Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. ■' T 1 JAMES A HEALEY, Proprietor*. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOBKICN. The trial of Alexander and William Collie on the charge of obtaining large sums of money from the London and Westminster Bank on false pretenses came to a sudden con* elusion on the 9th by the announcement that Alexander had absconded. According to a London dispatch of the morning of the 11th a serious affair had arisen between the Russian and Prussian frontier guards at Donbrowa, on the bonndarj’ between the two countries. The trouble was provoked by the Russians, who trespassed on German territory. Several of the guard* on each side were wounded. . All the Carlist villages on the plain of Alaoa have submitted to the Government of King Alphonso. A Madrid telegram of the 10th says the Official Gazette had published an order directing a levy of 100,000 men. Mr. Gladstone, late English Premier, has published another pamphlet, in which he discusses anew the questions relating to papacy which formed the' subject of his former pamphlets on “ Vaticanism.'" Shaw A Thompson, British iron merchants and manufacturers, failed for <600,000 on the llth, and then compromised with their creditors by paying 50 per cent, of their indebtedness. Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish poet and author, was buried at Copenhagen on the llth. The day was made one of national mourning throughout Denmark. A London special of the morning of the 12th intimates that Russia would not prevent Mon. tenegro from aiding the and that great numbers of Montenegrins had joined the insurgents around Trebigne. The French Government has prohibited the-sale in France of Mr. Gladstone’s writings against papacy. A Constantinople dispatch of the 12th says the situation in Hercegovina was becoming exceedingly grave. The insurgents had attacked Trebigne, and were burning and pillaging in all directions. The Turks had been defeated at Bileridia after an obstinate fight. The French Geographical Congress has awarded first-class medals to the American Statistical Bureau at Washington and Prof. Hayden. The British Parliament was prorogued on the 18th until the 29th of October. A London dispatch of the morning of the 14 th reports several additional and important failures. The pamphlet of Mr. Gladstone has elicited a reply from Cardinal Manning, in which he says the ex-Premier is among the chief apostles of revolution against the peace of the Christian church. On the 13th Webb, the Englishman, undertook to swim across the English Channel without a life-saving apparatus, and failed when half-way across, owing to the roughness of the waves. Col. Valentine Baker, a distinguished British officer who was convicted recently of an indecent assault upon a young lady in a railway car, has been cashiered. Drexel, Hayes & Co., of Paris, had redeemed <IOO,OOO of Duncan, Sherman & Co.’s letters of credit up to the 14th. A Berlin dispatch of the 14th says the Cath. ■olic clergy holding State appointments in Posen had submitted to the ecclesiastical laws. According to Carlist advices of the 14th a battle had been fought at Arduna between the National and Carlist troops, in which the former had been defeated with great loss. A London dispatch of the morning of the 16th says all the Turkish regiments in the garrisons in Roumania and Bulgaria had been ordered to march to Herzegovina. The insurgents had burned some villages and massacred whole Mohammedan families.

DOMESTIC. Fourteen thousand five hundred dollars of the (47,000 stolen from the Treasury Department were recovered on the 9th. The money, consisting- of twenty-nine SSOO bills, was found in the vault of a bank at Alexandria, where it had been deposited by Ottman. Ottman, the Treasury robber, was remanded to jail on the 10th in default of $40,000 bail. A Cheyenne dispatch of the 10th states that Gen. Crook and CoL Stanton had returned there from the Black Hills, and report that miners .were preparing to leave the Hills, coveting up the richest lodes to prevent their becoming known until such time as they,canreturn. They say there are gold mountains full of quartz, and that capital and skill will develop mines equal to those of California and Nevada. There were about 1,500 miners in the Hills, and a great deal of preliminarywork had been done by them in the way of ditches and sluices. But few Indians had been seen. The little mare Lulu made the astonishing time of 2:15 at Buffalo on the 10th, the fastest time on record with the exception of Goldsmith Maid's 2:14# Rochester last year. Mrs. Andie Sumner, a young married woman, used coal-oil to kindle a fire at Cincinnati a few mornings ago, and at twelve o'clock was a corpse. Her clothing was all burned off her. A cattle train on the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway collided on the evening of the 11th with a special train on the Hannibal &. St. Joe Road, a few miles from Kansas City. The special train contained several railway officials, many of whom were more or lees injured. The levee at Shawneetown,•'lll., gave way on fije morning of the 12th, owing to the high water in the Ohio River. The town was inundated to the depth of from fire to seven feet and the inhabitants were driven from their houses to the adjoining country. The new Institution for the Feeble-Minded in Illinois has been located at Lincoln. Returns from all counties in Wisconsin except one give the total population of the State at 1,296,579, being an increase of 181,909 in five years. The yellow-fever broke out at Pascagoula Miss., on the Bth, and there were thirty cases under tr&tment on the 12th. Seven deaths, had already occurred, the disease being of the most malignant type. A Fort Barrancas (Fla.) dispatch of the 11th says there were no new cases there. Notice has been given by the United States Treasury Department that the principal and interest the following bonds will be paid at the Treasury in Washington on and after the 13th of November next, and that the interest on said bonds will close on that day: Six per cent, registered bonds of the act of March 8,1864, SWO. from Nos. 1 to No. 72, both inclu •tee; S6OO. Mo. 1 to 43, both inclusive; SI,OOO, No*. Ito 253; both inclusive; |5,000, Noi Ito

