Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — Page 6

ggtc SqmMican. «w». E. MaAMUII, Publisher. ■ RENSSELAER, . INDIANA

Alphonse Dapdst fa thinking of making- a visit to this country * this summer. A® jural Nslson said" that he owed his success to being always fifteen minutes ahead of time. The man who picks up the trains at Queen Victoria's “drawing-rooms” is Sir" Spencer Ponsonby-Faul. He has been manipulating trains for- nearly forty-nine years and has become benl and worn in the service. • We don’t want any ‘God bless ye's, 1 , '•said Dr. Talmage at a meeting in Brooklyn to raise money for the Johnstown survivors; we want cash. Some of the meanest men I ever knew have been prodigal of ‘God bless ye’a”' In Paris the saccharine or Bugar made from coal has been unanimously condemned by the medical profession, because it seriously troubles digestion. In consequence of their recommendation a law has been enacted profiibiting the use of coal sugar as an article of food. The usual medical complaint against ire water is heard at the beginning of the warm season, but most people seem to prefer living comfortably for a leas average duration of life than living without the use of ice a longer period. It is curious to notice the extent to which ice water has been adopted abroad. In Matagorda county, Texas, are a number of negroes who are natives of Africa. They were pirated and brought here from Guinea during the brief period of the republic. They preserve many of the strange customs of savagery, use their own language among themselves and retain ail the superstitions of fetichism. *

In one of the public schools of Atlanta, G»., they have a novel method of punishing' boys who use bad language. When any of the young men are caught faying anything profane they are made rinse their mouths with water which has been left standing in a quassia cup. The water is exceedingly bitter nnd makes a lasting impression on the boys. Peter Tijexler, of Catawissa Talley, Ohio, noted a peculiar flavor in his tea, and Mrs. Trexler on lifting the kettle lid found within a beautiful trout boiled to 'death. Mr. Trexler had kept it for years in the spring to purify the water. Usually his wife got water from the spring in a bucket but being hurried this time she lowered the teakettle, clapped the lid on without looking into it, aud set it boiling merrily on the wood fire, anl the trout wa3 in the pot 1 1 ■" ■ ■ - The Esguimaux of the Hudson’s Straights are in the habit of making offerings of various articles to spirits, and scraps of food, powder and shot tobacco and the like are to be found on the graves of their dead. But they are anxious to concilliate all the known supernatural powers as well as the unknown, and, therefore, they made similar offerings to the beacon in the shape of a man recently erected in that region. When two cannons, undoubtedly left upon the shore by some early explorers, were stood on end. bullets, shot and a lot of other rubbish fell out, which the natives explained had been put there-as “an offering to the spirits.” Mrs. Reuben Frost, of Johnson county, Louisiana, has two genuine madstones that were given her years ago by her father, the famous huntsman, Lord Price. Their power of extracting the poison of rabid dogs has never been tested, though they will b’ loaned to any applicant. Mrs. Pros! says her father killed in his lifetime upward of five hundred deer and found only three madstones, two of which he gave her when a girl. She further states that her father told her that a hunter could tell as soon as a deer was killed whether or not its stomach ‘contained the magic stone, as in every instance where the stone is the hair ol the animal slAin turned the reverse from its natural position when cold is do&th.

Is the Parnell commission court the other day a youth was engaged in making some sketches for an illustrated paper and behind him stood a burly gentleman, who might have been taken for a county magistrate. The latter watched the young artist for awhile and then, touching him on the shoulder, ventured to observe that this and that and the other points of the sketch "were not ex ictly what they should be. .The artist simply replied by inquiring: “What do you know about it?” The gentleman persisted in kindly and persuasive criticism- At length the youth, .convinced that, after all. the criticism was Just—indeed, the gentleman had himself taken the drawing-block and made the necessary alternations with his own hand—remarked. “Well, you Ido seei mto know something about it, certainly,” adding: “Are you on any .paper?” “No,” answered the gentlemao, “I am not on any paper, but 1 do -a bit of painting now and then. My yams Is John Millais.”

