Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 August 1873 — Page 1

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Vol. 4.-—No. 8.

THE MAIL

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THOUGHT ASD T. »r *. K.

fMde by IMP on an April day. Thought and I wandered away.

We carelessly strolled, To the cemetery old.

near

a well-known monnd,

I'p that lonely, sacred groand,

I beard word* tender and true, I love yoa.

I spoke not a word, Yet my heart had heard.

I turned, stepped lo the wall. Again the same low sweet call.

I love yoa well.

Darling vxrnt yoa tell

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I dream—or wake,

Yea God, can give and take. I answered then In accents true, yoa know that 1 love yon.

Ah 'two* wild, 'twss done, Now oar hearts beat an one. Hlowly wo retraced our way, On that memorable April day, As It were perchanw, Each living In a trance.

Town-Taj^.

With the returning tide of "summer resort* r»i," ono by one the vacation clergymen are coining in an.l gathering their scattered flocks Into the fold again. It la to be hoped that nono of the young and tender lambs are missing, and that sone of the full grown mutton ha* been tainted with worldllness during the suspension and relaxation of religious eflorts. However, if sucb be the case, the pustors come back fortified and strengthened for the good work, and will doabtleM doable tbelr diligence for a while to make up for lost time. T. T. is perfectly satisfied with these summer rests, being convinced that they are needed for mental aa well a* physical rejuvenation. A great many unthinking persons sneer at the vacations In churches. As if preachers were not human As if they could hold out until the "crack of doom" without having recourse to rest

amusement like other people! It is certainly among the things that ought to be that the clergy, in common with the majority of other profeiMlODs, enjoy brief vacations during the hot sitinmor months. Though engaged In tho work of Immortality, tho preacher is himself human. IJe is affected as

I,, are other men,

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equally wearied by

labor. He needs and should have rest.

J| in the greater number of cases, too, should the divine occupy tho pulpit throughout tho warm weathor, he won Id talk to dlscouraglngly smaii audiences. Many of his flock are away to tho springs, tho lakes or the seaside, and tho "cant-get-aways" are not inclined to listen to spiritual exhortation

with the thermometer at 90. Now, If

•, nt no other time, if they pray at all, they do so, aa wo are told It Is right to do, "In the closet." If the preacher does not preach while off on his Jaunt, so much tho lotter. He will be all tho more eloquent, tho more explanatory, and better prepared for the work signed him on his return. The church •4 goer in general scarcely gives moincut's thought to the amount of brain labor hIs paator undergooa{that Is, If he

I is true to himself, his people, and prepares hln own discpurses) In a year. The preparation of two sermons tor each Sunday, occasionally one for a ,» week day, the leading of various church sorvice*, attendance at marriage* and funerals, and all the other duties of his position, are efforts tending to tire the roan, and we pity the mean spirit that would deny him a season of rest.

T. T. pats in this word tor the

preachers, notwithstanding the fact that be seldom gets a vacation. Every week he has to write op his department Of The Mall. He attends divine service in general way, seldom entirely missing a Sunday, unless the toll of the week preeeeding has been more arduous than usual. At snch times it bccomea a matter of grave uncertainty whether wakefulness will- wait upon his eye*, end If it l» ne«e**ary for him to sleep, he would decidedly prefer to sleep at his cosy bachelor quarter*. Sleeping Iff church is one of the moat serious offenses of which a man can innocently be guilty. T. T. say* Innocently, because is not reasonable to suppose that any one would sleep in church with premeditation, or without putting forth heroic efforts to put away the temptation and therefore, when one la found guilty, there Is always a host ef extenuating circumstances mitigating the heinousncss of his crime. In theft rut place, he was undoubtedly worn and w«ary. Then the room must have been too warm, or the minister was dull, or perhaps his constitution waa shattered and hadn't been restored. But what shall a man do when be feels himself go'n*: be catches himself with desperation and relapses in bopeleeaneas when he stare* vacantly at the pulpit, and bears the sound of the minister's vote* only ss a dlstaut murmur of ocean wave* upQo

some far off shore when everything the room glimmers and dances and gets mixed upon his troubled vision like a troublous dream, and when happy thoughts of rest and sleep rise up against every effort to keep awake. What shall a man do when bo has dono all that be can, and finds it is not enough.

