Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — Page 3

NEW INDIANA LAWS.

MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCT OF SIXTY DAYS’ LEGISLATION. The General Assembly Writes Many Good Laws Upon the Statute Books of the State Busy Session Without Junkets or Parliamentary Delays. Indianapolis correspondences The Legislature which completed its work recently was so attentive to business during the session that there was no hurry during the last days of the session. Few law-making bodies have adopted laws from which greater benefit has been expected. The reform measures are specially important to the whole State, as they completely change the methods of county and township governments. Many measures of great importance have been considered. The usual number of inconsequential bills cumbered the dockets of both bodies and the committees. It may be added that the Legislature has been Impressed with the responsibility devolving upon it. It has indulged in no junkets and no day has been wasted for lack of a quorum. The Sixty-first General Assembly passed county and township council bills after a hard fight. The councils are intended to govern the tax levies and to supervise the expenditure of public money. The power of the township trustee is restricted by the township council, and of the county commissioners and county officers by the county council. A source of great money waste has been the building of bridges by county commissioners. Some of the boards have let contracts without competitive bidding and under cover. One of the laws enacted requires specifications to be on file a certain time, open to all bidders and the public. Hereafter the public is bound to know what is being done. Another law compels county auditors to publish statements of all allowances made by judges or county commissioners. Other laws relating to township government and of special interest to the farmer, provide for the election of road supervisor by the people instead of allowing the trustee to appoint. This was done to remove the temptation of the trustee to select a good friend, to the detriment of good roads. Another important road law amendment provides that land owners shall be allowed $1.25 a mile to cut weeds and brush by the roadside. Hitherto they have been allowed $1.25 a day and in some places the road fund was consumed by lazy workers, who required several days to clear the road of weeds and briers. Still another law compels land owners to mow weeds and brush along partition fences. This will do away with the condition of one side “clean” and the other “dirty.” Another law does away with the appointment of road superintendents by the county commissioners. The work of the superintendents is to be done by the road supervisors in their respective districts. Southern Indiana farmers took a decided interest in seeing the commercial fertilizer law enacted. For some years worthless material has been marketed for manure. The law makes the professor of chemistry at Purdue analyze all fertilizers before they may be sold. Pre-eminent as the law which labor interests expect to redound to their welfare is that of Senator Hugg regarding contributory negligence. Heretofore in Indiana when an employe’s leg was cut off on a railroad, before he could secure damages he must prove that the railroad was guilty of negligence, and also that he himself was not negligent. The old law put a double burden on the laborer. Now the corporation must show that it was not negligent, and if such was the case, that the laborer was to blame. The powers of the factory inspector were enlarged and a department of inspection was created. Henceforth there will be closer supervision in small factories. Fire escapes are made necessary in certain public buildings and factories. A radical change in the tax law in which owners of small homes are especially interested is the S7OO exemption of mortgage indebtedness. It is intended to throw the tax on the mortgage holder entirely, for it provides that, in order to get the exemption, the mortgage holder must be named. The S7OO exemption will be taken advantage of by everybody and a radical change in the tax duplicates is expected.. Some hidden mortgages will be unearthed, but holders of mortgages of Indiana property who live outside the State will escape, and much property will go untaxed. The effect of the law cannot be definitely stated. The Governor deposited it with the Secretary of State without his approval. The anti-convict labor law of 1897 was modified at the State prison and the public account system will be inaugurated. The change was agreed to by representatives of organized labor, although in some sections of the State labor cried out against it. Weekly payment of wages is made compulsory, and it is made unlawful for an employer to assess a fine against an employe. The assignment of wages is prohibited. This law is expected to put a stop to abuses in the gas belt and in the mining districts. It does not apply to common carriers or to employes in interstate commerce. Some marked changes were made in the laws governing public school education, most of them in the line of the Geeting bill, which was defeated in 1897 because of opposition from the sectarian colleges. Under the township high school law, high school privileges will be extended to the farmers’ children where there are fifteen students in a township asking for high school instruction. Then there is the law making educational requirements for the county school superintendents, and still another giving the* applicant for teacher’s license the right to send manuscript to the State school superintendent for examination, and, if license is granted, to teach in any county of the State without further examination. Aside from the county and township reform bill, the assembly was worked up to the highest pitch over the reorganization of the State Board of Education. Party lines were cast aside. The sectarian colleges demanded that the presidents of the three State colleges be taken off the board, and in their stead be placed appointees of the Governor, while the State Teachers’ Association and the State Board of Education resisted this, and secured a reorganisation which adds to the present board three members, one to be a county school superintendent and the other two citizens, possibly representatives Of some of the sectarian colleges, the three to be appointed by the Governor.

