Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 30, Bloomington, Monroe County, 26 May 1883 — Page 3

Mr. Cukms, in Harper's Easy Ghau believes that women will never reach he

proper davelopmect until she ceases tp

be iinder the. dictation tt men. "In

tirrtri xphftre the tacit xiuaerstancunjr is

that women must study to please meri

the vanitv and folly and mad extrava

gance of the fashionable women ar

mainly due to men."

Ax Iowa villager laid a wager that

stranger, whose acquaintance lie had cas.

nally made, could not within six hours . woo, win and marry a young lady who

had just arrived at the same hotel. The snitor introduced himself to her, she

smiled upon him, a minuter was calleQ

in, and the ceremony was performed. The

couple left on the following morning wit!

no inconsiderable sum of mone.y They

were husband and wife of Ion" standing,

and had played the same trick in many places. . - - - -.-. . . When matches were first invented there was universal prejudice- against

them. The, papers denounced them as "

bid for inc ndiarism." ' Merchants would

not keep them for sale, snd the railroads

refused to carry them. The mventor, a Massachusetts man, was obliged to take

them through to Boston in wagons. It

is a singular fact that many rf our nios useful and important inventions havehac

to contend with the ignorant prejudice

of the very people they were intended to

benefit.

Postmasters throughout the country will do well to remember the following!, which is section 941 frcm the P. (X Guide of 1883: "Postmasters will not allow nonj-

nor

subscribers to take from the boxes, will they hand to them, newspapers

ad-

J

dressed to subscribers, to be read by nonsubscribers, refolded and returned by them into the general delivery, without ja verbal or written permit from the actual subscriber, granting such a privilege. A violation otthis ruling will be considered a sufficient ground for a postmasters removal."

The last of the four enormous warships built for the Italian navy has just been completed. The names of these vessels are, in the order of their construction, the Bandolo. the Duilio, the Italia and the Lepanto. It is said that anyone of the four "is a march for a whole foreign Seek" The Inflexible, the most powerful vessel of the Briiish navy, would be completely at the mercy of the Lep&nto, whose guns can readily pierce through twenty-four inches of armor, while her own aimdr, thirty-six inches m thickness, will resist the shot of a lGO-toi? gun, as shown by the recent experiments at Spezia. The Le panto carries four 100 ton guns. Tjiis monster man-of-war could sink the entire navy of the Uni ted States in short rcjer, and consider the affair uninteresting.

Burikg the latter years of the French dominion in Hayti colored persons j of both sexes were generally to be seen at official entertainments. Negroes wiere not, however, even in the days of the first republic, usually admitted to society in the other Preach West Indian colonies, and in recent times they have been J almost banished from the presence of jthe local Governors. It is therefore njofeworthy that M. Allegre, Governon of Martinique, invited all the principal j negro ladies of the island to his official lpaU, and has announced his intention of hejice-

rorward making no social distinction

whatever between the colored white population of the island.

and

the

Pecexixt the Mississippi river j has exhibited an inclination toward rebellion in a new line, and, much to the astonishment of the oldest inhabitant, threatens to desert its own bed, and by sweeping down through the Atobafalayn, takje a short cut to the gulf. If not curbed in its wild career, its course wil be entirely changed, New Orleans will be left nigh and dry many miles from the river, md the distance to the gulf be shortened j by iiearly 200 miles. It is estimated by j engineers that this change will be effected within two or three years, unless speedy steps are taken to present it. How this shall be accomplished is a question that

stares the citizens of New Orleans lower Louisiana square in the face.

and

There are two twin brothers living in Carlisle, Sullivan county, Indiana,oamed Walker, who resemble each other very closely. One of them, John, enlisted during the war, and rn the course of rime was taken sick and fu -loughed. On reaching home his brother donned his uniform and immediately rejorted to Lis company as ready for duty. The resemblance was so striking teat his oivn comrades could not tell the difference, though they expressed great surprise at his fresh appearance, whereas, only a few days previous, 3 was pale and sickly. He answeied to his brother's name at roll call for quite a while, finally he took sick and was regularly fnrionghed nome, then John returned and took his dd place in his company without any one except a few of his intimate friends kuowing the difference.

The hammered metal now in fashion is comparatively new to the many, and is deemed beautiful; but the dude who carries a cime with a head of hammered silver and copper may be pained to4 learn thitt this decoration of metal-is not Anglican in its origin, but was common to the aboriginal tribes of the United States. The discovery of a cruciform pendant in a-stone grave of Ten nessee shows that the copper was hammered not only into implements, but into ornaments. The design, however, nee d net alarm theologians, for it appears to have been a? natural conception,, instead of the symbol of Christianity, ju3t as the Sioux chief draw a cross to represent the four winds. The number of copper objects collected in the Peabody MuseumM rom North ami South America indicates the extended use of the metal, which seems to have beeJ ham mered as well as smelted, in Chili Pern, Central America and Mexico, andjthe remains of a furnace evidently v&e& for copper smelting have been discovered in the ruins of Chimu. . i

