Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN:" Geogk E. ILupXAtm. Publisher. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

The trouble with the great warships and great guns of European navies is that they seem to bring mainly to those who use them. An accident on board the British corvette Cordelia, by which tvro officers and four men were killed and thirteen wounded, was quite as bad a casualty as would ordinarially happen a battle, and yet it resulted from nothing more than an attempt to make a practice shot with one of the ships guns. Seemingly the problem Which the makers of heavy ordnance jare roost pressingly in need of solvmg is how to make guns that can be fired. ________________ It is said that the Senate committee on rules has agreed to report to that body an amendment to the rules which will bring about a reform in senatorial funerals. It is to be hoped this is true. Congressional funerals have become a public scandal, -both-in respect of expense and the proceedings attending them. For some years past, the average congressionc.l funeral has been little move than a picnic excursion or drunken frolic at the expense of the government. Tue whole subject calls for radical reform in both branches of Congress. Another war scare his started in Europe. The Germans have discovered that the Rusiaias have a "bigger ■force than they on the frontier between the two countries, and, of course, want these conditions equalized. Then there is indignation in France at the favor shown by England toward the tripple alliance, whileHYance is angry at the restrictions placed on her commercial travelers in Alsance and Lorraine: and on this question the Fr&ycinet Ministry has had a narrow escape from overthrow. Meanwhile, the ties between Russia and France are growing closer and closer. Russia is preparing to give a welcome to the French fleet in Russian waters; and the Czar himself is soon to pay a political visit to Paris. Still more important moves on Europe's diplomatic chessboard are also looked for at an early day. ■ It is the long-winged, not the redlegged grasshoppers that are infest, ing the Western plaius this year. The red legs are fond of a grain diet; the jong wings enjov grass, .and are now devouring it in certain regions o; Colorado and New Mexico. Jt was the red legs that ravaged Kansas in 1874, when they had traveled eastward from the Rocky Mountains, and it is the red legs that are feared there now even more than the red men were in former times. There are hundreds of cranks out West who Want to get contracts for the extermination bl thc grassTioppers, and many of them are anxiously awaiting the report of the Locust Commissioners recently appointed by the Hon. Jerry Rusk of the Agricultural Department. The grasshopper question is one of grave importance, not only to Western farmers, but also to the commercial and financial interests of the United States. The vote of the people of Switzerland in favor of extending ‘‘popular sovereignty" just comes in time to figure iu the celebration of the six hundreth anniversary of the estab lishinent of the Confederation, which

wiil take place on August 1. The new arrangement goes to a length never dreamed of in the boldest speculations of the political philosopher of any age but ours. In fact it has become possible only in these days of telegraphs, railroads and steam presses. The vote taken last week favors the idea that if 50,000 citizens so require, the National Legislature shall discuss any law brought before it for that purpose by such vote.. Tills is called the initiative, and is complementary to the old established Referendum, of which note has been made. Any law passed by the National Legislature must be. submitted to the popular vote, if so desired by 20,000 citizens. This stops, among other things, the raising of the question of the constitutionality of acts, and leaves the courts of last resort free from this perplexing and often unpleasant duty. —..— ■■ ■ ■ -

Made a Bad Choice.

