Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 April 1896 — Page 4

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Perhaps those who are telling Mr. Reed how much he can make as a lawyer in New York are the same men who think he will make a good vice president.

Mr. Crisp caught a sore throat from (talking on the same platform with a gold bug, and became speechless, which was an unusual accident to a silver tparty.

The unprotected postal employes need no't foe uneasy a/bout McKinley's election, as General Clarkson will noit be (his postmaster-general.

The Keeley gold cure has been adopted in all the na/tional soldiers' Ijiomes, but the linmates are not compelled to take it. The gold cure will be taken nationally next Noverrfber, but any one •will be allowed to carry all the sUver he can gett hold of honestly.

The dispatch of a company of artillery and a Giatling gun to a Louisiana town albout to hold an election only indicates (that the colored vtate is too Iragfe. "We don't have to go to South Africa to sympathize with the OVfaaJbeles, for we have colored men of our own.

The Express alDuded to an Indianapolis propensity 'tor gathering greens fijid crocuses In 'the ci'ty parks. The Esteemed (Sentinel calls this a Teire •Haute Jokelet,' 'although it was founded on 'the report in an 'Indianapolis paper of the raids on the flowers in the parks.

The suggestion is made t'hat General Harrison's marriage ito a young and ambi'tilouis wife will change the political (situation. Mrs. Harrison will be 'startled on learning thalt 'she is t'o ibe iheld responsible for the general's acceptance ox* rejection o'f the no^nrinatikMi, just as Mrs. iCIevelanr, Mrs. Blaine and other wives have been before her.

Congressman Patterson (Dem.) oif Tennessee, interrupted Mr. Hitt's Cuban speech With a remark, that has a logical appearance, as follows: "If this government would interpose Its authority t)o prevent Spain from acquiring by force of aims territory contiguous on the North American continent, I dV) not see w"hy iSpain shoufid be permitted to retain territory by means of 'subjugation."

This sale of rails to Japan interes'bs the freetraders. If Carnegie can undersell the British $2 a ton, what does he need protection £or, they want to know. If the duty of over $5 a ton is a wall to keep our goods 'in the country, as Sterling 'Morton would say, how does Carnegie get his rails out we want to know, and why does nio't the 'tariff over-ride the Iw of competition in this tease? The great American iron works are monuments to American protection which was their foundation.

The New York Sun is one of the few Democratic organs that returns a I Bteady grip on its intellectuals, as it will not sacrifice sense to prejudice. It will praise a Repu££tj|Atn statesman ,at (times, and condemn a Democratic imitaction rather than assume an illogical position. The Sun is the original enemy of force bills, including the Fosdic'k' opera hat force bill, of which it says: "The women of Ohio or of any other place have an inalienable right to wear •whait sort of hats they please: and they Will bo allowed to whether they have that right or not, and though all the FYisdieks in the world should sit up through all the nights of all time devising idiot sumptuary regulations."

The attitude of t'he Republican national committee on 'the currency and other questions has been defined by the oommittee'is disapproval of fusion with •the Populists o'f North Carolina in national issues. Senator Butler, the Populist leader of North Carolina, is an avowed free coinage man. with whom uni'on would mean adhesion to his views.

Mr. Clarkson, of the national committee, in a kilter to Congressman Se':tie, O'f North Carolina, said, after discussion of the question witlf the committee: "Therefore in my judgment, and I think I speak for many others who have paid attention to this problem, fusion on state and local tickets may be advisable according to the discretion of \he leaders in your state, but that fuMon on the national ticket in North Carolina is r.o: desirable. For we believe that there fe a strong mapority in North Carolina for the strainght Republican ticket and for electors who will support a president who will carry out all the policies of fhe Republican party—-protection, sound money, human rights and all the other cardinal principles."

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•Rhode Island is & very small state, but it can execute a great political flipBap.

Next to the superinitendency of a deteuf p.nd d'umlb asylum, the quietest Job is on (the Venezuelan commission.

The naw presi'dertt of the Hayttan re(pufblic is T'iresias \Simon Sam, iPast levents impel us 'to believe 'that H&yti iwill soon tira o-f Sim Sam.

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curred in the above, which goes to show tttat the Republican leaders deliberately reject a fusion which would seem to commit therm to the free coinage theories held by Senaltor Butler aird other Populists.

The ignorant Africans are revolting because that British are trying to stamp out the rinder-pest among cattle. The British will stamp out the rinderpest If it is necessary to stamp oiit»th4 Africans to do it, but they wiil not, have to go to that extreme.

