Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1894 — Page 2

— . zr THE REPUBLICAN. Gxgrk E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

”Xn3 these are the days of the rears of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred three score and fifteen years.” _ j Solomon is trying to break into Congress, having received the Populist nomination at Leavenworth. Kbs., June r. by acclamation. If ever the wisdom of Solomon was needed it any place in this hemisphere it is it the National Capitol. It is not stated that this modern Solomon has inherited any of the mental qualities if his ancient namesake, but for the 2food of the country it might well be hoped that if he has he might be elected. , The alleged.' portraits of the laftr President Carnot of France, pub fished in the press of the United States, were somewhat unsuccessful m conveying any adequate idea of the personal appearance of t hat distinguished statesman. About the inly feature upon which all agreed, was the full beard and mustache. We think it may be stated with some legree of assurance that the late President of France wore whiskers. The Lexow committee succumbed to the heat at New York, .lune 30. ind adjourned to Sep. 10. A feature if the last day’s session was the testimony of a Greek push-cart peddler who swore that he had paid the police for the privilege of keeping his cart at a stand-still and four old junk dealers in the wharf districts who testified that they had for years paid 15 each for an unlawful license to hang out banner signs. That police drag net appears to have been vast and of an extremely line mesh, to catch great fish and little suckers as well. _____________ Miss Mary H. Kroit, the known. Crawfordsville literateur. is now traveling in New Zealand and writing some very readable letters to the Chicago Inter-Ocean. People have heard of Chicago and the World's Fair on "the other side” of tins mundane sphere, and are very much interested in the United States. The "single tax" system of revenue prevails in that country and a tax is levied on all incomes exceeding.“2(lo per annum. All chatteh are exempt, as the leading men who control the States's revenues believe that to tax them would be to place a tax upon thrift.

Ex-Mayor A. Oakey Hall, of New York, last week, at the age of seventy, began the world again as a practicing jawer. He was Mayor of that city when the Tweed ring flourished, and was tried for complicity. He was acquitted. Mr. Hall since his exit from public life has resided for some years in -London. —He is a British subject under the statutes of that country, being the grandson of a Briton born, and was made to pay an income tax, and was also a candidate for Parliament, but was defeated. The old gentleman. however. says he never gave up his allegiance to the United States. Mr. Hall is in good health and spirits and will engage in active business. This year of grace, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, has not “Been as prolific in Messiahs and alleged Christs as were the two preceding years. The only one to date to show up with absurd pretensions of superhuman powers made his debut at Dubuque, lowa, a few days ago. He claims to be inspired with a mission to exterminate the Pope and Catholicism, the Vanderbilts and -cveral -other millionaires, and to erect a Wonderful temple in "Boot Yard Hollow.’' near Dubuque, which he hopes to fill with diamonds and precious stones .contributed by his Converts to his creed are expected to buy from —trim —ar badge for $2. which is certainly quite reasonable for so transparent a fraud and s win die. " The New York Sun “drops into poetry” over the incident which occurred in the United States Senate recently. The day was hot and Senator Call felt “call'ed upon io drop both of his shoes on tlje floor and elevate his feet to the top of his desk —demonstrating the fact that he did not belong to the tribe of “sockless ’ statesmen. All the Senators present are prepared to swear that Senator Call, on that particular day. did wear socks. This is one result of the tariff debate not anticipated, and a waiting country should be profoundly thankful that. Oven this certainty has been evolved from the chaotic scramble which has been enacted day after day in the Senate chamber. Jt is pleasant to have some things settled definitely as we V

—■ II I I ■■■■■ I ' 1 go along, even at the risk of oiTendiug the sensitive olfactories of the great obstructionis is who have me t “ aphorically "held up’ the country for many moons.” ~ j t, 1 The festive confidence man is unusually active in the rural districts spring and continues to get good, solid farmers who are "too poor to take the papers’’ to sign supj posed contracts for agencies of i various, kinds that . .are, la; I them a handsome income on a small investment of time and capital, but which shortly turn up as bankable notes for good round sums, which they are com polled to pay. We make it anoint to report everything of this character, and if our readers will only act on the wisdom that can. easily be gleaned from our columns from time to time in this regard, need never have it said to them that is adearschool. but fools won’t learn in any other.”

