Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1879 — Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

JapAii has fine macadamized road*. Russian ladies take part in boat races. Russia's army is fearfully addicted to drink. French doctors treat infectious diseases by telephone. ‘ Americans spent more than a million dollars in Switzerland last year. One thousand persons in Paris are engaged in the manufacture of silk tights. • t The ore from the Sierra N a vada mine in the Comstock district, ispayings42C to the ton. . . America lias one hundred and fifty exhibitors at the International Exhibition at Melbourne. Thomas Spurgeon, son of the great English divine, is going to Australia as an evangelist. The Georgia Legislature summarily dismissed a prupoposition to adopt the {JofTitt bell punch. The 60,000 camels that perished in the Afghan campaign cost the British Government $5,000,000. The Agricultural Department has in the botanical gardens at Washington, 120,000 thrifty tea plants. Th e Pen nsyi van ia Rail mad Com pany offers prizes to its employes for the detection of unsafe bridges. The best coon dog in Chester county, Pennsylvania, is owned by a stock company of fifteen persons. Amos Kidwf.ll of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, ran against a wire clothes line in the dark, and put out both eyes. The fashionable amusement for ladies in Rome just now is to attend trials in the magistrate courts. The Roman Catholic authorities have completely broken up the Feuian organization at Manchester, England.

The American Isabella grape vines • were the only ones that did well in the Wurtemberg, Germany, vineyards this year. Dr. Glenn, the late honorable bilk candidate for Governor of California, -raiseds2,2lo,ooo worth of wheat this year. The widow of ?x-President Polk lives at Nashville, Tenn. The remains her husband are buried in her d oor . yard. The person who hitches a horse to a shade tree in any city or town in Indiana subjects himself to a fine of five dollars.' A colony has been sent out fromltaly enroute to Florida to engage inthe culture of oranges, lemons, olives and almonds. Georgia’s cotton crop is growing year by year, but her gold mines are more than making up for the decrease. George Francis Train, who has subsisted for four tears without meat or stimulants, is said to be the picture of health. - The wefod markets of the west and northwest are j>oorly .supplied in consequence of the demand for teams to haul wheat.

The poor fellows who only have on- can understand how the Sultan of 'Turkey’s 800 wives get away with $lO,60 >,OOO a year. » Mr. Whittler pronounces the title of his little pm-m * Maud Meuler, instead of giving it the broad Yankee sound, Muller. Wasbcrg castle recently purchased by Eugenie, is four hundred years old, and has one hundred and twenty-two windows to its front, A cow at Elkhart got choked on a cabbage stalk, aulPln her attempts to relieve herself, rolled into the St. Joseph river and was drowned. Mayor Price 6f Boston urges the City Qouncel to avail itself of the present low prices of real estate to purchase grounds for city parks. Six hundred Sweedish farmers are awaiting the rejmrts from Manitoba which will be made by the seventy pioneers on the way there. Some men get their punishment in this world. Henry C. Worth, author of Grandfather's Clock, hasi gone insane over the elopement of his daughter. The home of Sara Bernhardt is fitted .with automatic doors which fly open the moment you step upon the threshold. Door handles are dispensed with. A Hampton, N. H.. farmer, 82 years old, who had b-eu unable to read common pript for fifty years, has suddenly come into the possession of his eyesight. A MEsker's Bri'sh, South Africa, diamond digger recently three stones weighing 94}, 20 and 10} knrats. The largest sold on tbfe spot for $35,000 Gustave Mausmjro, of No. 73 Forsythe street, New York, was killed by a flower pot. which fell from the third story window sill of a house beside which he was working Friday. The culture of sheep in Germany has increased the wool fibres from 5,500 to the square inch in the common stock of thirty years ago to 45,000 in the best breeds of the prerent day. Henry Ward Beecher is reported to have said: >|When I die I would rather be buried iu Indianapolis, the scene of my early labors, than anywhere else on earth,”

