St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 13, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 December 1887 — Page 4

BI Mffl THE NEWS GRIST. Important Happenings in Every Quarter of the Civil* t ized Globe. The Very Latest Intelligence Flashed Over the Telegraphic Wires. LATEST DISPATCHES. SPEAKER_£ARLISLE. His Difficult Task of Arranging the House Committees. Speaker Carlisle is having no end of trouble in the work of constructing the committees, says a Washington special. This is always a troublesome job, but the Speaker finds greater difficulty in adjusting ^embers this year than ever before. A gentleman with whom the Speaker has discussed this question informed me that there is no difficulty experienced with the new members. The older members cause all the annoyance and are primarily responsible for the delay in completing the work. The older members act as if they had special rights to assignments to particular places of their own selection, regardless of thsit^fitness. Every one of wr , .ncse members informs the SpStwir or ms desires in this particular and expects his wishes to be respected. AGAINST~LAMAR. Senators Quay and Sherman Will Oppose His Confirmation. Senator Quay said in a Pittsburg interview that he would vote against Lamar s confirmation. He is in favor of abolishing the tax on whisky and tobacco. Senator Sherman has written a letter to the Buckeye Club of Springtied, Ohio, in answer to a protest against the confirmation of L. Q. C. Lamar as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in which he says: “I take the same view of the nomination of Mr. Lamar as is stated by your Republican Buckeye Club. You may be sure I wilt do all I can to prevent his confirmation. I regret to say, however, that I fear my efforts will be unsuccessful.” the crown Prince. Dr. Mackenzie Much Pleased with Ills Condition. A San Remo dispatch says that Dr. Mackenzie is greatly pleased with the improvement in the Crown Prince’s condition. The small growth in the Prince’s throat is almost gone. There remains a slight tumefaction on the left ventricular baud, The doctor says that time alone can determine the exact nature of the disease. Dr. Mackenzie returned to England. THE STRIKE ENDED. The Employes of the Reading Corporation Return to Work. The Reading Railway strike has been settled on the basis of an agreement with the company to arbitrate differences, and the strikers have returned to work. The refusal of employes at Reading to join the strikers is believed to have occasioned the order to return to work. There is great rejoicing along the - company’s lines. The Barry Judgment. It is reported from East Saginaw, Mich., that Thomas B. Barry must pay the judgment of $29,018 taken against him for damages to the Hoyt estate in the great mill strike, or body execution will be issued against him and he will be imprisoned. Funeral of Ex-Secretary Manning. President Cleveland and the members of his Cabinet and many other distinguished people were present at the funeral of Hon. Daniel Manning in Albany, N. Y. The obsequies were of a very impressive character. Death of Tommy Wallace. Thomas Wallace, the well-known young billiard player, who had been ill for some time with consumption, died at his home in Baltimore, aged 26. Sparks from the Wires. Rand & Co’s powder mill at Pittsford, N. Y., was completely wrecked by an explosion, causing heavy loss. The British mission that went to Abyssinia to induce King John to sue for peace was unsuccessful, and will return at once to Cairo. A total of 3,531 miles of new railroad has been built in the Northwest during 1887, besides about 590 miles of road-bed made ready for the iron next year. After a careful examination by numerous scientists and experts, the gas recently discovered in the water-supply pipe of a Chicago brewery is pronounced to be natural gas. The Pacific Railway Company has been incorporated at Lincoln, Neb., with capital stock of $6,000,000, to build an extension, it is thought, of the Missouri Pacific’s Hastings branch. It is announced on reliable authority that the Pope has instructed Archbishop Walsh and the other visiting Irish prelates to adopt a conciliatory attitude toward the Government in Ireland. The revolution in Guatemala has been completely put down as the result of a desperate battle between the Federal and revolutionary forces, in which the latter were defeated and almost annihilated and their Generals captured and shot. A fire which broke out in Wakefield, Mich., burned the best part of the town. The total loss is estimated at $100,009. The insurance is small. The fire started in a variety theater, and was caused by a monkey which overturned a lamp. EAST? McNeally, the Saco (Me.) savings bank robber who got away with $280,000 in cash and securities, was