Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — Page 2

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Iff' —— •IMMWf PAHAiiWPMIi i Anthony Gardner hm Men elected DMM hee been eqodnded between Abyssinia and Egypt. The Queen of Holland died on the Bd. She waa fiftjntac years old. The Moafteangriim, recently attacked and eaptorad Uw Turkish Village Stony. The Greek Ministry ha* been reoootructed nadir the leadership of Canaria. Iter French Cabinet hsa forbidden all. political meetings of over twenty persons. The next Ohio Democratic State Convention M to be hMd at Columbus on the ttlh of July. • ■.•!■’!, iThe Turkish War Minister has issued orders to the loeal Journals, forbidding theca to war news. ■ , \ H , In oonsequence of the opposition of Austria,, the Forte-has abandoned the idea of forming a Polish Legion, > .■ -. A school-teacher in Haitfard (Conn.) died recently of hydrophobia. He was bitten by a dog on the 80th of last April. .... Recent advices received at Ottawa, Canada, indicated that Sittlng. Bull was at Wood Mountain, in Canadian territory. A man died of hydrophobia a few days ago, at Bangui Center, Maas. He was bitten ahept two months previous to his death. The fiftieth anniversary of the Episcopacy of the Fbpe sms celebrated at Rotes with imposing demonstration*, on the 3d.

'The Russian Army on the Danube is to be increased to 400,000 men, and provision contracts for this number haze been made. Montreal, Can.,, was viaited by a destructive fire on the 80th hit Sixty houses were burned, involving a loss of hearty $500,Lydia Sherman, the Connecticut Borgia; who recently escaped from the State Prison, was subsequently captured at Providoaoe, At In consequence of the unprecedented stage of water in the Danube, operations in the north of Turkey are brought to a stand stiff. -V J ' 1 “ * .<>'/ ■ i. i» * ■■■ t . •;} The tariff for passenger travel between Qhkpgp and New York and Boston has been reduced to 815 and file respectively, op limited tickets. A conspiracy has been discovered in Belgrade, against Trincc Milan and favoring the Prince of Montenegro. Numerous arrests have been toads. 4i tee/Mass., a few days ago, a twelveyear old girt, named' Cswthorn, was fatally burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene. She was kindling a smoldering fire. The house of Alexander Snyder, in Portland, Ontario, wto burned on the night of thefifith ult Two of his children perished In the flames, and his wife was seriously burned. - - On the Ist, there were coin bonds outstanding, $1,608,064,656; total debt, 82,880,303,211; cash in Treasury, 8166,904,809; debt lees cash in Treasury, 82,055,377,342; decrease during May, 86,981,074. ■ i / m < —*.' The bridge leading from the railway platforms at Bath, England, gave way on the 6th, and ever one hundred persons were plunged Into the stream below. Twelve pereons were killed and fifty-one injured.

The estate of James M. Sweeney, a deceased brother as Peter 8., la to pay the sum o( $400,000 to iho City of New York, to make good, in part,'the stealing* of the former; a compromise haying been effected to this end. Austria recently sent a note to the Porte, demanding a written declaration that restrictions on the navigation of the Danube should not ontlast the war or serve as a precedent Turkey and Itußsia have both sent the deeiarstfondemanded.' Two persons, named , Mullins and Hughes, who attempted, several months ago, to steal the remains of ex-Prealdent Lincoln from his tomb at Springfield, 111., have been adjudged guilty and sentenced to the Penitentiary for one year each. a rt .m ■■ we , _ A New Talk City Judge has recently held that the rale of the Longshore Union Protective Association, forbidding its members to work for leas than forty cents an hoar, is void, being against public policy, and that members dismissed for its violation must be reinstated. ! ' m t#r T T * T ‘ i Ti The Secretary of State baa recently *»ated.in speaking of thelateaUegedoutrage SpteUh cruisers, that, while hs was sensible of the friendly relations between Spain and the United States, he did not Intend to allow our flag to be outraged; while Spain would he held responsible for guy insult,, he would see that this Government fulfilled *4 Obligations to Spain. It was recently reported from Washington that all representations on the subject of the Chisolm massacre bad been referred to Atty.-Gen. Devons, who would examine the . laws for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is any.authority ter the Federal Courts to interfere. The Secretary of State has taken part in (beinvestigation because of tiie Cact that the British authorities complained that one of th* parties iinusacred was a Brit-

