Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 36, Bloomington, Monroe County, 7 July 1883 — Page 2

The Bloomington Courier.

BY H. J. FELTTJS.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

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Onr Compilation Oi the Important Happenings el the Week. OHOIiEEA IN J2GYM. Cholera is making a fearful hayoo in Egypt. Eriday 107 deaths were reported at the city of Damietta alone. Two thousand persons have already fled from Alexandria. Thennnisters voted 000 for the nee of the sanitary commission. All fairs have been prohibited. A committee of Cairo doctors dispnfees the existence of true cholera in Egypt. The steamer St. Bernard, from Bombay, with cholera on board, arrivedin Havre Friday and snbseqnently sailed again by order of the authorities. Great alarm prevails in Spain over the outbreak of cholera in Egypt The sanitary council has advised that fixe maximum period of quarantine be imposed upon all vessels arriving at Spanish ports from Egypt. The council

also reauested the ministry to urge the

British government to comply with the advice of the Constantinople sanitary eon ferenca Saturday 109 deaths and Sunday 119 deaths were reported from cholera in Damietta, Egypt The doctors have nearly all fled the city. The number of deaths from cholera at Damietta Monday was 141. There were also fourteen deaths at Mansourah, and Ave at Fort Said on Sunday from the

same disease. A deatn at Alexandria is

suspected to have been from cholera. It is decided in Cyprus to allow no refugees from Egypt to land because of a lack of quarantine stations. Damietta is a considerable town on the eastern estuary of the Nile, which enters the Mediterranean about Ave miles beyond the Nile proper. It is connected by railway with Cairo, which is 113 mi'esto the southwest, and with Alexandria, about, am equal distance in a westerly direction. THE FOCXIC DEBT. The total reduction of the public debt for the fiscal year which came to an end Saturday has been about 187,250,000, a sum exceeding by $18,250,000 the estimate of surplus made by Secretary Folger in December last. At that time, however, it was expected that the year's pension payments would amount to $100,000,000, while in fact the sum of these payments has been less than $ 70,000,000. The decrease of the public debt during June was $lQ98ifl.

Lord to go forth and preach' the gospel. His friends fear that his mind is unsettled by religious excitement. He has not heretofore shown signs of an unsettled mind. .. A canvass made at the editorial convention Held at Logansport on last Thurs-

niorning. Tne old asm was wasneu out

last March, ard the new one was almost

completed.

Saturday afternoon fifty-six boats

carrying 23,000,000 feet of lumber, left Bay City, Mich., for Ohio and the east, being the largest fleet that ever left that

day, shows that thirty Democratic edi- port in on day.

tors in the state favor Mr, MoDonald,and all are strongly opposed to the re-nomination of Tilden and Hendricks. Upon the question of a tariff for revenue and free trade, they are divided, but they are all opposed to protection. Col. Gray is their choice for Governor. Indianapolis News. . A wood-chuck scalper, of St. Joseph

county, presented eleven scalps to the au-

The internal revenue collections in the

Peoria district for the fiscal year ending

on Saturday were $13,968,170, an increase

over 1882 of $625,182. The export ship

ments for the year were 1,505,438 gallons,

a decrease of 1,802,555 gallons.

A Missouia Montana special say&: On

Saturday a Northern Pacific gravel t; nin,

with about one hundred Chinamen on board ran into a wood train at Huron

ditor, the other day, expecting to receive Siding, instantly killing eighteen China-

$2 bounty on each one. When he found

that the bounty was but twenty cents he kicked; when he had to pay fifty cents for his affidavit he kicked harder, and when he nresented his order to the treasurer

ard that official gobbled ih up for delin

quent taxes, the man was mad enough to

fight The value of farms in Shelby county is

$635,236,111; real and personal estate for

taxation, $12,071,360; city of Shelbyville,

$1,811,110, this beingan increase during the last year of $79,300. The population of the countv in 1870 was 21,892:- at this

time it is 28,000. The population of Shel-

bwille in 1880 was 3.745: it now reaches

4.600, In the county there are 147 men

who are past seventy years of age. The oldest of these is Mr. John Conyers, who,

if he lives, will be one hundred years old

the 10th of next February.

The countv suDenntendents met in

men and wounding twenty-five others.

The engineer of the gravel train as killed and the fireman badly hurt Nobody

on the wood train was injured.

Belle Harris, a polygamous wife of Salt

Lake was two months ago committed to

jail for refusing to give the grand jury the name of the father of her babe. Her case was taken to the territorial supreme

court, which decided Tuesday that she

must remain in prison or answer the question. The fair polygamist announces

her intention to live forever behind the

bars.

Tne Iowa Republicans renominated the

present State officers. The platform

pledges an endorsement of the voice of the people regarding the prohibition

amendment; recognizes the power of the

general assembly to regulate State com

merce; announces that stability is desired

in such matters as effect all productive

state convention at Indianapolis Tuesday industries, and declares in favor of the

and Wednesday last Considerable busi

ness was transacted uompiaiai was

made of unjust allowances by county

commissioners, who allow their own bills

for buggy hire, postage, traveling expenses, etc;, but decline to give considera

tion of any appeal of the superintendents

for similar recompense. Several valuable

papers were read and discussion had on

interesting tonics and in the interest of

our public schools. John W. Holcomb,

State Superintendent, was elected presi

dent: L. P. Harlan, of Marion, and Chas.

