Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 April 1879 — Page 2

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PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRR HAUTE, APttIL 19,1879

TWO EDITIONS

Of tills Paper are published. The KlrtST EDITION, ou Friday Evening •tliaa a large circulation in thb Hurronnding xiwrn, where it la sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Eventing, goes Into the bands of nearly every reading person In the city, and the form en of this immediate vicinity.

Kvery Week's Issue is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisements appear for

ONJB OkLaOQZ

ARIZONA is looming up in the distance and claiming a deal of attention. With the railroad ponetrating to its centre, with pleuty of water, the wealth of its mountains and valleys will be surprising ly developed this season. In fact, we are justified from present indications in making the prediction that Arizona will be the next addition to the sisterhood of States. Next wilt follow New Mexloo, Utah and Washington Territory.

TUB laity of the Methodist church are beginning to criticise and condemn the Methodist system of itineracy as injurious to the interests of the whole denomination. They regard the system of removing preachers after a four-years' term of building up a church in one plaoe as belonging to a former age and the outgrowth of different conditions from tbo«e that rule now. It is a growing belier that the present interests of the denomination demand a different system. Society is more stationary than it was in the old days, and the territory of the church is fully occupied. There aeerna to bo no rational necessity for changing the preachers on the congregations. They become mutually attached, and when they suit each other the longer the acquaintance lasts the more good Is done. That's the way it begins to look to the laity in many sections of the oountry. ____________

TRUTH ABOUT LOT IERIE3. The Middleburv (Mass Record truly says: It is not ours to say that you shall not buy lottery tickets, but it can be said that a person simply stands no chanco at all for return, when he invests money in a lottery ticket. It is a delusion to think that you can get. rich in a month by the Investment of a dollar. Supp yo C'Iiw.e to draw five dollars, you will never rest contented until that is invented in schemes a lucky hit makes you all the more anxious and you die sorry for your bitter experience in lottery schemus. Like buying and 'selling stocks, it is a species of so called respectable gambling, and if straight gambling leads to something worse, what will be the end of the constant buyer of lottery tickets? It is no use, it must all cme undur a common level.

Better spend your money for something from which you will derive a benefit, than to throw it into the hands of giftconcert men, who have not a particle of Interest for anybody's welfare.

KISSING, AS UltCE OF RE VR N UE We learn from an exchange that a new tnriff of rate* (or indulging in osculatory pastimes has been established -n certain rural dUtrlcts. The schedule of prices is as follows, As recently demonstrated at a chur focial, the proceeds going toward defraying the incidental expanses connected with preaching the gospel. Ten cents for kissing a girl between fifteen and twenty, five cents extra for bugging five cents for kissing a girl between twenty and thirty, five cents extra for bagging over thirty, five cents all 'round for kissing a young widow, twenty-five cents, bugging, ten cents extra for kissing a married lady, fifty cents, hogging, twenty-five cents extra. The revenue derived from this aource is said to be quite large, and the church is thus made self sustaining Which one of our religious organisations will oe the first to follow suit, and take the initiative in this matter?

CIRCUS MEN.

The circus business has decidedly waned from what It was twenty years ago, and lor the coming season the traveling concerns will be very few comp»r«d with former time*. Many of the immt* once familiar on'the bill* me not tte*»a u»w iu with OUT uses. Dr. Npauldlng is tvnw on hU money iu Saugerties, N. Y. Yankee Roblnsou l*an actor In Western theatres. Bau Mtgluley, Tony Pastor and Frank Pastor, lurmerly clowus, are also on the theaulcal Hage. Andrew Halgbt, onoe owner of the Great Eastern Circus, keeping a hotel in Cbi cago. Of oth'jr proprietors, Joseph Cashing is farming in New Hampshire. J. Nixou is managing a theatre in Chicago, Montgomery Queen is interested in Brooklyn street railroals, Levi North is also living in Brooklyn, W. J. Metcbear keeps a hotel in Providence, George K. Goodwin run* two theatres and a dollar stare In Philadelphia, Eaton and Daniel Stone are farming in New Jersey, R. K. J. Miles owns a Cincinnati theatre, Burr Kobbios is lectoring in the West on temperance, and the Cooper of Cooper «fc Bailey keeps a horse mart in Philadelphia, Dau Ric«, after tit any ops snd downs, is building a floating theatre to run oa the Missis aippt. Birnum, Forepaugh, Robinson, and Lent are about tb* only old proprietors #tiU in the bushiest.

