Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNlffN, JAM®* ft REALTY, Ppoprkmihu RENSSELAER, . INDIANA. i ..

NSEWS OF THE WEEK.

roßKinit. A dreadful •ccidqnt baa occurred on the River Mar, «l the toWnefJuacnburg, In the province of the Tyrol. A ferry-boat sunk in he oiMdireftte stream and w**enty-«lx pi*, aengera were drowned. The upper house of the Pruaaioa Diet on the SSth phased bills for the suppression of convents and relative <U» the administration of church property. In view efthe failure of the Dodhesne prosecution the Belgian Ministry hte Riven notice that a bHI will be -introduced tanking threats to commit murder a punishable offense. It was thought this vvonld satisfy Germany. The Owartbf Common Pleas, to which the appeaTtn the case of the Tipperary elddtion was referred, 'baa unanimously decided 'that the late John Mltchel war. disqualified and that his opponent, Mr. Moore, is entified to the seat. Ho*-.Horaet Maynard, ‘United States Minister to itariwr;, has reached Constantinople.

The Levant HertM -of a late date says a series of terrible earthquake shocks occurred at the begtnring of May In thw province of Broussa, hi Asia Minor. 3cveral villages were destreyed and 2,000 persons tort their lives. A Carlik battery at Mount Rico on the 27th fired'on a Spanish squadron, and the Admiral vommandirg was killed and several of his difiicers wounded. The Cortes of the Kingdom t>i Portugal have passed an act granting unconditional freedom to remaining Portuguese slaves, know®** apprentices or freed men. A London dispatch of the 2»Ui ult. says that Paul Boyton, who started the day before to cross the British Channel from Cape Grisnea,’Trance, in lf.s life-saving suit, landed between Dover and South Foreland on the morning of that day, having been in the water continuously for twenty-three hours andAhirty-eight minutes. A judicial instigation concluded at Berlin on the 29th ult had shown that the offer of Wiessinger to assassinate Bismarck was merely an atteript to extort money, and that the man had no accomplice. The ships Alert and Discovery, of the British Aretic expedition, sailed from Portsmouth, England, on the afternoon of the 29th Ult. •

DOMESTIC. Gen. SherW an sent a dispatch from Chicago to Sioux City on the 23d to the effect that Gen. Terry had directed that the Gordon mining party be released if the capture was made ©uteid-3 of the Sioux Reservation, but in .ease it was made ißside to require a promise from each individual composing it not to H'ioh. te the conditions of the treaty of 1569 with the Sioux Indians, which forbids any trespass on the part of the whites until the Government gives permission. The dispatch says the parties have no more right, under the treaty of 1569, to go to the Big Horn than they have to go to the Black Hills, and it might just as well be under, stood at once that no party will be permitted logo to these place* until the instructions which now govern the military are revoked. TheTostaaster-Generhl has ruled that a regular subscriber to a newspaper or periodical is a person who has actually paid, or undertaken to pay, a subscription price for a newspaper, magazine or other periodical, or for whom such payment has been made, or undertaken to be made, by some other person, witty the consent or at tkq previous request of the person to whom suclj publication is sent A person to whom such publication is sent without his consent or request is not a “ regular subscriber” within the meaning of the law, and double transient rates as postage must he charged and collected>dtefore delivery. . This decision applies to aH subscribers without regard to the length*! time of their subscriptions. ( Seward colliers resumed work in the coal mines at Mahanoy City, Pa., on the 25th, at 20 per cent, reduction on the basis of 1574. Early resumption of work in the entire anthracite regions was expected. A heavy rain on the 25th pet an end to the extensive forest fires raging in the lumber region of Pennsylvania in the vicinity of Maueh Chunk and surrounding country. It is stated that as soon as Congress convenes, next December, the ' Postmaster General intends to use his efforts to have the present la*, .governing postage on third-class matter or transient newspapers so modified" as to be more just and equitable.