Town Talk thinks he had letter go home. It is a dreadful alternative, this getting up and stalking down the aisle, with several hundred pair of eyos fastened like basilisks, upon you when every footfall reverberates like minature thunder through the room, and the minister pauses with a dreadful significance till you have passed beyond the portal. Then the blessed air of heaven revives you, and, with a keener sense of the ridiculous, you go home filled with mortification and confusion. But it is better than to sleep, perchance to snore, under the dispensation of gospel grace, and T. T. advises people to go home rather than sleep in church.

Speaking of sleeping in church,

is it not a positive cruelty, sometimes, to tako little children to church who ar« incapable of entering into the general interest of the occasion, too young to comprehend thv- exercises or understand what the preacher ia hammering away at, but must sit and stare about, with almost idiotic complacency, or go to sleep and get punched ap by their indignant parents. When T. T. was a ehlld there was nothing which so roused his angry passions as' this same "punching" to keep him awake even yet the sight of it stirs his blood. Why, last year a city mluister actually gave premiums or prices to the children of bis Sunday school for attendance at church, and many little fellows slept through the long services, Sunday after Sunday, to get the "prise of high calling." Better let the children stay in the Sunday school until of proper age rather than incur the risk of acquiring a distaste for church services.

Whlle he baa his band in on the

preachers, T. T. regrets to see that the officers of the County Fair have offered so little inducement for horse-racing. T. T. doesn't car's a cent about horseracing At the Fair, although he delights in a full-blooded trot, In the hands of the big horse men but he wanta -the races at the fair for the accommodation of the proacbers and tho church members, who are debarred from ottending races not properly dilated with farm products, fine arts and big bulls. Few preaoheni are seen at plain horse-races, but It's In 'em, and If they can gratify their taste for speed without compromising the cloth, why qot? It is T. T's. opluion that the directors of tho Fair will lose the attendance of many of tho preachers and some good church members, on account of the little attention given this attractive feature.

THK CIRCUS.

"Old John Robinson's Show," which some weeks ago wo were told to "wait for"—and did so—struck a bee line for the west and is now away out in Col orado, where Deacon Vickers, formerly editor of the Indianapolis Saturday Evening Mirror, and well, known in thla city, is printing the Greeley Sun. He has lost none of bis old love for arenlc displays, and in his column of

In a general way. It Is a little doubt-

see animal*. A great moral menagerie, with a clreus attachment, catchesabout ev*nr girl that can get a beau or the prlc* of a ticket. Aud you generally

much about It. Why not say at once that TOU like to see the clown stand on his head and grfnt Why make the stale excuse of going 'to please the children"—an excuse ao thin that it deceive* nobody?

If w* are in Greeley on ibelwidayof

August, IS73, we are going to see Old ,T

John Robinson's circa* and mensgwr-

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is nothing else than the hungering of

our nature for ita legitimate food.

No oue has ambition without some

power behind it, any more than one oould be hungry if be had no stomach. Set it down that a man can aooomplish whatever hl9 ambition prompts him to undertake. A born merchant will not be ambitious for poetio distinction, because having no faeulty for writing poetry the motive is wanting to impel him in that direction. If he should undertake to be a poet he would fail. But he will not undertake tq.Jfeff a poet.

Whether or no there hav& been men of genuine ability who lacked ambition to drive them on to the exercise of their faculties is a question. I am inclined to think the "mute inglorious Mil tons" area very hypothetical brood, born of the poet's braic and not incarnated in human flesh. It is hard to bolievo that any man of extraordinary powers wquld or could slumber In supine obscurity when it wanted but an effort to rise in his strength and win his hereditary empire. It is Byron who says somewhere in his private journal:

Like Sylla, I have always believed that all things depend upon fortune and nothing upon ourselves." But Byron was notoriously a better poet than philosopher. I should .like to talk with the man who has accomplished anything excellent, not drifted into place or position—but done something wrought out something—which not chance but honest, steady, faithful work accomplished, I should like to see such a man who believes in the "good goddess Fortune" of Byron and Sylla. I do not thinkiie can be found.

Somehow it is easy to see the hand of "a divinity" shaping the rough-hewn aims of others' lives, but when we come home to our own about the only divinity we can find is the divinity of bard work arid self-afaoriflce. No donbt lookers-on can discover a hand of Fortune nt work on the block wo are blindly chiseling—invisibly guiding the tool into a design which our own oyes do not see, but 1 question the ability of out-aiders to judge bettor of our lives than we who are living and shaping them.

