Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 August 1886 — Page 1

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Vol. 17,-No. 7.

THE_MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

We have yet a few things to be thankful for. Congress finally adjourned on Thursday. ______

Am far as heard from none of the delegates to Thursday's Congressional convention blew out the gas in their rooms.

Moonlight is the name of the man the Kansas Democrats have nominated for Governor. No man with a name so easy to play upon as that can ever be elected Governor of that State.

This has not been a bad week for those unfortunates who are compelled to forswear summer resorts. If we could prevall on such weather to stay with us Terre Haute could lay some claims to pre-eminenco as a summer resort.

A very patriotic young man of this city could hardly be prevailed on to desist from organizing a crowd of youngsters to throw the Mexican orchestra into the river this week. Ho was anxious for war, and thought Torre Ilaute might Are tho opening gun.

If there is a bettor lighted stroet (at night) in tho nniverse than TerroHaute's Main street, it has failod of record. From Eighth street west with tho electric lumps lighted it is almost as light as day, and it would bo difficult for a criminal to escape detection on that thoroughfare.

How considerate Goneral Manson is of the feelings of his friends. He accepted tho ofllco of revenue collector because "it would seem ungrateful in him to decline." How different from his former opponent, Mr. Ijamb, who was so un grateful as to declino the office profforet him!

Vigo county may not faro so well at the hands of tho Republicans and I)emo crats when the state conventions meet but she has been recognized ,by tho Groenbaekers, who at Indianapolis this week placed Benjamin Perkins on their ticket as candidate for Treasurer of State.

Dave Webb, of Covington, who has lo«r *ofiflri*r*i register of tho land ollloo at Salt T^ivko City, has officiated as starter for our raeos several times. It is tho general opinion that Mr. Webb will be compelled have his voice tiled down bofore he tackles tho olly-tongued citizen of Deseret. ______

A Sunday school superintendent in Tipton county, this State, was killod this week, In a quarrel over a turkey. The office of Sunday school superintendent is a rather hazardous calling in some portions of Indiana, but his life was generally thought to bo worth moro than that of a turkey.

A heartless Lafayette thief stole the complote bridal outfit of a young lady on the evening bofore marriage. It would Ik safe to say that it didn't stop the wedding. When a lafayette girl catches a real man, It takos something more severe than the loss of the wedding outfit to postpone the happy event.

The natives in Champaign county, Illinois, are dreadfully alarmed over the antics of a panther which is carrying off their sheep and young pigs. The jeoplo diver there are evidently not very brave, rrho tiger has been known to be loose in Terre Haute without creating one half the consternation that this panther is.

A correspondent suggests, and very timely, too, that it is about time to drop the old "chestnuts" about "slaughtering the IjunV "shearing the Lamb," etc., in the race this year. Four years ago they were good, two years ago they were Ntlli fitting, but this year they have earn ed a vacation. For goodness sake, let them have it.

Another Ohio man pondered himself tin mortal this week by shooting a life Insurance agent who had bothered him until life had become a burden. The divinity which shapes our ends will see that the fitness of things Is carried out if a regiment composed exclusively of life Insurance agents is organised in case of tvnr with Mexico.

The "Harlem syndicate," which owns the title to all of York State and part of New Jersey, has had its annual puff in the Pittsburg paper*, and according to one of the committeemen, there is groat rwson for encouragement. Several Terre Haute people are interested in tho 'Syndicate," but they do not expect to locate on their York possessions this fall.

There is a great deal of conjecture as to the Identity of the Terre Haute man who, according to Mr. Lamb, telegraphed from Utah, «t Lamb's expense, asking that statesman to write him a letter urging hit appointment to succeed HanIon. Judge Orlton is the only Democrat of prominence in Utah, and he

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45,000 situation on the Mormon commission to accept a $4*000 place in the revenue service.

The attorney general has given the opinion that Gen. Manson's resignation as Lieutenant Governor will necessitate an election to fill the vacancy, and both parties will put candidates on their tickets. The race for that office will be interesting, as the winner, in case Gray !s elevated to the Senate, will be called on to fill out his unexpired term as Governor.

The Police News and all papers of that class will be delighted at the nasty reopening of the Downs case in Boston, but outside there will be nothing but disgust. Parson Downs is about far enough along in bis career to pose as a dime museum curiosity or manage a cheap variety show, but beyond these occupations his usefulness has departed.

