Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 January 1875 — Page 4
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Jl ON M0NJDAY,*
HotolrgfRool & Co.
'II ittKM.t Will Inaugurate a
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SPECIAL SALE OF
DRY^GOODS,
Which will be worthy the attention of
Determined to close oat oar entire Wintei Htock Regardless of Cost, parties will find nt Uils sale some Haw Ba^alns uev^r bif--fweMIMedtn this city, ff "ff*|
This is a Cash Sale.
Your money will bear you gool interest to koep the (foods over to next Season nt these prices.
Milks, Dress Goods, Shawls, Clonks. rs, Woolen tioods, Housekeeping Goods, Flannels. Cloakings, Skirts, Underwear, Gloves, Ho«ier, Fancy Goods Laces, Embroideries, Calicoes, Giughams, Muslins, Sheetings
.WILL ALL BE OFFERED AT A-
GREAT KKDKTIOS,
WANTED—A
GOOD OlRTi-^QrtftiMAN
preferred—can obtain a ^ood situation ia a Kjimll family—no ohUdrettr-iu JPtttis,
^-^A.'HKHZ & oo*s. Opera House Bazar.
ANTED-FARMERS AND TEAM.
Kters to know that tliey can get the nest fitting and cheapest Uoree Collars at MILLER A ARLETH'S collar factorj. rtouth Fourth street.
VTED—TO RENT A WM ALL FARM V\
from
one to ttv« yeers. Person* hnv-
I1K such will do well to address mo at lerr. Iiiute. Please state loofctlort, sizpof and terms.
K.:L«,OOJOLWLAI^
WANTED—TUB
For Sale!
riOR SAlVE-EIG HT Y-FIVE «OTS OF lafid, tu Parke county, sOuUi^eSt corner of Florida township—85 acres under cultivation, balance timber—half mile of railroad station. School bouse on land, huquire of J. N. WALKER, near the land, or address him at Atherton, Ind. r.ov21--m
Lost.
LOST—AT
THE OPERA HOUSE LAST
night, a roll of money—some SV». The Under can retain one-half on returning the balance to this office.
OST—MONEY, BY NOT BUYING COIIj lars at MILLER & ARLETH'S Horse tJollar Factory, south Fourth street.
Found.
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UND—THAT MILLER & AKLETH sell the best fitting Horse Collars at then tory, south Foorth street.
FOUND—THATiStato
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THE SATURDAY EVE-
Mall is the most widely Circulate*!
newspaper in the outside of Indianapolis. fTK)lTND—THAT WITH ONKWROKEOI the pen yon can n-aeh, with nn rulvertistawit in the Saturday Evening Mail, alniost Hvery roa«ilnK family in this city, aa die residents of lie towns and cauntry snrJounding Terre Ilnute.
4 Estray.
GREY HORSE,
at veil for the 37 South Fourth street.
The undersigned d^ir announce to the
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STRAYED—Areturn
suitable rewanl will be
for the to GKOIWJK l!ONl,
harness on
Society Meetings.
0, U. A. M.—Franklin Council, No. Jo, Order of Unltvd American Mechanics meets every Monday evening In Amerioan Mechanion Half, uwthwert eornor oi fcMfth and Main streets, at 8 »clock. A memlx'rR and visiting members are cortllalVy Invited to attend our
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UK. STOCK, R.S. lulylfrSm
OMETHING NEW! IN SOUTH TCRRK HAUTE,
J_IUK"MS^of
to tl»
«nd Mljacent county that be has jtwt open6d an apothecary shop and preacrlpjjon qfllee oa sooth Second street, between MoiAt and Willow street*, Terro Hatlte, at which he will furnish his patrons with family medicines, carefully compounded of .{tore drugs, and on as good t»rms as thoy Cm be purchased In the oltv. Also «H th« drugs and medicine* usually kept In drug mtotm, all at the lowest cash price.
