Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER TOIOH. USES * HKALET, Proprietor*. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TORBIGD. Several important and well-known mercantile firms - suspended In London on the 16th, with aggregate liabilities of over a million pounds. Advices from B&ntander of the 16th represent that the political situation in Madrid caused increasing uneasiness. It was rumored that the Carllsts were about to bombard Bilbao. The suspension of the firm of bennett, Benson & Co., of Quebec, was announced on the 16th, with liabilities estimated at over $1,000,000. A large number of additional failures were reported in London on the 17th, the following among others: Malcolm, Hudson*Co,, financial agents of the Japanese Government; A. Gonzales A Co.; Young, Borthwick * Co., liabilities $12,500,000; John Aaderson * Co., liabilities $1,000,000; J» C. Fonlier; Westhead*Co., of Manchester,liabilities $1,000,000; JohnStrachan * Co., East India merchants, liabilities $1,000,000, and Henry Adamson A Sons, ship and insurance brokers. Portugal has prohibited the importation of American potatoes. N. Alexander, Son * Co., Alexander, Collie A Co., Octavius Phillips A Co., of London, and Medlock, Smallware A Co., of Manchester, England, were among the failures reported by cable on the 18th. A Rangoon special to the London Tutus of the 19ib says the King of Burmah, becoming convinced of his inaliilitj-. successfully to oppose the English, had yielded all the points in dispute, and that there would be no fighting. E. D. Jewett A Co., of St. Johns, X. 8., recently failed with nearly $6,000,000 liabilities. A Liverpool dispatch of the 19th announces the dangerous illness of Lady Franklin and requests the churches of America to pray for her recovery. M. Firman, an American Spiritualist who professes to photograph deceased persons, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in Paris as a common swindler. The United State* Consul at Ch*n Kiang was recently grossly insulted by some Chinese soldiery. He was compelled to place himself under the protection of the British Government. On the evening of the 18th a destructive fire broke out in the Government excise buildings in Dublin, Ireland, which, before it was extinguished, consumed 5,000 casks of whisky and twenty-five houses, representing a money value of from $500,000 to $1,000,000. In order to stop the spread of the flames large quantities of the spirits were turned into the streets, and many of the bystanders gathered it up and drank it From this cause three had already died on the 20th and seventeen were in hospital.

DOMESTIC. The Department of Agriculture, in its cotton report for June, states that the threatened reduction in areas has not taken place, nor has the reduced area of last year been much enlarged. The condition of the crop is said to be the most favorable in the past five seasons, with the exception of that of 187,1. Dispatches of the 15th announce that the long strike of the Pennsylvania coal miners had ended, the strikers making an unconditional surrender. Some of the men stated that they had made a mistake in holding out so long and were in want of the necessaries of life. At Clearfield thirty-two striking miners had been found guilty of conspiracy and riot, and six of them were sentenced to a fine each of s’2s and costs and to imprisonment for one year; thirteen to a like fine and sixty days’. imprisonment Sentence was suspended in the case of the other thirteen. Dispatches from different localities iu Xe*> braska, Kansas and Western lowa on the 15th 6tate that myriads of grasshoppers were in the air and flying iu a northerly direction’, many of them alighting and doing immense damage in some sections. The Central Bank of Indianapolis, Ind., was robbed of $7,000 on the 15th, and two men and one woman who committed the robbery were captured at Lafayette on the afternoon of the same day. The report of the commission to examine the Custom-House building in Chicago was placed in the hands of Secretary Bristow on the 16th. It is said the commission recommend, the demolition of the walls now up and the laying of a new- foundation. Eastern dispatches of the 16th .state that the difficulties between the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railroad Cempauies had been compromised. An explosion occurred in a building used for the manufacture of fireworks in Boston on the 16th, and several lives were lost, six burned and charred bodies being taken out of the ruins soon after the accident. The cause of the explosion was unknown. A destructive tornado passed over Quincy, 111., on the morning of the 15th, and destroyed property to the value of about SIOO,000, but fortunately only one life was lost Three three-card monte swindlers have

