Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 April 1896 — Page 7

THE MARKET EISES

.AT.AIRnr OVER BED RIVER PLANTING FORCES IX UP A NOTCH.

ipelicate Sensibilities of the Speculative Grain Market—Corn and Oats Very Quiet—Provisions Advance.

Chicago, April 23.—Alarm over the delay getting the spring wheat seed into the nd in the Red river valley, the great .pri-ng wheat region of the northwest, •jvas the governing f&dtor today in a rise if a cent per ibushel in the price. Corn oaits were quiet and ttfa4 very slight n®es in their value. Hog products ad .noed a Qittle.

There was a fair speculative trade in wheat market ruling moderately active a good deal ot the dhoppy, unsettled jwioee turning aiwut on very slight iluetaoes. "Kie aentimeiit at the start was toad?, after witoli a weak spettl eeft in, to a foltowed by a stronger tons, the close "ng steady at,. advance. Fiuctuans covered %gl cent range. The steadiness at fiie start -w^as attributable largely the rattier bullish remarks in this Weeks' summary of the Price Current, and Stlven the wea/tJher map showed too much ttnoistune In the nortihwesr, heavy rains ieing reported in South Dakora and Min 3nes.)ta and some in North Dakota, which VrH' further delay seeding in that section .jThore wad also a ^©mi-official report of SO per cent on the condition of the plant in 'Kentucky. Ca.ll53 too came no weaker sttian th« dccline on this Bide yesterday feind tli!3 was rather encouraging. There 'twas, however, heavy selling of July for JBt. Louis acoount, and a good dead of May Jon sale, which caused 'jnces react. The close however, was witain y± cent of the top figures for the day, the causes bein further news of reduced and delayed v'-eeecling in tho northwest, and less May liquidation.

Business In the corn pit was largely nhe way of changing May deals over to July.

Fluctuations were within

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ami in the end prices were unchanged t£rom yesterday, or V* cent lower. Business in oats was fairly active. The principal trading was in the way of exchanges. Plen-.y of May was offered and ilTirty was wanted Price changes were •marrow, winding, up With July unchanged Jeom yesterday and May showing cent

Provisions opened weiker because of the Iday .run of 'hogs 'Being a little thea/vier fthaai yesterday's estimate, but the strength .of wiheat helped to revive them. Pork for July declined 5 cents and (improved 12Ms with cents gain as the net result at the close. .Ribs are 5 can lis higher, but no

Change is motioeafbl© in lard, compared 'with yesterday. ti a

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WHEAT

fSept.... 31 32H 31

OATS.

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Apr. 23 Atfr. 22

May.... 63 «33£ 62* 63 V4 63 (July,... 64« 633-84 61* 64&-K COKN. 2 9%

May— 20V4 29* 29&-V4 29* 2

July.... 30?6 SO?, 30S4 30% 31% -32

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May— 1914 1954 10J 19% 19^-H July.... io%-ao 20 m-% 19^-20 19K-20 PORK. May.... 8 47 8 55 8 42 8 52 8 47 July.... 8 65 8 75 8 62 8 70-72 8 67

fclay 4 80 4 82-85 4 80 4 82-85 4 82 July.... 95 5 00 4 95 4 97 4 97 RIBS. JiMay— 4 20 4 27 4 20 4 27

*Juiy 4 37 4 42 4 35 4 40-42 4 37

MONEY,

STOCKS AND BONDS.

Increase In Stock Exchange Business With Irregular Prices. Now York, April 23.—'A further Increase In stock exchange (business occurred today and the 'course otf prices was irregular. Th© trading element played on both Bides of the anarket. (Buying by commission houses was noted in same Shares •and particularly in the granger group, resulting in ooimiparative activity in Burlington and St. Paul. Missouri Pacific &pj)uJared to be manipulated by powerful i.^.de rate rests. The ind.uSstrfa'1 shares (however hold first pla'ce as a group.

Ait the outset t'he market was unfavotraM^itftected by the failure of London to respond to the i'mipnvement .here yesterday, '^he street, ^however, paid but slight .^attention to the lower London quotations tf rJIkmeri'cans. An early selling movelinen was directed against t'he industrials, iwit-h Sugar and Tolbacco being arulbjeoted to special pressure. After mid-day, t'he bulls took hold of the market wfth remewed vigor and substantial advances occurred. Leather preferred gained 2M per cent. In the aJfternoon dealings the industrials and t'he granger® were anoat •prominent.