Ax old negro woman once prayed: *'0 rd, let there be a full beaten and an empty hell.'

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NEW TEMPERANCE SCHEME. The Indianapolis News tell of a new temperance scheme, originated a few months ago in New York city, is taking its course westward, and several gentlemen in that city are earnestly considering the organizing of a brauch of the pareut society there. The organization is called the "Business Men's Society for the Encouragement of Moderation," and takes a more liberal position than any hitherto taken by the temperance advocates relating to the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors. This society will undoubtedly be highly acceptable to a large class of the community that other temperance schemes fail to reach. It has three different degrees and declarations of faith, none of which come under the bead of total abstinence, and carries out the idea of old John Bunyan, that while "you see the way the fisherman doth take to catch the fish, behold how he engageth all his wits, his hooks, bis lines, his engines, and his nets." There are fish that can not be caught by any of these methods, and require other and yet more delicate and skillful handling. These three pledges, each on a different color of card, are as follows:

The white card pledges "my sacred honor not to drink as a beverage any intoxicating liquors nntll after the hour of o'clock in any day during the full term of from the day of 1879."

The red card promises not to drink as a beverage any intoxicating liquors for the unbroken term of (blank day) of (blank month) 1879.

The blue card promises not to drink at the expense of any other person nor to invite another to drink for a certain term.

The emblem on the red card is a fountain enclosed by an iron fence, pattern modern and elegant, with the motto '*Aurea mediocritus" (the golden mean). The emblem of the blue card, with the same motto, shows a company of beavers enjoying their riparian privileges. The white shows a nest fall of pelican fledgelings, beings fed by the mother bird, witu the motto "I live and die for these I love."

FRIGHTFUL IE TRUE.

Arrangements Complete for the Marriage of the Midgets.

New York Sun.

It has been finally arranged after many discussions between their families, that the Midgets are to be married. Lucie Zarate, the prospective bride, is fifteen years old and weighs a trifle less than five pounds. Her face is bright but not prepossessing. The bracelets she wears cannot be buckled around the third finger of a man of ordinary size. Her shoe*, made to order, are 2}4 inches long, and her gloves measure about one inch from the tip of the longest finger to the button at the wrist. Her cap was made originally for a doll in a Broadway show window, and is a good fit. In the matter of jewelry she is profuse. On each hand she wears a diamond ring. Her brooch is a diamond, and she has a fondness for dangling ornaments on her ears, such, for instance, as a small diamond supplemented by a California gold quarter of a dollar.

General Mite, whose real name is Francis J. Flyun, weighs nine pounds and is fourteen years old. His face is bright and intelligent, and his conversation does not believe it. "Are you going to marry Lucie?" the reporter asked him. ••Yes, we are going to be married." "When?" "Next Saturday a week." "No." interrupted the female dwarf, "next Sunday. I want it on Sunday."

It seems that the marriage is one of convenience as well as supposed affection. The dwarfs, belonging to different families, are liable to be separated at any moment. It is thought best, therefore, to bind them by ties that cannot be broken by show managers or disagreeing parents. Gen. Mite is twice the weight ot tha prospective bride.

The preparations for the wedding are going steadily forward. The bride is to wear a white satin dress studded with seed peai Is. Small as her form is, it is estimated that the bridal dress contains no less than 1,000 pearls. The bridegroom is to wear a full dress suit, excepting that his vest of black cloth will be replaced by a white vest.

Miss Z*rate belongs to the Episcopal Church, while Gen. Mite's family are Roman Catholics, and it was on the

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uestlon of religion that the families This difference was finally settled.

A TON OF COAL. Rome Sentinel.

