Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 14, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 February 1883 — Page 3

A Rhodb Island Italian sold his wife to a foUow-couiitryinan for $57 and then departed for his native clime. When the purchaser, armed with the bill of sale, went to take possession, the woman, who had not before heard of the transaction, refused to recognize a new lord and maa- ... t6r, and ordered Mm ont of her presence. Failing to find any law to aid in enforcing his claim, the unfortun ate son o f Italy mourns for his $57, and mutters maledictions on a country said to be free.

The latest bulletin issued by the Census Bureau shows the capital invested,the number of hands employed, amount of wages paid, and value of products for all the establishments of manufacturing industry, gas excepted, in all the States and Territories. In the whole United States there are 253,852 manufacturingestablishments, having a capital of $2,790,272,606. In wages there is paid $947,$3,795, pro ducing in value of materials $3,396,832,540, and in value of product $5,350,579,191. Indiana has 11,197 establishments, with an invested capital of $65,742,962, and pays out $21,960,88S in wages.

The Irish-born members of the next House of Representatives are twenty-one in number, while' the German born are but seven, although the German born population of the United States considerably exceeds the Irish born. Of the twenty Irish members four are from Mis

souri ; New Jersey and Pennsylvania have three each ; New York and Indiana two each ; and Massachusetts, Illinois, Iowa,; Kansas, Nevada and California, one each. The seven Germans are credited one each to New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, and two each to Michigan and Wisconsin. The only State, .Che majority of whose delegation is f brefzn born is New Jersey.

Some light is thrown upon election

methods in Queensland by the following incident which lately- occurred : The election was a close one, and the sugar planters were doing their utmost to return their candidate, who was opposed by a business man. "D nyon, sir," cried an excited planter to a store-keeper, who was bold enough to support the antiplanter candidate, "didn,t I bring my niggers to your store, and let you charge them what you like for your rubbish? And now you vote against us!" "And d n you, sir," retorted the unabashed storekeeper, "and what if vou did? iidnJt

I pay you 25 per cent for doing it?" This was manifestly not the retort courteous, but it was effective, ,.,

Snake statistics are always delightful Between 150,000 and 200,000 people, besides many domestic animals, have been destroyed by snakebites in India. From

1869 to 1870 13,416 persons died from snake-bites in over not more than onehali; the area of British India. In 1880 from this cause the general statistics showed that the mortality was 19,080. In 1881 it was 18,610, with with 2,032 cattle. In 1SS0 the Indian Government paid for thekilling of 232,776 snakes, and in 1861 for 334.96S snakes. So with 49,292 more

snakes killed, the mortality had diminished by some 450 -lives. The total destruction of venemous snakes in India is a question of perseverance and expenditure of money. In India for every 10,916 snakes destroyed one human

being's life is saved.

the death, recently, of Paul Gustavo Dore removes from the world of art one of its finest and strnnmsf, renrreAnf nti-ros

Dore was in his style of art what Nast is in caricature without a peer. His school was his own, and a glance is sufficient to unerringly single out his works from all others. Original in conception, powerful in concentrated strength and strikingly

appressive in effect, Pore's sketches and paintings forma school of their own. His great power laid in his conception d poetic thought, which he was so able to graphically portray. His illustrations of Dante and of the Bible are unequaled and probably will never be surpassed. As an artist in oil he was equally eminent, and his "Christ Leaving the Preetorinm," must take high rank among the best artistic productions of any age.

There is a man named William Salisbury living in East Rockport, a suburb of Cleveland, who insists that during a trance he paid a visit to Heaven. He describes it as an improved earth, divided mto planes, of which he visited seven. He describes the people and the face of the land in all details. He insists that he saw John Quiney Adams on the fourth plane, George Washington, Voltaire, and Lord Bacon in the fifth, Dr. Chalmers, Marie Stuart, and Queen Elizabeth in the sixth, and other great men in the various planes. He denies his affinity to

spiritualism, and says he passed six days

ana seven nights in the journey. He was in a trance of some kind during the time and his case baffled the physicians. He has lived there for the last sevenWn

years. He is 65 years of age and our cor. respondent further says, is of good repute.

... Caeii Hoffman, the proprietor of the Palm Garden, New York, became financially embarrassed. To strengthen his affairs he determined to marry a wealthy young lady. He borrowed 300 from Carlotta Praya, a soprano who sang in his garden, and with this money bought a diamond ring and other costly presents for his intended. To his delight his proposal of marriage was accepted, but before the knot was tied he made the appalling discovery that the young woman was not the wealthy heiress he had taken her to be, but that it was another young woman of the same name who had the coveted property. This was too much for Mr. Hoflman, and he came to the conclusion that it was time for disappearing. He accordingly disappeared, and has not since been seen, leaving behind him debts amounting to $8,000. Miss Praya's lawyer has attached the Palm Garden, upon which, however, are a number of secured mortgages., .... ...

pine woods to be inexhaustible in order to quiet objections to a tax that encourages their destruction, and also in order to keep down the price of the piuo lauds their clients desire to buy. They vote for every other swindling tax so as to got votes for theirs. Unless something is done to save our forests they will disappear like the salmon that were once fouud in exhaustible quantities in the Hudson river. -. - -

