Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1891 — Page 2

■ THE REPUBLICAN. Geogk E. Marshall. Publisher. RENSSELAER • INDIANA

The census bulletin places th* mortgaged debt of Kansas at $235,485.108, or about one-fourth the actual value of the real estate of the State. Gov. Campbell and Mr. McKinley, candidates for Governor of Ohio, have agreed to joint debates, the first meeting to be at. Adah, on the Bth of October. The ar-iMrocraey of England is paralyzed at the proposition to pay members of Parliament. This would result in the election of labor and other members who now cannot offord to give their time without recompense. The discovery of snow on the moon encourages the hope that a toboggan slide ■ may turn up next, which will give us assurance that the moon is inhabited. It will also give us assurance that the inhabitants are people with whom wc want nothing to do. : !-,. . ' The Egyptian exhibit at the World's Fair will be a reproduction of a street in Cairo. The attendants in the booths and shops will be. darkskinned beauties of the Orient, sent by approval of the Khedive. Will it do to say that they can not be Tewfik to please the Chicagoans? The Prussian government has begun the prosecution of the editor of the ‘•Kladderadatsch" for. ridiculing the holy coat of Treves by a] car toon headed *‘Tho Gull Snaring Pilgrims. ’ Would it not be well, also, to add on a year or two to the punishment for having adopted such a name for a newspaper.

The McAuliffe-Gibbons prize fight at Hoboken, last week, was stopped by the police in the sixth round. As the announcement of this contest was telegraphed all over the country several times before it occurred, it seems strange that the police did not learn of it in time to prevent it altogether. The Indianapolis News has been publishing a series of articles which would go to prove that the natural gas resources are giving out. Pa. pens in the gas belt deny the truth of the statements made, and impugn the motives of the publication. It is probably true that very soon ’a general and apparently honest demand will be made for an increase in prices because of the alleged, decreasing supply. It is charged by some newspapers, also, that wealthy corporations are securing all the stock of gas territory that they can purchase. Rev. Dr. Jenckes. a distinguished Episcopal divine of Indianapolis, rector of St. Paul’s Cathedral, figures out that the world will come to an end within ten years, and is delivering a series of sermons to prove shat his predictions are founded upon Scripture. He also predicts a war within six months in Europe that will last seven years, to be followed soon after by the consuming of the world by fire. We presume contracts extending beyond the ten years will be made by unbelievers, just as they were in the days o Noah. A question has been raised in Ohio about the legality of marriage consummated by retired clergymen, Bays an exchange. The law reads that any minister of the gospel, ’'while a regular, minister of a so. ciety or congregation ” can perform the marriage ceremony. The right of retired clergymen to peform the marriage ceremony has not bclore been seriously questioned. But should it not be decided? If it is legal, all right. If it is not. then several hundreds of people in all parts of the country need to be remarried. A Bowdotn College exploring expedition has returned from -ILabi'idor, having discovered and photographed Grand Falls, a magnificent water fall. The water plunges per pendicularly 200 feet into a canyon, the rapids leading to the fall making the distance 500 feet. The river is about 500 yards wide, narrowing to a width of 50 yards before the final plunge is made. The spray of the falls is visible for twenty miles, and ' the 1 noise made by the falling water can be heard a great distance. The expedition nearly ended disastrously, the party being without food, or the means of providing it, with the exception of a revolver, 300 miles from where It could be had

