Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. of. E. MARSHALL, - - Pubushkr.

The English university constituencies include the whole mass' of graduates who choose to keep their names upon the books, the lawyers and the physicians, the squires and the parsons, the bankers, merchants, and writers—men of every trade and every rank in England. Oxford has 5,400 such electors, and Cambridge about 1,000 more. Dr. Edson, of New York, has found that common Rio coffee is put through a process of poisoning which transforms it into any desired variety, and this is only one of the many frauds that he has detected in the grocery trade. Lead and its compounds are found in almost every article of prepared food, while copper and arsenic are in common use. f The ways of the world are peculiar. One of tire latest anecdotes of Fred Burnaby is that, when in Africa with Gordon, one of the native tribes, captivated with his feats of strength, wished to make him their king. To convince him of their sincerity in the matter they threw the old King into the river, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that Burnaby succeeded in inducing them to allow the old monarch to swim out. Sarah Story, of Ludlow, Massachusetts, who, according to her own statement, was 108 years, 8 months, and 21 days o'd, died recently. She was part Indian and part negro. She was in the habit of saying that her mother told her that she was "born in old Connecticut the day before independence was declared,that her folks were going to move independence day, but she came along so they could not.” The New York Medical Record, which does not seem particularly moved by the cholera alarm, says: The cholera is now in the third year of its travels from India, and its virulence is w'aning. This was shown by the small extent of its ravages in Paris last fall. Cholera is not a contagious disease, like ' scarlet fever and measles. Its presence in cities of India, where it is epidemic, creates no more alarm or comment than dees the diphtheria with us. It is said that the transposition of one word was the foundation of Daniel Clark’s great fortune. He had bought 1,920 square toisies of land in that part of New Orleans that afterward became its commercial center. In the engrossing of the deed the “1,920 square toises” was carelessly made to read “1,920 toises square,” and increased the value of SIO,OOO to $20,000,000. Mr, Clark took advantage of the error, and the law of New Orleans was powerless to prevent him. An item is going the rounds of the medical press that fort” years ago Dr. Wilkinson King studied 1,000 autopsies at Guy’s hospital, London, to ascertain the proportion of persons who have latent cancer or cancerous growth, but who die from other causes without a suspicion that they have the hidden germs of that disease. He found that of “all females who dies at about 40, nearly one-half have cancers; of males, one-eighth. Of males above 65, onefifth of all are cancerous."

Thomas Stevens, the wheelman, who recently completed a bicycle trip from San Francisco to Boston, will soon start on a tour around the world, using the wheel exclusively on the land part of his journey. His proposed line of travel lies through England, France, Germany, Austria, European and Asiatic Turkey, Russia, and the Chinese empire, ending in Japan, whence he will take the steamer for San Francisco. The trip, which it is expected will take eighteen months, is under the auspices of the Outing Magazine.

Recent medical science seems to be of value in correcting certain popular delusions. Contemporary historians believe that the pious and unfortunate Queen Catharine of Aragon, died by foul means from slow poisoning. Dr. Norman Moore, however, who has investigated the true cause of death in several historical characters, has discovered, after a careful examination of the notes made by the person wire embalmed the body of the Princess that she really died of melanotic sarcoma of the heart

American heiresses seem to have a penchant for Italian noblemen. In addition to Miss Mackay, the leading names on the list comprise Miss Field, Princess Brancaccio; Miss Lorillard Spencer, Princess Vicar ar a Cenci; Miss Broadwood, Princess Ruspolli; Miss Conrad, Marchess Teodoli; Miss Kinney, Countess Gran of ti; Miss Fisher, Countess Gherardesca; Miss Roberts, Countess Galli; Miss Fry, Marchesa Torrogiani; Miss Lewis, Countess, Barbolins Amadei; Miss Gilliader, Marchesa di San Marzarno, and Miss Hungerford, Countess Telfener.

