Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — Page 2

<Eht fjlc;|inbUcttti. G«o. E. MaMAU, Publisher. RENHSELAESL *3 INDIANA

Jobakn MoeT'appeare to have founded some of his dislike to American institutions on experience, end remarks to a New York reporter by way of comparison: ‘‘ln England I had a cell four times as large as this, nicely tarnished, while in Austria I wassimply restrained of my liberty.” Why does not the complaining anarchist take advantage of his informs*ion and move on, out of America, where he can get more satisfactory entertainment? The sugar trust, it’ is reported, has gone into actual operation. The buving ent and closing of small refineries has began, and it is reasonable to suppose that the business will soon be in “few and strong hands. The sugar market is •firm” jnst now, with the probability that it will be firmer a month or two hence. It is perhaps well that this “combine” has gone to work now rather than six months later. Congress is now in session, and if the gentlemen at the head of the scheme posh prices up, as they are expected to do, legislation will be invoked to stamp out the conspiracy. A big contest between the trusts and the people is inevitable. If 3,000 or 4,000 individuals are more .powerful than 41,000,000, the country would like to know that fact now. It is getting to be well known that enr semi-quacks and onr coarser sort of public people get a recognition in England that they do not here. Buffalo Bill carried London by stoim. And now John L Sullivan, who can travel through this country without the note of a gamin, or bringing enthusiasm into the eye of a tramp, has been doing the ■rather land in a way to astonish onr •wn people. He has been received at the railroad stations by crowds greater and more enthusiastic than ever greeted any foreigner who ever visited that land. “He has stirred, up more enthusiasm in five minntes with his fists than the Qaeen’s jabilee, backed by all the home and foreign royalties coaid do by a whole summer's work.” What is the real underlying basis of English civilization is yet a question. It is certain that it aontains a great deal of barbarism, and it may be an unconqnerable amount. “Eaaa is eggs. They come high, and we muß' have ’em.” In 1884, which was the first year that the experiment wf importing eggs to this country was tried, 14,000,000 eggs were sold at an average of 21 cents per dozen. During 1886 about 28,720,000 foreign eggs were sold at an average of 18 cents per dozen. Bat last year such a number of importers had been engaged in the business that many abandoned, any farther attempt at importing eggs, the price, owing to competition, having fallen to 16 and 17 cents per dozen. Bat it still goes on. The canse of it is that eggs from Antwerp can be landed in New York about as soon as eggs from Minnesota, and there are more of them. %g producing increases with density of population. Wherever there are human beings there are chickens, and wherever human beings are so crowded together there chickens are crowded. Civilization and population are ever accompanied by these fowls. In the contracted territory of Europe there are 30*3,000,000 human beings, while scattered over ohr own vast territory there are only 60.000,000.

One Way to Secure the Conventions.

Omaha World. Omaha Man—l wish to secure your vote in favor of having the Presidential conventions meet in Omaha. Washington Statesman—Have yon food hotel accommodations? “Plenty and to spare.’* - “Good board?” “Omaha is the very center of the food supply of the nation; everything in abundanco.” “Good air?” “Fresh from the Rockies.” “How’s the water?” "Not fit to drink.” “Well, we’ll come.”

A Lesson in Physiology.

A pnpil in one of the public schools in this city complied recently in the following manner with a request to write .a composition on the subject of physiological lecture to which the school has jnst listened: , “The human body is made np of the head, the thorax and the abdomen. “The head contains the brains, when there is any. “The thorax contains the heart and the luitgs. _ “The abdomen contains the bowels, of whichthere are five: A, E. I, O and U, and sometimes ,W and Y.”

He Sent, it Back.

Somerset (Ey.) Republican; ~ ' A Somerset business man not-long wnceh ad occaaloatowritetoa gentleman } who evidently had few The envelope had the, usual “E-turn in , ken days to , Somerset, Ky,” on it.} In about ten days the lettei came back j to hm, accompanied by a scrawling! Ittto, the wriTer saying tnat he had re- ’ tamed the letter according to the request on the envelope, though he “didn’t see why he was so all fired particular about having it sent back.” 1

GNAT AND CAMEL.