BEN RUTLER'S IDEA.

Ats Proposed league of Englishjii WaterviUe, Me., ppcail. In addressing the literary societies of Annexation of Canada.” Gen, Benjamin F. sutler concluded thus: that country with the United SWtes? The problem seeips to me to be this. Does Canada desire ! a union with the United States? If she so signifies her wish in a recognisable form, England has no power to prevent it. If Canada does not, then England has no power to enact it. She may throw Canada off as a dependency, but she cannot throw her upon the United States. Would it hot he the more feasi ble, the more sensible, the more statesmanlike ahd effective manner of bringing together the United States and Canada to enter inti? negotiations for that purpose, carefully and in the most friendly spirit, the negotiators in charge having only one idea m common —that is, how can the three peoples best get together? Our late attempt at negotiations and enactments, for diplomacy it could not be called, will only result in raising ill-feeling on the part of our neighbors, because of the annoying thought that for the first time in the history of diplomacy has a province been left to carry on a diplomatic struggle with a nation almost without the aid of the parent country under a threat from the nation that the consequences of failure of treaty were to be visited on the province alone. Why should not the diplomacy, instead of this paltry and narrow matter, be that negotiations should be approached with a view of uniting the two adjacent English-speaking peoples lying side by side in America in the same commercial and business nets conditions between each other,with or without a zollverein, as may be determined, leaving Great Britain, whose institutions depend upon the same constitutional provisions, and whose laws of freedom give equal protection to their several peoples, later, when her interest or safety demands, to come nto like compact with the United States and Canada in a league against the world, if any part of the world should see fit to take a stand, which none would or could successfully do? “Negotiations conducted on 6uch a basis and for such an end could be carried on without touching the pride or arousing jealousies, with none but the kindest sentiments being evolved in either people. Two great navies to menace each other with their enormous equipment and consequent expenditures and losses by decay would be at once dispensed with. A small, inexpensive navy could hid the world defi anee. All Europe and ABia joined together in battle array, if such a thing were possible, against the English speaking people of the globe, would pause in dismay before any hostile step should be taken against such a united power. Such a national combination would within its own borders have everything that would be necessary to carry on a defensive or offensive warfare.

= "•Take another view: Such a united power 8B I have sketched would save all the other nations of Europe from a final and inevitable bankruptcy because of maintaining immense armies and navies to the restriction of their people to hold each other in check. To that English speaking league every nation would be obliged to submit for arbitrament every cause of difference, if not bscimeof fear of its armed intervention, yet because of its holding the money of the world. No war could be carried on which that power Bhould any nation might disarm who should be protected even by the promise cf financial aid from the pledge of the unite 1 English speaking people of the earth.”

Lincoln's Religion.

The forthcoming (August) number of the Century, will contain a chapter on “Lincoln and the Churches,” in the Lincoln History, by Messrs. Hay and Nicolay, from which the following is an extract from advance sheets: He was a man of profound and intense reunions feeling. We have no purpose of attempting to formulate his creed; we question if he himself ever did so. There have been swift witnesses who, judging from expressions uttered in his callow youth, have called him an atheist, and others who, with the most laudable intentions, have remembered improbable conversations which they bring forwaid to prove at once his orthodoxy and their own intimacy with him. But leaving aside these apochryphal evidences, we have only to look at his authentic public and private utterances to see how deep and strong in ah the latter part of his life was the current of his religious thought and emotion. He continually invited, and appreciated at their highest value, the prayers of good people. The pressure of the tremeudous problems by which he was surrounded; the awful moral significance of the contest in which he was the chief combatant; the ov< r whelming sense of personal responsibility which never left him for an hoar—ail contributed to produce, in a temperament naturally serious and predisposed to a spiritual view of life and conduct, a sense of reverent acceptance of the guidance of a superior I Power, From that n. or ping when

standing amid the falling snowflakes on the railway car at Springfield, :he asked the prayers of his neighbors in those touching phrases whose echo rose that night in invocations from thousands of family altarii,' to that memorable hour when on the steps of the Capitol he the sublime words of the second inaugural, there is not an expression known td have come from'his lips or -pen but proves he held himself answerable in every act of his great career to a more august tribunal than any on earth. The fact that he was not a communicant ofAny chnrch, and that he was singularly reserved in regard to his personal religions life, gives only the' greater force to these striking proofs of his profound reverence and faith.,