1,366, both inclusive. Total, <946,600. Act of June 30, 1864, coupon bonds, <SO, No*. 1 to 750, both inclusive; <IOO, Nos. 1 to 3,750, both inclusive; <SOO, Nos. 1 to 4,300, both inclusive; <I,OOO, No*. 1 te 16,200, both inclusive. Total, <5,500,000. Registered bonds, <SO, Nos. I to3o, both inclusive; <IOO. No*. 1 to 950, both inclusive; <SOO, No*. 1 to 300, both inclusive; <I,OOO, Nos. 1 to 1,100, both inclusive; <5,000, Nos. 1 to 800, both inclusive; <IO,OOO, Nos. 1 to 1,520, both inclusive; total, <3,553,400. Total, <10,000,000. Returns of the Department of Agriculture for Aug. JLgive the following cotton averages: North Carolina, 99; South Carolina, 4; fieorgia, 86; Florida, 85; Alabama, 93; Mississippi, 104; Louisiana, 99; Texas, 93; Arkansas, 108; Tennessee, )0~. Considerable excitement has been caused in Winnebago County, 111., by the announce, ment that Jefferson Davis had been invited and had consented to deliver the address before the Agricultural Society in September. Ata meeting in Rockford of the Grand Army of the Republic resolutions were adopted denouncing the action of the Board and declaring that they would not attend nor contribute to the success of the fair in the event of Mr. Davis delivering the.address. Resolutions of a similar nature were passed bycitizens of other towns in the county, and the manufacturers of Rockford declared they would send nothing to the fair in such event. The following is an official statement from thel’rrited States Treasury Department of Government receipts and expenditures bywarrants for the year ending June 30,1875: NKT BECBIPTH. Cu5t0m*5157,167,722 Internal revenue 110,007,493 Sales public lands 1,413.640 Miscellaneous sources 19,411,195 Total 1....:..5288,000.050 NWT aXTZNDITUBZH. Civil and miscellaneous $71,070,702 War Department ... 41,120,645 Navy Department 21,497,626 Indiana and pensions 37,840 873 Intereat on public debt..'. 103,093, 44 Total ordinary expendituress274,623,39o Mrs. Bock, of Texas, on a visit at Waterloo, 111., undertook a few days ago to hurry up the fire by using kerosene oil, when the usual explosion followed and she was burned to death. A Washington telegram of the 15th states that a number of Postmasters at small offices throughout the country have been removed for an unlawful disposition of postage stamps, unjustly increasing their salaries thereby.

