Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 June 1897 — Page 3

GRIDLEY'S CHOICE.

*T WAS A WISE ONE, AS SUBSEQUENT iV EVENTS PROVED.

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The lav and the Condemned Murderer Made a Combination That Became the Cause of Sheriff Hartwenter^ Destruction as an Official.

San Pete county is loeated in Utah, and Utili is the state where they sometimes shoot murderers instead of hanging them.

But, although custom supports death by the bullet, there Was a time when the territorial .laws were more liberal. They offered a condemned man a full menu of death. One sentenced to give up the ghost for a capital offense was allowed to choose between hanging, shooting and deoapitation. At least so it was written in the leather backed books. But only one man is known to have chosen the slicing process, and it is of him that this story is written.

Qridley, who bad no first name, and whose surname was a matter of convenience according to the part of the country in which he was residiag, had injudiciously killed a man who wits contracting to bring an irrigation ditch into the San Pete country and to spend dome money among the people. Previously Grid ley bad assassinated a few odds and ends of superfluous men, and little had been thought of It, but on this occasion the disappointment of the people, thus suddenly and" wickedly deprived of their ditch and the prosperity which its construction Vould bring, surmounted custom, and Gridley was arrested, and to bis intense surprise looked up, tried and oonvicted of murder. The district judge came down- one day when he had nothing better to do, and calling the oonvict Gridley beforo him told him that according to law he could select either to be made into a target, to be dropped at the end of a rope, or to be bisected in the neighborhoxl of the nook. "Well, judge," said Gridley, "if it's all the same to you, I've always kind of hankered to have my, head chopped off. It seems such a first class an bon ton way of shufflin off. Most any feller can go over into Colorado or Nevada an be tied to a beam but this here looks like a sort of exclusive thing. Choppin it is."

Everybody in the courtroom was surprised and many were eminently displeased. "The Gridley ban gin" had been talked of for two weeks and several excursions from outside oarnps had been arranged for, and it was a serious question with the reception committee whether or not anything but hanging would suit the tastes of the expected guests. Especially was James B. Hartwenter, the sheriff, disturbed by Gridley's decision. Hartwenter was a humane man, and be had been putting in several days of practicing a crew of marksmen and a gang of scaffold experts with the view of making Gridley's exit as comfortable and expeditious as possible when it oame to the day of the passing out. Hartwenter himself had no liking for the business of methodically killing men by programme, but he felt that with a lot of unknown riflemen aiming at a culprit's heart there could be no after remorse, because nobody would ever know whose bullet had killed, and to some extent the same conditions prevailed in a hanging where the cord wa cuS by a man unknown to those present. But a decapitation! There was no fashion of concealing identity in such a case—no comfortable way of believing that nobody knew just who had done the killing. And as he, the sheriff, was the official directed to perform on the slaughtering day, he felt intensely worried. He wont to Gridley in his cell. "Look here," he said. "What kind of a fool notion is this of yourn? Don't you know you'll spile your clothes an waller around in a disgustin way analogous to a chicken killed for dinner? What sort of a dignity is there to the demise of a man abbreviated by use of a botcher's cleaver? What you want to do is to git up there on a scaffold like a man with some idea of etiquette and be swung off like the Swan Creek people espect you to.''

Gridley fired up. "Who is furnishin the goods fer this here entertainment," he demanded, "me or Swan Creek? The judge passed the thing up to me, an I made my bet, an it was for the cuttin." "But, doggone it all, clon't you see I'm an interested party? I don't want to have to stand out there in the eun an chop at you like a man workin on stove wood. I ain't used to it, an, moreover, you ain't used to it, an we'll make a blamed botch of it."

