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Office, 3 South 5th Street.

A PLEA FOR HELP,

[While tbe question of "Help" w« under discussion at tbe last meeting of the

Terre-Haute

Horticultural Society,

the poem below, written by Mrs. Jos. O. Jones wen read by the author, and received with snch favor as to requeat a copy for publication :J Bread and butter, that'll the

If, I Judge the theme aright, And. momentotw 1*the nabject, Viewed by woman'« feeble light.

Bread and butter I Hraul and butter! How to keep the tlilnga alone. IIow 10 plan, and toll, nor loiter,

Though our *oaU are full of Hong.

Though we hunger for the beautlea, Hidden In »orae wlnwmio tome. Or would nlake our thlmt for kaowledge,

Or would read the starry dome

Though fair naturo-charmn our wsnaea. Or humanity *ay» oomc, Though tbo bird* and UloMtoma woo u*,

Ouulde of our little home

Btlll, tho bread and butler queatiou,

Uppermost In every thought, Bring" UH buck to graver ITF udle». Household duile* to be wrought

Flint, wc rl*e Jtmt at the dawning, When bright Phoebtw guilds the day, With the purple hues of morning,

Bathed In gold and crimson ray.

But, we twjumi ran thank the giver, Of the blewdngs strewn around, For the sunlight, tor the shndow,

For theJoys that doth abound.

For, the brnakfast must be seen to, Fires, and toast, nnd coilfee made,

Till we're nearly oooked ouTseive*.

For the tllnner must l»e gotten, JJ Or some body Is to blame, —f For hiii-band has an apputtie, ii'Vifc'aT"

Or lie ha* not-all the same.

Home flnvorlte and dainty dish, Must always be prepared, For though wc ftiil lu other things,,

No pains must hero be spared.

80 there's broitlog, steaming, stowing, Frying, beating eggspud cake,, Making salads, puddings, pastries,

And watching thluga that bake.

There l» sifting, mixing, moulding,' Kneading, roiling out the crust. And tifty other thing* to do, .? 80 work we housewives must,

There Is washing, mending, making Hhopplng. visiting nnd all, 'or wlien cr wo'or Inn hurry,

Homo one then Is sure to

But we need the aoclal greeting, Need the cla»p of friendly hand, We n««ed sympnthv and klndneea,

All adorn life's rugged strnud.

But duties spring on every *lde, Ami cling so (Irmly too, Wo fain would ral»e the iiuestion, 01 what can we women do.

Now eonld wo cook a dinner that Would last a month or more, We'd visit, rest ami wrKe and sing,

Or delve In ancient lore. But bread and butter, toil, flutter, Which ever way we look. Or wiiat our taste Inclines us to,

We must always stop to cook.

But then we love our chains so well, We would never mind at all, If only we had help enough.

Just to help us roll the bull.

And keep it all a moving ou. In cheer Ail happy state. And feci each life that's linked with our*,

Was

growing food or great.

The labcr HtWeUwu you dtwu**, Or llfoW our tolls to share, Obf how onr help may be improved,

Ot lessen household care.

We thank you tor Uie kind May we all learn the way, To make our work and heart* all light,

Urowing belter every day.

O AN S AS &

Korron MAII.:—I vlaited th« Morgan g«anc« the other evening, and wee forcibly reminded of the remarkable episode told in the etory of Alexander Selkirk aliaa Roblueon Cruto, or tbe adventure* of tbo Kngllsh Sailor c®oap* ing alone to tbe uninhabited Island of Joan Fornandet, of his long slay there, and how be lived by bimeelf, and what lie did there by hlmaelf, ettbeUted, etc., all this I apprehend has been read perhaps by as tuany youthful people as nay work of Helton that baa erer bean written* Bat In all the varied accounts of this man firvro the Aral opinion by Pufoe down to the merest primer book, the "startling lone footprint" '00 the sand beach, always wnics in and lends Intense and increasing Interest to tbe nsrative. So, after all the cruel hornbog, the impudent ami false trickery, vrhich baa been Itnpoeed on this and other coinmu nHies—(1 apeak of tho*» who have looked for evidence outside of tbe church and holy scripture® ftr the lift* beyond whose bourne, ete^-I think we may, like Crttso, the sailor, bo startled by visiting this so-called Morgan se*nC«. To many it appears as did the solitary And lone footprint to Selkirk. It Is on (he corner of Second and Ohio street*. Understand, I am not by *oy mean* prepared te pronounce what I there witnessed as proof poai live of UMI existent*, in -propria persona" of departed sou**. Yei I think the most *keptkwte*n not help admit, ting, if they arc at aK Wf minded. It

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is very strange yes, passing strange. Now among others I am quite anxious, I confess, to get at tbe truth of what I both saw and beard, and most respectfolly suggest that all ths skeptical, both learned and unlearned, visit this plsee snd account for, If they can, what will most surely occur before their own eyes and in the

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Mtiffin* bttk«l, and iMfolsteak bwllel, Kggs done rare, cloth must be laid.

