St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 January 1887 — Page 4

11l THEM THE NEWS CONDENSED. FOKTY-HINTH CONGRESS. Both houses of Congress assembled, after the holiday recess, on the 4th inst., but immediately adjourned in memory of the late Senator Logan. In the Senate, as soon as the reading of the journal was concluded. Mr. Cullom took the floor and said : “Mr. President, the angel of death stalks through the land, and his visitation has been most unexpected during the brief recess of the Senate, imposing on me a duty which I have scarcely the heart to perform -the duty of announcing the death of my distinguished colleague. At his home, which overlooks this capital city, at 2:57 o'clock on Sunday, the 26th day of December, the spirit of John A. Logan took its flight to the unknown realms of eternity ; and on Friday last his funeral ceremonies were conducted by the Senators and Representatives present in this Senate chamber, and his mortal remains were convoyed to the silent tomb. Wo are called upon to mourn the loss of one of the bravest and noblest of men—a man loved by the patriotic people of his State and of the nation : a man known to his country and to the civilized world, and for nearly fourteen years a distinguished member of this Senate. I shall not at this time, Mr. President, attempt to pronounce the words which are due to the memory of one who for so many years performed so important and conspicuous a part in the affairs of this republic. At an early day I shall seek to introduce appropriate resolutions and shall speak, as I may be best able, of the character and public services of our associate ; when an opportunity will be given to the Senators to pay fitting tribute to his memory. Mr. President, out of respect for the memory of the deceased Senator Logan, I move that the Senate do now adjourn. ” The motion was agreed to, and the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives Mr. Thomas of Illinois offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the House has heard with great sorrow the announcement of the death of the Hon. John A. Logan, late Senator of the United States Ir >m the State of Illinois. “As a further evidence of the respect felt for the deceased statesman,” said Mr. Thomas, I move that the House do now adjourn, giving notice that at a later day I will ask that the proceedings of the House be suspended in order that his colleagues and friends may bear testimony to his worth.” The motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned.

THE EAST. Gen. William W. Loring, the wellknown Confederate General who, as Loring Pasha, claimed to have saved the Egyptian army in Abyssinia about ten years ago, died last week at New York. Gen. Loring was born in North Carolina about 69 years ago. When only 16 years old he ran away to fight in the war for Texan independence. He rose to be a Captain. When the Seminole war broke out he fought himself into a Lieutenancy of the United States army. He followed the army to Mexico, and lost an arm in the battle of Chapultepec, and came out as Major of the First Mounted Bifles, United States army. Then he was promoted Colonel, and in this position he led a famous march from Fort Leavenworth to Oregon without losing a man. Fears are entertained for the safety of the Bartholdi statue. The Secretary of the Lighthouse Board has reported that the torch arm is particularly weak, and may possibly break some of these days and entail loss of life to visitors. He recommends that the arm be closed to visitors. Experts, on the other hand, claim that the alleged weakness of the statue is all “bosh.” The National Opera Company opened in the Boston Theater last week. The remarkable feature of the opening evening was that the women in the audience generally discarded hats and bonnets, and those of the fair sex who appeared with head-gear wished they had left them in charge of the attendants in the foyer. THE WEST. Judge Gresham has given to the Nodaway Valley Bank, in Missouri, judgment for SIB,OOO against Preston, Kean & Co., of Chicago, for not taking proper care of bonds deposited by the former institution as collateral. The securities, were stolen by Frederic M. Ker. The evidence showed that Mr. Kean had heard of Ker’s gambling operations before he fled the city. Indictments against the St. Louis and San Francisco Express robbers—Wittrock, Haight, and Weaver—were handed in by the Grand Jury at St. Louis on Hie afternoon of Jan. 4. The prisoners were immediately arraigned, pleaded guilty, and were sentenced in short order—Wittrock and Haight to seven years, and Weaver to five years in the penitentiary. They have been imprisoned at Jefferson