Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1879 — Page 4

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Nik* suicides have occurred in Central Park within the year. • Gladstone kwt much popularity in 1874 by snubbing the press. On* million English railway employes are obliged to work on Sundays. The peanut boom has reached 1,825,000 bushels, with all the back counties to hear from. An advertisement in the want column of the Boston Herald calls for 1,000 cloak makers. Texas has collected SBO,OOO license fees from commercial travelers since the law went into effect. The Tichbome claimant has Won 15,670 marks of good behavior and is therefore entitled to a pardon. __J, One million four hundred thousand tourists crossed into Switzerland this year. Of these 210,000 were Americans.. The canal between the Caspian and the Sea of Azof, a survey of which is being made for Russia, is estimated to cost $20,000,000. A French agriculturist proposes to feed cattle, sheep and pigs on provender containing savory herbs, to give •flavor to the flesh. Skinchi Yanadi is a Japanese reporter, who came over the sea with Ulysses, and is now taking notes of Pacific coast receptions. There is a report in San Francisco that Ulysses S'. Graut, Jr., is affianced to a daughter of Col. James C. Flood, the bonanza millionaire. Kossuth, the illustrious Hungarian, is livingat Turin where he makes a scanty living by teaching. One of his sons is a civil engineer. The Government of Mexico has received authentic accounts of the immense richness of mines recently discovered in the Sierra Majada. Suit has been commenced by John P. Stremmel, a New York professional beggar, for SO,OOO, given to a friend in a fit of temporary benevolence. . The French artillery has been doubled since 1870, and now numbers guu for gun and man for man, exactly the same as that of the German Empire. A London correspondent of the Boston Post says that Mrs. Woodhull and Tennie C. Clatlin are soon to marry ‘•leading members of the British aristocracy.” Miss Mary 'C. Welles, of Hartford, Conn., takes the prize of S2OO, offered for the liest entrance examination at Smith College, in Northampton, Mass.

The prominent feature of a reeent Baptist Church entertainment at Provi'ience, was a lecture by an ex-convict »n his nine years' experience in the State prison. NrrßO- glyceki xk pills for the relie cf patients afflicted with augena pectoris. a disease of the chest, are now manufactured in good faith by a London chemist. The Chicago Interior has started out to show that TO cent, of all the money contributed to the cause of the heathen is absorbed i a paying fat salaries at home. ... < ’ Glai>stone has taken to writing letters to show that mort’ than half of England’s disease and pain is swallowed from the tea cup and coffee bowl. According to him beer is a harmless beverage compared with tea or coffee. The Prince of Wales is turning grey, and the dissipations of his youth and earlier manhood are telling on him. His w ife retains all of her maiden beauty, and ra’her improves with age. New York divers are hunting at the bottom of the sea off Port Morris for the hulk of the British treasure-ship Huzzar, which went down 100 years ago with $4,000,000 for her army on board. # ■ % De Quixcey very wittily invers the ‘ order of crimes. Hesajs: “If once a a man indulges himself in murder he very soon comes to think little of robbery: and from robbery he comes next to drinking and SabDuth-bre&king.and there is but one step from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon the downward path, you never know when you wilt stop. Many u man has dated his ruin from Home murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.” . A Leahville jury last week, becoming disgusted with the “sass” administered to themselves as well as to the lawyers and witnesses by the Judge, ordered the Sheriff to lock the latter up for a couple of weeks, “just to take norne of the style out of him,” as the orem an expressed it. And, to His Honor’s great exasperation, he was incontinently lugged off to jail, and i , now in durance vile, while.the case is go ; ng quietly on with the most popular bar-keeper 'in town occupying the judicial chair.

The new hospital for female insane persons in this State has been formally placed under the management and care .of the State Board. It is the largest of the public buildings in this State, having a capacity for 750 inmates. Its cost was $700,000. Nothing aborbs poison in the air so readily as milk and water, and they should never be exposed to impure air. Water that has stood exposed over night, especially jn a sleeping room, should never be used for drinking or cooking purposes. When a woman loses a desire to please, she loses half her charms. Nothing is more conducive to beauty than cheerfulness and good humor; and no morose or unhappy woman can be good-humored and cheerful. ' A lady in Philadelphia was fortunate in being robbed last veek. The light fingered person who operated upon her pocket secured her pocket-book containlngpDly beautiful dtamdno ring Valued at S3OO, which must have slipped from his