It had been discovered by many married couples in an Indiana town that the so-called minister who for years has been joining them together never had a legal or a church license. Tilere are said .to be fully 200,000 beggars tramping through the German empire, and they, are estimated to get as alms not less than $1,000,000 annually, ip money, not counting the food and clothing given them. ‘ Over six hundred forgotten paintings by the masters of the sixteenth century have been discovered in the lofts of the government buildings ait Florence. They will be placed in the Royal Gallon, . Robert M. and Stephen A. Douglas,

sons of the late Senator Douglas, have drawn $58,000 from the Treasury, the proceeds of a long standing litigation against the United States, recently decreed by the Courts In their favor. A wax-work figure of Franklin, 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 single fragment was ever recovered." - f In all the cities of Brazil daring days of carnival, black women are seen sell-

ing "cabecinhas," which are made of delicate sheets of pure india-rubber, tied up in the form of a globe and filled with colored and scented waters. They are thrown at persons of tiie opposite sex. and burst on striking, flavoring the individual with a perfumed bath. The Sultan of Zanzibar is civilizing his country with a vengeance, He has suppressed the slave trade' gives dinner parties after the most approved European fashion, keeps a brass band on the porch during his soirees, uses illuminated menu cards, drives a coach and four aud dresses his outriders iu scarlet and gold. Wm. Hazlett is'the most miserable man in Oregon. Finding death creeping on apace, he took a bundle of greenbacks containing $22,000 and chucked it iuto the stove, remarking that his heirs would not quarrel much about the disposition of his property. A change in the weather brought (he old man around all right, and he is living on the charity of heirs, with a prospect of many years of helplessness before him.

NEWSLETS

The cotton crop of China is less than half the usual average. English subjects owning slaves in Brazil, have been ordered to free them. The wife of Senator David Davis, died at Stockbridge, Mass., last Monday. An alliance between Russia and Turkey is the subject of gossip in European circles. The Irish Land League is rapidly extending, and branches have already been organized in nearly every county in The insurructionists in Cuba are again active; and Spain will at once send over additional troops to put them down. It is rumored that the proposed increase in the German army is causing great additions to the emigration from that country. Burglarr entered the home of Joseph Hensely at Chicago, a night or two ago, and whep closely pressed shot him. killing him instantly. Father Scully, a Catholic priest of Boston, is accused of refusing sacrament to a dying pmishoner because his children were sent to the public school. The loss to the Government in the amount of money received by postmasters throughout, the country the past two years, will be less than l-20th of 1 per cent. I. - ] The Spanish government has sanctioned a lottery of 2,000,000 francs organized by the committee of journalists for the benefit of the sufferers by floods in Murcia. It is believed the British government will make a liberal appropriation for the relief of the Irish poor ouof the surplus of .£3,500,000 remaining in the church fund. It is said that the Emperor Alexan der, of Russia, has become a confirmed nypoehondriae. He shuts himself up for days, and can with difficulty be persuaded to take food. Fernando C. Beaman has been up pointed by the Governor of Michigan as United States Senator from that State, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Zaehi Chandler. There are 227,902 negro slaves to be emancipated in Cuba under the pending act, which the Spanish Government does not seem disposed to make an accomplished fact/ A new ocean telegraph cable has just beeu laid across the Atlantic, from Brest, France, to Cai>e Cod, Mass. This makes the fifth telegraphic cable connecting Europe and America. A notification has been received at the Post Office Department that the Republic of Venezuela has become a member of the Universal Postal Union, to date from the Ist of next January. » An immense bed of coal has been discovered on the line of the Northern Pacific road. At a point 130 miles west,of Bismarck a fourteen-foot vein of bituminous coal crops out, which will.be used in operating the line. A sanitary commission has pronounced Dublin, Ireland, the most unhealthy city in the Kingdom on account of defective drainage. Hon. F. C. Beamen, recently appointed United States Senator from Michigan, declined on account of ill health, and Hon. Henry P. Baldwin, of Detroit, has been appointed to fill the vacancy.