PERSONAL. Gov. Beveridge has issued a proclamation offering a reward of S4OO each for the arrest of the perpetrators cf the murders committed in Williamson County, 111., within the past two years. This is in addition to the SI,OOO reward offered by the county. B. B. Halleck and Theo. W. Brown, arrested for complicity in the United States Treasury robbery, were examined on the 11th and committed to jail in default of S4O,tXX) bail each. Washington specials of the 12th say it was understood there that an adverse decision would be given to the petition of Fitz John Porter for a rehearing of his case. The de- - cision is based upon the ground that the finding of a court-martial, after sentence has been approved and executed, cannot be reviewed or reopened, and that the United States Supreme Court has held that under the Constitution there is no appeal from such a verdict Notice of trial of the SIOO,OOO libel suit of Theodore Tilton against the Brooklyn' Eagle and Thomas Kinsella was entered on the 12th in the Brooklyn City Court for the September term. The Chicago Journal of the 12th mentions the fact that four weeks had elapsed since the balloon ascension of Messrs. Donaldson and Grimwood, and yet the mystery of their fate was still unsolved. The Journal says: “ There is now but little doubt that they were dashed into the lake by the gale of that terrible night and that their bodies and the balloon sank in the middle of Lake Michigan, where, the water being of very great depth, no bodies of drowned persons have ever been known to rise to the surface. In every instance where reports have reached us of Donaldson's balloon, or remnants of it, having been seen or its passengers heard of, we have promptly instituted inquiry, but in no case have we found the reports well founded or worthy of credit.” It was stated in New York on the 12th that the letters of credit for which the father of Mr. Duncan had become responsible amounted only to about $30,000. From a statement made on the 13th it.appears that the liabilities of the firm are about $4,572,128, and the assets $2,1 1i,740. The amount of thpir liabilities on account of travelers' credits and circular notes is placed at $237,975. Announcement is made of the death of Hon. W. A. Graham, of North Carolina, formerly a United States Senator, Governor of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy and candidate for Vice-President in 1852 on the ticket with Gen. Scott. He was seventy-five years old. Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the Chicago revivalists, arrived in New York on the 14th from Europe. Jefferson Davis has notified the officers of the Winnebago County (Ill.) Agricultural Society that, owing to the feeling manifested on the subject, he withdraws from his engagement to deliver the address before the society in September. Louisville, Ky., has been selected as the place for holding a convention of all the Grange purchasing agents on the Ist of October. . The national executive and all the State Executive Committees will be present for the purpose of adopting a plan by which business can be conducted on a uniform system throughout the United States. •„ .

• POLITICAL. The majority in Alabama for a State Constitutional Convention is 16,500. The d legates elected number: Democratsßl, Independent Democrats 6, Republicans 12. - Ira P. Rankin has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First California District. ■' «,i > - The Republicans of the Fourth Congressional District of Maine have nominated Gen. Plaisted to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wm. F. Hersey. The Independent Democrats of the First California District have nominated Bam. Brannon for Congress. The Oregon Independent State Convention met on the 11th and nominated G. W. Whitney for Congress. The Oregon Independent .and the Oregon Republican State platforms both deciare in favor of specie payments. The former also favors the repeal of the act. doubling the President’s salary. J The election in North Carolina for de’egates to the Constitutional Convention has resulted in the choice of sixty Democrats, two Independent Democrats and fifty-eight Republicans.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

