Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 April 1896 — Page 4

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The bicycle has ru!n?cl the marl-ret for the meHsenger-b-o^ joltes-

The Rhou-e Island Republicans appear to have bean the only voters in the state with enough -energy to go to the polls.

A man aa bold as'Senator Chandler dn saying things he ought not tio say ohtouM toe as boid in saying things he aught to say-

Senator Chandler thinks McKinley is a very fine man, J^ure as snow, et*., but he has his 'doubts about his managers, Haniia accTOsborne.

Hhere \wi ll noV'be so many promises otf miil'lenfiums liy the Republicans as were made in the last Democratic campaign, but what are made will be fulfilled better.

Tihe able foreign correspondents are still playing solitaire with Great Britain aind again have fixed her as the lone peg in the center of the board. A new game will be taken up immediately.

Rudyard Kipling is talking of leaving Vermont and returning to England. Though not an even trade, we will take that other Englishman, Bayard, in exchange, if he is sent right off.

The Fren'ch government is said to have three war vessels ready for sea and t'o be doing a good deal of pounding and rattling around the navy yards. Something must be done to amuse the people with whom fuss is the pri'ce of peace.

The Chamberlain idea of a federation of British countries, with reciprocal relations between themselves, and cus-toms-duties between them and the rest of the world, looks like a leaf from Blaine's

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and Reciprocity

policy. Chamberlain's ambition is for a greater Britain and Blaine's was for greater America.

Strawberries, at 10 cents a box in Chicago on the first of April, may be another result of demonetization of silver, though, more likely, the receipt of 2,100 caS'es from Louisiana, was the reason, bm a free coinage man will never •accept as the reason the increase of pro Auction a.s long as he is strong enough to gurgle "the crime of '73."

The Democrats of Corpus Christi.Tex., have resolved, "We do not believe that ithe parity between gold and silver can be preserved under a free and unlimited coinage of silver by the United States (alone at a ratio of 16 to 1, and we are 'therefore opposed to such measure.

The people of Corpus Christi, on the •border between Mexico an-d the Tjnite-d (Stales, ought to be very well informed as to the merits of free coinage in Mexico. It will be noticed that they are opposed lo it while others who know as little of Mexico as they do of Nova Zembla are clamoring for the Mexican system.

Congress .has passed an appropriation for the purchase of the house in which Abraham Lincoln died. If the house reanained in private hands it might contin lie to be the Mecca of American tourists, as lit has been for years, and ever remain an object sacred in American I patriotism, but it is proper that it should be bought by the government and held in perpetuity for the people. There have been oth-er edifices, which, without posesssing the mournful and pathetic interest of the Lincoln House, would be considered as national treasures if still in existence, but being allowed .to remain in private ownership many interesting landmarks in our early history have disappeared.

Mr. PCJslbury, t'he Minneapolis milQor, said- to a Wash!as1 ton man, "I can deliver a Ibarrdl of Hour a't your (house in Washington for the same price that it cosits me 'to deliver a larrei of flour at my house in Minneapolis."

It nvuslt be an open question whether Mr. Pillsbury w*ill join a combination •to fig'lit the expressmen or the one thalt is .always on against the railroads.

Aflter a:l'l, the cost of transportation has more tKva kapit pace with the fail of prices in its descent. The facilities with. w'hiieh provisions can be poured into 'the great centers of consumption while equalizing prif^s has raised them the distant prairies and lowered them in the great ci't'ies. At the same time when a Dakota farmer's produce has to compete ait Liverpool with that from Russia and -She Argentine Republic soane one pufcis a slaver dollar over Ms eye and tills him "that's what Uhe matter," and he thinks he sees it a'Jl.

Mr. Phelps, who was appointed minister to Great Britain by Mr. Cleveland in 1SS5, does not approve of the popular foreign policy. Of the Venezuelan case he said: "We have no conceivable interest in the question of a boundary line drawn through a jungle of swamps."

I appears from this we might have an interest in the line if it wis drawn •through sugar plantations aad cotton fieids. as if the value of land affects a principle. Whe^i we come to th£ settlement of the* Alaskan boundary Mr. Phelps most likely will say that we have little or no interest in a boundary line that runs along the tops of mountains or through

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sea of mountains,"

Dr. 'Mendenhall has described some ftf ths Alaskan territory. After all, the

boundary line is important from the nature of land that it encloses, and as an evidence of ownership. That which Great Britain thinks Is of enough importance to claim must be worth holding. Mr. Phelps' airy definition does not touch the meriits of the question, since it excludes consideration of the control of certain great rivers that is affected •by the lay-of the boundary lines.