When a Massachusetts woman forms a habit it is all a waste of time for her husband to try to break her of it. Well knowing his wife's disposition to make him a present regularly at the anniversary of bis birthday, a citizen of the Bay State, who likewise forcibly realized the fact that economy was an absolute neceesity in his household, said to bis wire, "This year you must not undertake to make me a present, I insist. It would be absurd to do so, at this time, when we need everything we can rake and scrape. I give you fsir notice that If you do carry out your former custom this year, I will burn up the present as surely as you make It." So the wife bethonght. herself. She could not bear the i'ba of being deprived of her annual nloi-ore. She gathered together hpr dimes and bought for her dearly beloved, as a birthday present, a tou of coal.

A COLD WATER HORROR. It Is difficult to Imagine a more cruel device than what is known as the water torture In Japan, the originators of which relied npn the torments of thirst as more powerful than mere corporeal suffering. The prisoner is for several days confined to an extremely salt diet, without rice or water. When two or three days have passed the craving lor water becomes Incessant, and the suffering* or the tortured man man approach the bounds of insanity. Efforts are then made to obtain confession by subjecting the sufferer to the agony endured by Tantalus when in the midst of the internal lake whose water be could touch. On all sides the thirstdistracted prisoner beholds waterwater for which he won Id sacrifice everything—bnt which he cannot touch except upon the conditions of confession. -•,

TEMPERANCE LA IFA lioekville Tribune.

The record shows that Indiana h*» had within forty yuars about a dozen temperance law*, and no end ot amend­

ments

*TEKRU HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING- MALL.

"DRA D-NO DELI VERED.»

Meeting the letter carriers as they leave the post office with their bulky sacks crowded with letters, one must wonder bow they can distribute each and every one to its proper owner but bless youl they go further than that. After they have been on a rente for awhile they can tell much more about a family than they do. They know if one of the children 4s away, If visitors are ooming, If any of the relatives are dead, and many other tbiugs hardly known to the nearest neighbor. An envelope is nothing but an envelope to you. You may criticise the handwriting and orthography, bat beyond that you care nothing. To the letter carrier it is a book. He knows when father and mother are ooming—where a truant boy is—whether the family are respected or not—and Sarah's beau cannot blind the carrier by getting some one else to direct the envelope.

One day ene of the oldest carriers had a letter left over after be bad gone bis usual round. It was directed to a woman living In a little old house standing back from the street, and as he studied the address be said to himself that he had never had an epistle for her before in all the six or seven years he had been on that route. The postmark was that of an office in the East, and the carrier mused to himself: "This is from h#r son, and she will be orving before I am out of sight."

He delivered the letter to a whitefaced woman of sixty, who seemed to be living there sll alone, and she looked surprised as he placed it in her hand. "A letter for me—I haven't a relative on earth she gasped.

But he left It with her. 4i In about three weeks a seoond letter oame, and the old lady opened the door before the carrier was inside the gato. She did not say that It was from her son, but the carrier knew for all that, and he hoped that the truant boy bad settled down for life, and was writing cheerful letters and sending aid to his poor old mother. Regularly every three weeks, for half a year or more, there oame a fat-looking letter for the old woman in the little cabin and if the letter was a day late her white face reproached the carrier move than words oould have done. If it was a day earlier she was at the door to meet bim, knowing his step from all others which passed that way.

The other day, when the oarrier found the buff envelope, dlreoted in the old, familiar, cramped hand, he said to himself "I will hurry around to-day, for the last time I saw her she seemed ill and weak, and a letter will give her new strength."

He opened the gate with a bang to give her warning, but no white face appeared at the window, and no band raised the door latch. The carrier knocked on. the door for the first time, and after a moment a woman opened it and aaid: "She is dead, and she hasn't a relative in the city."

Among the letters to go to the Dead Letter Office next week will be one across whose face is written whole chapters in three words: "Dead—Not Delivered." An old woman has passud away—aoottage is deserted—a letter returned. The world will see nothing in these simple facta, but yet iu them is contained all the sentiment God has ever given to any human heart.