finger. The lady avers her entire satisfaction with this exchange. The Island of New Guinea, which has been frequently visited by French navigators, hut never formally annexed to France, has been chosen for an exclusive Catholic colony. The devout emigrants have chartered a vessel, running up the stare and stripea to avoid the French laws, and start under the command of the Marquis de Roys,who is to b« their first king. The Prince de Joinville brought home from one of his voyages the entire ooetume of a Queen of Zanzibar. was contained in a box twice as large as his hand. The ladies of the royal family of Louis Phillippe at the Tulleries crowded around to see the contents of the little box, and were quite shocked to find when it was opened only a pair of earrings and a pair of sandals. The Goloe newspaper says that in the central prison of Moscow during the summer Just elapsed no tower than 11,854 persons were incarcerated, of whom 11,477, including both sexes, were condemed to be sent to Siberia. There being drafted off Into exile, upward of half a thousand remained in jail, the remainder being admitted into the hospital owing to illness resulting from the Incredibly fllhfy state of their cells. The land reform agitation in Ireland begins to alarm the British Government. It is taking a political turn that threatens serious trouble. The mutterings of the London Times are ominous. The reversalof what it sis pleased to call the liberal policy of the Government towards Ireland, which it hints as a possibility, means a reinforcement of the English constabulary in every county, and a repressive military administration in that unfortunate island.

GENERAL.

Upon himself and his 800 wives the Sultan of Turkey spends $10,0000,000. The rinderpest is raging in Russian Poland with greater virulence than ever. Eight coach horses, costing S3OO each, were sent recently from Lexington, Ky., to Alfred Withers in London. The pay-roll of the New York City Fire Department, for the month of September, Anounted to $86,385.64. The Indians in New Mexico are "on the rampage,” having recently committed horrible massacres and depredations.

The Swiss colony, numbering some 700 souls, that settled in Tennessee, is devoting its energies entirely to cheese making. General Grant is said to have become a strict tetotaler, during his foreign tour, and now abstains from everything intoxicating. The value of exports of live cattle from the United States to Europe has increased from $3,896,818 during 1878 to $8,379,200 in 1879. Oranges, lemons, olives, and almonds are to be Cultivated in Florida soon by a large number of Italian colonists, now on their way to the State. Prof. Wise has not been heard from since his ascension at St. Louis weeks since. All hope of his being alive has been abandoned by his friends. There has been imported into New York by sea from California since the beginning of this year 1,156,712 gallons

of wine, and 114,717 gallons of brandy. The Spiritualists of St. Petersburg, ‘.hough much laughed at, are rapidly .ncreasing in numbers, and they are about to establish a Spiritualist weekly. The amount of gold coin received at New York by European steamers during last week was $3,660,000, making $41,750,000 since the Ist of August. , ; The navigation of the Ohio river is to be improved by the construction of a semi-circular dyke, 3,000 feet long, at the Portland bar, opposite New Albany. at a cost of $30,000. The net weight of $5,000 fllfcw American coin is 18 lbs. 7j ozs. The weight of silver of equal coin value is, without going into fine fractions, sixteen times the weight of gold. The citizeu of Chicago have decided to extend iweception to General Grant upon his visit to that city. The promi'nent citizens, with out regard to party, are taking the matter in hand. One of the most enlightened monarchs of the present day is the Queen of Madagascar, who labors earnestly to impress upon her subjects the importance of sobriety and education. > Notwithstanding the great advance in American breadstuff's during

the last few weeks, the smuggling of flour from the United States into Canada is said to be steadily increasing. Philadelphia is enjoying a spiritual revival, under the ministrations of ayoung man called the "boy preacher," a smooth-faced youth with a wonderful eloquence. The converts under his ministrations number 11,000 souls. It is estimated that the postal service for the present year will cost $39,920,000. Of this amount the postal revenues will pay $32,210,000, leaving a deficit, to be supplied by Congressional appropriation, of $7,710,000. In January next a postage Rtamp of a new design is to be issued in Great Britain. It will bears portrait of the Queen as she appears in mature age, and not, as now, a likeness of her Majesty when she had just entered womanhood.