All et-cotera* must be looked to, Children flxed and sent to school, Husbands suit will need a button,

Hplte of all domestic rule.

Tlien, is swoeping, dusting, fixing, Putting every thing awny, For In chamber. hall anil parlor,^

JSvery thing has gwueaatray.

And the dishes ah the dishes! And the bread and butter too, And the milking and tbe churning.

Anil the buklng all to do. Then there's furbishing of silver^* "4 «s And 1 here's scouring up the shelves, And there's stlrtng up the lire,

of their own ears.

This performance, unlike any others ever witnessed gives to the unbeliever every facility to Investigate, and I can see no good reason why, if it is of supermundane origin it should not be so reported, or if only a sharp trick performed a little more adroitly than the rest, it should npt be exposed. Let therefore a careful and select committee be appointed who will report fairly in this matter. SKEPTIC.

Closely related to the grum

bling people are tbo people who whine indeed T. T. is not suro but they are twins. They are to be found in every com munlty-causelessly and persistently whining. They whine because tbey are poor or If rich, because tbey have no health to onjoy thettr riches they wblne bccause they have no luck, and other's prosperity exceeds theirs tbey wblne bccause some friends have died and they Are living) they whine bocause they have aches and pains, and thoy have sches and pains because they whine, and they whine no ou© can tell by. Now T. T. would like to say a word to theao whining persons. Why you aft* tho most deluded set ol create res that exist. What's the benefit of this cverlssttng complaining, fretting, faulMlnQlngand whlnlug? Stop whining, at once. Take up the nbeery song of life, and sing It merrily as yon go. Do you not know that it Is a well settled principle of physiology and common sense thst these habits are more exhausting to nervous vitality than almost sny other violation of phys. iologioal law. Cast csre aside, and do not msot trouble half way. Do yon not know that life pr««J wbil yon make it. You can make It bright and shiny or you can make it dark and shadowy. Do not wblne tf dark clouds hover over you. Remember that every cloud hss a silver lining.

While speaking of disagree*-

ble people, T. T. will allude to a personage without form of flosh and Wood. It la fctaown as "Tbey say," aad a more cowardly liar does not exist. It te tbo ttfttversal scape groat for personal gossip, envy and malice. No charade*, position or sex eaeapes tho poisoned arrows of slander that fly from the exhauatles* quiver of "Tbey say." When one wishes to assail some person's character or motive*, "Tbey say" Is alwsys invoked. Men snd women do not always think It politic or expedient to reveal tholr real feelings so with •mile* and preeendod friendship, they represent the lie that is to Injure some ono beyond reparation *a coming tram "Tbey say." The penridoua infiaonoe of

4Th«ya*y,wi*th*

tec* that truth is

alwaya outstripped in the race, fleetfooted falsehood flying around the

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Town-Talk.fil*

Know him 1 why I knew thst man when be was nothing but a cheap clerk, without position, friends or money. And now he rides around in a carriage and thinks he's as good as anybody!" The speaker was a seedy-looking man, sitting upon a dry goods box, and removed a poor cigar trom bis mouth to squit a mouthful of saliva on tbo pavement and ejaculate tbe above. He apeke in a contemptuous tone as he looked after tbo subject of his speech, rolling awsy in his carriage, with wife and children by bis side., Well, T. T. asks, if it isn't to the man's credit that ho arose from a poor clerk to wealth and position? And isn't he entitled to his carriage and luxury if be pays for them. T. T., on inquiry, found that tbe seedy-looking man began life with weslth, comfort and friends, but by dissipation, Indolence and riotous living had been reduced to a position in which he was forced to accept the most menial employment to sustain llfo.

