Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 31, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 June 1883 — Page 3

Dr. Rogers, Superintendent of tlie Insaoe Asylum, estimates that there are 1,800 insane persons in Indiana who axe

incurable.

r A iiAKOK proportion of the Yankees of Massachusetts are Irish. One-fou rth of the inhabitants of the State are nati ves of Ireland, she having more citizens of that nationality than any other Stat save New York. , -. ... .

Tni Pension Bmean is rapidly disposing of the aecnninlated business. A ne v step is soon to be taken in what is known as Suspended cases" cases that have been ret aside to wait for additional evidence. The applicants or their attorney s will be notified that unless ihe necessary

evidence is furnished within a given time the eases will be dismissed.

The increase of the meat and live cattle exportation from this country to England is illustrated bv the statement of the London Truth that during one week in April seven steamers arrived in Liverpool from America with cargoes of fresh meat

consisting of 9,046 quarters of bear, and 1,908 carcasses of mutton, while seven other vessels brought to the same port 2,655 cattle, and 2,315 sheep. Possibly some of these fourteen vessels were from South America and Canada, but doubtless most of them came from the United States. In the days when cotton was king, the American civil war produced

greit distress in Lancashire, but England now depends largely ou America not only for cotton, but for food.

New York can spend 840,000 for a dog show, and 825,0G0 in fireworks for the opening of the new bridge, but she can not raise enough money to pay ior the erection of a pedestal for a monument that has been presented the eity by .a foreign nation. Boston can give Sullivan, the slugger, a 321,000 benefit, but is compelled to solicit subscriptions from the people of other cities to pay for a statue ether favorite poet, Longfellow. The Memorial Association, organized, to erect r monument to him, which hss been sleeping for a few months, has awakened again and renewed the call for subscript

tione, large and small, from his admirers throughout the country. It is a noble purpose, and should succeed; but consi lering the-wealth and literary pride of Boston, it would seem that her own citis:eas ought to prefer to erect their own monuments.

center of business and easy access by means of elevators mako them very desirable to those who cannot afford to live nearer the earth.

The disease in cattle known as the ptague or pleuro pneumonia, is believed to haverorigicated in the cattle -feeding grounds 'of Asia and Continental EuropeIt reached Great Brilain and Ireland in 1877, and its ravages have eslencled year after year, until now this disease alone causes an annual loss of 10,000,)GO, notwithstanding the vigorous efforts of the G vernment to stamp it out. In 1S48 a single imported cow brought pleuropneumonia to New York, where it still edsts, and whence it spread up and down the coast. At present the disease is almost wholly confined to the seaboard section of the country from Connecticut to Virginia. The sale stables of New York are an important factor in spreading pleuro-pneumonia. The estimated losses to bis country on account of ths disease, in her trade with England, are about $2,000,000 annually. The losses to farmers are probably not less than $10,000,009 a year. -- .- A great trade in dried or jerked beef is being carried ou in South Americr Thousands of tons are exported yearly from Montivedeo, Bosario, and other parts of Uruguay and the Argentine Beimblic. In certain of the saladeros or factories upward of 1,000 cattle are killed daily in the season, one man usually being the executioner of the whole, and despatching them by puncturing the spiual cord at the back of the head. The animals are cut up and the flesh piled up in great heaps, with layers of salt, by semi-naked savages, half Basque, half Indian, who have a peculiar- Knack of causing the flesh to detachitself in flakes from the bone by giving it a stroke with eheir broad cutlass-like knives. Wonderful quickness and dexterity arc exhibited iu every department of the process, but the whole is said to form one of the most disgusting spectacles imaginable. Mixed with black beans a-jd farina, or cassava mea), jerked beef becomes the staple food of the lower order throughout the coasts of South and Central America.

The area of the United States, according to the late census, is 3,025,000 square miles, exclusive of Alaska. If divided u p into states of equal size this area would make 67 states as large as Pennsylvania, 11 of the size of Texas, and 2,788 as 1 irge as Bhode Island. Adding Alaska's 477,390 square miles, the total area under the government at Washington is about 3,600,000 square miles. This makes the United States the largest country on the western' continent. The Dominion of Canada is given 3,822,290 square miles, and the Empire ofBrazil3&7,S64. Bussia Europe i3 2,261,611 square miles, find the whole Bnssiau Empire is over 8,000,000. To occupy this Bussia has 78,000,000 of population in Europe and 7,000,000 in Asia. The area of the Chinese Empire is 3,900,000, with an estimated population of about 400,000,000. The area of the Britisn Empire in both hemispheres in 8,315,000 square miles, with a total population of 252,500,000.

A Frenchman, who was for a numbtt of years consul in one of the Chinese cities, has written a description of that country which would go far to confirm his opinion that China, more than anyother place, is the Arcadia of the world. He asserts that there is an unparalleled absence of crime in the interior provinces that is, those parts of the empire where the people have not been contaminated by intercourse with foreigners. He specifies certain of these provinces that have more inhabitants than any country in Europe, with the exception of Bussia,and asserts that their criminal rt cords show that intervals of years have sometimes occurred during which there hap not been a single case of murder, and that the courts have to deal annually with only a trifling number of robberies and crimes of that character. We are very apt to consider the Chinese from a point of view which regards only their defects; but if these statements concerning them are correct it must be admitted that in certain phases of civilization they have made advances vastly greater than any . that have been made by those western nations that affect to look upon them as semi-barbarians.