R McBride, of Floyd, vice-presidentst

Michael A. Moss, of Franklin, Secretary;

Iul B. Wilson, of Henry, treasurer.

THE EAST: Oberlin college will celebrate its semi centennial, this week.

Twenty-one "assisted" immigrants were good stand generally, the

tariff revision and civil service reform.

As the result of a quarrel about some

chickens between the Grant brothers and the Manning brothers, at Danville, Va..

George T. Grant shot J. W. Manning,

creeping upon him when he war at work in a field. Grants mother urged on J the

deed. Grant fired five shots into Mann-

in?, and tnen oeat mm witn ms nsc-, ana

houting, "Now, damn you, die," stamped

upon him as he lay upon the ground.

Manning died. Grant escaped.

The editor of the Cincinnati Price Cur

rent, Charles B. Murray, published the result of an extended investigation

through the producing states oi the West concerning the corn and wheat crops. He places the aggregate of wheat crop at 440,000,000 bushels, against 504,000,000 last year. The corn crop is reported in

acreage, con

injuring twenty persons, sevoral of them fatally. A panic in breadstuffa is threatened in England, because of the imminence of a cholera blockade against India. There is no relief except from the United States. Over 100,000,000 francs have ..lready been expended on the Panama canal, find it is estimated that between 500,000,000 and 600,000,000 more will be needed to complete the enterprise. Intelligence is received from Sierra Leone that the British operations against Chief Gbpo wo were attended with groat atrocities. The native allies butchered anl mutilated all male prsoners. These allies lost over 100 men during the attack on the main fort which was captured Eighty-two of the enemy were killed by a single shell. It is said that Lynch, the informer in Gallagher dynamite conspiracy case in London, is really James Gibney, a member of Thomas Davis Camp of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, New York, and that he dare not return to this country. A sad accident occurred during the temperance fete at Sheffield, England. There were thousands of school children on the grounds. A number of them climbed upon a dray, when the horse became frightened and caused a panic among the litto ones, two of whom were killed and over, twenty injured. The panic over the cholera in Egypt is increasing and the flight of Europeans continues. A commission has been formed to devise means to protect Alexandria from the malady. The festivals usually held on the anniversary of the Khedive's accession to th3 throne will be stopped. All ministers will bo recalled to Cairo. Strict quarantine is ordered at all Turkish ports against vessels from Egypt.

returned on Saturday. to England on the siderably increased, and the condition

steamer Furnessia.

A, collision of passenger trains on the

New York and New England railroad, near New York, Saturday. Eleven per

sons were iniured, .

John tiogere, for twenty years a pns-

leaping from a window twenty feet to the

ground. He was uninjured.

At the recent commencement exercises

at Harvard, Charles Francis Adams, jr.,

delivered an address in which he urged

National banks are increasing at the rate of one a day. Thepostofliee department shows a continual increase of receipts; . The annual saving of the reduction of the number of internal revenue districts to 80 is estimated at $200,000. 'r District Attorney Bliss, of St. Louis says that Architect Hill is a bad man and that the frauds perpetrated on the government in St. Louis in furnishing stone ft p the new custom house were on a larger scale than in Philadelphia. " The high prices which meats of all kinds have commanded during the last two years, and which are doubtless to contin- . ue for some time yet to come,have result-

ed favorably in making poultry-rearing a

- very remunerative enterprise.

'A statement prepared at the office of the Commissioner of -Internal Revenue shows diat the aggregate receipts during May, 1883, were $346,818 greater than tor

the same month in 1882. There was an - increase of 231,729 from spirits, an - increase of $220,527 from tobacco and an

increase of $167,363 from beer; a decrease of $84,049 from banks and bankers, and a

decrease of $188,752 from miscellaneous.

INDIANA ITEMS:

Shelbyville speculators lost $50,000 in

the recent Chicago smash up.

At a family reunion at South Bend last

week five generations were represented.

The Corydon Democrat reports hog

' cholera prevalent and fatal in that vioin

A reunion of the Seventh Indiana cav

alry is to be held ..t Portland oa the-4th and 5th of October next The wheat has' all been harvested in Harrison county, and the yield is much larger than was anticipated. ; ...... Wabash boasts of its trade in frogs. They furnish a staple diet at the hotels and restaurants of that place. Charles Proet,ofCambridge City,bought a young pacer about two months ago for $200, and sold it Friday to a Columbus man for $1,200. Martha King,-an aged woman of seventy-nine years, arrived in Madison the other evening, having walked all the way from Lexington, Ky. . A catfish was caught in White river on last Monday, that measured twenty-six inches between the eyes, weighing 196 pounds. MooreviHe Monitor. A family of live persons while crossing the Ohio river in a skiff, at Oldham's landing, 23 miles below Madison,were all drownedjthe waves from a passing steamer capsizing their ekiff. . Dudge Dyer has, in the superior court of Evansvillei decided that the claims of the laborers and contractors of the Indianapo'is 8c Evansville railroad were equal to the claims of the mortgagees. Old Uncle Joe Mackey, a colored inmate of the county asylum, at Bichmond died on Sunday, aged 109 years. He was born in Mecklenburg county, Va, and came to Bichmond with his family' after the war. DA Mrs. Snell, of Michigan City, whose husband was in the habit of spending most of his time at the liquor saloons, visited one of his principal places of resort and demolished everything in sight with a coal oil lamp for a club. Uncle Sol Montgomery, one of the oldest colored men in the State, died Thursday, in Shelbyville. Mr. Montgomery was bory a slave, and consequently did not know his exact age, but from the best information lie could obtain he was born about 1793. The metropolitan police commissioners of Evansville and the police committeeof the council have decided upon an agreed case before the circuit court to settle the disputed question of-the constitutionality of the act creating the metropolitan police. The case wiU ceme to an. early hearing, and whatever tlie decision, will be carried to the state supreme court Joseph Jenkins created great excitement in the Baptist church at Walesboro on Sunday by jumping to his feet during services and starting the congregation by ;" ayingthat he had been called by the :KfT?, " r- '-K ' I " - : - - . ! '." 1 1.. . . ',. '

