Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — Page 2

%bc jtamblican. Geo. E. Makkhali, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

; . A HBWM of Ohicsgo,-MT. D. 0. Felt, has invented a machine which will add, subtract, multiply or divide without error. It is said to work perfectly, and will secure a saving of time in commercial’operations, quite like- a type-writer in the hands of letter writers. Babbage’s calculating machine, which for generations Was the wonder of philosophers, would, if invented now, be only a nine days’ talk. Mr. Felt’s invention will be of vastly more use than Babbage’s, but will draw less oratorical attention. Meanwhile Edisolrturas from machinery to sanitary discoveries, and proposes by science to cordon yellow fever. Science Sis emphatically king. . Steps were taken at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to induce Congress to take action needful to the preservation of the most important arcba-o- ---’ logical remains in America. It was agreed to undertake to secure from spoliation or injury in any way Chaco -Canyon, Canyon De Chelly and two or three more, as well as ruins in Canyon \fan*Mg and elsewhere, the famous round towers of Mancas, and the Cavate Lodges in the Cinder Cone, in Arizona. Beside these groups of ruins there are isolated remains in New Mexico, Utah and Arizona, which ought riot to be despoiled in any manner of their value. The committee appointed fay the American Association consists of two women, who in archspological science stand foremost, Miss Alice Fletcher and Mrs. T. Stevenson. They have already a bill before Congress. The object is the preservation of such objects as we have named from ever passing out of the public domain. It should be promptly passed.

Was Lincoln warranted in suspending habeas corpus during the rebellion? Mr. Sydney G. Fisher, in Political Science Quarterly, says he was not. It is difficult for any one to argue soundly to the contrary. The power to suspend the writ is plainly lodged by the Constitution in Congress, and not with the President But the action taken by Lincoln was acquiesced in partly through confidence in his intentions and more through the ignorance of the people as to the real tenure of the power. There is no question but that Lincoln found it necessary to assume the power in order to save the Union. Washington was not the only place where Judges promptly discharged every one arrested for treasonable practices on a writ of habeas corpus. with discretion and honesty. It is nonsense now to show that he exceeded his constitutional prerogative. If another such' war should arise God give us another Lincoln, and let him suspend the habeas corpus if need be.

.-Xb&Mau Who Looked Like Grant. Kansas City Journal. Col. Zeb Ward, the famous Southerner, who has been W arden of nearly every penitentiary in the South,' 1 was frequently taken for Gen. Grant The resemblance between them was striking. About ten years ago Gen. Grant visited litti^dffiock,-where Cql. Wafd-lives. The people went there from hundreds of miles around to see him. It was arranged that the General should stand in the corridor of the State House and shake hands with the people as they passed through. The General had been doing a good deal of handshaking for several days, and it did not take long for his arm to give out. He complained of bis trouble, and Col. Ward, hearing it, said: “General, just swap coats and hats with me and I'll take your place and these people will never know the difference.” The General did so and. Col. Zeb took his place. Col. Zeb has a grip of iron and he made many a fellow jump up and down while he shook his hand. Col. Zeb, who is a native Kentuckian gave them the genuine grip of his State. In consequence the people agreed that Gen. Grant was the best hand-shaker they had ever met. Col. Ward was getting along splendidly in his impersonation of the “Old Commandor,” and had nearly completed the job when a big strapping negro stepped up and proffered his hand. As he did so he recognized Col. Ward. The negro had served a term in the penitentiary while°the Colonel was Warden of it. “Yese can’t fool dis chile. Yaw yese can’t Kemil Zib. Zese no Giner’l Grant,” roared the negro. “Yud’s Massa Zib Ward.” , ' Col. Ward had no more hands to shake ttfterAhis, <nd-great indignation was espiessed among the. crowd, most of whom were negroes.