The highest inhabited house in the world is believed to be the one erected for the miners employed on Mount Lincoln, in the main range of the Rocky Mountains, Park county, Col. It is 14,157 feet above sea level. A million and three-quarters ol dollars have been subscribed for charitable purposes through the agency of the New York Chamber of Commerce during the past twenty years. The Chicago and Northwestern fires in 1871 called out gifts to the amount of $1,044,000; the French sufferers by the

• war in 1870 received $143,000; the yellow fever fund raised last year amounted to $172,000. Great excitement prevails out West on account of Jho recent rich discoveries of gold bearing quarts in the Big Horn mountains, about seventy-five miles northwest of Fort McKinney, Wyoming, at the head of the Tongue river. Large numbers of miners are ea route to the mines. The ore has been assayed with the following results: lowest $4, highest S7O per ton. A young lady of Pniladelphla had her pocket picked of a wallet'containing $5. On ascertaining her loss she found that a diamond ring, pronounced to be worth S3OO. had slipped from the thief s finger during the operation and remained in her pocket. "Not more than fifteen aeronauts have loet their lives during the last hundred years.” One man in Kentucky who fell seven hundred feet glanced on a tree, and still lives. He is a little rheumatic at times. Russia is exercised over tne safety of its Central Asian expedition. The ».flfa.tr at Geok Tepe proves to have been terribly disastrous. The troops are suffering the fatsl scourges of diphtheria and scorbutic diseases, while the medical arrangements are very indifferent.

Eastern Siberia is menaced by famine, the prices of grain are higher than were ever known before, and the poorer classes are suffering severely. The harvest is extremely poor and the cattle plAgue has increased the evil, there being ii} many villages not one beast left alive. The anti-rent agitation in Ireland increases. Agents report to absentee landlords that they will be unable to collect their rents, while tenants are threatened with assassination if they pay their dues. The English Government is likely to have home as well as 'foreign problems to settle. Blondin, in his Vienna exhibitions, uses a rope stretched at a height of 150 feet, and walks blindfolded, without a balance pole. No net is spread to break a fall, and death would be inevitable if he tumbled. In this respect his feats are more dangerous than at Niagara where a drop into the water might not have killed him.

The daughter of Mr. Meeker, the agent assasinated by tbe Ute Indians, is very severe on the Colorado and general governments for their tardiness in coming to her father’s succor when he appealed for soldiers. Congress is to be asked to vote $5,000 to mark the grave of Daniel Morgan, the hero of the Cowpens. The grave is in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, at Winchester, Va., the slab that once covered it now nearly destroyed by relic-hunters. Great opposition is being manifested in the Austrian dominions to the introduction of American meat of all kinds. The Government has hot prohibited the importation, but tbe local producers proclaim that the American article is rotten with worms. _ A waxwork Franklin, on exhibition in France, is labeled "Franklin, Inventor of electricity. This savant, after having made seven voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands, and was devoured by savages, of whom not a singlefragment was ever recovered.” The death of Henry C. Carey, the distinguished author, at Philadelphia last week, removes another of a charming circle in that city, which was broken by the death of Morton McMichael. Mr. Carey was born in 1793, aud fes the son of Matthew Carey, the Irish agitator. The Marquis of Headfort and his agent have received letters threatening them with death unless a reduction of rent be granted. A number of the tenants are supposed to be privy to this attempt at intimidation. The Marquis is the owner of extensive estates in the west of Ireland.

FOREIGN.

Large numbers of Hungarian farmers are contemplating emigration to America on account of the deficiency in crops. A company of Americans and Frenchmen is being organized whose avowed purpose is the tunneling of Mount Blanc. Twenty-two mayors and deputy mayors in La Wendee, France, have been dismissed because of their suspected treason. Destructive inundations have occurred at Labasco, Mexico, where the loss caused ny the destruction of the corn, cocoa and tobacco crops is estimated at $1,000,0000. In South Africa the British are likely to have further trouble. Sir Garnet Wolseley is at Pretoria, where he has publicly declared that the annexation of Transvaal is irrevocable. The Committee! of Boers have adopted a resolution that nothing will satisfy them but the restoration of independence. Operations against Chief Secocoeni will commence immediately. Field Marshal Count Von Moltke has reported to the Emperor of Germany that a considerable increase of military defense in Alsace and Lorraine will be necessary. In consequence of a rise in the price of bread stuffs, it is doubtful if Germany' will begin levying new duties on grain the the first of January, 1880, as provided for by the Tariff Bill which passed the Reichstag in July last.

