Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1890 — Page 7

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A scheme is on foot- to connect lay orte and Michigan City (twelve miles} by an electric railway. ' Daniel H. Gilman, of Terre Haute, has sued the C. r C., C. & St. L. Railway Co. for theloss olahand. 12~ ? 1.- v ' \ Natural gas exploded at the residence o Dr. J. R. Rucker, of Shelbyville, and Mrs Rucker and her two small children were badly burned. Diphtheria is exceedingly prevalent at Indianapolis. More than 100 cases were reported on the 6th, with the disease gradually spreading. A Wabash engine crushed into a Chicago & Alton sleeper, at Jacksonville, 111., on the night of the 4th. Two passengers were killed and others hurt. Dudley, Michener. Daniel McCauly, Bruce Carr and H. M. LaFollette have associated themselves in a business enter*, prise—what, is not stated. William Dudley Faulke has been elected President of Smarthmore College, Penn* Sylvania. It is a high honor, and comes to one of Indianas widest known citizen. Patents were granted Hoosier inventors as follows: James Spicklemire, Avon, grain drill; Robert Watts, Shelbyville devise for hanging maps or curtains; John Caven, Indianapolis, domestic water purifier. Two divorce cases at Lawrenceburg in In which damages to the amount of $50,009 each were demanded, have been settled in court. In one of the cases the wife was given the divorce, alimony and custody of the children, while the husband did not get any part of the $50,000. In the other the trouble was compromised, the husband getting the divorce. The White Caps have again been on a rampage in the southern part of Harrison county. Richard and David Lowe, Jerry Shuck and a woman whose name could no be learned, are the latest victims. The Lowes were severely dealt with, but Shuck and the woman were only slightly punished. Shuck is a Baptist preacher, and is regarded as partly demented. The Methodist church choir at Craws fordsville suddenly turned up missing, and it was ascertained that they had been requested not to sit in front of the pipe organ, but at the sides, which they did not see fit to do. After some discussion on the subject the church board reversed its request, and now the members of the choir ean sit where they please. Adjutant General Ruckle has ordered the discharge-of twenty-four members of the Fort Wayne Rifles, on the recommendation of Captain Bulger, of that company. These men have persi stently failed to obey the Captain’s orders to appear at drill calls and rigorous measures were necessary to uphold the discipline of the militia. The discharge will debar the men from any military service jn the State. In answer to an inquiry by the State Superintendent, Attorney General Smith Thursday, gave an opinion that children of school age who are inmates of the State Reformatory and benevolent institutions can not be legally included in the enumer* ation which furnishes the basis for the apportionment of the school fund. These children are given especial educational opportunities in the institution which they occupy. Jackson Ferguson, Treasurer of Pike county, on the Ist inst. made public that there is a discrepancy in his accounts aggregating $5,000, and that he did not know what had become of the money. .The general public regard “Uncle Jack,” as he is familiarly called, as honest, and they cannot believe him to be a defaulter. Mr. Ferguson has deeded his land in trust to ex-Sherift Brumfield, and an investigation will be immediately made. The revelation is the sensation of the hour, and clerks are socused of having the key to the trouble. Shortly after midnight on the 4th, August Brown of New Albany, was awakened by tome one rapping violently at his door. On answering the summons he was confronted by three men, who asked to be directed to the house of a neighbor. Mr. Brown ctepped out to point out the house asked tor, when he was seized by two of the men one of whom pressed a revolver to his head and threatened to blow out his brains if any noise was made. The other two men then entered the house, and while one of them compelled the members of the family to remain silent, the other ransacked the house. About $75 in money and a gold watch were found and pocketed by the burglar. Monday afternoon a farmer living in Kentucky, engaged four colored men oj Evansville to load corn on a barge, and a fifth was employed to row the party across the river, the' farmer being accompanied by his foreman. Seven men entrusted themselves to a skiff. The river was rough, due to a high wind, and when with In a few hundred feet of the Kentucky shore the skiff was overturned and all of them were thrown into the water. The farmer and his foreman clung to the boat and were rescued, but the others were drowned. The victims included Albert Walker, James Jamison, Fielden Clev> William Warfield and Stewart CariJr, solored. Walker was a man of family, and >he day previous he was released from the Panderburg County Jail, wh ere he had served a short time for misdemeanor. During the past ten day Constable Cur* tin, backed by Prosecutor Carver, has been raiding the Anderson gaming rooms. Gambling has been running wide open here for the past five years, and it has I been claimed that the gamblers controlled the police force- The result of the recent raids in the capture of five roulette tables twelve stud poker tables, fifteen poker, tables, nine keno twelve packs of cards and nearly two bushels of “chips.” Ex* County AudUor James M. Dickson, ex* Sheriff Al. d Ross, James Qorbett, James Moulden, George Hogle, Henry Hoover Ira Patton and John Dockter have pleaded guilty to “keeping for game certain gaming devices," and each were fined $29.45. The devices were confiscated and will be burned. _ In his inspection of the poor asylums of the State, Secretary Johnson, of the Board of State Cnarities,pronounced the Warrick | county asylum one of the very worst man* 1 aged of all the ninety-two. A separate ccunty orphans’ home was maintained, however, in which nearly thirty pauper