In tTie final hour, rumons were current that the injunction on the starip divide-nd Sn Tobacco is to be served next Monday. The report Inspired a determined raid against the stock, vrtiich broke 4 %per tcent umd«ir heavy sale®. Otlrer leading iniduait riial£-JR.nd some of the railway list wore depressed sympathetically. LeaJEher (preferred lost 1^4 and General Electric 1 jier cent. The marfket closed weaJc at general net fractional concessions.

In the (bond martcet, Northern Pacific Missaids displayed continued strength. and '•activity. iFurt'her foreign (buying of bonds was re-

Iponted, yielding some of the "high Class (issues. The sales (were $2,707,000. lAtchison l^jlAdams Express 150 IAlton and Terre Haute ^American Express US Baltimore and Ohio 1C% Pan&da Pacific Canada Southern SI Central Pacific 15% ClhesapeaJto and Ohio T* Chicago and Alton 154 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy f-2 Chicago Gas K9 Consolidated Gas 1G2 C., C. and St. Louis S. Tolorado Coal and Iron I1* Cotton Oil CSpPt-ificates 14% Tel'aware and Hudson 128 Jel., Lack, and Western 100 (Pe.nver and Rio Grande, prjfd t? Distillers and Cattle Feeders Co 20 iRrie 13'i JOrie. first prefd 40 I^.rie, second prefd 2n®4 Fort Wravne ..Ifi1) OrefeLt Northern, presfd 110 C. and E. I., prefd. oflfd "... ffTocklng Va'n~y 1TS4 Ullinols Central !'7 Pt. Paul and Duluth 24 Kansas and Tex'as, prefd rjWg Tjalce Erie and Western 19 Lake Erie and Western, prefd i2U liake Shore 149'i Lead Trust 27% JyOuisville and Nashville .-... I^oui'sville and New Albany i'4 STanhattan Conso-litTatod [Memphis and Oh'arleston, offd 13 Michigan Central 0?i.4 STissouri Pacific :"0 Mobile and Ohio 21 Nashvilol and Chaitt'anocga, ex. div. 5,* Rational Cordage .Mf, iNational Corxlas"e. prefd Ks»w Jersey Central ii'S'fc [Norfolk and Wes'^rn, nrofd -tsi North American Company 5^4 Northern Paelflc l',s •Northern PacMi'e. prefd 12 TT. P.. Denver and Gulf 3V& Jea:ther, inresfd •RmbHer 2CU

O'Wier, prefd ........ S't» Northwestern .'...10^% Northwestern, prefd 147 N^iw ork Central New ork and New England 40 Onfarlo and We?tnrn 15 Oregon Tmnrovnrnent 1 CiTtrnn Nr.v'sn'^on 20 Crecron Ph^rt Lino and Utah Nortih-— 7% !Pae»fte Mafl SS Peoria. Decatur and Evansi'Slle 2% iTittcibur? .,..i ..Ifid JPullma-n Palace .... t.1 IflSU Reading J2^ (Rio Grande and Western 15% J?io Gftnilo and Western, prctd 43.--Rock Island Ft. Paul TSUt Pt. Paul. praifd Pt. T*aiul and Omsha 42,4 Pt. Paul p'-d '"Hnah'a, preJd 15314 P^irthem PScWc 5«-"i

ReTiner- 12

Tennesv^e Cfal and Iron 312^ TVxa^ PS^wfr! Toledo rd Ohfo Central, prefd 7S TTn!or Pacific fnlted Express

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Wabash, L»ir and Piiciflc 7&g Wa.v-ash. Tiou% and Pacific, prefd. Wells ^arffo Express fn Western Union Wheeling and Lake Erie ir?4 Wheeling: ard Lake Erie, prefd SB Minn, and Pit. Louis jo 1 IHenver a»d Rio Grande ^... 1314

C-prerhl Fleetric STVfc National I5n«seed 17^, Colorado Euel and Tnon SI 14 i^lColoriuio Fue land Iron, prefd offd., 98

•?,i ff~' -.—J ^IplISS

H. and Texas Central, offd Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City.... 6Vfc Toledo, St. L. and Kansas City* p*efd 3® Southern 9% Southern, prefd 31% Tofbacoo '70" Tobacco, prefd 97 Anneaican Tel. and Cable Co 94 Consmierclal Cable Conypamy 158 Araerican Sugrar, pretfd 103% Cordage, gtd Untted States 4'a, (new) reg 117% United€*tatas 4's,.(new) coupon ..—,.1J«% United States 5's,.aneg 112% United States-5's, coupon .........113% United States 4's, reg' ^....lOSJi, Untted States 4's, coupon «......103% United States .2's, reg Pacific F-s, of .....103

"THE LIVESTOCK MARKET.