Tub province of Tonquin, about which there is now a serous quarrel between Franca and China, is part of the little kingdom of Anam. Several yearslago the French established a protectorate over Tonquin, for purposes of trade, scaring the Apt miles in to submission byi a warlike demonstration The Songkoi River, which empties into the Gulf of Tonquin,. is an important highway into YiinDan, a province of China. The French lvalue it as an avenue for commerce. Biit their enemti's in Anam and Yunnaii quite numerous, it seen, and of a iratfcal turn o: mind virtually closed the river to foreign trade two years ago. 'jpis was

the reason whv France bombarded the capitnl of Tonquin last spring, and began to collect custom duties. The protectorate which assumes to control the Songkoi River cenirs in conflict with the King of Anam end also the Chinese authorifciesau whose territory the river rises. Despite all protests from the Court of Pelriu, French gunboats and merchrnt vessels act quite as much at romein the Songko as if France had bought and paid for the stream. Hence, Chinese indignation and a flutter of pigtails in the excisemen t of warlike pieparntioos. The bill recently passed by the Pennsplyania Legislature providing for the adjustment of disputes, betweeu employers and employer, by beards of arbitration and conciliation, is said to be the first attempt in the United States to establish such tribunals, though the system has been in operation for many years in at least two European countries. By the Pennsylvania bill the courts are directed., in response to proper applications froJi employers and workmen, to issue licenses for the establishment of

boards in which each side shall nave an

aiqI nirmhivr nf Alpp.tpd members. It is

Cij'nu also provided that there shall be an urn-

Matters in dis-

pi in. j iu. . vh.j-j' pxite are first to be considered by a con

ciliation committee. If tins committee

can not by a unanimous vote enecc a

settlement, the question will go before

the full board, with the understanding that the umpire's decision may be made

a matter or reeoru in luocumte, emu ju-

ment mav be entered upon it and enforc

ed. Arbitration has worked well in both England and France, and there would

seem-to be no reason why it should npt prove successful in this country. Much

depends, of course, upon the system

adopted. If the Pennsylvania pian snows

satisfactory results otner stares win

doubtless be ready to profit by the ex-

The transportation to the United States

of Irish paupers by the English Govern

ment will not lie a bad thing for either

the paupers or this country if they do as did the Irish who fi rm the colony at Greeley, Neb. Rev. J. M. Smythe, the

priest who is in charge of the Catholic church at that point, says that colony has

lad a wonderful success. "When he iirst

ocated at "Greeley, in 1877, there were on-

y twelve families in the settlement, and

the houses were all adobes, biuce then

the population has gradually increased

until there are now over two hundred

amines of Catholics aTcn. The people

mve had a bud struggle, but pluck and

perseverance have brought them through

and, all are happy and independent. Dur

ing the first few years of the history of

the settlement many of the men had to

eave their farms and work in the mines,

But their wives, instead of folding their

arms and sitting idly at home, put their

rands to the plow, and with ox teams

broke up frcm forty to eighty acres of.

and each. The climate of Greeley, Mr.

Smvthe soys, is so healthy that the only

people who die are the factors and Urwvers, and they starve to death. The Irish

Catholic Colonization Society of the

United Stales should endeavor to get

those emigrants sent over by the English

Government onto farms in the "West.

They will there be able to support them

selves and live in a manner that will be impossible if they remain in the cities.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Folger decided to refer to the

Attornay-general for opinion the question

of the right of persons to export whisky

from Newport News, Ya., to Bermuda, and then reimport the same, either for

immediate use or for storage in a bonded

warehouse for two years.

Tn the ease of one Eeeside. an ex-con

tractor, who disputes the right of the PoBtoffice Department to charge him, in subsequent contracts, for a partial failure in preceding ones, for which he has ah -ready been paid, Judge Lawrence has de cided that the department has no right to carry over fines or parts of fines from one contract to another. Secretary Folger has informed the President that in order to carry into effect the provisions of the act to pi event the importation of adulterated or spurious or adulterated teas, it will be necessary to appoint assistant appraisers at New York, Chicago and San Francisco, who shall perform the duties of special tea examiners. These appointments are vested in the President, and not in the Secretary of the Treasury, as at first supposed. Open war has been declared between the Greenough and Fred. Douglass factions, and the colore d people a re in a state of turmoil in consequence. At a large meeting of Greenough's followers Moudav night speeches were made and reso-v lutions adopted denouncing the movement looting to the holding of a convention of colored people next September, and characterizing it as a scheme of s 1fish men who are seeking political advancement. They held that there was no occasion for such a convention, and that, it works injury to che race. Dr. Mary Walker has until lecently been very popular in her division of the Pension Oflice. She would do just as she pleased, and had a habit of taking work from clerk's desks and trying to do it herself. No one cared to make a fuss abou t it until one old clerk said to his neighbor: "I would never strike a woman,but if Dr. Walker took work from my desk I would paddle her pantaloons." Some one probably told her of this, and eince that things have gone on different. Secretary Folger has written another letter to Mr. March in relat'on to the investigation of the supervising architect's office. After stating that Mr. Murch can have any papers on file in the department the Secretary says: "If papers have been willfully destroyed, show me the malefactor and he will be removed. I must rely for information upon fchelieads of bureaus and divisions as to the exist, ee of papers. When they, on requjjft from me, deliberately, and in writi inform me that the papers named vfffeQ not in existence. I feel disposed trtake their word

until they are shor to be unworthy of

confidence.

Secretary Folgr has been studying the

question of pan rer immigration ever since he cot (iover-or Bn tier's letter. Ho finds

that it is for'01?611 &w but that the

law contar l3no pcj3at, and is practically negator United States can and does send j?apers, etc., etc., home again but it must be done at the expense of the home gove.iimcnfc, and not at the expense of the steamship .companies. If the latter cannot hi mnietvd in soma wny they viil, of csourre, coatiaxio to briug paupers cverf The Treasury Department finds

that England is assisting paupers to Bel giuni, and then paying for their transportation to the United States. Secretary Folger has asked for information auto the propriety of this j. receding from the

State Department.