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Vera Ava has returned to thicago. Secretary Foster will go on the stump in Ohio. f ’ '• Kentucky’s, .new constitution was engrossed on the 22nd. Gold in paying quantities has been discovered in Pennsylvania. The Buffalo. N. Y.,-novelty iron works will be remoyed to Anderson. The Grant monument at Lincoln Park, Chicago, will be unveiled Oct. 7. Forest and prairie fires continue to damage property in the Northwest, The product of coal mines in the census year amounted in value to >100,226,223. Ex-Governor Morehouse of Missouri, committed suicide at Maryville, Mo., on the 23d. Tha Waltham Watch Co.. Boston, has reduced the wages of its employes from 15 to 20 per cent. The Tennessee Legislature’s extra ses sion closed on the 21st without changing the conv icll ease system. The first show of the season fell at Leadville, Col., on the 25th. It snowed all night but melted rapidly. The Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor of Maryland have .arranged for a plowing match. Four thousand people saw Tommy Warren knocked out in the twenty-first round by Cal McCarthy, at New Orleans. Fire destroyed nearly a half million dollars’ worth of property at New York on the 15th. The old Commercial Advertiser building was destroyed. . -——»- President F. W. Kennedy and Cashier H. 11. Kennedy, wreckers of the Spring Garden National Bank, Philadelphia, were each sentenced on the 15th to the penitentiary for ten years. According to the Chicago News there is practically no corn of the old crop to be bought by the legitimate dealers In this edunfTy ort account of the manipulations by professional gamblers. Theodore Schwartz, the banker, who is charged with defrauding depositors in the broken bank, was put on trial at Shelbyville, Ky., on the 2.3 d. There is much interest and a long array of witnesses. The order of Railway Telegraphers and Brotherhood of Telegraphers in Chicago have been amalgamated. This action was taken in accordance with the decision of the National convention of the first named body at St. Louis last Monday. A head-end collision occurred on the Chicago & Northwestern railway near Beverly, three miles west of Coder Rapids, on the 23d, between the Pacific express and stock train. A number of old veterans on the passenger train were badly bruised. The most death-dealing sentence in the annals of South Carolina, except in cases of insurrection, was passed at Laurels on the 25th, ten negroes .being sentenced to be hanged on October 23 for the murder of another negro. Richard Edgerton, residing near Independence, la., was poisoned while sitting by the corpse of his eldest daughter. He experienced a faint feeling, and called for liquor. By mistake his wife gave him a dose of carbolic acid. He died in about ten minutes. The fire which swept over the Sioux reservation Saturday proves to have destroyed nearly everything in the shape of hay and wheat in stacks and ran from the Canon-ball river to Mareau river. Parties from the scene of the fire say that the reservation is a blackened waste. Jotin E. Kelly, who-conducted extensive grocery stores at Keyport. Freehold and Perth Amboy, N. J„ has disappeared. It is reported that Kelly owes about $25,000. He disposed of his Key port and Freehold stores just before leaving. Kelly, a short time ago,secretly married a wealthy Cuban woman. Judge Green, of Trenton, N. J.,rendered a decision in the case of lyiUiam A. Jewett against Robert Garrett, of the Baltimore <fc Ohio Railroad Company, on the 22d. Three million dollars are involved in this suit. The decision refuses to set aside the summons -served- upon Mr. Garrett and the suit will continue. Captain Schley, commanding the Baltimore, now in Chilian waters, cables the Navy Department from Valparaiso: Festivities to celebrate the anniversary of Chilian independence and the restoration of peace have passed without political disturbance. Everything is quiet. Balmaceda committed suicide September 19. The collector of customs at New York has been authorized by the Treasury Department to admit to free entry six cases of marble statuary and marble base relief Intended for the museum of the Lelend Stanford, Jr., University at Palo Alto, Cal., if upon examination the articles iu question are found to be works of art. The students of Wooster University are greatly dissatisfied with a resolution adopted by the faculty which says “that hereafter no participation in inter-colleg-iate games and contests shall be nermitted." Athletics have been encouraged for some years by the faculty and citizens. The students, assisted by citizens, erected a fine gymnasium and supplied it with all conveniences, so that the foot and baseball teams should especially have all the advantages. The following shows the vacant public lands in acres iu each of the public land States and Territories: A1abama,947,210; Arizona, 55,061,005; Arkansas. 4,995,368; California! 52,299.490;'C010rad0, 42.167,030; Florida, 2,468,381; Idaho, 33,881,851; lowa. 6.000; Kansas, 799.078; Louisiana, 1,243,118; Michigan, 781.816; Minnesota, 6,849,975; Mississippi. 1,201.280; Missouri, 1.023.898; Montana, 74,372,768; Nebraska, 11,400.436; Nevada, 53,689,524; New Mexico, 54,893,679; North Dakota, 16445,440; Oklahoma, 3,502,406; Oregon, 39,220,151; South Dakota. 14,085,394; |Utah, 35,428,987; Washington, ;20,401.691; Wisconsin, 1,003,133; Wyoming, 50,842,534, a total of 579,064,683 acres. Reports received by of Agriculture indicate the wheat crop of Italy will be very great this year. As is well known last year’s crop was the only full crop for a number of years, and every thing goes to show that this year’s crop may be •Vm better. Thezutnrns from forty-nine provinces show a crop of 45,000,000 hectolitres, while last year the crop of all Italy