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Viehnaand Berlin telegrams of the Ist say the repeat peace rumor* were the invention of continental financier*, intended only to affect the stock markets. A Constantinople telegram of the Ist nays an unplescact condition of affair* prevailed In that city, and the collapse of the Administration was hourly expected. The Sultan dared not ride through the streets, and the head pt the Grand Viaier and the expulsion of fie Christians were loudly de

A Oej4itantlne adegram of tire 3d says two streag RusajUßi columns had arrived wiMn ate honteftearcb of ErsMOum. The paHtioa|y>ad Min flanked and Turkish Army VU codalderedbi a grave position. Gen. Grant and Minister Pierrepont attended sendee at Westminster Abbey on the Sd and listened to a sermon by Dean Stanley. After alluding to the great and imparable loss which two kindred nations had sustained in the decease of Mr. Motley, the 'reverend genOSman in the course of his sermon said: “Gen. Grant has just laid down the scepter of the American Commonwealth, after having, by military prowess, still more by generous treatment of comrades In vt» tory and enemies in defeat, restored unity to a great and divided people. England welcomes him, as a pledge that the two Nations of the Anglo-Saxon race are still one In heart and spirit" Th# people and Government are profuse in the attentions shown the cx-Pres-Ident ! •'* * Accordlbg to n Washington diapntch o( the Bd. the Poatolfleo Department bad sent a special agent to Louisiana to take action regarding the Postofflces at Clinton and 8t Frmnclsvllle, the colored incumbents of which report that they are unable to perform their duties in consequence of the threats and opposition of the whites. In both cases representations have been made that the appointees, by reason of their illiteracy, arc unfit for the positions. A thorough Investigation will be mode, 'An accident occurred to n passenger train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, in Pennsylvania, on the night of the Ist, by which two passengers were killed outright; and seventeen 'other parsons were seriously Injured—four fatally. >

On the night of the 2d, a gang of robbers attempted to wreck an express train on the 8L Louis and flan Francisco Railroad, . about fifty miles west of fit. Louis, but owing to the fact of the can running sldwiy at the time, only the engine and baggage-car left the track. The engineer,: fireman and physician of the rpad were killed. Shota were fired at the can, and five men were seen lurking' in the neighborhood of the outrage. The object of the villains was doubtless plunder had the wrecking proved as extensive as designed. The remains of the late Mr. Motley were buried in London, on the 4th. Dean Stanley performed the burial service. The International Typographical Union met at Louisville, Ky., on the 4th, President McVicker, of Detroit, presiding. About fifty delegates were in -attendance. A Vienna,, dispatch of the sth says the Porte, as a precaution against the war agitation In Greece, had ordered out the militia and reserves in Epirus and Thessaly, and the distribution of arms among the inhabitants of the frontier. A Belgrade telegram of the sth says that, despite' all denials, Servla bad made complete prepdrttiohs to commence hostilities against Turkey as soon as the Russians have cross the Danube. AOettinje dispatch of the sth announces a battle at Maljat on that day, which lasted several hours and resulted in the defeat of the Turks, who lost 500 men. The Montenegrin losses were not stated. The Cur arrived at the Russian headquarters on the morning of the sth. It is expected that he will make his residence at Bucharest