been tried and convicted by a Chicago jury and sentenced to the Penitentiary—one for three years the others for one year each. The Boston centennial celebration on the 17th of the battle of Bunker Hill was a complete success in almost all respects. There were over 300,000 strangers in the city on the occasion. Among those participating in the ceremonies were military companies made up of ex-Confederates from Southern cities, who were cordially welcomed by the Bostonians and to whom was extended a hearty greeting is the relationship of revived brotherhood. The procession was ten miles long and was over four hours passing a given point George Washington Warren presided over the- exercises at the monument, and the oration was delivered by Gen. Charles Devens, Jr., and was confined to a graphic description of the battle of Bunker Hill and an eloquent appeal for the buriak of all political animosities engendered by the late war. Gen. Sherman, Govs. Hartranft of Pennsylvania, Beadle of New Jersey, In. gersoll *.of Connecticut, and Vice-President Wilson made short addresses. According to all accounts the celebration was a very enthusiastic one and worthy the day and the occasion. The National Board of Trade, in session at -Philadelphia, adjourned on the 18th, after passing several resolutions relative to the question of transportation, reciprocity with Canada, etc. They declare that experience has shown that the attempt to 1 . •

regulate the details of.railroad management is inexpedient, but that certain laws of a genera) character can be enacted which are both practicable and necessary for the protection of the public interest. They favor the appointment by the President, under authority of Congress, of a commission ta confer with a like commission on the part of the Dominion of Canada on the subject of a treaty for reciprocity of trade and commercial relations. . Earthquake shocks were experienced in some portions of Ohio and Indiana on the 18th. The shock at Indianapolis was quite severe, buildings being shaken in all parts of the .city, and considerable alarm was caused thereby. A dispatch from that city says news from the different towns and cities in the Btate shows the wave to have extended over the greater part of the State. A colored woman, cook on a river packet lying at Burlington, lowa, was burned to death on the night of the 18th by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. St. Louis was visited by a violent thunder and rain storm on the night of the 18lh, and many portions of the city were deluged. The same storm extended throughout Missouri and portions of Illinois, lowa and Nebraska, doing considerable damage. Five men were killed and six injured by a collision between a freight and stock train on the Burlington A Missouri River Railroad, near Chariton, lowa, on the 17th. John Casey was hanged at Paris, 111., on the 18tb, for the murder of bis wife, and at Effingham, on the same day, Nathan Burgess was executed for the murder of John Robbins. A Washington dispatch of the 19th states that a naval force with steam launches would be ordered to the mouth of the Rio Grande to look after our interests there and co-operate with the army in the suppression of Mexican raids. ■* A fire in Pittsburgh, Pa., on the morning of the 19th destroyed several buildings in the best business portion of the city, inflicting a loss estimated at nearly $1,000,000. Sixty buildings—stores and dwellings—in Grand Rapids, Mich., were burned on the 19th, and thirty or forty families were rendered homeless. Loss between $200,000 and $300,000, on which there was an insurance of less than one-quarter the amount. A New Orleans special of the 20th say 6 a Deputy United States Marshal had arrived in, that city with eight prominent citizens under arrest, who were charged with intimidation.

r-KHSONAL. President Grant has addressed a letter to the Czar of Russia, Congratulating him upon the birth of a grand-daughter. This letter is in reply to one from tlie Czar informing the President of the event. Tlie New York State Court of Appeals on the 15th unanimously reversed the judgment of the Supreme Court in the ease oi William M, Tweed, and ordered liis discharge. Thtr Judges hold that the writ of /uibeas corpus has always been construed in favor of and not against the liberty of the subject and citizen, and the readipg must be the same whether the benefit of it is invoked by ~ the purest and best of citizens of the State or the greatest sinner, and the one most worthy of condign punishment. They say no warrant can be found for cumulative punishment upon a conviction of several offenses charged in a single indictment, the aggregate punishment exceeding that prescribed by law for the grade of offenses charged. It was reported from New York on the 15th that tlie Sheriff had taken every precaution to secure the arrest of Tweed in the civil suits immediately upon his discharge under the decision of the court.