The paymeute on account of pensions for the present month are expected to reach $5,000,000. Last month they went

up to a little over $1,000,000, and fell slightly short of the latter sum in March, These figures represent first payments or. certificates, which are mrde as scon as the certificates are issued. The regular payment of pensions are made quarterly, and will approximate $25,000,000 for the current year. Aboul 5,000 new pension certificates are now being issued per month, representing an average of 81,000 each, and officials of the Pension Bureau think this rate will be kept up during the year. Applications for the increase of pension allowed by the act of March ft, 1883, are coming in rapidly, and 8.000 certificates, entitling holders to obtain inorense. have already been issued. As the

increase, in most cases, is only 6 per

month, payment on account of these cer

tificates are comparatively of little importance, and will hardly be noticed in the millions paid out for arrearages. The Southern Pacific Baitroad Company has recently marie application to the Secretary of the Interior for the lauds originally granted to the Texas Pacific Bail road Company for the construction of its road. These lands are claimed by virtue of an assignment from the Texas Pacific company, which has failed to construct the road for which the grant was made. A decision will not be reached i i the case for several clays, but there is reason to believe that when it is rendered, it will be adverse to the claim of the South ern Pacific company. The grant of land in dispute aggregates between 17,000,000 and 18,000,000 acres. Senator Conkling tells his friends that he made no such speech at the dinner of the Saturday Night Club in New York as was attributed to him in the newspapers next day; in fact, he says no speeches whatever were made that night. It was not a speech-making occasion. It simply was a gentleman's dinner party. Conkling went because Grant went. lie did not know that there were any reporters

present, and was very much astonished

when ho saw in the morning newspapers

what purported to be a speech made by himself. He admits that he said during the evening in conversation most o the things credit d to him, but they were

strum? together in'o a r p.ceh by somf clever listener with a good memory. Some of the remarks were distoited by being torn out of their context. For example, he did not say anything about Arthurs. having one foot in the half breed and the other foot in the stalwart beat. It has been discovered that the new rules adopted regulating admissions to the civil service practically excludes exConfederates. The rules provide thai forty years of age shall he the limit or maximum age of entry into the civil service. There is a saving clause, how ver, which provides that this restriction shall not apply to honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who served in the late war. No es-Confederate soldier could come in under this sa ving clause, since no Confederate could be an honorably dis charged soldier ot sailor within the meaning of such rule- They were not discharged at all. The late war i now twenty years off. The man who served as a boy is now forty years old,and, therefore, would not be eligible under the civil service rules to a clerkship in a government cilice. This is not so much the result of design on the part of the framers

of the civil service rules as the result of

necessity, it is nobody's fault that men

grow old and unserviceable.

WORK AND WAIT.

Preserving Eggs. Several ways of preserving eggs are practiced. The object is to Prevent evaporation from the eggs. Cutting off the air from the contents of the egg preserves them longer than will any other treat

ment. An egg which has lam m bran even for a few days will smell and taste

musty. Packed in lime eggs will be stained. Covered with a coat of spirit vnrnish eggs have kept so perfectly thatafter the lapse of two years chickens were hatched from them. A good egg will sink in a body of water; if stale a body of air

ir.side the shell will frequently cause it to

float. "When boiled a fresh egg will adhere to the shell, which will have a rough exterior; if stale the outside will be

smooth and glassy.

Looking through a paper tube directed toward the light an egg held to the end of the tube will appear translucent if fresh; but if stale it will be dark almost opaque. . Spirit varnish for preserving eggs is made by dissolving gum shellac in enough alcohol to make a thin varnish. Coat each egg and pack, little end flown, so that they cannot move, in bran, sawdust, or sand; the sand is best. Whatever is used for packing should be dean and dry Fcr preserving in lime a pickle is made of the best stone lime, fine, clean salt and water enough to make a strong brine, usually sixty or sixty-five gallons of water,six or eight quarts of salt, and a bushel of lime is used. The lime should be slacked with a portiou of the water, the salt- and t'-e remainder of the water is then added. Stir at internals, and when the pickle is cold and the sediment has settled, dip or draw the liquid off into the cask in which the eggs are to he preserved. When only a faw eggs are to be pickled a stone jar will answer. Old-Time Newspaper Enterprise. Commenting on the fact that many young people who have just rend the novel entitled "Mr. Isaacs" are remarking that the paradise of newspaper men islndia, where the morning paper is always printed by three o'clock the previous afternoon, and sealed and ready for the pBt by 4 p. m., a writer in the Boston Herald gives a curious reminiscence concerning a Maine paper. Pshaw!" he says, "the writer of this doesn't cloioi respect for gray bis.hairs,but he lemombors well the snminer Sundays not a quarter of a century ago when the .Bangor Whig used to be printed every Sunday afternoon, and some of the subscribers got their Monday morning papers before they sat down to dinner Sunday. For example, the gray-haired man who then was and now is the Whin's pressman used to car ry

a Monday morning paper to his neighbors

every Sunday afternoon. Nobody accus

ed him of violating the Sunday laws either." In teaching a child to sew, five stiches a day will be enough for tiie tirst few weeks, Init letjhem be perfect and true.