He also soliolts practice In the city as a ahysiciaB (not as surgeon). Has njade jfeoM forms of disease peculiar to fonmlesa uartfcular study, and for the last twenty y^rs has made the treatment of ateeratlon *f the womb a specialty, and In .^ [hne •he has treated great maay casee inennitally, to whom refsreuoe will be given if
Having been engaged! the PWtioe of the duties of his profesalon tor .i tPiT ?T years, he hopes to oofcble to mml the conttdenoe and patronage of his patrons.
Has on hand for medicinal purposes •very superior article of Teoneaee Apple PhyMcians preecrl prions carefully w™" jonminl and neatly pat Bp noor. Advice ill ordinary cases, gratis. ^FfiSTSShuRW. M.n. jDeoember 19,1874.
BOOKS
AND STATIONERY.
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I1BTAT10NKRY of every desertpUon, Writleg Deaks, Albums, Card Ossea, OMIM in great variety.
Toy and Holiday Book*, .i »5"*i4r old and yoanft and a ftill line of Annual and l»erpetaal Kart e*
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HOBKKO, ROOT A' Opera House Corner.
Wanted.
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LADIES NO BRIING
their combines and have theni nuul to switches, curls and pnJft, at Mrs. t^irisher's. She i»ateo just received from Nlew York an elegant .-dock erf ^nUisfnr braid and embroidery. ~*hc Would like thr oldies to give her a call and exanunehci stock before
KOUIR
elsewhere. 1X)0 tTrrfgtf
the place, Ohio street, opposite the ourl House. Ultf-W.
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l'AI'KH FPU .THE
IBHRK HAUTE,
skoon'd edition. firo
This fact concerning The Mail is indicative also of a favorable state of affairs in business circles. General business and the newspaper business are intimately associated, and our prosperity indicates that there has been something corresponding to it, though not fully equal, in the business of this community. There is, without doubt, abetter condition of affairs in the business world than we had reason to expect. While people are not making money rapidly, and some not at all, yet people itro making a living out of their "business, or at worst, are not Sinning seriously behind. There is an haproved fone in most business circles. Not as many laborers are out of employment as it was feared there .would be, add the suffering is not as great br extrasivo as it was feared. Thorq is enough enforced idleness, and painful poverty, no doubt, but lemthan was predicted and seemed inevitable.
During the year there has been a decided reaction in the sentiment of the country in reference to the currency question. This is admitted by thoso who do not rqj»lce ovor It* The action of the Senate in passing so promptly a bill which, whatever else it does or does not, looks to the resumption of specie payment at some future time, indicates the reaction of which we speak. The financial question, which seemed at one time almost certain to be the main isstte in the next political campaign, if this reaction continues, tvM have been so far settled by '76 that tho two parties will not essentially differ.
During the latter part of the year j8t ended there was a pplitidal revolution which about equally Astonished the victors and the vanquished. The Ropublicans have pretty enerally settled down in the opinion a they deserved the threshing, and that it will probably do them good, or ought to, while the Democrats recognise the l«* that they have been received Into the political church, after the Methodist style, on probation. Both parties are on their good behavior, and this Is promising fbr the future good of the country.
Ontsido of politics tbe great sensation of tbe year has been the lleecher-Hlton scandal, bat this is now ins fair way for settlement. Mr. Boecher's editorial in the Christian Union of last Saturday, has the right ring to it, and indicates that he intends to light it oat like an innocent man. Mr. Tllton has tried to break the force of that article, but his declaration that he Would not press his suit unless the courts would lot him have his own way about it, looks like an inclination to back down unless tbe way Is left open for tbe practice of the trickery of which himself, Moulton, and Ben Butler have shown themselves such masters. In foot Butler's connection wKh the aflfcir, Moulton's virtual confession of having lied about Edna Dean Praotor, and Tilton's endless contradictions of himself and his confessedly immoral oharacter, together with Beecher's past life, and the confidence manifested in him by those who know him best, and his last defiant and determined utterance, havo created a strong feeling of confidence in his integrity, and a belief thst he will In the end be fully vindicated. If he is innooent this is mosrt 4-M v'
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P. S. WESTFALL, Asq jfRQp^arqrt,
EDITIONS I
(his t»aper are published. rfte Fntar EDITIQW^ o%Ifid%rf5tenlng lwu*a laqiacl^\|alioB id t^e s^iproundlug ttmne, where tt is Wld by neWsiieya and agents. The SKCX)ND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes U^to tlie hands of, uepfM every leading person in the city, ana in* form ers of this immediate vicinity.