The commissioner of pensions has published a letter warning all pensioners against persons who are demanding gratuities for having secured the passage ol the arrears of pensions act. During the Lord Mayor’s procession in London, recently, the retiring Mayor was frequently hissed by t» e populace. Wherever the American flag was displayed it was cheered by the crowds aud saluted by the. Councilmen and Mayor-elect. The largest aggregation of silver coin ever known to have been in this country at one time is now in the United States Treasury vaults, where more than $40,000,000 has accumulated. Of this amount $32,000,000 is standard silver dollars. ; It is said that a daughter of General

Sickles, recently ran away from Paris, I France, with a married man named McCarthy, and is now living with him j in London. . I The importation of "neat" cattle from Canada into the United States has been officially prohibited by the authorities at Washington, on account of the jdetuo-pneumonia now prevalent in Canadia x herds. During the present season one line of steamers running between Montreal and Liverpool has carried out 5,463 cattle, 23,212 sheep, 99 hogs, 180 horses and 74 mules. Out of Oils whole number not more than a dozen died at sea. A bank has been established in the City of Mexico in order to develop the mines of the Sierra Mojada. Numbers of Californians are going to the mines. A rich gold mine and a quick silver mine have been discovered at Oaxaca. It is rumored that the United States Government has in contemplation a new move in the fisheries question, and that several officials from Washington are now in Prince Edward Island collecting information relative to the question. In furtherance of his plan for the suppression of lotteries, Postmaster General Key has instructed postmasters iu some of the larger cities to forward to the dead letter office all letters addressed to the assumed name or allies of lottery dealers. Governor Bishop, of Ohio, ha* sued the Cincinnati Gazette for libel, claiming damages to his character to the amount of $60,000. The alleged libel was some strictures of the Gazette on the Governor’s conduct concerning the Cincinnati Police Board. .

One of the New York gas companies has given cheap gas a trial, and finds that it pays. The rates are put at [email protected] per 1,000 feet, according to the amount consumed. Borne hundreds of parties who burned kerosene immediately gave it up and returned to gas. It is now stated that Jay Gould is about to push the construction of the Utah Southern Railroad through Arizona, and down the Colorado valley to San Diego. He hopes to tap the rich mines in Arizona before the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road can get there. The Indians at W illiams Lake British Columbia, are reports, as starving. Tbeirchief has had translated, for publication, a pathetic appeal to her Majesty, reciting how they have been deprived of their lands and means and livelihood by the whites, and asking relief, saying that his young men will not starve in peace. It is charged that the trustees of a prominent Boston institution have been furnishing its coffees made up of roasted peas and rye, worth only three and four cents per pound; also a tea composed largely of stems worth twen-ty-eight and twenty-nine cents a pound, according (to a report of the State Associate Assayer. A new electric lamp is now being exhibited in New York City. The ectricity is generated by a small dy-namo-electric machine, pencil or carbon, which is heated to incandescence iu a hermetically sealed glass tube Containing a nitrogen pencil eight inches long, and it is claimed tnat one pencil will! bu :n three hours a day for one year aud a half. Its cost is two cents. Following is the result of the official count of the recent vote in New York, given in majorities, except in the case of Cornell, which shows his plurality: Cornell, Republican, for Governor, 40,172. Hoskins, Republican, for Lieutenant Governor, 1,130. Carr, Republican, for Secretary of State, Wadsworth, Republican, for Comptroller, 7,65®. Ward, Republican, fer Attorney General, 7,909. Wendell, Republican, for Treasurer, 4,651. Seymour, Democrat, for Engineer and Surveyor, 9,961. Germany has a system of collecting small claims through her postoffices which has been so successful that France adopted it last summer. The charges are from 10 to 20 cents for each collection. During the first fortyfive days tjhe system was in operation 132,000 bills of exchange and .notes were received for collection, and about three-fourths of the amount of money they called for was collected. The number received during the last two weeks of that period was nearly double that of the first fortnight. The average amount of these cluims was only $3.88. J

The gross proceeds of the disposal of the public lands of the United States dni ing the fiscal year ending June 30,1879, were as follows: Cash sales, $894,840.93; fees, commissions, etc., $980,314.43; total, $1,875„155.86. The total expenses are set down (including the surveys) at $1,046,778.94. The British have hanged forty-nine of the Afghans who were found guilty of participating in the massacre of Cabul. The extent of the complicity of the ‘late Ameer in that bloody tragedy is yet to be ascertained. If found guilty of having advised or countenanced the massacre, he, too, * ill be hanged. *, j A Catholic priest of Morris, three miles east of Batesville, this State, was arrested the other day, for brutally beatiug three child reu of his church who acted as pail-bearers at the funeral of a Protestant child three years old. A change of venue was asked by the priest, aud his .preliminary trial was being held Friday evening. A Washington dispatch says that “Secretary Thompson will cover Into the treasury over a million of dollars which were appropriated to his department, but not used, owing to the very rigid economy which he has enforced In the bureaus of that service, rhe appropriation for his own office is