A I ttwhaml, who innny years Hud plowftl hw finlda unci sown ir toam. Grow weary witli hi flnlUi ml fwwis 'I toil in minlThoRP rocks mu smhIb Will yield no harvest to my hards: 'I ho boat foods rot in barren lands. 'My drooping vino in withering; No promised Rrnptf itfiblosmmifl brim;: No bird among its branches sins, "My flock is dying on th plain; Too hKnvonsare bras -t hoy yiold no rain; Tho earth is iron. I toil in vain!" Whilo yot ho noak? a breath had stirred Ilis drooping vino, like wins of bird, And from its loaves a voice ho hoard. uTho germ and fruits of life must bo Forever hid in mystery: Yet none can toil in vain for mo. "A mightier hand more skilled than t hine, Mnst-hang the cluster on tho vine. And make tho fields with harvest shine. "Man can but work: God can create; Hnt they who work, and watch, and wait, Have their reward, though it come late, "Look up to heaven ! behold and hear The cloud3 ard flmndorings in thy ear -

And bjjswoi to thy doubts and fear." He looked, and loin clond-drapntl ear, With trailing smoke and flames afar. Was rushing to a distant star. And every thirsty flock and plain Was raising up to meet the iain That oamo to clothe the fields with grain. And on the cloud ho saw ngnin The covenant of God with men, lie-written with his lainbow pen. 'Seed time and hrv t fl nil not fail. And though all enemies anail. My truth and promie shall pevn?t."

RUMMAGING.

BY JANET W. MCIRSON.

"Kitty! Kitty P cried ber aunt, "what re you doin; in the garret? Comedown, child, do. '.There's not okc thiu there you would care about, and-1 do hate to have people rummaging anioug my things," she added in a lower tone, quite unheard by her niece, who ran gaily down. "Oh, Aunty, such treasures! Are you going to sit down now? I'll bring inv work." And she ran into her room to brush off t lie dust from her black dress. "Aunt Catty," she began, after they were seated in the neat, bare parlor.which Kitty contemplated with an inward shudder, "I wish yon would tell me about great Aunt. Katharine." "What shall I tell you about her?1 "Oh, every thin?. Why she was so queer and unkind to you and papa; and what

became ot the beautiful old place and fur

niture; and why you, poor tbnir, were

cut oiVih ruLin- tr" "In the lirst place," said Miss Randall, rather grimly, "the never was unhind to your father. She never meant to leave her money to him. She gave him a good deucation, and he was a man; and what more could he want? she thought and I think, too. But the place; why do toll, Kitty Randall, if you didn't know it went to the Masons. Jane Mason was her other niece, and hd a Jrrg" f airily cf children: and I suppose it was all ri ;ht. Rut as for me, who had always lived with her from a baby well,! suppose we were too much alike. If she nagged, I answered back, sooke my mind, instead of holding my tongue. How ever, 111 fry to be just to poor Aunt Katherine. I don't believe in ray heart that she would have. Jet these trifles itflneuec her will, though

in the long years i hey do turn love to something very like hate. But it was more than that. I suppose I may as well tell you, Kitty. I was engaged to the wrong man." "Aunty! You engaged! Why did nobody ever tell me about it." "Who was there to tell you, Kitty? Your poor father was ill so long he would not remember Hie past- my past at any rate," "But do tell me all now, dear Aunt Catty." "There's not much to interest you, my child. I was thirty, and plain as a hedge fence, and lovers had never troubled me much; so when this man nevermind his name--bepan to make up to me, and seemed to care so much, aud admire and respect1, you know, he made a fool of me, a perfect fool. Aunt Katherine hated him. She did everything to induce me to break it olT. I couldn't think why. He was a very personal man,my dear,aud had made both of Lis other wives happy; and I was just set on him, I am ashamed to say. Finally she told me all. It was an uncle of this very man, the same name even, who had ruined her life, and made her the queer, crabbed woman she was. She wa6 only sixteen when he persuaded her into a secret marrriage, to be concealed until she was of age or grandpa could be brought round; but before that time came her fine young gentleman had settled his fate by committing forgery and being sentenced for twenty years. Aunt Katherine never owned the marriage, though she might have got a divorce easily enough, and she cave him a large sum to promise in writing never to claim her, and she burned the certificate. And as for lotting mo many the nephew of this man, and having him drop in upon us at any time, why she wouldn't, and she ended by declaring that it was my fortune James Lavater (there, the name is out!) wanted, and not me, and that not one cent of her money should ever go to forgers and fortune-hunters. "Matters didn't mend. Neither gave up. We couldn't; e were born so. It was just as impossible to either as to sit crroked or to make our hair curl; and we were just alike. I felt sorry for Aunty, I must say; but 1 saw no reason why her bad luck should keep me from happiness. Well, Kitty, it wasn't many weeks after that Aunty died. Died in a moment, o heart disease. Nobody knew she had it, unless maybe herseir, for she had looked st range and shaken for s me days, and I guess she felt it coming on. At the funeral I saw a stranger, an old man, standing close by the grave. You'd thought he was chief mournar, and James Lavater -my James -went up to him, looking very red, and they walked off together, talking very low. That was Amity's husband. I found it out aft or ward, and that ho had been hovering about the neighborhood for a week or two. And the next thing that came out was that the Mas ns were to have tho old place and furniture; but the sixty thousand dollars which were to have gone to me were nowhere. Aunty had drawn that whole sum out of government securities, a little while be fore her den h, and it was all gone. Of course T. know that the good-for-nothing husband had eeen her, and either frightened or coaxed her into giving it to hum He left the eountry right afterward." "How perfectly outrageous!" cried Kitty. "Did she leave you nothiugV" "My dear, she left me a trunk and some