A Pera special ot the 6th says an Itflian corvettehad run against a; torpedo sunk by the Turks in the Dardanelles and been destroyed. A Constantinople dispatch of the 6th says that 1,000 Abschssians had been surprised and cut to pieces by the Russians. A Vienna telegram of the 6th says the revolt In the Circassian regiments in Rdumanla was spreading, and threatened to assume huge proportions. A court-martial had been ordered to try some of the mutineers, and it was expected that a severe example would be made as a lesson to other possible mutineers. A London, dispatch of the 6th reports a serious division in the British Cabinet Lord Salisbury was understood to be opposed to any warlike action. A cyclone passed over Mount Carmel, 111., a little before four o’clock on the afternoon of the 4th. For the width of a square through the town oh each side of Fourth street, a path was hewn, and every strudture which stood in the way of the advancing whirlwind was leveled to the ground. Of these there were eighty-five, and included hotels, churches, schoolhouses business structures and dwellings. Both printing of. fees and the Court-House were also demolished. Following the cyclone, fires broke out id some of the detfreyed building*, and for a time it seethed as if the portion spared by the hurricane would be consumed by fire; but, fortuastely, the flames wer* extinguished with the loss of a few unimportant buildings. The loss of life was large—thirteen being killed outright. Many others were seriously Injured, and of thc»e it was believed on the sth that several would die. The loss of property was very great, the estimate ranging from (900,000 to $500,000. The velocity of the wind was estimated at 150 miles per hour. Mount Carmel was a thriving town of 8,000 inhabitants, and is the shire town of Wabash County.

The Cincinnati Commercial, on the 6th, published crop reports from 211 points in OWtt, Indians, Illinois tfg which 179 indicate good crops of wheat; thir-ty-one, fair crops; one, light crop, if any; forty-seven, good craps of fruit; seventyfour, Mr; ninety .Ughtcrop, if any. , A Washington dispatch of the 6th says the Treasury was paying , out only large United States notes for drafts, the idea being to increase the circulation of silver. The Ohio State Greenback Convention met at Columbus op the 6th, and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Stephen Johnson; Lieulenaut-Governor; John B. Powell; Treasurer,' John Junklns; Supreme Judge, Samuel E. Adams; Clerk of Supreme Court, Charles Bonsall; Attorney-General, If. O. Wagner; Board of Public Works, Jacob Riblet; School Commissioner, J. V. Logan. The resolutions reaffirm the principles of the National Independent party, and demand the unconditional repeal of the Specie-Resumption set of Jan. 14,1875; declare that it is the prerogative of the Federal Government only to supply currency, and that all moneys, whether paper or metal, should be issued by and bear the stamp of the Government; declare that paper money issued by the Government, made receivable for all it* dues, and a legaltender la the payment of all debts, and convertible into bonds bearing an equable rate of Interest, will afford the best circulatingmedium ever discovered; declare In favor

of fibotMingUl bank* of ifSue; favor the remonetisation lof sthe »l titer dollar and imikthgi a JcgpMeqdcr forth e ns went of all colnMonds, but teiposo-the issue tjf bonds tor thupfcrcbaae of-XllvtWbulUoA for-coln-age; favor toe taxation of United States bonds, a re-enactment of the law taxiug Incomes, and declare It to brthe duty of the Government to foster and encourage the de-vdopSu-utof the resourcf/S hfj (lie country tost labor may be fully ana profitably eraployt'd ong| goiibfvi wmllmm) MUtbllilMsd and secured. . , On th<u6th, five men were arrested, toe recent attetept to wreck and rob a train on the Bt Louis A San Francisco Railroad, near Woqd End Station. One of the party contested the crime, and said tbelntcntlon das to ran the-entire train off toe track, and then, under the guise of assisting the wounded, rob the passengers and plunder toe train. Four of the gang were still at large. The prisoners aib farmers and liye near Rich land, .Mol, a small town near where toe outrage occurred.

The Mount Carmel (Ill.) Tornade.

