Bloomington Courier, Volume 2, Bloomington, Monroe County, 7 May 1895 — Page 2

WORE KUSTIC GARB.

STORY OF A PIONEER PREACHER'S LIFE. A Unique and Fascinating Character Who Recently Died In an Illinois Town Life Work of B. II. Cartwrl&ht Was Well Done. HERE DIED AT Oregon, 111., the other day, a man, the story of whose life marks an epoch in the spread of the gospel in the early history of the west. His name is Rev. Barton H. Cartwright, and he was known far and wide as a. most remarkable man. He was a preacher of marked peculiarity and firm as aVock when his convictions persuad ed him of the right. He came west about 1833, and his first ministerial work was In Iowa for about two years when Iowa was a territory and had but few settlements. In 183$ he was appointed to Buffalo Grove, now Polo, 111., and about 1840 he married the eldest daughter of James Clark, a wealthy farmer of Ogle county. 111. When the state conference was divided in 1839 he became a member of the Rock River conference and continued in. a variety of appointments until he was superannuated. He joined the Illinois conference of the Methodist Episcopal church when he first came west. Mr. Cartwright was born near Auburn, New York, March 9, 1S10, and was the son of James and Catherine Gray Cartwright. His father was a Baptist minister of New York and died in 1822. Thrown upon his own resources at the age of 12, Barton Cartwright began to work for his board and clothing. He was promised schooling as well, but was disappointed and obliged to make his way without educational advantages. In 1829 he joined the Methodist Episcopal church and became Impressed with the desire to become a minister. He preached his first sermon in his native state, but In 1833 he decided to seek his fortune in the west. He walked from Syracuse, N. Y., to Olean Point and took a flat boat to Pittsburg, whence he went down the Ohio river by steamboat. . At Cincinnati he met and shook hands with Black Hawk, the famous Indian chief, who was on his way to Washington as a prisoner of war. Many times after that he renewed the acquaintance. Leaving the boat at Flint Hills, he visited a brother who lived near by, and then made up his mind to go to Warren county, Illinois. About the first REV. B. H. CARTWRIGHT. thing he did was to walk to a cabin near Monmouth to attend church. The preacher was ill, and on seeing Mr. Cartwrighfs church letter asked him to conduct the services, which he did. ThlB was the first Sunday in May, 1833. . The yomng preacher bought four pair of oxen and a plow, and he broke prairie week days and delivered sermons Sunday. In 1S34 Rev. Peter Cartwright appointed him a missionary to Iowa to establish church societies. There was no missionary fund and he had to sustain himself by his own efforts. At Flint Hills In 1834, he organized the first Protestant Christian society in the state of Iowa. He preached the first sermon ever heard in Rock Island, UL, In the cabin of Judge Spencer. In the fall of 1S34 he was admitted to the Illinois Methodist conference, which then embraced Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. He was assigned to the Knoxyille mission, which included what are now Henderson, Warren, Knox and Mercer counties. Two years later he constructed a rude sleigh called a "pung," or "Jumper," which was formed by cutting two saplings and bending them for runners and thills. Having no harness he fastened the rig to the sides of the saddle on his horse, and with this unique conveyance he traveled 1,200 miles, starting from Peoria, 111., and traversing Illinois, Michigan Canada and New York. He spread the gospel throughout all these regions. In the spring of 1837 he sold his horse In New York, made his way on foot to Olean Point, ran the river on a raft to Pittsburg, and thence returned by the old route to Illinois. In the conference of 1837-38 he was asigned to the Buffalo Grove circuit, which included In its territory the towns of Oregon, Dixon, Sterling, Fulton, - Mount Morris and many other settlements. In 1840 he was assigned to Iowa as a mission preacher. He crossed the river in a skiff and subsequently was obliged to swim across many of the Iowa streams going from cabin to cabin. He spent four years in Iowa, preaching at Davenport, Dubuque, Rockingham, Muscatine, Maquoketa and Iowa City. In J844 he returned to Illinois and labored at ProphetStown and Buffalo Grove and in Knox county. In 1883 he was commissioned chaplain of the Ninety-second Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Mounted Infantry. He served with that regiment until the close of the war. He was a great favorite with the men, being always good natured and kind. He was with Sherman and Kilpatrick on the march to the sea and was always proud of his work in the army. On his return from the war Mr. Cartwright resumed his ministry in the Rock River conference, where he was In active service until 1SS3, when at his request his name was placed upon the list of superannuates.

