St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 February 1891 — Page 2

Walkerton independent. WALKERTON, . _ . INDIANA nuggets of gold FROM EVERY QUARTER OF THE globe. The Latest Intelligence Received by Wire Irom Distant Lands and at Home—The Cream of the News Gathered from AH Quarters of the World. The Lis' Sad Ritns. F ineral services over the remains of the late Secretary of the Treasury, Win. Windom, were held at the Church of the Covenant in Washington. The vast con* course comprised more officials of President Harrison’s administration than have before gathered together in one edifice. The scene was impressive in its solemnity and awe-inspiring in its simple grandeur. The passage of the cortege through the streets was witnessed by large crowds. Among those in attendance at the church were the President and .Mrs. Harrison and other distinguished perThe body was interred at Rock ^troek Cemetery. rs. Henry Wysong, a widow with I three children, near Horton, Kan., has been having a hard time to support herself, and she attempted to kill her children and herself. The oldest, a boy of 12, escaped from her after she had cut his throat with a knife and ran to a neighbor’s. The woman had the npmaining two children witli her, and after inflicting mortal wounds on herself she set fire to the houm, and wh?n the neighbors arrived they found it in flames. The charred remains of the three were found later in the ruins. Dis<r“fs in Ireland. In the islands o? Achill, Clare and Innisboffin the children are crying for bread, and in Clune, Cashleer, Glanagimla, and other villages there is no fuel, all the turf being saturated by the incessant rains The only potatoes left are about the size of marbles. They have no money to buy meal, they have scarcely any clothes but a few rags tied together with a string, and children in this bitterly cold weather are going about half naked. Ihe Fehrl 1 g Sei Trouble. The United Stat's Supreme Court has granted the British Government leave to file an application for a writ of prohibition to prevent the District Court of Alaska from carrying out its decree of forfeiture in the ca e of the schooner Seward, libeled for unlawfully taking seals within the waters of Behring Sea. They Shook Hand;. Ex-President Grover Ci.evei.axd and Gov. David B. Hill met at the dinner given at the Manhattan Club, New York. The two eminent Democrats

shook hands heartily after the conclusion of the banquet, and thus the feud between the twain was amicably settled. Nearly Lost His Life. . H. J.Clokan, Crown Prosecutor for the Wciis’trfct of Montreal* and well known throughout the United States as President of the Irish National League, Canadian branch, narrowly escaped a horrible death in his efforts to rescue a woman and a child from a burning tenement. Lost Diam mds Traced At Los Angeles, Cal., recently. L. M. Wagner lost §12,000 worth of diamonds and other jewels. Detectives learned that a Chinaman found a sack of jewels in St. James Park. The Chinaman has been traced and almost all of the jewels will be recovered. Maj’ Bs but a Nostrum. George M. Bradley, a consumptive, who had been inoculated with Dr. Koch's lymph, died at New Haven, Conn. The remedy had an ill effect on the man's throat. Another lymph patient is also reported dying in the same city. Persona'. Heirs of Dr. Samuel D. Hugo, at Alton, 11l , have filed a c'aim for lands including the ground on which the National Capitol stands, base I on a warrant issued in 1788 by the General Assembly

of Maryland. They Hold H'm R'spmsfb'*. Superintendent Keighley, o." th ■ Mammoth mine, was attacked and severely injured by wives of victims of tiie recent disaster, who declared that he had murdered their husbands. Attacking ’h‘ M K n>v Taw. Ai dry goods firmat Lcuisviile, Ky , will file a petition for the return o’ §103,000 duties collected under the McKinley bill on the ground that the bill is unconstitutional. J9pUb|’i;n”ofo-ni'*d an I Mnrd r^d. jjbj qßnouij^ d Lcna Marks ’ H) - had her throat cut in the yard of her fatner • Marcy, New York. "s, P< Afar f r Pn sid nt The Kansas Alliance leaders are beginning to talk of Senator-elect roffer as the Alliance candidate for the I’rmiccncy in 1892. Th- Artist Mdsson’or Dead. Ji an Louis Ernest Meissonier, the

