Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1890 — Page 7

FATAL CURIOSITY OF WOMEN.

Exhibition of a Bride’s Trousnean Results in a Riot anil the Death of Nine Persons. Though it contained tragic elements, the town is laughing at a singular riot which happened at Buda Pesth Thursday. It was the result of a free exhibition of the trousseau belonging to the Princess Thun Taxis. Before the doors of the building where the exhibit was to be given- a crowd of over six hundred women assembled. They demanded admittance in a body, and when the officers declined to tax the capacity of the apartments the entire force of females attacked the police, the ushers, the messengers in fact everything male within sight, with parasols, finger-nails and vehe' ment execrations, utterly routing the force placed there and putting the uniformed officers to ignominious flight. The crowd then surged into the exhibition rooms and sated their curiosity to its fullest extent. Meanwhile the mounted police had been called, and their clattering down the street struck terror to the weaker sex, who made another rush for the opening, trampling to death in their haste and fright two women and seven children. The police remained in possession of the field, together with several cart-loads of parasols, hats,bustles, blonde switches and miscellaneous spoil.

MINNESOTA ALLIANCE.

The platform of the Minnesota Alliance Convention demands that the l- war tariff” be radically revised, especially denouncing the McKinley bill as “the crowning ins fa my of protection,” demanding government control of railroads, that discrimination may cease, reasonable rates be established, watered stock not receive the rewards of Honest capital, and pooling of rates he absolutely prohibited; as producers, demands free and open markets for grain, and proper facilities for transportation thereto; holds that mortgage indebt- - ed.ii ess.should be deducted from the tax on realty; demands lower interest and severe penalties for usury; favors an increase in the volume of money and demands free coinage of silver; opposes State aiidmunicipal giving away of valuable franchises; favors improvement of great waterways; asks the Australian ballot system for the whole State; holds that United States ‘Senators and Railroad Commissioners should be elected by ballot; demands the prohibition of child labor; favors arbitration to settle labor troubles and equal pay for equal work, irrespective of sex; considers recent Supreme Court decisions fraught with danger to our form of government, and invites to its support all who toil and all who agree with them in opinions.

A WOMAN'S AWFUL CRIME.

Stitched Together the Lips of a Baby and Threw the Little One in the Water. While a party of young men and women were drifting in a row-boat on the Delaware river, at Burlington, N. J., a woman In white was seen to come out from the shadows pf a clump of trees, and, walking a few yards down the river bank, stop at the edge of. the water. A splash was heard, but, as the woman was still stands ing on the bank, those in the boat thought that a piece of the bank had slipped down into the water. In a few moments the woman disappeared in the clumps of trees from which dhe had come. The next morning a fishermah came across a black bundle Abating in the water. When be opened it he found the body of a pretty chubby baby, and was horrified to see that its lips were tightly stitched together. The woman in white had thrown the black bundle into tho water, and the stitched lips of the child tell why no cry was heard.

DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.

