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The year 1889 starts out with ft frightful list of casualties on land and water.

Robert Bonner is only 64 years old. We have known of him so long it seems as though he ought to be a hundred.

The Grimes-Bichowaky senatorial contest case has revealed a deal of political fllth, and it does look like the grand jury might find some work for willing hands to do.

A Laporte man went into the woods to chop the other day and found 1500 worth of old Spanish coins hid in a hollow stump. Wood-chopping will be at a premium when this is known.

Gen. Harrison is having a vast amount of timber thrust on him for cabinet purposes. Fortunately he is a good judge of political timber himself and is not likely to select any crooked, weak or rotten pieces. _____

A Brooklyn belle while attending a ball recently, yawned so hard that she dislocated her jaw and had to be taken to a hospital for lepairs. Here is one more argument upon the folly of dancing.

It is said that Col. Bob Ingersoll's wife has persuaded

not to write anymore

infidel articles for the magazines. This is hopeful. Mrs. Ingersoll should now go a step further and persuade him to become a Christian instead of a pagan.

Indiana means to try her hund at an inaugural ball notwithstanding the opposition to the proposed one at Washington. The innovation will be made Monday evening with the advent of Gen. Hovey as Governor. Now what do the Methodist ministers think of this?

Gen. Harrison is buying his horses and having his carriages built for the White House in Indiana. He believes that a State which furnished the Presidential candidate and voted for him is good enough to furnish aoout everything else that is wanted. And he is right. Indiana may be counted on every time.

As we read the reports of busing failures from day to day it seems as if thore area great many of them. And so there are but not nearly so many as those that do not fail. During 1888 the failures in the United States numbered 10,671) and the average liabilities were a little moro than *11,000. But there were about 99 firms which didn't fail foreyery ono that did. Not a bad showing that.

The probabilities are that no Indiana man will be in the Cabinet. There are are so many aspirants fcr the honor that tho recognition of auy one of them would create bad feeling and leavo the party in worse shape than if tho State were ignored entirely. Perhaps tho recognition of Gen. Lew Wallace would muse as little friction as any that could be made. _____

Ono independent movement of the women leids to anothor. A number of Brooklyn ladies have organized a society and go in groups to whatever phwses of amusements they "like. By tills means they are Independent of male escorts, crossing the Brooklyn bridge together and carrying night keys so they can get in atwhatever hour they may return. IT this thing keeps on there will be nothing left for tho men to do but go to the club.

Tho story that Mrs. Amelio Rives Chanler drove about the country in an ox-cart on Christmas day, dressed in fanciful garb and distributing presents to tho poor, is said to be without foundation. Mrs. Rives Chanler is a sufficientremarkable woman and does enough remarkable things aside from her very remarkable literary performances, but the odd things she does aw exaggerated and sent over the country by her publishers for advertising purposes. Literature is a queer profession nowadays.

Mrs. Harrison is reported as having given allegiance to the bustle as an article of feminine apparel. It is to be hoped that the report is incorrect. But whether so or not the fashionable propose to ignore it. The bustle is doomed. Monsieur Worth, of Paris, having sent out the decree that the abnormal excrescence must go. Doubtless the renowned Frenchman will have his way. He generally doe® have. But what form of drees extravagance will replace it? Or can the dear women get along without

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foi a little while? Prof. Swing, the eminent Chicago divine, suggests the employment of parachutes for purposes of escape from burning buildings. Its safety has been demonstrated and it would be a valuable adjunct to the ladder escape and other appliances now in use. Mi\ Swing thinks the parachute will presently supplant the toboggan slide as a form or exercise. Towers will be built to the top of which geople will be hauled by elevator* to decend by toe panwhute rouie. The parachute could be closed like an umbrella and hung «P

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hotel sleeping room when not in use. The plan is worth considering.

