Bloomington Courier, Volume 10, Number 9, Bloomington, Monroe County, 29 December 1883 — Page 3

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One of a cart load of bills dumped into the Hoiiee the OthtrJay roft been prostuteo, it la F&ii to every Congress since 1852. U has outlived trie members who nret ea w il, Bud will probably go .on forever. 1 he large number of theft o d, famuiar nnisances is what clogs thirte. els of -legislation every wiuicr. . r

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An Irish dispatch thus described 0'Donneli as be appeared in the dock of the London court: 0-"Donne31 is a man above tbemidule -heightrHe stands and steps like a soldier, with his head we J erect o i square shoulders. He is neither thin nor stent His face is intelligent und fine. His eyes

nrft bright, and sometimes fiery. Alibis

physiognomy breathes the most deter

mined resolution. He kiofcB every inch

- the man who would keep an oath or do wht h had decided to d come what

night: He sat the great par of this

day; now and ihen-eiauaing luraiew

Mtiiaia Tan Tiff k on the rail of the

dock, chewing he whole time, and watching briber seated opposite. His left hand oC which s: much has been said, is half paralyzed, bnt hia right one must have stood good service to him. .It is; I think, the biggest and most muscular . hand l ever saw. The pugilistic world could not produce a more formidable equipment Such a hand must have shot straight impelled by such a wilL"

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It can not be doubted that the day is coming when the cotton - crop will go largely into Southern mills. The cotton manufacturing industry in the cotton States shows rapid development. Virginia has eleven factories and more are to be establ shed Eocn. Georgia has fifty factories, all paying thfir stockholders from eight to twenty per tnt. annually, and many are now building. Cotton nulls in Alabama have declared from fifteen to twenty per cent dividends, and it is said that Union capital is erecting more of them & msf a k. Tbere are lew factories in io. wda as ye, but the industry promises fronts. The same is true of North Carolina. The industry flourish in South Carolina, That S'ato has wta terrier estimated at S.CCO.0G0 horse; twenty-six ; cotton ractories tie in operation endotbers arc oing up. Dividends range from ten to twenty per cent. Aikansas inahuf acttues t very y ear a considerable quantity of cotton goods. Mississippi has a number of cotton mills, and enterprising capitalists are establishing more of them, the profits of the industry being large in this greatest of the- cot tongrowing Stales, Louisiana has a few nulls, also Texas, and capital now seeks ixmatment in these enterpriEee. Throughout the South on vvery hand, there are .evidences of a remarkable growth of cotton man nf ectniii mil itiia ts substantia as it is lw et i tain statements: that nave been published are true, there are employers of women in Canada alios brutality is deserving of governmental notice. It is said to be the common practice f some manufacturers to wnip the women in their employ whenever, for ai y lesson, they tell disposed to do so.' JV private letter has been published written by a lady tea friend in the Statcs,in which the writer says that heherself had been whipped on the bare hips, and that whipping was a common practice. She r aid she had seen women given their choice of a discharge or a whipping and that when the latter alternative was scripted their bodies would be bared, and the punishment adminiatered as to a little child: Any man whe would authorize the a hipping of a woman for such reasons as any employer could nave deserves to be ostracized from aaaooiations with civilized people. That the practice would be - tolciated in any j half civilized country wold be sarins fng, but is is the morer to that it should be permitted in en iigbtenf d Canada. It w sjo easy-to in fodnce a11 bill in Congress. Those offeied oow reach over 2,000 in number. A stud of the 1,700 bills in the; House in the first two days of fins week 'hows ome enribus facts. Oat of this number (1,760) oyer 1000 were private hills; for the payment of claims

or pensions, or bounties or elief f some

sort. The amount thev seek to appro

Si a Ia millions of dollars. Tnt re are

niany familiar faces among them, msn which have appeared session aft er session for twe ity years, anomany wi?h- inteeating histories. Not n few are' for tb - payment of claims whese pr ini lh Imyt Ion? since passed away, and thi- ssorit-i that could be told of am iocs wahissg mi watching by claimants for the passagt

f fthaae same bills" would fill volumes.

and would' rival the most interesiias

tales of fiction. There are among the

hill, of the . week nearly forty for tht 1

erection of public builuiugs Mn yatiouf Tarious parts of the c untry. They wib probably approriatehxre or four mil lion dollars. Now that Sergeant 'Mason has got on of the Penitentiary, says an exchange, he baa fallen in to a worse s t rai th e interviewer's corner.' There sei-ms to be a determined efiert to n:ake h im tt k him elf to death. He now says he only intended to wound Guvteau, but hud made up his mindie ad vance that if be were put on gnard daty over the assassin he would shoot him. This is avry who'esome -wtiment -The Sergeant-. says he knew i shot wes wrong, and thinks hia punish, tfiot was eminently proj-er as a warning to otheis. Hifr first hope, however, was to inflict a wonnd Jeimt! ar to that fromthe effeetof - which' the Y esixdnt died " ha SerKcjnt'sayi t&ar litt.e

quarrel he had wifebBeity grew oaL ofc

' her extravagance in dress. She cam e;. to him dxeteed ont in great-style and covered with jewelry. He told her plainly, what'he thought bfcKUob: an 1 . outfit, and she wrote him Vaukot , letter in reply' But shwe then ibingt have been iplea--V. anter'iii the1- epistoTary eiehangei The Sergeant has not yels made up his mind

whether he will aeoept an offer of a piece 18 a Cliicago clothing horhie. made1 some

months ago. He was ofrred 125 a month. He says he will thin&v no more of the army, however, and doed not intend to make a show of himself. Be baa gone o hi.yjrgima hoae. :V "

Farm Notes.