AGENT FOR GOOD ROADS AND CLEAN STREETS. The Chicago mail carriers use 109 bicycles. The only drawback, said Mr. Stoll, superintendent of delivery, is that the wheels can be used only eight months in the year. The day will come in Chicago and all large American cities when there will be no such drawback and bicycles will be used twelve months in the year and pedestrians will walk in comfort in January as well as in June. When cities undertake to clean part of their streets part of the time from snow and refuse it is only a question of time when this will be done every day all over the cities, and such a city as Chicago will, like Berlin, which is more populous than Chicago, be swept on every street once a day and several times on many. In time, the street sweeper will follow the paver. Probably nothing else will so hasten the improvement of paving and develop the care of it as the general use of the bicycle and other horseless vehicles for business and pleasure.

We may think we know what a lively bicycle business is, but we will not until the mail carrier service, the retaiil delivery of merchandise, the messenger service and local travel employ to their limit the cycle vehicles. Then the streets of cities will toe crowded with wheels and motor vehicles of many as yet unknown styiles. They will constitute the largest single element in the traffic of the cities, except railroads and the paving and care oif streets and,regulation of traffic necessarily will toe conformed to their necessities. It will be demonstrated that certain kinds of paving and certain care oif the streets mean the saving or waste of great sums of money to a large population, whose business depends on rapid and constant use of the bicycle, tricyole, horseless vehicle and other combinations without end.

In a city like New York, under its present reformed methods, it will not be long until Mr. Stolls' drawback of only eight months service will disappear. In Chicago, with its system off rural annexation, the interval will be longer, but not eternal.

A GREAT PROJECT.

One of the many, and by no means the .least, of 'Che igireat transportation .schemes whUcih are getting more Vr 4-eSB consiiderat'lion! .ait a taime wihen, by reason Of insufficient revenues, tlhat is a-1'1 they 'Cain get, is the Lake Michigan anid Wabash River canal project. Last FiOday the senate adopted a resolution prov'ldiinig for tlhe appointment of a oamimOsston, .under the direction of t'he Secretary of War, make a preliminary survey of a 'route for a ship canal form that lake to the river. The Terre Ha'uite Express slhbws a just appreciation of tine situation in the remark t'hat 'lit may beta ten® tOmie before ships will float along our river front on their way to the g'ulf and tlhe lakes, butt this resolution is a necessary preli'irolnairy. "We cannot have t'he ships willthiout the resolution. For tihiiis mu cih let us return thanks to our senators. 1't w'jM be well ibr -tihie advocates of all the proposed water taiay improvements to oultiivaite patience. They isftiould learn to lia'bor and to waOt. For Whv'e iit is morally cei't'ain th.ait some of these schemes will e-wntuaiBy be earn,ed oult, the clhan'ces of an eai']y consuimmiattion df any oif tlheni are Iby no means promising. Congress wMl net go in t'o the Ship canal con'strudti'on Ibuslineiss until 'the national 'jn'eoane Lis 1'aingely increased. And no single sclheme of this kind1, •iiiciwever merlijtonious, will' 'go alone, sayis t'hie Washing!ton Poet.

A deep waterway tWa't would permit 'the paefia'ge of sea-.gbing icrafit fmm 'Lake M.tc'hilgun ito tlhe gu'Jf by way of "the Watoaslh, Cihio and Mtteitesippi Rivers is a magnilftlc.lent cefnceipition. But s'ometh'img besides the proposed canal from the ilajkie to 'Uhe float nalmed river is to be conislSdered. Tlhe .projectors of all the proposed waiter ways that are intended to uJuilize ri 'vers as parts of their lin'es imiis't take accounlc of the co9t of deepieniing 'tihe dhana.ls of

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rivers.

Tthe Waibash is a imighty torrent in the spring spreading ouit for miiles on eitWher side, and s'o deep th'a't great fte'aimtooaliis can go up as far as Terre Haute. In tlhe summer cows can wade acroias ilt at vha't pofnt. The Ohio has tlhe same capacity far swelling and shnintaing, and there as no ship channel, a'Ll the year round 'in tlhe Mississippi-

When congrefss getts ready 'tb build fthip can^te flram the Hakes to any of these rtlvens !lt will have t'o make ship chiann«(!i9 alii aflong the route to the sea. The cost will be .great, but the benefits to be derfved tihereifrom are beOiieved to be much greater. It is welil to have all tftoe r/rctpos^d routes siurveyed and their cost estimated. Su'ch surveys and estimates w31, be indiapenssa^bly necessary when, in the good time coming, a great nation plan tor taternal waiterwaiy imiprtuvemen/t shaill be formulated and adopted.