KNOWING HOW 10 BUY. Detroit Free Prees. "I have just as much room, burn just as many lights, and keep just as many clerks as during the era of high prices and big profits," said a Detroit merchant the other day. "Rent is down and salaries are down, but until I can discbarge half ray force I shall have to cry hard times." "And when will that time come?" "Never. Look around at the crowd in the store. Here are fifteen lady customers, distributed from the silk counter back to the calico. It looks like a busy day, but I will take a ?5 bill for all the money these fifteen ladies pay over the counters. It is a fine day. They are out to get the sunshine and kill'time. 1 must keep a force of at least seven clerks to pull down goods for tbese non-paying customers, and perhaps seven more to wait upon customers who don't know what they want. If they did know three clerks oould do the work of seven or eight." "How many people do yoa meet in a week who know just what they want to bay?" "If I meet one single person even I pat down along mark," be replied.

We do not believe that any business man will dispute the assertion that onethird of the employes of every business honse oould be dispensed with if people exercised the simplest rales of oouamon sense in purchasing goods, but people never will.

Now then, suppose Mrs. A. wants a Braseels carpet. She goes to a carpet store, is shown scores of patterns, asks a thousand questions, and buys blindfolded at last. She forgets or does not realize the fact that she knows nothing of the Mods in the first plaoe. How can she? The carpet roan does know all abont it—he makes it a business and a study, He can select colors better suited for the room and the furniture than she can, and would be glad to. Bat she won't let him. She will bother around for weeks, and likely be dissatisfied at last. The common sense way would be to say to the dealer: "Go and measure my room for a Brussels carpet. I want the prevailing colors, so and so. I want to pay about so much per yard. I want a grade of goods that yon can warrant."

The dealer, tlius placed on his honor and good taste, would give ber the best carpet she ever bad in her honse.

Last fall a carriage halted before a Woodward avenue dry goods house and a lady and a gentleman entered. The gentleman said to the chief clerk: "My wife wants twenty yards of black silk worth abont

Eay

and they have all been knocked

to smithereens befort- they could be made affective. And an examination of the votes shows the reason the whisky men always stick to their friends ana the temperance men don't! As long as this is the case the former will iu variably in in the long run.

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depend entirely on yon to select it.M In seven minutes the silk was cut. wrapped and paid for. and it is the best piece of goods the laay ever bad. Had she spent a week at the stores she might not nave done so well—certainly no better. No lady need fear to bay goods the same way. The merchant selects only what he ean warrant, and if there is a big end to tbe bargain she gets It. Some mon will enter a butcher shop and

aw over a hundred iiounds of meat to two. Others will look in and say: "Jones, I want two pounds of best sirloin—eend it up."

The batcher sends sirloin and nothing el«e, but tbe man who selects a neck piece will not be told by the butcher that it is not sirloin until a*ked.

There are men who continually complaiu of having been cheated in clothing. Tbey cheat themselves. They paw over bolts of cloth without the least knowledge of fast colors and fast shades, and findingsomethingtosuit, they bargain with tbe tailor. The tailor has not been asked if tbe goods are sponged and tbe colors fast, and he does not

deem it his duty to interfere with the choice of a oustomer. Other men enter a shop and say "I want a ault of bias, indigo color, good weight, and English or French make. Take my measure and select tbe goods yourself."

If the tailor wants that man's custom the cloth and tbe making will be honest and first class. It will be tbe same whatever you buy. The tradesman who has neither honor nor honesty would not be long in trade. Ninetynine out of a hundred will select better goods tban customers can, In quarter of tbe time, and with eminent satisfaction to all parties

WONDERFUL ESCAPES.

SOME REMARKABLE INSTANCES.

We propose to offer to our readers a few instances of bair-breadth escapes, by which varions bnman beings have been saved from death.

Col. Gil more, relating tbe story of a fight in whioh he figured, says in bis: "Four years in the saddle." "Turning-half round in my saddle to oall on my men, I received a sudden shock, and felt deadly sick, and at tbe same instant saw a man trail his gun and run off. I killed him before be had gone three steps. His ball had passed through two coats and stuck in a pack of cards in my left side pocket. They were qaite new, tbe wrapper not even having been broken open. Tbe auita were each distinct. Tbe bullet passed through all, stopping at tbe lass card, which was the ace of spades."

