Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

eighteen mile* of Hot Spring., Arkan*"om . capital of £BOO,OOO the cotton mills of Augusta, Go., poy . dividend , w twenty-eight per cent. On cutlery Is Mid in Sheffield' ten percent, leas than It eon be mode for there.’ Thb. sixty-five thousand dog. of SC Petersburg bring to the city treasury 8190,000 per year, $2 being the tax upon

In Park kitchen ntenaOs need by all hotels, restaurants, confectioners, etc., are periodically Inspected by public officers, with a view of saving the public from poison. There is not a Turkish family, rich or even In easy circumstances, which baa not a certain number of women and children in bondage. are black slaves and white. The amount of ootton Mid in the Southern States In October, this year, wU net the producers 88,000,000 to 810,000,000 more than the sales for the ame month last)fear. Tns Rural New Yorker Is loud hr praise of emasculated cats. They grow to twice the size of other cats, catch more rats, are cleaner, and altogether exemplary in their conduct. The experiment of lighting the reading-room of the British Museum • by electricity began on the 20th of October, and is to continue until march. The brilliancy of the illumination is said to exoel that of daylight. "The masculinisation of women” is the new women's right gospel of France. “Woman is to take the place of man because she is superior to him in intelligence.” “She will cease to obey the despot named ‘man.’ ,y Three kittens have died of diphtheria in Ogdensburg. They contracted the disease from children affected with it. <« The postmortem examidation showed plainly the diphtheritic membrane in the kittens’ throat. Ditches are dug alongside the Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, three feet wide and two deep, by means of an enormous plough, which is drawn by a locomotive. This machine does . the work, of a thousand men. The wife of Bodie, who discovered the rich mines bearing his name, and whose hotly was recently found, twenty years after he luui perished in a snow storip, lives at Poughkeepsie, N. ,Y.» where she ekes out a miserable existence by doing plain sewing. The male members of the Keokuk tar showed no jealously when Miss Nannie Smith wxq admitted to practice. The presiding Judge descended from the bench to shake hands with her, and the lawyers subsequently gave ner a banquet. - Some of Dr. McCosh’s New York friends have added SI,OOO to his annual salary ns an offset to the increased expenses of his’ new residence, known •as “Prospect,” and the finest residence of any college president in America. At the close of the seventeenth century pure imported wine was the ordi- _ uary drink of all but the humblest class in England and many parts of Scotland. Between 1740 and 1760 champagne, even with a heavy duty, ~ was consigned to English firms at 50 cents the bottle, equal to about $l6O to 82 at present values. Norfolk, Va., did an export business last year of .810,000,000, and with her cotton returns now ranks as the second cotton exporting port in the United States. It is the first peanut port in the world, receiving the entire crop of Virginia, which is much larger than the growths of Tennessee and North Carolina. After being closed for five years the - oldest, most famous, and most lucrative iron works in the British empire have been set agoing by Messrs. Crawshay at Merthyr Tydril. This is a tremendous event in the principality. Mr. Crawshay, who'died some months ago, vowed that he would never reopen the works on account of the misconduct of his men in trying times. It is becoming the fashion at distinguished weddings in Paris for pageboys to be substituted Jor bridesmaids, f hey are all dressed alike, mostly in .*ed or blue velvet or satin, with silk stockings and gold buckles, and for their business have to attend on the bride, carry her prayer book and bouquet, support her train and veil and generally be at her bidding all theday. Young brothers or relatives under twelve years of age are usually selected or fee office. r •

Bo» Wood at a dance at Waco, Texas, took offence because Grace Stanfield declined to dance with him, and got into a fight about itwlth Will Currie, in which the latter was wounded in the hand, a bystander got shot in the leg, and George Wood was hit in the thigh. then made two attempts to shoot Miaß Stanfield, killed a Mr. Oloch with whom she was conversing, knocked Jim Currie senseless, and escaped. An autopsy which was proposed to have been held yesterday on the body Henry Eli Glazer, of the West Bide, wh<*e death occurred Thursday night, was abandoned on account of the sickness of one of the physicians. The object of the examination was to satisfy the physicians themselves, and the members of the fhmily,aa.to the actual cause of the death of the deceased.

