Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 June 1889 — Page 1

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Vol. 19.-No. 52.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Commertt.

Beoause a paper is called the Post, it should not follow that its staff shonld be sticks. V' ,:'

If the police will not impound oows, why not keep them busy pounding sand on the river front?

Newspaper managers have their eye en Woodruff. He would make an excellent man to testify to circulation.

Bad whisky and bad Indian usually create bad blood. This will suffice for a summary of the Chippewa outbreak.

What a bonanza Woodruff will be as a campaign liar for *92. Let the politicians secure his release If possible by that time.

Secretary Tracey has ordered all metalic naval sbips painted white, but the sailor boys would perhaps have preferred palntln' er red.

This great and glorious government possesses not a hundred tents available in case of an emergency. Truly, the navy has not where to lay its head.

While a fight Is going on over whose duty it is to«nforce the cow ordinance, the bovines are enjoying themselves and are living on the choicest products of yards and gardens.

The fact that Mrs. Cleveland is learnto play the violin has no political significance. Hhe will probably not attempt to fiddle her-husband back into popular iavor.

America te a fast country. We live fast and a large number get the idea into their heads that we do not die fast enough and hence shuffle off this mortal ooil by their own hand.

A Itotroiter is suing his wife for divorce because she is bald headed. Should he be successful, anew avenue Is opened up by wbieh legal separation can be secured from'thousands of husbands.

It was reported this week that Sullivan was on a spree. Another despatch contradicted the report by the assertion that John was only "moody." This must be a sew name for it in York State

After July 4th the old flag will fly with forty-two stars. Heretofore New. York and Indiana have been the pivotal states, politically, but the addition, ofi four new states will pin down theoor-! ners. _____

While tho Clan-na-Gaol is being een-' sured as an organisation, it should be" remembered that prominent members in the order are taking active steps to bring the murderers of Dr. Cronin to. justice. _____

Geo*ral*Sherman told the West Potat gradsales tlAt "one can learn at 79 as, well as at JIT." He also said that West Point ladies grow prettier every year, perhaps by way of illustration of the first remark. _____

Mr, Fink, commissioner of the trunk line railroads, has resigned a $25,000 salary to order to take a trip to Europe for tils ilealth. Mr. Fink seems to l» one of the few men who value health more ttmn money.

Irs R. Hon key, the singing evangelist, has* bought: 30 acres of Long Island ami is going Ho plant himself there in a line rosldenoe which ho will The singer is worthy of his hire and lie has evidently koen getting it, too.

Th© Shelbyvllle Democrat nominates lllll and Gmy as the ticKCt In Gray pulled every wire for the tail of the ticket last year, but'his boom collapsed. Oily Iko Is setting his sail* before there is any political breese to t!sp them.

Col. Ctarkson.says he is turning out Democrat* because the country so decided last November. The drop of the guillotine may be aocom|anied by a "dull thud" but the Colonel's reason is anything but dull. It Is as sharp as his ax is keen.

A Sandwich Islander can content hliuimit with the assertion that be would rather be rich than be king. The potentate} of the bun and bam islands la "broke flat." He wanted to visit Paris, but couldn't raise the money to get out of his own dominions.

Terne Hau t«ut« are now careful not to go about wells with lighted cigars. They Are profiting by the experience of a Noblesvtlle termer who Ut his pipe near a well and Ignited the gas escaping from it. There Is danger hero of setting ftre to the oil which Is beneath us.

President Harrison Informed the antlMahone Ropub" ins that he will not Interfere In any Udonal fights. He has lived in Indiana and knows what smelt internecine conflicts mean. In the matter of distributing offices, those who engage in a factional quarrel can be considered out of the race. .Here's a pointer |o local politicians.

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Strange isn't it, that the dailies boomed the oil excursions, inviting capital to come here, and now are not favorable to outside capitalists making large investments. If the oil territory is as large as is expected it cannot be developed or controlled by home capital without outside assistance. 4%

Two Cincinnati women claimed to be the mother of a chi'd and took the matter into court. One woman refused to present the child in court and welcomed going to jail for her conduct. If the court had heard of the story of Solomon he perhaps might have concluded then and there to whom the child belonged.