While this is not all that was demanded by church schools, it Is predicted that the additions to the board will be of their party, and will make known the alleged shortcomings of the State college presidents, or, rather, their system, and that the fight will hardly be renewed in 1901. The compulsory education law was amended to reduce the number of truant officers and to exempt from its provisions children of 13 and 14 having regular employment and being dependent upon it for their own or their parents’ living. Many legislators were anxious to repeal the entire law. Another change in the school law provides that all contracts between teacher and school corporation shall be written. Township trustees have been in the habit of making verbal contracts. Still more important is the law regarding transfer of school children from one corporation to another, providing that trustees shall pay $1.50 a month tuition for the grades and $3 a month for high school. This law is intended to stop indiscriminate transfers. When a child leaves his corporation to attend school in another, lhe trustee must pay for it. Another law authorizes Kosciusko County to vote a levy to assist in building a school at Winona. An anti-lynch law was finally enacted, much as the Governor and Attorney General recommended, with the exception that the $5,000 damages recoverable by the relative against the county was stricken out. The first bill was killed containing this provision. The law places a great burden on the Sheriff for letting a prisoner get out of his custody, removing him from office. Arrests may be made on the filing of information. Along the same line was a law allowing county commissioners to* give a SSOO reward for the capture of an escaped murderer or lyncher. A source of great benefit to the State may be the law allowing the Attorney General to prosecute in the name of the State. for an injunction without giving bond. This power can be used against gas waste or against bold breaking of the gambling laws. The commissioner of fisheries was made the commissioner of game also, and constabulary power was given his deputies when they find violations of the law with their own eyes. A law was enacted preventing the pollution of streams and the killing of fish by dumping strawboard refuse and such like into them. The powers of the State Board of Health were increased over county health officers and $6,000 was appropriated to be used as the board sees fit to suppress contagious diseases. A pure food law was passed. The pharmacists were placed under a State board which licenses them, and unlicensed druggists or storekeepers are only permitted to sell certain medicines specified in the law. A State entomologist was created to fight San Jose scale and other pests in our orchards. County boards of charities were created to consist of six persons to serve without salary, not over four to be men. They oversee county charities and are amenable to the State Board of Charities. The principal modifications of the election law are that voting machines are authorized and men who sell their votes or for money refuse to vote may be disfranchised for ten years. Also any political party may have one challenger and one poll-book holder at the polls. Aside from Indianapolis street car legislation, the principal law and the only one of general import in a street railroad way, requires the heating of cars from November to March. Insurance legislation was enacted to make it possible for companies to organize under Indiana laws and be on as solid a financial footing as Eastern companies. The tendency of all the insurance laws was to put companies more nearly under the supervision of the State Auditor and to require them to deposit with the auditor good securities. In the way of fees and salaries of county officers the principal change was putting commissioners on salaries instead of per diem. The next General Assembly was anticipated by the passage of a law creating a commission of three persons who are to study fees and salaries between now and 1901 and report to the Assembly changes needed in various counties. There has been no temperance legislation, though a great fight was made to stop drug store liquor selling. One antitrust bill became a law. It is said to be directed principally at the trust of plumbers’ supply houses. The Winsfield trust bill was postponed. Efforts to reduce railroad fare failed. Large appropriations were made to build additional room at the insane hospitals and the Jeffersonville reformatory. The insane in jails and poor farms will be cared for.

Quite Safe There.

A quaint-looking member of the Quaker persuasion recently administered the following apt rebuke to a certain country parson more celebrated for his passionate love of fox-hunting than for his pulpit powers. “Friend, thou’rt clever at fox-hunt-ing, I believe?” "There are few men in the countryside who can excel me at the sport,” observed the parson, proudly. “Nevertheless, friend, if I were a fox I would hide where thou wouldst never find me.” “Pray where would you hide, sir?” was the interested query. “I would hide in thy study, friend.”

Enjoyed Herself.