Atlanta. Constitution. Printer—The Mayor gave Colons Jones $lO or thirtv days. Editor—Which did he take? Printer—The thirty days. Editor—Just like him. Jones nrrer did know the value at money.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Hog cholera prevail? near Hay ton. O. Ex-Governor A. B. Ax toll, of 'New Jersey . died 6n the 7th. A case of fully developed leprosy la re---perted from Chicago. It is estimated that $11,006,000 will be paid in sugar bounties next year. At the next session of Congress Arizona will ask for admission as a State. Chief Byrd has decided that no more whites are wanted in the Chickasaw Nation. ~ v-< An English company has organized a fleet to transport Southern negroes to Africa. . Commissioner Raum says he will adjudicate fifty thousand new pension cases this year. Shawnee county, Kansas, Democrats have fused with the People's Party, in spite of the recent anti-fusion declaration in that State. Dr. W. M. Baldwin, a distinguished physician of Florence, Italy, has come to this country for the purpose of attending Secretary lilaitiq. Proctor Knott, the great race horse' died or the 7th. He cost his owners $125 as a yearling, and won for them more than fIOO.OOO in the three seasons he raced. A Catholic priest at New Haven has iss sued an order instructing the young ladieof his parish to give up their Protestant lovers, and they are rebelling against it. Captain Lawler, who sailed from Boston some time ago In the dory Mermaid, has arrived in England. He claims a shark tried to devour his boat on the way over. An unknown man entered tin- Exchange Bank at Columbus Grove, Ohio, shot the cashier nnd two other men and fled with $1,200. lie was pursued and shot dead by a mob. —— ■ - Isaac Newton Baker, Col. Ingersoll’s private secretary .who was shot in a family Quarrel at Croton Landing,N.Y..on t he Ist, lingers between life and death with four bullet holos in his body. Two Americans and eight Italians were killed and a score of passengers injured by a wreck on the West Shore road near Syracuse, N. Y., on the 6tli. A passenger train plunged into a freight that was endeavoring to make a siding. Governor Buchanan has issued a proclamation calling an extra session of the Tennessee Legislature, to convene Aug. 3 1. lie enumerates a dozen subjects for consideration, the principal ones being the care and employment of convicts. Ex-Senator Ingalls, in an address in Georgia Thursday, declared that the enfranchisement, of the negro was a mistake, and that the Northern people, if they had been in the shoes of the Southern whites would have opposed the force bill just as the South did.

The first election in Utah on the national partv lines came off Monday. There were three tickets in the field, however, the remnant of the Liberal party, made up mostly of Republicans, having nominated a full ticket. The Mormon vote was about equally divided between Democrats and Republicans. The former won by a small plurality over the Liberals, who were slightly ahead of tho Republicans. In pursuance of the plan outlined at the Democratic convention of Shawnee county, Kansas, to fuse with the Farmers’ Alliance in county politics, the Democratic managers approached the Alliance people to arrange for such fusion. The latter repelled the Democratic 'advances.''-'They" said they were fighting both of the old parties, and would fuse with nobody. They would nominate a full ticket of their ow n. Tho German pioneers in East Africa are said to be disgusted and anxious for an opportunity to return home. They cannot stand the heat and miasma of the coast islands, while they are reluctant to penetrate to the interior without military protection and means of communication that do not now exist. The earnest purpose of tho German East African company in Gcr-manyisnotsivaivdb-y-ita representatives in Africa, and those who were so enthusiastic to volunteer seem equally desirous to go home. Four young people, children of promi- 1 neat Milwaukee business men, were drowned at Lake Pewauke, twenty miles j from Milwaukee on the 9th. They were jutfin a small sail-boat /with Jthree other young people. A squall struck the boat, capsizing it. it was heavily ballasted and sunk almost immediately, leaving the seven people struggling in the water. The names of the drowned are: Albert, and ' Emma Barth, Martha Kindling and Clara ! Siegler, their ages ranging from fifteen to 1 twenty years.,. Their fathers are: JLouis ' Kindling, P. Barth and Leopold Siegler. j The young people had t been spending a few days at Lake Pewauke. which is a favorite resort for Milwaukeeans.

At 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon a storm ' cloud which came up from the west, broke 1 over Cheqnamegon bay at Ashland; Wis.. 1 with disastrous results. Rain fell in tor- j rents, accompanied by wind blowing at a 1 tremendous velocity. Tho roof was; stripped from the Fifleld Block., The Swedish Baptist Church was lifted four feet from its foundation and t hrown down, and numerous small buildings twisted about Out at the bay front half a dozen little yachts were moored. They all broke j away from their fastenings and were' wrecked upon the shore. Among them is | the handsome little Sheeny, which won ' the race a week ago. The total damage 1 amounts to SIO,OOO. FOREIGN. Parliament was prorogued on the 6th. Parnell has decided to visit America late . this year. 1 Bulgaria is actively making preparations for war. | The heat in India is intense, and live stock is dying from thirst and starvation j