The "straws show which way the wind blows" fiend is once more loose in this community, and has been at his old game of polling railroad trains to find out how the passengers stand on political questions. There will never be any real, downright pleasure in politics until tho Government offers a standing reward for the scalps of this class of people.

The new superintendent of the street car company can make himself popular and increase the profits of the company by recommending to the directors the reduction of fare to purchasers of tickets. Six rides for a quarter is none too cheap, and such a roductlon would increase the patronage, without increasing the expenses, to such an extent as to more than atone for the difference. Let us have six rides for a quarter!

The Freeman, tho Indianapolis mugwump organ, has a very prominent notice on its editorial page to the offect that editorial correspondence should be, addressed to "Editor of the Freeman while business letters should be addressed to "The Freeman." The imagination fails to conceive of the calamity that would occur in case a business letter should fall into the hands of tho "editor." The mugwump is a theorist from away back, and is supposed to know nothing about business.

A great many nion are worth more dead than thoy aro living, and an Indianapolis woman who oxpected to roalize on hor husband's death, knows this to her sorrow. She had not lived with her husband for some time owing to his affection for othor women, but when it was reported that he had been killed in a Georgia railroad wreck not long ago, slio went about establishing his identity in order to sue tho railroad company for daniagos. This week hor husband turned up sound and well, and it proves to bo a case of mistaken identity, greatly to her financial loss. Here is a chance for somo Hoosler romance writer to distinguish himself with a story of "The Dead Alivo" or "Truth Stranger than Fiction" or somotliing of that sort.

When the Pall Mall Gazette startled tho world with its "Modern Babylon' exposure, there were many who doubted tho disgusting stories there related, but in tho light of lator events it looks as if the half had never beon told. As if the Dilke scandal was not enough to tell the story of the rottenness of English high life, wo are entertained with an ac»ount of an English lord, who upon being discovered by tho husband of a prominent actress while occupying an apartment with hor, kicked the husband down stairs, and was then fined for assault. There is not much sympathy to be wasted on a husband with no more manhood than there displayed, but the incident servos to illustrate the depths of degredation which marks the English upper classes. Every true American has reason to fall on his knees dally and return thanks that his forefathers delivered him from such ruling classes.

Tho cigarette craze among girls which has had its run in other cities has reached Terre Haute, and it is said that in many homes where wealth, culture and refinement abide, the un maidenly custom of cigarette smoking is in strong favor. Cigarettes have leen condemned in the most unmeasured forms by physicians and scientists, as productive of the greatest evil, and all that has been said against cigarette smoking gains renewed strength when applied to such a practice by women. The evils that arise from cigarette smoking are manifestly greater in the latter case. There is no law but that of common sense against the use of tobacco by women, but it would seem that even such a law as that should hold good against an evil that has doubtless received more condemnation at the hands of the gentler sex than all others combined. But In the desperate attempts to pattern after the sex whose faults they so freely condemn, the girls will doubtless stop at nothing. We can expect ere long to see the welldressed maiden with rosy cheeks and ruby lips produce her "plug" or her paper of fine cut and take a chew with all the easy nonchalance which distinguishes the male biped in such a case.

It transpires that the Hager Veterasas were not given the veteran prtte at Lafayette. According to general opinion the veterans were entitled to It, but the committee gave the prfate to a Ftott Wayne company. "7

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PORK PACKING.

AN INDUSTRY THAT ONCE POURED MONEY INTO TERRE HAUTE COFFERS.

