Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 March 1888 — Page 1

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40.

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

-Notes and Comment.

^Booka tbat Have Helped Me"-ftho olimaa'tt check book.

iedianiipolls is going to have cydenna.. Isb't the Capital City rather put tine-on. airs? ______

Workingmen will be interested in the serial story of "Breton Mills" to be eo turn euoedirv The Mail next week. '«v^

Bresidsnt Cleveland was 51 yearaolri lastSnnday, He would like to be-aoont £6 when heleaves the White House

Theresa a strike in one of the eastern chewing gum factories. May it continue longvenough to raise the price of gam to dollar a quid!

Marion Harland says the comingwoinam «wfil have her own bank aoeount.

Well,

tbq present woman can haweit if she toss lha, money to make it of. /J

Same of the Chicago married men refuse tf*go .to see the drama of "She, who mustbe-obeyed," on the score that iflhey can see that lady at home free of charge.

It is said tbe Chicago Anarchists are organizing again. If they don't have, any better iuok than Spies, Parsons, .eti al. did tfceyioMght be in much beAtori business. _______

Gen. iBadeau now says that his work on Gen.Urant'as book was a labor of lo«e That must. be. tbe reason ho refused to take W,000 fori lt-«-didn't want to sell his love, pa»h4ps, _____

The ba?a in, power that will be aggregated in Washington when the Inleruatlonal Council of Women meets there to-morrow wiiLgo near to extinguishing the intellectual light of Congress

Chicago iia to .have yard-wide iDemocmtlo dally. It will be oalled ttoKaiobe. Where is room in Cbioago for ftjgood .many things, but aron't Democratic iwwwqp^pers getting rather thick theref _____

About ©verytlniea vessel comes from China it briqgw -report of.a mill Ion or sq of the poor aeleattale being drowned by floods or being «ktlled by earthquakes. The "hcathesi C.hlnee" seems to have a pretty tough time of it.

After a three weeks'strike the ship carpenters and oaulkws, of Milwaukeo, have giveu up the %ht for nine hours' work and tea beam' pay. Somehow strikes have n«t J»eeaia, great success of late. Better try arbiUcatiou. *1

Another scuttled hank .has been added to the long list. The Commercial National, of Dubuque, Iowa, has been disastrously wrecked by tbe president and his family pouring the money into prierato speculation. It is .the old story which has been told with tiresome repeAM°n. j./, rChief Arthur, of the LocomotlVd Brotherhood, has shown hisfairness and .moderation In raising the boycott on C. JB.,$ Q. oars on other roads. The Broth «rhood have sensibly decided to fight it out with tho Burlington road alone. ThatJkt the fairest way to do 11.

ELvausvllle has agreed to take the State Military Encampment this year. It has •at always proved a good financial investment but after her experience with the Blue and Gray reunion last fall, our southern neighbor evidently feeds equal to attack tag anything in the shape of a military show. _____

Tho bltauurd wheeled round very sud dettly from the East to the far Northwest on Wednesday the thermometer was twenty degrees below s#ro at some points in Montana, Dakota and Minus sota. 80 It seems the blbward Is no respecter of places and not much of a respectsr rf time either.

And now it is Use Chicago touse pointers are on a strike. It is a cold day when somebody isn't striking in Chicago. If the medmuios there would work through an occasional season instead of quarreling with their bread and butter, they would get along a good deal faster than they do under their present system.

James W. Ttote, for twenty years past the State Treatnuer of Kentucky, is one of the rascals who should have been turned out. Be has been found short In his accounts to the tune 0* 9280,000 and has shaken the dust of Kentucky from his feet. It Is not always safe to leave sren a man who is

the soul of honor,

aah" too long In office.

Monsieur Josdph Duguol, the Frenchman whom Mr. Taaderbtlt has engaged to superintend his kitchen at a salary of •10,000 year, gives it out that he is not «oming to this country as a cook, Hot as I **a gastmnomkal director." That hi the affluent Parisian way of patting it.

Doubttase he was nothing but a French rfc/uutil the American millionaire discovered him, but on f10,000 a year a Parisian cook

llSfe

well afford to expand into

"gastronomic*! director." It tftkes American money to "develop" the latent jmssibtUUss of Uw

character.