Among the rights guaranteed

to every citizen of this "the freest and and best coantry the world ever saw/' Is the right to grumble and find fault and perhaps nowhere more than In tbis« our own bright Prairie Oity, Is the right exorcised. It Is a sort of rccreatlon that many people we know who dress well, live well, and certainly seem to enjoy a very considerable degree of worldly prosperity, Indulge in to a great extent. They grumble at tbe town in general, at its officers and prominent men, at tbe newspapers If tbey are dull, and grumble if they think they are loo lively. They grumbleat the condition of tbelr own busluess, at tbelr neighbors because tbey are prosperous, or because they are not prosperous anything and everything affonls them a pretext that they never fail to linprovo. They are nice unhappy nuisances, and T. T. thinks It a pity that some real misfortune could not ovottake them and give tbem, for once at least, a good aud sufficient oause for grumbling and fault finding.

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TERRE-HAUTE,^SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 16, 1873.

track far ahead of its competitor. He cently "They say" has been unusually Industrious in this community. The most sweeping, groundless, and perfectly outrageous charges Are preferred against this and that person, and vile stories pass from lip to lip, contaminating the minds and hearts pf yon ng and old, and working infinitely more mischief than tbo odious examples of bad men aad weak women. For the welfare of society it is to be hoped that the strong current of scandal in this city may be cheoked. Good people, rost assured of this, that when some slanderous tale is told you, and tbe relator can give no more tangible author than "They say," that* the slander is, in nine esses out of ten, the creation Of tbe speaker at your side, and that it is his or her earnest wish to have the falsehood of "Tbey say" bnd into reality and become current coin In the community/

T. T. is of opinion thst it is a de

batable question whether it Isn't neoessary for the peace and well being of society that we should all be a little deceitful a little In tho habit of coverlog up our real feelings, and either saying yrhat we do not mean, or saying nothing when it would be such A treat to out with our real sentiments. Whether it is right and proper or not, T, T. knows of 'many better christians than ho is, Who indulge in such polite fictions as "lam pleasedto see you,! and "Hopeyou are well" when tbey are not pleased to see tbo person tbey are addressing, and don't care A cent whether they are well: or not, but would, fn fact, consider it a personal, as well as a public benefit, if that person would take A commendable notion to become sn lhvalld»so thsothey could be rid of tVielr rompany. People say 'Come again'.' and, "Don't go," when tbey don't want him or her to come again, and are anxious for Mm or" her to go, and tb&t tight speedily. Tke«» probably do no especial, harm, and hardly rise or descend to tbe sin of iylog. It would be ?nih comfort though, to.be ablo once in a while to spesk tbe truth, the whole truth-indt nothing but the truth, without Any r&-' gard to consequeuoes or care tor

!can

except T. who

Husks and Nubbins^ Ei" S *!?Ksr LVII. it. -'V I

OUR LAKGUAOB.

We have glyen a brief and Imperfect sketch of the probable origin of language and its growth from a scanty vocabulary of monosyllables to a highly complex system of Inflectional speech. It may bo askod by what means we have oome to a knowledge of these facts. Tbe answer is, By tbe study of the various languages now spoken in tbe world and a comparison of their Idioms and peculiarities. The subject was one of almost Infinite scope and difficulty, and long and Arduous was tbe research required to gather sufficient msterlal for tho purpose. It may Indeed bo said that the science of Comparative Philology of which those grest German linguists, Grimm, Bopp, ths SoUlegels, and Wilhelm von Humboldt, were tbe founders, is yet in its infancy and is destined to yield mach greater results than it has yet done As an aid to tbe study of ethnology snd archaeology, the unraveling of the complex web of human spo*cb, back to tho earliest attainable point, has been of incalculable importance. What the tbe science may yet do towards explaining the origin snd first condition of man, only the continued investigations of linguistic scholars can show. While suoh men ss we bare nsmod wsrs at work studying And comparing the living tanguagas of Europe and noting their manifest resemblances (n many important respects, the Introtion of the Sanskrit, tho andsnt snd sacred Dialect of India, put tbem In possession of data whWh showed clearly an obvious relationship between the languages of K*rope aad those of south-wester* Asia, fie nee was established what (s known as tbe Iodo-Eu-rnpeaa ffcmtly of languages, and ttw fact was demonstrated that from A single parent tongue in Asia are doMrthrfed all the modern dialects Europe. We wish now to invite tbo attention to the reader to onr own mothertongue—tbe English—and to some of the changes It has uodergoae and is Indeed still undergoing.

