Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1893 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. Gsore E. Marshall, Editor, RENSSELAER - INDIANA

People who are determined to find fault can always find something to kick about, “Seats” in the New York StockExchange come high, but men will have them. The “par value” of the holdings in that body is placed at ♦20,000, and no sale has been made at less than that for many years. There a great many people in this part of the country who would have to stand up a long time before they could pay 120,000 for a “seat,” and the majority of our readers would hardly care to invest 120,000, were they so fortunate as to possess such a sum, in a “seat” in that maelstrom of the financial sea. T “Owing to the stringency of the money market” two belligerent citizens of Goshen failed to come to blows. One of the parties to the controversey stated that, although he hungered for gore, he really could not raise the money to pay the fine that he knew would be imposed upon him in case he began hostilities, so he dared “the other fellow” to “jump his frame” so that he could fight in self-defense. “The other fellow” felt that way himself, so the fight was declared ‘‘off” until the purse-strings of the world shall be relaxed.

This is an “off” year in politics. Ohio. lowa and Massachusetts elect governors. In Ohio, Gov. McKinley has been re-nominated. Gov. McKinley was elected two years ago by a plurality of 21,000 in a total vote of 81*T,000. In lowa, Gov. Boies, Democrat, has been re-nomi-He carried the State four years ago over Wheeler, Republican, by a plurality of 8,216. In 1892 the Republicans elected their State ticket by 22,000 plurality. In Massachusets two years ago Russell •was elected by the Democrats, by a plurality of 2,534. These three commonwealths casting over 1,600,000 votes will be the principal battlefields this year, and the result of their elections will be awaited with interest.

The strange decrees o: Fate have in all ages attracted the wonder of mankind. Why two babes lying side by side in a cradle, with apparently equal advantages and equal chances for success in life should live through totally different careers—and die at last, oner weal th v. honored and respected, the other an outcast, poor, miserable, depraved and shunned by all the world, presents a problem that philosophers have never been able to solve. A striking illustration of this very common truth is afforded by two brothers of the Hoosier capital. One is the proprietor of a hotel, and his brother, who had equal chances for success, is his bartender.

People of a statistical turn of mind will be interested with the information that there is a Welsh population of 10,000 in Chicago, and that, there are as many Welshmen in the United States as there are in Wales. The Welsh are generally progressive and are good citizens. The majority of the Welsh in Chicago are identified with some Protestant denomination, the most of these being Presbyterians. There will be 50,000 Welshmen in attendance at the Eisteddfod (whatever that is) to be held at Chicago in September, and the the reporters of that city are already looking around for interpreters. • They have not been able to master the jaw-breaking qualities of the language, and when the Welsh begin to talk of discussing billingualism in the language of Cymry at the coming Eisteddfod, black despair throttles their imagination, and they long for a commission to write up a lake-front riot. Welshmen are very,proud of William Williams, their countryman, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. A Des if oinks man, and his name is Dawson, claims to have discovered the lost art of making Damascus steel. Modern science has long -struggled tvith the problem of producing blades similar to those made try the ancient Asiatic races. By Mr. Dawson’s “process’’ they are now readily made, and it is alleged at half the cost of old methods. The “process” is simple but will not be patented. The new steel is made from common refined wrought iron, fused in a crucible, to which is added certain chemicals, that ate the secret of the discovery. The metal is not rolled, but is poured, or cast, into moulds of sword blades, knife Wadep, or whatever article is desired. Mr. Dawson’s blades can be <J)COt double and will sorincr back to

their original straightness; they will cut a feather pillow or a bar of iron or steel; and yet analysis shows nothing but wrought iron. A vast amount of adverse criticism and sneering censnre has been indulged in with reference to Indiana's State Building at Jackson Park. The Legislature has been roundly abused and the building itself condemned in unmeasured terms as being totally unfit as a representation of the wealth and enterprise of the great Hoosier State. Afc arnatter of fact the building is typical of Indiana in its homelike attractions and lack of ostentation, as well as for the fact that the commissioners having it in charge have administered their trust in a manner worthy of all praise, in that the building has been erected and all expenses paid, while the appropriation will not be exhausted. While the building and Indiana’s exhibit at the Fair are not up to the standard of some other States, yet no citizen of the Hoosier commonwealth need blush for his State because of a supposed failure on the part of those in authority to make a proper use of their opportunities. Indiana’s building is “all right,” and is a daily haven of rest for thousands of weary pilgrims who seek its sheltering walls with grateful hearts to those who have provided a place so “home like” for their benefit.