At a dinner party in Bt. Petersburg, at which the Turkish Ambassador was present, the conversation * turned on the social morality of of different nations, and a young diplomatist rashly ventured a pleasantry on the subject of Turkish harems. The ire of the Ottoman representative was immediately aroused and dumbfounded the company by a tirade against Christian immorality in general. In conclusion he said, with a bluntnese which does not bear literal translation: “I have four wives and I have never paid attentions to any other females. Which of the

I■> | j Q % i A | [ uny rastneiea. pome twict noiea i I Lovelace* who were present with tbdr ..... , 1 spouses feit a little awkword. The Hum bolt, Tenn., Argos tells the never attend them so long a* they keep large tracts of land lying idle. It advisee them to cat their plantations up intosmaS tanas, and sell them on ten yean time «t a low rate of interest.

The English girl spends more than one-half of her walking boors in physical amusement, which tends to develop and invigorate and ripen, the bodily powers. She rides, walks, drives, rows upon the water, runs, dances, plays, stags, jumps the rope, throws the ball, hurls the quoit, draws the bow, keeps up the shuttlecock—and all this withbut having it pressed forever nporT her mind that she is j , * Recently, at La Pax,Marshal eou ty, after the aodienoe at a revival meeting was dismissed, a goodly number of them assembled at a house near by and spent the remainder of the night in dancing.

A family of emigrants were found occupying a tomb in a cemetery near Providence, R. L, that had been left open. When discovered they had had possession a week, and were using the coffin shelves to put their dishes on. thereby wasting her time. She does it every day until it becomes a habit which she will follow up through life. Her frame as a natural consequences, is larger, her muscular system better developed, her nervous system in better subordination, her strength more enduring, and the whole tone of her mind healthier.

NEWSLETS

Bogus two-and-a-half dollar gold pieces have been put In circulation recently. Maria Turner, formerly a slave, died at St. Louis, recently, at the age of 110 years. The weather prophets predict that skates and sleighs .will be of little use. tills winter. It is estimated that there are 100,000 persons connected with the postal service of the United States. ’ Upper Silesia and Saxony, Germany,are threatened with famine. The poor in the former province have actually begun to starve. One thousand and lixty-five new buildings, mostly of brick, have been erected in Chicago during the present year, at an aggregate expense of 86,464,000. 4 A Philadelphia dispatch states that during the present month about ten million dollars, principally in gold —eagle and half-eagle pieces—will be eoined at the mint.

Mrs. Anson Dohey of Havana, Ills., recently gave birth so four daughters. At last acoounts the children were alive and doing well, but the mother was dead. The subsidence of the water in Lake Tulare, Cal., has uncovered a pre-his-toric settlement, stone buildings, traces of canals once bordered with planted trees, and other evidences of former occupation. Another battle has been fought between the Peruvians and Bolivians and the Chilians, the latter being again victorious. The ' battle was fought on Peruvian soil, and the losses were heavy onTboth sides.; The claims against the Government on file in the office of the Adjutant General of Indiana, known as the Morgan raid claims, are to be transferred in bulk at once to the War Department This will prevent the claims being barred by the statute of limitations. . t The French Government has directed the Governor of Senegal, Western Africa, to send an expedition to explore the region lying between the Upper Senegal and Niger rivers, and report on the feasibility of the construction of a railway between the two rivers. •. Private advices lrom the agricultural districts of Scotland and England indicate that the tenant farmers in those regions are in complete sympathy with those of Ireland in the demand for land reform. The evils of landlordism are only- in degree leas burdensome and impoverishing in Scotland and England than in Ireland.

The volume of business transacted in Chicago last week was literally stupendous. The bank clearings for the week foot up the huge total of $43,859,390.29, being by far the largest week’s business in the history of the city. The excess over the clearings of the corresponding week of last ye&t is $13,199,203.16. It is said that there was more business dane in the commercial and financial centers of this country during November, than any month before in the history .of the country. The bank transactions of the several cities for the month, foot up the enormoqp aggregate of $4,360,256,523. Gbh. Grant helped to plant a tree, the other day, in the South Park at Chicago. The tree was an elm, between sixty and seventy-five years old, fifty feet high and eighteen inches in diameter. The spade used by the General on the occasion had its metallic part silver-plated and its hard wood! handle oiled.