HONEST BANKINQ IS SAFE. Tlhere appears to be neediless al'arm among laiwyers and bankers over tihe decirlcTn of tihe itli: no is Supreme Court in the Meadcwicroft case.

T\he law readis 'that any person cur company receiving money or cither tran'sfenjuble' vailwable tlhing when, ait •She time of. the receiplt, the reoe'^er .Is insolvent, the inso^ventsy causing loss to aCie depOsiltor of the oping received, shaiH "be deemed guilty of embezzlement and at jnakes failure, suspension or involuntary i^urdatiion of the receiving party wfiltihljn thirty days after .recedpit of .the deposit prima facie eviaen.ee c»f intent to defiau'd, says Uhe ChQcago Ti'ames Herald.

It is .ptJamnroQy anid ItruRy urged that a 'batik migfcit be forced to suspend by causes over whkih It had no contnVxl Bhatt thefadiure erf a large borrower, for exa'miple, of whose solvency there could mot pessitCtf- be Dhe lea sit 'dioulxt up to the moment of announcement of his faihare^would precapffiate a run or breed a panic, and that Wanking institutions, aJbscriiftely safe, and actuially solvent, wtauild be ithais precispi'tated into insolvency or -would be oWiged to suspend pending recovery of public composure. To dha/r^e criminal intent on the managere of (banks under such c£ncusnsfara'seB and hold them embezzlers of

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every doliar idsposSteid for thirty prior days woud'd clearly be monstrous. If thtLs iwere Jaw banking could not long exist in iriinCis.

Bust the Supretm'e C5ourt has not declared -Shis lapw. The court hias carefutlly dtscrfhn'inated between general li-a-bl'l'jty and ltaM'Mity to be examined iai ccnneotictn with tihe ctrcustances c.f a given ease. Tlhe decision runs:

If one i's a banker or a person, doing a banking business and receives on depciiit -the mcney oif his customer, :s to be presumed that he knows at the time cxf receiving suldh. deposit, whether or ndt he solvent' at ail events, as he hfoDdo him&ttf oult to tihe public and to his customers as being possessed !of money and caipltaJ, and therefore 'to be safely trusted, it is h'-s duty to kna.v and ha is undar all (ordinary oircuimstain' e3, bourd t'o know that he is solvent and it is criminal negligence for him not to know of his solvency. "Under all •orcL'lnary circumstances'' imfplies tlhat each case of aipparent Liability .ur.der tlhe statute would have to be conelid'aiad on its cwn merits. No jury woozid find a Wanker a criminail whfcise suapen.-'ion was due to causes beyond his control. W'h'le "prima facie" so'unda Uormid/a.ble a.rs ussd in the sita/tiulte, guii'lt, to be est-a'Miisi'n muai be established con^til&uti-onai.:y. No verlbiage in a s'tiatute cam retlieve the prtose'cut'or oif tlhe abl'.giaition of proving a defendant guilty. Assumption of gTjiiCit will never s'tand. A banker who manages bis business honestly, honestly in sipCrLt as well as on his books, tea, no't'hinig to feair frcim the law.

FaOthletesneisis dn fiduciary relations in this tsiaite has strewed it's cities and v.illages with victims too numerous to permit any legislature ra^ioally to atter •the s't'aibute under whOch tlhe Meadowcuoft case has '.been die tenmined. Whefe a bianiker mainltaims a apurto-us solvency Iby writing up reail estate and otlher vallues to suit Ms ballooning in speculaiti'on wihere diirectors and cither favorites oif tanlcs loot vaiulits wiitbau't giivinig tihe same securities that corratvoin borroiwars have t'o fu:rnish where loans are made on 'iimaginary ccilHalceral, sdlvemciy canniot be claimed without overturning all the safeguards of banking. Where m^for^tune (arrives the courts can be diepended on to extricate the bankin'g victim, even although he canthe 'moneys they intrusted to his custody.

The iatw its on tlhe side of the petdple and ougthit to Stand. It may toe well to have a raheairling in order t'o secure a more explicit definition oif certain of the clauses in the judgment, so thalt banks, as wteM as dejposiitlors, may not be in douibt, either as to liability on the one hand or als to prdtectiion on the otiher.