old clothes in it. One dress in particular she stated she hoped I would wear when I married. She needn't have troubled herself to write that bitter sneer in the new will she made only t vo days before her death. Of course you know I never was married. Aunt Katharine judged James Lavater aright Perhaps there is something in a name. After home and fortune went, the lover soou followed. Never mind tho details. "I wcut away just then as a hosnital nurse, Kitty; aud it did me good. Y u know I had a little property from my mother, and I came to her old neighborhood when the war was over, and hired tins house. I had twelve hundred a year to live on, and peace and independence, if. nothing else, I don't say I have not been lonely and sad, Kitty; but if you can con

tent yourself here and put up with my fidgety ways, there 11 be some brightness left after all, in your old Aunty's life." Kitty felt the appeal, an l responded

with a caress; but answeied in a hesitating voice: "You know, darling Aunty, you are all I have to cling to now, and this seems my right place, but but I must speak frankly." "Freely and fully, my dear. 1 like plain speaking." "In the first place, Aunty, the money question. I must pay my share." Aunty looted thouphtfnl,then nodded: "I see, dear. You would be most wel

come to what I have; but I know what it is to be btrn independent. You shall do as you like." "Oh, you dear sens ble thing," cried Kitty, giving her a hug. "Now that; is comfortable. Let us hare it all over at once. You say you have twelve hundred a year. I will put in another twelve hun

dred, and we can live nicely on that, in a

very small way. Can't we?" 1 Kitty, Kitty, that's twice too much." "Not one cent, Aunty. I couldn't pos

sibly live on less. We will have two

maids and make a pretty garden, with lots of roses and vines."

"Earwigs and slugs," remarked Aunty,

grimly. "And the maids will quarrel.

Well, go on. You haven't got through,

I see." "Just one thing more," floundered Kit

ty. '-This house (don't feel bad, dear,) is

so hopelessly ugly."

"Ugly? Well, I declare! Kitty Randall,

do vou mean to drive me crazy with

modem art? Are j on goirg to tack up

Japanese fans and idiotic paper parasols

all over the wal &? Must I have a row of kitchni P'e plates on the mmcl s.Lc!f

a!d.(tka fciinflovor iu the middle of

tiny perfectly limp and pallid, starii g ah the silk, from which prctmdtd various fetiff, greenish eonsers. What was it? Kitty's mind was quick. She jumped up; she tore rteklessiy at the beautiful silk; tbe linings fell apart Miss Randall eat paralyzed. They fell around her. Greenbacks without number! Fifty dollars! one hundred dollars' -by twenties and foriit-s hey came; and Kitty, growing methodic.il, gathered them all up and put them int Aunty's lap. "I do believe the whole siity thousand are here!" ehe cried. They were. Sleeves, waist, all were pulled apart, and the carefully padded bills extracted. Just over the heart was stitched in a little note:

ANOTHER CYCLONE. Fearful Loss of Life and Destruction of Property iu Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri.

the dinner-table. Are you an .esthetic young lady, Kitty?" Kitty laughed heartily. "Don't be afraid, Aunty. I only want my earwigs and sings, snd the maids shan't qrarrel; but I want some low chairs and a pretty little table and lamp, and a place to put my piano and my various oiKurPs and pretty things. And I want to Beiv away this dreadful stove and have an open wood-fire. I saw some beauties of and-jrons and a brass fender in the att;c, Aunty." "Wood-fires nuke a lot of dirt, Kitty." "The new girl can sweep it up. Let us put this car ret in your room, and stain the floor and put down rugs. It's so much cleaner. I see you are going to sav 'Yes,' you dear. There is just one thin more. I saw a trunk in the attic the trunk I guess; and a most beautiful old silk dress the dres, Aunty?" "Yes, Kitty, tbe dress. What now ! Am I to wear it to church, with a peacock feather in my hat?" "Not qir-te, I was only thinking what a lovely sofa-cover it would make." "Kitty! a pink and white brocade!" "Not exactly. Have it dyed." "I never thought of that," said Miss Randall, opening her eyes very wide. "It's not a bad idea. A good, sensible brown." "Or a soft olive or lavender," suggested Kitty, "You must choose a pretty paper first, you know, and then color to harmonize. Oh, you dear, pood Aunty, I do believe you are going to let me have my way, and turn this house into a distracting! y lovely little home." "Distracting, indeed I" sighed Aunt batty. "But yes, Kitty. You are young and have the tastes of your times. 3711 not thwart you. If you sit by the fire I shan't miss my neat little stove, perhaps. If you are happy, maybe I'll get to like your new-fangled ways." "Do let me ki?s you, dear Aunt Catty. I am so glad. I wish I culd -et to work this moment." "Well, dear, you can. There is that brocade. Rip it up." "Just the thing!" cried Kitty delighted, but her Aunt stopped her. "Only, child, don't rummage. I do hate to have my things tossed and tumbled about. There's nothing in the garret but old broken things, no good at all. Promise me to leave them all alona" "All right, Aunty." Kitty ran gaily up stairs. She meant to be very good; but 6he could not help just looking at this old screen delightfully capable of r-astora-tion, or that old clock, banished for its irregular life, but which, when set in order, would look so well in the hall! The hall! Kitty's countenance fell. How could anything really be done to such a pokey, common little house? Kitty sighed as she lifted out the heavy brocade, and wished these decorations might be applied to a pomewhat worthier home, something picturesque and artistic. However, she had gained, much, and it was with a bright face she stood before her Anntjladen with tho old fashioned finery. "See Aunty, it is a perfect beauty. I brought down this lovely scarf, too. It would make such n nice table cover. Did you know it was there?" "I never took one thing out of the trunk," said Miss Randall, gravely, "it was a bitter gift to me, and I ecareely know why I did not leave it behind at the