A Chicago gentleman of wealth and eccentricity has four fine children, the eldest 10 years old, and he has named them One, Two, Three and Four. - His explanation of thiß curious nomenclature is that he had so often seen the great dissatisfaction of children with names bestowed upon them that lie resolved to simply number his offspring until they were 12 years old and then let them select their own names. The children are pleased with the idea, and are great students of names. . .

DO THYSELF NO HARM.

TIMELY THOUGHTS ON THE PREVALENCE OF SUICIDE. The AwerlfAn Conirlent* Jiadljr tn Need of Toning Up—Uod'i Em* are Agatu.t Seirxieeirtictioß. y> Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday: Text: Acts xvi, INV2I. He said: In olden time, and where Christianity had -riot interfered with it, suicide was considered honorable and a sign ol courage. Demosthenes poisoned himself when told that Alexander’s Embassador had demanded the surrender-of the Athenian orators. Isocrates killed himself rather tfian surrender to Philip of Macedon. Cato, rather than submit to Julius Ceeser, took his own life, and after three times his wounds had been dressed tore them open *nd perished.. Mithridates killed himself rather than submit to Pompey, the conquerer. Hannibal destroyed his life by poison from his ring, considering life unbearable. Lycurgus a suicide, Brutus a suicide.After the disaster of Moscow, Napoleon always carried with him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard the Ex-Emperor arise, put something in a glass and drink it, and soon after the groans aroused all the attendants and it was only through the utmost medical skill he was resuscitated from the stupor of the opiate. Times have changed, and yet the American conscience needs to be toned up on the subject of suicide. Have you seen a paper in the last month that did not announce the passage out of life by one’s own behest? Defaulters, alarmed at the idea of exposure, quit life precipitately. Men losing large fortunes go out of tile world because they can not endure earthly existence. Frustrated affection, domestic infelicity, dyspeptic impatience, anger, remorse, envy, jealousy, destitution, misanthropy, are considered sufficient causes for fmsconding from this life by Paris green, by laudanum, by belladona, by Othello’s dagger, by halter, by leap from the abutment of a bridge, by fire arms. More cases of felo dese in the last two years than in any two years of the world’s existence, and more in the last month than in any twelve months. The evil is more and more spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed some doubt as to whether there was really any thing wrong about quitting this life when it it becomes disagreeable, and there are foiind in respectable circles people apologetic for the crime which Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you before I get through that Buicide is the worst of all crimes, and I shall lift a warning unmistakeable. But in the early part of this sermon I wish to admit that seme of the best Christians that have ever lived have commited self-de-struction, but always in demedtia, and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than I have of the Christian who dies in his bed in the delirium of typhoid fever. While the shock of the catastrophe is very great, I charge all of those who have had Christian friends under cerebal aberration step off the bounderies of this life to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of their dazed and frightened state -Into perfect safety. How Christ- feeßtoward the insane you may know from the kind way He treated the demoniac of Gadara and the child lunatic, and the potency with which He hushed tempests either of sea or braiu. While we make this merciful and righteous allowance in regard to those who were plunged into mental incoherence, I declare that that man who in Tuc use 01 ms reason; Try ltls own act, snaps the bond between his body and his soul goes straight into perdition. Shall I prove it? Revelation xxi., 8: “Murderers shall have their part in the lake which burnetii with fire and brimstone.” Revelation xxii., 15': “Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers.” You do not believe the New Testiment? Then, perhaps, you believe the Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt not kill.” Do you say all these passages refer to the taking of the life of others? Then I gsk you if you are not as responsible for your own life as for the life of others? God gave you a special trust in your life. He made yotl the custodian of you life as He made you the custodian of no other life He gave you as weapons with which to defend it two arms "jo strike back assailants, two eyes to watch for invasion, and a natural love of life, which ought to be ever on the alert. Assassination of others is a mild crime compared with the assassination of yourself, because in the latter ease it a tareaohwy to an especial trust; it is the surrender of a castle you were especially appointed to keep; it is treason to a natural law, and it is treason to God added to ordinary murder. To show how God in the Bible looked upon this crime, I point \on to the rogue’s picture gallery in some parts of the Bible—the pictures of the people who have committed unnatural crime: Here is the headless trunk of Saul on the- walls of Bathshan. fjere is the man ; who chased little David —ten feet in stature chasing four. Here is the man who consulted a clairvoyant, Witch of Endor. Here is a man who, whipped in battle, instead of surrendering his sword with dignity, as many a man has done, asks his servant to slay him, and when the servant declines, then the giant plants the hilt of the sword in the earth, the sharp point sticking upwards, andhe throws his body on it and expires, the coward, the suicide.

