Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1879 — Page 4

INDIANA INKLINGS.

A Vihcphm lunatic is working on an air ship. The Marshal county cranberry crop is reported to be the finest ever gathered than. The ladies at Peru are preparing to do the calling on New Years Day.-*-Leap Year. Aboct 8,000 persona passed through Plymouth enroute to the Grant recept-

on at Chicago. Thk Polish Catholic church at South Bend was destroyed by a whirlwind a few days ago. Indiana block coal found a ready mai ket in Cincinnati while the Ohio was down so low. ' Vistula, Ind., claims a farmer who goes into trances and preaches remarkably fine sermons. Concentrated lye mixed in the food and water of hogs is said to be a very effective cure for hog cholera. The residence of a Mr. Straw, of Fremont, was entered a few night* since and about S3OO taken therefrom. A woman with a full grown mustache and chin whiskers created a sensation on the streets of New Castle, the other day. A train on the Lake Shore railroad stops twenty-five minute for supper at laPorte, whereat the eating-house man complains. . Castleman Rankin, of Leesburg, was found dead in his bed a few mornings since. He was perfectly well an hour before the discovery of his death One week ago last Saturday night the residence of a Mr. Gugular, of Tippecanoe township, was entered by burglars and SBOO in money, and a watch taken. The Treasurer’s offlee of Marion county was robbed in open daylight, recently, the thieves getting away with $905 in cash and a quantity of valuable papers. Mr. Allen Hunt, an aged artist of Marion, who.has been long addicted to habits of intemperance, died upon the streets of that city, a few days ago. from alcoholism. . : Hon. Isaac Odell, of Shelby county, a prominent lawyer and politician, was stricken with paralysis the other day while pleading a case, and died two days afterward. •• • } Recently a six-year old daughter of F. M. Hunt, who residesseven.miles n6rth of Muncie, was instantly killed by the falling as a cave, used as a cellar, breaking her neck, shoulder and one . arm. So deeply was she buried that it required an hour's digging to reach her. William Kirtlky. jr., and Miss Amy Moore, both of Peru, were secrectly married at Bturgis, Mich., last September and managed to keep the matter mun until last week, when a lost letter laid bare the truth. The denouement was a grand surprise all around. Tipton Times: Therehas never, in the history of Tipton county, been a season in which so much tile has been manufactured and used as during the present one. The tile factories throughout the county, of which there are . some fifteen or sixteen, have all been . run to their fullest capacity. ’ A St. Joseph county physician directed a youth whom he had in his employ to clean out his. horse stable, and his order was implicitly obeyed. On going to the barn the doctor found the floor of the stable split up and neatly piled outside, and the man chopping away at the stall partitions. A colony which left Lawrence county, this State, for Kansas, two months ago returned last week, having in their possession much less .lucre than when they left, but a far greater stock of wisdom. They caution the people of Indiana to stick to their homes, and to go anywhere else but to Kansas. The last car load of a large order from Wm. H. Vanderbilt were shipped from Bedford to New York a day or two since. The stone is to be used in the construction of a fine private residence. Since the stone begun, to arrive in that city several orders have been received from other parties, and a large trade is anticipated for next " season. Miss Jennie Huddleson has under taken a commendable work of charity at Rushville, this State. Some time ago she proposed to the county commissioners to take the children at the poor farm between the ages of six and fourteen and send them to school, *. furnishing the necessary board, clothing, etc., for the sum of twehty-five I cents a day for each child. Her terms were acoepted, and to-day Miss Hnddleson has one of the largest and happiest fomiliee in Rushville. . For the past week or ten days there s has been a woman, giving her name as Fanny Parks, or Parker, living around in Howard and Read’s woods in the neighborhood of Jeffersonville, Clarke county. She applied to several of the neighbors for help, telling them she was about to become a mother. A few days ago the woman dissappeared, and nothing more was thoubgt about it until Nov. 15, when one of the neigh-

