Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1889 — Page 2

Gao. E. Marshall, Publisher. , RgNSSELAER, ♦ INDIANA

Olrio hmtwo candidxt»3 for ths place oa the Supreme bench male vacant by thedeath of Stanley Matthews- For the past sixty years the Buckeye State has bad a son in the Supreme Court, John McLean, who was appointed in 1829, being the firat of them. When McLean died in 1881, Noah H. Swayne, of Ohio, took his place and when Swayne retired in 1881, Stanley Matthews of the. same State, succeeded him. It is natural that Ohio should desire to holdrits place in the Nation’s most exalted tribunal, but some other States, which have never yet had one of their citizens on the Suconsulted in the selection. I Edison believes that the time is /coming when transportation through! the air will be as common as terrestrial carriage. There will be rai’roads lines' in the sky—or steamship lines more properly—trains of convoy crossing the continent. He sees but one drawback to the adoption of the practice, and that is the ease it will afford criminals to escape from any point where they have committed a crime. It will not then be possible to intercept them with wires as new. He thinks we shall then see more crime. But Tom forgets that the inventions which we owe to him and others enable us now to detect and prevent crime quite as readily as when criminals could only escape on horseback or afoot. Science keepsapace of need and demand. 'Murder and ali other crimes 11 will ih< mselves out.” It sounds like a squib from a comic paper to read that a learned clergyman, the Bishop of Lincoln, is on trial in England for ritualism and that his case is made to depend more or less on canon law dating back to 341 years after our Lord. If the church courts must search' the records of 1900 years to discover exactly what gowns may be worn and what number of limes the knees may be crooked, and in what direction the face must be turned at a given moment, then the populace will be pretty well turned away from the church altogether, while the contestants quarrel. Tweedledee and tweedledum are equally valuable to purify society and save the world. What is wanted is more practical common sense and a consideration of the needs of humanity to be lifted from its every day miseries and temptations. One of the happiest devices for the public schools to secure good habits was made a few years ago, we believe, by a New Jersey teacher, and termed the school banking system. It consists in opening a savings bank on true business principles, in which the pupils are encouraged totnvest their - pennies. It is well known by teachers that a great share of the danger to the young comes from their being furnished with spending money which goes indiscreetly for cigarettes or for stomach-spoiling candies, or for the worst sort of reading matter, or for useless trinkets and ornaments. The bank creates habits of saving and economy which will wonderfully affect the whole life. At Long Island City, in New York, recently the deposits of a single week amounted to 1230.41. The total in bank in this school amounts to over SIO,OOO, tbe credit of about three years’ growth.

■elves out.”

It is not at all pleasen t to learn that the laws concerning compulsorv education are not enforced in the several States where they are in existence, and that they seem to be non-enforceable. A fair sample of repnits is seen in Chicago, where the roll of children of a school Age is 142.293, but of these only 84,902 are enrolled in the s ihools, leaving, of course, 57,391, to be accounted for elsewhere. Plainly, in our larger cities at least, of the children are receiv ing thai education which our system of schools and our laws require. This is due in some degree to the increased antagonism to our school system on the part of one of the Churches; but it is equally due to the difficulties surrounding the enforcement of such laws where the parents do not desire it. The bulk of recent imigrants do not feel the need of education, nor will they willingly allow their children to be withdrawn from labor to learning. hi ? The dislodgement of live bats and toads from solid limestone or coal seems to have so often occurred as to need no more proof of the fact. The possibility of a suspension of animation for great periods of time is certainly possible in the case of some creatures. Recently a UveWwM dog outrtn Romney, W 7 Va., by men quarrying rock. The hole in the stone was only large enough for the bat’s body. A case occurred at Barton, Md., when the superintendent of the mines had a plaster cast taken of the cavity. The bat was found one mile from the mouth of the mine and 200 feet from the surface above. Those who have been in caves and witnessed the enormous congregation of bats, will not wonder that they ehould become embedded at times; but that they should retain vitality for years and is a miracle. It now remains for man to find out if thia power of the lower creatures is totally lost to those of a higher organic and functional rank.

