Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 16, Bloomington, Monroe County, 17 February 1883 — Page 3

No other country except Germany, certainly not the United States, could show such a rKsord as this: "Six years ago the Empress of Germany announced that she would henceforth decorate with a golden cross evcs-y female servent who has passed forty years of her life in the same family. An official list, published with the beginning of the present year, shows that the recipients of this royal favor number so far 893.'

Irrigation has been tried in Western Kansas with marvelous results. Formerly it was thought that the dry plains stretching toward the Arkansas Uivor were useless for agricultural purposes. The light and fickle rainfali, the dry air, and net winds, and the long summers were supposed to constitute a combination of unfavorable elements that it would be impossible to overcome. But broad ditches were dug that distributed the waters of the Arkansas over these tracts, and now they bloom like a garden. The crops yielded the past year were astonishing. Onions were raised at the rate of 500 bushels to the acre, oats 100 bushels, and other products in similar proportion. Reatj estate in Jerusalem is evidently by no means stagnant, since the American Consul in that city reports the issue of permits for building sixty-five new houses and for adding to sixty-three others. Houses of modern style are fashionable in the suburbs, and there is a rise in rents. Not only has the population of Jerusalem increased in the past year, but that of Jaffa and Hebron, the chief gain being and influx of Russian Jews, fleeing from persecution. "Jndeaforthe Jews'7

may soon become a rallying cry. Jaffa contains nearly 20,000 people; but the Consul regrets that most of these have not yet been educated up to the best use of the pocket handkerchief. Here would seem tc be a field for missionary work.

OHARD GiniiouR, Catholic bishop of Cleveland, just returned from a visit to Europe, in which he spent some time in

Ireland, said in a public speech at his reception: The wretchedness of Ireland is inconceivable The American people, much as they read and hear of Ireland's, wretchedness, can never, without visiting the country form eny adequate idoa of it. The houses are mere pis-styes. I traveled through the country in the harvest season. Men. von: on and children were atfcwork ia the fields. I fonnd idleness nowhere; but industry everywhere. I found men of every creed and condition of life commenting on the objecti and interest! of the Laud League, but at the same time disapproving of the wild schemes and the theories suggested to arrive at these objects and interest. All recognize that the Irish hind question must sooner or later be adjusted, but the more intelligent class commend only cool, calm and deliberate action. One thing found was universal commontiation of Gladstone's land bill as a ste;? in the right direction."

proposes to dispute the right of passage should any foreign Power send its vessels into the Bosphorus. The English Gov ernmeut is also investigating them with a view o2 purchasing seme. A com1 t; vrivKLY smallportion the letter reading and writing public are aware o? what an important branch of the Postal Service of the country tho Registered Mail Branch of the service has become. It is patronized most by the business classes of the countrythose

I who are obliged to transmit valuable par

cels or monoy to all parts of the world, and who have, by experience, found that they secure a speed and safety in transmission not surpassed by the best system of expressage. Indeed, it is a species of expressage, adopted by the Government for the better accommodation of the public, and made a part of the postal system,

and which reaches to all of the nearly : fifty thousand postoffices in the country, j for the additional trifling fee of ten cents j over and above the ordinary charge for 1 postage. And wherever the Government j

oitne united States nas, oy treaty, piovided an international postal service, letters or packages of no salable value can be sent for the small fee of ten cents in addition to the usual foreign postage. In many respects it is a greater convenience to the public than the lnony order system, valuable cs that branch of the Postal Service is. Money can onl y be transmitted by "money order" to about one-third of all the postoffices of the United States. The registry system is more democratic. It reaches to all of them. Money only can be transmitted by the money order system, in the same

manner that drafts or money orders are bought at one bank and payable at another. By the registry system not only money may be sent, but merchandise and nearly every commodity -which does not exceed a certain bulk and the weight of four pounds. Only limited amounts of money can be sent by money order. Any amounts, large are small, may be sent by registered mail. The best proof of the increasing popularity o( this branch of the postal service is shown by the gratifying increase of business done.

Tbx church people of the town of Mc-

Ivpr, Minn., are greatly excited over a

conflict of pastors. Rev. Mr. Patton had beea pastor for ten years, when a party determined to install Bev. Bloodgood in his stead. After several collisions, with varying results, the Bloodgood faction surreptitiously captured the fort on Saturday night Jan. 20. Dragging a fire engine Dip the conical hill upon which the edifice is located, they proceeded to give the surroundings a neat and unbroken coat of ice, rendering it 'practically inaecessibla They then slid down this minature glacier, and awaited developments. Next morning, provided with a kind of

shoes known as "creepers" they were prepared to scale the heights without serious trouble. Arriving at the base of the hill, they found the Patton crowd endeavoring to get up. They would cautiously advance for perhaps fifty feet, only to lose their grip and slide baek in a very undignified manner. The Bloodgoodites jeered at them as backsliders, and reviled them for sliding down hill on the holy Sabbath day, and then went on to the house, where regular services were held. The Patton party resorted to hatchets and salt, and reached the door in time to hear the benediction. "What will be the plan of the summer campaign has not been divulged. :