The Irish agitators express their firm determination to continue the war for reforms in the land system, and will continue their campaign with renewed vigor in all parts of Ireland. Their programme has been somewhat modified since the recent arrests, and their speeches now advocate an earnest effort to secure the desired reforms through the united and orderly action of the people, and an appeal to the government for aid for the suffering peasantry. Cf • *

taken up from a lower court, in which other States of*this Union, contrary decisions have been In Bliaoiee It Is the practice of lawyers to render such services when appointed by the Court, gratuitously. k y*M prosecution in the trial of Rev. Mr. Hayden for the murder Mary Stannard, at New Haven, Conn., having spent thirty-four days in presenting thrir'testimony, now rest, and the defense will spend t#o or three weeks

in offering their evidence. The case promises to be the longest and most costly in the history of American criminal jurisprudence.. The evidence against Mr. Hayden is purely circumstantial, and extraordinary efforts to make it binding as possible have been put forth by the State. • Noother criminal trial ever called forth such a vast volumne of expert testimony. It will be interesting of this evidence on the minds of the unfortunate jury, who have been in session for ten weeks, and who will probably be compelled to sit for at least another month. ~ b. . - The beer brewers of Cincinnati ar endeavoring to effect a mammoth combination of interests on the joint stock plan, and by managing the entire business as though it were a stogie institution, hope to control absolutely the beer market of that city, to shut off competition from outside towns, to advance the price, and improve the quality. The combined capital will be about 88.000,000.

The annual report the First Auditor of the United States Treasury Department, General Robert M. Reynolds, shows some interesting figures regarding the cost of running a government like this. This office passes upon all the accounts of the Treasurer of the United States and many of the railroad accounts. The number of acoounts settled reached in the aggregate about 14,000. The total amount of the disbursement accounts audited in General Reynold’s office reached the sum of 81,147,000,000. The position of the Roman Catholic A rob bishop of Boston, on ths school question,is officially given, from which it seems that he cherishes no such hostility tojthe public schools as has been alleged. He urges the faithful to send their children to parochial institutions

The recent session of the National Association of Woolen Manufacturers, held in Philadelphia, furnished an sccasion for reviewing the progress made in that important branch of industry. Within a decade and a half the trade in woolen goods has been, entirely revolutionised. There is now a larger manufacture of carpets in Philadelphia than in the whole of Great Britain. A few years ago, American carpets were generally sold as foreign, owing to the prejudice in favor of the imported article. The Centennial Exposition put an end to any further necessity for disguising the product of our looms, since experts pronounced them equal to foreign makes. In 1872 there were imported of foreign carpets about five and a half million yards. Now, Philadelphia alone produces twenty million yards annually. The capital Invested in woolen manufacturers is 860,000,000. Every loom is now employed, and it would be impossible to estimate the benefits conferred upon those who depend upon this industry for a livelihood.

INDIANA INKLINGS.

Wabash has a Pinafore Club. Large numbers of hogs are dying in Noble county. A perjurer and laroenist recently escaped from the jail at Angola. Thb Marshal County Guards have disbanded and will return their guns. The State papers note the birth of several children on Thanksgiving day. Thb corn crop of Rush county for 1879 will fall one-third short of an average. The wheat prospects in the counties bordering on the Ohio river are the best for years. Mas. Pratt, aFt Wayne milliner, has fallen heir to $15,000 by the death of a relative in Philadelphia. . The hog crop of Wabash county is very light this season. Hog cholera aud the scarcity of oorn did (t Robert Cannon went off a balcony at Rising Bun, while drunk, and broke his shoulder blade and collar bode. John R. EL Dunn was buried at Spencer last week. He was the first white child born in Owen coupty. The Hoosier Drill Company are manufacturing one hundred and fifty large sized drills for Moscow, Russia. Reason Lane has Just been indicted by the grand Jury of Washington county for a murder committed sixteen years ago.

