Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. JAMES A HEALEY, Proprietors. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. The Berlin Municipal Court on the2lst sen. tenced the editor of the Germania, an ultramontane journal, to five months’ imprisonment for having published an article insulting to the Chancellor and inciting to disobeience of the laws. Gen. Kaufman occupied Khokand, in Centra] Asia, on the 16th of the present month. All the Russiah prisoners had been delivered over and the Khan had accepted all the conditions of peace, according to latest advices. A Ragnsa dispatch of the 22d confirms previous reports of insurgent victories, and says that everything between Novowarsch and Vishegrad had been burned. Trebigne had been again surrounded. A Belgrade dispatch of the 23d says the Servian Minister of War had ordered a large force to the Bosnian frontier as an army of observation. The teat of the circular addressed by the Papal Nuncio to the Spanish Bishops was published m Madrid on the 24th. The Nuncio says he has been directed to communicate to the Bishops the substance of the protest sent by the Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See to the Spanish Government upon the Popeye attention being called to the toleration clauses in the new Constitution proposed for Spain. The Ministerial papers say that no concessions will be made to the Pope tending to,prejudice the independence of the magistrates in dealing with the Bishops, and especially the Bishop of Seo d’Urgel. The Papal Nuncio was recalled on the 24th. ■ A special telegram from Berlin of the 25th says the-Sublime Porte had declined to make aay concession to the insurgents until they have made a full and complete submission. A Constantinople dispatch of the same date says the Consular mediation had failed. A Paris dispatch of the 25th says a Bonapartist council had been recently held at Arenberg, Switzerland, at the chateau of ex-Empress Eugenie, at which it was resolved that the Empress, who was unpopular in France because of her pronounced ultramontanism, should resign the regency, and that the Prince Imperial, guided by M. Rouher, should have supreme direction of affairs.

DOMESTIC. The Grand Council to treat with the Indians relative to the cession to the Government of their rights in the Black Hills assembled on the White River, about six miles below the Red Cloud Agency, on the 21st Red Cloud refused to attend at the opening of the council. Senator Allison opened the conference with a speech in which he explained .to the Indians the desire of the-white people to secure a right to the Indian Black Hills region by giving them a fair equivalent for the«ame.. A Washington telegram of the 22d says there remained only <28,000,000 of the new 5 per cent, bonds for negotiation, and that no further call for the redemption of the old bonds would be made until demanded by subscriptions to the new. The news received on the 22d from the re. cent flood disasters on the coast of Texas Shows that the storm had swept over the whole line of the coast, and, in addition to the damagedone at Galveston, that at least nine towns had been nearly or. quite obliterated, namely: Indianola, on the w’est shore of Matagorda Bay, having about 2,000 inhabitants, where but three houses were left standing and from 150 to 200 lives were lost; Saluria, on the Matagorda Island; Sabine Pass; Calcasieu; San Bernardino; Buffalo Bayou; Lynchburg, a town of about 2,000 inhabitants; Matagorda, the capital of Matagorda County, and Cedar Lake. A large number of lives must have been lost, and the destitution and suffering of the survivors Were very great One dispatch to New Orleans from Indianola says: “ Bend us help, for God’s sake !” Aid was being rendered to the sufferers by the people of New Orleans and Galveston. Acting-Mayor Davis, of Galveston, telegraphed to the Mayor of St. Louis on the 22d, appealing for aid and saying the survivors in the towns destroyed had lost everything, and that provisions, clothing and every necessary of life were needed. These floods were caused by steady, heavy winds blowing the waters of the gulf in huge waves upon the coast.