Besidbs a toy telephone, consisting of a bamboo cylinder and a string, Chinese ingenuity produced about 150 years ago “a thousand-mile speaker.* It is described as a roll of copper, likened to a fife, containing an artful,, device; whispered into and immedi-

ately closed, the confined message, however long, may be conveyed to any distance, and thus, in a battle, secret instructions may be conveniently communicated. It was the invention of Chiang Shun-shin, of Huichon, a writer on occult science, astronomy, etc. His device seems to have died with him, as it no longer exists, save in the chronicles of the historian.,, , i' ■

Cyrus W. Field has proved himself not only a thoughtful man but a philanthropist. > The law’ requires telegraph wires to be run underground in New York, but Mr. Field hesitates to sanction the law. He thinks that it would be highly dangerous to. dig up the streets at the present time, with cholera threatening us, and so doesn’t want the wires in which he is interested sp largely put underground,jjust yet. He can leave town himself whenever he wants to, but he is troubled about the moneyless poor who couldn’t get away and avoid the pestilence were he to dig up the streets. It is such solicitude as this, manifested occasionally by a heavy stockholder in a big corporation, which compels us to believe that human nature is not bad after all. The Atlanta Constitution fishes up a good many queer things in Georgia. Here is the latest: “Dr. L. C. Mattox, of Clinch county, has an owl that roams around loose at his house and is a terror to cats and mice. Not only is lie useful for this, but he is a rare bird, the doctor having learned his owlship some rare tricks. For instance he will take the owl and whirl him around and about in his hands, and- will then put him upon the flopr or table upon his back, side, or any other posit on he may see proper, telling the owl to sleep, and he remains perfectly quiet. The doctor can. then tell the owl to dream a bad dream and awake frightened, when, after about thirty minutes, the bird will jump up from the table apparently in a great fright, popping his bill and showing other signs of alarm.”

Prince Bismarck’s official labors appear to be as varied and minute as those of the Great Frederick himself, who, as Carlyle has told U 3, turned from planning a great campaign to settling what dowry one of his subjects should give his daughter. The chancellor has lately had to forget his quarrel with Lord Granville to decide how the German name of the city of Cologne should be written. One railway company whose line enters the town always wrote it “Koln,” while another adhered as steadfastly to “Coin.” Some scandal was created by this divergence in the orthography of one of the principal towns in Germany, and the point was referred to the minister of public works, who passed it on to the department of public instruction. The latter having refused to decide this very important question, it had to gd before the chancellor, who as might have been anticipated, pronounced it K. So that in future the city which, according to the English humorist, has seven (or was it seventy) distinct smells at eVery street corner, is to be written by all good Germans,railway directors included, Koln.

Rasmus B. Anderson, recently appointed Consul to v Denmark, is well know as a scholar and writer on his favorite themes—the literature and mythology of Iceland and Scandinavia. He was for many years connected with the University of Wisconsin as professor of modern languages, and there made his literary reputation. He is an enthusiast in the study of all that relates to the home of his parents, and has done more than any man on this side of the Atlantic to make Scandinavian literature known and popular. He has some thirteen books now in print, which have had a wide influence, the best known being those entitled “America Not Discovered by Columbus,” “A Norse Mythology,” and translations of several of Bjornson’s Norwegian tales. For Bjornson himself he has the highest admiration as a man, scholar, orator, poet, politician, and novelist. Professor Anderson was for years intimately connected with Ole Bull, whose triumphant tour through this country he managed, and whose biography he assisted to* write. He has spent a year or two in Norway and Sweden, and is well acquainted with all the prominent scholars of those countries, among whom his name is highly honored. Professor Anderson is equally at home in English, Swedish, Norwegian, German. French, and perhaps Italian. He is a man of wide, practical knowledge of men and institutions, and in every way worthy for the office presented to hijn. .

Women Who Take Lessons in Talking.

Why, I have a large class of young society ladies, who coihe in the middle of the day to avoid being observed. They enter into the study with zeal, “Teach me how to speal well,” said one; “I do not care to express passion, hatred, scorn or anything of that kind, but I wish to converse fluently, to nar l rate an incident with proper chic, to have the correct inflection at the close of each sentence,, and above all, to be possessed of sufficient verveto keep from growing insipid.” Can I give a lady verve or chic? I simply teach them natural manners, and in a few weeks the most awkward have attained a polish of manner and a fluency of speech that are truly surprising.—lnterview with an Elocutionist, New York Mail

RUSSIA’S CURT REPLY.