Two highwaymen attacked Mr. Feathering! 11, of New Albany, on the Paoli pike, and robbed him of SB6O apd a gold watch. A brutk in North township, Marshal county, is accused of pulling his wife out of bed by the hair of her head, because she snores. **

Jefferson Searees, living near New Albany, was felling a tree when a splinter fiew striking him on the head killing him instantly. The Seymour Gaslight and Coke Oompany have filed articles of association with the Secretary of State. The capital stock Is $20,000. A THRKK-YKAK-OLD son of Silas Williamson, of Richmond, was choked to death, reoently, by a coffee grain he had attempted to swallow,. The Judge of the Madison oounty Circuit Court gave four attorneys of

aware county, on which the 11 pate en tee proposes to collect ton dollars royalty. William Hexdbbxdes started home from Eugene, drunk, and lying in his wagon, and was found dead when his destination was reached, two mites in the country. Thb receipts from sales of tickets at the Union depot, Indianapolis, in November were 812,842 in excess of the receipts from sales tlie corresponding month in 1878. Dr. James F. Mock, of Alexandria. Madison county, WM anested a few days ago for stealing hogs. The doctor once represented Madison ooonty in the Legislature. Samuel H. Hou°k, an attorney of Cambridge City, has been arrested on a requisition from the Governor of lowa for obtaining money under false pretenses in that State. The American Manilla paper company of Brookville, Franklin county with 830,000 capital, has filed articles association. A. J. Hodder is at the head of the list of subscribers. V

In a recent murder trial'&t Ft. Wayn one of the jurymen became a raving maniac while the case was in progress and was taken to the asylum at Indianapolis 'where he died a few days ago. . " •At four o'clock the other morning Joseph and Thomas Hughes, of Indianapolis, started out on a thieving expedition. Five hours later they were arrested, the spoils of the expedition being found in their possession, and at half-past ten o'clock they had been tried, found guilty, and each sentenced to the-penitentiary for three years. A few days sinoe a woman named Williams, living two miles west of Economy, Wayne County, while affected with a sudden attack of epilepsy, fell face downward on a very hot stove wt ich she was standing over, and was burned so badly, .especially in the face, that no hopes are entertained for her recovery. A young man living a few miles south of Rushville, named Ed. Wiley, attempted to shoot a coon, when ths gun buist and the breech pin went through bis head, killing him' instantly.

Joseph Wright, of Brownstown, as executor of the estate of Margaret Wright, has brought suit against the Pittsburgh, Chicago arid St. Louis railroad for $6,200 for killing Mrs Wright, near Franklin. John J. Stanley, a prominent farmer living near Arlington, Rush county, has been violently insane sinoe last Saturday. He has to be closely guarded, as he is bent on killing his father and brother. The farm house of Rufus Williams, about two miles northest of Muncie, was destroyed by fire Wednesday of last week. Tramps are supposed to have set the house on fire. Loss about SI,OOO with no insurance. Maggie Schelter, the insane inmate of the St. Joseph county asylum, upon whom an outrage was committed by some unknown person, has become the mother of a boy, and indignation over the event is renewed.

Washington county is probably the only county in the State that has no negroes within its borders. A negro causes more wonderment there than a whole menagerie of wild animals. No negro exodus there. A pet deer, belonging to a citizen of Bedford, got out of the enclosure in which he was kept and commenced an indiscriminate attack on all the children be met with in his rambles. He was captured before serious damage occurred.

A little daughter of George W. Young, of Rushville, was standing at the grate, a few evenings sinoe, when her clothes caught fire and were burned from her person. Her hair was entirely burned, but strange to say, her injuries are but slight Frank T. Thomas, a young married man of Winslow, with two companions, all drunk, started to drive home from Evansville the other night Thomas was thrown out on his head and Instantly killed. He was 25 jears pld, and haves a .charming young wife. ■, ■ L v '

The beauties of litigation are being exemplified in Roanoke, Huntington oounty. Two obstinate citizens recently “went to law” over a claim of flftycents. The costs already amount to nearly ten dollars and the case seems as far from settlement as when it was first begun. Mbs. Suffae, of Freedom, Gwen oounty, and her husband and numerous children are somewhat excited gver the appearance of C. S. Gray, in the role of Enoch Arden; Mr. Gray fled from the State during the war to escape arrest as a knight of the golden circle, and Mrs. G. supposed him dead and married Mr. HuflU.

The monumept to the mother of Abraham Lincoln was placed in position above her grave in the village of Lincoln, lu • Spencer oounty, on Thanksgiving day. It is a beautiful shaft of white marble, and bears the legend that beneath it rests in peace the remains of NatoyrLinooln, mother of Abraham Lincoln*, sixteenth President of the United States.. The Howard county Jail most be a dreadful place. Frfcnk Henry, who had been confined in the noisome den for nine months, was released the other day -on his own recognizance, his bond being placed at one thousand dollars. He entered the jail a stout, bale and healthy man, but when released was almost in a dying condition, the result of his confinement in the foul place.