arrested at Halifax, N. S. He was armed with are vol ver, and had a dagger and breech-loading gun in his room. WEST. A St. Paul day express to Chicago on the Minnesota & Northwestern railroad met with a serious accident after crossing Otter creek, between German Valley and Melton Station, not far from Freeport, 111. The train was composed of an engine, tender, baggage car, emigrant coach, one first-class day coach, a Mann buffet car, and three sleepers. There were about 140 passengers on the train. At the time of the accident the train wus running at the rate of about twentyfive miles an hour. After crossing Otter Creek, going south, there is a curve, and it was upon this that the accident took place. The rails had spread, but the engine and tender passed over safely, and ran about 1,000 feet, when the locomotive sprang the track, leaving the tender standing across the track behind it, with the hind truck gone. The entire train left the track and and rolled over the embankment on both sides of the track. Several of the coaches were badly wrecked. All the passengers received a very severe shaking up, and

about thirty were hurt more or less, two of whom will probably die. An Ashland (Wis.) dispatch says: “The Wisconsin Central passenger train which left Ashland Thursday night was derailed by a broken rail in the heart of the great pine forest between Fifield and Phillips, and badly wrecked. The sleeping ear and first and second coaches were all hurled from the track. There were sixty passengers aboard, of whom one—August Mantoi of Butternut — was killed, and nearly all the others were more or less seriously hurt. The Newman-Allen Building and City Bank Block, at Holton, Kan., was burned, with a loss of $70,009; insurance, $35,000. Over $20,000 was found secreted in the bed of a dead miser by a deputy coroner at Minneapolis. Stone County, Missouri, the headquarters of the Bald-knobbers, is again iu a state of great excitement over a feud between the families of Ike Terry and one Wagner. At a recent meeting of the parties Wagner was killed and a friend named Garrett was mortally wounded. Dispa 'hes from Denison, Texas, give particulars of a bold but unsuccessful attempt to rob a train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad near Atoka, in the Indian Territory: Two men boarded the engine, covered the en§ineer ana his fiieman with their guns, and orered them to go on end stop at Boggy Bridge, When that point was readied the train was stopped and the engineer and fireman put under guard. Hero five others jo.m d the gang. Three went to the express car. The express, messenger went to tho door q st ~ appeared. Seeing their W ‘ theinen in the situation : > - im hostors, lie took their faco* Am** and shut tho heavy door in Hjgitnerv d iore resistance could be offered. r,v7«nen put out the lights, and lio and the baggageman, armed with pistols, fortified themselves between the express freight and lay down toawa t results Tho robbers failing to break open the door, they flrod thiity or forty shots into the express car and a volley into the Pullman sleeper, and then gave up tho job and allowed tho train to proceed, having detained it thirty minutes. The reports of suffering from cold and hunger which have been received from Kansas are said to have been greatly exaggerated. A St. Paul paper publishes letters from a large number of the members of the present House upon the subject of tho admission of Dakota, from which it appears that the sentiment of Congress is against division and in favor of the one-State idea. . SOUTH. The Tradesman, of Chattanooga, Tenn., says a dispatch from that city, has prepared a tabulated statement for the purpose of showing the progress of industrial development during the year 1887 in the Southern States. The most important enterprises enumerated in the statement, and total number of such enterprises in the thirteen States named, are as follows: Agricultural implement factories, 22; breweries, fl ; bridge works, 8; car works, 23; cotton and woolen mills, 1.7 ; eleotric-ligbt works, 93; flour and grist mills, 177 ; foundry and m.icbino shops, 184 ; blast furnaces, 73; gas companies, 57 ; glass works, 17 ; ice factories, t-0 ; mines and quarries, 501; natural gas companies, 115; oil mills, 45; pipe works, 4; potteries, 12; railroad companies, 292; rolling mills, 23; stamp mills and smelters, 43; steel plants, 13; street railways, 152; waterworks, 15; wood-working establishments, 640; miscellaneous, 801. Eight persons were frozen to death iu Carson county, Tex., during the recent cold spell. WASHINGTON. Major J. M. Wright, of Louisville, Kentucky, has been appointed Marshal of the United States Supreme Court, to succeed Col. J. G. Nicolay, who retires in order to devote himself to literary work. LABOR.

