Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN, •sou E. M.Anm\i.u Publisher. KENSSELAJLR • INDIANA

There has been ifcuceu m tho Matichester Mass., Public Library a copy or Uia Bible puolislieU in 1599. It is the gift of Miss Ella l.oe, daughter of the late Charles Lee, to the Manchester Historical Society.' This rare and valuable publicatiou is kamvn as the Bishop's Hible, aud was lirst printsd iu 1568. The machine tyowriter was 'not* patented by the man who originally devised it. “ The girl typewriter, however, is generally patented by her “best beau," and all “infringements” are dangerous. The Chinese brain has been weighed and not found wanting. Scientists assert that the average weight of the Chinese thinking apparatus is eonsidorcbly greater than that of other races. The new administration has 180,000 oftic.es to confer An 1,800.000 applicants. A reliable authority estimates that there is an average of ten. applicants for each office at the disposal of the President and his subordinates.

St. Louis having had a beer war this winter, and the. quality of the beverage having deteriorated, the Missouri-Legislature has created the office of “State fleer Inspector” whose duty will be to see that better beer and less froth are furnished the thirsty public. Missouri legislators- are given to enacting some queer laws-—notably the statute for selling negroes into slavery for vagrancy. One of their latest enactments makes it a penitentiary offense, for a husband to desert his wife until they have lived together for at least ten years. < The rivers of the country have been “full” of late and have shown a total lack of “self control,” but Keeley’s bi-chloride of gold cure will hardly restore the shattered hopes of many homes that have resulted from their protracted indulgence in an excess of liquid refreshments.

The newly elected department commander of the Grand Army in Wisconsin is Captain Shover, why enlisted as a drummer boy in an Indiana regiment before he was sixteen years old. lie served throughout the war with the Army of the Potomac, and participated in every engagement from Fair Oaks to Appomattox. The Czar is a man of ready resources. When he. needs more money he does not have to go through the preliminaries of having a new tariff schedule arranged but simply lays a duty on any article that seems likely to afford the desired revenue in the shortest time. Recently “he has added a duty of 40 cents a pound, on tea to the burdens of his subjects. Enterprising soap makers will now brand their product with your monogram or epitaph even if desired, ii c nspicuous letters, and are content if allowed to place their advertisement on the opposite side of the cake in less conspicuous letters. Many hotels and city clubs are said to be availing themselves of this new innovation in the soap trady.

An Italian medium operating in Paris, claims to be able to change her weight at will, and the phenomena is vouched for by eminent scientiflßc experts, who seem to think it something wonderful. That is nothing. Numberless grocerymen and even butchers do that in this country every day, and people accept it as a matter in no wise supernatural. Ora “state” religion, has* not been very much affected by the change of administration. Ex-President , Harrison is a Presbyterian. President Cleveland, if not an active member of that church, generally attends services at a Presbyterian house of worship. Vice-President Stevenson fcs a Presbyterian, and every member of the Cabinet is a communicant •f the church founded bv John Knox.

county, Mo., was convicted of vagrancy and according to the statutes made and provided, was placed on the auctioneer's block and sold into BIXT months"bondage fbr"thc"sum bF 120. Vagrancy is an evil that needs a remedy, but it is doubtful if.a revival of the old-time custom of slavery will have any salutary effect. A vagrant has no pride that wilf cause him to change his ways to avoid the disgrace of being sold iuto slavery, and the results of such proceedings are likely to make him a worse man rather than a better citizen. Texas continues to furnish her

full share of news items to the Associated Press. The monotony that has characterized crime in the Lono Star State has at last been broken, and Instead of a negro lynching, roasting, or an atrocious.assault and murder of innoeeht babes, we are now regaled with a comical account bf'The arrest for vagrancy of the polite force of a little Texas town, the .corps'- consisting of two men. The charge was preferred by the wives of the policemen,- who proved that they had received but sl2'pay in five months and could not support their families on that. People cling to an exploded story with strange pertinacity. Every small boy thinks he can get a fortune from the government if he succeeds in collecting a million canceled stamps. He never knew any one to receive either a large or small reward for such a collection, but that does not dampen his enthusiasm in, the least.— Older people adhere to the same delusion and set all their friends at work gathering up stamps. A lady of Allegheny, Pa., is on the home stretch and fondly believes she will receive SIO,OOO for her collection at an early date. Letters on the subject are constantly received at the Postoffice Department and help to make the officials earn their salaries.

