Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. 1 1 : Gbdoe E. Marshall. Publisher. - - ■ . RENSSELAER ” - INDIANA * *•. « ■■■.<•

Tim government is proposing tc pat mail cars on the street ear line* of some of tie large cities to faeili tate mail delivery. Labor organiza tions arc protesting against the prop ositioo, as it is very clearly show that tie establishment of a stree railway line as a postal route gives r a power over its employes that is a 1 most tyrannical. Almost invariably when a street railway has been es tablished as a postal route, the wage: of the employes have been reducer aud the hours of labor lengthened the employes being powerless, as th ordinary means of redress were be vond aTail. “ Tiik Kansas fanners celebrate the Fourth bv holding political meet ings in every eounty of the State. A feature of all the eengressiona meetings was huge banners teliin; of tie three crises in the Nation’ history. The first was in 1776, wher the Declaration of Independence re suited in the freedom of the colonic from the British yoke; the seeoh was the abolition of chattel slavery the third would be, in 1892, the ab lition of industrial slavery throug the People's party. Mass meeting, were held also by Republicans.

It is said that Sir William Goruor. Cumming and his wife intend to en tertain lavishly at their SoottisV home. This means the throwin down of the gauntlet to royalty itself, and is apt to prove a foolish venture. Some things arc not wortl undertaking, but there is nothing one undertakes that is not wortl. succeeding in. The newly weddei pair will be putting their all at stake if they issue this challenge and the odds are heavily agains them. It is so likely that man) of those Who have expressed theii sympathy and given promise of sup port in private will prove weak kneed when the test comes. Mr. Fred L. Ames, a well-known New England capitalist and railroat manager, speaks very sensibly as follows: ‘‘Railway securities, especially those of Western toads, arc held in too few hands. This condition of affairs invites attacks from Legislatures and organized labor. In Massachusetts railroad stocks arc owned largely by people-living alou” the lines of the roads. In the OIJ XJolony road there are 4,000 stockholders who own from one to three shares each. Each of these stock holders feels a personal interest in the management of the company't affairs and all hoard their dividends to buy more stock. The company carries shareholders free to the an nual meeting. The annual report is furnished to all stockholders several days before the annual meeting, and thsy are kept,.,fully informed as tc the affairs pf the company, no mat ter how small their holdings are. At a result, the company has 4,001 strong friends working with it, com peliing their legislative representa lives to protect their interests. It . -iiirh a npiflitil’nn of affnirr. cnnld In brought about in the West- it would solve manv of the great difficulties.

Mr. Peucival Lowkli., author o! “Noto, an Unexplored Corner o Japan.” claims to have been, am probably was, the first Western trav eler to set foot in that province, lit found it interesting, but not produc tive of seusatioual or remarkable in cidents. Mr Lowell possesses ade dded gift of description, and lit knows how to make the most o every incident and little adventure, so that the account of his progress through a comparatively primitive region is full of interest. Until lie got into Noto there was little hard work to be done, and no hardship, lie bowled merrily along in the na tional jurikishu. taking his meals and lodging when night fell at the tea bouses and inns which dotted the route, save in a few fishing village, too humble to support a tavern. As usual in Japan he was treated with the utmost courtesy and was repeat cdly impressed by the grace and suavity of the girl waiters who serve in the tea houses, and whose man net's are so fascinating. Sometimes he was surprised by being ushered! into a room furnished with a tablt and chairs, but generally had to be \ content with the orthodox matting. In the province of Noto lie found a large lake or inland sea, with a little steamer plying upon it, and here, also, he caire upon some singulai methods of fishing from large has Wets elevated on poles above the water.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Xtts rumored that Henry hi. Stanley had Us wife have separated, Gen. B. F. Kelley, the “hero of Phillippi,” died at Oakland, Md., on the 17thChatman Quay may resign the chair* raanship of the Republican National Committee on the29th. Discoveries have been made tending to prove that Bardslev has placed some of his stealings in hiding. A movement is on foot in Chicago look* ing to the nomination of Chief-Justice Fuller to the presidency. John Farmer, colored, was lynched at Dermott, Ark., on the 30th, for murder. He is said to have confessed, Frank Almy murdered his sweetheart, Christie Warden, near Hanover, N. H. because she had refused to marry him. A party of five fishermen were drowned in the Tennessee river near Murray. Ky., on the 19th. Their bodies were recovered. Hon. Henry Watterson does not think that Hill Isa possibility for the presidential nomination. Mr. Watterson is for Cldveland. Advices from Chicago are to the effec that there are breakers ahead for Australia. The public debt is equal to SI,OOO for every three Inhabitants. Wm. Leu thstrum.manager of the Carey t Lombard Lumber Co., Chicago, has decamped with SIO,OOO of the company’s funds and a young woman, leaving ills family destitute. Two men were killed and four fatally injured by an explosion of a box of dynamite cartridges in the hold of a vessel being unloaded at Brooklyn on the 14th. The vessel was badly damaged. Patrolman Rycsncr shot and killed Wm. Brennan and his wife at Jersey City on the 14th. The policeman had gone to arrest Brennan, when he was .attacked by Brennan and his wife, and was compelled to shoot them in self-defense. Ernest Dale Owen, of Chicago, trustee of the estate of Jose Ygnacio Rouqullla, late of Prealdlo county, Texas, has brought suit against several San Francisco people, claiming s2,3o3,ooodamages for trespassing on mineral and timber lands belonging to the estate.