In Evansville a few days ago poor man paid a dollar for a lottery ticket and was sui prised to learn that he had drawn a prise of $15,000 Something like that happened in the same town some years ago with the result of causiag thousands of dollars to go into lottery tickets which drew blanks. Doubtless the same thing will happen again. In spite of the oid aiaxim that lightning sorer strikes twice in the same place there will be thousands of deluded people who will try their luck on lottery tkskets only to learn tbat the prizes have fallen somewhere else.

A burial reform association has been organized in New York which deserves to be widely imitated. Its objeet is to ex-ercise economy and simplicity in funerals, by using plain hearses, aban don lug crape, scarfs, feathers, velvet trappings, etc to avoid all unchristian and heathenish emblems and the use of floral decorations beyond a few cutr

flowers. The use of material for coffins which will decay rapidly Is recommended, so! that the body may dissolve into its original elements as fast as possible. Alhthisiis sensible and rational and should be universally approved by intelligent people. (Ono who has suffered says something ought to be done in the way of legislation to-suppress the individual with the strong.grip. There is no more dlsagreeableiper«onage on earth than the strong man who,

every

with you, squeezes your fingers into a ipulp, every time he meets you on the fltract.oatches the tenderest spot on your arm .and pinches it until you wince. Whe man who slaps you on the leg when •he oomes to sit down with you ought to be itareated to the same dose, and there ought to be framed a general statute to provide Jor the punishment of the big •man wlho «iczo every of opportunity to imake ithomselves intolerable to men with less muscle than they have got.

Hbere is »no part of tbe human body

a new all-wool-! Mrbjented to so much abuse as are the throats crt dhildren, by singing as too comjaBonly .piactised in public schools.

There is but littlo doubt that many throat .diseases could be traced, if the truth were Jkinown, to the act of singing, ooaimeuily so-called, but more properly denominated screaming. On the -other haad, soft, smooth singing (by which the uiusdes ef tho throat are strengthened, not stealned), is undoubtedly 'a great prmmMiw of throat diseases, and in catarrhal «#ections sometimes an aid to care. IM, it be repeated, and again repeated, that when a lesson is to be given or a song to foe sung, the tones must be soft, smooth And without the least strain upon the vocal organs. Children having colds causing irritation of the vocal organs, should not be allowed to sing while in that condition. The ressons aro plain to any thoughtful teacher, and need not be discussed here.

NEXT WEEK.

NKW AMERICAN SERIAL STORY -'ft,

The Breton Mills,

Romanes

Ntw England L\fe%—A IAxto

and Intensely Interesting American Story. C'

BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY. Editor of the 8prlngfleld, (Mass.) News*

Copyrighted by the Author and published by arrangement with him.

Next w&ek will begin th© publica of a Serial Story with the above title, and of intense interest. Each chapter is alive with excitement and the plot moves on with a power and spirit which will, we believe, tnake this one of the most acceptable serials we have ever offered in these columns.

THE BRETON MILLS

Is a story that will satisfy the popular demand for intense interest in each installment. Hie scene Is laid in aNew England factory village. Both the employing class and the class of the employed furnish actors In the thrilling romance, and the reader's interest will be closely held all through the chaow ng scenes of the story. While not takmg sides

011

the questions interesting work

ing people, which are touched upon In tbe story, the author dissects the pathetic elements of the life of the poor with fearless haod. Still his romance, after all. Is a romance of love, and all else in the story Is only introduced to solve the problem of one man's devoted and faithful nature.

A physician of the Maryland Board of Health has concluded that two hours in the forenoon and one hour in the afternoon is as long a time as children can profitably he employed in school. He advocates eighteen hours a week as the limit lor school children under twelve, and says that It would be better, from a purely hygienic point, to make Wednesday the weekly holiday rather than Saturday, and to havs sxaminatlons occur at the beginning of a sehoel term rather than »l the end.

The code of New York State makes an attempt at suicide a punishable erime. Tbe working value of this statw© will probably be considerable in mauy ways, if it do not largely prevent self-deatruc-UOB.

own mutilation to detention by tbe State, and

affix

must

time he shakes bands

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 24,1888.