DE LESSEPS’ ROMANCE.

How the Count Won His Pretty Young Wife. Mine, de Lesseps is a mere child compared with her venerable husband, who has just been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for his connection with the Panama Canal swindle. Count de Lesseps became a widower at 68, with a numerous family. A few years later he was in the habit of visiting a family in 1 Paris which comprised five sisters, j One day lie remarked that he had undergone great, dangers and difficulties among the Arabs, because they could not coneieve how a man could live without a. wife. The prettiest of the sisters innocently

MME. DE LESSEPS.

asked: “Why, then, do you noi marry again?” “Because lam too old. Besides, if I were to fall in love with a young girl it would be absurd to think that she would fall in love with me.’ “WEo'knows?” observed the. ques tioner. Lesseps told his young listeners about the rose of Jericho, which, after being dried and placed in water, again bursts into bloom. Soon afterward he obtained one of these rioses and presented it to the young girl. In a few days she appeared with the reblossomed rose in her hand, which she gave to the count, saying: “See what a miracle the water has affected upon the rose; it is the blossoming of love in old age.” Their eyes met, and he, believing that she had a meaning in what she did. said: “If you really dare venture to share the remaining years of an old mau, here is my hand.”’ This is the way she caught him. But for this marriage it is very uncertain whether he would have undertaken his laborious task at Panama. She was always at his side, and a staunch support throughout his arduous cohfliets with politicians money tenders, engineers and labor- . ers.

Tennyson's Early Efforts.

Tennyson began his poetic life, or, at any rate, his poetic inspiration, in early childhood, says the Waverly Magazine. It is recorded of him that when he was live years old he exclaimed, as the wind was sweeping through his father’s garden: “I .hear 4 voice that's speaking in the wind." His first poetic composition came somewhat later. Mrs. Ritchie, in her recollections of the poet, says: “Alfred’s first verses, so I once heard him remark, were written upon a slate which his brother Charles put into his hand one Sunday at, Louth, when all the ciders of the family were going to church and the child was left alone. Charles gave him the subject—the flowers in the garden—and when he came b'ack from church little Alfred brought the slate to his brother, all covered with written lines of blank verse. They, were made on ihe model of Thompson’s ‘Seasons,’ the only poetry he had ever read. One* can picture it all—the flowers in the garanxious eyes and the young brother scanning the lines. ‘ ‘ Yes, you can write, ” said Charles, giving back the slate. “I lvttve also heard another story. Later on his grandfather asked him to write an elegy on his grandmother. who had died, and when it was written lie put 10 shillings into the bov's I; a ml. saying: “There, that is the first money you have ever earned by your poetiy, and, take mv word for it. it will be the last.”

EASTER FLOWERS.

