Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1891 — Page 7

OVER TWO HUNDRED PERIS.

StMßir, -with 700 Itallsna Aboard, Sunk bj a British Mun.nbVTar. The British steamship [Utopia, from Italian ports, bonnd to New York, with 700 Italian immigrants on board, collided on the 17th with the British ironclad Rodney anchored m wibralter Day, ana sudk booh after off Raggedstaff. A southwest gale was blowing at the time of the collision Many women and children were drowned. A large number clinging to the rigging were rescued by boats from the channel squadron. i On entering the bay the Utopia, before colliding with the Rodney, ran into the British ironclad Anson. The Utopia sank within a few minutes. Boats were imme dlately lowered from the British ironclad' and also from the Swedish man-of-war Freya. These boats rescued 180 persons who are now on board the various vessels, Many others who were rescued are lodged n government buildings on shore. It is reported that the crew of the Utopia was saved, but that over two hundred paasen gers perished. On the 19th it was announced that,the official report of the numter of persons on board the Utopia shows that when she left Naples the steamship had 880 souls on board, including passengers and crew. Of this number only 311 have been saved. Thus 569 of her passengera and : crew are either drowned or missing. One account of the disaster attributes it to the fact that the British warship Anson was drifts ing before the gale, and that in so doing she rammed the Utopia abaft the funnel. After ramming the Utopia, the An-* son is said to have reversed her ens gines, which caused her to back away from ~nh:eUtopia,whlchvesg6nwair'practically impaled on the spur of the Anson’s ram, and the Utopia immediately afterward sank beneath the waves. Everything possible was done by the officers and seamen of the British warships in their efforts to save the lives of the unfortunate people on board the Utopia, so much so that four seas men were washed overboard and drowned from one of the warship’s steam launches while taking part in the work of resoue.

A STATE HOUSE HITCH.

Ths Governor and State House Officers Differ.An Views. The constitutional questions relating to the appointing power vesting in the Gov» ernor are to be brought before the Supreme Court as soon as possible. Governor Hovey is trying to force the legislative appointees to take the first steps in the legal proceedings, and he may be able to gain his point. He has sent to the Auditor and Treasurer of State this notice: You are hereby notified that the following persons, pretending to be State officers to-wit: John Brodie, Dr. Zachariah H> Houser, Perry H. Blue, J. J. Smiley, W. A. Bale, Columbus Marsh, Floyd Parke> David Holt, John B. Stoll and Joseph L' Blaze, have never been commissioned as such officers under Sec tion 6, Article 15 o f the constitution of Indiana, which reads as follows: “All commissions shall Usue in tho name of tho State, shall be signed by the Governor, sealed by the State seaj and attested by the Secretary of State.*! All acts purporting to be official by said parties without such commissions are absolutely void, and all payments made to them are contrary to law. In case the Auditor and Treasurer refuse to issue warrants to the trustees until they have been commissioned, they [the trustees] will be forced to bring mandamus proceedings against the Governor for their commissions. On the other hand, if the warrants are issued, the Governor will bring suit to enjoin the Auditor and Treasurer from paying out money to pers _ sons who have not been, commissioned as provided by the constitution. In either case tho constitutional question involved Will be brought hefore the courts. The Governor will not appoint trustees for the various institutions until after the controversy is settled by the Supreme Court, and * not then, pf course, unless the decision should be in his favor. Secretary of State Matthews has an* ■wered the Governor that he will not attes the signature to the commission issued to State Oil Inspector Yancey, and the Governor is preparing to issue mandamus pros cecdings against him to compel him to do so. As Attorney General Smith and the Governor do not look at these oonstitu* ional questions through the same glass, he Governor will likely employ private egal talent to prosecute his suit

THE LOSS OF THE UTOPIA

Batches Packed with People Who Went Down to ;Thetr Death. The accounts given by the divers who are engaged In the work on the wrecked steamer Utopia, of the terrible slghtg which they have witnessed on the vessel still further increase the appalling character of the catastrophe. The seamen, In describing the horrible scenes, say that they found the hatches and the chart-room of the Utopia closely packed with the bodies of the unfortunate passengers, who had become wedged Into an almost solid mass in their frantic rush to reach the decks of the steamer after she had crashed into the sharp ram of the ironclad. The positions in which the bodies were found show that the poor people made a terrible struggle, and that desperate attempts were made to escape |from the doomed vessel as the sea came rushing In through the rent in her side. Owing to a lack of accomodations in the naval hospital here, many of thecrewand the emigrants who were rescued have been compelled to camp on the glacis. The military are closely patrolling the shore for the purpose of rescuing any more of the bodies that may bo washed in by the waves. The inhabitants of this place, who from the chore witnessed the horrifying scene of hundreds of persons being swallowed np in the raging waters of the bay, are unstinted in their praise of the great gallantry displayed hy the men of the British squadron anchored here, who boldly hurried to th a rescue of the endangered passengers without stopping to consider the risk they ran in Umnehing their small boats on an angry