The American colonies at the beginning of the Revolution were too I busy to think about a flag or banner of any kind. They had not experienced any difficulty in rallying to the defense of their rights and were contented to fling-the "Declaration” to the world in defiance and were prepared Ao defend those principles to the last. June 14, 1777, however, the American Congress, in session at Philadelphia, resolved "that the flag of the thirteen United States be t h irt-een s tripes , alternate- red and white: that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation,” and "on the admission of any new State into the Union one >tar lie added to the Union flag.” Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress, was then employed tomake the first flag, and as a consequence w ill 1 ive in his tory. a shining example of those who "have greatness thrust upon them.” To-' day the glorious blue field contains forty-four resplendent stars, and other gems are now in view.

The Crow Was Loaded.

Juneau News. Dick Willoughby relates an amusing incident that happened to him at Funter Bay. Dick was driving a tunnel on a ledge hack of his cabin, and was in the habit of leaving a stick of giant powder on a rock in a sunny place at the mouth of the tunnel to thaw < u . On several occasions when he went to get his powder it had Inysteriously disappeared, and he was at a loss to account for it. As it was considerable of annoyance to have to go to the cabin and get more powder and wait for it to thaw. Dick concluded to watch proceedings and wait for the thief. He laid the-stick of powder in its ”usual place, and waited but a short time when he saw a raven sail out of a tree and swoop down upon the explosive. The bird tore at the tough paper cover until it could get at the. powder, and then began greedily to devour it. Giant powder is made up of nitro-glycerine, sawdust, and grease, and a whole stick of it makes a very hearty breakfast for a rave a. Tiie stick had nearly disappeared when Dick thought it time to avenge his loss, and was in the act. of raising his rifle, when the raven gave a defiant cawk and arose in the air with the remainder of the stick of powder grasped in its claws. When up some distance the powder slipped from the bird’s grasp and came tumbling to the ground. Dick saw the powder drop and dodged behind a bowlder, fearing it would explode when it struck the rocks; however, it did not. The raven perched in a tree, and Dick drew a bead and let” driVel Immediately following the report of the gun Dick was not a little startled at receiving quite a shock and hearing a second and louder report, while the air was filled with small bits of ravfen meat and feathers. After the smoke of battle had cleared away, all that Dick could find of that raven was the bill and claws aud a bunch of black feathers, The shock of the bullet passing through the bird’s body had exploded the powder.it had devoured.

The Guernsey Cow.

St. Louis Globe 1 Democrat. ‘■Jersey cows have become quite cqminon in this country.’' remarked -John L. Mason, of-La Crosse, Wis.. at the Lindell yesterday, "but I can remember when they were few and i far between, and those that were , here were imported direct from the "Isle of Jersey. The Guernsey CoW, iin their native land, is estimated j even more* highly than the Jersey. It is larger, and instead of being a delicate fawn color, is reddish and brindled. These cows are milked three times daily, and the milk is churned w’thout skimming: one pound of butter a day is no uncommon thing for a good cow. The cow cabbage grows so large that its leaves are used to wrap the butter in for market. These cows receive the very best of care. The grass they feed on is highly enriched by a species of seaweed gathered from the 'reefs at low tide. When feeding.the cows are always tethered, as they eat less in this" way and give more milk than if glutted with food, When they arc done eating they are at once removed from the sun into the shade. The breed is preserved from intermixture with other breeds by laws which are strictly enforced.’’

PREMIER JOSEPH

His Munificent Kindness to Jacob. Che Egyptian Chancellor Did Not Go Back on His Poor Relations—Dr. Taimage’s Sermon. The Rev. Dr. Talmage, w’ho is now nearing the antipodes on his round-the-world journey, selected as the subject- for. bis sermon through the press last Sunday, "The Rustic in the Palace.” the text being taken from Genesis xlv, 28. "I will go and see him before I die.” Jacob had long since passed the aundred-year milestone In those times people were distinguished for ongevity. In the centuries afterward persons lived to great age. Salen, the most celebrated physician ;>f his time, took so little of his own medicine that he lived to 140 years. X man of undoubted veracity on the witness stand in England swore that ae remembered an event 140 years oefore. Lord Bacon speaks of a ’ountess who had cut three sets of ;eeth and died at 140 years. Joseph ”rele. of Pennsylvania, "“lived 140 /ears.