A ll the good men and women of the Bible left to God the decision of their earthly terminus, and they could have said with Job, who had a right to commit suicide if any man ever had—what, his destroyed property, and his body all aflame with insufferable carbuncles, and every thing gone from his home except" the chief curee of it, a pestiferous wife, and four garrulous people pelting him with comfortless talk while he sits upon a heap of ashes scratching his scabs with a piece of broken pottery, yet crying out in triumph: “All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change comes.” Notwithstanding the Bible is against this evil, and the aversion which it creates by the loathsome and ghastly spectacle of those who have hurled themselves out of life, and notwithstanding Christianity is against it, and the arguments and the useful lives and the illustrious death of its disciples, it is a fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on the increase. What is I charge upon

infidelity and agnosticism this whole thing. If there be no hereafter, or if that hereafter be blissful without reference to how we. live and how we die, why not move back the folding doors between this world and the next? And when our ' existence here becomes troublesome why not pass right' over into elysium? Put- this down among your mest solemn reflections, and consider it after you go to your homes; there has never been a case of suicide where the operator was not either demented, and therefore irresponsible, or an infidel. I challenge all the ages, and I challenge thq whole universe. There never has been a case of selfdestruction while in full appreciation of his immortality, and of the fact that immortality would be glorious or wretched according * as he accepted Jesus Christ or rejected Him. You say it is a business trouble, or you say it is electrical currents, or it is this, or it is that, or it is the other thing. Why not go clear back, my friend, and acknowledge that in everv case, it is the abdication of reason or the teaching of infidelity,, which practically says: “If you

don’t like this life, go out of it, and you will land, either in annihilation, where there are no notes to pay, no persecutions to suffer, no gout to torment, or you will land where there will be every thing glorious and nothing to pay for it. Infiaelity always has been apologetic for self-immolation. After Tom Paine’s “Age of Reason” was published and wildly read there was a marked increase of self-slaughter. Ah! Infidelity, stand up and take thy sentencel In the presence of God and angels and men, stand up, thou monster; thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scarred with lust; thy breath foul witn the corruption of the ages. Stand up, Satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the nations, leper of the centuries! Stand up, thou monster Infidelity! Part man, part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand up and take thy sentence! Thy hands red with the blood in which thou hast washed, thy feet crimson with the human gore through which thou hast waded, stand up and take thy sentence! Down with thee to the pit and sup on the sobs and groans of families which thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed of knives which thou hast sharpened for others, and let thy music be the everlasting miserere of those whom thou hast damned! I brand the forehead of Infidelity with all the crimes of self-immolation for the last century on the part of those who had their reason.