Electric storms prevailed throughout the country on.the 17th, aud many deaths and casualties are reported. A L. E. & W. train was overturned by a cyclone at Bridge Junction, 111., and several people were hurt. Seven men are reported killed by the destruction of a brickyard at Wes. terly, 111. A boy was killed at Hillerton, Pa. Destruction of property gi-eat. Twelve or fifteen boats were upset at Philadelphia. Many houses were unroofed at Allentown, Pa. Three brothers were killed by lightning in a house at Monroe, ville, O. A yachtman was drowned at Camden, N. J. A father and son were killed by lightning near Paris, 111. Two men took refuge under a tree near Trenton, N. J. The tree was struck by lightning and both wero killed. One man was killed by lightning near Anburn, N. Y. John Hamlet's house, on the Hebron road, in Porter county, was burned early on the 16th, and all its inmates were ere mated. Smoke was discovered pouring l from the closed windows and doors by Hans Claussen, a neighbor, and he attempted to enter a bedroom window, but was driven back through fear of suffoea. tion. Assistance arrived, and an entrance was forced, but the men were unable to rescue the doomed family. Three of the children were carried down into the cellar by the fall of the roof, while the halfconsumed remains of the mother and infant were found in the bedroom where the floor had not given way. All were burned beyond recognition. The dead include Mrs. Mollie Hamlet, aged thirty-four; three children, aged respectively seven, five and three years, and the infant, aged ten months. The mischief is supposed to have originated from an exploded lamp, Mrs. Hamlet always keeping a light burning in her bedroom. Mr. Hamlet is employed at Chesterton, and was absent from home at the time. . Advices from Kansas indicate an alarming condition of the corn crop. An evening paper of Kansas City, of the 17th, says ; “The condition of corn grows worse day by day. Hot winds blew yesterday and to-day, causing great damage in the seetions of the State which have had no rain. In some sections the farmers hare about given np hopes of harvesting any crop .a. _ all. At best there is no more than half of the State that is even fairly well watered* In many sections farmers are marketing their hogs, fearing that they will have no corn to feed them.”

A LETTER FROM MR. BLAINE.

nil Reasons for Objecting to Ere# Sugar--South American Trade - The following letter from Secretary Blaine was made public on the _sth: Bab Harbor, Me., July 11,1890. Dbar Mr. Frte —l have just received intelligettce from the highest commercial an-' tbority in Havana that American flour,( under the new duties imposed by Spain, oan not Cuban market under a cost of $11.46 per barrel, counting the shirpingprice in New York at $4.80 per barreL Spain holds the market for herself and is able to send European flour at a price which totally excludes the American flour from the markets of Cuba and Porta Rico. Other articles of American growth are likewise taxed by Spain to the pointof prohibition. This one-sided commerce will seriously injure the shipping routes which are still in American hands largely, if not exclusively. It would certainly be a very extraordinary policy on the part of our-government, just at this time, to open our market without charge of duty, to the enormous crops ofj sugar raised in tne two Spanish islands. Cuba and Porto Rico furnish the United States with nearly or quite one-half the sugar we consume, and we are far larger consumers than any other nation in the! world. To give a free market to this im mense product of the Spanish plantations at the moment Spain is excluding the pro. ducts of American farms from her market would be a. policy as unprecedented as it would be unwise. Our trade with the South American republics, as well as with the West India islands, has been for many years in a most unsatisfactory condition. The aggregate balance of trade with all Latin America is heavily against us. A Bingle illustration will suffice. Since we repealed the duty on coffee in 1872 we have imported the products of Brazil to the extent of $821,806,000, and have sold to her only $156,135,000 of our own products. The difference, $864,671,000, we have paid in gold, or its equivalent, and Brazil has expended the vast sum in the markets ot Europe. You can readily see how different the result would have bedn if, in return for the free admission of Brazilian coffees in our markets, we had exacted the free admission of certain products of the United States in the Brazilian market. To repeat this error with sugar (to an amount three times as large as with coffee), will close all opportunity to establish reciprocity of trade with Latin America.

The charge against the protective policy which has injured it most Is that its benefits go wholly to the manufacturer and the capitalist, and not at all to the farmer. You and I well know that this is not true; but still it is the most plausible, and, therefore, the most hurtful argument made ,by the free-traders. Here is an opportunity where the farmer may be benefited primarily, undeniably richly benefited Here is an opportunity for a Republican Congress to open the markets of forty million of ‘people to tho products of American (farmers. Shill we seize the opportunity, tor shall we throw itawayi I do not doubt that in many respects ! the tariff bill peuding in the Senate is a jnst measure and that most of its.provisions are in accordance with the wi.se policy of protection. But there is not a section or a line in the entire bill that will open a market for another bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork. If sugar is placed on the free list without exacting important trade concessions in return, we shall close the door for a profitable reciprocity against ourselves. 1 think you will find some valuable hints on this subject in tho President’s brief message of June 19, with as much practical wisdom as was ever stated in so short a space. Our foreign market for breadstuffs grows narrower. Great Britian is exerting every nerve to secure herbread supply from India, and the rapid expansion of the wheat area in Russia gives us a powerful compo. titor in the markets of Europe. It becomes us, therefore, to-use every opportunity for the extension of our market on both of the American continents. With nearly SIOO- - worth of sugar seeking our market every year we shall prove ourselves,most unskilled legislators if we do not secure a large field for the sale and consumption of our breadstuffs and provisions. The late conference of American republic* proved the existence of acommon desiro for closer relation. Our Congress should take up the work where the international conference left it. Our field of commercial development and progress lies south of us Very sincerely yours, Jambs G. Blainb, Hon. W. P. ✓rye, United States Senate.