Among the grand old peopie of whom we have record was Jacob.the shepherd of the text. But he had a iad lot of boys. They were jealous ind ambitious and every wav unprincipled. Joseph, hoivever, seemed 70 be an exception, but he had been /one many years, and the probability was that he was dead. The centenarian is sitting dream ng over the past when he hears a wagon rum bling -to the fron t door. Te gets up and goes to the door to ;ee who has arrived, and his long ibsent sons from Egypt come in and mnounce to him that Joseph, in;tead of being dead, is living- in an Egyptian palaeo, with all the irivestture of prime minister, next to the ring in the mightest empire of all lie world. It did not take the old man a great I vhile to get ready. 1 warrant you. Ie put on the best clothes that the ihepherd’s wardrobe could afford. Te got into the wagon, and though .he aged are cautious and like to ride 1 flow the wagon did not get along ast enough for this old man, and when the wagon with the old man net Joseph’s chariot coming down o meet him, and Joseph not out of he chariot and got into the wagon imp threw his arms around his father's neck, it was an antithesis of •oyaity and rusticity, of simplicity uid pomp, of filial affection and paernal love, which leaves us so much n doubt about whether we had beterlaugh or cry that we do both, io Jacob kept the resolution of the .ext, "I will go and see him before 1 lie.”

lam often asked as pastor, and *veFy pastor is askocl the ”qnesrtron, 'Will my children be children in leaven and forever children?” Well, here was no doubt a great change i n Joseph from the time Jacob lost ' lim and the time when Jacob found | iim—between the boy of seventeen ’ears of age and the man in midlife, lis forehead developed with the rreat business of state, but Jacob yas glad to get back- Joseph anyhow, md it did not make much difference ,o the old man whether the boy ooked older or looked younger. O parent, as you think of the daringpanting and white in menibran•ous croup, I wunt yon to know it vill be gloriously bettered in that and where there has never been a leath and where all the inhabitants vill live on in the great future as ong as God! Joseph was Joseph lotwithstanding the palace, and your ihild will be your child notwithstanding all the raining splendors of Everlasting noon. What a thrilling .’isit was that of the qld shepherd to I .he prime minister. Joseph! I see I he old countryman seated in the >alace looking around at the mil’ •ors, and the fountains, and the qarved pillars, and. oh, how he .vishes that Rachel, his wife.' was dive and she could have come there .vith him to see their son in his jreat house! "Oh,” says the old nan within himself, "Ido wish Ra:nel could be hero to see all this!” I visited the farmhouse of the ather of Millard Fillmore when :he son was President of the United States, and the octogena•iau farmer entertained me until 11 o'clock at night, telling me what jreat things he saw at his son's house it Washington, and what Daniel Webster said to him. and how grandy Millard treated his father in the White House. The old man’s'fface t vas illumined with the story until ilmost midnight. He had just been visiting hiS son at the capital. And [ suppose it was something of the ;ame joy that thrilled the heart of jhe old shepherd as he stood in the palace of the prime minister. Joseph,' in the historical scene of the text, did not think any more of lis father than you do of your parents The probability is before they eave your house they half spoil your jhildreii with kindness. (Grandfather ind grandmother are more lenient ind indulgent to your children than they ever were with you. And what wonders of revelation in the bombafine'’ pocket of the one and the sleeve .if the other. Blessed is that home where Christian parents come to visit! Whatever may have been the style of tlje architecture when they rame it is a palace before they leave. If they visit you fifty times the most memorable visits will be the first and the last. Those two pictures will hang in the, hall of your memory while memory lasts, and you will remember just how they looked, and where they sat, and what they said, and at jyhat figure of the carpet and