averaging well, though backward. Many

sections now have drawbacks from excessive rains, which interfere with tilling.

Seventy per cent, of the returns report

fair to good supplies old corn on hand.

A severe storm swept Ozaukee county,

oner at the Tombs, NtW York, escaped by Wisconsin, Monday morning, demolish

ing buildirgs at Necedah, Pond du Lac,

Belgium, Frdonia, Port Washington, Dartford, tCipon, New Cassel, Mayville,

Browuvrfiilc, Nirvaskum, and a dozen

other towns. In Bf Iginin and Freedonia

that the living languages be made at least aloneover 200 buildings were blown fiat.

as important in the curriculum as the At Oakfield, nine mi' es south of Fond du dead languages. Lac, hardly a chimney is left standing.

Becently a birta was recorded at the King & Erwin's barn and press was toclerk's oflice at Tuscola, HL, in which the tally demolished, and the loss in the accouching physician stated that the fath- wbole village is estimated at $15,000. The

er of the child was eiehty-f our years older storm was about two and one-half miles

than the mother,the former being!03 and

the latter nineteen years of age. The par

ents are colored.

The New York Sun has begun the publication of letters written to Senator Dorsey during the campaign of 1880, for the

purpose, as it is alleged, "of showing that

Senator Dorsy possessed beyond any

political manager the confidence of Presi

dent Garfield and bis associates:'' ,

At the alms-house hospital, Philadelphia, Saturday, Br. W. H. Parrish successfully performed the Caesarian operation upon Sally Smith, a deformed dwarf,

forty years or age. Motner and emid are both doing well. This is the fourth successful operation on record in this coun

try.

A deformed' deal mute was led into a court in New York, on Wednesday, by the

agent of a humane society, who alleged

that the monstrocity had been imported

from Italy by Magdalen Carddlio, for the

purpose of begging on the street, and that

she and her husband had accumulated

$500 in this traffic. The woman was seat

to prison for one year.

The New York commissioners of immi

gration have resolved that all immigr an ts

coming to that port from alms houses or

eleemosynary institutions of foreign countries shall be reported to the collector of

the port as "unable to take care of him

self or herself without becoming a public

charge," unless authentic history to the

contrary is produced.

. A special from Bradford, Jfa., says:

On Saturday morning a coal train with a

passenger car attached, on the' Bocheeter & Pittsburg railroad, broke in two while

going up a steep grade.. The severed sec

tion, consisting of seven heavily loaded

coal cars and a passenger coach, imme

diately started down the steep grade, and

while going at the frigntful speed of

eighty miles an hour, collided with the

engine of an approaching coal train. The passenger car was well filled and the de

struction of life and limb was appalling, seven having already died from injuries,

and others being fatally hurt. A relief train, with three surt eons and a number

of employes of the company on board,

was dispatched to the scene.

wide At Port Washington, three men

named Hollander, Soule and French were

drowned. The schooner Ganges, off Port Washington, lost all her topmasts, and several other vessels were seriously injur ed. At Necedah, a 13,000 bridge over the Wisconsin river was damaged to the

extent of $4,000.

From advance sheets of the June crop

report, published by the Illinois State

Board of Agriculture, it is shown that the estimated increase of corn acreage over

1882 is 3 per cent., making the corn area

this year over 7,500,000 acres. The con

dition indicates three-fourths of an average yield, or 168,750,000 less than the crop of 1882. In the northern counties the percentage of prospective yield ranges from

70 to 92; in the central counties the percentage is placed at SO, or somewhat bet

ter than last season; in southern Illinois

the outlook is about the same as last year. The condition of broom corn and sugar

cane is discouraging. Winter w.eat pros-

nects are not so good as m May and, as

estimated at present, is 16,000.000 bush

els short . Oats are nearly up to the av

erage condition, and the prospective y ield

is 100,000,000 bushels. Rye, flaxseed and

barley have fallen off 10 per cent, in acre

age. There will be 100,000 acres of Irish

potatoes. Severe frosts have greatly injur

ed the fruit crops.

THE WEST:

The wheat and oat crops in Kansas will

be immense.

Saloonistsof Lewiston, HI, have to

pay $1,500 for a license.

The Chicago Railway exposition wound

up with a deficit of over $10,000.

The Ohio supreme court Tuesday, de

cided the Scott liquor tax law to be con

stitutional.

A Wabash train collided with a street

car in Chicago Sunday,and three persons

were killed. ...

Three hundred Chinese shoemakers of San Francisco have struck for an increase

of 20 cents per day.

A religious revival is in progress at Marysville, O. Over three hundred con

versions have occurred.