In an address to the Sioux 'lndian delegation, on the(26th, President Grant said he had always been a Mend of the Indians and was anxious to4o what he thought was best for their good. He said they mast be aware that the country where they now live is not capable of supporting them, shculd the Government supplies be withdrawn, which supplies are a gratuity and might be withdrawn at any moment without any violation of the treaty. The whites are increasing so rapidly in the territory that It will soon be impossible to prevent them going where they will. The President did not propose to ask the Indians to deave their present location without their consent, but said there is a territory sooth of where they now live in which they can much better support themselves—the game being more abundant, grazing much batter, etc. He wished the delegation to think over what he had said. In Boston <m the -evening of the £6th a terrific explosion ooaurred in a drug store on the corner of Washington and Lagrange streets, completely wrecking the buildup, in which were about twenty-two people at the time; nearly all of whom were more or less injured, six being killed. The cause of the explosion was unknown at the time. -The building was a four-story brick. Adjoining buildings were considerably injured by the shock, which resembled that of an earthquake. A fire in Lexington, Ky., on the 24th destroyed about thirty buildings in the most valuable portion of the city, indicting a loss of from $500,000 to sl^oo^oo.

Secretary Delano made a speech to the Indian delegation on the 27th, in which he sought to Impress on the minds of the savages the wish of toe Government to do that which was for the best for both the whites and the Indians, and also tbefaetthaiU. cannot stop the whites from settling in the Black Hills. He spoke at the advantages to the Indians of the territory further south, and -held out to theih ttm inducements which would be tendered them to change their location. Spotted Tail responded. He ssid he was not the man fc break a treaty; he de-

sired |p remain in the Sioux ReservMloh; he knew fto; be a good productive pountry. He earn h* respected the treaty which had been Trade, and if white men invaded the Blaob Hillalt was not the fault of the Indians, who mere In no hurry to dissolve the treaty. , A terrttfle accident occurred at South' Holyoke, Mass., on the evening of the 27th. While tee evening service was being held in the Trench Catholic Church In that place the draperies of the altar caught fire from a candle and the building was soon on fire. The audience numbered about 700 people in the body of the church, who escaped, but on the stairway leading from the gallery' human beings were packed in a dense mass, struggling to reach the floor. As the flames rushed toward them many leaped to the floor beneath, and were trampled to death. The gallery skirted both sides of the building, with only one entrance from the front The scene was fearful while it lasted, for the whole was over in twenty minutes. Sixty-six men, women and children were either burned or trampled to death, and the fatally wounded would make the lose of life fully seventy-five. The priest’s exertions to keep oCder were fruitless. The screams the living and moans of the dying made a-deafen-ing tumult above the orders of the pastor, who worked most heroically and was personally instrumental in saving a great many lives. One family of four were in tlie church and all killed. Many were pulled out by the arms and feet so badly burned that they lived but a few hours, the flesh peeling off on being touched. Some were taken out with scarcely any flesh remaining on their bones. The Secretary of the United States Treasury has directed the retirement of $987,760 from the currency balance of the Treasury, the same being 80 per cent.- of additional circulation issued to banks during the month. Until further directions the amount of United States notes outstanding to be used as a circulating medium shall not exceed $377,064,055.