Dynamite is one of the many products or combinations of nitro-glycerine, and is about thirteen times as powerful as gunpowder, The discovery of this ' dangerous and potent explosive was made in 1846 by Ascagne Sobrero, then a pupil in the laboratory of Felonez, the eminent French chemist, who devoted twenty years of his life to the investigation of the chemistry of oils and fats. Dynamite was patented in the United States May 25, 1868, the patent being granted to Alfred Noble, of Hamburg, Germany, assignor to John Bandmann, of San Francisco. It consists of a combination of nitro-glycerine with a substance of great, absorbent power, such, for instance, as fullers' earth or rotten stone. By this composition the explosiven ess of the nitro-glycerine is controlled, as it were,aud the compound is rendered capable of withstanding all the ordinary dangers of transportation, while at the same time its explosive power is not lessened. The process of manufacture is very simple. You take a certain proportion of nitric and sulphuric acid and mix them with certain other proportions of gycer;ne, "which is the essence of fat, to nu.ke the nitro-glj-cerine. To make dynoinite you only need to miarnitro-glycerine with some absorbent materialfullers' earth is the best--to have dynamite.

The National Park embraces a large traet of territory in Montana, inclosing a world of wonders, and parties who hae never visited that region hear many mar

velous tales about the extent, greatness and surprising curiosities of that government outdoor o useum. "Old timers" and others have invented many fabulous tales about its wonderful resources, where nature has been so prolific in fupplying au abundance of amazing and superstitions objects, sufficient to please the fastidious taste of all varieties of story tellers, and the number invented is almost marvelous. But among them all, we have not heard of a single tale more ludicrous than the one lately told of a certain mysteriou stream which is said to exist in that region, and which "old timers" declare petrifies everything that attempts to cross it. Becently we beard one of these always truthful say that he knew of a man who was out hunting one time in the park near this stream and came across a buffalo which had by some means got separated from the rest of the herd. The buffalo started to run and it being rough ground our hunter, who was on foot, concluded to run him down. As soon as the buffalo saw that his enemy was gaining on him he made a straight shoot for the petrified stream, evidently with the intention of committing suicide rather than f aii into the hands of his pursuer. Arriving on a bluff that overlooks the stream, he made a tremendous effort to jump across, when he instantly became petrified in mid air. just precisely in the position he occupied in leaping and there, said the narrator, he remains to the present day. "But," said one of the scientific hearers, "that is a little too thin to palm out; the force of gravity alone would have caused him to fall to the earth' 1 'Yes," said the o d timer, "but that was petrified also."

WASHINGTON NOTES.

New Ycbk tit k f 1 nil 1 i U ; in story tenement house. It will be 155 by M feet in size, 200 feet high from the tower to the ground, and will be entirely fire-pioof. Ii will be used ss an an art

ment house and will accommodate thirty-eight femihes. There will be ten stor ies in the front of the building each fourteen feet high, and in the rear the space will be divided into fifteen mezzanine tfoors, each nine feet in height. Four elevators will furnish an easy and rapid means of transportation. The cost will exceed $650,000, and it will take nearly; two years to complete it. From tne attic o the basement the height will be 171 feet, and the four families occupying the upper floor will have aa extensive view of the surrounding city This will be a huge and high structure the highest in the city. In the city of London, however,are two still higher, being twelve stories. They are located near the Thames, to tne southwest of and not far from the parliament bnildings. The windows of the topmost floor present a singular appearance with their tasteful curtains and' pots of ti ?ers. Despite their great height, their apparent solidity gives an air of security and comfort, while their newness to the

With a view to keeping the Indians on their respective reservations and also reducing the expenses of the Indian service, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs has issued a circular to agents at non-treaty Indian Agencies, directing them to discontinue supplying Indians with coffee, tea, sugar and tobacco except as compensation for labor performed.

liieutenant Garringtoxi, who will command the relief expedition to La dy . Franklin bay, will leave New York with his party on the Alhambra, Juno 7, for St Johns, N. P. Mail for Lieutenant Greely and his men, end contributions of reading matter for the expedition, should be sent to the care of the Chief Signal Officer in time to reach Washington not later than Juno 1. Deputy and acting Commissioner of Interval Revenue Rogers is of opinion that the number of revenue districts cannot be reduced more than thirty, and it is said it has been informally decided to make that about the limit of shrinkage. The con

solidation will be made on strictly business principles, politics entering very slightly into the question. Becently Colonel Martin, the assistant secretary of the national Republican committee, wrote to ex-Senator Dorsey, the secretary of the committee, for all the papers and memoranda in his possession as secretary. To this letter Dorsey made a stirring reply, stating in substance that he was still secretary of the national committee, and as such proposed to remain the custodian of such papers as belonged to the committee until his successor shall have been elected in form. The attention of the Treasury Department having been called to the fact that

fresh nsn was sometimes admitted free of

deities on the northern frontiers in exces

sive quantities, a circular has been issued

t$ collectors and others directing t hat the importer be required to file an affidavit 1 A Al. 1 I ..1. . . i l