Reguar readers of European hews will have learned from the foreign correspondence of the last year, which has been unusually Interesting, that the foreign correspondent is invariably pessimistic and he has seen in each new complication a bomfo stuffed with the ruin of empires and the devastations of war. As a rule, also, he has been invariably wrong as has been proved by the later news of each startling incident.

The World's cable correspondent has discovered a new mare's nest in a treaty between Great Britain and Spain. He claims 'to treat the matter with the reserve due to such important affairs, which is very dignified on the part of one whosp powers of guessing and inventing. As ifar as war in Europe goes Spain is Great Britain's natural ally and owes to her its salvation from French tyranny and1, as far as American interests go, Great Britain willl not interfere in Cufba unless to promote its autonomy and independence of both Spain and the United States.

The census of Germ'any, taken flast December, shows the rate of growth in a country which ha's no immigration but loses many (by emigration. The empire lhas a poipuialtdon of 52,244,503 or a gain of 11,000,000 since the close of the war with Prance in 1871. France, alfter losing Alsace-Lorraine, hadl 36,102,921 people and in 1891 h'ad 2,000,000 more, gaining in tiwen'ty years 9,000,000 less than Germany did in Itiwenty-flve, whiile its emigration was much smaller. Th'ils is a contrast in the relative progress of the two countries that Bi'smarck did not see when he said, twenty-five year's ago, that France and other Lat'in countries must 'fall far behind the stronger northern races.

Great Britain l'osit 5,478,000 emigrants between 1871 and 1890, to 'tlje 2,000,000 lost by Germany, but it gained 20 per cent, 'in twenty years to Germany's 27, in twenty-five yeiars, and to France's 5% per cent, in twenty. Grealt Britain did not reall'y lose i'ts 'emigrant's as most of them went to its colonies, an'd Bismarck said last year that he did not think Germany 'had lost its sons who went to America, Where their love for race and fatherland extended the influence of their native land.

WALLER CASE NOT SETTLED YET.

E- Consul Waller is the colored Banquo at the administration board that will not dowii. He has told the story, with apparent calmness and moderation, of the indignities he suffered from1 petty French officials. At the present time the unsupported word of an American relating a similar ^tory of indignities at the hands of Spaniards in Cuba would excite great indignation, but Mr. Waller, being outside of the warm zone of Reeling jufsit no»w, w'ill find great difficulty Sn securing either satisfaction or encouragement to press 'hfs suit. The question of credibility will rise, and douibts will be expressed of 'the Frenich "Committing such outrages as Waller endured from them. It must be remembered that underlings often exceed the instructions of their more intelligent and discreet superiors, and that the French are La'tins as well as the Spanish of whom Americans are willing to believe not only credible bait incredible things.

Waller has been treated with scant justice from the beginning. He was iconvlcted at Washington beifore the evidence was received. As the case went he was precluded from 'securing the technical record on which our government could imake a case for him, but if Waller could have had some one to look after his interests as Minister Willis 'looked after the interest's of the American conspirators against the Dole government, by orders 'from Washington, he would not be today the forlorn and 'helpless ruined man he seems to be.

GOOD AS FAR AS IT GOES.

A bimetallism whose bimetallism seems to be silver monometallism, wrote to the New Yortk Sun in regard to an editorial in that paper which said: "Mexico has doubled her population, has advanced in civilization, her revenues are equal to her expenditures, her resources are developing, her industries have multiplied, and her commerce is on the increase." Wiil you, in view of the above 'facts, inform a constant reader if Mexico is on a silver foa^is and whether being on a silver basis, the United States on a gold basis should be held up to her as a pattern."

The querist thpught he had the Sun in a corner. It was replied to him that the previous article had stated that all of these joyful changes had taken place in 75 years since Spanish domination had ended. In the gold-basis United States a corresponding doubling had occurred in 35 years. It was not stated that Mexico's receipts equaEled expenditures, but that they nearly did so. In the United States the receipts equalled or exceeded the expenditures, except in times of calumity like the civil war and the rule of Wilsonism. There ?s little comfort for the silver-monometallic bimetallist in aS that.

It will be conceded that Mexico is the best example of a purely-silver countr to be found. It is an argument, not for silver, but for the enterprise of Mexico that it does so well under silver monometallism, but not an argument to prove that a good system should be

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gfiven op for one it/hat is lower, whether ft is 6 per cent or 50 per cent lower. If Mexico is the best example of silver monometallism, or bimetallism, as some call a system in which silver is the standard and! gofd is 80 per cent "pre-, mium, it still is no fnodel'for the United Staes, which is better than Mexico in every respect.

HE WAS HIS OWN DOCTOR.