The London Daily News says: "If gold continues to leave England and France as it has lately, it will soon become necessary to consider thepossibilltv of measures to stop the outflow. It will be time for England to consider what action to take when the French authorities make a move to directly or indirectly raise the premium on gold to such a point that the whole of the United States demand is thrown on this country.” Shocks of earthquake continue in South Hungary, and the people are in continual suspense. It is feared the help which the Hungarian Government proposes to aflorn distressed agriculturists will come too late to permit

of autumn and winter sowing. Throughout the oountry thousands of people lack money with which to purchase food, and tax gatherers have seized all their possessions. A despatch from Berlin to the Loi# don Times says: "'Hie Russian press Is very impatient about -the dearth of news from the Central Aslan expedition against the Turcomans, especially as no effort has yet been made to reconcile the apparent contradictions in the two Official reports of the recent action at Geok-Tepe. Meanwhile, a letter from Tlflfe, published in the Qolos. says that' grave apprehensions are felt there for tne safety of me expedition. The latter describes the invalided men arriving at Baku as being in a miserable plight, and says that great numbers have died of diphtheria and scorfutic diseases, and that the medical arrangements are inefficient*” The British, after some severe fighting have captured Cabul, the capital of Afghanistan, where the British Eifibassy were massacred a short time since. General Roberts on entering the city made a speech to the following effect It will to inflictsevere punishment Buildings of the Baia Hissar and of the city interfering with the proper military occupation will be destroyed. A heavy fine will be levied on citizens. A military Governor will be placed over the city and country within a radius of ten miles. All the inhabitants under his jurisdiction will be required to surrender theii arms within a week, on pain of death if they toil to do so. Rewards will be paid for denunciation and conviction of any person concerned iu the massacre of the British Embassy. A dispatch from Berlin to the LonStandard says: "The truth about the Geok-Tepe affair is gradually leaking out. Tne assault on the Dengil-Tepe earthworks was made on the Plevna pattern. After an ineffectual cannonade the Russians made a rush with fixed bayonets, but were repulsed and retreated in disorder. The Turcoman Cavalry, attacking the Russian flank and rear, created such confusion that when the vanguard reached the main force in reserve, the latter was unable to stem the tide of the ret.*eat, and whp itself compelled to retire forty miles before order could be restored. According to private intelligence received iu St. PeL*reburgh, the Russian loss is much greater than the official report admit.”

INDIANA STATE ITEMS

The State fair netted about SIO,OOO to the management. Dog fish have been annoying fishermen all over the State. The Pan Handle folks are preparing to erect a new depot at Kokomo junction. Vincennes batiks show deposits to the amount of $653,601.46 in their vaults. A six pound white fish was caught recently, at Michigan City, and is considered a novelty. Tramps have nearly deserted Wabash since the en foremen t of the ball and chain ordinance. Amos Black, of Noble county recently sold two calves, four months old, that dressed 475 pounds each. Vandals have been raiding graveyards at and near Madison, demolishing tombstones, monuments, etc. A club of twelve persons living in Lawreuceburg, drew $30,000 in the Kentucky distribution company last week. Wm, Rayl, of Kokomo, is holding a slippery, come-easy-go-easy SSOO, recently drawn upon a lottery investment. A Valparaiso citizen was recently awarded a $2,000 verdict against the city for injuries caused by a defective sidewalk. Patrick O’Connell, of Oswego, Kosciuskocounty is 108 years old and as spry as most men of 50. He is a native of Ireland. ' »•, One of Shelby villes recent sensation was the arrest of Harry Raymond fore having an abortion committed on his affianced bride.

Henry Nolle, a New Albany pnuper, was, formerly the cashier of one of the leading banks of the city. Whisky pulled him down. At Muncie, the other day, as a young lady was driving alone in her buggy, a thief got into the vehicle, snatched her fine watch from her person and made his escape. Recently a most gratifying and successful test of the newly-invented audiphone was made at the State Institute for deaf and dumb, at Indianapolis By its use the deaf were made to hear and the dumb to speak. The audiphone, is a fan-shaped instrument of peculiar composition, which gathers the sounds (somewhat similiar to a telephone diaphragm,) and, being held in the teeth, these sounds are conveyed by their medium to the auditory' nerve Mrs Phila Hull, of Anderson, woman of very violent temper, dropped dead, the other day, as a consequence of a paroxysm of anger. The new gas company at Wabash employed about thirty-five men in digging its trenches,nearly all of whom were brought from abroad, as idle men could not be found in that place.