sea and in the teeth of a heavy ga’e. Mqsh' praise is also bestowed on the men of thd yacht Resolute, who also manned a boa* iibd succeeded In saving sixteen persons who/but for this brave and timely assist’ ance, would soon have given up the struggle and sank to the bottom

OPPOSED TO SUGAR BOUNTY.

Gov. Hogg, at T«xas, Expresses View* Vetoing an Act of the Legislator*. •i — The State of Texas owns and runs a sugar farm, worked by convicts. Recently a bill was passed by the Legislature to accept the 2-cent bounty under the McKinley bill. Gdv. Hogg vetoed it. The veto closes in part as follows: "The State is sovereign of her own affairs and cannot be disturbed in the legitimate exercise of her prerogatives. If she desires to raise sugar by convict labor under no circumstances could she with propriety ask or accept from any government a license to do so. Nor could she yield to a supervision of her affairs by any officer not subordinate to her own laws. To do so in one instance would lead to another and finally to supervision by the federal government over the cotton patches,wheat stock ranches, lumber-yards anti factories within her limits. Precedents by government usurpation become stronger than law. The worse they are the more difficult to overthrow. When they are erected on the destruction of the Constitution like this “bounty” Act, the wrong by them produced strengthens as the fruits of the crime spread until they become fastened forever on the people. “For my part I shall protest and begin to strike now while the precedent is new For no sum canthe State afford.to sacrifice principle, nor to Imperil her sovereign r ights. It is hardly decent to suppose that no measure is too monstrous for popular credulity when it embraces a proposition to dispense money under the name o. bounty among the citizens. Insiduous and desceptive as such methods usually are, no one can deny that at the heart of them there is corruption. It consists of the gov - ernment collecting money to the impover ishment of the masses, by which they

gratify the greed of favored glasses. Toierationof it by a free people Jinds supporonly in their ignorance. “Resistance of ail monopolies and exclusive legislation for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many, in abeys ance to the will of the people, comporti with the untarnished record of Texas, and cannot fail to make the course of her future bright.”

WILL WE RETALIATE?

rhe Embargo on Our Pork Must Be R«mortd or Retaliation Will Follow. Tho President does not propose to allow the German government to ignore the efforts which Congress has taken to relieve the products of American farms and ranchos from the suspicion of impurity, says a Washington special. It has been tho cry of tho German authorities for years that American meat products were unhealthy because no inspection was made before these products were shipped. In order to avoid this charge in future Congress passed the meat inspection bill, and it was supposed that this would ts sufficient to secure the removal of the embargo, but it seems that this idea was erroneous and that the German authorities were disposed to hold out. When this became known Senator Paddock, the author of the meat inspection bill, went to ths President and asked him to proceed at once to enforce the lights of the United States. The President replied that the necessary steps had already been taken, and that tho State department had instructed Minister Phelps to notify th e German authorities that unless the embargo Is removed Immediately the United States will at once impose discriminating duties upon'all German products. It is reported that this has already had the effect of opening the eyes of the German statesmen to the fact that the United States means business, and the result is that the State Department has been notified that In uture American-tagged cattle and hog ß will be admitted into German ports. It is a great many years now since the Germans have had an opportunity to chew American meats. Secretary Blaine said that he knew nothng whatever abont the published report that the United States intended to institute, retaliatory proceedings against Germany, in case that country refuses to admit American pork. No pronunciamento, he said, looking to the exclusion of German imports had been issued. Private Secretary Halford also said he knew nothing about tho President contemplating such retaliatory proceedings. An Associated Press dispatch also says the State Department knows nothing about the matter.

DEATH OF GEN. JOHNSTON.

