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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment

The veto pen is mightier than the gun or the fishing-pole:

Grover Cleveland

Hereafter it will take a brave man to umpire a game of base ball at Detroit.

Martin Irons has probably concluded by this time that It is easier to labor than to be a labor agitator.

Tho anti-Lamb people are now known as the "opposition," with a capital O. It Is ever so much more dignified than "kickers." _____

Only the court house bell is large enough to ring on the snake stories the Gazette has boen giving its readers recently.

The cyclone insurance companies should allow Wiggins a liberal per cent, on the big crop of policies they are now harvesting. _____

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Isn't it about tinio to have another secret circular from Mr. Powdorly? The Grand Mastor Workman has been suspiciously quiet for the last month.

Cincinnati is not a dry place even in the absence of Hoods. It has a saloon to overy 100 inhabitants and only one church to every 1,250 of its people 0,

Philadelphia is not generally considered a very stylish city but it is in the fashion for once. It Is about to Impeach Its mayor lor malfeasance in office.?-**

A Michigan wonjan lias a mania for •worshipping a preacher, believing him to be Christ. But siie Is not the only woman that Worships the nreacher. ,_

Fnvoy Sedgwick h8 1*111 title for libel th charged him with dru caso tho papers will necessity of proving

The President ington, laid asid h»nd hjs^tatehet^BUh this weapon Aim fijPfre de*fl|Knd therms fei»r trembling among tho holders of ofllco.

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A druggist in the eastern part of tho Stato died this week as a result of a mistake in a dose of modieino he hud taken. It is soldom that a druggist suffers from mistake or this kind, and hence it Is worthy of mention.

There are still a few ill-mannered womon circulating about and neglecting to keep to the right at tho street crossings or, worse yet, going in pairs across both linos of tho stone walk, crowding the other sex out into the mud.

Humor has it that Miss Jennie Chamberlain, the prize beauty of Cleveland, is going to wed a son of tho Prince of Wales, and an heir to tho English throne. Just like those Ohio people. They want a hand in overjr administration on earth.

A most surprising statement comcs from Boston, the only instance of the kind on record. The city appropriated $12,500 to fitly celebrate tho Fourth of July. Of that amount $15 was loft unexpended, and has just been returned to the treasury.

The Cincinnati Republicans have ruled out the mugwumps and will not allow them to vote at their primaries. Alas! tho poor mugwump! Tho Republicans don't want him and the Democrats won't have htm and soon he will be as badly off as tho man without a country.

llerr Liebknecht, the German socialist who is now in this country, says he did not come over to interfere

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politics but "to study, to learn, to observe." It would have been well if some of Herr Liebkiieokt's socialistic countrymen had pursued a similar policy.

A local sport has challenged the State of Indiana to shoot on horseback with a Colt's revolver, and threatens, is necessary, to challenge the United States or Great Britain. When the State of Indiana gets on horseback to shoot with a Oil's revolver there will be rare sport.

As a sort of rebuke of Chicago—where the Knights Templar were charged an outrageous price for drinking water—St. Louis this week gave the Sir Knights an abundance of water without any charge. This latter experience gave no greater satisfaction than the first as it spoiled the grand parade on Tuesday.

llore, at last, we have an explanation of the sad condition we find so many of

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at one time promising young men. It comes from an English phpsiclan, who says that men shouldn't crop their hair abort. Hair, he says, is a conductor of electricity to the brain, and if the bmln fall# to get electricity it will soon soften.

The revelations made concerning Uie management of the State Insane Hospital shows one thing very clearly, namely, that the benevolent institutions ought to be taken out of poUttea. So long as these institutions are made the foot-ball* of parties and constitute a part of the •polls tor which they contend, Just so long they will not be managed for the

best interests of the unfortunates who fill them or for the people who pay the cost of carrying them on. They are not in any sense political institutions and politics ought to have no concern with them. It would seem that tho best way to conduct them would be to put them under the control of a board composed in part of members of each political party, and of men far above the suspicion of corruption'or improper conduct.