My friend’s colored maid came in one day after her regular weekly outing, looking as if she had enjoyed herself. “Well, Susan,” said my friend, who is sympathetic, “I suppose you saw all the pretty things in the stores down town?” “No’m; not ’zactly. I ben lookin’ at de handiwork ob de Lawd.” “Indeed? So you took a little trip to the country to see the fields and flowers?” “No’m; no, Indeedy. I ben at de dime museum. They has a hairy boy there and a two-headed man.”—Lippincott’s Magazine. In Paris a young woman drove to the Bois, alighted from her coupe, seized her coachman’s whip and advanced before an eager crowd to administer a whipping to a journalist who had not flattered her vanity. The journalist caught the whip, broke It, and lifting the fair one in his arms covered her with kisses. Then he went and wrote ttup. .1

PROBABLE FATE OF EXPLORER ANDREE.

News of the discovery of the bodies of three men and the wreckage of a balloon near the base of the Kena mountains, in Siberia, seems to remove all doubt as to the fate of Explorer Andree and his party. The location of the wreckage would indicate that the balloon, after sailing a short distance to the northward, on leaving Dane’s Island, on July 11, 1897, was caught by counter currents and swept to the southeast. The Russian Government has dispatched a party to bring in the bodies and equipment, and until its return nothing definite will be known.

THE CENSUS OF 1900,

It Will Be Taken Under Different Auspices from Any Other. The taking of the census of 1900 is more than a year in the future, yet the matter attracts more than usual interest. This may.be due in part to the fact that that census will be taken under different auspices from any other, the act just passed establishing a Census Bureau as a permanent part of the machinery of the government. The taking of the census under the new law creates the office of director of the census, and to that office the President has appointed ex-Governor William R. Merriam, of Minnesota, with Dr. Frederick H. Wines, of Illinois, as assistant director. Governor Merriam has more patronage at his disposal than the President of the United States. He has under the law the appointment of more than 54,000 public employes, as follows: Fifty thousand enumerators of the census at graded pay. Three hundred supervisors, salary SI,OOO each or more. Five chief statisticians, salary $3,000 each. One chief clerk, one disbursing clerk, one geographer, salary $2,500 each. Five experts chiefs of division and two stenographers, salary $2,000 each. Ten clerks of class four, salary $1,700. Fifteen clerks of class three, salary $1,500. Twenty clerks of class two, salary sl,300. Three thousand clerks of class one, and clerks, copyists, computers and skilled laborers, with salaries of from S6OO to sl,000 each. One captain of the watch, salary SB4O. Two messengers and forty assistant messengers, watchmen and laborers, at

WILLIAM B. MERRIAM.

S6OO each; messenger boys at S4OO each, and charwomen at $240 each. It has been given out that the next or twelfth census will not be so ambitious in its scope as the two which have preceded. A census, the printing of which extends nearly through the succeeding decade, can be of no use except to make work for the government printing establishment. The law provides that the bureau, after the preparation of the figures of population, agriculture, manufactures and mortality, may collect statistics relative to insanity, crime, pauperism, public indebtedness, public expenditures, taxation, transportation, telegraph and telephone business and street railways, which shall be special reports.

“CURTAIN-FACED" MAN DEAD.

Puzzle of Scientists in Life Remains a Mystery. Michael Kelley, who for twenty-five years was the puzzle of scientists, the fright of children and, in fact, the strangest case Bellevue (New York) hospital ever had, died the other day in that institution. He was known as “The Cur-tain-faced Man.” Upon his head, neck and face, long stringy bits of flesh grew, forming a fringe of living tissue. The nature or composition of the growth was never determined, the physicians and surgeons being content with the generic name of tumor to designate Kelley’s malady. The pathologists hoped in death to reveal the significance of the grewsome spectacle, but in this they were thwarted, for wealthy relatives claimed the body, preventing under the peculiar provisions of the State autopsy law the performance of a post-mortem examination.

MANY KILLED IN CHINA.

Imperial Troops Defeated by Rebel* and Many Slain. Among the reports brought over by the steamer Empress of India is one to the effect that the rebels defeated the imperial troops near Kuyang late in January. Hundreds of the imperial soldiers were killed, and after being mutilated the bodies were thrown into the river. Afterward ths rebels took the cities of Kuyang and Men-Sheng, massacring many of the inhabitants and burning the towns. Kanchon was also taken.

HAYWARD NAMED SENATOR.