Hat Lue iieen usn imperii u are ior tne

immediate consumption, and doc intended for preservation. The ports of fciandueky and Detroit are specially mention

ed as points where fish from Canada are received in largo numbers. A statistical statement just issued by the Treasury Department slmws that the exports of merchandise during the present year will probably exceed those of last year by from $00,000,000 to $75,000,000. Last year their value was $750,000,000: This year, judgiug from the work of the nine months for which we have figures, the total will be from $810,000,000 to $820,00 000. The total exports for the nine months ended March 31 wero $650,000,000 against about 590, 000,000 for the corresponding time last year. If the increase goes on dnriug the remain ing three months at the same rate, the exports this yoar will exceed those of anv vea r in the history of the country, ex

cepting 1880 and 1881. The Treasury Department has been informed that attempts may he made to violate the act to prevent the importation of adulterated and spurious teas, by means of importations from Canada. The attention of the customs officers upon the frontiers, therefore, is especially invited to the matter, and in case of doubt they arc instructed not to deliver teas imported iuto their districts until proper samples have been sent; to the nearest United Sta'es officer appointed under the provisions of the act and his report thereon receivedPresident Arthur before starting for New Yok Friday sravo his French cook a four mouths' leave of absence. This indicates that ho does not intend to spend much of the summer here. He may stop in New York well into next month, making his real headquarters at the house of his friend Charles B. Miller, Soon after his return, arrangements will bo made for his Western trip, which will have for one objective point the Yellowstone Park,and incidental an examination of several important land grant railroads. These railroads will play au important part in next

i winter's legislation, and he wishes to un

derstand their relation. The trip will also afford an opportunity to feel the public pulse in the West, and give an impetus to any nascent feeling there in favor of Mr. Arthur's renomination. Senor Godoy, Chilian minister, has advices from his government via the Mexican legation, Paris, announcing the ratification of the treaty of peace between Chili and Peru. His advices state that General Tglesias. who signed the treaty on 'behalf of Peru, is acknowledged in the whole of northern and central Peru. The terms of the treaty include the ces pior fr Chili for ten yaars, of the provinces of Tarapaca, Araca and Taena. Provision is made that on the expiration of that term the question to whom shall the ceded territory thereafter belong shall be submitted to the popular vote of the people o' the territory, the country to whom the territory is voted to nay the other $10,000,000 before acquiring possessior. Senor Gocoy says northern and central

Pern, which has acknowledged Iglesia s constitution, is ahon; five-sixths of the

whole territory of Porn, and include? the capital, Lima, and the principal seaport, Callao. He says, also, that the treaty provides for the occupation by Chili of the ceded territory for the ten years covered hv th terms of the cession, and in all probability the Chilian army of occupation now iu Lima will remain there until the Peruvian government is fully organized and order entirely restored. Senor Godoy states that terms of the treaty were dictated by the Chilian plenipotentiary and General Ittfesias representative at Lima, and forwarded to General Iglesiaa in northern Peru. Having been signed by him, the treaty was returned to Lima and from there sent to Santiago de Chili, where it was ratified by the Chilian government, which on the 24fch instant promulgated it. Secretary Teller, who has just returned from a visit to the Indian training-school at Carlisle, Pa. says that the money which will have to be spent in the presentApache war, if expeuded for the education of Indian children, would put an end to any further rumors of Indian wars. He says that it is no longer an open question that these schools solve the problem whether the Indian is capable of civilization. He adds: "If one-half of the Indian children were placed at such schools the question would be settled at once and forever. The appropriation is small greater, however, this year than last, and greater last year than the previous one but with it great good is being effected The Htes for Ta long time resisted all attempts at educating their children, There are now, however, in the school at Albuquerque, N. M., over twenty youths from the Southern TJtes. Before this I had some fears of the attiude of these Indians in regard to war. Now I have none whatever. Their children at school are a reliable guarantee that they will keep h' peace. We have schools at Carlisle, Pa., Forest Grove, Ore., and Hampton, Va. Hie last is not solely for the Indians, There are other schools, not so completely equipped, in Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, and the Indian

lerntory. liiese scnoois are doing a good work the wor1' that is needed a

practical common sense work. We have

taken from these tribes their old manner

of living, it is but just we should teach

them other ways of earning a livelihood

They will learn; they will labor; they

mnKt live. Leaving out of view alto

gether any sentimental view of the sub

ject, it is far more economical to educate

and teach ibem to support thems elves than to fight or to support them.

PLOEATION DAY;.

llRSPKOTFUIiI.V .OEDUIATRII. tQ TUtf O, A. R. IV hat moan these meiakj? 'marching 0 wry thiri ioih

Wi!h turn nmltnitewi!ctwra ami with flo wore

Wight mul niy ? Thoynroour Nation's hscoos lutf . foUliors and her tars gorac anV mainuMt and wottudec!,. tc.ul omo war noble scars. When our country was araasssit I' y the sounds of Civil War, And tho Bclioosof Fort. Suraptoc gnus wore heard both near and far, 'Twas then tho men you soo 4-0 -day, who march with stataly trow. Wont forth with fihoflo now nunf tborod 'mougsb tho rmy of thodnuL To uphold tho Nations hwefl r, to prmcrvn (lie Union whole. With a iopw ffm iwd feci io as tho noodla to tho polV; But tho connict'alougsincici. over, and why march thoy to-vy? Tolaimor those to?vo faJlO n and a debt of love t pay: Ij; mattorabttlo noTrhotho r tlio dead wore blue r pray ff towers arostrown ow Iwtli alike on Decoration Day. nd thus may itcoutiuno white nuns shall vine fOt set. For we've Ions since forgiven tho gray, but ean'l so soon forget Those who stood besides neon many alwrdfoufdtt fiold, 'Till at last to grim doathf meaaenger they were compolled to yield. So '"wivh malice toward none, and witli cJamity for nlh" Onr mission's one of love to those whom tiod bath pleased to call: The hardship we havoitfferod we can vivid). j callaiio'march, the camp, tho battle mothinks I see ttaun all ! But is there oae rciirets them a-s they ponder ou t hem well ? No ! regrets aro only cherished for' comrades bravo who fell Itegrets for gallant leaders and our fallen 4Boy