DROWNED WHILE YACHTING.

f . Two Hen and Four Children Lost While Cruising In Dorchester Bay. A yachting party consisting,of four men and live children were cruising In Dorchester Bay, near Boston, Sunday afternoon, when the boat capsized, and two men and soar children were drowned. The skipper, T M. Burke, agvd 4G '■ears, was among

' ■ ! the victims, and none of the rescued ca* tel! what caused the acoi&ent except thai; jt took place while the boat was tacking, 1 Those drowned, besides Burke, wereThad-.< dens Manthou, Burke’s daughter Nellie, j aged eleven years, his son James, aged eight. Iris nephew and twice, Thomas and Annie Carmody, aged eleven abd fifteen years, respectively. The party all . lived in South Boston, and were cruising arounc Dorchester bay. -Louis Keeser pulled-haL" a mile to the sjidt in a yacht's tender and saved two of the party—Vincent Burke, aged fourteen years, and Fergus Churchill, aged thirty years—who were holding on to the capsized boat and who were sc exhausted that it required half an hour’? work to resuscitate them. Special offlcei Barry rescued Thomas Balkard, agec thirty, and recovered the six bodies.

OHIO PEOPLE’S PARTY

Nominate Candidate for Governor and a Full State Ticket. The Platform A* It Relates to National Issues—An Inharmonious Convention. The regular associated press dispatcher give the following report of the proceedings of the State Convention of the People's party, which met at Springfield, Q.. on the 6th: The People's party convention was aremarkable gathering. It was comi>osed ol the dissatisfied elements of all parties. Every delegate had his own idea of how existing troubles could be remedied, and was disposed to insistowdraviTig it adopred. The total representation was 1.2 U delegates, about 4.0 of whom were present. The great majority were totally unskilled in howto proceed in regular convention form, which made the duties ol chairman particularly onerous. THE PI.ATFOKM. The committee on resolutions reported’ the following platform, 4 which was adopted; We hold that labor is the basis of all wealth, happiness and progress and must have equal protection by the law in the organizaxtOTrof bur party North, South, East or West, and we are determined that the government of our country shall be so administered as to secure equal rights to all people. We demand that taxation, national.state or municipal, shall not be used to build tit one interest or class at the expense of another. We demand the abolition of national banks as banksof issue and as a substitute for national bank notes we demand that full legal tender treasury notes be issed in sufficient, volume to conduct the business of the country on a cash scale. We demand the payment of all bonds of the government, instead of refunding them, in such money as they were originally made payable in. We demand government ownership of all means of transportation and cornmuni cation between and by the people of the United States. We favor liberal pensions to all honorably discharged Union soldiers of the late civil war and generous care for their widows and orphan*.' and demand that the difference between the value of gold and greenbacks at the date of payment be made equal to gold, so as to place the soldier oti the same footing as the bondolder has been. A woman's suffrage plank is included in the platform. The platform favors government loans directly to individuals, favors free coinage of silver, opposes alien ownership of land and demands that Congress devise moans of obtaining all lands already owned by fofeign syndicates; also demands all lands held by railroads and other corporations in excess of what is actually needed be reclaimed by the government and held for actual Settlers only ; demands graduated tax on incomes. Other planks in the platform related to State matters. The following ticket was nominated: Governor—John Seitz. Lieutenant Governor—Frank Rist. State Auditor—David N. Cooper. Attorney General—Rial M. Smith. Treasurer—Henry Wolf. Judge of the. Supreme. Court— Si. Yaple. School Commissioner—.T. E. Peterson. Member of Board of Public Works—J. S. Borer. Dairy and Food Commissioner—W. J. Weaver.

THE KANSAS W HEAT OnOP

4*' Said to lie Practically Cornered by the Farmers •''Alliance. J. B. French, Secretary of the Kansas State Alliance, says that the Kansas Affiance has completed arrangements by which it will handle three-fourths of the Kansas wheat crop of 50,000,000 bushels. Arrangements have been made to store a t least half of the,crop in the big elevatorin Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore and other large cities for an indefinite period, or until the own* ers desire to sell. Arrangements have been made in the East to secure an advance on the wheat stored of 75 per cent, of the present value of wheat. This new movement by the Alliance practically corners the Kansas crop.