Gridley leaned back independently Hnd puffed twice at bis cigai". "Jim," he said, "I voted fer you, ran I'd do most any reasonable thing for you. But look here! This matter of your desires ain't nothin to me. This is a parymount ease. I ain't mabin no kick on the killin, but bein the star boarder, so to speak, I demand my rights. Look here! Who was shot last month? Hunko Pado, a blamed Mexican that you an me wouldn't rcco'nizo ^ially. An who was hung in June? Old jJill Grason, a miserable critter without lineage nor posterity. An that's tho way it's been since I been here. Not a decent, high toned gentleman has ever been hung or 6hot. Do you think I'm goin to start it? No, sir. There's somethin renowned an blood stirrin an dignified in bein beheaded, an them's my choosins. Why, they'll telegraft about it all over the east, an I'll be notorious like tho president of the United States, an so on. It's the greatest moment of my life. 'There is a tide in the affairs of men,' you know, an this is my tide. Who remembers Hunko Pado or Grason today? No one. But fer years this camp'll talk about how Gridley stood up an took his killin like a man in a pictur,an you'll none of you fergit me."

Hartwenter was sad and gloomy.- He had no taste for his forthcoming job, and he argued and entreated Gridley to be obliging, but Gridley would not. It was the chance of his lifetime, and he did not mean to throw it away. Hartwenter offered to paint the gallows in three colors and have some flowers for distribution us souvenirs. In vain. The heartsick sheriff on the nigj^t before the day set for the execution visited Gridley for the last time with his ftoal appeal. But Gridley, growing eloquent conoerning the unique character of his impending decease, positively refused «11 proffers of rope or bullets. Hartwenter eyed him for a few minutes, and then, with a sigh, he said: "All right, Gridley. Thoy's only one thing fer me to do."

And he went out and seemingly forgot to lock the door. The Swan Creek people came near making a demonstration with a rope in connection with the sheriff when they arrived in town the next morning and found that Gridley had escaped. But wiser "counsel prevailed, and they evened it up by burying Hartwenter under an avalanche of votes at tho next election, his successful oompetitor being a redheaded butcher who had no fine feelings about decapitation or tuuoh of anything else.—Chicago Record.

THE KtTIRED BURGLAR.

tmnght Through a Contrivance Made l?Vr Another Purpose. "Why, say.-' said the retired burglar, "I got caught once in the very simplest sort of way. I stepped over a doorsill into a room one night raising my foot rasher high, as I always did, whether 1 had on rubber shoes or not, so as Motto scrape my foot on the doorsill and set it down smooth and easy inside. But the Instant I bore my weight on that foot the floor under it gave just a little bit. But it was plenty. "I don't suppose I think any quicker than electricity, but I oertainly knew what WAS coming before I heard the sound of

the bell. Still, the bell was In the next room, and, of eourse, it took a little time, some small fraotlon of a second, for the sound to get where I was. There was a broad plate set into the floor just inside the door and covered with the oarpet. Pressure on that plate connected Miae electrlo wires and set bell ringing. "Well, I didn't stand there any longer than I could help. I jumped back and started along the hall op. the way out. To get out I had to go past the door, of the room where the bell was ringing. Just as I got to it there was a man oame bouncing out of that room and turning in my direction, and he oollnred me, and we whanged and banged ardund there in the hall for awhile, knocking down more or less plaster and things, and finally I'm blest if he didn't get the bulge on me, and get a few turns of clothesline round me, that some of the folks had brought up. "Of coarse the most important thing about all this was the time it cost me, but it was Interesting Jibout the eleotricaJ apparatus. You knew, I'd been surprised, even then, to hear the bell ring in another room instead of in the same room where the plate was. I should have thought if anybody wanted a contraption of that sort in his own rpoin he'd have wanted the bell there too. But it fieems it wasn't a burglar alarm at all. They had a young son there that was a somnambulist used to get up and walk around in his sleep nights, and they didn't always hear him, and they wanted to. So they put this plant in, so that he couldn't get out of his room without ringing a bell, and they put the bell in the old man's room."—New York Sun.

LIFE IN JAPAN.

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Lafcadio Hearn's Description of qnet at Izumo. By invitation I went in the evening to a charming little banquet, at which I met some dear old friends. There were recitations of poeiiis by guests and there were danoes by dancing girls. One of the latter, whom I remembored having seen when a very small child maiko, during an official dinner given at the governor's house in the twenty-third year of Meiji, had grown up into a tall and graceful woman. She attired herself like a young warrior of old time—-a twosworded bushi, with white oloth tied round her head, sleeves bound back and skirts tuoked up to sing a national song of the war now all the rage. This was for me one of the most interesting incidents of the entertainment. The song is not one of loud triumph, but the melody expresses a peculiar something in Japanese national character that the Occident knows yet very little about. Tho air is excessively simple and must be sung in a low, slow way. But every tone La it is a tone of penetrating irony, the tone of one expressing amused contempt fer an enemy, yet careful not to seem boastful. Now it is just this vocal irony wbioh 'takes a Japanese audience by storm, provoking wild shouts and old samurai battlecries, as it did on this occasion even before the girl had finished the first four lines.