‘‘Consider athe Lilies How They Grow.” Tho of the ISosurrpr.Uon— Earth and Sett SliuU <Hv«? Up Vlieir D<-a<l— Dr. Talmagc's Sermon. . . . 1 L ' -l- - I >;\ Tabvr.gc preached at Brooklyn last Siimktv.- Sal >je.-■ t: 'The -Sleepers Av.n*( red." Text: I Cor. xv, 20 —"Now is Christ risen from the de!id-i:.iid bi-;stii-K-itiK* lirst -f-ruirs of them that .slept.” He said: 011 this glorious Easter morning, amid the music and the flowers, ,1 give you Christian salulalien. This morning Russian meeting Russian on the. streets of St. Petersburg hails him with the salutation. “Christ is risen!" and is answered -"by"his friend “nr salutation. “He is risen indeed!" In ' some parts of, England and Ireland to this very "day there is the superstition that on Easter niornir.o- the sun dances in the heavens, and well may we forgive such a superstition, which illustrates 11m . fact that the natural world seem:.; to sympathize with the spiritual: Hail. Easter morning: Flowers! Flowers! All of them u-voice, all,of them a-tonguc. all of them full of gpilch to-day. I bend over one of ihe ill lies, and I hear it say, “Con sidcr the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin, vet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one oU these. 41 I bend over a rose, and it seems to whisper. ‘‘l am the rose of Sharon.” And then I stand and listen. 'From all sides there comes the chorus of flowers, saying, “If God so clothed the grass of the field, which to-day is and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe vou, Q ye of little faith?” Flowers! Flowers! Braid them into the bride’s hair. Flowers! Flowers! Strew them over the graves of the dead—sweet prophecy of the resurrection. Flowers! Flowers! Twist them into a garland for my Lord Jesus on Easter morning. “Glory be to the Father, audio the Sen, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be.” I care not how labyrinthine the mausoleum or how costly the sarcophagus or however beautifulty partorred the family grounds, we want them all broken up by the Lord of the resurrection. They must come o-t. Father and mother -they must come out. Husband and wife —they must come out. Our darlifig children —they: must come out. The eyes that we close with such trembling fingers must open again in the radiance of that morn. The arms wC folded in dust must join ours in an embrace of. reunion. , The voice that was hushed in our dwelling must be return'd. "Oh, how long some of you seem to be waiting — waiting for the, resurrection,* waitAnd for these broken hearts today I make a soft, cool bandage out of Easter flowers. If I should come to you*this morngreat conquerors of the world, you would say Alexander, Csesar, Philip, Napoleon I. Ah, my friends, you have, forgotten to mention the name of a greater conqueror, than All these —a cruel, a ghastly conqueror. He rode on a black horse across Waterloo and Atlanta and Chalons, the bloody hoofs crushing the hearts of nations. It is the conqueror Death. He carried a black flag, and he takes no prisoners. He digs a trench across the hemispheres and tills it with the carcasses of nations. Fifty times would the world have been depopulated had not God kept making new generations. Fifty times the world would have swung lifeless through the air—no man on the mountain, no man on the sea, an abandoned ship plowing through immensity. Again and again has lie done this work with all generations. He is a monarch as well as a conqueror; his palace a sepulcher; his fountains the falling tears of a world. Blessed be God. in the light of this Easter morning I sec the propecy that his scepter shall be brokoiymnd his palace shall be ’The hour is Coming when all wh» are in their graves shall come forth. Christ risen, we shall rise. Jesus “the first fruits of them that slept, ” Now, around this doctrine of the resurrection there are a great many mysteries. Why, putting down one kind of flower seed, comes there up this flower of this color? Why, putting down another flower seed, eomes there up a flower of this color? One flower white, another flower yellow, another flower crimson. Why the difference, when the seeds look to be very much alike—are very much alike? Explain those things. Explain that wart on the finger. Explain why the oak leaf is different from the leaf of the hickory. Tell me how the Lord Almighty can turn the chariot of his omnipotence on a rose leaf.. You ask me "questions about the resurrection I cannot answer. I will ask you a thousand questions about everyday life you cannot answer. You say that “the human body changes every seven years, and by seventy years of age a man has had ten bodies. In the resurrection which will come up?” You say: man will die and his body crumble into the dust, and that dust be taken up into the life of the vegetable. An animal may eat the vegetables; men eat the animal. In the resurrection