The World Make* too Mnoh Noise Over Small Things. ■< “ Triers Slionld Wot be MegoiCed to ths n Negleetof Things of Cr«»4r Jiomsnl— The future Should be More Thonghlof: Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday on "Too Much Ado About Small Things.” His text was: “Ye blind guides which ■train at a gnat and swallow a camel.” —Matthew 28 24. Hesaid: There arq in our day a great many gnats strained at and a great many camels swallowed, and it is the object of this sermon to Sketch a few persons who are extensively engaged in that business. First: I remark, that all those ministers of the Gospel are photographed in the text who are very scrupulous about the conventionalities of religion, but put no particular stress upon the matters of vaster importance. Cnurch services ought to be grave and solemn. There is no room for frivdlity in religious convocation. But there are illustrations and there are hyperboles, like that of Christ in the text, that will irradiate with smiles any intelligent auditory. There are men like those blind guides of the text who advocate only those, things in religions services which draw the corners of the mouth down, and denounce all those things which have a tendency to draw the corners of the mouth up, and these men will go to installations and to presoyteries and to conferences and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their every Bunday there are fifty people sound asleep. They make their churches a great dormitory, and their somniferous sermons are a cradle and the drawled out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful soul in a pew with her fan keeps the flies off unconscious persons approximate. Now, I say it is worse to Bleep in chureh than to smile

in[church, for the latter implies at least attention, while the former implies the indifference of the hearers and the stu pidityof the speaker. In old age, or from physical infirmity, or from long watching with the sick, drowsiness will sometimes overpower one; but when a minister of the Gospel looks off upon an audience and finds „ healthy and intelligent people struggling with drowsiness, it is time for him to give cut the doxology or pronounce the benediction. The great fault of church services to day is not too much vivacity, but too much somnolence. The one is an irritating gnat that may be easily strained out; the other is a great, sprawling and sleepy eyed camel of the dry desert. In all our Sabbath schools, in all our Bible classes, in all our pulpits, we need to brighten up our religious message with Bach Christ like vivacity as we find in the text. I take down from my library the biographies of ministers and writers of the past ages, inspired and uninspired, who have done the most to bring souls to Jesus Christ. and I find that without a single exception they consecrated their wit and their humor to Christ. Elijah used it when he advised the Baalites, as they could not make their god respond, telling them to call louder. as their god might be sound asleep or gone a hnnting. Job used it when he earn to his self conceited comforters, “Wisdom will die with you.” Christ not only used it in the text, but when He frolically complimented the putrefied Pharisees, saying, “The whole need not a physician,” and when hv one word He described the cunningness of Herod, saying, “Go. ye. and tell that fox.” Mathew Henry’s Commentaries, from the first page to the last, corusca ted with humor as summer clouds with heat lightning. John Bunyan’s writings arenas full of humor as they are of saving truth, and there is not an aged man here who hag ever read “Pilgrim’s Progress” that does not renumber that while reading it he smiled as often as he wept. Chrysostom, George Herbert, Robert South, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Jerimy Taylor, lowland Hill, Nettleton, George G. Finney, and all the men of the past who greatly advanced the kingdom of God, consecrated their wit and their humor to the cause of Chri t. So it has b£en in ali the ages, and I say to these young theo logical students, who cluster in these services Sabbath after Sabbath, sharpen your wits as keen as cimeters, and then take them iq,o this holy war. It is a very short bridge between a smile and a tear—a suspension bridge from eye to lip, and it is soon crossed over, and a smile is sometimes just as sacred as a tear. There is as much religion, and I think a little more, in a spring morning than in a starless mid night. Religious work without any humor or wit in it is a banquet, with a side of beef, and that raw, and no condiments, and no desert succeeding. People will not sit down at suen a banbuet. By all means remove all frivolty and all pathos and all lightness and ail vulgarity; strain them out through the sieve of holy discrimination; but, on the other hand, Vie ware cf that monster which overshadows the Christian Church to-day—conventionality, coming up from the great Sahara Dessert of Exilesiastieism, having on its back a hump (f sanctimonious gloom, and vehemently refuse to swallow that camel. Oh, how particular a great many people are about the indnitessimais While they are quite reckless about the mngnitudes. What did Christ say?. Did He not excoriate the people in His time who were so careful to wash the’r hands before a meal but did not wash their hearts! It is a bad thing to have unclean hands; it is a worse tljing ,o have an unclean heart. How many people' ; there are. in our time, who" are very [anxious that alter their death thev j shall he busied wi h their feet toward ( the East, and not -at ait anxious I that during their whole life they should : lacs in the right, direction so that they (snail come up in the resurrection of the just whichever way thev are buried \ HojsMasny there are chit fly anxious that minister of the Gospel shall come in the line of Apostouc succession, not t earing so much whether he comes from; i Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas. Thev f havtra wy of measuring a gnat until ft. is larger tbajra camel, j- Again.— my subject protographs atT i those who are abhorrent of small sins i whi e they arereckleis in regard to magnificent thefts. You will find a merchant who, while he is so careful that he would not take a yard of silk 'hr a stool of cotton from the counter with-