The d*eath of a well known New York salesman from an overdose of sulfonal, an apparently harmless specific, serves to oall attention to the general and growing use of the many new proprietary medicines that are being pushed into extensive use by the manufacturers and their agents. It is remarkable how many remedies, some of them very useful, tih« German chemists have found in the products of coal tar alone. They are produced fast enough to keep the apothecaries and the doctors On the jump if they wish to avail themselves of the latest discovery. (Physicians claim that these proprietary .medicines, which to some extent, are forced upon them and by them made fam3Iiar tc the public are. afterwards recommended to the public for use without theintervention of thephysician. Visitors to drug stores may have noticed how frequently customers call for some of the new hynotics, nervines, sopor-' rifies and cold-cures, without prescriptions. The accident referred to in which a dose of the common sulfonal resulted fatally is one of the chances that few should risk even if it is onfly one chance in 100,000.

It is a well known adage that the man who is his own lawyar has a fool 'for his client. To transpose this adage to medical practice would hit so many people that, poflitely, we refrain, but say instead that one would' suffer less if stuck by a lawyer's bill than if accidentally kiifled by a self-administered cure.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Fhiilaidelp'hte. Nor't'h American: rt won't be long before Spain wtifll run up agiawist tihe realization that sihe oa-n't fight a war on a deficit.

New York Recorder: In "England the ®aunicfruinig of a battleship follows so closely upon the one preceding It ajs to gaJl her Tudner.

Sit. Loaiis Gioibe-Democrat: Ttoe Chicago convention will haive no tbouble witin contesting- dteleg'at.lons. On the contrary the difficulty willl be to get errough there for the 'doleiful purpose of making a quorum.

Syracuse Sitandlaird: We can but wish that RJepuibMeans would be less uproarious in 'tibeiSr conven'tioma. They disturb the Dernocraifcs in ttodir solemn deliberations and dolefvl meditations.

San Urancisao Post: King Me-neflek of Abyissii'nf/a ough't, df he hias any regard for .hiimise'lif or any iraspeat for the Queen, declare war on Uhte newspap'ens that cxmitinuie to publish alleged pictures o'f the royial couple.

Chicago Chronicle: MeKiiniley's supporters '.EiWCiuld see to it that the St. Douis convention takeis no ballot until the third day The 'Seioorad daiy—June 17—^will be tihe anniversary of the day o:n which the original Napoleon mot Wis Waterloo.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: The ladiies of Maysville, Ky., have made a Fosdllck theater hat law unnecessary sio far as thalt 'town iis concerned. They comb it heir hair and are not ashamed to take otf their hlalfcs itn the theater.

Oh'ictago Inlter-Oce&n1:' 'Mr. Tray nor oif the A. P. A. seeims to believe flhatt Amieriioan pelapQe need eoime instruction on the Venezuelan anid Cuban questions. He is very fnee to say that ju'dged by popullar demonstration they are wrong. Mr. Tn? ynor knows what Happened to the bull 'that disputed the questtan otf the right of way with an express train.

Women who use Dr. Price's Baking Powder are happy in culinary success.

ABOUT PEOPLE.

The town of Lig"onier claims to have the largest man—George W. Walker, 560 pound's—and the smallest man—Jesse Allen, 75 poundis—in Indiana.

Mary Anderson Ntavarro has left England for a protracted tcXir of the continent. Her health is bro'ken and she goes to Southern Europe with the hope of improvement.

Hiraim Mlaxim has put the tricycle to a new and an important use. He has fitted the machine with two Maxim guns, each weighing twenty-five pounds and capable of firing 600 rounds a' minute. Each machine will carry 1,000 pounds of ammunition.

In the recent ukase issued by Czar Nicholas II., in view of hite" coming coronation, the representatives of the various christian denominations have been invited to Moscow, and the same invitation has been addressed to the Buddhists in Trans-Baikalia, as well as to the Burjatls, Votjaks and Calmucks.

The'Dean of Westminster has taken great pains to meet the demand th'at Dr. Johnson's gravestone shall be better preserved and rendered more conspicuous to the public. He has had the ancient flaws in it made good with pieces of Irish marble, the lettering has been cut deep and the letters filled with white cement.

The Paris papers report that an original bet has just been made between James Gordon Bennett and Charles Brouard, a writer of popular songs, and a pupil of Aristide Bruant, so famous in the caife'3-chantants of Paf-is. M. Brouard has undertaken to walk from Paris to Teheran, Persia, without having a cent in his pocket. When last heard from he had arrived at Chalons-sur-Marne, coming from Espernay, and was in splendid condition. After having given a public performance, at which he sang some of the aengs written, by Bruant and nlmself, the valiant walker resumed his journey. M. Brouard expects to reach Teheran, which is about 4,000 miles from Paris, about, the end of November.

