Gth. When the Afghans became convinced that we had no intention of attacking them they dally drew neaier to onr camp. On the 27th they dispatched against a company of onrs covering a reconnoltering party three companies with a gnn and some cavalry. Next day, their audacity and arrogance increasing, they occupied a high and commanding position on the left flank of onr camp, madelntrenchments, and placed a cavalry post in the rear of our line and a picket within gunshot of onr fort. On the 29th 1 sent the Afgiian commander an energetic summons to evacuate the lett bank of jhe Kushk:, and the right bank of the Mnrghab as far as the month of the Knshk. He replied that, acting on the advice of the English, he would not retire beyond the Kushk. I then sent him a private letter couched in amiable terms. On the iiinh, in order to support my demand:. I marched with mv detachment against the Afghan position, still expecting a pacil-lc issue, but fire from ,tho Afghan artillery and an attaok of their cavalry compelled me to accept a combat.” iThe St. Petersburg Journal says that the foregoing statement leaves no question of Russian aggression; that, moreover. Sir Peter Lumsden's second dispatch to the British Government justified Gen. Komaroff’s action, and that even Mr. Gladstone has shown a praiseworthy anxiety to atone for the ungracious words about Russia which first escaped him. Another V'ersion of the Conflict. [St. Petersburg dispatch.] A rumor is current that the conflict between the Russians and Afghans arose in the following way: Some oi the Engli- h officers stationed at the Afghan outposts invited some Russian officers on the other side to breakfast. The Russians were unable to accept the invitation, but they sent an invitation to the English officers. The latter accepted and staid in the Russian camp until late at night and then asked lor an escort. Gen. Komarotf disgi ised some of his officers as privates to accompany the escort with the object of obtaining news of the Afghan forces. When the escort arrived at the Afghan camp one of the Russians was observe! taking notes in his pocket-book. The Afghans tried to take away the book, a struggle ensued, and a shot was fired, from which side is not known. The Russians hurried back to their camp, when their troops were called to arms, and were advanced aga nst the Afghans the next morn ng. “ Gen. Komaroff is already called the conaueror of the Afghans. Everyone is e ated at his success, and considers the affair a reverse ter England. ~ The Bear Eager for a Fight. (St. Petersburg dispatch.] The war feeling here is overwhelmingly strong. The Czar and Czarina and the members of the royal family attended a concert at the Grand Theater, in this city, for the Itenefit of invalid soldiers. The presence of the Qzar aroused the greatest enthusiasm. The national anthem was snng bv the whole audience, and when the Czar advanced to the fropt of his box and bowed his thanks be was greeted with a hurricane of cheers, 'i he ovation was continued outside the theater, and the royal party was followed by crowds of people to the gates of the palace. The Minister of War, speaking to a circle of officers, said he had the assure noe of the Czar that the Russian troops might advance, bnt that they would never retire. Rtssia continues her navaland military preparations with great energy. Admiral Shestakoff has ordered all torpedo boats to be sent to the Baltic and the Black Sea. Torpedoes have just been sunk at the canal binding St.-Petersburg with the sea. Cronstadt, St. Petersburg, and the palace at Krasnoe fc’elo are now connected by telephone, so that the Czar will be Informed of every movement in case of an attack by the English fleet. The Russian fleet has been in a thorough state qt r adincss since the 2dof April. There is great activity at Odessa. It is manifested not only by the garrison but also by other troops stationed there Numerous battalions of Cossacks are reviewed every day. The garrison at Kertsch is engaged night and day in hastening the completion of the works at that point, and the flooring mills are worked at their foil capacity in the preparation of provisions. ThS Czar has informed both the Vienna and! the Berlin Cabinets that be does not desire war. The English demand for the retirejnent of Gen. Komarofi’s forces from their present position will, however, not be acceded to, since it is evident that the advance of the Afghans was the provocation leading to the recent attack, This view of the matter, entertained by Russia, is also held by Austria and Germany. These {lowers support the Russian Government in this explanation of the recent battle. The Lion Not Backward. , [London dispatch.] There is no abatement in the excitement here. The war feeling runs high as ever, and > ny news on the war question is thirstily devoured by the public. It is known that England and Russia are both playing a waiting game, neither wishing to give the offense that will call for a decliartlon of war, bnt each at the same time straining every nerve to be prepared for an emergency. Two men-of-war belonging to the channel squadron now at Kingstown, Ireland, have been ordered to Portsmouth to take torpedoes on board. It is reported that they will then proceed immediately to the Baltic. The War Office is overwhelmed with offers of service sent in by army, militia, and volunteer officers. The recruiting depots in London and the provinces are daily besieged by men anxlons to enter the military sendee in view of the prospect of war with Russia. Snitable applicants are being accepted as rapidly as can be arranged. All the Admirals of the British navv have been notified to hold themselves In readiness for active service.* A special injunction has be n sent by the Admiralty to Vice Admiral Lord Hayes, commanding the British squadron in the Mediterranean, to hold himself and his fleet ready for service. i- ■ ; ' The Russians' Boast. An Odessa (Russia) dispatch says that “war between Rjissi* and England is believed to be unavoidable sooner or later. The Russians boast that the railway is being rapidly pushed to barakhs; that there are already 20,000 Russian troops on the Afghan frontier, and that there are 20,000 more at Samarcand which could be marched to Herat in two or three weeks. The only possible reliance on peace is In Mr. Gladstone s paciflo policy. Not a Hitch. . A dispatch from Rawd-Plnde, India, says: “There was not a strgle hitch in the whole course of the negotiations between the Ameer and the Viceroy of India. The Ameer has great belief In the natural defensive s rength of Afghanistan to repel Russia. He believes that the Komaroff incident will set the whole country against the Ross ana The peaceful aspect of affairs at Cabal is convincing proof as the stability of the Amur’s rule.” Postmaster General Vilas is negotiating for a lease of 8. S. Cox’s house in Dupont circle, Washington. The Bev. U. DeWitt Talmage sod Mg family are to spend the summer in Europe.