Everything oan be put to a good use— even that little nuisance, the chestnut bell. The other day In New York during a dispute between a couple of members of the cotton exchange one called the other a liar and squared himself in preparation to back his assertion. The other fellow simply placed his hand in his bosom and rang a little bell, and the trouble ended right there.

Bishop Foster was disturbed in his prayer last Sunday by a crying baby. He then ordered all mothers having small children with them to leave the building before he would begin preaching, for fear he would be interrupted. He evidently considers himself just a little bit more important than the One who said "Suffer little children to come unto me. for of such is the kingdom of he a

Wiggins, tho Canadian weather quack, has frightened a great many credulous people in the South by his earthquake prediction for the 29th of this.month. It is a pity there are people .foolish enough to be rendered un^wy by the predictions of such cranks as Wiggins. And really the question arises whether such cranks should be allowed to make public the predictions we print in another column.

If the report in the Indianapolis papers ofjfcho Sftlvatl«j»A*my meetings are correct, let b^yptoMiil that we are to to haveftoue here. Perhaps sin awakeping o^PlpRis interest is needed In Terre Ilante, but it cannot be brought about by* sifbh tactics as pur-, led by the Indianapolis' Salvationists, prefer, our religious ceremonies and and our variety performances in their properjplavtes—not as ft joint enV'tsiiirmonH

Tho now silver certificates bear on their face a porirau of uie late vice-presi-dent, and the Cincinnati Enquirer is so overjoyed at the sight of the new certificate, that it prints a cut of one with tho legends, "Good for Democratic eyes,' and "Tho first Democratic money for thirty years." And now tho government is going to appropriate the cut because tho making of it was unlawful. Haye Democrats no rights under Democratic administration?

The sleeping car porters have formed a national organization, and will demand a general advance In wages. They will doubtless get this, and then the longsuffering patron of the sleeping car will have to buy ono of these institutions in order to occupy it over night. No doubt if this organization was sifted to the bottom it would bo found a scheme on the part of the sleeping car companies to advance their rates, already outragoously high.

Another New York girl has ended her life romanco in the divorce court, the foreign "nobleman" whom she had married proving to be a sleeping car conductor with another wife. But notwithstanding this addition to the list of those who have

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"counts," many American girls are waiting with bated breath the arrival of some plausible strangers who, with a "Sir" or "Marquis" or "Count" tacked on his name, can capture a maiden in whom the love of foreign titles has become a mania.

Gen. Brady, ono of the principal figures in the Star route trials, is going to write a book in which he oxpects to "get even" with some of his traducers, as he styles then. The man who starts a newspaper to "get even" with some person or persons generally comes out a loser, and writing a book with the same aim in view will probably result just as disastrously. It is likely that the men against whom he bears a grudge are not sighing "Oh! that mine enemy write a book." It is the reverse they are asking for.

Very sensible is the determination of the managers of both political parties to omit the usual expensive clap-trap of grand rallies and torch light processions in the present campaign. Doubtless a paucity of funds has been the motive for this innovation on the usual order of political campaigns, but the change will be none the less welcome to the public, whatever may have prompted it. It Is bad enough to have, once every four yeans the excitement, noise and tumult of a presidential campaign. This may well be omitted in the off years and every body will be the gainer by it.

In boyhood's days we used to think that a stage driver, dashing into town with his four horses well in hand, and blowing triumphant strains from his brass horn, had the most overpowering consciousness of the responsibility and importance of his position but a fellow

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berry over his persimmon. We4saw an 'artist engaged in this genial ocoiipation at the fair one morning last week. How tenderly he rubbed the glossy hide, and how delicat^y he sand-paper^ the horns, until they glistened in the sunlight like burnished metal. W© would not care for a situation as valet de chambre to a bull, but we would like to feel as self-satisfied and contented as our unknown friend. It must be a bully good feeling. ___