* The schedule of assets aud liabilities of Abraham Jackson, the Boston lawyer charged with being a defaulter, shows liabilities $417,720 and assets $171,618. Jerome J. Hinds, of Alabama, United States Marshal,- and late mail contractor, tried in Washington on a charge of bribing employes of the Postofllee Department to alter a bid made by him, has been fouud “ not guilty." There are three other indictments pending against him. The commission appointed by the Government to visit the airencies of the Sioux Indians with a view of negotiating relative to the Black Hills is composed of the Rev. S. D. Hinman, A. Comiugo aud W. H. Ashley, with J. D. Collins as Secretary. They are instruMed to assure the Indians of the kindly intentions .of thp President aud Goverment toward them, and that the proposed negotiations originate solely in a desire for continued peace. The Indians are plainly to understand that any negotiation effected by the commission is. to be referred to the President, and by him to Congress, before it shall be binding.

POLITICAL* The Maine State Republican Convention, at Portland on the 15tli, nominated Gen. Selden Connor for Governor. In the New Hampshire House of Representatives ou tlie 15th, after a lengthy debate, the resolution Reported by the majority of the Committee on Elections that Raymond and Harding iDemocrats) were not entitled to seats wjts passed— lTS to 13d. The Minnesota Reform State Convention was held at Minneapolis on the 16th and nominated Prof. R. F. Humistou for Governor, J. B. Tuttle for Lieutenant-Governor, John 11. Stevens for Secretary of Stale and H. L> Brown for Treasurer. A long platform was adopted, demanding, among other things, competency, honesty and sobriety as indispensable qualifications for holding public office, and that removal for mere difference of political opinion is a practice opposed to sound policy. The Pennsylvania State Temperance Convention met at Harrisburg on the 16th and nominated Hon. Rohert Audley Brown, formerly a Republican member of the State Legislature, for governor, and Elijah F. HenH? Packer, of Chester County, for State Treasurer. Several ladies were in attendance as delegates and addressed dhe convention. The platform adopted pronounces in favor of woman suffrage and against sectarian influence in schools.

The National Board of Trade, at its session in Philadelphia on the 17th, adopted a resolution expressing its sense of satisfaction that Congress had fixed a day for the resumption oif specie payment, but that it could not withheld its expression of concern that no well-considered methods had been adopted for the execution of the measure, and begs of Congress to place at the earliestp eriod all possible means in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury for the execution of the law providing for resumption at the time named. The Ohio democratic State Convention was held at Columbus on the 17th and renominated Hon. Wm. Allen for Governor. The balance of jthe ticket is as follows: For Lieutenant-Governor, Samuel F. Cary, of Hamilton; Supreme Judge, Thomas Q. Ashbarn, of Clermont; Auditor, E. M. Greene, of Shelby; Treasurer, John Schreiner, of Meigs; ' : . '• V ' . . . .• ..

Attorney-General, Thomas E. Powell, of Delaware; member of the Board of Public Works, H. E. O'Hogan, of Erie. The platform declares among other things, in favor of limiting the President’s service to one term at a salary o/ $25,000 a year and demands that the present financial policy of the General Government be abandoned, and that “the volume of currency be made and kept equal to the wants of the trade, leaving the restoration of legal tenders to par with gold to be brought about by promoting the industries of the people and not by destroying them.”

An Ingenious Attempt at Fraud.

