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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

The Express and Gazette got into a lively discussion of the tariff this week. What will it be by November?

The lot of the councilman is fiOt a happy one just now, and the council

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got down to the coal weighing ordinance either. Dr. Joseph Cook is not complimentary to the press. But a" the press has not been complimentary to Mr. Cook honors may now be considered even.

If our John L. Sullivan gets as many "thrashings" as are promised him he will look little better than a jelly-bag when he gets back to his native heath.

The Cincinnati crooked bankers don't teem to have had sense or sand enough to go to Canada. So much the better. They are now going to the penitentiary.

It is a shame to keep Dakota shivering

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in the cold any longer. Very likely she would go out of the blizzard business if were once comfortably stowed away in the Union.

The weatber prophet who now declares that blizzards are not likely to come after the middle of February, if they havo been reasonablj' frequent before, is a consoling body these days.

There is a good deal of talk about the Democratic nomination for congress in this district, but we observe that Johnson down at Washington is "sawing wood" and "ain't sayin'a word.'

The people who are afraid Gov. Hill fs going to worry Mr. Cleveland for the nomination may as well spare their anxiety. Mrs. Cleveland is going to pull the old man through without a bit of trouble.

Another surprise like thatflOO license ordinance sprung on the council will have fatal results. It came near causing two or three councllmen to drop with heart disease and givo Coroner Haworth a chance for foos.

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Judge Gresham has a iiigfc opfnfert of "sand," which he thinks is one of the essential qualifications forejudge. He is right. Hand is one of the most useful ingredients in the human make-up, judge or no judge.

General Lew Wallace has bought a house in Indianapolis and is going to remove from picturesque Crawford*vllle to the capital city for permanent renldenco. Indianapolis will be a decided gainer by the change.

The Hon. John E. Lamb has been in Washington for a month or more until some of the antl Lamb people are trying to start the report that

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away from Terre Haute and will not be a candidate for congress

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this year.

When the Baltimore woman who was too proud to letray her poverty, tried to kill herself and her child, society rushod to her relief. People of that stripe are worth saving—none to many of them— and it is a pity they can't be discovered before it Is too late.

It is reported that Mrs. James Brown Potter snubbed Mrs. Secretary Whitney becauso the latter did not attend Mrs. Potter's opening night at tho theater. If that is the kind of actress Mrs. J. B. P. is going to be the high-tempered prima donnas will have to look to their laurels.

Three houses were blown to pieces within a few days and one pernon killed and a number injured at Anderson, Ind., by an explosion of natural gas. These accidents are becoming so frequent that some people may question whether natural gas is the unadulterated boom it has been supposed to be. ..

Certain misguided people are trying to raise money for the erection of a monument to Schopenhauer, the German pessimist, who while he lived preached death and mortality instead of "life and immortality." It is a curious idea to raise a monument to the memory of such a roaa and It Is gratifying to learn that the fund swells very slowly,

The Cincinnati oourts set a good example of the proper way to treat bank swindlers In sending Harper and Hopkins to the penitentiary. Now let them continue the good work by disposing of the Metropolitan speculators in the same way. P-ottonness in banks is a thing not to be tolerated. If a bank Is not safe it is a good deal wont than a gambling device, for it tempts by its very proffer of security.

There is much mystery surrounding that 9100 license ordinance. No one seems to know how it get in among the ordinances on Clerk Duddleston's desk. However aumppUtloow may have been the manner of Its advfent in the council it cannot be deajounced on its merits. The chances are largely in favor of the explanation that the Law and Order Leagoe had considered the ordinance before It found Its way to the council chamber. Tb* Law and mores ^pays jpttst o®Ur-

Chicago is going to have an "old cariosity shop" of a unique and interesting sort. It is to be a museum made up of war relics and the nucleus will be the old building in Richmond which" was used as "Libby prison." The building will be removed to Chicago and many other curious relics of the war will be gathered around it, making a singular collection. _______

It is said that the Canadian insurance companies lost $1,500,000 last year in excess of their receipts and are going to advance rates. It would be well if they and all other insurance companies would try the plan of not InsuWng property for such amounts as to encourage arson. Incendiary firesare the bane of the business oud over-valuation is the great stimulant of incendiarism.