’x>re was attracted by the continuous bellowing of the cows and the gathering of the pigs in a particular spot. He went to the scene, and was horrified to find the mutilated remains of a new born male infant, nearly devoured by the hogs. LaPobte Chronicle : A genius has been discovered in our midst in the person of a young lady. Her name is Paulina Kugler, and she is about sixteen years of age. Like all true geniuses she is modest and diffident. Hhe lets another and not herself praise her efforts. We were permitted last week to see one of hsrhandsomedrawngs, a portrait of Rubens. It is indeed a masterpiece, and will surely be the means of leading this talente

uljl Mj j to which her genius entitles her. The young artist resides in the Fifth ward She is of German extraction, and doubtless inherited some of her artistic ability from her father, Martin Kugler, who was a leading bank notoeugraver in Europe. A gentleman who can appreciate talent wherever he finds It la

interesting himself in Mias Kngler’s case, and has placed her portrait of Rubens in one of the art collections of Chicago. He informs us that wellknown connoisseurs there speak In eulogistic terms of the portrait, and express glowing opinions of Miss Kngler’s future success. Albert Woodard, of Jefferson county, with his wife and two daughters—Melissa, aged eighteen, and aged eight yCare—had been visiting a married daughter, at Jeffersonville, foa several days past. They started home Nov. 18, about 8:30 o’clock, in a a spring wagon with a mule team. About two miles southeast of that city they had to cross the Clifty river, an ugly fording place at the best, but that morning the river was an angry, swollen torrent after the late hard rains, and Mr. Woodard, not knowing how treacherously deep the water was, made the fatal attempt to cross, depending on the strength of his trusty | team. But as they neared the opposite shore the current bocame too strong, and the mules became entangI led in the harness which was about to throw them down. Mr Woodard then got out on the wagon to cut the harness in which he partly succeeded, I hoping to loosen the mules, and thereby save his family. The water swept him off his feet before he accomplished I bis purpose, and he sank and rose several times. He says the last thing he saw was his wife and children, with I agonized faces, clinging to the upturnj ing wagon. After he was swept enJ tirely away from them, he beard their ; piteous cnes to him. but he was enable ito do anything. He was swept down ! the stream quite a distance and dashed I against thebank. As soon as he recovered himself he looked around, but saw no 6igns of his family or team. He then hurried to'the nearest house, that of Mr. Lingsmith’s, and told his terI rible story. Mr. Lingsmith hurried ! for town for aid, and in a'short time *a great number of citizens were at the j place of the accideht with boats to try I and find the bodies dead or alive. They succeeded in fiuding nothing but the mules and some loose clothing that was'in the wagon. The rnuhrs were dead.

ODDS AND ENDS.

Gex Hooker’s estate is worth SIOO- - 7 Every railroad entering Chicago nas adopted wire for fencing. Oxe-half of the babies born in Berlin die before they are a year old. Five persons were run down by bicycles on London pavements week before last. Wasfuxoton’s birthday, Decoration day, July 4th and Christmas will fall on Sunday in ISBO. A Detroit undertaker advertises that Senator Chandler was buried in one of his coffins. The owners of the horse St. Julien, which has a record of 2:12}, have refused $40,000 for him. Spurgeox says that now, as in . the day of Luther, men stand staring at the truth like cows at amew gate. The cattle fed on the slop from the Peoria distilleries are dying at the rate of forty a day fever. Two neighbors at Plain City have paid over SSOO in contesting for the possession of an iron bolt worth forty cents. Thomas Jackson, an Albany stone cutter, has recovered $20,000 damages for injuries received in the Ashtabula disaster. The cotton mills of Augusta, Ga., pay a dividend of twenty-eight per ent. on a capital of nine hundre thousand dollars. General Whitfield, the Southern leader in the fight to establish slavery in Kansas, died the other day at LavTexas. Rochester University has received a donation of $4,000 worth of books from the Rev. E. L. Magoon, of Philapelphia. j Dr. J aqer A. Stuttgart, professor, informs an enraptured world that he has discovered the nose to*be the seat of the soul. No one objects'to seeing the Indian summer here, but out in Colorado they say they would* rather see the Indian somewher’ else. Queen Victoria sent word to the London papers a fortnight ago that she was eating new strawberries grown at Balmoral Castle. John X.. Brown, Esq., the oldest apothecary in Boston, now in his ninetieth year, has voted the State ticket every year since 1812. The price of wine is variable, according to the label on the-bottle, notwithstanding one label can be printed as cheaply as another. No matter how handsome a family' monument a man may have in the emetery, he never wants to lie on bis back and look up at it.