The flood has-rendered homeless about

2,000 persons in the vicinity of Alton,

and the' loss is estimated at $2,000,000.

A runaway team at Milwaukee, Saturday, dashed through a procession of chil

dren. Three persons were killed and sev

eral injured.

Saloon-keepers at Topeka, Kansas, are arrested each mouth and fined $100, giv

ing security for that ampunt and regular

ly forfeiting it'

The new dam across theSi Joseph river I During a fire at Winnipeg, Manitoba

I at Mishawaka was washed out on Friday Friday, several kegs of powder exploded,

THE SOUTH:

Three murderers were legally executed

at Fort Smith, Ark., Friday.

The ranchmen of Western Texas are la

menting the scarcity of water and the

parched condition of the grain. Stock is

suffeiing.

AtHuntsboro, Ala, Joseph Broom,

white, expostulated with a negress for in

sulting his wife. The negress stabbed

him with a butcher knife, with which he

then killed her. Broom is supposed to be fatally wounded. Beirne and Flam, the Bichmond duel

ists, met near New Hope, Va. At the first shot neither was touched; at the sec

ond shot, Elam was shot in the upper

part oi the ngnc tnign, and jtseime escaped unhurt. Beirne then expressed

himself as satisfied and the parties, then

left the field in opposite directions.

The city of New Orleans has tempora

rily triumphed over Myri Clark Gaines

who has a judgment against the munici

pality for $2,000,000. U.S. Judge Bil

lings has yielded to the pressure, and re

fused to take action on the mandamus.

The case will now go to the supreme

court, the decision of which is at least

three years in the future.

Judge Allen, of the criminal court, at

Nashville, Tenn., astonisaed the citj

authorities by delivering a special charge

to the grand jury in regard to tne sani

tary condition of the city, instructing them to make a thorough investigation of

the city and indict the corporation and the owner in every case where premises were found to be in a filthy condition, Judge Allen said he was determined that the city should enforce her sanitary laws

and compel every citizen to respect them.

The jury made a partial tour of the city and it is understood that several indict

ments will be returned at an arly day. FOREIGN:

The tribes in revolt near Bagdad hnd a battle with the Turkish troops and 250

men were killed. It is not yet known

which side was victorious.

PA'S OKPHAN.

A DIVER'S LIFE.

Peck's Sun, "I see your pa wheeling thebaby'round a good deal lately," said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in the store one evening to buy a stick of striped pep

permint candy for the baby, while his pa

stopped the baby wagon out on the sidewalk and waited for the boy, with an expression of resignation on his face.

"What's got into your pa to bo a nurse

girl this hot weather?"

"O, we have had a circus at our house,'

said tha boy, as he came in, after putting the candy in the baby's hand. 1ou see, uncle Ezra came back from Chicago, where he had been to s ell some cheese, and he

stopped over a couple of days with us,and

he said we must play one more joke on pa before he went home. We played it, and

it is a wonder I am alive, because I never saw pr so mad in all mv life. Now this

is the last time t go into any joke on the

shares. If I play any more jokes I don't

want any old uricle to give me away.".

"What was it?" said the grocery man,

as he took a stool and sat out by the front

door beside the boy, who was trying to

eat a box of red raspberries on the sly.

"Well, me an' uncle Ezra bribed the

nurse girl to dress the baby up one even

ing in some old,dirty baby clothes,belong-

ing to our wash woman's baby, aud we put it in a basket and placed the basket on the front door stop, and put a note in the .basket end addressed it to pa. We had the nurse gM stay out in f ront,by the

basement stairs, so tlie baby couldn't ge away, and she rung the bell and got behind, something. M a and pa aud uncle Ezra an 1 me were in the back parlor when the bell rung, and ma told me to go to the door, and I brought in the basket,and set it down, and told pe, there was a note in it- for him. Ma, she came up and looked at the note as pu tore it open, and uncle Ezra looked in the basket and sighed. Pa read part of the note and stopped and turned pale, and sat down, then ma read some of it, and she didn't feel very well, and she leaned against the piano and grated her teeth. The note was in a girl's hand writing, and was like this: ' "Onn BAiiD Headed Pet. -You will have to take care of your child, because I cannot. Bring it up tenderly, and don't for heaven's sake,;end it to the foundling asylum. I shall go drown myself. Your loving, AiiMinA." "What did your ma say?" said the grocery man, becoming interested. "O, ma played her part well. Uncle Ezra had told her the joke, and she said 'retch,' to pa, just as the actresses do on the stage, and put her handkerchief to her eyes. Pa said it was 'false, and Uncle Ezra said, 'O, brother, that I should live to see fhis day,' and I said, as I looked in the basket, 'pa, it looks just like you, and I'll leave it to ma.' That was too much, and pa got mat! in a minute. He always gets mad at ma But he went up and looked in the basket, and he said it was some dutch baby, aud was evidently from the lower strata of society, aud the unnatural mother wanted to get rid of it,and he said he didn't know any 'Almira' at all. When he called it a dutch baby,and called attention to its irregular features, that mad 3 ma mad, and she took it up out of the basket and told pa it was a perfect picture of him, and tried to put it in pa's arms, but he wouldn't have it, and said he would call the police and have it taken to the poor house. Uncle Ezra took pa in a corner and told him the best thing he could do would be to see 'Almira' and compromise with her, and that made pa mad and ho was going to hit Uncle Ezra with a chair. Pa was perfectly wild, and if he had had a gun I guess he would have shot all of us. Ma took the baby up stairs and had the girl put it to bed, and after pa got mad enough Uncle Ezra told him it was all a joke,and it was his owji baby that we had put in the basket, and then he was madder than ever, an 1 he told Uncle Ezra never to darken his door acain. I don't know how he