I was talking with a young friend on this subject some lime ago who became quite warm in his earnestness and delivered himself ahout as follows: For my part, he said, bo it known that I forswear Fortune altogether. I ask no favors at her hand and she will oblige ine by putting me under no obligations to her whatover. I choose to be my own architect and builder and when the edifice is done let it be understood that I, and not Fortune, built it. Mayhaps it will be a very humble one, but I would rAtber it were so and my own, than a stately mansion and somebody else's. I want no mortgages on my fame. All I ask of Fortune is to stand out of tho way—let my rough-hewn ends alone—touch no hand to my marble block, or sandstone, aa the case may be—atid give me a clear title to the work when it is done. Fortune is a very floe artisan, doubtless, and might,

Table Talk" thus discourses Prominent smong the great benefactors and educators of the age we live In stands the Great Moral Circus. Its very name suggests that happy blending of fine dramatic effect with good moral Influence which a trick mule or performing monkey so thoroughly exemplifies. To moat people there is a charm, a glamour, about the circus. Its venerable antiquity commends It on ooe hand, while *n the other the modern Improvements are Its great attraction. Young people delight in the circus because there waa never anything like It before, and there never will be anything like It again. Old people go to see the clreus of their youthful days, and grumble because it isn't half as ''^t^ou'aiaH^iuako a boy believe the Joan Paul, after all his "ten years' circus Is deteriorating. .... ., siege of a poverty-stricken existence"

niflcent monument. But what interest

would I have in it ?—a half—a third—a tenth—anything or nothing? Who wants a magnificent monument on such terms What soft-handed, la*ybralned reveler in Fortune's smiles ooaldn't excel a fellow after all, if that Is the game No, sir, let every tub stand on its own bottom. The idea that

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WHAT IS AMBITION?

Willis says, "it la a glorious cheat." "Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away^ boan giving so-called spiritual man!ambition," was the advice of Card is aP flotations at Pence's Hall. Hundreds Woolaoy to the great usurper of Eog-

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land. But after all what would we be fblmanoe and .the city papers, the Exwltbout ambition A very sorry set press particularly, have given deecripof people, I four. Ambition ?.Why it

not

bread and milk alone

bis door—the idea tbst perchance it was' not Jean Paul whose hand reared the beautiful edifice which generations

^the ^rls lMpectlog tbe* animals shall admire, but somebody else-For-wlth a great deal of Interest—when the mne—Fat*—Chance—those Incorporeal ring performance* are over. shadow-beings who persist In thrustn*rativel^harmlee*Uif people wouldn't Ing their great ghostly fingers Into the lie so much about it. Why little affairs of mortal men 1 Will not the very bones of "Hesperus" shake In their grave and rise up to confront the base insinuation 1 I am a young man —an obscure man—a weak and tnsig mnoooayr —an ooscure man—a W»M

n[Rcnal m%n lt may

jonn noDinson a«« Heaven I am my own le," because we want to go and see It, and want no favors from Fat* or Fortune!

and for no other reason. The children can go If they want to, and they probably will, but we are

anyhow, and

expect to see the circus first, and look at the cage* afterward, if we have time. That'a our platform—if it he treason, make the most of it.

be, but thank

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I thought my friend waa not far from the right way.

Thrifty dicker in a Fort Wayne dry goods store—Lady, "How much for thte print Gentlemanly snd oblig1 ing clerk, "Nine cents, mum." L^dy, "Nineteen cents, Til give you eigh

OJTR of Mr. Greeley's sayings is reported to have been that if he had to start in life again, and the choice was nroffered between a classical education »w«i. jam rwujy ocrihuh mina wm a»H his trade aa a printer, he wouM uu- misunderstood me." I/»dy. "Oh 1 nine earth to a ham bag .mi life a delusion hesitating! prefer the trade. Correct! cents I'll give you eight." sodat.^r*

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Tf it Isn't Spirit*, What it It*"

