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promotes to be lively enougb to please an Irishman.
Hkkoks? Wby, yes, we have a few of them .vote Down in New York, for In stance, there is & 13-year-old boy who publishes a little monthly*, the Sunny Hour, all the profits
from
Miih,
WirxiAM
which go to
providing poor children with shoes IS months he ha» supplied 800 pairs of feet with .shoe. 51to
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Ham Waldorf Astor are quarreling as which is entitled to the fashionable distinction of being called simply "Airs. A#?'""." Both ladies are at Newport and have uou ied tho postmaster of their claims to letters addrested "Mrs.
Ahtor."
It is a great and burning question, truly. Why not refer 11 td Ward McAllister aud Ma notable 4G0?
new Croton water works for New
York City, now practically completed, are one of the great engineering foats of modern times. The length of tho aqueduct is 33 miles, of which 30 miles in an 18 foot tttntiel through solid rock. The work has been going on for over five years and its total cost will be nearly $'24,000,000.
The delivery capacity is
310
million gallons a day. Eight lives were lost in its construction. It
was a very pretty idea to get up awnings In rod, white and blue, tho national colors, and even the complete flag, stars and all. These awnings slionid come into general use, but wo are not prepared to indorse the stfgfcostion of an enthusiastic exchange that their use should be required by law. That is not the American way of doing things, nor does American patriotism need such a stimulus, lot us hope.
.Ti*doe Tynbb, of the postofflce dopaitraent, declares that if there were a law making newspapers unmailable when they contain lottery advertisements, something could be done towards breaking up the lottery business. Such a bill Is before Congress and seems now to have a fair prospect of passage. Let i{ be passed promptly and the national government once fairly lock horns with the Louisiana swindle and the latter will not be in the field very much longer.
It Is the opinion of ex-Congressman Doxey, of Anderson, that Indiana natural gas is going to knock smoky coal out of Cincinnati and Chicago. He thinks both cities will get the gas about the same time and that it can bo sold at 25 cents a thousand and big money made. He Is not troubled about the distance, declaring that It Is practicable to pipe the gas. 1,000 miles. Neither has he any anxiety as to tho supply of natural gas, which he thinks Is Inexhaustlblo. This is very very good news if it Is altogether reliable.
An observing and experienced American traveler in Europe, declares that the old world is loarning of the new In the matter of commercial enterprise. Especially is this true of Italy, where the old ideas are being fast laid aaidd and ancient ruins are giving place to inodetn buildings. Rome is being converted into a modernised city of large commercial interests, and other old towns in Italy are exchanging their ruins and dreamy atmosphere for more substantial and profitable activities of modern life. Evident^1' the "ruin" business Is beginning to wear out even in Europe.
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England wants war over the seal skin matter she can have it. That seems to be tho purport of Secretary Blaine's recent letters to Lord Salisbury. But we hardly think John Bull means to fight. He "is a great bluffer, fond of talking loud and large and of making threats which ho does not mean to carry out. It there were any serious war footing in England, tho Britishers would hardly Inputting so many millions of good, hard nuney into American breworUw,' Hour mills and other industries. Johnny Is probably playing big game of blurt. It remains to be seen whether tho administration oan be hlttflfod or not.
Thrchanges1" tho science of erecting great building* arc well indicate ill the construction of the grrat Woman's Temple, by the National W. C. T. 1, in Chicago. Sis or eight years ago Marshall Field put a stone foundation in the ground at a com of some thousands of dollars, intending to build on it. Litigation arose and the building wa* abandoned. Now the great stones are all being torn out of their cement beds at heavy expense to make way for the modern foundation of iron and ateel. Heavy iron girder* are laid in concrete and iron columns erected thereon, thus saving the entire room of the basement story, which by the old method was occupied with ihe enn'tbersome stone piers.
pHEsti»»sr
Haru^on's
message to
Congress urgiug legislation on the lottery question is timely. The shameful condition of aDah* is tersely stated in these words: "The national capital has become a nub-hcadquarter*of the 1
Louisi
ana lottery company, and it* »ume*v»ua ftgtmt* and attorney* are conducting here
a business Involving probably a larger use of the mails than that of any legitimate business enterprise in the District of Columbia. Thero seems to be good reason to believe that the corrupting touch of these agents has been felt by the clerks in the postal service and by some of the police officers of the District." In the face of statements like these from the.President of the United States, Congress will be strangely insensible to its own duty and to the opinions of the public if it does not take prompt action in the matter. ,*
A very very interesting and suggestive paper in the August Forum is that of Prince KropotKin, on the Possibilities of Agriculture. We have known in a general way the large products of tillage in the densely peopled districtsof Europe. Prince Kropotkin sets forth some of these results in startling detail and shows therefrom that many times the present population of the earth can be sustained from the soli now under cultivation. Intensive agricultuie in tho United States, for instance, can be made to sustain in plenty, and with much greater cheapness than now, a population at least ten times as derise. He proposes that a hundred acres he cultivated in this way as a part of the exposition at Chicago, in order to detnonHtrate the possibilities of multiplying many times the products of the American farmer. This is encouraging enough to the great mass of cousumers but the American farmer's principal idea just now is to sell what he does produce.