Indiana, has many laws that are ignored and are practically a dead letter. Notably the statutes forbidding prize fighting and for the protection of wild game. Pugilists can batter each other with impunity without endangering the perpetuity of the human race. The harm they do is confined largely to their own persons and to the morals of spectators, with probably a reflex action upon the community at large that is the reverse of beneficial- But transgressors of our game laws are not only offenders against the code of our day and despoilers of the present generation, but their acts, if unchecked, will rob posterity of a heritage to which it is entitled, and one which no human power can, or is likely to endeavor to restore to it. Illegal shipping of game is constantly carried on from various points in the Kankakee district, and it is slated on good authority that a market hunter at Ivouts, Porter county, has a cold storage warehouse, shoots all the game he can in his vicinity as soon as it is large enough to sell, and has constantly on hand a supply of almost all kinds of small game. It is known that he shipped eight barrels of prairie chickens in one week to Chicago last, year out of season. Our hunters who delight in sport owe it to themselves and to posterity to organize a Game Protective Association that will deal firmly and harshly with all such offenders, before it is too late. The Kankakee region is likely to remain a natural hunting ground, probably for all time, and it is the common right of ail citizens to enjoy its treasures. No one should be permitted to monopolize them in defiance of law.

The man who is “too poor to take the papers” continues to bite at hooks without bait, and is taken in by the boldest and most transparent schemes for catching gudgeons. With the rapid spread of intelligence and the vast number of hapless victims of the past who have contributed their dollars to the exchequer of the most unconscionable scoundrels. and their dearly bought experience as a free will offering to the sura of human knowledge, it does seem the strangest "of all strange things in this world of unexpected happenings, that people—honest and industrious citizens —will continue to follow in the verdant footsteps of their unfledged predecessors, whose memory is ever “green” iu almost every community in the land. The country press from time to time has brought us details of the most laughable success of sundry fakirs who have successfully “worked” the rurai population by means of beuevolent schemes wherein they propose giving to every purchaser of a twentyfive cent watch chain or bottle of liniment, sums ranging from a silver dollar to a S2O gold piece,leaving their victims loaded down with bogus jewelry and bottles of sweetened water. But the most successful swindler of this class recently is one Dunbar, of Washington City, who has been catering to the vanity and absorbing SIG each from a number of Hoosier Knights Templar and politicians of prominence, promising that he would publish sketches and portraits of his victims in a book about to be issued. Washington • dispatches of August 29th state that Dunbar has at last come to grief on a charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes, and has given a bond of 12,000 to appear in court in. October to answer to the same. ~

A PAN HANDLE WRECK.