in Blue," Who railed 'round the Standard to the Union firm and true; Regreta for all who wore tho Blue, and pity for tlie Gray, all that animates our hearts on Dowry ion Pay. "Then honor our bravo Veterans us they honor their dead; "What have they done for us?" mothinks I kear it said; When duty called they answered "Aye," answered every ones To protect our great inheritago bequeathed by WaslunRton ! Oar great and glorious Union they risked tt'ia life to save Gave manhood unto chattels and freedom unto slaves Is honor thou not due them for such noble work well done ? ; "Republics aro ungrateful," but let not thU be one; And w aon t he last groat "RevoiUe" is sonn led f com the sky. And -vt.i r.ro edited to "muster" by cum maud of the Most High, May no comrade then bo "missing," but al". receivo their pay. In the Crowns to be distributed on 'That Decoration Day !" JOItS K. COOflHAJiE.

How Cattle Increase. Comparatively few, oven atnonf those who have been aeenstomed to seeiu? domestic animals about them on the fane,

realise how rapidly cat.tle, sheep, and horsos would multiply if all the female progeny were allowed to b recti each year. If 10.) cows and their progeny bo kept at breeding for ten years the result will be as follows, estimating the forty per cont. of the nows would have heifers which would, beginning when 2 yours old, in their turn have young: Jloifora, tOOcowi in flrtyear drop l(X) oowa in second yar drop 40 110 cowa in the third year drop.., ft JS0 co we in the fourth your drop 72 238 cows in the fifth year drop , 01 308 owh m the sixth voar drop 2i! 102 cows in tho 80v with year drop 'fti 52 - cows 'in the eiRhtli year drop 2 0 (W eowrt in the ninth year drop... 274 890 co wb in tho tenth year drop Yr& Totu I , ten years 1 , 128 The number of bulls won hi be tho same as that of eeiforf. From the above an idea can be got of the rate at which

capital increases iu the live stock business on the plains, where the cost of keeping a beef from 1m rth to maturity is less than 56,

THE CHURCH DEBT. A Sketch that Teaches, a Lesson. The Methodist Church of New Albion had long been stngerering under a lond of debt. I!s edifice, built in tho flush times following the war, was an ambitious piece of architecture the church of the future beyond a doubt, since it was much larger ban the needs of the congregation and the pews were still vacant which the sanivine builders had expected to see Hlled by the men who were to pay olT the mortgages. The Bav. Mr. Thorpe, the pastor, had carried this debt now for two years; it had been the burden of his days and the nightmare of m dreams; at length he had bronpht his congregation to the point of attacking it. He had made eevcra1 anxious pilgrimages to rich Methodists in neighboring cities, but found small enconragement; it was evident that the Methodists 'of New Albion must shoulder their own load. Accordingly, the first Bun day in October was devoted to a carefnlly-planned effort for the payment of the debt. Mr. Thorpe had concluded to dispense wiih the services of a "fmangolist," and to direct his own forces. There was to be no regular service in the church, but the public were invited to meet at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and, by the grace of God the meeting would not adjourn, Mr. Thorpe said, until the debt was paid. A collation was provided in the basement, so that the people might spend the day in the work. The debt amounted to $32,000, and when the meeting opened in the morning, $17,(K)0 were at once subscribed this amount having been secured before-hand by private coufereuee with the abler contributors. This excellent start awakened great enthusiasm, and fr a time subscriptions came in rapidly; but long before noon the limit of the people's ability seemed to have been reached, and the list footed up only about $24,000. Mr. Thorpe kept his forces well in hand, however, and showed no signs of wavering. Exhortations and appeals were interspersed with singing; a judicious and en ergeti'c committee did a great deal of personal work with individuals; messengers were dispatched to labor with absentees. But it seemed evident that the large gifts

had all been gathered in, and there was still a deficiency of more than $7,000 that the small subscriptions yet to be obtained would by no means supply. As Mr. Franklin, of the Congregational Church, walked home after the service, with his pastor, they passed the dooro the Methodist Church. "Let us look in a moment," said the pastor, "and see how they are getting on' Phey sat down in on 8 of the back seats and watched the proceedings. From Mr, Thorpe's occasional remarks they learned the situation of affairs, and saw that the

case was probably hopeless, though the resolute lender did not for a moment assent to such a conclusion. As they walked alog, Ml Franklin said : "Making a strong fight, aren't they?" "Yes." "But they will not take the fort?" 4T don't know." fitT do; they've got to the sticking pcint and they will not get past it." "Pity!" said Mr. Strong, senteofeiously After a moment's thought, he added, with a new interest: 'Is it lawful to pull your fellow-crea trues out of a pit on the Sabbath day?" "I bhonld say so; especially if he was t ying to .get out himself." "Lawful to hitch up your horse to pull him out?" "Yes," laughed the minister. "Well, you go home and got your lunch, and I'll get mine, and have Major put into the buggy. I'll bo around here before 1 o'clock, aud we'll see what we can do." "All right'