Several stories are afloat In London with regard to the latest theatrical sensation—Abingdon Baird's assault on Mrs. Langtry—about which thero lias been a good deal of gossip. The following story may be relied upon as authentic, as it was told to a newspaper representative by one yvho sa\v Mrs. Langtry just after the assault had been committed, with the blood streaming doyvn her face. Some time ago Baird bought York House, Regents Park, for Mrs. Langtry, and also paid off her debts In connection with the Princess Theater, of which she is at present the leaseholder. On a recent occasion Baird returned home unexpectedly and found a young man dining with Mrs. Langtry. Without more ado he proceeded to put him out, and then knocked “the Lily” down and kicked her in the face in such a way that it is now said she will be disfigured for life. Mrs. Langtry began an action for assault against Baird, but when he came to his senses he repented of what he had done and yvent to the house. Then as a doceur and to prevent the action he paid her £25,COO in Bank of England notes. The man Baird, yvho also goes by the name of Abingdon, yvho is named in the above dispatch, is probablv the greatest blackguard and bully, and at the same time one of the richest men in England. He has an income of something like £300,000 a year, living in palatial style in London, and is one of the leading so-called sports. His constant companions are suclx disreputable people as Charles Mitchell, the prize fighter “Potty” Moore,. “Chesterfield” Goode, another pugilist, “Chippy” Norton, the richest book-maker in England and others. He was the backer of.tom Smith in his fight with Frank P. Slavin. and was expelled from the Pelican Club, the greatest sporting club in the world, for hiring roughs tonseslung-shots on Slavin during the fight. He has been Interested fin various theatrical enterprises, and is credited with having loaned large suras to Mrs. Langtry. It is not to her credit that she has even business relations with such a man, for he is tliorougly disreputable.

FOREIGN.

The schooner Publico Bello met with a disaster off tho eoast of Newfoundland on the 10th, and seven lives were lost. Information about the Pope's recent attack of illness is refused at the Vatican, The general impression is that his condition is serious. The destitution among the lower classes in Germany is becoming intense. Potatoes, the usual price of which is 11* marks per bushel, now cost 6 marks per bushel. Bread is becoming dearer every week. Every branch of commerce is suffering and many bankruptcies are announced.

TERRIFIC STORM.

Fire Person* Killed and Many Injured In a Wreck. A wind storm of terrific violence swept over West Superior, Wis.,on the 16th, carrying death and destruction in its path. The wind was accompanied by pouring rain. The air was heavily chaiged with electricity. The storm lasted only about thirty minutes, but in that time many thousands of dollars of damage was done, besides taking off at least five lives and the visiting of terrible Injuries upon many patties. During the storm an alarm of fire was turned in from the Fifth ward and the department responded to find the new large four-story frame hotel on Third street, near Lambert avenue, a mass of ruins. The structure had blown down, and the cry went up from a hundred excited indij viduals that the wreck was the tomb of lianymen. The news flashed over the city with ttartling rapidity and hacks and drays yontaining their loads flew to the scene of disaster. Meantime the rain was falling In torrents and the lightning was crashing Ike artillery. The building i« a complete wreck. In spite of the pouring rain, the visitors at the scene rushed in and assisted the firemen In the resoue. Men in all walks of life stood shoulder to shoulder

And worked with only the thought of ho- 1 inanity's sake. :

MAKE THE BEST SOLDIERS.