was only 48,000,000. The returns from twenty provinces are yet lacking for the present year, but it is certain that they have produced more than enough to bring the total up to the amount of 18t0.

FOREIGN.

The English government ha« officially recognized the provisional government of Chili. England and Germany have each applied for 230.000 feet of floor space at the World's Fair. Spain has" decided to adopt a modern rifle for its army and to experiment with smokeless powder. There are 1.006 eases of smallpox in the city of Campeche. Mexico. One hundred deaths have occurred. The trouble in the Italian Cabinet is increasing in consequence of dissension over the fresh taxes. The War Minister projects a levy of exempted men. A letter signed “An Israelite Wanderer.” published in London, states that 150,000 to 300,000 Jews have violated laws in Russia which subject them to expulsion. It is stated that the King of Roumania, upset by the Queen’s illness and court intrigues. has Imparted to the*Roumanian Premier and others his desire to abdicate the throne. The Standard's Odessa correspondent says that tho Russian government has ordered twenty engines and 535 carriages for transportation purposes on the Warsaw line. — Owing to the illibcrality of municipal authorities.—the projects for a universal ex htoition-.ta.be h eld. to. Ronieli a-, proved a fiasco, the-promoters having no means to gj forward. Nine boxes of dynamite and six sacks o! powder have been seized at the port of ISan Giovanni destined tor Rome. Several important arrests will probably be made in connection with the matter. The promulgation of the Alsace-Lor-rainepassport decree has prod need an easier feeling in commercial circles at Berlin, quieting the vague war alarms caused by the Emperor's vehement speech at Erfurt. - It is stated that Mr. Mercier will retire from the Quebec premiership, pending the result of the inquiry into the scandal with which his name is associated, on the understanding that Joly De Leobiniere will be acting premier. The Governor of Yemen and all the Turkish officials have fled from Sana The insurgents have captured Hodeida and great alarm prevails, it being feared that the insurgents will advance to Mecca and proclaim an Arab Caliph. The Herald has this cable from San Salvador: “The reports about the assassination of Gen. Luis Bogran, President of Honduras, are utterly false. They and other rumors of a similar character are propagated by Guatemalan agents with a view to discrediting the Salvadorian government and manufacturing public opinion against It. Advices received from British Columbia indicateLthatoto promising to indemnify the Canadian sealers., for any loss they might sustain in being driven out of Behring Sea this season, the British government assumed a responsibility it had not accurately estimated. It now appear:; that Great Britain will have to pay at least $500,030. and possibly $700,000. to fulfill its pledges to the sealers of British Columbia.

ELEVEN DEAD AND THIRTY HURT.

Fearful Havoc of a Bomb and Mortar that Exploded in a Crowd of Italians. An explosion on the 25th at an Italian celebration at Newark, N. J., resulted in eleven deaths, while thirty persons are suffering from wounds of a lyore or less serious nature, A big copper casing mortar was used for the bombs. These were filled with colored fire and shot in the air, where they burst, throwing out a shower of vari-colored sparks. It was this mortar that exploded and caused all the harm The bomb casing is about five inches in diamter and thirteen inches long. About 11 p. m.. a large bomb was put in the mortar and lighted. It is supposed that the bomb exploded in it. There weretomdreds of men, women children standing around watching with great expectancy. When it was exploded the air was filled with the shrieks of the injured and dying. Intense confusion followed. A platoon of police were on the scene, and they had great difficulty in preventing thr frightened multitude from tramping the injured to death. The explosion is supposed to be due to an overcharge of powder. Rumors wero abroad that there had been dynamite iri the bomb, but this is dedicd. There is a city ordinance forbiding the display of fire w orks except on legal holidaysand at military reviews. The superintendent of tire department granted the permit for the fatal exhibition.