It was not long before the good while horse came at a week-day pace to the door of the parsonage, and the friends were soon whirling nway. "Now, we've got to bo swift," said the banker. "My firet thought was to oil only on some of our own people, but I'm half inc inrd to give some of the rest a chance. Tho Epi scopalians and the Free Baptists have a heavy debt of their own; the Advent ista are not able to help much; wo must enlist the others. Brinsmado must call on the First Churoh folks, Fillsworth on the Bartists, Thompson on the Umvorsalists, and you and I will look oat for our own." They were stopping atMr.Brinsmado's door, and the matter of the house answered the bell. "We have set out," said Mr. Franklin, "to give the Methodists a little lift in paying their church debt. Will you go and stand in the vestibule of your church and waylay ne many as yon can of your strongest men us they go into the rfternonn service, and got subscriptions from them? Start the paper yourself. Thfn ask Dr. Phelps to take up a col'tion before the sermon for the same object. Get cash subscriptions payable to morrow at my bank. Report the amount to me at Mr Strong's house by four o'clock sharp. Will you' do it?" "What a steamboat you are!" said Brinsmade laughing. "Will you doit?" said Franklin, strenuously. "No time for nonsense, old fellowr "Yes, I'll do it." "All right. Good-bye!" And the white horse was soon flying down the street. None of the other churches had after

noon services, and all that could be done in them must be done by personal application to a few of the most prosperous members. But Mr. Franklin had selected the right man as canvasser in each society, and after they had been set at work he and his pastor returned to their own parish, which they divided between them, contriving before four o'clock to Fee a good proportion of its most generous members. At that hour they all met at the parsonage, as per agreement, bringing with them a much larger sum than the most sanguine of them had hoped to get. 'They came down handsomely," said Brinsmade. "Three or four refused to give anything; but most of them had their names down before they krww it. It dropped on them so sudd n like that they hadn't time to hunt up excuses. The old doctor warmed up to the business beautifully, and begged like a professional. Didn't suppose it was in him. They brought in nearly four hundred dollars in theboxes, besides all I got f iota individuals." The others had much the same story to tell. Sympathy with the Methodists in tlmir courageous effort was universal and it had found a generous expression. "Now each of you sit down and write a short letter," said Mr. Franklin, Vex plaining that ihe amount you have collected is from frienda in your church, raming the amount and stating where it may be called for to morrow, and we'll go over at once, and send the letters up to Brother Thorpe I trust ho k holding out yet, but it must be pretty tough for a man who doesn't believe in th perseverance of th:-. saints, to hang on to snob a poor promise " It was about half past four when Mr. Franklin and his frierds enteied tho Methodist Church. The back scats were all occupied, so they stood in the spacebehind the pews and looked on. The church was pretty well filled, and Mr. Thorpe was still keeping up a lively fire of appeal and argument, but thero were no responses, and it was plain that hope had departed from most of the solicitors. "Will you walk forward and take seats gentlemen?" said one of them. "No, thank you," said Mr. Franklin. "We are only lobby members. How do you get on?" "Slowly." And the solicitor shook his head dotefully. "How much have you cot?" "Only a little over twenty-five thousand." "Why don't you stop where you are?" "Then we lose everything. The greater share of the heavy subscriptions are conditional upon tho raising of the whole debt." Won't your subscribers make them unconditional '?"' "No. We've begged them to, but they are obstinate."' "Pity, isn't it?" "Yes, sir. It will be a hard blow if we fail now." The discouraged gentleman walked away. Mr. Franklin's air had been so iudifierent that he had not ventured to ack him for anything. "Send np your letter, Brinsmade," whispered Franklin. 'Get that smalt boy to take it up. The smallest boy toddled up tha aisle, and handed the envelope to Mr. Thorpe, who tore it opeu eagerly. "Hallelujah!" shouted the impetuous Methodist. "Brethren, listen to this: The First Congregational Churoh of New Albion sends greeting to the First Methodist Church, with a pledge of sixteen bundled and seventy five dollars, to be paid to-morrow at twelve o'clock noon, by a check upon tho First National Bank.' This is signed on behalf of the churoh by James W. Brismade." The reading of the letter was fallowed by a storm of cheers and all tha usual Methodist responses, in the midst of which, the choir struck up the Doxology, a nd the whole congregation rose to its feet, and sang it with a tremendous energy, "Will Brother Brismade come forward" shouted Mr. Thorpe. But before he had time to insist on this a littlo girl was mounting the pulpit with another envelope, which the pastor received with trembling hands. Tiiis letter stated that five hundred and fifteen dollars, the gift of a few friends iu tne Univerealist Church, would be on deposit the next day at the same hour and place. Over-ibis the furore was redoubled, one enthusiastic brother mounting a sent and calling for "the eecond verse of the "Doxology." "Better not protract the agonv," said Franklin to Ellsworth, "Let us send up

our notes togother." The minister, who had now for six hours been under a continuous nt rvous strain, in whose heart confidence ha lgiv -en'away to niuietv, and anxiety was be