Heavy, dark clouds banked upon the western horizon yesterday gave promise of a continuance of the rain which had fallen at intervals during the day. The hour, as hear as can be ascertained, was 3:85 in the afternoon. Men who were looking to the west said: “There is a big rain coming on over there.” Suddenly a strange commotion was noticed in the cloudy banks. The air was filled with a mighty noise', like the rolling of waves high up on, the seashore. The terrified inhabitants .saw a mighty cone. It must have been 1,000 feet In'height, and bore the appearance of a olond whirling and spinning toward the town. It first was noticed at a distance of a mile and a quarter west of the center of the town. It was a cyclone, and (he besom of destruction passed through the town, leaving a trail of death and ruin behind it like unto the marks of the hand of Omnipotence when raised in anger. The air was filled with wrecks of houses, stores and missiles of every sort, The crash of falling buildings was heard on every band. The death-dealing cone passed through the town, making its terrible mark eaat on Fourth street, the prettiest of the streets of this bright little town. Ift two'tainutes all was over. The cyclone, seemingly having exhausted the vials of its wrath on Mount Carmel, passed through the town, and *t its eastern verge went upward and ceased to work harm. The roaring noise died away and tife rain fell in nlidding torrents. The afreets filled with people, gad shouts of terror and excitement rent the air on every hand. Nothing could be seen but devastation. The streets were impassable by reason of the debris. Buildings contmnbd to crash and fall. Men and women, erased with, fear, were panic stricken. School children, miraculously delivered from the jakrs of death, Wfefe wildly searching'for>their parents;' Groans on every hapd told of strong men in agony. Horses darted ’wildly pabc, riderless, filled with the terror of the scene. Suddenly, above all rose the tejrrible cry of “ Fire 1’ ’ and the lmid flames bdrstihg wildly from the ruins of what five minutes before had been the finest and most substantial business block in the town,’ verified tne alarm.

This was the time for heroes, to come to the front, and they responded. Men, bleeding and wounded, hurried to the scene. One man, cooler than the rest, remembering that Mount Carmel was without fire extinguishing apparatus, ran to the depot. He telegraphed to Vincennes: “ Oof town is in ruins and in flames. Send us aid.” Within ten minutes from the receipt of the telegram 1 the Vincennes steam fire-engine was at the Vincennes depot. A special train over the'Cairo & Vincennes Hoad was' hastily contributed. The distance to the luckless town was twenty-four miles. A ride of thirty-seven wild,ex6lted minutes brought the firemen and their engine to the scene, and there they ,worked as only brave men can. Three large brick 'buildings had been wrecked by the cyclone. Combustible material had started the fire. “ There are men under these fiery ruins,’’said the MaydT of Mount Carmel, who was cm the ground. The men redoubled their ,exertions,,and succeeded in confining and reducing the flame*. In a dozen other localities men with axes and bars were cutting and hauliflg away the ruins of buildings, recovering bcfdies and rescuing the injured. It was a terrible nigtjJt, and tfie rain, continued to fall. Torches and bonfires were lighted; and in their glare the search for the dead and the buried living was continued through the night. When exhaustion atk late hour bade a cessation of labor, the grimed and sooty men told each other in lowered tones that the deathroll footed up iWe’ve, and that it would be increased ; when the ruins of the" wrecked town were more fully explored. The gray and gloomy morning broke upon a scene pf desolation and destruction. A hundred dwellings were wrecked and battered! eloquent evidences of the force of the visitation i twelve homes were in mourning, and in fifty more friends Waited upon the injured and wounded and prayed that they might be spared. Mount Caripel, one of the bright, cheerful little towns peculiar to Illinois, has a population of about >B,OOO orderly, wellconducted people,; is located on the west bank of the Wahash' Hiver, on a high bluff, is forty-five miles from the mouth of the Wabash, and is reached by the Cairo & Vincennes Railroad and the St. Louis, New Albany & Louisville Air-Line JMaßffl"?***** ■ t '‘ l ■ 'i M etJ. ; ' >•!

A Scientific Scarecrow.

’ tr The Scientific American gives the following directions for making a scarecrow on scientific principles: < “ The first and the best is a suspended looking-glass. Take ; tw6 small, cheap mirrors, fasten then* back to back, attach a cord to one angle and hang them to an elastic pole.' When' 1 the glass swings, the sun’srays are reflected all over the field, even if it be a large one, and even the oldest and bfctvest or chows will depart precipitately should one of its lightning flashes fail on, him. The second plan, although a terror to crows, is especially well suited to fields subject to the inroads of smalhbirds and even chickens. It involves hijkrtiflcialnawfe, made from a big potato and long goOrn and turkey feathers.. The maker can exercise his imitative skill in sticking the feathers into the potato so that they resemble the spread wings and tail of the hawk. It is astonishing what a ferocious-looking bird of prey can be constructed from the above simple mateterial. It only remains to hang the object from a tall, bent pole, and the wind will do thereat. Tbe bird will make swoops and dashes in the most headlong and threatening manner. Even the most inquisitive of vfenerable hens bn been known to hurry rapidly from its dangerous vicinity, while to small birds it carries nnnylrwl dismay.”