The latest accounts up to the morning of the 29th place the number of the dead by the Holyoke (Mass.) disaster at seventy-one; fatally burned, twenty-two; otherwise burned and wounded, twenty-seven. Of the dead, fifty-five were females and sixteen males. A Kansas City (Mo.) special of the £Bth says Information had been received there that a large band of Indians were encamped on the forks of the Salmon River in Osborn County, Kan., and that the citizens had been obliged to desert their homes. The Chicago Journal of May 28 says the reports from the grasshopper-inflicted regions of the West indicated that the first reports were greatly exaggerated, even in Western Missouri, where the pests were worse than anywhere else. A well-executed counterfeit flve-dollar bill on the First National Bank of Germantown, Ohio, has made its appearance in. Chicago, and is described as follows: The back of the bill in the counterfeit is defective in fold of the short-clothes of the central figure, Columbuß, the cross on the banners is very indistinct and the furl is almost obliterated. The foliage on the right and the background are noticeably verylight and poorly executed, while to the left, in the background, the ships are badly taken. The face of the bill is pronounced perfect, and the paper is evidently genuine. Four children, one an infant, of S. M. Christian, of Versailles, Ohio, were burned to death a few.days ago by the explosion of a can of coal-oil, with which one of them was endeavoring to kindle a kitchen tire. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the sale of $600)000 in gold each Thursday during the month of June. Saturday, the 291 h ult., was observed as Decoration Day in many parts of the country. Sunday, the 30th, was observed in other localities. Forty buildings, including a number of business blocks, in Springfield, Mass., were destroyed by fire on the 30th ult. Loss estimated at nearly $500,000. The graves of the Confederate dead in toe cemetery at Nashville, Tenu., were decorated on the 28th ult, several Federal and ex-Fed-eral soldiers being present.

PERSONAL. Judge Porter finished his argument for the defense in the Beecher suit on the 2tsth, and on the 27th Mr.> Evarts commenced his summing up, also in behalf of the defendant. The Grand Lodge of the Good Templars of the World, .recently in-session in Bloomington, 111., elected the following officers for the ensuing year: R. W. G. L., Col. J. J. Hickman, of Kentucky; R. W. G. C., Joseph Malins, of England; R. W. G. V. T., Amanda Lane, of Massachusetts; R. W. G. S., W. S. Williams, of Canada; R. W. G. T., R. R. Scott, of Missouri; Superintendent of Cold Water Templars, Mrs. M. B. O’Donnell, of New York. Louisville, Ky., was fixed upon as the plaee for the next session. A change was made in the constitution providing that Grand Lodges may be tharteredtn States where Grand Lodges already exist, upon the petitionof the existing Grand Lodges. Dr. J. H. Eeclestou has been elected Episcopal Bishop of lowa. V POLITICAL. The 25th elected Henry Lippett Governor and Henry T. Sisson Lieutenant-Governor—the regular Republican candidates at the late election in that State. The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention was held at Lancaster on the 26th. Gen. Harry White was elected President and C. D. Elliott Secretary. Gov. Hartranft was renominated bv acclamation, and H. W. Rawle, Mayor of Erie, was nominated for State Treasurer. Among the subjects of the platform adopted were: Equality of all men before the law; the harmony of the Federal and State Governments; the unity of the nation; in favor of civil rights; adherence to the unwritten law of the country limiting the Presidency to two terms; protection to home industries; protection to labor; eheap transportation; fre? banking, and indorsement of Hartranft’s and Grant’s administrations, and favoringa general system of laws regulating municipal governments.

A letter from President Grant to the Chairmm of the recent Pennsylvania Republican State Convention, written under date of May 3s, has been published, in which he disclaims all desire for a renomination; says In the first place he never sought the office for a second, nor even for a first nomination, and as for the third term he does not want it any more than he did the first He *«ys: “I am not nor have I eter been a candidate for a renomination. I would not accept a nomination' If it were tendered, urnless it should come ander such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty—circumstances not likely to arise.”’

The Terrible Calamity at Holyoke, Mass.

Brainemu), Mast., May SB. The here of the disaster vu John Lynch, a brave fireman, who was the first to respond to the alarm. He described the scene, when he reached the burning church, as appalling. Wedged tight and immovable In the doorways teas a dense mass of humanity from six to eight feet in height, none of them being able to stand upright from the terrible pressure of the -crowd behind, while upon and over them a sheet of Maine rolled like a "wave, streaming far out into thq open Sir. Without a moment’s pause to consider their danger, Lynch and Chief-Engineer Mullen rushed into the flames, spurred on by the Eiteous cries: “ For God's sake, come and elp us!” and began pulling out the boaies. A moment later and a well-di-rected hydrant t stream from the Mount Holyoke hose struck the brave rescuers, and undoubtedly saved them from being burnt’ alive. The first persons drawn out were burning, but they were passed directly through tlie stream of water and the flames were extinguished.. Some of the poor creatures fell fainting on the long flight of wooden stairs leading down to the street, and a few were able to walk.