ARRESTED HIS WIFE.

Policeman Ryan, of Jersey City, Finds His Young Spouse Cutting up in a Street Car. Policeman Jonn J. Ryan, of the Jersey City. N. J., force, was unpleasantly surprised Saturday night. Ho was patrolling Ferry street, when he was hailed by tho conductor of a Jersey City line horse car and asked to eject a well dressed cotiple who wero drunk. Ryan nearly fainted when he. recognized the woman as his own wife. Her companion was a well-to-do horse-shoer. The couple were locked up to await examination. Mrs. Ryan” is twenty-four years old and pretty. She has two children. Her husband will ap pear against her in the police court, and will also sue for divorce.

TWO BIG FIRES.

The Plant flouring mill at St. Louis was destroyed by fire on the 27th. The mill was one of the largest in the country —75 feet front and 100 feet deep. The capacity.of the mill was 1,800 barrels pei day About the same time the immense warehouse of the Mansur-Tibbitts Agricultural Implement Co., situated in a different part of the city, was burned also This building was recently erected sis stories high, and was supposed to be fireproof. It burned like Under, however. Il was filled with all kinds of farm implements. The loss on the two buildings anc adjoining property exceeds $750,000.

IN THE RUSH FOR HOMES.

A Woman Who Waa In Too Much of a Harry Is Shot—Old Soldiers File Their Claims- -Interesting Times. Many are the stories received of the invasion of the newly opened lands by the “boomers.” At a point five miles below Tohee quite a number of boomers wero gathered to make the race. Among them was one woman, whose name has not been learned, whoso impatience got the better ot her discretion. She crossed the line before the appointed time and one of the deputy marshals guarding the party arrested her and forced her back oyer the line. Soon afterward she again crossed the line prematurely, and when the deputy again ordered her back she drew a revolver from her dress pocket and opened fire upon him. The marshal returned the fire and shot her in the left leg just below the knee, shattering the limb anddisabling her so that she was unable to make the race. When noon arrived the boomers left her outside the line, stretched under a tree, unable, to move. A humane hackman took the unfortunate woman to Guthrie, where shots being cared for. Reports have b?en received from several other places along the border, all of which agree that there has as yet been no serious disturbance Several individual altercations between rival claimants and several personal encounters are reported, but the conseqnenees were notiserious. The boomers are enraged because Governor Steele decided to allow notentry on the town sites until the surveys are completed and he has approved them. The Governor wa§ at the lower county at noon. It is believed the survey there has been finished and approved and that no trouble occurred over the entry. The lower county seat is thirty-eight miles from the upper, and the Governor will not arrive at the latter place until this evening. In the meantime- a company of United States troops under Captain Hayes is stationed there to defend the site against claimants The Governor’s course in regard to the town sites is approved by Secretary Noble, as shown by the following telegram fiom the Secretary to the Governor: “No orders revoked. My only advice 1! to use civil officers until absolutely necessary to resort to troops. The reserves art United States property, and troops can protect the same until town sites art opened. This you can control. By nc means abandon the same, but preserve the land and protect the Government in the use of its own land for its own purposes.’Major Weigel, a Government land inspector, is acting Governor in the latter’! absence.