A disciple from Salt Lake has been holding series of revival meetings with the Mormon church, in the north east part of Floyd county, and a number of couverts werte gathered in. "Silvekton,” owned by Dr. Pugh, of Rusliville, and sired by Mr. James Wilson’s famous Blue Bull, got away with first honors at Lexington, Ky., on last Wednesday. Time, 2:22}. James Watkins, an employe of DePauw’s American plate glass works at New Albany, was dreadfully cut in the arm by the breaking of a large f date of glass he was assisting in lifting. Elkhart a few days ago paid five buudred dollars to a young lady who was injured by one of its defective sidewalks. The city refused to pay until the supreme court decided it must Dogs are slaughtering sheep by wholesale in Huntington county. During a recent raid, ninty six were killed in one township,and 192 in the county, all in a few days. Not a dog has been killed.

A HEBREW LEGEND. J from m ancient, learned Babb! comes this legend foil of greee. Floating down through countlem ages, from a Vast and Matured race: Far away, where the horlnon forma a line twixt tbe earth and eky, There aroee a glittering city, with its peaks and turrets high. Flooded with a wondrous glory Which in splendor downward rolled, Seeming like the way to heaven through a oountry paved with gold. Sweet aa odors from the tropics was the free life-giving air. Fraught with the divine elixir—making all immortal there. And the fame of that far city, seen above the sunset high— Pointing with iu sparkling fingers ever upward to the sky—- ■ «• ■ ! • V Went abroad to all earth's people, and they clasped their dear ones tight. And they Journeyed from the valleys up toward the golden light. And lor long, long years they dwelt there, with life’s goblet brimming o’er: Deep and deeper though they quaffed It, foil it sparkled evermore. But a strange and restless yearning woke at last, as yean went by, And they stole away In silence, me by one—that they might die. —[Boston Transcript.

IMPERIAL INFAMY.

How Women Are Tortured for Teaching Russian Peasant Children to Read. London Telegraph. Another terrible narrative of the atrocities prepetrated by the Russian police authorities under cover of the "state of siege,” has just reached us from Geneva, where a journal is published in the Russian language called the Obschtscheje Djelo, and edited by Michael Dragomanow, an ex-Professor of the Kiew University. This paper, although inscribed in the Russian Expurgatorius, finds its way across, the frontier, in spite of that circumstance, with the utmost regularity. In its issue of of the 24th ultimo it prints a lengthy statement made by Olimpiada Kaflero, formerly a provincial schoolmistress in Russia, detailing the manner of her treatment at the hands of the "Third Section.” Early in the year 1877 Mile. Kaflero opened a school in the district of Wyschnyi-Wolot-schok, belonging to the Twer Government, and taught the peasant children for two consecutive years without exacting any school fees from their parents. On the the 16th of last June she was arrested without any previous warning and thrown into prison. Her narrative from this date may best be recounted in her own words. She writes as follows: "After I had lain for a few days in the jail of Wyschnye-Wolotschok the Governor of Twer, Sorrow, entered my cell one morning and acquainted me with the cause of my arrest and imprisonment. According to his statement my offenses consisted in having imparted instruction to peasant children, which is only permitted to male teachers, and in having fifteen years ago bean seen in a boat with several students. For having committed these erimes it was tha intention of the authorities to send me across the frontier. From Wysehnyi-Wolotschok 1 was conveyed to St. Petersburg, where I remained for a whole week iu jail. Thence I was transported by rail with fifty other prisoners tofWilna. From the Wilna railway station we were all marched late at night to the prison, where admission being refused' to us on account of the lateness of the night we were compelled to stand all night long iu an open court-yard under incessant torrents of rain. Next day we were led into a totally dark corridor and subjected to an examination of our elothes and persons. The women, of whom I was one, were searched and stripped by gendarmes, who committed the vilest atrocities upon us. When any one of us ventured to protest against their abominable outrages, she was struck and kicked with such brutal violence that blood followed the blows and kicks. This so-called "visitations” of the woman lasted several hours, amid the laughter and mockery of the soldiers. I fell into a deep swoon under their atrocious cruelties, and when I came to my senses I found myself lying on the stone floor, between two fallen women imprisoned for theft, who were doing their best to revive and comfort me in my affliction. Shortly afterward we were handcuffed and carried to Kowno, where we were received at the Female Penitentiary by the jail matron, Pavlovna, whose first greeting to us was a furious threat to smash all our teetn in should we venture to attempt either to read or write a word while in her prison. There I remained a whole week long, among convicts, murderers and thieves. We got scarcely anythiug to eat. At last I fell ill from the sneer exhaustion of hunger. Seeing my miserable condition, one of my fellowKrisoners gave me a morsel of bread. ut was espied in the act of so doing by the matron, who rushed at me and abused me in such language as you would scarcely expect to hear from a drunken and infuriated moqjik. At the expiration of this horrible week, we were again handcuffed aud marched off from Kowno on foot. A threedays march in frightfully bad weather brought us to Marianpol. My feet were covered with wound; my shoes full of blood. During my journey I had repeatedly complained of my sufferings to our escort and piteously begged to be allowed to rest, as I could go no further. Their only answer was,