The shooting dead of a Chicago millionaire by burglars in his own house, shows the danger of interfering with this class of gentry. What the festive night-prowler insists upon Is that you put your head tinder cover and pretend not to know he is t^bout until he has taken all of your valuables that he cares for. When so treated he is, like some patent nostrums, "perfectly harmless."

Another Cincinnati bank has met with disaster. The Metropolitan, with a capital of fl,000,000 and the finest bank building In the United States, has followed the fate of the Fidelity and for a similar reason, viz: the use of its funds for speculation by its officers. Its president and vice-president are both under arrest charged with the crime of misusing the funds of the bank and will probably meet the fate of Harper and Hopkins if they get their just deserts.

So little has been heard about the Inter State Commerce law of late that It has dropped out of notice. It is still in operation however and Judge Cooley, who is chairman of the Commission, said the other day that the law was doing so well that no change in it would be asked at the hands of the present Congress. He thinks that it has not yet been sufficiently tested to warrant making any changes. His idea is a sensible one. It too often happens that laws'are tinkered with before enough time has elapsed to demonstrate either their good or their bad features.

Volapuk, the lnventod language intended for univeral use among the nations, continues to be unfavorably regarded by the scientific people. Claimins to be the perfection of simplicity, It is charged with being really complex and not in acoord with modern theories of language making. Yet there are a good many people studying the new language, even In this country, and unless the scientists get together pretty soon and formulate a better one, Volapuk may become so well rooted in the commercial world that It will not be easy to dislodge it. The new language may not be scientific or artistic, but if it will serve the purpose of communicating at stroke with all civilized nations, commorce may easily be persuaded to make use of it. 1 _____ '51

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An accldcnt in Buffalo, N. Y., furnishes another proof that the electric wires must go—under the ground. A horse drawing a delivery wagon became entangled in a wire that was down and fell dead from the charge of electricity that was sent through him. Not knowing what was the matter, colored boy ran to help the animal up, but no sooner touched It than he also was killed. The driver of the wagon was made unconscious, but was not fatally injured, by tho charge that reached him through the lines. It appears that a telephone wire crossed one of the Brush electric light wires, which accounts for the tremendous power of tho current. People frequently run risks they know not of in getting into close proximity to these deadly wires.

There are mutterings of a big row amoug the Republicans in this State unless the fool friends of Gresham and Harrison learn to hold their tempers and their tongues. The boom for Gresham began outside of Indiana, but it has many friends in the State who are quietly helping It on. The Harrison people are centered at Indianapolis and show a too willing purpose to boss things. The result is'that Indiana is likely to fall by the wayside in the choice of'inen for the places on the presidential ticket. Nau.rally the political workers felt that Harrison as a party worker and a successful leader of his party was entitled to the Indiana endorsement and in the full confidence that they "own" the privilege brook little interference from outside sources. At the recent conference of Republican editors at Indianapolis a man named Smith, who writes letters for the Clndnnati Commercial Gasette and who belongs In the ranks of the Harrison army, suggested that there be established a sort of literary bureau at the State capital for the dissemination of political matter during the campaign. Ye country editor was noisd green as he looked to be and Smith was summarily and violently sat down upon. That was file beginning of the trouble and the

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piece of clap-trap has done General Harrison mors injury than he or his Indianapolis Maadt imagine. 1

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A Woman's Chat,

REBOBS AND THEIR WORSHIPERS. The writer of the Le Beau Monde in the Saturday (Boston) Traveller, presumably Miss Lillian Whiting, comes out iu a very trite and sensible article in last week's issue, concerning the ills of authors, in that the worship they receive is so hard to bear, because they happen to be worshiped by the vulgar herds. No well-bred woman or man, I will not say gentleman, wants to know that an ordinary mortal, with the merest modfet cum of brains, should dare lift eyes to her or to him as a real person of flesh and blood.

So many discouraging and heart-rend1* ing things are constantly being put forth in print by authors warning all who crave peace or happiness to avoid "the thorny path, that it is a matter of sincere wonder that any one with less than absolute self-confidence should venture to set foot therein.