Charles L. Damrell of Damrell & Upham, proprietors of the Old Corner Book Store, Boston, died on Sund'iy, aged 69. Mr. DamreU was born in Portsmouth, N. H. He went to Boii.on in 1849 and secured employment in a book store. He became one of the proprietors of the famous Old Corner Book Store in 1870. The building in which the store was situated is the oldest remaining in Boston, it having been erected in 1712.

The late Michael Beamishi who lived for years in a little cabtin on FloridU avenue in Summit, N. J., and died there, was a mun of many eccentricities. During his entire residence in Summit—a period of forty years—he never shaved or cut his hair, and since 1873 he had never been outside his own gate. A few years ago he used to point an ancient musket at anybody who came near hts Wome, but recently he contented Mrnself with runnlr.g indoors and Mdng. He was a sailor and had twice been shipwrecked.

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REPTILES OF DESERT.

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rHEY THRIVE ON THE BUStHlNG 8AKD (JNDBB THE COFFKS SKY.

Joined and Tiger Rattlers—Horned Toads That Have Been -Seen to Spit Blood'

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From the standpoint of 'k zoologist there is probably no class'.of animals so characteristic of the desert as ithe reptiles. True, there are numbers of birds and mammals found all!over the arid wastes of sand, but these/fcither migrate or spend most of their time ttaiderground as is the case with most of the smaller mammals, says the San Francisco Chronicle. The ibirds choose the sheltered canons, where, perhaps, a few drops of water will ooze out from between the rocks, or even venture out into the great sun-baked plains, seeking the shelter of the bushes and stunted trees which 'here and there manage to eke out an existence. The smaller mammaJls are almost all nocturnal in their habi'ts and only venture out after nightfall when the earth begins to cool a little, and, with the exception of, perhaps, a few coyotes or the little deserc fox, one may travel ifor hundreds of miles througih the deserts without seeing a single animal except the reptiles and insects. But they are there, and lots of them, too. The burning sands and the copper skies seem to have no terrors for them. They are everywhere. At -nearly every step one seems to awaken a fresh lizard from his rest under a •bush or beside a stone, and away he goes, scurrying along over bhe sand,perhaps his long tail dragging in the sand, but more frequently elevated high in the air. In fact, this uplifted tail often looks like a little gray twig jmoving rapidly along the ground, but always retaining its upright position. Ahd these lizards can run, too. In a twinkling they are gone, and then it is only the practised eye that can see them, for wihen they lie at r.est their dull gray, color makes it almost impossibile to see them. iBut these are not all often from tiie side oif the road, disturbed by the passing traveller, a horned rattlesnake or sidewinder will move sluggiishly away, •but ever keeping up an incessant rattle. Again, big, sluggish lizards are found, nearly always a dull gray above, but beneath or around the head iridescent in the mpst go-rgeous colors. And, too, the big tiger rattler of the de.sert canons though a trifle m/ore sluggish than the sidewinder, seems ever ready to call his attention to his bright colors by sounding the terrible rattle which strikes fear to the heart of any animal, no matter how large or hbw small. The tiger rattler is found in the desert regions of America, and is comparatively rare, being ifound only in the canons of the barren ranges which traverse the desert in all directions.

I remember seteing nineteen in a single canon of the Argus range of mountaJins in Inyo county. One I found on a ledge of rOck d'rrectly behind the fire which we had built for cooking supper.

Dangerous Tiger Battlers',

The tiger- rattler, however, though very dangerous, and sometimes growing to four tfeet in lengt'h, cannot compare in Viciousnesls with the little £idew»inder, or horned rattlesnake. The sidewinder prefers the. open desert in which to live, and may often be found lying quietly beside some desert bush, waiting for,its prey. It gets the name Sidewinder from the fact that, in moving along the .ground, instead of pursuing a straight course, it has, besides the forward movement, a sidewise, crab like mo'tion. It is much less sluggish than the other rattlesnakes, perhaps on account of its small size, as it seldtm exceeds a foot and a half in length. It it lighter colored than the other rattlers and directly over the eyes are protuberances, which give it the name horned rattler. It seems to be the most dreaded of all snakes by the desert traveler, probably on account of its being so h'ard to see owing to its small size and quick movements. In fact, it is about the only reptile which the desert prospector really dreads.