SOCIALISM IN EUROPE.

Englishmen Deride the Theory, But Are Drifting Toward It. London dispatch. It is reported from Berne that the baud of exiled Socialists now located in Switzerland have already been made to fee] the pressure of the goverment officials now exerted in response to the representations made by Germany, Russia and Austria, and that they have concluded to leave Switzerland. The probability that London will now become the rendezvous for these hunted patriots is already making Englishmen nervous, and Borne of the newspapers here are demanding that the government take steps to make London as hot for them as Switzerland is likely to become. In this connection it is interesting to note that while Englishmen, as a rule, are as pronounced as ever in their detestation of and abhorrence for Socialists, they are drifting every day deeper and deeper into Socialism; while deriding the upholders of the theory, they are embracing with wholesouled enthusiasm the theory itself. And this is going oh not only without protest from, but with the actual approval of, politicians, who would be most indignant if called Socialists. Professor Fawcett, a strong individualist,' claims state monopoly in telephones, aqd Mr. Raikes, the Postmaster General and a strong Conservative, is urging the exercise of this monopoly. Professor Fawcett, too, was responsible for another big piece of socialism—the parcel post—and as for the present government, almost eveiy member of the Cabinet has his portfolio full of socialist schemes. Mr. Balfour wants to drain bogs and build railways in Ireland. Mr. Smith is going to create a board of agriculture, so that the state may assist the farmer. Mr. Ritchie evolved the county councils with the sole idea that they would be more active —that is, more socialistic —than the old quarter sessions, and the Scotch Secretary is now pushing a similar measure for Scotland. Only the other day Sir William Harcourt remarked: “We are all Socialists now,” and he struck very near the mark. Notwithstanding this, however, it is not at all probable that the exiles from Switzerland will be given a warm welcome by the generalty of Englishmen.

Wages in the Glass Industry. Harper's Magazine, The best wages in the glass industry are received by the window-glass blowers, sometimes reaching twelve dollars per day. The master melter s rank next, though they seldom get more than half that amount. From these earnings the prices slope down to the small tending boys, who are paid thirty cents for ten hours’ work. The blower’s occupation is laborious, but not unhealthful. He works eight or ten hours at a stretch, finishing one melt of glass. There are four or five melts every week, each re quiring sixteen hours to fuse, ten hours of blowing, and ten hours of flattening. The work is always by the piece, and in teams and in “shops,” each composed ol one master workmen and several younger asaisßtants. There are in operation 160 furnaces, at which there are employed about 4,000 blowers, gatherers, flatteners, and cutters. They are bound together by a union that dictates the quantity each workmen may make, the number of apprentices that may be taken (generally not more than two to a furnace), that prohibits any foreign workman from getting a place in the fautori es, or any glass from being made in the months of July and August. The average time they have worked in the last four years has been less than eight months and a half, much of the time lost has been spent in strikes or disputes with the manufacturers about wages.