Hfcineist ban'k/i'ng is safe and profitable din Illinois.

ABOUT PEOPLE.

M. Stoiloff, prime minister of Bulgaria, is only four feet six inches in height.

Commissioner Evangeline Booth—it is not Eva—was named after Longfellow's heroine.

The personal estate left by Lord Leighton is appraised at $235,000. The heirs are his two sisters, and the will devising the property to them was made on the day the artist died.

Dr. Jameson is not attracting as muob attention in England as he was a week ago, but he is still an object.of great interest. He spends considerable 'time refusing proposals of marriage reaching him by mail. Publishers' agents are on hi,3 track at all times, eager to compel him to write a book. To cap the climax, a few days ago a'large sum was offered if he would exhibit himself for a week in a high class museum.

Professor J. W. Hoffman, tfne well known negro scientific agriculturist of the Tuskegee (Ala.) Institution, h'as been elected a member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, in recognition of the work he is doing for the race along scientific lines, and for originating a new variety of strawberry a few years ago, new cultivated from New Jersey to Florida and along the Pacific coast. Processor Hoffman's worth has been recognized by membership in 'leading societies in this country and in Europe.

•One of the most intimate friends of M. Dumas fils was a retired naval officer, Wi'ho lived in a distant corner of Normandy. As s'oon as the author of "Camille" died the officer went over all the letters which he bad received from Dumas and destroyed every one which referred to any private affairs of the author. Where letters also contained literary and philosophical discussions he carefully blotted out the personal parts, in order tbat nothing of a personal nature might ever reach a publisher. This is an example -not often followed.

As empress of India, Queen Victoria frequently receives gifts of great value and artistic interest from the imperial feudatories there. In the case of the maharajah of CasUvmere, the treaty made by Lord Hardinge with Golato Singh after the first Sikn war specially secured tribute in the form of priceless sha.wls, wool and goats of true breed. But the articles just dispatched from Bombay by the ameer of Afghanistan to be presented to her majesty exceed in value anything Of the kind that has ever reached the crown. They are valued at thirteen lakhs of rupees, or £130,000 at par.

THE KAISER'S PET DOGS.

Indignant Because One of His Famous Knsslan Greyhounds Was Shot. This is a story about a dog, an editor and Germany's emperor, says the New York World. The dog, a Russian greyhound of the imperial kennels, was shot and badly wounded in Potsdam. A sarcastic socialist editor referred to the act as an "attempt." This made William J^ery mad.

Now the editor is accused of "lese majeste." This is the legal name for "insult to majesty," and an action for high treason will follow. In Germany and Prusisa lately actions of this kind have been as thick as flies in a beer saloon on a summer day. The Vorwaerts newspaper, which printed the libellous article, immediately lost tihe service of two of its editions for alleged lese majeste, and a third will soon keep them company at making tin pails and mousetraps, if previous actions of the same nature count for anything. It is very injudicious for a German editor to write even a line or a word thai by any stretch of the imagination may be construed as a libel upon the kaiser's majesty

During 1S78 the prosecutions for lese majeste were 181 in number in 1877, 200 poor fellows were sent to jail for speaking in uncomplimentary language of the crown. In 1878, when the anti-socialist laws, since abolished, were enacted, 1,994 Germans paid the penalty of free speech, receiving sentences of from six months to three years' Imprisonment.

The kaiser's greyhounds are beiauties and would toe prize winners at any dog show. There are five young hounds who were born to Castor, the father, and Luna, the mother. Castor is owned by

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the duke of Schleswig-Holstein, the kaiser's brother-in-law. Zoologists are not agreed as to the original home of the Rusisan greyhound. The density and length "of his coat, his ability to endure almost any degree of frost and his .habit of constantly keeping open-his mouth, as if uncomfortable because of the heat, seem to indicate that his ancestors came from a northern clime. Some writers call him the "Siberian greyhound," though none of the species has ever been found in Siberia or even resembling him. The greyhounds in Siberia aire all fersian greyhounds differing in many respects.

In Russia the greyhound of the Castor and Luna race is called Barzol and is used in hunting waives. He is very •brave and strong and -will attack the fiercest wolf wherever found.

TJie head of the perfect Russian greyhound consists merely of bone and hide if there is a minimum of flesh it spoils its beauty. The longer and the more pointed the muzale the more' highly do connoisseurs regard hi'm. The size of the head is well proportioned to the body. The teeth are extremely strong anr! the dog has large, dark, mogul eyes. The nose is black. The ears are very small, standing uprfght as long as the dog is young after the second year the lie close to the side& of the head. As aristocrats are judged by the smallness of their feet, so are these aristocrats-of the dog world judged by their tiny ears, which are always well covered with hair.