painter, died in Paris. He was born in Lyons in 1812. Taubemck Vindicat'*'! The Alliance legislator, Taubeneck, of Illinois, was vindicated at Columbus, Ohio, of the charges made against him. Death of Rosine Btoc’u ih“ Pr ma Dome. Rosine Bloch, the prima donna, died in Faris. Burned on a Bridge. Outbuildings and suspension bridge across the Tuolumne River, near Sonora, Cal., were destroyed by fire. Among the ashes of the building was found the charred remains of Charles S. Peas, the bridge-tender. PricFss Rains. Forty-two hundredths inches of rain fell at San Francisco. Reports show that rain turning to snow in the mountains has fallen in all coast districts except Arizona.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. In a fit of drunken bravado, George Schneider, of Er;e, Pa . placed the muzzle of a pistol in his mouth. He pulled the trigger too hard and will die. . B. B. Hopkins, a prominent Wall street broker, cut his throat while temporarily insane. He will die. ; At Boston, while drunk, .John Kelly shot his father, aged 70, through the head, killing him instantly. John Baske, while oiling machinery at Pittsburg, Pa., was eaught by a shaft and whirled around until his logs were thrashed off above the knees. He will die. It is estimated that the damage done by the great storm that swept the East will not fall short of $6,000,000. Giant powder exploded at Crafts’ Station, N. Y.. and literally blew Section Foreman Connelly to pieces. His remains wouldn't fill a peck measure. Several workmen were seriously injured by an explosion at Arlington, N.• J., which demolished the celluloid factory. Ar Youngwood, Pa , 107 bodies have been recovered from the mine, and it is thought that forty-four more are yet interred. So far no evidence is found that ; any of the dead victims lived a second I after the explosion. The Bellefonte (Pa.) Furnace. Company's furnace, orc banks, and quarries shutdown for an indefinite period, owing to an increase in freight tariffs, throwing 660 men out of employment. Four workmen at the Duquesne steel works in Pennsylvania were fatally burned by molten ste< I. News of the sudden demise of Francis B. Ogden, cx-Consul to Bristol, England, i from heart di:ease, comes from New York. Katie Kophef, 8 years old, died at Pittsburg, the result of a wound inflicted by a stone thrown by an unknown boy. Owners of twenty-one furnaces and rolling mills in the Mahoning and Shenandoah valleys, representing a capital of over 56,600,000 and employing 20,000 men, formed a combination. At Erie, Pa., Miss Mary Jane Healy was arrested on the charge of murdering her child. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. The building of the 'Western Art Association at Omaha, Neb., collapsed while a wall was being re । aired. Bouguereau's “Return of Spring.” valued at $20,000, and other costly pictures were ruined. The State National Bank of Kansas City went into voluntary liquidation. It was organized in January, 1887, with a capital of $250,000. George J. Goodman and Ed Hunt, of Kansas City, were soundly cowhided by the mothers of two girls they had enticed away.

At Downieville, Cal., John Trcbino died of trichiniasis, another of the family is dangerously sick, and two others are recovering from the same disease They all ate half-cooked pork Dec. 29. Judge Thayer, at St. Louis. ' dismissed a suit against Selwyn Edgar, Tor violating the alien contract labor' law on the ground that there was no contract, as Edgar in a letter asking two men in England to come ovdr to work for him and inclosing tickets, to St. Louis had said he could give them steady i work, not that ho would. Mrs. Andrew Davis and Mrs. Meyers, at Osgco 1. Iml., assaulted Miss Ida Ewing in church, an I beat her so it is thought she will die. Ten tramps attempted to take possession of a passenger train at Tippecanoe, Ohio. They attacked the train crew with knives; the latter were re enforced by the engine men. and finally drove the tramps out of the car after shooting three of them, two mortally. At Bellaire, Ohio, the principal of a ward school chastised a 14-year-old girl pupil for chewing gum. She went home crying, but later returned, accompanied by her mother, when both attacked the teacher, gouging h : s eyes so that it is thought he will lose his sight. The Cherokee strip is swarming with boomers. The Dill-O'Connor colony,