made up with ma for calling it a dutch baby from the Polack sett ment,but any way he wheels it around every . day, and ma and pa have got so they speak again." Geuuine Self-Defense, I never killed but one man during the whole war, said Col. James Oths, who commanded fa New York cavalry regiment, and that was unavoidable. How was that? inquired a listener. Well, said the Colonel seriously,, "a confederate chased me twenty-live miles and fell dead from sheer exhaustion. I have greatly regretted it since, but it could not be helped. The Stage Beard. The stage beurd looks as much like a beard that grew there as a cow's ? tail would if tied to the bronze dog on the front porch. When you tie a heavy black heard on a young actor, whoso whole soul would be churned up if he smoked a fulMl edged cigar, he? looks about as savage lis a bowl of mush and

milk struck with a club.

A Chat With a Man Who Carries on His Business Under the Sea. Taking a Nap Under Water. Exchange, "I first began diving in 18G3," sidd Captain Anthony Williams. It was on shipboard, coming from Kingston, Jamaica. "I was a wrecker then, and was rais ing sunken ship oft' the Massachusetts coast I had working for me a diver who seemed a very lazy, careless sort of fellow. I was paying him by the day, and once, after being uuder water a long time, he came up and reported very little progress in his work. I was angry, and expressed

myself strongly. He retorted with: Try it yourself, if you can do any better.' ' " kAll right,' said 1, 'let mo have your diving-dress and I will try it myself. He thought 1 was only joking, but I wasn't. He doffed the dress, I put it on and down I went. I discharged him when I came up, and have been doing my own diving ever siuce, PUT TO THE TEST.

"ouDsequentiy, nowever, l placed . myself under the instruction of a diver named Scott. When he thought me proficient he said to me one day : 'Tony, I think you have learned about all that I can teach you. Now I am going to put you to the test.' Taking from a canvass bag $5 m small silver . coins he threw them into the sea. 'Now go down and bring those up.' , "As every school-boy knows a dime or a half dime under water looks as large as a trade-dollar out of water, so I did not oonsidor the task a very difficult one. Down I went and up I came presently with every coin, whereupon ScoU pronounced my diving education complete. Poor fellow, he was drowned about five years ago while bathing in the river Magdalen, in British Columbia. "Did you ever see a diving dress? No? Then I will put mine on and give you an idea of one," and the captain retired to his state-room, whence he presently emerge 1 in full diving costume, except the heavy cast-iron helmit, which several of the company raised from the deck and placed upon him, thus making his outfit complete. The dress is really two drosses one within the other, each of India rubber. The stockings, pants and shirt are all made together as one garment, which the diver enters at the neck feet first. The hands are left bare, the wristbands of the rubber shirt-sleeves tightly compressing the wrists. There is a copper breast-plate, bearing upon its outer, convex surface small screws, which are adjustedthrough holes in the neck of the shirt, which, by means of nuts fastened upon the perws,is held so firmly in place as to render the entire dress, from the neck downward, absolutely air and water tight Pitting with equal closeness to this breast-plate is the helmet mentioned above. It completely encloses the head

and is supplied with three glasses, one. in front and one at each side, to enable the diver to look in any direction. A pair of very thick leather shoes, made to lnee up the front and supplied with heavy leaden soles, completes the dress. IN A DIVER'S DRESS. "You see,"said the Captain, when his

helmet had bijen removod.. after everyone had ample. time to criticise his appearance in it, "it takes about fifteen minutes t d put these togs on. and when the diver is rigged in them all but the helmet there are placed across his shoulders ropes, sustaining two leaden weights, one hanging at his back, the other at his breast. He then goes down a ladder into the water up to his armpits, and then the helmet is placed on him, the glass in front is screwed in place, and wheu everything is ready he is made aware of the fact by a blow on the top of the helmet. He then goes down by means of a rope previously lowered, hand over hand, to the bottom of the sea. Sometimes, in very strong currents, it is necessary to make the weights extraordinarily heavy in order to hold the diver down, notwithstanding the fact that the dress alone weighs nearly, 200 pounds, and yet I do not feel the weight of it down among the fishes any more than I do that of an ordinary suit of clothes out of the water. It was invented in Switzerland by a n tive of tha t country, named Bruer, who spent a small competency in having it patented and in trying to bring it into use; but he died a disappointed, broken-hearted pauper, leaving others to reap the benefit of his invention." PUMPING IN FRESH AIR. "Can you breathe as freely in your diving dress as you can out of it? ' - "Yes, indeed. When ten or lEtwelve fathoms under water my breathing is as wholly devoid of effort as it is when I am walking about on dry land. You know . that by means of an air-pump, worked by two men, the diver is supplied with air. Through a hose this air passes into the back of his helmet, and near its place of entrance is a spring-valve for its escape. This valve can be controlled by the diver, but he usually sets it before going into the water and seldom disturbs it afterward. The pressure of the air being greater than that of the water, a surplus of the former r?adi"y escapes. When this valve is not sufficient the diver can open in his breast-plate a similar springvalve, intended only for such au emergency. He can also regulate the amount of ah- pumped to him by signals upon the air-hose to the men engaged in pumping. One pull upon the hose means more air; two pulls, less air; and two pulls and a shake, I want to come up.' The signals on the air-hose are generally used by all divers, but each one of us has his own private code of signals on the life-line, which is always fastened to the diver's waist, and by means of which ho is drawn up out of the water. These signals each diver writes down very carefully and gives to the man in charge of the life-line. By means of these we can send up for tools, material, etc. When a lengthy communication is to be made we send up for a slate and write all wo want to say. It is just as easy to read and write tinder water as out of it, all objects being greatly magnified." FOUR HOURS A DAY'S WORK. "Does a diver have any unpleasant sensations while at work?" ' "None, save a drumming in the ears, and this will sometimes destroy the hearing if the diver remains too long below. Four hours- two in the morning and two n the afternoon constitute a day's work, and if the divor restricts himself to this limit there is little or no danger of his becoming deaf, but if he goes much beyond it be is pretty sure to injure his hearing. I once remained under water for riue hours, and as a consequence completely lost the use of my left ear for