Week's Issue la, In toct, TWO NEWSPAPERS,
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Advertisements appear for
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JQTTIXOS FOR THE NEW 5^.1/?. We are a (lay behind time with rnir Now Tear's greeting for tlie readers of The Mail. The fault is not our own however, fbr Tbe MiUl »s oattpromptly on time, bnt the powers th^t Wiaw fit to put the first day dfthr iioW year on Friday instead of Saturday. The responsibility must rost with thoso who appoint Now Years day. But for the remaining three hundred and sixty-four da$»otl875,.wQ teuaktMt jam* jreader of The Mail may ftnd each day packed full
prosj^prity an(| joy, and, if bur-
deaB and aprrQWs Intist come to any, that thoy may be as light as possible sand the strength to bear them be as groat as shall be needed.
Aslhe net^ year'c^mes and take our annual inventory of presentpo^sessiOBS, all wljo have #had a nickel left with which to buy The Mail have been sufficiently prosperous to be ablo, in the language of tiioi^pod old Deacon, to thank the Lord that it is as well with ntt it. is.,
As for The Mail, it may gratify our 'readers—if not thf readers it certainly doefl the publisher—to know that it begins the new year with brighter prospectetba4 ever bel^re^ AlthQUgTftsince it startefl, the field 3frl^idii% ftiwiopolieed at firstj has been Invaded by two rtfals fiat public patronage, the Sunday
Express, and, more recently, tke Evening Gazette, yet the patronage of The Mail, both in advertising and in subsmptions, ha» steadily increased, so that It beginsithe year ot 1875 with a Isrgsr nuoilwr of readers and in the enjoyment of a higher appreciation among busnaew men than any proceeding year.
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^^RLSSU^SJIFCH T*MBA»ld ylar, le serio-comic farce, in which Robert Dale Owen played the principal part, received sufficient attention last week, and only needs mention here among the notable events of the year, tho issuo oi which is a matter for congratulation. If it shall hasten the downfall of one of the worst humbugs of tho age, we, may well rejoico and give thanks, p*
As for the year now present, we have a conviction that it will be better for our credit ff iwe defer remarks, npon it and the events transpiring within it ior a twelve-month. It will be much, not altogether, but very much wbftt, each reader of ^Phe MailWnkcs it 1br hlnisetf. Thoro will doubtless he a great many better men iu $qdifli\&< ye«W hence, and perhaps few. ^tye^ wq^men. than at present, if all the swearings off, aud good resolutions of yesterday, to-day and to-morrow, are faithfully kept. So mote it bo. -5 l=====a
Another ofciho^oid war horses of the anti-slavery contest has fallen during tho present wook. Tho name of Gerritt Smith is familiar to the whole country. This man died at Now York, whither he had gone on a visit. lie was seventyseven years of age, and a man of great wealth, his father having been one of the largest land-owners in tho Unltod States he was spn|^"Whatf eoqont^,
IT is not every man, or many men, who can give away in a singlo day §350,000, and not feel it, or only feel relieved by the gift. Nor yet are there many communities blessed by the presence of a-man able and disposed to do this. But Chauncey Rose is such a man and Tcrre Haute is the fortunate city. Last Monday Mr. Rose gave §200,000 tq, the Terro Haute Industrial School, and $150,000 to tho Vigo County Orphan's Home. This is not a bequest to be paid at some future time, and in danger of being lost through the breaking oif a will, but i£ is in solid cash, or rather in notes, bonds, and real estate, actuary put into tho hands of those having tneso institutions' iti charge. Mr. Rose is showing his practical good sense in putting his money into useful institutions while he is living, when he can give to them tho benefit of his wise counsel, and enjoy tho consciousness that his wealth is doing good. Terro Haute owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Rose which it is Impossible for it to pay, and his name will occupy one of the most enviable positions in tho history of the city. -t*
TIIK Philadelphia Star says Society in the East is graduaUy settling down to tho idea that it is a«cidcdly vulgar to have the trousseau of a bride fully, described by some prying Jenkins and published in the newspapers and still more vulgar to make a public exhibition of tho bride's garpper ajld undeik the West ntijbient on thofsubjeet lias not yet reached that point, at least we should lodge so by the fbllowirtg oxtract from a San Francisco newspaper account of a fhshionable wedding: "All respoctable and properly attired persons were permitted to enter by a separate cntranco and inspoct the brWal outfit."