JACK THE RIPPER, AGAIN.

The so-called “Jack the Ripper” committed another, of his murders in the Whitechapel District, Loudon, on the 7th. This is his fourteenth victim. He left a note saying that he wouid kill six more women and then give himself up. This last victim, as were his former, was frightly mutilated.

BOILED ALIVE,

It is reported in letters from Persia that the Shah ordered Abdullah Khan. Governor of Mazenderann, charged with stealing the taxes, to be boiled alive, and that the sentence was carried out. A letter from Calcutta reports thrfr a herd or 100 wild elephants has been captured in Mysore., Also that there were 6,0(0 deaths by snake bites in the northwest provinces last year. In Madras 10,0 0 cattle were killed by wild animals and 1,642 ' perrons lost their lives by snakes and wild 1 blasts. _ In China the inhabitants are counted every ten years in a curious manner. The oldest master of every ten houses hss to count the families and has to make a list, .which is sent to the imperial tax house. Last year the whole number amounted to S79,3B3,sooUibabitants. ___ - _

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

La port* muzzles it« dogs. Shi4byvilic wants starch works. Kiishviile offers factory sites free. Burglars are infesting Waynetown. e= Petershssrg has the creamery fever. • Evansville’s ball club has disbanded. Water famine is feared at Ft. Wayne. ' rhix israging in Cayuga •and Eugene. Vuiparaiso.needs better fire protection. Hog cholera prevails in parts of Posey couuty.. liorsethicves are ravaging LaGrange county. _ ■ ■ _y. Jack the Kisser is doing business at Ft. Wayne. Ligonicr claims to be a great wheat market. Brown county land is assessed at £>.so per acre. Marion has discontinued natural gas flambeaux. --- Twelve pound carp are being caught at YoNitown. Wyandolt cave lias great crowds of sight-seers. •• - Forest Fires are doing damage in Blackford county. - DoKalb county farms are appraised at £l6 per acre. , : =—— Typhoid fever is alarmingly prevalent in Shelby county. The shipment of frogs is an important Laporte county industry. The great Delaware peach crop has faded away. Only a moderate crop will be marketed. A female brass band and a female baloonist are to be the attractions at the Decatur fair. Southern Indiana is agreatfruit center the output so far this- season being the, heaviest ever known. A regular Kansas grasshopper was found at,Crawfordsville Monday. It is three inches long, and is probably the advanceguard of an army of invaders. Thirty subordinate lodges I. O, O. F. held a district meeting at Mitchell on the sth, conducted by Grand Master W. 11. Leody and Deputy Gland M aster U. Z. Wiley. During the storm Sunday evening lightning struck the wheat ricks on John Hatters farm, six miles south of Vincennes, and seven were eonsumsd. "Fifteen hundred bushels of wheat were destroyed. Mrs. John Sorg, of Huntington,was not prompt in applyiny a lighted match after turning on the natural gas in he cook Steve. and there was a tremendous explosion, partially wrecking the house. She escaped fatal hurt. j While. Mrs. Rose Wright, of Jeffersonville, was closing the front window of her home after nightfall she was seized by an unknown man and dragged to the side- j walk, and the kidnaper attempted to carry of? his prize, while the lady gave one scream and fainted. This was heard by her husband in time to res eye her. Tier assailant was disguised and he escaped pursuit. The first annual encampment of the Patriarchs Militant, department of Indiana, ; will be held at Wabash, beginning on j Wednesday, the, 12th inst., and closing with Friday of the same week. Prize, will be awarded to the best drilled canton consisting of twenty-four chevaliers and three officers, and there will also be prizes for the best-drilled team in Rebekah des gree work. The camp will be commanded j by J. L. Weaver. W, 11. Brevort, formerly a poor school boy at Columbus, owns five thousand acres of fine farming land in the White river bottoms, in Knox county, which he purchased for a song some years ago and improved by constructing the longest levee in the S tate. The yield of wheat this year was thirty-five thousand bushels. There are sixty tenants on the farm, living in commodious Cottages, who support a school with three teachers. A large church has also been erected by MrBrevort. ; _ j AjirbsHy ting Mormon is meeting with great success at Tom’s Hill and Swan Pond, Davies county, at both of which points he has established churches. He professes faith in Joseph Smith as the prophet, but denounces Brigham Y'oting and polygamy. He addressesall members of his churches as saints and the outsiders as brothers, and forty members have been received by baptism. The missionary gives his name as Daniels, anti he claims that he Was sixteen years in the Methodist, ministry before he became converted to Mormonism. Jacob Scudder. a citizen of'Edwards port, Knox county, is the owner of a fill© stock farm.' All at once he discovered that his cattle began to die in a mysterious way. The shoulder or ham of the animal Would swell up and turn black, and he at first imagined that the poor brute bad been bruised by the ferociousness of the other stock. After a number had died it struck him as peculiar that so many should die from bruises of a similar character, Research into the matter developed the fact that his cattle were dying from that fearful disease known as “black quarter.” By vigorous effort be stayed the fatal malady, but not until he had lost a number of his best stock. __ The farmers of Clay county propose to have what they call a political picnic near Ashboro, on Thursday. August 20. Although the projectors no doubt intend making it simply an affair for the enlightenment of the population of Clay county, yet from its very nature it is bound to attract State if.not national attention. Speakers from five different political parties have been invited to devote one hour each to explaining the positions of thefr respective parties. Ex-Governor Gray is expected to represent the Democrats; Hon. James A. Mount the Republicans; Col. Eli Ritter, of Indianapolis, the Prohibitionists: Capt. Allen, of Terre Haute, the People's party, and John P. Stellc, of Illinois, the F. >l. B. A. They will speak In the Order named, and although it is understood tfiat all Ipartisan bitterness js to be avoids, yet it will bp strange if it does not turn out to be more of a “picnic” than is now anticipated. h T *