By this time the entire fire department had arrived, and worked with such energy and will that when the fire was extinguished the charred wooden walls of the structure were standing and were pulled down by the hook and ladder men, ic order that search for the bodies might be made. Only a very few moments, comparatively, elapsed after the water struck the building before the fire was cut, but the destruction to life during that brief period was terrible. Wald efforts were made by the people to wish pell-mell into the burning building -to rescue their friends, and it was with difficulty that they were kept back. This was particularly the case with parents who had on the first impulse rushed from the. church to save theirown lives, but who, remembering that they had left their children behind to perish, returned impetuously. Actual personal violence had to be u.~ed in several cases to keep the women back. All about-the streets men, women and children were watching and piteously inquiring if their friends had been saved. One woman was ■positive that her husband had perished, and could only be quieted by the assurance from a friend that he had just been walking with him. One of the most touching cases was that of two little girls about twelve years of age, who rushed for the entrance of the building while the fire was at its height, thinking to find their father and mother, who were within. They could only be restrained by an officer, who took them in his arms. The church was erected in 1870, entirely of pine, was about 100 feet long by sixty wide, two stories high, with galleries on the sides and the north end about twenty-five feet wide. There were two doors in the north end and the vestibule, from which two doors opened into the body of the church. The galleries opened into the vestibule. At the rear end was another door, by which a few persons escaped. Immediately upon the breaking out of the flames all the occupants of the galleries rushed to the east door, and, falling upon one another, choked up the doorway with their bodies, piled in all ways, seveh or eight deep. Here most of the lives were lost. From this mass Chief Mullen rescued one young woman, after having taken off 1 two dead bodies from above her. The Chief and others had their clothes almost burned from them, and were badly burned about the hands.

One woman jumped from the highest window down upon the front steps, breaking her arm. A man with two children in his arms jumped from a window and escaped. One poor woman, enveloped in flames, shrieked out: “For God’s sake, save me,” and was dragged out. Some sprang from the gallery windows and were seriously injured, and one person appeared at a window completely wrapped in flames, and after tottering there an instant fell to the ground dead and unrecognizable. Hundreds of men went to the wreck as soon as an opportunity was offered to search for bodies, and a force of police was organized to keep back the large crowd which had gathered. The greater number of bodies were found in .the fatal stairway, burned, some of them, to a crisp. The body of one woman was found in the seat which she had occupied, her clothing entirely burned off. A fleshy woman, weighing about 180 pounds, was dragged screaming from the mass. She was carried a short distance from the church and placed on the grass, while her flesh actuary peeled off her back, and m a moment she fell over dead. The scenes last night and to-day in the school-house basement, where the bodies of the dead were carried, were heartrending in the extreme. In some instances the features were distorted, as though extreme agony had been suffered before death, but many looked as calm as though smothered. All were blackened with smoke; some were burned beyond a possibility of identification, nothing remaining but the trunk. Louis Desjerdin, fifty-four years old, whose wife and daughter were both burned to became insane to-day from grief, amt cried continually in agonizing tones: “Oh, my Julie!mv Julie!” Some were taken out alive who were under others who were dead, and owed to this fact their own salvation.