LEGISLATIVE NOTES,

"The best thing yet told on the subject of petitions concerning office holding is this, from a raw Congressman giving his first experience after reaching Washington. He said: "I had hardly reached Washington when I received by mail a petition for the removal of a postmaster in my district, and for a change in the location of his office. Charges of a senmis nature were made against him, mid eighty-three citizens of the vicinity sigDed tlie petition for his removal I determined to begin right and have no underhand work in such matters, so I sent the dociments to the postmaster, whom I had always believed to be a good man, and told, him plainly that, as the charges .were of a serious nature, and were so abnndentlysustaineil by evidence of his neighbors, he would probably loose his place unless he could make a clear showing that thev were not true. In about a week I received his reply. He inclosed a petition for his retention, signed by the same eighty-three citizens who had signed the petition for his removal. The postmaster waggishly remarked in Ids letter

tns.t ns the petitioners all lived at some distance, and some of them were served at hiri oiiiee, he had been somewhat delayed hi getting them, but as I seemed to want their testimony he thought he would see them all. I haven't placed so much weight on the representation of petitioners since as I should huve done but Tor this little incident." The experiments recently made with the Lay torpedo in the Bosphorus seni to have been very successful, Enough a locality was selected that offered every possible obstacle to the test. A peculiar feature of the new device is that it is invisible from the object against which it is directed, while those who are managing it can see where it is by means of a shaft w hich is exposed to them. At night the shaft can be lighted,and the light hidden so that it can only be seen from the rear. At rest it is exposed only about an inch above tho surface of the water, but in

notion it sinks. The one used in the Bosphorue as twenty-six feet iong,twen-tJr-foiIr inches in circumference, and weighed a ton ana a half. It is capable of carrying 150 pounds of dynamite. It is worked from above by an electric cable that it pays out, and the accuracy with which it can be steered was shown by the experiment The target was an open tfpaee, ninety feet in width, between two small boats anchored a mile and a quar cer from shore, and the torpedo went through the space on the first trial, notwithstanding it had to encounter a strong tide and cross current. The success of ijfae torpedo was so great that the Sultan ordered several of them, with which h

A bill introduced in the He use is to require county auditors to give bonds in the sum of 820,000. The presenl bond is only 2,000. The House has unanimously passed the bill appropriating $62,000 to complete, the women's department of the insane hospital. . Bepresentative Shively has introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor for any person to vote or attempt to vote while intoxicated. A proposition is pending in the House to restrict the income of County Treasurers to $800 per year a uniform rate of payment throughout the State. LlThe finance committee of the Senate has decided unanimously not to appropriate a dollar for Purdue University unless the order keeping secret-fraternity men out the institution was rescinded. Senator Graham has introduced a bill for the care of abandoned children, providing that where a father abandonee a a child for one year its mother shall have charge of it, if a boy until he is twentyone years old, and if a girl until eighteen. Senator Willard tackled the Tadroads Thursday, by introducing a bill providing that they shall be liable for all damages sustained by their employes, even though they may be the result of the carelessness and negligence of other employes. The Warden of the Southern Prison asks the Legislature for back pay to the extent of $1,200 for each of the Deputy Wardens, their salary having been only $800 a year since 1879. The extra allowance asked for is at the rate of 200 per year from 1889 to 1885. Bepresentative McConnick has introduced a bill to restrict the .term for which a warden of either of the State Prisons can be elected to four years, and renders the officials ineligible for re-election. He thinks that the perpetuation of a prison warden in office an evil, and seeks to remedy it. Senator Bell, Tuesday, introduced a bill, which, if enacted, will do away with "graveyard" insurance and similar infamous operations. It makes it a felony for any person to insure or solicit insurance on the life of another person, punishable by a fine of not less than 500 and imprisonment for not less than two nor more than five years. Senator Foulke, Tuesday, introduced a bill providing that where a person or property was injured by reason of the intoxication of any person, the seller of the liquor which produced the intoxication, and the owner of the building in which the drinks were sold, shall be jointly and severally liable for the damage incurred. Mr. Foulke also introduced a bill authorizing connty commissioners to erect separate jails for women. The following desor jbed bills were final ly passed by both houses the past week: Senator Graham A bill to legalize the

The Senate bills introduced during the session number 274, and the House bills 412; total bills before the General Assembly, 6S0. There has also been introdu ced nine House and eight Senate concurrent resolutions. Four House bills have passed the Senate and been approved, while eighteen House bills are still pending in the Senate. The House baa received twenty-four Senate bills, and six of these have passed. About seventy bills have been disposed of by indefinite postponement by or being laid upon I he table; some 300 are still in the hands of

committees, 10-Uiave not yet bt on read a second time, ami the remaining 200, or thereabout:-, are waiting third reading for passage or rejection. Senator Hoover, Tuesday, introduced a bill concerning the "good time" to be allotted convicts in the State prisons, in following plan: For the first ; year of servitude, the convict, if well behaved, is to bo credited with one month; fur the second year twomnnths; for the third year three months; for the fourth year four

j months, and for all sentences of from five ! to twenty-one j ears the "good time" shall j be five months for each year. Provisions i are made for deductions from the good

time for infringement of the rules, and the exercise of this deducting power shall be in the hands of the warden under coram restrictions. This bill has been indorsed by the prison authorities of the State, and while it is quite liberal in its provisions, it is not so pronouncedly so as the laws of Michigan and Ohio. Senate bill No. 247, introduced by Mr. Campbell yesterday, provides for the more profitable and equitable hiring by the State of the convicts in the State prisons and to prevent contractors from getting a monopoly of the contraot labor. It provides that proposed contracts shall be abvertised by the directors for ten days in two of the leading daily papers of Indianapolis, Chicago and Cincinnati, and by such other means as directors deem profitable. It also provides that when the exclusive right to manufacture any article is given, any subsequent addition of convicts by new contracts shall not extend beyond the expiration of the first pending contraot, and that new contracts shall take effect at the expiration of the old contract, and shall be made sixty days before expiration of the old agreement.