De Giers Refuses to Talk Further About the Penjdeh Incident— Duplicity of Turkey. (Cable dispatch from London.] "’"'•The Russian rep y to the commun’cation sent to M. de Giers through Sir Edward Thornton yesterday, aft r the receipt of Sir Peter Lumsden’s supplementary report on the battle of March 30, hrs just been receiyed. M. de Giers replies curtly that• Russia declines to enter upon any further disCtfssion of the Penjdeh incident. It is reported al St Petersburg that the general st iff are in favor of allowing Gen. Komaroff to act at his own discretion, not even M. de Giers to interfere. A letter from Baku confirms the first account of the battle of Penjdeh, and states that the Afghan force consisted of 4,080 men. The writer, who had been with Sir Peter Lumsden, but who left him before the battle was fought, states thp Russians throughout thb winter had been trying to excite and irritate the Afghans, and that only Sir Peter Lumsden’s influence prevented bloodshed long ago. Col. Alikhanoff advanced to Ak-Tapa at about the end of November, before the boundary commission had arrived, and a battle Afghans was narrowly avoided then. News has also been received that ifi the battle at Penjdeh the Afghan Gener.d was throughout in the fore front of the fighting and was twice wounded. It is reported that Col. Alikhanoff offered a reward of 100 tomas (about $300) for the head of either of the British officers with the Afghan force. A dispatch from Constantinople puts a new light on the diplomatic mission to England of Hassan Fehmi Pasha, the special Turkish Envoy, and Hobart Pasha, Marshal of the Turkish Empire. In order to avoid the censorship of press dispatches at Constantinople this message was sent by mail to Athens and transmitted thence by telegraph to London. It says that the sole mission of Fehmi Pasha, who has been here constantly since January last, was to fool the British Government into a belief that Turkey yas disposed to be on friendly terms with England and to seek and fol'ow her advice in all international complications. Hobart Pasha, whose former reputation as a gallant Admiral of the British navy made him an admirable tool for this purpose, was sent witto Fehmi Pasha to strengthen the blind. Hobart Pasha was intrusted only with the delivery' of certain presents to the Queen and Prince of Wales, accompanied by the customary assurances of distinguished consideration, etc., which may mean a great deal or nothing. All the fine work of diplomatic intrigue was to be done and has been done from first to last by Fehmi Pasha.

ABDURRAHMAN KHAN.

The Amrer of Afghanistan.

Ameer Abdurrahman Khan was born in 1830. He is the eldest son of Afzul Khan, and is thus a grandson of Dost Mahommed, who ruled Afghanistan till his death in 1863, and nephew to the late Shere Ali, who was deposed and expelled by the British invasion of 1879, and who died soon afterward in exile. When Shere Ali was was recognized by the English, Abdurrahman, who had married a daughter of the Turkish Ameer of Bokhara, took refuge in those countries north of Afghanistan beyond the Oxus, which had then not yet been subjected to Russian control. He was pursued, however, by the persecuting spite of Shere Ali and Yakoub, who had seized his mother, wife, and sister, and detained them many years prisoner at Candahar, and who compelled the Ameer of Bokhara to deny him an abode in that state. Abdurrahman was fain to put 'himself under the protection of the Russians, then gradually advancing their conquests in Turkestan, and was received by Gen. Kaufmann, who procured him, in his poverty, a Russian pension of 25,000 rubles a year, and afterward permitted him to reside at Samarcand. After innumerable intrigues and internal dissensions the throne was again vacated, and the present Ameer was chosen in 1880, and has been very substantially supported by the British Government of India, under Lord Ripon, receiving from it a regular subsidy of £160,000 a year, with large gifts of artillery, rifles, and ammunition to improve his military force.

FRANZ ABT.

The Well-Known Musical Composer.

Franz Abt, whose death was recently announced by a cable dispatch, was born in 1819, and was, therefore, 66 years old. His parents intended him for the ministry, but, having a passion for music, he chose that vocation. He was a prolific composer of songs, his compositions numbering between four and five hundred, the most popular of which is “When the Swallows Homeward Fly.” .