Kate Field is lecturing on win^i The lectures ofigfef to be good, for some of the best after-dinner speeches that have ever been made were spoken on wine. The Philadelphia Times has an interview with Kate in Washington and she states that she is there to try to get California wines used at the White House dinners and no others. What a time President Harrison will have with them all! The ministers of certain sects want him to have no dancing. The fashionable folks of the capital want him to have more dances than ever the W. C. T. U. has a delegate after him to urge him to use no wine and Kate Field is on his track urging him to use California wine and see that he takes no other. Kate savs that her investigations in California have led her to the belief that California wines are the purest and best and most wholesome in the world. Kate is quite conscientious about this, of course,' as much so as the prima donnas who give half a dozen piano manufacturers a certificate, oach saying that their particular vintage of piano has been used and that the prima would have no other.

But here is a little side light on Kate's advocacy of California wines. The San Francisco Chronicle a couple of weeks ago contained a report of the meeting of the State Viticultural Commissioners. The first business on hand was the discussion of a letter from Miss Kate Field. She offered to advocate California wine in a lecture in New York for the sum of |500. On motion of Mr. Doyle the proposition was accepted and Kate was authorized to draw on the fund of the board to the amount of $500. It is said that good wine needs no bush, but California wine is to be "bushed" $500 worth.

The education of women has passed all stages of opposition, and of toleration it is now the rage, the passion, of the age. It is, at least, understood that the permanency of civilization depends on welleducated mothers because the force of heredity is maternal. In addition to the colleges for women, and annexes to the universities, colleges of art and industries are being established. Cambridge, England, has opened a college of carpentery for the female sex. The object is quite similar to that of our schools for manual culture,that is manual dexterity, rather than a trade. It is, however, not impossible that the women will soon invade the trades, they have the professions. It is a day of equal rights.

The scientific newspapers are opposed to-the execution of criminals by electricity. The Scientific American says that the law has been passed and no provision has been made to carry it out. Apparatus is not provided, no competent speolaliBts have been appointed to superintend its administration, and in the present state of affairs the law appears to amount to little more than an Indefinite suspension of the death penalty for murder. The Electrical Review says that olectricity is not suited for such work.

St. Paul papers say that there will be no ico palace there this winter. The ice is only three inches thick and honeycombed at that. Besides, the idea is gainiug ground that the ice palace carnival has been an injury to the State. Col. Hans Mataon, Secretary of State, says that the ice palace has cost the Northwest many thousand immigrants who were frightened away by the thought of what an awful hyperborean climate Minnesota has.

Bret Harte's works have the least sale of any of the present American novelists. He is the best descriptive writer of all the American novelists, but he hardly ever produces a novel in which the characters are not gamblers, fallen women, thieves and outcasts. This may be because in his early California life he was a newspaper reporter, constantly brought into contact with such characters.

Sacramento, Cal., has passed an ordinance ma&ing it unlawful for any person, under 17 years of age to smoke cigarettes within the corporate limits.

"Droll" is the word now. Everything funny, nowadays, is droll—so droll, very droll, too droll for anything, just as droll as can be, etc.,

The Ohio Legislature will have before it a bill providing, after the new New York law, for execution by electricity.

PlymouthChurch,Brooklyn.has abandoned pew auctions, establishing instead a schedule.

ONE OF MCRPHTS CONVERTS, Ind. 8uo. Francis Murphy has finished his work here after converting over 6,000 people to the cause of temperance. He goes next to Conuersville. He has been there be fore. One time when he was lecturing there a tall, rather slender man came forward and signed the pledge. He was a well known lawyer. He bad been a not alwava discreet drinker—who that toy with Bacchus is discreet? He kept his pledge. He grew rich and when keen man was needed for a great political movement he was chosen for the place. He make no mistakes. Hewas shrewder than Dudley and often wiser thaa his counsel lets. He »a J. N. Huston, chairman of the Republican State central committee.

ABOUT WOMEN.