oat paying for it, and who, if a bank cashier should make a mistake and send ; in a roll of bills 86 too much, would dis patch a messenger in hot haste to return ! the surplus, yet who will go into a stock j company, in which after awhile he gen \ control of the stock, and 'hen waters the stock, and makes 8100,000 appear like ! 8200,000. He only stole fIOO.OOo by the j operation. Many of the men of fortune I made their wealth in that way. One of i those men engaged in such unrighteous j acts that evening, the evening of the very day when he watered the stock, 1 will find a wharfrat stealing a newspaper from the basement doorway, and will go out and catch the nrchin by the collar and twist the collar so tightly the poor fellow can not sav that it was thirsr for knowledge that led him to the dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying, “I have been looking tor you a long while; yon stole mv paper fonr or five times, haven’t you? yon miserable wretch.” And then the old stock gambler, with a voice they can hear three blocks, will cry out,“Police! police!" That same man, the evening of the day in which he watered the stock, will kneel with his family in prayers and thank God for the prosperity of the day, then kies his children good-night with an air which seem to say, "I hope yon will all grow up to be as good as your father.” Prisons for sin insectile in Bize, but palaces Tor crimes dromedarian. No mercy for sins, animalcule in proportion,but great leniency for mastodon iniquity. A poor boy slyly takes from the basket of a market woman a choke-pear—saving some one eise from the cholera—and you smother him in the horrible atmosphere of Raymond street jail or New York Tombs, while his cousin, who has been skillful enough to steal $50,000 from the city, you will make him a candidate for the New York Legislature! There is a great deal of uneasiness and nervousness now among some peo pie in our time who have got unrighteous fortunes—a great deal of nervousness about dynamite. I tell them that God will pnt under their unrighteous fortunes something more explosive than dynamite— the earthquake of Hiß omnipotent indignation. It is time that we learn in America that sins not excusable in proportion as it declares

large dividends and has outriders in equipage. Many a man is riding to perdition postilion ahead and lackey behind. To steal one copy of a newspaper is a gnat ; to steal many thousands of dollars is a camel. There is many a fruit dealer who would not consent to steal a basketof peaches from a neighbor’s stall, but who would not scruple to depress the frnit market; and as long as I can remember we have heard every summer the peach crop of Maryland is a failure, and by the time the crop comes in the misrepresentation makes a dis ference of millions of dollars. A man who would not steal one peach basket steals fifty thousands peach baskets. Go down in the summer time into the Mercantile Library, in the read-ing-room, and see the newspaper reports of the crops from all parts of the country, and their phraseology is very omen the same, and the same men wrote them, methodically and infamously carrying out the huge lying about the grain crop from year to year, and for a score of years. After a while there will be a “corner” in the wheat market, and men who had a contempt for a petty Jhe ft will burglarize the wheatbin of a nation and commit larceny upon the Amercan corn-crib. And some men will sit in churches and in reformatory institutions trying to strain out the small gnats of scoundrelism, while in their grain elevators and their store-houses they are fattening huge camels, which they expect after a while to swallow. Society has to be entirely reconstructed on this subject. We are to find that a sin is inexcusable in prpportion as it is great. I known in our time the tendency is to charge religious frauds upon good men. They say, “Oh, what a class of frauds you have in the Church of God in this day,” and when an elder of a church, or a deacon, or a minister of the Gospel, or a superintendent of Sabbathschools turns out a defaulter, what display heads there are in many of the newspapers! Great primer type. Fiveline pica. “Another Absconder.” “Clevi.al Scoundrelism ” “Religion at a Discount,” “Shame on the Churches,” while there are a thousand scoundrels outside the church to where there is one inside the church, and the misbehavior pf those who never see the inside of a church is so great it is enough to tempt a man to beeotnea Christian to get out ot their company. This subject does not give the picture of one or two persons, but is a gallery in which thousands of people may see their likeness. For instance, all those people who, while they would not rob theirjneighbor of a farthing, appropriate tbe money anil she treasure of the public.