The Bev. Dr. Talmage says he is going to Europe to Best and get acquainted with his family. He has their photographs, bnt has had no time to get acqnaiuted. "|t is the first rest he has had in thirty years. A Scotch gelatine manufacturer sends out with each package es his goods a leaf from the Bible. John Kelly still controls Tammany. He has been unanimously elected te his old position. Mbs. Garfield will spend five ireeks at Williamstown, Mass., this summer.

A Ticket Seller’s Experiences.

“Ticket selling at n union railway office is not an inspiring occupation, but it is full of opportunities for the study of human nature, and prolific of interesting experiences.” The speaker was a veteran ticket seller. He continued: “One day an old man came up to the, counter w ith an infirmity of purpose apparent He looked like a fifty year old sinnetr glossed over with twenty years of piety. ‘Cap, I want you to do .me a favor,' he said; It’s nineteen years since I heat a conductor On the Madison road out of the fare from Seymour to Indianapolis. I was to have pajd him when 1 got into this depot (it s the same one, I see,) but the old Nick got into me and I jumped off at the freight depot, and shortly afterwards I wenttoMissouri. Tian’t often a man gets religion out there, but when he does it fetches him to right brisk. I jined the Methodist meetin’ house long 'bout ’7O, and ever since then, that stolen ride on the Madison road 1 has beep a lump of fire on my conscience. This is the first time I’ve ever been back here and I want to pay you that fare with interest,” and the grizzly old fellow put down $4.60. The fare was $2.35 then. (It is only $1.75 now.) I never saw money paid out so cheerfully. I esf closed the money in an envelope and forwarded it to an official of the company, with an explanatory note. The latter never acknowledged the receipt of the same, and I very much doubt whether the stockholders received increased dividends therefrom; but still the old man’s conscence was eased. A full grown man, wild with fear that he wouldn’t catch the train that was just pulling out, ran up to my counter, once, frantically slapped down $5.25, the exact fare to Chicago, and called for a ticket. Before I could give him one he started for the train leaving the money in my possession, and I never heard of him afterwards. I suppose he boarded the train and swore he had bought a ticket, but evidently misplaced or lost it. “It is a very common thing for passengers to ask if our clock is right, and whether the clock runs on railroad time or city time. One day a train was delaved waiting for connections. The passengers, one by one, got out of the cars, came to the ticket office and asked why the train didn’t start. “It’s raining,” we answered, and they went back satisfied; finally one countryman came in and told us that the shower was over, and he didn’t see no use ‘waitin’ for the track to dry.* A well dressed young lady was content and thankful for the information that ‘the 1 o’clock train leaves at 12:60.’ She had asked what time the 1 o’clock train departed, and similar querries are of daily occurrence. ‘ls that my train there?’ asked a woman. “Yes.” “Will it back up here to the waiting room ?” “No, you will have to go to it; when we get our new depot built we will have tracks in the waiting room, and automatic hoisters to lift passengers into the coaches, but unfortunately madam, until then, you will have to walk out to your train.” Men and women who are sensible and cool enough about other things sometimes become frantic while traveling. The head of a family who fought all through the war with distinction, lost his head in this depot one day;’ sent his baggage east, hurried his wife on board a north bound train, and himself ran half a square to catch the west bound express. It was twenty-four hours before all of them got back here ready for a new start, and then the old man concluded that the only safe way to travel was to "stay at home.”—lndianapolis News

Luck at Cards.