Mail accounts received on the 23d of the recent storm and flood disaster at Galveston, Tex., represent the loss of property as far exceeding in amount that given 'by previous telegraphic reports. Three hundred houses were swept away, and the destruction to railroad bridges and other improvements would run the aggregate loss up to between <3,000,000 and <4/MO,OOO. It was thought on the 23d that the total number of lives lost along the coast by the storm would reach, if not exceed, 400, and several small towns back from the coast are reported to have been swept away. A man and woman performing on a trapeze in a hall in New York city, on the evening of the 23d, fell headforemost to the floor from the ceiling, and were fatally injured. The National Agricultural" Congress held its annual session at Cincinnati on the 22d, 23d and 24th. W. C. Flagg,. of Illinois, was elected President for the ensuing year, with one Vice-President for each State and Territory. G. E. Morrow, of Chicago, was chose n Secretary and J. O. Griffith, of Nashville, Treasurer. Resolutions were adopted rommending| the completion of the four great water routes recommended by the United States Senate, more especially the central one, and recommending the reduction of the taxon tobacco to ten cents per pound. The Congress is to meet next year in Philadelphia. The Herndon House, ie Marshall; Mich., Mas destroyed by fire early on the morning of the 24th, and Claude G. Avery, Antoine Grvber, Eliza King and Martha Varsden were either burned to death or fatally injured in trying to escape from the building. Several other persons received serious injuries. The report of the board appointed to inthe Chicago Custom-House build, i “K made public en the 26th and Is to the effect thet some of the material used in the atructureso far should be rejected and some other modffications made ip the work, and that then the structure may safely be proceeded with. The Secretary of the Treasury hid arses tfle report, and work on the buildisg is to be .resumed in the spring in accordance with the made by the commission. The eommisEwaers st the Red Cloud Agency to tieat with the Indians for the -Rills were ppnfiJdferably alarmed on

the 24th by the warlike attitude assumed by several “ bad" Indians who had putir an appearance under the lead of “ Little Bad Man.” A fight sesmed inevitable at one time, but the Indians were finally pacified.' But little hopes of negotiating a satisfactory treaty I were entertained by the commission. PERSONAL . The case of Tilton vs. Beecher was called in j the Brooklyn City Court on the 20th, and by consent of counsel was put over until the i next term. The jury in the case of Westervelt, on trial i in Philadelphia for alleged complicity in the I Charlie Ross abduction, have returned a ver-. diet acquitting him of actual participation in ! the crime, but find him guilty of conspiracy to conceal the child aad of having a guilty knowledge of the abduction. Vice-President Wilson on the 22d sent a note to the Boston Journal saying that a sense of obligation and duty to the country would not permit him to accept the nomination for Governor of his State, even though it were tendered by the unanimous voice of the convention. Charles G. Fieher, late Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Cohimbia, has been arrested in Washington on the charge of stealing the appeal bonds and papers in forty District cases which had been appealed from the Police Court to the Criminal Court. He waived examination, and was held to answer before the Grand Jury. The stolen papers and others of equal importance were recovered. It was stated in Washington on the 23d that the Red Cloud Investigation Commission would, in their report, unanimously acquit Secretary Delano and Commissioner Smith of fraud, and would condemn Prof. Marsh for the means he had used to secure evidence against the Indian Bureau. The announcement was made on the 23d that J. Russell Jones had been appointed Collector of Customs at Chicago, vice N. B. Judd, resigned. President Grant and wife, accompanied by ex-Becretary Borie and wife, Gen. Babcock and Col. Fred. Grant, arrived at St. Louis on the 24th. Geo. W. Gage, a prominent, citizen of Chicago, and well known to the traveling public because of his connection, at different times, with several of the leading hotels of the city, died on the 24th, aged sixty-three years. The President has accepted the resignation of Secretary Delano, to take effect Oct. 1. The letter of resignation is dated July 5, and the President’s letter of acceptance Sept. 22. The President expresses his belief that Mr. Delano has filled every public trust confided to him with ability and integrity.