A SKETCH OF THE BUSINESS AS IT WAS TRANSACTED IN DAYS LONG ."J GONE BY. ______

An old brick building, with crumbling walls and roof that shows plainly the wear of time, standing on the old canal bank in the rear of Woodlawn cemetery, is the monument fit what was once Terre Haute's leading industry, pork packing. This was the Early slaughter house, the last in operation in this city. Further down the canal bank is the old Warren house, now almost gone as a result of the incessant wear of the current of the Wabash, while just below are the establishments where the curing process was performed. The following sketch of the early history of the industry was prepar ed by the late f?. S. Early for the Terre Haute directory of 1864, and will prove of interest in this connection: "The heaviest trade of Terre Haute^ so far as the capital invested is concerned, has been in tho article of pork. The pioneer establishment in this branch of business, both in this city and in the valley of the Wabash, was erected in the year 1824, by B. I. Oilman, of Cincinnati, on the sito now occupied by the pork house of Wm. J. Rieman A Co. Mr. Gilman disposed of his house to Joseph Miller, almost immediately, who continued the business for many years Miller sold out to J. L. Humaston and P. H. Griswold, who, after a time, were succeeded by L. Ryce and James Ross, who, in their turn, were succeeded by Wm. J. Rieman A Co. The next establishment was that erected by John F. and William S. Cruft, on the river bank, immediately above the premises of Paddock A Co., which is now more familiarly known to our citizens as Homes' Old Foundry. They were succeeded in this house by John Burson, who had been packing in a cheap wooden structure which ho had erected on the south side of Wabash street, below First. Alexander McCune packed at Burson's old house for a time. Daniel Johnson and Ralph Wilson did business for some time in a frame house they built on the north side of Wabash street, on the lot now occupied by J. M. Davis' wagon yard. Hogs were1 packed also on the premises now occupied by Dr. Pence's residence. Jacob D. Early^ after packing for somo years with Joseph" Miller, opened a house of his own in the cooper-shop built by George Hamer, on the south side of Mulberry street, opposite to the present large brick residence of Ephraim Wolfe, Esq. This house continued to bo used as a pork house for some years, whon it was converted into a theatre, where our old citizens weffo wont to be entertained by the performances of old Aleck Drake and wife, Sam Lathrop, Sam Burgess and other who wore tho buskin, professionally, and also by the histrionic efforts of "native talent." The premises arc now occupied by families. "Chauncey B. Miller erected a pork house in the year 1841, on the lot on the corner of Canal and Water streets, where he did a commission packing business until 1845, when Jacob D. Early, who had boon packing since 1836 with Joseph Miller, rented his establishment. Mr. Early purchased the premises in 1848, and built his large pork house the same year. "James Johnson built a packing house on the alley between First street and tho river, in 1843, and did a large business for some years.

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"James Farrington, Israel Williams and John Boudinot, under the firm name of John Boudinot A Co., built the first pork house on tho ground now occupied by the magnificent establishment of the Messrs. Linn A Reed, in 1842. They were succeeded by H. D. Williams A Co., who erected the present establishment in 1848. "The two remaining fine pork houses of Messrs. Paddock A Co., and Wm. B. Warren, were erected, tho former by Levi G. Warren and John Boudinot in 1849, and the latter by George R. Wilson and Wm. B. Warren in 1850. Benjamin and Samuel McKeen have packed for years at the former house, in which they are interested. John Duncan, who is well known to the trade on the Wabash as a packer of English meats, commenced the business here in 1856, with H. D. Williams A Co. For the last three years he has occupied a part of the establishment of Jacob D. Early A: Son. "The pork houses of the present day are those of the Messrs. Jacob D. Early A Son, Linn A Reed, William B. Warren, S. Paddock A Co., and Win. J. Rieman A Co., all of which bear a deservedly high reputation forjcharacter of the provisions handled by them. "The annual number of bogs packed in the city during the last sixteen years have been as follows

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It was the custom in those days, before railroads had grown to their present prominence, to send the corn and pork to New Orleans and points along the Mississippi in flatboats. These products found ready sale there, while the lumber of which the boats were made was just as easily sold. The lives of these flatboatmen were filled with hardships and suffering, but there was an element of romance in it that attracted the hardy spirits. The development of the railroad system of the land gradually injured the business of the fiatboatmen.