St. Louis, June 1«. For ingenuity and boldness combined, St. Louis records an instance which stands away up in the first part of the class. The swindle in question was detected to-day by Mr. J. K. Cummings, proprietor of the St. Louis glass-works. At an early hour this morning a young man of business-like air called at the house of Mr. Cummings. Next, the early visitor brought forth a book. He gave the book and the two envelopes at the door, telling the servant to deliver the book to Mr. Cummings and have him sign for the telegrams. As the telegrams were prepaid lie had no hesitation in signing on a page where the book was made to open by means of an elastic band. The numbers on the telegrams were written, and opposite each of these numbers, further toward the edge of the page, was a rectangle inclosed' in a blank border, of sufficient dimensions to admit of a long signature. Over each of these rectangles was printed tin; word “ Signature” in large, black letters. Mr. Cummings unsuspiciously wrote his name within the first rectangle,and was proceeding to do likewise in the one below, when he noticed that that part of the paper touched by his pen appeared to move slightly, while the rest of the leaf remained stationary. This looked queer, and Mr. Cummings looked closer at the book, and discovered an ingenious fraud. That part of the leaf which was inclosed in the lower portion of llte rectangles had been carefully and smoothly cut out, and, with a white back-ground, it was very diffic ult to discover that the leaf was not perfect. That part in the interior of the upper rectangle had been cut above and below, leaving the ends intact, so that a piece of paper could be slipped in through the slit on one side and out at the other, thus tilling the space with a counterfeit blank for the reception of the signature. A blank check of the Butchers’ and Drovers’ Bank, in which institution Mr. Cummings keeps his bank account, had been very ingeniously folded and placed under the leaf, so that, while the line for the signature of the check came directly into the lower rectangle, the other end of the check passed through the slips above in such a way as to present to the signer just that portion of the check where an indorsement is usually written. When Mr. Cummings signed the first blank he indorsed the check, and had he signed the other lie would have given his signature to the check. Had the check been fastened by a little mucihfge, as W keep its place, it is highly probable that the discovery would not have been made, Mr. Cummings as soon as he saw the fraud ran to the door and called to the servant girl to hold the messenger for a moment till lie could get down, but the young man, who was, of course, eagerly watching for any signal of danger, dashed out in the street and made liis escape.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—The . twenty-seventh session of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church lias just been held in Baltimore. The synod represents 1,228 churches and 117,029 communicants. —Catholic Italy is ahead of all other nations in the matter of female education. Schools for girls there are numerous and they are under the care of women supervisors who visit them at stated times and receive their pay from the State. —Universalism, says the Christian L<mh r. has advanced more in New York aud Brooklyn during the past s.even years than in the forty veaps previous. ' The number of churches has been about doubled, and churches that were then feeble missions are now strong. —The Baptist church edifice fund now amounts to some SBOO,OOO. The money is lent in small amounts to churches building houses of worship at prominent points. Seven per cent, interest is charged, \ and as the interest and loans are paid they j are loaned again to aid at other points. ' j —The Irish World estimates the Catlio- ! lie population of the United States to-day at some 10,000,000; but "estimates that the number of persons who ought to be Cath- ! olics by right of descent from settlers in ! this country from the beginning, and who i to-day are found among the sects or in the ; ranks of Nothingariamsm, at 18,000,000. —An alarmed correspondent of the Lon- j don Times writes in a voice of warning i that the revisers of the New Testament \ have all hut decided to alter the accepted ! version of St. John xiv. 16, into ” an- j other advocate.” instead of “comforter;'’; and in like manner at v. 26 to read: -‘The I advocate, which is the Holy Ghost." —The twentieth annual address of Bishop Clark, of the Protestant Episcopal 1 Diocese of Rhode Island, presented to the ; convention recently held at Providence, i shows the confirmation of 411 per*ms during the year. During the twenty years i he has laid' the corner-stones of thirteen i churches and consecrated fourteen, and the number of communicants Inis increased from 2,256 to 5,307.