ginning to change to discouragement, was so completely overcome by the contents of the other two envelopes that he sat down in bis chair, and could not speak for a moment, and at length roso,and half sobbed out: "Two'more, brethren. One from friends in the Baptist Cnurch, with a pledge of nine hundred and twenty-fi ve dollars.and one from friends in the Second Congregational Church, with a premise of eighteen hundred and ten dollars. God bless thorn, everyone!" This time they were all too excited to sing, but there was a volley of amens in response to the last ejaculation, and men and women all over the house were laughing and crying like children. "Give us the footing now, Brother Harrison," said the minister, at length, to the treasurer, who was keeping account of the subscriptions. "Thirty thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars," was the reply. "Less than one thousand dollars more are wanted," cried Mr. Thorpe. "What do you say to that?" "Two hundred dollars more for me!" was the fijst response from one of the heaviest subscribers; and then the supplementary subscript ions, large and small, came pouring in for ten minutes, faster than the treasurer could record them. As soon as there was a short panee, he summed lip the amount again, and, rising to his feet, said quietly: "Thirty:fcwo thousand four hundred and sixty dollars four hundred and sixty dollars for shrinkage!" The scene that followed can only be imagined by those who know what an incubus a church debt is to a. devoted congregation, and who are familiar with the ways in which Methcdi&ts are wont to express their feelings. "I perceive," said Mr. Thorpe, rising to his feet after the tempest had subsided, "that all these pledges are to be paid tomorrow at noon at the First National Bank. It is easy to guess whe is at the bottom of all this business, and I see him now standing near the door." "No scenes for me," whispered the banker to his minister. Tin going. Make my excuses." And he slipped out of the door, and walked quickly away. "Walter Franklin is the man," continued the parson, "and he is leaving the house at this moment; will some one bring him back?" But that was a vain suggestion. Mr Franklin, as everybody knew, would not be brought buk. "Mr. Franklin's pastor mu-t answer for him, then," said the minister; and Mr. Strong walked up the aisle amid great cheering. In a few graceful words ho told the congregation that Mr. Thorpe was right in his conjectures; that the plan of aid ing them in their difficult undertaking was conceived and set in motion by Mr. Franklin, who had!, nevertheless, been supported in the heartiest manner by the gentlemen on whom he had called: that the whole scheme was the inspiration of a moment and the fruit of a few hours' work; and that he trusted that the result of it would be, not only the emancipation of the Methcdif t Church from the bondage of debt, but the strengthening of the bond of fellowship among the churches ef New Albion. To that wish there were many fervent responses, and after a prayer of thanksgiving by the pastor, and singing of "Blest be the fee that binds," the congregation broke up. The day will never be forgotten by any who had part in its doings, and the fruit of the peed then sowed will be reaped in the increasing charity of many generations. Century. The Origin of Postage Stamps. New Haven FalUulinm The idea of an adhesive stamp aflixed to a letter, as indicative of the payment of postage, is much older than has been generally supposed. It is known that the firat suggestion of such an arrangement in modern times came from Kowland Hill, the father of cheap postal system in England, about the year 1839 or 1&10. It was several years, however, before his suggestion was carried into effect. History, however, tells us that the ancient Grecian cities of Thurn and Taxis had such a system, which, for some inexplicable reason, fell into disuse, or failed to become general among nations. The modem postage stamp was, thfn, first used in England about the year 1842 or 1MR In 1MB, E. A. Mitchell, then postmaster of New Haven, taking advantage of the English idea, made use . a postage stamp of his own, which he continued to use until 1847, when the Government of the United States issued the first American po3ttge stamps. They were in two denominations. The 5-eent was of a light brown color, beariug the head of Franklin, and the 10-cent of gray color, with the effigy of Washington. At hit time the rate of letter postage was 5 and 10 cents, according to distauce. In 1851 a serie3 of six denominations was issued. The 1. cent stamp waa blue, beariug an eliptical band upon which were the words, "U. & P. O. Despatch. Prepaid, one cent." Within the band was an eagle with wings outspread. The 2-cent stamp was also blue, bearing tne head of Franklin; theft-cent, vermillion, with the head of Washington; the 5-cent, chocolate, with the head of Jefferson; the 10cent, green, with the head of Washington and thirteen stars in a semi-circle above; the 33 -cent was black, also with head of Washington. The 24, B0 and 90 cent stamps were subsequently added to the series. The first of these bore tho face of Washington; the second, waa oarage, with the head of Franklin, and the last was dnrk-blue, also with the head of Washington. There was in this series also a square carrier's stamp, blue in color, beariug the head of Franklin.

"Only a Pansy Blossom." Detroit Lnttor. Up Second avenue the other night live young men softly entered a yard, arranged themselves in a semi-circle on the grass and suddenly began to sing, while a ''guitar and I an jo added their sugary notes to the general sweetness. As tha song was finished a sash went up and a masculine voie called out: 'Splendid! Beautiful! Gentlemen, please repeat!" The band ou the grass was ony too happ y to accommodate, and "'Only a Pansy Blossom" went floating again on the night breeze. "I.ntrancuig! entrancing!" exclaimed rhe man at the window, "(rentleuien I doa't want to put yon to trouble, but if you would only sing that over once more!" The song dragged a little this time,aud the alto voice seemed to have swallowed

a troche down the wrong pipe, but it emded at last, and the old man called out: "That's what I call singing, that is! Gentlemen, I'm no hog, but if L could prevail upon you to render that beautiful poem once more it would be a kindness I never could forget!" There was a great deal of growling in undertones, but the leader gave the key, and for the fourth time the neighborhood was filled with dreadfully faded pansy blossoms. When the last note died away the old man clapped his hands and exclaimed: "Better and better! You have my heartfelt thanks. The old man is deaf, 1113' darter is in Pontiac, and the hired gal quit yesterday, or F d have "em all stick their heads out and thank you in person! Good ht, gentlemen -good night, and it you see fit to come to-morrow evening I'll have the old woman sot up with a bedquilt wrapped around her!"