Cattle Moderately Actl^fe—Hogs a Shade XjOw«t—Sheep and Idmbs. Indianapolis, A-pril 23.—Cattle—Receipts 200 head. Shipments fair. Tlie general cart'tSe market was moderately active at prices quotably steady, as ompareL with the decline mo'ted heretofore this week.

Export and shipping cattle we quote: Fat. we'll flnlslhied, dry fed steers, 1,400 Jtea and upward. .$ 3 90@ 4 10 Good to choice shipping and export ste«r3 3 70® 3 90 Fair to mtdfitiim shipping steers 2 50@ 3 65 3 00@ 3 40 Common steers

Butellers' cattle we quote: Good to choice heifers 3 wM? 3.7o Fair to medium hsSfcfers 3 00@ 3 40 Good to choice feeding^teer-a.. 3 60(3) 3 75 Fair to medium feeding steers 3 25@ 3 59 Oommion to good stockers 2 50© 3 &> Good to cholcfc heifiers ............. 3 85 Fair to medium cows 2 35@ 2 00 Common light heifeirs 2 53@ 2 90 Good to choice cows 2 65@ 3 Common old cows 1 25'® 2 25 Veal calves 3 25@ 4 50 Heavy calves 2 50@ 3 50 Prime to fancy export bulls .. 2 65@ 2 80 Good to choice butcher bulls .. 2 40@ 2 65 Common to fair bulls 2 40@ 2 Good to choice coiws and calves 27 00§35 00 Oommon to medium cows ami calves ... 15 00®25 00

Hogs—^Receipts 4,500 head. Shipments 1,006 head. The shipping: demand for hogs was a shad© hotter today, and with -good competition from packers the trade ruled moderately active. Prices were a shade lower. We quot-3! Good to choice ntfeidtam and heavy 3 50(i?3 60 Mixed and heavy packing 3 4r@3 50 Good to choice lightweights 3 P5??3 60 Common lightweights 3 455p3 55 Pigs 2 5rt@2 50 (Roughs 2 50^S 00

Sheep—^Rooeipts light. Shipments none. The sheop and lamb market continues quiet at unchanged prices Export ewes and wethers 3 00@3 25 Good to choice sheep....... 2 75@2 90 Fair to medium sheep ...... 2 40#B 60 Oommon staeop 1 50@2 25 Buctks, per -bead 2 00@4 00

Coffee and Sugar Market.

New York, April 23.—Ctoffee options opened steaxiy at an advance of 5@10 points, ruled generally-firm on fiirm cateles, European orders and local coverings. Closed steady at 5@90 points net ad^nce. ailes 14,750 bags, including March $10.85 April |i2

l80(5)13.00

spot Rio quiet, No. 7,

13% mild quilet comovaj'16%^18. ugar—Raw dull, refined steady.

Minneapolis Wheat Market.

Minneapolis, April 23.—Wheat steady April 51% May ffl% July Gl% on track No. 1 hard 62% No. 1 northern 61% No. 2 northern 60% receipts 225 cars.

Peoria Corn Market.

Peoria, April ^ii.-^Corin easier No. 29 No. 3, 28%I Oats steady, No. 2 white 19%@20 No. 3 whit© 19(§19V4. Rye steady No. 2, 37%. Whisky market steady, un changed.

Local Potato Market.

Car. load lots 20@21 cents a bushel jobbing 25 cents.

INDIAN TREACHERY.

When the Delawarea Proved the Foes of America. In the late winter of 1791 the hitherto friendly Delarwares who hunted or traded along the western frontier of Pennsylvania and Virginia proper, took this manner of showing that they had joined the open foes of the Americans, says Harper's Magazine. A big band of wariors spread up and down the Allegheny for about forty miles, and on the 9th of February attacked all the outlying settlements. The Indians who delivered this attack had long been on intimate terms with the Alleghieney settlers, who were accustomed to see tihem in and about "their homes, and-as the savages acted with seeming friendship to the last moment they were able to.take t'he settlers completely unawares, so that no effective resistance was made. Among the captured wtas a lad naimed John BriJkell, who, though at first maltreated and forced •to run the guunlet, was afterward adopted into the trilbe and not released until after Wayne's victory. After his adoption he was treated with the utmost kindness, isuid conceived a great liking for his captors, admiring their many good qualities, especially their courage and their kindness tdo their children. Long afterward he -wrote down his experiences, w'hich possess a certain value as giving from the Indian standpoint on account of some of the incidents oif the forest warfare of the day.

