Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — Page 2

The fficpublirun. Gso. E. M ar*uau., Publisher. RBNGRELAER, - ■ INDIANA

Tmtv have annual dinners in London, given by a society, to the tliievys of • that great dty. Atthe recent festival they had prayers, speeches. and a good dinner. Some have reformed under these influences, lint a reporter who was present found on reaching the cffire that his handkerchief whs sone. IL!.-. 1 . . _ Tn the two days succeeding the report of the Committee on Rules, there were 1,175 bills-and resolutions intro-' duced in rhe'House. It is not likely that a half a dozen of the whole number really merit a moment’s serious attention. Unfortunately, however, there is no limit to a C mgressman’s - result is a flood of projected schemes of legislation every year upon subjects with which Congress should have nothing to do under any circumstances. Sbnatok Dolph’s proposed amendment to the Constitution, giving Congress power to pass general laws upon the subject of marriage and divorce, is a move in the right direction- As the matter now stands, there are practically as many different systems governing marriages and divorces in this country as there are States in the Union, and the result is endless legal confusion not •nly, but also decided injury to the Muse of public morality and social honor and well-being. Chief Signal Officer Gkkelt, in his annual report, declares that only 74 o it of every 100 general weather indications made last year were verified. The storm pre diction s were even “more faulty, as only about 68 out of every 100 storms announced actually took place. Unless we are mistaken in our recollection this is tbe worst showing made by

the Signal Bureau in recent years. If this is the fact an investigation of the matter should be made at once. This country does not expect infalhbity from the weather service officials, but it has a right to demand that the average standard of accuracy of the past should at least be maintained. If it is really true that the character of its work is deteriorating, the public would begin th be reconciled to the often urged plan to transfer the bureau from military to civil control, or even to abolish it al- . together.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Stock water is again becoming scarce in the southern portion of the State. The postoffice at Rockville was robbed of stamps and $lO in money, Tuesday night The Department Encampment G. A. R. will meet at Indianapolis, February .. 22 and 21 ...... ... Substantial improvements are in progress at North Yemen. including a new railroad station and a theater. Elisha Malden, of Lexington, while going to Saluda drove over a cliff 180 feet high. Neither himself nor team was injured. A Logansport jury could not agree that the base ball club of that city play ed ball on Sunday when an admission

fee was charged. Ora Cook, of Rushville thought he -bid. a sure bead on a rabbit. He pulled the tnge cr BD <l another boy was shot, but not ' Henry Heffner has been attested as the leader of a gang of about thirty Terre Haute boys organized for the purpose of stealing from freight cars. The South B >nd toy factory, the larg*est of the kind in the United States, burned to the ground, Thursday afternoon. Loss $30,000; insurance $14,000. The I. D. A 8. railroad has passed into the hands of the Mackery syndicate and will be run as an adjunct to the P. D. A E. railroad, with headquarters at Evansville.

Kokomo is being scourged with scarlet fever. ' Twenty-nine cases of s scarlet .fever and three of diptheris x have been reported to the board health. f Wednesday evening, to conn.,, G«r„ WnICT shot by his brother JogepKi tabbit hunting, and died three hotire latet. Durins 1887 p'jTtnitk Were issued for 1,152 buildings at Indians .polis, to cost 'over *lhe re al estate transfers amounted to more than |1k,000,000. Mrs. McFadden, of North Vernon, . . left her 3 year-old boy at home while she made a brief visit to a neighbor. The child played With the fire and was fatally burned.

The claim of Clarkesville of being an independent territory was undoubtedlv bona fide, but the U. 8. Supreme Court, in decisions previously rendered, holds ifil rights have slept too long to be revived. The coal situation is serious all along the southern border, and many families are laying in a stock of wood to bridve over the cold snap. Manufactories may be compelled to ran short dr shut down entirely. " ...... - An ingenious theft was committed on the farm of John Zulauf. near Jeffersonville. Thieves carried off the entire field of corn in shock, leaving just stalks enough to make it appear like theorigi- £ alahock was still standing.