Special correspondents say there is suffering in the mining regions of Clay county. This ought to settle all newspaper controversy. Aid is needed and needed bsdly. Terre Haute is near to destitution it is almost at our door and we should extend a helping hand. Indianapolis has raised a considerablesum and other cities should prove themselves equally as charitable. „r

Dr. Parkhurst, of Greencastle, created a sensation in Indianapollf, this week, taking the ground that women should not engage in church work to the exclusion of household duties. He deprecated the idea of teaching women to be independent in the world to the neglect of their home du ties. He considered every unmarried woman unfortunate, as they do in China. He said that in almost every oongiregation of which he had been pastor there were women who neglected their children, or remained childless, in order that they might keep their duties in the missionary and church societies. Infidel doctors knew this, and pointed it out as a reason for not entering the church. Only where women had first perforated their duties as wives and mothers did he favor their takiug part in church work.

in sitse, physical development and training and a great fight may be looked for if it ever comes off and i? honestly contested. But the publio, from recent experiences, has little faith In honest prize fights. They usually begin with brag and bluster and end with a gauzy pretense of fightlng in which neither party is hurt. So much the better, however. We ought to be beyond the era of suoh brutal exhibitions and it is good enough when those who invest their money in tickets to see two men pound each other aro cheated out of what they paid for.

"It is easy for married couples toquarrel and bring themselves to the point of a •divorce," said a well-known gentleman, the other day. "After I had been married three months I came sadly b9me one night to tell my wife that business would keep me away from her for the next 24 hours. She was very girlish, and by way of reply she •gave herself a little hug with a little wriggle of the body thrown in, and expressed her feelings in an exclamation of unmistakable joy. Deeply pained, I said to her that I never supposed she desired my absence -enough to gurglo with joy at the oaere proposal of it. Many a man would have gone off angry or darkly suspicious. Instead I questioned her. 'Why, you goose,' said she, 'when you said you were going away one thing popped into my head to the exclusion of everything else. That was: Now he's going away and I can eat some raw onions with salt and vinegar. That was all. I have been dying for raw onions ever since oar wedding."'

Postmaster General Waoamaker would accomplish a beneficent reform if be would overhaul the list of the 58,000 poetoffiees of this country, and compel a change in some of -the ridiculous appellations that now belong to some of them. There .is no particular objection to Wapwallopen, Aquashtoola, Passadumkeag, Punxsntawney, Wytopitlock, Dagnsoahonda, Mattawumkeag, Klshacoquillas, Wanepashemet, Quijotoa, Skaneateles, Quonocbontaug, Tajiqae or Agua Osliente, provided they mean anything In this particular, and there may be some excuse for Blue Eyes, Dew Drop, Bab Head, Kady Dawn, Sweet Lips, Bridtu Veil, Rose Bad, Daisy Dell, Sweet Home, DeU Delight, Keep Tryst, Pfcairie Queen, and so on, b»t when it comes to calling a postoffioe a Big Shanty, Burnt Cork, Try Bones, Happy Jack, Hanging Dog, Hat 08, Horse Gall, Hump Back, Little Chucky, Monss Tall, Negro Foot, Parch Corn, Pay Up, Pink Bed, Quid None, Rabbit Hash, Rough and Ready, Ry Patch, Sal Soda, Scalp Level. Shoo Fly and Short, there seems to he room tor reform.

Simon. B, S. Rock wood, E. H. Bindley and P. J. Kaufman bare beught tbe three lots of the Roe* estate {ying Immediately east of ESghtb street on the north aide of Main sttMt. Tit price paid was fUS per foot front. Tbe lots are alma* one handcid nd thirty bat ***,

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The newspapers are giving a great deal of spaoe 'to the coming fight between Kilraln and Sullivan. Both pugilists are in -training for the event which is advertised for July 8, somewhere within 2)0 miles of New Orleans. Hie stake is 920,000, the largest sum ever put np on I others have not followed his example, a price'fight. The men are well matched Many residences are enclosed by nice

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News and Interviews.