It will subject the victim his

a stigma to suicide. In

oklen times tho

self-destroyed

was Jur

jury. If too poor to pay, he must beg from hut to hut, and ao one will refuse a contribution. For tears shed, on tSe other hand, payment of compensation

ied at cross roads and considered as worse than a murderer. The British Consul of Venezuela reports a curious case among tbe Indians, whieh may have had the same origin and purport as the statute meatioued. If an lo&ian accidentally injured himself, his mother's family de? mands of him the ^'payment of blood,* ou tbe theory that his blood is also theif ova, and he has uo right to shed it. Th# tile Terre Haute amateur standard. Her amount of paymeqt depends on the "Juliet" was a monotouein voice and au

be made to the relatives on the

father's side.

The Forum, in an article by a Boston writer, puts in sharp contrast two opinions of what are the duties and obligations of lawyers. Chief Justice Shawls reported as saying that "Contending counselors should do their best to repH sent or misrepresent, theyhaving naught to do with absolute equity or truth." But Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase was of the opinion that lawyers ara not bound to tell lies, and "If he were engaged in defending a man for a crime, and became convinced by indisputable evidence, such as the client's oonfession, that he was guilty, be shonld withdraw from the case. The opinion of Justice Shaw shocks moral sense. Such a practice is at the bottom of tbe growing opinion that the only way of getting rid of hard cases is by mob law. The true purpose and the highest obligation of a lawyer is that of any other man, to serve the public and protect society. We had better have thieves than abettors of thieves. Chase was right.

Philadelphia has anew church called "The SbcialistChurch." Every member takes the following covenant: "I hereby solemnly swear that I will not rob, chest, "trlke, tell lies about, communicate disease to, nor injure in any way, a feUoqg member Of this churoh. I also swear that! will drink distilled and fermented liquors with grrat care and I also swear that I will not lend to nor borrow money from any member of this churoh, except as a regular business transaction, I also swear that, as far as I am able, I will keep my body, clothes and dwelling in a clean and healthy condition." But why to "this church," and not to everybody However, we are not in the least afraid of any such millennial state of things for several years yet.

modei*tlorf?lw,tb

The spiritualists of the United States art rapidly ripening the movement to slough off the fraudulent rogues that have turned their views into nonsense and their science into the ludicrous. The Rellgio-Philosopblcal Journal says: "The feature of public mediumship as now conducted is a shame and a disgrace and the attitude of passivity, inertness and apparent lack of ability to influence it, manifested by the majority, is pusillanimous In the extreme." This Is honesty snd good pluck combined on the part of the editor. There is no question but the general public feels a deep Interest in this question of the vital relations of the universe but when a man must wade to his neck in slush to reach each small island of evidence the prefers to keep out of the mire.

PUNISHMENT OF BURGLARS. The Chicago News has the following to say in reference to burglars and the punishment which should be meted out to them: -r

A nine-year term in the penitentiary for burglary is along one, even for an old and confirmed criminal. At first glance such punishment for a young thief seems unnecessarily severe, but sny snch sentiment as this is spt to melt away when one considers the amount of lawlessness and crime in this city at

fresent.

There Is a ring of sound sense

the utterance made by Judge Horton yesterday when be sentenced three young burglars, none of them over 18 years of age, to nine years each In Joliet The attorney for the defendants pleaded that the jury was influenced in Inflicting such a severe penalty by the "present warm public sentiment with reference to burglarv." "No wonder there is a strong public sentiment," answered the Judge, "when we havs from a dozen to fifteen burglaries a night on our principal business and residence streets. Its about time a stop was pat to them, and now is a good time to begin, the penalty, while It may appear somowhat severe, will teach these young thieves that tbe business house and residence am sacred properties."

an inducement to swear off.

{New York Tribune.}

The following "sd*' of a grocery firm of Klrksville, Mo^ is a very good tomperance sermon. "Any man who drinks two drachms of whisky per day lor a year, and pay* ten cents a drink for it, can nave at our store 80 sacks of flour, a» pounds of granulated sugar and 71 pounds of goodPgreen coffee for tbe same money and get f&SO premium for making the ohange in his expenditures."

"1770

THE PASSING SHOW.

SHOWS AND SHOW FOLKS.