‘ John Dankhoff, of Cla-.ke county, heard a strange notoe while coming home, Christmas eve. He was frightened and got out his own dogs and those of John Fisher. Retnhiing, a panther attacked them, mutilating the dogs. The men fled. _ ' George Foglesdng.a "well know n farmer who mysteriously disappeared from his home, six miles east of Shelby vide, six months ago, deserting his wife and family, haa been heard from. He is herding cattle in Montana with the thermometer thirty degrees below zero, ami wants to get home. The alleged tally-sheet forgers of Marion county are soon to have another trial. Senator Voorhees has volunteered his services in behalf of the defense and the same have been accepted, I John K. Briggs, of Sullivan, ami Judge Montgomery, of Washington, D. C., have also tendered their services. Among tttriothdrattorney? sense are Judge. McNutt,'Congressman Bynam and Jason B. Brown. Captain Cyrus Virgus, a pioneer citizen of Logansport, died Monday evening. He was born in Vttginia in 1793, and removed frpm Corydon, Ind., to Logansport in 1828. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and an eye witness to the death of Tecumseh. For several years he has been the only survivor of the battle of the Thames. He sent sons to the Mexican war and in the war four of the rebellion lost six sons. He has been a Free Mason since 1814. The annual report of the Northern Prison was made to the Governor, Friday. It showed the institution to be in a good condition, with a fine state of discipline, and likewise that the use of the “cat” bad been abolished. There are at present 634 prisoners, 63 less than at this time last year. The total receipts of the prison for the year were 1120,35815, and the expenditures $lO2 245 56, leaving net earnings of $18,107. The average cost of mainte-

nance of each convict per day has been 87 9 10 cents. There have been thirteen deaths during the year. Warden Murdock suggests that the social conditions of the times imperatively demand, for the absolute reformation of the prisoners, a classification and separation of. convicts. Prof. E. C. M. Hobbs, a professor in the American Normal College at Logansport, and an assistant superintendent of a Sunday school, has been suspected for some time of using the funds of the college for his private use. An investigation was made, Tuesday, and it was soon discovered that the suspicions were well founded. How much he thus secured unlawfully is not nor can not be known, H? would also solicit subcriptions for educational journalsand pocket the money. He borrowed from the students without ever repaying, and by other acts showed himself' to be a bad man. He fled the city. About six months ago he married an estimable young lady of Salem, Ind.

The Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee has i- sued the call for the meetings of the county and district conventions, for the puipose of electing the new members of the several committees. The county conventions are called to meet on Saturday, the 21st of January, at which the new county committees are to be selected and delegates from each voting precinct to ths district conventions. neße ji 8 . Mrict conventions are meeton t he 2d lof February select the members of the new SUfe Cent.’ a l Committee. Thig«ommitteeis to meet in Indianapolis on the 21st of February and organize. Districts in the Northern part of the S:ate are called to meet at t’je following places: Sixth District, Richmond; Eighth District, Terre H ante; Nine District, Noblesville, Tr Qth District, Logansport; Eleventh District, Manion; Twelfth District Auburn: Thireenth District, Gosh .en.

A Strange Case.

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Change. .481 Thursday night, while We were Xthd asleep in Our bed, Our wife awoke Us with the startling information that something was going on in the backyard, We at once sprang out of Our'b&l to investigate. Hastily putting ons portion of Our clothes —the suit made by Weston, the popular tailor - We moved through the various rooms in Our residence until reaching the kitchen. There We found the window wide open. The following diagram will explain matters to Our readers more clearly:

: W. D. 8. : \ T. B. W. i «««»-» • •«••••«.*•*» W—Window. D—Door. S—Sink. T—Table. ' B—Broom. W-We.. , The open window stared Us in the face as We stood there ready to sell Our life dearly. There is nothing of the coward about Us. Seeing nothing, and herring no further suspicious noises, We advanced to the window and closed it, and finally returned to Our bed. Who raised that window? What for? Was the object to murder Us and Our wife? Who was the villain? Which way did he escape? It will ever remain a bloody mystery. __ _ j _ i

THE NEXT WORLD.

