Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 37, Bloomington, Monroe County, 14 July 1883 — Page 3

OASMPm experiments recently made io Germany show that cows miikel three times a day, yield milk richer in fat than if milked twice eaeh.aay. It is also reported that cows milked three times a day gave five pounds of milk overcows milked but twice.

At the baths an impatient voting man -walked tip to the -door of one of the compartments, and, knocking on the Fame, testily inquired: "When in blazes are you going to get those trousers on?" There was a faint giggle and a silvery voice replied: "When I get married, I suppose. He had mistaken the door, that is all.

Two fellows, apparently strangers to each other,aocidentally meet at a farmer's house each on a different business, manage to stay over night if they can, and make a trade before they leave in the morning, in which the farmer's name is wanted as a witness to the contract, which afterwards turns up to be a promissory note, fixed up to a sum satisfactory to the sharpers. , 7

Herb is a receipt for French pickles; delicious; one colander of sliced green tomatoes, one quart sliced onions, one colander of pared and sliced cucumbers, two handsful of salt; let all stand twentyf our hours, then drain through a sieve add one-half an ounce of celery seed,cone half anounce of-allspice, one tapconful pepper, one tablespoon fnl of tumeric, one pound brown sugar, two tabJeepconsfu mustard and one gallon vinegar; y

If the public would only learn how to eat ani what to eat we should have fewer delicate women than are to be found now in America, and consequently fewer sickly children. In this hot weather different kinds of game food, prepared with rich milk and served with cream, in addition to a little fruit and some vegetables, constitutes a far superior and more healthy diet than the meat which forms the staple at each of our three meals. The system scarcely requires meat at aD, and certainly no more than once a day in the summer months.- 1 .

How digestion is affected is affected by such condiments as salt and vinegar has been carefully studied by M. Ob Haseon, and tee results presented m a paper read before the Academy of Science, Paris, Taken in moderation these condiments are useful They promote the formation of the gastric juice. But if they are Indulged in to excess they irritate lie coats of the stomach and render food more indigestible. The proportion of salt should not exceed 5 to 10 grains to 0.5 kilogrammes of meat, and of acid 1 to 4 per 1,000.

Wm. F. Wabbkbt, IX D, LL. D., President of Boston University, and a leading scholar of the Methodist Ohurohsadvances a new and rather snrnriaing theory as to the location of the harden of Eden. The cradle of the race is generally believed to have been in the vicinity of the Tigris or Euphrates rivers, and even among those who do not locate it there, the belief is that it was in Middle or Southern Asia. Dr. Warren believes it to have been in a now submerged country at the North Pole, and that "all ethnic traditions point us thither.

Somsboz7 recently made . a statement of the number of millionaires in the United States Senate. There are several of them. So many, in fact, as to suggest the thought that it is a desirable place for millionaires, and the further fact that any man with mints of money can get there if he wants to. An opinion widely prevails that if Gould end Vanderbilt bei came inspired with a desire to sit in the highest place in the council of the' nation they would not be long in getting there. This is a bitter fact, but it is one of the facts that we are every day closing: 'our eyes on and gulping down- ?

The records of the Treasury Department ehow thai the Rothschilds own $400,000,000 of registered United States bonds, or nearly one-quarter of all the bonds that are out They are said to have invested thus heavily for the reason that the political and social systems of Europe are in an uncertain condition. Vanderbilt is still the largest American holder of United States bonds: though the amount in his name has" decreased: during the last year from $50,000,000 to $37,000,000. Mrs. A. T. Stewart has $30,000,000 and Mr. Rood, of California, $15,000,0001

Skatbbt was abolished in the District of Columbia early in the war, and the Gkvemment paid the masters the value of the slaves. There was in Washington at that time a colored man who had been told years before that he was free, and although the necessary papers had not been made out he had practically been his own master for a long time. It so happened that his mistress, to whom he was deeply attached, was living in reduced circumstances and sadly in need of money. This came to his ears, and he went to the City Hall Building and was appraised' as a slave. His value was given him in money which be promptly turned over to her use. This colored man is now living in Washington, and is at the present time an honored and highly respected citizen.

Not only read, but think. - When you have read a paragraph or a page atop, close the book, and try to remember the ideas on your mind, but put them into words and speak them out. Faithfully follow these two rules, and you have the golden keys of knowledge. Besides inattentive reading, there are other things injurious to the memory. One is the habit of skimming over newspapers all' $ri a confused jumble, never to be thought of again, thus diligently cultivating a habit of careless reading hard to- break. Anotheris the reading of trashy novels. Nothing is so fat-d to reading with profit as the habit of running through story after story and forgetting them as soon as read. We know a gray-haired woman, a life-long lover of books, who sadly . declares that her mind has been ruined b such reading. , . There are too many young men endeavoring to live without work mental or physical. Even now, the busiest tune of the year, when labor is in demand, many strong young men -are loitering about the streets. Nor are they so much to blame as their parents, -who have in many instenoes encouraged a foolish pride, that it is not dignified to engage in common labor; They want a situation, by which is meant light work and heavy pay. The most of them wait in vai for there are ten applicants for each

situation vacated. When a young man

once fully makes up his mind to work he will soon find employment, and if he ac

cepts the first position he can get, and is

ambitious and intelligent,he will advance

to a more lucrative an ? easier position.