The battle against the cow has again been opened and the result will be watched with interest. When the council passed the anti-cow ordinance a feeble attempt was made to enforce it. Astray cow was arrested occasionally and its owner required to pay a dollar and costs. Only the most audacious cows found their way into tM^ pound. Several converted the government building lawn into a pasture and were driven to the pound. The laxity with which the ordinance has been regarded has been owing to the fact of the disputed responsibility of its enforcement. It was supposed that the police should act as cow catchers, but the superintendent had not the men to detail for that work. Then he discovered that it was not his duty, and he shouldered the matter on the city marshal. Enforcement at his hands is out of the question. He has not even a deputy and could not keep going day and night In search of bovines. Mayor Danaldson has rendered an opinion which it is hoped will be mado, to stick. He informed the police heads and mar shal that it is their duty to enforce the law. If special officers are required the police board should not hesitate to employ them.

H. J. Baker's resolution was promptly squelched at the last meeting of the city council. He does not propose to be defeated so easily and has secured the assistance of others who will hire men to keep the cows off the streets if the authorities will not do so. T^»is movement was favored at the time the ordinance was passed, but nothing came of it until now when it seems quite necessary.

In speaking of the cow question, a gentleman said the only way to effect the enforcement of the ordinance was for each property owne.» to tear down his fence. If cows run the greets such a howl would go up that there would then be no question but that the law would be obeyed or mayor's court would be filled each morning with owners of offending bovines. One south Sixth street property owner removed his fence but

fences and there is fear that the law will not be enforced and that a removal of the fence would in time only mean its rebuilding. The way to enforce is to tsar •down fences. Let those who are in favor of adhering to the new law take this step at ohce and the cow question will soon be settled.

The government building steps, fn the language of the street, make the p*i!ic "very tired." A leather medal should be sent at once 4x the architect. They are the meanest thing to ascend in the city. If they are not Improved the authorities will have to construct a swear lug room in the lower corridor. The steps are too narrow and are altogether too steep. Add to this the fact tbat they ate built out off poor stone and yeu have a combination which is justly complain ed of. I have feeard that Senator Voor hees will lookafter the matter upon his return to Washington and will insist upon a rebuilding of the steps. If such is not done it will not be long until there is a broken nose or limb as a result of the faulty construction of the steps. If the public will be compelled to clitnb the steps during the winter there will be musio in the air.

School children become very much attached to their teacher. This was illus-" trated the other day when two little girls in a lower room of the ward schools entered the office of Superintendent Wiley The superintendent welcomed his youthful callers and asked what they wanted "Please, Mr. Wiley," said one ef them, "won't you let Miss teach us next year. She is such a nice teacher." The .children explained that they had been promoted to a higher room and requested that their teacher be advanced also. The superintendent smiled at the plea and said he had not yet assigned the teachers for nexi year, but he would think about granting their request. The girls were pleased with thih mueh encouragement and left. It remains to be seen how effectual their influence may preve with the superintendent. 9M&

There has been considerable talk of an ordinance preventkig the drilling for oil near r»*fdences. In several instances •totmg 1 jeetions have been missd against tbe erection of derricks, and have threatened tbe nnpanies with injunction proceedings. There have been conflicting opinion# expressed. An effort waa made to bring the matter before the council. Before any hasty action was taken, tbe matter waa referred to City Attorney Tkyior and a report was made at tbe meeting of the The attorney reported that tbe council had not tbe right to interfere with tbe drilling for oU. Tbe drilling of a well does not constitute a nuiaanee and a company can not be enjoined from drilling. However, if oil is struck and the ameU becomes offensive, legally considered the product beoomee a nuisance. There will be nothing done until rfl to •track and then perhaps somo of the

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 22,1889.

oompenies msy bare some 19tate quite replete with big North AmernBytog the oppoaiHoii. JjcnnftRf. There are no flkfoofam.

COMMENCEMENT. SEASON. The fifth annual commencement of the Rose Poly technio was suoeessful as usual and those directly interested and visitors were highly pleased with the institution. As is the custom, the buildings were thrown open to the publio and every department could be inspected. The shops, the chemical labratory, the library, physical labratory, and the drawing rooms were all places of interest. Some beautiful work was on display and it was interesting as well as instructive. Hundreds thronged the building and grounds before the commencement exercises which were held in the large hall in the main building. The stage was beautifully decorated and presented a very pleasing appearance. After invocation by the Rev. Stanley, the graduates read abstracts of their theses. The graduates were as follows:

John DeBoe Galloway, Napa City, Cal., Civil Engineering. Elmer Ellsworth Griffith, Uettysburgh, O., Mechanical Engineering.