The reappearance of the Malidi or False Prophet and his fresh victories over the Egyptians have called attention again to that mysterious and little-known region in Central Africa, the Soudan, which is destined at no distant period to play an important part in the commercial transactions of the world. It is now the only remaining large and fertile area of the world's surface which has not been developed. It is in one sense isolated from the rest of Africa, as it is surrounded on three sides by deserts, which France is now trying to pierce with railroads from one direction so that she may gain access to its wealth. It extends over an area of territory 1,640 miles in length, with an average breadth of not less than 660 miles, and it is estimated exceeds any of the four great Riugdoms of Europe taken together except Russia. Seven-eighths of its population are slaves, and it is this system of slavery that has materially retarded the progress of the country. It possesses great mineral wealth, vast areas of rich pasturage, a very fertile soil, and gold and ivory aro among its most valuable products. Explorers, among them De Brazza and Stanley, have traversed some parts of it and have furnished glowing accounts of its wealth. The English Government has long had an eye upon it, but the French have been the most alert in trying to reach it by railroads across the Great Desert. It cannot be long before this great country will be opened up to trade and commerce. .

LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

Two bills were introduced in the House Tuesday to repeal the State Board of Health law. .... Eepresentative McClelland, of Lawrence county, says he is going to introduce a bill to repeal the Acts of the Apostles. Twenty-four practicing physicians of Marion county have petitioned the Legislature to repeal the Board of Health act. The Committee on Prisons have been granted by the House a four days1 leave of absence to visit the Prison South. They will be gone from Tuesday, the 30th, till Saturday. ,. . Five House bills have reached the Senate, of which four have passed and been approved by 1 he Governor. Nine Senate bills have reached the House, of which two have passed. Senator Fletcher's bOl making the penalty castration for rape has excited general attention, and the indorsement of hundreds of mothers comes in the shape of letters to the author of the bill, urging its passage. Over 40,000 petitions for the submission of the prohibitory amendment at a special election have already been received from every county in the State, and have been pus into the House and Senate. Only eighty-seven counties petitioned two years ago, but this time the whole ninety-two have already been heard from. Thus far Senator Foulke has introduced the largest number of bills of any member of his branch of the Legislature, having his name attached to ten new propositions. Senators Hill, Hoover, Hostetter, Howard and Mcintosh have not yet introduced a bill. The number of Senate bills on file up to the end of last week was 171. Representative Brazelton, of Jennings county, has introduced a bill providing for the re-locating of county seats. It provides that ten per cent of the votes of a county having petitioned the County Commissioners they shall call a special election in the county, and sixty-five per cent favoring the proposed relocation the same shall be fully legal. -Mr. Williams, of Knox, this morning has introduced a bill defining the offense of compelling or attempting to compel a person to marry and fixing a penalty therefore. The object of the bill is to relieve Charles Wetzell, an attorney of Vin eennes from the prosecution of. Annie Stewart, accounts of which have heretofore appeared in print: A commercial traveler has memorialized the Senate to pass a law protecting travelers from the ravages of bed bugs, and making it a penal offense for hotel and boarding houses to idace visitors in beds so affected. The memorial was introduced by Senator Brown, 'who, amidst laughter, moved that it be referred to the Senator from Crawford (Mr. Benz, a hotel keeper). It was so referred. Evansville wants the asylum for the incurably insane, and is puitiug on her sweetest smiles to secure, ic. To bettor convince members of the Legislature of the advantages of that city, the citizens nvited the Assembly to visit them as a body. The invitation .. as accepted last Saturday, when a special train conveyed them to Evansville. Upon their arrival there they were driven around the city to different points of interest and afterwards banqueted, and altogether receive special attention. They reported a jolly time. The return train left for Indianapolis at 12:3Up.m.,Sunday Prominent Democrats who arc opposed to the fee and salary bill now before the legislature, are preparing a bill, which it is understood, will meet with hearty democratic support in bbth houses and which will, as one of the orignators said, "shelve the present top-lofty bill s and go through with a rush. The salient feature is the appointment by the Governor of fourteen commissioners, one from each congressional district and ouo

for the State at large, equally divided as

! to polities who are to agree unon an eoui-

xmub country ournea m iocv, i4U,o37,- table basis for the remuneration of

4-S9ccrds of wood for fuel. This was

valued at $306,950,000, and was consumed by 32375,074 persons. Not less than 14, 000,000 of this fuel was used in manufacturing gold, silver, brick and salt, and in running railroad locomotives. In ad

dition, the value of thecharcoal consum- I

ed in refining and the iron manufactures was $5,2767736. All this, and the vast amount of pine, redwood, walnut, and other industrial lumber that is cut every year, is taken in a way that destroys the forests once for all. It is our forests that should be'protected, not the reckless lumbermen who are destroying them. The lumber attorneys in the Senate are playing a double game. They declare the

county officers, so graded as to operate fairly in both small and large counties. Senator Graham, Tuesday, introduced an important bill which provides that if a county officer receives or demands any fee to which he is not by law entitled,any

! citizen of a county may file a complaint

against such officer, and if he be found guilty he shall be removed from office and his place filled by appointment of the. Board of Commissioners. The action is to be brought before the Judge of the Circuit Court, who shall hold a regular judicial investigation, and if the charge is sustained he shall not only declare the offender ineligible to the office,, but ho shall give judgment against hira for $100

for the complaining witness. No change of venue is to be allowed The substitute offered by Senator Henry for the road law introduced by Senator Beii7, S. B. No. 6, and ordered printed, it bMievod to meet the objections made b