'children have of lat&been receiving comparatively good care. Now comes the information that on a plea of economy the i county commtesioners have decided to | abandon the orphans’ home and put all those young children back into the wretch ed poor asylum. Unless the asylum is to be greatly improved in management, this is an unwise and. cruel determination, Mr. Johnson says. When he visited the insti- ’ tution it was too small for the inmates then crowded into it, and these children will swell the number so that additional room will become an absolute necessity. | The Mcllroy family reside in Vernon, . and have for a guest or boarder from time ’ to time Rev. Carroll M. Hoddy, of Pierson Station, 111, He is reputed to be paying his addresses to Miss Magnolia Mcllroy, and while there he monopolizes a great deal of .that young lady’s time, to the ex* elusion of Frank Bicount, who is smitten in the same direction. This enraged Bi* . count, and last Saturday night about 9 1 o’clock, accompanied by two of his friends, he went to the Mcllroy residence and demanded the body of the preacher, declaring a purpose to kill him, Mr. Hoddy bar rieaded himself in a room, and when the trio attempted to force the door he opened fire with his revolver, and his assailants I beat a hasty retreat, one of them being slightly wounded. Yesterday the trio at* tempted to prosecute Mr. Hoddy for feli loniou" assault, but after a trial before the ' Mayor, which lasted all day, he was discharged. I . . HEALTH BOARDSUGGESTIONS;: ! If health is more to be desired than gold, says the Indianapolis News,the utterances of a body of men chosen by a State to look after the health of its citizens niightnat* urally be expected to have weight. Here are the recommendations which thelndi* ana State Board of Health will make to the Legislature in its annual report, now almostcompleted; - i The passage of a law prohibiting the heating of railway trains by stoves. j The provision of a contingent fund for ' use in case some great epidemic or disaster should occur. | The amendment of the law regulating the practice of medicine so as to allow a physician to practice in any county in the State when he has procured a license in one. 1 The passage of a law vesting the appoint, ment of county health officers in the State Board of Health, and making the position s more important. A regular salary, in stead of the present pernicious system in use lA some counties of giving the places to the lowest bidder. The establishment of a laboratory at one of the State institutions for the study of bacteriology. __ r Some provision which will enable the State Board of Health to make an analysis of water. i The report says that 400 deaths directly 1 due to la grippe were officially reported to the Board, but that the mortality indirectly resultant from that disease has been much greater. A very interesting articl by Dr. J. F. Hibbard, of Richmond, gives the number of cases of la grippe reported to him from Wayne county as 7,396. These with a reasonable allowance for cases not reported, show that about one person in four in that county contracted the disease. Dr. Hibbard estimates that in Wayne county with a population of 43,000 the money loss because of la grippe was over SBO,OOO. At this rate the loss in the State must have been millions. DESPERADO AND LAW. 1 Mervin Kuntz, the Indiana desperado who, a week ago, committed a horrible murder at Fostorio, 0., and is charged with many other crimes, killed police officer John Cornelley Saturday night at ! Cherubusco. I Kuntz is one of the most desperate criminals in this State, and a large reward is i offered for his arrest. At noon, on the 6th, he stepped of a train in Ft. Wayne, and ' was immediately recognized by the police, who have been on the lookout for him. He escaped arrest, however, and took flight through the country.-; He was followed up by police lieutenant Wilkenson and officer Cornelley, who caught their man at Cherubusco. When they attempt* ed to place him under arrest Kuntz drew a revolver and fired several shots, killing Cornelley instantly. Wilkenson followed the desperado up, but he got away in the darkness The thrilling tragedy is given in the following particulars; * Kuhntz,after sauntering about the streets ( of Ft. Wayne, walked to Arcola, eight miles west, and stole a horse and road cart in which he drove to Cherubusco, near which village his father lives. Mease and he made the round of the saloons, Kuhntz displaying a brace of revolvers and defy* ing arrest. Later they visited a farm house and demanded money. The women I fled to the village and reported the occur rence at the very moment when deputy sheriff Wilkinson and policeman Con- ! nelly arrived from Ft. Wayne. The officers started in pursuit and met the desperadoes returning. Connelley grasped Kuhntz about the neck and the latter drew his pistol. Mease began firing at Connelley and brought him down with a shot In the abdomen. The officer released his man, and Wilkinson, who had been endeavoring to wrest away his rei volver, at once seized him about the ' body and a battle to the death was begun. From the ground the wounded policeman fired a ball through Kuhntz chest and Wilkinson,placing his revolver at the fellow’s I back, fired four times. Kuhntz neverthe* ' less wiggled out of his overcoat, and, jumping into his road cart, made off in the darkness. He was captured without re* sistance, at midnight, at the house of a farmer where he had sought shelter. Mease was shot by ex-town Marshal Jack son. Kuhns declares that he is not guilty, of the murder of Campan at Fostoria, but is unable to explain a partially healed wound on his hip. When Kuhntz was examined by DrMeyers it was found that he was literally riddled with bullets. One had pierced his left lung, another hi* right breast,two had plowed through his intestines, and several bullets had lodged in his legs. The cour* ' age displayed by the desperado was won--1 derfuL With wounds enough to kill a 1 dozen ordinary men,Kuhntz sat upright in 1 a chair, and nothing in his demeanor indicated thathe was mortally wounded.