three months, during which time I suf-i frred agony with the ear-ache. Evantu : ally, however, my hearing became normal again. Aside from this, the sensations are delightful, and I feel just as well, happy and contented at the bottom of the sea as I ever can under any circumstances. While engaged. m raising the sunken schooner, Dauntless, in Kingston, Jamaica, on the 18th of August, .1830, 1 became so disgusted at the stupidity of the men above in answering my signal that I took a book which I found in the ca ptain's cabin, and, sitting down, read for nearly an hour." A NOTARY'S STORY.

How a Husband Euchered His Wife on a Divorce Game.

St. Louie Post-Dispatch. A prominent notary public, in a general conversation about his business this morning, told an interesting story regarding his relations in a divorce suit, in the following language; .. . .... About a year and a half ago a gent entered whom I recognized to be a promi nent business man whose wife was much admired in society. After some roundabout talk he asked me suddenly if I would be willing to "take an oath" to keep secret the business he desired me to transact. I was somewhat suspicious, but finally assented, provided I was not asked to involve myself in any questionable transaction. I gave the required pledge and he then explained briefly that his wife was about to sue for a divorce, and, although he felt very little . reluctance to the separation from personal motives, he was possessed of a certain amount of property, and he desired to prevent a divorce unnil he could , have the oppor

tunity of placing his affairs in such shape that he would be master of the situation

financially sneakincr. He thouuht the

chief instigators of his wife were the members of her family. He admitted the lady had "grounds" for obtaining the divorce, but he likewise stated he was able to prove questionable actions on her part. This he intended toido , by certain witnesses, whose affidavits he wjjuted me to prepare. As this wasdnfthe line of my

business. I arranged matters so that he

could bring the parties to my oflice quiet

ly eaou day. Jie orougnc some seven or

eight witnesses. All were former servants in the family but two; one of these was

a lady friend, a married woman also, the

other a detective. I wrote the affidavits in legal form, as declared by the witnesses, find when they finished he took them away after paying me a liberal fee. About a week afterward he walked into my office smiling very blandly, and said: "Those papers fixed that thing and my wife has changed her mind about that divorce. She says divorces are so; common now that they are becoming positively vulgar,'1 and his eyes twinkled with suppressed humor. But then continuing, "I don't tlnnk so when things are even, and they will be in a month or so, when I'm goii-g to have something to say about the divorce act myself.' A few weeks afterward I noticed in the society columns of the Post-Dispatch that Mrs.- -would spend the winter in the South for the benefit of her health

That was over a year ago. Some two months Bince a divorce was quietly granted on the score of desertion, by default, as asked by the husband. There was no sensation; the gentlenau has gone into business in another city and the wife has never returned. Those affidavits were very effectual evidently, and the matter contained in them was enough to make any woman hesitate. He had played a shre wed game and won. The alimony allowed was oulv nominal. Turkish Politeness , The Turks, not being born poets like the Arabs and Persians, have no taste for art, but they are simple, serioup, brave and 'grateful You enter a Turkish cafe, aud behold a dozen Mussulmans smoking steadfastly and saying nothing. Now and then one of the company raps his knuokes on the table, which is a signal to the waiter to bring him another cup of coffee, after which he relapses into a fit of pensi veness, varied by occasional bmileless remarks in monosyllables to his next neighbor. But if you ask to strike up a

conversation with this gentleman he anr'