Alonzo John Hammond, Frankfort, Civil Engineering. Victor King Hendricks, Indianapolis, Civil Engineering. a

Herbert Holmes Hcfulng, Terre Haute, Mechanical En Theodore Engineering

Jones, New Harmony, Civil

William Riley McKeen, Jr. Terre Haute, Mechanical Engineering. Donn Marlborough Roberts, Terre Haute, Mechanical Engineering.

Walter Brown Wiley, Terre Haute, Dept of Chemistry. Col. R. W. Thompson presented the diplomas, and his address was exceedingly interesting. He spoke feelingly to the graduates and gave them words of encouragement. One incident which he narrated is especially worthy of mention. He said he was in New York and was invited to step across the street and witness the workings of the Morse telegraph. He met the gray haired inventor, who explained the system. One was stationed iu the basement. "Ask him," said Colonel Thompson, "who will be the next president?" "Henry Clay!" "I don't know much about your maohine, but I like its politics, and if you will come on to Washington next spring I will vote for an appropriation." The Colonel labored for tbe appropriation and in 1842 it was passed by a majority of eight votes.

A. J. Hammond won the Heminway gold medal for the best four years record Donn M. Roberts would have won the scholarship prize had it been awarded. George Putnam won the flOO Junior prize. A bronze copy of the Heminway i&edal was presented to the Freshman making the highest record. It was won by Arthur Dletrlc, with Arnold Layman's per oent only .2 less. Dr. Mendenhall said ho had received telegrams from several large manufacturing companies offering positions to graduates. The audience was dismissed by benediction by the Rev. Crum. ,* V- «-'-k

The alumni association of the High School held a reception on Tuesday evening at the High school bnildlng. Over two hundred were present. John E. Cox presided. Harry Donham, Miss Kate Fischer, D. H. Smith, Reba Insley and George Rogers delivered addresses. New officers were installed as follows: President—Douglas H. "Smith, Vice Pres ident—Fred Longman, Recording Sec re tary—Arnold Layman, Financial Secretary—S. C. Harris, Treasurer—Fred T. Beal, Executive committee—Miss Agnes Brennan, Miss Gertrude Boring and Mr, Alonzo C. Duddleston. Prof. Byers conducted the installation. Supt. Wiley, S F. Ball, Miss Kate Lamb, Miss Emily Peakes and Miss Marietta Grover were called on for a few remarks. Refresh ments were served and a very enjoyable evening was spent, some of tbe younger qaembers tripping the light fantastic.

The followiog is the programme of commencement exercises of the State Normal, commencing next Tuesday, the 25th:

Tuesday evening, public exercises Phliomathian Literary Society. Wednesday evening, public exercises Electric Literary Society.

Thursday, meeting Board of Trustee*. Thursday, 4:00 p. m., business meeting of Alumni Association.

Thursday evening. Annual Reunion. Friday, 9:00 a. m. graduating exercises of tbe Senior class.

Friday afternoon. Alumni dinner, Terre Haute Howe.

MASONIC ENTERTAINMEN7. The following Is the programme of the Masonic entertainment, at the opera house, on Monday evening. The sale of seats is progressing and a crowded hunse will be In attendance past 1. Overture, "Bwell AHWr". Ringgold Orchestra Selection James Whiteomh Riley Evening Bong (Baak*) Masonic Quartette Knight Templar Drill—Ladles of Terre Haut«

Chapter No. 43, Order of the Eastern Star Mesoamee Eva Hotlincer, Louise Debtee. Laura Ludowtd and Sadie Brers Misse* Minnie Slaughter, Mary Hedge*, May me O'Mara, Molfie Duddleston, Jessie Mernr, Mollie Ha«erty, Ida Calvert and MoUIe Mshan LaFloraJa"—{B. Bsvtgnani)

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Selection. James Wbltcomb Blley O re in go O he a MBtt.L,- -. Tyrolean Danes ......

AUsses Anita Hadson* Jorie Douglas, Carrie Hyde, Mabel Cook, Anna Carlton, Kate Carlton, ntse Hudson, Frances Haberiy, May Armstrong and Ettun* Brown. Teaor Solo. Bev. Jas. D.Stents? Selection James Whitcomb Riley What Moanta!na-{Masnatffer) ha be a a **oaae

Sweet Day—{Towner) ......... Tbe Masonic anartee James Whiteome Btlejr

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Marriages in Fiction.