Receives Seventy-four Votes in the Nebraska Joint Session In joint session of the Nebraska Legislature, M. L. Hayward was elected United States Senator to succeed William V. Allen. He received 74 votes, the solid Republican membership, with the exception of one absent. This ended the long and at times bitter contest. Judge Hayward was born in Willsboro, N. Y., Dec. 22, 1840. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the Twentysecond New York infantry, and was afterward transferred to the Fifth cavalry. He was discharged in December, 1862, owing to disability arising from sickness. On returning home he entered Fort Edwards College Institute, where he com-

M. L. HAYWARD.

pleted his education. His father had removed to Wisconsin, and young Hayward followed. He studied law at Whitewater and went to Nebraska in 1867, settling at Nebraska City, where he has since resided. He never held any office except that of member of the State constitutional convention in 1873 and a short term on the bench in 1886, when he filled out the remainder of a term by appointment from the Governor. He has a wife, one daughter and two sons, one of whom, Edwin P., is a surgeon in the United States army. The other, William H., is a lawyer, and was a captain in the Second Nebraska regiment during the late war. The new Senator has accumulated a comfortable fortune.

Notes from Cuba.

Havana custom house receipts on Feb. 15 amounted to $41,694. The Sport is now Havana’s leading and most popular club. It occupies the building of the former Spanish Circulo Militar. Northern tourists are arriving in Cuba at the rate of a hundred a day, and the leading Havana hotels are already overcrowded. Guillermo Dolz, a brother of the late Spanish autonomist minister of public works for Cuba, has been appointed by Governor General Brooke to the civil governorship of Plnar del Rio province. The men of the Seventh army corps are to have a new form of amusement near their camp. If is a good old American circus, which Mr. Stickney, the owner and manager, has imported from the States. Some of the trumpeters of the Seventh army corps have developed a liking for the Spanish bugles, and it is no uncommon thing now out in the Marianao camps to hear the high, shrill notes of a Spanish bugle sounding an American call. El Occidente, a Guanajay newspaper, urges Cuban land holders not to sell their property* to Americans, and insists that the rapid acquirement of Cuban estates by American and foreign syndicates is the greatest menace to future independence. The officers of the Third Nebraska have leased a dwelling house on the Marianao road, near their camp in Ceiba, and fitted it out as a club. It is a delightful resort, and is well patronized by the officers of the Nebraska regiment and their friends. Maj. Gen. Brooke governs Cuba from a little wooden hotel, the Trotcha, in the suburb Velado, about two miles from the city boundary proper. He has no sentinels, no guards saluting, no secret service men in plain clothes protecting his person. A collection of postage stamps is nowadays not complete without the “mourning” stamp recently issued by Spain. It is jet black, is marked on one side in white letters, “5 cent,” and on the other, “Impto. de Guerra” (“war tax”) and 1898-’99. The stamp is affixed to all domestic letters as a “war tax,” in addition to the regular postage stamp, otherwise that letter “doesn’t go.” American tourists may no longer have the pleasure of visiting the wreck of the Maine in Havana bay, Commodore Cromwell having by a late decree forbidden boats to approach the remains, upon pain of $5 fine, and of SSO fine to occupants thereof. Gov. Sayer of Texas has signed a bill which provides for the immediate appointment of a State tax commissioner, to revise the revenue laws of the Stat% with the view to getting one enactment to cover the entire occupation and other tax systems of the State.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THK PAST WEEK. Family Narrowly Escapes Death from Poisoned Coffee—Coal Strike Ended at Washington—Monopolists in Dog Show Business—State Law Io Void. > Alonzo Wallet, his wife and Mrs. Wallet’s sister, Mrs. Sarah Kline of Logan, Ohio, who was visiting at the Wallet home in Marion, were poisoned by drinking coffee made from a package found on their doorstep. A recent announcement in the local papers by a new coffee and tea house that they would furnish each house in the city with a trial package of coffee led Mrs. Wallet to believe that the package found was for trial, and she made enough for the family for breakfast. It is learned that the tea and coffee firm haa not yet put out any samples. Miners Long Strike Ended. Indiana’s long coal miners’ strike was terminated at Washington by an agreement of the differences. The strike began nearly two years ago by the refusal of Cabel & Co. to pay for the removal of what is known as “dead dirt.” The agreement entered into now provides that the company shall adhere strictly to the Chicago national agreement; shall pay for the removal of “dead dirt” and put in one and one-fourth inch screens to take the places of the one and a half-inch screens. Corner on Dog Show Business. The Gentry Brothers, the great Indiana dog show managers, have run a corner on the dog show business of the country by absorbing Sipe & Dolman, Sipe & Blake, Norris Brothers, Westlake Brothers, Sig Cannon and C. E. Rice. The Gentrys now own over 400 ponies, 600 trained dogs, 100 monkeys, eight elephants, three zebras and one goat. Their homes are at Bloomington. Says State Law Is Null. At Indianapolis, Judge John H. Baker of the United States District Court decided that the assignment law of Indiana had been suspended by the' national bankruptcy act. He holds that any title may be declared null and void at any time by an appeal to the Federal Court under the bankruptcy act. Within Our Borders. Glanders among horses near Evansville. Dogs are butchering many sheep around Marion. Pendleton will have water works and electric lights. Brooklyn mills have passed into a receiver’s hands. Evansville proposes a municipal electric lighting plant. Will See, Logansport, broke his leg while playing ten pins. Esther Stillebower, 14, Bartholomew County, fatally burned. Madison County has gained $600,000 in wealth during the past year. Henry Osler, Kokomo, slugged the other night and touched for $6.20. Pastors’ association, Kokomo, has declared against slot machines. Daniel Minneman, found unconscious with his head fractured at Osgood. Eighteen-months-old baby of Elmer Flint, Brookville, choked to death on popcorn. Mcßeth lamp chimney factory, Elwood, has resumed operations with 500 employes. Wm. Wright, prominent Gibson County (farmer, is dead. He had been married just two weeks. Timothy RayeJ, switchman in the Pennsylvania yards, Fort Wayne, killed by falling from a car. Another batch of Laporte citizens has been arrested, and it cost each S2O for keeping an unlicensed Aog. Mat Peters, Tipton County, shot himself to death willfully. He was the fath-er-in-law of John McCreary, sheriff. Seven-year-old son of Steven Bolander, near Mohawk, accidentally shot and killed his 4-year-old sister with a target rifle. Fourteen boys and girls from the Cincinnati orphans’ home were distributed among the good people of Windfall and vicinity. Verdict of “not guilty” in the case against Robert McCoy for killing George Newman, Greensburg, was received with cheers.