A mew York fanner declares that the

wheat, oats and barley which he' dragged

last spring, in somd doubt as to whether be was not doing niore harm than good,

yielded thirty-iere per centmore graii

tban that not dragged, t -ougi t ho Uk r Was on I he rch-e't uai b-'tt u-at-u.. lieans are not earen whole by any kind of stock excep' i'jg'shectx But, by grindiag and mixing -7161 corn cr oatmeal t;-ea ns unlit for pfclo m y bo protituV ly fed to cattle, horses and pies. They are very strong fcKoV'find as stock become used to them the proportion of beaumeal may be increased. A writer iu the Country Gentlemen recommends t be soakir g of the wood cotuposing a summer bouse in crude jntrolenm, saying it will mnke any common wood nearly cr about as durable as

cia, i.-upartiug to it :i aich brora color.

It would be an excel i ut idea to app'y

the same preservative io trellises, etc., on

lawns.

The Ayrshire, says ihe N. Y. Hernld, is a particularly heavy, long milker,

giring, five times her own weighs, per

season." The milk is lomewbat low in

specific gravity and per cent of cream.

but it is over the average in cheese proto 3 inches in bngth is said to have been discovere-l in Paraguay. Should this announcement prove true the Journal of Science protests in advan,3e against their being paraded as the missing link," since the anthropoid apes have no tails, duct ion. The Ayrshire grade is not improved in any respect except in duration of milktcg season. Apples are among the most nourishing and healthful of all vegetable foods. Beside? containing a large amount of augar and other carbo-hydrates, tiiey contain

vegetable adds and certain aromatic

qualities which act powerfully in the

capacity of tonics, anfafieptic and re

frigerants or coiling foods. When mellow t hey prevent debility and indigestion. J. 15. Woodward, of Lockport, N. Y,,

his grown this year a crop of six-rowed barley, estimated at eighty bushels per

aore. tojs was on tour acres wuicn ne

heavily manured for mangels last year.

rhe effect of the manure ar high cul

ture the previous season shosYa tnat ail

the virtue does not g out in a rc ofc crop.

The barley on adjoining gioand after

corn and-potatoes yields Bixty bushels

per acre. It i - all very plump, and will

weigh ip to the standard of forty eight pounds per bushel,

As an illustration of the growing dairy

prosperity of the Northwest, we not 3 the

decline of the beef raising business m

che dairy belt. Iowa fold $15,000,000

worth of beef ca tie in 1879. in 18S0 it

was only f 9,000,000, w oile in 1881 a trifle over $6,500,030. This is not because

fowa raises lessstoek than formerly, but

because she raises more for dairy pur-peso-s; and, where dairies aboun 1, beef raising isof secondary importance.

The strawberry is hardy, says the

Gardener s Monthly. The loots will live, through the severest wintery but it is

generally believd that if the' leaves ai e

preserved threx.-. the season green until

apring it is better for the crop tnat in to

follow. Hence a light covering of eraw

is atfbenefit,where the winter is severe

enough to destroy the fully exposed

leaves.

A lady correspondent of the New Eng

land Farmer cenplains that she ('Ru't

prevent her tin milk pans and other tin

vessels used iu the dairy fronr beiug

greasy, and wants to know what is the

trouble. The matter is simply that they are "not vraaht d cUan, it auawern. Hot water is the remedy, and it that does not work it will be because you do not use

enough of it or don't have it iiot enough.

ScintiUatioos of Science. Inrapura, the loftiest of the Sumttra volcanoes, is 3,701 ms ers, or 11,50(1 feet high. At the summit the temperature is

eight degre e. At an altitude of 2,500

mstree the region of fage trees termin tea.

Nex1; month a universal exhibition wil be opened at Nic?, and will i e accessible to visitors duriug the whole of the winter. Its inauguration was set down for Devember, but it has bean postponed until about the 15th.' ' Mr Ralph Copeland, during'' the fitst half of this year, sar at Lu Paz, in Bolivia, at an elevation o' 12 000 ft et, wilh

the full moDn in i.ii sk tfi welVe stars n the Pleiades ivith the nnfe 'd eye, and a'so two stars in- the head of the Bull which are tot . 1 1 lije Araiidr s "JJvauou etria Novs. 9 For st vera! yea' s past the Swedieb QovernmeiVi employe 1 an entomologist to aasut the farmers in distinguish tug and destroying inlets that prove hurtful to. the crops. The demand f or-his sc r vices hsS'beefi so very -great, and the work he has dona has been so useful,that tbe vffi j of Government J3ntomolrgist is to be made a permanen t one. ' From the r- port submitted to 'he ioademy of Sciences, Paris; by M. Laugisrr, c mcerniug the treat uient of the phylloxera in the regio.of the Maritime Alps, it appears that the pest was very successfully checked with su'phuret of

carbon and sulpho-oarbOuHte of p ttassi-

tbe je rs 1882-3. , Detonations of the Jara eruption of August 27 were distinctly heard throughout tho PhilKppine Islands. M. Raphael Perulta etates that the sounds were bo tond that gan boats wero sent' out by the authorities at Manilla under theimpression that eithe a versel waa -tiring signals of distress or that theie was fighting

going on in Java.v MM. Ueyierre and Spinal say that the metals beat suited for calico printing cylinders are pure copper and alloys containing from 25 to 30 of zinc to from 75 to 80 of copper. Lead is injar;ous if

present to the extsufc of een 0.5 per cent. The introduction of 1 per cent, of phoaphoiU3 in brnss renders the grain cf the ;rolle;s more homogeneous; . , To make a Vronze that shall be 1 s elcttic as coppsr, from 1 to 2 per cent, of

mercery must be. added to it, according

to" the degree of milleabilifcy desired.

Fhe mercitry may be combined with one

of the metals of whioh thebronzeis mcde

before mafciag the alloy or introduced to the meltel mass that already contains

the tUffereutmetalsib tho proper pin-

porjions; ;.