A DREAM.

I hoard h dos howl in tho niooliht night. And t went to tl u window to seo tho sight: All the deml that over I knew UohiK one by one and two by 1wi. On they jasaed and on they poas il, TownsfollowH all, from first to Uiul; Born in tho moonlight of tho lano. And Quenched in tho heavy uhnciow titfain. Schoolmate h marching hb when wo ployed, As HoldiorK once, but now more imd ; Those worn the -trnrgonl nlht to mo Who were drowned I incw in the nwful g wi. Straight mid Imrdrnmp folk; umf and weak too; And Home Unit I loved and gapped to npenk.to, Some but r. day in their church yaid hod. And Komo that 1 had not known were dead. Along, lorg crowd, where each seemed lonely, And yet of them all there was na, one only. That raided a head or looked my way. And she seemed to linger, but might not stay. On, on, a movinu bridge they made

Across tho moon stream, from shade to shade; 1 Young and old, women and m?u;

Many long forgot, but remomberd then. And first came R bitter laughter. And a sound of teara a moment after: And tnen a music so lofty ant, gay That nvery morning, d?;y by day, I strive to recall it if I may.

MANAGING A MAN.

The Care of Horses. If your horse should pull on one line, or throw his head up and down and fight and pull on the bit, have his mouth and teeth examined. The hand-pieces of driving reins frequently-become smooth from using, causing the hands to shift. In such cases ruf the lines "with powdered rosin. If you "wish to drive your horse with an open bridle have him tried with one before putting him to your top wagon, otherwise he might got away with you.

When horses overreach lengthen the I

hind shoes. When they hit the front of the hind feet have the toe of the front shoes made narrow and concaved on the inside. Some horses, when fretting, in putting their hind feet on the ground strike principally on the toe. Such horses should have the heels lowered, and should wear shoes without heels. Steel bits should be kept in a warm

place until they are placed in the horse's j

mouth. Any person can realize the sensation of placing a cold bit in the horse's mouth by first touching it to his own tongue. If your double team did not work to suit you to-day, one crowding to the pole while the other would pull his head to one side, see that the reins are right and in hooking them to the wagon to-morrow put the off horse on the near side. Tar is one of tho most useful articles to be kept about a stabla Internally use a teaspoonful night and morning for chronic coughs; externally it is particularly useful in t hrash and all diseases or wounds of the foot. Mixed with fish oil it ia one of the best remedies for hard or brtile feet. When heels and toes are required on a horses' shoes, instead of having the shoe turned down for heels, have the haels and toes of cast steel and welded on. The heels should be put on half an inch from end of shoe and placed lengthwise. For a horse that "pulls" use the overcheck with strap attached over the nose and under the lower jaw. For an extra hard mouthed horse use a four-ring bit. Have a side-loop on the front of the overcheck, so that it can be moved up and down, as may be required; then have the check -pieces and over-check attached to tie loose rings and the driving lines alone to the large rings. Influenza Sb one of the most prevalent diseases at this time of the year. The first stage of the disease is generally mild and will readily yield to careful, nutritious diet, such as warm mashes, oatmeal gruel, suitable clothing and proper ventilation, If the respiration is troubled and the extremities cold, give a sedative

! medicine, rub the legs with dry mustard,

bandage with flannel, and send for an

proceedings ad records of the trustees j expert of the town ol Westfield, Ind., and declar-1

ing an emergency. Senator Oyerstreet A bill relating to the qualifications of petit jurors in courts of this State, and declaring an emergency. Senator GrahamTo punish persons who disclose messages overheard while passing ovei telephone lines.

The House Prison Committee returned last week from their investigation of the Prison North. This concluded their investigation and their report will doubtless be made to the House this week. A conversation from a member assures us that the report -will decidedly favor the present management of the Prison North, and but few appropriations will be recommended. It is believed that the committee will recommend the appropriation for the sewer from the Prison to the harbor. We await the full report of the committee. The commission appointed in the Sen

ate to consider and report on the expediency of re-apportinoing the school fund was asked for by Senator Foulke, because the officials of Wayne county assert they cannot loan the money at the rate required by law, 8 per cent. Under the acr making the apportionment every county is charged wih the interest on the amount of fond given to it whether loaned or not &nd of course, if it is not loaned the taxpayers must pay the deficit It is broadly intimated that in some counties, thd custodians of public funds do not lose any sleep in their efforts to place the school fund among borrowers, as wlule it remains in their custody it is, good for four per cent, per annum from thf? banks in which it is deposited

Royal and Ministerial Salaries.