City. THE SOUTH. An explosion of gas in the coal bunkers of the British steamer Suez, at New Orleans, fatally burned the second engineer and three Chinese firemen, and dangerously burned three other Chinese. The orange crop of Louisiana is said to be but one-tenth of an average, and none will be shipped to the Northern States. . The parish of Plaquemines, very near the mouth of the Mississippi, is said to be the only safe and profitable field in the State for the orange. Some large plantations in that section are being converted into groves... .The judges of twenty-one counties in the drought-afflicted region of Texas met at Albany and issued an appeal to the country at large for $500,000 with which to relieve th : rty thousand destitute persons. A San Antonio dispatch furnishes meager particulars of a horrible collision on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 200 miles west of that place. Nine Mexicans were burned to death among the wreckage. The men were riding on an open flat-car when the collision occurred. This car was driven under a heavily laden box-car, on the top of which several others had piled, when the entire wreck took fire, literally roa-ting alive the Me. ’cans, who were pinned down on the top oi the flat-car. None of the bodies were re< 'gnizable when recovered. Louis Nadin a Frenchman of Mobile, Ala., has just discovered that he was swindled out of SII,OOO on Nov. 30, 1886, by two fellow-countrymen who pretended to place bis money with their own in a box for safe-keeping and then gave him the box to care for. When opened a month later only newspapers were found in it. WASHI .VGTOX The Commissioner of Agriculture has sent to the Governor of Illinois a scorching protest against the action of the Live Stock Commission in regard to pleuropneumonia at Chicago. He charges the Illinois Boar 1 with arrogating the right to decide questions of the utmost impo.tance to the country withou’ consulting the Department of Agriculture. He states that the worst infected place in Chicago, owned bv a wealthy distilling company, has been filled with fresh cattle.,,.F. B. Silva, a Brazilian, robbed the residence of the Chilian Minister at Washington of a sum of money and $7,000 worth of jewelry and valuables. The thief was arrested while boarding a train, and the valuables were recovered. The President has commuted to five years’ imprisonment the sentence of JohnW. Parsons, of Arkansas, convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged Jan. 14. The decrease in the public debt during December was $9,358,202. The interestbearing bondsnow amount 1j $1,130,494,462. The treasury stock of gold has Been steadily gaining since July last, and is now $170,912,413. The government’s holdings of silver have rapidly fallen off for some months, the aggregate being $75,998,941.

Following is the official debt statement for December: INTEREST-BEARING debt. Bonds at 4'^ percent 8 250,000,000 Bonds nt 4 per cent 737,781,850 Bonds at 3 per cent 63,809,000 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 190,100 Navy pension land at 3 per cent.... 14,000,010 Pacific railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principal. $1,130,494,462 Interest 11,838,720 Total $1,142,333,182 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $ 8,874,855 Interest 211,336 Total $ 9,(86,191 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes.s 346,738,341 Certificates of deposit 6,510,000 Gold certificates 97,215,605 Silver certificates 117,24 5,670 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,953,702 Principal $ 574,661,318 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,714,033,035 Interest 12,050,057 Total $1,726,084,692 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt $ 211,903,564 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 Total $ 341,902,564 Total debt, less available cash items .$1,384,181,128 Net cash in the Treasury 42,196,632 Debt, less cash m Treasury, Jan. 1, 18-47 .’.51,311,984,496 Debt, lees cash in Treasury, Dec. 1, 1885 1,351,342,698 Decrease of debt during the month $ 9,358.292 CASH IN THE TREASURY. Available for reduction of debt: Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $ 97,215,605 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 117,216,670 United States notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 6,510,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 20,924,912 Fractional currency 5,376 Total available for reduction of the debt $211,902,563 Reserve fund held for redemption ■ of United States notes, acts J an. 14.. 1875, and July 12, 1882 $ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt: Fractional silver coin $ 25,660,935 Minor coin $ 131,422 Total $ 25,79-2,357 Certificates held as cash 35,024,236 Net cash balance on baud 42,196,632 Total cash in the Treasury as shown by Treasurer’s general account $ 444,915,783