According to Con3ul Ayrac, p9 Merida, the northern portion of the State of Yucatanis a-'lt vel-plain of recant geological formation'.. The soil is poor, shallow and

etony. - There 21re.no rivers on the stir

face, but large subterranean streams are knowortoexist. Small caves, or "cenctea." as fcey are called, are found every

where, ard they always contain- water.

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Onoanpua a timotwo e iMt n Hytbs numoii of Tom antl Holla With their kimi, intl ikzmi paroats , 1m this thriving town Ji'l d feUBelle wiia a gentle t ronturo, Tom a iidisy, romping lad Beile was always god and pan oat . Toro, por contto, very ba'J. And hia rode unseemly conduct Wade his parents only sad. When his father said to r ho:n -a. T6mmy, dear, 1 do pro'"1 Thomas wond reply. doridw, '(hesse it pnrd- pull down your vast !" Or, if raaratnn mildly pleaded With hernaoghtv, forward boy.

He wo aid, ecorninc )ir entreaty, 3i!ek new method :t m i sy. And, with intonation vulvar. Query calmly; "What d'ye soy?" But not so pretty his si ate r. Gentle aud obedient Belle, .... TVhom, tor her discresfc depor.'ment. Everybody loved so well. Daily hied she to her lessons Nevf-r absent, never late. Nover ponnd ing the piano, Never swinging on the sate: Let them grease her nostrils nightly. And hei oostoroil took straight. Sauta Claus chins like a shado , Creeping iu and floating outFound the ge it to little Hello Followed her unseen nbtut Saw her goodness to hor parents -Ejer dutifnl and mild And Old Santa Cum, th is observing Stroked his hoay haaid and smiled,. Saying: "On the Chtistmas morning I'll not neglect this child." Oat into the noisome albsy Good O'd Santa Olau? then strays I Lrlthe neuhty Htfcta Tiiomns With a gng of hoodlums played.

And, engaged at low amusement,!!

Dealt in exclamations badEven swore, when Baata. lisfce led With n countenance moat ea i

h,V he signed, "Mhoro wnl not be anything

Christmas morn for you, my lad.,

Christmas came, and tho stockings of Bullo

Boomed with presents rich and ra?e, Peanuts, dolls, confections, sashes Cost'y articles and fair.

I jan gn 1 ge fails us t n d es oribing

Belle's gratitude and joy

Bnt iu little Tommy's stocking

Phej e was neither cake nor toy.

And poor Tom too late regretted

He had been a naughty boy.

80 be warned, O, little ohUdrett,

For each bright December day

Santa Clans, liko ghost or shadow.

Watches you at work and play . ,

No good doed is nnrom. mbered

No kind word is hord with scorn

Oood and bad are justly treated On tho merry Christmas morn The good folks' stocsings burst with fullnessBad folks' stockings hang forlorn. f Eugene Field.

nci'ltn 'ftu u fitimo H ni 'aim : i'na .t Witu" a ccmnl?nt us lon un i unintelligible at an Assyiiau inscription. Bat at the first g'imnse of thy person who entered his face cleared at once. The visitor was a tall native, with the handsome features and stately bearing of a Mahratta. Hia figure, nearly sis feet in height, was so ganut aud nuowy that it seemed o be made of pia win, nnd his piercing black eyes looked out hen le neath the folds of his white turban With tho quick, keen, watchful glance of a prnctieil hunter. In truth. Ismail, the Afuhrattn. was

well used to tracking other game beside deor or tigera.. Oyer -Wid above his occupations as scout, hunter and govern, meat courier, ho was in constant request as a detective, and, for tracking down either a wild beast orcriniiria, he bad ho equal in Bengal. Gliding into the room as noiselessly as a shadow, he made u low salaam, and said in his own language: "May the humblest of his servants

apeak to the Sahib?" (master.) There was nothing particularly hum ble, it must bo admitted, iu the speaker's bearing; on the contrary, he held himself

erest', and looked the GommU'oner full in tike face with the air cf u mnn who knew his own value, and had something to tell which he felt to be worth, hearing; but Mr. Sparks, with whom . Ismail was an old acquaintance, appeared to understand these signs perfectly, and said; "What hna Ismail to tell? I am listening." ' "I have been at the village of Bamgf.Dja" answered the-Mahratta, laying a slight. stress on the last word. 'Jliamganj?t1 echoed Mr. fcjpark.", fiAh, to be sure; the place where that crocodile has been eatiiag up so many people. "Are you quite sure, Sahib?" asked the Hindu, keenly watching the effect of his words, "that it was a crocodile that did it?" , Tho Englishman started and looked flsedly at Ismail's immovahle face. "That's howl heard the story told," rejoined he. "if it wasn fc a orocodile, what was it?" "Did the Commissioner Sahib' inquired Ismail, "ever hear of a crocodile being so nice in his eating as to devour none but women, and only such women as had plenty of silver bangles on?" . Again Mr. Sparks gave a alight start, and the sparkle of cis eye showed that he was beginning to gaejs the riddle,but he took care to make no inter 'uption, seeing that Ismail wished to hava the pit asure of telling the whale story himself "I went to the yirifcge,"-continued Ismail, "and talked with the people. Then I dived into the river (my lord knows tbat 1 can find my way through water as well as through thickets), and ut the bottom I cameupjna no.-.se rope." The Commissioner nodded with the air of a man who un dors too 1 the whole affair perfectly, bat stilt he said nothing. "The Sahib underst in Ja how it was done,1' proceeded foe Hindu. "When any woman v rth robbing -went inter the wnter, the noose tacsrid her feet, and t.:e robbc, hidden among tne bushes on the opposite bank, dragged her down and drowned her, and then plundexed the corpse at his leiaure." , "I Nee ' said Mr. Sparks. "Well, Ismail, yon know there's a Government reward of a thousand rupees ($509)for every murderer b -ought to justice; sss what j on can make of lhe case. The MCihratU'd bt iak eei tl whi ttr for 599 13 more to a fiiu.iu th iii 5,000 to a wniteman, and such a nuance did not come to him ever y d y. lie went on t without a word, but Mr. Spark? felt satisfied that there wo ii b 3 ue v - of tho criminal before long. Ismail nnged at onoa into the iurroundng jungle, and trivdsed it at a pace which few men con! i Have kopt up over s.ioh ground, an I in uioh a climate, till he cams iu sight of Uimanj, bnt iiietead of eutering the vitjage he atruck dwti a bj-'inth to the rivei,s.!ii nrow, went 6'io ly tp tl o o .pO'He bank iiu te came lo two faun bo u clumps dose toge' hcr,ancl gmpiu-f in lhe water hsife them, ! ulle 1 up a rop. His nest move was to hunt out a large s'one, upon the sharp edef which he hawed the cord to ml nmil it held imly b one stmnd. Goo slash f his long, sharp knife wonld have done the work muo! quicker, but IamaiJl doubtless had his. reasons for what he did Then j.Ueing the htone iu the shallow water, with the sharp ride uppermost, and the rope lying right aoross it, he amsheu ii -to t he thmket An hour hid passed since his disap