.London Truth. . In 1871 Sir Charles Dilke stated that cost of royalty was excessive, and he estimated it at 1,000,000 per annum. He was not far wrong, as was conclusively proved when an additional grant was asked for Prince Leopold on tho occasion of his marriage. But it by no means follows necessarily that Sir Charles wishes to disestablish royalty because he is in favor of partially disendowing it. In a country where the Prime Minister receives 5,000 per annum, and an agricultural laborer about 14s. per week, it is

concoiveable that the sovereign might be respected with a yearly income of 50,000

per annum, and that each of her children might maintain themselves in perfect comfort on 4,000 per annum. In the days of Charles IL the post of Prime Minister was worth 100,000 per annum. I do not imagine that the respect for the incumbent of this post has diminished because the salary attached to it is only one-twentieth of that sum. It is strange that it is precisely those who prate the loudest about their loyalty who would reduce it to a mere question of pounds, shillings and pence. Nothing can be more despicable and more sordid than this golden-calfism. For my part I do not feel more respect for a monarch residing in a huge building, and suriounded by a horde of lackeys, than I should for the same monarch in a small cottage with a couple of parlor-maids. New York has just one regiment of ragpicker

Nellie Davis was the prettiest, best,and dearest little girl in Hillburg, and when Tom Carter fell head over heels in love with her, nobody blamed him. And when the parson gave his blessing, and they went to commence housekeeping in a cozy little house, everybody prophesied all sorts of happiness for the pretty bride. And, truth to tell, Nellie Carter was very happy. It is a pleasant thing to go to housekeeping for the first time, with everything new and shiny; and if you have somebody you love very much for a companion, it is still plensanter. Now Nellie did love that big, blunde ring Tom Carter with all her might and main, and there was only one thing to disturb her perfect peace. She was the very pink of tidiness, and Tom was the most careless fellow alive. He kept his person neat and nice but his personal belongings anything else. Tom would persist in tossing his slippers under the parlor sofa to have them handy. In vain did she gently sug

gest that the rack in -the hall wais the j place for his hat and overcoat. Tom j would fling his overcoat, damp or dry, on I her pretty, smoothly-made bed, and drop '

his hat anywhere In vain did tidy Nel

lie make a place for everything, for Tom invariably tossed everything in some other place. Now, little Mrs. Nellie was only human, and Tom's slovenly ways annoyed her exceedingly. She bore it with the pat ience of an angel,until one morning, after ho had gone to his office, she wont into the parlor, and thero lay Tom's heavy shawl, right across the table, ruthlessly crushing the pretty things which lay on the marble table. "Now I can't stand this f paid Nellie, as she carefully raises the shawl from the delicate treasures, and discovered the rums of a favorite Bohemian vase. 1 don't know what to do, but this I won't have!" she continued, with the little bit of wifely snap which every good wife must have if sho expects to get on at all with that occasionally unreasonable animal a man. "Some way must ba discovered to cure Tom," went on Mrs. Nellie, as she removed the ruins of her vase, and all the morning she went about the house with scarlet lips closely compressed, and a little flash in her brown eyes. And when a determined voman says "must" and "shall," masculine insubordination might as well surre nder at once. Before Mrs. Nellie had closed her bright eyes that night she had arranged all her plans for the campaign against her liege lord, who slept the sleep of the innocent at her side. ...... But she intended to give him one more chance. ....... So, after breakfast, when Tom drew on boots and gave his slippers their usual toss under the sofa, sho said: "Tom dear

hadn't you better put your slippers in the

passage?" "No, let 'em alone; they'll be handy to night," said Tom. "But, Tom, dear, they look so very untidy." "Why no they don't. A thing looks as well in one place as another, What's the use of a man having a home if he can't keep things where he wants to?" "What's the use to keep a wife and servant on their feet all day to pick up things after you?" asked Nellie, without the least show of temper. "Don't pick them up at all. Just let 'em alone, and then I can find t'em wheu I want 'em," declared Master Tom, as he gave her a kiss and took himself off. And the moment the door closed on him Nellie's red lips compreesed again, and the brown eyes wore the same look that they wore yesterday. "War it is, then 1" she said to herself. "Now Master Tom, we shall see who wins.'. She set quietly about the usual morning's work, and when Tom came to lunch everything was in its usual good order.

It remained so, and Nellie busied herself with the needle work until nearly time for Tom to return to dinner. Then 6hc arose to prepare herself to "open the champaign." First she put Tom's slippers, where he always left them, under the sofa. Then sho tossed her shawl upon the piano and his best hat upon the table. Then she brought some of her dresses and flung them across the chairs and on the sofa. Her furs reposed in Tom's own especial arm-chair,and her bent bonnet kept Tom's slippers company under tho sofa, while her own slippers lay upon the chiffonier. And then, thinking that female ingenuity

ceuld malio no greater sacrifice than he Sunday bonnet, she took a piece of crochet work, and sat down. Presently the door opened, and in walked master Tom. He gave a low whistle as he glanced at the unwonted disorder, and at Nelly sitting calmly in tho midst, with her crochet work. "Haven't been putting things to rights:, Nellie?" he asked. "No. Why?" said Nellie, looking up in sweet unconsciousness. 4I thought maybe you had been, that's all," remarked Tom, diyly, as B&dooked for a place to sit down.

