Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1890 — Page 3

LABOR AND CAPITAL

Talmage Talks on the' Great Labor Question of the Day. He Congratulates the Laboring Han on His Prospects, and Advises the Capitalist to Hake Investments for Eternity—Bat Mark the Golden Bole. n - • The subject of Dr. Talmage’s sermon of last Sunday was “The Old Fight to be Settled.” from the text, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do t© you, do ye even so to them. '’ {Matt 7:13.) Two hundred and fifty thousand laborers in Hyde Park, London, and the streets of American and European cities filled with processions of workmen carrying banners, brings the subject of Labor and Capital to the front. That all this was done in peace, and that as a result in many places, arbitration has taken place, a hopeful sign. The greatest war the world has ever seen is between capital and labor. The strife is not like that which in h istory is called the Thirty Years’ W ar, for it is c. war of cen-

turies. It is a war of the five continents,it is a war hemispheric. The middle classes in this country, upon whom the nation has depended for holding the balance of power and for acting as mediators between the two extremes, are dimishing, and if things go on at the same ratio as they have for the last twenty years been going on, it will not be long before there will be no middle class in this country, but all will beivery rich or very poor, princes or paupers, and the country will be given up to palaces and hove. s. The antagonistic forces have again and again closed in upon each other. You may pooh-pooh it; you may say thatthis trouble, I ke an angry child, will cry itself to sleep; you may belittle it by calling it Fourier ism, or Socialism, or St Simonism, or Nihilism, or Communism, but that will not hinder the fact that it is . the mightiest, the darkest the most terrific threat of this century. Most of the attempts at pacification have been dead failures, and monopoly is more arrogant and the trades unions more bitter. “Give us more wages.” cry the employes. “You shall have less,” say the capitalists, “Compel us to do fewer hours of toil in a day.” “You shall toil more hours,” say the others. “Then, under certain conditions, we will not work at all,” say those. “Then you shall starve,” say those, and the workmen gradually using up that which they accumulated in better times, unless there be some radical change, we shall have soon in this country three million hungry men and women. Now, three million hungry people can not be kept quiet. All the enactments of legislatures and all the constabularies of the cities, and all the army and navy of the United States cannot keep three millibjj. hungry people quiet. What then) Will this war between capital and labor be settled by human wisdom) Never. The brow of the one becomes more rigid, the fist of the other more clinched. But that whi.h human wisdom cannot achieve will be accomplished by Christianity if it be given full sway. You have heard of medicines so powerful that one drop would stop a disease and restore a patient; and I have to tell you that one drop of my text properly admin stared will stop all these woes of society and give convalescence and complete health to all classes. “Whatsoever ye would that men should do ye even so to them.”

I shall first show you this morning how this controversy between monopoly and hard work cannot be stopped, and then I will show you how this controversy will be settled. Futile remedies. In the first place there will come no pacification to this trouble through an outcry against rich men merely because they are rich. There is no laboring man on earth that would not bo rich if he i ouid be. Sometimes through a fortunate invention, or through some accident of prosperity, a man who had nothing comes to large estate, and we see him arrogant and supercilious, and taking people by the throat just us otuer peop.e took him by the throat. Tnere is something very mean about human nature when it comes to the top. But it is no more sin to be rich than it is a sin to be poir. There are those who have gathered a great estate through fraud, and then tnere are millionaires who have gathered their fortune through foresight in regard to changes in the