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THE' announcement may be received with dismay by thoso who in the new crusade sought to bring tho millenlum a little nearer, but the fact is there are now on band, at least the Ways and Means committee say so, and they ought to know, forty-one millions of gallons of whisky, The people of this country, disheartening as it msy be to chronicle It, are growing constitutionally thirsty, and how to get this amount of whisky out of their rssch, may well be considered a problem. a*tt£=ssass99=s
JOHN MURPHY, who traveled with John C. Heenan, giving sparring exhibitions, was hanged, on Tuesday, at Carson, Nevada, for murder. Hie telegraph tells us that on the soaflbld he professed a belief in spiritualism, and uttered a horrible blasphemy at tbe same time.
TUBspiritualists of Michigan have In, a convention at Battle Creek, rescinded former resolutions in which free lore was indorsed, and declared themselves ss a bedy uncommitted on the satinet.
COKORKSS, the State Legislature, and perhaps understand, perhaps! the Beecher trial next week.
Lsdru ROLA.IN, tbe Eminent French author and liberal statesman is dead.
LpjRjRRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING' MAIL,
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cence and rejoioea at thQ increasingly strong indications that it has bws right. Yet if Mr. Beecher had been Proved guilty, we should have rejoicod, though with sfjdgMSS, at the discover*hy^po-
WHILE Katie King was at wdrl with her pocket screw-driver, preparing the cabinet for her materialization, Robert ©ale 0*efl,' (&iki a*d other gifted mortals joined in singing:
The praises or sweet Katie King. Dr. Pence's big music-box can knock the wind out of any chorus for drowning any noise tlie spirits may make in "ma' legalising."
Two WEEKS ago there appeared in The Mail a piece of poetry, entitled, You Spfcak an Urtfruth." It came to us in manuscript from a lady who has contributed more thajr a dozen poems, and we put tho usual heading, "Written for The Mail" over it. It now turns out that it was first printed in an eastern paper. We are quite sure that our contributor did not intend to deceive us,but coming iu manuscript—well, it is our mistake—and we hope that our brethren of the quill will not further rend their linen. :'," ,*,•
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far from practical in all "Tiis notions and schempfj Hut, hWTv*p.jn( r?an of unbouhcterfoh&Vity/wbtatf tnado him zealous in Labors and gifts for tho slave, and ready «#j|o, whoft sjl£very and the rebellion were dead, to put his namo upon tho bail bond of Jefferson Davis. He first labored with thejooionization society but at tho expiration of ton years, when it was manifest that this society conld not accomplish its object, ho became an Abolitionist, and remained such till the end of slavery. One of tho hist acts of his life was to protest 'against that decision of the Supremo Court of this State which h&s difcgrttced tlie nnnie of Indiana, and resulted, in somo instances in driving tho colored children frqm our schools. At one time he gave twb hun-( dred thousand acres of land to different institutions of learning to needy men, black and white. Ho was a good and useful man and died unusually repected.
SHOW PEOPLE.
Miss Lotta, tho actress, has purchased one of the lots in the "Stewart Circle," Washington, for $16,000.
The Wallaqk combination "busted'- in Toledo* the other day, and left the city without paying their bills.
Niblo's, New Jfork, has cut down prices fifty cents general, admission. Thero is talk in that'ciiy*of a general reduction all round.