Suck another literal illustration of the phrase "Within an ace of death" ia not upon record bat bair-bread lb escapes are common in war. At tbe battle of Laon, Steffens saw a shell strike the horse of a Prussian officer. Entering near tbe shoulder, it caused the poor animal to make a convulsive spring and throw its rider, the fragments or the shell being projected on all sides, while tbe rider jatppod up from tbe ground unhurt,

During the Crimean war, Col. Wyndhata dispatched to find out bow matters were going in tbe first attack on the Redan, saw a soldier walking along tbe trench two or three yards ahead of him. Presently a round shot came flying over tbe parapet, and the man was bidden from sight by the dust. When it subsided, the colonel was astonished to find himself beside a living man, whose conutenance presented a curious admixture ef fright and joy, as scratching bis head be exclaimed: "Why, dash my buttons, but that was amazingly nigh!" "Ay, ay, my boy," responded the colonel: "we'd much better be digging trenches at threepence a rod in Norfolk."

To which his fellow countrymen only replied: "What! are yew tew Irom Norfolk?"

Amazingly nigh death, although in blissful ignorance of tbe fact, was tbe Confederate staff officer marked down by a Northerner's rifle, and only saved by tbe officer commanding tbe platoon happening to recognize in him a client of the insurance office of which be was secretary, and striking up tbe leveled weapon witb, "Don't shoot! we've got a policy on him."

The sword of justice is not always rightly directed, and sometimes comes near perpetrating murder. A young New Yorker, named Wells, went on© evening to Booth's Theatre. Taken witb a fit of coughing, be left the theatre, intending to go home but, after going some little aistanoe, it came on snowing so fast that he retraced bis steps. As he strode along, two men came rushing down the street, one of them dropping a gold watch .and chain, which Wells picked up, and then went after tbe loser, running into tbe arms of a policeman, who marched him off to the station to explain matters. Pres ntly a messenger arrived in hot baste saying the thief was wanted at Fifth Avenue Hotel. Wells was taken there and brought face to face with a man lying on a lounge, covered witb blood. "Ib this tbe man who stabbed you?" asked tbe officer. "It is," said tbe poor fellow, falling back never to speak again.

Wells was tried for murder, found gailty, and sentenced to be banged and baneed bp would have been, if a fortnight before tbe day fixed for bis execution a prisoner in Sing Sing bad not confessed on bis deathbed that he had robbed the man of his watoh, then stabbed him and run off afterward, dropping tbe watch as he ran.

Among the Communists tried at Versailles was Jean Baptiste Pigerre, charged with commanding the firing party who shot the hostages at La Roqnette. He protested be knew nothing of. tbe dreadful business, and was not aware that the hostages bad been shot until

after

bis arrest. His denial went

for naagbt. He had been denounoed by members of his own party three of them on trial with him declared he was at La Roquette. M. Chevrieu, a prisoner there at the time, said be saw Pigerre from his cell, dressed as a National Guard, trailing a scabbard after him bis face was fixed in bis memory, and one Soissoc. a police officer, asserted emphatically: "That's the man."

Only one voice was raised in Pigerre's behalf, that of tbe Communist judge, Genton. "You can sboot me, if you like," be exclaimed "but Pigerre is innocent. He had nothing to do with it."

Tbe prosecutor summed up, insisting upon Pigerre's conviction with tbe rest the advocates for tbe accused said their ineffectual my, and then came an inter* rnption.

A mi" named Jarraud, whom everybody agreed was Implicated in tbe murder of the hostages, and who was supposed to have been killed by the soldiers, was brought into eourt. Pigerre wse ordered to stand forward.

That'n not tbe man who commanded," said Jerraud. "Ob, no! tbe leader of the band wss Sioard.