One of the most plentiful of the lizards wbich live on the desert is the blue spotted lizard. It is about eight inches long and of a light, ashen color on the badk, but down each side runs a row of black spots, extending out on the tail. It receives itS'name from the '.two sulphur blue patches, one on each side of the abdomen, and the little blue spot on t'he chin. One variety is blue nearly all over, giving out beautiful iridescent metallic colors. The peculiarity of this specie is t'hat when ^frightened.it seldom keeps to the ground, but runs to the nearest bush of any size, or even a tree, and, climbing up into the branches, waits until danger is past. Very often these little lizards may be found in the yucca trees, probably waiting for some of ihe insects which often come for the nectar in the yucca blossoms. This species is very much lik# the blue spotted lizard which is found on the west side of the S'ierra.

Probably the most characteristic of the lizard!sOf t'he lower desert regions of California is the long tailed, or gridiron tailed lizard.

This species is found nearly everywhere in the lower parts of the desert, and never fails to attract the attention of the traveler by itis exceedingly rapid movements and its very strange hajblt of carrying its tail curved up over its back. In fact, the tail is the largest part of the animal, being longer than the head and body together. The movements of this little gray lizard are so quick as to make it hard for the eye to foll-*v, and when it shoots off along the sand, with its tail high in the air, it looks almost as if a stick, standing on end, were scurrying away.

The Mojave Lizard.

There is living in the mountainous parts of the Mojave desert, a very strange lizard, which often reaches a length of over a foot, and which :s nearly as wide as one's hand and of a uniform dark slate colo?, or even bSaok, while the tail is spotted with white, and often nearly uniform!^white. At a distance this apecies looks fee a Gila monfiter, and many peotfle, unacquainted With the 5atter,. have tsrippos?d them to be the same, and I think it is due to this mistake that many .people believe the Gila monster an inhabitant of California. But there is no really authentic account of the monster being found in our state. Professor Baird states in his Pacific railroad reports, on the authority of Kennerly and Mollhausen, that it hastbeen found along the Mojave river, ibut this .must be a mistake. The peculiarity ci! this species te that when frightened it seldom keeps to the ground, but the chuck walla, as the black lizard above described is caMed by the Indians, is almost entirely vegetarian in its habits,1 and ooreequem'.t!y edible. Several speclmens which were examined contained fn their stomachs specimens of a little lotus, an ephedra, and a few bits of the gray desert tree, dalea fremonti. The Indians eat great majiy of them and I, for one, can testify that, although very, repulsive to

look at, if one has not 'had (fresh meat for three or tfour months a nice fat chuck -walla As quite palatable If properly. cooked. The meat Is very .whit£ and tastes'tmaieh like itog's legs.

There is a very pretty and withal a very strange lizarTtfound in several IooaMties in the Mojave desert which, has been named toy scientists dipsosaurus dorsalis, on aooount of its resemblance to the ancient saurians, -which inhabited the earth (many 'hundred years ago. •Until the last few years It was not known that this 9trang« lizard lived further north than Lower California, but recent exploitations have. proved that rt Inhabits the desert region as far north as the Pan ami nt .mountains in Inyo county. It has a thtok, finely scaled neck and heavy legs, whfch support a rather -clumsy (body, and a •long, tiapering tail. The (body is beautifully mdfctled while the entire length of the tail is covered with transverse bars. The under surface of the ibody is whitish, rwMle iblotches and fines of red on the shoulders and sides, with the white spots on the-sides, make it a very pretty lizard. The tail is longer than the -head and body together, the ttftal lehigth over aid measuring nearly fifteen inches in an adult male.'

There are fit least three species of horned toads living in California, one on eaJch side of the Sierra, the one that is •found on the west and whUcft i« so well known to every boy in California has been found so near the eastern borders of the Sierra foothills as to be almost included as one of the reptiles inhabiting the desert. The third species never gets into the Sierra. In general appearance t'he desert species is very similar to .the one tfound in the inland valleys, but is of a Jighter color, and the arrangement df the scales is somewhat different. The color may vary, however, from a dull white to a Vivid bricfe red.

BELGIUM'S UNHAPPY QUEEN.

King Leopold's Consort Attempted Balclde JLast Fall. It is now known .that the malady w*Mch prevented the unhappy queen of the Belgians from beling present at 'the wedding of her niece is tihe result of an ait't&mpt to commit sulioidie laat autumn ait Spa. It waa stated at the time that £he had sustadmed a fracture of the jaw through a fall (from her horse. The publicity King Leopold's Intrigues wUth Emiilien.ne d'Alenoon and Mile, de Mer-ode, both of wlhom he has brought from Paris and established in the most sumptuous fashion at Brussels, haiS probably been the main cause of tihe queen's act. Then, 'too, she is distressed beyond measure by the knowledge thlat heir buaband has squandered in Ms Congo enterprise the entire fortune df Ms demented sister, ex-Km-press Charlotte of Mexiico, who inihierlited from her father nearly $15,(WO,000.