AN INTERESTING SUMMARY OF MARRIAGE AS PORTRAYED BY THE .» NOVELIST'S PEN.

Andrew Lang writes delightfully— when did he write otherwise?—on "Unhappy Marriages in Fiction." "They lived happy ever after." We all adopt that formula of the fairy tale. There are, to be sure, fairy tales more daring than most, whioh prolong the narative beyond the nuptial hour, behind the nuptial veil show us what a wicked mother-in-law can inflict and a pretty princess may endure. But human nature is impatient of such researches. In the French tale of M. Perrault, the Sleeping Beauty's troubles only begin after she has been married. But our English nursery versions leave all that out. Is this not clear proof, in its way, that novel-readers and story-hearers do not want to know tbe truth about marriage? Poets and romancers say they are "critics of life." But there is apart of it which very few of them criticise. It has been asked whether any poet has ever yet, sung the sorrows of being "henpecked?" Not one, unless we count a dramatio rendering in Mr. Browning's "Andrea del Sarto." Yet many poets, and novelists too, must have been in Soorates' case. The wisest of men found the bay mare (Xanthippe) the better horse. But Soorates wrote little verse, still less fiction, and the world waits for the daring lyrist who is to touch this saddest and sweetest of minor ebords.

Setting aside the complications in married life and the introduction of a "third person," with which the fiction of continental Europe deals so largely the inquiry comes up, what is a happy marriage? And our author finds the essence of a happy marriage well defined in Homer. His hero, shipwreoked on the coast of Phteaoia, is rescued by the Sea-king's daughter, and he addresses her thus: "May the gods give thee all thy heart's desire, a husband, and a home, and a union as one with his may they give, for'there is nothing nobler nor stronger than this, when a man and wife are of one heart and mind in a home, a grief to their foes and to their friends great joy, but their own hearts know it best." "This," says Mr. Lang, "is the definition of wedded happiness, and there is an irony in the words, for Nausicaa loved Odysseus, who went home to his wife, and it may be that she never came to her heart'B desire. "However that fell out, there are moderns who will tell us that the marriage Homer had iu his mind is Impos sible. In a recent dialogue, Mr. Henry James introduces a character who remarks that the great war of the world and of the future is the strife between the women and the men. And another modern novelist chanced casually to say the same thing lately. Men and women, he said, are, indeed, more absolutely divided in their estimate of life, its value, its conduct, its pleasures, its duties, than Aryans from Australians, or Jews from Chinese. Our idea of honor is not their idea, nor our notions of justice or of humor, nor can we at all discover a com .tnon calculus of the relative importance of things. Matters that are trivial to us fill women's thoughts in sleeping and waking affhirs that we oonsider momentous leave them quite indifferent, quite unmoved. There is only one thing in tbe world better than a good woman namely, a good man, and his excellence lacks the charm of hers, and the bloom on it. But a very different man will, in some matters, have a juster estimate of life than the best of women. Children of tbe same mothers, we are born more different than if we were of alien race, and color, and speech. Yet nature compels us to try to be one, and to be wretched when we fail."

And so it happens, in the words of Rochefoucauld, tbat "There is excellent marriage, but there is scarce such 1 thing as a delightful marriage." St Paul is of the same mind as the wise duke they spake the voice of humanity and experience, not of stupid soorn and silly pessimism. Life is hard, and mar riage is harder. We can not mend tbe matter by effusive twaddle. If this he true, we might expect the majority of marriages in fiction to be, not unhappy, but far from 'delicious.* The novelists who end their stories at the altar, of course, leave tbe opposite impression, and with perfect fairness and honesty. Tbe hero and the heroine oome, in Homer's words, 'to their hearts' desire,' and tbe gods give no better gift. Why should we go further, and show bow often tbe heart's desire is deceived, or fades, or Is thwarted? But the novelists who deal with married life might be expected, on reasonable calculation, to describe unhappy marriages. Happy sre the eouples, as well as tbe countries, whose history is uninteresting, and as the novelist is compelled to interest, be may seem almost compelled to make his married people tqpre or less miserable."