Nelly quietly pursued her work. Presently Tom said, "Paper come evening?" "Not yet," answered Nellie, Tom gave a sigh. Nellie, I met Granger just now, he said he would call around this

Bring"

"Very well; probably he won't come before dinner. It will he rvady sooto," said Nellie, working away in demure innocence. "Hadn't you belter put things a little to rights before he cornea ?" stud Tom, glancing uneasily around the room, "Oh, no. Just let 'em lie," she answered sweetly, "But they look so bad," savd Tom. "Oh, no, they don't," said Nellie, as sweetl as before. "A thina' looks as

well in one place as another." Tom's face reddened. "I never saw your room look like this before," he said hesitatingly. "I should not like to havo anyone step in." "Why not?" said Nellie. "We might as well keep things handy. What's the

n$o of having a house if you can't keep tilings whore you want to?" Tom's face got redder and redder. He tried to look serious and then broke into a laugh. "Oh, that's your game,, is it?" no said "Trying to beat me with any own weapons." "Well, don't you like the plan?" said Nellie, demurely. "No, by George, I don't," ivnd Tom. "Well, thrn, I'll make a bargain with you. As long as you keep things in their places I'll do the same; but whenever you don't " "Oh, I will," said Tom. "Coire, Nelli e, I'll confess like a man you ha.e beat me this time. Only just put things right iu this awful room, and I'll never throw anything down again." Nellie rose and laughing held up her sweet mouth for a kiss of peace. And then, under the magic influence of her deft fingers, oonfusion was suddenly banished, and when Mr. Grangejr came round to spend the evening he decided that nobody had a prettier wife or a tidier home than his friend Tom Carter.

Wise little Nellie, having gained session of the matrimonial field, good care to keep to it until Tom quite cured of his careless habits. Sometimes he seemed threatened

a, relapse; but Nellie, instead of soolding, only had quietly to bring something oi her own and lay it beside whatever I113 had tossed down, audit wsb sure to be put away immediately, for Tom seldom failed to take the hint. And if some other little woman, as tidy mid as clean as Nellie, takes a hint also, this story will have served its purpooe.

postook was with

His juvenile Days. Unpublished pages from the life ol George Washington. It is the merry summertime. To him.the niother of the father of his country : "George,dear, where have you been since school was dismissed?" "Hain't Ikjou nowhere, ma."' "Did you come straight home from school, George? ' "Yes, ma'am!" "But school is disimss jd at 8 o'clock and it is now half past 0. How does that come?" "Got kep' in.' "What for?" "Missed my joggraphy less'n." "But your teacher was here only an hour ago and i4aid you hadn't been at school all day?" "Got kep in yestiddy, then." "George,why were y ou not at school todav?" "Forgot. Thought all the time it was Saturday." "Don't stand on one side of your foot in that manner. Coine hereto me,GeorgaYou havo been swimming." "No'me." "Yes you have, George. Haven't you?" "No a p." "Tell your mother, George?" Nuck?" "Then what makes your hair so wet, my son?" "Sweat. I run so fast comin' from school." "But your shirt .is wrong side oub 'Tut it on that way when I got up this morning for luok. Always win when you play for keeps if your shirt's on hind-side out." "And you haven't the right sleeve of your shirt on your arm a all,and there is a hard knot tieid in it. How did that come there?" "Bill Fairfax tied it in when I wasn't looking." "But what were you doing with your shirt off?" "Didn't have it off. Hejes took'n tied that knot in there when it was on me." "George! I ." "That's honest truth he did." At that time tho noble Bushrod came aloug with a skate strap, and we draw a veil over the dreadful seene,merely rema rkvng that boys do not seem to change so much as men.

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Deaf and Dumb Pro Tern. Whitehall Time. Quietly entering a barber shop, the stranger removed his hat and coat, and, raking a card from his pocket, he wrote on it. A barber stepped forward, read the card and, pointing to a chair, said to his brother artist: "Deaf as a brass kettle, and dumb as an oyster." The man straightened himself out in the chair, whim his manipulator began lathering his face. "This deaf .mas has a cheek like a skne wall," he said, when a general laugh followed. "Stick a pin in him, and see if he is entirely dumb." The victim remaining undisturbed, lhe following shots were fired at him by the delighted tonsorial artists: "He needs a shampoo, his hair is dirlier than a cess pool." "Shave him with a stool leg, don't spoil your razor on that stubble." "Gracious, what a breath! It smells like a dutch band of music," "He ought to rent that nose for locomotive headlight," etc. While all those complimentary allu

sions were flying about him, the opera tion of shaving was finished, aud the man arose, put on his coat, and then turning to the astonished barber, said: "How much for the shave and compliments?" "I T I I," gasped the astonished man. "Oh, nothing nothing, call again, excuse." And. as the stranger left the shop, the discomfited barbers swore they would never believe in a deaf and dumb man again until they had first fired a tenpound cannon about his ears, A Kockvilie man skated the other day all the way from that place to Portland Mill, fourtesa milts, on the grftTsl rc-ad'

FOUR SEA STORIES. Th Explorer and a Magnetic Island The UorU:nn' Escape.