murkets, and through brilliant business faculty, anl every dollar of their estate is as ‘ honest as the dollar wlii -h the plumber gets for mending a pipe, or the mison gets for building a walL There are tnose who koep in poverty because of their own fuult. They might have been well off, but they smoked or chewed ud their earnings, or they lived beyond their means, while others on the same wages and on the same salaries went on to competency. I know a man who is all tho time c.mplainingof hU poverty and crying out against rich men, while he himself keeps two dogs, and chews and smokes, and is filled to the chin with whisky and baerl Mica who: - said to David Copperfleld: “Coppei fleld, my boy, one pound income, twenty sh.U.ngs and sixpence expenses: result, misery. But, Copperflild, my boy, one pound income, expenses nineteen shillings and sixpence; result, happiness.” And there are vast multitulos of people . who are kopt poor be ause thoy are the ' victims of their' own improvidence. It is no sin to be ri h, arid it is no sin to be poor. I protest against this outer/ which I hear against those who, through economy and self-denial and assiduity, have come to large fortune. This bombardment of .commercial success will never stop this controversy between capital and labor. Neither will the contest be settled by cynical and unsympathetic treatment of the laboring classes. There are those who speak of them as though they were only cattle or draught-horsos. Their nerves are nothing; thnir domestic com fort is nothing; their happiness is nothing. They have no more sympathy for them than a hound has for a bare, or a hawk for a hen, or a tiger for a calf. When Joan Valjean. the greatest hero of Victor Hugo’s writings, after a life of suffering and great endurance, goes into incarceration and death, they dap the book shut an 1 say, “Good * for him!" They st imp thoir feet with indignation and say just the oposile of “Save the work ng classes." They have all their sympathies with Shylock, and not with Antonio and Portia They are plutocrats, and their feelings are infernal. They are filled with irritation and, irascibility on this subject. To stop this awful imbroglio between capital and labor they will lift not so much as the tip end of the little flnsrei;. ?n this country tho torch put to tha factories that have discharged hands for good or bad ro men; obstructions on the ratl-traok in front of midnight exp e«s trains because 'the offenders do not like the president of the company; strikes on shipboard the hour they were going to sail, or In prlnting-oM es pthe hour the paper was to go to press, or in mines the day the coal was to bo delivered, or on house scaffoldings so the builder falls ,'n keeping his contract—all these are only v hard blow on the bead of American labor, and cripple its arms, and lame its feet, and pierce its heart As a result of one of our great American strikes you find that the operatives lost four hundred thousand ,-r M

dollar*’ worth of wage*, and have had power wages ever since. Traps sprung suddenly upon employers, and violence, never took one knot out of the knuckle of toil, or put one farthing of wages into a callous palm. Barbarism will never care the wrongs of civilization Mark that! Well, if this controversy between Capital and Labor cannot be settled by human w.sdom, it is time for us to look somewhere else for relief, and it points from my text roseate and jubilant, and puts one band on the broadcloth shoulder of Capital, and puts the other hand on the homespun-cov-ered shoulder of Toil, and says, with a voice that will grandly and gloriously settle this, and settle everything, “WhaV soever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” That is, the lady of the household will say: “I must treat the maid in the kitchen just as I would like to be treated if I were down stairs, and it were my work to wash, and cook, and sweeps and it were the duty of the maid in the kitchen to preside in this parlor.” The maid in the kitchen must say: “If my employer seems to ba more prosperous than L that is no fault of hers; I shall not treat her as an enemy. I will have the same industry and fidelity downstairs as I would expect from my subordinates, if 1 happened to be the wife of a silk importer.” The owner of an iron mill, having taken a dose of my text before leaving home in the morning, will go into his foundry, and passing into what is called the puddlingroom, he will see a man there stripped to the waist, and besweated and exhausted with the labor and the toil, and he will say to him: •“Why, it seems to be very hot in here. You look very much exhausted. I hear your child is sick with scar.et fever. If you want your wages a little earlier this week, so as to pay the nurse and get the medicines, just come into my office any time.”

After awhile, crash goes the money market and there is no more demand for the articles manufactured in that iron mill, and the owner does not know what to do. He says, “Shall I stop the mill, or shall I run it on half-time, or shall I cut down the mens’ wages)” He walks the floor of his counting-room all day, hardly knowing what to do. Toward evening he calls all the laborers together. They stand all around, some with arms akimbo, some with folded arms, wondering what the boss is going to do now. The manufacturer says: “Men, business is bad; Idon’t make twenty dollars where I used to make one hundred. Somehow, there is no demand now for what we manufacture, or but little demand, You see, I am at vast expense, and I have called you together this afternoon to see what you would advise. I don’t want 10 shut up the mill, because that would force you out of work, and you have always been very faithful, and I like you, and you seem to like me, and the bairns must be looked after, and your wife, will after awhile want a inayr dress. I don’t know what t > do.”