My friends, if ever your life, through its abrasions and its molestations, should seem to be unbearable, and you are tempted to quit it by your own behest, do not consider yourself as worse than others. 'Christ himself was tempted to cast Himself from the roof of the temple; but as He resisted, so resist ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life instead of death. People who have had it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on the way. Remember that God keeps the chronology of your life with as much precision as He keeps the chronology of nations, your death as well as your cradle. Why was it that at midnight, just at midnight, the destroying angel struck the blow that set the Israelites free from bondage? The four hundred and thirty years were Up at twelve o’clock that night. The four hundred and thirty years were not up at eleven, and one o’clock would have been tardy and too late; The four hundred and thirty years were up at twelve o’clock, and the destroying angel struck the blow, and Israel was free. And God • knows j ust the hour when it is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. By His grace make not the worst of things, but the best of them. If you must take the pills, do not chew them. Your everlasting rewards will accord with yourearthly 'perturbations'’ " T jiiSt &8 CifltUS gUVO Yu Agrippa a chain of gold as heavy as had been a chain of iron. For the asking—and I do not know to whom I speak in this august assemblage, but tbe word may be especially appropriate—for your asking you may have the same grace that was give to the Italian martyr, Algerius, who, down in the darkest of dungeons, dated his letter from “the delectable ©rehard of the Leteine prison.” Anff remeßlber that this brief life of ours is surrounded by a rim—a very thin, but very important rim—and close up to that rim is a great eternity, and you had better keep out of it until God breaks that rim ana separates this from that. To get rid of the sorrows of earth, do not rush into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swarm of summer insects, leap not into a jungle of Bengal tigers.. There is a sorrowless world, and it is so radiant that the noon-day sun is only the lowest door-step, and the aurora that lights up our northern heavens, confounding astronomers as to what it can be, is the waving of the banners of the procession come to take the conquerers home from Church militant to Church triumphant, and you and I have ten thousand reasons for wanting to go there, but we will never get there either by self-immolation or impenitency. All our sins slain by the Christ who came to do that thing, we want to go in at just the time divinely arranged, and from a couch divinely spread, and then the clang of the sepulchral gates behind us will ( be overpowered by tbe clang of tha opening of the solid pearl before us. O, God, whatever others may choose, give me a Christian’s life, a Christian’s death, a Christian’s burial, a Christian’s immortality! .

The Liama and the Bridgeroom.

Philadelphia North American. A few days ago a newly-married couple, after making a round of the Garden, stopped in front of the llama’s inclosure, and John began feeding it with ginger cake. The bride was continually exhorting John to “give the beautiful animal more.” The animal had eaten several cakes when it grew frightened at something, and, raising its head, hawed and sent the ginger cakes mashed into dough, square into John’s face. The bride almost fainted, but, recovering herself, ran up to the Headkeeper Byrne, who was standing near convulsed with laughter,, and in an excited tone of voice, with team in her eyes asked if it was poisonous. It took half an hour to convince her it was not. An amatuer photographer attempted to take a photograph of the animal, and was about to uncover the lens when a shower of oats fell over and around him, proceeding from the mouth of “the innocent-looking creature.”

SOME ODD THINGS.

What is Baid to Be the largest railroad station in the world has recently been opened at Frankfort-on-the-Main. It covers an area of about 100,000 square feet and cost 113,000,000 marks. ~ * The latesttthing in barometers has three little landscapes representing a stormy, a fair and a variable sky. The rise or fall of the mercury causes a thin mica plate to cover or reveal these pictures in accordance with the indications. The collection of postage stamps recently exhibited in Boston is said to' o be worth neaidy SIOO,OOO. There were single stamps valued at SIOO each and several groups of six placed at SI,OOO. That the prices were not at all fancy was shown by the offer of SBO from a dealer for a blue envelope on which was a small stamp marked Bremen. The old tragedy of the hull and the locomotive was enacted near St. John, N. 8., the other day. A huge bull strayed on the Grand Southern railway just as a locomotive drawing a picnic appeared in sighs. Hedowered his head, pawed the ties, switched his tail, bellowed, and paid no attention to the frantic toots of from the engine. When the locomotive drew near the bull charged furiously. There was a bellow, a cloud of dust and steam, and then silence. When the smoke, dust, and steam rolled away the locomotive and the bull lay in the ditch the horns of the latter locked in the bars of the cowcatcher. The noble animal’s neck was broken. No one on the train was hurt.