The man that will work at whatever ha

can do is irrepressible. He can't he kept down. In tho business end industrial world he is like a rubber ball; if he falls he will bounce up again; He is an hidependant man, for he sustains himself,and the consciousness pf his willingness to labor, and labor hard if necessary, either physically or mentally, p events him from being a beggar or a sycophant. ; Labor is dignified, honorable and cbn duoive to happiness. Idleness is to be shunned. If a person can't find work at theusiness or occupation; that he most prefers by reason of its congeniality let him accept the first job of work he can find; Any kind of honorable employment is preferable to idleness. THBfWord "Greases! is applied"' to the common native of Indian Mexico; There is a great and marked difference, like a caste distinction, between the "Greaser" Mexican and the Spanish Mexican, who boasts of a descent from pure Castilian blood. The former is lazy, thriftless, ignorant, superstitious and unstable. As

might be expected, they, in harmony with

the white element, control most of the wealth and commerce of the country. . In the Northern States of Old Mexico- the greatest portion of the people are of the

former class, and hence the Governments

are unstable and subject to frequent rev

olution under the influence of factious eaders. In the more southerly states there is a greater diffusion of . Castilian blood, and revolutions are more rare and difficult; On the ranch or village home of the GreaserM Mexican everything bears the stamp of negligence and shiftlessness. Their gaunt, sharp-nosed, long legged and tan colored hogs share; with their owners in the comforts of-the family reddenoes. No fences except brush surround their fields. Generally there are none. They raise just sufficient wheat, barley, beans and chili (red peppers) to meet their absolute needs. They thrash their crops upon bare, smooth ground by driving flocks of goats over them and washing in the nearest stream. They often plow with a crooked stack, and the hoe is their scythe, sickle and reaper. Even their hay is out with a hoe. They as a rule Kve in villages, and cultivate small fields upon their outskirts. Living as they dov and possessing a soil which under irrigation is wonderfully productive, they; require but little j ground to cultivate. . ";

GIVE ME THE FARM.

TCofmriiA AWnv from thhiiTn nPiVin rifv.

--v i From the unpleasant task of watching the

. Etore: .... "TCiTifH mv soul to nfflnnm -with tv

For tho unhappy merchant that paces the floor.

Turn to the fiolds though they shine like nglaoier

With shield of pure crystals, defyinn the sun; Think f the clover, the wheat and the pasture,

Of the horses and cattle whenoold days are

done.' Embryo cells by the zephyr are courted,

Tillthoy yield to it fondness, receiving the

. power

.Gently to burst through their cspsnlea, snpi)orted Till tlie bud is the bearer of a beautiful flower,

Silent the lives that these germs have been upend-

ing ,

Since they fell in the lap of the earth for re

pose; ...

Beauty will clothe them with sweetness attending - Whan the south wind shall bring on ouj: gar

dens thflir throes. Not like the townsman whose busino and duty, So regardless of charge in tho work of the scene: Day unto day to tho farm lends a boauty, Till the fields sre all robed in the loveliest green

Keep, me away from the hum of the, city.

From its tracks, and of corners, of bulls and of

bears; Give me tho scenes of the farm for I pity

The poor man who would leave them fox tin

sels and cares.

DR. AND MRS. MORTON.

So iiONG as marriage laws exist and human nature remains as it now is, there will be relations existing between the sexes unsanctioned by social usage and forbidden by statute. Every observer of human life knows this to be the truth, and he knows, too, that tlie very necessities of organic civilization demand that ts marriage laws must be respected. The child must be provided fpr, and to this end the law must be enabled to ascertain the father the father must be free from doubt as to his paternity, else society

could not be organized as it is upon the family triad of father, mother, child. So necessarily out of these fundamental conditions have grown up inhibiting statutes with the sanction of heavy penalties for the breach and supplemented by social formulas and social ostracism for any one who openly disregards them. But it is questionable whether the punishment does not oftentimes aggravate the evil. The good Saint Anthony could not daxp touch his own mother, and had to flee to the church to escape from the allurements of women. Brother Barnes, writing from London recently, says, in the midst of his godly 'Praise the Lord," "I may not look at' the woman top much without danger.. Some of the agnostics held women to be the pernicious principle is nature, cleaving close to the baser ele: ments in man, and with a terrible energy dragging him back toHda-Baoth. Among the Shakers man enters into the resurrection when he forswears woman, and puts on his spiritual body when his soul becomes insensible to the enticements of female loveliness. -All these ideas and admissions simply go to show the marvelous potency of what is yet, and always will be, perhaps, in the eyes of science a blind force.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

During the fiscal year Just ended there has been a net increase of postofhees established of 1,639, as compared with' the previous fiscal year. Congressman Murch now charges fraud in the selection aad purchase of a site for a public building at Denver, and Supervising Architect Hill will be forced to explain. It is now charged that the only and original Senator Tabor paid Architect Hill $5,000 for locating the new public building at Denver upon his property. Tabor's head seems to have been as long as his ruffled night shirts. A representative of the whisky-exporting interest pftlie United States, who handles most of the whisky sent from America to Europe, said Friday tbat,hav ing seen the full opinion of the Attorneygeneral in regard to the exportation of whisky, he is prepared to say that there is no cause for alarm or for a panic among the manufacturers, which would have ensued had the decision actually been as as sweeping as might be inferred from the first announcement. The opinion is, in fact, if whisky is exported in good faith, and then returned to this country, it is not liable to duty. Only when it is sent abroad with the intention of returning it, and thus evading the law, that tax is collectible. The Attorney-general has given an opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury that the exportation of bonded whisky to Burmuda with a view to its importation for the purpose of evading or delaying payment of tax is not an exportation within meaning.' The opinion of the At. torney-general is a great surprise to the whisky men, who were satisfied that he would decide in their favor and open wide the door for a wholesale evasion of the payment of taxes falling due between now and the first of January. Whisky owners were expecting to get rid of paying $8,000,000 or $10,000,000 by shipping their spirits to Bermuda and storing them there until, relieved by Congress of a portion of the responsibility. The effect of the decision wiH be to cause no little distress among the holders of whisky, upon

which tax falls due within the next six months. In . demand first class summer board

liftt third-class nriccc.