ENGLAND'S NEW SPEAKER.

W. C Gully May Preside Over the Hons of Commons Under Rosebery, William Court Gully, queen's counsel and liberal member of parliament for Carlisle, has been selected by the Rosebery ministry to succeed Arthur Wellesly Peel as speaker of the house of commons. This position is a most desirable one, as the incumbent draws an annual salary of $25,000 and an annual pension of $20,000 afterward, even if he occupies the chair but an hour. Meanwhile he has a peerage as "the first commoner in England." Mr. Gully's grandfather was, in his youth, a wellknown prizefighter, but his mental ability carried him into parliament. The father of Mr. Gully was a distinguished physician. He died not long ago, and the son, who had entered the law, acquired a large practice. He is GULLY. greatly esteemed for his lofty character, and has the dignified, imposing presence which is considered indispensable in speaker of the house of commons. As speaker he will be provided with a palatial mansion for entertaining on a large scale, within the palace of Westminster, where he will reside during his term of office. On all state occasions he is looked upon as the representative of the house of commons, and in Its way the position possesses a greater prestige and dignity than that of any judge of the land, not excepting the lord chancellor. Mr. Gully's selection by the Rosebery ministry practically means his election. HONEYMOON SIGNS. De Lady Looks Happy and De GeniTman Casts I.ovln' Looks." There is a young couple in this city who can never gc away from home together without lieing taken for a newly married pairy says the New York Advertiser. ..So they decided to ask the waiter -at a hotel where they stopped what the signs were. The gentleman bey'an the conversation. "Would you think we were Just married, John?" he asked, on the second day after their arrival. "Yes, sah," said John, with a broad grin; "I spotted you as soon as I see you. I been ten years in dis hotel, an' j dere can't nobody fool me." "Now, John," said the supposed bridegroom, as he slipped a fee into the waiter'3 palm, "jusi tell me what the symptoms are." "Dere's a heap of 'em sah," answered John. "I hears yoh ask yoh lady at breakfus if she liked briled eyesters, an' you tell her she mus' learn to drink her tea straight, 'cause it was bettah, an' you ask her whar she wants to go fus'. Dem's all signs, certain shuh, sah." "But," said the young matron, "don't old husbands talk in the same way?" "No, indeed, miss 'scuse me, ma'am, they don't indeedy. 'Sides, yoh gentleman hand you de mornin' pa pah, 'stead of readin' of it himself. An' dere ain't no gettin' aroun' the lovin' looks he been castin' on you, miss," and John smtled with an air of superior wisdom. "Now, tell us how the old married men conduct themselves," said the lady. "Dey's mighty short, miss, mostly, an' read de papah jes' like dey was alone." "And the lady, what does she do?" "Jes" waits, miss. Kind of looks tired, an' waits, an' looks at the res' of the folkses in the dining room. You see, miss, it's a heap of difference, an" taint all in the close dey wears, either, dat makes the honeymoon no, sah, it ain't." They did not undeceive John, and he does not know that for once all his signs had failed him. Senator Thurston. John M. Thurston, whose picture Is shown above, will take his seat in the United States senate, when it meets In December next, provided an extra session is not called for before that time. Mr. Thurston is 4S years old and has been a lawyer and politician of national reputation for ten years. As an oratoi he has few, If any equals, west of tfep Mississippi river. Farent and Son in China. A Chinaman, be he king or coolie. Is devoted to his father and mother. When either parent dies custom ordains that the son shall resign all honors and employments to repair to the ancestral tomb and mourn there for a Jong period.

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FOREIGN FLASHES.