The great strike of the Heading Bailiond employes is to be made a test of strength between the Knights of Labor and the Beading corporation. The trouble began because a crew of five stevedores was discharged for refusing to work in a grain elevator unless they received an increase in wages. Non-union men weie employed in their places. A Philadelphia dispatch says: The trouble promises to be far-reaching in its effects, and, unless it shall soon be adjusted. Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington will be deprived of fuel, and New York City will ba seriously inconvenienced. All the members of the local assemblies along the Hue of the railroad have quit work. This throws out of employment 50,000 men directly connected with the company in this city, in the Schuylkill Valley, and in the coal regions. There are to-day 36,001 tons f coal side-tracked on the railroad between Philadelphia and Palo Alto in the c >al regions. There is not more than one week's supply of coal in this city, aud the outlook for the consumers is very dark. Along the lino of the Reading Road there are thirty-eight blastfurnaces, which have not more than six days’ coal on hand. These will be compelled to blow out, and thousands more people will ba made idle. AH the factories here use hard coal, and they will necessarily bo comp .'lied to shut down. Dispatches received here from points along the road show that no violence has been attempted. The strikers have housed all the locomotives and gone to their homes. FOREIGN. A CABLE dispatch from London says “Although there is no truth apparently in the reports of tho abdication of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, they spring from a very general feeling in Berlin and Vienna that he ought to get out and thus cease being a disturbing element in European politics. From the beginning of bis career at Sofia, it has been apparent that he was there against the wishes of both the Teutonic powers. He Las been strong enough thus far to withstand their passive dislike, which now seems likely to take an active turn, and the question is whether, under this, he will be able to hold on. But just now it looks as if. in default of other tangible grievances, Bulgaria is going to be brought forward again.” Fresh accusations have boen made against M. Wilson in connection with the decorations scandal, which it is expected will lead to his rearrest. GENERAL. Dun’s agency .reports that busine s throughout the country is active for the season, with a good supply of currency. The industrial outlook is not assuring, however, and uncertainty and hesitation affect some branches of production. Stocks are slightly higher, but dul ; and in a general way the prices of speculative articles have receded. The iron trade is unsettled, wood is slow of sale at lower rates, cottons and print cloths are firm, leather is sluggish, and boots and shoes are in brisk request. Bradstreet’s says that the values of wheat and coni are irregular, but bullishly inclined, arid states that the receipts of British iron for eleven months have aggregated 1.211,000 tons, against 725,000 tons in a like period last year. Collector Magome of New York has ipceived instructions from Secretary Fairchild to be on the alert for the Belgian miners whom, it is alleged, the Lebi.h Valley coal operators are about to bring into the country, and to see that no violations of the alien labor contract law are committed. By an explosion of dynamite at a limestone quarry near Brookfield, Nova Scotia, four men were killed. The Secretary of the Navy has received a favorable report of the recent trial trip of the United States steamship Chicago. OBITUARY. The Hon. Seth C. Moffatt, Congressman from the Eleventh Michigan District, died in Washin^ion. Dec. 22, aged 46. His illness begar? with a carbuncle on his chin.