There is a dead halt for a minute or two, and then one of the workmen steps out from the ranks of his fellows, and says: “Boss, you have been very good to us, and when you prospered we prospered, and now you are in a tight place, and I am sorry, aud we have got to sympathize with you. I don’t know how the others feel, but I propose that we take off twenty per cent, from our wages, and that when the times get good you will rememeber us and raise them again.” The workman looks around to his comrades, and says: “Boys, what do you say to this) All in favor of my proposition will say ay.” “Ay I ayl ayl” shout two hundred voices.

But the mill-owner, getting in some new machinery, exposes himself very much, and takes cold, and it settles into pneumonia, and he dies. In the procession to the tomb are; all the workmen, tears rolling down their cheeks, and off upon the ground; but an hour before the procession gets to the cemetery the wives and,the children of those workmen are at the grave waiting for the arrival of the funeral pageant. The minister of religion may have delivered an eloquent eulogium before they started from the house, but the most impressive things are said that day by the working-classes standing around the tomb. That night in aU the cabins of the work-ing-peoplo where they have family prayers, the widowhood and the orphanage in th 3 mansion are remembered. No glaring populations look over the iron fence of the cemetery; but, hovering over tha scene, the benediction of God and man is coming tor tho fulfillment of the Christiike injunction, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." “Oh," say* some man here, “that is all Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is impossible." No, I cut out of a paper this: “One of the pleasantest incidents recorded in a long time is reported from Sheffield, England. The wages of the men in the iron-works at Sheffield are regulated by a board of arbitration, by wiose decision both masters and men are bound. For some time past the iron and steel trade has baon extremely unprofitable, and the employers cannot, without much loss pay the wages fixed by the board, which neither employers nor employed have the power to change. To avoid this difficulty, the workmen in one of the largest steel-works in Sheffield hit upon a device as rare as it was generous. They offered to work for their employers one week without any pay whatever. How much better that pan is than a strike would be.”

Hut you go with me and I will show you —not so far off as Sheffield, England—factories, banking-houses, store-houses, and costly enterprises where this Christ-like injunction is kept, and you could no more get the employer to practice an injustica upon his men, or the men to conspire against the employer, than you could get your right hand and your left hand, your right eye and your left eye, your right ear and your left ear, into physiological antagonism. Now, where is this to begin! In our homes, in our stores, on our farms—not waiting for other people to do their duty. Is there a divergence now between the parlor and the kitchen! Then there is something wrong, either in the parlor or the kitoh'n, perhaps in both. Are the clerks in your store irate against the firml Then there is something wrong, either behind the counter, or in the private office, or perhaps in both. Supply and Demand own tho largest mill on earth, and all the rivers roll over their wheel, and into their hopper thsy pat all the men, women, and children they can shovel out of the centuries and the blood and the bones redden the valley while tho mill grinds. That diabolic law of supply and demand will yet have to stand as de, and instead thereof will come tha law of love, the law of co-operation, the law of kindness, the law of sympathy, the law or Christ, Have you no idea of the coming or anoh a timo! Then you do not believe the Bible. Alt the Bible la full of promises on this subject, and as the ages roll on the time will come when men of fortune will be giving larger sums to humanitarian and evangelistic purposes, and there will be more James Lenoxes and Pater Coopers and William ifi. Dodges and George Peabodys. As that time conies there will be more parks, more pldtnre-gallerles, more gardens thrown open for the holiday people and the working-classes. And now I have two words, one U capitalists and the other to laboring men. To capitalists: Be your own executors