The New Boy" has completed Its first year and been performed for the 427th time at the London Vaudeville. A man who is hypnotized and kept asleep for a week In full view of the public is one of the attractions at the London Royal Aquarium. Captain Paul Boyton, who was corespondent in a recent divorce suit in London, was found guilty and ordered to pay 750 to the injured husband. At Narbonne a Roman mosaic pavement eighty-fix feet square was recently discovered near the city cemetery. The stones are black and white, arranged in beautiful and novel designs. In future no man under, 5 feet 4 will be admitted Into the British infantry unless he is under twenty, in which case 5 feet 3 will pass. The minimum chest measurement will be 32 inches. Bull fighting has received its quietus In France. The Court de Cassation, to which the cases that arose last summer were submitted, has decided that a bull is a domestic animal and cannot be lawfully tortured. An international congress for the protection of infancy will be held at Bordeaux next August. Besides the moral, legal and physical sides of the subject, It will discuss the decline of parental authority and its delegation into other hands. Loie Fuller is to appear soon in Paris In a new tragic pantomime by Armand Silvestre, called "Salome." She will dance five times in dances entirely different from her former performances; one, the religious dance, is said to be an absolutely novel curiosity. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, says Le Figaro, intends to change the order of succession established by the pragmatic sanction of 1723, by which Maria Theresa became queen and to have the crown transferred to his only grandson, the child of his youngest daughter, Valerie, and the Archduke Francis Salvator. GEMS OF THOUGHT. A man that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Lord Bacon. A man cannot possess anything that Is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worce than a bad one. Simond. If thou canst frot obtain a kindness which thou desirest, put a good face on it, show no discontent nor surliness; an nour may come when thy request may be granted. Fuller. To neglect God all our lives and know that we neglect him, to offend God voluntarily, and know that we offend him, casting our hopes on the peace which we trust to make at parting, is no other than a rebellious presumption, and even a contemptuous laughing to scorn and deriding of God, his laws and precepts. Sir W. Raleigh. Malice sucks up the greatest part of her own venom and poisons herself. Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which Is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance, which is so much the more grievous by reason it springs within, as the cold or hot fevers are more sharp than those that only strike upon the outward skin. Montaigne. A uniform principle, which is interwoven Jn my nature, and which has hitherto regulated, and I hope will continue to regulate, my conduct I mean an utter abhorrence of all kinds of public injustice and oppression the worst species of which are those which, being converted into maxims of state, and blending themselves with law and jurisprudence, corrupt the very fountains of all equity, and subvert all the purposes of government. Burke. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Americans took out 20,803 patents last year. Twenty per cent of the pupils in British schools are said to be nearsighted. New York city has two places of worship in which the entire service is conducted in the Greek tongue. The Lenox library of New York possesses an unbroken file of the London Times from 1805 to the present time. Without the express consent of his wife, no married Austrian subject can procure a passport for journeying beyond the frontier. They are trying to invent a phonographic desk on which a speaker can record his own orations. This is to be tested in the German reichstag. There is a peculiar superstition attached to the London theaters which is not generally known; it is that should any one whistle in the dressing-room the actor or actress nearest the door will lose his or her position at the theater. The Aitken bible, a copy of which has just been sold in Boston for $300, was the first bible in the English language ever printed in America. The imprint is as follows: "Printed and sold by R. Aitken, at Pope's Head, three doors above the coffee-house in Market street, MDCCLXXXII." JETSAM. The name of Connecticut is derived from the Caniba Indian word, "kunateguk," meaning "long river." An educational qualification will hereafter be required of men seeking enlistment in the United States army. Berlin has a mysterious new malady which Professor Virchow attributes to the use of milk from diseased cows. An odd palindromic sentence one which reads the same backward as forwardis "Draw pupil's lip upward." Cotton-seed meal is fast gaining favor with Missouri cattle feeders as a cheap fat producer. It Is a Missouri production. In the year 1677 the land upon which Philadelphia was subsequently built was owned by a man named Peter Ram bo. Bicyclists must first learn to ride fairly well before they are allowed to use their wheels In the public streets of Russian cities. Strange bed-warmers are used by Chilean women. In cold weather, when In bed, they keep their feet warm by placing them on a dog. There are five "tasters" in the sultan's kitchen at Constantinople. They taste every dish before It is placed before their royal master. It Is said that moths will not attack green fabrics. Arsenic is used In dyeing presn, and the moths are wise enough to shun that deadly drug.

CORNER OF ODDITIES.