ftlirenrd Iturglsrs. A shrewd game was pursued by some burglars at Napa, Cal. They called al a house and asked to be shown over it, saying they wished to purchase jusi such a one. Tho family were absent and the person in charge complied with the request. Noticing that one or two closets in one of the chambers were locked they, saying that an abundance of closet room was what they wished, expressed a desire to have these opened. The lady said the parties wero away, and these closets wore kept locked at iheir request After somo urging, the lady went to a buread and from one of the drawers took a bunch of keys, ana the closets were thrown open to the Inspection of tho strangers, who pretended to be entirely satisfied. That night they entered through one of the window’s, went t.» the room mentioned, took the keys from, the drawer, and rifled the trunk? in the closet of many valuables.

Small Cola. One gets a surf-fit of bathing at Cap* May. Girls who paint their faces nevei play lawn tennis in hot weather, The green postage stamp must go. That is what it waa made for. Baseball has been knocked out by sluggers. It is too tme sport compared with the giant mills. Disappointments worry a man in warm weather. No one like*‘-t0 put in the soup when it is too hot. Petors'jurg Index: A great many men acquire $? of prosperity and arrogance'with a $1 public oJi&j.

LABOR NOTES.

Paoiflc Co&£t minors work eight hours. New York has 3,010 union hoivxsmiths. ~ Non-union musician? at San fra* • cisco have organized. Spinning-mules at Woonsocket make 10,000 time a minute. About 500 Canadians come over to Detroit each day to work. Not five carpenters were at work in Cincinnati after the strike. London has a women's cigarmakers’ union with pearly 6,000 members. Employes of the Cincinnati Dessicating Company won 15 cents a day advance. A New York carpenters’ Union will fine any man $5 who works over eight hours. Hudson River, New York, tunnel workers, getting $2 for eight hours, struck for $2.50. The New York cigarmakers havegained 3 000 members by winning forty strikes this year. The Farmers’ Union, of Brooklyn, has donated SIOO to the striking farmers in Hamburg. The San Francisco molders’ strike iB spreading to towns around. Things look well for the men. Northumberland miners will have their gala day on July 12. The Durham miners will celebrate on the same day. . ; Brooklyn has the largest bakery—--70,000 loaves a day. The ovens are under the street. About 500 men are employed. The wages of Knoxville engineers on switch engines have been increased from $2.75 to $3. The road men now receive $3.45. . • "The Italian stone masons of New York who struck for an increase of wages of one dollar per day have had their request granted. The Toronto building laborers settled their strike by a five years’ agreement. After May 1, 1892, they will receive 21 cents an hour. The Aberdeen Trades Council, Enghas indorsed the Parliamentary ill restricting the hours of labor in a Hine to eight per day. The Massachusetts labor report shows that over 41,000 engaged in mechanical ‘manufacturing industries average less than $5 a week. The Yorkshire (Eng.) Miners’ Association has 42,000 financial members and £35,000 in bank. They will resist,,! any encroachment on their scale of wages. The Chattanooga Evening News has acceded to the demands of the International Typographical Union and will pay the scale of thirty-three and one-third cents per thousand asked for day composition. London postmen have been asked by the Postmaster General to give an explanation of their presence at the recent postal jubilee. It is thought that an effort will be made to disrupt the the Postmen’s Union. “Interest is the reward of abstinence,” says a contemporary. Of course it is. The lender abstains from work, and the borrower has to abstain from many of the comforts and luxuries of life.—Bellaire Independent. The Trade and Labor Councils of Reading, Pa., sent a committee to Harrisburg this week to urge the Republican State Convention to incorporate in the party platform clauses favorable to the Australian ballot Bystem and free text books. Typographical Union, No. 98, of Brooklyn, complained to the Brooklyn Central Labor Union Sunday that many labor organizations, among whom is D. A. 75, K. of L., are patronizing “scab” printing offices—Union Prints;.