A thoughtful writer calls attention to the growing willingness of women to go through life unmarried. Once it was considered a bad thing to be an old maid, and light-minded people made fun of one. Now ifc is different. Some of the brightest and prettiest women become so much interested in the serious work of life that they regard husbands as altogether unnecessary inconveniences. They are satisfied with the state of single blessedness, and appear to be just as happy and useful as their married sisters. It is all right. If a woman remains single it is her own affair, and outsiders need not concern themsei\ about it. As a rule an old maid is an intellectual and interesting woman.

The New York Exchange for Women's Work began ten years ago with thirty articles for sale. Last year the returns in the cake and preserve department alone was $11,000. The Exchange sells for women now more than half a million dollars worth of things made by them. During the last ten years the money for goods sold has amounted to $1,250,000. The quality of work recei red has improved so that a much larger proportion is salable than formerly. The gum obtained from the salep of cake, preserves, etc., large as it is, was exceeded by one other item, that paid for children's wrappers, one lady having received $1,200 fur her work.| Jj

General Harrison's wife is in receipt of nearly fifty letters a day from office seekers. In fact her correspondence has become so great that she has been obliged to obtain the services of a private secretary. Miss Florence Miller, daughter oi President-elect Harrison's law partner, has assumed this position. Miss Milled, unlike Elijah Halford, does not whistle, but. she makes a very good secretary. She assures Mrs. Harrison's correspondents that the wife of a president does not occupy a political position.

If there were a ipore thorough know ledge of cookery on the part of the young women of this country, the question "Is mairiage a failure?" might not be asked with such frequency. A wealthy and sensible woman of New York proposes to endow a cooking school for young women. The idea is a good one. With more extensive and practical knowledge of cooking on the part of American •Is there might be more happy and contenWhtiuieholds.

The ladies will be pleased to know that Mrs. Harrison is not unmindful of that part of the policy of the new Administration which it is her duty to determine. She has authorized the following brief, but interesting, statement of her purposes: "As to low-necked and short-sleeved dresses, personally, no as to bustles, yes as to wine, I haven't made up my mind."

Rev. Ida C. Hulin,a graduate of Michigan University, has charge of a Unitarian Church at Des Moines,Iowa,and her congregation has doubled in two years.

SHOWS AND SHOW PEOPLE.

Mrs. James G. Blaine, jr., has taken her first step in the theatrical profession. Had her picture taken in a shaped dress front.

Lotta is said to be the richest actress on the American stage, and her pecuniary success is due to an abundant supply of mother and a {plentiful lack of husband.

Cal. Wagner, the old minstrel who recently abandoned that line, is Construction Superintendent of the People's Street Railway, a belt double track line running around the town and through some of the principal streets of Syracuse, N. Y. It will be remembered that he once run an engine on our I. & St. L. road.

William Petrie, who was for some time a negro minstrel, says that when he first appeared as a white face comedian he was so frightened, 021 glancing down at his white hands, that he nearly broke down. Other minstrels have had the same experience when they felt that their blushes were no longer behind, burnt cork.

Maurice Barry more, says a New York critic, is not cursed with the spendthrift habits which make many of bis fellow actors as poor as church mice except on pay day. He is of a very frugal turn of mind, and dines daily in a modest little restaurant on Sixth avenue. Most professional with a modest income disdain anything below Delmoniws.

Mme. Janisch, the actress, is said to be confined to an insane asylum near Vien na, the result of morbid dejecton bronght about by financial reverses. Formerly, she handled money freely, bathed in campagne regularly, lived in luxury that equaled anything Vienna has ever seen in its private life, and became famed for her reckless disregard of the "sinews of war," and for her joyous disposition

"No presents" most be printed on every fashionable wedding invitation these days. It's hard on the young couple, as they may be depending on outsiders furnishing the house, bat the

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SOME RELIGIOUS VIEWS OF ERARY WOMEN. „,

ROSE HARTWICK THORPE.