swers at once with a quart urbanity wliich is very pleasing. The Turk does not care a straw who you may be. His business is to be oivil to a stranger, and nothing that you could say would astonish or anger him If yon laugh he laughs, softly, as if inwardly digesting your joke; if you talk nonsense you will simply confirm him in the opinion he has long held, that Turks arc immeasurably superior to Pranks, if you contrive to amuse him he will say naively at parting wichyou,"Meehallah! I am happy 1" One of the many characteristics which excite the Turk's contempt of the Prank is the letter's mania for putting foolish questions for the mere sake ofcopening his month. Turks never become openly aggressive unless you insult their women, their mosques or their street dogs. You may wiuk; at a Christian woman if you please that is her business or her husband'sjbut neither that liberty or any other must be taken with a Musselman woman, in Anatolia the women still turn away with their faces to a wall when they see a Prank coming, this being the Mohammedan law and the best thing the Frank can do is to walk past without making any impertinent attempt to peer through the veils for the woman might squeal and arose the and arouse the whole quarter. As to street dogs, they are chartered nuisances, who snap,snarl,ught over offal and bay at the moon at nignt, but they must not be kicked. When a stranger has been long enough in Turkey to bear these points in mind, he may go about withont fear of molestation, aud he will find the Turks' pleasant people to deal with in every way. Newspaper Hoaor. Col. G. A, Pierce's Addreira at Fort Wayne. A short time ago a discussion arose in Chicago as to the rela tive duty of lawyers and newspapers, and the following query occurred to me: "What would be said of any respectable journal that should take a fee for trying to make black, appear white that should undertake the defense of a notorious murderer, for instance? Not secretly ,and while pretending to bo impartial that, of course, would be 'intensely hypocritical and dishonorable but openly and notoriously? The accused party would say, for instance,! want defenders, I will hire lawyer Such-a -o ne and a newspaper So-and-so. What an outcry would go up; and yet what is it that makes snch an act so highly dishonorable on the part cf a newspaper and perfectly proper and

preniissible on the part o an attorney 71s1 newspaper honor held too high, or is le-;

g J. nonor too low r 1 believe tne tune

will come when a lawyers duties will be

confined to seeing that murderers and highway robbers have a fair and just trial

according to law, and when no amount of

money will be. allowed to convert them into paid eulogists of dangerous men.

AGBIOULTTJRAL NOTESr ' The German town Telegraph suggests that competitive hose-shoeing should be included in the premium list of agricultural fairs, inasmuch as all must know how many animals are injured sometunes permanently crippled by untaught, ignorant or unskillful shoersrwho treat the hoof of a herse with as much roughness and recklessness as they do a plough share. . .. The following rule for estimating the amount of hay in a stack will be found approximately correct: rn stack, timothy, after ten day two weeks settling 600 cubic feet to the ton; clover, 700, aud prairie hay 530 feet. After thorough settling about 500 cubic feet of timothy, 550 of olover, and 450 of prairie hay. To get the cubic dimensions of a stack, multiply the average length, breath and height together. 1 ..... The following method of preserving potatoes is said to be that used by French hotel and restaurant keepers: The tubers are first washed and then, a few at a time, by means of small baskets, are plunged into boiling water and held there for four seconds: they are then dried an I stored This treatment destryed the viltality of the buds or "eyes," and there is no tendency to sprout but the potatoes keep sound aud of good flavor until the. next crop comes in. ; 1 ,: ... The United States Veterinary Journal says cracked hoof is the general result of a dry state of the hoofs which makes thm

weak and brittle; and the trouble may arise from fever or other causes of degeneration. Among the more prominent influences which tend to produce cracked hoofs, are uneven bearing of the shoe, calking or other wounds, or injury to the corcnet and the drying of the wall of the hoot - .. 1 A canning' factory has been built at . Waverly, Iowa. They are contracting with farmers to pay in the proper season' $5.50 per ton for corn, $8.50 per ton for squashes, 35 cents per bushel for cucumbers and 25 cents per bushel for tomatoes

and the Peoria Transcript does the proper thing in suggesting that a law be enacted

in every St ate where canned goods are put up requiring aU makers of and dealers in such goo'Js to stamp their cans with the date of their manufacture; or the. date when they are sealed up. .. Jersey farmers sometimes spe id $300 per acre for fertilizers for their melon grounds: As the crop is subject to several risks, some times the growers rget badly "left" The mealy bugs not infrequently cover the plants here and there, and unless exterminated will spread rapidly. The striped beetle also attacks the roots, causing the plants to wilt suddenly beyond recovery. The cure for this is a lit tie air-slacked lime put close to the stem when the plants are small; the beetle 'does not like. to. crawl through the lime to lay its eggs. A .. ... The Captain's Pudding. The following story is told of a captain and his mate: 7 Whenever there was a plum-pudding made, by the captain's orders all the plums were put into one end of it, and that end placed next to the captain, who, after helping himself, passed it to the mate, who never found any plums in his part of it. Wall, after this game had been played for sometime the mate prevailed oh the steward to place the end which had no plums in it next to the captain. The captain no sooner saw the pudu ing than he discovered that he had the wrong end of it Picking up the dish, and turning it in his hands as if merely examining the china he said, "This dish cost' me two shillings in Liverpool, and put it down again, as though- without design, with the plum end next to himself. . . v ,? "Is it possible? ' said the mate, taking up the dish, "I should not suppose it was woi th more than a shilling," and, is if m perfect innocence, he put down1 the dish with tue plum end next to himself. The captain looked at the mate, the mate looked t the captain. The captain laughedj the mate laughed. "I tell you what young rne,' sadr the captain, "you have found me out, bo we'll just cut the pudding length wise this time and have the plums fairly distributed hereafter." A Way of Making a Living. New York 8n, A heavy-built German of ragged and battered appearance sat down on a stoop in Ninth street yesterday and took from a pocket three pieces of bread. He p laced one of them on the flagging near the cur b stone, and then crossed ' the street and waited in the shadow of a door way until two fasWonabiy-dressed ladies approached. Then he walked in an aimless way toward the bread, and when the ladies ware a few leet away, : he seized vit and pretended to ravenously devour it "Poor fellow," said one of the ladies "he is in a starving- condition. ,?Ibet ?us assist him." Tlie fellow walked away the richer by half a dollar. In Tenth street he repeated the trick, and was' rewarded with a' dime He has carried on his little swindle for the last three years. Brooklyn Bridge ' in the Wiad. Brooklyn Union. , , . The wind w as very strong on the bridge yesterday afternoon and evening so strong that people going to New York found it difficult to make headway, while the people coining to Brooklyn could not easily walk at dignified gait Many hats were blown into the river, and at one time seven were. counted soaring away. One old gentleman with a ,broadbrimmed white felt hat succeeded in keeping it in place by holding it do wn with both hands until his chin was required to be' wiped, and then he involuntarily let go his hold on his hat, when a gust of vwindM)arried it far down the river. The wind has no perceptible effect u pen the bridge itself.