HAPS AND MISHAPS OF USUAL CONCERN. UNA, Satire on the New Woman nosband and Wife Reunited To Marry a Second Time A Remarkable Surgical Case. F THE NEW fashioned woman there's much been said Of her wanting to vote and a' that. And of her desire to wear men's attire, His coat and his vest and a' that. And a' that, and a' that. She may wear trousers and a' that: She may even ride a horse as men ride But a woman's a woman for a that. See yonder damsel passing by; She's up to date and a' that. She wears a man's hat, likewise his cravat, His shirt and collar an a' that, And a' that, and a' that. His suspenders and cuffs and a' that. But do what she can to Imitate man A woman's a woman for a' that. i'asband and Wife Reunited. Lexi gton, Ky., Special: A most pathetic reunion of husband and wife, after manw years of separation, took place here the other morning, when Richard W. Mackey found the woman he deserted sixteen years ago domiciled In a modest cottage supporting herself and child by dressmaking. The wife, although overcome with joy, was placed in a most peculiar position, since she had thought him dead, and has since he deserted her, been twice married. Her maiden name was Prescilla Hearn, she being the daughter of a wealthy Alabama planter. She married David Spaulding three years after Mackey deserted her. Spaulding lived only a few months and after his death she married Julius Roach of Sheridan, Miss., whom she deserted after living with him only a short time. Mackey went to Leadville, Colo., and afterward roved over New Mexico, Kansas, Arkansas, Idaho and Montana. Tired of rambling, he set out to find his wife, and it was after much difficulty that he located her in this city. He was sur prised when she told him the varied experiences she had since she had given him up as dead, and they are now liv ing happily together. She had no children by either of her other husbands, a nd her boy, born a month before Mackey left her, is almost grown. Code of Elephantine Manner. The following incident may prove in structive to some of your numerous readers, illustrating the power of memory in the matter of instruction In the code of elephantine manners. While visiting the Zoo some time ago I took my children to see the elephant and to give them a ride. After the ride I wanted to give the elephant a bun, and to make him say "Please" said "Salaam i kuro" I. e., make a salaam. The ani- j mal looked at me hard for some time, with the bun in my hand. At last mem- J ory came to his help, and up went his trunk, and he made a most correct i "salaam." The keeper seemed very much surprised and asked me what it meant. I told him It was a point of good manners for an elephant to raise ! lis trunk up to his forehead if any one was going to feed him, and that frequt; tly elephants will ask in this polite manner for something when they see any one pass by who is likely to feed them. The keeper assured me he had never seen the elephant do this before, and if I remember rightly he had been in charge of the animal since it arrivef from India, and that it was one ol those which took part in the grand procession to Agra when his royal highness, the Prince of Wales, visited India and where I doubtless saw it. For seventeen years this animal had never heard these words. London Times. Remarkable Surgical CaBC, The death of Thomas Nevln, the wellknown dry goods merchant of Brooklyn, at Seney hospital the other night brought to a termination one of the most remarkable cases in medical history. Last November, Nevin, who was a fine-looking, splendidly proportioned man of 34 years began to complain of severe pains In the thighs, and went to a hospital. The surgeons determined to expose the lower portion of the spine, and remove any foreign matter which the might possibly find. A diminutive human body was found at the back of the abdomen. The embryo was removed and preserved in alchohol. The discovery was one of intense interest to the hospital staff, and the explanation was that the patient was one of twins, and the form found in his body Is what Is known technically as an arrested development. To He Married a Second Time. Rev. Murdoch McLeod, a divinity student at McCormlck Seminary, Chicago, and who will graduate within a few weeks, will be married soon to Miss Gratea L. Clark, of Richland Center. This will be the second time the young people will have gone through the marriage ceremony. The first time was Jan. 21, when Mr. McLeod and Miss Clark were married at the parsonage of the Grand Avenue Methodist and Episcopal church by Rev. A. Hunsberger. As both are Presbyterians it Is desired that they be married by a clergyman of that denomination. On his graduation Mr. McLeod will take charge of a Presbyterian church at Austin, Minn. Here In a Remarkable Family. The Bridgewater Democrat says: Near Yankton Is the most remarkable family on this continent perhaps In the world. It consists of father, mother, and twenty-four children, and the mother of the brood Is not yet 30. She is a Norwelgan and her husband is a Hoosler. The children were born triplets, and the oldest of the lot Is under 12 years of age. All of them are boys but three, one set of triplets being girls. In 764 the Black Sea was frozen to r. distance of fifty miles from shore. The Hellespont and Dardanelles were frozen and the Sea of Marmora was passabl for cavalry.