The scene at the land office here yesterday was a lively one. About 250 old soldiers armed with declaratory statement! had been in line before the office door lot four days past. Some slept in chairs,some on the ground, and some hardly at all. Their meals have been brought to them by their wives, children or friends. The weather has been pleasant, but the veterans were accustomed to hardships and did not mind the inconveniences. When the hour of noon approached there was very little excitement, the men in the line being nearly the only people left in town, most everv cne having gone to the border tc either join in the rush or witness it. The first man to the line was John Diamond./ When noon arrived he handed his papers to Receiver Barnes to make th 4 necessary examination of them. Th« papers wero then passed up to Mr. Wallace. chief of this land office. Mr. Diamond passed to the next window and handed in his sl4 and was handed a receipi ior the same. On passing Out of the land office he was met by his family and congratulated. The second man to file war J. L. Kalkloich; the third was John B. Knapp. There, was no disturbance about the. office, and the business of filing th< statements proceeded quietly and swiftly. At 7 o'clock'all the old soldleYs had got their papers. Tile line did not decrease in length, however, for after 3o’clocksettlen who had located their claims in the new lands began to arrive to file their entry notices. For every old soldier that stepped out of the head of the lino a fiesh claimant stepped into a place at its end. Th< land office kept open until 7 o’clock. Al that time 40117 two hundred men wer< still in line, and others were arriving every minute.

ODD FELLCWS AT ST. LOUIS.

Hoosiers Capture Some Important Prizes. The Odd Fellows at St. Louis spent th» 22d in drills. The first event on the program was a purse of $1,700, divided int< three parts, hung up for the best drillec canton, for which six cantons were entered. Tbedrill was according to the tactics in use in the regular army and militia St. Louis refrained from competing owing to the custom prevalent in the order that home cantons do notenter. The decision.* of the judges, rendered on a basis of 100 pei cent, for perfection, were as follows: Canton Elwood, No. 33, of the department of Indiana, first with a percentagi of 84.33. Canton Frank, No. 55, of Germantown 0.. second; per cent., 81.73. Canton Indianapolis, No. 2, of Indiana third: per cent., 80.10. Canton Occidental,No. l.Chicago,fourth: per cent., 79.50. Canton Lincoln. No. 17, Joplin, Mo. fifth; percent., 72.16. Canton St. Joseph, St. Joseph, Mo. sixth; per cent.,70.00. The next event, the individual drill foi a purse of $l5O, divided into three, resulted: Chevalier T. R. H. Switzer, of Cantor Occidental, Chicago, first Chevalier J. W. Jones, Canton Indianapolis, second, Chevalier J. Coyle, Canton Indianapolis bird. The Kreuza Zeitnng, of Berlin, in i warning article on the westward movements of Russian troops, says: The cav airy depots on the German frontier an three times as strong as formerly and new depots are being forwarded. Such measures speak for themselves. Costa Rica is now the only Centra' American power which is not for war Each of the powers has agents in othe) countries son ing seeds of discord. All th« countries are in financial difficulty. Neither Guatemala nor Salvador has beer able to arrange a loan in Europe. Guatsmala has established the strictest prea censorship,

WORK OF THE LAND OFFICE.

N’amber of Patents Issued tn a Tear, With the Sumbcr of Acres Involved. ' The report of Commissioner Carter «f the operations of the General Land Office t during the fiscal year ending June 30,1891, was mide public on the 25th. A comparative statement is made shewing the num? tor of agricultural, mineral and coal entries made during the fiscal years 1886 and 1887 and the fiscal years 1890 and 1891. Patents issued during the fiscal years 1890 and 1831 were: Pre-emptions, 149,515; homestead, 75,545; timber Culture, 5,346; military jaunty land, 723; agricultural college scrip, 32; miscellaneous scrip, 446; mineral, 3,199; coal, 450. The total number of agricultural patents issued during 1886 and 1887 was 44,443, against a total of 231,607 during the years 1890 and 1891, an increase of 187,164 patents. The Increase in the number of mineral patents issued was 967, and of coal patents, 332. The number of acres of public lands disposed of during the year shows that the cash sales amounted to 2,143,090 aci-es. Of the miscellaneous entries (not cash) 5,040,393 acres wore homestead, and 969,006 were entered under the timber culture law. The railroad selections amounted to L857,572 acres; the State selections to 174,404 acres; the Indian allotments to 117,485, the original swamp selections to 23,117 acres. ’The total cash receipts during the year, $5,429,220. The filings duringthe year were 20,241, the fees under which amounted to $77,069. The final entries during the year were 51,934, representing an acreage of 7,359,905, and the original entries in the same time, 45,845, aggregating 6,409,832 acres. There was a decrease of entries for the year of 15,664, representing an acreage of 2596,820. The patents issued to land grant railroads during the year were 3,088,679 acres, an increase over the-previous year of 2,724,817. Survey ß have been accepted during the year to the amount of 8,086.004. The vacant public lands in the public land States and Territories, is 579,664.683.