Dr. William Schmoele, a professor at Bonn University, says he has discovered that human life can be vastly prolonged by eating lemons. Half a bushel of plate and jewelry has been contributed by the members of a Baltimore church to the manufacture of a new communion service. A butcher in York county, Pennsylvania, while cutting rounds from a slaughtered steer, recently, found in the beef a gold dollar, dated 1862. The nose of a steamer at a fire in Albany, recently, was choked by an eel thirty-one and one-half inches long

> ■ 1 tar* “A PEW for sale, commanding a beautify view of nearly the whole A CANAL has just been completed In Hawaii for the irrigation of the sugar plantations in the center of the ieland,

which crosses twenty-eight gorges in the moan tains and is thirty miles in length. After witnessing a shooting match in which glass balls were need instead of birds, the Emperor of Germany told the marksmen that be was very much gratified to learn that the cruel practice of killing birds for amusement is no longer countenanced by sporting entlemen. The London World: “The *youn girls of respectable families’ who support a pair of aged parents on their earnings, and who lead the life of vestals, are perhaps as common behlDd the footlights as the daughters of dignitaries es the Church of England and eminent military men behind the refreshment bar.” v Baron Rothschild, the head of the Vienna house, has built a stable on hi suburban grounds which cost SBO,OOO. The chains, rings, and drain pipes are es silver, the floors of marble, the ceilings are covered with frescoes by the most eminent Austrian artists, and the wails are of the finest eucaustic tiles. The stall in which his favorite horse is kept cost $12,000. | |Beforb he entered the arena of politics, the late Senator Chandler was known among the irreverent Detroiters as “Old Yardstick.” Liverpool commission merchant charge our shippers enormous rates. “Rattage,” or destruction by rats, forms a large item, and the other day aLivers pool agent charged “rattage” on a cargo of lead. An eccentric Englishman has built a house in Paris whioh is the talk of the city. It is circular, has neither door nor window externally,,and the approach to it is from the ground to the roof by means of a ladder, which is moved up and down by machinery. There is only one floor, but eighteen apartments look into the center, which Is lighted by a cupola. Dr. Dusch, who lives in Belgium, on the other side of the Atlantic, says that a red canary can be made easily. Get a canary of the Norwich breed, and just before and after moulting feed it on the white of an egg which has been sprinkled with a little of the very finest cayenne pepper, and before long the canary will turn to a pretty red color. The highest inhabited point in the world is the camp at the mouth of the Present Help mine, 140 feet below the summit of Mount Lincoln, in Park oounty, Colorado. According to Prof. Hayden’s government surveys it is 14,167 feet above the level of the sea. Ex-Minister Washburn, in speaking of the Paris Commune, says: “For months there was no meat in Paris but horse meat and mule meat. I never ate horse, but I confess to have partaken freely of mule; and I will say, to the credit of that much-abused animal, that I found him quite good. My Secretary assured me that of the many kinds of meat he had eaten none were so good as that pf the elephant. The stories about people eating cats, rats, dogs and other small animals,. in-Paris, are literally triie.” Soon after Ward Lamon was made Marshal of the District in 1861, he was in the neighborhood of a corfler fight, and in restoring peace, he struck one of the beligerents with his fist, the weapon with which he was notoriously familiar. He struck rather harder than he intended, and the fellow was picked up unconscious and lay some hours on the border of life and death. Lamon was greatly frightened, and reported the affair to the President. “I am astonished at you, Ward,” said he. “You ought to know better. Hereafter when you have to hit a man use a club, not your fist.” A laDy in Philadelphia attempted last week to swallow $375 in greenbacks at a single gulp. She had taken this sum from the pocket of her brother-in-law, and he had called In police officers to arrest her, and when they undertook to search her she struggled so violently that they were compelled to desist. When she was arraigned in the Central Station her shriveled jowls were observed to be inflated, and something like green paste wss oozing between her lips. The officers pried open her jaws and ascertained that her mouth was filled with greenback pulp.

NEWSLETS

The revised Bible will cost $200,000 before the first oopy is printed. lowa now has 4.721 miles ol railroad, an increase ol 670 miles in a year. The announcement is made that within niuty days boots and shoes will increase twenty per cent in price. The Mexican congress has approved the contract for laying a telegraph cable across the Gulf of Mexico to the United States..