THE EARTH OPENED IN GAPS.

Cocopah Smith, au American trapper • accompanied by Gardner, a hunter, and Kspito, a Cocopah Indiao, have returned

from the Gulf of California and gives ad ditional details concerning the earthquak and tidal wave of last week. About o'clock in the morning a heavy shod struck the country about five miles beloi I Leredo, a colony in the State of Sonora Mexieo, on the Colorado river. The sk darkened and a thunderstorm arose, ao companied by great flashes of lightning The shaking of the ground increased am the crackling, grinding noise of crumblint hills was intensified. A second shock caused the earth to ope: in many places, some fissures being fron four to seven feet wide and from twenty to thirty feet long, seemingly fathomless The men were thrown to the ground b] the force of the shock. A mile away the] noticed a fissure in the middle of the rivet bed, into which the Colorado was pourini with much noise. A third shock destroyed three small habitations of colonists anc cracked the remaining ones. No hum&r beings were lost, but a large amount o‘ live stock was killed.

G. A. R. OFFICERS.

The grand encampment G, A. R.. at Detroit, on the 6th elected John Palmer, ol New York, Commander-in-Chief. The. ether candidates w ere A. G. Weissart ol Wisconsin, W. P. Smedburg of California; and S. 11. Hurst of Ohio--the latter withdrawing. The first toillot resulted: Palmer 323, Weissart 270. Smedburg 177. Palmer’s election occurred on the second ballot. Palmer was a captain during the war. Henry M. Duffield, of Michigan, was chosen Senior Vice Commander by acclamation, Other officers elected were: • T. S. Clarkson, of Nebraska, Junioi Vice Commander. S. B. Payne, Florida, Chaplain. B. T. Stevenson, Connecticut, Surgeon General. The recommendation of the command-er-in-chief that separate departments for white and black e.x-soldiers be founded created intense feeling. The discussion was lengthy .and peppery. The majority report, rejecting the recommendation of the commander, was adopted. Applausand hisses prevailed throughout the disc cussion. The result was a victory for the black men, the question arrising from the refusal of white ex-soldiers in Louisiana and Mississippi to fraternize with colored cx-soldlers. .