Dr. and Mrs. Morton had finished tiffin and were discussing so ne private theatricals, which, followed by a ball, wera to

take place that evening at the mess-house

of the th. The subject was a deliaate one, for on it they held decided but unfortunately divided opinions. The Doctor had a prejudice against such tilings, and, though in the most respects very indulgent to his pretty little wife, objected to her. attending them. She,however, was bent on doing so. "You know, dear, that it is the very last of the season, and every one will be there." "And you know my rooted objection to these entertainments, Ada; why do you urge me?" "Then when shall I ever have an opportunity of showing off that lovely pink and silver cloak you got me from Madras on my birthday ?" pouted the young wife MAh, that is a deeply imortant matter!" laughed the Doctor. "We must see if we can't get up a dance in our own bungalow, little woman," continued he some

what iaconsequently.

"But that won't be a ball and tbentric-

als to-night; and by that time Daddahboy, Rnmanages, and the other Parsees will bavetheir shops filled with the newfashioned cloak, while as yet mine is the only one in the cantonment. I really do Ifcink, William, you might let me go. I am sure I sit patiently enough through those solemn dinners and scientific reunions of which you are so fond.' "Well, well, as it is the very last of the season, I suppose I must be amiable for once.: bf "Oh, that's a dear, good, disagreeable old thing!" said his wife, giving him a kiss; and without waiting to hear more, in a flutter of delight she left the room. When left to hirasel" the Doctor pondered their late conversation, and left by no mans satisfied with his share in it. Still, having consented, he determined to do so with a good grace; and on Mrs. Morton prently re-entering to look for something he said,: "By the way, dear, when shall X order the palanquin for you?" ,. . . ' ., . Still continuing her search she replied rather absently, "Qhj any time; I shall only want it returning; the Hills will call for me going." Dr. Morton was taken aback. "So," he exclaimed, "you had arranged to so with or without my consent!" With a little start, she answered somewhat eonfnsedly, fW ell I . thought you would be sure to give me leave, William, and- " "Ab you have chosen to act so wholly independently," interrupted her husband angrily, "I withdraw the consent I go unwittingly gave. 'The house shall be closed at, the usual hour, and if you do not happen to be at home at 11 o'clock w do not sleep under the same roof this'night. And in high displeasure Dr. Morton ' left the hons; nor did he return for more than a couple of hours, during which his mood had more than once changed. The first irritation over, he felt that it was hard upon his pet to deny her the pleasure to which but a moment before he had assented. How could he bear to spend the long evening opposite that , disappointed and wistful little face? It beera, too, to dawn upon him that "the whole cantonmentwhich in India, where private life is more distinctly public property than in any other corner ot the. world, stands for our esteemed old friend, Mrs. Grundy mifirht,as has ever been its wont, put an unkind construction on motives it did not understand; might hint that he was rot so much standing by bis principles which, in fact, he had yielded as avenging his own offended dignity. The result of all which cogitation was that if on his return home he should find that she had accepted both disappointment and 'rebuke in a proper spirit much, indeed all, depended on thafshe should go with their friends to the ball ; or even in the probable event of their having already called he would show his magnanimity by taking her himself. Just then a carriage drove swiftly past his; he recognized it to be the HillB', and in it could he credit his senses? all radiant with smiles, wrapped in her new cloak, Bat his wife, who, in merry defiance, kissed her hand to him as they passed. BotJi ball and theatricals were delightful, and none enjoyed them more than the volatile and fascinating Mrs. Morton. In the gayety of her spirits she confided to one after, another of her dearest friends her husband's threat; and to one or two who expressed some fears that he might carry it out, she laughingly replied that; she did not think that would be at all likely; but, in the event of anything bo improbable, she had still her palaquin,in which she could rest till gun-nV, when, of course, the house would be opened. I am told that palaquins are in as little request in India as sedan chairs in England; but in Dr. and Mrs. Morton s time for know, O reader, that my story is founded on fact they were, except in the evening drive, the most general mode of carriage. In the verandah of every house roe or more might always be seen, with their bearers at hand, ready for instant service by day or by night. It was past 2 o'clock when Dr. Morton heard, coming down the compound, the moaning monotonous cry of the bearers who carried their mistress to her home. Plaping,the palanotiin in the veranda,