not all used, and every bureau under him' returns a surplus fund to the treasury.” It was thought but a short time ago by his friends that General Sehenck wss utterly ruined by his investments : in Northern Pacific stocks. He had invested nearly his whole fortune in these and they had become worthless, but the recent rise in' stocks includes the Northern Pacific, and they are now more valuable than ever before, and General Schenek has been raised from poverty to comparative wealth. The mere fact that his stocks were too worthless to sell compelled him to hold them till they are now a fortune to him. The latest advices from Los Pinos indicate that the hostile Utes are steadily gaining the ascendancy In the negotiations now pending before the Peace Commissioners. The Chiefs continue to lie with unabated vigor regarding their part in the murders committed at White River and Milk Creek, and the small military detachment guarding the Commission are becoming alarmed at the signs of in* creasing hostility displayed by the angry Indians. It is only too evident that the plan devised ;by Mr. Schurz for the surrender of the murderers will prove a miserable failure. The ravages of the diphtheria in Russia, as detailed in the cable dispatches, are indeed appalling. In Odessa, since last May, over threefourths of the infant population have fallen victims to the malady. In several districts the disease lias been epidemic for the past two years without interruption. At one village over fifty chileren died In two weeks, and in eleven districts it prevailed with deadly virulence. The mortality is not confined to children, but extends to the adult population as well, and the malady ia proving more terrible than any pestilence that has visited the empire for years.

INDIANA INKLINGS.

Connersville consumes about three barrels of whisky per week. From April to November, Madison had 25 fires, mostly incendiary. Twenty-five lawyers eke out an existauce in the little city ofßushviile. Counterfeit daddy dollars are troubling the people of Howard county. The "pop” of the slaughtering shotgun makes Sunday music on the Kankakee. A yield of 75 bushels of corn per acre, on twelve acres, is reported from Hancock county. The prowling horse thief has been getting in his work extensively, recently around Richmond. A panther at large, makes the life of timid persons a torture, in a neighborhood near Hagerstown. Millions of pigeons made a halt in this years migration, at Heuryville, Clark county. A party killed 65 dozen of them in one night The almost incredible statement is made that the Mississiunewa river was frozen over at Marion, on the night of£he 10th inst. Several of the manufacturing establishments of New Albany were compelled to suspend operation by the recent coal famine. TnE pipe of a coal stove in- the sleeping room of a family in Elkhart became unjointed, and the entire family came near dying with asphyxy. Thomas Meatick died in Rush county, the other day, at the age of 80 years. For three days previous to his death, he had taken no nourishment whatever. Two ruffians made a deadly assault upon Michael McMahon, near Laporte, the other night, clubbing him nearly to death, Robery was supposed to be their object. The Madison city council recenty voted $50,000 in twenty year 7 per cent, bonds to aid the building of the Bedford, Brownstown and Madison narrow guage railroad. In one of the yolks of a double-yolk-ed egg, laid at South Bend, a few days ago, the half-formed, but clearly deformed body of a lizard was found, instinct with life. The brain of Joseph W. Barker, the Huntington couuty dwarf who died a few weeks ago, weighed fifty-nine ounces-, or seveu ounces more than th* brain of Daniel Webster.

Jacob Bixler, of Mitchell, threw a plank from a scaffold on the top of a house, where he was bdildiug a chimney, arid struck Daniel Davis on tbs bead, injuring him fatally. Samuel Bradfield, a one-armed man from the western part of Nobis county, was arrested recently charged with incest with his daughter. He went to jail in default of bail. ' Wabash county boasts of not less than a half dozen families, whose members range in numbers from sixteen to twenty. In the latter family there * are twelve males and eight females. li The Commissioners of Blackford county have ordered that bonds to the amonnt of SB,OOO be issued, of SI,OOO each, for the purpose of building a turnpike in that county. The bonds to bear 6 per cent interest, A school house was burned to the ground in Grant county last week. The fire was the work of an incendiary, and is supposed to have been prompted by a way that had sprung up between rival teachers who were applicants for the school, Three children of a man named Vanee, at Millersburg, were terribly scalded by the stove falling down and turning a boiler of boiling water upon them. Two of them died, and at last accounts there Was no hope of the recovery of the other. V. T. Malott, geneial manager of the Indianapolis, Peru A Chicago