The writer of "Le Beau Monde" sets out with this assertion: "The one greet problem of modern life is to so rule events that we shall not be completely at the mercy of the daily current of affairs." She goes on to declare that men can more easily control their lives than women and that no woman is so pestered with trifles as the successful luerary woman. And, moreover, that of all successful literary women the world over none are so annoyed as the one who dwells in Boston. I wonder really if any woman in Boston has ever been so annoyed with letters, callers and presents as has,Mr. Whlttler? And yet the marvelous patience and sweetness of the man apart from the poet! How many thousands of letters he has written to the great and lordly with his own hand, and, there is hardly a city in the union in which numbers of autograph albums are not made sacred by his chirography.

But nevertheless, it must be a powerful drain upon his time, one's physical strength and more—upon one's sympathies. It is a wonder Mr. Whittier has any left. As the writer of the article says, it is hard for a tender-hearted author to refuse, to see a humble sister woman, who has written, begging permission to call, declaring it will do her "so much good." So she is obliged to be bored by a ten minute call and every ond oi it she thinks of how many lines of a poem she might be writing of how she might be outlining a story or gathering facts for an essay, each and all of which productions would bring her money and fame. She may pause to consider how much more good they would also do her admirer than does the ten minutes interview she grants.

The caller goes away ecstatic. The authoress goes back to her pen, infinitely bored with her prerogatives of greatness.

She is willing to soar in lofty realms of fancy and cull gems for the good of her fellow men. She is glad to beg favors of the gods for the elevation of her race. As for touching one of them with her own white hand, that is something worse than trifling. Her callers and letters make her utterly weary. She wonders how people can be so pedantic, so silly. Such a waste of time and so tiresome.

There is away of relief pointed out. "The woman who has her literary work to do must learn to say no. She must teach herself the art of denying all the unjust claims made upon her. She must distinguish, even in social invitations, the wheat from the chaff, the gold from the brass." In a word, she must, for her own salvation, learn to be utterly selfish. She must do everything that will tend to her own elevation. She must cultivate the society that will benefit her. She mus£ cater to the influential, the aristocratic, the highbred. She must know the difference between a brown stone front and a cottage.

Above all, she must hold herself above trifles, unless these trifles appear in the shape of stepping stones to greatness.

Now just a word on the other side of the question. This thing of hero-wor-ship is utterly silly, and heroine-wor-ship is just as silly as the other. No writer is like his or her writings. Yon probably would be so disgusted to meet the authors of charming books or poems that you would lose all love for the productions. You may have had just as great and noble thoughts as they. You only lacked he power of speech. It has been my fortune to know personally quite a number of famous people. But two of them all were pleasant to meet. Those were Miss Holley and Mr. Whittier. "Samantha" is a grand woman, with a heart big enough to take in all her sisters, and to have a real sympathy for them. Mr. Whittier is tender and kind, and like Abou Ben Adhem, loves his fellow-men. Even if he had not been a poet, I should never forget his smile and look as I talked with him one morning in a store door |n Asneabury. But the other*—I wish I had never seen them. They ars all common mortals, such ss you and I. And I believe that as human friends, moat of them would prove far less pleasant than the ones we ham

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAf EVENING, FEBRUARY 11,1888.

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ley are very uncomfortable persons to live with. One day last summer I was driving over the chain bridge of the Merrimac Mid looked into Mrs. Spofford's yard. She was standing smiling as she talked ytlth two little girls.

I was tempted to call, as I had once been requested to do. .' On second thought, however, I did not. I preferred not to remember her otherwise than I saw her, a motherlylooking, smiling woman, and not a frigid, polite hostess, entertaining an unwelcome guest. Seventy times seven plagues attend upon greatness. So think long, young aspirant for literary honors, before you take your plunge.

Let all cultivate mercy for the poor oppressed author and remember that each one of them is made of but dust after all. Out of this dust, if watered from heaven, lillies may .grow. But the the soil remains dust in spite of snowy bloom.

You have the flowers bound in Russia leather on your library table. What use in knowing the bed they grow from?

BERKNDA loo NT.