Seven performances at Naylor's opera bouse within a week is too great a tax on our show-going people, and as a consequence some of the attractions this week have not attracted audiences satisfactory to managers. McNish, Johnson ifc Slaven's minstrels ou Monday evening had a big audience. The Kimball Comedy {company on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, with a Wednesday matinee, gave great satisfaction to small audiences. Mrs. James Brown Potter on Thursday evening wafc a tffeMippointment. 8he is hardly up to

tomatic in action. Her posing and attitudinizing was at times absolutely painittl. The play was given with such seaaty treatment as to cast and stage effects as to be in marked contrast with tbe appearance here of Margaret Mather ia the same play.

This afternoon Miss Liszle Evans, a charming favorite here will appear In the play of "Fogg's Ferry," and to-night in her new play, "Our Angel," which was so well received on her last appearance here in December. Miss Evans is a souhrette who has successfully established herself in public favor by years of patient, conscientious work and her success is honest and deserved. She introduces as "Our Angel" a number of songs, which are well received. She Is vivacious, has a graceful carriage, a reserved force of acting, two shapely ankles, a dimple In each cheek and two rows of tho whitest teeth, and is altogether a pleasant lady to view across the footlights.

Next week the popular McColin Opera company, will play at Naylor's every night, with Wednesday and Saturday matinees. The repertoire is given in advertisement elsewhere and embraces four of the most charming operas of tbe day. The company is composed of thir-ty-eight people and carries its own orchestra. The Fort Wayne Journal has this to say:

The MacCollin Opera company opened the eason at tho Temple last night Varney's Tbe opera, "The Musketeers." new one in Fort Wayne. Is a ponand the number of favorites on the

season oomlc although alar one, bills should have secured a good house. A count with a couple of pretty nieces, two

fermentedj officers In the "Grey Musketeers"- In. ioy#

thetri. a oonvent full o* mischievous

ojre hnJoiea, a prudent mother superior, a blundering though well meaning abbe, and a few other characters who out no particular ng* ure anywhere, are sufficient to furnish the material for a libretto, and the musical score, while not remarkable in Itself, In excellent bands proved charming. Among the wellknown faces were those of Edmund Mtanley and Prano Hall, of Thompson's Beggar Student company Bebe Vlnlng, always clever and vivacious A. F. MacCollin, one of the cleverest of operatic* comedians, and others.

Mabel Haas, a new aspirant for honors in Fort Wayne, made a aecided hit and wss warmly applauded. An Interpolation in the second act, an old Alpine song with variations, did not receive the applause It merited. N. H. Ford, as the captain, received deserved recognition.* He Is a clever comedian and is possessed of a robust and pleasing voice. A remarkable feature of the presentation was the excellent work of the orchestra.

Sol Smith Russell will not retire from the stage as has been reported. His season closed at Erie on the 18th. Next season he will have a nej comedy by E. E. Kidder.

A Parisian genius has got out a list of plays which may be properly attended by those who are in mourning. A haUmodrning list will soon follow from the same authority.

The stars who, in the detective light of the sun, are handsome are exceedingly rare. The two most noted examples are Mary Anderson artd Mrs, Langtry. The Ister is fast losing her floe lines and freshness, but her exquisite dressing does something to deaden the sense of loss. At least it distracts the eye.

An old-time friend of Edwin Booth, speaking of the tragedian, said: "His nature is the most unique of any man in public life. His indifference to money, society, and the things which the world ranks as pleasures is absolute and def Inite. Few understand him, and he tries not to be understood. He is really the Hamlet of the nineteenth century."

Tbe New York papers hafoe combined in crushing condemnation of the immorality, sacrilege and horror of "Im Tosca," and Fanny Davenport has made concessions by eradicating what pronounced sacrilegious, and trying to tone down what is immoral and horrible. She has published a letter from Sardoa to her, whieh shows that it was at his earnest recommendation that she produced the piece ss be wrote It. The universal verdict is that her acting is superb, mid that It Is a pity that snch a great and powerful play should be so vile.

Twenty years sgo Stuart Robson was doing a travesty of "Hamlet" in Boston Frank Mayo was managing a theater in Rochester Frederick Robinson, of the Madison Square, was supporting Miss Henrietta Cbaufrau Louis Aldrich was playing heavies with tbe Boston Theater Company Lotta was playing Topey in "Undo Tom's Cabin Alice Harrison is doing a little of everything in "Humpty Dumpty and Fred Mseder now a playwright, wss a memorable Suorksy in "Under tbe Gas-light." Bat with sll these changes there was no Changs ia Maggie Mitchell. She was playing "Ftochoo'* jns* the same.