Mnke investments for eternity. Do not like some capitalists I know who walk around among their employes with a supercilious air, or drive up to the factory in a manner which seems to indicate they- are the antocrat of the universe with the sun and the moon in their vest pockets, chiefly anxious, when they go among laboring men not to be touched by the greasy or smirched hand and have their broadcloth injured. Be a Christian employer. Remember,those who are under your charge are bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh, that Jesus died for them and that they are immorta'. Divide up year estates, or portions o 1 them, for the relief of the world, before you leave it. Do not go out of ths world like that man who died eight or ten years ago, leaving in his will twenty million dollars, yet giving how much for the Church of God) How much for the alleviation of human suffering) He gave some money a little while before he died. That Was well; but in all this will of twenty million dollars, how much! One million) No. Five hundred thousand) No. One hundred dollars) No. Two cents! No. One cent) No. These great cities groaning in anguish, nations crying out for the bread of everlasting life. A man in a will giving,twenty millions of dollars and not one cent to Godl It is a disgrace to our civilization.

To laboring men: I congratulata you on your prospects. I congratulate you on the fact that you are getting your representatives at Albany, at Harrisburgh, and at Washington. This will go on until yor will have representatives at all the headquarters, and you will have full justice. Mark that. I congratulate you also on the opportunities for your children. Your children are going to have vast opportunities. I congratulate you that you have to work and that when you are dead your children will have to work. I congratulate you also on your opportunities of inform ttion. Plato paid one thousand three hundred dollars for two books. Jerome ruined himself, financially, by buying one volume of Origen. What vast opportunities for intelligence for you and your children 1 A workingman goes along by the show window of some great publishing house and he sees a book that costs five dollars. He says, “I wish I could have that information ;I wish I could raise five dollars for that costly and beautiful book.” A few months pass on and he gets the value of that book for fifty cents in a pamphlet. There never was such a day for the working men of America as the day that is coming. But the greatest Friend of capitalist and toiler, and the One who will yet bring them together in complete accord, was born one Christmas night while the curtains of heaven swung, stirred by the wings angelic. Owner of all things—all the continents, all worlds, and all the islands of light. Capitalist of immensity, crossing over to our condition. Coming into our world, not by gate of palace, hut by door or barn. Spending His first night amid the shop herds. Gathering afterward around Him the fishermen to be His chief attendants. With adze,and saw, and chisel, and are, and in a carpenter shop showing himself brother with the tradesmen. Owner of all things, and yet on a hillock back of Jerusalem one day resigning everything for others, keeping not so much as a shekel tc pay for His obsequies. By charity buried in the suburbs of a city that had cast Him out. Before the cross or such a capitalist, and such a carpenter, all men can afford to shake bands and worship. Here is the every man’s Christ. None sc high, but He was higher. None so poor, but He was poorer. At His feet the hostile extremes will yet renounce their animosities, and countenances which have glowered with the prejudices and revenge of centuries shall brighten with the smile of heaven as He commands: “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”

CHARMING AWAY WARTS.

Several Easy Cures for the Annoying; Excrescenses. “If a man will write down the number of warts that he has on his bands on the hat band of a tramp without the tramp knowing it the latter will carry the warts away with him,” suggested George William, the elderly oracle on warts after a long silence. “Warts used to give in,” he continued “when you cut one notch in a green elder stick for every wart you had-and then rubbed the stick on each wart and then buried it in the barn yard until it rots. That fixes ’em. Take a black snail, rub him on the warts and then stick him on a thorn bush. Do this nine successive nights and the snails and the warts will be dead together.” Chalk marks on tho stove funnel used to fix my warts,” said the chairman of the meeting. “Get ’em on when nobody could see you and when they disappeared warts went, too. This used to get sort of mixed when my mother saw the chalk marks and wiped ’em off. When I used to see a funeral go by unexpectedly I used to rub the warts up and down and say, ‘Warts and corpses pass away and never more return.’ That was intended to fix ’em.” “Charming warts was the popular way in my day,” said the minister. “A man of elderly mein and sad features was the king of the charmers. I went to him surreptitiously one day and he looked me in the eyes and said something that sounded like ‘Wobbly, gobbly. gum,’ and a lot more of the same interesting description. I’ve forgotten whether the warts went or not We used to think that to take as many pebbles as we had warts, touch them to the excrescences, sew them in a bag and take them to the four corners of the cross roads and throw the bag over the left shoulder, would do the business. The only bad feature of this was that if any person should find the bag and open it he would reap the warty treasure of the bag.”—Lewiston Journal.