STANLEY’S AFRICAN MARCH

Bis Own Stprjr|>t One Hundred and Sixty Days of Gloom and Suffering. From his letter to Mr. Bruce, of Edinburgh. While in England, considering the best routes open to the Nyansa (Albert), I thought I was very liberal in allo wing myself two weeks’ march to cross the ■forest region lyihg between the Congo and the grass land, but you may imagine our feelings when month after month saw us marching, tearing, ploughing, cutting through that same continuous forest It took us 160 days before we could saj, “ThgnkJjod we are out of the darkness at last” Atone time we were all—whites and blacks—almost “done up.” September, October and half of that month of November, 1887, will not be forgdtten by us. October will be .special iy memorable to us for the suffer ■ ings w oed.Jnpue iuq officers are heartily sick of the forest, but the loyal blacks, a band of 130, followed me once again into the wild trackless forest, with its hundreds of inconveniences, to assist -their comrades of the rear co'urnn. Try tmdnqagine some of these inconvenience)?. Take a thick Scottish copse, dripping with rain; imagine this copse to be a mere undergrowth, nourished under the impenetrable shades of ancient trees, ranging from 100 to 180 feet high, briars and thorns abundant; lazy creeks, meandering through the depths of the jungle, and sometimes a deep affluent of a great river. Imagine this forest in all stages of decay and growth—old trees falling, leaning perilously over, fallen prostrate; ants and insects of all kinds, sizes and colors, murmuring around; monkeys and chimpanzees i.bove, queer noises—of rnrds and animals, crashes in the jungle as troops of elephants rush away; dwarfs with poisoned arrows securely hidden behind some buttress or in some dark recess; strong, brown-bodied aborigines, with terribly sharp standing poised, still r s dead stumps, rain pattering down on yon every other day in the year; an impure atmosphere, with its dread consequences, fever and dysentery; gloom throughout the day, and darkness, almost palpable, throughout the night; and then, if you will imagine such a forest extending the entire distance from Plymouth to Peterhead; you will have a fair idea of some of the inconveniences endured by us from June 26 to Dec. 5, 1887, and from June 1.1888, to the present date, to continue again from the present date till about Dec. 10, 1888, when I hope then to say a last farewell to the Congo forest. Now that we have gone through and through this forest region, I only feel a surprise that I did not give a greater latitude to my ideas respecting its extent; for had we thought of it, it is only what might have been deducted from our knowledge of the great sources of moisture necessary to supply the forest with the requisite sap and vitality. Think of the large extent of tho South Atlantic ocean, whose vapors are blown duriug nine months of the year in this direction. Think of the broad Congo, varying from one to sixteen miles wide, which has a stretch of fourteen hundred miles, supplying another immeasurable quantity of moisture, to be distilled into rain, and mist, and dew over this insatiable forest; and then another six hundred miles of the Aruwimi or Ituri itself, and then you will cease to wonder that there are about 150 days of rain in every year in this region, and that the Congo forest covers such a wide area. Until we set foot on the grass land, something like fifty miles west of the Albert Nyanza, we saw nothing that , looked like a smile, or a kind thought lor a moral sensation. The aborigines are wild, utterly savage, and incorrigibly vindictive. The dwarfs—called Warnbutti—are worse still, far worse. Animal life is likewise so wild and shy that no sport is to be enjoyed. The gloom of the forest is perpetual. The face of the river, reflecting its black walls of vegetation, is dark and sombre. The sky onehalf the time every day resembles a winter sky in England; the face of nature and life is fixed and joyless. If the sun charges through the black clouds enveloping it and a kindly wind brushes the masses of vapor below the horizon, and the bright light reveals our surroundings. it is only to tantalize us with a short lived vision of brilliancy and beauty of verdure. Emerging from the forest finally, we all became enraptured. Like a captive unfettered and set free, we rejoiced at sight of the blue cope of heaven, and freely bathed in the warm sunshine, and aches, and gloomy thoughts, and unwelcome ideas were banished. You have heard how the London citizen, after months of devotiofi to business in the gaseous atmosphere in that great city, falls into rapture at sight of the green Heids and hedges, meadows and trees, and how his emotions, crowding on. his dazed senses, are indescribable. Indeed I have seen a Derby day once, and I fancied then that I only saw madmen, for great, bearded, hoary-headed fellows, though well dressed enough, behaved in a most idiot ic fashion, amazing me quite. Well, on this sth of December we became suddenly smitten with mad T nees in the same manner. Had you seen us you would have’thought we had lost our senses, or that “Legion” had entered and taken-possession of us. We raced with our loads over a wide, unfenced field (Hke an English park for the softness of its grass), and herds of