Every one has noticed the air of grim suspicion with which the man is regarded who tells a story about cards. Poker-playing has become so popular now that the game is almost universally understood. Playing for pennies and buttons goes on in our best families, and ladies who formally confined themselves to bezique, chess, loto, old maid, whist, euchre, casino, parchesi, and like brisk and entertaining novelties, have all given way to the seductions of the little game of draw. The beauty of poker is that it is a new game at every deal, and it is the only game of cards which never becomes wearisome, unless the luck is very much against you. Poke!’ stories are almost innumerable. Quite the most remarkable one I ever heard was that about Harry Genet, the former politician, who ruled New York for a short time and subsequently went io prison. The game cccurred when Genet was at the height of his fame and fortune. Seven men were at the table too many by two persons at least—and they were all friends. They were playing $5 limit, and at that time they were not playing straight flushes. The highest hand was four aces. Genstlost $1,860 on one hand. He held the ace and three kings. . Everybody came in; Genet raised them and they staid. Then they drtew cards. Genet discarded his two extra cards, which happened o be an ace and a nine spot, and drew to Iris kings. He almost turned cold when he got another king on the draw. Everybody around the table drew cards, and when they got to the Sixth player, who also h d threes, the dealer was obliged to grather the discards, reshuffle them, and deal .them out again. The betting l>egan, but in the-course of a few minutes, they discovered that Genet and the sixth man at the table had extraordinary hands, and so they fled and leaned back in their chairs to watch the betting. Genet knew that nothing could beat his hand Lut four aces, and as he had thown away one ace to till his kings, and there were only four aces in the pack, he felt dead sure of the pot. When the betting reached SI,BOO they laid down their hands. The six h man bad held three ac«s, and in redealing the card had received tbe fourth ace. It is a thing that might occur once in a thousand years. I have heard a story of a similar draw on a Mississippi bat poker on the Mississippi is fraught with such extraordinary mystery, according to the legends of the game, that the majority of men would fee afraid to play on tho river, even at a 2-cent limit.— Rfoofciyn Eayle. What seems only ludicrous is sometimes very serious.— Rabelais.

HE WILL BE A FAILURE.

Beacon* Why President Cleveland** A«»- j ministration Will Be * Great Failure. [Letter in Cleveland Herald.] A Senator of the United States, whoss pirme I can not give because our converxatiuh was a private ohe, said to me last night: “If lam notg:e.dly mistaken, this administration will bo the greatest failure , in bur history." “Why?” “I will tell yon why. Because it has of itself no cohesive elements, and because, founded by a great party, it is disregarding I the party, calling to its support unknown and inefficient men, and because all its views on public question are taken through the wrong end of the opera glass. There will always be two great parties in the United States, and one or the other of these is bound to rule from iitpe to time. When a President elected turns out to be a trimmer and attempts to hoe a middle row between the two greit party he is sure to fail. “He loses the support of his own party, and the other party, while'pretending to admire him, laughs in its sleeve and stabs him in the back. Cleveland so far has totally disregarded the Democratic party. The boys of the party, the great masses, the men who carry the banners, who influence the immense vote of the lower classes, are getting nothing, and they will surely knife Cleveland as soon as they get a chance. They will do it in New York this fall. Mark my words! The State will go Republican by more than 40,000, and there will be the same result everywhere an election is held. Grover Cleveland is cutting the heart out of the Democratic party, and if he goes on, and he probably will, the party will be nearly ruined by 1888. The Republicans are laughing at his administration now, and the Democrats themselves will laugh between their intervals of cursing before two years have passed. Look at this Ada Sweet m liter. Ada Sweet had been in office for more than a decade at a good salary. She expected to go out, and the Republicans expected her to go. Cleveland allows Black to write her a letter that puts his administiation in the hole of going contrary to its principles, and says in black andwhite that there is no cause for her removal. Then, again, that postmaster at Rome. The postmaster was guilty of a misdemeanor, and the President should have turned him out on that ground without a word. Instead, he puts out a letter of half a column to the country apologizing. The early rising and the carriage business is Another farce. Lamar, for instance, the most arrant demagogue south of Mason and Dixon’s line, makes a grand parade about selling S7OO worth of carriages, and on the next day spent more than that amount in fixing-up a private bathroom in his department for himself which would have been an extravagance in the days of Caligula, the Roman'Emperor, who fed his horses in marble troughs and shod them with shoes of gold. Even had this horse-selling reform been a good stroke, it fails because only one or two of the Cabinet engage in it; Vilas, the youngest man in the Cabinet, holds on to his horses, ns do the others, with the exception of Garland and Lamar. The people of the countty are not fools. Cleveland must do something if he would have their approval. So far his administration has been one series of mistakes, and it has failed utterly to show any signs of the reform it has promised.” “It has not turned the rascals out,” said I. “No,” replied the Senatorial friend. “It has not, and neither the President, his Cabinet, nor the people are aware where the rascality exists, in the departments. There is no doubt but that there is corruption, but this corruption does not exist with the heads of bureaus or the high-priced clerks. It is the middle men, and the fellows who get low salaries that do the stealing. These men hoodwink their chiefs and play into the hands of the jobbers. Cleveland is keeping these men in office, and is putting new men over them. Men, too, in most cases, whom it is far easier to deceive than the ones he has turned ofit. They are men who are new to Washington, and are totally innocent of the ins and outs of the departments and the capital., They go into the departments dependent upon the clerks under them for their knowledge of the departments, and the result will be that whatever rottenness there is will be covered, and that it will increase. This is but the history of the past. The President and Secretaries could not discover the rascality of Howgate, of the Signal Service, and of Carrigan, of the Navy Department, until hundreds of thousands of dollars bad been squandered. When their attention was called to the matter they did not give heed to it because some of the confederates of the thieves in office were busy shielding the culprits. There are many Howgates and Carrigans in office to-day. The removal of the Chief Signal Officer alone would have given Howgate a broader field on which to operate under a new chief, more ignorant than the one displaced. The removal of Surgeon General Wales would not have stopped Carrigan’s operations. During the campaign the Democrats claimed that the departments were rotten with corruption. Hendricks the Vice President, said on the stump that one-third of the clerks could be dispensed with without trouble. Now nearly two months have passed, and the departments remain as they were, and the clerks who have been cut off can be numbered x>n your fingers and toes. “Cleveland’s biggest mistake,” the Senator went on, “lies in his Cabinet. He is a good executive officer himself, but he should be aware that this country is too big, and it has too many ramifications for him to persona’ly supervise the whole of it. He should have the best executive officers in the country to help him, and should not rely on a set of dreamers, theorists, and impractical men who know little of business and lesu of the ins and outs of Washington departments and Washington men. ”