ro«l t hM«»feMtod with the Cam-1 bridge City ear worka for 100 box’care, to be delivered in 50 days, to be used in the local business of the road. ; Township Trustees are considerably puzzled over the laws which requires them under a penalty of S2OO One for failure, to foroish the Geological Bureau with a list of the proatititutes, bed men, deed beats, drunkards etc., In their townships.; The convicts In the prison a present time by birth, represent twenty-eight states. Indiana fru-nishee 135; Ohio 118; New York 64; Pennsylvania 27 ; Illinois 52; Kentucky 21; while New Hampshire, Alabama, Deleware, Nebraska, South Carolina, furnishes one each. In addition to the states, Austria furnishes 1; Bavaria 1; Canada 6; Englaud 15; Fnanoe2; East Indies 1; Germany 13; Ireland 21; Prussia 10; Portland 2; Scotland 3; Sweden 3; and Switzerland 8; An extensive gang of robbers operating in Deleware, Henry, Randolph and Wayne counties, with headquarters at Winchester, Mancie, and Richmond, has been broken up by the arrest, of Dr. McCrUlis, of Muncie, Lyle and Cain, at Winchester, A. Gates, at Pennville, and Sarah Ann Rhodes at Richmond, about three thousand dollars’ worth of stolen goods was recovered, and information obtained vhich will lead to the recovery of much more.

Two months ago a couple of finelooking men visited the farm of Moses Smith, a worthy colored man, in Hanover township, Jefferson .county Finding him at work in the field, the strangers proceeded to compliment the old man’s farm, and wound up by offering him the agency for selling a certain kind of baiter, saying that they would give him one for every one he sold. They showed him a paper which he refused to sign or put his mark to, and leaving a few halters they departed, saying that they would be back again, but they never returned. Last week, however, a bank notice was sent to Mr. Smith from Cincinnati, saying that they had a note of SSOO left with hem for collection, which note had "X" mark on it. The note had been left at the Fir»t National Bank of Madison for collection, and it looks like the unfortunate old man will have to pay it even at the sacrifice of his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were slaves at one time, and by hard work raised SI,OOO each with which they bought their freedom. The farm they now live on they paid $2,100 for. Two years ago they were burned out of a house, but haye since erected another Much sympathy is expressed fdr Mr Smith in his dilemma.

Little Red Noses.

From th* Detroit Free Preu. How that north wind whistled and stung the other day! It was the first signal of a long, dreary winter, and even men in overcoats turned sharp corners to get out of the biting blast. Two children, a boy and a girl, neither over nine years old, stood shivering in a doorway on Monroe avenue, wishing to go on to their lonely home, but dreading the wind. They crept closer and closer to each other, and their chins quivered and their noses grew red as they grew colder. Hundreds of men and women passed up and down without care, but by and by along came a whistling, jovial lad of fourteen, who was swingiug his bootrblack’s kit by a strap and picking up the steps of some clog-dance. He saw the shfveriug bits of humanity where others were blind, and halting before them with a "ciig-jigger-rigger" of his heels and a toss of his box, he called out. "Kin I borry them ’ere chins o’yours bout an hour?" “Yes, ma’am," demurely replied the girl. "I kin, eh?—ho! ho! ho! That’s' a give-away on me! Be your chickens eold?" cold?’, "Yes. ma’am" she answered again. "Ana that ’ere cub is your brother, I s’spose? Well when I’m cold I git warm. What do you do—freeze?" "Yes, ma’am, if you please," she replied. "If I please—ha! ha! ha!—’nother give-away on me! Well, you autumn leaves comt along with me. I hain’t got nr influence on the weather, but I kin sr.i 41 a hot stove as fur off as the next si;iner in this town. Come right over to this store." He led the way across the street and nto the office where there was a fire. He had placed chairs for them when u man camj in from a back room and said: "What do you children want here?" "Want some o’ this waste hotness," bluntly replied the shiner. "These 'ere cubs is nigh froze to death, and I brought ’em here to thaw out." "And we won’t eyen look at you, nor cough, nor sneeze 1" added the little girl, as she saw a frown on the man’s face.