A man has a house to sell, and he tells his customer it is woith $20,000. Next day the assessor comes around, the owner says it is worth sls 000. The Government of the United States took oft the tax from personal income, among other reasons ■ because So few people would tell the truth, and many a man with an income of hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to imply he was about to be handed over to the overseer of the poor. Careful to pay their passage from Liverpool to New York, yet smuggling in 'heir Saratoga trurk ten silk dresses from Paris and a half dozen watches from Geneva, Swi zerland, telling the Custom-house officer on the wharf: “There is nothing in that trunk but wearing apoarel,” and putting a five-dollar gotd-piece in his hand to punctuate the statement. Described in the text are all those who are particular never to break the law of grammar, and who want all their language an elegant specimen, nf ayniar, straining ont all the .inaccuracies of speech with a fine sieve of literary criticism, while through their conve -sation go slander and innuendo, and profanity and falsehood larger than a whole caravan of camels, when they might better fracture every law of the language and shock intellectual taste, and better let every verb seek in vain for its nominative, and every noun for its government, and every preposi ion lose its way in the sentence, and adjectives and participles and prenouns get into a grand riot worthy of the fourth-ward On election day, that to commit a moral inacenraev.- Better swallow a thousand gnats than one camel. Such persons are also described in the text who are very much alarmed about, the email fsuits of others, and have no alarm about their own great transgressions. There are in every community

and in *-verv church watch drgs who : feel callted upon to keep th«»r eyes on I others ami growl. They are full < f sns i picionn. They wonder if that man is I dishonest, it that man is not andean, if I there is not some hing wrong shout the other maD. They are always the first to hear of anything wrong Vultnreß j are always the first to smell <• s-* I They Hre eelf-appoin'ed detect iv . I I lay l his down as a rn'e, without anv , r j ceptim , that those people who have the j rmmt faults themselves are most merci--1 less in their watching of others. From scalp of head to sole of foot they are full of jealousies and They spend their life in bunting for muskrats and mud-turtles, instead of hunting hr Rocky Mountain eagles, always for Bomethiog mean instead of something grand. They look at their neighbors’ imperfections through a microscope, and look at. their own imperfections through a telescope nps de down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them so much as one fault of -somebody else. Their neighbors’ imperfections are like gnats, and they strain them out; their own. imperfections are like camels, and they swallow them. But lest some might think they escape the scrunity of the text, ,1 have to tell you that we all -come under the Divine satire when we make the questions of time more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come, now, let us go into the confessional. Are not all tempted to make the question, Where shall I live now? greater than theques tion, Where shall I live forever? How shall I get more dollars here? greater than the question, How shall I lay up treasures in heaven? the question, How shall I pay mv debts to man? greater than the question, How shall I meet my obligations to God? the question, How shall I gain the world? greater than the question, What if I lose my soul? the question, Whv did God let si ft come into the world? greater than the question, How shall I see it extirpated from my nature? the question, What shall I do with the twenty, or forty, or seventy years of my sublunar existence? greater than the question, What shall I do with the millions of cvcles of my post-ten tstrial existence? Time, how small it Is! Eternity, how vast it is! The former more insigrificant in comparison with the latter than a gnat is insignificant when compared with a camel. We dodged the text. We said, ‘‘That doesn’t mean me;” and with a ruinous benevolence we are giving the whole sermon away. But let us all surrender to the charge. What an ado about things here! What poor preparation for a great eternity! As though a minnow were larger than a behemoth, as though a Bwallow took wider circuit than an albatross, as though a needle were taller than a Lebanon cedar, as though a gnat were greater tnan a camel, as though a minute were longer than a century, as though time were higher,,deeper, broader than eternity. So the text which flashed with lightening of wit as Christ uttered it, is followed by the clashing thunders of awful Catastrophe to those who make the questions of time greater than the questions of the future. O eternity! eternity! eternity.