thatbodv distributed in so many directions, how shall it be up?” Have -you any mormquestions of this style to ask? -Come on and ask them. Ido not pretend to-an-swer them." I fait back upon the announcement of God's word. “All who arc in their •graves shall come forth." York to Liverpool at every few miles where a steamer went down, departed spirits coming back hovering over the wave. There is where the City of Boston perished. Found at last. There is where the President perished. Steamer found at last. There is where the Central xYmerica went down. Spirits hovering— hundreds of spirits hpvering. waiting for the reunion of body and soul. Out on the prairie a spirit alights. There is where a traveler died in the..sfifl®£ 'Crash! goes Westminster abbey, and the poets and orators come forth — wonderful mingling of good and bad! Crash! go the pyramids of Egypt, and the monarchs come forth. Who can sketch the scene? I suppose that one moment before the general rising there will be an entire silence, save as you hear the grinding of a wheel or a clatter of the hoofs of a procession passing into the cemetery. Silence on the side of the mountain. Silence down in the valleys and far out into the sea.- Silence. But in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, as the archangel’s- trumpet comes pealing, rolling, crashing, across mountain and ocean, the earth will give one terrific shudder, and the graves of the dead will heave like the waters of the sea. and Ostend an'd Sebastopol and Chalons will j stalk forth in the lurid air, and the drowned will come up and wring out their wet locks above the billow, and all the land and all the sea become, one moving mass of ’life—all faces, all ages, all conditions gazing in one direction and upon one throne —the throne of resurrection. -‘All who are in their graves shall come forth. ” In the first place, I remark, in regard to your resurrection body, it will be a glorious body. The body we have now is a mere skeleton of of what it. would have been if sin had not marred and defaced it. Take the most exquisite statue that was ever made by an artist and chip it, here and chip it there with a chisel and batter and bruise it here and i there and then stand it out into the ’ storms of a hundred years, and the beauty -would be gone. Well, the human body has been chipped and battered and bruised and damaged with the storms of thousands of ye&i’s —the physical defects of other generations coming down from generation to generation, we inheriting the infelicities of past generations, but in the morning of the resurrection the body will be adorned and beautified according to the original model. And there is no such difference between a gymnast and an emaciated wretch in a lazaretto as there will be a difference be tween our bodies as they are now and our resurrected forms. In this world the most impressive thing, the most expressive thin gis the human face, but that, face is veiled with the griefs of a thousand years, but in the"resurrection morn that veil will be taken away from the face, and the noonday sun is dull and dim and stupid compared with the outflaming glories of the countenances of the saved. When those laces of the righteous, those resur rected faces, turn toward the gate or look up toward the throne, it will be like the dawning of a new morning on the bosom of everlasting day. O. glorious, resurrected body! But I remark also, in regard to that body which you are to get in _the resurrection, it will be an -immortal body. These bodies are wasting away. Somebody has said as soon as we begin to live w T e begin to die. Unless we keep putting the fuel into the furnace the f urnace dies out. The blood vessels are canals taking the breadstuffs to all parts of the system. We must be reconstructed hour by hour, day by day. Sickness and death are all the time trying to get their prey under the tenement, or to push us off the embankment of the grave. But, blessed be God, in the resurrection we will get a body immortal. I will go further and say, in regard to that body which you are to get in the resurrection it will be a powerful body. We walk fatigued; we lift a few hundred pounds, and we are exhausted; unarmed we meet a wild beast, and we must run or fly or. Climb or dodge because we are incompetent to meet it; we toil eight or ten hours vigorously, and then we are weary, but in the resurrection We are to have a body that never gets tired. Is it not a glorious thought? Sometimes in this world we feel we would like to have such a body as that. There is so much work to be done for Christ, there are so many tears to be wiped away, there are so many burdens to lift, there is so much to be achieved folr Christ, we sometimes wish that from January first to tfle last of December we could toil on without stopping to sleep, or take any recreation, or to rest.' or even to take food—that we could toil right on without stopping a moment in our work of commend ing Christ and heaven to all ppoplc. But we all get tired. It is characteristic of the human body in this condition; we must, get tired. Is it not a glorious thought that after awhile we are going to have a body that will never get weary? Oh, glorious resurrection day! Gladly will I fling aside this : poor body of sip and fling it into the , tomb if at thy bidding Idffiall have a body that never wearies.

A CHICAGO “SHAKE-OUT."

An Attempted WHeat Comer Results, in a Panic. Price Falls to "3 3-B—Sensational Scene in (lie Pits. Not sir.m the famous Kershaw deal, the coKp.fiFf* rrf which drove a seoreof firms into bankruptcy, lias thcro been such a . sensational seed'd on: the Chicago Board of Trade a« loots" place Wednesday. The pi ice of wheat i'ur May delivery broke V : ,o. causing craze of excitement in the nit. The vtatters,” if not the principals, in perhaps the biggest corner ever att- mpt.’d in Chicago were cruelly dumped, and the outcome of the affair will perhaps affect for sonic time to come the course oi tlio grain market* the world over-. The suddenness : of the. break was the most alarming feature. Wheat opened at about *>lcJn the morning, when the market fell off, but reacted and s»emedstrong. It advanced steadily after the opening to Ki%c, when some big shorts concluded to cover a portion of their loss. At the high prices of the day, Cudahy, who is regarded byrnany as the king of the bull clique, dotted out 1 JAP,OOO bushels to Orr. another million to Phillips and about 2.000.0 X) to Uardridge. giving it to the hungry shorts in lots of 100.000 to 200.000 bushels. The offerings came so rapidlymnd in such unusual quantity that with the big shorts out of the way the market fell like lead. Five minutes later the pit swarmed with clique lackers. Twenty million bushels were offered at once. The market broke in two minutes, from to 75%e, and at file bottom there was an outpouring of lung wheat. slop loss orders at 80c were executed at 70c. Instantly the clique brokers changed front, and in a few minutes the clique had bought back all the wheat it sold to break the market, and added many millions more to it-, holdings. The “shake-out,” if such it may be regarded, was. one of the best executed plays of tho kind seen since tire days when Armour was active as a wheat manipulator. May wheat dosed at 75%e.