A Recruiting. Officer Says Fanner IJoyi Are What Cade Ram Want*. Ever since public and official attontioq has been directed to the subjectof the frequency of desertions from the army, a year or so ago, there has been a determined effort on the part of the authorities o improve the quality of the material with which the service was recruited, in belief that in this lay the remedy for the great evil. Extra efforts were male tasecure young men who sought the army as a profession rather than as a haven oi refuge, and to this end the efforts of recruiting officers have been systematically turned away from cities toward the country. The new system has just begun to show its fruits and it is most justifying to the expectations of those who inaugurated it. An officer of the Adjutant-general’s department who has charge of this work remarked recently: “Wo are having very good lock with our later recruits, and 1 think the army to-day is composed of a better class of men than ever before. We have abandoned the city field almostent tirely and gone to the country, where we are apt to get more vigorous young men, free from the contamination of the rough life of town, eager to do well and to weai chevrons. Such men make good soldiers, far better than the old hardened toughs who come outof-tho slums to enlist as a last resort or as a means of drowning their identities.’’

PRODUCTION OF SUGAR.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has prepared a statement of the probable production of sugar during the current fiscal year, of which the following are a summary: Number of producers of sugar from cane, 730; from beets, 7; from sorghum, 3; from maple sap, 3,932; total, 4,672. Estimated the amount of sugar which will be produced from cane, 500,000,000 pounds; beet sugar, 29,210,000 pounds; sorghum surgar, 2,500,000 pounds; maple sugar, 8,000,000; total, 539,710,000 pounds. Estimate of the amount of bounty to be paid: Oucane sugar, $10,350,003; on beet sugar, $594,000; on sorghum sugar, $50,0 0 on maple sugar, «IQJKQ;JutaI T 4U T I34,3OO,---The production of sugar from beets so far as the issue of licenses is concerned, is confined to California, Nebraska, Utah and Virginia. There are three producers in California with an estimated production from six thonsand acres of sixteen million pounds, one-half of which is attributed to the Western Beet Sugar Company, of SSn Francisco, whose factory is located at Watsonville, Santa Cruz county. -The Virginia production Is estimated at ten thousand pounds. The estimated production of sugar from sorghum cane is dived between Kansas, with a production from 4,034 acres of 2,51)0,000 pounds, and Missouri with twenty-sx acres, producing 10,000 pounds.

AN INSANE MOTHER’S DEED.

With a Shot (tun She Kills Her Three Children and Herself. Mrs, Thomas Lichridc, wife of a prosperous farmer living two miles from Springfield, Tenn.. killed herself and three children on the 12th. She had been in poor health for some time, and her mindls supposed to have become affected. After yvriting a long letter to her husband, who yvas attending church, tho woman secured a double-barreled shotgun, %nd, placing it at the breast of each of hot three children ip turn, tore their little bodies terribly xvith the heavy charges. Then turning the weapon upon herself she ended her ayvful work. The children yvere aged four years, two years, aud four months. The mother had been despondent for many years, and had attempted hoi life before she was married. While Mrs. Jessie P. Elliott and daughter. of Conners ville, were out driving they raised an umbrella, which frightened tin horse.- Both were thrown riage and the mother seriously injured The horse ran half & mile and dropped dead. «

THE MARKETS.