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

Neither the Senate nor the House transacted any business Tuesday. The message of the President was read to a joint session of the two Houses. The House adjourned until Thursday. The Senate, Wednesday, received the communications from heads of departments, and the Court of Claims, Plumb offered a re olution calling.on the Commissioner of Agriculture for information as to whether any person in the employment of that department, making experiments as to the manufacture of sugar from sorghum, had obtained or applied for a patent or patents connected with such manufacture and growing out of sueh experiment. Adapted and adjourned. The Senate, Thursday, read the Journal and received a few department eommuniaations. The House received petitions relating to the rules.. Both bodies then -adjourned until Monday. The Senate, on the 2th, appointed the various committees. A large number of petitions were presented and J)ills introduced. Among the petitone were’.o prevent sa’e of liquors in the Ter ritorks; to pension all who served in the war; for committee of arbitration with Great Britain; for additional compensation for fourth elass postmasters; for prohibition law; for a uniform law on the subjeet of marriage ana divorce Among the bifls introduced were: For the retirement of iegaf tender and buik notes denomination and the i-sue of coin certificates in lien thereof; to provide f truncations and other sea eoa t defen;es;for the erection of buildings for first and second class postoffiees; for the erection of public buildings at New Orleans, Mori roe, La. .Omaha and Milwaukee ;toproyi;2eiqr pp»til telegraph; to promote foreign trade and encourage the Americm merchant marine; to amend the civil sendee act; gr'inttng a pension to every soldier who is incapacitated for the performance oFmanual labor, and for pensions to defendent relatives (G. A. R. bill;) to admit Dakota ss a State; also, Washington Ter. ; to abrogate all treaties with the Chinese Empire permitting the immigration of Chinese to this country; making it an offense punishable by fine for any Congressman or other employe of the Government to accept a pass or reduced rate for transportation; to repeal the tax on tobacco and on sugar; to repeal the oleomargarine law; requiring ten years residence before a foreigner can bee»me aci isen, and many other bills. Mr. Hale offered a preamble and resolution reciting the'provisions of the eivil-sgrvice law which prohibits Government officials from offensive partisanship, and the letter of the President and of Commissioner Oberly on the subjeet ; and providing for the appointment of a select committee of seven to examine fully into the present condition of civil service in all its branches; to .iicertiin whether appointments have been based on merit and qualifications, or distributed as pa-tisan favors, and as to (the purticip ition of Government officials in political conventions and elections. . r j; - The House received a rnumber of executive eommuuications. principally relative to private iand claims in New Mexico, which were referred. The credential-'of Owen G. Chase, who claims to be elected delegate from tlae territory of Cimeroii, commonly known as the -'Public Land atrip,” .were presented. Speaker Carlisle reque ted to be relieved of the responsibility of appointing the eommittee on elections, his seat being contested by Tnoebe. The House then decided to elect that committee on the 18th.

EXCHANGE SITTINGS.

The,silent man is often worth listen* ing tO. -' .- 'VT ■'. A rolling pin gathers a good deal of dongh. ; 4 There is a deal of blow about the signal service officials. Butin all circles, religious and irreligious, the tendency is to excuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth.

FASHION NOTES.