Tbe proceedings were suspended, and that same evening Slcard was found In one of the prisons. It was evident be had not long to live, but tbey carried him to Versailles to testify to Pigerre's innocence, and convinced all the witnesses, Save the three Communists, that tbey had been misled by tbe extraordinary resemblance between tbe two men. The prosecutor at once demanded that the accusation against Pigerre should be withdrawn and so terminated what might have proved a fatal case of mistaken identity.

Yet more singular was the escape of a young rihmpehlr© lady from an Ignominious death. Staying in Paris during tbe Reien of Terror, she wan dragged witb other "aristocrat*" before one of tbe tribunals. She pleaded that she was an Kngl sb woman but wasnn tbe point of being burned ont to tbe waiting tumbril, when one of the Judges asked her what province in England she was a native of.

In ber fright she exclaimed "Salope," a reply greeted by a general about and

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clapping of bands, followed by an order to let ber go and amid cries of "Salope! Salope!" the dazed girt was bustled into tbe street to run home, wondering that her head was still on her shoulders, lit tie thinking that by uttering tbe word "Salop" she had effectually remitted tbe notion of her being one of tbe bated aristocrats—thanks to ''Salope" being a word which was then used to designate one of tbe most depraved of ber sex

Another remarkable escape of that terrible time was that of M. de Chateaubran, for be was not only condemned, but actnaHy waiting his turn at the mill lotine, standing sixteen in a line of twenty.

Tbe fifteenth bead bad fallen, when tbe machine got out of erder, and tbe five had to wait until It was repaired. The crowd pressed forward to see what was going on, and as it began to grow dark, M. de Chateaubrun found himself gradually thrust into tbe rear of tbe spectator* so he wisely slipped away, aud meeting a man simple enough or charitable enough to take bla word that a wag bad tied bis bands and run off with nis bat, had bis hands set free, and managed to reach a safe hiding plaoe. A few days later he managed to put himself beyond the reach of tbe execatioaers.

MaJ. Duncan vouches for tbe truth of tbe following tale. In 1837, tbe Christian general, Escalera, was murdered at Miranda by tbe inutineering regiment of Segovia. About two months later, Eapartero aud his army arrived at Miranda and on tbe 80th of October tbe whole force was paraded outaide tbe town, tbe regiment of Sagovla being flanked by artillery and other regiments. Accompanied by bis staff, Es-

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artere rode up to it, and told tbe men bad come to ask for hia old friesd and oommander, their chief, Escalera. "Where is be?" be cried. Then, pointing to tbe dead commander's restingplaoe, went on: "He is there foully murdered! I call upon all of you who are true soldiers to give up the names of bis assassins!"

Twice he made the appeal, and silence was tbe only answer. Eapartero then ordered the tbe regiment to be numbered off from tbe right, and every twentieth man to be brought to the front and be prepared for immediate execution. At this a sergeant stepped forward and named ten men as tbe actual murderers of Escalera. Tbese were marched off and placed in line with their backs to a broken wall, one only proteating bie innocence as be was dragged to tbe erd of tbe line. Before tbe latal volley was fired he darted nimbly round tbe oorner of the wall and ran along tbe front of the troops, but was recaptured and taken back to bis allotted place. A voice from tbe ranka cried out that tbey bad the wrong man, the real criminal being a soldier of tbe same name in hospital at Purgos. Esparteo ordered tbe man to be removed, while the rest received their deserts. Upon inquiry being made at Bargos the guilty one was found there, taken from the hospital and shot, his namesake of coarse being set free.

A snake once prevented a thief commit! ng something worse tban tbeft. A womau of Oude and ber daughter once alighted at the station at Hurdee, and hired a conveyance to take them to their village. When tbey bad gone half a dozen miles on tbelr way the driver, pulling up in a lonely spot, demanded their jewelry and, upon tbeir demurring, tied the pair to tbe vehicle and seized tbe trinkets. Then, bethinking himself that tbe dead women could tell no tales, tbe ruffian drew out bis knife

clutched it, a black snak9 fixed its fangs in the would be murderer's band. He succumbed to tbe poison, and in ten minutes was past bnrting anybody. Tbe women were discovered by some villagers and released, but tbe corpse of tbe driver was left alone until tbe police, ooming on the scene, removed tbe body to the police station.