poi<itica£. J. B. Marvin, of Davenport, lowa, one of the four inspectors of internal revenue accounts, has been requested to resign.... A movement in favor of Don Cameron for the Presidency is reported from Pennsylvania. The contest for Gen. Logan’s seat in the Senate is exciting no small degree of interest in Illinois, particularly in Republican circles. There is quite a list of Richmonds in the field. Ex-Congressman Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, has a strong following. Clark E. Carr, Gen. Henderson, Congressman Cannon, and Congressman Payson have each their quota of supporters, while the name of Robert T. Lincoln has been strongly urged by not a few. Ex-Gov. John M. Hamilton would not refuse the plum if it fell to him, and there are any number of dark horses browsing around and praying for the lightning to strike them. Gov. Oglesby positively announces his noncandidacy. Senator Cullom’s preferences are not yet known, but it is the opinion of the Illinoisans who visited Washington that, so far as possible, he desires to keep out of the fight, and link his fortunes with no one candidate. The Illinois House of Representatives organized by electing W. F. Calhoun to the Speakership. N. V. Harlan was chosen Speaker of the Nebraska House, W. R. Merriam Speaker of the Minnesota House, James W. Husted Speaker of the New York Assembly, and Henry N. Baker Speaker of the Pennsylvania House.... Ames, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Minnesota, went before Judge Corey, of the St. Paul Municipal Court, and took the oath of office. The official count gave McGill,' his Republican opponent, 2,G00 plurality, but Ames charges that gross frauds were committed... .The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Circuit Court in the case involving the title to the Lieutenant Governorship. The court holds that the Legislature has exclusive authority in the controversy, and that it has no jurisdiction to entertain the injunction suit. IADI STKIAL ROTES. Another effort is to be made to have the coal operators and mines of the United States adopt a general scale of wages and prices. W. P. Rend, of Chicago, is one of the leading spirits in the movement. Alexander Mitchell is authority for the statement that the spring dividend on St. Paul will be at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum. The Burlington and Northern Road has made a survey through Minnesota to Duluth. The New York Central Road declared a quarterly dividend of 1 per cent., and the Lackawanna will pay per cent. Receiver Cooley has appointed G. W. Stevens Acting General Superintendent of the Illinois lines of the Wabash. The Knights of Labor of Chicago have issued a boycott against the meats of Philip D. Armour, the great packer and provis : on merchant. A Chicago paper reports Armour as saying that the boycott has had no effect on his business and he does not think it will. GEIWERAI'. A Washington dispatch says Mrs. Logan expressed to an intimate friend of her late husband her opposition to the burial of the remains in the space set apart on the lake front, Chicago, and her willingness to accept a location along the South Parks or boulevard^. It is indignantly denied that there is dissatisfaction on the part of Gen. Logan’s family with the medical treatment he received in his last illness. The fund for the relief of Mrs. Logan had reached upward of $50,000 on the sth inst. Near Republic, Ohio, an express train on the Baltimore and Ohio Road, westbound, came in collision with a freight. Immediately after the crash the cars took fire. Fifteen to twenty persons were either killed or slowly burned to death, and all the mail and express matter was destoyed. Mrs. Fish of Joliet, a sister of Gen. Logan, and her son escaped without a scratch An express train from Chicago was wrecked at West Springfield, Mass., by the breaking of an axle. One person was binned to death and nineteen others injured. A large amount of mail was burned Near Pewaukee, Wis.. a train ran into a sleigh filled with laborers, killing Bert McConnell and James Anderson and his son. FOR mon. The eightieth anniversary of the entry of the Kaiser, when a boy of 10, into the army, was celebrated with great rejoicing at Berlin on New Year’s, though a littl^jn advance of the actual date... .Gladstone is said to be still holding out for the Irish bill, and will not consent to a union of the Liberals on any other basis.... Two hundred and seventeen persons lost their lives at Madras, India, by the burning of the reserved inclosure at the People’s : Park. They were all natives. .... ! Lord Salisbury has- been notified by j the Liberal Unionists-in the British Pnrlia- > ment'bf their determination not to designate a representative of their faction for mem-