INDIAKA LEGISLATURE.

THE appropriation bill was discussed again ia the Senate on the 7th Inst. Senator Fowler opposed the item allowing the Adjutant General a clerk at a salary of S6OO a year. It was explained by Senator Magee that a clerk would toe re<iui dfi for the work of making a new copy of the enrollment of Indiana soldiers. The motion to strike out the item was defeated. The bill authorizing the payment of the John Martin claims was advanoed to the second reading. The oleomargarine bill failed, and also the bill allowing appeals by ferry companies from rate* fixed by Conn tv Commissioners. In the House, benator Hailey s bill prohibiting the importation or immigration of foreigners and others under contract or agreement to perform labor within Indiana was taken up, the constitutional rules suspended, and the Mil passed by a vote of 77 to 6, >n spite of Mr. Patton’s earnest assurance that its provisions had s tendency to encourage Chinese immigration, to which be sas much opposed. The following bills passed: Legalizing certain acts of the Board of Commissioners of Wells County in relation to the Blnffton and Rockport Gravel Road Company; providing tor the proper recording of assignments and cancellation, of mortgages and mechanics’liens; fixing the time for hold ng court in the Tenth Judicial Circuit; authorizing the Board of Ccnbty Commissioners to construct free gravel roads on boundary lines between States, each to defray, one-half of the expense: authorizing the Trustees Of the Hospital for the Insane to use certain lands ithe McCaslin farm) for the beneflt of the institution; provi< ing for the distribution of certain money and funds In the treasury of the incorporated town of Clinton. Vermillion County. Consideration of the general appropriation bill was resumed on the ftth Inst., bnt, although two hours’time was consumed, no changes were made materially affecting the amount of the appropriations. Pending the consideration the Senate took a recess for the purpo-e of allowing a committee to make a change in the pbraso* ology of the bill, after which the constitutions! rule was suspended to allow the bill to be read the third time. The bill finally passed. The House bill legalizing the issne of gravel road bonds in Wells County was passed, under a Bnspens'on of the rules. In the House the bill allowing security on liquor-dealers’ bonds to be released upon petition to the court as other sureties are released, passed. Senator Meyers’ bill providing for the establishment of an Appellate Court of five judges at an annual salary of $4,5u0 each, at Indianapolis, was reported back from the committee without recommendation. After a Jong debate a motion to strike out the enacting clause prevailed. The following bills were taken npoucof their order and pissed: Abolishing the office of Supreme Court Commissioner; to legalize the incorporation and official acts of the town of English, Crawford County; regulating the measures used by County Surveyors and legalizing certain official measurements therefor; to prevent the payment of wages in scrip «r the selling of goods to employes at excessive rates; an act concerning the duties or Connty Treasurers and Auditors, and requiring the prompt nayment of alt funds due Township Trustees. Mr. Williams introdu. ed a resolution, which was unanimonsly adopted, highly complimentary to Mr. Henry Georize (“Progress and Poverty”), and extending to him the courtesies ol the House. The same gentleman introduced a resolution, which was also adopted, allowing H. C. Darnell, Clerk ol the House, s4no for extra work In preparing the calendars for the regular and special sessions. Mr. Pendleton called np the bi 1 to appropriate David 8. Munson $2,500 for lightning-rods put on the Insane Hospital, which had twice before failed for want of a constitutional majority, and it was passed. The Governor signed the bill prohibiting the importation of foreign labor into Indiana. Senator Sellers, the Chairman of the special committee appointed before the end of the regular session to investigate the accounts of Hnffstetter. the deposed Assistant Secretary, presented a report to the Senate on the 9th Inst., showing that Hnffstetter had, on forged warrants, drawn on the acconnt of Ezra C. Knowles, an enrolling clerk, the snm of sls: on Senator Hillegass, *100; on Senator May. $ t; on Senator Shiveley, S3O; and on Senator Adkln«on, SIOO, making the total amount of bis peculations, besides the overdrafts of bis own salary, $341. “The sums drawn by Mr. Hnffstetter from the treas ryupon frandnlent warrants and orders,” the committee stated, “have been covered back Into the State Treasury or repaid to the losers by his dishonest transactions. While this has been done voluntarily and without any agreement upon the part of the losers by