Panhandle Railroad has promised to build a bridge over Indian creek at Franklin, and the city will withdraw its suit against the company. Exchange of the Home Telephone Company, New Albany, burned during a wind storm. Fire caused by crossed wires or lightning. Loss $1,500. Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus Crumpacker of Valparaiso, parents of Congressman Crumpacker, observed the fifty-second anniversary of their wedding. They are 75 and 74 years of age respectively. One of the biggest gas wells that have recently been drilled in that section is that of C. H. Croninger, on the east edge of Hartford City. The well has a tremendous pressure. A Princeton man climbed a ladder to a roof to sweep off snow. The wind Mew the ladder over and he stood for half an hour in a howling blizzard before he could call attention to his predicament. The failure of the American Brewing Company at Chicago forced the Columbia Brewing Company of Logansport to the wall. The plant is valued at SIOO,OOO, and John G. Keip, its president, is receiver. Receiver Malott of the Vandalia line has turned over the forty miles of road from South Bend to St. Joseph, Mich., to the new owners, composed of New York and Connecti mt capitalists, whose bid of SIOO,OOO for the property to protect themselves when it was sold by order of the court was the only one made. Two .masked men visited the home of John Kissinger In Spencer County and beat him into insensibility upon his refusal to reveal the hiding place of his money. Kissinger is a bachelor living alone. He is supposed to have money hid about his place. Clark Kidder and wife, are raising a baby on raw beef. It is 17 months old. For a time it grew thin and was expected to die. No kind of food did it any good until it was fed raw beef end pepsin. It began picking up, until now it is able to digest a few kinds of Xood« ’ ... i. . ' - -*- r . . . -•* ' ■

STATE LAW MAKERS.

The sixty-first session of the Legislature J came to an end at 9 o’clock Monday night. The bill for general and specific appropria- 1 tions for State purposes was signed by the Governor at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. > During the day the Governor’s veto of the bill to pay the claim of the Vincennes ■ University, amounting to $120,000, was sustained by the Senate, the body in which the bill originated. A long telegram was received from the Legislature of Texas expressing its appreciation of the action of the Indiana body in directing the return of a flag captured from the “Texas rangers” during the civil war. The Assembly adjourned with the legislators in both houses singing “America” and playing jokes upon each other in the happiest manner possible. The total appropriations for the main institutions are approximately as follows: State reformatory - .$500,000 State prison Boys’ reform school 120,000 Woman’s prison 80,000 Central asylum 520,000 Northern asylum 220,000 Eastern asylum 240,000 Southern asylum 246,000 Blind 54,000 Deaf and dumb • 120,000 Feeble minded 230,000 Soldiers and sailors’ orphans*... 194,000 The expenses of the Legislature are $115,000 and SIOO,OOO additional was appropriated for the completion of the soldiers’ monument in Indianapolis, bringing the total expenses of the monument to date to $600,000.