AFRICAN HORRORS.

Assad Farran’s Affidavit Laid Before the World. The London Times publishes the full text of Assad Farran's afOavit. It is written in bad English and the original is in Assad's handwriting. Assad explains that he was obliged in London to contradict his account for certain reasons, especially because the committee did not desire him to reveal anything. He proceeds to describe how Barttelot after Stanley left Yambuya, finding food scarce, employed armed Soudanese to attack neighboring villages, but found them deserted. He then had recourse to capturing native women and demanding food for their ransom. Bonny did the same thing. The women escaped often. This caused isolation in the camp, the natives each tearing kidnaping. Assad relates how Barttelot daily ordered his men to be given from twenty-five to ohe hundred lashes for various offenses.He describes the arrival of. and the negotiations with, Tippoo Tib: He speaks of numerous eases of the stealing of food, of the thieves being punished with 100 or more lashes each, until their flesh was torn. In one case the Major ordered the punishment to be stopped, but a few days later, the victim having recovered somewhat, was given 150 more. He was then compelled to walk ten hours in the sun daily, heavily chained. This was continued for two months, when the victim’s sores became putrid and maga week, and Dr. Bonny gave him medicine, after which the punishment of marching in the sun was resumed. The man finally decamped, but was Recaptured aftei' four days, through the offering of a reward, and was shot, Jameson protesting. Continuing, while describing Ward’s and Troup’s return with ample supplies from their visit to Tippoo Tib with a message to hurry the porters, he says: “Ward and Troup, having everything they wanted, seemed content with the life at Yambuy a and declined to march. The Manyemas daily brought plenty of varied food, which they exchanged for cloth and matches, and the natives brought fresh fish daily, but the men in the camp were starving and dying daily, being reduced to skeletons. Often we asked the Major to issue a little old rotten rice to make soup for invalids, but this was impossible. The camp became a miserable sight, yet none of the officers appeared to care ” After dealing with the reports of Bartellot’s death and the getting of Tippoo’s men, comes the Jameson affair at Ribakiba. Jameson expressed to Tippoo’s interpreter curiosity to witness cannibalism. Tippoo consulted with the chiefs and told Jameson he had better purchase a slave. Jameson asked the price, and paid six handkerchiefs. A man returned a few minutes afterward with a 10-year-old girl. Tippoo and the chiefs ordered the girl to be taken to the native huts. Jameson himself, Selim, Masoudio and Farhani. Jameson’s servant, presented to him by Tippoo, and many others followed. The men who had brought the girl said to the cannibals: “This is a present from a white man who desires to see her eaten.” The girl was tied to a tree, the natives sharpening their knives the while. One of them stabbed her twice in the belly. She did not scream, but knew what would happen, looking to the ' right and left for help. When stabbed she fell dead. The natives cut pieces from her body, Some took the legs, and breasts and other portions straight to the huts, while others took the entrails to the river and washed them. Jameson in the meantime making rough sketches of the horrible scenes. Then we all returned to the chief’s house. Jameson afterward went to his tent, where he finished his sketches in water colors. There were six of them, all neatly done. The first sketch was of the girl as she was led to the tree. The second showed her stabbed, with the blood gushing from the wounds. The third showed her dissected. The fourth showed a mnn carrying a leg in one hand and a knife in the other. The fifth showed a man with a native ax and the head and breast of the vic, im. The sixth showed a man with the entrails. Jameson showed these and many other sketches to all the chiefs. Assad then describes the officers