Hnffstetter's transactions, still this restitution was bnt an act of simple justice to men whom Hnffstetter had wronged, and it can not in any way justify an outrage committed before the eyes of this Senate, and which has now been brongbt to the knowledge of the entire State. We, therefore, call the attention of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Criminal Court of Marlon'County to the facts above set forth, that he may take snch steps aq may further the ends of justice.” The report of the committee was adopted unanimously. In the House, the general appropriation bill was reported back from the Senate with the various amendments made to it. A motion to concur in the. amendments made by the Senate was defeated by a vote of 36 to 50. The Speaker appointed as the Honse members of the conference committee on the bill Messrs. McMullen and Brownlee. Senator Magee presented a report to the Senate, on the 10th insfc, from the Finance Committee on the general appropriation bill. A compromise on the Senate amendments ted been agreed upon by the oommittee. The changes were explained by the members of the committee, and the Senate concurred in the re- : 1 ort of the committee. The Honse did likewise. ; Senator Willard tendered his resignation of the i Finance Committee and it was accepted. In the Honse tne following bills were passed: i Winter’s bill regarding decedents’ estates; the bill authorizing the citizens of any county to form voluntary associations for the purpose of j the insurance of property from damage by fire or lightning; McCullough’s bill providing that ! incorporated towns and cities may, if they so desire, employ Township Assessors to make local assessments and County Treasurer* to collect their municipal taxes, without providing special officers for these purposes; Brown’s bill providing that polling-places on election days shall be opened at 6 o’clock am; Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to reorganize the State benevo- * lent institutions on a non-partisan basis, which, on motion, was referred to a committee; Mr. Copeland a resolution de- ’ nonneing Cleveland for sending Gen. Lawton, an “unhung rebel,” to Russia. The resolution was promptly tabled. The Governor signed the bill regulating the practice of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. The bin provides that any person desiring to practice medicine or surgery shall procure from the Clerk of the Circuit Court s license, to secure which he must hie an affidavit showing gradual on in some reputable medical college: or be shall present the affidavit of two reliable freeholders that be has practiced medicine In the State far ten years. The bill limiting the rental charges for triephones to $3 a month passed the Senate on the 11th inst, after a Ion; debate. Senator McCullough stated that there had been something said about the lobbying of telephone companies to defeat the bill. There baa been no money used, be believed, but be said that be had seen letters and telegrams from employes of the House demanding money from the telephone compinies for the defeat of the MU, riving the 1 names of the members and the sums they de- ' rnanded After the passage of the bill an investigation was ordered into McCullough’s intimation of the nse of money to defeat the bill. ’ In tbe House, the regular order was the consideration of Senate bills on third reading. ; Senator Hillegass’ bill compelling liens, deeds, and mortgages to be recorded within ten days after they have been delivered was varioashr discussed and defeated. Senator Rohm’a bill to amend the act concerning the taxation of unplatted tracts of lands within the city limits was read a third time and defeated. Senator F’ouike’s bill, prohibiting the use of dynamite and other explosives for felonious purposes and providing strict penalties for the violators of its provisions was defeated. Sena or Hillegass’ bill to amend the present law regarding the State printing was read. Mr. Hock explained that. In accordance with a special message irom the Governor on the subject, this bill had been drawn to cut off certain unnecessary printing, and that It would save the State about s»,ou« a year. Paseed. The House took cognizance of Senator McCullough's statements about money being used to bribe members of the Honse to vote against the telephone bill, and appointed a committee to Investigate the nutter. In Canada—“ Well, wife, I suppose we ought to call on the Mandelbeums, hadn’t we?” “Yea, dear, I suppose so, but they are horribly common people; just think, they only stole $13,000.” — Boston Post A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating. as wjsevJyy always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nouri hment— Jeremy Collier. AM idle man is like stagnant water; he corrupts himself.— Latena.