pearance, and night had alrea ly set in, when jy dark tlgur 1 came oreepir.g up to the same spot and pulled a; the halfsevered cord, whioh instantly parted in his hand. The man srarto'i, and held up the broken euda to the lishs of the n nng o m, but finding the u rough and frayed as it

by constant rn ting, and feeling the harp-edged stove lying just underneath he appeared satisfied th:it it must have been an accident, and knelt down to knot the cord teg ether again. So engrossed wa3 the villain with his treacherous work that hn never lifted his bead to look around him, but even had he beau leas preoccupied he would have scarcely heard tho uoiseHw footfall of ouo who had been tracking the tiger and the antelope throagh their native jungles ever since h wa tan years old. The rocue was still quite unsuspicious of harm, when a tail, shadouy figure rose bemud him as suddenly r.s if it had started up through the earth, and a rs rr en dons blow from a heavy bamboo club, falling upon his bowed head like a thunderbolt, felled him senseless to the earth. That Very night the crestfallen robber was sent off to the nearest British station, escorted by a strong guard of native policemen, to ba tried ami executed, as he deserved, while Tama 1 received from the hands of the Commissioner hirer elf, totogether with a warm eonimeinhdiou of

uis surewoness, ine tncusauq rupees whioh he ha 1 s well eirned.

THE HAUNTED POOL.

BY DAVID KSIt

Ove- 400 trackmen aud

have been dicharge4tiUithe Ifon Wayne

Build you an ice house at once if you intend to make iairying a business.

file Continent, The sun was setting over the Ganges one bright summer eveniog in 1871. 1 he day had been a hotone,evenforIndia,and it was an unspeakable relief to every one when the scorching sun began to decline at last, and the lengthening shadows of the tall palms along the river bank told that night was at hand And now the Hindu inhabitants of the neighboring village, who had been lying motionless rill afternoon under the shade of their re t hatched roofs, or the vast uv r arching ban an 'tries nro them, came troojdi g dwn lo thf- wtur in a body. y .... Instantly the whole bank of the great river--so lovely and silent nil t jro gh the long, burning day became all alive with noise and bustle. Children paddled in the broad, still pools, or chased each other in and out of the tall, feathery bamboo clumps that grew along the bank. Women filled their earthen pitchers fromthe stream, or washed thnt threadbare clothes. Men began to scour their brass lotahs (drinking vessels), or to kindle fires for the cooking of their tvenii g meate; while, a little furiher down the stream, a group of young sirls, wading out into the shallow water, fell to splashing each other with might and main; amid shouts of merry lauguter. To any one unaccustomed to the ways of'Sndin, it would have teimexl strange enough to see, upn the wrists and ankles of nearly alht he girle? and - many of ther

mtneri likcaw, heavy bangles of aLd silvi r, which i?ny western la ly ndgct. h .ve been pronil t; wear. 15a t the Hindii'pea uts, t vhom savings banks are utterly unknown, havj no way cf keeping their money s ifc essept by carrying it around with ihm iu this ,fithi ona somewhat hnzrdous plan, it must be owned, in a country awaroiiag with'tue most expert aud during thieves in tht world. ' . Suddenly one of the girls, who had ventured a little fart toe our. into the stream thau ti e rest, disappear d under water with a piercing s riek, as if drag god downward by a me ovvrpowenng

force. A few bubbles tnat rose sullenly t; tiie surface were the ouly token of her fate, while her terrified companions turn, ed and rushed back to the shore as fast as possible, sci earning: "A crojodh'e! a crocodile! '

Several days passed before any of village women dared to approach scene of tins terrible mischance.

length on. , bolder than the rest, ventured to again, and the others, peeing that no harm came of her daring, began to follow her example. More than a wees: passed without any aso dent, and everything was beginning to go ou as usual, when, one evening, a second girl disappeared in precisely the same manner as the first. The terror was now universal, and all ? ho best hunters cf the village sei themselves with one accord toge rid o this