. —— Things Which the Rye Hath Not Seen Nor the Ear Heard. ■ The Splendora of Kurth But hi a Failing Dre»m--Thrre ii Cheer and Comfort Beyond ihe«rave for Those Who Love God. 4 Rev. [Dr. [Talmage preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle ofi the Ist. Subject, “The Opining Glory;” text, I. Cor,; ii., 9; “Bye hath not seen.nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of , mad, ths things which God hath J prepared for them that love Him.” He said: Eighteen liunfired and eighty eight! i How strange it looks and how strange it' sounds! Not oply is the past year dead buttlie century is dying. Only twelve more long breathsand the old giant will have expired. None of the past centuries will be present at the obsequies. Only the twentiatti centtity wm See the nineteenth buried. As all the years are hastening past,and all our lives on earth will soon he ended, I propose to cheer myself and cheer you with the glories to come, which Shall utterly eclipse all the glories past; for mv (ext tells us that eye hath not seen nor ear heard anything like the advancing splendors. The city of Corinth has been called the

Paris of antiquity. Indeed, for splendor the world holds no such wonder to-day. It stood on an isthmus washed bv two sea-, the one sea bringing the commerce of Europe, the other sea bringing the •ommerce ot Asia. From her wharves, in the construction of which whole kmgdbms had been absor bed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy yards of the world. Huge handed machinery, such as modern invention can not equal, lifted ships fro n the season oneside and transported them on trucks across the isthmus and sat them down in the sea on the other side. The revenue officers of the city went down through the olive groves that lined the beach to collect ts tariff from all nations. The mirth of all people sported in her Isthmian games, and the beauty of all lands sat in her theaters. walked her porticos, and threw itself bn the altar of her stupendous dis-

sipations. Column, and statue, and temple bewildered beholder. There were white marble fountains into which, from apertures at the side, there rushed waters every-where known for health-giving qualities. Around these-basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architecture: while standing, as if to guard the costly display,was a statue of Hercules of burnished Cdrinthain brass, Vases of terracotta adorned -the cemeteries of the dead—vaces so costly that Julius Cmser was not satisfied until he had captured them for Rome. Armed officials’ the Corintharii, paced up and down to see that no statue was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no bas relief touched. From the edge of the city a hill arose, with its magnificent burden of columns, and towers, and temples, (one thousand slaves waiting at one shrine.) and a citadelso thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is a hean of sand compared with it. Amid all that Strength and magnificence Corinth stood and defied the world. Oh! it was not to rustics who had never seen any thing grand that Paul uttered this text. They had Heard the best music that had come from the best instruments in a l the world; they had heard songs floating from morning porticos and melting in evening gioves; they had passed their whole lives among pictures, and sculpture, and architecture, and Corinthian brass, which had been molded and shaped until there was no chariot wheel in whjch it had not sped, and no tower in which it had not glittered, and n'o gateway that it had not adorned. Ahl it was a bold thing for Par to stand there amid all that and say: “ All this is nothing. These sounds ‘.nat come from the temple of Neptune are not music as compared with the harmonies of which I speak. These waters rushing in the basin of Pyrene ai£ not pure. These athtues of Bacchus and Mei'Cdiy aTe exquisite. Your citadel of ACfbcorinthus is not strong compared with that which I offer to the poorest slave that puts down his burden at th a t brazen gate. You Corinthians Yiink this is a splendid city ; you' 1 think you have heard all sweet sounds and seen all beautiful sights, bjit I tell you

eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the thingswhich God hath prepared for them that love him,” You see my text fifets fourth the idea that, however exalted our ideas may be of heaven, they come far short of the reality, fjome men have been cal cu’ating how many furlongs long and wide is the New Jerusalem; and they have calculated how many inhabitants there are on the earth; how long the earth will probably stand, and then they come to this estimate; that, after all the nations have been gathered to heaven, there W’U be room for each soul—a room, sixteen feet leng and fifteen feet wide. It would not be large enough for me. lam glad to know that no human estimate is sufficient to take the dimensions. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,” nor arithmetics calculated.