When wives have occasion to get up at night they ought to let their husbands know the fact. This would frequently prevent them from being shot for burglars. A Colorado man shot his wife the other night supposing her to be a bu: glar. She cannot recover, the doctors say. Wives seldom do on such occasions* The unerringness of a husband's aim his wife in a dark room is only equalled by the uncertainty of his nerves whenr he has occasion to fire at a real burgla^/ Burglars are seldom iseriously injured on such occasions. This is one of thop© singular coincidences which mark the events of this life. "Matrimony Day" is getting to be quite an institution at eoi|ti|s^ fairs. A New York county tafr refcpntly gavo a $504wedding outfit toajpuplewho w§re married on the groutim, Hon, R. P. Flower added $30 frotnrnis.private pure$ and the railroad running to -Niagara Falls passed the happy paf®%©6 to that great curiosity anj£r_jback. "Shis is 5, rather high.premiumto pay forgetting two young people married, bttt_a jjood deal less would no doubffcffect tjie object in many instances,' /On the'^lible tho matrimonial feature of the county fair cannot help prpyifcg ^Interesting and excellent one. i'r

The notorious parsot^. Downs, of Bo"fc-. doin Square Churcli, Boston,, hap* been finally kicked oqjfc otthe fold Ifto Bajptist denomination./ '^^Only won^r^.V that this was ji?t doit? IdfJg ago.' H^hjif been a sterteh In the nostrils of the whole city of Boston for a.long time p&st. fie has been a disgrace to.the church and to decent society and he hair*been able to keep, »^&btorie of gushy, sentimental people around htfe^who iPra^*^ tft Ha.c. isuhis parity that -a secuted saint. It is not easy to get rid of such a sniveling hypocrite as Downs, and although ho has been put out of tho church it can hardly be expected that this will be the end of him.

That was a severe retribution visited by a Lafayette girl upon a young man who made an offensive remark concerning her as she passed him on the street. She immediately purchased a quantity of cayenne pepper and finding him after a short search, throw it in his eyes. Ladies need some protection from the insulting loafers who infest the street corners—in Terre Haute as well as Lafayette—and if it is once understood that a dash of cayenne pepper awaits the first man who ventures an insulting remark about a lady passer-by, there will be less of that blackguardism Indulged in. It is an extreme measure, but desperate diseases require heroic remedies.

Bishop Foster, of the M. E. church does not take much stock in evangelists of the Sam Jones or Thos. Harrison kind. Ho refused to permit an evangelist to conduct services at the Illinois annual conference last week, and In his serman to a class of young ministers he said that no preacher has aright to relegate evangelistic service to any one else, as he is himself an evangelist. Ho further said that no preacher should try to make money, which is another slap at JonesHarrison et. al, who are nothing if not Salvationists for gain. In fact that class of preachers has about run the length of its rope as far as any permanent good is concerned. They may draw large crowds, and create great excitement, but when this has died out in the majority of cases it will be found that no lasting good has resulted.

Miss Maud Howe, is a letter to the Boston Transcript, asks why it is that "the first instinct of every woman on arriving at a strange place is to go and bny something." That question is, of course, unanswerable—as much so, peihaps, as this question: "Why is it that the first instinct of every man on arriving at a strange plap is to go and 'take something?'"

TERRE HAUTE, DSHD., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER $5,1886.

has caught the toboggan

fever, and is fitting up as a winter resort. Several wealthy cottage owners are putting in steam heaters and fixing for winter home living.

According to Prof. Richard A. Proctor, earthquakes show that the earth is still In its infancy, and that tens of thousands of years will pass before the beginning of the end is aeen.

Louisville has 40,000 colored people, many of whom are prosperous, and some of whom are rich. Some of the best real estate in the city Is owned by colored men.

Oysters this season are expected to* be large and more plentiful than hesetofbm.

The new fall bonnets, tbey say, will be V-shaped. The bills will be X-shaped.

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SHOWS AND SHOW FOLKS.