THE KANSAS WOMAN. It is not an easy matter to get ahead of the Kansas woman, particularly on the liquor question. She keeps that matter in mind faking or sleeping, aud is very apt to be ready for any unexpected turn it may take.
So when the "original package" decision of tho tJ. S. Supreme court came out and the business of selling liquor in original packages followed promptly in its wake, the women took council together and decided as to what they would do. The ladies of Kansas City, Kan., propose to go in bevies of twenty to the "original package" houses and remaining there quietly note down tb«' names of those who visit the establishments. After a time these will be relieved by another bovy, so as to keep the places guarded all the while.
This plan is similar to the old "crusades" except that no violence will be used and no liquor confiscated. The moral influence of the ladle#" will be relied upon to break up the traffic by making it undesirable for men to visit the places where liquor is sold in "original packages." If this plan doesn't work the women can be relied upon to devise some other.
POMPOUS NAMES.
In the August Atlantic, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes takes a tilt at the American hunger for old world titles as exemplified by the terms "Kjnights and Ladies of Honor," the various "Royal" societies, "Imperial" courts, "Grand Dictators," etc. "Why," asks the venerable author, "Because a Knight of the Garter wears a golden star, does the worthy eotdwainer, who monds the shoos of his fellow-oitizens, want to wear a tin star, and take a name that had a meaning as used by the representatives of ancient families, or the men who had made themselves Illustrious by their achievements?" Echo answers, why? Who can answer the conundrum? It is of a pace with the American fashiou, if indeed it be American and not universal, of calling small things by great names. There are "Grand" hotels In every country town, which are singularly devoid of graudeur save the name. There are "Imperial," "National" "Continental," "International" and "Universal" enterprises which no one would mistake for such great affairs from an examination of tho limited plant, capital and product of the concern. Indeed it often seems that the Smaller the Industry the larger the title it bears, as if the superfluity of the latter were expected to matter up for tho shortage in the former. Great concerns, like great men, profer simplicity, while tho insignificant and mediocre masquerade in ridiculously graudattlro. It Is probably an luherent weakness or humanity.
There have been various reports in circulation as to the real cause of Rev. John Brandt's resignation of the Christian church pastorate. As nsual the silence of the congregation on the subjept has intensified all of them, and if one believed everything openly affirmed or insinuated, the conclusion wou!d be reachod that a very serious disagreement had taken place. Such a conclusion would bo unwarranted, however, for while ill-fooling exists between Mr,. Brandt s*nd a portion of his congregation, nothing very serious lias occurred. A member in goodstaudiug said yesterday in denial of the leports, that the Immediate cause of Mr. Brandt's resignation was the refusal of this church to grunt him an expected vacation. He also said that the pastor had been somewhat antagonised in his work by a portion of his congregation and that thw too probably led him to more scrlcu consider the question of leaving. But as to an open quarrel there was noa©. Mr. Brandt was petitioned by a large number ot his members to reconsider his action, but he thought it best not to do so. During his pastorate h#ttt ho ha# made many friends and has been very successful in influencing peoplo |oin the church, and the real reason of hm depart**** will be quit* a surprise.
Liirht «mso£ choea will be si a mlueSieti da? thonUs of Anjrnvi by Mr. T. J. Gri2i:h,, He meaca jest wfeei he s*yf* ta b« mu*t mast fear tag* infcfo*8«t ftell gm&e*
BOOKS AND WE MAGAZINES.
Dr. Charles Waldstein, of the American School at Athens, will contribute to the next number of Harper's "Weekly a paper describing the recent excavations and discoveries at Delphi.
Mrs-Lyman Abbott, wife of the successor to Henry Ward Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Church, is to become one of the editors of The Ladies' Home Journal, on September 1st next.
The fourth number of the popular and handsome "Odd Number" series of translations from foreign authors issued by Messers, Harper «fc Brothers, will be Giovanni Verga's story of The House by tho Medlar-Tree. The translation is by Mary A. Craig, and the story will be prefaced by an introduction^by William Dean Ho wells.