Glass Manufacture Revolutionized.

Boston Commercial Bulletin. A new and Important improvement in the manufacture of glass has recently been discovered; one that will doubtless revolutionize glass manufacturing methods. Formerly panes and of glass were produced by blowing large hollow cylinders, which were afterwards cut and pressed. This blowing process: so tiresome and unhealthy to workmen, is to be abolished. By the new process, the tough glass may bo run through rolls and made flat, smooth, and of any width and length. The plate glass so produced is distinguished by greater homogenity, firmness, toughness and clearness; besides the surfaces receive a brilliancy of finish little less beautiful than the finest cut glass. The essential part of the new system consists in the use o f peculiarly formed waved hollow metal rolls, which are heated from the inside by steam or gas. These rolls take the tough liquid glass direct from the melting pot and run it out into long sheets like those of tin or sheet iron. To aveid the possibility of the glass adhering to the rolls, the latter are covered with a thin coating of coal dust, oil and wax. v When one considers the marvelous increase in the demand for sheet and . plate glass, and that its former production was at the cost of much money and the health of employes, the present discovery must be regarded as of great importance. It is expected to reduce thecostof production,and consequently the selling price, very materially.

Money Gifts to the Pope.

The various delegations of pilgrims who Have lately visited the pope have carried to the holy father an aggregate *um of money approximating $195,000. Of this amount $40,00G was from France, $50,000 from Italy, $20,000 from Austria, $25,000 Iron Germany, and SIO,OOO iron! America

GREAT HOME CIRCLE.