‘Then we must drive you, you !’ At Marianpol I was taken to the sta-tion-master, as I could hardly stand, that he might decide whetherT should proceed on foot or be sent by rail. I showed him my bleeding feet and implored his mercy. All he said was. ‘You have managed to walk lor three days and you will have t* hold out for the fourth.’ On the fourth day we reached Wolkowyski, more dead than alive, whenee we were to l*e conveyed

across the frontier into Prussia. Meanwhile they locked us up in a guardhouse, men and women, all in one room. Their was neither bench nor stool —no, not even a wisp of straw to lie down upon. We had to stretch ourselves out, all together, as best we “fight, on the damp and filthy clay floor. The stench and vermin were intolerable, quite beyond description. During the night they turned In among us all the prostitutes picked up by the police In the public streets, as well as drunkards, thieves, and a stark-naked madman. Some of the prisoners at once com menced worrying and irritating this unfortunate lunatic, who began to foam at the mouth, and struck out in every direction, knocking us about with the most savage fury. From this den of inconceivable horrors I contrived to get a letter eonveyed te General Gourko, who promptly sent an order to the Prison Inspector that I was to he forthwith transported to the Prussian frontier. At E.vdtkuhnen I was handed over to the Prussian police, who at once set me at liberty. I traveled straight to Paris, and thence i to Geneva, where I slowly recovered ’

my health, and now write this, my That a lady of education and culture should be deliberately tortured in this inhuman manner, and subjected to the matt hideous description of outrage that can be inflicted upon a woman, merely because she had presumed to indulge her philanthropic Inspirations by teaching poor children to read and write gratis, is one of the many offenses against the lawe of God and man by the frequent and reckless commission of which the Russian Government has put itself outside the pale of civilisation. It cannot be but that an awfUl atonement awaits the barbarous wretches who thus revel in the agonies of the innocent—whose crimes outvie' those of the Inqusisition in heartless and cold-Wood ferocity. It should be remembered that Mile. Kafiero’s case is but a common one, of which the world would however, have never heard had the goal of her cruel journey been Siberia instead of. the German frontier. Thousands ot gently-nurtured women have undergone the torments she complains of, ruthlessly inflicted ru them on their road to the Ruspenal settlement by the savage functionaries of Czar Alexander. Rut their cries of distress nave never reached civilized ears. Once bound to the mines they are heard of no more by any whp knew them ere they fell victims to the most brutal and merciless despotism that has ever disgraced humanity.

Oil Running to Waste

A special dispatch from Bradford, Pa., says: At a moderate estimate there are 150,000 gallons of petroleum running to waste every day in the McKean county oil reigons. The tanks, with capacity for several million barrels, are filled to over flowing. The market is over stocked, and still production goes on at the rate of at least 25,000 barrels a day, 5,000 more than the pipe lines can handle. New wells are going down in all parts of the reigon. The price of oil is from 25 to 30 cents less per barrel than the cost of production. The United and Tidewater Pipe lines have iron tankage for 3,000,000 barrels of oil in this district. Individual producers and oil companies own tankage connected with these lines. The pipe lines take care of the oil of these tanxowners to the extent of their capacity. It is the small producers; who are losing the bulk of the oil. They cannot afford to build tanks. What is know as the general storag capacity of the pipe lines is proportioned out of these producers, but that tankage has been occupied for weeks, and the surplus runs to waste—down the hills and valleys of McKean county. Large quantities of petroleum are absorbed by earth. In marshy places the ground is a mass of greasy mud several inches deep. In some parts of the region the streams are dammed and the oil collected in large ponds at places as far distant as possible from derricks and buildings. These ponds are set on fire daily. Thus a large quaniity of the waste oil is disposed of. It is not uncommon for fire to be communicated to these combustible rivers by sparks from locomotives. Sometimes they are fired by malicious persons and tramps. Derricks and other property have been destroyed by these unexpected fires, resulting in losses of thousands of dollars. All efforts to limit the production of oil and stop this great waste have failed. Some years ago the same state of affairs existed in the lower oil reigon. Rivers of oil flowed from the tanks. It was not until oil fell to 40 oents a barrel that the producers came to their senses and in a measure stopped the drill.