A colony of sixty-five farmers and their families, from England, Ireland and Scotland, sailed from-Liverpool, a day or two since, bound for Texas. The cost of taking the next census is estimated by the Superintendent at $3,000,000, and that for a short time it will give employment to twenty thousand persons. Thk distress in Montenegro is very great; one-fifth' ot the population is almost starving, and the present supplies of food will only last until the end of January. A newly invented locomotive in England is expected to take the place of horses upon the street railways. It emits neither smoke nor rtsam, is

Wl ■! UH— U r * PW* OI Advices from the Canary tetods report the occurrence of heavy floods, which caused some loss of life, the own fall of many houses, the destruction of the cochineal crop, and considerable damage to other mope and other property- . Three has been an increase of $170,000,000 in the circulating medium of this country during the post sixteen months, $18,000,000 of which has been in national hank notes and the rest in gold and silver coin. The priests in France persistently omit from their prayers the prayer for the safety of the Republic,, and the Government’s Minister of the Interior has made official inquiry of the Bish-

ops whether or not this omission is in accordance with their instructions. During the past fiscal year the expenses of the Post Offlee Department of the Government were reduced in the amount of nearly $1,000,000 as compared with the proceeding year, and the receipts were about $1,000,000 larger. Massachusetts has abolished coroners and juries. Inquests in that State are now conducted by medical men, under the instructions of the Courts as to their legal functions. Thus for the results of the change are said to have been admirable. Owing to scarlet fever prevailing at Springfield, 111., the board of health has ordered the public schools closed, till January 1, and adopted a resolution, requesting that no public funerals be held in churches or private residences. There are said to be 500 cases now in the city. A Boston emigration company, headed by a number of leading citizens, has purchased 60,000 acres of land in Tennessee, on the Cincinnati and Southern railroad, 40 miles from the Kentucky line, and will lay out a city and populate it and surroundings with Massachusetts colonists. A local revolution has ocurred in Chihuahua, Mexico, against the State government. .The pronounciators have occupied the capital and captured the Governor and all the State officers. General Trevens, at the head of the necessary forces, has left Zacatecas, and is marching on Chihauhua to put down the rebellion. The agent sent to Europe by the State Department to see if the leading Powers would take the initiative in calling an international monetary conference, has returned. He was not successful. After much trouble he secured a full interview with Bismarck, and found him opposed to the project. The result of the mission shows that no monetary conference can be secured at present. At a meeting of the Russian Technological Society a lecture was delivered on the subject of the fitting out of the four famous Russian eruisers in the United States. The lecture especially referred to the sympathy and co-operation which all had received from the American people. Six men he said, deserted from the expedition, who preferred to remain on the free soil of America, but they were Ger mans from the Baltic provinces and not Russians. Dispatches from Dublin announce that incendiarism ard agrarian outrages are increasing throughout Ireland. The Irish national convention has adopted an amended programme, contemplating absolute autonomy for Ireland with nominal franchise qualifications, and increasing the system of county borohgh representation. British troops are under orders to proceed .to Ireland. * Astronomers are still on the * lookout fora great display of shooting stars, whioh they have reason to expect about this time—on or about November 27—it may be a little earlier or a week later. “The display, should it oocur,” says Professor Proctor, “will possess far more interest than any ordinary metoric shower” because of the fact that “the earth is now passing through the track of a comet wnich is followed by uncounted millions of meteors.” Mr. Peixotto, United States Consul at Lyons, France, in his dispatch to the Department of State, dated October 29, 1879, compares the silk trade of France in 1879 with 1878. The export of pure silk goods has fallen from 101,000,000 francs to 82,000,000 francs. Of mixed silk goods there has been an increase aver 1878 of 3,000,000 francs, and over 1877 of 11,000,000 francs. The total exports of France of all kinds of silk for the first nine months of 1879 have fallen off 40,000,000 francs, while the imports during the same period have increased 320,000,000 francs. The far-famed young city of Leadville, Colorado, is having the usual experience of Western mining towns with the criminal classes. A Vigilance Committee has been organized, that evidently means business, judging by the following note attached to the body of a “strung-up” rascal: To all thieves, bunko steerere, foot-pads and chronic bondsmen tor the same, and sympathizers with the above class of criminals, this is our commencement and this shall be yonr end. We mean business. Let this be yonr last warning, particularly Coo-