XUjßelm A KiTMI crown,” BtlO 8&1U, hcj heaven none Wttlmy name repeat; A trembling feet •" I Bresbod, mßd “• wbo *® W ’ Ad? ***** who sent me pain; *» taaKreetrefSan*. Anti lake away the story thine. Dear Lord, for souls redeemed that shine, Andyapatoyco^nrlentwlne.^’ “Whose crown l* this?” the Angel said: For unto him was given The crowning of each saintly head That passed from earth to heaven. Adown tbe vista's golden light Where crowned heads,whose circles bright Hurpaaaed the starry guns of night. His gase went searching far. The perfume from the 1111 lea fhlr, And rosea uncli as Eden knew, Fragrant and thornless, died the air. Their duioet Incense stealing through Green trees,whose leaves could never Cade; While underneath their verdant shade A silver stream its pathway made— The river which Is Life. From ter and near the symphony Of golden harps and voices dear Blended in perfect harmony; The soul of music, thrilled the ear, Glad hearts, with ecstacy replete, Oast down their crowns before the feet Of the Adored, while praises sweet Re-e4boe4 to his name. “Whose crown la this?” again he said, And scanned with care the faces o’er, Bat no one came with uncrowned heed, To rlalxn the diadem be bore: Few crowns are set with gems so rare; Ho he who can these jewels wear Must by hard toll and earnest prayer Have led souls onto God.” Those waiting their reward spoke not : None dared demand the crown of light; Yet there were those, whose weary lot Had been harsh toll from morn till night; Home workers In the vineyard strong. And some had labored late and long, Bat unto them did not belong The crown so rich with stars. A brilliant light illumed the place; And there the Bavior stood, a smile Of welcome lighting np his face, . Calling them, each by name the while, He gave tlie crowns, some jeweled bright, And others starless crowns of light, But kept the one with gems so bright Until the last one came. With prostrate form a maiden knelt. And kissed the feet she loved alone, Nor raised her eyes tantll she felt Her name was called in tender tone. A soft hand rested on her head, “Art ready for thy crown?” he said; “Hast thou some lamb to shelter led, Home wanderer reclaimed?’’ “Dear father, I have lived In vain; Thy love Is all the crown I ask; I only bore a cross of pain, Whilst waiting was my only task; I only prayed, by day and night, For tollers In the harvest white, For those who struggled for the right, And trusted all to thee.” “Well done,my child,” the Father said, And placed tlie glowing,starry crown Upon the lowly, patient head: _ “Thy life was free from earth’s renown, Bat still thy pain-crushed life has shone Like a bright star that bums alone. And led sad hearts unto my throne— And this Is thy reward.” —[Selected.

PEGGY EATON.

The Woman who Broke Up Old Hickory’s Cabinet. New York Herald. Mrs. Eaton’s maiden name was Margaret L. O’Neil. She was endowed with high personal beauty, and had a singular fascination of manner, which, combined with great strength of will, ambition and perseverance, enabled her to become a reigning belle and at a later period the real queen of society at the federal court. She married Purser Timberlake, of the navy. Mr- Timberlake "was an intimate personal friend bt Major John £Henry Eaton, Senator from Tennessee, from 1816 to to 1829, known as the most trusted companion of General Jackson. Timherlake died young, and, it is said, had expressed the hope that his young widow might become the wife of his frieud, Major, afterward Gen. Eaton. Be this as it may.the second marriage took place in 1828, but a few months before the inauguration of Gen. Jackson. Uncharitable rumors were in circulation in Washington concerning the relations between Eaton and Timberlake. and the former consulted Gen. Jackson about the expediency of silencing them by marriage. General Jackson, whose chivalrous nature in respect to women can not be called in question, warmly advised that step, and because so devoted a friend and admirer of Mrs. Eaton that he, too, was accused by his adversaries of maintaining improper relations with the lady. Gen. Eaton had rendered notable services during the electoral campaign, and was rewarded with a seat In the Cabinet as Secretary of War. The wives of the other members of the Cabinet declined to associate with Mrs. Eaton upon equal terms. From them the social stigma was caught up by the wives of the foreign ministers In Washington. For more than a year Washington was the theatre of a social warfare, of which Mrs. Eaton was the center„and the cause. Thero was endless bickerings and several angry scenes between Mrs. Eaton and her rivals. From the bondoir the content was transferred to the council chamber of the nation. The Secretaries of General Jackson submissively obeyed the behests of their better halves, and an open and violent feud sprung up in the White House.