The warriors who had engaged in this raid on their former friend's, the ssttlers along the Alieigheney, retreated two or three days' journey into the wilderness to an a pointed place, where they found their families. One of the Girtys was with the Indians. No soner had the fast of the warriors come in, with their scalps and prisoners, including the boy Bickell, than ten of their numlber deWberatei-y started back to PittS'burg, to pass themselves as friendly Indi'ans, and trade. In a fortnight they returned, laden with goods of various kinds, incLuding whisky. Some of the inhabitants, sore from disaster, suspected that these Indians were only masquerading as friendly, and'prepared to attack t'hem, but one of the citizens warned 't'hecn of their danger and they e^capcd. Their effrontery was as remarkable as t'heir treachery, and du-plicity. They had suddenlv attacked and massacred settler:? by whom they had never been harmed, and with whom they pc^served an appearance of entire friendship up to the very moment of the assault. Then, their hands rid with blood of their munle-red friends, they came boldly into Pittsburg, among the near neighbors of these same murdered men, and stayed there several days to trade, pretending to be peaceful allies of the whites. With savages so treacherous and so ferocious it was a mere impossibility for the borderers to distinguish the hostile from the friendly, as they .hit out blindly to revenge the blows that fell upon them from unknown hands. Brutal though the frontUrsmen ofter we-a. they never employed tbs systematic and deliberate 'bad ifaith which was a favorite fceawe# wUt*,eyeO*j}thc best of the red 1ttSbeS.S$

We e.ffCT~$160 -reward fotor- any case of,:,-catarrh that, cannot he cured by Half's Catarrh Cure. ,F. J. Cheney & Co., Prop., Toledo, O.

We, the. undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years and believe him perfectly honorable *n ail business transactions and financially a-ble to oarry out any,.obligation mafle by their firm.

West & Traux. w'httlesale druggists, Toledo. O. Walding, Rinnan & Marvin, wholesale druggist,^Toledo, O.

Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting difectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free.

When Baby was sick "#9 gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Cosifcria., When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.

OSTRICH PLUMES AND TIPS Colored and furled, feather boas cleaned and curled. Charles Fauilo, 32 Souah Fourth street, with NeaJ Sisters.

The bfest way to secure and keep good help is by using a gas range for cooking.

Smokers unbiased in their opinion pronounce Sweet Momenta, cigarettes best.

THE STUDY OF SEEDS.

INSTRUGYIVE INDOOR PASTIME WITH MICROSCOPIC AID.

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There Are Secrets Which the Seed Will Hot Reveal—Why Do "He Oaks From little Acorns Grow?"—Znterwtfn* Ft»tttres of Many Common Seeds. V,"

Nataro may be studied by the fireside in a collection of virions seeds, the small est of which requires a microscope to bring out the fttll beaaty of form and color. We have been admiring tfao exquisite beauty of a seed of Panlownia imperials of Japan. Under the microscope it suggests a silver inject with laoelike wings of daintiest web. A oommon pink seed resembles a piece of iron ore beaottfally carved. Each portalaoca seed is a tiny silver shell, while the seed of a begonia seggeate nuggets of purest gold. T«baooo seeds, also, are gold colored with pretty yeorkings. A bit of English sedge diacjpsQB a pate sea green sheath Sued with' plumed seed full of grace and beauty.

Some of. the mosji ordinary seeds tell fairylike taies. Here Is a brOwc apple seed whoso maturity ^was not accomplished without special dare. Mother Nature has curiously conceived that in a duster of apple blossoms the central flawer shall open first. All around it is a ring of brilliant, unopened hudgjrritb the under surface of tbe petals most "highly colored. This oolctrihg of tbe petals oa tbe underside assists in the suooewful fertilisation of the central flower. Thus tbe buds perform a healthful function which in other flowers is performed by older blossoms. The oentral apple blossom is offcen the only one which bears an appfc. All the rest take their ohances. The obn^lcuous a floral cluster the more oart^ajaly fee,, bees will visit it, as they have learned that faded flowers have been already rifled of honey. When the fruit appears,,ifr is first the color of-ihe leases, whioh -^JHS serve to proteot in order that tbe seed may ripen. But when maturity hs-reaohed,

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apple is painted with gold and another with carmine that they may not be taken and the seed disturbed.

The ourious three cornered seed of the buckwheat tells another story. The plant has two kinds of blossoms, differing in the length of the stamens and pistils. In one flower the pistil is divided into three parts at the tap and stands Above the pollen pouches whioh lie at thebase of the pistils. In the other kind of flower the opposite arrangement is seen, with tho pistils law and tho stamens long. The bee vifiting the flowers for the honey, whioh is secreted in the eight yellow glafids at the base of the stamens, has part of its body dusted with pollen from the short stamens and another part from tho long stamens. At the same time he brushes the pollen of each upon the receptive tips of pistils of corresponding lengths. By this' arrangement close fertilization is checked.