A gentleman who attended the Charlestown, Ind., fair related recently how a great many persons secured whisky while at the place. The town does not afford a saloon, and an enterprising individual hit upon a novel plan for satisfying the thirsty. A load of watermelons was purchased, and upon the underside of each melon a plug was taken out of sufficient size to hold a half-pint flask, which was filled with a vile mixture claimed to be old Bourbon. The man located his wagon outside of the grounds and whenever a smile was wanted the customer paid 35 cents for a watermelon; which, on being opened, was found to contain the much desired bottle. Several persons who were not into the secret purchased melons were greatly astonished to find the flasks. Some of them are still wondering how they got there.

Said by the Little One.S

Teacher: “Can you recall a year that had a» very mild winter?” Scholar: “Yes; in the winter of 1867 my teacher was laid up sick in bed for two whole months.”—Texas Siftings. “Don’t you know, Emily, that it is not proper for you to turn around and look after a gentleman?” “But, mammar l was only looking to eee if ho was looking to see if I was looking.”—Fliegende Blatter. A 3-year-old comes running in the house with bis apron covered with dirt from playing in the yard. Mother: “Why, Martyn, look at your apron!” Martyn: “Wellßyelll Mamma, the dirt ' ■ eagafnL’’r»TmNew.-.i«--Yer-k~ World.

Paul has a sweetheart nafned Bertha. One day the following conversation between them was overheard: Paul: “Bertha, when we grow big we’ll get married together, won’t we?” Bertha: “Yes, indeed, Paul.” Paul: “How much do you love me, Bertha?” Bertha (after much thought): “As much as all out-doors.” Paul: “Yes, but, Bertha, I love you as much as heaven,” —Philadelphia Times. The unfortunate little girl at the blind asylum here-in Boston who was bora deaf, dumb, and blind, but has been taught to convey her thoughts by asking her teacher’s hand in hers and making signs, was playing with a big Newfoundland dog the other day, and for some moments held one of his paws. “Are you trying to talk with him?” asked the teacher. “What a funny idea,” 5 she answered. “Of course he can’t talk; he hasn’t got any hands.”—Boston Herald. • , .

Mr. Sousa, the conductor of the Marine band has a little daughter, who came breathlessly into the house a few Sundays ago exclaiming: “Isn’t it a sin to jump rope on Sunday,papa?” Certainly, my dear.?’ “Well, Birdie Wilson is out in front jumping rope and says it is not a sin, but I told her it is, and isn’t it, papa?” “Yes, darling. Then, with gTeat deliberation: “Course it’s a sin. Birdie is 7 and I am only 5, but I know more about sin than she does.” —New York World.

Beferring to the passage of the Retaliation Bill in the House the Toronto Globe says: “The whole business is disgraceful to Congress, but there is not a particle of use insisting on that point. Canadians must just possess their souls in patience, hope forthe best and inflnenceOttawa as much as possible to do whatever may honorably be done to avert the threatened evil. It is not improbable that the politicians of the Republic may be brought up with a round turn by the great decent element of the American people. Surely public opinion in the States is not so degraded that the country can be carried into a course of wanton aggression by two sets of con, temptible politicians competing for the hoodlum vote.” This is a rather cheerful view of the case. The mute ability of a man is shown at the deaf and dumb asylums.

CHAT ABOUT WOMEN.

I Mrro'wcd that tbe golden day was dead, .1' Its light no more the country-side adorning! But whilst I grieved, behold!—the East grew red With morning. I sighed that merry spring was forced to go And doff the wreath that did ao treH become her, f t-iT-ar. , But whilst I mnrmure 1 at her absence, lo !--- ’Twas summer., I mourned because the daffodils were killed By burning skies that scorched my early posies; ; But while for these I pined my hands were filled With roses. Half broken-hearted' I bewailed the end Of friendships than which none had once seemed nearer,. But whilst I wept I found a newer friend, * And dearer. Andthus I learned old pleasures arc estranged Only that something better may be given, Until at last we find this earth exchanged For Heaven. Mrs. Sheridan is still young, oeing but 35, and beautiful. Queen Victoria has had wicker baskets made for her cats to travel inR Queen Victoria is exceedingly fond of oat cakes and scones.