“Old Hickory” peremptorily demanded of bis Secretaries their recognition of the social status of Mrs Eaton, and was refused by all of them except Mr. Van Buren. “Old Hickory” determined to act at once. - He sent for Mr. Van Buren, the head of his Cabinet and the only one who had been comKlaisant to his views. He requested lr. Van Buren as a personal favor to send in his resignation, a step which would necessarily entail that of the other members of the Cabinet. Mr. Van Buren complied April 7,1831, and was soon recompensed with the appointment of Minister to England, and proceeded to bis post, but in the following winter was rejected by the Senate. Returning home with a capital grievance, he was by the desire of Jackson chosen Vioe President the following year in place of theobnOxious Calhoum, and thus this ‘‘ladies’ quarrel” plaoed him upon the high road to the attainment of the Presidency. General Eaton was appointed two or three years later Governor of Florida territory, and in 1836 Minister to Spain. In the Spanish capital Mrs. Eaton is said to have become a social favorite,

and to have shone with great brilliancy at the court of the youthful Isabella. She also became a noted belle in London and Paris. Returning to Washington In 1840, she resided there very quietly until the death of her husband in Noyember, 1866. She was left with a large estate and the custody of five grandchildren, two of them being the offspring of a daughter who married a Mr. Randolph, of the celebrated Virginian family of that name. A year later she made the acquaintance of an Italian dancing master named Antonio Buchinani (or Bourganini), who was then a partner of the well known Professor Marini, at Washington, and was giving lessons to the two Randolph children. He Is said to have come to this country as a pedler of images, and not much above twenty years of age. Notwithstanding the disparity of age and social position, the Italian adventurer soon married Mrs. General Eaton a step which was followed by social ostracism. For a year the happy

inis position lie held for two years. Subsequently Mr. and Mrs, Buchig■“■J. »£ ed in New York until 1806. In the meantime he was assiduously plotting to obtain control of his wife's estate, and by means of a genera! power of attorney, succeeded in getting possession of $73,000. Meanwhile he nad gained the affections of his wife’s grand-daughter. Miss Emily Randolph, then aged seventeen years, and one fine dayln May, 1866, he sailed for Europe with his youthfril paramour and the money, leaving for the deserted wife a cynical letter of explanation. Buchiguaui and Miss Randolph proceeded to Lucca, Italy, and for several years lived there in groat style. But hw illgotten money was ultimately lost in speculation and he decamped with he paramour to Montreal, where they es tabllshed a small business. Meanwhil the aged and despoiled wife was sup ported by a son who held a post in the Custom House in this city. In September, 1868, Buchignani Z had the hardihood to come to New York, ostensibly to ooHect a sum of $15,000. Buchignani was shortly afterwards arrested for the abduction of Miss Emily Randolph, and was prosecuted before Justice Dodge. Hie suit, however, was compromised, and the defendant returned to Montreal, where he probably still resides. He has had two children by his paramour. For several years past the former Mrs. Eaton has resided at Washington in the most complete retirement. Few of the multitude of persons to whom her name and fame in olden time is a house-hold word were aware that the heroine of the cabinet- crisis of 1831 was still living, and tlie announcement of her death will awoken strange memories on the part of those who knew her in other days.

Vermont Sunday Laws.

rom the Troy Budget. “GoodfßoeietyT” a Springfield, Mass., magazine, has an article on tlie Sunday laws of New England, in which a quotation is made from the Revised Statutes of Vermont of 1870. We notice that one provision, that against visiting Sunday, is more stringent than any prohibition in the Suuday laws of any other State. The laws provides that:

“If any person shall between 12 o’clock of the night preceding the first day of the week and the setting of the sun on the same day * * * visit from house to house, except it be from motives of humanity or charity, or for moral or religious edification, he shall pay a fine not exceeding $2.” The good Vermonters who passed the above law, making it criminal to pay visits on Sunday, took good care not to interfere With the general practice of “sparking” after sundown on the Holy Sabbath day. As the law now stand if a clergyman takes dinner at the house of one es his parishoners and take tea with another before dark of a Sunday, he would be liable to be hauled up like a common culprit and fined $2 ror the crime. It may be interesting for the Troy and Boston and Delaware and Hudson, as well as other railroads that run Sunday trains into Vermont, to know that each passenger carried lays himself, or herself, liabel to a fine of $2. The following is the Vermont law on the.subject: “No person shall travel on the Sabbath or first day of the week except from necessity or charity, aud every person so offending snail pay a 4ine not exceeding two dollars.” The law of New York in relation to Sunday travel is nearly as stringent as that of Vermont. The New York law defines “necessity” in the matter of travel as “going to or from a place of worship within a distance of twenty miles, going for medical aid or medicines, visiting the sick, carrying mails, going expressly by order of some public of officer, and removing a family when commenced on somejotherday.” All other “travel” except riding to church on horse cars is in the nature of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment in case of inability to pay fine. The statutes of New York do not prohibit the of horse cars and such like for "the purpose of conveying people to and from church, for the law defines such travel as a necessity. It is under the laws of New York then a “necessity” to travel on the horse cars to church, but a misdemeanor to travel on the horse cars or otherwise into the country on Suuday to get a mouthful of fresh air. Thanks to the intelligence and liberality of the age this is a law in New York “more honored in the breach than in the observance.’? And New Yorkers, too, unlike Vermonters, thanks to our more liberal laws, may visit their neighbors on “a Sabba’ day” “from house to house” without being liable to pay $2 fine for the luxury.

A Strange Story.

‘ Not long ago,” says the London Daily Telegraph,“a'well known collector of cariosities in Paris who had devoted considerable sums of money to gathering together of bank notes of all countries aud all values, became the possessor of a Bank of England five pound note to which an unusually strange story was attached. The note

was paid into a Liverpool merchant’s office in the ordinary way of business sixty-one years ago, and its recipient, the cashier of the firm, while holding it up to the light to test its genuineness noticed some faint red marks upon it, which, on closer exam illation, proved to be semi-effaced words scrawled in blood between the printed lines and upon the blank margin of the note Extraordinary pains were taken to decipher these partly obliterated characters, and eventually the following sentence was raade out: “If this note should fall in the hands of John Dean, of Long Hill near Carlisle, he will learn hereby that his brother is languishing a prisoner in Algiers.” Mr. Dean was promply communicated with by the holder of the note, and he appealed to toe government of the day for assistance In his endeavor to obtain his brotbei s release from captivity* The prisoner, who, as it appeared, bad traced the above sentence upon the note with a splinter of wood dipped in his own blood, had been a slave to the Dey of Algiers for eleven years, when his strange missive first attracted attention in a Liverpool counting bouse. His family and friends had long believed him dead. Eventually his brother, with the aid of the British authorties In the Mediterranean succeeded in ransoming him from the Dey and brought him home to England, where, however, he did not long survive his release, his constitution having been irreparably injured by exposure, privations and forced labor in the Bey's galleys.” -

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with (ruth. No opinions so farely miidead us as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearef as those that are sometimes right, ' ■ i

CONDIMENTS.

l. ? « The man or woman who has never sa.Wjsisfio.'SssS Before the show-window of a picture shop: First gamin to second—“ Say, Bill, came away: don't be lookin' at them pictures o» bailry dancers,or folks »U take yer for a Havard freshman.” The foundation of every hou-e should be tnith, the Umbers virtue, the danboards laith and the roof charity, while the sewers should be so constructed that the devil caunot crawl in the back way. In some respects a man ia similiar to a silver dollar. He c&n do more good by being good than by appearing good when it is not good. This"thought was engendered by receiving a lead half doliaHu change. * ! • _A laxy man having a wife named Hope, whose custom it was to pull off her husband’s boots every evening, was wont to exclaim on such occasions: “How truly it is said that ‘Hope lathe yanker of the sole.'” A deaf mute used the new audiphone: “Can you pay uie that 86?” these were the first words he heard. “I prefer to remain in my original condition,” he said, sternly, and threw the audiphone out of the window. A fellow can stand an awful lot of liberality on his own part, but when his solio girl shows a disposition to be liberal iu the distribution of hersmjles and favors, he kicks like a flint-lock musket that has been loaded, for years. “Well, Johnny,” saida fond mother, “hurry up and say your prayers and get into bed.” “Oh, I've fixed that all right, I've hired sis to say ’em for me this week.” But his marrow-bones hugged the oil-cloth that night Just as usual. .