Even felt hats are sometimes braided. Watered velvet is the latest novelty in - moire PtuHs. The braided cloth jacket is the fancy of the moment. Very wide galloons trim some of newest long \rraps. Long and short wraps are equally fashionable, whether braided or not, The braided felt hat finds favor with little people aud young ladies. Malines and Valenciunes are the preferred lace on tea gowns aud matinees. Big brown leather buttons are the newest fastening for tailor made long wraps. ■' l v Those lovely garments sold as tea gowns and matinees are growing in favor for dressy house wear in New York. There are some lovely little short wraps of shot velvet that are used for dressy visiting' and afternoon reception wear. The butterfly in gauze and tinsel is a favorite decoration on tulle and gauzy evening dresses for young girls that dance. The sealskin wraps, long, short and of medium length, take precedence of all others in elegance and high fashionable favor. Pome of the long far-trimmed carriage wraps of seal plush are almost or quite as handsome as real seal, but then they are not so durable. A skirtof velvet, velveteen, or corduroy, and an undraped loDg polonaise or redingote of light lady’s cloth, with velvet sleeves and collar, or cuffs and collar, is a late and much admired form of the tailor gown. From the head center of millinery styles we learn that bonnets are not only of all shapes, but also of all materials, from felt and cloth to velvet, plush, broche, feataer fringes, and for evening of jet, lace and tulle, while tinsel reigns supreme over all.

The Big Guns of Europe.

Chicago Herald. The New York World addressed questions to a number of European statesmen asking them what they thought about the hanging of the Anarchists. Answers by telegraph were returned on Sunday from Rome, St. Petersburg, Paris, Hawai den and Cler-mont-Ferrand, in France. Sig. Crispi. Prime Minister of Italy, assures the editor that an Italian Premier must not express an opinion concerning the internal affairs of another nation; therefore the noble Signon will limit himself to the remark that the useless penalty of death has been abolished now these ten years under the Italian monarchy. De Giers aesures Mr. Pulitzer that all equitable judgments are good. SpuTTer.lFrehcU'M’lnlster ofTSTlucation, is very much obliged for the check to theGambetta monument, but must be excused. Gladstone equivocates” in the following ignominious” manner: “i regret not to have a comprehensive knowledge of the circumstances, without which I fear an opinion from me would be wholly worthless.” It is difficult to believe that William Ewart Gladstone does not snow as much about the Haymarket case as any man ne- ds to know. If he does not he had better study it between now and next Sunday. Boulanger comes out fairly and squarely. Had this Gen. Bourn been out of custody he would have signed for communtation, along with his friends in Paris.

Effect of the Message.

President Cleveiann’s message, says a London cablegram. Friday, has made politicians on this side of the water rather m >re thoughtful than usual concerning the condition ol England’s tariff laws. A feeling is evidently growing in England in favor of a moderate duty on imports, and popular .sentiment points in that direction. The message has caused excitement in the Scotch pig iron market, and prices are rising. Armstrong Bros. & Co., Glascow, the largest operators in the iron ring, have failed, owing to the rise in the price of pig iron. The iron markets there are excited, and there is a great amount of speculation. J. D. Weeks, secretary of the Steel and Iron Association, says that both iron and steel have, been further depressed by the President’s message and prices will drop farther.

The Englishman.

Max O’Kell’B leeture. The Englishman is a singular mixture ot the lion, the mule and the octopus. In the temple he is a publican—a miserable sinner; out of it a Pharisee. When he prays he makes a grimace and hides his face. Heine said that a blaspheming Frenchman was more pleasing Jo God than a praying Englishman. In politics he always knows where to lay the blame if anything goes wrong, and keeps the Irish, the Scotch and the Welsh conveniently at hand for the purpose. Both French and English are self satisfied; but the Frenchman is a braggart, while the Englishman is provokingly sure of his superiority and thinks it so incontestable that he will not raise his voice to assort it. He pities us poor foreigners, and thanks God that -a _ — .tU r>n - vwx» qp jft Slot ftS O'nrr is h“l

Herr Mosr's Sentence.

Herr Most was Thursday denied a a new trial, and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment without a fine. The most popular trick emong Irish card shufflers is Patrick.

GRAND ARMY BOYS.