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traps ser, men posted along the banks with loaded guns to keep watch for the monster; but look for him as they might, nothing was to be seen of him. Several days later the wife of one of the villagers was washing her white wrapper on the bank of the river, when it slipped from her hands and Hosted slowly out into the wide, still nool termed by the bend of the stream. The woman at once waded after it,and had jnst succeeded in clutching it, when s!e was seen by thosoon the bank to give a sudden start, throw her arms convulsively into the air and disappear under tho water just as the

other two had done before. About three days after this last catastrophe, Mr.' Henry Sparks, the British Commissioner for the District of Jungley wallah, was at work in his office amid a perfect mound of pnpere, halting every now and then to wipe his streaming tace,

which, despite the enormous punkah, or swinging fan, worked by his native servant outside with a oord passed through a hole in the wall, looked very much like a half melted snowball, when. he was sud-

i denly disturbed by a knock at tho door

the the At

TiieeUv a idee old lady came to see mam nv, and s um faw I hero was something wi en? with Master Ted Brown. "What ails my boy?" asked Aunty Graham, kindly. O, nothin,' but I didn't sot nice things for Christmas, and it was real mem!" "You didn't, he) ? Well, I know of some little people who would think themselves quite rich if they had half of you presents. Suppose aunty tells you what she and her brother Herbert got in their stockings one Christmas forty years ago! Herbett and 1 hung up our stockings. His were brosn home knife, and mine pretty blue, clouded ones, on Christmas eve. We lived in a we brown house on a farm, and didu't have much company. We went to bed early; mother sang come Christmas songs to us. There wa fresh snow upon the ground, and when we awoke the earth was covered with the beautiful white snow. Of course we ran

to look in our stockings, and found two

little papers of brown sugar and six plump rai ine; but they pleased us more than this pile of oenfeetionery does you, Teddy. At breakfast mother put upon our plates a cookey soldier, with allspice eyes and a big piece of miuce pie. We had a long play day, mother sang the Christmas anthem and father sang the bass. We thought we had a b ?autiful day." Aunt y rubbed her eyes as she thought of her dear ones; they were in a happy el me. But then she was lonesome here without them. Ted was ashamed of his selfishness. Aunty's little story did him gon u He divided his candy ai d fruit into four package?, and somebody saw little lame Tim Jones with one, and Sarah Winters with one of Ted s parcels; and we will have to guess where the others went. At night papa took him upon hiss knee and told him again of fhe great, precious Christmas gift, and the stars in the east; mamma said she thought Ted had realized it was m3rs blesaed to give than to receive. Don't my lift e friends think so, too?

"What is heaven's best gift to man?" she asked, sweetly smilim? on him. "Dr.

Bnirs Cough Syrup," he replied, with

prudence. He bad just been ouredof a bad cold by ii An Ornery Cur Travels i,6oo Miles. Clticusu Daily N wa. G.orge Griffin, an old citizen and property owner, of Aurora, Ind., says that a dog belonging to him found his way heme from New Orleans, where it had been taken on a fiatboat down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The distanci from New Orleans to Cincinnati is something over 1,600 miles and this place is only twenty-five mil-s below Cincinnati Griffin says the dog was a worthless animal, aud that he took on the boat with the intention of dropping it off somewhere down the river to get rid of it. The dog was, however, kept aboard the bo -t and taken to New Orleans. Here he was turned adrift iu the city. The boat's erew returned home togeth -r, an 1, as tin y had seen nothing of the dog f-.rs .me days before lea ring Near Orleanatbey concluded they had lost him. "About ture months after my arrival ;t tu me," eaii Griffin the lost dog orawl.d under the bfck fence, and sneaked up to the kitchen door. He was the moat woe begone looking creature I ever saw poor, lank, aud hungry, with barely enough strength to. drag himself along. He was the prodigal son of dogs, and looked as tnough he wanted the fattod calf and wanted it right away. When l ie't him in N.-w Orleans he was sleek and fat. HU feet were sore and bleeding. He had a bumy tail, and it was full of baw, showing that he had come through the woods. I fixed up a nice,comf'Ttnbie nest for uio; in the woodshed, and it was three weeks before he would leave it. He jiut laid there, and rested."

-Many who Jong u Here I from urinary and digestive diseases, causing nervousness, weak tes and debility, after trying bums, kid my dif.easee, iron medi-

cu esttc, without benefit, hava found j j rDjanent relief in from in.i to three o ties of Dr. Guy soil's Ye i w Dock aud ttaieap tills, the only bh.od purifier and streugthener. Haudieds of letters to the pfopristora havctettitied to its superiority over the many pretended on res eo largely advertised by means of bogus certificates that are bouirnfand paid for. A Mother's Tireless Devotion. N'W York Juarnai. "Here she comes, ' said a mate ou a bark lying at the eui of Pier No. 28,East River, to a reporter. Qe referred to a middle aged woman of neat appearance, who carried a book and was walking down the wharf toward the water. "She is a oieer character," the mate continued. "I've known her by sight for five years, and during that time she has come down here two or three times every day and after looking off the pier, goes away evidently disappointed." "Who is she?' 'I don't kno w her name No one about here doee, but she comes down to look for her son who was drowned off this pier a number of years ago, and whose body was never found.'' "Is she insane-? ' "No.I think not, only she seems, to have the idea that some day shy 11 .ind her son's body. Why, duirug warm weather she sits and reads do vn there, and stays for hours at a time. '

The reporter watched her as she stood looking intently in the water for a few minutes, and then turning walked avay again, only to return later to make one more fruitless eearch for her drowned boy, Tho fault with most all preparations for a cough ia that thsy contain morphia, and arc absolutely injurious to the stomach and nerves. That simple preparation of wild cherry bark, called Dr. Wistar's Balaam of Wild Cherry, cent1 ins no morphia and yet will cure a cough or eold in Jess, time than any other com pound. It ia the only reliable cure fer consumption.

Ted's Christ :as. Ella Guernsey. Ted was a brown-cheeked boy of nine. He wris jolly and good tempered in the main, bnt on this lovely Christmas morn he wasn't pleasant at all, becamie he had set his mind on getting a iittl wnteh,and mamma know he was Lot bi enough for such a costly present. He pouted, raid looked ugly, and pushed away his story books.oranges and candy, and mamma looked grieved. Wfco can blame her?

OUR PURTRIII? GflLLHRY.