Tho death is announced at Montevideo, Ut'dguay, oil Oct. ^th'ortvtr. A M. Hernandez, tho inimitable pantomitnist of the Bidwell and McDonough "Black Crook Company."
Olive Logan's sister Celia is dramatize ing plays at San Francisco. It's a pity she don't produce something for Olive that will be better received than are the plays in wnich she is now displaying her costly dresses—[Exchange.
Mark Twain's .new play, "The Gilded Age," has been running fourteen weeks in New York, it has netted the author over $10,000, and made a fortune for the comedian John T. Raymond, the Colonel Sellers of the piece. "There's millions in it."
One of the Paris theaters proposes to adopt the rule of closing the doors as soon as the curtain rises and keeping them rigorously closcd while the curtain is up,? sof'that late-comers may not interfere with the comfort of all who are seated betimes.
PUBLIC-SEEKING MINISTERS. The Journal and Messenger gives that advice on the treatment of a 1 ass of ministers seeking after pulpits:
Since our courtesy requires that a traveling seeker after a pulpit, asking the attention be heard, we suggestthat it be Inquired why he travels, norfiaving an objective point nor such an introduction as would claim for him a moderate welcome to an ordinary Christian home. "His "cheek," in such circumstances, is against him. Good men, having the average sensibility, prefer suffering at home to "sponging" abroad. Then ask him why he did not continue with that "dear church," which so much needs an under-shepherd to lead them through the waters of affliction, to tow them over the ripple of church building or of a church debt.
LONG Pit A YEIiS.
Dr. Talmago also has something to say on tho question of praying: Wo are confident that ono reason for tho long prayers with which wo are sometimes afflicted in religions meetings is an incapacity to wind up. After the brother has been praying about long enough, yon see that ne is trying to find "Amen." Ho does not want to come too suddenly npon it, and so he gradually makes that way but ho is like a Brooklyn ferry-boat aiming for the wharf whero there is a good deal of ice in the rivor, and he backs in and out, in and out, at last reaching it with a blundering stroke. Many ot the brethren in their prayer, take one-third ofthe time to get started, and another third to stop. Why not with your first sentence plunge into what you most want, and stop when you get through without any clrcnmgrations Men keep on aftor they ought to stop, because thoy do not know how to let down breaks. Wo havo a rccommondation to make. If an isolated "Amen" would sound abrupt at tho time you want to close, do as the Psalmist did when tho prayers of David tho son of Jesse were ended, exclaiming "Amen and Amen I" ... ,y —rnmmmwmmm il
THE PRICE OF CIGARS. The Springfield, Mass., Republican, says: Tne tobacconists are looking forward to hard lines the coming winter. The price of tobacco and consequently of cigars at wholesale Is resing, but the retaifprice, especially of cigars, cannot be changed without too great an innovation upon established rates. The price of a cigar is 10 cents, and the most careless financier would be horrified at tbe thought of paying 12. Ten cent cigars cost st wholesale about |66 a thousand, but, as three cigars for 25 cents Is a common way of selling, the dealers do not get 9100 a thousand.
Some smokers think It good policy to buy tnelr cigars by the box, the rate being 97.60 per box of 100 cigars, but the dealers bad rathers sell their regular customers by the box than by the piece. If a man has a box of cigars in his room, he fills bis pockets, gives a handfal to bis Mend, smokes constantly, and, first he knows, the bottom of his box comes in right. On the other hand, if be buys his '*smokes" singly, at 10 cent apiece, he will only use about one box a month, but is quite sure to use two boxes a month, when he buy the ether way.
THE "COMING" OA TB. [Rome Sentinel.] We have been shown a design fbr sn upholstered front gate, which seems destined to become popular. The footboard Is cushioned, ana there Is a warm soap-stone on each side the Inside step being adjustable so that a short girl can bring her llpe to the line of any given mustache without trouble. If the gate Is occupied at
10:30 P. M.,
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an iron hand
extends from one gate post, takes the y»ung man by tbe left ear, turns him around, and he is at once started toward home by a steel foot. The girl can, If she likes set this part at a later hour than 10A0.