bership in the Conservative Cabinet, although they will continue to support the Salisbury Government. It is officially stated that the Kt. Hon. William Henry Smith will retain the office of Secretary of War. The Rt. Hon. Edward Stanhope will succeed Lord Randolph Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Earl of Carnarvon will take the office of Colonial Secretary, which Mr. Stanhope now holds. The other offices will remain unchanged. An explosion of gas at the barracks in Portsmouth, England, killed four men and injured four others.... The Paris correspondent of the London Times again affirms his recent statement that Russia and Germany have concluded a direct alliance. Russia binds herself to remain neutral in case of war between France and Germany in consideration of German neutrality should Russia and Austria come together. The cable records the adroit work of two female adventuresses in London and Paris. One posed as a beautiful heiress, the other as her mother or guardian, as occasion required. The alleged heiress was represented as a young widow or young girl anxious to form a matrimonial alliance because of a false step. A number of marriages were entered into, the victims then being thrown overboard, their high social position stopping their mouths. The women have been arrested in Paris. ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Grand Jury at St. Louis has found an indictment against Dan Moriarity, charging him with being an accessory after the fact to the Jim Cummings express robbery. Moriarity was a switchman at the Union Depot in St. Louis at the time of the robbery. Haight, the man who planned the robbery, has made a written statement of his connection with the affair. He says therein that his poverty and his inability to obtain employment forced him to devise some means whereby he might provide his wife and child with the necessities of life. To do this he planned the robbery and approached Wittrock with the scheme. Wittrock became enthusiastic over it, and thereafter took the affair into his hands,and he (Haight) heard nothing more of him until he read an account of the robbery in the papers. Soon after that Wittrock sent him $1,090 by Oscar Cook, and summoned him to Leavenworth. He says it was he who forged Mr. Damsel’s signature to the paar which was presented to Fotheringham, and had the Adams Express letter-heads and envelopes printed. Fotheringham, he asserts, is absolutely innocent of each and every charge brought against him. Wittrock says that he specially stipulated with the detectives that he would not surrender any of the stolen money until the mortgage of $1,700 on his mother's house had been raised. This, ho said, had been done, and ho is now willing to serve his term. ... A water famine is threatened in Chicago. The water works are contending against one of the greatest ice-Hoes known in Lake Michigan for a dozen years, preventing the proper working of the pumps. A reckless waste of water aggravates the situation. The Maine Legislature organized by choosing S. S. Marble, of Waldoboro, President of the Senate, and Charles E. Littlefield, of Rockland, Speaker of the House. The Connecticut House of Representatives elected 11. W. P. Hoyt Speaker. Daniel P. Markey was chosen Speaker of the Michigan House. The Delaware Legislature organized by electing William McCabe President of the Senate and John E. Collins Speaker of the House. The Republicans and Independent Democrats of the North Caroliana House of Representatives formed a coalition ami made an equal division of the offices, the former receiving the Speakership. The Colorado Legislature was organized with George M. Chilcott as presiding officer of th • Sen ile, and T. B. Stew; as Speaker of the House —both Republicans. 11. J. Boardman was chosen President of the Massachusetts Senate, and ■ Charles E. Noyes was made Speaker of th-' House.... William M. Stewart (Republican' has been elected to the United States Semite from Nevada. He will succeed Mr. Fair < Democrat)... .The Pennsylvania Legislature has chosen Matthew S. Quay to succeed John I. Mitchell in the United States Senate from that State. Active military preparations, sa d to be supported by Russia, are iu progress in Montenegro.... The innkeeper at Bucharest who made an attempt on the life of Prime Minister Bratiauo has been sentenced to twenty years’ pen d servitude.