The author of the famous poem "Cur few Must Not Ring To-night," thus expresses her religious views: "I believe in God, the Creator, the Eternal Good which shadows our imper fections with the wing of supreme right eousness. God is the fount of all true happiness. When we cease to beat our bruised pinions against the cruel bars of fate,we rise to a nearness to him. Church and creeds have their place, and a most important one, in the education of mind and the. formation of character. They are open channels directing stagnant waters of skepticism to tho broad and purifying sea beyond. The nearer we approach that sea the more we think on the love that guides us and less on the dissensions and strife and dogmas of small importance. We remember that ^iove leads God's children home. Some may wander through intricate ways while others, divining God's purpose with clearei perceptions, may follow the straight, smooth pathway, and all, guided by love, will reach the haven of love at last." 4 ELLA WHEELER WILCOX:. "I Relieve that the universe was created and is ruled by a great intelligence, which is the Spirit of love—commonly called God." "This intelligence desires all created things to live in the harmony, industry, gratitude, cleanliness aDd unselfishness. "Whoever departs one iota from any one of these laws must .suffer and cause suffering. "I believe in progressive immortality and in a succession of lives here or on other planets. "I believe the spirit lives forever and cannot decay or die. "I believe that after the death of the body those who have wandered from the laws of the Creator: will be obliged to occupy a low place in the next world and separated from those who lived true to principle that they must begin the dreary labor of reformation alone with their awakened consciences. 1 "1 believe that whatever is, is best, and the sufferings we are compelled to endure here are but the results of wrong methods of living, or, ripening experiences which are intended to force the soul into truer condition. "I believe space is peopled with advanced spirits who have passed through former incarnations and who sympathize with us, and strengthen us when we cry for help not in spiritual manifestations or materialization, but in more subtle and mysterious ways beyond the mind of man to fathom or explain. "I believe that Christ had passed through many reincarnations and that he was, therefore, enabled ft be indefinite in his sympathies and power. "I believe each soul is its own Savior that prayer to the Unseen Forces about us widens our spiritual knowledge and bnngs us closer to divine thing* "I believe that we are evolveo from lesser orders of life through millions of centuries, and that humanity is the highest type yet obtained 'hat the world grows better and humanity more spiritual and intelligent constantly, and that we are all progressing toward divinity that in the eons of time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like be ings, who shall analyse and discus® the chlmpansee. "I believe that love is the universal law that to live upon earth is an inesti mable blessing and privilege, and that death is bat the gateway to a more advanced existence."

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The following contributions are-evi-dence of the deep religious natures of American literary women, and proof that "the core of humanity is woman's heart," that it is pure, untainted and full of goodness. In an age of unrest and dissatisfaction with old creeds and cold formulas,the key-note of true Christianity is heard in the utterances of these women writers:

ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND "My belief is in a religion which looks into poor houses and idiot asylcms and penitentiaries—aye, and into the dark* ness of great cities by night, and still believes in humanity reclaimable, however marred or fallen, and infinitely worth saving a faith which contemplates the catastrophe of moral obiquity and spiritual suicide, of the mole and the bat life of thousands 'of us, of the leprous spasm of human beings that are constantly thrown upon the shores of life only to contaminate and abuse, and yet which says, with Longfellow: "'I believe that in all ages every numan heart is human that in every savage breast there are longings, yearnings, for the good they comprehend not* That the feeble hands and helpless, groping blindly in the darkness, reach God's right hand in the darkness, and are lilted up and straightened. •,

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MARGARET E. SATFOSTER.

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thirty years or more, and am more than ever in love with Sunday-school work in its several phases. My crecd is, perhaps, best summed up in love to and faith in the blessed Redeemer, and I trust it works out in loving deeds and thoughts to my fellow-beings."

OLIVE THORNS MILLER.

"What a demand! My religious views! Goodness I I don't know them myself —I'm trying to fix them somewhere, on something. The very best I can do for you is this: I am a deeply religious woman, though you may not suspect it, but I have as yet found no creed broad enough for me. I attend as you know, the New 'Church, but do not belong there. I find it the least objectionable of the sects, but I do not believe in sects. I am the farthest removed from Materialism I think—in fact, I know—I incline to Mysticism. Will that do? I can't do better.