• Purdue University reopens in September. Knightsville will soon be the city of furnaces. ... The ymy-worm is operating in Dearborn C<ranty. Milk-sickness prevails in some portions of Perry County. Adams County will hold its first fair in ten years tljisdall. , The old settlers of Sullivan give a basket picnic on the 14th/' A new paper is about -to be started at Dublin, Wayne County, Tippecanoe County is to have a dog show during her county fair. The mines near Brazil are being rapid. }y filled with German miners. Grapes are rotting in Hendricks County, especially the “ Copcords.” Moisture prevails to an unpleasant degree in Tipton County real estate. One man is putting up twenty-five rest dences at Connersville this season. The soldiers of Northern Indiana will hold their reunion at Fort Wayne, Oct. 5. Potatoes are selling for twenty-five cents a bushel in Richmond, Wayne County. ' _____ ‘ ~ -• Every mud-l/ole in Wayne County is being analyzed in a search for medicinal springs. l . Mrs. Cass, of Logansport, was recently killed at Windfall, Tipton County, by a runaway team. This year’s growth of apple trees in Greene County isdying as though infected with some deadly insect. The Peru Times says the southern part of Maine County and part of Howard are but little better than lakes. Terre Haute has • a prominent female member of the legal profession in the person of Miss Bessie Eaglefield. James Wright was killed by a recent cyclone, in Hendricks County, and his wife and six children more or less injured. The Evansville Medical Society is still troubled about its code of ethics. Purging itself of an advertising member don’t settle the difficulty. The Knightstown Burial Case Company has erected a new and more commodious building. This company requires more room than its patrons. The annual session of the Vigo County Teachers’ Institute will begin on the 30th of August, under the management of Superintendent Royse. William Campbell, a brakeman, fell under a train at Knightville, the other day, and was instantly killed, his head being crushed into a jelly. There ar* in the State 21,840,350.17 acres of land. Jasper stands at the head of the list with 374,345.40 acres. Ohio is the smallest county, having but 54,742.72 acres. The Grand Lodge of the United States Independent Order of Odd Fellows will meet at Odd Fellows’ Hall, Indianapolis, Sept. 20, and continue in session until Sept. 26. Noble County doctors recently met and resolved —they won’t advertise unless they can do it for nothing, by getting some ed. itor to describe the miraculous operation of lancing a boil, *r something of that sort. The Indianapolis Journal Company and John G. Doughty, bidders for the State printing, have obtained a temporary injunction against the Commissioners of Public Printing for awarding the contract to the Sentinel Company. A freight train on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad recently went through a trestle torty feet high, between Putnamville and Cloverdale, killing the engineer, conductor and head brakeman. The fireman had one arm and one leg broken. Only the rear brakeman escaped. The Trustees of the Indiana Medical College have accepted - the resighatioif "of j Prof. Dugan Clark, who for the past six years has occupied the chair of the prinj ciples and practice of medicine in that institution. Dr. L. D. Waterman, of Indianapolis, has been appointed to and accepted the professorship. : The Soldiers’ reunion will be held at Indianapolis on Thursday and Friday, Oct 14 and 15. Regimental reunions will be in order for the first day, and on Friday a grand parade with an oration by Senator Morton and others. Prospects are very flattering for large representations, pf soldiers from all paps of the State.

The United States keeps two river sig-nal-lights • burning opposite Rising -Sun. every night in the year, one at the head of the bar on the Indiana side and the other at the foot of the bar on the Kentucky side of the river. The compensation of the men having charge of the lights is fifty cents per night, and a barrel of oil is sent to 'each' man every three months. " j Some weeks since Israel Ulrey, of Rising Sun. was robbed of s6,ooo’in money/ the savings of many years; which he was about to invest in a farm. The robbery was committed at noonday Il’s breaking open a desk or bureau in his dwelling, where he had deposited the money. Mr. Ulrey and a detective have been quietly working up the case, and one day recently' five citizens, who have heretofore borne • good characters, w ere arrested, upon i what is claimed as conclusive evidence of their guilt. At a recent session of the Slgte Board ot Education a resolution was adopted: “ That in order to secure a more complete j system of public instruction in the State of Indiana this Board will hereafter issue commissions to high-school teachers to examine candidates for admission to Purdue University upon the same conditions upon which they are examined for the State University.” Also: “That this regulation : be communicated to those Superintendents ’ of high-schools who ha've received commissions from this Board during the present year.”

Prussian Military Training.

The Paris correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph writes: A very interesting letter from Metz in a French militarv paper gives details of the kind of drill Prussian troops are subjected to. If the account be correct actual campaigning must appear like a holiday to them in comparison with their peace training. Military marches take place daily, no matter what the weather or temperature may be. The men are invariably in heavy inarching order. They start at five a. m., after having taken coffee, and return to S quarters aliout eleven or twelve. The orces are divided into two corps—-one of them, in foragecaps, are supposed to represent the enemy. The cavalry is specially trained in reconnoitering duties, and a couple of troops invariably accompany the infantry. The troops are never allowed to enter a village: each man takes some bread and meat with him, and when the halt is called, if near any town or hamlet, each squad of twenty men detaches two, who are sent to purchase wine or brandy. The men who have no money are generally allowed to have a pull at the flask of tlieir comrades better off than themselves. This is an understood thing. The officers mostly do without eating; the few who require refreshments are content with a sandwich. Each halt lasts three : quarters of an hour. At the signal given by the bugle the sentries and outposts, which are stationed all round to a distance of 800 meters, instantly fall in. The return homeward is widely different from the marching out. There is no more maneuvering; the body of the men march in two lines right and left of the road with a group of singers in the middle. Patriotic songs are the rule, where the words “Konig” and “ Vaterlapd” are of frequent occurrence. The Bavarians are partial to warlike ditties in which the “Erb-Feind” seems severely handled. Ever since last Thursday all the non-com. missioned officers are engaged in making fascines and throwing up earthworks. They start at 6 p. m. and remain out all night. On dark nights a powerful lamp, like that of a light-house, is used,, . This seems hard work. In South Germany the training seems equally practical and severe. M. Victor Tissot’s book (“Voyage au Pays des Millards”) shows how recruits are trained at Ulni: “They are specially practiced in marksmanship and gymnastics. For two hours every day they are kept firing at targets which bear a strong resemblance to the distant outline of Zouaves and Turcos. The instructors in musketry are al 1 Prussians, and come from the school of musketry at Spandau. Moreover, they are frequently practiced in the operations of real warfare. Quite recently the railway station at Ulin was ‘captured by surprise’ by a body of Bavarian recruits, the employes were all made prisoners, while the special ‘ railway battalion’ took possession of the railway stock and organized railway etappen." ' At other times M. Tissot assures us that the men are trained in “requisitioning” villages, which seems carrying professional zeal very far indeed.