“That’srichness; there’s innocence!’’ laughed the shiner, and the man’s face cleared and he poked up the fire and said they could sit nearer. , “S’pose me’n you chip in and buy ’em sumthin’ to stay their stomachs?’’ suggested Shiner all of a sudden. “Tell you what, some of the children iu this town don't have a square meal any mor’n you’n me were diamonds. Little gal, are you hungry?” “Yes, ma’am,-if you won’t be mad at us,” she replied. The man stood irresolute, but Shiner went down into his pocket, rattled around and said: “Here's ten cents that says they are hungry!” “Well, I’ll give as much,” replied the man. ‘.‘You go and buy something and they can sit here aud eat it ” Shiner bought crackers and cheese, and the children ate until he felt obliged to say: “Now you cub go a leetle bit slow and save the rest for supper. Kin ye find the way home alone?” “Yes, ma’am.” “And do you feel as warm as ’tatar bugs rolled up in wool?” “Yes, ma’am.” “All right, then. We’re dead to rights-obliged to this man, and I’ll black bis hoots besides. You’d better run along home now. What ye goln’ to tell yer mother?” “I’ll tell her we come awful near going to heaven, and mv little brother he thanks you, too, and"now we’ll go, and—and thank you, ma'am, ever so many times; good bye!” .The man looked after ihera through the window with softer lines in his race than had been there for months. The boy stood outside on tlio walk and watched until they had turned a corner, and then exclaimed: “Phew! but I most feel that I was ingaiged to that gal?”

CONDIMENTS.

Here lies a girl as one forgotten, who lost her shape with the raise of cotton. "The deeds that men do live after them," while their "duds" are divided among the afflicted. A new song is entitled “My love She Is a Kitten. ,J Kittens scratch like ths mischief, and so perhaps does his love. The proper form for a will nowadays will read: "To the respective attorneys cMMny children I give my entire eeEdward 8. Stokes is but the shadow of his former self. And It is the same way,with Jim Fisk, whom he sent to the shades. It is a current bard who sings, "I sat alone with my conscience." Two to one he never had less fun in all his born days. A young lady attending balls and parties should have a female chaperone until she is able to call some other chap her own. Talmage will lecture In the Redpaib Bureau on the subject of "Big Blunders." He knows something about how It is himself. “ES Winter night fair Isabel; I Yr 8???? u P° n knees and tell *° kirl Is band Rummer than she And that she Autumn marry me. "Py schimminy, how dot poy studies de languages!" is what a delighted elderly German said when his fouryear old son called him a blear eyed son of a saw-horse. Accounts say that there has never before been such a drought as now in the State of Texas. Still there is no trouble in getting a drink there if the applicant has fifteen cents. A pork packer is a man who slips into your unlocked cellar and carries off half the hog your thoughtful father-in-law sent in from • the country to make into Christmas sausage. An embarrassed actor bounded on the stage of a San Francisco theater, in a scene depicting a robbery in a hotel office, and shouted, "Gag the safe, while I blow open the night clerk." A young lady who didn’t admire the custom in vogue among her sisters of writing a letter, and then cross-writing it to illegibility, said she would prefer her epistles "without an overskirt." A proper conclusion for the marriage ceremony in many of our fashionable "society" weddings would be: "What commercial interests have jhtned together, let no ill-temper put asunder!" When the old gentleman comes home and finds his daughters have got his slippers and tlieeasy chair, and the evening paper ready for him, he realizes that it is the season for a fall opening of his pocket book.