What John Wanamaker Says.

“I never in my life,” says John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, “usod such a thing- as n poster, a dodge* ot a hand bill. My plau for fifteen years has been to buy so much space in a newspaper and fill it up with what I wanted. I would not give an advertisement in a newspaper of 400 circulation for 5,000 dodgers or posters. If I wanted to sell cheap jewelry or run a lottery scheme I might use posters, but I wouldn't insult a decent reading public with hand bills.”

A Slight Difference.

Tennyson N. Twiggs—Would it make any difference if I should read this poem to you or leave It here for you to read? The editor—Tee; 1 think it would. If you leave it you’ll gcout of the door; but if you bead it you may go out of Vse window.

WASHINGTON.

The Senate has passed a bill appropriat ing $900,000 for a monument to General Grant. The Washington papers of the 20th suggest the probability that Hon. D. P. Baldwin, ex-Attorney-general of Indiana, will be an independent candidate for Congress from the Tenth district to succeed Hon. W. D. Owen. Judge Baldwin, who has long been prominent as & Republican, has recently attracted considerable attention as a tariff reformer. Your correspondent met Mr. Owen and inquired of him the truth of the report Mr. Owen said he knew little about the matter, further than what he had seen in the papers. Judge Baldwin had been quite active and effective in his work as a Republican, but whether his recent change of attitude on the tariff question would gain for him sufficient strength with the Democratic party to secure its indorsement, he would not predict. He ventured, however, to say that f Judge Baldwin should be put forward as an independent Republican, indorsed by the Democrats, and he (Mr. Owen) should be renominated, he would look forward to one of the most interesting fights that ever took place in the State. It would be distinctively a fight on the tariff question, both parties would stick close to the text and Rome would howl.

A Washington special says that at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday it was decided to reject the British proposition submitted weeks ago for a settlement of the Behring Sea question. • t " For the first time in the history of the House judiciary committee, a majority of the members Thursday agreed to a favor, able report on a joint resolution—introduced by Representative Baker (N. Y.)— providing for a constitutional amendment to grant the right of suffrage to women. Twice before a minority of the committee nasireported favorably on similar propo sitions, and one of these reports was drawn by the present speaker, Mr. Reed, but a majority could not be induced to take favorable action.

The Indiana delegates to the National Conference of Charities and Corrections aaid their respects to President and Mrs. Harrison at Washington on the 23d. They were given a special reception at- the White House and in reply to an address presented by Rev. O. C. McCulloch, spoke of the pleasure it gave him to meet ladies and gentlemen engaged in the good work of the voluntary benevolent organizations. The Government, he said, accomplishes its ahief good when it pursues a plan calculated to stimulate the voluntary efforts of its best citizens to repress crime by removing the cause. Senator Allison is of opinion that the duties fixed by the McKinley bill are in many cases higher than is necessary and as a member of the Senate Committee, he will advocate the reduction of duties on every article so far as is consistent with the proper protection.

The Senate Committee has agreed to have the tariff bill ready to report to the Senate within ten days. It is said a substitute will not be reported, but the McKinly bill will be amended which will throw it into conference between the two houses. The Senate members of the conference committee have agreed to accept all the provisions of the House pension bill provided the House conference will recede from that part of their bill whioh gives a pension to everybody over sixty years of age. As the bill now stands it grants a pension of $8 a month to all sold--iers of the late war who are disabled from any cause whatever, and are dependent upon their mental and manual labor for support. A similar provision has been inserted in the Dill for dependent parents, and a month to dependent minor chil dren.