they called loudly for admission, striking the door with their hands, in no small wonder that it had not, as usual, been thrown wide at their approach. Expectation of coming triumph had driven sleep from his pillow; and he now turned his head with a grim smile, for his revenge was at hand the little rebel should learn a lesson never to be forgotten. To the bearers' voices was soon added that of their mistress; indignantly, entreatingly, coaxingly, Bhe called in turn. She reminded her husband that their varanda was overlooked from the road. "Let me in, I beg, T entreat yon, William. It will be gun-fire in a couple of hours, and if seen here I shall be the laughingstock of the whole station. O, William, dear, do lot me in!" To which her husband answered sternly, "We shall not rest under the same roof this night'"; and he chuckled to himself, for he only intended to keep her waiting a few minutes. For a moment Mrs. Morton seemed irresolute; then having said a few words to the head bearer, sh cried aloud in a passionate burst of sobs, "I will die sooner

than subvoit to such humiliation;' and, followed by her servants, the rushed away. There was a long wailing cry a shriek a heavy splash. Good heavens! could it be could it be possible that his impetuous wi?e had thrown herself into tne well? Hard to those wild cries as the bearers run hither and thither with loud exclamations and calls for help. Paralyzed with fear, the husband could with difficulty, open the door; then rushing out he would have flung himself into the still rippling water, in a mad attempt at rescue, had not a bearer hung upon his arm as, in broken English, he tried to explain tnat his mistress was safe. "Then whore is she? What is all this row about? Who has fallen in? What are you all yelling for?" "For Mem Sahib tell. Throw big stone down well;' then too much bobbery make; run this way, that way plenty great tamasha. Mem Sahib make big cry, then Mem run away." Dr. Morton knew himself outwitted,for doubtless his wife had taken advantage of the door she had thus succeeded , in opening. Ah, well, though vexed at the trick, he was by no means sorry that the conflict was at an end and that they should both pass what remained of the night in peaceful rest He dismissed the bearers and returned to the house, but to find it shut ! the door was olosed and - obstinately resisted all efforts to open it; while a voice from the window fromwhioh he had himself so lately spoken, said: "We shall not sleep under the same roof this night." The Doctor, with an uneasy laugh, first treated the situation as a sil

ly joke, then expostulated, then stormed; but all without avail or even notice. He called to the ayah to open the door, but her answer was that she was locked iu

Mem's room, snd Mem bad the kev under her pillow. He stamped at first with anger, but soon with cold, for his night

pyjamas offered but slight protection against the chill morning air. At length seeing the palaquin he got into it. The lovely cloak was lying an the cushions; he "drew the hood over his head, its delicate hues in striking 'wntrast to his sun

burned face and disheveled hair, and

dragging it around his broad shoulders

with an angry tug he settled himself to

sleep.

The gun had fired, the "assembly"

sounded, but still the Doctor slept on. Nor was he roused by the sonu 1 of hors

es hoofs, as a bevy of ladies unescorted,

except by servants, rode up to the door.

They would be joined in their ride by

their husbands after parade; and then, after a final round of the course, assem

ble at the house of one or the other of the party to chota-hazzarie and a lively discussion of absent friends.

In murh surprise they waited a minute

or so before the closed and silent house;

then, with significant glances, one after

the other slid from her saddle, determined to solve the mystery. Ah, there it is! A little corner of the cloak worn the night before by Mrs. Morton peeped out of the olosed door of the palanquin; 'twas evident that the poor little thin g had been obliged to seek that shelter. "What a

shame!" Thev would speak to her, they would comfort her, and oh, what a laugh

they would have against her! They grouped themselves round the palanquin,

bending low to peer in; and one on either

ide drew back the sliding-door as

gracious! Dr. Morton, still half asleep,

slowly opened his eyes. Most effectually was he wakened by the startling excla

mation which the visitors hastily retreat

ed to their horses, which they were just in the act of mounting as the door was

thrown open, and Mrs. Morton appeared

iu her riding-habit They immediately rode away, to the infinite satisfaction of

the recumbent but impatient Doctor, who was in mortal fear that fresh complications might arise through his unexplained absence from duty bringing messages of inquiry. At a meeting of husband and wife we would rather not play fly in the corner, but take for granted there was the usual amount of tears, recrimination, and hysterics, in which for his occasion ., only a torn and crumpled fabric of pink and silver took an active part; the sight of it from time to time stimulating Mrs. Morton's grief and eloquence, wliile her husband, who, smarting under the expose of the morning, had entered on the fray with unusual spirit, soon found himself vanquished, limp, and utterly dismayed, as his own inconsistent tyrannical, and selfish conduct wae contrasted not for the first time with the patient endurance of his Ion g suffering wife. Neither of this nor of the reconciliation that followed in natural sequence shall wo make record; but we must of the pleading fact that, at the very next concert, Mrs. Morton, leaning on her husband's a.rm, appeared in most excellent spirits, her cloak, this time of amber and gold, being admired bv all beholders. Thrashing a Prince. One day a youn g recruit was standin g guard before the door of the entrance to Peter the Great's private chambers in ths Palace of St Petersburg. He had received orders to admit no one. As he was passing slowly up and down the door, Prince Mentchikoff, tho favorite Minister of the Czar, approached, attempting to enter. He was stopped by the recruit The Prince, who had the fullest liberty of calling upon his master at any time sought to push the guard and pass him; yet the young man would not move, but ordered his Highness to step back. "You fool P shouted the Prince, "don't you know me?" The recruit smiled and said, "Very well, your Highness; but my orders are peremptory to let nobody pass."