Miss Kittie C. Wilkins, of Idaho, is the owner of between ’ 700 and 800 horses. Mfss Flora Philips is secretary of the F. C. Electric Light Company at Rockford, 111. The Czarina is so passionately fond of dancing that she is called '“la Santerelle.” Mme. Moreau, who died in Paris the other day, made over SIOO,OOO by for-tune-telling. J. Ellen Foster resides at Clinton, la. She is her husband’s partner and professional counsel. Mary A. Livermore began her ministerial life in Chicago as pastor of the Univerealist Church. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has learned to speak French, Italian and modern Greek since her marriage. Miss Isabelle Darlington, daughter of the Pennsylvania Congressman, has marked oratorical ability. Th.e mother of Gen. Boulanger, who is a Welsh woman, has passed her 84th year. Mrs. E, J. Nicholson inherited the New Orleans Picayune ten years ago and has made the property signally successful. f

Miss Lottie Dodd, the champion tennis player of England, is 18 years old and has been an expert for eight years.Lady Eleanor Lambton, to whom Lord Robert Cecil, the third son of the Prime Minister, is engaged to be married,,has a fortune of $300,000. ' Miss Effie Harris, of Lake Eustis, Fla., aged 13, has such skill with the rifle that she thinks nothing of plugging a twelve-foot ’gator through the eye, or bringing derwtt-a bird from the top of-a tree. * A Massachusetts man offers to prove by statistics that seven-tenths of the marriage engagements that are broken are broken by women; that three widows remarry to one widower, and that two wives elope to one husband. well-known poet, has taken up the profession of letters. She has j ust published a volume of stories bf an evangelical character entitled “Cherryburn.” She is also author of a number of tracts. Mrs. Abigail P. Harrington, widow of the late John Harrington, and niece of Gen; Israel Putnam, of revolutionary fame, died in Boston recently at the advanced age of 90 years. .She was bom in Hinsdale, N. H., July 17, 1798, but has resided'the greater part of her life in Boston. She leaves two children—a daughter and a son.

—Sinceithas been made public that James L. Babcock will inherit $280,000 i he marries within the next five years he has been overwhelmed with letters, photographs, circulars from matrimonial bureaus, locks of hair, etc. He finds it unpleasant to jump into prominence in leap year. The Queen of England never sends her personal correspondence through the regular mail, as her subjects do. Every trivial communication, whether of a personal or a private nature, is delivered at its destination by a Queen’s messenger. She is the only European sovereign who does this. The other potentates are democratic enough to use the mails. Princess Sophie of Prussia, sister of Emperor Willliam, has been betrothed to Prince Constantine, crown Prince of Greece. The couple are respectively 18 and 20 years of age. The betrothal is one of the results of the emperor’s visit to Copenhagen, Prince Constantine being a grandson of the king of Denmark. While there has been no falling oft in the increase of female medical practitioners, the growth of the last three months would probably have been larger had not a goodly number of the medical neophytes been diverted to the study of the sister art, dehiitry, which has recently gained many recruits from the sex. In New York, particularly, the number of women matriculating at dental colleges is rapidly growing. The statistical crank has let himself loose again, and now turns up with the information that the seaside resorts this summer have had an average attendance of twenty-eight women to every man. There has, indeed, been a deplorable scarcity of men at all the resorts. At many of thehalls the ludicrous spectacle of a Bet composed of one man and I seven girls is common, and the entire set is not infrequently danced by girls.

ALMOST A PAPER AGE.