I first remark that we can in this world get no idea of health of heaven. When you were a child and you wert out in the morning, how you bounded along the road or street; yon had never felt sorrow or sickness. Perhaps 'a‘er. yon felt a glow in your cheek, and a eprinv in your step, and an exuberance of spirits and a c!ea nets of eye that made you thank God you were permitted to live. The nerves were harpstrings, and the sunlight a doxoiogy, and the rustling leaves were the rustling of the robes of a great crowd rising up to praise the Lord. You thought that you knew what it was to be well, but there is no perfect health on earth. The disease of past generations came down to us. The airs that float now upon the earth are not like those which floated above Paradise. They are charged with impurities and distempers. The most elastic and robust health of earth, compared with that which those experience before whom the gates have -.been opened is nothing but sickness and emaciation. Look at that soul standing before the throne. On; earth she was a life long invalid. See her step now, and hear her voice notfr. Catch, if you can. one breath of that celestial air. . Health inall the pulses—health of vision; health of spirits; immortal health. No racking cough, no sharp

■ pleurisies, no consuming fevers, no exhausting pains, no hospitals of wounded men. Health swinging in the air; health flowing in at the streams; health ! blooming on the banka No headaches, Ino sideaches, no backaches. That child I that.died in the agonies of croup, hear her voice now ringing in the anthem. That old man that wen. bowed down with the infirmities of age, see him walk*noW with the step'bf an immortal athlete l -forever young again.? Thar, night wnen the needle woman fainted away in the garret, a wave of the heavenly air resuscitated her forever. For everlasting years tohave neither -ache, nor pain, nor weakness, Hos fatigue. I remark, further, that we can, in this world, get no just idea of the splendors of heaven. John tries to describe them. He 'tafs-“the twelve gates are twelve pearls,” and that “the foundations of the wall are garnished with all I manner of precious stones.” As we stand locking through the telescope of St. John, we see a blaze of amethyst, and pearl, and emerald, and sardonyx, and chryspprasus, and sapphire, a mountain of light, a cataract of color, a sea of glass, and a city like the sun. John bids us look again, and we sbe thrones;; thrones of the prophets, thrones of the patriarchs, thrones of the angels, thrones of the apostles, thrones of the martyrs, throne ot Jesus —throne of God. An we turn round to see the glory and it is a throne! Thrones! Thrones!

John bids us look again, and we see the great procession of redeemed passing: Jesus on a white horse, leads the march, and all the armies of heaven following on white horses. Infinite cavalcade passing, passing; Empires pressing into line, ages following ages. Dispensation tramping on after dispensation, Glory in the track of glory. Europe* Asia, Africa, North and South America pressing into lines. Islands of sea shoulder to shoulder. Generations before the flood following generations after the flood, and as Jesus rises at the head of the great host and waves His sword in signal of victory, all crowns are lifted, and all hallelujahs chanted, and some cry, “Glory to God Most High,” and some, “Hosanna to the son of David,” and some, “Worthy is the lamb that was slain”—till all exclamations of endearment and homage in the vocabularly of heaven are exhausted, and there comes up surge after surge of