No Wonder They Are Kicking.

Ont of seventy-four first-class appointments made by the President the North has tirirty-nine and the So ath thirty-five. Of the Northe n appointments New York takes nine. Illinois and Pennsylvania five ’each, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and Connecticut three each, New Jersey two, Massachusetts, Michigan, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Nevada one each. Of the Southern appointments Georgia has four, Mississippi, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, Texas, and Louisiana three each, .Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Cardiina two each, and Delaware. West Virginia, South Carolina, and F orida one each. The noticeable feature of these appointments is that while every Southern l-tate except Alabama has been recognized, the Democrats of nine Northern States —California, Colorado, lowa, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Oregon—have not yet had a bite of anything fit to eat No wonder that they are kicking. r Secretary or State Bayard is accused of be ng the most out-and-out candidate for the Presidential nomination in 1888, and is accused also of making the gravest mii-takea of any, if his object is to please the Democratic politicians. None of his appointments have been satisfactory to the wire-pullers, and even thus early in the day they accuse him of clubbing his boom. Perhaps, though, this is Bayard's “little game. He may be trying to outdo tbe President _____ r .

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The body of an unknown man, badly decomposed, was found in the, river at Andrews. . —Capt. A. W. Henry, river man, has been appointed Deputy Clark of Jefferson County. Rufus Magee, of Indiana, the newly appointed Minister to Sweden and Norway, has qualified. He sails from New York on May 30. P —A group of ten large ice-houses were stinek by lightning at Indianapolis and consumed. Loss. $20,000. At Bristol, sixteen buildings were destroyed by fire. Loss, $40,000. —The Oliver Chilled Plow Company, of South Bend, has restored the wages of employes to the rates paid before last November’s reduction. This action was voluntary by the company. —Mrs. Kate Harley, of Logansport, who disappeared from that city on the 18th of March, while laboring under a temporary mental aberration, is still missing and unheard from. She is thin in face, weighs one hundred pounds, is five feet two inches high, and nearly 35 years old. Her front teeth are clear white, with gold fillings, showing near the gams. One Hundred and Twelve Yean O 1 . Mrs. Mary Breneman, who claims to have been born at Lewiston, De!., March 14, 1773, and who would consequently be 112 years old. is a resident of Lafayette. In 1806, with her first husband, she moved to Circleville, Ohio. Her first husband dying, she married John Breneman, who soon after also died. Her youngest son is still living. He is 81 years ok), and resides at Rensselar, in Jasper County. Mfs. Breneman was a Miss Mary Perry, and. claims that she is a sister of that famous naval hero, Oliver Hazard Perry. The latter she remembers very little about, as he was dway at sea a great deal, and was supposed to have been wrecked. It was not, until after that he had immortalized himself that she knew he had been saved at the time his vessel was reported wrecked. She remembers Gen. Washington, saying that her father, Capt. Christopher R. Perry, and Washington were warm personal friends, and the latter was a visitor at their house, everybody coming out to see him. She recalls the bombardment of Lewiston by the red-coats, saying the ships sailed up one day, shelled the town, and caused great devastation. During the night the patriots succeeded in firing one of the vessels of the fleet, and the balance withdrew. She is very deaf, and it is difficult to converse with her.