Masons. What a weiffht it is! I nave always supposed it was he wedding dress. I think it will he a real relief to ne to send the stuff to the dye-pot. The mere thought of its pink and white flowers has always turned me a little sick. Just look how it is lined throughout,and what a shape!" Aunt Catty seized the eeiesors and began to rip vigorously. "I wonder," she ejaculated, "whether Aunt Katharine really, thought I would make a guy of myself by wearing that thing to be married in?" "Oh, no, Aunty,, you would have had to rip it and alter it, of course; but with white satin, you know, and plenty of tulle, it might have been made lovely." "With my yellow cheeks?5' said Aunt Catty, wit h a snort. She ripped on. "Kitty!" Kitty, who had been daintily detaching the, old lace border from neck and sleeves, looked up, startled, t see Aunt Catty sifc-

"Dtjah Niece: Think kindly of me, if you can. If your James Lavater is a better man than mine, you will find the real worth of this, my wedding-dress. If he is whnt I think him, you are well quit of him, and may thank me. In auy case you are sure to find the money soon, for it wouldn't b. you not to rip up and dye my old -nlk and make it of some use. Niece, may vou be a hanpier woman whether maid, wife, or widow than your unfortunate Aunt Cathakine." Poor Aunt C atty! She could hardly recover from the shook and .surprise; but when she did, it had a wonderfully softening effect upon her. A dozen bitter little angularitities and queen) espes which had grown out of her in time of indignity and

au?appomtment dropped away ac once and forever. She looked younger and am eter than she ever had, her niece thought, when she emerged, at last, from a long cry behind her handkerchief, cheered by the knowledge that Aunt Katharine bad not insulted and forsaken her, as all these years she bad thought; but had in reality saved her from what m ight have been an unhappy marriage and applied the test to a heart which shrank back in good time, thank Heaven! And now, instead of a soured, forgotten old maid, lonely and dreart as she had considered herself, she waked to the truth that she was a rich, healthy, independent woman, with a lovely niece to pet and spoil, and delight in; a niece who was wildly dancing arou nd the room, waving a greenback over her head, and crying, with merry triumph : "Aunt Catty, never say again that you hate rummaging." Independent. What Bassi Ale Does. London Letter. Sir Michael Bass, the great brewer, is now very seldom seen in bis seat in the House of Commons, and it is wondered FhriV" or no h wi'S put in an appear

ance to vote against local option m the matter of licensing the sale of alcoholic liquors. The baronetcy was copensation for the loss he would sustain (estimated at iO,000 per annum) from, the transfer of tax on malt to beer. Although the Prince of Brewers is not often seen in public now, t he memory of his many charities abides. The profits on the manufacture of the national beverage must be enormous. Sir Michaei liiugs money abont as if it were dirt. In addition to supporting every charitable and benefical work in Derby and his own neighborhood, he has presented to the town public baths, a recreation ground, and a splendid free library, at a total cost of nearly 50,000. Burton has also benefited by his library. To this town he has given two churches, with parsonage, schools, and endowments, costing upward c f 70,000; also, an institute and club worth about40,000. To Rangemore he has also given a church, schools, and parsonage, at; au expense of about 13,000. Great is the power of beer aud whisky. A brewer restored at his own expense St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; a distiller restored Christ Church and erseted thelrsh Church Synod Hall, while a wine merchant erected the chief Presbyterian church, in the same city.

Yankee Wit Many veers ago, a Pittsburg iron firm purchased a lot of bombshells for old iron. The shells were not loaded, but iu order to melt them, it was ne cessary that they should be broken up. -This was attempted with sledge hammers, but the laborers made but little progress, and it was really given up as a bad job. One day a long, slim Yankee earns along and said: "I understand you have a job for a man here." "Yes," was the reply, "we want that pile of bombs out there broken." "How m 'i eh w il 1 you pay ?" "We will give yon a ftp apiece (six aud a quartet' ccns) if you will agree to brek them all." Til take the cont r et," answered the Yankee. The day was a enH one, aud the thermometer down tr. zn). Tbe man imir0diutc'y went to work, but disdained to fa-re the largo ?lvd?e hammer which was offered him. The Yankee laid every bomb ut on the ground ith the hole up H procure 1 a bueke, an 1 filled . them with water; then he CMne in4o the house, made out his bill, and said he would call round in tho morning for the money. Everyone was mystified, but in the morning Ibeir astonishment was. great. The water had frozen during the night, and in the morning a pile of soran iron was found, as the freezing water had broken every bomb into at least a dozen pieces. Reclaimed Land. 'Walter," said Miss Bubler to the ardent suitor who kneeled at her feet, "I cannot marry you; for some time I have smelled whisky on you t breath. I can never marry a man who drinks, for I am tbe Secretary of a temperance organization." The young man rolled his eyes in an agony of matrimonial despair and solemnly hiccoughed: "Then you do not !ov ma," he said. "Oh, do not tear mv heart. I do love you with condensed arYection.but. you are a drunkard, and I cannot marry yon this evening." "Molvitia, you want me to any some other evening, so you e.ui accuse me of revamping an old gag?" "You lacerate me. It is the drinking I want you to sfeop. My decision is final. I cannot marry you unless you reform. Promise me you will swear off," "I will " exclaimed the young mau,arising. "For how long?" "What is to day?" nVwiay." "I will swear off unt il Wednesday." "O, Wlter, I have reclaimed you," aud she threw her arms around his neck. They were married. No Vender It Is Cold. The logarithm of the radius vector of the earth changes from 0.0035077 on May to 0,0003027 May 31.