HENRY M. STANLEY, The Great African Explorer.

SHAVED BY MACHINE.

A Silent but Unsatisfactory Process. New Vork 8un . : There is a quiet little shop in a side street down town whioh displays a modest sign bearing the words; ,fiMaohine shaving done by lady operators." Lace curtains veil the interior from prying eyes. A reporter opened the door yesterday and walked in with a look of

confidence ami a three days' beard on his face. As lie. entered two young women a patient looking man rose f rem a settee and stood by three barbers' chairs. The patient man looked at the reporter with passinginterest. The young women and looked into the mirrors in front of the chairs. While the reporter was hanging up his hat and coat he chose the smaller of the two.wom n because the had censed to stare at herself in the glass, and was much p'ainer than the other. There was a chance that she would pay more attention to the victim than her prettier companion. The reporter sank into her chair, leaned his head back, and ele vated his chin. Tne operator passed a small and smooth hand over liia'ohin and asked, wih a liberal smile, as she : tucked a towel into his neck: "Did you want a shave sir?" "Yes very light, please; go over it once, She passed her hand over the reporters faoe again. She got the lather cup and gently smeared him while she looked into the glass When her attention was called to the matter she smiled tranquilly and removed the lather from his mouth, nose and ears. "We make it a point, sir, never to talk t our customers," she said as she brushed a stray look back from the reporter's forehead with one hand and began to rub the lather into his chin with the other. 'It not only interrupts us while working, but also,ns I'm sure you've had experience enough to know, becomes at times somewhat tiresome. I mean to the customer,b6cause there are always times when one enjoys a little repose, don't yon know, and many gene seek a barber on that account, whioh was what made ma resolve to remain silent at all times, for sars I to myself : "If a gent - " "Pardon my interrupting you, but there is no hair under my ears where you are now -rubbing me." "No, I know it I just do that from force of habit. Let me see. What was I saying? Oh, yes, I says to myself, 'any gent ciu be talked to uuti; he is .that put o it shit ho feels as if he- ' "Docs it run by team? ' "It's be it, aoordiog to my msnd, t preserve ttriet sileacev Besides what did you say about tho machine"? Oh, there it is ?t isn't new, you know, that is, 't isn't v-ry new, bejauc-er-becauee

it's sjd of old. It's simply a razor with

a steel ennh so ee 1 oa. ft is impossi

ble t cut any one wit h it. You lay it on ho lat e, vou kn w, and then just julkd it along the cheek like triis -'' Yerpl Let go! Ic's against the grrin." "Oh, is it? Why, yen don't say so. I thought it was with the grain, bnt tliafs justitkeme. I'm always making mistakes. Last Cbewsday ; " Ten minutes later a pallid man emerged rom the quiet shop and hurriedt toward t b o corn er. The patien fi man looked after him with an expression of sympathy on his worn features.

Rheumatism Quiekiy Cured. There has nover been a medicine for r luMnnatiam introduced in Indiana that has .given euoh universal' satisfiotion as Dnrang's Uhsumatio Itemedy. It stttuds outalone as the ouo great reme ly that actually cures this drod diseasa It is lakon internally and nevSr has and never can fail to cure the worst jase in the shortest time. It has the indorsement and reo-

ommendiu ion r f many leading physicians in this State aud elsewhere. It is sold by every drrigjirt at $1. Write for free 40-page pamphlet to K. K. HelphbnWHB, Druggist, Washington, D. C. Illinois has produoed 10,508,791 tonso coal during tuejlast year, au increase of 1,898,138 tons over the previous twelve months.

Fouii Lives Savbix -Dr. Bull r Cough Syrup leb'erut four of my children of a most alarming attack of Whooping Cough from winch ibeir throats and necko became so swollen as to prevent thpm from swaliowiug. Nothing would give them

even temporary relief, until this Syrup

was turd. One bottle, is one nig ht -saved their lives, I verily believa . : Geo. W. Eauhabt, Captain rf Pohoc, Ba,Uimpie,;Md. Old Jubal Early. N. V. Sun. Old Jubal Earb is a character m Virginin. He 1 : drawn up into a hard knot with rheumatism, and has a face like a hickory nut. His voi le is pitoaed on a very high key, and he is a o impound of shrewdness and sarcasm in equal parts. Ho wai strongly opposed to secession at the beginning of the war, although he fought valiantly when fighting was inevitable In the Virginia convention of 1861 he attacked the co. duot of South Carolina bitterly. After the war had actually begun he had in his brigade a South Carolina regiment. It wan observed that old Jubal was always sure to put that regiment in the mosb ticklish place when the brigade was under fire. During one of the. battles around Itiehmond, Early's brigade was ordered to the front, and, as uuial, E aly made the South Carolina fellows head the column, Bqueakiug out at the top of his voice as he rode up to them: "Vcs I'll send you to the front and I'll keep you thera; too. You got as iuto this fix, and, d U yoa, you've got to get us out of ik" During the war he went to church only once, and his experience was not such as to encourage him to go again. It was iu the winter ef 1864, when the Southern States were agitating the expediency of conscription. Geuerul Early was one of the most ardent advooates of it. He talked conscription iu season aud out of sea

son, and wanted to conscript everything. One Sunday morning, to t .e amazement of his staff, he nroposed that they should ride over to a neighboring church and hear tho sermon, Tho officers were nearly paralyzed at the proposition, but of course coueented promptly. The country congregation was astonished to see Gen. Early and his entire staff march solemnly

into church and take their seats in the front pews.. As soon a? old Jubal set

tled himself he laid his head back and

relapsed into a comfort abls nap. The

clergyman took for his text the testimony

of the truthaof Christianity. After diS'

ccursing an hour or two he asked: "What would you say, my brethren, if

the dead of all times and nations and ages should pass in solemn revi w before

you? What would bo yonr feelings at seeing this vaH5 ani countless m lltitude from the grave? What would you do with this army of men of all grades, all trades, all professions, alt of "every kind before you? I repeat," with a whaokon the desk, "wha t would you do?" ' Do? ' bawled Jubat suddenly arouse 1 from his nap, "I'd conscript every one of them I" . A roar went up from the congregation, and Jubal made a bee line for the door.