'IALL we meet in heaven AND BE KNOWN? No Theory or Surmise,but a Positive Certainty— Heaven is Not a btately Formal Abode—Dr. Tal mage’s Ber- " ■ • Dr. ‘ijm&ge preached at Waseca, Minn., Sunday.. Subject: “Meeting Our Friends in Heaven.” Text: II Sam. xii: 23. He said: There is a very sick child on the abode of David the King. Disease, which stalks up the dark lane of. the poor, and puts its smothering hand on the lip and nostril of the wan and wasted, also mounts the palace stairs, and, bending over the pillow, blows into the face of a young Prince the frosts of pain and death. Tears are wine to the King.of Terrors. Alas! for David the King. He can neither sleep nor eat, and lies prostrate on his face, weeping imd wailing until the palace rings with the outcry of woe. “Is the child dead ?” “Yes, he is dead.” David rouses himself up, washes himself, puts on new apparel and sits down to food. What power hushed that tempest ? What strength was it that lifted up that King whom grief had dethroned P Oh, it was the thought that he would come again into the possession of that darling child. No grave-digger’s spade could Ride him. The wintry blasts of death could .not put out the bright light. There would be a forge somewhere that, with silver hammer, would weld the broken links. In a city where the hoofs ot the pale horse never strike the pavement he would clasp his lost treasure. He wipes awav the tears from his eyes, and he clears the choking grief from his throat, and exclaims: “I shall go to him.” Was David right or wrong ? If we part on earth will we meet again in the next world ? “Well,” says some one, “that seems to be impossibility. Heaven is so large a place we never could find our kindred there.” Going into some city, without having appointed a time and place for meeting, you might wondet around for weeks and for months, and perhaps for. years, and never see each other; and heaven is vaster than all earthly cities together, and how are you going to find your departed friends in that country ? It is" so vast a’ realm. Now, I ask, how are you going to find your friends in such a throng as that? Is not this idea we have been entertaining after all a falsity? Is this doctrine of future recognition of friends in heaven a guess, a myth, a whim, or is it a granite foundation upon which the soul-pierced of all ages may build a glorious hope? Intense queation? Every heart in this audience throbs right into it. There is in every heart hero the tomb of a lost one dead. The object of this sermon is to take this theory out of the region of surmise and speculation into the region of positive certainty. I believe that I can bring an accumulation of argument to bear upon this matter which will prove the doctrine of future recognition as plainly as that there is any heaven at all, and that the kiss of reunion at the celestial gate willbe as certain as the dying kiss at the door of the sepulcher. The doctrine of- futura recognition Is lot so often positively stated in the Word of God as implied, and you know, my friends, that that is, after all, the strongest mode of affirmation. Your friend travels in foreign lands. He eomes home. He does not begin by arguing with you to prove that there are such places as London, and Stockholm, and Paris, and Dresden and Berlin, but his conversation implies it. And so this Bible does not so positively state this theory as, all up and down its chapters, take it for granted. What does my textimply? “I shall go to him.” What consolation would it be to David to go to his child if he would not know him? Would David have been allowed to record this anticipation for the inspection of all ages if it were a groundless anticipation? We read in the first book of the Bible, Abraham died and was gathered to his people, Jacob died and was gathered to his people, Moses died and was gathered to his people. What people? Why, their friends, -their comrades, their old companions. Of course it means that. It can not mean anything else. So in the very begin*, ning of the Bible four times that is taken for granted. The whole New Testament is an arbor over which this doctrine creeps like a luxuriant vine full of the purple clusters of consolation. James, John«snd Peter followed Christ into the mountain. A light falls from heaven on that mountain and lifts it into the glories of the celestial. Christ's garments glow and His face ihines like the sun. The door of aeaven swings open. Two spirits come down and alight on that mountain. The disciples look at them and recognize them as Moses and Elias. Now, if those disciples, standing on the earth, pould recognize these two tpirits who had been for years in heaven, do you tell me that we, with our heavenly eyesight, will not be able to recognize those who have gone out from among us only five, ten, twenty, thirty years ago? The Bible indicates, over and over again, that the angels know each other; and then the Bible says that we are to be higher than the angels, and if the.angels have the power of recognition, shall not we, who are to be higher than they in the next realm, have as good eyesight and as good capacity? What did Christ mean, in His conversation with Mary and Martha, when He said, “Thy brother shall rise again?” It was as much as to say. “Don’t cry. Don’t wear yourselves out with this trouble. You will see him again. Thy brother shall rise again. The Bible describes heaven

& a great home circle. Well, now, that would be a very queer home circle where the members did not know each other. The Bible describes death as a sleep. If we know each other before we go to sleep, shall we know each other after we wake up? Oh, yes. We will know each other a great deal better then than now, “for now,” says the apostle, “we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.” It will be my purified, enthroned and glorified body gazing on your purified, enthroned and glorified body.

Now, I demand, if you believe the Bible, that you take this theory of future reoogaition out of the realm of speculation and surmise into the region positive certainty, and no more keep saying. “I hope it is so; I have an idea it is so; I guess it is so.” Be able" to Bay, with all the concentrated energy of body, mind and soul, “I know it is so.” There are, in addition to these Bible arguments, other reasons why I accept this theory. In the first place, because no rejection of it implies the entire obliteration of our memory. Can it be possible that we shall forget forever those with whose walk, look, manner, we have been so long familiar? Will death coma and with a sharp, keen blade hew away this faculty of memory? Abraham said to Dives: “Son, remember.” If the exiled and loßt remember, will not the enthroned remember? You know very well that our joy in any circumstance is augmented by the companionship of our friends. We can not boo a picture with less than four eyes, or hear a song with less than four ears. We want some one beside us with whom to exchange glances and sympathies; and I suppose the joy of heaven is to be augmented by the fact that we are to have our friends. with us when there rise before us the thrones of the blessed, and when there surges up before us the jubilate of the saved. Heaven is not a contraction, it is an expansion. If I know you here, I will know you better there. Here I see you with only two eyes, blit there the soul shall have a million eyes. It will be immortality gazing on immortality —ransomed spirit in colloquy with ransomed spirit—victor beside viotor. When John Evans, the Scotch minister, was seated in his study, his wife came in and said to him: “My dear, do you think we will know each other in heaven?” He turned to her and said: “My dear, do you think we i Till he bigger fools In heaven than we aro here?”