A cyclone visited Kacine, Wisconsin, Friday; twenty deaths reported. The loss to property is extensive. The cyclone in Wisconsin, Friday, was more terrific than at first reported. Six

teen persons were killed. The storm did great damage to property, wrecking buddings, ditching trains, etc. Beports of loss of life are also made from all parts of Illinois. TiATETi. The scene along the course of tbe cyclone is pitiful and heart rendering m the extreme. It was not generally known until Sunday morning that Racine had suffered a calamity without parallel in its history. Nearly the entire population of the noith and west side of the river visited, during F id evening and nighr,the

rums, wnere me scene among ine aeau, wounded and dying was one painful beyond description. In many instances surviving relatives bad lost all semblance of reason. Physicians were not numerous enough to give prompfc assistance, and numerous bleeding victims were roiled up in blankwts Oide anxious relatives ran in every direction to secure medical aid. It is now estimated that fully twenty-five were killed and 100 injured. One hundred and filitv houses were de

molished, aud had the cyclone struck the

business center the damage would not easily have been calculable. At the Western Union junction, 6even miles west of. Eacine, many houses were wrecked, and one young man. named Webber, killed. . .... now rr formed. W. J. Johnson, who arrived on the Northwestern train, which left Chicago at 5 p. u.t says he saw a cloud from the southwest meet another from the northeast and sweep along with tremendous speed between the tracks of tbe Northwestern and St Paul railways in fight of the train. About fifteen houses were demolished, and trees and telegraph poles fell across the t rack, necessitating that the train be ttopped, and in one case a tree had to be cut to clear it away. A water-spout was formed on the lake and bui st on the shore, del o ging fields. Boots were carried mano rods distant, and the scene was one of general wreck as the

tram moved on toward Milwaukee. The Northwestern depot at Racine was demolished. INCIDENTS. Annie Willings, seven yers old, was

j killed at John Kami's house. Gus Kiss-

ner's youngest daughter was killed in its mother's arms. An eldest daughter of the same family who has been missing has been found in the creek, dead. The Challapka children, girls, were found dead at 3 o'clock in the ruins of a brick saloon. There were fourteen men in the saloon at the time, and not one of them received a scratch. The Chaiiapka children were passiug in the street, and the building fell on them. Among the peculiar incidents told of the cyclone i3 one to the effect that the house of Matt Lavin and wife, an aged couple residing on the lake shore, was picked up and hurled into the lake, leaving them sitting at the table on the floor in the room uninjured. Three miles from there, and out of the track of the storm, a barn was taken up and three cows left standing uninjured on the floor. A little girl of rive months was discovered, this morning, in a yard neai by,with both legs broken, dead. A boy eight years of age was found alive, but badly bruised. Joseph Kiepei, living in a house on the lake shore, saw the cycle ne cominp', and started for the house of Mr. Hilker to get into the cellar, his wife and child being with him. When about half way across the lots the storm caught them, and Mrs. Keipel fell and lost her hold on the child which was rapidly carried toward the lake. A large Newfoundland dog of Mrs. Hilker ranjand caught the child and held it until the danger was over, thus saving

it t rem being carried into the lake Mr. Keipel grasped his wife and saved her. When the storm struck the lake the water was thrown in the air to the height of seventy -rive feet. A house on High street before the storm is missing, and can't be found. Men ar at wrork clearing away the debris, and women, clad in borrowed clothing, are hurrying about with tear-stained eyes, bernoar-uig the loss of their homes and relative-, and friends. The suffering is confined to the very northern outskirts of tho city$ IN ILLINOIS. A Sprinfield dispatch says: The damage by the cyelone which visited this section of the State Friday night was more appalling than at first supposed. It skuck the ground on Elijah lie's farua, south of the junction, and laid waft three dwellings and as many barns and outhouses. Mr. He's house, a large twostory brick, was entirely demolished. It was osonpie.d by Mr. Booker, who was considerably injured. An inf ntboy as nearly killed. Across the road from the Booker place, Z. Ebuliu Wilfotd's home was swept away by the tornado, but no damage to life resulted.. A quarter of a mile further to the northeast the house, of Mrs. English was torn to piece everything about the place destroyed, Mrs English crushed and mangled by the falling timber, but there are hopes of her recovery. After demolishing Mrs. English's home, the hurricane struck again four miles east of the city,where the little settlement of Bound Prairie is Situated, and made havoc of lives, property and farms. The best farm iu tbe track of the storm was that of William Con troll, occupied by himself, wife and. hired man. They took refuge in tho cell ar,and weathered the storm in safety, while the house was t oi n down, aud the outbuildings, fences anl stock destroyed and killed. Several persons were killed or severely injured. A Jacksonville dispatch says: Morgan county experienced, last even ing,the most disastrous wind storm ever known in her history. In the city there was considerable wind and rain, but no loss of life or property. On Greasy Prairie, eleven miles south, the farm houses of Porter Story, Alex. Cvunu, William Blackburn, Thomas Kenelor, Jesse Covington and A. Wareup were destroyed. A man named English, a twelve-year-old boy named Blonkman, and two children in tho Westroal family are dead, making ten dtad in this county. At Wood la we, where there was a fatally severe tornado three years ago, the railroad depot was destroyed and ors blown from the track ami into atoms, the track being paitially te rn up. Tho worst of the cyclone, however, was some nine miles north of here on the Peoria l?ranoh