SENSE AND NGNSENSE

A tim L wwstad seller. :Tiik lMniins are ftHtowigg Sherman’s trample fc *t m arching through Georgia. ’* Modern marriages, says a contemporary, begin with a court and end with a ooHrt. Two Tiirxoß can never be successfully counterfeited—modesty and common aense. ■ , J&jhui thuAhildrcn as the best families will get on the wrong track if the switch is misplaced* „< Tub “Murphy movement” is what the Cincinnati Commercial calls the march of the potato bug. “Look athar,” he remarked to the waiter, “ your coffee is O. K., your hash is about correct, but ain’t your eggs a little too rfpe»” ■ WbCJ*don’t President M&cMahon get a* new shoemaker? If he did so, be might not have so much trouble with the Rights and Lefts. —Philadelphia Bulletin. When Burns sighed for the power to see ourselves as others see us, he was probably just anxious to see how his new coat set in the back. —Burlington 11 auk-Eye. A» English lady married, at the age of eighty, a man aged fprty, aod survived him; married again, and survived her second husband. It seems to us this was not fair. —Rochester Democrat. Some men can never take a joke.' There was an old doctor who, when asked what was good for mosquitoes, wrote back: “ How do you suppose I can tell unless I know what ails the mosquito?” One redeeming feature of the circus of to-day: There are so many lemonade and ticket ‘ and ' song-book peddlers that you can't hear the clown’s stale jokes nor see much of the performing.— Detroit Free Preen.

“ How SHALL we help ourselves ?” was the title of a.recent lecture by a Boston lady. With a silver spoon, we suppose, not Omitting some of the brown ones on top, next to the pork.— Cincinnati Commercial. A great deal of Sentiment is wasted on Poland, but when a fanner clears up a sheep’s pasture he isn’t apt to leave a Volf’s nest on one side and a sausage factory on the other, if. he can help it.— Neva York Graphic. A prominent divine of New York City recently said that he knew of no civilized country in the world where it was so difficult to speak out frankly ahd fully, especially on politics and religion, exactly what one thinks and feels, as u the United States of America. As soothers there are few equal to the Southern journalist. This is the way one of them consoles his subscribers: “ Owing to the death of Our chief editor there will be no editorial article on Tuesday, but look out for a regular ripper on Wednes-day!”—-Bt. Louie Republican. In a moment of despondency where do we look for hope, comfort and support? To the woman we love. And where is she looking all this time ? Ten to one she is looking around for something to rouse our energies with. And that’s why we marry .-.Andrew*’ Bazar. “What,” asks an exchange, “arc the causes of drunkenness?” Well, we can’t answer for all of them, but we believe whisky causes a great deal of it; whisky, sir, resolutely stuck to, will cause about as large a drunk as anything wc know of, although a judicious mixing up of various drinks will accelerate matters If &<man is in a huity. —Burlington Hawk-Eye. “ You couldn’t,” shouted our irrepressible, as a bachelor; visitor finished a eulogium on cremation by an expressed wish that; rather than be “coffined, cribbed, Confined,” he might become the subject of a Hindoo snttec; “you couldn’t, you haven’t got any wife!” “ That’s no matter,” growled the Colonel, as he beat a hasty retreat (the Colonel is also not connubial), “ that’s no matter. Plenty of men would be glad to lend me theirs for the occasion.” The Colonel has no card for our suburban kettledrum next week.— Boston Advertiser.