Of all the wonderful canyons or gorges of Colorado, the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, witb almost perpendicular walls, in some places several thousand feet higb, is tbe most wonderful.

The gorge of this canyon used to be impassable except in winter, and until railway operations were commenced and paths of a sort cut in tbe sides of the precipices. Wishing to see bow tbe said operations were progressing, Prof. Mallet and a party of friends set out one afterndon from Canyon City. As long as tbev kept to tbe norae trail all weut well but upon reaobing a point jaat beyond it, Mrs. Mallet's horse stumbled and fell.

The lady tried to disentangle herself from the animel, and dropping some ten feet, caught with ber fingers the end of a narrow shelf of rock, and there held on, dangling In air above tbe rapid rolling Arkansss and, to make matters worse, the horse following its mistress, had fallen or slipped on tbe same ledge, where it stood close to the wall, and almost as motionless as tbe rook itself. Tbe horrified party hastened to the resoue, and the professor, after some anxious minutes, bad his wife safe and sonnd by bis side.

To help tbe horse was a more difficult matter, and an hoar elapsed before men and ropes coald be got from the nearest csm p,and al 1 that time tbe poor creature, seemingly aware that be was not to be left to his own resources, stood quietly on the narrow shelf, hardly appearing to draw breath nor did be attempt to nse his limb* until ho found himself upon the sure footing of the pathway above. ,. f^

On the 14th of October, 1877, Miss Lizzie Wise made her twentieth balloon ascent at St. Louis. She bad no companion, and soon after starting found it advisable to throw oat ballast. The balloon shot op half a mile, bat only to desoend as quickly again, and tbe seronaut determined to make a dart for earth. "Now," savs she, "came tbe most trying of ail my balloon experiences. I could not see a thing on earth, rnd tbe bally on made fearful plunges through the woods, crashing snd cracking tbe limbs of the trees as it went along. All of a sadden I was lifted np severs! feet above tbe treetops* bat only to plunge down more saddenly between tbe tall trees, where tbe balloon became edged in and I partly made dp tny mind to have a night's lodging there. In another moment I beard voioes and called out for help, to which came the pleasant response: 'Where are you?' I criod:

Up here in the treetop help me down, please 1' Mr. Sbeva asked how be should do it and I threw him a rope and be pot led nod pulled, but could not get the balloon low enough. My car was now partly bottom up, wben be bade me slide down into his arms. He was big and

strong.

slid down bead foremost

into his arms, and thus reached the earth unburt." Astonished as the deliverer of the distressed damsel must have been at coming upon a lady np a tree, bis surprise wm not greater tban that of tbe wheel examiner at Rugby wben be eaw a

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man's leg protruding from under ono of the carriages of an express train and fonnd that it belonged to a sailor coiled round tbe break rod, who bad adopted that risky mode of traveling for want of the wherewithal to pay his fare, and was quite uninjured, alter a journey from Ksston, a distance of eighty two miles, accomplished in a couple of hours although when the engine, while at full speed, took in water from the between rails tank, thero were only six inches between him and the trough—a striking example of the foolhardiness of Jack. Not but what railway servants are jti«t as recklrss sailors, putting their iimbs and lives in jeopardy without tbe slightest necessity, and

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ing tbe tale of railway diraster for they are not always so lucky as tbe Ettingsbail signal man who, attempting te cross the line in front of tbe ''Flying Scotchman," was caught bv tbe buffer of tbe eugine and sent whirling over tbe embankment—nearly twenty yards deep—to come down on bis feet unharmed.

AGRICULTURAL HINTS. Boston Transcript. Pears at this season are principally the Congressional pair a variety of no importance except that it keeps well— sometimes during a whole season.

An Affectionate pair, which have been kept under glass during the winter, may now be set out with impunity during moonlight evenings. They do well trellised the front gate a few weeks later.

Old stories of mammoth squashes and cucumbers should now be dug about and heavily mulched, In readiness for transplanting in the newspapers in the fall.