In dias a poms, Jaly 31, IS9I. GRAIN. Wheat.! Cc:n. j Oars. Rye. 1 i" 7 Indianapolis.. 2 r'il 81 1w 63 1 vr42‘i ....... R t’ll 7Mye 53 Chicago....... 2 r'd 30 50 35 ‘J Cincinnati.. . 2r’d 9 )j 59'j 40 70 St. lß>uis 2 r’d 87 56 37 73 New York.. . . 2 r'd fO) 6 i 43 77 Baltimore.... 103 66 4S 70 Philadelphia. 2 r'd 95 68 49 Clover Toledo 94 62 42 , 4 3d' Minneapolis . I 01 >; CATTLE. Export steers sci 35 35 75 Good to choice shippers 4 75 *:» 20 Fair to medium shippers. 4u) a. 4 50 Common shippers 7.... 3 03u3 75 Stockers 2 253? 75 Good to choice butcher heifers. 3 5m«;4 0C Fair to medium Heifers 3 B.Vai3 2.1 Light, thin heifers 2 00 «#2 65 Good U> choice cows ~. 300 <£3 4(1 Fair to medium cows 2 25®2 75 Common old cows. . ....: id cxi Veals, common to choice 3 (11 is go Bulls, common to choice 2 Milkers, good to choice £> 00->i3o nous HeavR packing and shipping. ..ft 90@5 05 Mixed packing 4 yj Light 4 (15 Heavy roughs 3 33^4 SHEEP. Good to choice clipped *4 25@4 7Fair to medium cupped 3 75*84 1. Common cupped 3 00a:i .v Bucks, |l head 3 0 MISCELLANEOUS. Eggs, 12 c; butter, creamery, 2Xg2'c; dairy, 80c; good country, He; feathers, 35c beeswax, 18<«&30c; wool, 30@35c. Unwashed 82c; bens, 8c; turkeys, Bc, toms, 7c; clove seed 4.3504.* 5.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A lynx is loose In Harrison county. Crawfordsyille hasorganized a band. Fort Wayne is overrun with gamblers. Evansville is claiming recognition as a summer resort. New Richmond is swarming with anew kind of bug, Boone county farmers are storing their wheat for higher prices. A Canton P. M. I. O. O. F. was mustered in at Shelbyville on the 19th. Four hundred new buildings will be erected at Elkhart this season. A cat-fish weighing ninety-five pounds was caught near New Albany. A reunion of old settlers and soldiers will be held at Quincy August 13. Lagrange county has sent twenty-five insape persons to Longcllffe asylum. Ground has been broken at Lafayette for a 540,000 pickle and vinegar factory, Rival ’squires are marrying eloping couples free of charge at Jeffersonville. The employes of the Montmorenci tileworks are striking for an increase of wages. The remains of a tramp were found in the ruins of a barn destroyed by fire at Goshen. ~' /- - - Angola claims to lead all other stations on the Lake shore railway in the shipment of wool. ~ — Mrs. Lucinda Costello, aged 62, and husband, of West Fork, are the parents of a bright, bouncing baby. Minnie B. Natlie, of Columbus, is suing Hal. B. Hughes, of Seymour, claiming SIO,OOO for breach of promise. Muncie has a curiosity in the shape oi a three-legged dog which has given birth to a litter of pups similarly marked. John Rarlck, of Elkhart, fell in front oi a mower, which cracked his skull and inflicted a number of dangerous cuts. It is said that Lena Thair, aged twelve years and seven months, of Miami county, is the youngest mother in the State. The Union Window-glass Company, ol Anderson, will erect a new ten-pot factory for the manufacture of window glass. Jesse Stuitt, the wonderful sleeper ol Seymour, is giving another exhibition of tho strange malady with which ho is afflicted. Ten dollars “conscience rmoney” has been turned over to the treasurer of Harrison county from an unknown source, and the treasury is in a plethoric condition. The superintendent of the Crawfordsville high school will add a printing press, with type and the other appliances, as a means of educating his pupils in the art of spelling.