The tail is very long. A perfect Russian greyhound with a clear pedigree .has a soft, silky coat of slightly wavy hair. If his coat is hard and the hair straigiht it is a sign that he has 'been cross-bred.

The kaiser is disapppointed because Castor and Luna have not given him a puppy with a silver-gray coat. Silver grays are, regarded the ne plus ultra of canine faultlessness by dog sports on the continent.

Luna and her puppies have a beautiful home in a wing of the kaiser's new stables at the Neues Palais, but are allowed to roam about he castle, parks and gardens. The dog shot at by the unknown miscreant (had probably escaped Into the street at one of the gates of Sans-iSouci castle.

A POPULAR SKIRT.

The skirt shown here is a modification of the Marie Antoinette skirt, which is so much Worn at present in Paris. The front gore over which the side gores are laid to form a pleat in semblance to a skirt laid over, is usually made of contrasting fabric.

A 'figured white crepe du chene with th'e front of white plain satin an# •trim/med witix close set rows of yellow

lace, is worn with a fichu of the^"-Ule, the rest of the waist being of the figured goods.

A skirt of gray crepon with the front of a handsome brocade with gray ground and bright flounces and hems is exquisite.

Brown mohair, with white mohair for the front breadth and trimming for the waist, is extremely stylish.

Of course the skirt may be made Cf one faibric, the lapping sides may toe fastened down with three large buttons on each side, set to .reach half way down. The introduction &f two fabrics is a step in the direction oif a serious change in skirts which have been severely plain and without trimming for so long.

RIVALRY IN EX-GOVERNORS.

Louisiana and Nebraska Have Entered the Lists With Their Claims. Several newspapers are po'intiing to the mu/mfoer of ex-governors of their respective states as evidence oif heaithgiving climate.

So far the New Orleans Daily Item has carried off tlh'e palm for Louisiana. The Item shows that of tlhe six men who have held t'he guabntatoriail owce in Louisiana during t'he last twentyeight years only one is dead. •Wait umtil until you hear from Nebraska, says *the Omaha WVrld-Herald'.

Of tlh'e nine men w'hio have h^d the gubernatorial office during the l:£tst twenty-eight years, only one is dead, and he was t'hie first governor of Nebraska as a state. We refer to D'avid Bultler. Every one of the other 'eight governors lis yeit a aitizens of Nebraska. All of which indicates tlluat men not only live in Nebraska tout they enjoy life and keep on living in Nelbraska. Nebnask'a's second governor is secretary of tlhe state fair asswdati£on, and is one of the busiest and most active men on earth tod'ay.

NCbrakta's -fourth igwernor is in suioh good 'baailth that he 4s toeing mentioned as a possible United States senator for the .term beginning Uhree years hence. Nebraska's (fitith governor is mentioned as a candidate for congress at the coming elation* and its aixtlh governor is engaged actively in caring for the political interests of William McKinley in t'his state.

J. Stertag Morion acted as governor of Nebraska 'territory for nearly three months in 1S61—neairly thirty-five years ago—and he "is now the most talkative member Of the Olevettand cabinet.

Nebraska's war governor—Alvin Sau nders—lis IMng today. He was governor oif 'the terrttory from 1861, and was ire-apipodn'ted in 1865—tthe signing otf his ccimm'issioh toeing one of the last acts of President LincoHn's life. Governor Saunders is now puttiing in his leisure momemte going atoout Che country arousing interest in thie proposed: trans-Mississippi exposition to be 'held in Omaha in 1898.

Of tihe seventeen me who have represented Nebraska in the lower house af congress five are kiead.

Of tlhe ten men who have represented Nebraska In the United' States senate two aire dead.

Pretty good climate in Ncforaskau

A Thongrbtfnl Wife.

Mr. Between-'the-Acts—Excuse me for a few moments, deat. I've got to go out to see a man.

Mrs. Betrween-tihe-Acts—It isn't necessary, Charles. I brought a pound of chocoBate brandy drops in my plush opera glass bag.—Somerville JoUrnai.

LORDS WHO WORK

SOME OF THE ENGLISH PEERS WHO ABE DRIVEN TO LAAOK.