Appalling Calamity Near Colehour, Illinois. ; Tb* Accident Dae to n Train'Dispatcher’! Error—Twelve Killed Outright, An accident, which cannot be termed excusable even by railway officials, occurred near Colehour, 111., fourteen miles from Chicago, Thursday. The Louisyille express on the Pan Handle left Chicago, Thursday morning, in charge ot Conductor Earley. At Colehour it stopped for orders, and in accordance with those received started on over the single track. Train Dispatcher C. E. Kennedy at Colehour had before its arrival received the following dispatch from the train dispatcher’s office at Ft. Wayne: ‘No. ICO will wait at Colehour until eight-.forty-five (8:45) a. m. for No. 49 ahead of time. C. D. L.” There was no order for train No. 12 and Kennedy made no effort to stop it. In the meantime the Valparaiso accommodation carrying milk and chickens, with a limited number of passengers, was approaching from the south at high speed, considerably ahead of time, the crew trying to pass Colehour to avoid keeping train No. 160 waiting too long. The track west from Colehour describes a curve and is lost sight of behind a clump of trees. The express had reached a point about 100 yards from the curve.when suddenly from behind the trees there burst in view the accommation train. Not two hundred yards separated them when the crew of each engine sighted the other train, and as quickly as possible the levers of both engines were reversed and the air brakes applied. The efforts of the men did not seem for an instant to check the terrible speed and the crew of each engine jumped to save themselves, and an instant later the locomotives struck with a crash. The engine of the accommodation being of lighter construction than the other, crumbled away like paper and fell into the ditch. The tender was forced back and under the first baggage car. The heavy express engine stood pn the track, but the baggage car was forced up and through the smoking car. Then as the propelling force ceased, the heavy baggage car crashed through the roof of the smoker. Twelve persons were killed and at least twice as many seriously injured. The scene of the accident is in a thinly settled section and it was fully an hour before aid arrived from South Chicago. The dead and wounded were pinned in the wreck and the scene was horrible and agonizing in the extreme. The crews of both engines were arrested and will bo held until after the coroner's inquest.

“DEAD SHOT” SIMPSON

Brings Down Two Bold Bad Bandits, YFho Hatl Killed a Colorado Cashier and ltobbed the Hank of Della. The bank of Dalta, Colorado, opened for business as usual at 10:30, Thursday. Three mounted men rode up to the door and entering, quickly rushed up to A. S. Biachly, cashier, presented guns and demanded what money he had. The cashier refused to give it up. The robbers then made a grab through the window securing *SOO and opened tire, the cashier bclng instantly killed.. The robbers then fired at 11. H. Wolbert, assistant cashier, but missed him. The shooting attracted the attention of the citizens and Ray Simpson, a leading hardware merchant and a “dead shot, 1 ’ ran for his Winchester and started for the alley in the rear of the bank, where the "obbers had tied their horses. The robbers had started out of town when Mr. Simpson got there, but he succeeded in killing two of them hv shootthern through the head. A third shot killed one of the robber’s horses, and together man and animal fell to the ground. After killing two of the robbers Mr. Simpson continued after th third one, taking several shots at him, but without effect. Mr. Simpson then retur.iei to town and getting together a posse started at once in pursuit. Four hundred dollars were recovered from the bodies of the dead robbers. They were unknown and cannot be identified. They are both young, one being strikingly handsome. Mr. Biachly. the dead cashier. was an old resident, and leaves a wife and a large family of small children, the oldest being but fifteen years of age. Delta is the eounty seat of Delta county and has a population of BrtX

DEATH OF HAMILTON FISH.

Grant'* Secretary of State Passed Away at an Advanced Age. Ex-Secretary of State Hamilton Fish died at Garrison, N. Y., Thursday. Mr. Fish was born in 1808, and had a long and distinguished public caroer. Ho was first elected to Congress In 1841. In 181 Ghe was

HAMILTON FISH.