Sparks from a thresher burned the barn of Cord Eller, near Fisher's Station, together yvith several hundred bushels of yvheat, fifty of corn and other grain and several hogs. A land turtle with this inscription on its shell has been found on the farm of Thos. Kirkham in Harrison county: “James Robinson, 1813.” Mr. Robinson oyvned the farm over seventy years ago. During the past two weeks sixteen persons in Bartholomeyv county have been injured by accident: besides yvhich there wag one shooting affray, several fires, a strike of laborers and a freight wreck to rHieve the monotony. Montgomery county reports two phenomenal yields of wheat. Howard Smith raised an average of a little over fortyfour bushels to the aero from a field of one and a quarter ac-es. The seed was of at neyv variety, called early new Clayvson. Andrew Smiley had a two-acre field which yielded 110 bushels, or an averageof fifty five bushels to the acre. His seed yvas ordinary seed wheat. The average in Montgomery county will not be much less than tyventy-fiy-e bushels. The hay crop is the best in years, and the prospect is that the corn will turn out as well as the wheat. Potatoes is the only crop that is short. Dry weather spoiled them. DEATH OF GEN. TOM BROWNE. Gen. Thos. M. Browne, of Winchester, died at Martinsville on the 17th, where he had gone for relief in his failing health. He yvas born at Neyv Paris, 0., in 1829. He became a merchant’s apprentice at Spartansburg, Ind., early in youth. He removed to Winchester in 1848 and studied layv. After qualifying as an attorney he soon took rank as a gifted and eloquent promoted to Lieut. Col. before leaving for the field. Before the war's conclusion he had earned the promotion to Brigadier General. He was elected Prosecuting

Attorney in 1855-’57V59; to the State Senate in 1863. In 1869 was appointed U. S. District Attorney, resigning in 1873. Was defeated for Governor the same year. In 1876 was elected to Congress and continued in that office until last spring. He was married 10 Mary .1. Austin in 1849. He was prominent in Masonry and Odd Fellowship. He was greatly beloved by a vast number of people. COUNTY INSTITUTES. The dates for the various county institutes have been set, the instructors named, j the arrangements completed, ar.d the lists have been sent out from the State Superin-j tondent's office. The institutes will bo held as follows; . July 27-31—Shelby, Vermilion. Aug. 3-7—Dubois, Newton, Posey, Rush Aug. 23-28—Hendricks. Aug, 10-14—Gibson, Tipton, Jackson. Jay. Martin, Perry, Pike, Switzerland, Washington, Wayne. Aug. 17-21—Bartholomew, Daviess, Decatur, Franklin, Harrison, Henry, Knox, Lawrence, Miami, Montgomery, Noble, Putnam, Randolph, Spencer, Wabash. nAug. f34-28—Adams, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Dearborn, Delaware, Elkhart, Fayette, Fulton, Green, Hamilton, Jennings, Johnson, Lagrange, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Porter,. Ripley, Scott, Starke, Sullivan, Union and Warrick. Aug. 31-Sep. 4 Benton, Blackford, Boone, Clinton, DeKalb, Floyd, Fountain. Grant, Hancock, Howard, Huntington Jasper, Jefferson, Lake, LaPorte. Ohio, J Orange, Parke, Vanderburg, Vigo, Wells and White. Sept. 4-S—Kosciusko. Sep. 7-11—Pulaski, Tippecanoe, Vfarren ind Whitley. Nov. 9-13—Steuben. Dec. 21-25-Allen. Dec. 28— St Joseph.}

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Tactls hypocrisy in its most delightful form. The last Irish census shows 2,317,076 males and 2.389,086 females, a total decrease for a decade of 468, • 674, attributed mainly to emigration. The explosion of a dynamite cartridge to blow up an old ship near Mobile sent to the surfaces jew-fish that weighed more than 200 pounds. Visitor—“ Well, Johnny, I suppose your father thinks the twins are something wonderful.” Johnny—- “ Yes. but (in a confidential whisper) I cotifd lick ’em both together.” A Chicago man has applied for a license to run a bar room on wheels. His scheme is to sell beer and sandwiches from a wagon, which he will drive ground to places where outdoor laborers are employed. A Fort Worth, Tex., man says that he has the largest madstone in the world. It is nearly as large as a hen’s egg and was taken, he says, by his father from the stomach of a white deer found dead in the Ocark Mountains. What yachtsmen would call two ,ong legs were made by the schooner Bertha Louise in her recent voyage from St. John, N. 8.. to Barbadoes -no return. She made the voyage ach way, about 2,000 mills, without making a tack. Dr. McGlynn is still a familiar figure about town. His still black hair is far more heavily tinged with gray than when he was a priest, and he s *ems even less careful to be always seen in slightly-worn clothing. But his spirits are as high as ever, and he keeps the same kindly eye and amiable and smiling face that h« wore a dozen or two dozen years ago. Charles Stewart Parnell, by marrying Mrs. O’Shea, has done his pool host to repair the wrong he did her. He has done nothing to repair the vrong he has done Ireland. In the forum of morals the former was the worst offense. At the bar of public opinion the latter is the graver ’.rime. He might have survived the ne; neither his countrymen at home ior the friends of his country abroad .re likely to forgive or forget the >ther.