All tho ?car Hound la the autumn of 1867 the schooner Explorer, having a crew of two, captained by John Waddel, loft Chatham, Ontario, for Georgian Bay. Toward the end of November the captain arrived at Goderieh alone. The schooner had gone down in a sudden squall, taking the crew with her, Waddol escaping in tho yawl boat. His story was not impeached, and the money for which the vessel and her cargo was insured was duly paid Then the, captain took up his residence in Goderich, and became in the habit of

taking trips to the north Bhore, accompanied by his twelve-year-old son, until one of them ended in the capsizing of the boat and the drowning of its occupants. Some yeara afterward a fisherman discovered a schooner in about a hundred feet of water, near Gape Hurd, but no attempt to raise the sunken vessel was made until the present year, when Captain Jevs of Port Huron, undertook tha

task, and accomplishing it, proved those who thought the explorer had been wilfully lost were right in their suspicions. She had been shipped of her canvas, and her cargo waa represented by some tons of stone. Twelve auger holes were found close to tho keel, and the body of a sailor lay in the locked-np cabin. If ships have been strangely lost they have been just as strangely5 saved. The Hortense, from New Orleans to Massachusetts, was nearing the Florida straights. Before turning in for the night, her commander warned the mate not to omit calling him at three o'clock, as they would then be approaching the doubleheaded Shot Keys, a large and dangerous rock. The night wore on. The mate went below to get something out of his chest, sat down upon It, and was soon fast asleep. The men on9 deck, thinking all was right, dropped off one by one, leaving a Spanish lad at the holm to keep

a solitary watch. The wind changed, a stuf breeze sprang up, and the Hortense spwd swiftly on toward the dreaded rock. The captain's terrier was on deck and wide awake. Bushing to his master's cabin, he jumped upon the sleeping man and woko him. Told to be quiet Kep only barked the louder, till the thoroughly-aroused captain thought he might as well go on deck. He was j'ist in time, Right ahead lay the rock, and 6iezing the helm, he put the" vessel about. Three minutos later and the Hortense would have been a wreck, Iu a newspaper of 1880 was to be read: fThe Brigantine Moorburg left Fooohow in China, in October last, for Melbourne, carrying a crew of four, exclusive of tho captain whose wife was with him and the mate. During the earlier part

or tne voyage tne crew ten sick, ana, one after another died. That left the entir management of the ship to the captain, the mate, and the captain's wife. The heat was frightful, and, as if there wa3 not sufficient difficulties already, a leak was gprung; the mate was reduced to a skeleton, and almost helpless from sickness; the captain Avas covered with sore!, and his legs painfully swollen. The captain's wife, a small and by no means robust women, kept her health; and not only did she nurse all the sick .in turn, and look after her baby, but she took the wheel in the regular watches, and did her share of the seaman's work besides. The captain, in spite of his dreadful condition, managed to let himself overboard and etDpped the leak; and so, at last, after all her troubles, the Moorburg got into Brisbane half full of w? tor, with two sick men on board and a women at the helm. More than this, the gallant woman not only brought the ship afe into port, but her baby, too." Strangest of all is our last story of the sea. In December, 1873, the British ship Dei Gratia arrived at Gibraltar with the Mary Celeste, an American brigantine, found derelict in latitude 88.20 N , longitude 17.15 V , bu t without any apparent cause for her abandonment. The Admiralty Court ordered a special survey. The exterior of the ship's hull showed no trace of damage, nor was there any appearance of her having struck on any rock or ground, or been in collision. The stem, stern post and rudder were in good condition. As with the exterior, so it was with the interior of the derelict. A minute examination proved conclusively that no accident had befallen her, and that she had not encountered very heavy weather, for the pitch in the water-ways had not started, and the hull, masts and yards were as perfect as they well could be. There was not a crack in the paint of the dock house. The seamen's chests and sundry articles of clotning on board were quite dry ; moreover a small vial of sewing machine oil, and a reel and thimble over it, had not even been upset. The harmonium and the rest of the cabin furniture stood in their proper places, the music and books scattered about had ' evidently never been wetted. The barrels of spirits, forming the ship's cargo, and, saving one that had been started, were intact and in good order. No bills of lading, no manifest, rewarded the industry of active searchers. They found, however, abundant evidence of the presence of a lady and child on board the brigatine. The last entry in the log showed th&t at 8 a, m., on the 9th of November, she had passed to the north of St. Mary, one of the Azores ; but, for divers reasons, it was inferred that she was not abandoned until some days later. Why had the Mary Celeste been abandoned? A very terrible answer was suggested by the finding of a sword, appearing as though it had been stained with blood and afterward wiped; and the die covory that the top gallant rail bore marks of the same omnious character, while both sides of the ship's bows had been cut by some sharp instrument. The captain was well-known in Gibraltar, and nobody believed him capable of lending a hand, to the performance of any foul play. "Up to the present time," said the Gibraltar Chronicle of January 20, 1874, not a wool has been heard, not a trace discovered of the captain or the crew, or the lady and her child. It can only be hoped that by giving the utmost publicity to the circumstances, some light may be thrown upon them." Tho home presdid its part in spreading the story far and wide, but as far as we have been able to ascertain, tho hope expressed was not realized; and the abandonment of the Mary Celeste and the fate of those belonging to her are still among the many unsolved mysteries of the sea. Beecher's Theology. Now YorkTimea, Sunday Mr. Henry Ward Beeoher lectured last veaing als Cooper Union, before an audi