The Prince,exasperated at the low fellow's impudence, struck him a blow in the face with his riding-whip. "Strike away, your Highness," said the soldier, "but I cannot let you go in." Peter, in the room, heard the noise outside, opened the door, and inquired what it meant and the Prince told him. The Czar was amused, but said nothing at the time. In the evening,however, he sent for the Prince and the soldier. As they both appeared, Peter gave his own cane to the soldier, saying: "That man struck you in the morning, now you must return the blow to that fellow with my stick." The Prince was amazed. He said, "Your Majesty,this common soldier is to strike mo?" "I make him a Captain," said Peter. "But I'm ari officer of your Majesty's household," objected the Prinze, "T make him a Colonel of my Life Guards and an officer of the household," said Peter. "My rank, your Majesty knows, is that of General," again protested Mentchikoff. "Then I make him a General, bo that the beating you get may como from a man of your rank." The Prince got a sound thrashing in the presence of tho Czar, the reoruit was the next day commissioned General, with the title of Count Oroinoff, and was the founder of a powerful family, whose descendants are still high in the imperial service of Russia. Warm Hearts and Ragged Jackets. Warm hearts are sometimes found under ragged jackets, as shown bv the following incident. A kit is a box of tools or whatever outfit is needed in a particular branch of business. It surprised the shiners and newsboys around the postoffioe the other day to see "Little Tom" coming among them in a quiet way and hear him say: "Boys, I want to sell my kit. Here's two brushes, a hull box of blacking, a good stout box, and the outfit goes for two shiliings." "Goin' away, Tim?" queried one. Not 'zacfcly, bovs, but I want a quarter the awfullest kind just now." "Goin' on a skursion?" asked another. "Not to-day, but I must have a quarter," he answered. One of the lads passed oyer the change and took the kit,and Tim walked straight to the counting-room of a daily paper,put down his money and said: "I guess I kin write if vou give me a pencil." With slow-moving fingers he wrote a death noticed It went into the paper almost as he wrote it, but you might not have seen it. He wrote: "Died Litul Ted of soarle1. fever; aged three vears. Funeral to-morrow, gone up to Hey in, left won brother." Was it your brother?" asked the cashr ier. . :.. Tim tried to brace up, but he could a't. The big tears came up, his chin quivered, and he pointed to the counter and gasped: "I I had to sell my kit to do it b bub he had his arms around my neck when he d died" He hurried away home, bat the news went to the bovs and they gathere 1 into a group and talked. Tim had not ' been home an hour before a barefooted boy left the kit on the door-step, and iu the box was a boquet of flowers which had been purchased in fche market by pennit s contributed by the rowd of ragged but big-hearte 1 boys. D 1 God ever make a heart which would not respond if the right chord was touched?

OHIO POLITICS.

The Republican and Democratic Platforms.

Married Life in Pantomime. On of the tr i rs of tin sferagt-oa. Lnr-e broke, delaying the castor s 7 ?o i o- m rht minutes. Afar oil to the right one could see into the backyard of a hou?e, and directly the passengers on the oar were gaaincftha'. wny f, a pantomime. A ma'i on the car took it upon himself to explain what was ocaurring. He began: "A woman aud her husband appear at the back door. She is axcited he the picture of calmness." It was so. The woman waved her arm3 aud gesticulated th3 man seemed to whistle. "Now she leads him to a bedstead which she has b9en scalding," continued the passenger. "She is probably savin ir that she will smash it with the ax, and ho is probably replying that she'll have to sleep on the floor if she does. If I had time I'd advise her to use kerosene oil in the crevices, but T haven't." The woman then led the man to a oarpet hanging on a fence aud waved her arms some mora "She telling him to pull off his coat and beat it," explained th nassfmgr, "and he replies that he'll see the old thing burned first No true wife will ever ask her husband to have anything to do with a carpet." The two suddenly disappeared into the house, and tho interpreter remarked: "Hold on -this isn't the end! She's taken him in to show where she wants the kitchen stove moved to. There they come, and she's madder'n ever." The actors reappeared and stood! in the attitude of enemies about to begin, a com bat. "She's saying that she rues the day she ever sat eyes on him!" whispered the passenger. "She's calling him a, loafer and a drunkard, aud he's telling, her to set the chimney afire aud let the firemen do her housekeeping. Whoa there! she's flying off the handle! There! she's hit him with a bedstead slat! He staggers, but recovers and tries to grasp her! She whacks him again, and now he turns to flee. 'Hs reaches the fence, but she reaches him!" Some of the passengers ran out upon the platform to get a clear view, but the interoreter olimbed to the roof and continued: "She has him down on an ash-heap! She's telling him that he has reached the end of his rope and has got to out bait or fish. . He struggles she chokes him and jams his head into the ashes! Now he is quiet Now she lets him up. Now he is walking towards the carpet with, a stick. Ladies and gentlemen, the great moral exhibition is over, and virtue and perseverance hab won another glorious triumph!" A Cow Adopts a Litter of Pigs. The Lower Alloways Creek correspondent of the Salem (N. J.) Standard adds to his list of stories from that section this: A cow belonging to James Stackhouse, having no progeny ol her own, has adopted a litter of pige. The pigs are four in number, and when hungry they give notice to their foster mother by rubbing against her legs, and at the same time give vent to the well-known vocal sound of young swine. Their guardian at once lies down in such a manner that the maternal fount is readily accessible, and then each pig proceeds to gann a livelihood by seizing on a teat. This convinces us without-debate that- Darwin was wrong.