1 the people to the present lav,. It does; j away with superintendents and roadmas-

tevs. It makes the township trustee exofficio superintendent of all the highways in his township. He is required to divide the township into road districts of not less than six square miles. For each of these districts there shall be elected a supervisor, who shall be under the supervision and direetiou of the trustee. The provisions of the old supervisors' road law are substantially followed, requiring citizens to work out their poll tax in the district. The property tax for road purposes is to be paid to the trustee, nd he causes the same to be expended in the township by su pervisors. Tax-payers may work out their tax by applying to the trustee for that privilege, and by performing such work under his direction at usual prices. A Gotham Girl's Fate. 'From tin' Baltimore American. Fifteen years ago the daughter of a rich and prosperous man, living in fine style on Fifth avenue, X. Y., went out in a carriage, ostensibly on a shopping expedition. At Stewart's store she left the carriage, and her coaehman waited for over two hours, until finally, becoming anxious, h made inquiries. The young lady had disappeared, and though a great deal of money was spent, and much effort made to di?cover her, there was no trace. Ten years passed, and the detective, who had worked on the "case very faithfully and anxiously, rose by degrees to the rank of police captain. One cold night, just after Christmas, four or five of his oflieers entered the station with eight or ten intoxicated women in their custody, two were crying over their arrest and the prospect of a prison ; others were fierce in their oaths at the interference of the police with their orgie, while others again were sulky. Standing a little apart from the group of prisoners the captain noticed a tall woman of about thirty, and ha saw that she had onco been beautiful, though now her face was disfigured by a bruise on the cheek and a black welt under the eye. There was, however, an air of refinement about the woman that attracted the police captain, and he oyed her curiously while the seargent recorded the names of the prisoners: Suddenly the woman beckoned to him. "Captain, do you know me ?" was her question. "No." "Didn't you once try to find Miss Grace T "Yes." "Well, I'm her. I ran away just out of pure deviltry, and I've had my full share of it." "Good heavens I Why did you do it?" 'Oh, I don't know. The notion came into my head, and I obeyed the impulse," "And where have you been all this time ?" "Eight here in the ward, under your very nose. You never suspected me, though I saw you often enough." "And have you not repented of the step ?" "Bepeuted !" and the word thrilled in the captain's ear like the wail of a lost soul. "Eepented? Oh, God, Yes ! But 1 was too late." It's never too lata" "Yes, it is. But it is not too late to die !" And before the captain could prevent, she had drawn a -small pistol and shot herself. The poor creature lived for two days, and when she died it was in the arms of her father. The mother had died a few years before of grief. This is a true story, and shows how much truer real life is than fiction.

DINNA CHIDE.

nv m tnaAiuwE. kanoster. AH! liimia cl-iflu Oip mithfr! Yo uiiiy na hw hrr Lanjfi I !?r voice, ataim your baby tost, Saosaftly u'roomdtho fliing; Hlio ihocht c ne'er n harden. She greeted ye vtV joy, An heart an' hnntl hi onrin1 yo Foun atill their dear employ. Her haif ha lost its eunmn If fltremblin1 now ami slow. But her heart is leal an' lov'uf As it was ling aico! An' ihoujjh "ier etrnjth may wither An faint ler imlses beat. Nnno will hi like i he author, 9 Sue stead f ist, trao an' sweetd Ye maun revere the mitlier, Feeble an' auld an gray; The shinin1 ones are he! pin' her Adiion her evenin1 way ! Her bairns vHnwrnl her yonder. Her jndo inon jiano before; She wearies--can ye wonder? To win to dial brow shore! Aif dinna chide the wither! O Hp. be slow to say A word to ch ide the pent le heart. Wha watch chI your childhood's day, Ay, rin to heed the tender voice Wha crooned t ie cradle Bang; An dinna chide the mitlier, sin, Yo may na me hcrlane!

THE LEAF OF GERANIUM.

Then He Continued, Detroit Five Pros s. Several men were seated in a Detroit drug store the other day with their feet on the stove and a cigar in each mouth, when a boy looked in and yelled out: "Some of you had a horse hitched out here!"

"I believe I did," quietly returned one

of the sitters. "Well, he's gone." "Did he walk off?" "No, a runaway horse came along and upset the cutter and frightened him." "And did he kick himself clear of the gutter?" "Yes." "I Blip posed he would. How did he start off?" "On a dead run." "Which way?" ' "Up Woodward avenue." "Did he turn in at Montcalm street?" "I guess he did." "Well he's probably gone home aud will be round there somewhere when I go up. Bub, you might draw the cutter to some shop and tell 'em to fix it, and here's a quarter for you." The boy went out to pick np the kindlings and invent a way to draw a cutter half a mile on one runner, and the sitter relighted his cigar, got a new brace for his feet-, and said: "As I was saying, every sign indicates that this is to bo a year of great conrlagations. It sometimes seems as if great calamities moved in waves through the world."