LABOR NOTES. Da-Haas, Ga., has a. copper mine. Miuers at Manitobia get 38.4' 1 a yard Coate' Rolling Mill, Baltimore has failed. - Texas has 20,000 f auare miles of coal fields. y New rolling and iipe mills at Kenawee, Illinois. Lynchburg, Va,, is to have a new. nail mill. The K. of L. are makiug great progress in It wa. IViutcra of the Boston Post are still on a strike. Maohine moldcra complain of a dull

season.

Pittsburg coal sells at GtDCinpati at

82.15 per ton.

The sausage makeisof Cincinnati have

been out on a strike. J

The window glass look-out at Pitts

burgh continues.

The molders of Port Wayne, Ind., are

l early all idle.

Madison, Ind , has a new woolen mill

with 3,000 spindles.

Prison labor is crippling the boot and

shoe trade in Indiana.

The Craftsman at Washington City,has

been sued for libel.

Newark, N. J.; trunk makers are on a

strike against a reduction

The rolling null difficulty at Birming

ham Ala., is still unsettled.

An attempt is being made to organize

the iron workers of Montreal. '

Illinois employs 23,99 coal miners who

produced 10,508,791 tons. '

Oyer 100,000 people are supported by

the mining of coal in Illinois.

Forty-nine counties in Illinois are coal

producing, with 539 mines. "

The Sheffield, England, miners will hot

fores a strike until January.

The Rockbridge tin mine in Virginia is

held by its o wners at 810,000, The appointment of a Mine Inspector is agitating the Ohio coal miners. ; A new plant has been completed by the Steel Company at PuUman,Ill. The miners of NewStraitsviUe, 0.,have organized a co-operative store. New ooal mines in Iowa are attracting thither a large number of niiners. Indiana block coal can be bought aa cheap in Chicago as in Indianapolis. The coal miners of Kentucky have no State law giving them any protection. The annual output o merchant ire n of Cincinnati mills is 60,00? tons. "The Madison Woolen Mill is shipping foreign labor in the shape of weavers. The Pullman Palaoa Oar- C mpany employ 8 )0 men at au average of $1 98 per day, s;;-;.;;,..;;;-;t"--The carpenters of Charleston, 8. C have organhjed in to1 the National Brotherliood. " ... A factory at Sayanah, Ga, is making four tons of paper a day out of rice straw. Cresent Iron Works, ct Portsmouth, Ohio, shut down Thanksgiving, and is still closed. - The coal miners of towa have thirtyhve bran ohes in their Amalgamated Association. . ;,.V. V A sixty foot rail has: been laid on the Fort Wayne RaUroad at ?AHeheny City, Pennsylvania. . . ";

The green bottle glass blowers of FtUaburgh are still on a strike against a redncTnn. .-..;'....:-: Mary A. Miller, of New Orleans, has been licenced, at Washington a master of a vessel.. . ' Evening classes of mechanical sohoo's are being established in many of the Eastern cities. " ' The Plasters Uuion) of Washingt on

City, has opened a free wo4,kingmens' reading room. . . "By Ginger, He Looked Mighty Pale. Prairie Farm or. One day they war s talking in Uuole Hank's grocery about largo bedbnis and tohgh bedbugs. 'T boiled u bedbug nine hours and it swam around 00 t:p all the. time,' said Gifford. I put a b rdbug iu a kerosene lamp," said Charley Oa up ball, "kept if there four years, and it hatched oat tweutysoven litters of bedba s right m the kerosene." . , j: .... Old Hank Allen, who had been listening as an outsider, here gave in his experience in corroboration of .the faots. Said he: ;H "Some years ago T took a bedbug to Wood's iron fcundry and dropped it into a ladel where the melted iron was, and had it run into a skillet, Wei, my old woman used that skillet for tix years, and here the other day she broke it all to smash ; and what do you think, gentlemen? that 'ere insect just walked cut of his hole where e'dbaau layin' like a a frog in a reck, and made-tracks for his old roost upstairs. . But," he added by way of parenthesis, Mby ginger, he looked mighty pale.' DUtQrt Hit Him. Wat 1 Stroet News., . ! .: - A tough old debtor in a town across the Hudson entered a grocery the other morning and stood for a long time looking at an exhibition of plug tobacco. The grocer felt certain that the old man wanted oredit,and he determined to head, him off. tie therefore observed: " "I have torseli that tobacco ffr cash down" v t 1 - "You do, eh ?M "Yes sir. Tobacco is cash on the naiL" .Vflow'a sugar?" "That's oash." "Tea unci coffee?' , ; "Cas.h all cash. Soap, molasses, can

dles, keiosene, butter, potatoee,flourtrioe, hams, starch all are spot cash."

The old man stood and looked over the

stock for five minutes, and then heaved a long sigh and replied: "Well, Mr. Waters, that don't hit me worth a cent. I want to got trusted for three dozen clothes-pins, " fl

PO.QK S CH BIS PMAS YO&m C Written with special application to" eeretal -people generally overlooked ia holiday, greefe inge of this sort, : '..S V? ," '" . It'e ho to to old monopolist .; ' .1 A merry Christmas Dayl - ,... ' ' ' Mayhe wiirtho 'Hpoct of ).ifl frIlof7-oifn

That he rcklosaly threw away.