“I don't see bow there ever came to be so many words in the world!” ex-" claimed a little girl who was studying her spelling lesson. “Why, sis,” said her brother, “they came through folks quarreling. Then, you know, one word brings On another.” Felicia was gliding down Tremo t street yesterday afternoon, with a derby hat on and canyiug her hands in the pockets of berjong ulster, when a small boy run up oncT said: “Say, Miss! if yer had a cigar now, you’d be all right, wouldn't yer?”

Scene between'professor aud freshman on Blakefield: Professor—How dare you swear before me, sir? Freshman (triumphantly)—How did 1 know that you wanted to swear first? After the scene that ensued the fresh man gathered himself up aud sileutly stole away. j “Can my darling wa»li the dishes? Can ihe scrub tbe kitchen floor? Will she keen on mending stockings When t he h »ars the baby roar? Will her ut se detect bad butter, With whlcn giocery stores abound? Tell me, darling, uo your shoestrings Make a half-hltcli, or go round? A paper in Memphis refates a ease of a beautiful young lady, the daughter of wealthy parents,eloping with an editor. This is as it should be. We thought all the while that the young lady would eventually recover from the coachman mania, and aspire to tbe nobility again. > “Why shovld a monument be erected to Adam?” says an exchange. Well, because we don’t want to forget the old fellow; because he never parted his hair In the middle or wore an ulstei; because he is the only man who ever had things his own wav, and because, not knowing when he was well off, he went and got marrried 1 And now he’s dead! A little boy in Sunday school put a poser to his teacher. The lady was . telling her class how God punished the Egyptians by causing the first born of each household to be slain. The little boy listened, and at the proper interval iuquired. “What would God hnva done if there had been twins. The McGregor news says: . “A fashionable garment can now be made by taking your husband's ulster, dying it brown, cutting off the breast pocket, gathering it behind' and sewing ten cents’ worth of black . ruebing around the neck. With one of these-on,' a middle sized woman can sail into a five cent store with the air of a duchess.” • „

Scene: Central Park Museum—An geliua—“Edwin, my love, look at this most interesting creature, the anteater.” Edwin—“ Ant-eater, my love! It would be more interesting to ine if it was a mother-in-law eaten” The bump on Edwin’s head is getting slowly better, but Angelina’s parasol is hopelessly deranged. Nothing tends more to disturb the calm quietude of a Sabbath morning, and banish the religions emotions that have accumulited in a man’s breast during the week, than for him to claw his way into a stiffly starched shirt, aud find that it lacks two inches of meeting around the neck, because it is John William Henry’s shirt Instead oi his own. An artist who recently painted a picture of a certain general received two callers the other day who wished to look upon the counterfeit presentment. It was shown, and one of the visitors, who spoke with the brogue that General Bcott admired so much, approached the likeness with the evident intention of putting his fingers upon it. and pointing out what he conceived to be some special -excellence, remarking at the same time, “Bedad, it’s tbe Gineral!” Tbe frightened artist of course followed, saying, “Don’t touch it; it’s not dry!” “Bedad, thin,” said Pat, “it’s not the Ginera/l” ’

Experiencesof a Washington Belle

A Washington porrespondeut of tl e Chicago Inter-Ocean says of Miss Stautonjdaughter of the late Hen. Edwin M. Stanton, the great war secretary,) who is about to marry‘a Lieutenant of artillery, that she was bom while her father was a member of Buchanan’s Cabinet, and is lust out of her “teens.” It is related of her that she once had a narrow escape. “/The correspondent thus describes it: The Turkish Minister fell in Jove jnth her, and asked her to be bis wife. He is a handsome fellow, with a thick, glossy beard, and, being wealthy and fascinating, was considered a good catch. The girl accepted him, and the titled Turk called upon her toother, who was a lawyer of high standiug, siucegdiceased, to her hand. The prudent brother made some inquiries as to the*social position his sister would oecupy in Turkey and was frankly told that, of course, she would have to conform to the customs of the country, as it would not do for a Turk of the rank of her would-be husband to introduce any innovations into Harem-land When Miss Stanton learned this She indignantly recalled her acceptance, and the Turk and she have nevw recognized each other since, nor has he since attempted to marry an American girl.