UBPUBTjIOAN PTjATFOKM. The Republicans of Ohio in State Convention assembled adopt the following declaration of principles : Frst That the Republican party in preserving the life of the Nation; in giving freedom aud equal rights to all its citizens; in the reconstruction of the Union; in upholding the National honor; in the generous provision made for these who have suffered for their country; in keeping the National iaith and advanoing the National credit; in the speedy payment of the public debt; in the reduction of National taxation; in the elevation of the civil service; in the enactment of a series of wise public measures which have given the country unexampled prosperity have given the best assurances of its purposes for the future. Second That the Republican party.believejnow, as in the past, in the maintenance of a tariff system whioh will provide a revenue for the Government, and at the same time protect Americans producers and American labor; that it is opponed to fche Damo3ratio doctrine of a tariff for revenue only, because such a doctrine if enforced would of necessity compel American workmen to accept the unremunerative wages whioh are paid their foreign rivals. It looks with alarm upon the purpose already avowed by the Democratic leaders that the next Congress will

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unsettle the the business of the country, and will produce real injury to the mechanics, producers and artisans of the country. Third That the wool tariff of 1867 should be restored at the first possible chance. Fourth That we are in favor of the establishment by Congress of National Bureau of Labor Statistics for the purpose of collecting and systematizing all the statistics relating to the industrial, social and sanitary condition of the laboring masses of the Nation. Fifth That we approve of the action of the General Assembly of Ohio in the submission of the Constitutional Amendments, in relation to the liquor traffic, thus giving an opportunity to the people to make such changes in the organic law of tho State as may be approved by their judgment.

Seventh That we congratulate the country upon the reduction of internal taxes of more than $40,000,000 annually, while at. the sams time the ere lit of the nation is maintained and tha stead reduction of the national debt provided for. Eighth- That the wise and conservative administration of President Arthur meets with the hearty approval of the Republicans of Ohio. Ninth That we commend the action of the General Assembly of the State iu providing a oomoiissiou w to examine into the system of prison coatraob labor, and we declare ourselves in favor of the abolition, of said contract system. Tenth Toa" wa reitsrita fch3 declarations ofjorevious Republican conventions in favor of civil service reform, and welcome every intelligent effort to make the measure pr.icttci-; an I we especially approve the proyisioos made by the Republican Ooagross for giving fche patriotic soldier? of fche late war, with the proper qualiSc uions, th prafersaea for all places uude.4 fche government, Eieveii'h That we favor the repeal of the la w 1 uifcing t he ttm a in which ap pi i -cations for pensions uader the arrears of pensions vet shall be. made. T weirth That the greatly improved eon!iiiin of the public institutions of the State; the successful refunding of the public debt, at a rate of interest loer than a loan has been place 1 by any other State; the provisions for and payment of Si,SOO,090 of the public debt; the improved financial condition of the State being such that we may reduce the rate of taxation aud at tho same time be able to make large expenditures for the benefit of the charitable institutions of the State. All this, accomplished in the face of what appeared to be an absolute necessity under Democratic administration to increase the State taxation attestB the wisdom, care and economy of fche ad ministration of Gov. Foster, aud is an assurance to the people of the State that their b.sfc interests are; to be subserved by the continuance of the Rapublioan party in power DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. First The democracy of Ohio, iu convention assembled, hereby reaffirm the principles of the party as expressed in the previous state and national platforms iu regard to personal liberty and the true functions of the government, and as em braced iu the political creed expounded by the great founder of the. democratic party, Thomas Jefferson. The application of these principles to our present condition demands the puriacation of the public services; the punishment to the robbers of the public treasury; the equalization of all public burdens; the arrest of the profligacy and extravagance that corrupt the admin'strafcion of ptiblio affairs, aud a total change in the policy that has so long been pursued bv the republican party, favoring individuals and class interest at the expense of the laboring aud wealth producing people of the country, and we reannounoe our previous declarations for stable money, the gradual extinction of the public debt, and the payment of pensions to disabled soldiers, their widows and orphans. Second We favor a tariff for revenue, limited to the necessities of the government economically administered and so adjusted in its application as to prevent unequal burden, encourage productive industries at home, and afford just compensation to labor, but not to create or foster monopolies. Third The act of tho Republican Ooneress reducing the tariff on wool, while at tha same time increasing it on the woolen goods, already highly protected, was iniquitous legislation, discriminating in favor of monopoly and against feho agricultural interests of the country, and ought to be corrected, and we heartly approve the action of the Democratic members of the Ohio delegation in Oonxreas in voting against that measure. Four h The Democratic party is, as it always has bson, opposed to sumptuary legislation and unequal taxation m auy form, and is in 'a or of the largest liberty of private cond acfc consistent with fche nublio welfare and the rights of others.

and of regulating the liquor traffic , and providing against the evils resulting therefrom by a judicious and properly graded license system. . .. . Fifth The abuses of the present contract Bvstem in cur state penitentiary, by whioh tho products of the labor of convicts is brought in competition with the products of honest: labor, to the great detriment of the latter, are injurious and unwise, and ought to be corrected, and the promises of the Republican party

to abolish this system are shown to be false and hypocritical by its failure to do so while it his hid the power. Sixth -The protection of the government is due to all American citizens, native and foreign born, abroad as well as at home. Seventh We reaffirm the resolutions of the state convention of Ohio in 1880'82, aud of the Demoorafcio national convention oU872-,80, demanding a thorough reform and 'purification of the civil service, and charge that the Reoublioan party has violated ever" pledge -it has heretofore given for the reform thereof, and has tailed during, its Ion? administration of the government to correct even the most crying abuses, aud we demand, therefore, a change in the executive administration of the government itself, as the reform first of all necessary (as made still more manifest by the recent star route vials), thereby ousting corrupt rings, confederated to protect crime and prevent the punishment of criminals, aud by po doing to make it possible asain to punish fraud aud theft iu the public service.