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, the noted confederate soldier, died at Washington on the 21st» He caught cold while attending the funpral of Gen. Sherman, which aggra-' vatpd ailments to which he was a subject. He wa9 born In Virginia in 1807, and graduated with Lee at West Point in 1829. He participated in tho Black Hawk war ,in 1832 and participated in all the important engagements of the Mexican war, and was twice breveted for gallant service. In 188* he was appointed Quartermaster-General which position he resigned to enter th confederate service. Hii career as a confederate scidler Is a matter of history. He surrendered to Sherman in 1805. Since the 0 war be has engaged in many business enterprises. Ho was elected to Congress in 1877, and during Mr. Cleveland's adminis. tration was CommissioNer of Rrailroads. Gen. Johnston was a man of courteous manners, and his friends are legipn. Old Sam Rivers, the counterfeiter, has been arrested again on a new charge of counterfeiting, by a United State* detective, and be is in jail. He has for many years belonged to the Rittcnhouse*Lc i gang, and was last June let out on a flos*. after turning State’s evidenoe again?: 1 oonfedaaw >■

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

The first sugar cane cultivated in the United States was near New Orleans, in 1751. The seal is a voracious creature. A full grown one consumes about ten pounds of meat every day. —The French five and ten-centime pieces, it is said, are hereafter to he coined with holes in them, like Chinese currency. •Two convicts have died in the Concord, Mass., reformatory from drinking alcoholine, a preparation used in the shoeshop. Two Portuguese pugilists recently engaged in prize fight for 1,127 rounds. They fought six hours a day, stopping at noon to eat and smoke. A man with a mania for starting en« gines has been arrested at Fresno, CaL He has started several engines that were side tracked and caused much damage. Henry Kramer, a lineman, recently received an electric shock at Louisville, Ky., and has become hopelessly insane, believin he is pursued by an electric ghost. ■■ ■ Ne&r Bordeaux, France, there is a buoy in the harbor which is connected with the mainland by telephone. Ships arriving can thus communicate with their owners.

Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee raise an average of 2,978,800 bushels of peanuts a year. The annual value of the crop average |2,500,000 for the last four years. Recent statistics show that French railways annually kill one person out of 2,000,000. while in England 21,000,000 are carried before one meets a violent death. The "manna” which fell from the sky in Asia Minor last August, and was baked into bread, has recently. been examined by men of science, and is identified as a lichen. People who are fortunate enough to possess first editions of Burns will do well to send them into the market while the craze lasts, A copy which sold for £G6 in 1887 sold for £l2O last season. In Switzerland every man is his own assessor. After a man’s death the government carefully investigates his estate, and if he has been defrauding the treasury it collects the back taxes with interest. Eighty per cent, of the people of Unionville, Mo., are church members. There are hardly enough sinners in the whole town to get up a dance or a card party. In Germany 5,500,000 women earn their living by industrial pursuits, in England 4,000,000, in France 3,750,000, in Austrian-Hungary about the same, and in America, including all occupations, over 2,700,000. ' A Missouri man has collected over six thousand different kinds of wood', petrifactions and relics from all parts of the world. He expects to exhibit them at the Worls’s Fair.

A woman in Monroe, Me., has in ten months made 1,876 vests, for which phe has received $2lO, besides doing her housework. According to these figures she got but a fraction over eleven cents a piece for making the vests, The young ladies of Quincey, Mich., have a ‘ guess party.’’ The ladies send the gentlemen invitations reading: "Party in our set this evening. Guess where and come there.” It is needless to say that the boys get around late, &b they frequently visit a dozen houses before finding the right one. Gum arabic, which was once universally used, has become very scarce and dear, and a substitute is being made for it from starch, which is subjected under pressure and at a high temperature to the action of sulphurous acid. The product, after neutralization, is soluble and extremely adhesive.

What it Coats to Murder in Tibet.

-Century, -y-—■ I had arrived in Eanze in an evil hour, iu the midst of the festivities of the 15th of the fourth moon, when the people from far and near congregate there and the chiefs review their men, and drinking and fighting are the order of the day. In Tibet nearly every j crime is punished by the imposition of a fine, and murder is by no means an expensive luxury. The fine varies according to the social standing of the victim—l2o bricks of tea (worth a rupee a brick) for one of the 1 ‘upper ten,” 80 bricks for a person of the middle classes, 40 bricks forawoman, and So on down to two or three for a pauper or a wandering foreigner, a Lieutenant, Lu Ming.y-ang'kindly informed me. He said that there was hardly a grown, up man in the country who had not a murder or two to his credit; and latter on Mgr. Biet,the Bishop of Tibet corroborated this statement. i

Pay Before You Eat.