the Whig candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York, but was defeated. In 1847, Lieutenant Governor Gardiner having resigned, Mr. Fteh was again placed In nomination and elected by 30,000 majority. Subsequently he was elected Governor, and in 1851 United States'" Senator, In 1869 ho succeeded E. B. Washbumo as Secretary of State In Grant’s Cabinet, and through his instrumentality many important diplomatic questions were settled. Since his retirement from the State Department Mr. Fish has taken no part in public affairs. He was a man of great wealth. A’ey clone's truck'the town" of Lock port, La., Thursday, and left it a mass of ruins. Six persons were killed and a large number injured.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Columbus and Frankfort are short of sugar. Grasshoppers are raiding the cornfields near Zclma. Fires are damaging farms and forests near Houston. Joseph Eisel was kicked to death bv t horse at Elston. Lonisville parties are leasing coal land* in Pike county. 0 Five deaths from diphtheria have occurred in West Marion. 'Harrison Downey, near New Salem. lost :t3AEO by the burning of his barn. The prize fight between Conley and Sullivan failed to come off at Hartford City. 6Posey county lias been blessed with copious rains and the corn crop will be large. Grant Freeman, colored, arrested in Muncie, Thursday, charged with stealing a stack of hay,——_ Frank Harper was found guilty of arson at Laporte and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. 6Two cornstalKS are on exhibition at Columbus that measure fourteen feet six inches in length. Miss Maria Thompson, of Noblesville, was frightfully burned by her clothing catching fire whileshe was burning trash, Railroad officials estimate that all the roads centering at Indianapolis lafided 204,377 passengers in that city during encampment week. i Farmer Jacob Pressy, near Petersburg, while fighting in a meadow fire,Thursday, fell from exhaustion and his body was burned to a crisp. Charles Lambert, engineer, was killed and Albert Pike seriously injured by a boiler explosion while hulling clover near Union City, Thursday. Recently some unknown and unhnng scoundrel burned the school house at Alford, a small town one mile east of Petersburg. Coal oil was used. A “head-on” collision occurred on the Big Four near Batesville, Tuesday morning, between a freight and passenger train. An unknown tramp was found under the cars dead. Several persons were painfully hurt. The Boone County Teachers’ Institute passed resolutions in line with those adopted by other counties, calling for an investigation of the affairs of the State Normal School and the appointment of educators on the board. 6 Gotlieb Hassert,a German saloon-keeper of Indianapolis, was murderously assaulted in his place of business, Thursday night, by burglars. His wounds are serious but not fatal. But SSO was secured by the thieves, who escaped. Leases on over 41,524 acres of gas land are reported to have been secured in Grant county by outside companies. Of the total amount the Chicago Natural Gas Company holds fully one-third. Peru. Huntington and Hartford City are also well represented. Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Joseph M. Tilman, of Evansville, kitchen utensil; Albert W. Meyer, Terre Haute, water cooler; Dobbins & McKenney, Indianapolis pneumatic tiro; Conrad Schifferly, Fort Wayne, balce pan; Eli Keith, Hagerstown, washtub.

At Terre Haute, Tuesday, Judge Briggs, on complaint of the Sullivan county bank, placed G. S. Grammer in charge of the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad as receiver. The floating debt is said to be f SCO ODD, and J: D. Mackey is charged with hating declared large dividends on entered stock, to meet which money had to be borrowed. Brazil is agitated over the competition for the construction of the new gravel roads. Bennet, Morrissey & Murphy, of Paris, 111., bid the lowest on the gravel work, less than *2,009 per mile, 20 percent, below the estimate. Bynum, Bronton & Co., of Lebanon, Ind., hid lowest on macadamized work, 53,501 per mile, a small per cent, under the estimate. Wilson Sageser and wife, of Clinton township, Cass county, attended the labor day celebration at Logansport, leaving at home their four children, the oldest fourteen years of age and the youngest five. When they returned home in the evening they found them all stretched out on the floor dead. There was evidence that they had got hold of and eaten some “Rough on Rats.” OWm. Poor, of Newport, seventy-three years old, is dead under peculiar circumstances. Ho was drawing *l2 per month under the new law for double two weeks ago he received notice of sus - pension, with orders to report at Williamsport for re-examination on the following Wednesday. Suspension of his pension was the chief cause of death, for lie worried over it until he became insane, and he died in delirium.: Harry Cragin, aged twenty-eight, and Barney Riley, aged seventeen,were among two thousand Lafayette Labor Day excursionists to Logansport, Monday morning, via the Wabash Railway. Tho train was made up of cabooses, and Riley and Cragin with others rode on lop. At Colborn station the spout of a water tank struck and instantly’killed Riley and his body was tossed from the train. Cragin’s skull was fractured by the spout and ho will die, —„—nn . Geo. Cutsinger, of Shelby counry, arrested and fined for profanity, being unable to pay his fine, was, Saturday, being taken to jail at Shelbyville by tho constable. When wlthip throe miles of Shelbyville they were overtaken by Six masked men who dragged Cutsinger from the buggy and gave him one hundred lashes with whips, till he was nearly dead. The constablo was ordered to leave. Cutsinger was ordered to leave tho county, but was unable to do so, and on Sunday was lodged in the Shelbyville jail.