CRASHED INTO A WORK-TRAIN.

Blunder of a Telegraph Operator Results in the Death of Fifteen Passengers and Thirty Injur ed Tn Sprain. r A terrible wreck occurred on the Pittsburg & Western road at McKim siding, Penn., a station a short distance on the other side of Zelenople, Butler county, on the 24th. At this point a work-train with a force of fifty men was engaged in putting down a new track. About 8 o’clock in the morning the work train got out of the way of a freight train going west, but the crew did not know that a second section of the same number was following five minutes later. The work train again pulled out on the main track and when the men Were engaged hi throwing off dirt the second section struck the work train with great force. Cars were piled up in a shapeless mass. The engines were a mass of broken iron and wood, and the hot steam and boiling water poured over tho unfortunate ones caught in the jam.. For a moment after the collision there was a silence. Then the air was broken by the shrieks of the dying, making the scene so terrible that one of the trainmen who had escaped injury fainted with horror. Tho trainmen and laborers who were not injured began at once, to assist those imprisoned in the debris. Several arms and legs were found in different places, and the head of an Italian was picked up away from the body. The engineer. John Houghton, who had bravely done his best, to stop his engine attached to the freight train, was found wedged in between the broken and' shapeless iron. By 11 o’clock the bodies of eight Italian laborers had been taken from the wreck, and with the killing of En'neer Houghton this swells the number to nine. There were at least twenty men injured, several of whom cannot recover. All the bodies were terribly mangled and disfigured. Assistance was telegraped for at Zelionople and in a short time physicians and citizens were at the scene rendering all the assistance to their power. Theexact cause of the disaster cannot be learned, but it is said that a mistake was made by the trainmen, who did not correctly Interpret the signal. .. ■ . ■ ;..

THE DREAD CHOLERA.

It is Spreading in District* of Asia—A Warning. The latest advices from Turkey, in Asia, to the health officer at Boston state that the cholera is spreading in the stricken districts. In one day, July 7, Mecca and Mina lost 405 of their population by the epidemic. The Turkish government has established regulations for the inspection of vessels from those places by physicians. The English steamer Drewton from Alexandria recently took on board sixtyeight bales of washed wool bound for New York, and 1,680 bales aboard at Tripoli, Syria, places affected by tho contagion, which latter merchandise,though reported not contaminated, originally came from the districts where the cholera is con' fined. The merchandise Is thought to be bound for America, and the health officer has been notified of the facts.

DR. BURCHARD DEAD.

A Man Whom a Few vyord* Made Widely Known. The Rev. Dr. Samuel D. Burchard of New York city, died at 3 o’clock on the 3.'»th at Saratoga. Dr. Burchard came prominently before the public in 1884, when a reception to Mr. Blaine, the then Republican candidate sot President, was tendered at the Fifth avenue hotel to New York by several hundred ministers of various denominations, Dr. Burchard was there and had been chosen to address Mr. Blaine to behalf of the clergy. As he neared the close of an address of affectionate regard and esteem for Mr. Blaine lie used practically these words: “And tve admire and welcome you, Mr. Blaine as a steadfast opponent of rum, Romanism and rebellion.' Adventurers and adventuresses at seaside hotels have been more numerous than anybody remembers,, this year. /

ENGINEERS OF OCEAN STEAMERS.