ney Adams, Conner CoUlns, Hogan, Ed. Barns, Ed. Champ, P. A. Kelly, and a great many others who are well-known tm this organisation. We are 700 strong.” The anti-rent agitation in Ireland Is, In some respects at least, proving very beneficial. A large number of landlords are advertising reductions of rents of from 25 to 80 per cent, and the British Government has been compelled to inaugurate a system of public improvements in Ireland that will furnish employment to many, and put large sums of-money into circulation. England always acts the part or a bully with Ireland, until the “boys” get “their Irish up,” and then the frightened bully makes reasonable concessions, that should have been made before, as a matter of right dealto*

A' LAY. • ■ a '. » Oh, these memories all flow Inward, AaßjjSsfjsffs&w. ■ Wbile I list, the robln T S}y ;r T.lT—, And I almost smell the clover, While I list, the robbing hatch. —[Steubenville Herald. And while autumn winds are sighing, Echoing my heart’s sad Oirobbln’u. Yesterday we shot and made a Bally pot-pie out of the robbing. —{Burlington Hawkeye

Mark Twain’s Babies.

Mark Twain wound up the speechmaking at the recent banquet ot the Army of the Tennessee in Chicago, with the following iuimitrable response to the toast: “The Babies.” As they oomfort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in onr lestivities. 1 like that! We haven’t all had the good fortune to be ladies [laughter;] we haven’t all been Generals, or poets, or statesman; but when the toast works down to the “Babies” we stand on common ground, for we’ve all been there—Deen babies. [Laughter and applause.] It Is a shame that, for a thousand years, the world’s banquets have utterly ignored the baby, as if he didn’t amount to anything. If you gentleman will stop and think a minute—if you will go back fifty or a hundred years, to your early married life [laughter] and reconteraplate your first baby, you will remember that he amounted to a good deal, and even something over. You soldiers all know that when the little fellow arrived at headquarters you had to hand in your resignation. [Laughter.] He took entire command. You became his lackey, his mere body-servant, and you had to stand around, too. lie was not a commander who made allowances for time, distance, weather or anything else—you had to execute his order, whether it was possible or not. [Laughter.] And there was only one form of marching in his manuel of tactics, and that was the double-quick. He treated you with every sort of iusolence aud disrespect, aud the bravest of you didn’t dare to say a word, You could face the death-storm of Donaldson an Vicksburg, and give back blow for blow—[applause]—but when he clawed your whiskers, and pulled your hair, and twisted your uqse, you had to take it. [Laughter.] When the thunders of war were sounding in your ears, you set your face toward the batteries, and advanced with sturdy tread; but when he turned on the terrors of his war-whoops, you advanced in- the other direction— [laughter] —mighty glad of the chance, too. When he called for soothing syrup, did you venture to throw out any side remarks about certain services being unbecoming an officer and a gentleman? [Laughter.] No! You got up and got it. If he ordered his pap-oottle, and it wasn’t warm, did you talk back? Not you! You went to work and warmed it. You even descended so far in your menial office as to take a suck at that warm, insipid stuff yourself, to see if it was right—three parts water to one of milk, a touch of sugar to modify the colic, and a drop of peppermint to kill those immortal hiccoughs. I can taste it yet. [Roars of laughter.] And how many things you learned, as you went along. Sentimental young folk still took stock in that beautiful old saying, that because the angels are whispering to him. Very pretty, but “too thin.” [Laughter.] Simply wind on the stomach, my friends! If the baby proposed to take a walk at his usual hour—half-past 2 in the morning—didn’t you rise up promply and remark, with a mental addition which wouldn’t improve a Sundayschool book much, that that was the very thing you were about to propose yourself? [Roars.] Oh, you were under good discipline! And, as you went fluttering up and the room in your “undress uniforrityou not only prattled undignified baby-talk, but you tuned up your martial voice and tried to sing, “Rock-a by, baby, in the treetop,” for instance. What a spectacle for an Army of the Tennessee! [Roars of laughter.[ And what an affliction for the neighbors, too; for it isn’t everybody within a mile around that likes military music at 3 in the morning. And when you had been keeping this sort of thing up two or three hours, and your iittie velvet-head intimated that nothing suited him like exercise and noise—“goon,”—what did youdo? You simply went on till you dropped in the last ditch. [Great laughter.] The idea that a baby doesn’t amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself: one bal-y can furnish more business than yo.i and your whole Interior Departmen: can attend to; he is enterprising, irrepressible, brim full of lawless activities; do what you please, you can’t make him stay on the reservation. [Prolonged laughter.] Sufficient unto the day is one baby. Asiongasyou are intyour right mind, don’t you ever Efor twins. [Roars of laughter and ies by General Sheridan.] Twins amount to a permanent riot, and there ain’t any real difference between triplets aud an insurrection. [Laughter.] Yes, it was high time for a toastmaster to recognize the importance of the “Babies.” Think what is in store for the present crop. Fifty years hence we shall all be dead—l truste-and then this flag, if it still .survives —and let us hope it may—will be floating over a Republic numbering 200,000,000 souls, according to the settled laws of our increase; our present schooner of State has grown into a political leviathan—a Great Eastern—and the cradled babies of to-day will be on deck. Let them be well "trained, ior we are going to leave a good contract on their hands. [Applause.] Among the three or four millions of cradles now rocking in the land are