numbering 2.500, containing none but well-equipped farmers, is the most prominent and ha ; started the town of Enid. It was re] >rted that the wheat crop of Nebrasl was 10,000,000 bushels short of the amount reported by the Governor, and that the growing crop was in bad condition. At Park Side, 111., the body of Nicholas Siennas was found lying in the bushes with thirty-three wounds in its trunk. Pt was evidently the work of an Italian with a stiletto. Eight men are imprisoned in raging flames in the Chaplin Mine, Michigan. All shafts arc closed down to prevent air from fanning the furious blaze. T. A. Mann, of Minden, Neb., becomKQI I g enraged at a cow, tied her in a stall 1 afM sawed her legs off. He was com- [ pelletKp flee to escape lynching. Wheat touched the dollar point at St. Louis, causing much excitement among the bear element and heavy losses. No j failures were reported. John Niles, a horsethief, was shot in '

Montana. The balance of the gang was , arrested. George E. Crawford, ex-Governor of Kansas, died at Grand Junction, Col. Because he couldn't win her love, ' Charles Goble of Kansas City shot Anna I Luther and killed himself. At Butte City. Mont., an attachment was levied on the store of James R. Boyce, Jr., A Co., one of the oldest and largest dry goods houses in the West, for §60,000, forcing an assignment. The > assets are stated to bo §125,000; liabili- j ties estimated at §IOO,OOO. Fire wiped out the little town of ■ Cygnet, Ohio. Six blocks were burned, and the following persons are known to have perished in the flames: C. | Maloney. Frank Satterly, Gertrude Satterly. The loss will reach §IOO,OOO, with little or no insurance. The cause is unknown. The Nebraska House indefinitely postponed the bill providing for a recount of

। the votes cast at the late election on the I prohibitory amendment. The bill ap- | preprinting $100,060 for the relief of । the drought sufferers in the western I part of the State was passed by a unani- ' । mous vote. Directors of the Anglo-Nevada AsI surance Company at San Francisco re- | solved to reduce the capital stock from I $2,000,000 to $500,000 preparatory to go- । ing out of business. | The Missouri Senate passed a resolution pledging itself not to appropriate any money for the World’s Fair should the force bill become a law. Two masked men entered a San Francisco store, held four persons at bay, stole S3OO, and escaped. John Aroken, a stockman who was a passenger on a train wrecked by an open switch near Kansas City, died of fright. The proprietor of the horn factory at Elkhart, Ind., Colonel C. G. Conn, has aopointed six of his employes a board of managers of his establishment, and propose to divide next year’s profits with his hands. At the Chapin mine, Iron Mountain, Mich., four of the imprisoned miners escaped the fire, and but two were killed. Wilson Howard, a notorious desperado and outlaw, has been arrested at ; St. Louis. He was one of the prini cipals in the notorious feud that for j MRht years has existed between -.tier; in Harlan County, Kentucky, and/» ae-A cording to the statement of Johu^-^w Bailey. a brother of two of his victim.Howard is responsible for the liyeK^^ six members of the Bailey family, three members of the Turner family, and a dozen or more of the distant relatives of Bailey. Advices from Singapore report the arrival at Manila of the Spanish steamer Don Juan witli news of another terribll massacre, of Spanish troops and rest dents in the Caroline. Islands. It appears that the natives without warning fell on the Spanish garrison, killing some ninety soldiers ami civilians. The Spaniards thereupon attacki d the native fort. It is said that the natives fought with singular bravery, but were eventually driven into the jungle. Allen Healy, a prosperous Norwegian farm t of Corona, Col., was victimized out of $5,000. He went into a low saloon: there he was induced to bet S4O that his check was not good for $5,000 at the German National Bank. He wrote the check and that is all he remembered until he awoke in the rear of the saloon. The check had been cashed. James A Smith. Sr., President of the” .James A Smith A Sons Ice ami Fruit C< mpany, of St. Louis, and for forty years identified with business interests in that city, was arrested at his rjsH deuce on capias warrants trging him with embezzlement and fraud. Masked men robbed a saloon and, three attendants at Kansas City, secur-j ing $1". 0, three watches, and somdi jewelry. Aid has been solicited from Western Kansas. Great suffering is report'd. ;

SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. Citizens of Woodvillm Miss., in n meeting adopted a n s'vutkm warnitv^m .■aOjcmUortb A* J| f bed .a oht®*®® A *T. RailroadrrrehTTWi and Wpun^bment through teehn ®o lea^C the country im£ media, m never to return, on paj^ of deatTTU;; Sot thi’rn steel company workmen at Chattanooga, Tenn.. thr< at m to expose the company for violation of the contract labor law if the proposed io per cent, re-' duction in wagesis enforced At Overton. Texas, the boiler of the Reed A Henry saw-mill exploded, killing Gill Henry and Dan Tueke. and fatally wounding John Austin, a colored man. Gabe Strickland, a convicted murderer at Amite City, La., was forcibly taken from the Sheriff by his friends. Robert Dotson and John Ranks fell under a train on the Louisville A Nashville road at Memphis. Tenn., and were instantly killed. The men were stealing' a ride. H. C. Keeble. of Selma. Ala., head of the Keeble Company, which failed for §250,000 a few days ago, has fled the Get of a capital stock of §165,00^, ^resident Moore of the People’s Bank,

at Fayetteville, S. C., left §55,000. I e is arrested. Notwithstanding his mind is Effected, Rev. William Mitchell, of Fait Worth, Tex., is found guilty of forgery and sentenced to two years’ iinprisJiment. At Macon, Ga., Jake Young, the mist notorious outlaw in South Georgia, wio, through the influence of rich relatiws, is once more free from the restraintlof jail life, has resumed his career of terwr. At Denison, Texas, eight persons wlie poisoned by eating bread made with cotton seed oil. Reports are current of an attaciijM^ white men at Galloway, Ala.. miiu negroes who had been put to work dW" ing the recent strike. Eight negroes JTe reported to have been sb o down. l/he Stale militia have been ordealJu Ihc scene. 7 The Union Compress Company'^.sliding in Argenta, opposite Little R*k, I Ark., caught lire, in the machinery room I and was partially destroyed, causing a 1 loss on building, machinery, and cotton

, aggregating §185,000. Phillips & Stein’s large crockery house in Richmond, Va., was destroyed by fire. The building and stock were ! completely wrecked. The Joss is placed ! at §75,000. At one time the fire threatened the destruction of the whole block. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. In grand committee the Rhode Island Legislature declared Oscar Lapham I (Dem.) elected to Congress from the ! First District. There was no electioj in ' the Second District, and a new elec ion will bo ordered. A committee repo ted that in both districts 2,045 defective >al- . lots were cast. I W. A. Peffer, F. M. B. A. candid ito, is elected by the Kansas Legislating tb succeed John J. Ingalls in the Un ted i States Senate. I The result of the canvass condu ted by two farmers' papers shows that Ci^voI I

land is the choice of Democratic farm^ers by a vote of 71,787 to 17,118 for Hill. Republicans are for Blaine by 39,209 to 51,013 for Harrison. • The Wisconsin Legislature, by a voto o< 82 to 45, has elected W. F. Vilas, exSecretary of the Interior, 1o succeed Senator Spooner in the United States Senate. John J’. Jones was re-elected United States Senator from Nevada for the fourth time, receiving 54 votes out of 60. FOREIGN GOSSIP. The Liberal party in England has espoused the cause of the Scotch railway strikers. The barque City of Papeete brings news of a serious revolt against French rule at Tahiti. The natives want the United States to protect them. London physicians have given up hope of the recovery of Leonard W. Jerome. Mr. Jerome is probably the most noted man in racing circles in America. Several leprous Russians and Russian Jews have sailed from Odessa for America. Quarantine officers arc watching all ports. Mrs. Ball, the wife of Thomas Ball, the American sculptor, died at Florence, Italy. I’rti-ate advices received say that the • Russian Government will not seize any 1 sealing vessels on the Siberian coast un|less found taking seals inside of the ■ *Vgoo n,j ] 0 ]j ln jt,