THD managers of tho Grand Open* House, Now York, are presenting the "Black Crook" in magnifioeiU style, and for tho creating of a sensation have "dressed a note to reverend sirs in the (ig them to attehd the per-
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Oh, gather round and let us sing »t The praises of sweet Katie King. Who, from her bright and happy
fornianpe.
In studiously polite phrase
they Bay": "You have but to give intimation of a desire to honor us byyour presence, and tho most desirable seats, either prominent or in a section not subjecting tbe occupants to general observation. will be assigned you. Adverse criticism, based upon the alleged immorality of this superb spectacle, has been so general that we seek the unbiassed and competent judgment of tbe reverend clorgy, to be declared from personal observation. In order that nothing shall be hidden from a free investigation, a-stricl rule ofthe establishment will be modified, and permission will be given to visit the stage during any performance." We do not know how many clerical gentlemen will be induced to accept this opportunity of dead-heading, and its accompanying privilege of ogling ballet girls from the wings, or from a nearer point of view studying the effect of pink tights on plump legs, but we do feel that tho invitation is not addressed in good faith. It is a stroke of managerial advertising which might be adopted by madame of the flashy door plate and the blinded windows. Centipede spectacles which run solely ly reason of nude legs are worthless forms of the drama, highly immoral and injurious in their effect upon the spectator. To their reproduction is largely due tho outcry against the stage, which, doubtful
but for them and some
melodrama, would be»almost
unobjectionable to tbe straightest-i^qed conscience. '4"
HOW DRINKING CAUSES APOPLEXY. It is the essential nature of all wines and spirits to send an increased amount of blood to the brain. Tho first effect of taking a glass of wine or stronger form of alcohol, is to send the blood, there fester than usual hence the circulation that gives the red face, It increases the activity ofthe brain, and it'works fafcter, and so does the tongue. But as the blood goes to tho brain faster than common, it returns faster, and no sptcial harm results. But suppose a man keeps on drinking, the blood is sent to the brain so fast, in such" "large quantities, that in order to make room for it tho eifiar arte$eS havo-xo eillarg©| themselves they increase!n 'Size,arid in doing so they press against the more yielding and flaccid veins whieh Mtrry tlie .* bdoprtout of the brain and thus diminish* tneir size, their poroa, the result being that the blood is not only carried to the arteries of the brain faster than is natural or healthful, but it is prevented from leaving as fast as usual hence a double set of causes of death are in operation. Hence a man may drink enough of brandy or other spirits in a few hours, or even minutes, to bring on a fatal attack of apbplexy. This is literally being dead drunk.—[Dr. Hall. -1
GONE WITH HIS WIFE. The old story of a room with a number of windows, one of which disappeared every day, aud tbe room gradually contracted until it crushed its occupant to death, evidently hauutedtbe brain of a despairing Parisian jeweler who recently committed suicide. The unlucky Frenchman, inconsolable for the loss of his better half, became subject to a species of somnambulism. He was accustomed to wear a gold necklaoo, one of his late wife's favorite ornaments, and he used to say to his friends that the necklace daily grew smaller, and that his wife was thus painlessly killing him, much to his joy. Tlie fact was that the somnambulist roso every night and went in his sleep down to his instruments, knocked off a link of the necklace and put on tbe fastening again. Next morning he found the collar smaller, and having no recollection of what he had done, attributed the event to supernatural influence. This continued for some time, when the necklace grew so small that, in fastening it on, the hapless widower a^ually garroted himself to death.
FASHIONABLE OAT-MEAL^ ANew York letter says: You would be surprised to know how common a dish oat-meal is becoming in New York not merely at the tables of the poor hut among tho wealthy. Timo was when it w.oukf havo been regarded hardly respectable or hospitable to place oat-meal before a guest now it has become a staplo article of food among all classes.