POLITICAL. Full returr.s of the vote for Governor in California give Irwin (Dera.) 61,525, Phelps (Rep.) 30,922, Bidwell (Ind.) 29,630. The Michigan Reform State Central Committee have issued a call for a hard-money mass convention to bt held at Detroit on the 14th of October. The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention met at Worcester on the 22d and unanimously renominated Gov. Gaston. Gen. W. F. Bartlett was nominated, by acclamation, for Lieutenant-Governor—The rest of the ticket is as follows; For Secretary ofState, Geo. H. Munroe; Treasurer and Re-ceiver-General, Weston Howland; AttorneyGeneral, George T. Perry; Auditor, John E. Fitzgerald. The platform adopted favors “thespeedy return to specie payments as cssential to the revival of commerce, business and credit of the country, and to the welfare of the laboring masses.” The New York Liberals met in Stite Convention at Albany on the 22d and decided not to nominate a State ticket, but recommended that the Liberal and Independent voters of the State support those candidates already in the field whose character and experience they most approve. They resolved in favor of a speedy return to specie payments. The Minnesota Anti-Monopoly State Convention met at Owatonna on the 22d and made up a State ticket by selecting the candidates for Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor and Chief-Justice from the Democratic ticket, the Lieutenant-Governor and Attorney-General from the Temperance ticket, nominating E. W. Dike, the present incumbent, for State Treasurer; A. J. Edgerton, the late incumbent, for Railroad Commissioner, and Sherwood Hough, the present incumbent, for Clerk of the Supreme Court. The convention also declared in favor of Treasury notes as a legal tender for all public or private obligations; the substitution of such currency in place of the National Bank notes, and that the Government’s bonded debt should be bought in with 3.65 convertible bonds, payable iu specie or currency at the option of the Government. The Maryland Republican State Convention at Baltimore on the22d nominated: For Governor, J. Morrison Harris; Attorney-General, S. Teaekle 'Wallis; Comptroller, Edward Wilkins. This ticket was nominated as a Reform ticket, iu connection with the Citizens’ .Reform party. Resolutions were adopted in favor of a speedy return to specie payments and against all of the currency.

Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont has, it is said, re ceived several telegrams from Mississippi, from persons of both political parties, cornmendiqjj his recent letter to Gov. Ames, which is described us iiaving had a very salutary effect These jtgjggrams also mention that perfect peace reigned in the lately-re-ported disorderly portion of the State. Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, is also said to approve of the Attorney-General’s course in the Mississippi troubles. A greenback mass-meeting was held at Cooper Institute, New York, on the evening of the 23d, at which resolutions were adopted condemning the policy of contraction, demanding the retirement of tiie National Bank circulation and the substitution therefor of legal-tenders, and favoring the payment of one-half of the customs dues in greenbacks. Nearly-completed returns from the election in New Mexico place Elkins’ (Rep.) majority for Delegate to Congress at 1,504. In Wyoming the Legislature is divided politically ksfollows: Council, 2 Republicans and 11 Democrats; House, 9 Republicans , and 18 Democrats. Rev. R. C. Tilton Las declined the comi nation for Governor of Wisconsin on the Temperance ticket. —Bishop Smith, es Kentucky, the senior Bishop of the Protestajji Episcopal Church, has called a meeting of the House of Bishops, in Grace Church, New York city, Oct 28, to Meet Missionary Bishops to Africa and China, and also to receive the report of the Mexican mission. China was created a missionary jurisdiction by the General Contention ‘last fall, and Dr. Orrick was chosen Bishop,"but declined. In Africa there is-a vacancy caused by the death, last year, of Bishop Auer.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A Rolling Prairib boy weighs 450 i pounds. The gross receipts of the Tippecanoe i County fair were $11,500. • Distilleries are getting a good share , of the Spencer County apples. They are plowing for wheat in the Wabash bottoms, where the wheat crops were destroyed by the late floods. Two colored applicants for admission to the Terre Haute' High School, were recently rejected by the School Board. A $25,000 fire recently occurred at Thorntown, destroying the Postoflice and several prominent business houses. TiiE paper-mill at Milton was burned a few nights ago. The fire was supposed to have had incendiary origin. Loss, $25,000. Over 20,000 people witnessed the laying of the corner-stone of the Rese Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute on the 11 tli. Considerable interest is being manifested throughout the State in the proposed Soldiers’Reunion at the capital in October. Wm. H. Bufmngtok, a well-known hardware merchant of Greencastle, was fatally injured by his horse falling on him on the afternoon of the 13th. The Valparaiso Vidette thinks it high time for Porter County to realize the fact that Valparaiso has discarded the habiliments'of a village and come to be a thrivingcity. Thomas Harrell, of Richmond, put his foot upon the hammer of his gun and blew into the muzzle to see if it was loaded. His foot slipped and the contents of the gun blew away the entire top of his head and killed hin?'instantaneously. As Thomas Morrow, night watchman at the Central depot in Indianapolis, was sitting in a chair outside the building, the other evening, he was caught bj- a passing train and both legs were efft off below the knees. He died subsequently. There was a collision between two freight trains on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, twelve miles west of Lawrenceburg, a few days ago, and three boys named Moran, Romenstein and Beltner, of Aurora, who were stealing a ride, were killed.