some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things if we could know which ones they are. In one of these cradles the unconscious Farragut of the future is at this moment teething think of it!—and putting iu a word of dead earnest, unarticulated, but perfectly justifiable profanity over it, too [laughter]; in another, the future renowhed astronomer is blinking at the shining milky way, with but a languid interest, poor little chap, and wondering what has become of thatother one they call the wetnuree [laughter]; in another, tne future great historian is lying—and doubtless be will continue to “lie” till his earthly rakslon is ended [laughter]; in another the future President is busying himself with no protounder problem of state than what the mischief has become of his hair so early, and in a mighty array of other cradles there are now some 60,000 future office-seekers getting ready to furnish him occasion to grapple with that same old problem a second time; and in still one more cradle, somewhere under the flag, the future illustrious commander-in-chief of the American armies is so little burdened with his approaching grand-

ment is try out some way to meaning no disrespect to the illustrious guest of this evening also turned his attention to some fifty-six years ago. And if the child is but the prophecyof “ a “’ the f e mighty few who will doubt but that he succeeded, [prolonged and uproarious laughter.]

How Colonel Thomas Scott and H Friends Travel.

A special train of five palace ears passed through Terre Haute yesterday on the Vandalia line bearing Col. Thos. Scott, and the boards of directors of the Pennsylvania company, and the Pen nsylvanla Central. A program me had been prepared, and a time table published for the train. By tht* timetable the train was due in Terre Haute at 2:15 p. in., and an Express reporter, with a pocket frill of pencils and note books, started for the Union depot, inending to interview somebody, if only ne porters. The reporter arrived at/ he depot at two o’clock, only to learn that the train had come and gone,-dr-riving and denartiug about forty minutes ahead of time. If Col. Scott ever oomes this way again the disappointed reporter proposes to have him arrested for libel—no, not libel, false pretenses; playing upon our unsuspecting innocence, as it were. We are notable to tell even the color of the cars. From the official record we learn that the train left Indianapolis at 11:60 a. m., twenty-five minutes ahead es time, with Sam Trindall as conductor, and Wm Morgan, with his engine, the “24,” furnishing the motive power. The track was cleared and the train sailed away toward Terre Haute at a rattling gait. The time between several of the stations shows one mile per minute. The run from Brazil to Torre Haute, a distance of sixteen miles, was mode in eighteen minutes. The train arrived at the Union depot at 1:28, having made the run in one hour aud thirty-eight minutes. From Terre Haute to St. Louis the time was not so fast, but the party arrived in East St. Louis at 6:28, having made the fun from Indianapolis in six hours and thirty-eight minutes, an average of nearly forty miles per hour. The train consisted of five heavy palace ears. The party is on a tour of inspection of all lines operated in connection with Pennsylvania.

Miss Ella Sherman.