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V GENERAL MISOELLANT. ; Maine is a groat hay State. , , ; Beechers father lived to be fe-' - 4 Ex-Pi M. Gen. James has been mada L.L. D. :y., The most useful thing in the long ion . Breath. '

Sea sir knocks an ostrich pinnae limp no time.

O f Virfl . 5,557; schools, over .WV are colored. J'?",.' ' . :

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A Self-Evident Proposition. Teacher-In the sentence, "Mary loves John," what does John agree with? Bright ScholarWith Mary. Teacher With Mary? How do you make that out? V - Bright Ssholar 'Oause Mary wouldn't love him if he didn't agree wit her. hild s Grammar. Judge Hoadg, Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, was .born infew Haven, Comu i

in Montana

Twenty thousand persons

New York post oflice daily. ., . Connecticut5 has 90,000 acres devoted to cultivation; oysters.4 An Ingham, Mich., doctor reported 4 death by 'cra wf ully." Mr. Mauli, of Charleston, with but ode hand, has made five violins. ; The canary was first mtroddoed into Europe in the sixteenth century , , Arnou the ancestors of the present Czar of Russia have been one barbarian four idiots, one epileptiojse vera! mistresses and nearly a dozen drunkards. These peouUarualutoations did not prevenE the

distinguished personsfrom occupying the

throne which the present Gzarmherits in

a more ample form.

I There are 400 styles of narasols in flwf?

market and every lady is expected to have one for each costume. What would out ;

grandmothers; with their one gingham

, umbrell, have said to all this foolishness

An extra expenditure of two or three cento in strengthening the back of a book ' makes all the difference between a book which will' drop to pieces after a little handling, and one which will stand wear.-. Most people would rather ha re the money

spent in that way than in fantastic deco

rations for the covers.

A letter from Mexico says that country offers many opportunities for good, ener- '

getic manufacturers and mechanics who have a good capital to start on. Manufacturers of paper, cloth, hats, cape, boots tod shoes, etc., will find it a virgin field But it is no place for clerks, doctors, lawyers, dentiste, engineers and the like, of all rtf wham tliora ia a tahrtamnfr jmmlnB

endeavoring to raise money enough to " return home. - ' .

Useful Knowledge. .!." y fj To relieve hiccough : at. once, take iump of sugar saturated with vinegar. . Hemorrhage of the lungs or stomach J? may be quickly stopped by small doses of salt. ; , -I- 'r4 '' To relieve a severe headache, bind, the temples tightly witi a hankerchief or cloth. r . , , .,. .vv I : For earache dissolve assafostida in wa " ter; warm a few drops- and dnp m

ear; then cork the ear with woe J...,- -. Mv;.

A good powder of snuff which will cure

catarrh is made of equal parts ' of arabic, gum myrrh and blood root.

Toothache inay be speedily ended by the application of a small bit of cotton

saturated with ammonia to tooth. . ...

It is stated by a medical writer that carbolic acid diluted with warm water.! and poured into the ear, is sovereign v cure for earache." r.. For chapped tips, mix two tablespoon fuls of clarified honey with a few drops of lavendar water, or any other perfumeand

anoint the lips frequent?yv 'f:?, ;

T remove warts get a little fiWfcAf gall and keep it in a bottle; rub a little on the warts three times a day,and in aahort

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of milk at a Quaker farm-house, and- w4a ; charged two shillings for the sain; g "I didn't suppose you Quakers caredl to make money out of this . widDsdi . wbt: observed the office, as he wiped off his mouth. , . ;;;v; ,k r

Thee judges harshly, my friend; , "But two bits for a glass of milk is out-;

rageouv , . -r . Jv!!;.Tut! tut! friend. When thee eomea , ? to consider that some of thy comrades . . have stolen the cow and others have car- : ried off her hay, the charge for th n must seem directel hy a spirit oi iioerai, ' The ofBcer hurrM on to take t.s.-4 ; of it out in beef.' m' r V j$-m:

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It was six o'clock, and the busy men of Burlington were turning their backs up- . on their work and their faces toward home. And as they hurried along thejrspake one to another, ;:; . .'.' The soissor-grinder said these4 were dull : times, but things seemed to be brightening up a little. "Every dog has his day he said, "and at my edge a man ought to be laying up something for a raisy day.

I don't complain, although' I do aqneel

morselesB old grind?' "

The carpent er said he was rejoist tosee

that labor was looking more rafter its 'interest "I adoor the workingman; oak

could I but speak planely my thoughts,

"Shutter off!" cried .,an engineer.andthe

carpenter sat down in the street

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