going to Stanley Falls at the end of May. He tells of Jameson’s anger at the {quarrel of Barttelot and Selim Mahomed, which delayed the starting, ahd the anxiety of both to seek or discover whether Stanley was dead or Imprisoned as rumored. Barttelot said that if he could relieve Stanley from imprisonment, he would become a full Colonel when he returned to Yambuya. Assad details the trouble as experienced in regard to the carrying of loads, and then tells how Jameson showed his sketches of cannibal scenes to Capt. Vangale. The latter was surprised that Jameson showed such a sight, and examined several natives, with the view of getting a confirmation of Jameson’s story. Jameson was proud of his sketches and showed them to all the officers, including those of the steamers from the falls, but contradicted himself in describing the scene to Troup and Bonny. In concluding his statement, Assad says the camp was divided, Jameson and Barttelot being on one side and Ward. Troup and Bonny on the other, and that all were afraid of Barttelot. He says he lacks time to remember other stories, but he promises a full account of it in the future, if desired.

A Regular Case.

“This,” said the keeper of the lunatics, “is a very curious case. This man imagines himself a great reformer.” ••How does he show his mania?” ••He is always patting himself on the back.*

“TURNED OUT.”

Another Monument Marks the March of Death on the Plains. Detroit Free Press. “Turn him out!” ••Shoot him!” ‘ ’Now move on again!” One of the four horses drawing a government supply wagon over the plains of Southern hnd jatag--gered, pulled himse.' u.. 'i-.r—he.d his place for ten rods uu •. . d then fallen in a heap. He v. - -* i 'ed and trembled as they strip,-.. .. . ness off. He made an effort to i. but fell back with a groan and moa—his eyes. Six wagons—fifty men—cause for haste, A substitute was put into the team, the order given to go ahead, and the horse was leit lying where he fell. If he recovered he would follow the trail; if he died it was only the loss of a horse. As the tram moved off, the horse raised his head, whimpered in a coaxing way, and at last neighed shrilly. Never a one even looked back. He fell back again, stretched out at full length on the grass. And he lay so quiet for the next hour that one riding by would have said that he was dead. “S-w-i-s-h. L ” ■ •‘Growl!” The horse raised his head, and what he saw caused him to struggle to his feet. Circling above him were half a dozen great buzzards. Facing him, and only ten feet away, was a wolf which had crept out of his den in the roeky ledge a quarter of a mile away —a gaunt, fierce beast whose shedding coat hung in long strings IO give him a fiercer look. The buzzards had sighted the carcass first. The swish of their wings had reached the ears of the wolf as he lay in his bed, and he had crept out to claim his share of the prize. The dead had suddenly come to life. The buzzards lifted themselves higher in the air, and the wolf shambled off a few yards and then stopped to growl in anger and disappointment. Tne horse had terror in his eyes as they first lighted upon his enimies. By and by something like hope glimmered there. The rest had done him good. There was still three hours of daylight, and he would take the trail of the wagons and follow on. He was trembly and weak, and his eyes ached as he threw up his head and looked over the ground to the east in hopes to see the wagons. A gorgeous picture. Artists have reproduced it in steel and on canvas—only a third of it. They have left out the flocks of greedy buzzards sailing in circles above the horse as he limps painfully along—they do not show the shaggy, hungry beast following at a distance of ten yards. I It is not a race. When a man or beast staggers and limps it is not a race —not a march—hardly progress. But for Fear the horse would never have got upon his feet again. But for Ter* ror he could not have moved a yard. But for Hope—that hope which is , born in desperation and despair his eyes would be so blinded that he could not see the trail.