From the Boston Herald. The engagement of Ella Sherman, the General’s favorite daughter, to Lieutenant A. M. Thackara, of the army, has lately become known. It is hardly “good form” to speak of a young lady as distinguished for her smartness, and yet if I were to say thtft Miss Sherman is the smartest young lady in Washington I should convey a correct notion about her to the minds of most of your readers. She is the life of the Sherman household, and is noted for her vivacity in social circles. Her father withdrew her education, and, I believe, thinks her quite a good enough Catholic, although she is far from being inclined to be a devotee. Miss Sherman is rather noted in army circles for her skill and endurance as a horsewomen. There is a good story told by some young officers of an experience last spring, when a party was made up at the instance of Ella Sherman to go on horseback to the Great Falls of the Potomac. The distance is sixteen miles, making, with a return trip,thirty-two miles—a rather long ride for those who are not used to the saddle. The young officers could not refuse her in vital ion but bitterly did they rue it; at last several of them did, for they were so used up by the trip that they had to keep in their rooms for three days, and one of them had to have a doctor! Their tormentor, however, rode back without and in the gayest of spirits, and the sport which was made over the masculine weaklings who could not endure as much was kept up for days. The young officers did the best they could to conceal their used up condition, but it was of no use, for their assurances of having enjoyed the trip, and the doctor’s bill was a sad addition to the expense account of the trip,

A Ravenous Eagle.

Duluth Tribune. We are in receipt of a letter from C Wieland, Esq., Auditor of Lake county, of which the following is the substance: “Yesterday afternoon while little August Burr, aged seven years, was playing with his sisters—one five years old and the other three years and six mqnths—near by his father’s house, an enormous eaglepounced down upon them, throwing the two girls to the ground. It immediately attacked the younger one, grasping one of the child’s arms with the clawsof one foot, while the claws of the other foot were deeply buried in the child’s face; an it attempted to carry the child off. bu was prevented by struggles. Little August, seeing that he could do nothing with his own hands to help his sister, ran quickly into the house, got the butcher-knife and came out and whacked awav at the eagles legs, cutting one of them severely near the foot, whereupon the savage bird let go of the little girl and attacked the boy, knocking him over, and tearing his pants and giving him some severe scratches. In the meantime the screams of the children brought out their mother, whereupon the eagle flew off to the baru, on which he sat and looked as though he would like to renew the contest should a favorable opportunity present itself; but he staid there a little too long for his own good, as Joe Beltzer, a neighbor, was called, who took down his gun and shot this great emblem of American freedom, and his eagleship, when killed, was found to measure seven feet from wing-tip to wing-tip. “The little girl who had this remarkable encounter is very badly scratched, but not seriously hurt.”

A Tartar Tent.

A writer on the Tartars says: Their tents are made of felt, stretched on a frame work of thin curved strips of wood six feet long, which folds up for the camels to carry, and when- opened out take the form of a segment of a circle. Four of the frames form the circular Bide of the teDt; and on the top are placed curved rafters which concentrate in a hoop three or four feet in diameter, which is the roof-tree and chimney. As soon as it is all bound together with camel’s hair ropes, nothing short of a tornado will make it budge. When the bright fire of the saxaul (a shrub which serves as fuel here,) throws its ruddy light over the bright colored carpets, rugs, and cushions which are so spread within, and lights up the arms and cooking utensils the saddles and bridles, Tartar guitars, and various household articles which are bung upon a light trellis of wood covered with thick white felt, there are less pleasing interior to be seen not far from London or New York than the kibitka of the Tartar.

AGRICULTURAL.

Give the potatoes ashes, lime, superphosphate, bone flour or piaster. Chopped > onions, with a iittie ginger mixed in, is said to be a sure cure for chicken cholera. American honey in the comb has become a popular article of diet in England and very large shipments are’ made. ■ A radish two feet in cirouraferanoe and thirty inches in length has been raised by Mr. ForireU, at Exton, in Chester valley, Penn. According' to the estimate of the President of the State Vlnecultural Society, there are now 60,000 acres iu California covered wish viueyards.