FRESH AND NEWSY. The missionary ship Phoebe Chapman, which sailed from Honolulu a year ago in charge of Elder Cndeny, of Nebraska, is given ui> as lost. "Wreckage from her is reported from Tahiti islands. In his will, Historian Bancroft bequeaths his entire estate in trust to his relatives. The cruiser San Francisco has returned to Mare Island Navy Yard from her final trial trip. Members of the examining board and all officers speak in the highest, terms regarding the seagoing qualities of the ship. A terrific storm at the island of Massowah caused the death of over one hundred people and enormous loss of property. Representatives of every linseed oil mill in the country, handling 13,000,000 bushels of linseed yearly, met and advanced the price of oil 50 cents per barrel. There have been desperate and sanguinary battles fought in the provinces of ( hili between the rebel forces and the government troops. Many have been killed on both sides, but the reports are conflicting as to which side proved victorious. Twelve thousand Chilian Government troops, dispatched from Valparaiso against the insurgents, have revolted and joined the rebel foil es. Charles Bradlaugh, the eminent free thinker and memb t of the House of Commons for Northampton, died at London Mr. Bradlaugh was one of the most remarkable men that England produced during the .ast half century. The remains of the late Secretary Windom were taken to Washington, acc',mu.‘r»icd by a iarg • party of piomincnt. I N<>w Y\>rk men Congr s< has adjourned iblic buildM^wTly flags at half-mast Business failures for the week number 320, as compared with 380 last week, and 291 in the corresponding week of Ln9J. WAR news continues to filter from Chili, but it must be admitted that the information received seems to come in the main from sources favorable to tho insurgents and unfavorable to I he Chilian Government. The insurgent's warships are blockading the island of Chiloe and Chiloe archipelago, their ships patrolling the Gulf of Ancud. and thus cutting off all communication between the island and the mainland. Five hundred subscribers to the New Orleans Watch and Jewelry Company, a branch of the Chicago concern of the same name, mourn the loss of their subscriptions. The concern has vanished. The Canadian Parliament, it is believed, will be dissolved at once. It is stated at Buenos Ayres that Valdivia Port, or Corral, possessing tho best harbor on the Pacific coast, and tho