Tho inquiry us* often oeenred to erery stte of as, "Why do I speak as I do r*

Why do we call objects

results

to tell people that you don't like tbem, and don't oarehow tbey are. But It can't be done nobody

afford It——

says

just wbst he

pleases, and if people don't like it they can smother their Indignation or thrash tho editor te A ii

names which tons seem wholly arbitrary, t* which we see no latenot fit* IHMS or significance* Tho answer mart be thst it Is because we learned these names from those about us. At an early period of onr lives we became acquainted with certain substances which these around us called milk and

Jf!JTA«" SITs A4I-H M'JW

and

... ,.^s •. *T 'III lalli a*aife»i., fe*a£

water. We learned these signs for those objects because, by so doing, we were enabled to speak ot them to our companions. If wo had lived among Germans we should have leArned to oa?l them waster

vulck

If Among peo

ple who spoke French, edu And

and lf among Qreeks,

lait

kudo*

and

gab.1.

Any one of these signs would have served our purpose equslly well snd possessed, as fsr we could have been aw«x* An eqnsl, ^ppllcabHliy. In the sams msnner we leArned the peouliAr system arid idioms of our vernacular tongue,

not Inquiring whether there

were. Any different or better one. Not only so, bnt we hsve not, even the most learned of us, mastered tbe

com

prehensive dullness bf our own lsngusge. We hsve made ourselves familiar with

few of its most Common

words, such ss serve the purpose of ordinary communication, And abandoned the vast mass of scientific and technics^ terms to those who have more occasion for tbolr use thati we. There are in the English language about onb hundred thousand noons alone, besides the other parts of speech. Qutof this immense store it is computed thst even tbe cultivated, use no more than from three to five thousand, and many of ns fall far below this estfmate. Shakspeare, it. Is said, with his marvellous facility of expression and richness of phraseology, made use ?f only

about. fifteen thousand words, while Milton, the prince of English poets, found half that hamber sufficient for the expression of, ^|s Idesfu

But many of the worcU we use sipe different from those of our frthers and many wtych theyj'emylbyed are entirely .unknown to us^nQur, language is undergoing changes. New growths Are springing up And old forms are decaying And passing /tora^' '$0 .flve hundred years to the time of/gbayper and yotj will find bis psgesstreSwn with words, npw Wholly absolute 4fcd wHh others dressed l^.svwli P^rA0M«

graphical g*rb that you will' h»vB tP Jngr«^ the fathw of the deceased, look twlse at Tthem before yOu oan cide whether they are oidjfrlei#* or atrangors.

back,, Another five

hun-

dred years to tbo Anglo SaxOn of King Alfred, of happy^piemory,

Attd

you will

find the parent or ,your tcingus as fof-' eign and diffioult to learn as one of its: cognate "branches—the French or German. And if one of the t6rds or ladles of Queen Elizabeth's court could fjay a brief visit to their green, islandi-bome, how astonished tbejfr woqld be to fittfi themselves half incapablo of communication with tbo lineal •descendants of their Own families! It is true that there were exceptional And temporary causes In those early times wklcu operated to produoe modifications in our languAge and that these modifications go on more slowly now than then yet it is evident that there is A constant. If slow, change even now going on—a growth which, In the course of centurlos, must make an appreciable difference in the language. The discovery of new substances and phenomena, and the invention of new means and processes, will of necessity bring into use new terms or modifications of old ones.

Improve meats too In our syatcm of speech are gradually made. There Is a constant tendency to simplification, to the doing away with unnecessary complexity of syntactical structure. Two hundred ana fifty years ago, for example, the word its

lsnguage. /Til had been tho common possessive of both he

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People and Things|

I(• Back pay—a hod carrier's. a Henry Wilson hss melaneboliA.

They churched Desoon Davis Springfield for using "by gum" as A by word.

Beecher thinks thst the habit of talk Ing loud detracts from any ^dy's dig'Bity. ..!!•',? 'l-t.jtfe* ..rf "H

No innn can be A snccessfttl poet whose liver is not diseased.—[Danbury News."-'

Max $traiko*c?i sails for America on tho 15th. He will meet Wise on his wsyover.

It is surprising how quickly men, who dislike red hair, will fall in love with a red heiress. '^1,

A Dubuque grain-dealer is astonished thst "such an honest, farmer looking man" should swindle him.

Rev. Jsmes Welob, of Scranton, Pa., Isn't the leAat bit of a pedant Ho spells Jesus with A lltUe "g."

An Albany clergyman has requested his congregation not to use fans during servioe, ss it scatters his thoughts.