Mormon Worship.

A letter from a visitor to Salt Lake to the Troy Times gives a brief sketch of the Mormon style of worship. The writer says: “ The principal object to see here is the tabernacle, or house of worship. This is an oblong building, which seats 13,000 people. It has a wide gallery, extending around the entire structure, except at one end where the organ stands. This organ is of the same size as the great organ at Boston, and was built by the Mormons upon the very spot where it stands. It is thirty-two feet in height, and larger than many houses in the city. It is richly ornaniented with carvings in some dark' wood. It requires four men to blow the bellows. There are twenty entrances to this tabernacle. We attended service there this afternoon at two o’clock. There were about 5,000 people present. The service lasted two hours and a quarter. The choir is composed of 100 men and women. The men sit upon one side of the tabernacle, the women upon the other. The sacrat. ent of the Lord’s supper is celebrated every Sunday; it consists of bread and water; all partake of it who have been it is served by ten men during the preaching of the sermon. They have but one service a week in the tabernacle, and that is on Sunday at two o’clock p. m. The Sunday-school and other church services are held in the ward churches —twen-ty-one in all. The sermon this morning was given by Elder Taylor, one of the twelve apostles of the church. It lasted one hour and twenty minutes, and yet I did notsee anodding head in the audience! The service is similar to ours, or about Hie same. It is opened by a hymn, then a prayer is made by one of the elders, then a hymn, then the sermon. The sermon is an extemporized lecture ; no text is taken, although the bible (a large copy) rests upon the desk; the Book of Mormon is also upon tire desk. The minister neither reads from the Bible nor the Book of Mormon. During the sermon, or at the commencement of the sermon, eight deacons prepare the bread—that is, break it and put i it into the silver, baskets; when it is ready j the minister pauses a moment and one of ‘ tire elders descends from his seat and blesses it After the bread has been taken around, which requires some time, then the deacons pour the water from the silver pitchers into large silver cups. When that is ready there is another pause in the sermon, another elder comes down and blesses the water, and that is served. The ceremony occupies nearly all the time the sermon is going on. There are two barrels of water, from which tile deacons replenish their pitchers from time to time. The communicants seem to take a good drink of water, instead of a sip only ; indeed.! saw no one take less than several swallows. That accounts for the necessity of two barrels. Oh, but such a congregation of hard countenances! They are a hard-work looking people, browned by exposure to the air, and dressed in clothes and bonnets they brought with them when they came out as pioneers.”

Lovely Evenings.

A watering-place correspondent writes: A beautiful young lady was walking arm-in-arm with a young man an evening or two asro, in towhose eyes she would sweetly smile. “ It’s a lovely evening,” said the fair one. “ Yes.” replied her attendant. They were silent and walked on. “It was a lovely evening yesterday,” said the beautiful girl, as they came round again. Yes,” meekly answered the young man, evidently at a loss what to say! They cajnt around a third time', and it was his tuirn now. “I hope it will be a lovely evening to-morro jf,” said he. “ So dor I,” said she. The eavesdropper arose, looked off on the water, from which the tints of the setting sun hjjd not gone, and wondered whether all beautiful women were like this one.

An Indian Drama.