Wheat is a peculiar seed. The humble anoestor of the wheat is said to have been a dwarfish grass. Long periods of time passed before wheat attained its present high state of development. It is a bisexual, close fertilizing plant. In tbe various parts of a grain of wheat in the layers, scales, tissues, cells, coats, teguments and membranes lie its richness of gluten, atareh and albuminoids, which are elements of good flour.

There are a few seorets whioh a seed will not reveal. It will not indioate bow large a plant will be or what is its oolor. Sweet peas look just alike, yet some will yield white, some pink and others purple flowers. One poppy seed will produce a scarlet enchantress, all silk and flame, while in the small body of another is folded up a curled pink or white beauty. The poppy has an interesting seed vessel, which contains an almost innumerable number of seeds, yet not to bo compared in multitude with the seed of some other plants. An English scientist says that it requires 1,013 tobacco seeds to weigh one grain, and a single plant produces 860,000 soeds. This is a small number, too, as compared with an orchid, which produces 74,000,000 seeds, each one of which requires about 20 grains of pollen to fertilize it.

Thero aro seeds rich in odor, such as tho vanilla pod. It is produced on a vine belonging to the orchid family, which has a long, floshy stem and aerial rootlets. Thoso attach themselves to trees or othor objects for support. The groonish white flowers form axillary spikolets. The Mexican vanilla plant bears abundant flowers, but) it is necessary in ordor to secure a good crop to fertilize them artificially. A sharp stick is used to convey the pollen from tho anthors to the pistil. An expert can fertilize 1,000 flowers in one day, but as tho blossoms do not open simultaneously the work is tedious.' No doubt tho women and children who do most of tho artificial fertilization would welcomo the advent of some insect prepared to do this work for them.

The chocelato tree has a useful bean inclosed in a hard, leathery slioll. Instead of growing at tho apex of the branches, it grows on the trunk and base of tho primary branches, where it is well protocted froni'sun and storm.

Figs, very curiously, have their flowers insido. Each pistillate blossom has an ovary which ripens into a mitinto nut. This is the seed or truo fruit, the fleshy part boing only'the stum or receptacle of tho ovaries. Just as in tho caso of the strawberry, the ovaries are placed on tho outside of the receptacle. Figs rise in tho form of littlo buds directly from tho joints tho trcu. The Romans thought that Bacchus*, god of plenty and joy, derived his sizo and strength from eating tbJs seedy fruit. Tho saci-eil fig of the cast is not. allowed to bo vended in the market.

The siKoof seed scorns to have nothing to do with tho cizo of tho treo or the plant or the blossom. Thero afa self planting seeds, like t.lib craned bill, which use arrows with winch to get into the ground. In the wild -.clematis the pistil stalk remains attacliod to tho ovary, and instead of witherhig it grows, not only lengthening, but becoming silky and fcr/tiiery, ready to catch the passing breeze. Hence young plants are to bo found far from tho parent vine. The pods of the Chinese wistaria explode with a report, the seeds being carried many feet. Winds and Waves, birds, beasts, fish and man nre seed carriers for the seed, which aro without wings or sails.—Chicago lieoord.

Early French Flying Machines. A French loakggsith thought that ptactico was the great thing, and, fitted with wing.s ho jumped first from a chair and afterward from a window, and then from tho roof of a email house. In tho lost experiment ho sailed ovor cottage roof, but scon after sold his wings to a peddler, and probably saved his own life. Another Frenchman, a marquis, tried to go by the \air route across tho Miver Soico, but ha was not drowned, ^inpe a washerwoman's boat happapetl to be yrhore he came down. —Tudor Jon.ks in St. Nicholas.

A grelat nrany people are influenced by what "others -do, and fchiyt is one (rf the reasons why so many take Siotvmons Liver Regulator. ."I was suffering greatly from elsills and fever and tihe more qulnane I took the worse I felt. I was told of Summons Regulator by a fniend in Arkansas, and I didn't need to take much of ft before I was entirely relieved."—Byron Bradley, Tallahassee, Fla.

New City JJtrectory.

Our new city directory o-f Terre Haute for 1896 will be the most complete work we have ever issued here. It is our twelfth volume of Terre Haute. iNone

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS FRIDAY MORNEVGff AfRlL 24, 1896.

of the oM features -will be omittetf, but new ones added. !A miscellaneous directory, alphabetical directory, houfeeholders and, owners street gurde and the complete business "directory all in. one handsomely bound and indexed,

lie

extended circulation makes it a splendid advertising medium. Chas. O. Ebel & Co., publishers, room 8, Beach Block,

A SCENE IN ANCIENT GREECE.