One of the Greatest Factors In Mod ern Industrial Development. ' Cleveland Leader. The president of the American Papei Makers’ Association has ‘ collected reliable data showing that the paper trade which stood twenty-first in rank among American manufacturers in 1880, 1 is now fourteenth, and that the capital invested has nearly doubled in the last eight years. The annual product has fai more than doubled in quantity, and in spite of lower prices is 75 per cent, greater in .value.- The number of employes » 40,000 against 24,500 in 1880, and the wages paid are more than twice the total in the last cennus year. The average per day for each worker was then $1.13, and now it is $1.50. These statistics simply demonstrate what every observing person must have noticed concerning the fast growing importance or paper as a factor in modern industrial development. Our age has been called the age of steel, the age of glass, the iron age, and has beeri christened from other great industries, but at the rate paper is booming the next generation may see-a paper age. When one considers the enormous importance of paper as a means of disseminating intelligence it can scarcely be ranked, even now, secand to any other branch of manufactures in worth to mankind. It is used for making car wheels, lining walls, for numerous household utensils, and in a constantly multiplying list of artes and industries. We may yet see buildings wholly of paper erected in the ordinary course of business. The world reads more than ever before, and the material on which books and periodicals are printed is bound to become more and more a vital element in the civilization of tbe age, whether it find 3 many new channels of usefulness or not. Paper may crowd brick and wood and metal out of some fields.now occupied by them, but if not it is sure of a vast and increasing demand in its own peculiar sphere.

How Bloom’s $200 Has Grown.

Chicago Herald. Leopold Bloom, the daring speculator of the Board of Trade, is perhaps the wealthiest young man on ’Change. He was born in Clinton, La., May 22, 1858. When he was 20 years old he was the proud possessor of S2OO in currency. He was down town" one bright afternoon, and while in the old Board of Trade alley he hought a call on 100,000 bushels of eorn. He went home, had , a good night’s rest, and when he awoke next morning and went down town he found himself just SIO,OOO better off than wh<m he had retired the night before, hostilities having been decided on and corn taking a big jump. That S2OO made him an even $50,000 in six days. He took his profits and made some investments in real estate, which proved even more profitable than his corn deal, for Chicago property was then a drug on the market, and Bloom was just sharp enough to anticipate the city’s rapid growth. From that time on Bloom became a noted plunger on the Board —not always, of course, making make great losses. To show how much of a plunger he is, it may be cited that at one time last winter Bloom carried 1,500,000 bushels of corn, 18,000 tierces of lard, and 40,000 barrels of pork, the whole netting him a clear profit of over $140,000 when he finally sold. Leopold Bloom is worth in tangible property and real estate over $850,000.

What They Are Worth.

How much are they worth? Cleveland is rated at $200,000 —-$10,000 to be deducted for campaign purposes. Harrison ib worth probably somewhat less than that. Fisk is worth considerable more, at any rate over a quarter of a mfllion. Belva LockwoOd is not quite poor; but Curtiss,candidate of the American party, is a two-millionaire. They are all expected to contribute liberally in money, time and hand-shaking, as well as personal influence. , But it must be said of American that no man or woman, was ever nominated for the Presidency because of his or her money. The attempt to bring this element into the estimate has always been frowned down at nominating conventions.' It would be a dangerous experiment. The temperament of the American people is such that the result would probably be disastrous to any candidate supposed to be preferred for the sake of his barrel.

Cruelty to Children.

Buffalo Courier. A happy father out on Massachusetts street, had his first child, a three month old,vaccinated day before yesterday. “By George, isn’t that great!” he exclaimed as he saw the doctor at work. “By Jove, why I guess I’ll call her by that name! Vaccine! Why that is a girl’s name, ain’t it? Vaccine Virus Saunders! Capital! People will think we are descended "fromsoffieold Roman-family. Dear lit- r tie Vaccine!” The mother strongly objected to this appellation for her firstborn. She wanted it named Imogene, but the father was determined and Vaccine Virus Saunders she will go through life. Her deminutive name will probably he “Vacksy.” Detroit Free Press: When a man gets up and tosses his arms about, and keys up his vdice shouts that all wealth comes froiu-the soil, it is evident that he never heard of fish. [ Notes for travelers —Bank notes are the best.