Story of the Five Silver Donkeys.

A very wealthy man of the Hebrew faith, finding himself near his end, called his five sons to his bedside and presented each with a silver donkey, equipped with panniers, and said: "There was a merchant traveling from Bassora to Bagdad with a cargo of silk; but as this, however, was not sufficient to fill more than one of the panniers, he balanced the burden by filling the other with stones. As he was journeying he was overtaken by a wayfarer, who fell into conversation with him, and in the course of fit remarked, ‘What a fool you must be!” ‘Very probable,’ was the reply; ‘but in what particular?’ ‘Why,’ said the other, ‘don’t y*u see that if you were to distribute your silk equally between the two panniers and throw away the stones, you would diminish your ass’s burden by one half?’ ‘Very true,’ rejoined the other; *1 thank you for your very wise counsel.’ And forthwith the silk merchant threw his stones out on the road and distributed tne cargo in equal portions between the two panniers. As, however, they continued their journey, the merchant remarked: ‘You are a very clever and discerning person, but how is it that you are In such evil case? Your clothes are soiled and threadbare, and you have scarcely a shoe to your foot.’ ‘The truth is,’ was the reply, ‘I am an unfortunate man. Then I will go back and pick up my stones,’ which he accordingly did, and replaced the silk in statu quo. It happened that when he arrived at Bagdad he found that the Caliph was building a new palace, but was brought to a stand-still for want o£ stones. So the merchant sold his stones for more than he got for his silk, and returned rejoicing. Now, my sons, in presenting you each with a silver donkey, I wish to impress upon you this maxim: Never take the advice of an unfortunate man.”

A Curious Industry.

The principal industry of the town of West Falmouth, Mass., is tying business tags with bits of strings,’by which the tags may be attached to articles which require to be labeled. A correspondent writing from that village saps: "These tags are cut elsewhere and sent in bulk to West Falmouth. The string is also sent in skeins. The business here is to cut the string in suitable lengths, tie one into tach tag, and return it to the manufacturer in Boston. This sounds simple enough, and small enough, and yet it furnishes occupation to between three hundred and four hundred persons, and involves an elaborate system of bookkeeping. The business has been carried on by a woman for the last twenty years.' The orders which were once filled in a bushel basket now require large freight boxes, and amount to an aggregate of forty millions of tags in a year. The little pink strings are reeled off and cut in given lengths and bunches, each bunch having 101 strings. The strings are given out by the 1,010, together with the corresponding number of to people coming to the office tor them, and are paid for at the rate of twelve to seventeen cents a thousand. Young children tie with their mothers, ana even old men, and it is a great source of pin money in the community.” * ■ » Fringes, passementerie, seperate ornaments shaped to the figure, brande-bourgs, cords, tassels and painted ornaments for capping tassels are shown in great variety for dress and cloak trimmings.

FASHION NOTES.

Lees of wine is a color for dinner dresses. ■ ■- Painted side satchels are tbe latest novelties in this line. Flower garnitures are more worn on evening and reception toilets than eyer. "■ -? . < When beaded corsages are worn the sleeves and skirt draperies are decorated in like manner. A great deal of jetted lace is shown for trimming ifi heavier designs than have been used. I A small round crown d rby felt hat Is the favorite hat this autumn for young ladies to wear. ; The most feshionable handkerchiefs for neck wear are in rich Persian colore in palm leaf design. % . The p&nier mantle is one of the newest designs in wraps, and is made of the handsomest materials. * ' Collars and lapels like those bn gentlemen's coats are, it is said, to be worn with street dresses this autumn. Vests are very narrow in the new dresses, being at the waist lii e scarcely more than an inch wide ou each side. I Long, square coat tails are again seen on some or the latest costumes, and are even supposed to be suitable for full dress. ~ f Black canvas belts are seen in all widths aud will probably supplant the white surcingle belts worn tms summer.