ence of 2,500, on Evolution and Revolution," in which he elaborated on his speech at the Herbert Spencer dinner, and detailed at length his belief in a Christian evolution. He began with a statement of the doctrine of evolution as a description of the development of the divine method pursued in creation. The world, as we see it, was the product and growth of natural laws. This is held in a general way by scientits of the present day up to the point of tho origm of

man. Here there is a difference as to whether the human soul was the product of the progress described, or of special influences brought to bear on inferior things. With regard to the relation of evolution to the existence of a divine Creator, he thought evolution left the question where it stands. There are three kinds of evolutionists, atheietie, agnostic and theistio. The latter is Christian. The existence of God cannot be estab lished by physical proof. But there is in all higher natures that which feels the existence of God. He would not say that man descended from the animal creation

by uninterrupted natural law, but if it be true it throws light on many questions, and explains many difficulties not previously explained by any other hypothesis. How does this view affect the word of God ? It will rescue that word from the abuse that has been made of it by believers in a plenary or verbal inspiration of the Bible. The Bible is a history of the development of man along a national and special line. It is itself an example of evolution. The word of God in its structure is confirmatory of evolution. If evolution is tho diviin method of creation, it is to be seen in the household in the development of a child. People have thrown the Bib'e at astronomy and geology, and yet both stand. Again Mr. Beecher said ; "You don't believe in hell. The men who preach it don't They think they do, but they don't Do you believe any man could be

lieve in eternal punishment and live in peace ? Could I look out on my fellowmen and bslieve them doomed to punishment forever? Theology does not tell whether oonsequences follow in the other life. He believed they did, but that is a different thing from the interns! doctrine of etornal punishment. Mr. Beecher ridiculed the Bible account of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Fdsn, and denounced the theory of original sin and total depravity ar.d that swarms of human beings are damned because Adam ate of the apple. Tf this be the God he was called upon to worship he could not love nor reverence such a being. The whole theoiy of morals ss to be advantaged by evolution. Tho essential truths of God all run down their roots into natural laws. Every great precept stands, not on the authority of priest, but stands rooted in the authority of nature itself."

Mr. Beeoher said that evolution would compel men to change their theology and that would be a good riddance. He closed by thanking God for Christian evolution. A Sad Reunion. Louisville Courier-Journal, .. . . . A sensational and sad reunion between a father and son took place yesterday afternoon at the State Prison South in Jeffersonville. Several years ago Patrick Gleason, who lived m Wayne county, Indiana, left home and never returned. His absence was not thought strange, however, as he had some family troubles which annoyed him considerably, and he

had several times threatened to leave.He had one son, named Thomas Gleason,who was then about eighteen years of age. Years passed away and not a word was heard from the missing father by either mother or son, and he was considered as dead. The young man, as he grew up, developed a very wild disposition and was frequently in trouble, but managed to escape justice until a few months ago, when he was arrested for grand larceny. He was tried in the Circuit Court of Wayne county and sentenced to the penitentiary. He arrived at the prison yesterday, and was at once arrayed in his striped suit and had his hair and beard shaved closely. He was then conducted through the workshops, and in passing a line of convicts,to his surprise and shame, he discovered his missing father among the group. The recognition was a mutu al one, and the recognition affected those present almost to tears. The father was serving out a sentence for the same crime that had brought his son within the walls. Not a Runaway Match. Baltimore Special. Colonel Richard T. Allison, of this city, a cousin of tho late General Dick Taylor and a nephew of President Zaoh Taylor was called upon to-day, and had his attention directed to the statement going the rounds of the press that Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the Southern Confederacy, had run away with his first wife. Miss Knox Taylor, and married her clandestinely in Galena, 111. Mr. Allison denied the truth of the statement in every particular. Hs said: "1 was present at the wedding of Mr. Davis with my cousin, in Jefferson County, Ky., about three miles from Louisville. There was no runaway match. Knox was stopping at the home of our aunt, Mrs. Gibson Taylor, and Davis was at the home of my father, Captain J. S. Allison. General Taylor, a brother to General Zaohary, with his family, was present, and so. were others of the family. The father of Miss Taylor was opposed to the match, and that was al!, and it is true that he and Davis never became reconciled until after the battle of Buena Vista. The marriage was not a runaway one in any sense of the term. Mrs. Davis only survived her marriage a year or so. After the reconcilement. General Zachary Taylor and Mr. Davis were good friends, and entertamed great' respect for each other. Witches in the West of England. Witches are f? till common in the West of England. A Plymouth witch has lately caused a great deal of discomfort to a sea-faring young man. He set sail with a smack owner of Brixham, as a member of the crew, but his health suffered in his maritime adventure, aud a physician advised him that he was in danger of loosing his eyesight Tho master of the smack bade the young mariner consult a white witch at Plymouth, and the sufferer took this advice. The white witch boldly declared that not the individual but the whole smack was under a spell and suffering from the wiles of sorcerers, The master and tho lad visited the witch together, but the spell could not be removed. The youth then wont into an infirmery, and recovered not only his health, but wages from his too spiritually-minded aster. But the witch will eontinuetodri.ye trade in Plymouth

THE BALLET GIBL,

With complexion like the warn Mid the enowfa, JDuu to powder on kr noB?, . I BUppOBO, Sho twirls upon her too : In abbreviated clothes And exhibits spangled ho To the beaux. : When cruel time bestows Adipose, F airy parts and all those Bhe outgrows, .. And munnuringly goes . To the vry hindmost rows, To pirouette and pose With the 'crows" When lif e frayed and faded grows. Like her bows, Bhe in garrets sits and sews Furbelows Till her weary eyelids close In the peace of death's repose. Is sha. reaping what she sows? Heaven knows. . .... . TjippincotrV":MagaBie.