Well-regulated restaurants and hotels always koep it on hand to serve up to customers, and among down-town orokers and bankers it has becomo a favorite dish. Drop into any of tho downtown lunch-bouses at noon and you are sure to find more or less members of the Stock Exchange making a dinner of oatmeal and milk, with perhaps apiece of apple pie or a dumpling.
I speak from experience ,when I say that its virtues for men of sedOitary life or brain-workers have never bfeeh overestimated. Walter Scott and Agasbis demonstrated,by their yforku what an oat-meal dlw^wtll de for tho intellect. Every one or your Western journalists, clergymen and othernrofessionalgentlemen who wants Intellectual activity and
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physical health, can ftnd it in oat-mea Try it and see.
THE ROTHSCHILD WOMEN. The Jewish Messenger says "We take pleasure In referring to the merits of tho Rothschild family, not because they are wealthy, but for the simple reason that In spite of their wealth they strive to be useflil to their kind. The men are immersed in business. They are charitable, but the people will say it is easy to be charitable If you are rich. The women are public-spirited, intelligent and warm-hearted—found-ing hospitals, reformatories, children's homes, endowing scholastic institutions, encouraging struggling professionals, and taking a personal interest in the doings of the poor. Baroness Lionel makes weekly visits in the meanest portions of London, brightening the home of the Jewish artisan, giving her good counsel to the earnest teachers of the free schools, the matrons and assistants of the various charities. The daughter ot Alphones, of Paris, teaches a good lesson to her sisters in fhlth, and to rich young ladies ef evenr creed, by receiving a well-deserved diploma as teacher. Anselm's daughter in Vienna is prominent in music, not only composing songs that attain popularity, hut aiding struggling musicians by pan and purse
A DEAD SILENCE [Detroit FieePrass.]
A man about two-thirds drunk was riding on a Fort street car yesterday, and he hadn't yet unbosomed himself when a nice looking young man, highly scented, entered the car and took a seat opposite the inebriate. The perfame floated over, and the man snuffed and turned his head this way and that. He finally got his eyes on the young man, and pointing his finger at him inquired: "Y-young man, d-cfo your f-feet smell that way all the t-timo?" There wss a dead silence In the oar.
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Mli. WASTY'S NEW SHIIIT. Mr. Hasty is a gentleman who dinarily wfry particular in matters pertaining to. .flfess, Mr. Hasty' would no more thii^c^pf appearing in a garment he as it ha by ha standing op his bead in the parlor win- 1 dow or executing a double shuffle on the dining room table. Add to this pfe-» culiarity the Diet that Mr. Hasty is grave'' of face and portly In figure and it will I be seen that he is a gentleman of sober I dignity and (lot given fo foolish frivoli-1 ties ofyouth.
This description of Mr. Bsuty will, therefore, explain why upon being met at the hall dow one evening alter dark by bis wife with tbe whispered warning, ".Hurry up-stairs, dear, and fix yourself up, there's company in the parlor," he hastened to the second story front room to make himself presentable.
It was dark in the room, and Mr. Hasty could fii|d no matches. "Well," thought he, "never mind. My face is cloan, and I will only need to put on a clean shirt."
Then Mr. Hasty carefully and quietly took off bis coat and vest preparatory to putting on this clean shirt, and having opened the bureau drawer he began to examine the oontents to find the desired article.