Will Alcohol Cure Catarrh? Kw York Sun. Rev. William H. Bergl'els, of Newark, thinks he has discovered a simple and certain cure for catarrh, which has long baffled medical science. 'Mr. Bergfels was pator of the Baptist Church at Lyon's farm, but in 1872 he was compelled to give up preaching on account of a severe catarrhal affection. He is a member of the Newark Nickel Plating Company, and one evening after using, in his business, a liquor composed of alcohol, he found that his disease was not so bad. Pie then put alcohol, into an inhaler and breathed the vapor arising

from it He did this for a month, night j and morning and was greatly relieved of j

the catarrhal trouble. A few months later he was cured and he is now again pastor of the Lyon Farm church. His family find that the vapor from alcohol also prevents colds. Mr. Bergfels desires to have the cause of his cure made knowtf. Wages in India. Men in the India cotton mills get as much as seven shillings a week. Women can earn about two-thirds as much, while children do not make more than about 50 cents a weak, and yet these wages are bout t wice those paid to farm labor. Keep your sweet potatoes as near an even temperature as. possible.

It is strange, when we come to think about it, on what small cogs and pi vols the wheels of fate run, and what a slight jar will do toward changing the whole machinery, and set it to running in an entirely different direction. It was a geranium leaf that altered the whole course of my life. But for the trivial leaf picked by a yor.ng gir! in a thoughtless mood I should not have been sitting here to-day in this pleasanl dining-room, ' where the sun comes in through the vine wreathed windows and falls upon the geranium pots inside; and this little girl would not be upon my knee, nor yonder red-cheeked maiden on tho veranda with young Smithers; and neither would that very handsome matron who just passed into the parlor have been in her present situation. If you will listen an hour or so I will tell you my story. It was just twenty years ago this summer that I married Carrie Dean. She was 21 and I was 27 both old enough to know what we meant and what we were about at least I was, but Carrie was such a coquette that I used to think she had no mind of her own. Oh, but she was lovely! All rose-eol-

ored and white, and brown -tressed, and pearly teeth, with the roundest, plumpest figure, and as graceful as a fairy in j

every movement, and with beautiful, shapely hands that were a constant delight to the eyes. I was just home from college, and she was on a visit to my stepmother, her aunt, and my half sister Lilla, her cousin. I had seen a good many girls in my seven years at college, and some of the bt lies of the land; but 1 had never yet had my heart stirred by any woman's eyes as Carrie Dean's stirred it when my eyes met hers in greeting, and the touch of her soft fingers completely set me afloat on the sea of hive. I was her slave from that hour- not her slave, cither, but her passionate lover and worshipper. And, of course, she knew it, and oi course, being a finished coquet, she queened it over me right royally. There was Fred Town, the country physician, and Tom Delano, the handsome young farmer, both as badly oil' as I was; aud a pretty tune we had of it. Fred and I old chums in former days were at swords' points now, and hated each other splendidly for a few weeks, aud Tom I held in the utmost contempt, and railed at them both whenever opportunity presented itself, for Carrie's edification, after the manner of men, and was repaid by seeing her bestow her sweetest

smiles and glances upon them the next j

time they met. Fred drove a splendid span of bays, aiid almost every day they dashed up the

avenue, and dashed out again with Miss

Carrie's added weight. And Tom was on hand nearly evening, and she was just as sweet to one as the other, and just the

same to me; and that was what madden- j

ed me.

j I was not to be satisfied with a "widov's third" by any means, and I told her

so at last, and asked her how the matter was to be settled. "I love you better than those brain-

j less fops know how to love," I said, hotly

"and now decide between us." She had listened to my love confession with blushing cheeks and downcast eyes; but when I said this she turned defiantly on me. "They are no more fops than you are," she said, "even if they have not spent seven years in college. They are gentlemen, and I can't say that of every man of my acquaintance." And here she shut the door between us with a slam and left me to my pleasant meditations, and half an honr later I met her at the gate with Fred going out for a ride, which was very aggravating I must coufass. I thought over my conduct that night, and concluded that I had been a brute. The next morning I found Carrie at the dining room window alone and sought her side. She had her hand among tho leaves of a sweet-scented geranium, and just as I approached she plucked a leaf and twined it among her braids. I remember how bright and green it looked tircnz e djirk locks. "Carrie," I began, "I fear X was very rude yesterday." "I know you were,'5 she said, looking indifferently out of the window. This was a bad beginning but C went on. ".But, Carrie 1 love you so, and when I sec you with that Fred " But here Miss Carrie turned on her heel. "I am not going to listen to you while you slander my friends," she said. "When you can speak respectfully of Mr. Town

I will return." and here she left me again. I left the house then and did not return until afternoon. As I came up the path I met Torn Delano. Poor fellow, he looked like the last rose of summer after a rain. "Good-by," he said gloomily. 'Tib going away. She has sen! me off, aud I can't stay in the place, f hope you are the happy one- -J do, honestly, Al. She said her heart was given to another, and it's either you or Fred. I hope it is you and God bless you !" Here Tom dashed away and left me staring after him in amazement. "Given her hear to another!" I ropeat ed, with a pain in my chest somewhere.