Sir Walter Scott, one writer notes, writes of tbe tore of young folk and does cot trouble himself ooneerning the fate of the married. Richardson and Fielding follow the tame plso, making marriage a fortunate goal, bat, it may be, the beginning of erils. Thackery

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depicts some most unhappy marriages, but according to his theory, and he was a very close observer of human nature, marriages are usually spoiled by having been arranged by outside parties, or by the intrusion of meddlesome relatives. And yet this wicked cynic depicts some of the happiest marriages known to fiction. Dickens made his married people happy by pairing off those of a kind. Could there be a better matched couple than Mr. and Mrs. Squeers, or Mr. and Mrs. Micawber.

Mr. Lang finds a fruitful source of unhapppiness in marriage to the ambition on one side or the other to be a saint. It matters not, he says, whether you take the case of Saint Elizabeth of Huugary, or of the second wife of the elder Weller. Where one partner is a saint and the other a "wessel," happiness files out of the door. We are usually invited to sympathize with the "wossel," but I am not certain that the saint does not as much deserve our oompassion. In other cases, (he saiutliness is common to both partners, but the pattern of excellence differs. Then we have the woeful predicament of Mrs. Elsmere, who was good, but on the old lines, while the Rev. Elsmere was good, too, but "advanced"—a reader of Strauss and Renan and Baur. "Better had ho been plodding

Among his clods that day. Passing over the unhappy marriages of modern novelists with brief remark, in which he says of Henry James that he has introduced a most superfluous element of marital misery in what he calls "international complications," Mr. Lang concludes thus: "Perhaps the best advice on marriage is given by tho miserably-mated Uncle John, in a story of Whyte Melville's. The counsel ends with the words: "And, whatever you do, never try to reason with her as if she were a man." By remembering this much unhappiness will be avoided in the marriage of real life. "Nay, let us end with a wiser word and a kinder picture out of Thackery— the picture of George Warrington in his old age. 'An old man, sitting in this room, with my wife's work-box opposite, and she but five minutes away, my eyes grow so dim and full that I cant see the book before me. "But five minutes" away, and some time he or she will go away, and will not come back again, and the other will know that this trouble and that, all the little jars and sorrows of their lives, endured but for a moment,, aud are burned up in love, which is one and is immortal. For if we love so much those whom we have lost oan we qulta,lose those whom we have loved?'"

ABOUT WOMENy

Sara Bernhardt sayg alio considers Mlsa Terry tho most finished actress on the stage.

Twenty-three per oent of the white girls of Alabama who are 15 years old and under 21 can't write their names.

Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is said to have accepted a position in a young woman's boarding school In London.

Mrs. James A. Garfield is said to be worth $500,000. When Gen. Garfield died his estate aggregated about 980,000.

The late Mary Crawford was sexton of St. Barnabas chapel, New York, for nearly twenty years and died at the age of 84.

Sara Bernhardt, who has always smoked cigarettes, has now taken to mild cigars. She remains, as usnal, fond of newspaper puflb.

A young lady named Break, who died recently at her home near Freehold, N. J., left a goodly portion of her property to the gentleman to whom she was engaged to be married. "To be seventy years young," wrote Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes on Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's birthday anniversary, "is sometimes fsr more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty yean* old.

Miss Nettle Holliday, who Is visiting Mrs. Harrison at the White House, baa been for tbe last six years a missionary at Tabreez, Persia, and will soon return thither. She is an old-time comrade of Mrs. Harrison.

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A sharp and fascinating miss visited Allentown, Pa,, and got numerous orders by sample for anew style of corset, at

apiece, went to a retail store

and bought them for $1.30 each, delivered them, got the cash and left town. Near Summerville, La., a lady went into tbe woods and caught a small green snake by tbe bead. Covering it up, she went Into the bouse where she wae boarding and asked the man: "Don't you want a pretty?". "Yes," said he. She threw out her arm. The man's wife was standing by, and was so alarmed at seeing the snake squirming about that she fell back dead.

Mrs. Cleveland has just had an liitereatlng photograph sdded to her collection. It Is of Marie Christina, queenregent of Spain, with tbe baby King Alpbonso on ber knee. The queenregent dislikes very much to havo her photograph taken and there are very few in existence. This one was taken expreesly for Mrs. Cleveland, to whom It was sent through ex-Minister to Spain Perry Belmont. Tbe Royal signature runs acnes tbe lower half of tbe picture.

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