“Amen! Amen! and Amen!” Skim from the summer waters the brightest sparkles, and you will get no idea of the sheen of the everlasting sea. Pile up the splendors of earthly cities, and they would not make a stepping stone by which you might mount to the city of God. Every house is a palace. Every step a triumph. Every covering of the head, a coronation. Every meal a banquet. Every stroke from the tower is a wedding-bell. Every day is a jubilee, every hour a rapture, and every moment an ecstacv. I remark further, we can get no idea on earth of the reunions of heaven. If you have ever been across the seas, and met a friend or even an acquaintance in some strange city, you remember how your blood thrilled, and how glad you werd to see hirfi. What will be our joy, after we have passed the seas of death, to meet in the bright city of the sun those from whom we have long been - separated! After we have been away from our friends ten or fifteen years and we come upon them we see how differently they look. The hair has turned, and wrinkles have dome in their faces, and we say: “How you have changed!” But oh, when we stand before the throne, all care gone from the face, all marks of sorrow disappeared, and feeling the joy of that blessed land, me thinks we will say to each other with an exultation we can not now imagine: “How you have changed!” In this world we only meet part. It is good-by, good-by. Farewells floating in the air. We hear it at the rail-car window and steamboat wharf—-good-by. Children lisp it and old age answers it Sometimes we say in a light way—“ Good-by”—and sometimes with anguish in which the soul breaks down. Good by ! Ah| that is the word that ends’ the Thanksgiving banquet: that is the word that comes in to close the Christmaschant." Good by,gocd ; by!-But not so in heaven. Welcomes in the air, welcomes at the gates, welcomes at the house of many mansions—but no goodby, That group is constantly being

augmented. They are going up from, our circles of earth to join it —little voices to-join the anthem; little hands to take hold in the great home circle; little feet to dance in the eternal glee; > little crowns to be cast down before, the feet of Jesus. Our friends are in two groups —a group thjs side of the river and a group on the other side of the river. Now there goes one from' this to that, and another from this to that, and soon we will all be gone over. How many of your loved ones have already entered upon that blessed place? If I should take a paper and pencil, do yon think 1 could put them all down? Ah, my friends, the waves of Jordrn roar so hoarsely we can not hear the jdy on the other side when that groap “is augmentecL It is graves here, and coffins and hearses here. A little child’s mother had died, and they comforted her. They said* “Your mother has gone to heaven—don’t cry;” and the next day they went to the graveyard, and they laid the body of the mother down into

the ground; and the little girl came .up to the verge of the grave, and, , looking down at the bodv of her mother, said: “Is this heaven?” Oh, we have no idea what heaven is. It is the grave here—it is darkness here —but there is merrymaking yonder. Methinks when a ... ul arrives some angel takes it around to show it the wonders of that blessed place. The usher-angel says to the newly-arrived: “These are the martyrs that perished at Piedmont; these were torn to pieces at the Inquisition; this is the throne of the great Jehovah; this is Jesus.” Ohl to stand in IDs presence! That will be heaven! Ob! to put our hand in that hand w hich was wounded for us on the cross—O to go around amid the groups of the redeemed and shake hands with the prophets,and apostles, and martyrs, and with our own dear, beloved ones! That will .be’ the great reunion; we cannot imagine it now, our loved ones seem so .ar away. When we are in trouble and lonesome, they don't seem to come to us. We go on the banks of the Jordan and call across to them but they don t seem to hear We say, “Is it well with the child? Is it well with the loved ones?” and we listen to hear if any voice comes back over the waters. None! none! Unbelief says, “They are dead and they are annihilated.” ,but, blessed be God we have a bible that tells us -- • ’ -’ I. - - --T >- ‘

different. We open it and ire And they are neither dead nor annihilated—that never were so much alive as now—that they are only waiting for our coming, and that we shall join them .on the other side of the river. Ob, glorious reunion! we can not grasp -it now. ‘‘Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heprt « man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.” Oh what a place of it will bel I wish in our closing hymn to day w* might catch an echo that slips from the gates. Who knows but that when the heavenly door opens to day to let some soul through there may come forth the strain of the jubilant voices until we catch it? Ob, that as the song drops down from heaven, it might meet half way a song coming up from earth. They rise for the doxology, ail the multitude of the blest! Let us rise with them; and so at this hour the joys ot the Church on'earth and the joys of the Church in heaven will mingle their" chalices, and the dark apparel of our mourning will seem to whiten into the spotless raiment of the skies. God grant that through the rich mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ we may all get there.