An English nobleman had a house-por-ter who was an enormous eater. “Frank,” said he, one day, “ tell me how many loins you could eat” “ Ah, my Lord, as for loins, not many, five or six at most.” “ And how many legs of mutton?’* “Ah, as for legs of mutton, not many; seven or eight, perhaps.” “And fatted pullets?’ 1 “ Ah, as for fatted pullets, my Lord, not many; not more than a dozen.” “And pigeons?” “Ah, as for pigeons, not mkny; perhaps forty—fifty at most—according to appetite.” “And larks?” “ Ah, as for that, my Lord—little larks—foreter, my Lord— -former!” A Shefford-Mountain fanner entered an insurance .office, one day this week, with a look on his face which clearly indicated that he appreciated fire-insurance, and couldn’t have a policy wrUten on his property too soon. He accosted the agent in an anxious manner, and said he guessed bp would have his barns insured. The agent, thinking he had a good thing, started with the man to his premises, five miles out pf town. Arriving, the good man’s implicit trust and confidence in die correct principles and direct advantages of fire-insurance were explained by the fact that about twenty-five of his neighbors were working “ might and main ” to save his buildings from destruction by a bush-fire in close proximity. The agent declined the risk, and walked home in disgust.— Waterloo {Can.) Advertiserv ... .. .. J . The telephone Is quickly worklhg out • practical application. A Boston company is prepared to furnish telephonic commuhication between places not over twenty miles apart. The advantages are thus set forth: No skilled operator required; a little practice makes anyone master, of the telephone; communication more rapid; the telephone transmits one or two' hundred words a minute, the old telegraph apparatus averages not morfe than twenty; no expense required ih its operation; no battery needed; two teleBs connecting two houses maybe for twenty dollars per year. The company keep the instruments in working order. It must be understood that the rental mentioned above is for the use of the telephonic instrument. A telegraph line when required will cost from SIOO to $l5O per mile.—AT. Y. Graphic.

A Hidden Gold Mine Near Washington.

The recent gold discoveries in Georgia recalled to a Washington correspondent of the Hartford Timet the gold-prospect-ing fever that attacked many of the people of the neighboring County of Montgomery, in Maryland, a few years ago. That gold exists in the county is a well-ascer-tained fact, and several men are known to have made a living in a small way hunting about the streams for pieces of gold quartz. Bat somewhere in the region it is confidently believed a big bonanza of the precious metal lies hidden awaiting the lucky finder. Daring the war a soldier of a Connecticut regiment, it is said,

discovered this mine and secretly washed it forfi time, selling to the Georgetown Jewelers some f*,ouo worth of the gold. He rofiused to tell! where his mine Van locAtedfinud, opon (finding that, his movements Were watched bv othm with too hope of ascertaining it, he gave up mining altogether. Soon after the regiment was ordered* sway. A couple of yens alter the war was over, the aame man made bia appearance on the ground. He boarded there for several months. He told the people bp stepped with Jhsi he was a geologist, ana that he was prosecuting his stud** autoog the rocks in that location. Frequently lie would send away large trunks of the rocks that he gathered in His studies. The im habitants finally learned that it was gold, he was after, and their inquisitiveness bothered him so much that at last he agreed that he would tell the owner of the land the place where be found bis valuable rock upon receiving a deed of onehalf of the land. This was consented to, and the deed was properly made out. As soon as the papers were drawn he drove over lo Rockville, Md., s distance of about twenty miles. It was a very warm day, and he was overcome by tlic sun on his way. and forced to remain at a house about midway between both places for several days before he sufficiently perated to finish his drive." After recording his deed he drove to Washington, and on his way he had a relapse and, was required tq wait in Washingtonwhere,, after a few days’ illness, he died, with tne secret still locked in his breast. To this day the man who deeded away half of his farm does not know where the goldmine on it is located. He has spent alt the money he could raise prospecting for It, but gave up the job a Couple of years since.

Remarkable Feat of a Heroic Seven-Tear-Old Girl.