seaport town of Valdivia are both blockaded by the war vessels of the revolutionists. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to Prime $3.25 @ 6.50 Hogs— Shipping Grades 3.00 @ 3.75 Sheep 3.(0 & 5.50 Wheat— No. 2 Red 95 @ .96 Corn— No. 2 49’j@ .50 Oats— No. 2 43^@ .44^ Rye— No. 2 .’ 70 .72 Buttes —Choice Creamery 22 @ .21 Cheese— Full Cream, flats 10 @ .11 Eggs— Fresh 21 @ .22 Potatoes— Western, per bu 90 @ .95 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle - Shipping 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs —Cßolce Lignt 3.00 ei 3.75 (JtSTTFKr- Common to Prime 3.00 4.75 UKA I No. 2 Red 04 AT ,W'_ Il Corn —No. 1 White 50 @ .51 Oats —No. 2 White 45?^@ .46’4 । ST. LOUIS. ! cattle - 4.C0 @ 5.00 1 hogs.. .. 3.00 @ 3.75 ■ Wheat —No. 2 Red 98 @ .99 Corn— No. 2 49 Oats-No. 2 @ Barley— Minnesota 71 ® .<2 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.00 ® 4.00 ; Sheep 3.00 & 5.75 i Wheat— No. 2 Red 97’«(® .98's Corn —No. 2 52’b® .53'g Oats —No. 2 Mixed 47 & .48 MILWAUKEE. Wheat —No. 2 Spring .96>s@ .97ti Corn —No. 3 49 & .50 i Oats— No. 2 White 46 @ .47 , I Rye— No. 1 72 @ .74 i Barley— No. 2 66 @ .67 I DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 1.50 | Hogs 3.00 ® 3.50 ; Sheep 3.00 4 t? I Wheat —No. 2 Red 99 @ 1.00 , Corn— No. 2 Yellow 51 @ .52 I Oats —No. 2 White 47}s@ -48*4 TOLEDO. I ' Wheat , I Corn— Cash 51Ji@ .5214 1 Oats— No. 2 White 451454 .4614 1 I BUFFALO. i Cattle —Good to Prime 4.00 @ 5.00 1 Hogs —Medium and Heavy 3.50 @ 3.75 1 Wheat— No. 1 Hard I.o7b>@ 1.08)4 1 Corn —No. 2 55 @ , EAST LIBERTY. Cattle —Common to Prime..... 4.00 @5.25 • Hogs— Light 3.25 @ 4.00 ‘ Sheep— Medium to Gocd 4.(0 @ u. 50 ’ Lambs 6.00 ® 6.50 T NEW YORK. 1 Cattle. •• 3.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 3.25 @ 4.00 Sheep L" @ 6.25 I Wheat —No. 2 Red 1.10 (<5 1.11 1 Corn— No. 2.. 62 @ .64 Oats— Mixed Western 50 & .54

THE SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives — Important Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the lousiness. In the Senate, on the 27tb, House bill providing for tho payment of Indian depredaj tions claims was considered until 2 o’clock, । when the apportionment 1)111 was- taken up I as the unfinished business, .the question being on Mr. Davis amendment to increase ; / tOta nuinbcr of Representatives from 356 (as proposed in the House bill) to 360 and giving an additional member to each of the States of Arkansas. Minnesota, Missouri and New York. Mr. Davis explained and advocated the amendment. In the House a bill passed for a railway bridge over the Missouri between Council Bluffs and Omaha. I he House then went into committee on the military academy appropriation hill. In the Course of the general debate, Mr. Rogers of Arkansas, referred to the recent Indian war as unprovoked and indefensible. If the report of the massacre at Wounded Knee were correct, the massacre was the most shameful murder in the annals of our national history. If they were true, the committee to whom the resolution of inquiry had been referred should lose no time in providing for a thorough investigation. There remain but twenty-nine days of the session and the two houses will be required to work with industry to properly complete the necessary legislation within >at period. Inorder to make up some of the time lost, the Senate will hereafter meet and as the Sena te< when it does settie down to work, proceeds with commendable earnestness, ignoring trifles and ■ )..)■.)...)