Then at my request the girl danoed the dance of Urashima. I asked her because I had seen her dance it when she was a child. This time she danoed it using a mask—tho mask of old age—deftly slipped on at the moment when Urashima looks into the box which he was told never to open. Afterward she brought me the mask to look at. I thought that its pasteboard features had* a faint, mocking resemblance to my own, and I suppose that I must havo fallen into a little reverie, for a friend laughingly handed me a wine cup with the wise remark, "Tonight we must think only of happy things." As a matter of fact, I ought to have been very happy. —Lafoadio Hearn's "A Trip to Izumo" In Atlantic.

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Education In Russia.

A few figures, taken from official sources, and referring to the first years of the present deoade, will throw considerable light on the matter of popular education in Russia. About 200,000 recruits are yearly enlisted in the army, and of these only about 50,000 can read. Among the peasants proper the percentage of illiterates rises to 95 per cent. In some parts there is only one school to each 300 villages. If Russia had the same proportion as her neighbor, Sweden, for example, she would have about 250,000 schools, while she aotuallyhas only 18,000. Again, take Russia's enormous budget of 1,000,000,000 rubles. Of this only 600,000 is devoted to popular education—that is, one-eleventh part of what is devoted to the maintenance of the imperial court, one six-hundredth part of the cost of the army, and one two-thousandth part of the whole. At about the same time G&at Britain was spending about £9,000,000 far elementary education, etc., with a population little more than A third of that of Russia. Moreover, a^out two-thirds of this paltry sum of 600,600 rubles goes in salaries of inspectors.—"In the Land of Tolstoi."

Humorous Letter Writing.

Paganini Redivivus, having seen an un^ flattering notice of a musical performance of his, wrote the following letter: "I look upon all critics who praise me as men of intelligence and worthy of the greatest respect, and I look upon those rare ones who dispraise me as having a*crewloose in their cerebral development. I consider that if the person who wrote the notice was present at the performance he is only worthy to be an inmate of a home for idiots, and if he was not present he is a mean, unmanly cur, and should gfit seven years' hard labor."

An autograph hunter, begging a well known journalist's autograph, wrote: "If you deem the request unwarranted on my part, send the refusal in your own handwriting and with your own signature that I may know it is authentic."

An Oxford undergraduate wrote to Dickens, "Sir—Seeing that you insert rhymes in your serial. I send you some."

The reply was, "Sir—We don't insert rhymes without reason."—London TitBits.

Workmen as Contractors.

A system of publio Work that has much to commend it is that of "co-operative contract," in vogue in NewZealand. Under that system a public work is divided into small sections by the engineer in charge, and an estimate is made of itaoort. Each section is then let out to a group of workmen, who do the work under a foreman of their own ohoosing, but who receives no more than* his fellows. They obtain the full profit which would otherwise go to professional contractors, and they share the payment equally.

Each worker is interested in seeing that his companions do their full amotint of work, and the sooner the job is performed the greater the return for a day's work. If any tools are needed whi*h the men do not own, tfo government supplies them at a moderate rental. The adoption of tbi3 system should provide a method whereby direct employment by the government would be consistent with a full return for the money expended, giving to the community an advantage in the economical execution of public enterprises equal to that enjoyed by private employers.—Review of Reviews.

Nautical.

lessee—Tnhfc sailors' chorus was awfmi What was the matter? Stage Manager—The tars couldn't get the right pitch.—i»ick Me Up.

The oleander has a deadly poison la its leaves and flowers, and should not be where young children are. It is too dangerous, beautiful though it is.