"Well, it is evident that I am not the other, and that Fred is. Poor Tom poor me! The best tiling I can do is to follow suit and leave, too. I can never see her the wife of another, and the sooner I am off tho better." So I went moodily np to my room and packed a satchel and got all things in readiness for a speedy departure. On my way up I met Carrie just emerging from her room arrayed in her jaunty riding habit, and I could hear Frank's deep tones shouting "Whoa!" down in tho yard below. 1 watched her trip down the fairs and out of sight, thinking that it was the last time I should see her for years, perhaps forever. When I had strapped the last buckle on my satchel and all was iu readiness, I went to say good-bye to father, mother and Lilla. Lilla was not indoors,and my parents looked at me in amazement. "But, Allen, my son, pleaded father, "I had thought yon would enter into business with me. There is a grand opening for you, ami I have held the position in reserve." I thank you for all that, but I want to travel a year or two before going into business," was all I could answer; and father gave ice up in despair. Lilla was still absent; but it was quite dark, and the train would leave in half au hour, so 1" left a "good-by e"f for her and passed out into the hall. It was a long, narrow hall, reaching the whole length of the house, and with several rooms opening into it; but as yet it was unlighted, and as dark as Ejrypt. About halj way through it I heard the street doer open and shut, and a moment later ran fall against some oue entering. It is Lilla I thought and reaching out my arms caught her between their.. "Is it you, Lilla V" I said. But she did not answer, only twined her two arms about my neck. "Why, little sister' I said, softly, "do you love me so much?" For Liha was not demonstrative, as a usual thing, aud I was surprised at her movement. "Oh, better, than all the world beside, Allen H she said in a whisper. Aud tiieu, as I lifted the face to my lips, the sweet odor of geranium perfumed the air, aud my heart gave a great leap. It was Carrie, and not Lilla. that I held in my arms. She was trying to disengage herself now, but I suddenly caught her light form in my two stout arms, and opening

the library door, I carried her into the brilliantly-lighted room. Her face was hot with blushes now, and her eye full of tears. "You aro too bad," she sobbed, "and I hate you." But then site noticed m v traveling attire and paused abruptly. "Why, where are you going?" she asked, with interest "I was going a way, never to return," I answered, "but since you said what you did in the hfdl I. have changed my mind." Carrie pouted. "I was only speaking for Lilla." "Thou I shall go, shall I, aud leave you to marry. Fred V "I detest Fred," she cried. "And you love me better than all the world ?" "Yes." "But how did you know it was not Lilla, she asked, as we sat together. "By tho geranium leaf I saw you put in your hair this morning. "And but for that you would have gone away and not come back for year i?" "Yes ; perhaps never come back, but for that tell-tide leaf." Then we will keep this leaf always," she said, taking it from her hair. And so we have. I procured a little golden box, and there it is to-day, one of our dearest treasures. Of course I married Carrie, aud of course that bloomingmatron is she. . Tom Delano did not die of a broken heart, but married a lovely girl out west a few months after his departure, and Fred Town is our family physician, aud has a pretty wife of his own. Corn and Hogs. American Farmer. From carefully-conducted experiments by different persons, it has been asceitained that one bushel of corn will mak.3 a little over ten and one-half pounds of pork, gross. Taking this result as a bash? the following deductions are made, which all our farmers would do well to lay by for a convenient reference that; When corn soils for 12 cents per bushel, pork costs i cents per pound. When corn costs 17 cents per bushel, pork costs 2 cents per pound. When corn costs 25 cents per bushel, pork costs 3 cents per pound. When corn costs 33 cents per bushel, pork costs 4 cents: per pound. When corn costs 50 cents per bushel, pork costs 5 cents per pound. The former statements 6how what the fanner realizes on his corn when sold in the form of pork. When pork sells for 3 cents per pound, it brings 25 cents per bushel in coi n. When pork sells for 4 cents per pound, it brings 32 cents per bushel hi corn. When pork sells for 5 cents per pound, rt brings 45 cents per bushel in corn. Seif-Made. "Do yon see that old man near the frog pond on the Common V "Thirty-two years ago that old man came to Boston wirh one suspender and a sore toe. He also had a basket of apples which a farmer in Lexington had given him. He peddled the apples on Washington street and netted eighteen cents the first day. How much do you suppose he's worth now?" "Oh. a million and a half," said one. "Two millions," another. "Six millions three hundred thousand," was the estimate of a third, "I give it up," remarked number four, "how much is he worth?" "Not an infernal cent, and he stdl owes

or thebasket. Centralization in Business. New YorkCarrespoudeuce Detroit N'wu. A well known dry goods house goes out of business January 1, having, after two years of trial,found the jobbing trade unremunorafive. The fact is a few largo firms are gradually absorbing all the business, and no moderate house can live and compete with the peculiar methods aud the gigantic capital of the great concerns. It is so in the boot and shoe and grocery trades; a few houses do all the businessand the small-sized firms, of which there were so many ten years ago, are gradually passing out of existence. Centralization :in business eeeme to be the tendency of the times.

A RACE FOR A KISS.

How a Honey Trailer Was Cured of Taking Colic Medicine.