A VUoount Flays a Hand Organ—A Titled Saloonkeeper and a Noble Policeman— Danced in America*:

Sir Thomas Echlin, who has just been discovered serving on the Dublin police force in the humble capacity of, an ordinary "bobby," at the munificent salary of $6 a week, is by no means the only member of the English or continental nobility who has been driven by poverty to seek a livelihood In the humblest walks of life, says the New York Morning Journal, and he is distinctly better off at $6 a week than was his uncle, Sir Frederick Evchlin, who was a pauper in the workhouse of End'enderry, in Kildare, or his father, Sir Ferdinand, the sixth baronet, who was a superannuated peasant, dependent upon parish relief and upon the contributions of his three sons, the eldest of whom is the present baronet.

The two younger brothers, who stand in the direct line of succession to the title, Sir Thomas being unmarried, are likewise following somewhat obscure callings, for Henry, the eldest of the two, is a trooper in one of the cavalry regiments, while John, the younger of the two, was formerly footman in a London family and is now station master at a small place on one of the Irish railroad lines. One of the sisters of Sir Thomas has married an American and lives in Michigan. The Echlins are a very ancient family, which has been settled in Ireland since the reign of King James I, and number among their amcestors several bishops and judges of more than ordinary eminence.

Another old English baronetry in somewhat the same condition is that of Burdett, the present holder of the title, Sir Charles Burdett, being a youth of 17, drifting about in New Zealand, dependent for his subsistence on public and private charity. His father, the late Sir Charles Wentworth Burdett, died two yeaTS ago in the penitentiary at Auckland, New Zealand, while.serving a twelve months' sentence for theft. Descended in a direct line from Americus de Burdett, who lived in the reign of Henry

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he commenced his career

in the army, serving as captain of the Fifty-fourth regiment of infantry. He squandered all. his possessions and took to drink. After being repeatedly charged in the London police courts with drunken and disorderly conduct, lyith begging in the streets his relatives finally shipped him off to Australia. He failed, however, to better his fortune there, and when not in prison tramped about the country in rags and with shoeless feet, eking out a precarious subsistence by stripping bark from trees, cooking for bushmen and doing odd jobs about squatters' stations, begging and pilfering.

A Titled Saloonkeeper.

It was only t'he lother day that Sir Edward Poore, wlho traces his descent back to the reign of "Bloody Mary," died in the direct perjury in Western Australia,' after a most checkered career. He (formerly owned a bandlsome sit ate 'in Wiltshire and was an officer otf the Sciot guards, but ruined hiimsetif for tihe sake of a woman with w'hose charms he (became imiflatuated and with whom he fled to the antipodes, deserting his wife and children, th'e eldest of whblm, tihe present 'baronet, is a captain in the roya'l army and a son-in-law of the to'ifeh'Op of Limerick. Sir Edward dropped his title on reaching AustnaiHa and toidk to fbusi-ness, first as a contractor, then as a hotel keeper and finally as manager of a How liquor saJoon, but he failed in everything and died a pauper.

Until a few years ago 'there was a peeress af the realm, tlhe wiidtow of the last .lord cif Kings'!and, who was-firaw-ing a civil-List pension obtained tor her by Lord Beiaconsfield, whose well known views wGtih regard to the dignity of the ndbility had received a terrible shock wihen ilt was brought to his notice that s(he was earning a penurious Jiving as a washerwoman at Kensington. Her husband prior to becoming a peer was a waiter in a Dulblin hotel, but abandoned thfis Calling on becoming a lord by succession, ^nd depended upon charity and his wife's earnings as a laundress. He was the oniigina/l of Lever's "Handly Andy," and so.illiteraite that he could not even write his own name. The llast Lord KirkcudbrigMt was a glover dn a small way 'in Edinburgh and kept stoop until his death. Sir John Norwich oif Brampton, -wiho.se baronetcy was crealte'd' in the earlier half of the seventeenth century, died in the workhouse otf Kettering, Northaimjptonshire, where this tson and successor, Sir Samiuel, was a journeyman carpenter. Yet JjiiQther biaronet, Sir Richard Moore, afiter losing his job as tbir'dcllass warder of Uhe penitentiary on SpSke Island, uied a (few years ago a street beggar in Dulblin. I do not know how his son, the present (baronet, earns his living.

Charged WithFrand.