INTERESTING CENSUS BULLETIN.

Twenty-Eight of the Largest Cities in Eng. land and the Edited States Compared. Some interesting and significant figures concerning the growth of municipal population have been brought together at the census office for the purpose of comparison. The twenty-eight largest cities in the United States were selected, and also the largest twenty-eight cities in England as shown by the census of 1891 in England and of 1890 in the United States. The figures show for the United States a population of these twenty-eight cities in 1893 of 9.697,960, and in 1880 of 6,094,636. an increase of 3,003.324. The per cent, of this increase was 44.86. The twenty-eight cities have a total area of 583,833.60 acres, and the population to each acre is 16.61 The same figures for England show for twenty-eight, cities a population in 1881 of 8,437,214, and 1891 of 9,379,711, *an increase of t»42,497i The per cent, of this- increase was only 11.2. The twenty-eight English cities cover an area of only 258..809 acresmaking the population ,to each acre 36.2. One would naturally expect front the far greater population to each acre in the English cities than in those in this country. that the.city containing tiio greatest number of persons to an acre would not be in this country. •Curiously enough, however, tho city containing the greatest number of persons to an acre in the United -Slates is 4 licgiipiiy T I!n_ T whcre..Um-iuuw-ber is 103.47. In England, Liverpool ranks highest in this respect, showing 99.4 persons to the acre. The cities showing the largest increase of population are in tho United States, Chicago,where the increase In the decade was 596,665, and in England, London,where the increase is 395,512. The largest’'increase by per cent, is shown by Omaha, in the United States, where tho per cent, of increase is 300.23, and in Great Britain, Cardiff, where the per cent, is 55.7. The least number of persons to at; acre is shown in the United States by St,. I’aul, where tho number is 4.05 per acre, and in England by Huddersfield,where, thq number is 8.1. In the United States non o of these twenty-eight cities show an actual loss. In England the only city showing an actual loss in population during the decade is Liverpool, where there was a total loss of 34,557, or 6.3 per coni.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, Aug 10, 1891. | Wheat. Com. Oats Kye. Indianapolis. ■ 3 r’d 84 1w 65 3w 33 Caicigo 3 r'd 88 61 38 Cincinnati.... 3 r’fl 87 61 32 70 St. Louis 2 r’d 85 55 83 70 New York.... 3 r’d 08 69 34 78 Baltimore.... 98 69 48 79 Philadelphia. 3 r'd 98 71 48 Clover Seed. Toledo 91 65 30 4 85 Detroit Iwh 92; 64 31 Minneapolis.. 93!4' i■ 1 1 1 ■ ——* iT ‘ ■ ' 1 CATTLE. Export steers 7 7.... $5 50@5 85 Good to choice shippers 4 25(«.5 00 Fair to medium shippers. 3 50®4 00 Common shippers 2 75<g3 25 5t0cker5.............2 07«2 75 Good to choice butcher heifers. 3 25@3 75 Fair to medium heifers 2 55(0)3 05 Light, thin heifers 1 75@2 25 Good to choice cows 2 75(g3 25 Fair to medium c0w5.......... 200 (g 2 60 Common old cows 1 03(a}l 75 Veals, common to choice. 3 00(|5 00 Bulls, common to choice 1 75@2 75 Milkers, good to choice) 15 00(g35 HOGS Heavy pa'cking and slipping...ss 40@5 70 Mixed packing 5 40@5'63 Light V 5 40(33 60 Heavy roughs. 2 15(54 00 SHEEP. V/ . Good to choice clipped.., .... ~s4 15@4 <fy Fair to medium clipped 3 7iXg4 o.j Common clipped 3 5) Backs, V head.. 2 uxgj oj miscellaneous. Eggs, 0 c; butter, creamery, 20(92?c; dairy, 20c; good country l»c; feathers, 35c; beeswax, lt%Joc; wdol 3J@3sc. unwashed, 22c; hens. 9c; turkeys 8c tom» 7c; clover seed 4.35(24.50.