The Doctors’ Bill. Following is the full text of what is known as the Shively bill, regulating the practice of medicine: Section 1. That it thall be unlawful for any person to practice me-i cine, surgery, or obstetrics in this ttate, without first obtaining a lie. use so to do, as hereinafter prov.dcd. Sec. 2. Any person desiring to practice medicine, surgery, or obstetrics in this State stall procure troin the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county wherein be or she desires to practice, a license so to do, which license shall te issued to Such person only When he or she shall have complied with the following conditions, to wit: When such applicant shall file with the clerk his or her affidavit stating that such applicant has regularly graduated in some reputable medical college, and shall exhibit to such clerk the diploma held by such applicant; or, when such applicant shall file with such clerk his or her affidavit, with two witnesses, slating that he or she has resided and practiced medicine, surgery, and obstetrics in this State continuously for ten years immediately preceding the date of the taking effect of this act; or, when such applicant shall file with such clerk bls or her affidavit, with two witnesses stating that he or she has redded and practiced medicine, surgery, and obstetrics in this State, continuously, ior three years immediately preceding the date of the taking effe< t of this act, and had prior to said date attended one full course of lectures in some reputable medical college. Such applicant shall pay to such clerk, for such licmse, the sum of $1.50, and such clerk shall record such license together with the name of the college in which such applicant graduated, and the date of bis or herdipl'o ■ a, in a book to be kept for such purpose, and which shaH be a public record. Sec. 3. Any clerk who shall issue a license to practice medicine,’sur ety, or obstetrics to any person who has not complied with the requirements ot section 2 of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than $25 nor more than SIOO, and such license, or one procured by any false affidavit, shall be deemed and held to be void. Sec. 4. Any person who shall practice medicine, surgery, or obstetrics in this iitate without first having procured from the clerk of the Circuit Court of ths county wherein be or she shall so practice, a license, as provided in this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined In any sum not less than 810 nor more than $200: Provided, that this act shall not be deemed to prohibit women from practicing obstetrics, and such midwives are hereby expressly exempted from its provisions. Sec. 5. No cause of action shall He in favor of any person for services as physician, surgeon, or obstetrician who had not, prior to the rendition of such services, procured » license to practice, as herein provided for. and any person who shall . pay any sum of money or deliver any property, for any services,to any person who is not so licenced, may recover tbe same or the value thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction in this Siate. . Sec. 8. The following shall bo tbe form of license under this act Tbe clerks of circuit courts shall appropriately fill up blanks and issue tbe same under tbe sale of their respective courts, to wit: “The State of Indiana. Con nt r, ss: “1, , clerk of the Circu it Court of County, in said Siate. do hereby certify that has complied with the laws of the State of Ind ana relating to the practice of medicine, sur.-ery, and obstetrics, and 4s hereby authorized to j ractice medicine. surgery, and obstetrics in sa d county. “ Witness my band and seal of said court, [u 8.1 this day of ,18 — .Clerk.” Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the Ist day of September, 1885. 4 —Great interest was taken in Arbor day at Martinville. A. H. Hadley, Secretary of the School Board, read an interesting paper on "Forests of the United States." Ona" hundred and fifty-two trees were pl&nted by the school children. 1 : 1 —Charles Shilling, of Lafayette, received from some unknown person in Chicago by express a pine box containing the skeleton of a woman packed in sawdust. A moderate estimate provides America with 50,000 skating rinks.