Three miles to the south the trail crosses a creek. There is a grove there. The grass along the banks of the creek .is fresh and green. The horse had been two and fro over this trail until he remembers every rod of it. If he can reach the grove the shade and the water will give him strength. But can he reach it? He has not advanced five hundred feet' when he halts to groan in despair— to weave to and fro like a drunken man in his pain and Weakness. I ‘ ‘Swish!” “U*r-r-r-r!” The buzzards are flying lower, the wolf growls savagely as he notes the fugitive’s weakness. The ominous sounds strike the horse' like an electric shock. Wolves and buzzards are not strange sights to him. In following this trail he has come upon many a half-devoured bodymany a heap of bones from which the wolves slunk grudgingly away, and from which the heavy-bodied buzzards rose lazily with hoarse notes of anger. Ah! now, he is better. He is stronger. The pain has gone, Courage conies to him and he throws up his head, utters a glad neigh, and starts off on a trot. He will cheat his foes—he wRI once more take his place beside his mate. “Hohe! Hohe!” “Ur-r-r! U-r-r-r!” The buzzards cry out in anger. The wolf growls more fiercely as he trots along over the baked earth in pursuit. What! Halted! Trembling again? Weaving to the right and the left? Eyes glazed and blinded? Down at last—groaning like a man who falls to the earth with a mortal wound. He hears the flap of broad wings—he hears the patter of the wolf’s feet and his growls of satisfaction, and he Stretches out and dies—his bis bones to be another monument to mark the march of Death on the lonely and sterile plains.

Why He Could Do Nothing:

An amusing incident happened one day last summer at a farm house in one of the interior counties of this State, says the-New York Tribune, The farmer had a houseful of summer boarders, and one morning he was busily engaged in killing chickens for dinner. Just as he was about to decapitate an old black hen the house was discovered to be on fire, and a scene of confusion immediately ensued. The farmer rushed aimlessly about in all directions, holding the hen under his arm and doing nothing , toward assisting in putting out the j flames. At last his wife caught sight ' of him as he was prancing about, and, rushing up to him, wanted to know why he did not help put out the fire. Looking at ter with astonishment he exclaimed: ■•Why, Mariar, how can I do anything? An't I holding the old black hen?”

QUIDIDE FOR COLDS.