1 t'a h o to the merry ban k cash ier , An exile in Canndayl ; .; 41 ; ...r-'1 '. May Providence ive him a new tin heart, This m?rry Christmas Jay, : r

it's ho to the mourrftU2Mormon saint, 1 This taorry Ghtiatmss Day! . . May Ms house he filled v illi ioothcrin4aw - And all of them come to 'stsyAi-fei'tr! , It's ho to the Bad and the Bae and the FUm - For variety's sake, let'a.say, TJjofiood have too long had exolu?ive crip On thie meriy Christmas Day.- .

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to get my hair cut, and er-rhave some

Innoh, yon know, and er come back

again, and all that, don't you know.

, In these days of guessing, perhaps the folks who find it a fascination iiuld like to know how many teeth the cockroach

has 3,000. How many seeds in a both-

el of timothy? 55,000,030. How many

molecules iu an ant's brain? itOOOO How many parts a feather has? 2,251,401.

That is what scientists say. . The new glass invented in Vienna s-

pears to have proved a , success in tha

qualities claimed for it that ; :fsrit v-to"

transparent and more bril iiant than 00m-

mon orystal. can be cut and pohsbed, and, when fused, adheres to iron, bronaa, v

and zinc, binguiarly enough, this glass -diners from all others, new or oJcLinfhat '

its composition inoludea none of the usual ingredients a!l potash, soda, ? lime, or borax . w -f.

At the meeting of the Connecticut Ho-

mooapathio Medical Society, Br. B. H.-

Linniok, of Norwich, said: "In 1879 I s examined 700 school children, and only

80.71 per cent, had normal vision. This

was due mainly to close applioation,por prinV and poor light School room

should be suffloiently illuminated. I hare

should at least be thirty square inches of

window space to every square foot of 4 room. The putila should not face the

hght The desk should be graduated to ,

the siass of the pupil the top stopping so

that the books can be easily read whils

the pupil sits in an erect po ition. Books

should be printed on good, paper, wi&

large, clear typeV r V . "-

Hunting hair pins is the newest diver- ,

sion of the boys in Pittsburg. The Commercial-Gazette says: i Last winter it got to be quite the thing for a fellow to -coax his young lady friends to give hia h

hair pins, but now the erase is to get' them without the girl s ; knowing what you are about. If you can steal the pin out of her hair , that's the way to do it. If you can pick up one that has fallen from her head, tbat'a a deal better. Soma fellows have followed a girl for squares,' just because a hair pin looked as though' it was going to drop voon. ; What ds.they do with them? Put them in an album. Tbey get scrap books, and push the pins through like- needles. Then the girl's name, style of beauty, and estimated age are written below. ; ro. , ... Thin women in the West have taken to drinking koumies, in the hope that it will prove fattening. They do not make it in the Oriental manner, of mares milk,howeyer; but Ihey put a quart af cows milk into three- pint bottles, dividing xthe quantity equally. Then they add to each bottle a tablespoonf nl of white sugar and a quarter of a cke of compressed yeart.

'tie the corks securely, shake thoroughly -

and let; it ferment. It is fit to drink at the ; end of n day, and will keep half a week in good condition. It tastes a good deal . like buttermilk, but has See and sparfclsw Those who have confidence the fat S producing qualities of koum'es say that ; it should be drank at the rate of pint day. The Cincinnati Enqrtirai mentiona, the case of a gL 1 who is engaged to .-: hrnym arrif d - The date Of the wedding is fixed for Christmas Dav with the odd tsomV'-f dition, imposed by the prospective bdde groom, that tho hiide shall at the aliar ;: weigh 125 pouuusi i e "can't have recourse te the' methods of jookeye, and 1 -bring herself up to the required standard l by strapping pieces or met! to her bedy nor will the ordinary devices ' of t proda- v ! oing a comely degree of rotundity to the veye qI the casual observer answer the pur

pose. Aocordiogly, she is a harddrinktr of koumiss.' - :4! l.k-j$v t,:- . ' i : ' - !- -L. tftfc-' 1

J? Uncle Sam s Strong Bo. ; : A Washington letter, speaking of the -Treasury Depai trnent, says : Next to th , Postofiico .Department it ; employs the' '' greatest number of personaf any branch,; r

of the civil ser vice, in all near twenty; -. " thousand. The treasury department- - building is al ways a place of the fitat in: V"

terest in the minds of visitors to the na:;,., -ticnal capital. Not .a 47 P8- W V i many visitors may be seen walking along the marble corridors, and into the strong -r& rooms of this building under the charge of guides, seven o& whom ae employed l for the espeoiul purr ose of showing visitr : ors around. The pleasure of handlings $3,000,000 in a lump m a privilege allowed , to visitors to taft vaults, and there is gen-- :ft

erauy soma ouo wtuuuic. uubuui v

"heft" it, Tho millton-doUar package

made up of 1,000 canceled-

The employes call it ftthe visitor dutt

myVVOoL Seller's ortune," e.aa pretend to watch the holders of it with suspicious anxiety There are milhons I of dollars in gold ani silver and cursnoy H behind the iron bars and within thestone walteof the; .": treasury building. Yetf f few visitors are allowed behind ; tov,io.5 closures where the money is kepV but all;. : may look through the grated doors and . see the great packages1 of , liMa and akamrja. and tha clerks at work in- he

golden harvest of coin. Thesystem ol

watching- the employer is Rftry nerfeoti

Tho large vault doom open and lose by .

combination time locks, wjuch are aet w

open at 8:80 a. m. and rfosd at? ' 4 n,ia.v They cannot be opened h the meanttc that is, between the attnoon and mornring? Before the hour of 4 arves a s auce must be obtained of all the trans ac

tions of tho day. Those who handle tne

money, not receipted back from them, are carefully searched from head to f oat be? fore leaving the bidding- In thia .way, and by keeping an army of ;gur t ele Sam preserves his treasures from moiestaticrr:v---. "f?":.t

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