buffalo, eland, roan entelope, stood os either hand, with pointed ears and wide eyes, wondering at the sudden wave of human beings, yelling with joy, as they ifjsued out of the dark depths of the forest. * On the confines of this forest, near a village which was rich in sugar cane, ripe bananas, tobacco, Indian corn, and other productions of aboriginal husbandry, we came across an ancient woman lying asleep. I belive she was a miner and an out cast, but she was undoubtedly ugly, vieiffus and old; and being old, she was obstinate. 1 practiced all kinds Seductive arts to set her to do something beside crossly mumbling, but of no avail. Curiosity having drawn toward us about a hundred of our people, she fastened fixed eyes on one young fellow (smoothedfaced and good looking), and smiled. I caused him to sit near her, and she became voluble enough—beauty and youth had tamed the “beast.” From her talk we learned that there was a powerful tribe, called the Banzanzi, with a great king, to the northeast ,of our camp cf wbem we might be well afraid, as the people were as numerous as grass. Had we learned this ten days earlier, I might l ave become anxious for the result, Lut it now only drew a contemptuous smile from the people, for each one, since he haa seen the grass land and evidences of meat, had been transformed into a hero. We poured out on the plain a frantic multitude, but after an hour or two we became an orderly column. Into the emptied villages of the open country we proceeded to regale ourselves on melon, rich-flavored bananas and plaintains and ware of tliepfesenee of a hungry mob, were knocked roasted or boiled; the goats, meditatively browsing or chewing the cud, were suddenly seized and decapitated, and the greatful aroma of roast meat gratified our senses. An abundance; a prodigal abundance, of good things, had awaited our irjuptibn ihfofhe grass land. Every village was well stocked with provisions, and even luxuries long denied to us. Under such fare the men became most robust, diseases healed as if by magic, the weak became strong, and there was not a goee-goee or Chicken-heart left. Only the Babusesses, near the main Ituri, were tempted to resist the invasion.

Ducks Killed in a Storm.

Pittsburgh dsipatch. The duck storm that fell upon the plains oi Punxsutawney w as a great deal more extensive than it was at first supposed. It was a veritable deluge of ducks. Everybody admitted that they never saw anything approaching it. Mahoning Creek and all its tributaries within a radiuß -of-ton— mileß were literally swarming with wild ducks and geese of every species and variety. A person who did not witness it could have no conception of the immensity of the flock. There were thousands of them. The night being dark and stormy and the snow falling fast the birds were attracted by the nnmerons lights of th coke ovens surrounding Punxsutawney, and came down. Hundreds of unlucky fowls flew too close to the mouths of the ovens, got their wings singed and dropped into the furnaces like moths into the flames of a torch. The Hungarians and ltalians got out their clubs and killed barrels of the birds. The next morning great numbers of wild ducks and geese were found in the snow and were captured, and when the citizens of Punxsutawney saw that Mahoning Creek was a living mass of wild fowl every man who could buy or borrow a gun was out shooting ducks. The banks were strewn with dead fowls, and every body was possessed with a fiendish desire to kill. Jubn W. Barr, son of the proprietor of the City Hotel, shot and bagged one hundred and forty-six ducks. A hundred others killed from thirty to forty each. No less than fifty ducks and geese were caught alive. Everybody seemed to go wild over the affair. The banks of the creek for ten miles were iiued with sportsmen. It is safe to say that two thousand men were out hunting ducks, and ikwould proably not be an exaggeration to say that ten thousand ducks were slain that day.. It was a wanton, barbarous slaughter of innocent creatures, for nearly all admitted that the birds were a very inferior article of food. This horde of ducks and geese was evidently migrating from the South to the great lakes, when the storm caught them and forced them to descend. Such a deluge of ducks has never been known before and may never occur again.