—The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Evangelical Continental Society of England was held in London, May 14. During the entire period of its existence the society has contributed £50,000 toward the evangelization of Europe. The expenses for the year were £3,878. The labors of the society wete unusually successful during the past year. Its agents distributed a large number of Bibles"and books. —The Methodists seem to be attaining great strength in Australia. The laxly lias three conferences, and the peculiarities of the system seem to lie very popular. Strange enough, the first Methodist preacher there was a convict. He was under sentence of death in England for murder. He was converted and became so thoroughly changed that through the intercession of friends his sentence was commuted to banishment. —At Buel. the Utah mining camp, the other day. a fellow known as" “ Frenchv” entered a restaurant and ordered some liot cakes. The cakes were brought out, steaming hot, but ” Frenchy” found a fly in one of them, and flung the dish on to the floor. The proprietor, J. D. Andrews, rushed into an adjoining room ajd got a double-barreled shot-gun, and commenced to season Frenchy’s” hide with a sprinkling of buckshot. “Frenchy” was mortally wounded. c •

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Winchester Journal has a steam press, the first one ever used in Randolph County. John Harrison’s store in Clayton was recently burglarized to the tune of about SI,OOO worth. Kniohtsville and Brazil jointly shipped 1,130 cars of coal during May, an increase of 138 cars over April. The State Fair and Exposition will be held at Indianapolis, Sept. 7 to Oct. 2. Alex. Herron is the Secretary. Spiceland temperance people ordei their paper stopped when they find an application for liquor license in it., The number of ch d Iren ’ received al i the Colored Orphan Asyium at Indianap ! olis last year was ninety-four. I Evansville thinks she is entitled to a population of 00,000, but will say *o more about it if they will call it 50,000. It is claimed that there is more actual work in railroad building now in progress | in Indiana than in any other State. A saloon-keeper named Ross shot and instantly killed a young man named Frank Rossfiekl, with whom he had had some difficulty, at. Aurora, a few evenings ago. , An Indianapolitan was bitten by a dog supposed to be mad. Tho dog was killed, when it was ascertained that it was only # a j case of terebinthinate-diathesis—whatevei : 111 at is. The Second Annual State Convention 1 of the Women’s Temperance Union met ;in Indianapolis on the 9th. About 80C | delegates were present. Hon. A. J. Nefl J presided. | A premature explosion of powder on | the occasion of the celebration of Corpus | Christo Day, at St. Wendell, Posey County, ! caused fatal injuries to two of the four participants. The postal changes in the State foi the week ending June 5,1875,. were: Post, masters appointed—lnglefield, Vanderburgh County, N. B. Allen; West Buena Vista, Gibson County, William L. Frederick. The pedestrian Payne recently walked x match against a trotting horse. The conditions were that Payne should walk a quarter of a mile while the horse trotted half a mile. The latter’s time was 1:30 and that of Payne 1:28. The wife of Samuel Jacobs, a farmer living near Mom-oe,-in Tippecanoe Coum ty, was shot in the breast and perhaps mortally wounded a few days ago. Her son had handed her a loaded revolver and by some means’ it was accidentally discharged while passing into her hands. The coal excitement in Butler Township, Miami County, still continues. A man who represents himself as a Pennsylvania miner and prospector lias been engaged in sinking a shaft, and claims that as he gets deeper into the earth the prospects brighten, until now, he says, he is absolutely certain that coal exists. On a recent Sunday teams were hitched in the vicinity as though a camp-meeting was in progress. The shaft is thirty-five feet deep, and the bed-rock has been reached, and preparations are being made to bore through this.