AN appropriation bill to.’ SiOl.tXX) to promote the Colored People's World’s Exposition to bo held in Birmingham, Ala., from September 22, 18-7, to January 31, 1888, was introduced in the Senate on the sth inst. Senator Sherman introduced a bill to provide that all persons on the pension rolls for loss of limb or limbs shall be entitled to receive arrears of pension from the date of discharge or disability. A bill was introduced for the establishment of not less than one agricultural experiment station and farm in each of the several States. A bill granting a pension of >2,001 a year to the widow of Gen. Logan was introduced. Senator Plumb introduced a bill to fix the amount of United States bonds to be required of national banks. Senator Cullom presented a memorial of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce favoring the passage of the iPerstute commerce bill; also of the proceedings of a railroad convention on the same subject. Petitions protesting against its passage were also presented. Senator Platt made a long speech on the interstate commerce bill, the Senate having taken up the conference Report. The House passed the Indian appropriation bill, covering 85,115,000, as also the military academy appropriation bill. A petition from James A. Garfield Grand Army Post of California, favoring the Edmunds and Tucker anti-polygamy bill, was presented in the House. James W. Reed. Representative for the Fifth District of North Carolina, sent in his resignation. ” THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Beeves $4.25 @ 5.01 Hogs 4.75 @ 5.25 Wheat —No. 1 White 93 @ .9314 No. 2 Red.... 93 & .95 Corn—No. 2 47% .49 Oats—White 39 @ .43 Poke—Mess 12.00 @12.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @ 5.25 Good Shipping 4.00 @ 4.50 Common 3.00 @ 3.75 Hoos--Shipping Grades 4,50 & 5.00 Flour—Extra Bi>ring 4.25 & 4.75 Wheat No. 2 Hid... 79 & .79% Corn—No. 2 36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2.... , 27 & .28 Butter—Choice Creamery ,28 & .31 Fine Dairy 18 @ .22 Cheese —Full Cream, Cheddar.. .12% aj .12% Full Cream, new 12% .13% Eggs—Fresh 21 & .26 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 45 @ .5' PoRK-»-Mess 11.75 @12.C0 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 78 @ .7.) Cjrn—No. 2 36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 .26 @ .26% Rye—No. 1 56 & .57 Pork—Mess 12.0 J @ 12.25 TOLEDO. Wheat —No. 2.. .92 @ .83 Corn -Cash 37 @ .38 O vis—No. 2 28 & .29 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.75 @5.50 Hogs 3.75 & 5.25 Sheep. 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—No, 2 Red . .81 @ .85 Corn—No. 2 .. .38 & .39 Oats-No. 2 White 32 @ .32'2 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 83 @ .83% Corn —Mixed 36 @ .36% Oats—Mixed 28 @ .28% Pork—New Mess 12.25 12.75 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 83 @ .83% Corn— No. ‘2 38 & .38 % Oats —No. 2 31 @ .31% Pork—Mess 12.25 @12.75 Live Hogs 4.25 @ 5.00 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 91%@ .92 Corn No. 2 Yellow 44%@ .45 Cattle - 3.75 @4.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Caitle 3.C0 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.25 @ 5.00 Sheep 2.50 @ 4.25 Wheat No. 2 Red...."............79%@ .80 Coin No. 2 35%@ .36 Ovrs 29 @ .29% EAST LIBERTY. Cattle- Best . 5.00 @ 5.50 Fair.*. "4.‘.'5 <q 4.75 Common 3.75 & 4.25 Hogs : 4.75 @5.25 Sheep.. 4.50 @6.00

808 BURDETTE. He Talks of “The Fates and The Boy.” You know I’m not living whore I do now? No, I moved away from my present abiding place and am occupying pleasant apartments on the next block. Yes, indeed. You see, there was a boy at my former boarding house. He was a type of a boy I most furiously dislike, and I seem to be the type of a man ho hates, for we declared war the first day we met. He deployed his skirmishers as soon as he saw me, and I was waiting for him in the woods just over the top of the hill, thicker than hair on a dog’s back. He was an impudent, loud-voiced, slangy cub, with a head of most luxuria 1 long bushy hair, that mj' fingers were always aching to get into. My room was on the first tioor, and he used to make faces in at my window. One day he thrust his head in, but I was laying for him, and as he opened his mouth to yell something offensive, I chucked it full of sawdust. That night he hung a live cat by the tail to my window shutter, and the vixen nearly scratched my eyes out before I could cut her down. It was Miss GiddigiiTs cat, too, and she believed I hung it there myself, and so did everybody else. Next day I maneuvered the boy in front of my window until, thinking I wasn’t looking, he fired a buckshot at me aud I dodged and let it break a looking glass. His father thrashed him for it, and I was so pleased I paid for the mirror myself. Next day he bent a pin in my chair at the dinner table, and I nearly died rather than jump up and “holler.” He found out that it irritated me nearly to madness to hear or see him, so he took to playing under my window. I charged him out of