4 Prof. Adler says that "it is necessary in these modern days to dress up truths in new and attractive garbs so tha# men will listen." Which is equivalent to saying that men now-a-days have no regard for the naked truth. A distinguished French actor who prepares ladies for the stage requires them to walk two or three hours every day with a brimming vessel of water on their heads. He probably wishes them to acquire a floating gait. A girl has been discovered in Rochester who can chew gum for seven hours and "look off" just like a piano player, and never miss a chank. She is not yet eleven years old, end great expectations are entertained of her. Col. Mapleson, log—" What voice is mute, the leading flute, would I shoot the blam’d galoot. What, ho, within, chief violiu, you’ll play to-night and set things right. Blawßt my sanguinary eyes, they caun’t get the better of me, you know." "Do, do keep away from that window,” said he. "But I’m not afraid of the lightning," replied she. "Ah, dear,” continued the youth, frantically, "little do you realize how attractive you are." And having made this appeal he was able to conduct ’er away When a spirited girl takes a mental inventory of the stock iu trade of the thin-limbed young men who stand along the public thoroughfares. Sucking the tops of their sticks, she doubts the wisdom and justice of Nature in tendering her sex such frail means of support. A man stopping his paper, writes: "I think folks ottent to spent their munny for a payper, my dada didant, and everybody sed he was the iutelligentist man in the country, and he had the smartest family of boiz that ever dugged taters." Of course he didn’t need a paper. When a boy on his way to Sunday school loses the nickel he has been carrying for the missionary box, he is torn with agonizing rem< rse because be didn’t.spend it for peanuts before it was wasted. If sorrow for the defrauded heathen factors in his agony, he isn’t aware of it. When little Bob asked his sister’s beau for a cigar, his future brother-in-law snubbed him with the remark: “Young man, a strap would do you more good." Next night Bob’s sister and her young man got their hands, chins and clothes smeared with coal tar while lingering at the front gate, and little Bob when questioned on the subject, said he couldn’t tell -a lie, "it must have been a tramp." It is well to look at all sides of a subject before you indulge in an opinion. Curran once said to Father Deary: "I wish, reverend father, that you were St. Peter and had the keys of heaven, because they would let me in." Th* shrewd and witty priest saw the sarcasm and turned its sharp edge on the skeptip-by replying, "By my honor and Conscience, sir. it would be better for that I had the keys of the other* place,(for then I could let you out" ■

AGRICULTURAL.

Rye barley crop of Minnesota is regortej the heaviest ever produced in the tate. Corn can now be safely cribbed. Let the boys go into the fields with songs aud rejoicing. In Louisiana the sugar cane knocked down by, the storm has straightened up and is growing a fine crop. The pastures generally have become flush under the late rains, and, in many localities, previously dry, stock are getting full feed. The production of butter and cheese in this country Is said to be four times greater in value than the total yield of our gold and silver mines. The tide of immigration now pushing into Kansas in wagons, is larger than ever known before. They are destined for Western Kansas principally. There is an extraordinary demand for timothy seed, meadows generally not having produced well this seasen. The market has constantly advanced since August. The Philadelphia Record, in noting the failure of the beet root sugar crop in California, says.: It beats nothing In- the way of cane sugar, but beats stockholders out of $60,000. Neither Indian corn, nor potatoes, nor squashes, nor cabbage, nor turnips, were known in England till the opening

of foe tenth century. The peasant* and steam." The contest ho^r fc h&wSTuS aodlord and tenant: i.»3^?,3^ Ven ß? rt Democrat has a glowing paragraph on the quantitv of ljist year about 3,000 acres of winter wheat were put in, and the yield was immense, in some instances as high as thirtv-flve to forty bushels to the acre. This year nearly 25,000 acres have been put in. some one may have sore fingers over the winter wheat caaze. H°n James Wilson says. "Just now, there is a great demand for feeding steers, which is an evidence of something Jacking. The most profitable way to manage is to raise the steers you feed, as you rarely can buy, first-class animals. It takes care to reach the point when you are possessed of first-class young steers, and those who are enterprising enough to raise good steers are generally wise enough to feed them. Farmers who" have money at command can not easily put it in a more profitable investment than a judicious outlay on their farms. Draining we land is estimated to return from 40 to 80 per cent on the yearly cost. In the same way, good stock pays better than poor; good fencing, well selected fruit trees,carefullyjlooked-after homesteads, all repay the money laid out, and besides all that, add immensely to the comfort of the occupier. Stocks may rise, or stocks mav fall; usury be excessive, or interest decrease; hanks may suspend and great corporations fail; but the farmer need never be a loss where to use his surplus Adding acresto acres is not always wise; but to increase the productive power of the land, to improve the home, is a good use of mouey wheu sensibly done and in the increased profit secured, and good and comfort gained, there will be a certain reward, of I lie prudent saving which gathers !he capital that makes progress and prosperity possible

A Parrot’s Love for a Child.