of the Wabash. The storm-cloud was in the shape of a column, and struck the south pari of town at the southern edge, going northeast completely across the: business and residence portion of the. p'fice, levelling four stores, two churches, the depot, repair shops and thirteen dwellings, besides injuring several an I destroying much other property. At Mrr. Griffin's house her three sons and ne daughter wereinjnred,and another daugh

ter, aged twenty-two, was killed, bae hersel f , is in a dangerous condition from the shock to her whole system. Another ruined dwelling was that of her son, Dr. Griffin, who, with his wife, is at the cityhospital here, and both are probably fatally injured internally. His seven-months ' old dau ghter was killed. Another of the wounded is Mr. Hitchens, tbe village blacksmith, who was at Mrs. Griffin's house, James Stephenson's house was destroyed, his leg broken and his wife killed. Mr. and Mrs. John Trotter, an aged couple, lost their lives in theic wrecked home, making five dead in town

and fully fifteen injured. Three of these will probably die. Kine injured were brought to this city this morning. A Clinton dispatch says: "A - terrfij and destructive cyclou e, Eeventy five yards wide, from the southwest, pas ed over a. portion of DeWitt county Friday nieht. doincr immense damage wherever

it struck. It was funnel shaped, and revolved with great rapidity. Near Kenny hail fell as large as hickory-nute. In alii eleven farm-Louses were utterly wr clced and families made homeless. Mr. Beraisob's house was blown out of sight and? the family injured." Three persons were killed and many in jured. The storm in many other places in theState is reported quite as severe. IN MISSOTJBI. w Prom advices received by telegraph by the Globe-Democrat, and from accounts g athered by its own reporters, it seems that the tornado which swept over a part of Missouri Friday night, had its origin a

few miles west of Washington, where it

destroyed four farm houses and damaged other property. From there it passed down tne line of the Missouri river. At Cattleville, near St. Peters, two houses were totally destroyed and much other T property damaged, entailing an estimated loss of $15,000. A lady named Toltie, in one of these houses, having a baby in her arms, was killed, but the infant was unhurt From here the storm pafcsed north;

ward, striking Jonesboro,on the Wabah railroad, and continued in a very flat curve nearly due east, and keepir g south of tl;e Wabash road and routh of Warrenton, Wright C:ty and Fioreste1, north of Wentzville, crossing the Wabash track then string across CutthagDog's prairie by the little town of St Paul, and strife ing against the Mississippi river bluff on the Illinois side, where it seems to have been deflected down the river toGraflton, eastward across the country to the points named in other dispatches. It thuc in its course made a reversed 'S ..pomeilurg like a very tall letter Immeoso destruction of property is al o reported from a few. points in Dakota rud , Minnesota. Indiana came in for a share at Wabash and Washington, being reported: very do-, struciive.

How a Yankee Came Out Ahead. An American had been bragging for some time in a public bar room of various rearveleus feats of swimming which, he had witnessed or performed, when an Englishman, who had listened in silent incredulity, bethought himself that he would defeat, or try to defeat the boastful "Colonel" with his own weapons. The old country was able to beat the new at , any tHiing even at fibsif her sons tried ; so he suddenly spske up: ; "Well, yes, Colonel," struck in the Britisher, "those were big swims,! admit, that y 9U say you have seen; but fve known one that beats yours-all hollow. Two years ago I started from, Liverpool to New York in one of the Canard boats. There was a little commotion and excitement on the wharf at leaving, and a man dived into trm water; but we took no particnl ar notice of it Next morning we u - . memWedit, though, for sure enough, there was a man swimming abreast of ns at the rate of fifteen knots an hour. We called out to him and heaved him a rope, but he refused all assistance. At night' of c mrsc, we lost sight of him; but when the sun rose, there he was again, striving out as lively as possible. And so be stool ' by us ail the way across, sometimes div ing under our keel, and coming up on the other side; playing around us like a del- -phui, now on his back and now on his side ; now turning heels oyer head, wheel fashion. But about two hours before we reached New York, he began to forge abead,and soon distanced us all toget her; and when we got alongside, we found iiini on the quay, dressed to receive us." The Yankee had eyed the speaker fixedly during his narration. "That's a true yarn, I s'pose stranger?" be said, interrogatively. . "Oh, yes, quite true; I saw it myself" was the reply. "You saw that man swim across from Liverpool to New York alongside your ste&nier all the way?" "Exactly." "3tianger, did you know that man ?M "Well, no!" exclaimed the Englishman, cautiously; "I didn't know him,but I saw him, nevertheless.''; "Stranger, I was that man!" . Another Glacial Epoch. Omaha Rac. . -: Prof. Paige now has in cordemplation an extended trip, which will take him around the coast of South Africa. Bis object in going is to make some Ecientilie investigation as to. the probable letnrn of a glacial epoch to South Africa. Tlw have been sixty-eight of these epochs and Prof. Paige thinks this country will see another in the course off 4,000 or 5,0M; years, and will of course by that time be entirely depopulated. As most of our citizens do r.ot expect to live so Jong this prediction will not prove so alarming as Wiggius' prophecy. Mr. Paige things that the period of severe storms which, have ravaged the country of late will continue for six or seven years yet, after winch there will be a calmer period

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A Matrimonial Cyclone. San FroSaoiecplVst. .. . . Lady Brooks Caruthers is coming

rect to San Francisco with her six unmarried daughters. Is it possible we've got to drop everything and take f o the woods again. Queen Victoria has ordered Gen. l ord Woolseley to attend the coi-Qnatio:. c eremonies at St. Petcrsburff. Wooltety never was much of a; favorites with tbe queen, .'