A. J. McKeown, son of the million'ire oil producer. John McKeown, is •robably the richest young man in ’ennsvl vania. He enjoys a princev income which he spends with a avish hand. In his younger days ’is father offered him SIO,OOO to stop smoking cigarettes, and subsequent'v raised the amount to $20,000, with the understanding that the boy should abstain from the use of tabac•o in any form. The offer young McKeown refused. Eri Gray, who is said to be nearly 108 years bid, was recently taken rom his cabin near Roxbury to the Delaware county poorhouse. On the way the poormaster stopped with his charge for dinner. After the meal he asked the centenarian if he was ready to continue the journey, whereupon the old fellow replied: “Not vet, until I get a good ten-cent cigar, rs I am going to the poorhouse I 'hall not go like a pauper, but like a gentleman.” The cigar was handed him and the old man lit it and puffed away with evident relish. The new tariff has brought to mind the fact that what is called marbled paper is not made in this country. It all comes from Europe, and is made without machinery, in th 6 oldfashioned wav. It is that beautifully but irregularly mottled paper which bookbinders use on the inside oi book covers and for the outer flyleaves. Manufacturers of paper boxes and of sample cards also use it, and altogether it is imported to the value of half a million dollars a year. Arthur Wilson, who is said to have loaned a million dollars to the Prince of Wales, is one of the two sons of Thomas Wilson, the founder of the famous shipping business at Hull, and altogether a self-made man. With capital courage and a high degree of Cold blood the Wilson brothers are said to have crushed all opposition and controlled the trade they wanted. They developed what was left by their father until it has become an immense business, including several lines of steamers. It is said that the brothers divided $25,000,000 in profits last year, but it is said that the sum was nowhere near that j figure. As far as the shipping business is concerned it has become a | stock company capitalized at £2,000,000, and mainly owned by the brothers. Both men are active in public affairs, and both are more or less brusoue in manner and awkward in speecn. A device which is intended to serve as a check upon the speed at which engineers undertake to pass curves and other difficult points, has been advised by M. Sabouret, who is engineer to the Orleans Railway of France. This instrument, according to London Engineering, consists of a tuning fork provided with a point which inscribes a curve on the smoked surface of a cylinder which is rotated by suitable mechanism. This is fixed at any desired part of the line, and as the train passes the engine move a treadle, which cummunicates by means of an india rubber tube with the instrument and set in motion. Six meters further is a second treadle, which, on being depressed by the wheels, stops the mechanism, and the speed of the trail] Can then be obtained with an erroi of less than 2 per cent, even when the speed is as much as 60 miles an hour, by counting the vibrations of the fork as recorded on the revolving cylinder.—Master Mechanic.

ANIMAL LIFE SUSPENDED.