After the closA of the war the pork packing industry was still an important one here in Terre Haute, but that peculiarity of freight rates by which a farmer has to pay more for a haul of two miles than he does for one the full length of the road, increased the disadvantages and decreased the profits of the business until it was finally discontinued. The last season that a house was in operation here was in 1878 or 1879, but the product was small compared to that of former years. An effort was made a year or two ago to organize a company to engage in the business here. The gentleman at the head of the enterprise had been engaged for several years with one of the largest establishments of the kind in the west, and he thought that with the hogs raised in this section and with the corn for which this region is famous, an establishment could be maintained here all the year round. But he soon discovered that the difference in freight rates prevented competition with Chicago, Kansas City and Cincinnati, and the project was abandoned. Terre Haute might once have been called "Hogopolis" and would be glad of that title now. We hear sneers at the cultivation of the hog center of the country, but the profits that come from the despised liogs are not to bo sneered at. Somo of the most substantial fortunes in Torre Haute were made by pork, in the days when Terre Haute was yet a town. Those days, are ovor, and tho fortunes that are to bo mado licrg must seek some other channel* V" If

THE SWEE1 SUMMER GIRL. The time for tho Summer girl is at hand, says the Chicago Herald. I mean tho girl who snaps her fingers at satins and disdains to put on silks. The one who doesn't try to rob the birds of their plumage to put on her hat until she loo^f* liii. the show window of a millin-ery-store. I mean the girl who believes in white and in tho lawns that look like what Mr. Bulwer calls tho pavilion of the sky—in other words clouds. There are girls who are afraid to put on this attire outside of their own homos. Thoy look well enough there but are too careful when they go out on the street. Tho Summer girl, as a rule, is a pretty, independent and charming sort of a creature. A white dress, or something equally, as cool in appearance, with a ribbon around tho waist and a chip hat of some sort with just enough trimming on it to look like a sample,protected by a parasol that is light an airy—thoso aro articles which the Summer girl delights in and is not afraid to wear. Such a girl makesa man feel cool. She gets tho seat in tho car. She is asked to have two dishes of ice cream where the other girl in the silk and a wrap is never asked to have one. She gets the bargain at the counters and sho will win the money at the races this week. The Summer girl is not as many as she ought to be. But wherever she is she is attractive and adorable. And it was just this sortof a girl that prompted a poet to write •H)n nothing fairer upon the earth The sun or the moon looks down: She's (V sweet and fresh as the morning breeze, The girl In the muslin gown."

It was a Maine girl of whom the story is told that she refused to marry a most devoted lover until he should have amassed a fortune of $10,000. After some expostulation, he'accepted the decreo and went to work. About three months after this, tho avaricious young lady meeting her lover, asked, "Well, Charlie, how are von getting along?" "O, very well, indeed," Charlie returned, cheerfully, "IVo got $18 saved." The young lady blushed and looked down at the toes of her walking boots, and stabbed the inoffensive earth with "the point of her parasol. "I guess," said she, faintly, "I guess, Charlie, that's about nearenough." yw

There are, it is said upon authority, two young ladies in Washington, the daughters of parents prominent in both social and official circles, who are really tattooed, though the world knows it not, and charges them with painting their faces in a moat artistic manner. It seems that when they were children, and at a naval station with their parents, just for the fun of the thing, they let a sailor tattoo their cheeks with red, which gives them a sort of brick-dost color, thai is not pretty. It does not appear to have destroyed all of their attractiveness, however, as one is married and the other betrothed.

A wealthy gentleman, Eli Krupp, of Philadelphia, has been traveling about the country for the last eighteen years, attending eampmeetinga. He carries a tent In two trunks, and camps alone, doing his oooking and washing.

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WOMEN'S WAYS.

Every birth in Brookings, Dak., for several weeks past has been a girl, and the local papers call for diversified production.

A pious old lady recently sent as wedding presents a pair of flatirons, a rolling pin, and a motto worked on cardboard, reading, "Fight on."n$ti

Harriet Beecher Stowe, it ls^announced will write no more. It is now thirtyfive years since she wrote her only great book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Mrs. Cleveland is making friends so much faster than her husband that the woman suffragists will soon be talking of running her for his successor.

Modern engagements—"''Your attentions, sir, and your offer of marriage aro exceedingly flattering to me, but I am already engaged for this season" i|t

ANew York woman has applied for a pension for her son, who has recently died of lovesickness. She claims that he was killed in a sharp ongagement.

Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is said to wear but a single ornament—a breastpin of diamonds bearing the figures "306,'' presented to her by Roscoe Conkling.