Youth’s Companion. The proprietor of a French case in Paris, on the Rue de Pontoise, was very much annoyed by poor customers who took advantage of the temporary absence of the waiters to step out without paving their bills. Finally, he put up all around the case, inside largo notices— •‘Pay Before You Eat.” The principal dish was a very thin but palateable soup, served in large, deep bowls. One day a man came in, and sitting down, before a large bowl of soup which had just been poured out, he*began to help himself; ~ " A waiter came up and laid: "Pay before you eat” "I gueßS not. I always eat first." 1 "Not here. Our rule is, as you see, pay first.” "I don't pay first.” said the man,and he continued to lio’p himself to the BOup, when, To his intense astonishment, the waiter utied out of his

pocket an immense wooden syringe, «nd, dipping the nozzle of it into the soup bowl, drew the soup all out of the bowl intoJhfi. i syringe. •'Will you pay now?” said the waiter, holding the syringesuspended over the edge of the empty bowl. The man concluded he would obey the rules, as the waiter had him at his The proprietor of that case must have had a little Yankee blood in his veins. He would make his fortune in America.

A Monster Knife.

Quite recently a wealthy young rajah of the district of Holkaa was on a visit to the iharquis of Lansdowne, the present viceroy of India at Calcutta, when he saw the latter take the London illustrated papers brought by the last mail and cut the leaves with an ivory paper-knife. On this occasion the Indian prince learned for the first time the use of the article in question. "Make me a presdnt of it,” he 6aid to the viceroy, ‘ ‘and I will offer you another in exchange.” The viceroy promptly consented and the rajah returned to his home. The other day he came again to Caloutta, bringing with him a young elophant. the tusks of which were artistically carved in the shape of paper-knives, and presented it to the viceroy. An attendant spread out on the carpet in front of the elephant some illustrated papers and uncut phamphlets; the intelligent little creature took them up with its trunk, cut the edges with its tusks and carefully replaced them on the carpet.

WORDS OF WISDOM.

All men die poor. Instinct is the nose of the mind. Charity is the smooth way of the fur. Eternity lies between to-day and tomorrow. Some people live by their wits who haven’t any. Merit is the only virtue which draws a steady salary. A man’s brains vary inversely as the size of his mouth. The fire of anger often costs as much as that of hard coal. Opportunity is a horse that must be mounted on the jump. In examing the faults of o xr neigh bors neariy all of us use a microscope. Irresolute people let their soup get cold between the plate and the mouth. The people who hate us talk too much and those who like us say too littlW. If people could cover up our sins by lying we would seldom meet the truth. Wit should be used as a shield for defense, rather than a sword to wound others. The man who speaks before he thinks is in a position to do lots ol thinking afterwards. Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. , , The greatest event of a hen’s life is made up of an egg and a cackle. But eagles never cackle.

How the Apostles Died.

1. Peter was crucified in Rome, with his head down, on a cross similar to that used in the execution of Jesus. 2. Andrew was bound to a cross and left to die from exhaustion. 8. St. James the Great was beheaded by order of Herod, at Jerusalem. 4. St. James the Less was thrown finally killed with a fuller’s clhb. 5. St. Philip was bound and hanged against a pillar. 6. St. Bartholomew was flayed to death by command of a barbarous king. 7. St. Matthew was killed with a halbert. 8. St. Thomas was shot by a shower of arrows while at prayer and afterward run through the body with a lance. 9. St. Simon was crucified after the wanner of Jesus. —UO. St. Mark was dragged thro lgh th e streets of Alexandria and he expired. 11. St. Luke was hanged on an oU ivo tree in Greece. 12. St. John died a natural death. 13. St. Paul was beheaded by command of Nero. 14. Judas “fell and his bowels gushed out.” 15. St Barnabas was stoned to death by Jews.

SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Practical New York dairymen r’ it has taken at least 10£ po, i... milk on the average this eeasou lo make a pound of cheese. The production of metal aluminum by electrolysis at a cost little above that of tin is what some French < bem« ists are sanguine of being able to accomplish. The 300th asteroid was discovered October 3, 1890. The first was discovered Jan. 1, 1801, and tho list has been increased by about 10 ) in the last ten years. Experiments made not cnly in this country but in Europe, indicate that the use of electric lights when ap. plied for the growth of plants, can never be for any practical benefit. Cuneiform tablet! lately deciphered prove to be among the earliest astronomical records known, giving a mi. m.to account of Chaldean observation of, the moon and planets for the vear 522 B. C. A French chetpilt has shown tha* the potato called the ’'Richter irrpeiator” is well tilted for the production of alcohol by distillation on a oommec* cial scale and that the ‘ draff” tbatiesults is readily eateo by cattle

THE MOSES OF THE FLOOD.