One of the most protracted cases ass suffering was that of Mary Desjardin, who was burned past all recognition and blinded. She somehow found her way to the hill north of the church and wandered around there about twenty minutes before she was found and taken to her home, where she died about eleven o’clock this morning, having lingered fifteen hours in fearful agony. The fate of Amminie Menaer and her lover was a touching event of the fire., She was the organist for the evening in the absence of the regular one, and was cut off from escape when the church was burned. Her lover escaped, but finding that she was still within turned to rescue her, was overcome with the dames, and perished with her. When a horse breaks its leg it is no longer necessary to shoot it “ in order to save its life,” as the Irishman did with his pig that was hurt by the cars. A veterinary surgeon of ftrecht, Long Island, recently set the broken hind-leg of a horse so successfully that the animal is sound as ever. It took about six weeks to effect the cure. 2f—A eolored man called at a Kentucky Postoffice recently and wanted to know “ Does dis posterns keep stamped antelopes?" He was doubtless convinced that he had the wrong ideer.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Acrrv# work commenced on the Rose Polytechnic Institution at Terre Haute. Th* tobacco crop of Dubois County will amount to little or nothing this season, it is said. Rev. V. M. Beamer, a clergyman at Richmond, is a sufferer from domestic infelicity. He seeks a divorce. A rick containing about 2,790 cords of wood was destroyed by fire at Morristown, Shelby County, a few nights ago. The Rock port Democrat says there are families in Spencer County that have never had a newspaper in their houses. Horrible affidavits were recently published in relation to Rev. Thomas MacIntyre, Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Mr. Worl, a wealthy farmer of Wayne County, living near Walnut Level Station, and his wife were recently poisoned with some substance placed in their coffee. They were lying in a critical situation at last accounts. Five members of the family of Councilman Gnmbertz, of Evansville, were poisoned in a mysterious manner recently. They recovered in a few days, but the cause of their illness could not be discovered.

Tins house of Thomas W. Leach, in Howard -County, was lately entered by masked robbers and $lO5 in money taken. Tlie old man, who was seventy-five years old, kept them at hay for two hours, refusing to tell where the money was concealed, but the old lady became frightened and revealed the place of its concealment. The New Castle Courier says: “ A couple of young men of this county, with the mania for speculating, invested in Chicago wheat some time ago, when it began to go down on their hands. Telegrams came asking them to put up the margins. They did this as long as their money lasted, but the price continued to 1 chap,’ when they were sole! out and lost S3OO for their experience.” Mr. Oliver P. Burns, river editor of the Vevay Democrat , was married to Miss Lillie D. Minor, of Boyle County, Ky., a few days ago. The couple ran away for the old cause, parental opposition, and had a very romantic and rough time of it. The affair lias been on hand two or three years and one unsuccessful elopement attempted before. Now their troubles are all over, or else just begun. Tiie State Medical Society at its recent session in Indianapolis elected the following,officers : President, Dr. J. H. Helm, of Peru; Vice-President, Dr. W. Beard, of Vincennes; Secretary, Dr. G. W. Woolen, of Indianapolis® Assistant-Secretary, Dr. J. W. Elstun, of Indianapolis; Treasurer, Dr. J. H. Woodburn, of Indianapolis; Delegates to the Illinois Medical Society, Drs. J. W. Pugh, of Oaktown, and J. M. Link, of Terre Haute. A remarkable case of preservation of the remains of a child was brought to light at Evansville recently. The corpse was buried Aug. 13, 1853, and, on removing it to another cemetery, the undertakers opened the coffin to look in upon the remains and note their stage of decomposition ; but they were surprised to find the face perfect in all its features, and presenting much the same, appearance as when buried. The coffin was inclosed in a box, and showed some signs of decay. The box was so decayed that it fell to pieces.

Health and Fashion.