Representative Wilson submitted to the House a report from the committee on Agriculture, defining and taxing compound lard. The committee reported against the proposed bill on the ground that it will either increase the price or restrict the sale of healthful food, thereby doing the farmers no good and the laboring man an injury.

The House committee on commerce has directed a favorable report to be made on the bill amending the inter-state com' merce law so as to permit the railroad companies to give a reduced rate to veterans attending the National Encampments, with an amendment extending the same privileges to veteran confederate soldiers. The House Committee act d upen three pending eleotiou cases, and the result will probably be an increase of the Republican majority in the House by two members. The cases decided were these of Langston vs. Venable, Fourth Virginia 1 District; Miller vs. Elliott, Seventh South Carolina District, and Chalmers vs Morgan, Second Mississippi District. In the first two cases the committee will report in favor of the Republican contestants, Langston and Miller, but in the Mississippi case the report will be in favor of the sitting member, Morgan.

The heaviest rain and electric storm' known in years passed over a large sec* tVon of Western Pennsylvania on the night of the 38d Houses were blown down, trees uprooted, and hailstones as large as walnuts poured down In sheets Lightning also struck several buildings and others were submerged while streets' were converted into rivers in many of the towns. Several persons were killed by the electrical bolts and railway traffic was seriously impemled by washouts and tfce carrying away of bridges. Nortbera Indl ana was also visited by the storm and thousands of dollars of damage was done by the burning of buildings, by washouts and by despoilment of crops.

Chauncey Depew is a oousin in Ike third degree of both Senator Kvarts a nd Senator Hoar.

THE STARS AND STRIPE,

The National Emblem MuU Not be Do. faced. Judge Thompson, of Ohio, from the House committee on the jua.eiary, to whtfm was referred the bill to prevent the desecration of the United States flag, reported as follows:

“The flag of our country is the symbol of our national existence, power and sovereignty. It Is the emblem of freedom and equality, and representative of the glory of the American name. It Is a reminder of American fortitude, courage and heroism, and of the suffering and sacrifices, on land and sea, which have been endured for its preservation and for the preservation of the country which it represents. It is the shield and-protection of the citizen at home and abroad, and should be honored and reverenced by every Ameri* can who is a lover of his country. It should be held a thing sacred, and to deface, disfigure or prostitute it to the purposes of advertising should be held to be a crime against the Nation and be punished as such. We therefore favor the proposition of the accompanying bill, but offer in lieu thereof the following substitute, and recommend its passage: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, In Congress assembled, that any person or persons who shall use the national flag, either by printing, painting or affixing on said flag, or otherwise attaching to the same any advertisement for public display or private gaim abattriregnlity of a demeanor, and on conviction thereof in the District Court of the United States, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding SSO, or imprisoned not less than thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court.

THE TARIFF BILL

Passed by the House—Two Republicans Vote Against It. On Wednesday, after a debate of two weeks, the McKinley tariff bill was passed by the House of Representatives, with a majority of twenty votes. Every Democrat and two Republicans voted against it. As was expected, the vote was divided strictly upon party lines, with the exception of Mr. Coleman, (Louisiana), who objected to putting sugar on the free list, as it is the principal production of his State. Mr. Featherstone, of Arkansas, independent, voted for the measure. It la said that a number of Republicans would have voted against certain propositions presented by the committee and for others offered by Democrats, had it not beeu for the belief that the Senate will either very radically amend the hill or substitute an entirely new one for it The impression prevails very generally now that the Senate does not intend to accept the House bill in anything like the shape it was passed. The Senate, it was contended, is lealous of the House, and is unwilling to give the lower branch of Congress the credit of framing the most important measure of the season, and will probably unend it so as to get at least part of the credit for the preparation of a tariff law.