LILLIAN AVHITING.

"I believe that the event we call death is far less of a change than has been, in older ages, believed. To me it seems but the opening of a door—a transition.—and perhaps it is but one of the many successive changes of immortal life. I be lieve we must achieve an immortality now and here, that we must be immortal now, by living spiritually, and not only materially that we must carry the ideal Christian life into the actual daily life, and show our faith in God, our love for Christ, 'not only from our lips, but in our lives'—yes, by 'giving up ourselves to thy service and walking before thee in righteousness and pureness of life,' and I believe we can give ourselves to his service just as truly in every ordinary vooation as could be done by the purely contemplative life, to which some individuals are certainly called. "I deeply believe in the great neeu of personal holiness, and

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ble for every human soul to attain it." FRANCES WILLARD. "The life of God in the soul of man is the only life, and all my being sets toward it as the rivers toward the sea. Celestial things grow dearer to me the love of Christ is steadfast in my soul the habititudes of a disciple sit more easily upon me tenderness toward humanity and the lower orders of being increases with the years. I am a strictly loyal and orthodox Methodist, but I find great good in all religions, and in the writings of those lofty and beautiful moralists who are building better than they know, and all of whose precepts blossom from the rich soil of the New Testament."

Bob Burdette asserts woman's physical superiority. He, however, frankly confesses that she cannot sharpen a pencil, and outside of commercial circles she cannot tie a parcel to make it look like anything but a crooked cross-section of chaos, but land of miracles, see what she can do with a pin! There are some women who can pin a glass knob to a door. She can't walk so many miles around a billiard table with nothitg to eat and nothing (to speak of) to drink, but she can walk the floor all night with fretful baby without going sound asleep the first half hour. She can ride 500 miles without going into the sleep-ing-car to rest, (and get awaay from the children). She can go to town and do a wearisome day's shopping and have a good time with three or, four friends Without drinking a keg of beer. She can enjoy an evening without smoking half a dozen cigars. She can endure the torturing distraction of a house full of children all day, while her husband cufls them all a howling to bed before he has been home half an hour. Mhe is the salt of the church, the pepper of the choir and life of the pewing society and about all there is of a young ladies' school or a nunnery. A boy with a sister is fortunate, a fellow with a cousin is to be envied, a young man with a sweetheart is happy, and a man with a wife is thrice blessed more than all.

SAUCE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

Oil City Blizzard Tis the early boarder that catches the bash when it's warm Somerville Journal: A man should never look a gift mule in the heels or a Christmas present in the price-mark

Merchant Traveler "Business before pleasure," remarked the man, as he inquired bow much the undertaker would charge for his mother-in-law's funeral.

New York Tribune: An Irreverent press will soon forget all about "Grover and Dan," and devote itself to saying more or less funny thingsabout "Ben and 'Lige."

Minneapolis Journal: It Is a note* worthy fact that in all this discussion as to whether marriage Is a failure no one lias thought to raise the same question about courtship.

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Watch the old lady leave the car. She has her basket, her bag, her birdcage and her umbrella. With her basket she can push a man clear over the back of a car seat. With her bag she can slap his hat over his eyes without looking at him With her bird cage she can muss Ithe hair of any woman she passes. And with her umbrella she can stab people before her in the back and put out the eyes of people behind her.

She sets ,out to leave the [car by the front door. But only one or two people seem to be going that way, and turning her head she sees a lot of people crowd-' ing into the car by the rear door. Instantly it occurs to her that a route so, popular must certainly be the best, The incoming passengers, coveting earnestly the best seats, struggle fiercely to reach them. The old lady, fixing her piercing eyes upon the rear door, makes way for liberty and egress. People cry out, "The other way!" And the old ladv wonders why they didn't go that way themselves then. It flashes upon her with the light of revelation. It is a plot to get'her out of that lonely end of the oar, where four masked men with blackened faces are waiting to rob and murder her, and then whisk her off into a private lunatic a&yluui. She remembers now seeing the conductor go out at that door and beckon her to follow. He is in league with the robbers. She will gain the rear door or die.