Cider may 6e preserved and kept sweet by putting it in wine bottles,adding a teaspoonful of white sugar to > each bottle and corking tightly. The corks should be tied down. j When eating game that has been killed with shot be careful not to swallow any of the lead. A number of instances have occurred where persons have teen fatally poisoned from thin cause. Vick says in his Monthly that the trailing arbutus will grow almost anywhere if transplanted at the proper time, which is from October to the be*iuning of December, when the flower buds are formed. In the green-house or fernery it will bloom, of course, earlier than ont of doors. The Hartford (Ky.,) News says that. in the garden of a Mrs. Caleb Crow,, at that place, a peach tree is bearing a full-grown pumpkin. The paper says: “This tree We none of its natural fruits this season ; but, ueverleas, there; hangs the healthy growing . pumpkin;, just ss it had growu from the blossom* to its present size, which is considerably larger than a man’s head.” When once you have determined 1 to fatten an animal for beef let the process be as quick as possible. Any stint in feeding at such times will tend to make the meat tough and diy, Stallfed animals will fatten more rapidly than others, and younger, animals require richer food than older ones. Iu winter fattening do hot forget that much depends upon the warmth of the stable. The warmer the cattle are kept the less food will be needed. A farmer ean not work his farm safely without knowing all about his soil. Every field should be . studied as to the effect of certain methods with fertilizers upon it. Then the owner can act with reasonable eertainty. The plan of experimenting with fertilizers should be followed un in successive years, until the character of each field is known. This is the best season to experiment upon fall crops, aird no. time should be lost if it is to be done; a . year will thus be saved, A novel system of agriculture has for a number of years been practiced: on a farm in Hertfordshire, England.. The owner, Mr. Prout, instead of,' harvesting the crops himself, divides* the fields into lots- when the grain, begins to ripen, and the cropp are soldi upon their roots at public Auction. No live stock is kept, and the fertility of the soil is entirely kept up by artificial manure. For the thirteen years since 1866 the average expenses of running the farm have yearly amounted te $16,500, and the net income for the same period has yearly averaged 16 per cent of that sum, or $2,640. It has thus proved a decided success, while numberless farms cultivated by the ordinary method have been barely able to pay expenses, and many have run behind hand. t That part of Mason’s prairie in Idaho which extends into the distance from Craig’s Heights was set on fire one day about two weeks ago, and in less than an hour great clouds of smoke arose as a warning to the herdsman of the vicinity. A hundred thousand sheep were grazing at various points on the plain. The sheep-men of prie accord drove their flocks toward the heights. A wind-storm having caught the fire sent it sweeping far and wide. The herders pushed their flocks withthe wildest desperation. .The sky t*ehind was aglow with flame, and the - prairie looked like a sea of red billows inundating the whole background. At what seemed the critical moment the wind shifted a few points, but the panic did not abate until the heights had been reached by the last herd. The men then sallied out to save as much . as they could, and for five days fought . a continuous battle with the flames,. succeeding at last in subduing thepi. As Christmas comes this year btr Thursday, the following quotation from an ancient MS. in the British Musuem is pertinent for publication at the outset of winter as a prophecyof coming events the approachiug year; If Xmas day on Thursday be, A windy winter ye shall see: ] Windy -weather In each week, i And hard tempests, strong and thicks The summer snail be goad and dry, Corn and beast shall multiply s That year Is good for land to till; , - Kings and Princess shall die by skill; If a child born that day shall t»e, h, a PPen right well for he, Of deeds he shall be good and stable, Wise of speech and reasonable: whoso that day goes thieving about, He shall be punished without doubt: ‘ And If sickness that day betide, It shall quickly from thee-gltde.

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Do not squander time, for time is the stuff iife is made of. H. Every man who has decision of character will have enemies. If pride leads the van, poverty brings up the rear. v 6 Te be dumb for the remainder of life is better than to speak falsely. In the great world there is a plaee for every one, and we should be found in ours. There is but one place of rest for. the* human mind, and that is on the Rock, Christ. ' ’ Think less of the vipers that may attack you, and more of the duty that lies before.

Those days are lost in which we do no good; those worse than lost In which we do evil. If our religion is not true, we are P°und to change it: if it is true, we are bound to propagate i£ * Help somebody worse off than vourself, and you will find that you are the better off than you fended. v | Who is powerful? He who can contrqj his passions. Who is rich? He who is contented with what he has. There is no advantage to be gained in murmuring or complaining at our lot iu life and grieving at our hard experience. No matter how purely and grandly we live to-day, there is no denying that we may live more purely, more grandly, to-morrow. Every man is born for heaven, and he is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world and he is excluded who does not. -' No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that' belongs to his race, and what God gives him He gives him for man-