of. The Senate has live of the thirteen general appropriation bills, of which three are on the calendar, namely, pension, fortifications anil army. In addition to these the Senate Committee has in course of examination and will soon be ready to report tho navy- and District of Columbia bills. Before these are reported the House will have completed several others of the supply bills that are now on the calendar of that b)dy. Senators Gorman, Gibson and Faulkner, on the 29th, informed the Democratic leaders in the House that they had been formally notified by the Republican Senators in charge of the elections bill that no further effort would be made to bring up either the bill or the closure resolutions. The death of the bill is certain to be followed by the demise of free coinage. It is now doubtful if the free coinage measure will get out of the Coinage Committee unless the House takes it out. The Senate, by a strict party vote passed the apportionment bill just as it. came from the House. Four amendments were introduced to increase by one each the Representatives in Congress from Arkanas, Minnesota, Missouri and New York. All were defeated. The solemn and impressive duty of announcing the death of Secretary Windom to the Senate was performed by Mr. Morrill, the venerable “Father of the Senate.” M hen the Senate was called to order on the morning of the 30th, nearly every Senator was in his seat, and it was obvious from the air of solemnity that pervaded the chamber that, something out of the ordinary had occurred. There was also an air of sadness in the House, and unusual attention was paid to tlie prayer of the Chaplain. Resolutions of respect were adopted and a committee appointed to attend the, funeral. Both houses then adjourned until after the interment. In the Senate, on the 31st, a number of bill were reported from committees and introduced. Mr. Cullom presented the r< solutions of the House of Rep. 'sentatives of Illinois instructing the Senators from that State to vote against the Lodge bill and for the fiee coinage bill. He said he regarded the resolutions In the nature of petitions and asked that they be filed in the records of the Senate. So ordered. Mr. Morrill offered a resolution for the appointment of a committee of seven Senators to join tlie House in attending the funeral of Secretary Windom. The resolutv n was agreed to and Messrs. Morrill, Washburn, Allis n, Harris, Payne and Gorman were appointed. The artqy appropriation bill was then taken up passed. The House, on the same date, passed the military academy appropriation bill and immediately went into committee of the whole on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Wise Sayings. A true principle never dies. Activity is not always energy. Every man owes a debt to mankind. Be the architect of your own fortune. Be content with such things as ye have. The present is the golden moment of life. In shoal water you know how deep it is. Only very mean men always take the half cent. The most liberal are oftener the most successful. TT . I . A Al — - „

Health Is too costly a blessing to be fooled away. Loyalty to best convictions is an important duty. No bi,essing equals the possession of a stout heart. A man of business is not always a business man. Don’t start business and fast living at the same time. Who waits for dead men’s shoes may have to go barefoot. Honesty is best policy, but policy not always best honesty. Difficulties are overcome by dill" gence and assiduity. Timuiitv is a stumbling-block and turns the feet to ruin. Balances on the credit side of the ledger always look the best. Better to begin the world without a dime than end it without a dollar. Captured Conundrums. What color is a field of grass when covered with snow? Invisible green. We never see a poor man without wondering why he never got rich. If you had to swallow a man what kind would you prefer? A little London porter. Why is a solar eclipse like a mother beating her boy? Because it is a-hid-ing of the son. Why is Satan always a gentleman? Because, being the imp of darkness, he can never be imp o’ light. What we know as peers of England are not the only hereditary functionaries in Croat Britain. The Court of Queen's Bench has just been led to decide that there are a certain number of hereditary pawnbrokers. The man who recently refused to ..id a British policeman struggling with a party of roughs has been fined £2O. The law requires that a citizen shall render help under such circumstances. The first time a woman shows jealousy, it flatters a man; the second time, it frightens him.

SovtF American Poisoned Arrows. The savages and oth -rs that inhabit the almost unknown Amazonian frontiers o 1 eru and Bolivia kill their game with tiny poisoned arrows blown through reed guns ten or twelve feet long. The arrows are made of a species of iron wood oi tippi'd with a bit of flint, poisoned at. the point. Strange to say, though the merest scratch of one of the arrows causes death in less time than it takes to tell it, the flesh of the animals killed; thereby can be eaten with impunity asthe poison acts only through the blood producing paralysis and instant death’ but is comparatively harmless when, taken into the stomach. South American Indians kill more birds, tapirs jaguars, and even larger animals with th* blow-gun, than the most expert hunters of other lands can bring down with the best rifles, and when these poisoned arrows become weapons of warfare they are more to be dreaded than grape and canister. The deadly weapons are entirely noiseless, and cannot be distinguished among the dense foliage when in the hands of a savage perched like a mopkey in the branches of a tree. Ihe secret of the poison has Lever been revealed, it being kept within th© knowledge of a few “medicine men” of each tribe, and handed down from thefather to the son. Sir Robert Thornburg, who has made poisons a life study, says that it is probably distilled from the sap of the strychnos toxifera, a shrubresembling that which supplies the “Quaker button” of commerce, from which strychnine is made. Others assert, that it is taken from the poison glandsof venomous serpents. More terrible still to contemplate is the possibility

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