Trolley cars are now running in ctreots of Cairo,

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BIG LENSES PLACED.,

LARGEST TELESCOPE IN THE WORLD NOW FULLY EQUIPPED.

The Great Yerkes Instrument Is Now,In Perfect Adjustment at Iake Genera, Wis It Will Be Presented to the rji-, yersity of Chicago in July. it

In a swathing of ootton, curled hair, tissue paper and flannel, the lenses for the great Yerkes telescope at Williams? bay, Lake Geneva, Wis., arrived in Chicago one morning recently. The big crystals came In a special Wagner car.jmd guaifd, consisting of Alvan G. Clark, the maker, and a corps of assistants, took tnrns watch-' ing that so harm came to the precipus, freight.

The lenses went from Boston over the Lake Shore road, and reached the Van Buren street depot at 7:35 o'clock. Immediately an engine was attached to the car and it was taken over the St. Charles. Air Line tracks to the Northwestern railroad and went on the-way to Lake Geneva station, the nearest station to the observatory. On the cor with the lenses was George C. Walker, trustee of the University of Chicago, and several officials of the railroad company, for the property is of great value and had been guaranteed to be delivered in safety. At Lake Geneva station a specially constructed wagon had been arranged fer to haul the glasses over the six miles of road to their journey's end.

Professor Clark went along to put the lenses in place and see that all is right before returning home. Speaking of bis work in making tfce'crystals, he said^" "These lenses are for the largest astronomical telescope in the world.. The order for their construction was given nearly eight years ago by Charles T. Yerkes, who not only presents them to the University of Chicago, but has built the observatory and placed in it the apparatus connected with it. The prinolpal lens is 41M inches in diameter and weighs 305 pounds. The exposed surface when in place will be 40 inches in diameter, 1 inches being taken up by the casing. It is double convex, 2% inches thick at the center and three-fourths of an inch at the edge. The inner lens is of flint glass, concave form, inches thick at the tienter and 3 inches at the case. It weighs 810 pounds. The focus is 60 feet. "The glass out of which th.ese lenBfes were formed was cast in a solid block at the great factory in Mantois, France. It was made in 1890, but finishing work was not begun on it until two years later. "For five years the process of forming and testing the lenses has been going on. The work has been done by a small force of men, but it was constant, requiring the utmost patience and oare. The deviation of the breadth of a strand of a spider's web would be fatal to the purposes of the glass. The crystal had first to be examined to see if it was without flaw, and, after this, it went to the grinding roofs. For two years sand, fino steel and emery were used, then the finest jewelers' rouge and beeswax for another year or more. All this time tests were made to detect any inequalities. During the last stages the lenses were set in a 60 foot tube, so I know that the objeot glass and its mate are perfect."

The lenses are worth $65,000 and are insured up to full value. The telescope was ready for use by the astronomers of the observatory on the day following the arrival of the lenses. A special train carried the trustees of the University of Chicago, President Harper, members of the faculty and a number of invited guests to inspect tl^e great instrument and its powers. The formal presentation by Mr. Yerkes Will take place at the convocation in July.

Among the advantages which may be^ expeoted to accrue to soience from the completion of this telescope will be better facilities for photographing son spots. It is better adapted for investigations of this character than any other existing instrument, not only on account of its large aperture^ but particularly on account of its great focal length. The image of the sun at the focus of the telesoope is nearly 7 inches in diameter and is therefore particularly well adapted for work on the details of the sun's surface.—Chicago TimesHerald.

TO "ENTRAP A PEkfUME.»

A Game, flayed »t Cannes, Which Ought to Interest Lovers of Flowers. j'* Learn a lesson from the south of France. In the flower season at Cannes plates of glass are thinly covered with clarified,.inodorous fat. Upon or under this fnt He flowers are placed, and the power this substance has to absorb and retain perfume's is astonishing. On these sheets of glass the most delicate odors are thus fixed tifmost as securely as on the collodion prepared plates the most delicate pictures a^e retained.

In this way the jessamine, the violet, the tuberose and orange perfumes travel across France, and arrive here as pure as the day they wore given forth from the flowers themselves. The emancipation of the odor from its imprisonment is very simple. The fat, cut into small cubps, is placed in spirits of wino, and the delicate essence immediately deserts the coarse fat for the more spiritual solvent.