What Alls the Pear.

JC. W. Kcld says: “A pear tree which blooms, but bears no fruit, is making too much root growth, and recommends digging a trench eighteen inches deep below the circumference <>! the drat limbs, tilling it half full Of compost manure, and returning the soil on top of it. This will check root growth nnd start the tree in benrlna.” Astronomy is one ot the exact sciences. When Sir. J. llerschel was defending tbe Character of astronomical.science in view of an error ot nearly 4 million mi'os fa estimating tho sun’s distance, the correo lion was shown to apply to an error observation so small as to be equivalent to the apparent breadth ot a h inun hail at a distance of 135 loot.

ROBY RECEIVERSHIP.

The Sporting Resort in Hard lines, The State Militia and the Circuit Court ... Too Mach for PagUUm. Saturday afternoon, the State by McMahon. prosecuting attorney, filed in the Lake circuit court, complaint against the Roby Athletic Club to ■enjoin it from giving exhibitions in the nature of prizefights,and fqr the appointment of a receiver for its property.—The judge-ap-pointed Benjamin Hayes,a deputy sheriff, -receiver, sheriff was directed to put the receiver in immediate The judge called the special of the grand jury to the Roby prize-fights. It is charged that the act >of ’93, authorized associations for athletic exhibitions and physical contests of scfence and skill, but did not permit prize-fighting. Seven hundred officers and men of th Indiana National Guards, fortified with swords, bayonets, rifles, a Gatling gun and litT 27,000 rounds of ammunition, bivouacked at Robey, Monday night outside the arena of the Athletic Club. The finish lights which had been announced to take place between young Griffo, champion feather-weight of and Kid Lavigne, of Bay City, Mich., for a purseof $9,500, and Jimmy Barry, of Chicago, and Johnny Conners, of Springfield, 111., for a purse of SSOO, were called off beo re the military demonstration was made at the club house. Benjamin Hays, of Crown Point, Ind., who was appointed receiver for the club, served an order on Charles Fredericks, sheriff of Lake county that he should allow no more prize-fights at the clubhouse. The sheriff went to the clubhouse at 6 o'clock and gave notice to the men in charge, leaving a dozen deputies to see that the orders were respected. Domerick O’Malley, president of the club, and the men who intended to fight, threw up the sponge after 4 o’clock and, therefore, no special trains were run from Chicago. Gov. Matthews was seen by a Journal reporter at Indianapolis, Monday night, und asked as to the disposition of the troops. He said: "The troop 9 will remain there as long as there is any indication of the Athletic club attempting toearry hut a programme. They will remain a few days, at least, to await further developments. The clubhouse will continue in the hands of the receiver, and he will have the troops at his back if another tight is attempted. It is my opinion that the fight has been postponed indefinitely. I believe the organization has about concluded to give them up. I wish an attempt had been made last night to carry out the programme. If it had been a largo number of arrests would have been made. The authorities had been instructed to seize all the principals, hackers, and as many visitors as possible, and I am sure they would have succeeded.”

THE MARKETS.