Ranches in Texas. Unfenced ranches favorably located, with good living water, can no longer be easily obtained in the West. Although land can be purchased in large bodies in Texas, prices are high and rising. This ia an indication of prosperity in the cattle business, and shows that that business is settling down into regular and fixed ohannels. In Texas a number of large tracts are offered at $1.50 to $2 per acre, but this will not last, as the demand has been without precedent. The permanent establishment of ranches, together with the rapid occupation of wild land, has convinced cattlemen of the necessity of permanently providing for themselves without delay. A large number of ranchmen who have devoted their time principally to the increase of their herds now find themselves compelled either to purchase at the present advanced price? or retire from the business. A number of tracts which arc covered a great part of the year with nutritious grasses, but which, owing to a lack of water, are considered of little value, could be provided with tanks or artesian wells for less money than the difference in value between watered and un watered land. In the case of large bodies of land, even if watered, unless the water be convenient of access, tanks or wells will be found of great value. The advent of capitalists in the business of grazing has proved au important factor in causing tho present increase in the price of land, and the day is not far distant when men who have hesitated about purchasing what seemed to be unfavorable locations may discover their mistake when too late. Just His Wa . 'T see, " she observed as she looked up from her paper, "that another woman who was perfectly sane all the time has just been released from a lunatic asylum after a detention of three years." "Yes," briefly replied the husband. "Sbe was incarcerated by her husband." "Yes." "Who wanted her out of the way that he might marry another woman." "Yes." "In case you desired to dispose of me you would probably have me shut up in a lunatic asylum." No, ma'am; I should poison you. That's the cheaper aud better way. As a man of business, and as an advocate of financial economy. I have thought this matter over time and again, and I should certainly prefer to spend 15 cents for arsenic to paying out 810 to $15 per week for goodness knows bow long." She looked at him a long time with a whole iceberg in each eye, and then turned to her paper with the remark: "Just like yon r stingy ways: you never want me to have anv thing like other folks," No Discount There. Wall Street Nows." .. A few weeks since a railroad collision on one of the roads leading out of! New York killed, among others, a passenger living in an interior town. His remains were sent home in good shape, and a few days after the funeral the attorney of the road called upon the widow to affect a settlement. Slie placed her figures at $20,000. I "Oh! that sum's unreasonable," replied fne attorney. "Your husband was nearly fifty years old." "Yes, sir." "And lame?" "Yes." "And his general health poor?" "Quito poor." "Aud he probably would not have lived oyer five years?" "Probably not, sir." "Then it seems to mo thatS2,000 or$)l 000 would be a fair campeneation." "Two or three thousand!" she echoed. "Well, sir, I courted that man for six years, run after him for ten more, aiu then had to chase him do wu with & sut gun to get him before a preacher Do you suppose that I'm going to settle for the bare cost of shoe leather and ammunition!" The Latest Wrinkle in Shoulders. Now York Lot ter. The shoulders of our belle3 look as as though lited in a chronic shrug. I am trustworthily informed that this effect is produced by padding, and that the artful creatures have simply changed their spots of falsity, iu order to produce that lithe, lank length which fashion just now prescribes for their bodies. Certain corset devices, too, give an appearance of 110 corset at all. The aim of all this is to make the young lady seem to be in a state of unlaced naturalness. . Success is achieved about one time in a hundred. The use of what I believe is called the Newport scarf is nure generally attended with satisfactory results. A heavy, softfringed brocaded strip of stuff, three to rivo yards long, is wrapped round the figures in ways that are iu the main picturesque. Tho hips may be wound with it, or the shoulders draped, or the breast crossed, or the head hooded. This is one of the few articles of fashionable adornment that the eyes of an artist can rest on with approval, and as for the impressionable amateur observer, the sight of a pretty girl artistically decorated with a Newport scarf is apt to bring on an attack of heart-disease and prostrate him before her right there on the parlor floor. A Man Ajjad at Eighteen. Colony Free Press. There is in Schuyler county, Mo,, a ; g-old man, who, without apparent cause, living plainly on a farm, has in eighteen years passed through the physical changes of four-score. At the age of six he had all the development of strength and muscle in a lad of fifteen. At twelve his beard was grown, and gray hairs appeared. Now, at eighteen, be is as decrepit as any old man of eighty,and sepms tottering on the verge cf the grave,

AN IDYL OF THE STREET, Girl, on a ladder, Moppiug of a winder; ,TjOBg cornea a man .. With no one nigh to hinder; Climbs up the ladder. Pate his arm aronnd her, Smaoke her on 1 he month. A forty horse-power sounder Naughty man I The si rl turns around With a sadden stop. Reaches for the man To use him for a mop; Gets a good strong hold. No one nigh to hinder, Goes right ahead Mopping of the winder . Xfflfii man 1