His Last Cent.

Washington Poat. While it was raining the othei Eight • ratherseedy looking indhridnal, hOW had doubtless seen days of prosperity, went into a Seventh street saloon, and, walking up to the counter, asked the bartender if he would take a man’s last cent in payment for a drink. The bartender, with an air of stoicism born of the business, said that he would. “Then give me a whisky straight,” said theman, after a moment’s reflec-ti-un. The glass was drained, the drinker threw a penny on the counter, aud walked out. , The bartender realized that he had been worked by an o<d trick. Beauty is often but a splendid cloak Which conceals the imperfection* of the soul.—T. Gaut:er. I

THE CENTENNIAL.

A GENERAL. CELEBRATION WITH INTERRST CENTERING AT NEW YORK. ' « —— Particulars of the Event—Great Crowds and Gay DeCorations— and Noisy Patriotism— -The President and His Doings. ' ! The celebration? on the 30th, of the IQOth anniversary of George Washington’s inauguration as President in 1789, was very general throughout the nation, but interest centered in New York, where the crowd numbered hundreds of thousands and the decorations and. preparations were in keeping with the numbers. The President and his pa*rty reached Elizabeth at 7 o’clock Monday morning. About 1,200 people wem gathered at the station, and when Mr. Harrison appeared, a hearty cheer was given him. The party dined with the Governor of New Jersey. During his brief stay here he reviewed- a_~procession of local societies. The arrangements for the naval parade were carried Out to the letter. At 7 o’clock the steamer Dispatch, having on board Admiral Porter; General Schofield and representatives of the Centennial Committee, left the foot of East Twenty-sixth street, New York, and steamed down the East river on her trip to Elizabethport, where she was to meet President Harrison. Crowds had gathered at the pierand cheered the Disnatch as she steamed away. The harbor was literally alive with sailing craft of every description, and whistles sounded and guns boomed salutes as the Dispatch picked her way on her course. Half a dozen big men-of-war were anchored in the vicinity of Governor’s Island and Ellis Island, awaiting the return of the President’s boat. After viewing the at Elizabeth, President Harrison was then driven in an open barouche along the shore of the Kill Von Kull to the Alcyone boathouse, where the entire party was reunited. A ten-cared gig from the Dispatch was i n waiting to take the Presidenc on board. Owing to the low water, the Dispatch bid been forced to amhorat some distance. The President walked down to the float, followed by Vice President Morton and Captain Elben. They took their seats in the gig amid the cheers of the assembled crowds, the shrieks of steam whistles and the ringing of bells. The gig then put off, and the measured strokes of the Hnil orETKOonßfought the bbatalongside the Dispatch. Then followed the embarkation of the rest of the party in the tenders of the Navy Yard tug Nina. The first boat to put off from the tug was a small steam launch containing Senators Evarts and Hisceck. These gentlemen were condially greeted at the float by Chief Justice Fuller. Postmaster General Wanamaker, with Secretaries Windom and Rusk, went on board and soon rejoined the President on the Dispatch. The rest of the party, including Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. McKee, went on board the Sirins. At 11:10 both vessels weighed anchor and steamed’up