This poor Eimpress Charlotte is the only 'other 1'ady of royal rank in modern times wQiase Misery has been of such lintcaiEiity as to drive her to oom/mit suicide. She made t'he attempt at Vatican in the presence of Pope Flius IX by swallowing pofecin. iFo-i^urua.t'eiy, medical assistance was wiithL'm reiadh antidotes were administered, 'and aifter spending the night sn t'he apartments of tihe Pon,l)iff, wh'jch he abandoned to her for tihe time, she was sufficiently recovered on the following day to be conveyed to her hotel."

In spite of all that is siaod to the contrary, there appears to be little faffing off !ln the loyalty of the great .patrician houses oif the Romian mobility towards the pope for wihen-, tihe other daiy, -the holy ifiather gave has annual reception to the Roman mobility in the consistory hall more tlh'an 200 handsomely emblazoned carriages were drawn upin the court of honor of 'tihe VatBcain, besides a considerable number of ordinary ve'hlital-es. The cards of invitation to tihe ceremony were Sent out by Don Marc Antono Oolonna, former cih'aimberlafjn to Qu-eien 'Marguerite, an office which he surrendered on the death of his father in order to assume the .hereditary dignity df prince assistant of the holy isaat. Meaniw'htle patrician names daiy become rarer at the Quirinal.

The head of the illustrious hou-se of Sulkowskl, Prince Joseph, duke Of BJelitz, is ©pending Ms entire time between being locked up in and escaping from various lunatic asylums in which Wis -relatives are perpcltuiallty endeavorim? to confine him with the Object of securing possession of Wis immense wetilt/h. The latter is incalculable, his 'Humg'a.rfan estates alone yieldling an annual revenue of $3,000,000. All ihlis brothers and sisters have been in this country, the .late duke, after his second marriage with one Marie Gemperle, havling migrated to the United Stat.es and joined a Shaker conflnun.Jty near New Bremen. The duke, after six years of ilhiis li'fe, returned home -to Bielitz, where he died in 1SS0.

The oth-er branch of the family 'has as its head Prince Antihony, who its one of tihe great dignitaries of the court of Berlin, but who h.a,s been compelled to abandon hiis .resiTdieroe in the P.runsJan capital owSnp: to financial difflcuiite=i. H.ie two sons have just been s^wtemeed to a heaivy fine wtih 'the albernattive of imprisonment at Breslau for ncn-r-aymemt of taxes, while t'he amcestral ard sutoerb fa.mily scat, the cattle ct Rf.'^nr. a.fiter Waving be.cn in the Wand* of bailiffs for seme itCme, has recently been the scene of .an auiM/.on sale, resulting the disioersal of magnificent artt •treasOTdf, silver plate and annient itlatpeetries which hnd in tihe pcasesEiicm of fhi'3 formerly sr.nvt-royal house for cenltur.ies.—New York World.

LIFE AND DEATH OF LINCOLN.

Henry Watterson's Brilliant Eulogy of the Doad President. "A thousand yea-re hence no 'eotfc, no dirama, no tragedy will be filled wi:t'h greater wonder or -be followed by mankind With deeper fee'Cns- than that which telle the story of the l.iif-e and death of AbraIham Lincoln." Th.us d?d Henry Wa.tterson last night close one of the most eloqU'ftnlt and sterling orations that has ever been heard 'by the people oif tihvs oi'ty, sa.y-s the New Orleans Times Democrat. An ora.Don, Which, like the life work of some grent artiist, was miade up of a soore of wonderfulIv oalnited piotures, taaoh telling in its varied hues and shades of color the Story of one of the greatest statesmen America has produced, clothing a personality already ridhly endowed with all the glorious a'ttributes of a man inspired by Giod, and tellSng of the virtues which ll'story has recorded -in the person of t.he long dead rre-.klent. Mr. Wattersian when he rmehed 'tfbe location of his lecture, found Warihinsrton Artillery Hall filled W'tih a flar.h'onaible a.nd representa•ttlve audience, all faertr to listen to the lecture upon 'Tie life and death of Abraham Lirt-oln. which has already become famous s'lnoe firnt delivered by the Kentucky orator ar.l statesman. He spoke riarnestly ©rid with graphic description, seeim-i'n'giy forgettiinsr himself in tihe iimof tihe .m-rimr-n t, mnisterly exprpan'on. gracnrul In Ws d'icrton. and superbly eloqment. All dunin.e tlve address he was interrupted ty frenuent bursts of ap-7au..-,e i,-Fit,ifyir'7 not alorre to the subject of the oration, but to the charm and influence of th*» speaker. Mr. Walter?on •clc,r,e'l wfitfh a brllKn nt ar»l eloquent peiroration upon the virtues and character of L'in'coln, dweHnntr vpon the -mtwiufold virtues of the dead presdont.