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things to all men.' The real glove fight occurs when a woman tries to put on a No. 6; glove on a No. 7 hand. ... Atlanta elnims to have a- younw lady who has the finest and prettiest hair in the United States. The name of the party of whom sho purchased it is not made public. A Boston young lady of wealth and position has astonished "society" by cutting and making1 her own wedding dress. She iilso intended to make her own wel ding-cake, but the Bo:ir-J of Health interfered, A writer for the Omaha Be publican does this. On his own head be ii:

Ho drew it 6lowly from the butter. And as ho waved it in ' he air 'Plirt t7if irr rn jfr.T lir.l K4r mntitv

This was not on the bill of hair. An inebriate died suddenly at Weksville, M. T., the present terminus of the Northern Pacific railroad, and the coroners jury returned the following verdict: "We, the jury appointed to sit upon the body of Andy "Walsh, now lying before us, find that he came to his death from a change of whisky."

What a romance can bo woveh from figures! A young man unit a girl ler, married her, and took iior on a wedding 2er, and the morning they swied sh8er breakfast with a good appetite, a b9 smile occasionally flickering about her mouth and they went on the even; lOer of sheir tvatr "

A Tennessee conundrumWhy is it thst if one Abscond-he Goes straight toward the RiO Grande. .,,... ' Courier Journal. We cannot tell why if He'd go, ne . Would go that way, for w Don't know-ee . James McK., Decatur, HI: "Please give me the gross receipts of the postal depart ment of the United States for the last fiW -nl TfiDr " nnri An 4 Tntvion TKa

Jki. JVUlt . II V VtUIUVV 111) V AUD gross receipts of the Postal Department for the last fiscal year have been squandered by the voluptuous Government of the United States in paying postmasters and route agents, and delivery elerks,and the wear and tear on lock-boxes; therefore . we haven't got it to give you. If you feel

use compromising ana taiang less, Jet us hear from you again. Internal Improvements: One of th Schaumburg girls, Rebecca,recently went

to New York on a visit, and while absent she became acquainted ' ith and married, without her father's knowledge or consent, a miserable-looking, impecunious little man named Max Sonneuschein. When the happy couple arrived at Austin, and Mose Schaumburg saw his son-in-law, he raved and went on like a pirate, but he had to accept the situation. He, howev er, never lost an opportunity ol telling Bebecca whata miserable looking little cuss her husband, "Max Sonuenschien, really was. "Padder," replied Rebecca, tearfully, laying her hand on her bosoin, "Max vash not peautiful outside, but inside he vash choosfc handsome,' . meaning . that Max had a kind heart. "Rebecca, you say that Max vash handsome inside?' asked Mose. "Yes, f adder." "Den, why don't you turn him inside out? He vould look so much petter." The late Admiral Bailey, who was dined' iu New York city after the captnre of New Orleans, explained that battle as follows : "Mr President and gentlemen and; hem, thank ye." And then, after a loug pause; Wall, t suppose you want to hear about that New Orleans affair?' "Yes! yesP echoed through the hall. "Well d'ye see this was the way of it," resumed the orator, hitching up his trousers. "We were lying down the river below the forts, and Farragut he he signaled us to go in and take 'em . Being as we were already hove short, itdidn,t take much time to get under way, so that wasn't so much of a job as you seem to think; and then the engit neers they ran the ships, so tjiat all we had to do was to blaze away when we got up to the forts, and take 'em ac

cording to orders. That's just all there was about it." And the concise narrator

reeling tnat ne naa acoompnsnea everything demanded of him, sat down in the midst of thunders of applause.

jump. A gentleman of Lowell, Mass., tells a story of a couple that be once knew in Rutland Vt They had differences sometimeo, which were usually settled without difficulty. On oneloosasion however the old man threatened to commit anici by hanging himself. Ty iagpne end of a rope about his neck, he crawled out on the lower branch of an-old apple tree that grew in the yard, and weoared the other end. Then he called h is old woman out to see him jump into eternity. The old lady seized a heavy hoise-whip that was an the house, ran out into the yard, and vigorously applying the lash about his legs, shouted, "Jump y ou old fool, junipr He quickly sued for mercy, and never threatened suicide afterward. Temper. Temper imprints its marks upon tht countenance and spu dily reveals th character of the disposition which lurks behind it Being a growing and vigorous power, it gradually overcomes every obstacle which stands in the way, of observation. It wrinkles the brow, lowers the eyebrows, leuds the curve of the mouth, and pouts the Hps whenever it is of a disagreeable and selfish nature. Cultivate beauty of the soul, for tho course of feeling engendered by a kind and generous character will always give life and permanent animation to all the lines of the face - ' Estimates place the number of Wisconsin people who have settled in Dakota within thepift three yiars M 9&XXk -