CONDIMENTS A Denver man recently died from the eflfeots of eating mince pie. This prove that every dog has bis day. An Iowa editor, being asked by a cor respondent whether "hogs pay' on examining his subscription, finds they do not. . Subaltern "Meier, when you are on guard at tho powder magazine, and a man passes, smoking a cigar, what do you do?" .Meier "Shout to him to throw it away." Subaltern "And then?" Jftaier "I p iok it up ane smoke the rest." Under a recent legal decision in Chicago it is established for all time that when a blonde lawyer kissed a prettygirl book-agent and is cowhidedby a redheaded lover, the party last named must pay $5 fine. Exchange. The wisdom of the Chicago, bar is receiving NationaL recognition. Inter Qcsean. " The boy stood on the gallery floor, At the nan ghty female show. ' And cast his glances o'er Bald-headed sin below. "I'm too far back," he sadly said, Yet dared not forward go, , For he saw his aged father's head First in the foremost row. . Hint for the suppression of a professional story-teller. He "Say, boys did I ever tell you what happened to me and Smith when" Omnes-r?ou did!" He (surprised, but trying again "Ol But I didn't about what happened to me and Jones as" Omnes "You did!!" He (very pale, but determined 'Well, but you haven't heard about" Omnes "We have!!!" He glares, but is subdued for a week. French Paper. ' An amateur poetess anxiously waits; "O, where can I rind rest?" Get a position as saleswomen in a store that doesn't advertise, darling, Gentleman "You ask me for a small gift, and do not even take off your hat from your head- Is that any way to act?" Bggir "Excuse me, most honorable sir. I dare not do it, for yonder stands a policeman. If he should see me take my hat off it would ocour to him at once that I am a beggar, and he will arrest me. At present, as we are now, he merely supposes that we are two old acquaintances having a friendly chat." It was at the Cataract house in Sioux Falls on Monday. A son of the Emerald ( ushered into the din ing room at the dinner hour and the polite steward took hold of the back of the chair to push! it into place. The guest looked around suspiciously for a minute, and then said loud enough to be heard all over the room: "By the howly Moses, if yes jerk that chair from under me I'll knock the

wnoie cop or yer neaa on o yes. . Zuni Courtship. Frank H. Cashing in The Cento ry: TheZuni customs connected with court ship are curious. Regularly, a young girl expresses her wishes for the man. Her p areats or relatives inform those of the youth, and the latter is encouraged. If suited, he usually drops into the .house of the irl, when much the same conversation as the governor tried to teach me ensues; and "if it be well," the girl becomes his affianced, or Yi-lu-k'ia-ni-ha

(his to be). Thereafter the young couple may be seen frequently together the girl combing his hair n the sunny terraces, or, in winter, near the hearth, while he sits and sews on articles of apparel for her. When he has "made his bundle,"or gathered a sufficient number of presents together invariably including a pair of moccasins, made from a whole deer-skin he takes it to her, and if they are ac

cepted he is adopted as a son oy ner ra&uer, or, in Zum language, "as a ward" Ta-la-h'i; and with the beginning of his residence with h&r commences his married life. With the woman rests the security of the marriage ties: and it must be said, iu her high honor, that she rarely abuses the privilege; that is, never sends her husband to the home of his fathers," unless he richly deserves it.

Much is said of the inferior position of women among Indians. With ail advanced tribes, as with the Zunis, the woman not only controls the situation, but her serfdom is customary, self-imposed, and wilting absolutely. To her belong, also, all the children; and descent, including inheritance, ia on her side: A Recollection of the War.. Chicago Herald. Twenty-one years ago on Wednesday the wooden fleet of Admiral Farragut, grimy with battle smoke and yith hulls and rigging torn by shot and shell, ai -chored in front of New Orleans and demanded the surrender of the city. It occurred April 25, 1862, and was the fii st really great victory of the war.t occurred at a time when the Nation's pulse ran low and the clouds seemed darkening over the Union arms. It was a brilliant feat dashing the cordon of 180 blazing guns against a swift current, in a narrow channel, and with rams and fire rafts to impede the progress of the slow moving wcodeu ships. How its success thrilled the heart of the Nation I The ehiet actors iu the fiery drama have mostly passed from earth. The great and undaunted leader, to whom war was war and bloodshed a mere incident, long since exchanged his well-earned laurel on earth for the crown of immortality. The commanders of his ships are all dead - Morris, Bell, Craven, Aldeu, Melancton Smith of the Mississippi; Drayton, of tuo Hartford ; Boggs, of the Varuna; Jcnks, hee DeOamp, Hansom, Guest, Palmer. Tl e only living naval officer of prominence connected with the afiair is David D Porter, then a commander, and now Admiral of the Navy. Efforts have been repeatedly made, notably by Greely, perhaps the most faithful of our war historians, to divide with General Butler the glory of EarraginVB victory. Nothing co ild be more untrue to history. Tlie troops under General Butler had no part whatever in the reduction of New Orleans They reached the city after the surrender of all the forts, and they landed on the levee from unarmed transports, under the gnus of the fleet. In all their campaign m Hie Department of the Gulf up to tho time of their landing in Now Orleans, they never ttre4 a shot, ,j