MAKING THE BUDGET.

• f - Information Set Forth in the Esti mates of Expenditures. A Lot of Queer Thiagi the Government Pays for—A Big Nation Must Give Attention to Many Small Thinj, ZU Wash. Cor. Indianapolis. News. The budget of estimates which the Secretary of the Treasury sends to Congress with the beginning of every session shows a good many small items, among them are the following: Secretary Bayard urges the appropriation of 16,000 to build a wharf at Bridge Creek Landing, on the Potomac, be cause it is impossible to erect a monument at the birthplace of Washington until this is done. General Bennett asks that $16,000 be appropriated to build a reservoir at

Benecia Arsenal, California, which could be filled by the spring floods, and so supply water during the year. Benecia is on the San Francico Bay, which is salt water. During the spring floods, however, the water in the bay is fresh. Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller estimates that he will need next year 37,000,000 sheets of stamps. The United States uses 2,865,000 sheets of snuff stamps annually. Chief Clerk Lipscomb, of the Patent Office, asks for 25,000 engraved letters patent for the coming year. Commissioner Black says that he shall need 100,000 pension certificates printed •for the year. —"■■■ ■ The United States pays $626,560 a year for janitors. " " '' " ' The District of Columbia expects to receive during the next fiscal year sll,000 for brass dog tags. The War Department asks for $2,000 to expend on the Confederate cemeteries near Columbus, O. These are the only Confederate cemeteries receiving any attention from the Government. Secretary Lamar thinks the Pacific Railroad Commission will need SIOO,OOO for the coming year. The Consul at'Aix la Chapelle asks to have his salary increased from $1,500 to $2,500 because it is the most expensive place to live in Germany. The Gertnam soldiers quartered there, he says, are allowed double compensation for quarters and board. The salary of the Consul at Panama is $4,000. Secretary Bayard .asks that it be increased by'^l,ooo, because of the importance of the place now when the entire world is giving so much atten tion to the subjectofisthmuthiantransit, and the United States more than any

other nation must be fully informed as to what is going on. Besides the malarial dangers there involve heavy expense in life insurance. The State Department asks for $5,000 next year for transporting the remains of ministers and consuls to their homes in the United States. For the re-survey of the international boundary between' the United States and Mexico SIOO,OOO is asked. To survey the A laska boundary SIOO,000 is asked. Td watch and frustrate the movements of Haytian and Cuban insurgents the United States must spend $25,000 during the next fiscal year. Eighty dollars a year is asked for to pay the King of Siam ground rent for the United States Legation building in Bangkok. The difficulty of finding any one who will keep the mission to Liberia justifies the recommendation that the salary for that post be increased from $4,000 to $5,000.

The Governor of Alaska asks for $4,000 to convert what is . known as the Club House at Bitka into a temporary jail. Colonel John M. Wilson, who is' superintendent of public buildings and grounds in Washington, says that Mr* Brown, his chief gardener, is responsible for the propagation, every year of 290,000 plants, and asks for an increase of 1200 in his salary. For putting flowers in *tbe seventysix large vases which General Meigs has nr the pension- building, $16,000 is asked. The compiling of. the Congressional Directory costs 11,200 a year. The police in the Capitol cost SIB,OOO avear. - ; ' The mileage of seventy-six senators is $83,000 a year. ......... ~.