To this was added a consuming fever tad blood-poisoning. His agony was intense. I Mr. Moffatt was born at Battle Creek, 1 Mich., Aug. 10, 1811; was a student in the law department of Michigan University for three years, during the lust year also studying in tho office of the Hon. T. M. Cooley, and graduated in 1863. For ten years he was prosecuting attorney for Grand Traverse and Leelanaw Counties; served in the Michigan State Senate in 1871—’72; was a member of the Constitutional Commission iu 1873; was register of the United States luind Office at Traverse ■ City from 1874 to 1878; was a member ol I tho State House of Representatives of Michigan in 1881-’B2, serving as Speaker both terms: was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chien. 1 o iu 1884; was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as L, wt ■ Moralet* •’YiM” * u> • • TV;/; ' J a Republican, and was re-elected to the Fiftieth Congress. Hon. Dannie,l Manning, ex-Secreta-ry of the Treasury, died at Lis son James' residence in Albany, N. Y., ou the 24th of December, surrounded by friends aud members of his family. Upon the reception of the news in Washington, President Cleveland issued an order directing that the flags on till the public buildings be placed at half-mast, and also sent a tender ; message of condolence to Mrs. Manning, j The President was deeply moved by the j death of his former Minister. Mr. Man- j ning died of Bright’s disease, the result of ‘ i close confinement in the Treasury Department at Washington, which was in a bad sanitary condition. Mr. Manning was born ' \ lb,my, N. Y., Aug. 16,18'1. Hi> parentage of Irish, English, and Dutch extraction Lo ■■ns a poor boy, and his early opportunities for k booling were very limited. At 11 years of age he went to work us an office-boy at the establishment of the Albany Atlas, which was afterward merged into the Albany with which paper bo "as, in eno capacity or another,connected until hie appointment by President Clovebind a» Se< rotary of tho Treasury. In 1873 he assumed sole charge of tho Aryiis and was elected Pre iJent i of the company. Ho was a member i of the New York Democratic State convention I of 1874 that nominated Hatnuel J. Tilden for Governor, and was a delegate to tho St Louis ' convent.on of ISM that nominated Mr Tilden f>r President. He was also a member of the Now York Demo, ratio State tommitt'o since 187 C, was its Secretary in ls?i and isso, ami was elected t hniiTunn in 1-1. ‘I“ w warmly interested in the nomination of Mr < lev, laud for President at Chicago. Several months ago Mr. Manning's hcabh compelled him to retire from the Cabinet. Mr Manning v.ni active and successful outside of journalism ami politics. | CONGRESS. Bills to establish two additional lam! offices In Colorado and to remove the political disabilities of Abraham C, Meyers wore passed by the Senate on Die. 22. Bills wore introduced as follows : By Mr. Voorhees. to extend tho laws । of tho United Slates, except th"*© provided for pre-emption, timber-culture, ami desert-land entries of tha public lauds strip south of the Indian Territory. It also creates the land district of Cimarron. By Mr. Jones, for tho ere, - I tion of a public building at Helena, Ark. It appropriates ,OU By Mr. Toiler, for the coni- i vulsory education of Indian children. Senator Mitchell presented a memorial from the Fourteenth Legislative Assembly of Oregon, praying I for a modification of the treaty between tho United States and the Chinese empire, so as to : stop and prohibit tho importation or immigration of Chinese and other Asiatic laborers alto- j gather, and to adopt such lawful measures as may be necessary to rid the country of those already here. Mr Dolph addressed the Senate on his joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment on the subject of marriage and divorce and prohibiting bigamy and polygamy. Senators Butler, Morgan, Dawes, Cameron and Teller were'appointed a committee to investigate tho condition of the five civilized tribes of Indians. The Senate adjourned until Jan. 4. When the House met. the desk recently occupied by Mr. Moffatt, of Michigan, was draped in emblems of mourning and decked with flowers. Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, said that it became his painful duty, on behalf of the Michigan delegation, to announce to the House the death of Seth C. Moffatt. In his death tho delegation felt a personal bereavement and his State had lost a wise and able Congressman. Mr, Burrows then offered a series of resolutions, which were unan- i imously adopted, expressive of the regret with ; which the House had heard of Mr. Moffatts death, and providing for the appointment of a joint committee of seven Representatives and three Senators to superintend tho funeral aud attend the remains of the deceased to the place of burial. The House then, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned to ' meet on Wednesday, Jan, 4, 1888. MARKET REPORTS. NEW YORK. Cattle ?5.00 & 6.00 Hogs 5.2 > ?? 5.75 Wheat—No. 1 Herd .96 & .97 No. 2 Red 92 @ .93 Corx—No. 2 62 (fi .63 Oats—White 3!) .41 I’oiiK—New Mess 1.5.50 ^16.25 CHICAGO. Cattle —Choice to Prime Steers 5.25 Cd 5.75 Good 4.25 & 4.75 Common to Fair 3.50 & 1.85 i Hogs—Shipping Gradel 5.25 01 6.00 Flour—Winter Wheat.. 3.75 <§> 4.25 Wheat —No. 2 Red Winter 78 : 4i<# .7954 Cork—No. 2 48 i<s .49 Oats—No. 2 .31'4 Butter—Choice Creamery 28)4 -00 Fine Dairy 20 & .24 Cheese —Full Cream, new 1114 <n .1254 Eggs—Fresh 21 (45 .22 Potatoes—Choice, per bn ,$ 8) & .87 Pork—Mess 14.50 @15.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash .75 & .76 CoBN—No. 3. 16b>@ .47*4 Oats—No, 2 White 32 @ .33 Rye—No. 1 .G2Fj@ .63)4. Pork—Mess 14.75 @15.25 ST. EO UIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 80)4 di .81 )£ Corn —Mixed 46)4 -47)4 Oats—Cash 31 @ .32 I’ork—Mess 14.50 m 15.00 TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash 85'4 .86 Corn—No. 2 Mixed 53 @ .54 Oath—Cash 32 @ .32)4 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.50 @ 6.2> Hogs 4.75 @ 5.50 Sheep 4.25 vn 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 White 85)4 <9 Cohn —No. 2 54 n .55 Oats—No. 2 White 35)4® .30J4 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No, 2 Bed 66 @ -87 Corn- No. 2 53)4'5 .54)4 Oats —No. 2. 31 @ .35 Pork—Moss 15.25 015.75 Live Hogs 5.25 @ 6,00 BUFFALO. Cattle . .. 4.50 @ 5.50 Hogs 5.00 5.75 Wheat —No. 1 Hard. 83’4 ®.90)4 C-OBN—No. 2 Yellow 58,4@ .5'9)4 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3-50 @5.00 Hogs 5.00 @ 5.75 Sheep - 3.00 @ 3.75 Wheat —No. 2 Red... 82 @ .83 Cohn 52 @ Oats —Mixed..,,.... 32)4@ -aS EAST LIBERTY . Cattle—Prime 4.5) @ s,^j Fair 4-00 @ 4.75 Common. 325 @ 4.00 Hogs 5.25 @ 6.09 Sheep ..... .. , 4.50 @ 5.25

HARMONY among animals. When Members of tho Brute Creation Will Lose Their Fear of Man. Instances of individuals gifted with an exceptional influence over animals have been very numerous, and the stories told of the strange sympathy whien existed mutually between them and their friends in fur, feathers or scales are familiar to most readers of books of natural history. This power over the lower orders—a form, perhaps, of intellectual “mesmerism”—is exercised for manv purposes, sometimes for money making, as when professional “tamers,” like tho famous M. Bidel, who has a grand mansion at Asnieres, show their command over wild beasts, from tho man in spangles who goes into the lion’s den and makes the huge brute perform tricks, to the humble exhibitor at street corners who has a cage full of canaries trained to fire off popguns, and take liberties with a furry, sleepy old eat. At other times it is lor personal pleasure, as when a Thoreau goes into his woodland hermitage and spends his life in communion with all tho wildings whose natural home he has come to share, or a Gautier takes ponies, dogs and eats into his confidence, and talks to them and of them as if he and they had arrived at a perfect understandb It is interesting to possible resul^i^^' ul coul J onlv re . vert, asai^ri hat condition of universal amiability which i» reputed to have been the"cli.irin of life in Edon, and which is promised es one of the special joys of the millennium. Before man, however, could live in perfect harmony with other animals, it would be necessary for the lower orders to arrive first at mutual understanding among themselves. Hounds would have to take pleasure in hunting hares only up to the point when the hare grew weary and did not want to be hunted any more. Or a particular fox, on being discovered in his covert, should explain to the pack that he was a little out of sorts that morning, and his friends must really excuse him showing them any sport. In return, foxes would have to take to eating grass among the geese on the common and not interfere with the goslings. It would be expected of them that they should bear no ill-will toward chickens and ducks, but, on the contrary, be aimable and neighborly with the inmates of the poultry yard.