The regular dramatic season was opened last night at Naylor"s Opera House. The Btrong spectacular drama of Michael Strogoff was well presented and, with the attractive specialties interspersed, gUye the liveliest satisfaction to the large audience in attendance.

George H. Hebb's opera house programme has been enlarged, is filled with spicy reading, and with an engraved heading by E. Gagg, presents a handsome appearance.

Manager Naylor, in a card in opera house programme, says: "It has ever l^en and will continue to be tho aim of |ho management to render this theatre the favorite resort of those who seek rational amusement, to cause all patrons to have confidence that their safety and are provided for, and to impress our merchants that they are justified in recommending this theatre to their Jpatrons and the transient hundreds who .tfisit our city." jjlhrhe now drop curtain at Naylor's will |je r»ut in place next week. ^fNext Saturday evening Murray an*t fMprpliy, the noted Irish comedians, will appear at the opera house, under the 4 management of J. M. Hill, in their llicking comedy of "Our Irish Visitors." These artists are well known and l^eir play is one of the funniest on the ip&d., •, ^iTherfe is a rumor that W. J. Scanlan, fSitdctor, has married Maggie Jordan, iMvJielpbd' Sharkey, the murderer, to ait-e l'rom theToi^bs years ago.

GeVrge Wilson and Carl Rankin have Id out their Interest in the minstrel intertaimuont bearing their name, to ^xkrlp«i ratne, of Baltimore. What |Jhfy

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Poor old Mme. Janauschek, suffering with mortal disease, and in her old age impoverished, is once more about to tempt a dull and trivial public. There is something saddening in this old lady's career and its ending. Wheh will stage people learn not only to make hay while the sun shines, but to store it away for the winter end of their lives?

It is stated that Miss Rose Coghlan is one of the few ladies who can smoke and do it gracefully. She makes no bones about the habit and indulges in cigarettes whenever she feels like it. Mile. Aimee is an inveterate smoker and rolls her own cigarettes. Mile. Rhea has a weakness for the little Havana cigars that are made up especially for lady .moker,,

It is related that about two years ago Mrs. Florence induced her husband, the actoi, to swear off on all intoxicating drinks. She thought Billy was all right until they went to a circus this summer and an elephant, near which William was standing, put the end of his trunk in the actor's pocket and pulled out a flat bottle half full of rye whiskey. Like a good wife she never said a word, but Billy carries no more flasks. ?fs?

Along with other theatrical things in the way of stars, and plays, and scenery, that the big steamers are bringing across the Atlantic just now, comes a story abrat a London clergyman who went to see "Adonis." After seeing the Amazonian march, he remarked: "The less of such dresses tho actresses wear the better." It is a little singular, but there are Iota of old front-row bald-heads who are of the minister's way of thinking, exactly.

John Jennings says in the New York World that Hoyt and Solomon's new comic opera, "The Maid and the Moonshiner," is a mixture of mastodonic serio-comicry and megratlierian song and danoe. "At one moment there is an eruption of colored jockeys, who jingle and scuffle through two or three verses at another there is a freshet of female loveliness in dancing costumes, with lovely little bonnets and gorgeous parasols, who murmur a few lines and top them off with a cute kick ora graceful walk-around."

It is qnite time that Americans should resent the manner in which foreign women of notorious character fly to the United States to compensate themselves for having thrown away everything worth living for by making capital out of American cariosity. Sarah Bernhardt^ vicious notoriety, Ellen Terry's sensational though guarded past, Mra. Lanjrtry*s Uason with the Prince of Wales, all furnished "drawing cards,** bat the public may be forgiven for the sake of the genius of two of these women

and the extraordinary circulation given to the beauty of the third. When all the world has been impressed with the fact that a certain creature is the most beautiful on its orbit, it is no wonder that everybody wants to see her, even though everybody should be disappointed.