It is not so tong ago tha/ Lady Mangel, -the widow off Sir Richard Mansel, appeared in New York in a show of the muiftc 'ball order, her Wustoand having been entirely dependent upon her earnings umtil his d6ath, while Sir Herbert Langham, after he lhad reached the end of his financial tether and was posted as a bankrupt, was chiarged only the other day at the Bow street police court in London, toy one of the leading metropolitan "banks, with obtaining $6,000 under false pretenses, a 'lady no't his wiife being associated wltih him dn tihe case.

Besides these there are a number df other members df Great Britain's baronetcy—that order of the aristocracy which for some reason or other has always been regarded with a certain degree of contempt, puiblicly and openly expressed on several occasions by the late Lord Beaconsfield—who are, so to spak, down in the* world. One of them is among the minor performers on the London stage, another is a seaside photographer of the tintype order, while two others are serving as policemen in Australian towns.

And although the present Sir Edmund Verney is abundantly tolessed with this world's goods, yet the faict that he was expelled froat the house of commons an-d from the royal navy, in which he held the rank of post captain, and served a term of penal servitude arrayed in convict garto, can scarcely be regarded as calculated to reflect honor upon the order of the nobility to which he beflongs. Sir Herbert Langham, it should be added, is married to a sister of Lord Sandys, her other brothers being the bankrupt Mike Sandys and the Hon. Edmund Sandys, who was for a -time a conspicuous figure at Long Branch, where he was known by the name of "Earthquake" Sandys, and where he married a New York girl, the daughter off Maxwell Jones.

Nor should I omit from this list the name otf Viscount Hint on, who is earning his living as an organ grinder, th'e viscountess taking up the collection dn a thi cup. His lordship was formerly a

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clown in a country circus and her ladyship an acrobat in the same »hc»w.*One of the Marquis of Hundley's brother*— the marquis is known as the "Cock of the North" by reason of his chieftainship of the Cordon clan—was ind hi ted some time ago in a London police court for keeping a low class gambling den, while his wife, Lady Granville Gordon, does her best to fill the family exchequer in a more refputable manner toy conducting a millinery shop in Bond street, London.

Frtspi this it will be seen that, although there are some leviathans ot wealth, such, for instance, as the dukes otf Bediford, Westminster, Portland and Devonshire, Lords Bredaiba-ne, Cadogan and Portman,. yet, on the whole, the British nobility—especially the order of baronets—Is in a pretty bad way financially -and 3adly in need of American heiresses.

Koehne's X.ectnreB on "The Xaxarlno." Mr..Koe,hne, who is 'to deliver free lectures on "The Nazarene" at both the Cbngregatfifonal and Baptist Churches, has engaiged apatftiments at 'the New FUbeck Hotel, arid will arrive in the ciity nexlt Tuesday. His first lecture will toe delivered ithait evening at (the Bapltist Ohurdh. The next led'ure will be at the Congregational Chiureh, alternating eactti nlighlt at 'tlhe tiwo oburcJhes. Mr. Koehne comes with 'the highest possible praise from citlies in both the Easit and West, hawing always lectured to growing audiences. Sortie testimonials of 'hlJs aibHlty 'have already appeared in the Exipress and tihe following one sjJbkem by a !eadling pastor is a tribute paid to Mr. Koehne whidh is well merited-: "Same of his sentences flash and cut like sfctoetaers, others cHame down ®ce sied'ge haimimers, wihil£ the rush of great striking thoughts pour utpoin his audiienice like a broadside from our warnsh.ip Oregon."

Great Indncement.

"Papa!" said Sammy Snaggs. "Well, Sammy?" "I read in the paper that a dog belonging to a man in Ohio had pawed up a package containing $1,000." "Well, what of it?" "Somebody had buried the money, papa." "Smart dog, wasn't it?" "Yes. Say, papa!" "Well?" "Won't you buy me a dog?"—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.

Drowned by a Freshet.

(MiddleSboro, Ky., April 1.—Easter and Allie Anderson and their three children were drowned by the freshet in Powell's river last night. They lived on its banks in Lee county, W. Va., twenty miles from here and the river came down with such force that they were overtaken and drowned before they could escape.The latest news from that section indicates great loss of property and stock.

NEWS OF THE STATE.

The arguments in the Jackson county seat removal case are finished, and Judge New has taken the case Under advisement.

Cha.rP.es F. Lispenand of Loganisport, who mysteriously disappeared last November, is believed to have been the Victim 'cf foul play.

April 1 was the first anniversary of the superior court in Hammond. Jc'hm Hershman, who went blind as a result of injuries received during 'the war, suddenly recovered Wis eye sight a few d'ays ago.