The final adoption of the bill, by a vote »f 164 yeas against 142 nays, was received with prolonged and euthusiastio applause from both sides. Every member, as well te the pages and other employes of the House, seemed jubilant over the compledon of what has been the most taxing and rexatious work which will be done at this tession. Although the bill has finally passed the House on schedule time, it is tot thought that the adjournment of Confess will be reached at an earlier day ban usual, whioh is about the Ist of Lugust.

AMERICAN INDUSTRY AGAINST FOREIGN RIVALS.

The Senate committee will take the tariff till np st once, but It will be several weeks tefore they will be able to report a substinte to the Senate. There is little doubt hat a substitute will be reported. This tourseis deemed to be better than to report the bill as it came from the House, rith amendments, for, when it goes into onference, there will be but one question o-settle instead of a myriad of differences ipon points in detail. This was the course rarsued with the tariff bill of 1883, and it vas found to result in a saving of time, j Che finance committee will endeavor to naintain its determination not to give oral learings to any interested parties, but it vas reported Thursday that importers of teveral cities, to the number of two thou* land, will come to Washington next week, lemanding to be heard. If any such lumber, or even a much smaller one, appears In a body,, it is probable that the lommittee will open-its doors to the repre - lentatives.

When President Garfield’s remains were removed from the public vault in. the Cleveland cemetery to the crypt in the sew memorial monument at the same place the cover of the casket was taken off, tnd all that is mortal of the martyr Presi* lent was exposed to view. The body was found to be in a good state of preservation ind could easily be recognized. The hair has somewhat fallen off from the forehead but the beard has grown fully two inches. Garfield wore a full beard, well trimmed tnd somewhat close. No W it would be classed in life a long beard. The eyes and mouth were closed and the features some* what shrunken, but perfectly white. They look ss though a light frost had fallen upon them. Itiattm'mt&fl of age. The left hand was crossed upon the breast, ana it too, was white with mold. The body was clothed in an ordinary black suit whioh has shrunk as tho form it covered ha# grown lesA. There Is a craze in London for queer leather. Some shops are stocked with fancy articles made from the skins of all sorts of beasts, reptile* and fishes, including pelican sk ns, lion anl panther skins, fish skins, monkey skins and snake skins, etc. ...• —, —,— 1 — The French fishermen are troubled by. the depredations of porpoise*, for whieh they have not succeeded in finding a remedy. An attempt Was made to catch them in seine nets, but they jump d out of the snares.

WINGED MISSILES.

Chancellor Boggs, of the Georgia State University, 1? said to be the youngest mas in the United States occupying such a position. Zinc-covered kitchen tables are finding favor now with housewives and servants, They are easy to keep clean and are exceedingly durable A blanket fish is one of the curiosities seen in the gulf between Key West and Tampa. It looks like an untanned cowhide floating in the water. Since the recent experiments with smokeless powder m Germany the question ol the suppression of the spiked helmet has been much agitated. The Supreme Court of the United States is three years behind in its business, which is piling up at a rate that is likely to set the court still further in arrears. Nearly the whole of Sennacherib’s great palace in Assyria has been cleaned out,and the result is that L7H) tables etc., have beeu secured for tbe British museum. An English syndicate with Lord Brassey and Lord Richard Grosvenor at its head is abont to turn Brussels into a seaport by building a canal and three immense basins. Fortune has not kept faith with Anna Dickinson. In ten seasons she made with her pen and on the lecture platform nearly $300,000. She is reported to have but little of it now. Kate Field, in her Washington, has excited grave apprehension by threatening to say a word or two about the pernicious habit Indulged in by so many people, of eating with their knives. The Swedish Oyster Culture Society la trying to acclimatize American oysters from Connecticut on the coast of the province of Bahus. Tbe young oysters seem to thrive well. Anew telephone has been brought out in England which is said to not infringe upon any existent patent It is of tbs most simple construction, consisting of an elec-tro-magnet and celluloid diaphragm. A usurer at Aschersleben, Germany, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment 3,000 marks fine and five years’ police surveillance for charging an army officer 180 per cent interest on money loaned. A man recently hanged in a southern state was born on Friday, married on Friday, presented with twins on Friday, committed his crime on Friday and was hanged on Friday. And his name wasn’t Friday, French doctors are reported to have dis covered that the essence of cinnamon,when sprinkled in the room of typhoid fever patients, kills the bacteria within twelve hours and prevents the disease from ■ApWijUiXL- ni’ r t . r y—.— Mri \-;,m