The Great Anttnal Gathering at fZwOlyatpian Game*. About tbe first «f the* Olympic Bftoath war and battle gonsfl cooped throughout the length and breadth of Relisa. The distant roads which led to Olyfiopia were thronged with pilgrlkoa bound on a journey almost as sacred thaj of the pilgrimage to Mecca by the devout Mobommedaaa As the distance tasaetted and tbe time seared tho travelers bedar&e more numerous, and it seemed as tf-Greeoe dispatched all her bravest and stictjgeat and nobleftt sons into these oonteegittg currents. On horseback and rotflebaok, on foot and ifi litter, some carrying tbeir Ample luggage upon their backs, some with elaborate wagons containing splendld oanap equipage and,tbe richest wines aad food guarded by a retinue-of' servants,:tbegr choked each route witb an army of1 teeming-life. The five festival days ^were--a great national pieoio, where almost everything was en joyed In 'the open air under a glorious midsummer sky. A few of the dlstltt guished visitors were cared for in the temples, but a majority, even of the wealthy, choge the flfee lile of their own tents.

The dafly scene, one can fancy, was rich with life and .ptotorial effect. One of tbe fairest of Greet: valleys, with snow crowned heights in the background, its own bo6om orowced with the white pillared beauty of a hundred temples and public edifices, is filled with thousands of tents of every color, like gigantio flowers. During the hours when the visitors do not resort to the stadllnm to thrill with the terrible struggles of the runners or wrestlers or boxers or to watch tbe smoking horses in the hippodrome, they may amuse themselves at the booths'ot the traders and chapmon, for from all parts of the civilized world merchants have gathered to sell their wares, ranging from tho rarest jewels and men elaborate goldsmith work to simple artioles of daily use.

Olympia was Indeed the arena of the greatest public games of antiquity,

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can scarcely call by this name the cruelties of the Roman amphitheater, but it was also the site of one of its busy and active fairs, a "national exposition" under can vas, every four years.

Mental enjoyment of tbe higher sort was not missing from tbe entertainment. The leading tragedies were represented in one of the finest theaters of Greece. Poets and historians came here also to recite their new works and so to publish their fame to tbe world. It is said that inany of the stirring odes of Pindar were made publio in this way and that Herodotus, the father of history, first read bis delightful story before the audienoe at an Olympic festival.—G. T. Ferris in St. Nicholas.

The Making of Tacks.

'Where do the pins goto?'v is a common saying, but When one takes a few notes of the taok industry the question "Where do all the tacks go to?" seems to be the next thing in order.

The first tacks were made by hand. The operator used a vise and dies. A bit of metal was held With a clamp, and the head was made by striking a blow with a hammer. Later on maohlnery begun to be used, and now

metal is fed into an

enormous apparatus that .will out out neatly 300 tabks a minuto.The prooesses are extremely interesting, and a tack faotory has many visitors. The machinery is automatic. Narrow strips of metal are fed in and clipped off, the heads are made, by pressure, and it literally rains taoks into large boxes placed underneath to receivo them. They are then poured into a rattler, whioh is a rapidly revolving cylinder, through which a jet of air is forced under high pressure. This removes all of tho dust and £ose particles. Black lead is sometimes put into give them a polish, and then they pass on to tho sifter, which sorts them and takes out the imperfect tacks, leaving tho good ones to be passed on and dropped into a box, from whioh they are taken to be packet! by quick fingered girls. A good workwoman can pack 1,900 pounds of tacks in a day. When one realizes that many of these machines ate going, and that tacks at this x^te are being sent out to market, the wonder grows where all the tacks go to.— Now York Ledger. 1

A Quaint Offer of Marriage. A quaint offer of marriage, Written more than 100 yoars ago, is carefully preserved in the family of the young wooer's descendants. It was addressed not to tho young woman herself,*but, most rospeobfully and decorously, to her parents. Tho father of the "Betsey" referred to had ten daughters, and as he was a clcrgyflian for 50 years in a small Now England town it may bo surmised that his aifirmativo answer to spare his "seventh" Was as quickly assenting as it was fifiai. Tho wooer was also a clergyman, and' ho and his Betsey passed their entire married lives in the same pastorate, niinisters of thoso days living and dying with their flocks. Hero is tho lover's plea: Both roverend sir and worthy madam, fcSoffc wedlock's bands first wad talked in licaven. When lie.ppy man in Eden dwelt alone, Tlia smiling God a spouse did form of bone, That friend.ship wight their joyful souls inspire And knit their hearts in a seraphic fire. With wedlock .chain I wish mysoif t-o bind If fro3n your lips the answer should prove kind. Betsey, your seventh, I wish you to impart That we may join our hands as well as hearts. And live in love and share oath other's cares, While fleeting time whirls on with rolling years Till grizzly death dissolves the uiiktm chain That we lyay rise and niinglo souls again. —Isew York Times.