Carious Experiments with Frog) and the Spawn of Fishes. Familiar instances of suspended vitality, or rather latent, are afforded by seeds, which may’ be kept for yearwithout showing action, bat are yer* capable of_being recalled to the. exorcise of the functions of fife, says La Monde de la Science. Other instanceare afforded oy Ibo lower organisms. Which will remain dry and sterile for _ indefinite periods, to, be brought into * full activity at any'tihie by supplying the due degree of moisture and warmth. Coming up to the higher forms of life, the same phenomena are usually manifested in insects, one of the normal conditions of whose life—the nympha or chrysalis state —is characterized by the exhibition of the external apper.ranee of death. During this stage thrvital processes are tempered down till only enough are in effect to maintain a merely vegetable existence; yet the insect is capable of slight motions when subjected to a shock or pressure. Tibduration of this apparent death varies according to the species and to external conditions. There are speciethat require two years of incubatioi. before going throught heir metamorphosis. Others pass to the perfect state in a few days. Butterflies demand a cer tain degree of heat, below which they will not issue. The opening of the chrysalis takes place naturally when these atmospheric conditions are realised. If the season is late the hatching is also late. Hence xve can prolong the duration of the chrysalis slate indefinitely by properly adjusting the temperature, delaying to that extern the metamorphosis of the imprisoned mummy into the free ami winged insect. Reaumur, by putting chrysalides in an ice-box, was able to keep them alive and retard their development several years. Going up higher in tho animal series, eggs, yvhich are analogous to the seeds of plants, present a remarkable example of retarded life. One of the most interesting features about them is the independence of their vitality, yvhich persists ey’en when the individual that has produced them, and within whose organism they are still contained, has ceased to live. This fact has been recognized in pisciculture, where artificial fecundation has been successful with eggs taken from dead fish. The persistence of life in frogs i* very long. Spallanzani preserved some frogs in a mass of snoyv for two years. They became dry, stiff, and almost friable, but a gradual heat brought them back to life. Toads have been shut up in blocks of plaster, and then, having been deprived of all air except what may oenetrate through the material, and of all sources of food, resuscitated several years afterward. This question presents one of the most curious problems that biological science has been called on to explain. The longevity and vital resistance of toadare surprising. Besides tho experiments yve have cited, nature sometimepreseuts some already made, and vastly more astonishing. Toads are said to have been found in rocks. Such cases are rare, but it yvould be as unreasonable to doubt them as to believe in some of the miraculo .s explanations that have been made of tue matter. The phenomenon is marvelous, it i* true, but it is supported by evidence that we are not able to coctcst; and skepticism, which is incompatible with science, will have to disappear if rigorous observation shall confirm it. The toad was observed in one case in tinstone itself and before, recovering from its long lethargy, it had made any motion. One of these toads was presented to an academy, with the stone which had served it as a coffin or habitation, and it was ascertained that the cavity seemed to correspond exactly with the dimensions and form of the animal. It is remarkable that these toad-stones are very hard and not at ail porous, and show no signs of fissure. The mind, completely baffled in tinpresence of the fact, is equally embarrassed to explain how the toad could live in its singular prison, and how it became shut up there. M. Charles Richet had occasion to study this question some mouths ago, and came t<> the conclusion that the fact was real. observing that even if. in the actual.condition of science, "phenomena were still inexplicable, we were not warranted in denying their existence, for neyv discoveries might at any time furnish an explanation ol them. “The true may sometimes not be prob Able.” But science takes accounting of the truth, not of the probability. ,

ONLY 5 DOLLARS

To Niagara Palls and Return via 0., H. * D„ July 30. Special excursion trains will leave. Cincinnati and Indianapolis, July 30, for Niagara Falls via the Cincinnati. Hamilton * Dayton E. R. The trains run solid via Toledo and Detroit and the Michigan Central, and consists of through coaches, sleepers and chair cars. Kound-tnp tickets from Cincinnati or Indianapolis to Ntagara Falls and return, f 5; Toronto and return *6, and proportionately cheap raU* all along the line. On sal? July .10 and good returning till August 5. Opportunities will be afforded to make very cheap side trips from Niagar&Falls to Thousand Islands ana other points of interest, and returning stop-over will bo permitted at Detroit within limits of the tickets. Secure your sleeping car berths at ona by addressing E.O. McCormick, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Cincinnati, O. Any C., H. * D. Agentwlllsell you ticket-.

CENT A MILE.

Via the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day* ton Railroad to the Detroit Encampment of the G. A. R. on August 3 from all points on the C. H. &D. From. Cincinnati Au* gust 1 and 2 the round trip rat* to Detroit will be *7.25, and on August 3it will be 15.30. Special trains as well as regula train will run solid to Detroit. The C. H. «fc D.being the only direct line from Cincinnati to Detroit has been selected by the G. \ R. as the official route. Purchase tickets via the C., H. <fc D. For further information address E. O. McCormick, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. Wincinnatia, 0.

Southern California.

The five counties comprising southern California have an area almost 4.000 square miles larger lliqu the state ol Ohio. _______