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EXPRESS MENU FOR TODAY.

As tihe homes of a nation are, so are the moral's of its peiciple, and as the, women ura •so will be its homes. BREAKiFASiT—Oraroreis, HOrrniny, Pork •Chops, Cream Muffins. Canned Apples,

Giinger Cakes, Coffee.

DINNER—Chick-in and Rice Broth,StufFed Reef Heart, Steamed Potatoes. Oo.nned giuoeotiash, Catbbage, Creaim Dressing,

Cucumbers Pilckles, Currant Jeffiy, Bread and Butter, Cranberry Tart. SUPIPBR—«Beef Pates, Omelet, Bread and

Butiter, Stewed Apntoots, Cookies, Milk, Tea. grrUFPED BEEF HEART.

TWoitousrbly cleanse 'in salt water fill all catties wi'th vebl stuffing, two ounces beef suet, chopped fine, four ounces bread onurobs, toe pxnscey* •ftal'f t#asipoio«niful rach cf tihywe maxloraim, Ju4oa of tosK & lemon,' halt teuspoemful aatt, a ifnch pepper an3 dust oi ntfUmeig. Sfcawcc a few sMces of at pork over the teant, flour bake one and one.-haW Hours, make gravy, serve -hot. (Copyright.)

Reserved seats for T. DeWitt Talmage no-w on sale at Buntiu's drug store.

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An Unmaiched Gollection.

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Of Spring dry goods gathered from three continents, is tHe magnet which throngs our store from day to day. The acknowledged headquarters for new and stylish fabrics, makes our store the point of interest to all in need of spring costumes. Assortment the best and prices the

Curtains and Draperies.

Point De Milan lace curtains, Brussels lace curtains, Tambonr lace curtains, Plain Swiss muslin curtains, Fish Net lace curtains, Oriental tapestry portiers, satin tapestry portiers, rope portiers, chenile portiers, and all kinds of demins and tapestry for making lounge and table covers, the best assortment we have ever shown.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

Avarice.

Honey, thou bane oif bliss, and source of woe, Whence comest thou, thalt tihou. art fresh and fine? I know thy parenitage is base and low

Man found thee poor and d'iflty in a mine.

Surely thou diidst so liftitle contribute To 'tihf.is great kingdom, which thou •now hasit got, Thait he was tfaii'n, When thou wast destitute,

To dig t'h'ee Ouit otf t'hiy dark cave and .grcit.

Then foroinig tfhee, by fire he made thee brtgih't Nay thou hast got the face of man for we Have wi'th our stamp and seal- -transferred our rfg'hit

Thou art tihe man amd mlan but dross to t'bee.

Mam ca'Jleith 'thee his wealth, Who made th'£ie itich And while he ddgs out thee, falls in the dO:ch. —George Henbert.

Nio ma'tter hew long a woman has been mamtad, 4lhe wa-nits the hero o.f a play-to be young and the viilliian to 'be a married man. She glories In "the ultimate success of the yo'urt'h.

Mrs. Boo'th-Tuoker 4s aifraid some people will t'hink she is not a devoted mother •because she 'left a 'lilt'tle aide baby—-whieh has giinice difed—In Eresrland to c/ome to Atmerca to 'take charge of the Salvation army.

A 'Basu'to nefbro reamed Azariel Sekese has written in 'hit's naitiive tongue a book of 250 pages, telling The traflCtions of Wis tribe, verse anid prose. Ths is believed to be thte first work ever written by a Sou'th A-nican inaitlive.

Cy Warman, .the authlor of "Sweet Marie," lives on Capitol hill in Washington. Mrs. Wlanman is the original of "Sweet Marie" and persons who know her declare that she is worth all the praise the song giives her.

A sand pile for children to play in was •tried last summer With success in Washington park, Cincinnati!, and this season it ds proposed to put one in each public school yard jn the oity and leave ail of .liem opt'n in the summer.

Two female centenarians Of the East attribute their longevity respectively to a reMigdous life and the constant use of tobacco. People who are ambi!tdo.us to attain a great age can now choose between these two •aamem^ia't diverse methods.