SAUCE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

Burlington Free Press: Never pick a quarrel before it is ripe. Detroit Free Press: All stir and bustle—the sewing society at tea.

The Judge:.De pusson dat 'grees wid yo' am alius a pusson ob sense. Chicago Inter-Ocean: "Procrastination Is the thief of time," bul weighting profIts the coal dealer.

Jjife: It is more blessed to give than receive but the woman who gives a reception is doubly blest.

Merchant Traveler: Lent is near at hand, and the umbrella joke Is beginning to rub Its eyes and yawn.

Detroit Free Press: "Truth lies at the bottom_of a well"—that's why the lawyers have to pump for it*

Washington Critic: We can never get the saloon out of politics as long as we get our politics out of the saloon.

Rochester Union: You see, the trouble with "suocess" that is too dearly bought is that you have got to go on associating with yourself after you have attained it.

WOMEN'S WAYS.

A careless lady sailed Broadway in a n6wly&>t?«ht jacket lulled "Slightly soiled only flO." "The bustle" has utility as well as beauty. The other day, down In Georgia, an auger was concealed in one of these articles and carried into a jail, with the result of liberating five of the prisoners confined there.

A Baltimore man has collected figures which show that tho bustles of this country cost over 18,000,000 per year. We don't see what can be done about It, however, except to make 'em a trifle larger and add another million dollars.

The glory of a woman is her hair, but not her bangs. Four young girls who recently stood before Judge Duffy In New York realize this. He remarked to the quartet: "Look at your hair down on your foreheads. What makes you wear it that way like a goat? It gives you away. You will go to the island for a month."

Silk undervests of the very brightest colors are shown in some of the New York shops, and with them stocking exactly matching them In hue. One is supposed to wear these two together, and it is supposed ti^t any girl who should suddenly awaken to the consciousness that her undervest was green and her stockings yellow or red would instantly lose consciousness.

At Frederickton, N. B., a young couppie visited the residence of a clergyman to be married. The ceremony had began and the prospective bride said she would accept the young man as her husband. The minister began to draw a picture of marriage that had proved unhappy. Without waiting to hear the bright side of the picture she pushed her lover's hand away, declaring, "I will not have you." The young man was thunderstruck, but neither he nor the minister could induce her to change her mind. She siezed her wraps and left the house, and the marriage was indefinitely poet' poned. So goes the story.

To Mr. Donnell, of Michigan, belongs universal applause for a bill he has prepared providing that in cities where free delivery of mail is established, drop letters shall be taxed but one cent. The absurdity of charging as much for transporting a letter a mile, more or less, as for carrying it across the continent and then delivering it (if at a free delivery office) is too obvious Co require discussion.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided that a person may fry onions regardless of the inconvenience the odor of cooking gives to the neighbors.

Beecber waa of the opinion that Noah hit no animals beyond horses, cattle, aheep and hogs in his ark, and that the fowls were limited to geese and hens.

By its mild, soothing and healing propertils, Dr. SageV Catarrh Remedy cures the worse eases of nasal catarrh, also

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ta the head,** cot ym, and catarrhal headaches. 60 cents, by druggists.

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THE PASSING SHOW SHOWS AND SHOW FOLKS.

Edwin Arden, with a fairly good company presented at Naylor's last night,to a large audience, the western drama of "Eagles' Nest," which has the usual collection of characters peculiar to these plays. It is well put together and was played last night in a manner to call out enthusiastic applause. This afternoon and evening Mr. Arden appears in his own play, entitled "Barred Out," which is said to be as romantic as any lover 6f stage sentimentallsm could wish. The plot is briefly told as follows:

The younger son of an old Irish family runs away from home and under an assumed name becomes an actor. He loves and is loved in turn by a young girl, whose family is violently prejudiced against theatre art and its exponent**. The lovers are surprised in a tete-a-tete by the girl's father ana her cousin (the latter being a rejected suitor) and under tnrents of violence to his sweetheart, the hero is trapped into signing a paper renouncing her forever. He does this for her safety knowing that an explanation will exhonerate him from any charge of unfalthness. His betrothed seeing the paper, Impetuously denounces him as a coward and in an agony of passionate shame at the seeming desertion of her lover, strikes him in the a «..«U lit.