Sis© .Their Salvation.

"Big men have aa undue advuniago in tho race of life," said Mr. Walter li. Peak of Boston. "Any student of human nature can't lioip but see that a man of huge bulk and towering fprm has t\ groat lead over his fellows of medium staturo, while a little man has to bo tho possessor of decided talents to rise to a respectable station. It isn't fair, and Dame Nature has much to answer for.

I am absolutely ccrtain that thero are thousands of mcu in liigli position today who, If tliey were not above 0 feet in height and 200 pouuds in weight, would be enveloped in tho obscurity that their very mcdiocre ability justifies. Size has been their salvation."—Washington Post. il.

The wants.

"Your S?er3e$ are Very good, misV^fcaid the editor in bis kindest manner, ''but Wo cannot possibly use chum. Out columns al-o too crowded." "Oau:t you leavo out Some of that stuff you publish under the head of 'Wanted?' suggested tho poetess. "It is very uninteresting."—Chicago Tribune.

To Insure Peace. I

"I see in time of peace you are preparing for war," said the foreign embassador to the secretary of the navy. "Oh, no," said the secretary. "We tire only preparing for the continuation of peace."—Washington Tribune.

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IHFORMATI*06lr.ABOUT THE PREFERCNCEMFOR THE RIGHT.

Xn^riaaltlTe The* Both Were Used—SIcatlktanoo Word* "Bl*hf and "Lutt* In iAtfaa and Fnseh t—What

Spptba BlmgllVhto Teach Us* I

The fact •that semo jwrsona ate left banded- may start' the question whether the human animal was always right handed, for abnormality often indicates a "trying baok*^ to an anoestial condition. Now when we leek at ot»9angtMge, and' that in the case of man is a fait test, We find how strongly the comparative force exhibited by each oi tbe hands has left its mark on our oommon egressions. The right is the "ruling" band,-tbe left is the "worthless" or the "weaker" band,\if.we regard tbe derivative meanings of the names. In words knporbed tsom the Latin ascertain ability is called "dexterity" or right handedness,, while that which has ah evil or unsuccessful Influence becomes "sinister" or left handed. In like manner, if we look at words from a French source, we find that a clever person is "adroit** because be has right handed qualities, but a clumsy person is "gauche" because his Work is left banded.

It is evident that when our race became so far advanced as to frame words for ideas and things the rule Was that the members of it were right handed. And if we examine other languages we find proofs that such a rule existed among tbe people usigg them. There is, however, good reason for thinking that man originally oeuld use either hand equally well. "This seems a hazardous statement to make about a remote ancestor in the age before tbe great glacial epoch had furrowed the mountains of northern fihirope, but nevertheless it is strictly true and strictly demonstrable. Just try, as you read, to draw with the forefinger and thumb of your right band an Imaginary human profile on the page on which these words are printed. £0 yoti observe that (unless you ate an artist, and therefore sophisticated) you naturally and instinctively draw it with the face turned toward your left shoplder? Try now to draw it with the profile to the right, and you will find it requires afar greater effort of the thumb and forefinger.

The hand moves of its own accord from without inward, not from within outward. Then, again, draw with your left thumb and forefinger another imaginary profile, and you will find, for the same reason, that the face in this case looks rightward. Existing savages and our own young children, whenever they draw a figure in profile, be it of nan or beast, with their right hand, draw it almost always with the face or head turned to tile left, in accordance with this natural instinct. Their doing so is a test of their perfect right .handedness. "But primitive man, or, at any rate, the most primitive men we know personally, the carvers of the figures from the French bone caves, drew men and beasts on hone or mammoth tusk turned either way indiscriminately. The inferenoe is obvious. They must have been ambidextrous. Only ambidextrous people draw so at the present day, and, Indeed, to scrape a figure otherwise with a sharp flint on a piece 6f bone or tooth or mammoth tusk would, even for a practiced hand, be com para tively diflSoult" (Allen). In connection with this passage it is interesting to examine the reports of the bureau of ethnology, whete it Will be Men that, although the majority of profiles executed by th North Amerioan Indians follow the rule, many faoes aisd turn to the right, and it is found that loft handedness, or rather ambidexterity, is very common among these tribOs.