The Science of Health says: Not until we deal conscientiously with nature, as we do with tradesmen, shall we, as individuals, be entitled to rewards of merit. We ask for a load of good wood, pay the market price for it, get the worth of our money and have the satisfaction of warmth from the fire it makes. Suppose the dealer knew we would not pay for it. He would not be likely to give full measure of the best quality. The dainty bits of lace, jet ornaments and plumes, rosebuds and velvets composing a hat are very becoming to some faces. The dressy hat has a price; it takes money to pay for it. The little Padv wishes to look stylish, pays the price anil is satisfied and until the fashion changes. She desires health and elasticity of step, buoyancy of spirit. Could they be purchased at Stewart’s or of Worth, millions of dollars would roll in to the credit of their bank accounts. Alas, poor child of fashion! gold cannot buy for vou the dewy freshness of a vigorous life. Tlie sunshine and rain-drops are gifts. Roses in cheeks, cherries in color of lips, come front within. The price is service, and faithful service, too, under the direction of the most generous and most exacting physician, iftother Nature. Her rewards are sure, her punishments certain. There can be no appeal to a higher court-—no amendments to her divinely-appointed “ constitution.” Will you enter, a willing student? Are you willing to measure your life by her rule and compass and square? “No?” Then there is little hope for you.

There was a double service in a Methodist chjurch at Nottingham, Manitoba, on a recent Sunday’. A quarrel had divided the congregation, and each party claimed to bedominant. Each had called a new minister, and the two clergymen were on hand to begin their The first to arrive took possession of the palpit, and the other sat behind the chanpel rail. The man in the pulpit gave out a hymn, the other roan gave out another, trod both were sung confusedly by the rival sections of the assembly. Then the man behind the railing started off on hi* sennon, and the other started to read a chapter of Scripture. When the reading was over, and it was plain that the preaching was going to last much longer, the partisans of the reader sang another hymn with a loud organ accompaniment. The musical noises drowned the voice of the clergyman in the pulpit, but when it was over he was found to be preaching right along as though nothing unusual had haptiened. The clergyman in. the chancel, ess cool, was unable to fix his thoughts on a discourse, and so remained silent and beaten. If every man had a torpedo planted in his head that would set itself off whenever he attempted to commit a downright crim inal act,-what a blessed thing it would be for the age!

A Dead Shot.

Theodora CarftY. was an eccentric middifraged gentleman, the proprietor of a small farm and tee owner of a venerable sorrel horse and an appearing chaise. He was industrious ‘and frugal m his habits; simple in his nfXnners, and sharp and clever in his transactions with other people. He was not a handsome man by any means. He had not been called pretty even when he was a child. In his youth the girls had ridiculed his homely features, and made faces at him when he attended the district school. This had made him tired of the fair sex at an earty age, and he had neve? outgrown his diffidence. He had never matte a proposal of marriage to a woman in hia life, and probably never intended to, having at an early age of his existence resolved to live a bachelor to the end of his days. He had a prominent hooked nose, a retreating chin, a large mouth full of irregular teeth, yellowish-gray eyes, bristling hair sprinkled slightly gray; stooping shoulders, long arms, large hands and feet and a peculiar shuffling step that anyone who knew him would recognise by the sound, no matter how dark the night was. His only intimate companion was an elderly maiden sister named Rlioda. She was his housekeeper, servant and maid-of-all-work, and with the exception of an occasional quarrel they got along quite pleasantly tof ether. She was quite as plain-looking as heodore. She would have been safe anywhere.