Tne terrier and the eat should let bygones be bygones and, except for amusement or healthy exercise, give tp running after each other and spitting and scratching. Canaries in their cages might be left iu the room with puss, and the door being open wo ild make no difference. Having got as far as this, we might then set about putting ourselves iu thoiougFi accord with the rest of creation. Special embassies would be sent to the jungles of Asia and the forests of Africa, and matters arranged with the beasts for future harmony; and once preliminaries were satisfactorily sett'ed with the lion aud tiger, the paeitit on of the other animals would rapidly follow. No doubt the difficulties to be encount red at tho outset are great, for carnivorous animals might be nutu rail* expected to entertain very grave objections to becoming vegetarian. As it is now, everything hides itself, the feasts get behind bushes, rush into their holes or s ulk into the grass, while the birds vanish out of sight either by sudden flight or swift disap- 1 penrancem*:ong foliagi>. All tins v>oul I l>e changed. In India, for instance, the mon< eys would come out and gambol in full view, the peacocks brighten tho high roads and all tho curious small life in fur and feathers, which at present no one ever sees, would come forward and fill the whole day with lively incident, and banish dullness I v i giving every one plenty to look at, watch and think about. Lon ’’on E'ihaii'j'. Many Wais of Eating. Anybody can, and everybody docs, eat after his or her fashion. That the fashii n of doing what is so natural ami so necessary to the continuance of human existence should often be so vile that man’s meat becomes his bane is a fact accepted quietly because it- is ■ so common. Sufferers and their ■ friends talk of indigestion us of una- | voidable fri< tion of machinery. The ■ ]>roeesses of the stomach in its normal ' state are adjusted and regulated with an admirable regard for causes, uses, aud effects that reduces needful wear , and tear to a minimum. Eating and walking are both natural ' operations of the human body. There are as many ways of doing one as the other, but the wrong way of feeding is attended by far more serio s consequences than a slouch, or stoop in carriage, or a hitch in locomotion. The fable of the Belly and the Members has a profound practical application which .Esop may or may not have discerned. It goes without saying that the primal essential to digestion is to furnish the stomach with material that may be easily assimilated by the gastric fluids. It is equally patent that this point cannot receive justice now and here. The thought ot the undertaking suggests the apostle’s magnificent hyperbole: “I suppose the world, itself would not contain the books that would be written.” We must spur the imagination to take for granted that one out of ten Christian families in easy circumstances sWu down tri-daily io meals properly prepared and served. I heard a member of the above-ad-mitted tenth family congratulating himself the other day on his ability to fast without discomfort. According to his showing, his stomach was as manageable as a stop-watch. He took his breakfast at any and all hours, dispensed with the midday lunch as often as not; and shifted dinner-time to suit his convenience, or that of his customers. Men of business are the chief of sinners in this respect. The noon spell —a beneficent institution bequeathed to us by our forefathers with the now almost everywhere obsolete 9-o’clock curse up the mechanic and day laborer to the wholesome necessity of dining at a given hour the year around. .Many women have “hunger headaches,” angels in disguise, that remind them of the void and faintness which are enfeebling their nerves and vitiating their physical forces. Such a constitutional infirmity, instead of being objurgated by the possessor, should be regarded as an alarm-clock hung in the citadel, faithful to the duty of signaling the approach of danger. It is a proof of weakness, not health, when the stomach gives no token of consciousness that the season has arrived for renewed supplies. 11 should rest after disposing satisfactorily of eaih meal. At the end of a reasonable period of quiescence it will, it all be well, awake and cry for more. In this day of common sense and plain speech, it should be an established truth that there is