that by emptying half a gallon of shaving water out of the window. He flanked me by moving just around the corner, where I could hear him but couldn’t reach him. When I sang he imitated me, but not well. If I read aloud he drummed on the end of the house. Once I dissembled and won his confidence so far that he accepted an invitation to got to the creek with me. When I got him there, his suspicions were aroused and he refused to go into the boat. He knew very well I was going to drown him. But be didn’t say so. I knew it, too, though I didn’t say so, either. So nothing was sa’d about it, and I came home, bitter and heavy-hearted with disappointment. My solo desire now was to catch him in tho dark and scalp him. But he was wary, and never went in the dark alone. I was just beginning to despair and to feel that my life was a failure, when one evening I heard him passing my window where I lay in ambush. I peeped out, and in the dim, misty star-

light I just discerned my enemy’s figure passing out of reach. 1 threw my body far out over the window-sill, and stretching my arm, caught a handful of that hated hair. 1 had practiced that clutch on pillows and bolsters night after night with vengeful industry. There was no slip to it. My fingers closed on the locks of my foe like the grip of an octopus, and 1 gave a yank that would ha e pulled up a pine tree. The shrieks that split the air of the silent night fairly made my heart stand still, and I shrunk back within the gloom of my room. Scream after scream, slamming doors, crashing windows. told the hous was alarmed and wild with excitement. 1 must go out; it would not do to remain con ealed. I brushed the clinging locks from my guilty fingers. Shrill voices were calling my name. Horrors! I was sus pected, then? Some one had seen me? The boy had recognized my touch? I went out into the hall. What was the matter? Well might I ask. they said, I sitting there in my room, ] oring over my book while murder was being done, j A gigantic tramp, they told me, hidden . under the trees, had caught my sister by the hair and nearly broken her i neck, and then ran away. I am going to slay that boy with my 1 naked hands if I have to wait till the 1 next .var to get a chance at him. French Baby Show. From a friend in Paris we have re- I cieved an official programme of the ' Universal Congress of Babies held in i Paris, France, last spring. It was or- I ganized under the patronage of govern- i ment officials, physicians, artists, and ; many societies devoted to the protec- ! tion of infancy. Children from one year I to five were admitted without distinc- i tion of nationality or birth. A prize of | about S2OO was offered for the most I beautiful infant, another of less value , for the most robust, and other prizes i were offered for those parents or nurses ; ■who had some new, valuable sugges- I tions to offer relating to the care and ’ bringing up of children. Each child ■ was submitted to an examination under I the keen eyes of artists and physicians, I and to each was accorded a certain number of points, just as the judges in a dog show look over the animals brought to them. , From an eye observer who sent a 1 communication to Babyhood we quote i as follows: “To a long wooden hall, | or Casino as it is ambitiously called, ; the dozens of proud parents daily bring ■ their tiny candidates for the honor of ’ medals and mention, and there they sit i waiting until the physicians, artists, and members of the city government shall form a jury ready to pronounce upon each little one. Nothing is more amusing than to stroll through this hall. The heat is quite phenomenal for a Parisian public place, and* is all । the more necessary because the babies, male and female, are submitted quite nude to the inspection of the jury. As the parents arrive, the husband proudly bears the undressed baby in his arms to a great table on which it is posed before the jurors. Little girl babies usually give the jury but small trouble, but the boys are more aggressive. One beneficial result of this congress was that physicians were able to point out to expectant parents defects which had been overlooked, and which ought early to be discovered and provided for. Parents -who thought their babies were fit for a prize were instructed by physicians that the babies had umbilical hernia, rickets, paralyzed muscles, deformities of the bones, or other defects, the early recognition of which made it possible to remedy them. Many of the children offered were ruled out as not admissible on account of such defects, and of course only those physically perfect and artistically beautiful gained high points in prizes. We should not be at all surprised to hear that there was much d'satisfaction and bickering among the exhibitors, as is usual at one of our dog shows. But certainly it is a Very useful feature of the affair that parents were made to see’ the imperfections in their own children, and furthermore it resulted in dissemination among parents and nurses of a considerable amount of valuable information on the subject of how to raise prize babies. I ? such competitions could become as general as dog shows, a vast amount of work could be accomplished by them. Some