Mrs. Eliza Compton, who lived in Terre Haute thirty years ago, had been to New Orleans and seen persons buried there above the level of the ground, on account of water. She thought the idea good, and when she died, in 1845, she directed that her. body should be placed in a vault above ground. Her wish was respected. Lately the vault has become dilapidated, one corner broken down and the skeleton of Mrs. Compton exposed to the public gaze. This mode of burial clearly lias its disadvantages. The Lafayette Journal says: “At a recent weddihg 'in this cibunty not long i since a couple of young men residing in this city purchased and presented to the j young'couple articles of silver table-ware. | As soon as received they (the presents) were carefully washed aud made to do j duty at the supper table after the marriage | ceremony. Then followed a season of dancing and mirth, a string band having ! been procured from the city. About the ! time the two young men we have referred | to were getting ready to leave for home j they were approached by a friend of the I newly-married couple, who demanded from each two dollars and a half to help | pay for the music. As a matter of course they indignantly refused, got into their j buggy and drove home. In view of the fact that the high contracting parties and their families are both wealthy, this cirj. eumstance stands out as oii’e worthy to be ’ recorded, and kept on record for all time to come.” Fairs wiH be held at the places and dates indicated below: Bridgeton, Aug. 23 to 28; Logansport, Sept. G to 11; [ Charlestown, 9 Sept. 8 to 10; Cambridge | City, Stfpt. 14 to 17; Aurora, Sept. T to 10; i Connersville, Sept. 7 to 11; Covington, i Sept. 21 to 24; Pendleton, Sept. 7 to 10; | Marion, Sept. 21 to 24; Gosport, Aug. 31 ! to Sept. 4; Corydon, Sept. 14 to 18; New | Castle, Aug. 24 to 27; Danville, Sept. 7 to l 12; Kokomo, Sept. 21 to 24; Huglington, ; Sept. 21 to 24; Rensselaer, Sept. 16 to 18; ! Portland, Sept. 28 to Oct. 1; North Madii son, Sept. 20 to 24; Seymour, Sept. 7to i.lO; Vincennes, Oct. 11 to 16; Crown Point, j Sept. 29 to Oct. 1; Bedford. Sept. 13 to 119; Loogootee, Sept. 27 to Oct. 2; Valley Mills, Sept. 9to 11; Bloomington, Sept. 21 to 24; Martinsville, Sept. 7 to 11; Waterloo, Oct. 5 to 8; Ft. Wayne, Sept 13 to 18; Bloomingdale, Sept. 8 to 10; New Harmony, Sept. .1,4 to 17; Greencastle, Aug. 16 to 21; Peru, Sept. 21 to 24; Rushville, Sept. 14 to 17; Winchester, Sept. 14 to 17; Shelbyville, Aug. 31 to Sept. 5; Rockport, Sept. ’2B to Oct. 2; Lafayette, Aug. 30 to Sept. 4; Tipton, Sept. 14 to 17; Union City, Sept. 14 to 18; Russellville, Aug. 30 to Sept. 3; Knightstown, Aug. 31 to Sept. 3; Wabash, Sept. 14 to 17; Centreville, Sept. 14 to 17; Colombia City, Sept. 21 to 24; Worthington. Oct. 4 to 10.

Apoplexy.