SA UCR FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

Philadelphia Call: The bustle has the bulge on women. The Judge: Do l^melles' cask can be full ob de bes' cldah.

Tid-Blts: A standing offer—"Will you take my seat, madam?" Philadelphia Call: Don't judge by appearances. A brand-new coat may cover a wire dummy.

The Judge: Whlttlin' may bo time wasted, but bewar' ob de man vf'at whittles w'ile be dickers.

Oil City Blizzard: It isn't always the man who gets the most tickets printed that gets the election.

Somervllle Journal: The man who Is most constantly begging pardon cares the least whether he ever gets it.

The Judge: A man may stub 'Is toe to-day. but rumor ull break 'Is leg tomorrer, an' maybe 'Is neck de day aftah.

Good all's Sun: It Is suggested that tbe ceiling of the next public building be made of coal. It never comes down.

Boston Globe: The man who Is always "putting In his oar" wJben other people are talking generally gets into a row.

Detroit Free Press: Let a woman busy herself with hammer and nails and it is usually difficult to determined what she is driving at.

Somerville Journal: Don't laugh when you see a woman trying to drive a horse. It may seem funny to you, but think how the poor horse must suffer.

Philadelphia Call: If you want to see an expression of severe simplicity and childlike innocenoe in a mans face watch him when he gets |2 change out of a $1 bill

New Haviin News: It is a little strange that among all the emluent men who have recently written of "Books which have helped me" none should have mentioned the dictionary.

Norristown Herald: Ao exchange wants to know "why it is, with so many negroes dying, nobody ever bees a black ghost." It is for the same reason that, with many white people dying, no body ever sees a white ghost.

LA NOTE OBJECTS TO THE BUSTLE. (Interview In New York Mail

I do not like to see a woman now wlih a bustle on as big as herself, and again H£#§&Eftight and slim as a punian. think it breaks the charm to see a wo*man play ti'ioks with her beauty in thai sort of a way. More than that,

object

to the bustle on general principles, believe In letting tho material of tbe

ray

well either sitting or walking. The hard "hay-bag" is bound to keep the one who wears It either leaning back In her car riage or chair in tbe most undignified attitude possible or sitting bolt upright, either case she is going

The carbonate of ammonia is an ex ceedingly volatile substance. Place a smalt portion of it upon a knife and hold over a flame, and It will almost im mediately be entirely developed into gas and pass off into the air. The gas thus formed is a simple composition of nltro-

from

ou and hydronen. No residue is left the ammonia. This gives it its superiority as a leavening power over soda and cream of tartar used alone, and has induced its use as a supplement to these articles. A small quantity of am monia in the dough is effective In pro ducing bread tbat will be lighter, sweeter and more wholesome than tbat risen by any other leavening agent When it is acted upon by tbe heat of baking, tbe leavening gas that raises the dough is liberated. In this act it uses itself up, as it were the ammonia is entirely diffused, leaving no trace or rest dunt whatever. Tbe light, fluffy, flaky appearance, so desirable in biscuits, etc., and so sought after by professional cooks, is said to be imparted to them only by the use of this agent.

The takers and baking powder manufacturers producing tbe finest goods have been quick to avail themselves of this useful discovery, and the handsomest and best bread and cake are now largely risen by the aid of ammonia is combined of course, with other leavening material.

Ammonia is one of the best known products of tbe laboratory. If, as seems to be justly claimed for ft, the application of its proprieties to the purposes of cooking, results in giving us lighter and more wholesome bread, biscuit and cake, It will prove a boon to dyspeptic humanity, and will speedily force itself into general use in the new field to which science has assigned it.

A hotel in Ness City has conspicuously ported In its office a sign whieh reads ss follows: "Any tenderfoot who calls a suit of rooms a sweet or a spit-box a cuspidoor or a lookln'-glass a mirrer can not stop at this bouse and will find tbe cllmit healthier further East."

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Eighteenth Yeai

WOMEN'S \VA YS.

A Chicago woman has discovered that it is very unlucky to pass a policeman.^ In one of the districts of Shawnee^ county, Kansas, a mother and daughter* are pupils in the same school and both are of school age. 4

There is at least one contented woman In the land, Miss Annie C. Brockett. In a lecture in New York she said: "I am satisfied. I see nothing to envy in the lot of man."