They are growling in New Jersey because the mails aro sent by freight trains, but the girls at some of the summer resorts say that males aro so scarce that they would be welcomod if they camo on a baggage wagon, "How differently the ladies dross at the seaside for the bath in the morning from what they do for tho hop at night," said an observer at Nantaskot the othor day. "In the morning tho skirt of tho dress is abbreviated for the bath in tho evening the neck of the dross is abbreviated for tho hop/' v*

There is a young lady in Carson, Nov., who is reported to bo tho greatest beauty on the Pacific coast—or any othor coast, for that matter. She lias a lover, a lieutenant in the army, who is very devoted to her. He is down in Arizona fighting Apaches. Throe times a daymorning, noon, and night—she writes him a twelve-page letter, and once a day she sends him a long telegraphic dispatch, to all of which he responds in like manner.

Tho "baby stare" is the latest Chieago invention. Tho young ladies liavo adppted it with marked success. It is ddue by opening the eyes to their full eajiaclty and staring at any uiifortflrrtAto' man who happens to sit opposito thd young lady in a street car. The staro is supposed to represent complete and childlike innocence on the part of the young lady, but there is also a touch of idiocy in it. Tho man stared at generally wilts and seeks the seclusion of the car platform.

CHEWING GUM BY THE ION. [Cleveland Plain Dealer.] A day or two ago my wayward feet carried my body into tho suburbs and to a chewing gum factory. There I got somo idea of an industry that thrives on penny sales and tho remorseless energy of American jaws. In the place I saw half a dozen blocks of marble gum, or petroleum wax. Each weighed about 100 pounds and was almost like pure pentelican stone, dear to the old sculptor's heart and hand. And it was absolutely clean and Colorless. A few weeks ago tho stuff laid in one of the huge tanks near the oil wells of Pennsylvania, a dirty, greenishbrown fluid, with the consistency of a bad mud and the bad smell of a glue factory. Then it was crude oil, but since then it had been in a turmoil, and through "stirring times" and chemical procesos. From it had been extracted a lot of kerosene, almost as much naphtha, not a little benzine, plenty of tar, and a lot of valuable but technically named affairs that aro out of reach. Anyway, the gum wax was left, and it was in that I saw, clean as an ideal farmer's bed-chamber, and as odorless as a civil-service reformer's record. Before it became the chewing gum of our friends it had to be molted, flavored, sweetened, and "put up'' In fanciful array. Then the 100-pound block would appear in 5,000 penny cakes and I am told that about 500 of these 100pound blocks

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the history of Columbia, "the gum of the wean," etc. It's tough—the fact, not the gUI"' PREDICTING DEATH FROM AL­

COHOLISM.

Washington Correspondence Philadelphia Star.

About two months ago, when the wellknown Colonel Georgo H. Butler died. I spoke of a bar-tender in one of tho fashionable saloons in the city having a list of the prominent men of the town who frequented his place whom he had marked down for early death from alcoholism. I said that this hst was a long one, and that its author, who had been in the business for many years, had never failed but once (in the case of Butler) in calling the turn on his man within a few months of the time he had marked for his collapse.

Since I wrote that paragraph—mind you, scarcely three months ago—three more names have been erased from that list. The first was a prominent army officer, who served gallantly through the war as a young officer. The next was a government official, and the third a member of the bar, one of the most widely known men in Washington. Strange to my the men were attending to their daily routine of business up to the days of their deaths. To the casual observer the disease that had hold of them was not apparent. They all died suddenly, and scarcely in the same way: first heart trouble, then symptoms of apoplexy, and finally hemorrhage of the bowels. As a physician, who knew them all, remarked: "Thev were the best cases of death from alconolism that ever came under my eye."

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MAIDENS IX THE WATER.

THE QUEER ANTICS OF PHILADELPHIA GIRLS AT ATLANTIC CITY,

Atlantic City Letter Cincinnati Enquirer.

You ought to see these girls in their bathing suits—that is, if you want to soe beauty combined with startling free and easy behavior. These girls don't mind being seen. Whether it's their innocence or thoir sang froid, or whatever it is, they are more fond of exhibiting themselves on the beaoh in the very short skirts that are worn tills year, and with thoir arms bare and their skirts just a trifle dooollote, than any girl I over ned to meet. Tho famous board walK that fringes the beach from one end of the tho island to the other is lined with tin type galleries, and these girls are possessed of a mania for getting pbotographod in their bathing dresses. These tin-types aro distributed among the young gentlemen, who prize them, I suspect, very highly. I cannot conceive Just how the young 111011 can return tbe compliment, "unless thoy put on short oarsmen's trunks and sleeveless shirts and sit before the camera in that fashion. To aNew Yorker this bravery of tho Atlantic City girls in spending hours in undress, and thon posing before the camera to perpetuate tho effect they create rnav seem immodest and bold, but Philadelphia is such a goody-goody place that I am certain tho custom arises from innocence. Innocence covers a multitude of sins, or in this case uncovers a multitude of persons, put it as you wish.