John Killian, a boy seventeen years old, attempted to ride freqjrom Richmond to Indianapolis, on a Pan Handle freight train, the other night. He fell asleep on a bumper plaftorm, and a sudden movement of the train threw him under the wheels, which severed both his legs. He died next evening. A terrible boiler explosion occurred on the farm of County Commissioner Rollbins, in Otter Creek township, on the afternoon of the 16th, which set the stack of wheat and straw on fire. The flames completely surrounded and burned -up Samuel Carr and James Candine, and a boy whose name was unknown at the time. The bodies were burned to cinders. A few evenings ago a man named John Reed was shot, and instantly killed, by David Hennick, near Salina. It appears that some two years ago the men had a difficulty. Henhick called at the house where Reed lived and called him out, when they made'hip and shook hands and drank together. No sooner was this done than Hennick tired on Reed, shooting Trim through the heart. The postal changes in the State for the weekending Sept 11 were as follows: Discontinued—Arthur, Pike County: Eden Mills, Lagrange County; Hawkins, Jay County. Postmasters appointed— Ewing, Jackson County, Robert H. Clouston ; Lake Cicott, Cass County, Isadora Weste; Peoria, Franklin County, Wm. R. Jenkins; Queensville, Jennings County, Charles B. Curtis; Tanglewood, Repley County, Jonathan W. Green.

The Supreme Court has overruled the decision of the lower Court in the case ot the State tw. Anton Mai, indicted at the July term for violating the law regulating .the sale of intoxicating liquors. It was held by the Court below that the indictment was bad, having been found by a Grand Jury of twelve, when as tjje present law provides for a Grand Jury of six. The decision disposes of an interesting point relating to the construction of a recent statute, and as it disposes of the Grand Jury question, is here given substantially as delivered: e This was an indictment of the appellee, found at the July term, 1875, by a Grand Jury consisting of twelve men, impaneled In accordance with the law as it existed before the act of March 13, 1875. The question

presented is whether the Grand Jury for that term should have consisted of twelve men or of six men, as provided by the aet above mentioned. The court below held the indictment bad as having been found by a Grand Jury consisting of too manv members and not properly constituted, and rendered judgment accordingly. This act had not bnen passed on the first Monday of March, 1875, the day fixed by law for the first regular session of the Board of Commissioner's in each year. By the act in question it is made the duty of the board to make the selection of Grand Jurors “ at their first regular session in eaeh year.” As the act was ; not in force at the time, of course the board could not comply with it. We find' nothing in the act intended t-o authorize the selection to be made at any other session of the boaftl than that mentioned. It follows that ao selection of Grand Jurors can be made ander the act until the March session of the Boards for the year 1876. The aet of March 4, 1852, provides that “ if the Board of Commissioners sliall fail to select ' Grand Jurors at their first annual session they shall select at their next or any other ’ session." But a selection of Grand Jurors before the aet of 1575 was passed or took effect in accordance with the law in force at the time of the selection cannot be said to be a failure to select, because the was not made in accordance with a law not then in existence. We are of opinion that Grand Jurors duly selected before the act of 4875 tookeffect are legal Grand Jurors and Will be continued to be sueh until selections shall be made under the act of 1875, or until their functions shall be otherwise legally terminated. The act nominally took effect from it« publication, but it can have no practical effect until the time shall come wheg Grand Juries can he selected in accordance with the terms of the act. The Court is of the opinion that the object of the Legislature was to preserve all indictments which had been or might be found by Graaff Juries selected ini accordance with former laws before the time at which they could be selected under the act in question. Judgment belo* reversed and cause remanded." ' „

At a Chinese Chop-house.