Little Baby Williams. Who Wat Born at Johnstown. Ah infant has ~been an honored'guest of the Children's Aid society in thi‘ city at the neat and pretty home, 1721 B rker street, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. The home is in charge ol "MrsTJoHh Griffiths'and her daughter, Mrs. Marter. The distinguished baby is Moses Flood Williams and he wai boro on the first day of the Johnstowr flood under remarkable circumstances, “The street is crazy over the little thing,” said Mrs. Griffiths yesterday. “The market people on Nineteenth street offered me SIOO to get Mrs. Williams to let the little one go to the market so they could exhibit it to the people. It’s a little beauty.” Mrs. Griffiths’s eyes sparkeled as she spoke of her charge. She gave this ao oount of the birth of the baby, which ii cue of the most incredible incidents a the flood. When the flood struck Johnstown Mrs. Williams was confined to her bed, Her husband, who was in tho employ of tho Cambria iron works, had jus! come home to change his dress and wae iu the bedroom with his wife when the rush and shouting of "The dam’s burst fly for your life!” reached his ears. He realized what was coming, so grabbing his wife from the bed with only hoi night-clothes on and pulling along hi* three children they made their way to •the roof and had hardly got there when

with a swish aud whirr the house was torn from its foundations and was washed away in the flood. “It rolled and tossed,” said Mrs. Williams to me, ‘ ‘struck up against other houses, toppled over, as if it would sink; then slashed up against trees, carrying them away by the roots. My husband had me around the waist with his right arm, while with the other he hung on to the chimney. The children were made fast to his body by tearing up our nightclothes and' the littlest one he tied to his neck. So we drifted and drifted. Sometimes we would come within almost touching distance of the shore on the mountain side and the next we would be shot out into the swish and whir of the flood again. It was 2:30 or thereabout the next morning when we were flung high and dry on the mountain side. I was cold, half-naked, and my children—poor little bairns—had cried themselves to sleep, while my poor man looked as if his eyes were shooting out of their sockets. "I can not tell you how I felt. We managed to get ashore and the only house we could find standing had already fifty-two people in it. To that house I was taken; 1 could hot walk, and they had hardly put me on the floor of the house when I more than realized I was to become a mother. My old man asked if there was a physician present. Everybody said ‘No.’ While he was going among the crowd a tinroof was washed up to the same spot and a man and two women jumped ashore. Some one said: ‘He is a physician.* My husband rushed to hi m and sure enough he was one. The case was explained to him. My child was born, and I and all of us in that cottage got down on our knees and thanked God for his merciful saving of mine and the baby’s life.” Then the poor thing, as she told me this, would "Yes,” interrupted the daughter, “but the best part of the whole affair was the baptism. The child was baptized by tho Rev. I)r. Beale, and it was that part of it that was so funny. The minister suggested that it be called ‘Noah,’ but the father and mother objected and suggested they would like it called ‘Moses,’ for, as the father said, ‘it was found in the bullrushes.’ So it was baptized Moses Flood Williams”. "The child was born with only the light from the wreck at the bridge,” added Mrs. Griffiths. ‘‘For more than two days neither the mother nor the children had a morsel to eat, and they were all half-naked. Out of the fiftytwo people in that house there were only two that could entirely cover their nakedness. It was terrible.”

Would Not Sit on tha Floor. A certain New York alderman a few days ago, called on his representative in Washington. The meeting was very cordial, for the alderman was a power. "I am delighted to see you,” exclaimed the representative as he shook him by both hands, "Won't you come in and take a seat on the floor?” "Av yez will exchuse me jist now, Oi’ll see ye later,” replied the visitor as he withdrew his hands from the retaining clasp. - —■ —“7 —■ About an hour after a friend of the statesman met the alderman in a favorite resort, and the alderman was giving tho statesman "down the banks” in terrible shape. “I am surprised,” remarked the friend,"."l thought you was a friend of Mr. So and So.” "Sure Oi war, bud Oi’l not bo insulted by any mon.” , "Why. how did hb insult you?” ‘ ‘Whin Oi called on him just now did’nt the bktgurd ax me wud Oi cooniin wul de high jinks an 1 sit an ther flurn! Sit an thcr Mure, do ye moind! Oi’l not sit an any mon's flure. Be the hokey do he take me for a moonkey? Jist wait till Oi go back wjd do byes. Ay Oi don’t sit him an ther flure' me name is Dinnis.” It took quarts of high-priced explanation to convince him that an honor was intended.—Texas Siftings, ~

EQUAL TO THE NATION’S DEBT.