It (s said that Gen. Sam Cary, of Ohio, Is sleeping in hsymows exclusively nowadays, owing tQ movement, «-it'1 *,

It was,Swift who sAld, "Yon see what Ood: Almighty thinks of riches, sinoe he bostows tbem on the meanest of i,".' uVclivuiv/

A Golpbrceur In Rochester was robbed of 1$ bibles the other day, though lie hs4 tried A w9^ ,^k to sell eren one'tatheitowntn* «»4w ,fii ,4, Cleveland yout^ had his hand taken .off in a planlng-mill lately. So .irsMtO bsve given it away in marriage pXt^ay/itnyhow

A Western parson delicately began A fftWrel dlscottrse by alluding to tho ttat ho had.officiated at the hang-

TWifWsOTa Wise nnd Donaldson are [id to be not In the least nervous as

,'sai^ the 25th approaches, the day 011 which the Dally Graphic rises on its European journey.

Circuses are prohibited by law in New Hampshire, under a penalty of $1,000 for] eaCl* offense. Tho only amusements there are cheating, scandal and bigamy.

A lawyer named Taylor undertook to bully a female justice in Wyoming, but she stabbed him in the ear with a pair of shears.and her dog fixed him so that ho couldn't sit down for a month.

Ten some man slaps me on der shoqlder und say, "I vas glad to hear you vas AO well," und den sticks pohlnd my pack, his fingers to his noise, I half my opinion of dot veller.

Sixteen years .sgo a North Carolina boy was thrashed snd sont out to boo corn, and that was tho last soen of blm until tbe other day, when he came back from California worth #50,000.

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Some or the

did not exist In tbe

and it and was

used for either of tbe genders. But as we had formed a Ais from he,

and as

the former WAS obviously the true And natural possetsivo of the masculine pronoun, people began to inquire why it

should not have a possessive of its own as well as the rest of them. So they Added An «to the tbe nominative and made us A most neeossary and indispensable little word which we would on no account think of doing without. And just here we may observe that it has long been tho hope of many that some ttnkm9* pronoun for tbe masculine and (feminine genders may yet bo formed. As It te now when we have tw* stwgttlar subject* of dififerent genders, we Are at a loss what pro: noons to WNK If we ssy or TKEM, VB COQDTNLT a sin against grammar, and to be continually using tbe duplicate from of "be or she,** "his or b«r,rt "him or her," seems both *wkw«rd And inelegant. It ta probable that tbe difficulty will be obviated at length by allowing tho plural pronouns tob« used, although tit* **ty*et*are considered apart. This usage already prevails to a great extent and, although plainly unitr*mmaUcal, It will In all Likelihood boaome th* established custom. Xn thai case It will become M*» M*ary to consider these plural form* of tho prooouss as common also to both the masculine and feminine gen ders when their sntecodentn are of both genders but used disjunctively.

Sox* Ohio coo pies are making a good thing ont of ths liquor law. Tho busband buys wbi*ky, shoots at hi* wife, wallop* the children, sod the saloon keeper come* wn with fHM mfaer tam «n»d a pro»~ v'Utio«v

Weft tern papers can

lay almost anything and not offend. Fbr Instance, a Carson City sheet says:

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Our county clerk can boast of a wife

with the biggest, feet and the longest

nose of any femAle in tbe territory.

Tber* i* A young man in Pittsbarg liookstors, whose leisure moment* *re given np te dfe*my reflections of poker and s«v«o-up. The otb*r day during on* of tto**e spoil* of fascinating fancies, ntady called andssked if they bad uuin" He nodded, banded hor a d*ck of star-back*, saying abstractedly, "Cut."

I* an oditorisl on th* hot** dls***e, He CongregationalUt snggeated thst It might b* well to sit at th* foot of a tone and te*» humanity. "Just*©," «sy*

Price Five Cents.

Feminitems.,

Electric belles—Female telegraph: operators. The worst dressed women on earth are Bnglish women.

A woman's modesty is like her color —extremely becoming If not put on. A Sydham (Mlsk.) woman recently entered for a foot xaoe, and outran fonr young men. ...t, 1

A female attohiey argued an irbportant case in nrt in Washington lastf week in the pr«senco of a large crowd.

Clara Louise Kellogg Is at the Mountain House, in the Catskllls.and makes the hills resound with her "practicing"' every morning.

Seven young women Have entered the University of Vermont, much tog the delight of tbo boys belonging to that Institution. ..

While few, perhaps, can tell why a woman's head Is plsoed on Barnum'sl talking machine, all Instinctively re-1 cognise It as approplate.

Some one told Dr. Mary Walker that the Shah had Inquired for her, and she now wants to got money enough toff head him off on hte travels.

Laura Keene emphatically denies that she is dying of consumption. She 1 is merely recuperating at the sea-shore, and wljl play again the coming season as usual.