Telegraph Wires and Birds. It has been supposed that birds be* come accustomed to the presence of telegraph wires, and are careful to avoid them in flying, but it would seem either -that this is a mistake or that the birds ou the Scotch and English moors are less intelligent than their fellows. Systematic observation there along a line of telegraph wires has shown that great destruction of bird-life goes Ott throughout the year and that at certain seasons the roadside is literally strewn with the remains of unfortunate grouse, block gams, patridge, snipe, and other birds. Every morning at dawn marauding baads come from the lowland woods to. feast on the dead and dying, and the farmers and shepherds in the region declaie lhat irore grouse aie killed annually hy the telegraph wires than by all the aportamen.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Civil Service Commission has submitted to the Postmaster General report upon the condition and management of the postoffioe at Grand Rapjds, Mich.' _ “In the course ofthe examinainto the condition and management of the postoffice at Grand Rapids, Mieh., and in so far as it is affected by the provisions of the civil service act, certain charges were made against the- postmaster, Mr. Blair, and against the then chiel clerk of the railway mail service, Mr. F. A. Hudson. The charges are backed up sworn affidavits, and are of each a nature that the Com* mission, in’ view of a lack of power to suhpena witnesses and administer oaths, deem it proper to turn the whole matter over to the Pdstpffiee Department.

The only affidavit affecting Mr. Blair is that of McConville, which asserts that Mr. Blair was present in the Government building, at Grand Rapids, one day in October, 1888, and assisted the clerk, Hudson, in attempting to extort from John McConville a contribution of money for political purposes. On this point the affidavit is unsupported by any others, while it is explicitly contradicted by the affidavits of both Mr. Blair and , Mr. Hudson, and the Commissioners do not consider that in itself it is sufficient to warrant their asking any action to be taken thereon. Butin the case of Mr. Hudstfh, all seven affidavits charge him with having collected or attempted to collect money for political purposes from Government employes, The affidavits of L, K. Salisbury and Geo. J. Ergenzeigner set forth, that, at Hudson’s request, they paid him money for campaign purposes in the Government building, at Grand Rapids, last fall; they also set forth that, at his reJuest, they wrote him letters, about une 10,1889, stating that they had not been asked to make, and had not made, such contribution. Ergenzeigner states that he wrote the letter for fear of losing his place, while Salisbury asserts that he wrote his from motives of friendship. If the assertions contained in these affidavits are not disproved <jr explained by other evidence, ’ the commissioners believe that they warrant Mr. Hudson’s indictment under sections 11,12, 13,14 15 of ihs civil service act. But Mr. Hudson has submitted, together with his affidavit, dtnyiag specifically all the charges, the affidavit of the Chairman of the Local Democratic Party Organization, denying that Mr. Hudson turned over such sums as were alleged, and also copies of letters from Mr. Ergenzeigner and Salisbury, denying the very facts they set forth in their affidavits, as well as letters and other matter tending to Bhew the bad character or the improper animus of the other men, who make affidavits against him. If Mr. Hudsoq is guilty he should be prosecuted; if he is not guilty, then the men swearing falsely against him should themselves be prosecuted for entering into a peculiarly infamous conspiracy to blacken his character.

The Civil-service Commissioners are at work upon their supplementary report in relation to the conduct of affairs in postoffice at Milwaukee. This report will be ready for presentation to the President upon his return to Washington, and if he does not come back this week, as now seems lixelv, it is probable that it will be sent to him at Deer Park. Postmaster Paul, the Milwaukee official, was censured by the full board of commissioners on account of his action in permitting violations of the law in the selection of civil-service employes. He was not satisfied with finding of the commissioners,and created a great ramp us,although their report did not recommend his removal. Commissioner Roosevelt proceeded to Milwaukee again, and made farther examination. While the result of this has not yet been made public, it is generally understood here that Postmaster Paul’s removal will surely follow its publication, and that a postmaster will be appointed for Milwaukee who will be more likely to keep himself strictly within the limits of the law. The Mahone and anti-Mahone factions of the Virginia Republicans, it is announced, nave been harmonized by a committee of the National Republican Committee and the white dove of peace is to float peacefully over their deliberations in the coming State convention. The campaign for 1892 seems to be on. Secretary of Agriculture, Rusk, in an interview Tuesday declared that Harrison will be renominated and re-elected in 1892. Ex-Congressman Horr, of Michigan, positively declines the Consulship to Va’paraiso, which appointment was tendered some weeks ago. Congressman Cannon does not think there will be an extra session of Congress.