She was no defotee of fashion. The style of her garments was never changed. She wore a drab bonnet with a conspicuous dent in the crow r n, and which projected so far over her face as to leave only a small portion of ,toe surrounding scenery visible to her eyes; being a little deaf, she was there' fore in great danger of being run over by Fussing vehicles in crossing the street, and will venture to say in this regard that she bad many narrow escapes from what might have been serious accidents. Every man has bis own peculiar hobbies. Every man’s mind is occupied with the particular consideration of one or more leading topics. Every man who has any respectable* ambition takes a particular pride in toe propagation and cultivation of certain things. With one man, it is the building and machinery of steamboats; with another, the sototion of some great problem in philosophy; mth another, the colonization and enlightenment of-some benighted heathen land. In each of these instances it .is the, aim of the individual to do something more creditable than any of his contemporaries.Theodore Carey’s aihbition was of a very humble nature. There were two branches of industry in which he desired to become famous, and to these he gave as much serious attention as Alexander the Great to the conquest of the world, or Sir Isaac Newton to toe’ discovery of the attraction of gravitation. What Theodore Carey most desired to excel in was, first, the breeding of hogs, and, second, the cultivation of watermelons. In both he had been very successful. He had triumphantly borne off the prizes at the couuty fairs. He had even received a diploma from the State Agricultural Society, which he had proudly placed in a cheap frame and had hung upon the wall in the best room of- his house between a portrait of Gen. Washington and a picture of Solomon’s Temple. His hogs were the talk of the whole county; for some of them he had refused almost fabulous prices. “No one should' brag of having better stock than he had,” he

was accustomed to say. He housed and fed them with the greatest care, and people •came from places that were many miles distant to look at them, and he always exhibited them with great satisfaction and pleasure. No one in the county could boast of greater success in the cultivation of water- ‘ melons than he. In liis carefully-tended garden they grew to a wondrous size, and for flavor and sweetness they were not excelled. There was, however, one serious drawback in their cultivation. This gave him the greatest amount of anxiety, discomfort and annoyance, and often enraged, aggravated and provoked him beyond endurance. This drawback was the frequent depredation of his melon-patch by the mischievous boys belonging to the adjoining village. Sometimes his melons would be carried off and wantonly destroyed before they were ripe. Sometimes the vines would be uprooted, trampled upon and destroyed. Why this wrong was so frequently wrought upon him Theodore Carey could not imagine. He thought himself one of the most abused of men. Many a night he lay in wait for the marauders. Many a dangerous cold he caught by exposing himself to the damp night air—but he wa sal ways unsuccessful. The boys seemed to instinctively avoid him. They were never about when he was there, and therefore he never caught them. Oue season he had been very successful both with his hogs and melons. He had one hog the equal of which he was positive had never been seen. The neighbors came and looked at it. Strangers_eame to regard it, and all assured Theodore Carey that it would certainly take the first premium at the State Fair. It had been a good year for melons; he had several that had grown to a prodigous size. They were nearly ripe; the boys had not molested them. He earnestly hoped that they might attain their growth, and that he might take them to the coming fair. He watched them very closely. His melonpatch was situated immediately under his bed-room window, from which post of observation he was accustomed to look out for the expected annual raid upon the part of the village boys. Night after night he patiently sat there, but his property was not disturbed. Sometimes his sister Rhoda relieved him of this unpleasant duty. As the time for the coming fair drew near they became more vigilant and watchful. , One night, while silently sitting by the window, Rhoda was sure that she saw some object moving about in the melon-patch. She hurriedly awoke her brother and lispingly said: “ Thoda! Thoda! there’s thirtinly thumbody in the garden.” Theodore silently crept to the window and noiselessly raised it and listened. He could plainly hear somebody moving about in the darkness. He could distinguish the rustling of the leaves, and could define several dusky forms moving about among his priceless melons. He ground his teeth and stepped into the adjoining room. He returned with his guu. “ Are you goin’ to thoot, Thoda?” asked Rhoda, in au excited whisper.