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an agony of passionate shame at the seeming desertion or her lover, strikes him in the face, and he, overcome by such bitter injustice, falls senseless at her feet.

Thd remainder of the drama is devoted to satisfying poetic justice by the unmasking of the villainy which separated the lovers and their final reunitlon at a bal masque on tho continent where both are striving to hide their heartaches in tho whirlpool of Venetian gayety. The play is full of crisp, sparkling dialogue, and striking situations, and unflagging Interest-.

The Emily Solclene Burlesque and Novelty campany will be at Naylor's next Tuesday evening. Says tho Cincinnati Gazette:

Again Emily Soldene and her clever troupe of talented burlesque and specialty artists have captured the patrons of the people's Theater. At both matinee and night yesterday the theater was literally packed, not even standing room. The entertainment opened with the same first part, "The Fox Chase," but they introduced a number of new faces. An olio of merit followed. A burlesque on "Genevieve De Brabant" completed the entertainment, brlnglug out Soldene in her original character, "Dorgan, the Pastry Cook." Soldene slugs and acts as of yore. Sara, the high kicker, was the sensational feature, appearing in black tights and gauze, as when last here.

Gormans' Spectacular Minstrels return next week and will play on Friday and Saturday evenings. Their recent appearance here on ChrlBtmas day and evening is remembered for the newness, novelty and refinement of theentlre performance, Since then they have had a magnificent tour In the northwest. Several new people are with them—anions others are Gov. Ad Ryman and Harry Hardy, the cornet soloist. The most of the members were with the Haverly Mastadons, when that organisation was the Bare am of minstrelsy.

Anew Boston theatre has a large number of piirquet sofas, snugly holding two persons each. Thespecial attractiveness of these seats is apparent.

Saturnine Mr. Irving and sunny Sol Smith Russell dined together not long ago and the the report has got abroad that the great Englishman was forced to laugh out loud several times at the comicalities of the inimitable Sol.

The tour of Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett in the South is phenomenal. Seats are sold at $4 and J5 each. In many cities places are sold at auction and the premiums over the regular price of seats often amount to $1,000.

Stuart Robson, the actor, asked IngerboII

not long since to define the difference between the pulpit and the stage. This is what "Pagan Bob" said in reply: "The pulpit is the pretense of honesty the stage is the honesty of pretense."

He was determined to go out at the end of every act. Three acts had been played and three times he had scraped by and trodden on the feet of his neighbors. At the end of the fourth act as he went crashing through the narrow space, a lady in the isle said in her most dulcet tones: "Sir, I trust I do notincom mode you by sitting here?"

Minnie Maddern sues for divorce from a husband she took on in secret marriage while she was quite young. 'The object of her love was the leader of the orchestrain her father's Detroit theatre. They have not lived together for years. Minnie says, "the man who sets his heart upon a woman is a chameleon that doth feed on air.

KATE FIELD ON ELOCUTION. What a level-headed woman is Kate Field! A timid young man in San Fran cisco once asked her whotaught her elocution. "Nobody," was the reply. "If there is one word more repelling than all other* to an actor, or to the descendants of actors, it is the word 'elocution.' And equally obnox ions are the methods by which so-called elocution is obtained. It is saying a good deal, but probably outside of patent medicines there is no humbug so great as nine-tenths of our elocution teachers. Men and women who are utterly incapable of speaking one sentence naturally, undertake to manufacture public speakers. With what result? Pulpit, Mr, rostrum, and stage teem with speakers who mouth, orate and tear a

passion

to tatters, but never hold the

mirror up to nature. It Is a grevious evil. That elocution can be taught scientifically I have no doubt, but I know that most teachers are to be shunned as yon would shun the plague. I owe to my father and mother, who were actors, an acute ear, a dramatic instinct and a horror of ranting. I owe to Charles Dickens, Charles retcher snd Adelaide Ristori lessons In the only art of speaking—nature. listening when very young to these great artists, night after night, was equal to a llbejral education. Insensibly but none the less surely, they produced a great effect on me."