The Town of Pictou has just been the scene of one of the most heroic deeds ever done by a young girl; and another name has been added to the list of noblest heroines. Last evening Mrs. C&pt. Ivy, a widow, and tenant in one of the houses of Mr. C. T„ Irving, on going out locked in the room her tWo children, Henry and Alice, aged respectively five and seven yeaas. About 8:80 p. m they arose from the bed and lit the lamp. There was some female wearing apparel hanging on the walk and directly under was a trank. On tnis they placed the lamp, which immediately set the clothes on fire, and filled the room with flame and smoke. The children were naturally excited in their dreadful position, hardly knowing what to do. The little girl knew that the key was in the lock, but how could she find a way to go out and turn it to let her brother out? She appeared to forget herself entirely, ana thought only of the brother under her care. Alarm for her brother’s safety overcame all- obstacles, and she formed the terrible project of jumping to the ground from the third-story window. The noble girl, instead of giving the alarm from the window, was unable to wait. Her brother must be let out immediately; she must open the door, md so she did; for crawling out on the shelf fastened to the window, and lowering herself the length of her short arms, sheHropped down to the ground—a distance of exactly thirty-five net by tape measurement. The air caught under her clothes in her descent and broke the fall, otherwise she must have broken some bones or been dashed to pieces. Bhe then rushed up the stairs, but upon opening the door was horrified at the absence of all signs of her brother. Her perplexity found vent in. cries as she ran fobhelp. In the meantime, the little fellow, scared out of his senses, did not heed the command to stay until she opened the door, but crawled oat to see where his sister had gone, and fell over the shelf to the ground. Mr. Thomas Harris, passing by just then, heard the jjroans, and by the light of a match found the insensible child. Upon eanying him up-ftaira, he discovered the fire. He immediately gave; the alarm, and carried the child into Mr. Hamilton’s hops?. The hoy’s face isconsiderably scratched by the gravel he fell on, but the internal injuries, so far as can be yet ascertained, are not very serious. Had be fallen slightiy to either side his back must have been broken or his head split by the stair-railing or the sharp angular corner of a large box. Crowds have been looking up at the dizzy height from which the one Jumped and the other fell, and cannot see how they were not both instantaneously killed. To-day the boy has been able to walk round the room and play while sitting on the bed. A comCete recovery is expected. The arm and g of the daring heroine are slightly injured, but die feels no other til effects from her perilous-drop. —Halifax (N. 8.) Chronicle.

Josh Billings’ Philosophy.

.> • i Thebe are plenty of folks who think that all there was of any note about Diogenese was the tub he lived |n. It is a rare man who knows the full extent of his ability. f Truth, like the sun, sometimes goes under a cloud, but always comes out again, and shines all the brighter. My friend, don’t ever strike a dog. There never was a dog yet who, if he had half a chance, didn’t love some one else better than he did himself. The only way to convince a fool is to let him have his own way, and there are lots of them that even wan’tfeonvinefc Young man, learn to wait, the chances are if you try to set a hen before she is ready, you will lose your time, and, .demoralize the hen beside, oy . C| ! Nature sdlßom makes afoorl, shfcsfihply furnishes the materials, and lets each of us complete the job to suit ourself. . .. If you expect to. reach * the top of the. ladder, you have got totbiegln at t«l bottom round; it is only the eagles that fly directly to the top, and eagles are scarce. The man who invented the- lucifer match', or even the wedded oiothes-pta, did the world more gobd-lhiflE ttSUny qf the anciemt philosophers. The thinner the ice is the mqre anxious every one is to see whether it will bear. Men who have the most power show it the least; there is not a more terrible engine of the law tliaii'S fresh-elected constable, t !fW LMS. Each spoke in the wnCdl thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it. ... I never have known a gambler yet who stuck to the business until he was "seventy years old, but what died in some almshouse neglected and despised. Mankind could make a paradise of this world at about one-half the price it has cost to make a hell of it Abase that a man don't merit and gets is worth a great deal more to him man praise that he does merit and don’t get A loafer is comparatively harmless; he is too nnmb to. be absolutely vicious, and too lazy to do much damage In the world.