at what doorsill they parted with you. giving you the final If the father has large property and he be wise enough to keep it ir his own nanie r .helwill be respected. by the heirs.' But how often is it when the son finds his father in famine, as Joseph found Jacob in famine, the young people make it very hard for the old man. They are so surprised he eats with a knife instead of a fork. They are chagrined at his ancient and antediluvian haoits. They" are provoked because he can not hear as well as be used to. and when he asks it over agahrnnd th e son has to repea tit. he bawds in the old man’s ear. "I hope you heard that!” How long must lie wear the old coat or the old hat before-they get him a new’ one.' How chagrined tney are at his independence of the English grammar! How long he hangs on! Seventy years and not gone yet! Will he ever go? They think it of no use to have a doctor in his last sickness, and go TTp to the drugstore and get a dose of something that makes him -worse, and economize on a coffin, and bea.j the undertaker down to the—lastpoint; giving a note for the reduced amount, which they never pay.--I rejoice to remember that, though my father lived in a plain house the most of his days, he died in a mansion provided by the filial piety of a son who had achieved a fortune. There tke-oetogenarian sat, and the servants waited on him. and there were plenty of horses and plenty of carriages to convey him. and a bower in which to sit on long summer afternoons, dreaming over the past, and there was not a room in the house where he was not welcome and there were musical instruments’ of all sorts to regale him. and when life, had passed the neighbors came out antFexpressed alllionor possible and carried him to the village Macpelah and put him down beside the Rachel with whom he had lived more than half a century. Let the uno-ratefuirworltFsireermt the maiden aunt, but God has :» throne burnished for her arrival, and on one side of that throne in heaven there is a vase containing two jewr els. the one brighter than the Kohinoor of London Tower, and the other larger than any diamond ever found in the districts ot Golconda—the one jewel by the lapidary of the palace cut with the words, "Inas much as ye did it to father:” the other jewel by the lapidary of the palace cut -with the words, "Inasmuch as ye did it to mother.” "Over the Hills to the Pborhouse” is the exquisite ballad of Will Carleton. who found an old woman who had been turned off by her prosperous sons, but 1 thank God I may find in my text. "Over the hill to the palaccUl—_ . As if to disgust us with untilial conduct the bible presents us the story of Micah, who stole the LIOO shekels from his mother, and the story of Absalom, who tried to de throne his father. But all history is beaut iful with stories of filial fidelity. EpaminOndas. the writer, found his chief delight in reciting to his parents hiwwictories. There eas from burning Troy, on his shoulders Anchises, his father. The Athenians punished with death any untilial conduct. There goes beautiful Ruth escorting venerable Naomi across the desert amid the howling of the wolves and the barking of the jackals. John Lawrence, burned at. the stake in Colchester, was cheered in -the flames by his children, who said, "O God, strengthen thy servan.t and keep thy promise!” Oh, what a day that will be when the old folks come from an adjoining mansion in heaven and find you amid the alabaster pillars of the throne room anti—living—with the King! They are coming up the steps now. and the epauleted guard of the palace rushes in and says. "Your father’s coming, your mother’s coming!” And when under the arches of precious stones and on the pavement of porphyry you greet each other the scent* will eclipse the meeting on the Goshen highway, when Joseph and Jacob fell on each other's neck and wept a good while. But, oh. how changed the old folks will be ! Their cheek smoothed into the flesh of a little child. Their stooped posture lifted into immortal symmetry. Their foot now so feeble, then with the sprightliness of a bounding roe. as they shall say to you, "A spirit passed this way from earth and told us that you were wayward and dissipated after we left the world, but you have repented, our prayer has been answered, and you are here. And as we used to visit you on earth before we died now we visit you in your new home after our ascension. ” And father will say. "Mother, don’t you see Joseph is yet alive?” and mother will say, : "Yes. Joseph is vet alive.” Then they ' will review their anxieties regarding you. the midnight supplications in your behalf, and they will recite to each other the old scripture passage with which they used to cheer their I staggering faith. "I will be a God tc I thee and thy seed after thee.” Oh. ' the palace, the palace, the palace.' That is what Richard Baxter called “the saints’ everlasting rest. ” That is what John Bunyan called the "Celestial City.” That is Young’s "Night Thoughts” turned into morning exultations. That is Gray’s "Elegy In a Churchyard” turned tc resurrection ppeetaele. That is the "Cotters Saturday Night” ex changed for the cotter’s Sabbath morning. That is the shepherd oi Salisbury plains amid the flocks on the hills of heaven. That is tin famine struck Padanaram turned into the rich pasture fields of Go shen. That is Jacob visiting Josepl at the emerald castle.

MARTIAL LAW.