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FACTS ABOUT LIFE. Figures Showing the Healthiest Parti of the World. As a matter of fact, the average life of all the babies that comt into the world is only about 38 years, asserts the Atlanta Constitution. Verv few

live to be over 90, and not more than 1 out of 2,030 sees hiB hundredth birthday. In the year 1889 out of every 1, 000 persons living1 in the following countries there died: in England. 18; in Norwa,y, 17; in Sweden, 16; in Austria. 27; in Hungary. 32; in Germany, 2i in France 21 and in Italy. 25. How many died in the United States wo do not know, because1 no account of them was kept in the greater part of the country, but it was probably 17 or 18 out of each 1,000 livmg. We do know, however, that they died faster in some cities than in others. For example, out of each 1. 000 people living there died during the year ending May 31. 1890, in New York City. 27; in Brooklyn. 25; in Boston. 23; in Philadelphia, 22; in Chicag-o. 21; in Detroit. 20; in St. Louis "l9 and in Minneapolis 15. while in the country districts th loss was only 11 or 12 out of each 1.000. Let us now see where the greatest number of old people, in proportion to the total population, are to be found living in the United States. An examination of the records of the tenth census shows that in 1880 this was in New England. Of each 100. 000 white persons there were then living and over 80 years old in Connecticut, 996; in Maine. 1, 148; in Massachueetta 809; in New Hampshire. 1,478; in Khode Island. 827; and in Vermont 1. 222. These are higher figures than fire shown for any other states. In New York the corresponding proportion was 563; in Pennsylvania, 411; in Maryland, 347; and in Delaware. 409. In Ohio it was 412; in Indiana 261; in Illinois. 215; in Iowa. 218; in Michigan. 319; in Minnesota. 130; in Kentucky, 328; in Tennessee. 317; in Virginia 581; in North Carolina 507; in South Carolina, 441; in Florida 204; in Georgia, 401; in Alabama, 341; in Mississippi. 245; in Louisiana 161 1 and in Texas, 111. In Montana i was only 27; in Nevada, 56; in Wyo. ming. 35; in Idaho, 40; in Dakota, 57 in Ari on a, 53; and in Colorado 81. Life is shorter in the south than in the north, and in the flat low-lying grounds than among the hills and mountains. A CURIOUS PARADOX. Why a 1'ound of Feathers Is Heavier Than a Pound of Lead. Which is the heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead? This was a favorite question with "school committee men" of the olden time, and the first ra-.h answer used almost always to be. "A pound of lead." Then, from the older pupila would come the reply. 'Bothalike." If this question were asked to-day our oldtime querist might receive a decided surprise, for the pound of feathers couid easily be proved to be the heavier. A simple experiment is all the evidence needed, declares the Youth's Companion. W.th any accurate scales weigh out a pound of lead, using ordinary shot for convenience Pour the shot into one of the pans of a balance. For tne feathers a light muslin bag will be needed, and care mut be taken that feathers and bag together do not weigh more than a pound. When the bag of foathers is put into the other part of this balance the beam will, after a few oscillations co.ne to rest exactly level. So far the verdict "Both alike' seems to he proved. But place tho balance upon the receiver of an air pump, with lead and feathers undisturbed. Cover the whole with the glass bell jar and exhaust the air. Slowly the feathers sink and the lead kicks the beam. " The pound of feathers is heavier than the pound of lead. The truth is that what we called a -pound" was not such in fact. For the atmosphere buoys up everything within it in p oportion to the bulk of the object, and the feathers, being of greater bulk than the lead, are supported by the air to a considerably greater extent than the lead. Removed from this Supporting medium, their true weight is made evident Labor rnioii of the t'nitcd States. The hand book by the Federation of Labor shows the strength of the seventy-four national trade unions of the United States to be 675.117. The Carpenter's Brotherhood leads with 65.000 members; Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers, 60.000; Iron Moulders' Union of North America, 41.000; International Bricklayers and Stone Mason's Union. 35. 000; Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 30. U00; International Typographical Union. . 000; Cigar-makers' International Union '27. 000; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. 23, 000; United Mino Workers. S A 000; Granite Cutters1 National Union. 17,500; Journeyman Tailors' Union. 17.000. and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators each with 16, 000. Paper Mill. fUe Was forry. Ue 'at 11 p. m.) There's thing I'd do, Miss Smithington. were rich. She (wearily') What is that, ono if 1 Mr. Lingerly? He I'd travel. bhe (sympathetically) I'm so sorry. Mr. Lingerly. that you are not rich. Detroit Tree Press. Sincere. Friend What did he say to you when he proposed to you? Miss Rox He said life without me means nothing. Friend He was sincere in that 1 That's just what his possession amount to. N. Y. Press.