Mississippi Democrats.

The Democratic State convention of Mississippi met Tuesday. Hon. Robert O. Paltry was elected chairman, and only two candidates were placed in nomination for Governor—John M. Stone and John R. Cameron—who received 156 and 84 votes respectively. A fall ticket was nominated/ Seven hundred delegates weie present The resolutions endorse the principles of the National Democratic platform of 1888, deprecate trusts, monopolies, unjust and discriminative legislation, favor immigration, investment of capital in agriculture and mannfaetories; repudiate all sectional feeling, and rejoice in the claim of brotherhood; recommend that the people discuss as an issue in the next election for the Legislature the matter of a constitutional convention: heartily indorse the administration of Governor * Ix>wry, and especially commend his efforts to arrest prize fighters and abbettem.

A Formidable Alliance.

A Chicago paper says: A circular hka been issued that beam the signatures of the chief officers of the principal labor organisations of the United States: T. V, Powderly, General Master Workman, and John W. Hayes, General Secretary of Knights of Labor, Samuel Gompers, President of thd Federation of Labor, W. N. Sargent, Chiekof the Brotherhood of Locomotive firemen, and others. The locomotive engineers, through P. ML Arthur, true to their principle Of exclusiveness and antagonism to tftber labor organizations, have kept out 01

thereby hightened the bitter feeling existing Agkinat them among other trades. •' ‘ > The circular is the outcome of s conference held ’Some time ago in Philadelphia, the object heiigjhe formation of an alliance between the organisations represented by the signatures. It has been issued privately; to the organizations and is not supposed to be known to the public; If the alliance is realized it will be by far the most formidable labor organization that ever existed in the United States or elsewhere. The circular calls upon all organizations of labor to strengthen and solidify their ranks to the ultimate end of bringing within their membership every man and woman in America who toils. A convention of delegates is to be called if the various organizations apSroye of the plan, for the purpose of eviadng some definite schemejof coalition.

Preparing to Ship in Their Papers.

The English poor authorities are making arrangements to send over to the United States 250 Irish families,who are unable to support themselves in the old country, and who are consequently liable to become a burden upon the public exchequer. This was the intelligence imparted in an affidavit made at Castle Garden Friday by Thomas Shea, whose son, John, and a daughter, Marv, arrived on the Anchor Line Bteamer, City of Rome. Mr. Shea, who is a stalwart Irishman with bushy,ted whiskers, freely acknowledged that the passages of himself and son were paid by the poor authorities, and that £3 in Engliih money had been given him for traveling expenses. Shea’s glory is that he lived iw the town of Tralee, County of Kerry, Ireland, and was a laborer in a stone quarry. Waged at the best of times, he Bays, were not more than three shillings per day, and before leaving he earned less than one shilling. He had hardly money at times, as he expressed it, “to buy a ha-penny doock” (duck), and there were hundreds around him worse off.

Postmaster Paul’s Pen.

Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee, when learningof the Civil Service Commisreport wrote a letter to the President in which he says: “Young Mr. Roosevelt is seeking notoiiety, and I tnink he will get all he wants before this thing is over with. The document just promu'gated is the jnost disreputable and foolish lot of misrepresentations and falsehoods”!" have ever seen put together, and the work is done in the moat bungling manner. The Commissioners came here not to invettigate but to condemn, and Mr. Roosevelt endeavors to convict me of having violated the law in matters belonging partly to the Examining Board by making me responsible for Shidly’s clerical errors. The whole reportwould be a farce if it were not malicious.”

The Republican Tariff Bill.