The mileage of members of the House of Representatives is $1.10,654. ! The White House expenses, including Colonel Lamont’s salary, that of the telegraph operator, steward, doorkeeuers, messenger, watchmen, stationary, care of horses and wages of coachmen, are $41,864 a year. The entire cost to the United Stjes for the Civil Service Commission for the next year is put at $41,160. For the present year 129,800 Were appropriated for the commission. It costs the United States $90,000 a year for photo-lithograph drawings of patents issued every week. The General Land Office asks an increase for all expenses of public Purveys irom $19,900 to $142 400 for the coming fiscal year. Secretary Lamar says the land survey service of thb country is in a deplorable state of delay and overwork. An appropriation of $lB 000 is recommended for two inspectors of consulates to be appointed by the President, at $1 000 each, with traveling expenses at SIO,OOO. .

To keep and feed prisoners in China, Corea, Japan, Siam and Turkey, at 75 cents a day, $9,000 is called for. The United States pays $1,500 a year for rent of a prison for American convicts in Turkey, $750 for a a prison in Shanghai, and $75 for one at Kanagawa in Japan. For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts throughout the United States it takes $30,600 a year. Ever since the general order of July 21, 1867, was fssued, requiring all army posts to fire a morning and evening gun the powder used has been taken from the large supply left on hand from the late war. During the past year this supply was practically exhausted, and thw firing of the morning and evening gun had to be discontinued last March at all the posts except the Military Academy and schools of instruction at Fort Monroe and Fort Leavenworth.

Three hundred and forty-four cadets at West Point cost $9,249 a year. Plumes for cadet officers of the first-class costs $75,000 a year. The pension budget for the coming yea' estimates a total outgo of $83,167,500, against $76,312,400 this-year. The river and harbor bill next year calls for $12,213,470. The estimate for. the Congressional Record during the nr-xt fiscal year is $169,919. ;** For headstones for soldiers’ graves $60,000 is asked. From the statement of proceeds from the sale of Government property it appears that Norman J. Colman, Commissioner of Agriculture, received $670 last summer for pasturing on Government lands. , Hon. Leverett Salton°tall realized $375 from waste paper sold at Boston. That astute New Enelander, B. B Smalley, took in $1.95 for old wire. Land Commissioner Sparks turned over $2 71 for the sale of his annual report. Adjutant General Drum took in $1,660 for waste paper. John S. Mosby sold a government book case for sl3 82. Public Printer Benedict realized 40 } cents from the sale of old boxes. Superintendent Fox, of the Philadelphia mint sold coin clippings and ashes to the amount of $23 87. An old light house in New Jersey was sold for SSO 40 E.OGraves,StiperintendHnt of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, worked off a lot of old cards left over from the Washington monument dedication for $5. Adams Express Company was paid $47,219 for transporting gold and silver coin, notes and bonds. The John Shillito Company made 197,150 oin boxes for $7,146. The United States had to pay $390 a member of the New York Clearing House Association. Uncle Sam had to pay $22 for. New York directories,, and sll 46 for Philadelphia directories. -

Queer Dishes of Various Nations. a puppy stew is a royal feast in 3anzibar. Polynesians are very fond of shark’s flesh quite raw. The New Brunswickers find a special charm in the loose nose of the moose deer. Sharks’ fins and fish maws, unbatched ducks and chickens, seaslugs, and birds nests are all highly prised by the omnivorous Chinese. • In Havana the shark is openly sold in the market. The Gold Coast negroes

are all fond of sharks, as they are fond of hippopotami and alligators. One species of bat is considered good eating by the natives of the islands of the Indian archipelago, Malabar, etc, It is called by naturalists the edible bat, and is said to be white, tender, and delicate. Bears’ paws were long a German delicacy, and the flesh is held equal or superior to pork, the fat being as white as snow. The tongue and hams are cured, but the head is accounted worthless and. thrown away. The Parisians eat horse flesh, and at -the q-rhihitmn nf 1851 M. Brocchieri showed and sold delicious cakes, patties and bonbons of bullock’s blood, rival- - ing the famous matrons glaces of the confiseries of the boulevards. | Don’t waste soft corn; feed it out.