M. Piesse, in his interesting work on perfumery, says that ''while cultivators of gardens spend thousands for the gratification of the eye, tbey altogether neglect the nose. Why should we not grow flowel-s for their odors a» well as for their colors?" And wo may add, the ladies may utilize some of our own waste garden perfumes very easily and with pecuniary advantage to themselves. Heliotrope, the lily of tho valley, honeysuckle, myrtle, clove pink and wallflower perfumes, such as we get in the shops, are made up odors, ounninglv contrived from other flowers.

Yet they may be made pure with a little trouble. "I want heliotrope pomade," Bays M. Piesse, in despair. "I would buy any amount that I could get." And tho way to get it is very simple. If there is a glue pot in the housoand it happens to be clean, fill it with clarified fat, set it near the hothouse fire, or any other fire, just to make the fat liquid, and throw in as many heliotrope flowers as possible let them remain for 24 hours, strain off the fat and add fresh ones repeat this process for a week and the fat will have become a pomade a la heliotrope. The same process may be gone through with with all the other flowers mentioned. A lady may in this manner make her own perfume, and we mny add, in the words of M. Piesse, "one that she cannot obtain for love or money at tho perfumer's."—New York Herald.

THE FIRST BALLOON.

How the Wonderful Airship Came to Be Invented. ,iV The word balloon means"aMarge ball." To Montgolfier of Annonny, France, the? invention of the balloon is credited. It Is' sold that he was led to turn his attention to balloon making from the following incident:

A French laundress, wishing to dry a petticoat quickly, placed it on a basket work frame over a stove. To prevent tho heat from escaping by the opening at the top of the petticoat she drew the belt strings closely together and tied them. Gradually the garment dried and became lighter, and as the stove continued to give out hhnt and rarefy the air concentrated under the basket work frame, the petticoat began to move, and Anally rcto in the air.

This so astonished the laundress that she ran to her neighbors and asked them to come and witness the strange sight. Montgolfl«rwas among those that came in. The petticoat suspended iji midair sugaartag aawatar things up ajju, &nd La m-

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turned hams with "something to think about." He at once began studying works on different kinds of atmosphere, and the invention of the balloon was fcbe result.

The first publio ascent by the Montgo]Her balloon was. made Jnne 6, 1788. It was a spherical bag, consisting of pieces of linen buttoned together, suspended from cross poles. Afire was kindled under it, and the flames were fed with bundles of chopped straw. The loose bag filled out, assumed a graceful form, and in a short time was completely distended. At a given Bignal the stays were slipped and the balloon instantly ascended. Its velocity accelerated until it reached somo height then became uniforpi and carried it to nn elevation of more than a mile. For ten minutes it remained suspended, then fell gently in a vineyard nearly two miles dis tant from the place of its ascension.

The first adventurers to make an ascent in a bftlloon were M. Pllatre de Rozier and the Marquis L'Arlandes. In the basket of a balloon they, on Nov. 21, 1783, rose to a height of about 3,000 feet.—Philadelphia Times.|^#te"~

WESLEY'S BAREFOOT SERMON.

The BVritnder of Methodism Rebnked Vanity While Teaching Physiology. A trifle more than 160 years sinoe John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, organized a Sunday school in the town of SaTg&DAh. The rules if that Sunday school were different from those that prevail now adays. The children were compelled to attend excepting they were ill. A lack of flne clothing was no excuse, and so it happened that many of the boys and girls presented, themselves in their classes without shoes or stockings.

The~ colonists were, many of them, too poor to buy. shoes, or even much clothing of any kigd. But the climate in Georgia is mild and it is no hardship to go scantily clad.

Human nature, however, as it showed itself in John Wesley's Sunday school was the same qjp it is now. The children who could afford shoes fell into the habit of saying disagreeable things to the barefooted boys and girls. When Mr. Wesley heard of this from the parents of the children whose feet were bare and whose pride was sensitive, he pondered for awhile as to what course it would be wisest to pursue. First he/thought he ought to insist on all the children coming to the Sunday school barefooted.