the bay. Suddenly the deep boom of a gun arose above the hissing of steam and the swash of steamer paddles. Instantly every man in the vast fleet was on the alert for orders. The gun was the signal from the tug Nina, anchored in the Kill Von Kull, and it meant that the Dispatch, with the Presidential party on board, was opposite Port Richmond. Then another report from a cannon set every one in action. This was the signal from the Chicago for all vessels to heave up anchors short and prepare to move, Hardly had thia been accomplished when the Dispatch hove in sight. Following close in her wake was the Erastus Wiman, the Sirius and Monmouth filled with invited guests and their families. Soon there vyas a perfect roar of cannon, big and little. The scene was a stirring one. As the Dispatch came opposite the Chicago, the entire fleet of over 400 steamers blew their whistles. She passed the Battery at 12:20. It made a tremendous din, coupled with the incessant gun-firing and was kept up for three or four minutes. On went the stately war ship up through the channel and into the East River, where she came to anchor off the foot of Wall street. As soon as she had got well into the river a signal gun was fired from the Chicago, and anchors that had been hoVe iip short were got on board with alacrity. Then began the real naval parade. The sight of hundreds of vessels all kinds was one that will long be remembered by the thousands of people who lined the docks and house-tops along the river front of the Hudson. The Chica go stf amed on until opposite Tffirtyfourth street, when another gun was tired. This was the signal for the yachts and cutters to disperse fittd like a huge' flockof swans they gracefully heeled around and sued down the bay. On the arrival of the Dispatch and the President opposite Wall Street ferry, the ships anchored. A barge manned by a crew of shipmasters from the Marine Society of the Port of New York, went out on the vessel. It was a crew of this same society which rowed General Washington ashore one hundred years ago. Following the example of Washington, President Harrison was rowed ashore in the barge. As he stepped out of the boat the presidential salute of twenty-one guns was a ß a > n given. The President was received by Governor Hill. Mayor Grant, Hamilton Fish and Wm. G. Hamilton. To the left of the pier was attached the fl®at at which the boat containing the Presidential party emptied its distinguished nassengeis. After the landing the processlbh was at once formed, the President and Governor Hill and Mayor Grant being driven in a landeau and accompanied by continuous cheers. The old banner of the Marine Society, which was bdrmr before Washirrgtoh ofi April 29,1789, had been preserved for one hundred years, and was carried before the President’s carriage up Wall street. A little before 2 o’clock the carriages drew up before the door of the Equitable building. Chairman Hamilten received those in carriages, while the chimes of Old Trinity played the Doxology, the bauds in the street quickly catching rip the strain. By 2 o'clock all had readied the banquet hall. After the banquet the President, held a reception in the city hall. At 5 o’etoek he was driven to Mr. Morton’a residence. Tim ball at night at the Metropolitan opera house was a grand affair. England’s 7,030 flour mills can make 51.00d.000 barrels per year. JTheconntry consumes eighty per cent, of this amount, a great deal of which comes from America and Hungary.