JOT several months Mrs. Stewart has

of our people have witnessed her por

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tions of the same. It consists mainly

the showing of faces at an aperture

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in a box or csbinet, which are claimed to 6e the festures of men and women who have lived upon this earth. We have our individual opinion that it is a trick. However, she has never been detected is apparently incapable of keeping up a fraud for so long a time, and it is possible that she is honest. Be this as it may, over at Indianapolis a woman, Miss Ida Hart, under the management ol T. J. Lewis, assisted by Charles H. Read, has beed giving a performance Indentioal in its features, aud has come to grief. In last Sunday inoralng's Indianapolis People, Laura C. Owen, well know here in spiritual cirales tells of the expose, from which we jHftract the foliowi**f aflss tda Harl iafeyftgng lady of prepossessing t«fip«Ar»l»cq, with large brow* eyes, dark hair, out short, medium Ubight, rather stout built and very fair, Jber show was good indeed, her first seance delighted my very soul and I said to my mother, that if Mr. E. C. Owen would only appear at the apertunMto I oould reoogoiae him, I will be wholly converted to the faith and knowledge of spiritualism. On looking ft the cabinet door I saw what I supposed was a young man of our acquaintance, and I spoke to the apparition, ''John is that you?" and a slow bowing of the head, with three light raps, •ssonted it was John. Somewhat puBtled and yet not satisfied, I asked Miss Hart, to allow me to examine her she declined having anything to do with we. Getting a little doubtful and more determined accordingly, I had my mother invite her to partake of our hospitali ty—she acoepted and on the morning of July 21st, (after giving a seanoe st the residence of Mrs.Totts, on North West street, the evening before) I found, under some clothing in ber room, a small scarlet bag, with whiskers, mustaches and an old lady's can contained therein upon finding these articles, I was so startled at first, I hardly knew what to 'do with them, bat decided to keep them and thon offer the Miss ^0 to give our family a private seance. The offer was made and she declined, not knowing at the tints that I had in my possession aU her farcical articles, that she could

well dispense with and be successful her reason she afterward explained by saying that Mr. Read had forbidden ber ever to give me a seance, saying "beware of such as her or you will bo caught." The same Monday morning Mr. Read becoming somewhat uneassv, bad the manager discharge Miss Hart. After receiving her discharge, she set to work packing her trunk for home. After fluding out what I had in safe keeping sho cried like a truly repentant child, and, like a woman, owned up to the truth, and seemed glad that her work was done. Her feelings were so overcomo that that she could not converse with my mother, and the following letter sho left to Mrs. L. Combs, showing the low, mean, contemptible nature and principle of Charles H. Read: its. I'oJtus—I caiMROtgo without at least saying what litUe U»e» ia to be said in my behalf. It Is the first Ume In my life I was ever placed In so miserable a situation. I won Id not for anything have you believe I sought the position In which I came to you or cottc« fved myself the idea of duping oeople so meanly. Mr. Charles H. Read advertised in the Chicago Tribune of May 11:

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bu*l!H"«s to one that is quick and active a rare chance offered. Addrew C. H., Tribune office.

From merest carlosty I answered it, re cflved a reply to call at a machine office,41u West Madison street, where I weat to and saw Mr. Read. Of his many replies he chose mine, and made known to me bis business. He wanted to show me how to do the ba»-

vcrytJnearu»n,«ouow««...u -JVenln.n exaggerated manner if sho pleased, help me to build a mag-

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ufio't week, and so on. He then introduced me to Mr.T. J. Lewis (who Is as irue and honorable a man as lives, 1 believe) as a medium of very wondertol powers. He IS 1st taught mo some tricks with ropes, but Mr. Lewis wanted materialisation, and so he (Kcud) procured from a hair store the things vou (band and bad a cabinet made, and at the rooms of Mrs. A. Crooker, magnetic physician, 3P7 West Randolph street, went all throagh the "developing process," aod then went on with them to travel. For tlM sake of the pleasure and novelty of trsvrl 1 went, scarcely realising bow much wrong I was doing until we went to Attica, Indian*. Mr. Head, according to promt*, would always band to me the false beards aft*r the examination of my person, bat siace then 1 have Sept tbera on my person, because, when at CrawfonlsvfUej, Indiana, throagh

the

honest vigilance of Mr. Lewis,

he (KMMtj failed to getthtm to me, snd no Daces were shown.

am glad the sickening

part t« finished it has not been pleasant to me. snd I shall go home wiser for U»e experience. This is the honeststatement. lean prove It pretty well, bat of course Mr. Reed baa left me rather helpless. He was afrsM or detection, and waa very careful indeed. Ida Hart is bat my assumed nam*.

IDA HAXT.