Mrs. AMce C..Cram, a Boston contractor, has secured the contract for supplying 40,000 tons otf stone to be ustd in elevating the tracks of the New York, New Haven & ttantiford railroad in Boston. There were dozens of other 'bidders.

A Wont the mcst considerate man the New York polOce -have run up agatast for a long time-is a burglar who left hfts overcoat containing his r'hotog.ra.ph in the •house he had rciUbed. Other bui"glars should dimOtate hl'_s example, thus saving the police no end of trouble.

West Vi-rginda has produced what might be called a supers-ervicablc inventor who wants to (take out a patent for a biicycle screen to hide the feet and ankles of women who r-id'e wheels. It is doubtful whether tttiis device ca.n be made popular with either sex.

A .man who has devoted all of his money and twenty-five years of patiient labor to the production of a perpetual mo'tdon machine awokeTh'? culher morning to find that ihls model Wad been Stolen. The story is 'not wDthout i'ts paithos, but so far as science is conicern-ed it calls to .msind the case of the college student who had forgotten how to square 'the circle.

The wearing qualities of Parisian drapery aire tested wi'th mud. Amy new tint that cannot stand t'he influence of mud being thrown upon it is innnrediately put aside as useless. To experiment with mud ih|ow,G,V£T, h'£vs founl unp^s^s^n-t, fou'lsome and unhealthy. An exJoelient imitation of the original was recently ordered of a chemist, which was composed of a solution of carbonate of ammn-onia. carbonate of potassium, sulphite of scda and sea salt in water.

On an andient gravestone in the Georgetown cemetery is found the following admonitory epitaph 'Stop traveler, one moment wait

While 1 miy solemn 'tale relate. W.ith strong ambition, youtlh and neaitn The world I followed, grasped at weasth. Madly despised my Maker's frown And broke my cons fit ut.ion down. At length incurable disease Brought death to me by sure degrees. My sins around me wound a chain To drag me down to endfess pain. I cried iter mercy, but I cKed,, Perhaps to late, for when I died My friends had nothing lift to prove. I ever felt a Savior's love. As th?n wi'th my expiring breath So now from the cold house o. death I warn you. sinner, turn, beware, Forsake ycur Sins or meet drspair. There is a man in I* ah. Jchn R. Wlil'son by r.ume, who has played a trick on meet if -the governors of the diftert-n: s.a' es and who is now about to reap tba benefits thereof. He wrote to these differnnt governors, asking each one for a piece ei wocd, of histortcal antecedents if pos«i'jble the same to be used in th-e construction of a tc/hle for the use 'of the ru ,v governor of Utah in his official capao.ty. The povefrnors responded generously and Mr. Wilson's taible among otnor (things, a piece of the Charter Oak a bit of WiWam Penn's house, a s'.lce c-l the frUrate Ccms''i'tuton and other qhoice bits of timber. The table has twen convplottd ar.d new 'Mr. Wilson offers i't for su,e to anySxidy wlto w'11 bid enough. T'.ie

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We are showing a line of the very best makes for the money that are manufactured. If you want good wearing and elegant fitting corsets, you will find them here at economical prices.

Take the hint.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

Our success in Fine Tailoring is due to our Perfect equipment for doing first-class work. —We have the skill.

We have the goods and we have the Custom too and we might finish the the jingo—like rhyme by saying we still have time enough "To do some work for you" and there is no day in the year that so suggests

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"fixing up" as Easter Sunday. —We'll look for you in this week.

FORD & OVERSTREET, Sixth and Main

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Cincinnati House, Norlh Fourth St.

EDWARD CARNEY, Proprietor.

BARBERS: John Davis, Win. Scofield,

(EVERYTHING NEW, 1 POLITE ATTENTION

F. Miller.

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PRINTER

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Isaac Ball & Son 3 FUNERAL DIRECTORS

Can be found at all times—nl«h» or day—ready to supply those In want of anything tn nU Uni Telephone 89 sad 8A tn Kerth Third ilaute. Ia*.

SANX C. DAVIS

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almost be enaugh .to make the table a valuable curio even ®f there were nb o*iher aesoc'at'ioira.

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Confusion In Accuracy.

An ancient Scottish laird was so careful regarding the terms in which the charter to his property was drawn, that this document conveys to Us original owner possession, not only of the actual estate, but of "everything that files above it as high as heaven everything on or'below the surface as deep as hell." But all leg'al documents are not thus thoughtfully worded.—London Eventag Standard. ... ...

FRANK J. TOKa

DAVIS & TURK

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

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Attorney At Law.

Fire Insurance and Real Estate Loans

312't Wabash Avonuo.

nsurance Law a Specialty-

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