Again: I accept this doctrine of future recognition because the world’s expectancy affirms it. In all lands and ages this theory is received. What form of religion planted it? No form of religion, for it is received under all forms of religion. Then, I argue, a sentiment, a feeling, an anticipation, universally planted, must have been God-implanted, and if God-im-planted, it is rightfully implanted. The Norwegian believes it. The Indian believes it. The Greenlander believes it The Swiss believes it. The Turk believes it. Under every sky, by every river, in every zone, the theory is adopted; and so I say a principle universally implanted must be God-implanted, and hence a right belief. The argument .is irresistible. Again: I adopt this theory because there are features of moral temperament, and features of the soul that will distinguish us forever. How do we know each other in this world? Is it merely by the color of the eye, or the length of the hair, or the facial proportions? Oh. no. It is by the disposition as well, by natural affinity, using the word in the very best sense and not in the bad sense; and if in the dust our body should perish and lie there forever, and there should be no resurrection, still the soul has enough features and the disposition enough features to make us distinguishable. I can understand how in sickness a man will become so delirious that he wil not know his own friends; hut will we he blasted with such insufferable idiocy that, standing beside our best friends for all eternity, we will never guess who they are? The Bible says nations are to be horn in a day. When China comes to God will it not know Dr. Abeel?. When India comes will it not know Dr. John Scudder? When the Indians come to God will they not know David Brainard. One more reason why I am disposed to accept this doctrine of the future recognition is that so many in their last hour on earth have confirmed this theory. I speak not of persons who have been delirious in their last moment and knew not what they were about, but of persons who died in calmness and placidity. And who were not naturally superstitious. Often the glories of heaven have struck the dying pillow, and the departed man has said he saw and heard those who had gone awaf from him. How often it is in the dying moments par ents see their departed children and children see their departed parents! I came down to the banks of the Mohawk River. It was evening, and I wanted to go over the river, and so I waved my bat and shouted, and after awhile I saw some one waving on the opposite bank, and I heard him shout, and the boat came across and I got in and was transported. And so I suppose it wfll be In the evening of our life. We will come down to the River of Death' and give a signal to our friends on other shore, and they will give a signal hack to ns, and the boat comes, and our departed kindred are the oarsmen, the fires of the setting day tinging the tops of the paddles, j Why, we are to be taken to heaven at last by ministering spirits. Who ’ are they*to be? Bouls that went up from Madras, or Antioch, or Jerusalem? Qh, no; our glonued kindred ape going to troop around us. 1 Heaven is not a stately, formal