THKY WORK LINEN WRAPl'KKS. I beard a strange thing tho first day I was here, A bevy 01 raw country girls from somewhere in tho pine forests came on an excursion. They wanted to bathe, but thoy doclared they would not appear in the suits thoy saw all tho other women wearing. They wanted it understood that thev would never dare to look at flieir faces in a glass again if they wero over soon in such immodest attire. So, what inpatienco name do you supposo they did? They went dowrt the beach to a shanty, with whoso inmates ono of thom was acquainted, and prosentl.v reappeared clothed from head to feet in linen wrap-

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ors. Thev thought it unnecessary to anything under thoso garments. I11 that garb thoy took tho water. Fortunately for thorn, it happonod that there wero not more than twenty mon and boys at that part of the beach, but tho whole twenty ran after thom, laughing and hooting at them when thoy emerged from the water, with thoso paper-Itko wrappers sticking to their bodies like so many suits of adhesive plaster. Somo of thom looked very much like artists' models, and somo (those that wore calico with a big pattern printed on it) looked more like tattooed sisters of that reek who travels with Barnum, and whoso body rosoniblos au animated soction of a frescood wall.

A MILLION BA DIES RA CING.

THEY DROP OUT YEAR BY YEA It, AND ONLY ONE LIVES PAST THE CENTURY MARK.

[Philadelphia News.]

If one could soo 1,000,000 babies start on a race, and could follow thom through life, this is about what ho would see:

Nearly 150,000 of thom would drop out of the ranks by the end of tho first year. Twelve months later the number would be still furthor thinned by tho deduction of 53,000 more.

Twenty-two thousand would follow at the end of the third year. They would throw up tho sponge by twos and threes until tho end of tho forty-fifth year, when it would bo found that in tho Intervening period something like 500,000 had left the track.

Sixty years would see 370,000 grayheaded men still cheerfully pegging away.

At the end of eighty years the competitors in this groat "go-as-you-please" would number 07,000, but they would bo getting moro shaky and "dot" each lap.

At the end of ninety-five seasons onfy 223 would be left in the final "tios, while tho winner would be led into his retiring room, a solitary wreck at tlio ago of 108.

There is something •grimly humorous in the quaint array of figures, but they are founded on statistics carefully compiled.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Wall Street New*.

"If I was to live my life over again," said an American defaulter as he cocked his feet in the office of a Montreal hotel, "I'd lo a lawyer instead of a cashier." "For why?" was asked. "Well, I embezzled $7,000 and am an outlaw and an outcast. My brother-in-law, who is a lawyer, 'managed' an estate so that it put him $48,000 ahead, and they have just elected him mayor of th'n town and got him to join church. 1 advise young men to think of these things."

THE TEXAN AWAY FROM HOME. Stranger (to bartender)—I'm three days from Texas, mister, whar I was bo'n an' raised, an' 1 want er drink. Gimme suthin hot.

Bartender—I can give you some powdered glass and arsenic, sir, with pepper ire pol

Stranger—No live hornets?" Bartender—Not a live hornet In the place.

Stranger—Well, gimme what you've got. A man can drink 'most anythln', but I did want suthin tcr warm me tip. I start fer Texas termorrer, stranger.4

WHERE THEY SHOULD LIVE. Lovers about to propose—Alaska. Engaged couples—Lapland. Highwaymen—Andover. Chicken thieves—Aroostook. Ladies who faint while waltzing.—' Dantsic.

Calves and babies—Fond du Lac.

WHY ADAM WASCREATED FIRST. [Man Angelo (Tex.) Enterprise.] The reason Eve was not created before Adam was tbe Lord knew If He made the woman first and then tried to get a man to salt her He might as well quit and go fishing.V t"

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