Bobs Bed Take Heaps of It'ad Get Dragk, ad Others Do Well'od Less —Ka-tchoo: New York Sub. _ A blear-eyed, red-nosed man, wifi tears, rolling down his cheeks, walkeX into Perry’s pharmacy the ; other uay and said: wad thirty graids of qif d:de.” Dr. Johnson looked at bun sharply and then went away to fill the order. “Thag you,” said the blear-eyed man as he swallowed half a dozen little white pellets and walked out. “That will make his ears sing,” said the .Doctor, “and in all probability it will make him very dizzy if he has not been in the habit of using quinine in large quantities. The drug is much alftised. Every one uses it more or less, and few people know its power.” The effects of a large dose of quinine frequently produce a delirium similar to that caused by alcoholic stimulants. Last week the Sun printed a dispatch from Sing Sing about a fifteen-year-old girl who had been crazed by the drug. She was the daughter of a well known resident of North Tarrytown and had been suffering with neuralgia for several days. She took a large dose of quinine and went to bed. Later in the evening she was found near the depot in a demented condition. She was partly dressed and had walked from her parents’ home up the railroad track. She had passed a number of trains in safety, and when she was found she acted like a person suffering from alcoholic delirium. ‘ ‘There is no doubt that the effects of a large dose of quinine are sometimes serious,” saida physician to the Sun reporter, “and I now recall one casein particular. It was during my service in Bellevue. A man. was brought to the hospital and placed in the cells where patients suffering from delirium tremens are kept. There were some peculiar features about the case, and after an examination we sent him to the insane ward. He acted like a crazy man. After a few hours of treatment he became quiet, and we then learned that he had taken 150 grains of quinine in fifteen grain doses within a few hours. He recovered from the effects of it after a very short time. There is probably no drug so generally used for half a dozen ailments as quinine. While I was South some time ago I saw men take it by the teaspoon for malaria. A person who has been taking quinine for a long time does not mind having the ringing sensations in the ears and other spmptoms that make themselves felt in a person who seldom uses the drug. Ten grains will produce these symptoms in many people, and if the patient has been suffering from neuralgia, for instance, that amount of quinine will sometimes act like an alcoholic stimulant. They will become “lightheaded,” and, at times, delirious. 1 know a number of people in New York who take quinine regularly, and think tnat they could not live without it. I don’t think that it can be called a habit, like the cocaine and morphine habits, because it is not a drug that grows on one. Those peowho take it regularly have some disease that they are treating. In cases of malaria it is invaluable. You know that during the war it was worth its weight in gold. Quinine is now very cheap. It is being cultivated in India and the large quantities of it that are used nowadays make it profitable products. I have never known of a dose ofj quinine producing death, though undoubtedly it could be taken in such quantities as to be fatal.

PEOPLE WHO USE STIMULANTS

The Danger That Lurks in the Various Preparations of Opium. j ’•.» Chicago Evening News. * I don't think I can recall a case where a grown person used paregoric for a stimulant," said a prominent physician yesterday afternoon. Z=Slt is a stimulant, nevertheless, as nearly every mother knows. Where is the mother who, at some period of her child’s babyhood, did not administer a dose of paregoric and soothing syrup, so-called, which is really nothing but paregoric? Paregoric is simply a mild form of opium. The only stimulating effect it has is from the opium it contains. It is, of course mixed with other drugs, and the whole compound is called paregoric. It is looked upon as a harmless baby medicine that comes into play very readily when baby is squalling and the head of the house demands peace at any price. Then it is that the paregoric bottle is seized and the irate youngster given a small dose. The child sinks into slumber and ceases to cry. •‘This well known family decoction is not dangerous unless an overdose is taken, and then, as with opium, death is likely to ensue. Occasionally a physician makes a mistake in writing a prescription for paregoric that is likely to cause the death of his patient. Two prescriptions may read much alike and yet have a far different meaning. Like this: ‘Tinct. Opii’ and ‘Tinct Opii. Cam ph.’ The former means tincture of opium and the latter paregoric. You can readily see that if the former was obtained and used where paregoric was intended that the result would be fatal, and such mistakes have been made. While in itself not dangerous, unless an extra large dose is taken, paregoric, as 11 before said, has the properties of opi- I um, and its effects are the same, only in a milder form. ••People who aro determined to use ( some form of stimulant can very readily find poisons enough that will do the work quickly and give better satisfaction than paregoric. The two stimulants most popular in Chicago are morphine and opium. They are, perhaps, used more extensively than is I generally thought. Neither is very oostly, and is easily obtained. There

' are other stimulants, such as cocaine land absinthe. Cocaine is used Considerably, but not to any alarming extent as yet, and I only recall ene case where death resulted from its use. I jsinthe is a distinctly foreign stimulant, and unless some ©f our newly arrived foreigners drink it 1 do not think it is used in Chicago. ‘.This vile, greenish-looking 1 liquor leads the drinker to a more horrible death than any of the other drugs. It leads its victim along in perfect security, for once the habit is formed it is a hard thing to quit. Many foreigners drink a small quantity regularly before diuner each day. They argue that it is a good appetizer and aids digestion. They were never more badly fooled. The drug has a most pernicious effect on the system and strikes at the very core of life. The evils of the use of alcohol are mild and few compared with those of absinthe. Fortunately its use is an old country habit.”