Tests of Indian Wheat. ' " Dornbusch (England) publishes the report of an English milling firm to the Secretary of State for India ot a series of experiments with Indian wheat. Four representative varieties were taken. The results obtained were without exception that the yield of flour was unusually large the two lots most suitably for baker.0 making probably more bread than the product of any other country. The flour was found profitable for millers, and in color and strength ranged from white and liqrht to dull brown, and the strensrth liked by the bakers. The flavor of the four lota was beanv. The report says there is no probability of these Indian wheats coming into demand for manufacture into flour such as that required by the British and most other foreign markets without a liberal admixture of other wheats. The Indian flours were found to possess in a marked degree the same characteristics of great dryness, and a distinct beany and almost aromatic flavor, inseparable from wheats grown in the climates and soils of the tropics. "The flours are ricy, the texture of the breads is too olosa, and the crust is hard and brittle. But these characteristics do not detract from their ueef ulnrt.sq iu nuv important decree. As is well known, a miller cytnot show skill in is craft to a greater advantage or profit than that with xrhich he selects his wheat and mixes his prists so as to produce to

best advantage a flour from which bread can be ma le of the color, bloom, strength and flav r d s3ire1, and withal a flrood yield." .... The report adds: "We pronounce them to b exc9'lin?lv useful wheats; in fact, hardly equaled for what is deficient or wanting in the "Euorlish markets by any other wheats. Their chief characteristics are just those in. which the wheats grown in our variable climate (H-reat Britain) are most deficient. Their great dryn00 and soundness renders them invaluable for admixture with English wheats that are in any degree out of condition through moisture, and the great proportions of the wheats harvested here have been in that condition for some years past, a con dition that must prevail in all others than that of wheat harvested and stored during fine and favorable weather; and this the Enrlrh farmer knows, greatly to his cost, is a state of climate that'is by along way the exception rather thn the rule." The thinness of the skms of these Indian wheats, which makes a heavy yield of flour, also puts them in the front rank as a millers' whea t. The yields of flour range 77.46 to 80.52 per cent, against 65.2 for English and 72.2 for American spring wheats. They also yield a larger percentage of bread than other wheats. The beany flavor is found not to be a serious obstacle, for fair average deliveries, well cleaned and properly deaH with, can. be emploved in the proportion of 25 Per cent, to 50 per cent, with British or wheat like the AmQrioan3. nessinff a sw et milky or nnttv flavor. The character and general excellence of , the . Indian wheat are said to be improving with every harvest. The development, of the wheat resources of Tudia is strongly recommended in the report. , The Christian Era. Prof. Sattler, of Munich, claims the distinction of havins solved the problem as to the year in which Christ was born and of having demonstrated the fast that the current year is probably 1883 instead of 1883. He bases his proofs mainly on three coins which were struck iu the reign of Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, and which hire, conseque tly, from the first half of the first een'nry of the current era. Madden admits the genuineness of these coins, aud other numismatic writers do the same. The evidence they offer is said to coincide with the narrative of the Gospels and with astronomioal calculations. The following are the results at whioe Prof. Sattler has arrived at: Jesus was born on the 25th of December, 749 years after the founding of Rome.and commenced his public career on the 17th of November, 780 years after the founding of Rome. He was then 80 years, 10 months and 22 days old. The date on which he commenced his career fell in the fifteenth year of the Emperor Tiberius, and in the forty-sixth year after the building of Herod's Temple. This is in accordance with St. Luke, iii., 1, and St. John, ii., 20. Jesus died on the 7th of April,783 of the Roman era that is to say, on the Friday before Passover; for it has been ascertained by exact calculation that Passover fell that year on 7th ot April, 783; and as the latter year was a Jewish leap-year, and consisted, accordingly, of thirteen mo&ths. His public career lasted two years and seven months. According to Prof. Sattler, the Christian reckoning is at fault oy fiye years, aud we ars now therefore, in 1888, and not in 1883. The first woman lawyer has just been admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania. She is Mrs Car t ie Kilgore, of Philadelphia, a graduate of the law lepartment of the University of Pennsylvania and wife of Damon Z. Kilgore, a well known mem? ber of the bar. The widow of Dr. Gleuu, the great California farmer, will realize this year 700,000 from the grain crop,