Miss Ida played ber part well, and bad only traveled with them four weeks and has no doubt converted many boobies to spiritualism. At 1:23 a. m. I took her to the depot, pat her on the train for Chicago, snd she Is today with many friends And dear, kind sisters and brothers In Chicago, at 191 West Jackson street, Sbo is of a respectable family her father is well known in Chicago for his benevolence and Integrity, and for the sake of blm who over a year ago left all scenes of earth I suppress Ida's true name from jnsblie gsseand gossip. f.i oooclesion I will just say that my spiritual strength is not one bit Invigorated. and jost as long aa spiritualist* I enuounjanee any such actions am) refuse to expose them, 1 am just so sure 1 will the better class cf people keep sitent as the grav upon a subject that ought to interest II the human rxce. I

teen." Clerk, "Nine cent*, mam yoa ^"^Mjjy begioni. to think that our

People and Things.

SEASIDE COMFORT. Soroaglng and crushing Swearing and rushing Eating snd drinking No time Cor thinking Balls, parties, new dresses, "Late hours and excesses Billowy bathinj Barbaroas sh*' Besidesbeing li cKor a room where you're oooked Till the starch In your oollars Gets limp, as your dollars: And yon find, with vexation,

Your summer vacation is us ,, And a pockerbook •'bust!", The voting power of the Grangers in Iowa is estimated st 67,660.

There sre no negroee among the Patrons of Husbandry in the South. The Fat Men's association will provide against belly-cose proceedings.

History records no epoch when man, being reasonsble, did not get drunk. By the side of a regular drone, the convicted criminal looms np ss sn an*'®s I' 8^ It

A Boston dairyman has been fined 1200 for not putting enough milk in his water.

Jay Gould Is described as a very unassuming person, who wears plain clothes.

A photographer requests that his sign.—"Taken from life"—should be his epitaph, It y$e

Newburyport, Mass., hss an armiess newsdealer who writes a neat "fist" with bis mouth.

A barber and a surgeon don't differ much. One lives by his heads,_ the other by bis heals,» 4 v-t?

Although brandy is said to begetting the better of Bismarck, It is equally true that he gets the best of brandy.

A youug Englishman baa recovered heavy damages from a tailor who sent him an insolent dun on a postal oord.

The bathers st Long Branch say it is not plessant to be knocked down in the surf by the carcass of a dead horse.

A Kentucky engineer got to jawing with a woman, neglected the boiler, and there was an explosion which killed three men.

It is said thst aNew Hampshire farmer has worn a pair of boots for twenty years. He wears them to circuses, but goes barefooted to church

It is mentioned as a hottfble Act that among the Shakors there is no cholera infantum, and none of tbelr descendants are ever hung or drowned. »,

An old Illinois politician, who l^as sleeping on a hay-mow to get in with the Grangers, rolled off and broke bis neck by striking a fanning-mill.

Young ladies are intoxicated with delight over the new song of Maud Lcnore, while the young men are maudlin o'er it.—[Indianapolis News.

The New York papers are so certain that ProfeRsor Wise will be killed or drowned that tbey have secured all the main points for an obituary notice.

Secretary Belknap returns to Washington to-day. It seems to be necessary that there should be one Cabinet of&cer there nearly all the time.—[Daily Graphic. lib

The Spanish Marsbsl O'Donnell, on his dying bed, when the priest asked blm to forgive his enemies, quietly snswered, "Foet^!/ have none I shot them all." "Bluffing" at Martha's vlreysrd does not consist in "going better" on a poor h*.nd, but ia perambulating the beach and by loving protestatlona win ning a rich hand and a girl with it.

A Georgia paper says: "There lt a tradition thst our ancestors In this country carried silver coin loose in their pockets, but it bss grown too dim snd distant to be easily credited."

A Frenchman professes to bsve discovered, by experiment upon himself, thst coffee taken npon an empty atom ach renders the mind abnormally clear snd the temper unnsturally bad.

When a man "squats" on snother man's claim in Nevada, he Is first told to "rise." If he won't rise, he is shot st, snd if this fails, crowd of men bsul him up to a limb and leave blm to en joy the morning air.

Willie Hein, a youth living at Muscetine, who hss been troubled with sn inordinste craving tor food, drank some bitters the other dsy, snd immediately vomited forth a snske, six inches long. The Insect was alive and wiggling

The "hard labor" to which Frank Walworth is condemned st Sing-sing, is practically that of a clerk in a boot and shoe ffectory, with the necessity of living near the shop. Many a young man hss been subjected to this dull career without having killed his father.