But doubtless the reader will notice that in writing his hand moves from left to right, and not from right to left. Here is an apparent violation of the principle laid down in the quotation given from Mr. Grant Allen. It is, however, more apparent than real. If you study Egyptian hieroglyphics, yqu Will find that profiles Invariably look Jto the left. Hebrew, Arabic, Hindoostanee and other ohoieht languages read from right to left. In these, as in some modern tongues, we have to begin tho book at what is to us the wrdng end. The reason of this is that the early languages wore Inscribed, not Written. A tablet of nirrble or' a brick forinod tho page. The right band ceuld, therefore, carve or impress the symbol in the natural way, and pass on. With the introduction of Wax tablets of papyrus and, in later timos, of parchment and paper, a difficulty arose, for if the hand began at the right and worked leftward, it would obliterate its own work.

Henco tho habit of writing from left to right, so that not only may tho writing be clean^ but also that it may be vlsiblo. With writing from left to right cahio also eadlng in tho sane direction, and one result of this is very curious. We have become so accustomed to move the eyes from left to right that wo instinctively look at things in that way. Close yojlr eyes in a room aud then open them. You will find, unless you mako a positive effort, that your eyes take in tho objects on tho loft hand llrst and then movo to the right. This is tho way in which we VioW a landscape or a picture. Tho painter follows the habit of the writer and works from loft t6 right to avoid "smudging" his Work, and it has been remarked that when several compositions enter into one picture, 63 in some of the nncient altar pieces, theohronological order runs from tho upper left hand cornel' to the lower right band one. —Philadelphia Press.

Oddly Colored Squirrels.

Some oddly colored squirrels are said to liavo boon taken near Belleville, Out. A black squirrel with numerous whito spots was killed by Hull Austin, and another man got a fox eolored black squirrel. Tho queerest two were black squirrels, ono with a red tail and tho other with a big whito spot ou tho breast and one ou the buck.

A cream colored blaok squirrel and a "enow whito" one, both rufous brown on tho under parts, wore killed.

Such groups of odd animals aro often noted in ccrtaln neighborhoods. In some places froak robins will be seen every yeat in another it is oddly colored quail.—Now York Sun.

Byron's Pnn.

Byron was as fond of puns as Macaulay. In ono of the poet's letters sold in London tho other day occurs this passage, "I aio living alone in tho Franciscan monastery With ono friar (a Capuchin, of course) and ono frier (a bandy legged Turkish cook)." This letter sold for $l0.

A good deed is never lost. Ho who sows courtesy reaps .friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Pleasure bastowod Upon a.grateful mind was never etorilo.—Basil.

California Oranges.

Southern California is engaged now, and will be until June 1st, in picking, packing and shipping it3 orange crop. The yield of the golden fruit is estimated at 2,800,000 boxes, about two-thirds of a full yield.

The cash yield from this ctffp will reach 15,000,000. T^ie orange industry in southern California is but fifteen years old and a capital of $33,000,000 has been invested in it. Thera are now 10,000 acres in fruit bearing groves and 80,000 more acres are planted with young trees.—New York Journal.: 7

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Whereas, 'Fhe safd board of commissioners of Vdgo dounty, state, of ItwJiama, In pursuance of the duty devolving Ufpon them by virtue of the provisions of the statute of IftdflEuia, have ordered an election to be ih^Sd as herein con templated, mow

Therefore, Notice Us here/by given to the qualified voters of HDarrraon township, Vigto county. Indiana/that by order of the said board of OdnrnmSssPoners of the county of Vigo, made at a special session of said board of ootrumassioners he4d in the month of March. 1896, did on t'he 31st day of Mardh, 1896, order such election, and that the polls shall be opened on Tuesday, the 5th day of May, 1886, at the usual places for Votikig tn said township of Harrison to take the votes of the legal voters of said towhrfh'lp upOh the siibjeat of said townahiifp's aiding In money In the Construction of the Terre Haute and Mississippi RJh'er Railway Oewupany in and through said township of Harri'siort to the amount of one-half of ono per centum of the total taxables otf sartd toWnshftp oi Harrison (Including the city of Tterre Haute) as shown by the tax djiplieaite delivered to the treasurer of Vigo county for the year of 1895, s&id aid to be made 1 ft all things lh accordance With and conformant to tihe provisions of the general assembly of the state of Indiana. "tTTO polls otf the several voting prectaCtig Of saW •towns'hip, to be opened at the Saime hour, and the elooWon to be conducted by the same officers and governed by tne same rules as are provided by law for the holdihg and oorrdruicting of state arrd Odunty ejections.

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