CONDIMENTO. A household pet: A car pet. " The hire class: All sorts of laborers. The man who offers yotta counterfeit coppers showed bad cente. : ; TPe Brooklyn Bridge has caused a good deal of "wire pulling in New Ybrfc Speaking of poetry, if there is any little account that winter ode to epringit must have been paid up long ago. The individual who stood ready to pay

his one cent at midnight on the Brooklyn Bridge was the first man tolled to go .across;, ..... . :.. ". At this time of the year the beer-selleis hangout pictures of the; festive goatv These are intendel to attract the young' kids. . . . . . .. . . "In case l am recalled," amiouned a young vocalist to a Wasted audience, "I shall sing 1 My arandfther's Oiocjk--She was not reoaUed. e A Cleveland paper says that JohuSeater, of that city, shot himself ou the South Side. A man who can't come any nearer the center than that had better practice. - - u , ,cProud of it?nhe said. Of : oontee I am. He stopped four days at my houso, . and wa taken with the delirium tremens Shows I'm a good entertainer, doesn't itr ..,...v.v V .. . ;. X, ''''- "Qo away!" yelled the sportsman fr his boy; "go away. Por once in my V'i Tve caught a string of fish, and if an body sees me taking to.you theyfll ewvac I bought em of you." . , "Now, then, witness," said the the oro i examining counsel sternly doee the preceding witness enjoy your entire con-v ; dme&r Great Soott, no? yfhy9 that'r my wife." jr.; "I declare!" exclaimed Mrs T5(tojc '1 never saw a girl like our 8ary Jane. if worked almost two hull days on bet new, bathin dress, and don't you think; e'i-if got it Vringitt' wat the faibtima she put it. OUr ...... ,T,y... " j " There are some girls so awfully nice that they will not dance with a fellow in a ball-room if his hair sticks no on5 the back of his head. The same girl may ba seen at the age of 31 Wkiug inaeven diN ; fereut direotions for a husband.; y . ' " The independent damsels of Athen Ga., formed a "Spinsters' Giu," wluo no men were suffered to atten J. Then aBachelors Club was orgauze3 in self dsfence, and at last acj jauts ihey- w jre holding iuat sessions. t And even now things go wrong in Oirland! Scene: An Irish cabin. PatisilL' Doctorhas just callel "Well, Pat have1 yoatakea the bx of pUls Isnl you?"; 'Yes, shy b3 jabbers,' t have; but I den'tjr " feel any better yet; maybe theiid hasn't, come off yetf ' ' U - .: The Family Doctor.- x. ; Try cranberrieBlfbr malaria. Try a sun bath for rhenma3m ; ' ; v" Try clam broth for a weak stomach. Try olanberry poultice for eryaipelas. Try gurgling lager beer for: cure for 8pe throat. . ' ' .... . , " Try eating f resh radishes , a nd yellow : turnips for grayeh . Try swalloing salia when troubled with. spur stomach. .... rX--:- J Try eating onions and lmrseiadiflhxto relieve dropsical awelliugs. r ' Try buttermilk for the removal, of freckles, tan and butternut stains. ' " ' Try the croup-tippet when a cold i likely ,to be troublep in that way. . .'!' Try hot fl annel over the seat i of nen ; ralgio pain, and renew fequently, Try talring cod.liver oil in toinato.o sup if you want to make it palatable. Try hard- cidor--a ineglassfttl three

utimes a day for ague and rheumatism. .

Try snufflng powdered borax up the . nostrils for catarrhal "cold in the head. Try taking a nap in the afternoon -if -; yon are going to be out late in t- even mgl V. ..",-'.:"-:-' . Try an extra pair of etooking entBide ; of your shoes when traveling, in ' pold ; weather. . ,.-,., Vi ' Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent ; forwards ... v. -. ;, J',.. .-J'': Try brea tiling the fumrs "of tnrpentin or carbolic, acid .to. reHeye. whopping COUffb. . r:.r-J-:--: : J Try a silk handkerchief oyer the ftice when obliged to go against a opld, piercing wind. ; ',i.,..4A-..JA.r J'. ::'.-iTry a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the. neck at night for the;8ore

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The Rbyal Scandal in Spain. . A Madrid newspaper, Bl Globo, hai been incontinently suppressed for alludf ing to the royal scandal which has senar' ated theroyakfamily of Snain. Mention;, has been made of the fact that the highr strung Queen gathered up her babies the other day and went to Join her indignant mother at a Germansps, "ail along pf$ the Kinir's bad behavior. Gossips whdj have been in 8pain reeebtly have a great deal to relateitouching youuur Alfonso in the roleof agayLotharia Ifcedtspatohes the other day referred to the woman who baa ensnared His Tf aiesty as ""a member of the royal circle." It misht have been inferred that the Delilah wiwr a 8nanisht noble-woman of hurh deirree, but the fnot.

is she is only a beautiful and dashini

cirons rider a member of Boval" in Madrid and not circle. The lady's name is Carmen Fuenea. She is

Andalusia, . and is known among the "dudes of Madrid" as estra Carmenv oita," The passion of the young King for the fascinating rider has been rasing for something like six months. She occupies a handsome, villa in the snburba of the rtitv aud it is said that" the -boldt monarchihas been in the habit of; driving

to the ulaoe ou oleasaut afternomis in the

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Cost of Gar Building. :

The average price of box cars is ftont ' S400 to $45", whilij in 1872 thev were as hiffh as $l,tS()0. A milk oar coaslw alut SlOO more. A barrage oar s passenger car truck are about the same

expense. The price of a oar varies tonu ;.. $2,000 to 2,500. The cheapest style of -Wacner's drawingrpom oars may be made : ' for $8,000; the usiial price being $1000 ;x this inoluds all iho furnishing- Theobepest drawiuRroom oars, four wheels, are " , made for; $10,001, while ordnary mail cars cost from JIJ&OOO disteibnf k ting cars are more expensive, . Oars for the New York Elevated road cost from $1,500 to 3,000. The oridinary passenger " cars cost U$M; the last built on theHudU f ? " son River road coast $5,400 whiminolud- . ed a heater and some extra fixtnres.,

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