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The United Society of Christian Endeavor has a membership of 485,000, Illinois Methodists are arranging to celebrate their centennial in 1893. The number of confirmations in the Church of England last year was 220,000 against 144,000 in 1876. A dealer in old sermons at London advertises 4,000 manuscript sermons in job lots at a very low price per hundred. Those that are written in a large, bold, clear hand bring a higher price. The Salvation Army has property in various countries to the amount of $3,250,000. More than one-half of this is credited to Great Britain. In the United States the value of its property is less than $35,000. A unique but eloquent tribute was paid in the Baptist church at Milo, Me,, upon the recent celebration of its semi-centennial, in the declaration that “few churches have had so little trouble with their choirs as this.” It is stated that the Church of England has raised and expended over £35,000,000 on church building, repairing. etc., during the twenty-five years ending with 1884. The church I spends a million dollars yearly on these objects. A new society has come into existence lately whose aim is of more moderate proportions than its name. It is called the Congregational League of Proportionate Givers,, andthe simply requisite for membership is the purpose to set fixed proportion of one’s income for religious and benevo- , lent objects and to induce others to do the same. The Methodists are trying to unite the various branches of that denomination at work in China, and a committee appointed at the Shanghai Conference has just reported a plan of union looking toward the adoption of common rules regarding church membership, a common course of study for native preacher-, a common hymnbook and periodical, and one name for the entire church. It is said of Dr. Kerr, a medical missionary of the Presbyterian board at Canton, that he has in thirty-six years treated over 520,000 patients, ' aud has prepared twenty-seven medical and surgical works. He has ' trained over one hundred medical as- ' sistants, chiefly Chinese. China now possesses 114 hospitals and dispensaries, at which, in 1889, more than 348,'OOO patients received treatment, j The Christian Leader, Universalist, . commenting with disapproval upon the common tendency on the part of ; Christians to get on with unbelievers Iby conceding most of their position, ' and to win the friendship of the world by being as much like it as possible, says: “If we should be completely successful in this, what would result? We should have shortened the distance between the church and the world, not by bringing the world up, | but by letting the church down. We should not have diminished unbelief or irreligion; we should have given , them a little better standing in society. ■ Religion can make a wiser use of her ample mantle than to wrap it around men and women who neither respect her claims nor love her character.”

Married for Keeps.

Texas Siftings. The skipper of a coal boat on the Erie canal recently decided, after mature deliberation and careful consideration, to marry the cook, who had been a tried and faithful servant to him quite a number of perilous trips on the storm lashed canal. So he spoke to her about the matter one day and after securing her coy consent he , ordered the boat tied up at a small town, and. being a practical skipper up the street after a parson. The nuptial knot was soon tied, the parson beaten down to $1.50 for his fee, and then the canal boatman said: ••Well, Melindy, we are married fur keeps, now. We are hitched fur life, and must pull together. I’m a little short handed to-day, and as that lead mule has got a saddle gall on his back, you jist take the tow path and lead him. I’ll steer an’ kinder ruminate on some plan to give you work on the boat without going ashore in the mud. I’ve got a powerful sight more respect fer you, now that you’re my wife.”

A Mean Advantage.

Jack: “I’ll never smoke in the presence of a lady again.” Tom: “Why not, if she doesn't object?” Jack: “I was once smoking while with a lady and-began blowing rings. Sheslipped her finger through oneandConsidered herself engaged.” Mr. Goodole Tymes—Now, my mother’s cooking Mrs. Tymes (interrupting)—Hush! It’s horrible to speak that w«y of the dead. i