A Detroit boy stood sn umbrella, with a cord tied to it, in a public doorway. Eleven persons thought thst umbrella was theirs, snd carried it with them the length of the string. They then soddeniy dropped it snd I went off wltboot onoe looking b*ek or stopping to pick It up again.

Price Five Cents.

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The handsomest thing in shawls is af pretty girl. Iowa ladies writes "private" in thttf corners of tbelr postal cards.

The young women at Lake George are in a fine frenzy rolling—ten pins. By-play for ladles—going the rounds' of dry goods storesand buying nothing.

A potato bug sunk his incisors in Mrs. Sego, of lows,(and she "shuffled." A Cineinnati lady wanted a oabiaetmaker to get up a three-limbed tables for ber.

Nearly all the 00unties of Illinois want female superintendents of schools. -..,5*, j"

A woman hung heraelf in Milwaukee* because "whisky didn't tsste like ite used to."

There is a girl In Burlington, Iowaf. six feet seven and a half inches in stature and atill growing.

From Cape May comes the awfclinfelligence that padded bathing-dresses hsve been Introd need Now, what shall we trust?

Tom ThumbVWlfo toll down a flight of stairs, at Middleborough, Massachusetts, lsst week, and badly injured her spine and head. -.*•...

A Mra. Clark, at Keokuk, subscribe! four dollars toward building a church, and not being able to raise the money, she worked four days at lathing.

So great Is the mania tor betting at Saratoga that the ladies mske wagers as to the color of the next gentleman's hair who will turn the next conrer.

A Cleveland woman fell down dead the other day, and after her husband had been to an expense of flOOsbe oame out of the trance and went to' work.

We Girls," "The Other Qlrls,M "One Poor Girl," "Only a Girl," "The Rescued Girl," "Three Successful Girls," and "The Girl he Married," are all titles of popular books.

A St. Louis woman made a mistake and publicly flogged the wrong man. Cowhlding affairs have become common in that city, and assailants are not expected to be accurate in all oases.

A woman recently called on a wholesale liquor dealer at Qulncy to pay a note, and while the interest was being* computed seized the jsroinlse to pay, chewed it up and swallowed the fragments.

An ignordnt and obtuse Ohio father s»yg) the only result be notices from bis daughter's recent attendance at a college for both sexes, is her tendency to sigh and mope about tho house like a «iek kitten.

A Memphis woman who didri*t want to mix up with common folks hired a steamboat, at an expense of $300 to take her to a picnic and return, and no one but herself and the crew was allowed to go on the boat.

Miss Kitty Mason,of Elgin, had a carbuncle on ber neck, and couldn't go to the party, and sho imbibed laudanum. The doctors saved her, and out of r«spcct for her feelings the party was postponed.

Referring to the practice of discharging lady clerks from the public offices when tbey get married, a Detroit paper thinks It must be wrong, and asks: "How can a woman be expected to support a husband if she discharged as seon as she gets one?"

A daughter of R. W. Porter, residing near Monmouth, Ills., while making her bed the other day disoovered a rattlesnake comfortably coiled up between the sheets. Immediately after tbe people of Monmonth thought tbo corporation law against *rteam whistles bad had been violated.

The Saratoga correspondent of the Troy Times ssys "Ella Wesner, of Tony Pastor's troupe, attracted much attention on the streots yesterday by her unique costume. She wore a gents' drib felt bat, short, curly hair, standing collar, blue silk cravat with diamond pin, and a drab jacket made very like a gents' walking sack, and she carried a cane. Her skirt was neat aod ladylike, but ber appearance from ber waist upward was very droll."

Maternal love will force a woman t* to do many ihlngs repugnsnt to her natural Instincts. Still, we think women In Itsly rather overdid the matter recently. She announced #ne day that she bad found the body of ber husband at ths bottom of a rockyeminence, from which be must bavo fa lie* by accident. It was suspected that she did not tell tbe entire truth, and she was arrested. £be confessed that she had poshed him over while be was at work, snd that be fell in tho ditch and was drowned. She had been lel t* commit this crime by hearing that tbe only way she could save ber son from being a soldier by conscription, was by beeoming a widow. And to become a widow she had to kill her huaband. Very fow husbands would care to have 1 wives whose maternal instincts had t* I be satisfied by suchextreojo ujessuree

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