A writer in Lippincott's says: The Chinese chop-houses or restaurants are open; you may get in if you like and eat if you dare. I did both, though I did not cat very ravenously, and I have not the remotest idea of what. We Were ushered pdlitely up-stairs, where in a large room were many little tables, about which the heathen were pretty thick. Waiters were running to and fro, not very unlike their civilized counterparts, and shouting the orders, the “ one fish-ball” or the “ rat and' pumpkin seeds” of Celestial diners-out. Chinese pictures on the walls, wicker furniture, lacquered ware, bronzes, dark carved woodwork —everything very Mongolian indeed. And near the balcony, among the jonquils, a bevy of brilliantlypainted girls making music. Such music! One slapped with broad, pliant bamboo sticks what looked like a large polished skull, and with a force and resonance that made us jump at every blow’; another sawed a one-stringed fiddle with a onestringed bow, producing strains capable of curdling the blood of a professional saw-filer; all squalled together in voices many keys above the most ear-piercing fife. These were a few of the methods by which they wooed the dulcet muse. Yet through it all there was a time, a swing and rhythm that suggested harmony, and made it evident that the concord of sweet sounds was the object aimed at. But our dinner has come up and been placed before us. Let us inspect it. Tea that is pretty plain and to be taken at the sealding-pcint, and with out cream and sugar: it is uncompromisingly sloppy and poor. Try- some of this unbaked biscuit with the red letter painted on top. It is a sort of pallid doughball or dumpling filled with dark and finely-cut meat; it certainly does: not look edible and its faint flavor suggests —well, nothing at all; it is entirely negative. Then here is a block of pure white marble two inches square, and on its polished top again the red painted chalacter; this is fairly artistic in its perfect resemblance to a block of stone with clear-cut edges and sharp corners. It is some preparation of rice flour about the consistency of stiff jelly or blanc-mange, and is of a pleasantly sweetish taste and fairly good, or at least very unobjectionable as food. We are getting reassured and bold; let us try a sample of this yellow affair,lt is round like a biscuit, but a brilliaWsaflron yellow in color, with, of course, the omnipresent red painted on its top. Shut your eyes and bite boldly. Dust and ashes! -What can this be? Do they use the sacred dust of their ancestors as food to feed the barbarian on? Bah! this moldy, medicinal taste, this mouthful of dry yellow ashes is positively nasty. No more, thank you! and please pass the sweetmeats; let us forget in the familiar taste of ginger this tidbit from the tombs. Finish, if you like, with the dried sweets and the pellucid and cloying syrups. I have had enough and shall be glad to get out.

How an Elopement Was Frustrated.

Just west of the Paterson plank-road,' near • Hoboken, N. J., resides William Fulchler, a well-to do florist, who has two daughters. One, Amanda, about twenty, has for a long time sold flowers and bouqueis on Broadway. She was rather pretty. She met Philip Cushing, who resides in Hoboken, and does business in the Jersey Abattoir, and they agreed to get married; but old Mr. Fulchler had no idea of losing his daughter, as upon her depended the greater portion of the income, her sales amounting to twice as much as those oi her sister and brother, who also sold flowers. Finally Amanda told her parents unless they gave their consent she would run away. This so enraged the old gentleman that he locked her up for two days. Finally he got her to give her consent to abandon her project. Things ran along very well for a week, when yesterday morning Amanda stole out of the house at daybreak with all the clothes she could carry, and started down tlie hill toward the Elysian Fields. It seems that there she was to be joined by Cushing, who was to have a boat ready at the Elysian Fields dock to convey 'her across to New York. This was done to avoid the recognition which might come in crossing the ferry, as she was well known. Mr. Fulchler, bn getting' up a few seconds after his daughter had left, missed her, and, seeing all her clothes gone, at once started in pursuit. He learned by a friend that the girl was seen going down the hill. He succeeded in tracing her to the dock, and was within a few feet of Amanda when she saw him coming. Cushing, her lover, was in the boat, arid had just got all her clothes safely stored away, -when she cried out, “ Hare comes father.” Amanda, seeing that she was certain to be captured, made a leap for the boat, but unfortunately she missed her calculation and fell into the water. Then came a scene that was indeed most amusing. Amanda being a short, “chunky” little piece, she floundered about the boat like a turtle, poor Cushing trying all he could to draw her up into the boat, but to no purpose. She would get one foot in, when the boat would tip and out she would go again. At last Cushing made a desperate effort, and the resmt was that he, too, took a watery bath. In the meantime the father kept calling for help, when a moving hulk came and helped to rescue the unfortunate couple. Amanda, to her great mortification, was wet, whilejipor Cushing sat on his little craft, not daring to venture ashore for fear that old Fulchler who carry out his threat of putting a bullet- through him.— N. Y. Sun.