KEY NOTES FROM OHIO.

Letter From Senator Sherman—Brief Speech by Gov. McKinley. Representotivo Republicans from various sections of Ohio, met at Can ton,Wednesday night, the occasion being a banquet given by the Republican Club of that city. A large number of Ohio’s distinguished sons were present, among them Sow McKinley. Letters of regret were read from -ex-President Harrison and others. Senator Sherman, who found It Impossible to bo present, sent a lengthy letter, of which the following is an extract: “The currency question I regard as more important than a mere change of administration or who should hold public iffices. It is proposed that tho government of the United “tates should coin all the silver that may be presented, for the benefit of the owner of the bullion, giving tiim a dollar, either in gold or in the note of the United States. The inevitable effect of this policy would be to adopt onlyone standard, thus reducing the purchasing power of the dollar one third, for the benefit of the producers of silver. and at the .-xpense of tho. people of the United States. Ihe pensions of our soldiers, the va.uo of she savings deposits of our people, and ill existing contracts wpuld be reduced one third in value. Cold would be demonetized, exported and hoarded," and the oasis of our entire financial system and all values would be measured by money of :css purchasing power than now, and on i footing with the, linancial systems, of Jiiina, Japan and the, South American states:, and we would bo-separated from ihe standards of universal use in the great oommercia] countries of the world. This a cmid be a dangermu an<j destructive revolution in our whole currency system, af'ccting tho purchasing power of allform? >f money and changing all the diners ilied ivutraeis, now existing. I hope that this delusion lias passed away, and ,hat sense of our country will Ijscard it and stand by the financial sys-icm-which has made our country rich and jowerful. Our National debt will soon be extinguished and our currency may be inirfased with safety with the growth of population, and .on the lines now ostabisned by law. Thapcople may for a time 3c misled by plausible fallacies, but in tha >i)d their better judgment is sure to arrive it correct conclusions. The policy of tint Republican party has reen to diversify our industries by wise protective laws, to strengthen our Nationil credit by laws maintaining honest obligations and to furnish currency always at par. as Cheerfully taken in whatever form t may be. in every market of the world, is the (fold coin issued from the in intg. Whatever way we may view the past, we ;an boast .that our party has always been 1 faithful to the integrity and union of ourjountry. to the honor of tho public faith whenever pledged, and to good money for ill classes and conditions of men. The real remedy of the silver problem is to put Into onr silver dollar enough silver at market value to be equal to a gold dollar, and to maintain all forms of money, whether roin or notes, of equal or interchangeable value. After the reading of the letter, which was received with great applause, Governor McKinley responded to the toast, ■‘The Republican Presidents.” The Governor reviewed the life of Lincoln and paid i glowing tribute to Harrison. In Conclusion he said: The history of the Republican Presidents is the history of the party for more than, thirty years. ,The Presidents, however, lid not create the party; it created them. They did not create the cause for which the Republican party had contended. That cause was created in the consciencesof the people of the North, and it has been triumphantly sustained and vindicated by therepeated verdict of the American people and the deliberate judgment of mankind. The cause is just as great, as good and triumphant as it ever was in the past The country needs the Republican party, for its principles, and purposes, and policies underlie every American interest, and are allied with its true growth and advanccment. , We have now reached in the national pathway the place where the ways turn. Since 1859 to the 4tli of March, this year the Democratic party has been without power to do anything with public measures without the sanction of the Republican party. In all these years until now they have never had at the same time the legislative and executive branches of the government. They have both now. They are in full and undisputed possession. They have no divided responsibility. There is no longer any excuse for pretense: no longer anvToom for hypocrisy. If they believe in themselves and their professions of thirty years they can now mako them effective. What they will do Ido not know. I can not know, for they do not know themselves. There is no cause for diseourgement on our part. We have but to move on with our old-time vigor, yielding nothing of principle. As Mr. Lincoln said, Nov, 19,1858: - “This fight must go on. The cause must not surrender at the end of one, or even a hundred defeats.” A number of other toasts were responded "to by various speakers. The sentiment of ■the meeting favored the nomination ol McKinley ai the Republican standard bearer In 1890.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. TfirfStato flower of Washington if ffec rhododendron., Arf eight-yfar-okl pianist in Berlin has taken in $6,000 in ten days. A resident of Empire, Nev. r carries a watch six hundred years old. Washington news Boys are forbidden by law to sell? any paper except on the date of jts issue. An old lady- in -Beverly, Me., is said to have slept in the same corded bed every night for ninety years. Peary saw flowers, butterflies and babbling brooks under an Italian sky away beyond Greenland’s icy mountains. To be up with the times you must not call it “foul air” any more. The new medical name is “crowd poison.” J- W. Felkner, of Palatka, Fla., Is the owner of an English coin winch he ""claims bears the date of the year 1124. A man has surrendered himself to the police at Kearney, Neb., stating that he stole a horse at. Elgin, 111., some years ago. The waters of the Atlantic ocean are a sort of whirlpool on a gigantic scale, the central point of which is a short distance to the southwest of the Azores.