nothing degrading to the higher nature in the reasonable activity of a natural animal appetite. It is not disgraceful to be hungry.— Journal of Reconstructives. Lord Lyons. Lord Lyons was fond of good cheer, but a water-drinker only. Wine was poured into his glass at his own table to encourage others to imbibe the vintages offered them, but it was not so much as tasted. This may be one of the reasons why hia head in the most trying situations kept quite steady. He spent perhaps six hours a day at his desk. His writing was like a lady’s of what was formerly known as the Italian kind, and covered a good deal of paper. It was a liberal, orderly, and strongly characterized hand, albeit ladylike. In paying visits he took a good deal out of himself as he got on towards 70. No aversion to exercise stood in tho way of his calls or prevented him going the round of these social “gayeties” in which he was exliected to join. Be must have been bored, but 1 never, nor any one else, either, saw him yawn when ho was in a drawing-room or at a concert. He often sat with his chin resting on his chest, and his little humorous eyes looking out from a face tIRS-yuJisides^QL-whk'h 5UiC*-t>’itiheii”to hide expression. Nothing escaped those twinkling eyes. It tickled him to hear a bit of crisp scandal—one saw this in his laughter. But no mortal could gtit his tongue to say what he thought about it.— Faris Letter. In the Future. Mr. Politician (addressingimpromptu mass-meeting in the penitentiary yard( —Fellow-criminals: At last, after years of labor, I have succeeded in obtaining for you your rights. You are all citizens, and are to vote at the next election. You all know how deeply I sympathize with the down-trodden manhood 1 see before me. I never had the honor to boa convict myself, but my father was once jailed for contempt of court, and my grandfather was lynched for murder. It was reported that he committed suicide, but I have no doubt the noble old man was hung by his neighbors. I myself have lacked the courage to murder and rob, but I admire bravery in others, and when 1 look upon this vast assemblage of heroes 1 am tilled with feelings of veneration. If 1 am elected 1 will not forget those who have honored me with thgir votes. Now, fellow-criminals, time is pressing, so we will close this patriotic outpouring with three cheers for Minks, Winks, myself, and tho whole ticket. — Omaha World. Virtue Alone is SiKvessfuk I ho success of vicious and immoral women is only spasmodic, and always unsatisfactory, and a doubtful reputation follows them wherever they go. If virtue and worth sometimes suffer and rest under a cloud, these qualities are certain to bring their reward in the long run. There is no society so frivolous or base that a true and pure woman is not respected and admired. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The famous floating island of the j Derwent water, E .gland, has come to ! tho surface again after a long disap- I peirance. This is a mass of decaying vegetation forming a layer of peat, on top of which is a thin covering of clay bound together by the roots of vegetation. It rests on the bottom of the Like, but sometimes some force, supposed to bo the gases generated by tho decaying matter, causes it to rise to the. surface. Its extent sometimes reaches half an acre, and it rises and falls with the water, until finally it sinks out of sight again, to be gone probably for several years. A i. either strap two inches wide and eighteen long, fastened to a hickory handle two feet long, with a string to j tho end bv which tho handle could be । fastened to the wrist, was found be- j tween the log walls and the weather boards of an old farmhouse near Monticello, Ga., that is being torn down. It is an old-fashioned slave whip. The only thing certain about litigation is its uncertainty. 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