She crashes and plunges through the incoming procession leaving a chaotic wreck of raiment and baggage in her wake, and reaches the door at last, herself a wreck.' With a triumphant glare at the bafiled conductor who has come into the car to look for her, the dear old soul backs down the car steps, hangs on the hand rail, and, reaching down and out with ono foot, feels around for the planet we inhabit.

Finding the globe at last she taps it cautiously with her foot once or twice, to make sure that it is thore, and will not suddonly shoot away into space as she comes down, and so descends, stands safely on the platform, and in her blessed old heart gives grateful thanks for safe deliverance, ana carries her sweet old face, her many bundles, and her capacious pockets up to som? home that will lose three-fifths of its sunshine when grandma makes hor last journey and is received without a bundle or package, a trouble or fear, by the angels who muBt sometimes grow a little impatient waiting for her*—R. J. Burdette.

BUT NOT IN OUR TIME. In regarding the agricultural econo^ mies of the future, it must not be forgotten that a certain degree of warmth is as necessary to plant development as potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen. If it be true, therefore, that the earth is gradually cooling, there may come a time when a cosmic athermacy may cause the famine which scientific agriculture will have prevented. Fortunately. however, for the human race, thecereals, the best single article of food, are peculiarly suited to a cold climate. Barley is cultivated in Iceland, and oatmeal feeds the best brain and muscle of the world in the high latitudes of Europe.

It is probably true that all life, vegetable and animal, had its origin hi the boreal circumpolar regions. Life has already been pushed half way to tho equator, and, slowly but suroly, the armies of ice advance tbeir lines. Tho march of the human race equatorward is a forced march, even if it be no more than a millimeter in a mlllenium. Some time in the remote future the last man will roach the equator. There, with the mocking disc or the sun in the zenith denying him warmth, flat-headed and pinched as to every feature, he will gulp his last mite of albuminoids in his oatmeal, and close his struggle with an indurate inho8pitality.—Professor Wiley.

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MOURNING EMBLEMS. Besides black, the following are used as a sign of grief for the dead: Black and white striped to express sorrow and hope, among tho South Sea Islanders Grayish brown, tho color of tho earth, to which the dead return, in Ethiopia. Pale brown, the color of the withered leaves, Is the mourning of Persia. Sky blue to express the assured hope that the deceased has gone to heaven. This is the mourning oi Syria, Cappadocia and Armenia. Deep blue in Bokhara. Purple and violet to express "kings and queens of God." The color of mourning in Turkey is violet. White (emblem o£ hope), the color of mourning in China. Henry VIII. wore white for Anne Boleyn. The ladies of ancient Rome and Sparta wore white. It was the color of mourning in Spain till 1498. Yellow (the sear and yellow leaf), the color of mournfng in Egypt and in Burmah. Anne Boleyn wore yellow mourning for Catharine of Aragon. Second mourning in America in black calico, thickly dotted with white spots. When worn by widows, Mr«rHolmes, the poet, calls these spots pin-holes in the night of their dispair.

HOW DO YOU PART YOUR HA I lit Han Francinco Call. "On the right, !f you please," said the reporter to a tonsorial artist, who, brush and comb in hand, was about to part his hair on the left side of his head. "All right, sir," remarked the barber, was going to part it on the other side from force of habit." "How many people part their hair or* tbe right side?" "Should say less than one in twenty." "And why do so many men part it on the left side?"

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the hair from left to right, she parts it on the left. The boy when he grows upand is able to comb his own bair finds tbe part on that side, and follows theline marked out by his mother. That's, why tbe majority of men part on the* left."|,