A St. Louis man wants a dlvorofc be-T cause his wife snores, whistles, smokes^ and swears. She evidently made a mis?' take in being a woman.

Omaha's tallest girl is six feet six inch-', es, and every effort on her part to seoure, i, a beau has been a failure, although she^H Is willing to sit dowu to be kissed.

One of the wrinkles anrong fashions able women during the coming summer will be to carry telesoopes. Many strong telescopes, made so that they can be earried in a small compass, hsve been purchased, to be used at sesside resorts and in traveling. It has been in vogue abroad for some time, but has just been introduced here.

In tremely uncomfortable her misery known.

be ex-

lerself and make

AMMONIA IN BAKING POWDERS. From the Scientific American. Among the recent discoveries in scienee and chemistry, none Is more important than the uses to which common ammonia oan be properly put as a leavening agent, and which indicate tbat this familiar salt Is hereafter to perform an active part in the preparation of our daily food.

New York young man discovered tbat ladies' ages must never be questioned. While danoing with a young lady who is his senior, he remarked: "Madam, how charmingly yon are dressed how well you look, I am curious may I aak how old you are?" "Certainly," she instantly replied. "I am old enough to have some breeding."

One of the most prominent and beautiful society women of Chicago takes all the exercise she gets in ber room. The major portion of this consists of quick and graceful movements of limbs, performed before a large fine mirror, each movement being repeated a score of times, until the whole series (fifteen) has received due attention. Then she "rests," at which she is also an adept, and rises re-Invigorated and refreshed.

Mr. Worth, the fashionable dress maker of Paris, recently remarked to a reporter: "I find that every country produces beautiful faces, graceful figures and lovely dispositions, ss well as their contraries. I suppose Russian ladies are the greatest dancers in tbe world English women are justly proud of their perfect complexions: tho French lead the world in real elegance, snd tbe American ladies impress me by tbe easy way in which tbey wear gorgeous gowns. Nothing overwhelms tbem.",

There is an establishment in New York tbat employs a large number of girls to crack and pick nuts, tbe kernels of which are sold to confectioners. The shells are ground up Into a powder and mixed with other spices. This shell dust has considerable flavor, although, of course, it is not what it Is alleged to be when sold as spice. It Is not known tbat it has any injurious qualities, while on tbe other hsnd, there is no reason for believing that it is any wsy beneficial. One of the largest grocery firms In Boston, who has branches In all tbe cities throughout New England, is said to sell this adulterated spice exclusively. If this firm obtains its other goods on a similar bssis, an explanation is at once afforded for tbe fact tbat it undersells all the other grocers.

It is said tbat a great msny Englishmen are visiting this country this season. I ask Jinks what they came for. He said be supposed "to marry softpated millionaire woaben, to talk tbe fellows out of their money, who want to be fooled, and to lay In a supply of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup." "The grestest ears cnesrtli for pain.

OstviAon OU takes up the strain.

Ouida has at last consented to write a novel "with atypical American family^ in it," and "all the sprightly freedom of"*^customary American love making."

A girl at Keokuk took a dare the other'!'' morning. Some one dared her to Uok&ov the iron railing of a bridge, and when*?y she got her tongue loose she couldn't'? express her disgust for three long days. ",

Women In New York are reported toi-* be taking readily to the oustom of dia-! pensing with male escorts in theater go- 4 ing and the like, and depending upon each other or upon some older person of their own sex for chaperoning.

Tho number of female book agents has steadily decreased for tbe last seven years, and Is now only thirty per cent, of what it was eight years ago. It takes a pretty girl to be a successful canvasser, and pretty girls have no troublo In got-( y/l ting married.

An insane woman esoaped from a1 Michigan asylum, and to prevent being captured she ollmbed a tree. All effort to persuade her to descend failing, the tree was chopped down and eased to the ground by the attendants. Its burden was then seized and taken back to the hospital.

A girl in Jersey City is sending circulars all over the country to prominent people, informing them that she is mak» ing a collection of diamonds for her 1 amusement, and asking them to contribute a ston) or two. The next thing will be tbe girl who Is collecting farms or corner lots. •*.

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