Owosso, Mich., has the champion thief. He stole a pair of trousers, and, finding they didn’t fit, brought them back with the request that they be exchanged. A stowaway from central Africa in the shape of a “banana rat,” a strange little tropica) animal, was found in a bunch of bananas in Chicago, the other day. The American Line Steamer New Yoi’k, when running at full speed, burns enough coal in a single day to last a family using ten tons a winter for thirty-three years. A well-known resident of Fredericksburg, Va., who has recently died, had a name that was odd enough to attract attention. Jt was X. X. Chartters. A boy, who lives on Indian River Florida, has taught a large alligator, it is claimed, to swim the river while he rides upon its back, just as though the ’gator was a horse. A Howard, county, Mo., cow refused to own her calf until a big dog was brought into the inclesure, when she flew to its relief, and mother and child have since been reconciled. A curious animal caught on the African coast in 1854 was called the “talking tisli,” though it was really a species of seal. Among other innumerable tricks it was taught to articulate the words “mamma,” “papa” and “John.” The caves of Burmah are rich in wooden carvings, glazed tiles and images, as well as tablets in terra cotta, marble, alabaster and other materials. These relics illustrate the ancient and modern phases of

Gudilins t worship. Qur boldest bridge jumpers were outdone by a Sam Patch of the middle ages, the Austrian Knight Harras, who survived a leap from the top of a cliff to the valley of the •Kohoppan river, a vertical distance of four hundred feet. The honesty of a granger in Idaho is suspected. As proof against him ~ the local paper publishes a statement that on* the day before Thanksgiving every turkey which this man sold at 25 cents a pound had about two pounds of wheat in its craw. Four hundred pianos piled up in the, form of a pyramid and connected together by an electrical control ing device so as to admit of being played simultaneously by one person is being mentioned as ah tion” for the World’s Fair. There are no native kangaroos except on the continent of Australia. That country contains about 11,000,000 of them. Over a million skins a year are shipped to the United States for use in bootmaking. Each skin will make four pairs of ordinary sized shoes. The smallest holes pierced by modern machinery are one-thousandth of an inch in diameter. This drilling apparatus, which was the invention of one John Wennstrom, is designed to make 22,000 revolutions per minute and is used in boring sapphires, rubies, diamonds, and other gems. Saloon! abound in tropical luxuriance in Havana. They are open to the .street and never close their doors. The shelves behind the bars contain a wonderful range of liquors. Everybody drinks and nobody gets Ctruhk. That is, no Havatiese do. “Drunken Americans” is a local ohrase. The States o f Virginia and Tennessee have for years been engaged in a legal controversy over the town of Bristol. The State line has been supposed to run along the main street of the town. There are two City Councils, two mayors and two sets of police. A settlement of the dispute appears to be as far off as ever. Two strange accidents befell Jefferson Miller, of Jefferson, Ind. While feeding a threshing machine in a barn in 1872. a rat ran across the floor. Becom i rig more interested in the rat than in the machine, he turned his eyes on the animal, and his left hand was pulled off by the machine. Fifteen years later, while engaged at the same machine, in the same barn, a rat ran between his feet. He kicked at it, stumbled, fell against the machine, and his remaining hand was ground to a pulp.