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"Which, at any given moment, is moving forward fastest, the top of a wheel or the bottom?" To this apparently very simple question nine persons out of ten, asked at random, will give an incorrect reply. For at first sight it appears evident that both the top and the bottom of the wheel must of necessity be moving forward at the same rate, namely, tho speed at which the carriage is traveling. But little thought will show that this is far from being the case. A point on the bottom of the wheel Is, In fact by the direction of its motion round the axis, moving backward, in an opposite direction to that in which tho carriage is progressing, and is consequently stationary in space while a point on the top of the wheel Is moving forward, with the double velocity of its own motion round the axis and the speed at which the carriage moves.

The following is a really excellent paradox: "A train starts dally from San Francisco to New York and one daily from New York to San Francisco, the journey lasting seven days. How many trains will a traveler meel In journeying from San Francisco to New York?'* It appears obvious at the first glance that the traveler must meet seven tralnsand this Is the answer which will begiven by nine people out of ten to whom the question is new. The fact is overlooked that every day during the journey a fresh train is started from the other end, while there are seven on the way to begin with. The traveler will therefore meet not seven but fourteen. "A man walks round a tree, on the top7 of which is a squirrel. As the man moves the squirrel turns round on the the tree so as still to keep face to face with the man. Query: When the man has gone round the tree has he, or has he not, gone round the squirrel?" The answei which will occur at first sight to most persons is that the man has not not gone round the squirrel, since he has never been behind it. Tho correct answer, however, as decided by Knowledge, In the pages of which this morAentous question has been argued, is that the man has gone round the squirrel in going round the tree.

Who has not, at some period of his existence, been asked the following question: "If a goose weighs ten pounds and half its own weight what is the weight ofthegoose?" And who has not beon tempted to reply on the Instant fifteen pounds?—the correct answer being, of course, twenty pounds.

SOME QUAINT EPITAPHS. One of our citizens on a recent visit to to his old home In Green, Licking co., Ohio, discovered In an old graveyard the following quaint and humorous—If such a word can be used In connection with a graveyard—epitaphs, which he copied. On an old fiat, brown headstone, fallen down and broken in two, Is written: fJH

WYMAN WAKEFIELD.

During his life he voted for and helped elect the following presidents: George Washington,

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4%' Our father lies beneath the sod, His spirit's gone up to God. We never more shall hear his tread»

Nor see the "wen" upon his head. The only distinguishing trait of this old man was that while living his head was adorned by a large and beautiful wen, and his children, wishing to record and perpetuate'this virtue, had the above touching and appropriate lines engraved upon his tombstone:

On a plain white marble slab waaread the following: BUTll, DAUOHTKU.Or 1. AND M. MHKIJfE.

Strange as It but It Is mt Here are thi*«e sisters In a row We were «*'Jt down is our prime, The ihree daughters of 1. and M. Shrine, We hjvve paid the debt, you plainly see, Yet to be paid, my friend, by thee. The above was written and caused to be recorded upon the stone by the father of the three sisters.

The above named Isaac Shrine was a man of very eccentric character in his day in northern Ohio. Before his death he wrote four lines of the following epitath, which can be seen in a graveyard in Cherry Valley, Ashtabula county, Ohio. The last two lines were added by his brother after his death:

Here the old man lies Nobody laughs and nottodr orles. Where fee's gone, how be fares, Nobody knows, nobody cares. But his brother James and bis wife Eroellne Were his good friends all the time.

WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTINGT Omaha World. Young Husband (year 1900)—Well, did you succeed In getting a girl?

Young Wife—Yes, fsecured one finally, but, ob, John, at such a cost. "What were the terms?" "She is to receive $50 a week if she doesn't like you, but if she likes you I'm to get a divorce and let her have you."

Dropping out of the hair, with itching of the scalp, prevented, and the scalp made cool and healthy by the use of Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer.

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Eighteenth Year

A GROUP OF PARADOXES.

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John Adams. Thomas Jefferson, JJames Madison, James Monroe,

Andrew Jackson,

Martin Van Buren,

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James K. Polk, ,:,f„ Franklin Pierce.

On a small, while marble shaft in the same cemetery was read the following wonderful inscription:

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