The Enormous Cost of ths Grand Army of Traveling: Salesmen. "The money used in a single year to foot the salary and oxpense bills of the traveling salesmen of the United States would pay off the entire national debt and leave a few dollars over.” This rather startling statement wae made by a junior member of one of the large dry-goods houses' 6f this city, says the Philadelphia Record, who ha* a force of about fifty travelers under his immediate charge. As proof of his assertion he presented these particulars: “There is hardly a wholesale, jobbing, or commission house in any line of business in the United States that does not have at least a single traveling representative, an d from one lone man the traveling force ranges up as high as 125 or 160 men, and there may be one or two houses with even more. The average of the most reliable estimates places the total number of commercial tourists in this country at 250.000, and, mind you, this does not mean peddlers, but only those who sell goods at wholesale. “The railroad fares, charges for carrying sample baggage by freight or express, hotel bills, and numerous incidental traveling expenses of these men will range between $4 and sl2 per day, but some men will spend $25 in a single day for these purposes without resorting to any extravagance. Take, for instance, some of the carpet, clothing, or fancy-goods men who earry ten to fifteen trunks full of samples, take a packer with them, and hire a hotel pallor to display their goods whenever they open their trunks. But the number of these men is compartively small and $6 a day will fairly represent the average expenses of the 250,000 men. There you have $1,500,000 per day for expenses alone. Multiply this by 365 and you have $547,500,000 as the amount expended in one year.

“The item of salaries is nearly as large. Few men are paid less than S9OO a year. The largest number receive between $1,500 and $2,500, Bitherißsaia®leSTsP“commissiona. A lesser number are paid from $3,000 to ss,ooo—those receiving the latter amount being comparatively few. But theme are traveling salesmen who are always in demand at SIO,OOO to $15,000 a year; but they are few and far between. The lower-salaried men predominate, as might be supposed, and an average of SI,BOO per year is not far out of the way. Figuring 250,000 men at an average salary of SI,BOO per year gives a total of $450,000,000, according to my arithmetic. To this add $547,500,000 for expenses and you have $997,500,000 for these two items. “But there are other items to be charged against the salesmen’s account. It is impossible to give any accurate estimate of the cost of trunks, samples, and other requisites of the traveling men, but the items as we figure them in our store will give something to judge from. Our fifty mep require 250 trunks, costing $8 each, or $1,200. These men require two sets of samples yearly—one in the spring ahd one in the falL The cost of these two setsof samples is about SI,OOO per man. Oi this $50,000 worth of goods which are required for samples every year a considerable portion is lost, while most of it is so soiled and damaged by constant handling that it has to he sold at a heavy reduction from the actual cost or else given away. To cover this depreciation we make an allowance of 33LJ per cent upon the cost of the samples, or about $17,000 per year. Trunks do not need renewing every year, but repairs and replacing lost ones form quite an item of expense. From these figures it is evident that the similar expenses of greater or lesser amount borne by every wholesale house will swell the salary and traveling expense item of $997,500,000 far beyond $1,000,000,000 per year.”

A Funeral in Busy Broadway.

A funeral procession that tries to go down Broadway in the early afternoon of a busy day usually Jases its identity as a procession before it gets to Canal Street On Wednesday last a reporter noted that it took seven carriages ten minutes to pass a point near Broome Street The hearse passed first If was followed by a truck filled with hides. Three horse-cars slowly rolled after the truck, and then came a heterogeneous Jot of vehicles and another carriage. It was an incongruou* spectacle—death in the midst of life—a funeral sandwiched between the boisterous activity of metropolitan activity.—New York Sun.

Occupation for the Melancholy.

Do you know any melancholy maiden with a ready pencil who has had a "disappointment in love” - and would like to indulge in an occupation suited to a lugubrious mind? If you do, ask her if she saw the following in one of the dailies last week; "A lady wanted, to draw, at home, original designs for coffin furniture--’ The unkindest cut of all is in -suggesting that the work should be done at home. Such nice cheerful drawings for a tired husband to see on the table upon his return, and enough to make a father regret that his daughter hod ever learned tp sketch at all. —London Figaro.