If there is any one disease that the diligent brain-worker a little past middle life lias reason to fear, it is apoplexy. Although statistical evidence is wanting, the experience of the physician confirms the popular belief that more of our distinguished men are carried off by this disease, or by one' of its sequels, paralysis, than by any other cause. There are no vessels carrying blood to and from the various organs of the body which so frequently ruptftre as those in the brain. The causes that produce this result are the fatty degeneracy of the middle arterial coat ot the cerebral vessels, whereby their elastic strength is much impaired, the great irregularity of the blood distribution to the contents of the cranium, and the little support which the pulpy substance of the brain gives to the weakened vessels imbedded in it. The chief causes which produce this structural change are the habitual use of ardent spirits and tobacco. Every one is aware that tlie leading effects of these agents on the body are such as show that the functions of the nervous system are more affected than any other*, and the physician also knows that whenever symptoms of disorder arise from their use they are such as denote that the nervous system is almost alone implicated. Ardent spirits also tend to produce an overs ullness of the cerebral vessels, and jto affect the functions.of the brain in a manner which strangely blends stupidity, brightness and exhilaration. Effects s<j; unnatural, ariff so 'frequently ending in/ disease, influence injuriously the nutrition of the nervous centers. And to interfere with the nutrition of any part of the body is simply to impair the life find power of its structure. The evidence of this impairment may not be felt immediately. Tn tact the evidences of impairment by any bad habit are seldom apparent during the prime of youth and Vigor. But Mhe mischief is going bn, nevertheless, and the organ upon which the weight of infringement falls will be the one that will first manifest signs of disease, and through which death will make its conquest over the body. During sleep the brain is almost bloodless; its substance seems to shrink into a lifeless mass; but the moment that wakefulness occurs it swells out, gets red, its arteries and veins becoming distended with a tide of blood. No other part of the body is subject to such droughts and floods in its circulation. This inequality is still further increased by severe mind labor The ardent student is well aware that deep thought heats the head and cools the feet. The first apoplectic stroke, as a rule, is not a severe one; a little blood escapes by a tinj- rent, the-shock to tlie system slows the action to tlie heart, the escape of blood ceases, and nature heals the part torn, and removes the blood-clot by absorption. Then, as the blood-vessels in the brain grow weaker under a greater tension- than ordinaly, a larger rent is“ made, allowing the blood to escape in hopeless profusion. Napoleon stood in great dread of this disease, and was told by his medical adviser: “Sire, the first attack is a warning, the second a summons, the third a summons to execution.” What is to be done by those who inherit a tendency to apoplexy or whose habits of life predispose them to this disease? Clearly to diminish and keep the tension on these vessels by the blood at a low rate all the time. A prudent fireengineer, when his water-liose are old and weak, would work them at a low pressure. Men must carry out the same simple mechanical principle when there is reason to believe that the vessels of tlie brain are getting weak and brittle. * * * A stroke of apoplexy occurs frequently after a full meal. As soon as old, age puts a decided check on the amount of daily exercise it js time to put a decided check on the amount of food daily consumed. The kind of food best adapted to keep down superfluous blood is the vegetable. Even those of younger years and sedentary habits will feel lighter and better in every way by leaving tlie table hungry. All strong liquors are unsuited to those with an apoplectic tendency, for reasons already given. —Popular Science Monthly.

Be Your Own Right Hand Man.

People who have been bolstered up and levered along all their lives are seldom good for anything in a crisis. When misfortunes come they look around for somebody to cling or to lean upon. If the prop is not there down they go. Once down, they are helpless as capsized turtles or unhorsed men in armor, and cannot find their feet 1 - again without assistance. Such silken fellows no more ■resemble self-made men who have fought their way to position, making difficulties their stepping-sfones, and deriving determination from defeat, than vines resemble oaks, or sputtering rush-lights the stars of heaven. Effort persisted into achievement trains a man to self-reliance, and when he has proved to the world that he can trust himself, the world will trust him. We say, therefore, that it is unwise to deprive young men of the advantages which result.'from energetic xiction by “boosting” them over obstacles which they ought to be able to surmount. / No one ever swam well who placed his whole confidence in a cork-jacket, and if, when breasting the sea of life, we cannot buoy ourselves up and try to force ourselves almad by dint of our own energies we are not worih Salvage, and it is of little consequence whether we “ sink or swim, survive or perish.” One of the best lessons a man can give to his son is this: Work—strengthen your moral and mental faculties as you would strengthen your muscles, by vigorous exertion. Learn to conquer circumstances; vou are tliea independent of fortune.” The men of athletic minds who have left their marks on the eras in which they lived were trained in a rough school. They did not mount their high position by the help of leverage; they leaped into chasms, grappled with the opposing rocks, avoided the avalanche, and when the goal was reached felt that but for the toil that had strengthened them as theystrove it could never have been attained. — California Farmer. At an auction of household goods on Harrison avenue yesterday, when a woman had made a bid on an old bureau worth about $2, a boy slipped around to another woman and whispered: “ You see that woman over there with a blue bow on?” “ Yes.” ” Well, she says that no woman with a red nose can buy anything at this sale!” The woman with a red nose pushed her way into the crowd, qnd ran the price of the bureau up to sl2, and, as it was knocked down to her, she remarked: “ I may have a red nose, but no cross-eved woman with a blue bow on can bluff the V'—Detroit Free Press., - • A wag of a gourmand who had made himself ill by feasting on fish said he embodied the trio of the fiery furnace, thus—-shad-rack, me-sick, and abed-we-go.