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

In sections of Florida cabbages are being given away for cattle feed, such a drug are they-on the market. The Declaration of Independence * was read at Graham, Mo., July 4, by a little girl only seven years old. An ex-policeman, who has done ten years* duty in one of the large cities of the east, declares that he has never seen a baldheaded tramp. A young man who was barely able to read and write when he went to the Kansas penitentiary, some years ago, now teaches the highest class in that institution. A horse belonging to John Burtless, of Tipton, Mien., was found to be coverea with honey bees the other day, a fire had to be built to remove them. The horse may die. One of the gardeners of Bayou Sara, in Louisiana, has produced a potato that weighs twenty-seven pounds, and he now proposes to rest on his laurels until his competitors catch up with that. When the owner of a pet dtrnkey in Jackson, Tenn., purchased a rival and installed it on bis farm the jealous original pet resented the intrusion by braying sjo loud that it burst a blood vessel and died. A resident of Monroe City, Mo., has recovered SIOO from a man who tied his mules to a handsome maple shade tree belonging to the villager, letting the mules bark and kill the tree, it being one his grandfather planted. An old ranchman in Harney VaR ley, Ore., has been in the habit of hauling his daily supply of water from eighty miles away, in order to save digging a well. He oould secure an abundance of water ten or twelve feet deep. The catacombs of Romo contain tbo remains of about six million human beings, and those of - Paris about three million. The latter were formerfjTstane quaries. Many of the victims of the revolution of 1792-4 are buried there. A Maine farmer recently sent a 10-cent stamp to a man who advertises to send for that amount the way to run a farm without being troubled with potato bugs. The answer received was as follows: “Plant fruit trees instead of potatoes.’’ Vincent Griest, of Lower Oxford, Pa., witnessed a combat between an owl and a smaller bird, and when the little one seemed to be getting the worst of the battle he went to her assistance. The owl thereupon attacked him and bit him in the arm and face.

An old table in the waiting-roon> of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore depot at Wilmington possesses a peculiar interest for people fond of relics. It is the table on which the body of President Lincoln rested while being conveyed to Springfield. 111., for burial. Two cooks of Ashland, Ore., one a negx-o and the'other a Chinaman, indulged in a novel contest, a few days ago, to see which could clean a chicken in tbo shortest timer The Celestial won in twenty seconds, and the fowl was still kicking after being denuded of its feathers. The people of Thessaly were the first to break horses for service in war, and their proficiency as equestrians probably first gave rise to the ancient myth that their country was originally inhabited by centaurs, fabulous creatures, supposed to-b 4 half horse and half man. -An eleven-year-old Polish- girlpassed through Scranton, Pa., lasi week. She was from Poland, and traveled the entire distance without a care-taker. Across her shoulder was strung a tag on which was writ* tea: “Direct this girl to Shickshinny oould - speak no English. ,

Bismarck’s Waning Influence.

Harper's Weekly. The impression made by Bismarck's personality has been disturbed by his course since his removal. Apparently he has somewhat mistaken his hold upon Germany. It was not that of a popular leader, but of a ruler of great resources and despotic will. Consequently when lie fell from power, and it was seen that there was no interruption of the usual course of events, that the situation was, in fact, unaffected, there was no strong personal feeling of loyalty upon which he could rely in opposition to the government. It it is not to b--expected that Bismarck will grea< y influence affairs when he reappear., in the German Parliament. In tho conviction of Germany, undoubtly, his day is past

They Will Follow Suit.

New York Times. We shall doubtless soon see on the pretty wrists of the maids and matrons who have just returned from across the water slender bracelets, to which is attached a gold key with a crown of red or blue enamel. And all this will be because the English queen has put such a one around the wrist of her chief lady in waiting, and attached to it the key of her dispatch box. Unofficial women in England, who do not possess dispatch boxes, wear instead the key of davenport or jewel box, and American women may b 3 relied upon to suit. v •In an ;Wdress at'the breakfast at the Holborn restaurant, London,last week, in honor of the United States and British colonial delegates to the International Council of the Congregationalists, Alfred Ulingworth, \M. P., declared that the aristocracy whs the chief buttress of the Established Church, not 5 per cent, of the wageworkers being communicants.