Proclamation by the President ol the United States Warning All Atl<>t<-rs Against Lawlessnesg autf Ordering Them to Disperse by Monday Noun. -Sunday—night just before niidnight President Cleveland, at Washington, afte.i a full Cabinet discusßLsnUassiled~tlLe fob lowingproclamation: "Proclamation by the President of the i nited Staunt* "Whereas. By reaon of unlawful obstructions, combinations and assemblages of persons, it has become - tmpraetica ble in the judgment of the President to enforce by the ordinary course of Judieiai proceedings the laws of the United States wjthin the of Illinois, and especialse ly the city of Chicago within said State; and, ~ "Whereas. That the purpose of enforcing the faithful yxecution-of the laws Of the United States and protecting its property and removing obstructions to the United States mails iir the State and cityaforesaid, the President has employed a part of the military forces of the United ."Now, therefore. T. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, dohereb.v admonish all good citizens and all persons- - who may be or may come within the city and State aforesaid agwnsjcaiiiUtg. emmtenancing, encouraging or taking any part in such unlawful obstructions, combinations and assemblages; 1 hereby warn all persons engaged in or in any way connected_with such unlawful obstruct ions, combinations and assemblages to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before 1? o'clock neon on the 9th day of July instant. Those who disregard tliis warning and persist in taking part with a riotous mob in forcibly resisting and obstructing the execution of the, laws of the United States or interfering witlrtlie functions of the (lovernment or destroying or attempt ing to destroy the property belonging to tiie United Stales or under its protection cannot te regarded otherwise than as public enemies. Tfoops employed against such a riotous mob will act with all moderation and forbearance consistent with the. accomplishment of tiie desired end. but tiie ni'cessities that confront them will not with certainty permit diserinii+iation betweun. gnilty participants and tliose who are mingled with them from curiosity and without criminal intent. The only sale -venrse, -therefore, for those not actual I y unlawfully ptirticipating is to abide at” their homes, or at least not. to be found in the neighborhood trf-riotous assemblages. While there will be no hesitation or vaccination in the decisive treatment of the guilty, this-warning is.especially inlendetP to protect and save the innocent. In testimony whereof. I hereunto set my hand and cause the, seal of the United States to bo affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this Sth day of July, in the, year of our Lori, one thousand eighthundred and ninetv-l'our, and of tiie Independence of the I nited States of America, the one hundred and eighteenth. G ItOVER CI.E VELA XI >. By the President, W. Q. Gresham. Secretary of State. This is the action which Gen. Miles has desired from tiie start of the troubles, as it gives him more ample authority in tiie city. The War Department sent a dispatch to Gen. Miles givhtg -him full authority. The. Presidi'iivand Cabinet are watching the_developments with tlia utmost vigilance.

LATER. The. storm center Sunday wa« at laininond. ind. Saturday night a inoJj was in-possession and no troops in sight. They ransacked the Western Union telegraph office, overturned freight, ears and coni' milted all kinds of depredatloiis. Five railroad employes were Mounded at th< -hands of-the mob, one fatally. The outbound Sunday passenger train from Chi 4 cago, on the Monon real, was brought t\i a halt by the men. Engineer and firemen were made-to dismount and- the. locomotive was quickly "killed” by opening a valve and allowing the water to run oui of tiie boiler. Tlig active loaders of the mob Were not local strikers or known to the Hammond people. Under their leadership, however, the town was terrorized throughout th i night. and railroad trail!e para 1 yzi d. Boldly operating in the, center of town, the mol) had nearly everything its own way. The worst trouble came about 3 a. m., when in a skirmish with railway employes. three mon were lai I low in a bunch. Two other railroad nu n w re badly injured in other encounters, 'The man whose wounds are supposed -to ba mortal is 11. B. Miles, an employe of the. Interloeking Switch Company. Sunday afternoon in attempting to move the north bound Monon train at Hatninond the United States troops were compelled to tire into a crowd of strikers and sympathizers. Ciias. Fleislicher was instantly killed and five others seriously injured. None of tile persons shot were strikers but merely onlookers. At.a o'clock ten cars came in over the Michigan Central bringing about two hundred soldiers. The train also hud a wrecking car attached. The erew had been clearing up the tracks which all the way from Kensington had been blocked by overturned box ears. The Michigan t'eiitaal succeeded in removing all obstructions by 7 o’clock and several trains were run out from Chicago. Gov. Matthews, at midnight; Saturday, ordered out the State troops to go to liaintnond. Eight hundred men from all the points north of Indianapolis received orders to mobilize at Hammond l)y Sunday night. Sheriff Fredericks sent to the Governor, Sunday morning, the following dispatch: United States marshals saved; they are in bed. Send militia to get them h line. Everything else wrecked. About twentyeight box cars turned over across tiie tracks. One Pullman ear burned; two with windows all smashed. On tiie, Monon every telegraph operator driven from has office. Employes pounded. I wapowerless to stop tiie rioting, which 1 have told all along. There will be no danger now in tiie daytime, hut look out for breakers at night. I have been up aii ifight and arn going to bed. After sheriff Fredericks dispatch had been sent the mob learned the fact in some way and an attack was made on the W. U. Telegraph office. The operators were driven out and the office wrecked. Then they beat with a coupling pin the switch inspector,, though he was not seriously wounded. During the night cars were overturned on every track so as to wreck trains on three or tour roads. The windows of the Pullman coaches were riddled with stones. Ata late hour Sunday night all was quiet at Hainmond. IW. M. Eggington. general overseer at the Elwood diamond plate glass works had his eyes nearly burned curwfth nitric add, Thursday.