Daniiel Baugh celebrated his 106th birthday at Oh'i'0 Falls yesterday. A gypsy queen, Elizabeth Harrison, by name, was buried at Evansville with great pomp yesterday.

Wabash speculators have lost large sums of money in the last 'two months as a result of the decline in pork and wtheat.

Mrts. Inez Gibson of Hammond recovered a verdict for $3,000 against the Wabash raiilroad for the killing of her husband, about two months ago.

A new building will be erected at Mun•cie, to cost $85,000. Herbert Keirn, an old resident of Whitley county, living within three miles of Columbia City, committed suicide by hanging.

Delegates to the Northern Indiana Teachers' association are beginning to gather ait Ma.rton.Tlhe opening session will toe held toim'orrow nighlt.

A. W. Tracy, of the Hartford City Times, has purchased the Hartrord City Republican, and the two papers will be consolidated under the name of The T'imes.

The Plant of the Daily World, at Jeffersonville, has passed to new management, headed by W. S. Wrigfhit, deputy secretary of stole. Bert Small, formerly of tlhe Logansport Review, wil'l be the editor.

Among the indictments returned by the Madison county granid jury was one against Patrolman Graham of Alexandria, who shot and killed John Worthington, while the latter was resisting arrest.

The Rev. Joihn Rutledge of Oakville, whose ministerial license was recently revoked by the United Brethren Chunrch, Siias been indicted for officiating at a marriage ceremony. Mr. Rutledge is an old resident of Delaware county.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Washington Post: An Indianapolis lawyer made his appearance in liourt the other morning in a dress su^t. The name of the offender is not given but we are confident that ex-Attorney General Miller will be alb to to prove an alibi.

Washington Post: It wil! be observed tWat Mr. Harrison is being frequently thought of without the aid of a literary bureau.

Now York Commercial Advertiser: Several other candidates earnestly entreat Uncle Ben Harrison to come 1n out of that "draft."

Chicago Tribune: In China, by the way, where they Wave bad from time immemorial the barbarous customs of beheading a banker Who fails, it is recorded that there has not been a bank faiilure for several hundred years.

Lafayette Times: The Ohio Republican donvent'ton might as well have declared: "We favor a yellow that will be white and a whfte that will be yellow, under such retstrictfions. to be deteirmdned by legislaCBon, as will seoure the absolute Identity of the two colors."

Now York Recorder: The bank of Monte Carlo is not broken yet. It will go on for-fifty years longer land pay the Prince of Monaco $400,000 a year for the privilege. Monaco is a strictly gefld-stand-ard country.

Philadelphia Ledger: As the programme reads at present, certain rich European nattons will, divide ithe Soudan among themselves and impoverished Egypt will pay the expenses of dissection.

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Sft.'s. Chas. A. Myers, 201 Hanaa St., Fort Wayne,Ind., writ+rs Oct. 7,1804: "I suffered terribly with severe headoches, ditiines-, backache and nervousness, gradually growing worse until my lifq was despaired o/, and try what we wonld, I found no relief until I commenced using Dr. lilies' Nsrvino. I have taken five bottles and believe I am a Weil woman, and I !»ave taken great comfort in recommending all of my friends to use Nervine. You may,publish this letter If you wish, and I hope it may be tho means of saving some other sick mother's li *e, as it did mine."

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I Sarw her at nignt when tho bail room was thronged, A vision of beanty and grace: Her form to a Venus might well Wave belonged,

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Saoo lis said to 'be the only Democratic city in Maine this year. airs. Tirza Emery of Hlliot, Me., attained her 101st birthday la«t week.

Fourteen sea ducks were brought down ait a stogie shot by a hunter near Bar Harbor recently.

Benjamin McKenney, an Sl-year-old resSdentt of Cape Porpoise, Me., has just cut tlhree new teeith.

A white buzzaird was shot in Texas recenty and round its neck wias found tied a lilt tie bell, marked "Ralls county, Mo., I860."

During the absence, for three months, of the Rev. Mr. Cochrane of the UnitnrSan Church -a.t liar Harbor ,Me., his wife wiai attend to aH his ministerial duties. •Bennington Centre, Vt., wth a populatcfci never exceeding 300. has .furnished four grovern'ors -to the state, and the inhabitants think 'the good material is by no means exhausted.

The owner of* an ostrich farm at AnaheSm, Cal., is trying to break ostriches to drive in single* ionjbl©» sinicl ta,nd©in n3.rness. His eff'osts are meeting with -a great meaJswre of success.

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