If any wild oats of last season's sowing spring up, they should be immediately ploughed under. When tbe sod is well rotted, a seoond ploughing, followed by rigid harrowing, must precede planting High doner will then do well.

Young scions, unless they do well, should be treated liberally with whacks. There is no crop, probably, more thrifty tban the fowl crop. It grows rapidly during the early spring, and arrived at mutarity requires no dressing.

Beans at this season do best planted In an earthen receptacle, with a mulching of swine, and set in an iron or brick hot-bouse.

Lettuce have peas. This is quoted from Mr. Grant and is a good motto tor farms.

Adam's apples should be protected during these damp evenings with a covering of silk.

Now shut up your hens. Don't let them out till tbey can be of service. Wait till your neighbor has planted his garden, when they will be found excellent helps in bringing things to tbe Burface.

Wives are reminded that it is time to drain tbeir husband's pockets in anticipation of Easter bonnets. Without thorough draining no flowers can be expected.

Last's years beats should be buried six feet deep. If not. they are sure to sprout again and give much trouble.

The potato beetles do nicely where tbe small boy is given charge oi them. If there are two boys in the family, the beetles do even better. All that is necessary is to send tbe two ooys out together each day to the potato-bug field.

We have never found any difficulty in growing squash bugs, and therefore give no hints as to tbeir propagation.

Canker worms do best on apples trees. Tbe trunks of the trees should be protected with some soft substance, to prevent the bark injuring the larve as the ascend in tbe early spring.

Send your old sheep to the butcher's. Spring iamb commands high prices. The same as as fowl. Those done laying are in good demand as chickens among boarding-house keepers.

Get your cherry treo in bearing condition in time tor robin redbrest. Cherries, by the way are much affected by an unctuous wbite worm. The robin likes this worm. He will eat all be can get at. He generally swallows tbe cherry in his eagerness to devour the worm. Tbe robin is tbe cherry-grower's friend.

Cabbage beads must be kept apart as much as possible. They are troublesome else.

Now top-dress your lawns the more odorous dressing the better your neighbors will love you, and therefore the more efficacious will it be for producing on abundant grass crop.

Destroy all the tobacco weeds possible. This is usually done by burning some, however, adopt another mode. This is comminuting of this weed between the teeth to a fine pulp. Though somewhat laborious, this method is efficacious.

Farmers would do well to employ a boot-black on the f*rm, as their boots areapttobeoomesoili'-l while traversing tbelr land, and the farmer, of all men, should present at all times a cleanly appearance.

Gloves should be worn during sll farm work. No self respecting tiller of the soil would be seen wltbg rimy hands. A seal ring sets off tbe band wonderfully well to be worn outside tbe glove, of course.

AN ERROR OF JUDGEMENT. Detroit Free Press. A woman, about fifty vears of age, stopped on the Campus Martius yesterday to buv a dozen oranges of a Jrult peddler. She counted as be picked them ont and put them into a paper sack, and she counted only eleven for the dozen. "Here, sir, you have cheated me out of one oran«e!" she called out. "Ob, no I haven't," he coolly answer6(1 "Yes, yon have sir! Yoa shall count 'em over sgain!"

He complied, and somehow or other there were fourteen instead of twelve, and he said: "Ah! I must be getting careless, indeed. I make two oranges by re-count-ing. Here's your dozen."

The woman received tbe package, looked longingly at the two he threw back, and whispered: ••I swan! but I wish I knew enough to keep my bead sbet!"

genedjr for Ilard Tim*#. Stop spending so mach on fine clothes, rich food and style. Buy good, healthy food, cheaper and better clothing get more real and substantial things of life every way, and especially stoy tbe foolish habit of running after expensive and quack doctors or using so much of the vile humbug medicine that does you only harm, and makes the proprietors rich, but put your trust in the greatest of all simple, pure remedies, Hop Bitters, that cure^ always at a trifling cost, and you will rtee better times and good health. Try it once. Read of it In another column.

THE rising generation ought to be protected against tbe stupefying influence of opium preparations. We call tbe attention of all mothers to the lact that Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup is absolutely free from laudenum or other opiates.

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