Yirginiit Chronicle. A butter peddle) from Honey Lake relates with great glee how a neighbor of his was cured of too frequently" tipping the gin bottle. This neighbor married a young, handsome and spirited lady, and for a month or two all went well in the house and about the farm ; then the husband fell back into his old tricks. The wife remonstrated, and for a time the husband reformed. Presently, however, she became satisfied that the "bottle tipping" was again going on. When she spoke to her husband about the matter he swore that the "aroma" she detected was that of a colic medicine he was taking, he having developed a most intractrable colic, for the relief of which he had brought home and paraded a bottle of medicine. The wife was confident that there was kept somewhere about the premises a considerable store of a very difierent kind of medicine. She kept her own counsel and at the same time strict watch. In a day or two she discovered, under a manger in the barn the secret hoard. She said nothing of the discovery to her husband. Soon after the husband had business at a neighbor's, some two miles away. On his return homo he was somewhat surprised at seeing a note pinned upon his front door. Hastily advancing, he read as follows : Bkn You will find the key of the house where you kept your colic medicine. I have taken Kitty and gone home to my mother. Father, and brother Bob will come to-morrow for the trunk in which I have placed my things. The husband rushed to the barn. At a glance ho saw that Kitty, his wife's mare, and the side saddle were gone. Darting to the manger he hauled out his corpulent demijohn of gin, and suspended from its neck found the key of the house.

Securing the key he sent the demijohn I whizzing and crashing against a post of I the barn. Bounding forth, he ran to and

mounted the horse he had left standing

in front of his house. Away he dashed. It was ten miles to the house of his father-in-law, and he was determined to overtake his wife before she could reach it, or kill the horse in the attempt. Said the butter man: "Now, I see'd Ben's wife come over the hill, half a mile south of my house, on her little mare, Kitty, and begin to perform some queer ablutions. After she'd got over the brow o' the hill she paced np aud down the read for a ume; then she rid up and looked over the brow ot the hill agin. So she kept doing, and once or twice she got off and lei Kitty up to the top of the hill "I was puzzled a to whether she was wait in for somebody or had lost something while on the way to her father's place, ftomo four miles beyond my house. I was j ist about to walk out that way when 1 see'd her heel Kitty round from

i the brow o1 the hill and begin to ply her

whip; "In half a minute she was flyhV past ray place like a wild woman. I stood at

I my front gate by the roadside, ready to

holler out at. her to know what was up, but bless you she never looked to'ard3 me. Hor eyes seemed sot in her head, her face was pale, and at every jump she h t into Kitty with her whip. I s war her riding skirt fairly cracked as she bounded past me! "Jist i hen I heard a tremendous clatter behind me. Turnin about, I seed Ben a-comin' over the pitch of the hill on his big black horse, like a wild Commanche. He was ridin with loose reins, leanin away foi'ard, and diggin' his big spurs into his horse like he'd rip his insides out. "He passed by with his ha'r and coattails saiim' back in the wind, and uever turning his head right nor left. I thought I seed murder in his eye. I tell you a million thoughts ran through my brain in a. second. All the stories I ever heerd about jealous husbands aud insane husbands went through my head in a lump, anci I do believe if Yd had my gun in my hand Yd have taken a wing shot at him on suspicion. "I seed 2ftsll look back once, and then lay the whip on Kitty hott'rn ever. Ben was goin' like the wind. I knowed Nell was headed for her father's, and I seed plain as day that Ben would get her 'fore she was sal e lvnded. "At last he was upon her. It was then neck and neck for a time,with Ben reachin out for Kitty's bridle. At last he got it, and the two horses gradually slowed

! up till they finally stopped. I mounted my gate pos t all of a tremble, expect-in to

see somethia dreadful happen. "They stopped in the road talkin nigh onto half ai hour; then I seed Ben lean over and Nell lean over, till thai two heads come together. "What tlv. mischief!" says I, "kissin, instead of kiilin. Well, that sort of fracas gits me.1 "After the head bumpuY the pair turned about and came slowly joggin' along back. "As they passed me, I oalled out to Ben to know what in the livin jingo it till meant. Ben began to stammer soinevhin', 'bout half c-f which never got out through his big beard, when Nell sings out to me: 'Culy a race for a kiss;' and givin Kitty i cut that made her bound ten feer, she called out :.o Ben, 'Come on! A race to the top of the hill for another,' and away they both went. "That was five years ago, and 1 never hnowed the hue meamV of that wild, harum-scarum ride till about throe months ago, when the story 'bout tho 'colic medicine leaked out among the wiuunen folks. For a good while after the ride, howsumever, I remember oue of the neighbor men wonderin what, had come over Ben that he had shut dowu on his gin all so sudden, and wouldn't so much a-i take a glass o Oregon cider. "To this day, no doubt, Ben thinks he had a desperate chaso after Nell, and a narrer escape o' her gettm into the home den 'lor.g with her big brother, her father and hit mother-in-law; and I've never said a word to him 'bout how she fooled 'long under the brow of the hill." The Handwriting of Famous Men. Sometimes half a dozen engravers are

engaged in rendering an artist's? drawing

oi a t ingle subject, which, when finished, present to the unpracticed eye one uniform style. Nevertheless a practical eye cjiu discover where each individual en