California has 142 G. A. R pofcii*. Post No. 523, Madison, lull., wgv mustered Nov. 10.' There are twentv-five veterans in ibe> Vermont Soldiers’ Home. General O. O. Howard has been lecturing in San Francisco on the bat It* or Missionary R dgt*. rAfomiadecif Dover, g 11, at a recent canSpfire said that tie could smell the odor of hazed beans when eight miles away. . A movement to purchase the battlefield of Snilohis being made, and Grand Army posts will he asked to aid the project. Frank P. Blair Post, St. Louis, has raised a fund of $2 500, ami expects to send 650 comrades to attend the next National Encampment, The Soldiers’ and -Sailors’ Orphan Home at Xenia, Ohio, has 675 children as inmates. Six hundred and fifteen applicants for admission are on file. If transportion facilitierare favorable 5,000 ex-Union soldiers living in Kansas will attend the National Encampment at Columbus, Ohio, in 1888. Lincon Relief Corps, Sail Francisco, Cal., recently held a bazar, netting $482 90. Other corps in California holding bazars have met with great success. John C. Comfort, Harrisbuig, Pa., has in his possession the handcuffs worn by John Brown, the hero of Harper’s Ferry when he was hanged at Charlestown, Va., Dec. 2, 1859. The only monument erected by the Sons of Veterans in honor of ex-Union soldiers is located at Salem, Mass. It cost $6 000, the money being raised by Colonel Merritt Camp of that city. Department Commander Edward 8. Solomon, of California, on his return trip to San Francisco last month, was given a royal reception by the posts, relief corps and camps of Sods of Veterans.

Theodore Winthrop Camp No. SI, of Chelsea, Mass., was recently mustered with 118 charter members. The Grand Army presented the camp with a fine silk flag, guidons, aud an elegant sword to each of the officers. The Department of California, W. R C., for the third quarter ending Sept. 39 reported as spent in relief, 81,384 85; turned over to posts, $l5B 15; on hand In relief funds, $1,214 41; total membership, 2,521; total gain, 212.

The Rage for Furs.

New Tork Evening Post. , Fur will be the. craze of the winter season just before us. It is already to be found every where on toilet. There are imported plush dinner and theater gowns, with heart-shaped corsages out-iirred-with darkTur, bfrff"dresses nr fatp ncs both heavy and light, oddly enriched by bands of fur. Tea-gowns are garnitured with appropriate trimmings, and visites, bonnets turbans, and round hats are fur bordered. There is also a semi-low-necked Russian corsage called the “Marie Leczinski,” which hasabtnd of Russian sable around the square-cut opening. There are also expensive dress-skirts of inr. lined with seal brown surah, these at prices which render them far beyond the ordinary purse. Seal skin garments are greatly improved in shape, being fitted more perfectly t© the form. They are also fuller in the back, to hang well over the -tournure, are mostly double breasted, and have a less bulky appeal ance over the arms, the sleeves being fitted more snugly. Short mantles in seal are made in all the fashionable shapee for velvet or plu-th wraps. These visites, sling-sleeved pelerines, Russian matinees with long panel-shaped fronts, and other short confections, are much liked because they afford great warmth above the waist, where extra warmth is most needed, yet they are so tight as not to prove cumbersome, as the long seal paletots, etc., are apt to. The prettv, undyed seal jackets for young ladies’ wear are very stylhh in their golden gray or golden brown cloth, There will be no great changes as to the kinds of fur worn Amcng the long-haired furs are monkey skin in deep raven black, lynx and black marten, or Alaska sable, as it is otherwise calle’d. Both are dark in color, Qecian lynx, the long-haired fur, light, with a yellowish tinge, is a popular lar. Black fox is an elegant long haired iur much used upon Paris costumes .braided in black. Hudson Bay sables are still higher priced than black fox in the finer grades, yet not so expensive as the Russian sables, which are the superb wear of the highly favored of fortune alone.

A Hint on Fattening Animals

An animal cannot live long upon wholly digestihle matter. We cannot with all our skill feed animals successfully upon such rations of food as will be wholly need up in the nutritive process and none be ejected as waste. Therefore a provision in eicess of the actual known needs must be given to animals, and this excess may be as cheap as - can be procured. A certain portion of crude fibre is required; it may be given in s'raw or eoarse bay, but if it i snot given, the highly fed animals will chew boards, corncobs, or other coarse, indigestible matter, to supply the cravrngTjf thg'Byßtem for it. ' This ~fact ac* counts for the habit of fattening swine to eat charcoal, stone coal, etc., or to gnaw the rails or boards of the pen,and it should be taken into account when, the animals are pat ap to fatten.