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Jobi. Muir, who writes too seldom in these days, contributes an important paper on "The Tresures of the Yosemite," tothe August century. The article is richly illustrated and there are maps to indicate the boundaries of the proposed enlargement of the Yosemite Park by tho creation of a new national park to preserve the sources of the waters that are such ku indispeusible feature of the old park. Mr. Muir, who is recognized sis qualified to give a weighty opinion in tho matter, urges the attention of tho public to tho preservation of the Yosemite.
Few readers will reach the end of the second paper by Dr. T. H. Mann on his experiences as "A Yankee in Andersonyille" in the August century without being profoundly touched
Readers of the first two instalments of Alphonse Daudet's "Port Tarascon" will turn with impatience to its continuation in the August number of Harper's Magazine. Extracts from the diary of Secretary. Pascalon portray in a realistic manner the life of tho colonists in their island home, their discomforts, their amusements, and "everything said and done in the Free Colony under the goverment of Tartarin." Theodore Child contributes to the same number of the Magazine a paper describing an American's "Impressions of Berlin," with some account of the leading attractions of the German capital. Edward Everett Hale, in "Magellan and /he Pacific," relates the old story of tho first circumnavigation of the globe, but adds to it some facts hitherto not generally known. Captain Charles King, U. S. A., contributes and interesting paper giving an account of "Custer's Last Battle," Octavia Hensel, in an article fully illustrated from photopraphs, tells tho history of the famous printing-house of "PlantlnMoretuV and describes a visit to the museum in Antwerp, where the literary and art treasures of that establishment are preserved. Ellen B, Bastin contributes paper on the "Geology of Chicago and Vicinitv."Dr. Francis Park man, in "A Convent at Rome," relates his experience during a brief stay many years ago in the convent of the Passionists at Home. Short stories are contributed by Richard Harding Davis, Thomas A. Janvier, and Lina Redwood Fairfax and poems by Co*tes Kinney, Rennel Rodd, John B. Tabb, and Harriet Prescott Spoflbrd. tn the editorial departments George William Curtis relates some reminiscences of Dickens's last visit to America William Dean Howeils discusses the ethics of criticism: and Charles Dudley Warner offers some suggestions relative to "conversation lunches" and the influence of culture upon individuality.
Joe Miller's fat young poultry make mighty good eating.
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Among the contents of this week's Harper's Young People are: A Boy's Town, by William Dean Howells. To A Sad Little Girl, a poem, by Emma C. Cowd Woman's Wit, by Howard Pyle, with seven illustrations by the author Sighting Land, by W. J. Henderson What the Midnight Can Show Us, by William Hamilton Gibson, with live illustrations jby the author A Dream of Fair Children, a poem, by Mary A. Lathbury A Double Triumph, a story, by Mary A. Denison and Homing Pigeons, by Charles E. Doane, with three illustrations.
by
the pathos
of his helpless journey to his home in Boston. The realistic pictures, made from photopraphs, add to the interest o( the narrative of life in the prison-pens at Andersonville and Florence. Another article bearing briefly on the history of the war, is Miss S. E. Black well's statement in "Open Letters" of "The Case of Miss Corrol," whose claims for services to the Union are still uncousidered by Congress.
St. Nioholas has a charming frontispiece for August. It is an illustration by Birch to the serial story "Lady Jane," and shows the former dancing-master, who has become a green grocer recalling his triumph in teachiog the pretty heroine the elaborate steps in vogue during his youth. The story itself is delightful. Some of the summery features are "The White Mountain Coaching Parade" of decorated tally-hoB in competition for prizes, described in a skutchy way by Helen Marshall North "A Lesson of of the Sea," by W. J. Henderson, a simple bit of strong descriptive writing "A Remarkable Boat Race, wherein Walter Camp describes the Atlauta-Yale race and its sensational feature—the leaping from the boat of Hale's stoke after he had broken his oar "The Sea Princess," a pretty picture described in musical verse by the artist Miss Katharine %Pyie "Cupid and Crab, an odd little fancy of the sea shore, daintily Illustrated by Albdrtine Wheelan Randall The Audaoious Kitten," one of Oliver Herford's jests with pen and pencil.
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Mark Twain, in a current periodical,
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State of Indiana, county of Vigo, In the Superior court, of Vigo county, June term, No. 8194. Ellen Taylor vs. Joseph Taylor.
Be it known, that ou the 11 aay of July, 1890, it was ordered by the court that the clerk notify by publication said Joseph Taylor as non-reslaent defendant of the pendency of this action against him.
Said defendant is therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against him, and that the same will stand for trial September 10. 1890, tho same being September term of said court, in the year 1890.
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