TEMPER IN AN INSURANCE RISK

Kentucky a Bad State for Policy Holders of an Irascible Nature. The manager of a life-insurance company had the floor. “Life-Insurance companies,” he was saying, “are as particular about the people they already have on their lists as they are about getting them on In the beginning. They are rich, of course, but they are no more anxious to take In a man who will die of disease withIn the first year or two than they are to take in a perfectly healthy man and have him hazard his life by taking personal risks in dangerous pursuits or by , travel In unhealthy countries. “I remember one funny instance: One of our SIO,OOO men had a way of calling a man a liar in the most careless and indiscriminate manner, and with only the merest or no provocation. One ’ day he was In our office and casually mentioned the fact that he was going ? to make a trip to Kentucky. “When?’ Inquired the manager, alertly. “ ‘Next week.’ “ ‘On business or pleasure?* “ ‘Going to buy a pair of horses.’ “ ‘Um-er-er,’ hesitated the manager, ‘before you start I wish you would stop in and see me.’ “ ‘What for? Want me to buy a horse for you?* “ ‘No; I want to arrange about yofir policy.’ “ ‘What do you want to arrange.; about it? Isn’t it all right T “‘Yes, as long as you stay in this || country. But if you go down to Ken- p tucky we’ll have to advance the rate | until you come back.’ “ ‘Well, what in ,’ began the pol- 1 icy-holder, hotly, when the manager in- | terrupted him. “ ‘Don’t fly the track, my dear fel- j low,’ he said, gently. ‘lt’s all right | here, and the rate is satisfactory to 1 us, but we can’t give you the same rate and let you go to Kentucky and J call men liars like you do In this see- | tion. Not much. We haven’t got ' SIO,OOO policies to give away like that, 1 and you oughtn’t to expect IL’ ” —Chi- 3 cago Inter Ocean.

Far-Traveled Ship Cat.

A cat has just died at San Francisco j which bad traveled very nearly 1,000,- | 000 miles. He belonged to the chief engineer of the Royal Mail steam® 1 Aladema and for thirteen years was | his companion on board ship in all his S voyages between Sydney and San 3 Francisco. With the passengers this I remarkable cat was a great favorite | and on completing 700,000 miles be was | presented with a silver collar.

Drilling of Army Dogs.

For some time past a large battalion | of dogs has been drilled in the village 1 of Lecrench, near Cologne, to operate | in conjunction with the German ambu- g lance corps. Each dog is supplied with 1 a saddle in which are pockets contain- 's Ing all that is necessary for the first dressing of a wound, also a large gourd 1 of brandy.

Thrift of the Yankee Giri.

Kate: "It is better to have a cheap ! engagement ring than to have a cheap 3 fellow to be engaged to.” Nellie: “I | don’t know. One is more apt to lose her fiance than her engagement ring. 3 Therefore, it is wise to secure as valu- J able a ring as circumstances win al- .1 low.”—Boston Transcript.

Saw Nothing Funny in Matrimony.

“My dear,” said Mrs. Henpeck. “Tin a positive that our George is thinking 3 seriously of matrimony.” "Well, I only hope so,” returned Hen-1 peck, with unusual spirit. "I wouldn’t | want any boy of mine to be so unfortunate as to regard it as a joke.”—Phil-J adelphia Record.

Grow Until Death.

There is one portion of the human | body which continues to increase in ? size throughout life, and does not cease <3 with the attainment of maturity. This J is the crystalline lens of the eye. |

A Prince’s Embarrassing Question.

A good story is told of the young Crown Prince of Germany. Soon after Bismarck s retirement the Emperor andJ Empress were at dinner with their elder children and some eminent states-j men, when the Prince suddenly broke! out with: “They say, father, that now| Prince Bismarck has gone you will beJ able to tell the people to do just what you like, all by yourself. Ton will joy that, won’t youT’—Saturday Eveumg Post.