A correspondent of the New York Herald with Hayden's surveying party, in the “ Bad Lands,” writes • “ On our way to the Park we met a party en route to the mines, among whom we noticed a jovial, heartylook i fig man, dressed in an ornamented buckskin suit, with long, dark hair hanging down his back, and armed with a rifle, a revolver and a gigantic hunting-knife. Supposing him, from his appearance, to be some celebrated character, we found, upon inquiry, that it was ‘Oregon Bill,’ an old Government scout and a friend of Buffalo Bill. The party accompanied us 1 for a couple of days, into Baker’s Park, ! and many a good talk and hearty laugh did we have in company with Oregon Bill. He has been in this Western country nearly twenty years, part of which time hp scoute*’. on the plains in company with Buffalo Bill. In 1872 he was in the Black Hills, and says he found gold-dust in the gulches of the foot-hills on the northwest slope of the Hills. The squaws of the Blackfeet and Crow Indians were in the habit of adorning themselves with gold trinkets which, tie thinks, evidently came from that section. A year ago Bill went East with a delegation of Cawsand Osages, and, during the Centennial Exposition, he expects to exhibit a party of Caw Indians, wtiose language he speaks fluently. His I private name is W. J. Speck, and he is thirty-eight years of age. Bill has entered the mines, with ‘the other boys,’ to seek his fortune, but as long as lie” has enough to eat and a tribe of Indians to.escort he is always perfectly happy. Although he is a man of education, tine perceptions and good connections, he prefers this free and roving life, and, like all true ‘sons of the wilds,’.is proud of his reputation as a scout and a hunter. In giving an account of the first night’s Indian performances at Fort Leavenworth, he says: ‘We had had no rehearsal, and when the hour arrived we knew no more what the Indians would do than the audience. But I went behind the scenes and told them to go out and do their best. At the given signal they went hooting and yelling on the stage, and commenced a war-dance. They had three fresh scalps, which they had captured from another tribe a few days before, and, as they progressed in the dance and grew excited, they flourished their tomahawks and knives and flung the scalps into the air, cutting at them with their weapons as they descended, and licking them with their tongues wtienever they could get them in their hands. At length they got worked up to such a pitch of excitement that, forgetting for the time where they were, they leaped clear over the orchestra and ran, yelling and whooping, up and down the aisles. The audience were so frightened that most of them ran out of the house, and we were rather scared ourselves, as we did not know how the thing would end. Two of us ran out on the stage and shouted and gesticulated until we were tired, without any effect, when one of the squaws came out and told us to let them have it out or they might do some damage. This was the last night we gave a performance without a rehearsal, for the Indians told us they thought they were to do just as they had done.’ Then he gave us an imitation of the war-dance and accompanying weird chant, and it was done to such perfection that our flesh crept and we almost imagined him a warrior in disguise.”

Curious Facts About Bees.

Bees are very curious creatures, and the following facts, ascertained by Huber, will be read with interest. They refer to the senses of these wonderful insects: The senses of bees >fas the next subject of investigation, and vre will give in brief toe results which Huber reached. The lenses of the bees’ eyes are not adjustable; and, though they can see accurately to great distances, they seem blind to objects close by. Bees dart down to the door of their hives with a precision which is generally unerring; but, if from any cause they miss the opening, they are obliged to rise in the air in order to take another observation. If bees hear—which is a doubtful question, the old-fashioned “tanging” to the contrary —they certainly hear only what affects their welfare. Their sense of taste is also far from perfect, foul dish-water being often preferred by them to limpid streams, or even dew, and ill-smelling plants having quite as much attraction as sweet ones. It is the quantity rather than the quality of their food for < which they care. They are also fond of the secretion of the aphides, the milch cattle of the ants. Thdr sense of smell is very keen; the presence of honey they detect, even in the most carefully-concealed places. Honey bees often, in scarce seasons, attack the bumble bees on their return from the fields laden with honey, and force them to disgorge all they have collected. Its presence in the honey-bag must have been detected by the sense of smell. The seat of this sense is in the mouth; this Huber determined by presenting successively to all parts of the body, on camel’s-hair pencils, odors specially repugnant to them. 'When held nearthe mouth the bee started back as if annoyed. On •ne occasion he mixed camphor with honey, which they especially dislike; by some means they managed to separate and remove all the honey, leaving the camphor untouched'.