But this Mrs. Crawford, the shameless heroine of the Dilke-Crawford divorce suit, who is "going on tho stage, and will visit the United States," has nothing upon earth to recommend her to public attention but her pre-eminence in vice and effrontery. She appeared in the public courts of London of her own free will, and when questioned upon the sub ject of adultery with various men, replied, "O, yes, yes," with an unblushing smile. II'.

Mrs. Crawford is not a vory pretty woman, she has never developed any appetite for the stage nor genius for anything. She is simply coming to the United States to exhibit herself as a modern Messalina, as the woman who ruined a great English peer, and ono who enjoys a rare reputation for immorality.

On the ocean at present are Violet Cameron and Lord Lonsdale. She the wife of David Bensande a respectable citizen now suing for divorce, he an ddle brained fop, who thinks he can do an,) hing in America because he has a corner in the English peerage.

Let us pray that neither of these "artists*' will be much benefited by exhibiting themselves to an honest American public. Wb have bad women enough of our own to exh&ust our coffers without importing them in tho face of all jeering Europe.

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WJTA THE PAPERS ABE SA YINO

Erie, PA., Herald: Most men Jove little woyien $nd little women love most men. frif

Philadelphia North-American: Very fast young men are often overtaken by quick consumption.

St. Louis Post-Dispalcli: When a inan abandons a party in ordorto improve It he generally succeeds.

Merchant Traveler: Cupid may bo blind, but he thoroughly recovers his sight three or four .months aftei' it Is ityfttingly jboo

Philadelphia North American: The. great railroads of the country continue to show that the trains can't pass each other on the same track.'

Philadelphia North American: When a young woman calls a young man "a perfect bear," he ought to prove the assertion by hugging her.

New Haven News: Tho vast,majority of strong-minded women wouldn't care so much about about voting if they could only got a chance to pair off.

LITTLE SERMONS.

'We should be honorable oven to our enimies. Noxt to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good.

God keeps tossing back to the human race its failures and commanding it to try agai n. ^/•''J1'\

Scandal is a bit of false money, and he who passes it is frequently as bad as he who originally uttered it.

If we encourage ourselves to speak falsely in jest, we shall run the chance of acquiring a habit of speaking falsely in serious matters. J*

The letter "r" is good for something besides being a mere guide to the oyster season. For example: the Boston Jour nal recently spoke of two well-known Massachusetts soldiers and statesmen as being "battle-scared," and the editor when he saw it, would have given a week's salary for one more little "r" in the right place.

Sir Henry Thompson holds that artificial teeth are an evil in those of advanced years, because they enable such persons to masticate flesh. When the teeth fail naturally it is nature's design that tho individual should subsist on vegetable diet, v-y

THE WEAK SPOT IN MAN\jT [New York Times.] Superstitions and signs—what an abundance of men bow down to them. Vennor, the aforetime weather prophet, told me once that be would be afraid to make any prediction without first writing his name three or four times on a that ere speculator in

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who never fails to cross the street twice consecutively before he buys or sells stocks. Another Wall street man dreads babies, and claims that to meet one in a car on his way to business always "hoodoos" him and is the sure precursor of bad luck if he ventures speculation on the same day. A dry goods man prominent in the wholesale trade on Broadway has carried a silver teaspoon In his pocket "for luck" daily lor the last twenty years or more.

MAKING A GOOD BEGINING. Philadelphia Call. "Amelia, darling?" "Yes, Arthur." "You know we are soon to be married?" "Yes." "And we should learn to be economical in small things." "Yes.** "Hadn't you better torn down the g»a?".

Seventeenth Year.

WOMEN'S WAYS.^f^,

It cost a fashionable lady who was so-'" journing at Saratoga this summer $300 for doctors' bills for attendance on a pet dog, which was taken sick.

One of the newsiest and brightest of the weekly newspapers of Washington, the News, is edited and published by a woman Miss Alice R. Neal.

Mrs. Livermore is about to serve up "Ouida"' for her recent attack on woman in general. There is a chance that "Ouida" will get what she Reserves—a good shaking.