The influential Republicans in New York, Saturday, and Senator Gorman on the* other side of the fence, had mews that the President had certainly determined to call an extra session of Congress in November. It came to them very straight, and they believed it. Some of them went so far as to say that the date had been fixed for November 1, hut others thought a later day would be set. The Senate Republican tariff bill of last fall will, it is said, be the main business before the extra session. The House has now three Republican majority, and more Republicans are expected from the new States. It is stated that everv effort will he made to push the bill through the House and the Senate in time to have it in full operation by July 1 next.

A County Seat War.

Another county seat war is threatened in Garfield county, Kansas. The bitterest feeling exists between the towns of Ravenna and Eminence, and a collision is probable. The Supreme Court decided a few days ago that Eminence is tke legal county Beat of Garfield county, which makes it necessary to remove the county records from Ravenna, where the capita] has been located for three years. The Ravenna people propose to resist the removal and a*fe»for a new trial. Eminence is determined to have the county records. The records are now guarded in the court houss at Ravenna, and the citizens have organized to prevent any attack.

Hard Times in the Northwest.

A dispatch from Grafton, Dak., says: Crops in the Canadian Northwest and along the Dakota line are in bad shape. Farmers are almost destitute, and eome instances are reported where they were subsisting on field mice and gophers. In the Canadian Northwest the crops are nil. A party of emigrants from the fSoures country was met Thursday on the boundary line. They had traveled 300 miles through a well settled country on the Canadian side without seeing a fair crop, and say a great many settlers are leaving. General M. D. Manson will be one of the speakers at tbe monument corner stone laying. The many other gentlemen of distmet'oa invited to be present and make speeches have not yet been heard from, but it is thought tney will all accept. The Sons of Veterans of Ohio and Kentucky have accepted an invitation to bs here, and other organizations from outside the State ars expected to join the parade. There is every promise of a one cent rate for tickets, good coming on.the 21st and 22d of August and good returning on the 22d and 23d.

Lead ore has been found in larjje quantities near Vincennes. An ana ys.s by President Bryant, of Vincennes University, assisted by two chembt*, ( hows 96 per cent of pure lead. Mr. Anderson says that there &ra millions of tons, within easy access, but he refuses to tell the exact location. The President has appointed M. MHurley, of New Albany, Ind., to be Third Auditor of the Treasury, to succeed John a Wiirana,of Lafayette. The roaring of the new gas well d Winchester can be heard a mile. A genuine case of leprosy has beet, discovered in New Orleans. Madison’s wheat crop wiJJ average 2v' bushels per acre. ' , ...

LIVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT.

California sent 3,500,000 pounds of honey to Europe last year. | Paris Figaro prints a special edition in an office 500 feet up in the Eiffel tower. Paper tough as wood is said rroWTOe made by mixing chloride of zinc with the pulp in the process of manufactuteThe skeleton of the largest elephant ever killed in India is to he sent to thenraseum at Madras. It is 10 feet 6 inches high. The cultivation of pineapples is rapidly extending to southern Florida One grower will have 10,5,000 pines to ship this season. “ •’?' A farmer-hy .4he.u*roe~Gf Josh Wiggins, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who is s|prt of stock, works his boy instead of a mule. " * ; Last year the number of visitors to Shakespeai es birthplace was J 6,800, Americans constituting oue-fourth of the number. A London paper advertises: “Lady wanted to draw, at home, original designs for coffin furniture.” Cheerful employment that, very. Twenty-two cases of insanity have been brought before the fudge at Tacoma, VV. T., jsince last March, and one-haif of the cases are of persons who came frq*p the ‘east. Look out for your rubber boots. A Yale sophomore is very seriously ill in New Haven, his blood having been poisoned b.y the aniline dyes of the lining of his rubber boots. The height of snoobishness is reached at English bazars, where money is taken as the price of an introduction to this and that beauty or tilled lady presiding over tables. The supreme court of Mississippi has imposed two fines of 1250 each upon a railroad for failure to provide separate but like accommodations for the black and white races.