SUPERNATURAL, ROWERS. Kings Had Efficacious Wr or Testing Such ClaLms. Kings, queens and other noble personages of ancient times had a rather rough but efficacious way of testing the supernatural powers claimed by so many astrologers. "Where wilt thou spend Christmas?" asked Henry VII. of Evans, a celebrated astrologer of that time. "May it please your Majesty, I am unable to tell " answered the spirit conjurer meekly. "Then I am wiser than thou." said the King, -for I know that it will bo in prison." An astrologer once appeared before John Galleazzo. Duke of Milan, and asked the privilege of casting his horoscope. After he had finished, the future-delver informed John that he would die early. "And how long do you expect to live?" the Duke asked of the prophet "My lord, my star promises me long life." "Never trust your star, man; you are to be hanged before night. " cried the Duke. Immediately afterwards attendants put a rope around the prophet's neck and threw him out of the window, fulfilling the prediction to the letter. The Arab general Ben Solomon, was more courteous in the expression of his displeasure. The general was sick and near unto death when Heggiage. the astrologer, appeared and corn'orted the sick man by telling him that his sufferings would surely terminate fatally. "Since you have said it" moaned the dying general it must be so. By the way. I have 6uch great confidence in your skill that I shall be glad to be benefitted by your advice in the other world. You will thererore go first and await my orders." The guards were then called in and ordered to decapitate the astrologer at once. Tiberius, while living ip exile in the Inland of Rhodea often consulted the astrologers and divines. His interviews with these persons usually took place on a lofty eminence overlooking the sea; and if the astrologer, by some foolish answer, convicted himself of ignorance or trickery, the slaves in attendance, by order of their master, threw the im poster head-first into the surging waves below. It chanced one day that Trasullus, one of the most renowned astrologers of the time, was called in to one of these charming seances by the great Roman. Tell me." said Tiberius with a quizzical expression on his face, "how long you hare to live." Trasullus, who was a shrewd man, absorbed himself in some mysterious calculations for a few momenta and then sprang back with an expression of alarm depicted in every feature. "My God!" he exclaimed. "I am threatened at this moment with an awful danger. Tiberius was more than satisfied with, the answer, and always after reckoned Trasullus as his friend and adviser.

THE ART OF DENTISTRY. It Has Blade Very Remarkable Progress in Recent Years. 'The progress in the art of dent'stry has bej'.n greater than is generally known." says J. E. Lamb of Boston in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "You can see from the swollen condition of my right jaw that I am suffering the torments of a throbbing, thumping toothache, and, though I was. advised by my dentist at Boston not to have uiy tooth pulled. I got up this morning from a sleepless night thoroughly desperate and determined to havo the unruly member plucked out But when I applied to one of the most eminent students of St Louis to perform the operation, he, too. after examination, advised me not to have it taken out When he learned that I was nearly 50 years old he told me I would have to suffer only two or three days more and the nerve would die of its suffering, my pain would entirely cease and I would have my tooth preserved intact The discovery of the death of tooth nerves with advancing age is only two or three years old. but in that time millions of teeth have been' saved.- Formerly, when a man with the toothache went to the dentist's office, it meant either that the tooth was unceremoniously jerked out root and branch, or the sufferer was subjected to a long and painful operation of plugging. The betters-class of dentists have ceased nearly entire-... ly to pull the teeth of men and women ncaring thoir climacteric, a they know that the aches are the last expiring efforts of the nerves to perform their functions. ' "A curious fact in connection with ihis kind of toothache is that cold water, instead of intensify. ng the pain, as it usually does, actually spothes it Another important advance in dentistry is the method of completely sawing a tooth in two and joining the pieces together with a small gold screw. When a decayed speck or streak makes its appearance in a molar now the dentist who knowshis business will neither pall the tooth out and substitute for it one of his own make nor fill the hollow with gold to preserve it but he artfully saws the top of the tooth off close to the gums, and. after thoroughly scraping and cleansing the decaying part welds the two pieces together as firm as before; the operation was done. Mtort XHbter. Handling short lobsters is a riskybusiness in Maine. Recently a warden seized from two expressmen twelve barrels containing 1.524 short lobsters, and the .culprits were fined $1, ytJ-t each. The lobsters were dumped overboard and may now attain " a dec at, size. Meant Ilia Watch Olivia Say. Lily. I saw Fred Rardup going into a pawnbroker's yesterday. Whatever could ha be doing: I here? Lily Oh! I don't know; passing hi time away, maybe? Smith, Gray & Co's MoDthh.