Globe Democrat. - j ' Some months ago I met a gentleman from Alabama, who was possessed of remarkable conversational powers, and during a conversation Of a couple of hours he related the following parrot story, which I verily believe to be the best I ever heard: "Dr. —, of Montgomery, Ala., owned a parrot dliring and after the war that was the pride and wonder of all Montgomery county. He had learned so many phrases and witty sayings that the darkies wheu they came to town on Saturdays would congregate around his cage in large crowds and applaud by .saying: ‘Bress G«d! dat ’ar bird \got white folk’s sense!’ The Doctor, like all physicians, was frequently called out at night by some one’s ‘halloo’ at the front gate. Polly learned all this, and one night when the Doctor answered a shrill •halloo’ by coming to thedoor and asking what was wanted. Polly answered from a bunch of rosebushes, ‘Ha! ha! ha! I fool the Doctor that time; hi! he! ha!’ Polly received a sound threshing for this trick, and was quite sullen for a week or so, when one dark, rainy night the Doctor woke up to hear some one at *he gate ‘raising Cain;’ and repeating his ‘hajloo’ frequently. Going to the door he called out and asked who was there. From the tip-top of a tall Lombardy poplar the parrot screamed out in fiendish glee: ‘Ha! ha! ha! You can’t catch Polly k this time! You can’t! •jt can’t!! you can’t!J!’ All the Doct ©r’spersuasive arts were called Into requisition to get übe parrot down from her high perch, but she could not be deceived, coaxed or flattered into doing as he commandt ed or entreated* her. She resolutel kept her perch all night in the rain and waited until he started oft next morning on his daily round before she ventured down. The Doctor had a little boy aged about two years, and for ‘whom the parrot formed a strong attachment. Warren was the child’s name, and by and by he fell sick. The parrot moped around, and appeared to be quite melancholy. At times, when the child was left alone for a few moments. Polly would hop en the edge of the cradle, and, spreading out her wings, she would vibrate them like fans, and ask as she heard the nurse ask: "Poor baby! baby want water? baby sick? baby hungry? poor baby? Polly’s so-o-o sorry." Finally the child died, and the parrot slunk away for the two days proceeding the funeral, and was neither seen nor heard. On returning from the cemetery, the, family met it, waddling along in the middle of the road, repeating to herself in the tenderest and most mournful manner: "Where’s little Warren? Poor baby! baby sick? Biby want water? P-o-o-o-o r baby! Polly’s so-o-o sorry." ’ Bhe was picked up and taken back home, but never spoke another word until the day of her death, when she cried out: "Hawks, hawks," and the next minnte was whisked away in the talons of a monstrous chicken hawk that had been watching for an oppor-, tunity to carry her off for several hours. Veritas.

Chips for the Children.

Willie asked his mother Where the stars came from. Her reply was: “My son, Ido not know.” “Well, I do,” ho said; “the moon laid’em.” I A little boy was one day asked by a clergyman if he knew what an implicit, child-like faith was. He thought he did... Being asked to describe It, after this king a momen the said : “When my mother says a thing is so, I must believe it is 'so, if it ain’t so. A little girl visiting the country, and for the first time witnessed the operation of milking. Waching tj>e proceedings intently for a while, she inspected the cow minutely, and then launched this poser: “Where do they putit in?” A fashionable visitor thus addressed a little girl; “How do you do, my little dear?” Very well, I thank you.” she replred. The visitor then added: “Now, my dear, you must ask me how Ido ” The child honestly replied, I don’t want to know.” A little girl nbout four years old and a little boy about six had "been cautioned not to take away the nest egg; but one morning when they went for the eggs the girl took it and started forthe house. Her disapoi tried brothel followeed, crying: “Mother, mother, Busey’ got the egg the old hen meas ures by!” , The colored peoplo of Indiana are circulating a petition, asking the Goveroor to pardon William Nelson, colored, now confined ia the penitentiary . for marrying a whit ? woman. As the petition says, the law under which he is confined is utterly “at variance with the genius of eur free institutions.”