“Yes; keep quiet.” “It thirves 'em right; but do be nice an’ proper about it.” Theodore Carey cautiously pushed the muzzle of his gun through the open window and, resting the rusty -barrel upon the win-dow-sill, he took deliberate aim. Seeing that he hesitated Rhoda exclaimed, encouragingly: ■'“Tiioot! Thoot! Thoda! live or die, think or thwim.” Shutting both eyes he pulled the trigger. The gun went off with a terrific report and its recoil l 'unexpectedly threw him flat upon the floor. There was a loud ory of pain and the sound of sadden scrambling without Rubbing hislamed shoulder Theodore hurriedly closed the window and, after patting away the old gun and bidding Rhoda good-night, he went to bed. The next morning he looked out of the window and, to his dismay, he saw that the hogs had broken out of the pen and had completely destroyed his melons; and lying before him he observed his prize hog aa destitute of life as a door-nail. It had been a dead shot — Engma J- Sail, in Firetide Friend. While riding in a stage-coach from Kinderhook to Albany, N. Y., many years since, John Van Buren, who was smoking, asked a stranger in the stage if smoking was agreeable to him. The stranger answered: “ Yes, it is agreeable. Smoke away. I have often thought if ever I was rich enough I would hire some loafer to smoke in mv faoe.” Mr. Van Buren threw hi§ cigar out of the window.

Queer Fishes.

G»e of the moti interesting inmates of thoAqu&fium is the stickleback, a little fish that- inhabits both fresh and salt waters. It is a diminutive creature, seldom or never exceeding two and one-half or three inches in length, but it makes up in heaaty and vivacity what it lacks in dimensions. Its pretty colors are remarkably changeful, fading and brightening as the fish plays in and out among: the depths and shallows, or shifting through all the varying shades of hue as its pulses throb with excitement when engaged in sport or in combat. It is an exceedingly testy and choleric little fellow, and is perpetually in a fight with one of its species. The larger individuals feed upon the smaller ones and make terrible havoc of the young fry, hence there is endless ferment in their communities, with incessant ravage, devastation and death. In all this commotion, involving the action of the most desperate passions, the little sticklebacks display their fleetnese, grace and mobile coloring to the best advantage.

But their most curious maneuvering is exhibited at the breeding season, when the funny little finnies actually take to nest-building. Then are they animated with a fine ardor in s collecting bits of straw or stick with which to lay the foundations of their domicile in among the stems and branches of water-plants. The light building materials accumulated are cemented together by a viscous exudatfonrfrom their own bodies, which, spun out in the form of a thread, is woven in and around the straws and sticks in every conceivable direction. The thread is light in hue and fine and silky in quality. After the bottom of the nest is well laid the sides are built about it, and when all is done it is no bigger than a small hazel-nut. Yet this pigmy dwelling is commodious enough to hold a multitude of eggs not larger than poppyseeds. The male stickleback is a model husband ; and not only builds the cradle for his offspring entirely unaided, but, after his spouse has deposited her eggs in it, he watches over the whole with the utmost solicitude. And: it is necessary for him to stand on guard without , intermission, for no morsel in all the world of waters is quite so tempting to a stickle back as the ova that some other stickleback is vigilantly guarding. The three-spined stickleback (Gaslerostear aculertm) is very plentiful in the rivers, ponds and brackish waters of Europe. It is so abundant in some, parts of England as to be used for manure. Although good eating the fish is not made any great account of as food, but its oil is sometimes expressed for commercial purposes. When Prof. Agassiz was qn his last expedition to South America he discovered in the southern seas a species of fish belonging to the family Antennarius , that had the odd habit of nest-building. Its style of architecture was very quaint, consisting simply of spheres about the size of a cocoanut, and made up of small branches and leaves of seaweed, bound together by mucous cords, resembling cotton threads. Within and up.on this hall were thousands upon thousands of eggs, like mustard-seeds. Prof. Agassiz removed some of the eggs from the nest, placing them in fresh sea-water. The following morning dozen or more of little fishes were swimming around in the bowl in the full tide of life. A colored drawing was made of them, but the younglings unfortunately pershed before the professor ccfcild determine the species with certainty. —Chicago Tribune T here is a man In Paris with a great project. He proposes to light that city with one lamp. He wants a big lamp, and wants to suspend it at a proper height by means of a balloon. His argument is that all Paris can he lighted on that plan as welf as an opera-house. The authorities have a.prejudice against this plan, because he boards in a lunatic asylum.

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