graver's work leaves olf, and where that of every one of the rest begins. In handwriting, as in other arts and literature, "the style is the man." For all that, the evidence of handwriting, as of style generally, is not to be relied on when men's lives and liberty are at stake, still less can character be judged from handwriting. Bravo men may perpetrate a timid scrawl, generous and high-minded men may write a mean hand,and cowards produce a bold and flowing script. Porson, the great Greek scholar, among the untidicst of students, wrote neatly and elegantly. Cromwell's writing, though large, is shaky. Shakespeare's signature is not particularly clear. Napoleon Bonaparte wrote illegibly, purposely it is said, in order to hide his bad spelling. The handwriting of the tortuous-minded Charles I. is a? clear and striking as that of Thomas Ca rlyle is crabbed and indistinct. On the other hand, Queen Elizabeth's writing is magnificent Edgar Allan Poe wrote beautifully and with scarcely a u en sure, whereas the manuscripts of Charles Dickens, to be seen in the Foster collection at South Kensingtou, are rugged and full of alliterations and emendations. Many men write large or small, in characters boldly or weakly formed, according to the humor of the moment. Again, handwriting depends for its style on the school in which it is applied. The manuscript of Byron, of Thomas Campbell, and of Thackery, may be called the literary hand. It is uniform in color, small and fairly legible, but without a superabundant curve or flourish. American Pork in Germany. Mr. Sargent, United States Minister to Germany, has made to the State Department an official report with regard to the threatened exclusion from that country of American pork products. Mr. Sargent says: "I have the honor to report that a very strong feeling of opposition has been aroused in Berlin and other German cities, as well a in the manufacturing districts generally against the threatened exclusion of Americau pork products. Strong protects are being sent into the Bundesrath, and a committee and others have visited the capital to protest against the measure Editorials in, the leading papers have fully exposed the falsity of the excuses for exclusion. If this were strictly a government of public opinion in the American sense, these public ap- , peals, backed as they are by solid reasoning upon indisputable facts, would prevail, and she project would be abandoned. I have sought by all apt means to oppose tha measure, and have lost no opportunity to expose its true character, and to show that the health of the American swine if- unimpaired, and that American swine products are entirely wholesome. I do not think these latter propositions are disputed the people of intelligence. The movement is merely selfish and in diregard of the interests of the United States. The only argument which would be effective would be the fear of reprisals. We could not insist upon any people receiving from us articles deleterious to health, but we can as little submit to exclusion of our products

upon a false pretense a pretense so obviously false is in this instance. 1 Indiana Statistics. Exfcract from Annual Report Bureau of Statistics. The agricultural production of last year was more remarkable than is generally supposed. The wheat area was 3,063,348 acres, and the production 46,928,643 bushels. The chief of the bureau observes that the cultivation and growth of . wheat has developed more rapidly than that of any other staple crop, and has more than kept pace with the population. In 1850 the product per capita was 6.30 bushels ; in 1860 it was 12.50 bushels ; in 4870 it was 16.51 bushels, and in 18S4 had increased to 23.75 bushels per capita. The yield of other crops was proportionately large, as shown by the following summary : Crops. Acres. Bushels. Corn 3,312,683 315,(599,797 Oats 634,822 19,115,516 Irish potatoes , 72,931 7,2(54,880 The chief of the bureau estimates that the home vaLue of the principal agricultural productions of 1882, based upon he current markets, will not fall below $225,000.000. How much of this is surplus and finds a market outside of the State cannot be calculated. In a resume of the economic statistics it is shown that in thirty one counties there was a decrease in the mortgage indebtedness last year, and that the transfers of real estate amounted in value to over $9,000$X). Statistics have been gathered from fifty-six counties which will afford a basis for the adjustment of fees and salaries of county officers. Since the last annual report th permanent common school fund has been increased $70,747.79, making the total amount of the tod $9,203,353.98, which is larger than that of any other State,

A NOBLE SOMAN.

An Expert Shot. Hurrisburg Tok'graph. Ellsworth Bierbower is remarkabiy skillful with a rifle. One of his latest shots is as follows: A piece of half-inch gas-pipe was inserted through a heavy picco of iron as a base. At one end of the pipe he atlixed the blade of a hatchet, so that the sharp edge rested against the pipe. On either side of the hatchet he hung a glass ball. Standing off at a distance of forty feet-, he fired with a Winchester repeating rifle at the exposed end of the gas pipe, through which the bullet passed and was split on the hatchet edge, each half breaking the glass ball on either side of the hatchet. Having done this remarkable shot to his satisfaction several times in this way, he tried it in a different manner. Holding the gun over his shoulder ho sighted through a small mirror he held in his left hand, and fired, with his back to the object. Again did the ball pass through the gas-pipe, split on the hatchet edgcand break both balls. Still another way was tried. Bending over, he held the rifle down and sighted under his leg, again making the shot successfully. Guiteau's Curse. Special to Courier Journal. Guitenu, it will be remembered, cursed the jury that convicted him. He prophesied to them all manner of evil, and people here are oommenting on the happenings to that jury since the trial, To-day Thomas Hinline, who was a member of the jury, died. He makes the second member of tho. jury who has departed this life. Another, named Sheehan, has lost all his property, and is now a hotel porter. Hinline died of heart disease, which was supposed to have been exaggerated ou account of confinement in the jury room.

Coriolanus. noble Ronun,.. Wouldn't five the voters taffy:. Wouldn't tel. 'em they wero brilliant; Wouldn't, tell 'em they were valient; Wouldn't kiss. the Roman babies; Said he'd see thoir dads in Hades Ere he'd buw; the dirty youngster Of n horde of swelling bungsters; - Said, no ofnV ho would fawn for; No. his toga he'd first pawn for What ho needed; no, 1 c wouldn't Give 'em tally; no. he shouldn't! Tims it was the noblo Horn anFearless, peerless Corioianus, Jnat as might have been expected. Never came to be elected.