The Polar Bear’s Cunning.

According to the Esquimaux the seal constructs its abode beneath the surface of the ice in such a manner that it can enter it from the water below; here the young seal passes its infancy, and when the returning heat of summer has destroyed its igloo or dwelling the young seal is old enough to take care of itself; but this mode of lodging its youth beneath the ice is well known to the bear, who, with his keen scent, soon detects the whereabouts of the seal’s nursery, and in order to gain entrance makes a spring and comes down heavily on the top of the igloo, crushes it in, and immediately seizes the young seal with its paw. Here it might be supposed the hungry bear at once devours its prey; but no. it is far too wary to do so; it knows full well that where a baby is theremustof necessity be a mother, and that she will be in search of her darling; therefore the bear scraps the snow away from the seal hole, and holding the young seal by the flippers allows it to flounder about, and when the mother approaches the bear slyly draws the young seal toward it until the old one is within reach, when he seizes her with the other paw, and thus captures both. The merriest place in the universe is just beyond the earth’s atmosphere, for there all bodies ibse their gravity.

The Giraffe.

While the giraffe was well known to the Romans, many of them being slaughtered annually at the Coliseum, it is only within late years that naturalists have had the opportunity of seeing the animal living and examining its organization. Indeed, until quite recently very little was known about them, Aristotle never having heard of them, while the Romans invariably neglected to avail themselves of the opportunity of studying it together with other large tropical beasts that were exhibited in such numbers in the days of the Emperors. Such being the case it is interesting to know that at present several tine specimens can be seen at the Zoo, and that the one that unfortunately died some time since was dissected at the university, where its internal organs are preserved, while the stuffed skin forms a valuable addition to the museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Tlie giraffe, sometimes called the camelopard, often incorrectly pronounced as if spelled camelleopard, from the vulgar idea ot its being supposed to combine the characters of these animals, really resembles more the deer family. What at once strikes the attention is the height of the animal, it often growing to be twenty feet. In its native state, however, it frequently escapes observation, its skin being so peculiarly colored and its neck and limbs so long that it is often mistaken for the dried trees among which it may be standing. The giraffe is found in different parts of Africa, near forests and within a short distance of water, generally in small herds of sixteen or so, the group offering every variety as regards the size of its members. The most striking peculiarity of the animal is its long neck and limbs. The neck, notwithstanding its great length, consists of the usual number of long segments; almost invariably seven in mammals, with the usual muscles, nerves and blood-vessels, only immensely elongated. The fore limbs are apparently longer than the hind ones; they are, however, the same length, the difference being due to the shoulder blades, which are very long. The giraffe is a beautiful illustration of the harmony that exists between the structure of an animal ami its habits. Feeding upon the leaves of the acacia trees it must be very tall to reach the branches, hence the great length of its neck and limbs, which are admirably adapted for the purpose. If, however, the animal is obliged to lower his head to the ground for its food, it is done awkwardly. By means of its tongue it selects what is palatable among the leaves. The tongue is a very remarkable prehensile organ, and is capable of being greatly elongated or contracted at will. The alimentary apparatus of the giraffe is that of the ruminant type, and very large when compared with the size of the body. It exhibits the four stomachs verywell defined. r lhe oesophagus, or tube, leading from the mouth to them, is very long. Apropos of it, Charles Dickens, after his first julep, in reply to the inquiry of the barkeeper as to how he liked it, answered that he wished his throat was as long as that of the giraffe. An interesting in its organization is that, ’while the liver is well developed, the gallbladder is absent. To the reflective mind that is trying, as naturally it suggests itself to those people who are troubled with gall-stones that if the giraffe can get rid of his bile without a gall-bladder, why should not poor humanity? The disposition of the giraffe is gentle, and it readily becomes attached to those around it. The brain is small, the greater part of the skull consisting of air-holes. The so-called horns are bony processes, like the cords supporting the horns of oxen, etc. While the giraffe,can get over a rough country quite rapidly by a sort of jumping movement, on level ground a. horse will soon overtake it. As the hide of the animal is very thick, shooting is not the best way of killing it. The natives frequently capture it by digging pits about ten feet deep and dividing the pits by a bank of earth. When the giraffe falls in the unfortunate animal gets straddled over the partition, and, struggle as it may, it cannot get out, and soon dies. The flesh of the animal serves as an article of food, and the marrow is considered by the natives as a great delicacy. Out of the skin are made shields, shoes, etc. — Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.