WHEELING ACROSS THE CHANNEL.

- j George Pinkert Proposes to Ride* His Tricycle From Calais to . Dover.. . New York Sun. The tricycle to ride on water was the inituru 1 outcome of the tricycle Torroad riding, -which machine, it will be remembered, made a strong bid for public favor in Ensrland when the bii-.ycle really came into general use in 1876 and the following years. The rather cumbersome threewheeled machine, however, had to give way to the two-wheeled bicycle. -YHid-it - is-to-dav practically ont-gof-datG so cerned, although there has been

quite a splurge made with it on the water as a means of locomotion and pleasure. For this purpose it has many .pojnts in its favor where a bicycle would have none, unless linked to a cumbersome system of boats. One of the latest novelties in thidirection is the land and water tricycle on which Mr. George Pinkert, of 12 Schweinemarht, Hamburg. Germany, proposes to ride across the English Channel from Calais to Dover, in the third week of June. The channel at this point is_about ’ v. nty mi K's ”wide. and is” world famous as the most “choppy” piece Of water there is in Europe, it being estimated by the late Captain Webb, -who swam across it, that there were no less than nineteen currents. The machine to be used is an invention of Herr Pinkert’s, patented in 1883,■ and it consists of a front steering wheel, which is made of thin steel plates and is sixteen inches wide at the axle, forming a lensshaped. air-tight vessel of great buoyancy. The edge of this is fitted with a concave metal rim and a rubber tire, for running on land, the keel, so to speak, becoming the tire., I’he two large propelling wheels are composed of a laige circular tube of steel plate, forming an air-tight ring about four feet in diameter, connected with Ulie-AfaveLot the. axle by Deans of steel spokes, and fitted with paddles on either side of the outer circumierence.. It is..lik.e the paddle wheel of a steamboat, having a solid •ore running through the center of the. wheel, to which the paddles are attached, instead of to the two side, rims as in the steamboat. Outside, of the air-tight core, and attached to. it by steel rods, is an ordinary con-ea-v-e-Ynetal bicycle rim fitted with a bard rubber tire. In other respects the tricycle is an ordinary one. having the seat over the axle, between the two wheels, which are rather wide apart for the’ ourpose of giving more stability by the greater beam. At a recent trial n the Munich baths the speed of over fix miles an hour was obtained, and" t is estimated that the trip across the channel will be made inless than’ five hours. This is not the first time this trip has been attempted. As far back as 1882 a man named Kunan, of Brussels invented a machine which was well tested in the smooth water of a bath, and was. on the 28th of July, ridden across the "silver streak” by in Englishman named Terry. Dover was left at 1) a. m., and Calais was reached in less than eight hours,the rider being almost exhausted by the leeway made by his machine. The total distance travelled by Terry was estimated to be nearly thirty miles. The machine, he rode was a high standing one, the wheels being 50inch. this being before thedayof the low-wheeled "safety,” and so the wind had a considerable effect on it and carried the rider far out of hjs course.

Uncle Sam, however, has not been behind hand in the matter of water tricycles, and no less than ten of various designs have been patented and tried with more, or less success in America. Some are for smooth water and some for rough water at sea. the latter being fitted with boats on the catamaran style. One for smooth water was ‘to be seen almost daily oi| the Hudson in the neighborhood of Poughkeepsie last fall ridden by a well known locai gentleman, who promised that when the ice came he would show what the machine could do over the frozen surface, but the ice never came. The great desideratum claimed for the Pinkert machine is that it car be placed on Broadway, ridden tc the Battery, dropped in the bay,and ridden to Staten Island (perhaps the inventor might even tackle Europe; without any change of gear what ever. Oscar Wilde s taste in dress, especially in,the use of jewelry, is stil that of an exquisite. He Wears thret rings on his left hand and one on hi; right, while his wrist is ornamentec with a chain bracelet of solid gold, to which a heart-shaped locket is attached. He wears red, yellow am blue ties of great size, and his general appearance makes him one o’ the most conspicuous men seen or the streets of London.