[place, as I sometimes hsiar It described,’ a very frigidity ol splendor where peo-j ! pie stand on cold formalities and go ‘ around with heavy crowns of gold on | their heads. No, that is not my idea jof heaven. My idea of heaven is more like this: You are seated in the even-ing-tide by the fire-place, your whole? family there, or nearly all of them there, While you are seated talking? and enjoying the evening hour, there is a knock at the door and the door is opened, and there comes in a brother that has been long absent He has been absent for years, you have not seen him, and no sooner do you make up your mind that it is certainly he, than you leap up, and the question is who shall give him the first embrace. That is my idea of heaven. A great home circle where they are waiting, for us. Oh. will you not know your mothers voice there? She who always called you by your first name long after others had given you the formal! * ‘Mister ?” You were never any thing but James, or John, or George, oil Thomas, or, Mary, or Florence to feev. Will you not know your child’s vokUL? She of the bright eye, and the ruddy cheek, • and the quiet step, who camq in from play and flung herself into your lap, a very shower of mirth and beauty? Why, the picture is graven in your soul. It cannot wear out If that little one should stand on the, other side of some heavenly hill and call to you, you would hear her voicej above Hie burst of heaven’s great' orchester. Know it? You could not help but know it. Now I bring you this glorious con-, solation of future recognition. If you could get this theory Into your heart it would lift a great many shadows that are stretching across iL Oh, ye whose hearts are down under the sod of the cemetery, cheer up at j the thought of this reunion! Oh! how: much you will have to tell them when! once you meet them. How much you] have been through since you saw them last! On the shining shore you will talk it all over. The heartaches. The loneliness. The sleepless nights. Talking it all over, and then, hand in hand, walking up and down in the' light. ■ , No sorrow, no tears, no death. Oh,, heaven! beautiful heaven! Heaven! where our friends are. Heaven where' we expect to be

French Newspapers.

Allan Foreman, In the Journalist, France is a great country for journalists, but it is a mighty poor field for a newspaper man. In Paris they produce the handsomest, best edited, best illustrated periodicals in the world, and th ay have the meanest newspapers.' The English newspapers are slow enough to set an American editor crazy. But newspapers, as we understand them, can hardly be said to exist in France, for news occupies but every secondary place in their composition. 1 Take, for example, Le Petit Journal,! the daily paper with the largest circu-J lation in the world—genuine and un-i Toubted. It sells for fire sous, one a cent, and it is the worst-looking little; [rag I ever laid eyes on. Printed onj [ miserable paper, with heavy-faced type; •and poor ink, it presents a cheap, (smeary appearance, which would fill I the soul of the most slovenly backwoods editor with disgust. It contains condensed reports of the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies, political articles, short police notes, and a story. The story is the main feature, the; special articles next, and the news is* last to be considered. Dynasties may; be overthrown, cities may be destroyed,! kings and emperors may die, the Petit,* Journal will probably print the information some time; but, if the entire* Western Hemisphere should be destroyed by an earthquake, and it was a question between publishing the news of the castastrophe and the story, the news would lay over every time.” Mrs. Millais, the famous artist’s wife,, and the ex-wife of John Ruskin, lives! like a royal princess, and has a stall of artistically-dressed servants who care for her every desire. She is beautiful, accomplished and captivat-j ing, and is regarded as her husband’s mascot. Her Greek dresses are poems* and her poses the perfection of grace.' She has oriental couches in all her apartments, and is said to be the happiest woman in all Europe. Her husband is worth $1,000,000. Perhaps Jenner did not discover vaccination. In a graveyard at Worth, Dorsetshire, there is a tomb with this inscription: “Benjamin Jestsy, of, Downshay, died April 16, 1816, aged' 79. He was born at Yetminster, in this county, and was an upright, honest man, particularly noted for having been the first person known that introduced the cowpox by inoculation, and who, from his great strength of mind,. made the experiment from the cow on his wife and two sons in the year 1774,” i. ■ ■■■■ hi nil i ■ ■ ' ' At ten years of age a boy thinks his father knows a great deal; -at fifteen, he knows as much as his father; at twenty he knows twice as much as his father; at thirty, he is willing to take his advice; at forty, he begins to think his father knows something, after all; at fifty, he begins to seek his advice, and at sixty—after his father is dead—he thinks ha was the smartest mao tlu(t ever lived.

Succeeded at Last.

Boston Transcript. Fenderson —Bad awfully bard luck this evening. Tried with all my might to say something agreeable, but couldn't doit somehow; so 1 bid them good night and went home, Fogg—And so you did succeed lb saying something agreeable at last? I oongratulaln you, my boy.