such stimulus is needed to improve tho hygiene of infancy.—Dr. Foote's Health Mon t h I y. Important. When you visit Or leave New York City, save baggage, expressage, and $3 carriage hire, and stopatthe Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot 613 rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best Hors i ears, stages, and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live bettor for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the city. Letters ami Numbers. The Greeks used the letters of tho alphabet for numerals. Tho cumbersome system used by the Bomans, ami called after them, consisted of strokes (1 II 111 1111) to indicate tho four fingers, and two strokes joined (V ) to represent the hand, or iivc fingers. Ten was . a picture of two hands, or two Vs (X). But when the Homans and Greeks worked at the higher mathematics, or attempted hard sums in arithmetic, they are much more likely to have used letters, in order to avoid tho clumsiness of these numerals; in other words, they used what looked like a kind of algebra. Wo know that they tried to simplify tho Homan numerals at Rome by making four and nine with three strokes instead of four, by placing an I before the V, and an I before the X (I\ and IX). Our use of the numerals which wo call “Arabo” is comparatively recent, and it is belieied that tho Ai nbs got these numbers from India several centuries after the Koran was written, or about eight hundred years after Christ. Whether the Indian numerals were originally part of some ancient alphabet, or a series of shortened signs originally somewhat like the Roman numerals that we still use, is not really decided. The numbers used by the peoples of India who wrote in Sanskrit were very like the figures 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7,8, 9, and 0, that we use to-day. Even closer .resemblances will be found if one goes back to the earliest forms of our numerals; for, during the last thousand years, our numbers have undergone some slight changes. Together with these numerals, the Arabs learned from India how to do sums by algebra. For algebra, though an Arabic word, is a science of which the Arabs were ignorant before they reached India. It may be said that the invention of these numerals and of algebra for the higher mathematics stamps the old Hindoos as one of the most wonderful races of the world. — Henri) Fckford, in St. Nidi o’as. The Only Way to Conquer Dyspepsia.

It is perfectly preposterous to introduce pepsin and other artificial solvents into tho stomach, in tho exp-’etat on that they will assist digestion bv acting on tho food itself. They will not. Norisit jwssible thus to overcome dyspepsia. The only way to conquer that disorder. and prevent the numerous diseases and disabilities which it assuredly provokes, is. to renew th ■ activity of gastric action by strengthening the stomach. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters cradient s tho most inveterate forms of indigestion by restoring vitality to tho ulimontary organs, and those which are tributary to them. Tiio liver, the bowels, tho kidneys, and th-' nerves, no less than tho stomach, exporionce tho invigorative effects of that Standard , tonic, which p<>slosses alterative prop-rties ■ that greatly enhance its beneficial influence, aud give a i onnnneuc.' to its effects which they would not otherwise possess. Do i’t Think Much of Him. 'I lie raciest testimony that ever came within my knowledge to the soundness i of I merson iu pract cal matters was j delivered by a sturdy, stalwart \ erj monter in a <ar on a Fitchburg rail- ! road. My journey was to be a tedious I one of 3(M» miles, and when 1 took my seat in the ear I felt th. Lmy fellowI passengers would give mo no such I glimpses into the’r character as would | be atl'oided by a ride of ten miles in a I stage coach. Iu a railroad ear the pasI sengers are gloomily reticent, as if they i expected to be launched into eternity | at any moment; in a stage they indulge ! in all the fury of gossip and reveal i themselves while praising or censuring j others, 'i here were two persons in j front of me, mighty iu bulk, but apparently too absorbed in their ow’n re- ; flections to speak to each other. The i train, as usual, stopped at Concord. ; Then one of the giants turned to tho ; other and lazily remarked: “Mr. Em- ! erson, I hear, lives in this town.” P’Ya-a s,” was the drawling rejoinder, j “and I understand that in spite of his ! odd notions he is a man of considerable probity.”— liecolleclions of eminent ■ men. A prominent farmer of Bowling Green, : Howard County. Md., Mr. J. T. Bidgely, ’ said his four children were sick with sore | throats and coughs at the same time. Bed j Star Cough Cure cured them in a week. | No opiates. T ought He Could Hold It.

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