DUDLEY AND HARRISON.

• A .Forged Letter and tho One Really Written. The following alleged letter, from Col. W. W. Dudley to Samnel Van Pelt, an old army comrade, living in Anderson, Ind., was published at Washington, Thursday, as a special to a Chicago paper from Anderson: - “My Dear Sam—Yours received. I need not tell you that it would be very gratifying to me to seeyou ges the Indian agency, knowing as I do your special fitness jor the place and your service to the country in the hour of her sorest need; but lam sorry to say that I will be unable to render you any assistance whatever with the President. He has lost his back-bone, and is too cowardly to be seen consulting with me, for the simple reason that the copperheads Arid rebels of Indiana have trumped up a lot of charges against me. He seems enlirely ions to t.hf fart that it was through my efforts that Indiana was saved to him.” When the above was shown Colonel Dooley he pronounced it “a clear, cold forgery.” He said he had. telegraphed to Van Pelt as soon as he sAw it in the papers, demanding that Van Pelt give out for publication the letter which he actually wrote, and added: “I wrote gme, and I have preserved a copy, it is. While I don’t car ato have rivate letters published to the , yet there is nothing in this letter ashamed of, and while it was y written, in confidence to an old friend, I would have no objection to the President seeing it. I have asked nothing from General Harrison, and therefore have nothing to complain of. I w ish the administration every success, and would not, if I could, embarrass it in any way. lam out of politics, and would not accept any public office. I have recently associated with me Mr. Chas. D. Ingersoll, of New York, and Jerome Carty, of Philadelphia, and have the practice of law. I neither seek nor would accept any public office.” Following is the letter, as written by Col. Dudley: Washington, April 15,1889. S. D. Van Pelt, Esq., Anderson, Ind.: Dear Old Sam—Your good letter of the 26th of March, I got in good time, but it found me absent. .! hkve recently returned from a trip to the South, where t went on legal business, and had a good time and a little rest from the crowds of people who throng my office from morning until night, and from the mountains of letters which pile upon my desk every day. Your letter got into the pile, where I rescued it tonight, and I hastened now to say how much good it has done me to hear from your again. There is nothing I should like better than to do something for you, Sam, but lam afraid you greatly overestimate my influence. Your old friend Reed has' placed your pension in my hand, and I am working away at it to get it soon. Perhaps there is no one in the country who has done so much for General Harrison during the last twenty years as I have, but because our Democratic friends down in Indianapolis havestarted the hue and cry on me Brother Ben don’t seem to feel that he can afford to recognize me as an acquaintance, and consequently I don’t take dinner at the White House as might be expected. I have not been inside the White House since Cleveland’s inauguration, a little over four years ago, but I will see if something can not be done a little later on, and tell you what to do. If yan should not hear from rpe again, Sam, for the next two months, don’t be alarmed, for there will be just as good chances two months hence—and a little better—as there are now. Give my kind regards to all the boys at Anderson, and remember me always as your friend. Sincerely your friend, W. W. Dudley. The following is the telegram sent by Mr. Dudley to Mr. Van Pelt: Washington, D. C', April 25th, 1889. Samuel Van Pelt—What is this 1 see in Chicago Heiald from their Anderson correspondent? I demand that you have my letter as written to you published in the Indianapolis Journal, the Anderson papers aud ths Chicago Herald. Is that the way you treat private correspondence from an old friend? Answer. W. W. Dudley.

LABOR NOTES.

The labor movement is spreading rapidly throughout Germany. In Great Britain there are 203 tin plate mills, employing 100,000 people. - Thousands of laborers at Panarpa-are idle on account of the suspension of work on the canal, and business is paralyzed. Carpenters employed by the city government of Chicago. HL, now get the union rate of wages, thirty-five cents per hour for a working day of eight hours. Some women in England make good salaries by manufacturing the dainty silk and lace lamp shades now so popular. A dealer in London, who glories i n the royal patronage, pays one woman S2OO a month for the shades she makes. The Pennsylvania Coal Company informed the miners, as they were leaving off work, Saturday night, at Scranton. Pa., thit a “shut down” had been decided upon, to take place at once. This general suspension affects nearly 2,000 men. The company has been operating fifteen large collieries. The officers of “shut down” is Ohly temporary. Old miners assert that in eleven years there has not been so continued a period .of dullness as at the present time. For the past six months the men have been working quarter time. Their earnings have not exceeded sls a month, have frequently falien as low as $6 a month. Ihw Spring; Crop in Oklahoma. Chicago Herald. The Oklahoma boomers are taking no agricultural implements into the Territory, but are well supplied with revolvers, rifles and bowie knives. The spring planting, if there is any at ail, will consist in planting persons who re«ist land grabs.

A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER.