An Odd Way of Popping the Question.

A recent novel contains a mode of “popping the question,” singular in its way. Miss peorge answers a tap at the front door, and her lover, Mr. Fleetwood, prove to be the visitor. “ Miss George, I’ve come on an errand that makes me nervous. I’ve walked up to your door three times to-night before 1 dared to knock, and now I’ve got in I’ve hardly courage to say what I want to say. The fact is, when a man has got a favor to ask he doesn’t know well how to begin, especially if he’s a man of few words.” Here Mr. Fleetwood stopped, and an awkward pause ensued. “ I’m sure if there’s any favor we cando for you we shall only be too glad to —to oblige so kind a friend,” I began. “ I can never feel grateful enough for all ” “ Stop, or you’ll be saying more than you may wish. There is something you can do —something that will repay me a thousand times over and make me .the happiest man alive. Yorn’ll think me very abrupt, lam afraid, but! want to know if you’ll marry me ? I’ll make you a good and faithful husband, by God’s help, if you’ll have me, Dorothy. There, I’ve done it now, and a pretty mess I’ve made of it!” For I had sat-down- and covered my face with my hands, and I’m afraid I was beginning to. sob. It had come upon me so suddenly. “I oughtn’t to have blurted it out like that,” said Mr. Fleetwood, in an uneasy voice. “ I hope you’re not offended with me?” I was still silent, but it was from emotion, not ranger or indifference. “If you wish me to go, sit as you sit now, with your face turned from me; but if you only find it hard to say the word I want to hear, just lift up the bit of seaweed there on the table by your side, and I’ll know what you mean, Dorothy.” The words were uttered in a voice full of feeling. I looked up into the manly, modest face bending, over me, and—really I can’t say whether I lifted up the seaweed or not. A MAN in Amsterdam, N. Y., recently applied his lips to another man’s wife, and immediately generated a motor that kicked him about 100 feet from the front steps and chased him all over the lower part of the town with a club. It beats Keely all hollow. - « The railroad companies are getting to be diabolically shrewd. Recently, in Vermont, an engineer not only ran over a horse but tore the animal to pieces with the cow-catcher so that the owner couldn’t identify the animal. The Washington wife who kicked her husband to death must be a boot-iful creature.

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Consumption Can Be Cured.

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The Strange Disease.

Lieb the thief at night, it steals in upon us unawares. The patients have pains about the chest and sides, and sometimes in the back. They feel dull and sleepy; the mouth has a bad taste, especially in the morning.. A sort of sticky slime collects about tlie teeth. The appetite is poor. There is a feeling like a heavy load on the stomach, sometimes a faint, all-gone sensation at the pit of the stomach, which food does not satisfy. The eyes are sunken, the hands and feet become cold and feel clammy. After awhile a cough sets in, at first dry, but after a few’ months- it is attended with greenish-colored expectoration. The patient feels tired all the while, and sleep, does not appear to afford any rest. After a time he becomes- nervous, irritable and gloomy, and lias evil forebodings. There is. a giddiness, a sort of whirling sensation in the head when rising up suddenly. The bowels become costive, the. skin is dry and hot at times. The. blood becomes thick and stagnant, the whites of the eyes become tinged with yellow, the urine is. scanty and high-colored, depositing a sediment afterstanding. There is frequently a spitting up, of the food, sometimes with a spur taste and sometimes a sweetish taste. This \s frequently attended with palpitation .of the heart. The vision becomes impaired with spots before the eyes. There is a feeling of great prostration and weakness. All of these symptoms do not make their appearance at one time, but during the various stages they are in turn present. It is thought that nearly one-third of our population has this disease in some of its varied forms. It has been found that medical men have mistaken the nature of this disease. Some have treated for liver complaint, some for dyspepsia, others for kidney disease, etc., etc., but none of tiicsc various kinds of treatment have been attended with success. It is found, however, that the Shakbr Extract of Roots (not a patept medicine), when prepared properly, will remove the disease in all its stages. Care should be taken to "procure a good article. Sold by A. J. White, General Agent, 319 Pearl street, N. Y. Agents wanted,.

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