Buried Ont of Sight, They Know Little of Their Actual Dangerfl. Henry Facet The light from the electric lamps is reflected in patches on the smooth steel beams of the engine. In and out, in and out. like shuttles, weaving, work the rods, their perfect rhythm of motion and precision of movement giving no hint of the great speed at which the giant vessel is cleaving her way. Davs have passed without a signal from above, the engines throbbing steadily. Everything is repose; the incessant motion of the machinery is so common to the men that they do not notice it. The deck may be ever so noisy and these men, buried in the bowels of the ship, would never know it. Suddenly the great signal gong sounds upon the stillness a single resonant clang—stop, The engineer and his assistants are at their posts in an instant; the engine stops. This the first signal for hours, yes days, means to them nothing, but that it inUSt be instantly obeyed. It may be a man overboard; it may be in another instant some vessel’s prow will cut the ship in two,or the ship itself crash into an iceberg —they only know their orders; the bell has spoken—stop. With hands upon the wheels they stood waiting, every nerve strained, in utter ignorance of what the signal means. Soldiers in action see the danger; the officers on deck know what is going on; but these men know nothing but duty. A moment passes without a word in that narrow room. Strong hands are ready for the next order. It comes, “clang, clang,” “reverse the engine. ” The lever is drawn forward the valves open, and obedient to the touch the great piston rod moves again. The seconds seem ages; one, two minutes, and then—an awful crash,a grinding and the vessel staggers. “Clang” goes the great gong, and still at the posts quick hands stop the engine. “Ting-a-ling-a-ling,” “ting-a-ling-a-ling”—“quit the engine,” comes the signal. While confusion has reigned above, these silent meu have stood to their posts until this order came. They rush to the deck. The vessel is filling a great hole in her bow from the collision with the ice and all hands turn to the lifeboats. In the depths of a steamer where that great heart of man’s construction beats out the vessel’s life, true heroism is to be found, firm unquestioning obedience to orders.

ARSENIC AND AMMONIA.

Remarkable Contrast in the Effect of Two Poisons on the Complexion. The slow absorption of many poisons changes in some more or less modified form the complexion, but arsenic and ammonia show their effect about as quickly as any. The popular belief that arsenic clears the complexion has led many silly women to kill themselves with it in small, continued doses. It produces a waxy, ivory-like appearance of the skin during a certain stage of the poisoning, but its terrible after effects have become too well known to make it of common use as a cosmetic.. The effects of ammonia upon the complexion are directly the opposite to that of arsenic. The first symptom of ammonia poisoning which appears among those who work in ammonia factories is a discoloration of the skin of the nose and forehead. This gradually extends over the face Until the complexion has a stained, blotched and unsightly appearance. With people who take ammonia into their systems in smaller doses, as with their water or food, these striking symptomiLdo not appear so soon. The only effect of the poison that is. visible for a time is a general un- ’ wholesomeness and sallowness of the complexion. Many people are slowly absorbing ammonia poison without knowing it. The use of ammonia in the manufactures has greatly increased of late, and it is unquestionably used as an adulterant in certain food preparations. Official analysis has plainly shown its use even in such cheap articles of everyday consumption as baking powders. The continued absorption of ammonia in even minute quantities as an adulterant in food is injurious not merely from its effect upon the complexion, but because it destroys the coating of the stomach and causes dyspepsia and kindred evils. Professor Long, of Chicago, is authority for the statement that, if to fifty million parts of water there is one pait of ammonia, the water is dangerous.

Miss Passee (sweetly)—“Do you think you could guess my age?” Mr. Goodfello (honestly)—‘'l'm not good at guessing. I couldn't come within forty years of it. —New York Weekly. The Middle of the Train Beet. That was a keen observer who exclaimed as he clambered out of a wreck that he would not ride hereafter at either end of a railroad train. The middle care are always the safest. They do not receive a destructive blow from either a front or rear collision; if the engine leaves the track they usually remain in place and they are never snapped off, as the rear par sometimes is. Almost the only case in which the middle cars suffer is when they are thrown off the track by the breaking of a coupling or of some part of the running gear, and that is as likJy to happen to one part of the trair as another.—Philo. Enq.