The sense which seems to be most perfect in these little creatures is that of touch, and that seems to reside wholly in the antennae. Greetings, caresses and the communication of intentions are always effected, by one bee toward another, by crossing their antennae. It must be remembered that no light enters a hive under ordinaiy circumstances. “The bee,” says Huber, “constructs its comb in darkness; it pours its honey into the magazines, feeds its young, judges of their age and necessities, recognizes its queen, all by aid of its antennre, which are much less adapted for becoming acquainted with objects than our hands. Therefore shall we not grant to this sense modifications and perfections unknown to the touch of man ?” The other day. as a woman in mourning had about finished making her purchases at a Vicksburg grocery-store, and the goods had been placed in a vehicle which brought her in from the country, the grocer asked: “Wouldn’t yer like some nice beans?” She burst into tears and leaned against the wagon. “ What is it, madam—what is the matter ?” he anxiously inquired. “ Did you say beans?” she sobbed. “Yes.” “ Well, you struck a tender chord in my heart when you said beans* my poor husband called for beans the last thing before he died.”— Herald. Cheating is not confined to any particular race. In a package of opium that has not been opened since it left the shores of the Levant, received at a drug store in Alexandria, Va., there was found a collection of old bullets and rocks, which had been paid for at the rate of $8.75 a pound. “A stitch in Time”—one in the old fellow's back.

VARIETY AND HUMOR.

—Always in love—the letter v. —Chicago is going to present a church to Moody. —Reading, Pa., has a cemetery for dead dogs. I —A girl of in-bread usefulness-ASally-. ' ratus. \ | —Boston people have brought out silver-, mounted hitching-posts. —Tlffiy tell of a snow-bank up in New Hampshire eight feet deep. :' —Wyandotte is so busy now that she grasp'eth a pencil and hastily writes it IY & . —Turtle meat sells for five cents a pound in Cedar Key, Fla. More turtles than people to eat them, probably. —A grocer at Paterson, N. J., died the next day after advertising in a newspaper. Isn’t this warning enough ? - —A Philadelphia hotel clerk claims that a hotel clerk must be dignified to be respected. A smile would be his ruin. —“ What about* Cuba?” asks the St. Louis Times. As Cuba is an island, we should say—water! — Rochester Express. —Two ambitious fellows -who went to count the Thousand Islands have returned with a report that there are only 400 and odd. ’ ■ —A Virginia horse committed suicide the other day. In most parts of the world suicide is committed only by Globe-Deniocrat. —Some chaps in Topeka shaved George Perkins’ head just for fun, and a jury decided that his hair was worth $2,300. Topeka is no place for fun. —lndia-rubber horseshoes are coming into use, and they make a horse prance whether he wants to or not. There’s no longer any need of driving tacks into the harness. —ls a Missouri man gets killed while riding a race the crowd is certain to chip in and raise more money for the widow than the husband would have earned in two years.

—ln this country ten mills make one cent, but in England, while the present lockout continues, thirty mills won’t make that amount, it seems.— N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. —Sixty-four convicts in the Maine State Prison last January agreed to leave off the use of tobacco and have »a weekly newspaper furnished them instead, and thus far they have held to their agreement. —The Danbury News says: “ A trip to Europe dissipates many prejudices, stores the mind with valuable information, and inspires many to eat with a fork who had never before been able to get the hang of it.” —After every hard rain at Hawesville, Ky., particles of quicksilver, from the smallest visible size to that of squirrelshot, are to be found in the cracks between the paving-stones. Its source should be hunted. —“ The love of a bonnet is nothing but hu- . ■ • man nature at play,” Says his rev’renee, Prof. David Swing. But when for this human nature at play you. have roundly to pay, How your reverence for Swing takes wing. —Toledo Blade. —Ex-President Johnson was a believer in life insurance, and illustrated his faith by his acts to an extent that is rare indeed, even nowadays. The aggregate of the policies on his life is said to be no less than $350,000. — Boston Post. —-ff he lightning came down into a Framingham potato-patch the other day and dug a hole eight feet deep. If the potato bugs don’t heed this terrible warning, the Worcester (Mass.) Press thinks, they will deserve no sympathy if one of their number should get struck sometimes. —There’s an old antiquarian who has been traveling about the country for twenty years, looking for a rock from which, according to some story, an Indian maiden and her lover didn’t throw themselves when pursued by a vengeful tribe. He hasn’t found such a rock yet, and is getting very old and very hopeless.

THE MARKETS.

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