They tell of a lady at Burlington, IotvA, who disabled a burglar with a silver goblet. We havo no doubt thero area good many such ladies, but thek difflotflty is that they haven't tho goblet.

Mrs. Burnham, correspondent of tho St. Louis Republican, has visaed tbo Jardln

Mabllle, and

Bhe

says she has

seen a hundred times, more Improper dancing in place* bf amusement inNew York.

The Reedsburg (Wis.) Free Press employs wemen exclusively. It saysr "We have a calico 'foreman,' two dimity 'compositors,' snd the sweetest little 'devil* in pink muslin to be found any where." -V*'

A dashing belle of Green Tfty, aliilss Roth Taylor, a few day* sluoe was presented with a silk dress for her gallantry in taking hold of a spsnner and helping pull the engine to a fire. The firemen have had to add two hundred feet to tho rope since then. All the girls want silk drosses.

Mrs. Van Cott is preaching with great success In Wisconsin, and Aman-i da Smith, a toll, noble looking colored woman, with white superb teeth, andr great, clear black eyos, In that strange-| est costume of her race, the Quaker^ bonnet and dress, is proaching at Round lake camp-meeting to crowded and admiring audiences.—(Golden Age.

A paragraph Is going the rounds of the press to tho effect that, at Lafayetto, Ind., tho papers arc complaining In downright earnest, because troops of

A slecplng-csr conductor on a west- #wlmmlng In conspicuous ern road bad hto hair ^RdIyPul,*i

A sleoplng-csr conductor on a west

cause he wouldn't extinguish all tho lights and turn everybody out of tbo car when an old maid wss ready to retire. .. 1

place8 in

wouldn't extinguish all tho JrobRbly

the river. The paragraph is

roorely ft dev

ice

the Lafay

ette newspapers to draw the atttention of clergymen on vacations to the charms of Lafayetto as a watering place. 7

observing Long Branch corres-

Iff' .Ztl pondent says that at one of tbo principal

ry»s Catholic Church, Richmond, this fair facev week. A promising young stndent of human nature amuses himself with A stuffed rat, which, from his place *f conoealmont, be draw* aoros* tho sidewalk when people arc passing. Women shriek when they sec the rat, and men violently attack It with sticks and *mbtellaa. J"

th* California News better, "sit and carriage* with which to

lwJ go of her com

_lexj0„

hj0h lssaid to bo remarkable

(n maD r0B

The venerable Lambdln P. Milllgan, her room during the day, and has all^ of Bowl** and Mllligan fame, of Hunt- her meala brought to her, Sbo remains tngton, Ind., was married to a middle- in a darkened room all day long, aged widow lady—a dressmaker, nam- gloomy and deiolate, fearing that the cd Maria Louisa Cavender—at St. Ma-

pects, thst she never leAves

shining through may freokle her,

If foung ladle* who pride themselves on their skill nnd tact in the art of* flirtation could only hear all that is said^ of

them

A dispatch says mas a* vlw burning of a hotel fn Prairie du C^ilen, Wis., "several of tbe servant girls le*p*d from th* third-story window into the arms of Captain Hobbs." Some of the mat* board era tried to attract Hobbs' attention, hot tbey finally had to crawl down th* lightafog-rod.

behind tbolr backs, we think

they would renounce tbelr Indelicate, blandishments forever, and blush, if not past that wholesome indication of shame, for lbs false psrt tbey had so far played on society. Th* piactlosl flirt Is looked upon by all young men^ save those green enough to be bar victims, merely as a frivolous piece of hut man trumpery, with whom itfpnay be well enouab to while away an hour or, two now aud then, when nothing bet-r t«r la the way of amussments offers.

One of tbe Incident*of th* demolition of Washington Msrket was tbe following speech, delivered from tbe top of a box: "lam Mr*. Martha O'DonneiJ, tbe No. 1 fst woman of Washington Market. I camo Into this market weighing two hundred pounds, snd I now weigh three hundred and fortyfive pound*. I hsve been here fifteen years, and have paid $18 a month, and have made $100,009, and Intend to mako $109,000 more. I have a farm of ten acre*on Long Tsland, and support* husband like a gentleman and a family in luxury and I give tbem foal horses enjoy

4owo at tbe bind feet of a mule, and if themselves. I have stood tbe most inh* Ami humiliate you, pull bia tail tense cold In winter without a fire, and Md tickle the Inside of hi* leg* with a the greatest heat in rammer, and have stable-fork." I never taken cold or been overheated,"