Then he considered leoturing the offenders soundly on the sin of vanity. He did neither, but the next Sunday what was the surprise of teachers and pupils to see Preacher Wesley walk softly in with bare, clean, white feet!

One can fancy that those who wore shoes drew their feet far back under the benches, and the barefooted ones, conscious of being in good company, sat very straight and looked satisfied and happy.

In the course of the session Mr. Wesley took occasion to speak of the fearfully and wonderfully made human body, and, placing his foot on a convenient chair, he gave a list Of the bones, tendons and joints, with mtich other anatomical, knowledge. He told the school that no human being could possibly make a piece of machinery as marvelous as the human foot..

He oalled attention to the clumsiness and ugliness of 'shoes and stockings, as compared with the natural foot, with its white and pink coloring, the blue veins showing through, and each toe proteoted by a beautiful, transparent shell.

Even the tan on the feet of children or grown pe6ple who ran barefooted all the time spoke of the goodness and kindness of the Creator. This tan was made by the great sun, and tfce soft, odorous win'!*?.

The school thought this little lecture very interesting, and it had a much better effect than a scolding for the folly of vanity. It may be supposed, too, that later in life these boys and girls, when finding themselves at a disadvantage, tried to find out if there were not some compensation, even in what seemed to be real misfortunes.—Chicago Inter Ocean.

A Poor Shot.

"No, I don't obarge it to living in a flat," admitted Flummy slowly to the friends with whom he was enjoying an evening just a bit convivial. "I guess I'm more to blame than any one else. "There's a man rooming just over me ^hat blows a piccolo. If he had any regular hours for turning the pieroing musio ioos6, I might adjust myself to the situation. But he hasn't. He'll play at sunrise and at varying intervals he'll play till the next sunrise. No matter what hour of the night an Inspiration, or an imp, seizes him, he'll jump out of bed and cut loose. |le has a pet cat that has his disposition. It doesn't pity the piccolo, but it is the busiest nocturnal yawper you ever heard. "The other night he waked me by blowing to beat a brass band, aiyi at the same time his cat was on the floor of my flat giving a concert. Here was my chance for $weet revenge, for he thinks as much of jbhat cat as of himself. I seized a small dumbbell, stole stealthily intq the hall and |et drive With all my might in the direction of the feline voice. There was a yell of pain, followed by a series of yells that proclaimed 'burglars, murder,' and the pressing need of 'help.' "I shot for my room, but some one clicked the electric light just as I entered, and soon I was undergoing an investigation, with all the occupants of the flat asking questions. The man wounded in the shin by the dumbbell was a new tenant and a friend of the piccolo fiend. After a long and heated discussion I settled for $10. Meantime the cat had invaded my room and killed my pet canary,

'Practice For the Doctor.

iha tion is made. To the young doctors practicing In military stations this regulation ia therefore of incalculable advantage.—Pearson's Weekly*

One Minute In Jail.

In the'dircuit court of Arkansas recently State tSenator R. D. McMullin,who atr tempted to murder Colonel J. N. Smithee on qccount of articles published in The Gazette, of which Smithee is the editor, criticising the senator's course in the legislature, entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with aggravate! assault., Senator McMullin was sentenced to paya fine of $100 and serve one minute in jail.

Within two yean three mtfn have committed suicide in Chicago because of unrequited love for a certain Drettsv tHH of that city.

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PAVING OP STREETS.

ASPHALT WILL BE LAID ON OHIO BEGINNING NEXT MONDAY.

Grading: or North Fifth Will I'robably Befin This Morning—Some Delay at the Asphalt Plant.

By Wednesday at sunset the concrete will have all been la»d on Ohio street. The laying of the asphalt might have been begun a few days ago but for some delay that is not explained. There is understood to have been an interruption of plans at the asphalt plans of the company. However, the necessary material will be on hand not later than next Monday, when the work of putting on :ho smooiih white surface wili begin. It will be pushed with ail possible rapidity and the completed street will be opened to traffic within ten days or two weeks aircr Monday.