Sept, 9 1893 Indianapolis. GRAIN AXD HAT, Wheat—No. 2 red, 58c; No. 3 red, 53; rejected, 40@50; wagon wheat, 57. Coen —No. 1 white, 40c; No. 2 white. No. 4 white, 30c;No. 2 white mixed, 39j4c; No. 3 white mixed, 3834 c; No. 4 white mixed,3oc; No. 2 yellow, 30Jnc; No. 3 yellow, 39c; No. 4 yellow. 30c; No. 2 mixed, 39c; No. 3 mixed, 39c; No. 4 mixed, 30c; sound ear, 45c for yellow. Oats—No. 2 white, 27)4c; No. 3 white, 24&c; No. 2 mixed, 24)4c; No. 3 mixed, 22c; rejected, 18@22c. Rye, 40c. If ay—Choice timothy, *12.00; No. 1. *13.50; No. 2, *10; No. 1 prairie, *7; mixed, *8: clover, *9. Bean, *ll. LIVE STOCK. Cattle—Export grades $ 4.25@4,75 Good to choice shippers [email protected](l Fair to medium shippers 3.20M3.00 Common shippers [email protected] Stockers, 500 to 800 [email protected] Good to choice heifers [email protected] Fair to medium heifers [email protected] • Common to thin heifers [email protected] Good to choice cows [email protected] Fair to medium cows [email protected] Common old cows... .... [email protected] Veals, common to good. [email protected]"> Bulls, common to fair [email protected] Bulls, good to choice. [email protected] Milkers, good to choice...—. 27.00@35.(>0 Milkers, common, to fair 15 [email protected] Hogs—Heavy packing and shipping .....*[email protected] Mixed [email protected] Heavy [email protected] Pigs [email protected] Heavy roughs 3.50@4;40 Sheep—Good to choice [email protected] Fair to medium.. [email protected] Common thin sheep—[email protected] Lambs - 3.75@4 2r> Bucks, per head - 2.00@4.(X) POULTRY kn D OTHER PRODUCE. [Price* Paid by Dealers.] POuLiRY-Hens,Bc lb; young chickens, 8c stt>; turkeys, young toms, 7c $ lb; hens, 8c »; ducks, 6c V lb; geese, *4@ 4.20 for choice. . , , Eggs—Shippers paying 10c. Butter—Grass butter, 14@15c; Honey—lß@2oc. Feathers Prime Geese, 40c V B>! mixed duck, 20c UMb. IlE^swax—2oc for yellow; l?>c for dark. WobL —Fine merino, 16c; medium unwashed, 17c; coarsoor • braid wool, 14@ldc; tub-washed, 18@23C. Detroit. Wheat, 61c,Corn, No. 2,43 c. Oats, No. 2 white; 30c. Mlnneapolla. Wheat, 5934 c.

Wheat, No. 2 red, Com, No. 2, 47Wc. Oats, 30c. Lard, *9.00. Butter, Western dairy, 15@18c; creamery, 17@ 25c. Chicago, r. Wheat, 62c. Corn, Oats, 23Vc, Pork, 112.40. Lard, *3.20. Short-rlb9. *7.75. Cattle—Prime Steers, *[email protected]: others *[email protected]. Hogs—Heavy mixed and packers, *[email protected]; primo heavy, *[email protected]; prime light, *[email protected]; other lights, *[email protected]. Sheep —Natives, *2.20 @4.00; lambs, *[email protected]. ai CtnclnaatL Wheat, jNo. 2 red, 60c; Corn. No. 2 mixed, 42e; Oats, No. 2 white western', 28c; Rye, No. 2. 49Kc; Mess Pork, *14.00; Lard, $3.12; Bulk Meats, *8.50; Bacon, §9.75. Butter, creamery fancy, 22c; Eggs, 10c Cattle, *2.50@*5.25. HogS,«6.2s@*o.Uft Sheep, *2.50@*4.75. Lambs, *[email protected]. St. LouU. Wheat. No. 3 red, 5814 c: Corn, No. 2 mixed, 3-1)4; Oats, No - 2,23)4c; Butter, 20c. lluflhlo. Cattle, *[email protected]. Hogs, heavy, *[email protected]; mixed, *o.lo® *0.20; light, *7.00@*7.10. _ Sheep, native, *4.60@*5.00; Texas, *3.35@ *4.75. PhUsdelphls. Wheat, No. 2 Rod, 65)4c; Corn. No. 2 Mixed, 49)fc; Oats, 32c; butter, creamery, 21c; eggs, 15c.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

The French Army prefers Irisl torses for its I'.aval:*3 A base-ball player in lndepend enee, Kansas, can throw a ball 29( feet. Hie room in which the great Na poleon died is now occupied as * stable. TJie National capitol and th( grounds represent a cash outlay o: almost $20,000,000. The otter excels every animal ir swimming. Its speed is superior to that of many fishes. Newfoundland js without reptiles. No snake, frog, toad, or lizard has ever been seen there.