VARIETY AND HUMOR.

—The wandering heiress—The wind-lass —Filth, disease and moral death are associated together in all times and places. —Prof. H. R. Palmer’s Musical Institute at Dunkirk, N. Y., begins July 19,, and holds four weeks. —Among a thousand boys with their hats off', you can always tell* the one whosehair has been cut by his toother, by the jagged expression of his face; also of his hair. —A boy who is not strong enough to spade up a small onion bed between now and the Fourth of July will dig over a ten-acre lot before breakfast looking for bait. — Rome Sentinel. —Buffalo has taken a step in the right direction in instructing the proper authorities to examine into tlie means of exit from public buildings, school-houses, chambers and places of resort. —lt is a plain principle of natural philosophy that a young lady who is so very, very ill that she can’t wash the dishes will bang a piano for four straight hours and never feel any bad effects. —A boy who had stolen some apples was forgiven for the rather ingenious manner in which he excused himself. The schoolmaster asking him wliat he had to say for himself, the urchin replied: “ The apples were Tom’s; I don't know how he .got them; and now they’re mine, and he don’t know how 1 got them.” . - —On the Saucelito boat, yesterday, were two men returning from a picnic. Both were somewhat the worse for contact with the spirits. One imagined himself sober, slewed around toward his companion, and said, with severity: “Look here, if I’m goin’ to be your brother-in-law I, want you to keep straight.” — Alta California. —When the grasshoppers get on the railroad tracks out West the engineers do not go along in front and brush them oft’, but cruelly run over, mash and deprive them of life. But by this process the tracks get oily, the wheels lose their grip and the train is detained. Thus is justice avenged, though Bergli resides 3,000 miles away. —The New York Star ..says: “ Capt. William H. Brown committed suicide on Friday by cutting liis throat, and he did it for love. If rumors he true, lie was engaged to the young lady in New Orleans who has since become tlie wife of Phil. Sheridan. She sent Brown a ring with ‘Be satisfied’ upon it. Brown swallowed the ring, but was not satisfied. He then cut his throat.- Poor fellow! ” —The statement that salt sprinkled on garden vegetables will keep grasshoppers away turns out to be something like that notion that saltpeter would drive away cockroaches. When a prospecting grasshopper finds a garden with salt in it, he immediately telegraphs- back for the old gFassheppers-and the little ones, and they bring all their relatives and friends along, and they have the most uproarious kind of a picnic until the premises are cleaned out. —A Michigan avenue widower concluded the other day that lie would marry. He got two ladies seriously tlii lilting over the matter, and gave one a week to decide on a matrimonial proposition. The day day following lie saw a buxom widow, got wild over her many charming qualities, and by the time the week went around married her. The other two are now dreadfully sorry that they did not manifest more interest in the widower. — Detroit Free Press. —Only female spiders spin webs. They own all the real estate, and the.males have to live a vagabond life, under stones and in other obseure places, and if they are troublesome about the house they are mercilessly killed and eaten. The skin of tlie spider is tough and unyielding, and is shed like the shells of lobsters and crabs, to accommodate the animal’s growth. If you poke over the rubbish in a female, spider’s back yard, among the cast-off corsets you will find the jackets- of tlie males who have, paid for tlieir sociality with their lives —trophies of her barbarism, as truly as scalps show the savage nature of the red man.

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