Pierrot collars—that is to say, two plaitings of lace, one flat and the other erect —are worn with high necked gowns in Paris. New bonnets are very large and are almost exactly the shape of the old fashioned bonnets called the "scoop shovel bonnets.” For common uses point d’ Aleucon lace is now so well imitated in woven laces that the most fastidious do not hesitate to use it. A new trimming material ia tancolored velvet with irregular spots of dark brown in it, and is appropriately named tiger velvet. Two sizes of buttons are used for most suits, those on the waist, both front and back, being nearly twice as large as those on the sleeves. Full waists are again seen in the latest costumes. One of the prettiest is the old-fashioned fan waist, which is fulled on the shoulder aud at the belt. Very soft handkerchiefs for service are made of silk and linen spun together; they cost sixty cents each, ana are creamy white, with a hem-stitched hem. Shirring, or to use an old word revived French modistes, gauging, is probably the most conspicuous feature of Parisian costurhes for the fall ami winter. A belt and sash of satin ribbon and point d’esprit lace is a dressy addition now fashionably for plain, dark silks, or else for light muslins or other evening dresses. A single rose of Immense size, with the petals of satin, silk or velvet, is new corsage flower, and is worn very high on the left side, almost on the shoulder. Scarfs of white India muslin, with fine dots, and edged with point d'esprit, are worn around the neck in the street, tied close in the throat with an immense bow.. i

Brown will. be one of the favorite colors this winter, and will be seen in a great variety of shades. One of the newest is called “acajou,” apd is mahogany color. -j » Green, maroon and dark blue are the favorite colors for plain suits, that are now preferred to all others for morning shopping, walking and especially for traveling. The whale bone and tape fringes are shown again, and there are beaded fringes of the finest-cut jet, as well as more showy fringes made of large beads graduated in size. Fleece-lined pique wrappers enable the wearer t though an invalid, to dresa in white in her room always, and yet be warm as in midsummer when in lawn and muslin alone. Ribbon strings are wider, but the most fashionable bonnets have immensly wide, cylindric silk strings, generally trimmed at the bottom with Breton or point d’esprit-laqe pleatings. It is the very acme of fashion and taste to wear silk dresses, either white, tinted, or colored, decorated with artistic designs of flowers and foliage, bees, beetles, and butterflies in water colors. On some French dresses shirring a finger deep passes entirely around the waist in place of using a'wide belt. It is seen on nearly all bqpnm drapery, and trims sleeves at the wrists ana often at the elbows. Plain handkerchiefs for morninghave a half-inch hem hem-sttched, or* else they are colored in some old design and quaint combination of colors; on some a pleated frill edged with scallops of needle-work is the trimming. To wear In the street are scarfs of white India muslin with pin dots that are scarcely n-ore than white specks woven in them: The edges are trimmed with point d’esprit lace. They are worn close around the neck, tied in front in a mammoth bow. Price,sl.2s. House wrappers or tea gowns of ceremony are made of plaiu all-wool stuffs, toile religieuse, chudda cloth, or cashmere, and have the front breadths open and turned back with a rich silk lining, in revere, like a Trianon polonaise, showing rich brocaded stuffs frequently gold shot, that simuiat< # separate jupon.

After Fifteen Years.

Concord (N. JL) Monitor. i - j While the Portsmouth Commandery of Knights Templar were standing in a line at Manchester Thursday, a veteran passed wearing a peculiar ~gold medal that attracted the attention of one of the Knights, who hailed him, and asked him what medal was that he wore. The veteran replied: "Its of no great value, 'but I am one of only two men who are entitled to wear it in America.” This excited the curios!-' ty of Thomas Gay, the Knight before whom be was standing, who said to him: "Who are you?” to which the veteran replied:-"l’m William Smith,: and helped blow up the rebel ram Albermale.” "Sure enough, you are Bill Smith,” said Gay, extending his hand to his only surviving comrade in the successful expedition against the Albermarle, whom he had not seen for fifteen years. Gay and Smith are two of three men to whom Congress voted a special gold medal fer services in destroying the Albemarle, and both we residents of this State. The third man who received a medal is dead. , Cardinal Manning says: 14 When a woman marries she enters into a solemn contract for life that she will give her time to her husband, her home and her children; and if she does not * do so, it destroys the whole domestic llto.”