There are just forty inhabitants in the little French hamlet of Anmone. and twenty-four of them are ovei eighty years of age. The bite of a rat caused fata' blood-peisoning to the two-year-old child of August Sehlechter. in Louisville, Ky, There are over three hundred mountain peaks within the limits ol the United States that exceed ten thousand feet in hight. The smallest tree in the world is the Greenland birch. Its height is less than three inches, yet it covers a radius of two or three feet. An industrious little colored boy in Atlanta, Ga., aged seven years, was lately induced to 6et fire to a house for a reward of five cents.

A device for stopping a trolley car, which is running at full speed, within the space of three feet, has been invented by a man in Rochester. A New York man who is tired of uncomfortable summer resorts, is putting in ten days’ vacation riding around on New York and suburban street railway lines. It is the boast of Col. James Clay, as Bourbon county, Kentucky, that he owns a larger tract of blue-grass land than any other man in the world. He is assessed in his own name for 4,295 acres. The whale moves through the water with a valocity which, if continued at the same rate, would enible him to encircle the whole earth in less than fourteen days. All the school-teachers in Canton, Mass., twenty-six in number, have been invited by Augustus Hemenway, of that town, to visit the World's Fair, at his expense. An application of bruised bean leaves gives almost instant relief from the effects of ivy poison A Jecoction of dried bean leaves is also a remedy for the same trouble. Silken fabrics should never be kept folded in white paper. The chloride of lime which is used to bleach the paper causes a chemical change in the silk, and injures the color. The'American mosquito has crossed the Atlantic, is entertaining itself to its heart’s content on the blue blood of England, and is getting in its fine work most effectively. A carpet which had been used for seven years on the floor of the coin-' iug-room in the San Francisco Mint was recently burnt to ashes, and the residue yielded $5,500 worth of gold. A “combination verdict,” which included a variety of ills, was rendered by a jury in Memphis. They gravely decided that the deceased “came to his death by a blow or fall which produced inflammation of the brain, causing erysipelas, which was was aggravated by alcoholism and and morphine poison."’ Quanah Parker, the old chief of the Comanches, brought his newest squaw into Vernon, Tex., the other day to have her photograph taken. This redoubtable redskin has become highly civilized, though in a Mormon way, since he buried the tomahawk. He has seven wives, lives in a fine house, drives a horse and carriage, and eats the best food the market provides. He is a tall and bony but not unhandsome man.

A stupid office-boy in Bangor was directed to take to the stable a livery team which his employer had just used. He brought the team to tho wrong stable, where it remained for a week. The owner of the stable has sent in a bill ' for the board of * the horses and the owner of the horse? wants pay, for the use of the team for a week. An unmarried woman possessed of considerable Wealth, who died last week in a town in Pennsylvania,was buried in a grave that was dug nineteen years ago. Her father was buried in it originally, and after two years his body was exhumed and placed in a vault. It was a principle of the family never to spend inonev uselessly, and the daughter, realizing that she Would need a grave sometime, decided that filling up the grave would be a waste of money, apd ordered that it be kept open for her. When the not-too-long-delayed day camo (she was then eighty-one years of age), the grave was found to be a half dozen inches too short. It was lengthened and the interment was made. In the Horticultural Building at Chicago there is a solid silver filigree model of that structure which cost 135,000, or about one-seventh of the cost of the larger building itself. It weighs 110 pounds, is eleven feet long, three feet, nine inches in bight. To build it required the services of twelve men, working eighteen hours a day, thirteen months. The work was done by the Mexicans, who are the most adept in the filigree art." The progeny of a pair of rabbits, in ten years, will number 70.000,000.