A Georgia editor has an old confederate shoe, manufactured for the government in 1864, just before the war ended. The sole Is fully three-quarters of an inch thick, and is made of poplar wood, evidently shaped with a hatchet or drawing knife.' A share company, with a considerable working capital, has been floated in England to work a patent for what is called the “sterilization” of milk, that is, the destruction of the bacteria, through which, certain diseases, notably typhoid fever, are spread. The height of an olive tree is usually twenty feet, but it is sometimes as high as fifty feet and it reaches an almost fabulous age. . One lately destroyed at Beaulieu had a recorded age of five centuriesand it was thirty-six feet in circumference. Marshal MacMahon is in favor of retaining the red trousers of the French soldiers. He says that the fuss made about them is altogether too great, because futurejfighung must be at long range and red is a color which is lost sight of at a comparatively short distance. The homes of rich Mexicans are said to be palaces, and the grounds around them aro gardens. There is an oriental splendor around them that is not found in the United States. There is an expanse about everything and a retinue of servants that is bewildering. A gentleman who lives near Washingington Village, Me., and deals in sewing machines ran upon quite a mine of wealth recently. In tearing to pieces an old machine which had been in his possession for some time he ran upon a secret cavity containing fifteen $2<J bills. “Sun sickness” is the term applied to the condition of the people of Melbourne, who recently passed through a torrid season. So abnormal was the heat that natives of M adras and negroes from Sierra Leone suffered more than they had ever suffered in their native climes. The bashaw of Tangier has become so corpulent that be is unable to walk abroad. He is only five feet two inches in height and must be about the same in breadth, as he weighs over 403 pounds. He has been advised by his thirty-two physicians to fast for a mouth, but he says he will see them bow-strung first Salvation is free, but it is pretty hard for projection lo keep ils ns essment off of Mouut Calvary. Talmag , however, did suc eed io getting t e stone he rolieJ from Calvary admitted duty free through tho custom house on the representation that it had “come to stay" and would be made the corner stone of his new tabernacle. An old duck hunter at Savannah says that a flight of ducks coming south on one dav, if followed by other flights in the same direction days or weeks afterward, Will not vary to’exceed twenty-five feet from the path of the ducks which have preceded them, and will a light in almost tho exact spot where preceding flights have settled.

There is a new use for hypnotism—namely, as a remely for habitual drunkenness. The drunkard, after being hypnotized, is informed that ardent spirits are nasty and the obje l of bis particular hatred. II this is repeated two or three times the habit of thougdt becomes so fixed that the drunkard cannot bring himse.f to drink a drop of the spirits. Stanley d scribe* the dwarf tribe of the forest. lie says they are the oldest aristocracy in the world, with institutions dating back fifty centuries. • hey are ruled by a queen, a beautiful, ch -rating little woman, who was exceptionally kind to Stanley and his comrades. The dwarfs are of olive complexion, remarkably intelligent, ingenious artificers in iron and ivory, and probably the only monogamous race in Africa. A Pittsburg drummer went into a Cleveland shop to tfdk steam engines to the proprietor. A pretty little woman entered at the same time, and the drummer, supposing it was the proprietor's daughter, stepped aside and allowed her to pass. He we* amazed when she opened the con versa tios by inquiry alter the health ft Ms steam gauges, sad he nearly had a stroke o! apoplexy when she took an order for a lot of steam fixtures. She smiled on the otbei drummer as she tripped eat eari made him wish he was dead.