Fv A-4ead feeag js anttural born [be haq c&pm-ity edjbugh to make him rejfipcctable, bufphe fievil holds a first mortThete.is a difference between learning and wisdom. . Xiiave seen men who could calculate an eclipse to the sixteenth of an inch, who could demonstrate any problem in mathematics, -who eould botanize ail the weeds and flowers, but who knew of no other way to set a ta)n than to ttehor onto the neat, and hold’'ber down toflh k thwr-T know ©ft is a wood wife, and something tion; there is no reputation in horse-steal-ing, bj»t (here is a good-deal of notoriety in it, provided a man get -caught r ?*,«#&** I don’t care If you oven get to be an Alderman, the world always remembei» the gutter, and loves.to talk about it, The man who la determined to win is sore to; there Iff not bad luck enough in the world to beat him. 1 * * ° Repentance is the most satisfactory duty that a man can perform, but it won’t cure his headadhe after a night’s debauch, nbr pay for the hdt whisky and cigars it took :to makeifr—-N. 17 Weekly.

A Cunning Milkman.

An observant milkman, who has long made the weaknesses and foibles of human nature his peculiar study, recently came to the conclusion' that it would be well to have a more romnntib‘‘Sort of driver on one of routes up near Union Park than he was then «m----ploying. Accordingly be went round jn person and left wo*aat fech of the houses that he had engaged a> Russian Count, whose haugfaty mother had disinherited hinvftr:fepi#R te, jWifltjh « surpassing beauty. The old Countess, he continued, knouted the unhappy girl to death, and. her lover fled to, the United States. At the,fieifh of Hla ma, the Count will return to enjoy 7 his ancestral estates; meanwhile he is seeking to find some one who, not suspecting his junk ami wealth, will love him !or ; himself alone,Vantl to to* end has the *arvlce. Having imparted this information in strict secrecy to pvery'housemaid on his roote, the wily; milkman went home, poured another bucket of-health-giving water into the milk-tank, and instructed the Connt (who is a’native 6f Kankfikel) that to hold up his dfid tis thd business* all he had to do was tosigh j deeply when he served out the alleged lacteal fluid, and say nothing. “If you want to give short change, and they find eilt that you’te frying to knock down.on them,” explained the employer, “say ‘Ah, yes—five copecks more,’ahd sigh.” Hie experiment has proved wondrpusly successful. All the impressionable servant girls on the route declare to their mistresses that this particular milkman gives better measure than any other, and furnishes a superior article (which, indeed, is not the case), so that hq has acquired about twenty new customers, anti when he' comek clattering along the street in the early morning, ana raises a yell in the purest Russian dialect of “ Mj-jlkoffskil” dozens of young ladies who have heard and. Veen toucheaby* his romantic story; come* to the gates with pitchers their fair hands, ana, wherfhe sighs, say to themselves, “Ah, he js thinking of his sunny Moscow!”—Chicago Tribune. '* ’

The Pigeon-Hawk.

An exchange.prints the following evidence, contributed by a correspondent, of the daring nature of the pigeon-hawk: Principle’ my setter-dog came to a ..point in some bushes, near a pine thicket. I was standing on the' railroad efnbankment, ten or twelve feet afiove him, at the time, and called up the pqrty who was shooting yrtik me. Befqre. we, could get to the aogJ a hawk darted out pf. the pines and took one bird out of th© eoyey, not three £eft from the dog’s nose. The look of astonishment that poor Dash gave as he turned Iris head to me, when the covey rose from fright, was so conical that I could not' shoot, either at coVey of hawk! tqr Ifughing. Again, three years ago, while shooting in Tedkahoe Nock, Talbot County, Md., four of us in k party, with tour dog*, , were beating a large field neai a magnolia swamp. One pointer came to © stand about forty rods off, and the other, #ogs drew up and backed him. .While we were advancing, a large chicken-hawk flew from the swamp and took © bird out of the way; but I wa* too-quick for him, and stung him so sharp that he had to drop it. The No. 10 shot I hUdiA was not sufficient to kill at the distance. The 'q~ waafiot mtreb hurt, as it got>out of the way quick "though. In neither of these cases had a gun been fired Amtil after the attack had been made: ■ f f i.Hitti . - v • m ii* 4 £ Fashers are too negligent' of their health. They often ai| dow© ip Jhe wind after violent, exercise and get suddenly cooled; they seldm stop .to Change their ©lothing when it has, accidentally become wet; they wet feet for mapy hours; they eat very heartily when tired. —Detroit Tribune. ; /,A .• • U:' ,

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