A LITTIiB SPICE.

Moses : I may have made some mis take ; but I don't remember ever having taken fees for defending any of the Wilderness star-routers. A peddler called at a Philadelphia house the other day and asked to see the head of the family. He was referred to the servant girl. A considerate lassie : A little Augusta three-year-old girl rebuked her mother for alluding to a black cat. She said it was a "colored" cat. V Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the novelist, narrowly escaped having a middle name. His parents intended to call him Bjornsfr jerne Bjojorjsjnjtjorjonjrnstjse Bjornson, but the "j" box gave out before the third? syllable of the middle name was reached.? "That butter is all nght," said a boarding-house keeper ; "it is firkin butter and

thats the ease," replied the boarder, who. is a contractor, "I should like to get some; of the wood to make railroad bridges? ot" . ... , Mrs. Langtry has said : "The newspa-1 ner men of America are the handsomest.

brightest aud most courteous gentlemen , I ever met." This, however, is not much.

met any one but lords and dukes, and earls, and sueh people. Here is a little Georgian's prayer, as given by the Gwinnett Herald: "Lord. Ttv nttrfnl .irna trtfL T wont'

you to come and cure me, cure me quick, too. I can't see you, but guess you can see me. Wake me up soon in the mornin Don't care whether you vake Henry up or not. Amen." i French Fun : Making haste slowly - A young couple, to whom parting is most sweet sorrow, engage a hack to drive them home from the Boisby the -hour. The coachman takes in the situation and rlritref: Virm wiih fiYrwl- rftlnrf.nnf; nmnfL

I'M l. It. - ' 111 1.? . !1

ous aeiay. w nen iue rare sexues ms inn, the jarvey is unable to repress his diugus at the smallness of the tip. "OneJrane extra,' he says, whh an expression ct profound 'dissatisfaction, "and ,1 made all the haste I couldn't !" . J Wee Johnnie waf? riding on the eara with his mother and dropped on the floor one of tho peanuts :ae was eating. After he had finished the other he begin fey climb down to get the one on the floor, but his mother stopped ham,' saying ha could not have it. He knew his mother would not change her mind, anddie sat still in silence for several minutes Bitfv he could endure it no longer,; and &Kn u , pitiful little voice pipedrat: "Mother, can't I get down on the floor and kok at

that peanut?" ":' TIia Tmindafinnc in Oormanv .-'

Correspondence London Standard. On arriving at Manheim from Frankfort I seemed suddenly to find myself in a beleaguered city. In truth, the state ot things here at this moment almost denes

description. Almost all the ordinary voj cations of the population are entirely suspended. The' town appears to stand on an isthmus in the midst .of a vast sea.; The whole of the Pfalz, or Pala unate,: seems to be under water. The: great; Rhine dam at Ludwigshafen gave wayj before the rushing waters this merning,; and the lives of hundreds were therewith! placed in the highest peril: Up to noon however, 440 children had been saved by? the help of boats, which took them from the felling houses. One hundred and fifty sick persons, who were bedridden,,; were also rescued by a steamer. Fromr the environs of Ludwigshafen- upward of -2,500 persons have had to seek shelter in the town, and are now housed there. The number of houses swept away or ruined by the. inundations is nnprece dented To describe what has happened In this neighborhood, I may mention that the village of Triesenheinv is entirely deserted, and sixty-eight houses

there are destroyed. One-third of the inhabitants of Oppan had to abandon their homes and seek shelter elsewhere; Yesterday there were 600 in the church and 400 in the school house. No fewer than 112 houses have been destroyedaut that place. The condition of the iarge number of persons who have been relieved,

and are now under shelter, is one of the

deepest distress. Thus; there are three school buildings here crowded with fugitives who have lost everything They are now sleeping on the bar desks and. stools, and none of them haves savedis. change of c!othe3. I Oscar's Future Undertakings. London World. Mr. Oscar Wilde arrived in Lor don on Saturday afternoon, characteristically

and ovclouically conveyed across the At

So rough was the passrge not oaly wus the steering-gear, on one fatal n ght fa-

I Jill V Ml I 111 111 Ulilliil iUDllVi v-. -v,

previous criticism on the Atlantic was "possibly somewhat harsh." Hfe American pilgrimage has been a success, bosh financially and artistically, Pro n Park street he. goes straight to Paris, vhere ?ae means to work out some new and tartling. notions of a literary, and possibly dramatic character. His impression smcerning America generally are par doxical, puzzling, and, as yet, unpublished, but I but I can vouch for their origin aity and

America in the "Pall," thm to A ustralia, and ultimately to heaven. j Indiana's Standing. Terre Haut Gazette, Indiana stands thirty-seventh in area of the States and Territories ; sixth in value of annual product; fifth in com crop; fourth in value of wheat crop rnsighth in value of hay crop ; ninth in value of oat crop ; tenth in value of potaiio crop. She is the sixth in the value of horses ; fourth in hogs ; eighth in cattle j twelfth in sheep ; twelfth in mules ; nghth in coal i and sixth in miles of rujly ay. Quite Enough of This . 8t, Louis Post-Dispatch. Langtry's last mash is the editor of the Memphis Soimitar. He was cultivated by her soinnetry. But itty stdmitarial what he ay& I