An Express Train on the Grand Trunk, Running at the Rate of Forty Miles an Hour, Jumps the Track-Twenty Per-_ sons Killed—Many Injured. The limited express on the Grand Trunk railway, due at Hamilton. Ont., at 6:55 a. m., Sunday, met with an accident about two miles west of that city, the result of which was the loss of many lives. The ti“ain was composed of an engine, two baggage care, a smoker, a through passenger coach, a Wabash coach, a Wagner first-class coach, a Pullman car and two Wagner sleeping cars, in order named. The accident occured at the junction, where a “¥” is built. The train is said to have been running at a speed of forty miles an. hour or more, when directly on crossing the switch the engine jumped the track and plunged into a water tank, which stood in a space between the “ Y,” smashing the tank into atoms and turning almost upside down, Thebaggage cars came directly after the engine, and the first of these was pitched over the engine and thrown on the main track, leaving its wheels behind it. The otner baggage car caught fike from the engine and the two were soon in. flames. The coaches following, with the exception of the two Wagner cars in the rear of the train, were huddled together' by the shock and soon caught fire from the baggage cars. The passengers on the train, numbering over one hundred and "fifty, many of whom were asleep at the time, had a terrible experience. A majority were able to get out before the firereached them, but in the confusion that reigned it is not known how many victims were left to the mercy of the flames, penned in by the materral of the wreck and unable to - extricate themselves. L. S. Gurney had his head completely severed from his body by a piece of flying debris. Rudolph Deerer, was also instantly killed. As soon as the engine rolled over, after striking the WAtE? tank. Fireman Watson and Engineer Chapman crawled from underneath it, neither being much hurt The remains of twenty victims were taken from the wreck. Many others were injured. The place where the accident occurred is considered dangerous, as there is a switch on a ratheYsharp curve. Seven cars, a baggage car, two first-class coache?, a smoker, a first class day coach, and two Wagner sleepers, were burned, there heisg not a vestige of wood or anything tnat would burn left. One car, the baggage-car, was demolished, and the engine is the mq@t complete wreck imaginable. The loss to the company will be enormous. Many of those on thp train were going to New York tcusArticipate in the centennial festivities. Most of, the passengers lost all or ac portion of their baggage and clothingNand a large amount of the mails werfe lost by fire.

Getting Rich by Small Inventions.

Philadelphia Press. The New Jersey man who hit upon the idea of attaching a rubber erasing tip to the end of lead pencils is worth $200,000. The miner who invented a metal rive or eyelet at each end of the mouth of coat and trousers pockets, to resist the etrain caused by the carriage of pieces of ore ahd heavy tools, has made more money from his letters patent than he would have made had he struck a good veih of gold-bearing quartz. Every one has seen the metal Dlates that are used to protect the heels and soles of rough shoes, hut every one doesn’t know that within ten years the man who bit on the idea has made $250,000. As large a sum as was ever for any invention was enjoyed by the Yankee who invented the invoiced glass bell to hang over gas jets to protect ceilings from being blackened by the smoke. The inventor of the roller skate has made $1,000,000, notwithstanding the fact that his patent had nearly expired before the value of it was ascertained in the craze for roller skating that spread over the country a few years ago. The gimlet pointed screw has produced more wealth than most silver mines, and the Connecticut man who first thought of putting copper tips on the toes of children’s shoes is as well off asif he bad inherited $1,003,000, for that’s the amount his idea has realized for him in cold, clammy coin. The man who invented the most recent popular toy, ‘ Pigs in Clover,” will be rich before the leaves turn this autumn. He was poor last November.

White House Hygienics.

Boa ton Transcript. The White House is carefully attended to every year, and the filling up of the fiats at the back of the house has done away with the malarial influences from that quarter. It deserves now, just es much as it ever did, the encomiums that captious Tom Moore passed on it—almost the only thing he found in this country to praise; and the great country house upon which it is modelled —that of the Duke of Leinster—is considered one of the finest in Great Britain. When Munkacsy, the Hungarian painter, was hr Washington, hw wenvlnto raptures over the architectural beauty of the building, declaring the proportions were among the most .correct of any lie had ever seen. As for the cramped five bedrooms, there are in reality six, and they are all perfectly huge, with high ceilings, great mantels and heavy, old-fashioned windows, out of which the most charming views are visible. They all open on a large corridor, the size of the state corridor downa tai is, and on the whole it seems rather ridiculous that people who were yesterday plain American citizens, and tomorrow .will be plain American citizens, should not be able to make themselves comfortable in the house that Abigail Adams thought was palatial.