There is much favorable comment on the appearance of the bri-ck gutter. It will add a certain attractiveness to the street. Sonic people have feared that possibly the brick would sink and break the level of the pavement. It has also been thought that tho brick would not adhere closely to the asphalt and the edges would be broken off and liQlas would result. Foreman Bailleus of the concrete gang, states that nothing of the sort will take place. He says the brick gutter is no longer an expeiiineut that it has been tested in a number of cities ani found entirely satisfactory. Jt is claimed to be impossible for the brick to sink below the surface of the asphalt. The same depth of concrete is under both materials. The concrete becomes as hard as stone aid there is no give to it. Under the brick is laid a bed of sand, which resting upon the concrete, makes an even and ehduring foundation. Afte" the brick is laid a kind of a pitch .:s poured over it. This pitch runs into the crevices and the whole becomes a solid mass.

Foreman Bailleus says that in some cities where the brick gutter is used it is only a foot wide. This will surprise many persons who are of the opinion that the gutter on Ohio street is too narrow notwithstanding that it is three feet wide. The purpose of the brick is to furnish a more substantial basis for the feet of pawing horses than would be furnished by asphalt. Water ruus in the gutters and horses standing in it are inclined to paw. The moisture tends to soften the asphalt and then the digging of sharp shoes results in holes, lr. is true that three feet of brick is not sufficient width to furnish a footing for two horses standing side by side. But it is also true that the water in the gutter does not dampen tho pavement more than three feet from the curb under ordinary circumstances.

Perhaps the work of grading North Fifth will begin this.morning. Street pavers work in three separate gangs. The excavation and grading are done by the .grade gang. Then follows the concrete gang and Anally the asphalt gang. The graders should have had considerable work done on North Fifth. There seems to have been somo delay at the city building. As it is the concrete gang now working on Ohio street will have nothing to do for a time after finishing the work upon which they are now engaged! It is improbable that they will do anything on North Fifth this week.

It Was a !uel to the Death. Sweet Home, Tex., May 30.—The neighborhood was assembled at Salem Church, eight miles from here, yesterday in observance of Decoration Day. Two young men, Will Lewis and Wit Bosworth, were among the number. Bad blood existed between them, too much talking being the cause. They walked «.way from the crowd together and stopped after going some distance, np-

"I don't claim that. I was blameless, but [pearing to talk the matter over very calmly.

I argued that some sleep is essential, and 11 One turned as if to leave, when the other moved."—Detroit Free Press. dtew a revolver. The other wheeled and both fired about the same instant and con-

A society has recently been formed, all the members of which pledge themselves to bequeath their dead bodies to the medical faculty in order that soience and thereby humanity may be benefited.

Most wise people will no doubt regard this »8 a highly desirable arrangement, but the great majority will look upon it as uncanny and opposed to the common sentiment. in all our military stations, however, sii'ch ns Gitiraltar, Malta, etc., a post mortem examination is held in every case of death among the soldiers, except when it results from drowning, in which case, there can be no possible doubt.

tinued until their revolvers were empty. Both were dead when their friends got to them. Every bullet fired by each took effect in his opponent. Lewis was 3hot three times through the body and once through the arm. Bosworth was hit twice in the head, twice in the body and once in the leg.

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^This gives the doctors plenty of practice, Booklet and sample mailed free. Address and probahly demonstrates many inis- Sterling Remedy Co., Ctiosgo or Nsw York, takes of diagnosis. Very often, in cases of illness among ordinary people, which haro resulted In death, it may be presumed that a wrong diagnosis has been made and an unsuitable treatment has consequently

Deep-Rootal C'on*pir:*cy Against the King London, May 31.—The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail says today: From a Russian source comes news of a conspiracy

followed, the doctor never after knowing against King George of Greece far more of h)B error, bus there can be no chance of such Ignorance when a post mortem exam-

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deeply rooted than was supposed. There is indutiablc evidence cha: Premier Ralli end his colleagues in. the cabir.et are gravely Mrs. Hill says there was no money ir. fh®

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implicated in a plot to dynasty. The Kohlnisehe Zeitung"says*{hat Greece will be compelled to pay a large indemnity to reduce her army to 20,000 men and to give up her fleet. •,«