Now if there WAS one garment about which Mr. Hasty was more particular than another, it was a shirt. Have that misfitting or speckled in the least, and Mr. Hasty Was 'in indescribable torment. Indeed, In this respect, Mr. Hasty may be regarded as having been slightly over sensitive. And so Mr. Hasty, feeling tho contents of the bureau drawer in tbe dark, could for a time find nothing to suit his fastidious taste. "This thins," said.Mr. Hasty carefully the first shir( ho found, "is all
feeling the worn out at the negk. I do shirt that is worn dut at tho neck. It makes me feel like ——Mr. Hasty said no more, but threw the offending garment into the middle of the room. "And here isone," muttered Mr.Hasty, Blowly passing his* ifingers over tho wristbands, "that's all ragged at the cuffs. I .wonder why in' the world mv wife don't stop gadding about amongst the neighbors and pttfjud to mviclothes. If she imagines that I want to 16ok like a street scrapes 8^'a. vjcry^niucii mistaken. Tbere}£ 4vnJ 3fht mond shirt followed the first. "And here's one," growled Mr. Hasty, ^beginning to perspire and growing warm and uncomfortable, "that's lost tl$e buttons. If I havo told that wotuaa, ouce/U've told her a dozen times to see that the buttons were all right. Maria kiiows thatl look ridiculous with a shirt '"unbuttoned. Confound it. why don't ^h^ sew the buttons on?" with which remark the indignant Mr. Hasty threw tho buttoniess garment over his head, where lodged on thegaspipe, and gracefully hung like a domestic flag of truce. TMr. Hasty was getting very warm, very uncomfortable •and very angry. There \fras only one garment left. Mr. Hasty, examined it, tully determined to tear itfto pieces if it was out of order.
It was not out of order, however. Mr. Hasty carefully examined tho neck, cufis, front, back and sides and found it in perfect trim. "This must bo anew shirt," said Mr. Hasty, arising. "Maria never keeps my old shirts in such good order." Then Mr. Hasty took out tho garment and triod to put it on. "Just as, I thought," grumbled Mr. Hasty, "it "don/Tnt. I wonder when Maria will learn to mako mo a shirt that will fit. This i$ too narrow in tho middle and too wtde at the top, and there are no collar buttons." "Why, plague take the thing," exclaimed' Mr. Hasty when he fbund that tbe end of the garment fell below his knee, "what a fearful slack there is to this shirt."
Having finished dressing at'last, although he felt as he expressed it, like a turkey before thanksgiving, he slowly descended the stairs and entered the parlor in his most dignified and impressive manner.
But the moment he did so there was a horrified exclamation from bis Wife, and and a perfect roar from his friends. Mr. Hasty, frowning at this unseemly behavior, looked at his reflection in the mirror. And when he found that he had put on one of his wife's elaborately embroidered night gowns, in place of a. shirt, he fled, followed by the hysterical screams of tho company. Mr. Hasty had simply opened tho wrong bureau drawer.
INFORMATION WANTED. Will some benighn being explain to me:
Why a dog alwuss turns around three times before he lies down. Why a horse alwuss gits up oph from the ground on hiz forward feet last.
Why a cow alwuss gits up oph from the ground on her behind feet fust. Why, when a man gits lost in the woods, OT on the plains, be alwuss walks ,• In a circle.
Why a goose stands fust on one leg and then on tuther. Why rabbits have a short tale and. oats have a long one.
Why most all the birds bild their nests out ov different materials. Whv a hen alwuss knows her little onesffom anothers, and why she will, batch out 12 duck eggs and then think thc^r are her own chickens.
Why a bear alwuss climbes down a tree backwards. Why a turkeys eegs is speckled, and a ducks eggs blue.
Whether a log floats faster in a riveri than the current runs, or not. Why an ovster and a clam are the only tnlngs I know ov with animal life that don't have to more out of their places to get a living.
Why a mules bones are all solid and their ears twice az long ar. a horses. Why a pig gather* straws in his mouth and runs about with them just before a rain storm.
Why litening never was known to strike a beech tree. Way the males among the feathered race do all the singing.
Why uatur will allow ono cross between Sam animals and then allow no more.
Why the blak snaik is the onlr snaik in this country that can climb up a
Whare the Ays all go when the cold wether sets In, and whare they all cum from so sudden next summer.
Why a musk rat's tale has no fur on I a a a Why a quail's egg is round, and a hen's
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STEPPING DOWN AND OUT. [Cincinnati Gasette.] It Is reverted in Toledo thst the Rev. John A. Hadklns, who had been preaching to a United Brethren congregation in lit. Ayre. la a bigamist. He married a yoang msliten from Pennsylvania last summer, and 14 was said that she is wife' No. 8. He has strengthened suspicion^ by running off to Canada.