Earthquake stories still come in,"principally from Georgia. One of the latest is about Waggish Widow Gunn, who, as soon as she recognized the earthquake, seized a big tin horn and blew a long and mighty blast. Sho did it, she said, to astonish the natives, and was entirely successful, for more than one was certain that tho day of judgment had oome, and that Gabriel was blowing his horn.

Here is what Harriet Martineau says about her old home in Norwich: "I have visited and gone over our old house in Magdalen street, at Norwich, within a few years, and I could not but wonder how my romantic days could ever have come on in such a place. There it stands,. a handsome, plain, brick house, in a narrow street—Norwich having nothing but narrow streets. There it is, roomy and good-looking enough, but prosaic to the last degree. Except the briar on its back gable, there is not an element of adventure or poetry about It. Yet there were my dreamy years passed." $

There is something in being a bridesmaid that makes a girl's heart flutter, especially when sho is vory young. Sho thinks inevitably of the day v/hen she will be playing tho principal part In a similar ceremony, and she wonders, perhaps half guesses, and wonders again who will be the bridegroom. These thoughts make her prettior than ever, ut giving a kind of consciousress to herd's, look and adding a tender depth tn. ho!*11'} eyes. The soft blushes 'are ready to oome at a word,.and when you think the matter over, there is no ground for sifrprise at tho truth of tho old' adage that

ORIGIN OF CRAZY UILTS. "Crazy" patchwork originated in the following manner: A certain titled lady, while learning embroidery in an English seminary, lost her mind, and it became necessary to confine her in a private madhouse. But sho still retained her passion for needlowork, and spent most of her time in uniting pieces of material furnished „lier from tho madhouse scrapbag. Although unable to perform the difficult stitches of embroidory work, it was noticed that in joining tho odds and ends of material given her she invariably used contrasting or assimilating colors of thread or silk, and that nearly every stitch was different from the others. Specimens of her work found thoir way outside of tho asylum, and since thon millions of women, apparently sane, have found delight in imitating the handiwork of tho crazy countess.

TEACHING THE NURSE BY OBJECT LESSONS. Philadelphia Call.

A lady ovorheard her nurse girl talking to the little child she was putting to sleep, and among other legends of the nursery In whichshe indulged was this: "If you don't go right to sleep this very minute a great big, awful black bear, with eyes like coals of fire, and sharp, white, cruel teeth, will come out from under the bed and e-a-t-v-o-u-a-l-l-u-p!" The poor little thing nestled down under the clothes to dream of horrid bears eating her up. That night when the stolid nurse had composed herself in her own comfortable bed and hud put tho lamp out, thore came a sudden rap at the door, and the voice of the mistress called loudly through the panels: "Maggie! Maggie! get up as quick as you can! There's a burglar under your bed!" At tho word "burglar" tho girl sprang screaming from the bed. tore open tho door and fell into hysterics in the hall. The lesson was more instructive than the mistress designed, but when tho girl's fears had calmed, she said to her: "You did not hesitate to tell my little delicate child, who could not possibly know that it was a lie, a cruel story of a bear under her bed now when I treat you to the the same kind of a story you are nearly frightened to deatli. Tomorrow you jan go into the kitchen and work there you are not fit to care for little children."

HOW TO NAME THE GIRLS. [Charle* Dudley Warner in Harper's.] In the first place, give the girl in baptism only one name. She will bo perfectly content with it. Iler lover never requires, never uses but one of her names, if she has half a dozen. In the height of his tenderness, he never says: "Amelia Jane, come to my arms!" He simply extends his arms and cries "Jane!" In the second place, when the girl marries let her keep her surname. Then, whenever we see a woman's name we shall know whether she is married or single, and if she is married we shall know what her family name is.

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OVID A SIZED UP. if, New York Tribune.

Ouida's paper on "Female Suffrage" In the North American Review would be. if the writer were accepted as a typical woman, an excellent argument for denying her sex everything but a nunnery* It is shallow, Illogical and nasty.

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