Of this year’s graduating class at Princeton, thirty-two will, it is said, become lawyers, twenty-one ministers, fourteen doctors, twelve business men and two newspaper men. Down in North Carolina an eleven-year-old son of the boss brick mason is earning his 12.50 a day. He is at work on the outside of the wall, where none but experts handle the trowel. The ruling passion was exemplified in a Williamsport, pa., lady who, seeing floodEtained baby clothes sold at a sacrifice, expressed regret that she hadn’t a baby te utilize the Bargains. The greatest snuff-taking country in the world is France, though it shows a decline in the habit. In 1869 the consumption was 13,000,009 pounds, or seven ounces per head. Now it is five ounces. A tramp stole a clothes line worth 25 cents from an Indiana farmer, and eighteen men turned out and pursued him forthirty miles to give him a switching. The object was to convert him to honesty. _____ > The total Indian population is less than 250,000. Of these 21,232 live in houses and 9,612 families are engaged in agriculture. And among these so-called savages there are 28,063 church members. A Mexican robber who was shot by order of the government received six bullets m his breast and got up and ran thirty rods before falling down to die. The Mexican tough is a hard chap to kill. The hotels in some of the larger Mexican cities are now run after the American fashion, except that if you kick to the landlord aboutthebugs he has the porter go up and shoot as many as he can find. A Frenchman tried his flying machine in the suburbs of Paris the other day. He flew off a barn and it will be several months before his broken legs will allow him to canter around as blithely as before. The State Geologist of West Virginia believes there are caves in -that state twice as larae as the mammoth, but the trouble i* to find them. Whenever a hunter’s foot slips into a hole he should investigate. None ot-the railroads in India run baggage cars, and no traveler is allowed to take a trunk. Whatever he carries must be bundled up, and no porter will move a bundle three feet withoit demanding ten cents. ; ' ....n: " -

A very handsome granite monument has been placed over the grave of Edward Payson Roe, the novelist, in the Cornwall village cemetery. Upon it are engraved a number of quotations from his best known works. The monument was erected by Mrs. Roe, Great Britain counts on soon having the largest dynamo In tho world. It is being made for the new electric light works at Deptford. The shaft of the machine will be turned oufof a block of steel weighing seventy-five tons, Which has just been cast in Glasgow. There are some curlotis men On the legal bench In tins country. A Connecticut court fines a man $5 for lying in wait to kill his wife and stabbing her, and an Ohio court calls it assault aud battery when four bullets are fired into a farmer and he is robbed of his wallet. A setter dog, owned by Robert Bruden, of Bristol, Pa., has just been found after having been locked up In a barn without food or water for a period of six weeks. When discovered the dog was as thin as a shingle and Unable to stand up. He, however, soon revived on being fed. The experiment of going down the Idaho mine at Grass Valley, Cal., iu submarine armor to put out the fire has been unsuccessful. Tho heat was too great and gas passed under tho helmets of the two men who descended. They reached the 900-foot level, or within 100 feet of the fire. On the lawn oFJoel Scarlett, at lCennett Square. Pa., a Tew evenings since, a circle about four feet in diameter seemed to have been scalded in the grass. On closer look it was found covered with yellowish lung!, which turned biuish-biack when the sun came out The phenomenon Ims been observed several times, and was called a •fairy circle.” A milkman nt. Pottstown, Pa., served a well-to family whose regular supply was a cent's worth or milk a day, the cent being left outside in a cup. He lost on measure, but filled tbe cup daily to oblige them. But when on a recent morning he found three cups set out with a penny in each instead of a larger vessel with three, pennies ho thought 4S time to drop the contract and drive away. A housekeeper gives the following rule for keeping ice-water: To keep ice-water in an ordinary pitcher fold several newspapers into a square which will set over and entirely cover your pitcher. Lino with canton flannel, stitching all tightly into place; cover with dark flannel (green looks cool), make a handle across tbe top to lift it by, and you find that you have a small, convenient and effective cooler.