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The Greatest Exhibition of Trained Pachy-s derm3 in the World. herd of twenty-four elephants Is rarely^ encountered by hunters and we are certain no such stupendous herd of them was cver^ exhibited in any part of the world before, which are more than all the other shows ia -fc America own or control. But that number of these beasts will positively be here with the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on'"' Earth on Thursday, June 10th. What make* •the exhibit equally as remarkable, all of these huge brutes are trained, and supa—-7 rately and together perform many wonderful and curious tricks. The Barnum Bailey three herds of elephants are almmthf as famous as the show itself, for thev are^f known aa the most sagacious, intelligent and wise, and coaeequsntly ths best trained^ aivimais of their kind ir. th« world. This triple herd of elephants wl'.l be seen In tha «j nt-w parade oc the streets, too, wither O with the grand team of forty harsoe, ia the 1 new pageant called th® Return of Coiurnbus to Barcelona. In (he same tout with them Is tho glantras gorilla—called Johanna—and tho big blua-nosed mandrill, th® I only two creatures of their kind in saptlv-: Xity in the world, and fifteen camels, ai?o t' more than all the other shows In America have combined. Besides the^e there is the only eland, only addis, only niger-antelope. only wart hog, only rhinocerous, only fcnlrleas mare, three-nosed a.nd three-horaed .steer, dwarf zebra, and giant giraffe in the country, and fifty cages of wild »jid trained •wild beasts, with scores of leash animals, such as alpacas, llamas, guanaco*, bisons, buffalos, sacred Indian animals, etc.. etc.

Altogether the zoological exhibition of the*. Barnum & Bailey Show is not only unsurpassed by any zoological garden in t%« world, but really contains more rare ar.4 curious quadrupeds, mammals, and amphlh- f* ious creatures than any two gardens any- 1 where.

A tremendous circus in three rings, on two stages, a racing track with marvelous display of champion aerialists and the great new display of curious people, such aa the giant, dwarf, Orissa twins, and others are a few of the wonders and attractions. And all of them come here, with nothing omitted or curtailed, on four trains, or sixty a railroad cars.

Coflfe« Cream.

A coffee cream that is of the iuange species 1s an acceptable variety to that form of dessert. To a quart of milk add eight or ton lumps of sugar and let it come to a boll. Beat tho Whites and yolk* of four egga together and pour over them the hot milk, stirring nil of the time oonstantly. Add a half pint clear, strong coffee and strain into a mold. Cover and steam about 20 minutes in a saucepan or a steamer partly filled with boiling water. When done, It should cool perfectly before being turned out and served with whipped cream. To make the requisite stiffness cartain a quarter of a box of gelatin dissolved in two tablespoon fills of cold write* may be added to the milk and sugar, but the cream should become firm without thi* and Is more delicate when It is omitted.

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Not instantaneously, it is true, bun in shop: space of time, persons of a bilious habit are saved from the tortures which a disordered liver is capebie of inflicting by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,an anti-bilious medicine and aperient of the first ran!:. The pains in the right side and through the right shoulder blade, the sick headache, nausea, constipation and saifron hue of the skin, are entirely removed by this estimable restorative of tone to the organs of secretion and indigestion.

Govermnent rookery.

All crockery ware and glnas furnished to the government must, be severely tested. One test consists in boiling tho ware from 20 to 15 minutes, or v.util it is us hot an boiling water can ruske it. It is then instantly removed and pluttg^d into water r.s near the freezing point tin po«ilbJ.e be liquid. No crazing or crarks riun show after the ijpt. The tumblera are pv:» into water at lflii. 4 degrees for one minute. They are t-hpn dropped into water at *£.44 degrees F. If they show the le&sfc imperfection under this test, they will not bo accer.'tcd.—New York Ledger.

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"Warron, Co., May 30.—Isaac J. Hill, a farmer living at Farmington, was murdered last night by burglars. Hill liv- with Y.s aged mother. The robbers brcke lu'.o ih« house and after binding and otherwise tnaltreating the old woman they went up s:air«, where. Hill slept. They first c!ubbt»4 fclm over the head and then shot Liin. There were evidences in the house this laor&tag of a terrible struggle, which goes to show, that Hill made a desperate reslstacre. So far as known the robbers got no:h-ng.